Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 13, 2023


Episode 2138 Scott Adams： Trump Arraigned, Burisma Biden Recordings, Hypnosis Class Lessons Learned


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

150.73358

Word Count

8,928

Sentence Count

679

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

32


Summary

Today's episode features: - Elon Musk's thoughts on working remotely, Warren Buffett's advice on investing in American companies, and why you should put your money in the United States. - Scott Adams' take on inflation.


Transcript

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00:00:56.320 Well, I don't know if you noticed, but the other day, Elon Musk tweeted that he was looking for a vice president of witchcraft and propaganda.
00:01:09.860 Witchcraft and propaganda.
00:01:12.300 So I replied to it, and I said, I need to know if there's a commute, because I feel like I'm perfect.
00:01:20.880 When you think witchcraft and propaganda, what image pops into your mind first?
00:01:27.260 It's me, right? It's me. Witchcraft and propaganda. I'm all about it.
00:01:32.060 And I think I'd be perfect for the job, except I don't want to commute.
00:01:35.880 Does anybody know if Elon Musk minds if I work remotely?
00:01:41.700 Well, luckily for me, I know he does mind, but that's the first thing I'll change.
00:01:49.000 Huh? Huh?
00:01:51.960 Let me put it this way.
00:01:54.660 If you were applying for the job of vice president of witchcraft and propaganda, and the first thing that came up is you can't work remotely,
00:02:02.840 if I couldn't change his mind on working remotely, what kind of vice president of witchcraft and propaganda would I be?
00:02:12.480 It's the first thing I'd do.
00:02:13.800 And then after I changed his mind on that, he'd say, my God, I never thought I'd change my mind on that.
00:02:19.980 You must be the best vice president of witchcraft and propaganda ever.
00:02:25.920 And then I would get the job.
00:02:27.680 And then I would ask for a raise, because I would feel like I was already being put upon.
00:02:32.080 That's just how I am.
00:02:32.960 Well, Amazon is rumored, I'm not sure how credible this is, rumored to be thinking about offering free phone service with their Prime setup.
00:02:46.940 Do you think that's going to happen?
00:02:49.640 Do you think Amazon is going to offer free phone service?
00:02:54.200 I don't know.
00:02:54.880 Maybe in some limited way?
00:02:56.420 I don't know exactly how that play works.
00:03:01.220 But I do like the fact that they might be looking to bundle up anything that looks like a generic service.
00:03:08.020 And phone service is very rapidly becoming generic.
00:03:11.440 Can't tell one from the other.
00:03:13.700 So maybe that does make sense in the long, long run.
00:03:17.800 Well, no surprise.
00:03:20.100 The inflation rate is coming down a little bit.
00:03:22.780 Experts thought it would be 4.1, but it's all the way down to 4, which isn't really terrible.
00:03:33.340 It's not terrible.
00:03:34.660 All that really matters when you're at 4, what's the only thing that matters when your inflation is at 4?
00:03:42.640 All that matters is what direction it's going.
00:03:45.860 Right?
00:03:46.020 If it continues going even slowly in the correct direction of lower inflation, we're fine.
00:03:53.360 Now, I don't know how we're fine.
00:03:55.140 I don't understand the math of how that's even possible.
00:03:59.260 But if it keeps coming down, we're probably fine.
00:04:03.660 And I thought that would be one of our biggest problems.
00:04:06.480 But it looks like Europe's having a little more trouble.
00:04:09.200 They might be in a recession-y situation.
00:04:11.800 But once again, Warren Buffett's sage advice is looking like sage advice.
00:04:20.560 I don't remember how many years ago it was the first time I heard Warren Buffett say,
00:04:25.160 invest in American companies.
00:04:28.200 That's never been wrong.
00:04:29.640 Well, I'm paraphrasing, but the idea is, you know, should you put your money in, you know,
00:04:36.300 some basket of foreign countries or a basket of American companies?
00:04:40.720 If you just said American companies from day one, and you'd never put your money anywhere else,
00:04:47.680 you'd be pretty happy.
00:04:49.800 You know, it's pretty much that simple at this point.
00:04:51.660 So once again, it looks like the American economic experiment, if you will, is the winning experiment.
00:05:01.300 It looks like we're doing it again.
00:05:03.260 Now, some of this might be political.
00:05:06.240 Because you can imagine that all the levers of government, you know, might want Biden to get re-elected.
00:05:11.840 So if there's anything that can be done to make the numbers look like they're going down,
00:05:16.200 they'll probably do it.
00:05:17.340 So I'm not sure if we can trust the numbers.
00:05:19.400 But at least it's not going up quickly.
00:05:23.720 I think we'd notice that.
00:05:25.960 So this looks like good news.
00:05:27.860 There's a lot of good news breaking out all over the place.
00:05:31.640 I don't know if you've noticed.
00:05:33.100 Because, you know, the news doesn't cover the good news as much.
00:05:36.940 But the lack of bad news is pretty good news.
00:05:40.880 When was the last time you worried about the supply chain?
00:05:44.400 I have to tell you that our supply chain problems from the beginning of the pandemic
00:05:48.840 that was the one thing I worried about the most.
00:05:51.980 But also thought we'd have a really good chance of handling it.
00:05:56.220 It looks like we have.
00:05:57.700 It looks like the collective wisdom and work of the human beings have solved it.
00:06:05.320 I mean, I don't see a lot of problems.
00:06:06.800 I've got one shampoo I can't buy anymore, but I don't know if that's why.
00:06:12.160 I guess there's some meds that are still hard to get.
00:06:15.680 But they seem to be somewhat specific problems, not a big supply chain problem.
00:06:21.240 I think we're in pretty good shape.
00:06:24.620 In my opinion, climate change does not look like the end of the world.
00:06:30.240 It looks like new batteries are being invented every day, new battery technologies.
00:06:36.660 So it looks like we will be able to store as much green energy as we can create.
00:06:42.280 That wasn't always the case.
00:06:43.860 It always looked like maybe we can create energy, but we can't use it at night.
00:06:47.200 You know, or we can't use it when the wind isn't blowing.
00:06:50.220 But now it looks like that's solvable.
00:06:52.580 It looks pretty solvable.
00:06:54.140 So we've got a lot of solvable things.
00:06:56.400 The other thing that was a complete disaster, still is, is education.
00:07:02.900 But I've never seen so much activity toward school choice.
00:07:08.480 Have you?
00:07:09.360 And then you add on top of school choice the AI possibilities,
00:07:12.940 the possibility that a poor kid could get something like an identical education to a rich kid?
00:07:20.600 Maybe.
00:07:21.600 I mean, I don't think you can get all the way there.
00:07:23.980 Rich kids always have some advantages.
00:07:26.200 But you can close that gap quite a bit.
00:07:29.120 So I would say that almost everything, including the stock market,
00:07:32.760 the stock market's been kind of strong lately,
00:07:35.480 almost everything is trending in the right direction.
00:07:37.740 I would also say that the, let's say, the abuses of government may have peaked,
00:07:47.080 meaning that the American public and its, let's say,
00:07:51.620 its visibility into what the problems are is very high.
00:07:56.020 And I think we're on the way for some kind of correction.
00:08:00.040 Now, that correction might look like a Republican victory in the next election.
00:08:03.880 I've never, I don't know if I've ever said this directly,
00:08:09.380 but in my perfect world,
00:08:12.560 the presidency does trade hands between the Democrats and Republicans.
00:08:17.080 Worst case scenario, it just stayed in Democrat hands or it stayed in Republican hands.
00:08:22.940 Either one of those would be disaster.
00:08:24.800 You need them to be competitive.
00:08:26.880 And they are.
00:08:28.080 Right now, I would say, if you were going to say from just a competitive standpoint,
00:08:32.180 we have a really good competitive setup because the Democrats are really offering something different
00:08:38.020 than what the Republicans are offering.
00:08:41.460 You know, it doesn't look like the unit party to me.
00:08:44.320 To me, that looks like a genuine competition.
00:08:46.740 And I would also like to compliment a number of the candidates.
00:08:51.020 My impression of the optimism for America is very high right now.
00:08:56.000 That may be strange to hear.
00:09:00.000 But my American optimism, quite high.
00:09:04.240 And a lot of that has to do with the fact that a number of quality candidates have emerged.
00:09:09.660 Now, mostly on the Republican side.
00:09:11.780 But there are at least three Republican candidates that I would say,
00:09:16.700 OK, I'm happy with that president.
00:09:19.020 And there's at least one Democrat, RFK Jr., who, you know, again, I'm not saying I agree with any of them on policy.
00:09:27.140 I'm just saying that they would be serious, credible, patriotic, smart Americans who are what you want in the job.
00:09:35.400 So that all looks pretty good.
00:09:38.100 To me, the only thing that could go terribly wrong would be re-electing Biden.
00:09:42.980 To me, that feels like the only thing we could get wrong.
00:09:47.520 And I don't think it's going to happen.
00:09:49.500 It feels like everything's lining up to make that not happen.
00:09:53.600 But I'll talk about that in a little bit.
00:09:56.620 All right.
00:10:00.540 There are things that I learned around 40 years ago when I learned to be a hypnotist.
00:10:06.980 So I took classes to be a hypnotist.
00:10:09.560 Became certified.
00:10:10.400 And some of the things I learned then, I tried to convince people were true.
00:10:15.080 It's something that hypnotists know that regular people are not exposed to.
00:10:19.480 And for 40 years, I've been saying, you just wait.
00:10:23.220 You're going to find out.
00:10:24.980 And this is when it's happening, 40 years later.
00:10:28.240 Let me give you an example.
00:10:30.100 40 years ago, I learned that human intelligence was nothing but pattern recognition.
00:10:36.300 And there was nothing magical to it.
00:10:38.000 It was mechanical, and it wasn't, that's all it was.
00:10:42.380 There was nothing to it but a mechanical process.
00:10:45.280 Now, to be a hypnotist, you have to know that.
00:10:48.040 If you believe there's something magic happening in the other mind, what would you do with it?
00:10:53.160 How do you manage magic?
00:10:56.000 All right.
00:10:56.360 There's some magic happening in your brain.
00:10:58.380 Let me see if I can work with that.
00:10:59.940 You can't work with that.
00:11:00.820 But you can work with the idea that the brain is a machine, and there are a certain set of inputs.
00:11:07.240 You put in those inputs just like a user interface for a computer.
00:11:11.980 You hit the right user interface.
00:11:13.820 You get the right outcomes.
00:11:15.940 And that's what hypnotists observe.
00:11:17.480 So we've known for a long time that the brain was not magic.
00:11:21.840 It was just a little machine, and the hypnotists know where the buttons are, but you didn't.
00:11:27.280 If you didn't know where the buttons were, it looked magic to you.
00:11:30.980 But if somebody showed you the buttons, look, look, you just push this button, and you make that person do this other thing.
00:11:37.040 And it's right here.
00:11:38.220 Just push it.
00:11:38.760 Watch.
00:11:39.400 Push.
00:11:40.240 That.
00:11:40.640 See?
00:11:41.680 Push.
00:11:42.240 See?
00:11:43.120 If you're a hypnotist, you've seen that so many times that you already knew that intelligence would be easy to reproduce.
00:11:50.820 Not easy.
00:11:51.820 Let's say inevitable.
00:11:52.740 It was inevitable that computers would reproduce that form of intelligence because it wasn't special.
00:12:01.860 And that's what Sam Altman said, the CEO of OpenAI.
00:12:06.280 So he said the other day that what he learned from AI, the process of creating AI, is that intelligence was not magic.
00:12:15.780 It was just a property of matter.
00:12:19.100 If you just arranged physical objects in the right combination, it created intelligence.
00:12:26.440 That's exactly what we knew as hypnotists 40 years ago.
00:12:29.960 Now, here's another one.
00:12:31.340 There was a new thing that the...
00:12:33.280 And by the way, the science in this is so stupid that it made me laugh.
00:12:37.420 But there's a study that says that obese people have different brains, meaning that they don't get food rewards with a small amount of food.
00:12:47.160 So if I go eat a potato, because I really like potatoes, so you could just imagine ice cream or something in your own example.
00:12:59.000 I just really like potatoes.
00:13:01.180 I don't know.
00:13:01.760 I just like them in every form.
00:13:03.580 You could do anything to a potato, and I would like to eat it.
00:13:06.100 So if I go eat a potato, the science says that after a few bites, my brain would light up with dopamine and say, whoa, great potato.
00:13:17.540 You are perfectly happy now.
00:13:20.340 You're sated.
00:13:22.220 So that's just how my brain is organized.
00:13:24.380 It's just a property of matter.
00:13:25.780 Did I mention anything about free will?
00:13:29.940 No.
00:13:30.420 There's no free will in the story.
00:13:32.500 My brain lights up with a little bit of potatoes.
00:13:35.840 And if you sit down right next to me and you eat the same potatoes at the same time, even if you like potatoes, if you're obese, you're not going to get the same light up in your brain.
00:13:48.140 You're going to have to eat like twice as many potatoes to get the same amount of dopamine.
00:13:52.300 Now, where's the free will?
00:13:54.320 Where's the free will?
00:13:55.220 Well, there is none.
00:13:57.300 This perfectly explains everything the hypnotist learned 40 years ago.
00:14:01.840 Well, really, hundreds of years ago when it was invented.
00:14:04.480 But I learned it 40 years ago.
00:14:07.140 And I learned it this way.
00:14:08.640 My hypnosis instructor, who was himself quite overweight, when he said he understood the whole secret of overeating, and he said, I like to eat.
00:14:20.960 That was it.
00:14:21.740 Everything you need to know, everything you need to know about obesity and weight was in that one sentence from my hypnosis instructor.
00:14:31.260 I like to eat.
00:14:32.740 Now, what he meant by that was he likes to eat more than you do.
00:14:36.880 And if you like to eat as much as he did, you would weigh as much as he did.
00:14:41.240 End of story.
00:14:42.060 He likes to eat.
00:14:43.060 He likes to eat.
00:14:43.680 He likes to eat.
00:14:44.700 That's it.
00:14:46.580 Now, what this study of obesity showed, because it's stupid science, what they did was they gave the same amount of food, and I think they did it with a feeding tube, so that you weren't even conscious of the taste buds or anything.
00:15:01.480 Just the food directly into your body, and then they could test your brain to see what lights up, and what they found is that even if the obese people lost weight, they still didn't get the benefits that skinny people did of getting their dopamine, which is exactly what we were taught in hypnosis school.
00:15:22.840 Which is, it didn't matter how heavy the obese person was, if you could force them to lose weight, they would just be a person who still needed to eat more potatoes.
00:15:33.100 You still need to eat more potatoes than I do.
00:15:35.500 It doesn't matter what you weigh, because that's the only way you get the dopamine, eat more potatoes, or whatever.
00:15:41.720 So, AI is, and also science, are just catching up to where hypnosis was 40 years ago, and really 100 years ago.
00:15:55.880 It's just that I learned it 40 years ago.
00:15:58.040 Is that amazing, or is that just amazing to me?
00:16:03.500 Because I've been saying for decades that when you learn hypnosis, it's a superpower.
00:16:09.640 It's like seeing around corners.
00:16:12.420 You can just tell what's true before other people can tell.
00:16:16.860 It is that important to learn it.
00:16:20.480 All right.
00:16:24.040 Let's see what else.
00:16:25.600 I also have a prediction that's born out of that same experience, that the so-called AGI, which is the form of AI that everybody's worried about, not the current form.
00:16:36.960 The current form is a large language model, meaning that it's just looking for language patterns, so it doesn't have anything that you would call intelligence per se.
00:16:47.340 It's just copying things it's seen before.
00:16:50.280 Now, it looks smart.
00:16:53.060 And do you remember a prediction I made before any of this AI stuff took off?
00:16:58.380 And I said that the only way AI would look human-ish, you know, the only way it would act like a human, is if you made it stupid.
00:17:07.260 Because if you made it smart, we would just disagree with it.
00:17:10.540 And we'd say, well, it's broken.
00:17:13.920 This thing doesn't even like pronouns.
00:17:16.800 It must be broken.
00:17:19.020 Right?
00:17:19.280 So, here's my prediction.
00:17:25.560 The prediction is from the experts.
00:17:28.580 The experts say that someday we'll have this thing called AGI, artificial general intelligence, as opposed to the LLM.
00:17:37.180 So, the artificial general intelligence is the one that's literally going to be smarter than humans.
00:17:43.560 And here's my prediction.
00:17:45.100 It can't be made.
00:17:47.420 It's logically impossible.
00:17:50.280 Now, I think I'm the only person who has this prediction.
00:17:53.300 And the reason I'm the only person who has this prediction is that every one of you are saying the same thing.
00:17:58.260 You're all saying the same thing.
00:17:59.480 Well, that's stupid, Scott.
00:18:01.340 You're definitely going to be wrong on this one.
00:18:03.620 Because every expert says it can be done.
00:18:06.220 It's just a matter of time.
00:18:08.560 But do you know every expert doesn't know how to do it?
00:18:11.800 They'll also tell you that.
00:18:13.500 They'll tell you they don't know how.
00:18:15.660 It's not like a fusion.
00:18:17.380 If you tell me that fusion energy is coming, I'll say, you know, that's down to a question of engineering now.
00:18:24.740 Because they've solved the physics.
00:18:26.820 They just haven't solved the engineering of how you put the parts together to make them work.
00:18:30.820 But they will, because it's just trial and error, and eventually they'll get there.
00:18:35.020 It might take 40 years, but they'll get there.
00:18:37.320 It's just engineering.
00:18:39.120 But with AGI, nobody even knows a theory.
00:18:41.580 There's not even a working hypothesis of how that could work.
00:18:47.440 So the large language models, they had a theory.
00:18:50.560 You just look for the patterns, and that'll give you intelligence, and it worked.
00:18:56.040 But here's why I think you'll never get artificial general intelligence.
00:18:59.440 I don't believe that a human can program intelligence above their own intelligence.
00:19:07.400 Because you wouldn't know what it looked like.
00:19:09.620 And if you could program it to be smarter than you, that would make you smarter.
00:19:16.180 Or at least you wouldn't know if you made it smarter than yourself.
00:19:21.060 And you might think it was making mistakes.
00:19:22.740 So here's what AGI will do better than humans.
00:19:27.960 It'll be much faster, obviously.
00:19:30.700 It will know more facts.
00:19:33.600 So it'll have more facts.
00:19:35.180 It'll access them faster.
00:19:37.100 And it might be able to organize them faster and even better in some ways.
00:19:41.880 So there are a whole bunch of things that AGI will do that will be, or that AI will do,
00:19:47.360 that'll be mind-boggling and great.
00:19:49.480 But here's what it will not do.
00:19:51.040 Here's my prediction that's counter to every prediction.
00:19:54.540 It will not do common sense and logic better than the smartest human.
00:19:59.040 Ever.
00:20:00.900 Ever.
00:20:04.100 That's my prediction.
00:20:05.720 Now, I don't know if I could ever be proven right,
00:20:08.180 because it would always look like it's just around the corner.
00:20:11.780 Well, Scott, you've been right so far.
00:20:13.920 But I think they've got it now.
00:20:16.360 I think it's going to be like the walls are closing in.
00:20:18.760 I don't believe we'll ever get there.
00:20:21.580 Now, we'll definitely have an AI that looks and acts like a human.
00:20:25.100 But looking and acting like a human is because it will make mistakes.
00:20:29.300 It's the mistakes that will make you surprised that it's not a computer.
00:20:33.320 As soon as they made one that was genuinely smarter than you,
00:20:36.920 which is impossible, I think,
00:20:39.940 you'd have all kinds of problems recognizing it as being smart.
00:20:43.780 You just wouldn't know what to do with it.
00:20:47.000 So I don't think we can make one that's smarter than us.
00:20:49.340 We can make one faster and maybe more organized or something like that,
00:20:54.220 but not smarter, per se.
00:20:55.920 Not common sense slash logic.
00:21:00.480 And I will accept that 100% of you disagree with that.
00:21:04.980 Right?
00:21:06.340 Can we stipulate that just about everybody would disagree with me?
00:21:10.940 That's why it's fun.
00:21:15.320 It wouldn't be fun if you all agreed with me.
00:21:18.200 All right.
00:21:18.480 But keep an eye on that.
00:21:19.460 So today is Trump's court hearing.
00:21:21.480 And there will be massive publicity and security arrangements
00:21:26.240 and blah, blah, blah, and that will be the news today.
00:21:32.980 So Dershowitz, I believe he's modified his opinion on this a little
00:21:39.500 from the first opinion I heard.
00:21:41.700 Now, the first opinion I heard from Dershowitz, Alan Dershowitz,
00:21:45.100 was that it looked like there might not be that much of a legal risk
00:21:49.240 in the long run.
00:21:49.980 That most of it's covered under a non-criminal statute.
00:21:55.900 And the part that might be a problem,
00:21:58.000 the phone call could be easily defended against
00:22:00.260 just by saying he didn't let the person read it.
00:22:02.920 He just sort of waved it at him and said,
00:22:04.660 hey, look at this secret.
00:22:07.620 Now, I thought that was a pretty good argument
00:22:09.500 and that he had sort of dismissed the problems.
00:22:13.920 But as of the Wall Street Journal
00:22:16.100 and today's editorial by Dershowitz,
00:22:18.540 he says the case is stronger than he expected.
00:22:24.420 So now he's ramping up the, let's say,
00:22:28.100 the cost-benefit analysis to have a little bit more cost in it.
00:22:32.940 But he does, of course, point out that technical legalities aside,
00:22:44.720 separate from the law,
00:22:46.620 you're going to have to decide if this is good for the country.
00:22:49.400 And the legal system does incorporate that.
00:22:52.420 So it could be that maybe he should be indicted on some technical basis,
00:22:57.440 but maybe everybody's better off if he's not.
00:23:00.400 That would be a reasonable outcome.
00:23:03.960 But here are some questions I have.
00:23:07.400 Number one, as a citizen of the United States,
00:23:11.300 would you be okay if somebody was taken off the field,
00:23:15.860 whether it was a Biden or a Trump,
00:23:17.780 doesn't matter what side,
00:23:19.940 for a victimless crime?
00:23:22.700 A victimless crime.
00:23:24.240 Because there's no allegation of any damage.
00:23:27.460 No allegation of damage.
00:23:29.660 A victimless crime.
00:23:31.220 I would not be okay if a Democrat was removed from office
00:23:34.060 for a victimless crime.
00:23:36.240 Absolutely not.
00:23:37.160 And certainly not if there was a reasonable defense.
00:23:43.560 Right?
00:23:44.820 Now, it could be that Trump would lose.
00:23:48.120 You know, maybe 12 jurors would find against him.
00:23:51.040 But you could never say it wasn't a reasonable defense.
00:23:54.460 Could you?
00:23:55.520 Because a reasonable defense looks like this.
00:23:58.280 I was president.
00:24:01.120 I get to decide what's the secret.
00:24:03.020 And so, by the mere act of removing them,
00:24:06.700 that was my decision.
00:24:08.440 There's no requirement for me to say the words out loud
00:24:10.920 or to fill out a form.
00:24:12.860 I was the president.
00:24:14.460 I moved him.
00:24:15.780 That's all you need to know.
00:24:17.160 End of story.
00:24:18.400 Now, if I were a juror,
00:24:20.420 I would be convinced by that argument.
00:24:23.300 And I would be convinced if Biden said it.
00:24:25.580 Because I'm trying to be, as much as possible,
00:24:29.100 trying not to be biased politically.
00:24:30.960 You know, just trying to look at it as a citizen.
00:24:34.260 And how would you want to be treated
00:24:35.860 if you were in that situation?
00:24:37.500 Right?
00:24:40.900 So, yeah, the fact that it's victimless
00:24:43.480 and the fact that if the shoe were on the other foot,
00:24:47.120 I definitely would not be in favor of removing a president
00:24:50.300 or even a candidate for that reason.
00:24:53.020 And, of course, you're going to hear a lot of people say
00:24:56.840 in the next weeks,
00:24:59.720 no one is above the law.
00:25:02.460 Now, I've mocked that before,
00:25:05.220 but I'm upgrading my mocking.
00:25:08.640 When I hear anybody say that now,
00:25:10.680 I think one of the Krasensteins said it on Twitter,
00:25:13.960 no one's above the law.
00:25:15.240 I hear the, I see, I see the golem.
00:25:20.100 And I hear the golem's voice when I hear it.
00:25:22.840 But at the end of it, I add, my precious.
00:25:26.640 So when I hear somebody say,
00:25:28.440 no one is above the law,
00:25:30.980 in my mind it turns into,
00:25:33.320 no one's above the law, my precious.
00:25:39.280 Try not hearing that the next time you hear it.
00:25:41.720 It's a pure golem statement.
00:25:44.960 No one is above the law, my precious.
00:25:49.220 Yeah, you'll never not hear that again.
00:25:51.600 You're welcome.
00:25:52.480 You're welcome.
00:25:53.800 That is one more reason that Elon Musk should hire me
00:25:58.860 as the VP of Witchcraft and Propaganda,
00:26:01.660 because once I put that little golem thought in your head,
00:26:04.480 good luck getting it out.
00:26:08.180 All right.
00:26:11.720 Personally, I believe Trump will not be found guilty.
00:26:18.780 My view of the, my legal,
00:26:23.620 my totally unqualified legal opinion
00:26:26.780 is that there's just too much of a defense there.
00:26:30.900 I don't think you can get 12 jurors
00:26:33.820 to decide that a process
00:26:36.380 that doesn't have any written requirements
00:26:38.860 hasn't been followed
00:26:40.800 and therefore a law has been broken.
00:26:42.960 Really?
00:26:43.460 You broke the law that doesn't have any,
00:26:45.100 any details?
00:26:47.160 How in the world could you not,
00:26:49.760 oh, did I spell golem wrong?
00:26:52.660 How in the world could you
00:26:54.200 not win that case?
00:26:56.740 I mean, it just feels like
00:26:57.600 the most winnable case of all cases.
00:26:59.560 All right.
00:27:07.620 Oh, so, uh,
00:27:09.340 I knew that you would be saying
00:27:11.040 that I look like Gollum,
00:27:12.960 and so in anticipation of that,
00:27:15.620 because I am so good at anticipating,
00:27:18.440 uh, I prepared something for you.
00:27:20.460 And sure enough,
00:27:21.300 in the comments on YouTube,
00:27:23.160 you'll look like Gollum.
00:27:24.720 Scott, you'll look like Gollum.
00:27:26.020 And so I captured this photo
00:27:30.060 of AOC looking like Gollum.
00:27:36.300 Now, if you think I'm making fun of AOC,
00:27:39.300 you're missing the point.
00:27:41.080 I'm not making fun of AOC.
00:27:44.680 Here's my point.
00:27:46.620 I believe that 100% of humans
00:27:50.400 have at least one photograph
00:27:53.500 that makes them look like Gollum.
00:27:56.480 It's just a hypothesis.
00:27:58.920 Do I,
00:27:59.600 do you think there's somewhere
00:28:01.080 in the world a photograph of me
00:28:02.800 looking exactly like Gollum?
00:28:10.120 Yes.
00:28:11.280 Yes, there is.
00:28:14.320 But,
00:28:15.160 but here's the weird thing.
00:28:16.980 If you said,
00:28:18.020 Scott, do you look like AOC?
00:28:20.860 What would you say?
00:28:21.960 You'd say, no.
00:28:22.540 No, no.
00:28:24.380 You know,
00:28:24.660 Scott does not look like AOC.
00:28:26.360 Two totally different people.
00:28:28.040 But then you ask this question.
00:28:29.620 Does AOC look like Gollum?
00:28:32.060 Huh.
00:28:33.120 Kind of yes.
00:28:34.820 Does Scott look like Gollum?
00:28:37.400 Huh.
00:28:39.020 Kind of yes.
00:28:41.120 But does Scott look like AOC?
00:28:43.180 Kind of no.
00:28:43.740 So I think we've developed
00:28:46.200 the Gollum theory of photography.
00:28:49.900 Everyone looks like a Gollum sometimes.
00:28:53.280 It's all about lighting.
00:28:55.600 All right.
00:28:55.860 Here's a question.
00:29:02.740 Can Trump call himself a journalist
00:29:04.640 and then get out of all of his legal problems?
00:29:08.600 This is just for fun.
00:29:10.020 This is not an actual,
00:29:11.320 you know,
00:29:12.100 actual suggestion.
00:29:13.520 And I got this idea
00:29:15.140 looking at a Glenn Greenwald tweet
00:29:17.240 in which he talked about the fact
00:29:19.540 that if the New York Times
00:29:21.120 had the same documents
00:29:22.580 that Trump had,
00:29:25.080 it would be totally legal.
00:29:28.000 So in other words,
00:29:28.920 Trump is not allowed
00:29:29.940 to have in his possession
00:29:31.060 documents
00:29:31.860 that the New York Times
00:29:33.380 would be allowed to have.
00:29:35.320 Now let me remind you,
00:29:37.540 Trump already knew
00:29:38.400 what was in the documents.
00:29:40.480 To him,
00:29:41.080 nothing was being revealed.
00:29:42.540 He'd already seen them.
00:29:44.000 But if the New York Times had them,
00:29:45.540 they'd be seeing them
00:29:46.240 for the first time.
00:29:47.360 That would actually be
00:29:48.440 a secret being revealed.
00:29:50.440 But it would be legal
00:29:51.620 for the New York Times
00:29:52.460 to have them
00:29:52.860 because they're the press.
00:29:54.620 So they could have them
00:29:55.940 and reveal them
00:29:57.080 at the risk of any danger whatsoever
00:29:59.600 so they could actually
00:30:00.400 cause victims, etc.
00:30:02.040 All legal.
00:30:03.840 But Trump,
00:30:04.500 who was the actual president,
00:30:06.160 the determiner in chief
00:30:09.420 of what is classified
00:30:10.480 and what is not,
00:30:12.020 already seen them,
00:30:13.200 did not show them
00:30:14.040 to anybody as far as we know,
00:30:16.360 and that was illegal.
00:30:17.260 So could he cleverly
00:30:20.440 solve his problem
00:30:21.640 by classifying himself
00:30:24.060 as a journalist,
00:30:25.260 which in my opinion
00:30:26.560 requires no qualifications
00:30:30.080 whatsoever,
00:30:31.680 what does it take
00:30:32.560 to be a journalist?
00:30:33.840 You just say you are one.
00:30:35.700 There's no other requirement.
00:30:37.720 So he could just say,
00:30:38.720 I'm a journalist,
00:30:39.640 just like the New York Times.
00:30:41.440 I've got this truth social,
00:30:43.860 this is my platform,
00:30:45.000 and I publish on it.
00:30:46.640 So I'm publishing things here
00:30:48.020 and I'm just like
00:30:49.160 a journalist, basically.
00:30:51.060 When Matt Taibbi
00:30:52.700 and Michael Schellenberger
00:30:54.240 did long Twitter threads
00:30:57.100 about the Twitter files,
00:30:59.000 were they acting as journalists?
00:31:01.240 Yes, they were.
00:31:02.360 They were acting as journalists
00:31:03.440 even though they were
00:31:04.140 just tweeting.
00:31:04.920 Now, they also wrote
00:31:05.800 separate substack articles.
00:31:07.820 But when they were
00:31:08.460 just tweeting threads,
00:31:10.460 they were being journalists.
00:31:12.260 When Trump tweets a thread,
00:31:14.160 why is he not a journalist?
00:31:17.300 Well, only because
00:31:18.180 we call him a politician
00:31:19.180 and he calls himself that.
00:31:21.160 All he'd have to do
00:31:22.080 is say,
00:31:22.600 I'm a journalist
00:31:23.200 and it's all legal.
00:31:26.020 Am I wrong?
00:31:28.540 What would be the
00:31:30.080 problem with that?
00:31:33.780 If it's legal
00:31:34.700 for the New York Times
00:31:35.580 to have them,
00:31:37.000 and I guess that would
00:31:37.900 be a question,
00:31:39.000 so I'd need a fact check
00:31:40.200 on that.
00:31:40.760 Is it legal
00:31:41.480 if the New York Times
00:31:42.360 had them?
00:31:42.780 Then he can just say,
00:31:44.680 yeah, I'm the New York
00:31:45.240 Times too.
00:31:47.860 Yep, same job.
00:31:50.100 But no,
00:31:50.720 you're running for president.
00:31:52.000 Well, people who run
00:31:52.860 for president
00:31:53.320 have other jobs.
00:31:55.020 You can still have
00:31:55.860 another job
00:31:56.440 while you're running
00:31:56.860 for office.
00:31:57.640 That's my other job.
00:31:58.540 I'm a journalist.
00:32:03.420 No, even though
00:32:04.320 I'm not as serious
00:32:05.140 about the idea
00:32:05.860 because I know
00:32:06.660 it's not something
00:32:07.260 they would actually do,
00:32:08.680 what would be wrong
00:32:09.500 with it?
00:32:09.780 Do you think
00:32:12.120 the jury gets
00:32:12.900 to decide
00:32:13.500 whether he's
00:32:14.040 really a journalist?
00:32:15.920 How does that work?
00:32:17.560 Why does a jury
00:32:18.520 get to decide
00:32:19.160 if I'm a journalist?
00:32:21.640 There's no law
00:32:22.420 that says that.
00:32:23.320 That doesn't make
00:32:23.840 any sense.
00:32:24.880 If I'm a journalist
00:32:25.780 and I'm,
00:32:26.680 if I'm writing
00:32:27.800 things down
00:32:28.600 about the news
00:32:30.820 and I'm publishing them,
00:32:32.140 how am I not
00:32:32.740 a journalist?
00:32:36.380 All right.
00:32:37.240 I just put that
00:32:38.100 out there
00:32:38.440 because it's fun.
00:32:39.040 Here's what I think
00:32:42.360 is the Gavin Newsom
00:32:43.920 play.
00:32:46.960 As I said
00:32:48.760 in a tweet
00:32:49.160 yesterday or so,
00:32:51.040 the reddest
00:32:52.060 of red flags
00:32:53.000 is that Biden
00:32:53.980 is not actively
00:32:55.200 campaigning
00:32:55.860 and he's running
00:32:58.520 for office
00:32:59.140 president
00:32:59.860 and it looks
00:33:01.980 like the polls
00:33:02.960 are competitive.
00:33:05.100 So it's not like
00:33:06.120 he's going to win
00:33:06.720 automatically
00:33:07.280 and he knows it.
00:33:09.040 So what are
00:33:09.900 two reasons
00:33:10.640 you could give me
00:33:11.400 why somebody
00:33:12.580 in this situation
00:33:13.460 would not be
00:33:14.320 aggressively campaigning?
00:33:16.280 Now one of them
00:33:17.180 is he's unable.
00:33:19.500 But,
00:33:20.880 is he really?
00:33:22.660 Wouldn't they
00:33:23.100 at least try?
00:33:24.980 I mean,
00:33:25.500 at least they'd give it
00:33:26.320 a good try if you,
00:33:27.360 you know.
00:33:28.140 Here's what I think.
00:33:29.720 It's possible
00:33:30.420 he's just unable
00:33:31.240 and they haven't figured
00:33:32.020 out what to do about it.
00:33:33.080 So I guess
00:33:33.440 there are three possibilities.
00:33:34.320 One possibility
00:33:36.300 is they feel
00:33:37.100 that the election
00:33:37.720 is so rigged
00:33:38.660 or will be
00:33:40.180 that they don't
00:33:41.800 even need to try hard.
00:33:43.080 They just have to say,
00:33:44.000 oh,
00:33:44.200 we're going to,
00:33:45.220 he's going to campaign
00:33:46.000 on his record
00:33:46.820 meaning he'll just
00:33:47.660 do the job
00:33:48.520 and he does a good job
00:33:50.160 so re-elect him.
00:33:51.040 So one possibility
00:33:55.240 is he's so confident
00:33:56.720 he doesn't need
00:33:57.380 to campaign.
00:33:58.840 Does that sound real?
00:34:01.860 Not really.
00:34:02.920 The other possibility
00:34:03.860 is he's not planning
00:34:05.060 to be the candidate.
00:34:07.220 And he knows it
00:34:08.460 because he's planning it.
00:34:10.720 He's just waiting
00:34:11.640 for the last minute.
00:34:12.960 Why would you wait
00:34:13.760 for the last minute
00:34:14.620 as opposed to
00:34:16.220 letting the field
00:34:18.540 just compete
00:34:19.340 in a normal primary?
00:34:20.480 Why would you let,
00:34:21.560 why would you wait
00:34:22.180 to the last minute
00:34:23.120 and then drop out?
00:34:25.120 What benefit
00:34:25.720 would that give you?
00:34:27.400 Well,
00:34:28.040 hold that question.
00:34:29.660 Hold that question.
00:34:31.120 What benefit
00:34:31.780 would you get
00:34:32.540 if you waited
00:34:33.120 to the last minute?
00:34:34.200 And that was actually
00:34:34.800 your plan
00:34:35.360 to wait to the last minute.
00:34:36.920 All right.
00:34:37.220 Hold that thought.
00:34:38.680 Now let me change
00:34:39.460 topics slightly.
00:34:41.460 So the,
00:34:42.120 the Democrat
00:34:42.880 who's making
00:34:43.400 the most noise lately
00:34:44.340 is Governor Newsom.
00:34:46.940 So Newsom
00:34:47.840 is proposing
00:34:48.980 a constitutional amendment
00:34:51.120 about guns.
00:34:52.220 Probably has no chance,
00:34:53.540 but it gets him
00:34:54.000 in the news.
00:34:55.060 He is attacking
00:34:55.940 Governor DeSantis
00:34:56.900 every chance he can,
00:34:58.620 which doesn't make sense
00:35:00.600 for a governor.
00:35:01.660 It's not really
00:35:02.180 the governor's job
00:35:03.080 to attack another governor,
00:35:04.360 but it puts him
00:35:05.160 in the news.
00:35:06.180 And then he did
00:35:07.140 the ballsy play,
00:35:08.540 which I'm,
00:35:09.260 I'm going to compliment him on.
00:35:11.900 He went on Hannity.
00:35:13.020 Because if you can't
00:35:15.020 go on Hannity,
00:35:16.180 in my opinion,
00:35:17.420 you're,
00:35:17.820 you're not ready
00:35:19.340 to be a president.
00:35:21.200 And I would say that,
00:35:22.380 you know,
00:35:22.600 you can reverse that.
00:35:23.760 If there's,
00:35:24.660 if Trump was,
00:35:26.200 let's say,
00:35:27.200 unwilling to talk
00:35:28.260 to Jake Tapper
00:35:29.300 or Joy Reid
00:35:30.300 or something,
00:35:31.400 then I would say
00:35:32.000 he's unqualified.
00:35:33.680 I would say
00:35:34.100 that's,
00:35:34.400 that's disqualified.
00:35:35.760 If you're not willing
00:35:36.580 to talk to a journalist
00:35:37.960 on the other side,
00:35:39.380 that's just
00:35:40.380 not good enough.
00:35:41.720 You've got to be able
00:35:42.660 to do that.
00:35:43.940 So Newsom is showing you
00:35:45.160 his presidential chops
00:35:46.500 by walking into
00:35:47.420 the lion's den,
00:35:48.880 sitting down with Hannity,
00:35:50.760 and then he sits down
00:35:51.620 with Hannity,
00:35:52.560 and what does he say
00:35:53.440 about Trump?
00:35:55.260 He said that
00:35:56.180 during the pandemic,
00:35:57.940 Trump was excellent.
00:35:59.840 I'm paraphrasing.
00:36:01.600 He said that
00:36:02.340 there were no politics
00:36:03.560 and Trump was 100%
00:36:05.720 helpful to California.
00:36:08.660 No criticisms at all.
00:36:10.060 Now, isn't that interesting?
00:36:13.860 Do you know
00:36:14.180 what it sounds like?
00:36:16.300 Very presidential.
00:36:18.620 It's very presidential.
00:36:20.420 It's very presidential
00:36:21.680 to say that
00:36:22.520 the thing that
00:36:23.680 Trump did right,
00:36:24.560 he just did 100% right,
00:36:25.940 there's nothing else
00:36:26.520 to say about it.
00:36:28.060 I like that.
00:36:29.480 Now, Newsom,
00:36:30.960 you know,
00:36:31.420 he's got some rough edges,
00:36:32.620 he wouldn't be my first
00:36:33.480 choice for president,
00:36:34.260 but he is good at this.
00:36:38.440 Like, he's a,
00:36:40.380 let's say,
00:36:40.960 a skilled politician,
00:36:42.780 good and bad.
00:36:44.240 He's skilled at it.
00:36:45.340 This was very skillful.
00:36:47.800 Going on Hannity
00:36:48.540 was smart.
00:36:50.120 It was just flat-out smart.
00:36:52.160 And then,
00:36:52.740 based on what I read
00:36:54.300 about the interview,
00:36:55.300 it looks like he nailed it.
00:36:56.540 Because if you can go on Hannity
00:36:58.940 and give an unambiguous
00:37:00.960 compliment to Trump,
00:37:03.080 but then also,
00:37:04.120 you know,
00:37:04.440 hold your criticisms
00:37:05.400 for things that
00:37:06.840 are worthy of criticism,
00:37:08.320 that's a really good
00:37:09.740 presidential,
00:37:11.080 strong
00:37:12.240 kind of a play.
00:37:14.360 And I thought he did it well.
00:37:16.600 Now,
00:37:18.140 why is it that
00:37:19.800 Governor Newsom
00:37:20.980 seems to be the only one
00:37:22.640 who you think of
00:37:24.600 as maybe a presidential
00:37:25.920 possibility?
00:37:29.100 And,
00:37:29.620 did I hear he's related
00:37:30.780 to Nancy Pelosi?
00:37:32.160 Is that true?
00:37:33.880 Is Gavin Newsom
00:37:34.660 related to Nancy Pelosi,
00:37:36.200 or is that just
00:37:36.880 one of those
00:37:37.440 internet things?
00:37:39.060 It's true, right?
00:37:40.020 Now,
00:37:40.420 do you think that
00:37:40.900 someone who's related
00:37:41.800 to Nancy Pelosi
00:37:42.920 might have an inside track?
00:37:47.340 Do you think that
00:37:47.840 might give him
00:37:48.240 a little inside track?
00:37:49.800 All right,
00:37:50.020 here's what I think
00:37:50.640 the play is.
00:37:52.280 I think Biden's
00:37:53.320 going to wait
00:37:53.860 until the last minute
00:37:55.280 and everybody,
00:37:57.020 including Newsom,
00:37:57.840 is going to say,
00:37:58.360 oh yeah,
00:37:58.660 he's definitely
00:37:59.280 going to be the candidate.
00:38:00.500 Oh,
00:38:00.740 I'm not running
00:38:01.200 for president.
00:38:02.540 Oh,
00:38:03.000 what are you even
00:38:04.200 asking that?
00:38:05.080 No,
00:38:05.420 we have a candidate
00:38:06.040 for president.
00:38:07.240 No,
00:38:07.560 no,
00:38:07.760 no,
00:38:07.960 no,
00:38:08.140 no,
00:38:08.440 not running
00:38:09.160 for president.
00:38:10.540 And then at the
00:38:11.080 last minute,
00:38:12.260 Biden jumps out
00:38:13.540 and there's no
00:38:14.860 other candidate
00:38:15.680 whose name
00:38:16.200 you can think of.
00:38:18.300 I can't even
00:38:18.800 think of one.
00:38:19.660 Name the other
00:38:20.240 candidate.
00:38:21.460 RFK Jr.,
00:38:22.280 right?
00:38:22.420 But RFK Jr.
00:38:24.400 is a little
00:38:24.740 too far
00:38:25.180 outside the
00:38:25.820 deep state.
00:38:27.140 You know,
00:38:27.300 he would take
00:38:28.060 the deep state
00:38:28.640 down.
00:38:30.360 But I don't
00:38:31.080 think Gavin Newsom
00:38:31.860 would.
00:38:32.860 I think he'd
00:38:33.440 just slot right
00:38:34.420 into that
00:38:35.200 existing structure
00:38:36.720 just perfectly.
00:38:38.960 So I think
00:38:39.700 the play
00:38:40.160 is to freeze
00:38:41.040 other Democrats
00:38:42.040 out of the race.
00:38:43.420 It just doesn't
00:38:44.120 work on RFK Jr.
00:38:45.240 because he doesn't
00:38:46.120 give a fuck
00:38:46.680 what the Democrats
00:38:47.400 think,
00:38:48.380 at least the
00:38:49.800 leadership.
00:38:50.840 Which is
00:38:51.480 exactly why
00:38:52.480 you like
00:38:52.920 RFK Jr.
00:38:53.820 if you do.
00:38:55.380 How much
00:38:55.980 do you like
00:38:56.360 a Democrat
00:38:56.820 who says,
00:38:57.520 fuck the
00:38:57.880 Democrat
00:38:58.220 leadership?
00:39:00.460 You know,
00:39:00.940 I gotta do
00:39:01.780 what I gotta
00:39:02.140 do.
00:39:02.900 You like
00:39:03.440 that,
00:39:03.760 right?
00:39:04.960 So
00:39:05.320 Gavin Newsom
00:39:08.420 would probably
00:39:08.820 get all the
00:39:09.400 traditional
00:39:10.060 Democrats.
00:39:11.540 I think
00:39:12.340 in a fair
00:39:13.900 fight he
00:39:14.380 could take
00:39:14.840 RFK out
00:39:15.820 just because
00:39:16.620 he'd have
00:39:16.920 so much
00:39:17.340 support
00:39:18.200 from the
00:39:19.480 big structure
00:39:21.460 from the
00:39:22.400 Democrat
00:39:22.760 party.
00:39:24.060 So I think
00:39:24.400 RFK Jr.
00:39:25.180 is gonna
00:39:25.460 look like
00:39:25.920 the Bernie
00:39:26.760 if they
00:39:28.240 had a
00:39:28.540 serious
00:39:28.900 challenger.
00:39:30.620 Now,
00:39:30.980 if it goes
00:39:31.940 to the
00:39:32.220 primary
00:39:32.620 and the
00:39:33.600 only person
00:39:34.140 in the
00:39:34.420 primary
00:39:34.680 against
00:39:35.000 Biden
00:39:35.340 is RFK
00:39:36.000 Jr.,
00:39:36.520 well,
00:39:36.820 I like
00:39:37.120 RFK
00:39:37.620 Jr.'s
00:39:38.020 chances
00:39:38.340 a lot
00:39:39.000 in that
00:39:39.960 case.
00:39:41.080 If it
00:39:41.400 gets to
00:39:41.720 that,
00:39:42.520 it's
00:39:42.780 looking
00:39:43.040 very RFK
00:39:43.840 Jr.-ish.
00:39:44.960 However,
00:39:45.820 if Biden
00:39:46.720 drops out
00:39:47.320 a day
00:39:47.720 before
00:39:48.200 the primary,
00:39:50.500 the actual
00:39:51.020 convention
00:39:51.620 or the
00:39:52.540 decision-making,
00:39:54.220 he's the
00:39:55.680 guy you're
00:39:56.040 gonna think
00:39:56.380 of.
00:39:57.120 And then
00:39:57.360 the Democrats
00:39:57.960 are gonna
00:39:58.300 say,
00:39:58.960 gosh,
00:40:00.060 we never
00:40:00.820 anticipated
00:40:01.640 we'd be
00:40:02.080 in this
00:40:02.420 situation,
00:40:03.520 but what
00:40:03.800 are we
00:40:04.020 gonna do?
00:40:04.540 It's an
00:40:04.880 emergency,
00:40:05.580 time's
00:40:05.940 running out,
00:40:06.920 oh,
00:40:07.220 who will
00:40:07.520 it be?
00:40:08.280 Who will
00:40:08.700 be our
00:40:09.000 great
00:40:09.300 savior?
00:40:11.160 Gavin
00:40:11.500 Newsom.
00:40:12.360 Oh,
00:40:13.400 there he
00:40:13.760 is,
00:40:14.020 he's already
00:40:14.400 in the
00:40:14.700 news,
00:40:15.100 how about
00:40:15.380 that?
00:40:15.580 Everybody
00:40:15.860 knows his
00:40:16.340 name.
00:40:17.020 How
00:40:17.160 convenient.
00:40:18.480 And he's
00:40:18.780 related to
00:40:19.260 Nancy Pelosi.
00:40:20.360 Oh,
00:40:21.120 he'll have
00:40:21.520 all the
00:40:21.760 help he
00:40:22.040 needs.
00:40:27.240 All right.
00:40:30.120 So that's
00:40:30.820 what I think
00:40:31.160 the play
00:40:31.540 is.
00:40:32.400 I think
00:40:32.740 the play
00:40:33.180 is for
00:40:33.740 Biden to
00:40:34.140 drop out
00:40:34.640 at the
00:40:34.940 last minute
00:40:35.580 and freeze
00:40:36.400 out the
00:40:36.760 other
00:40:37.020 candidates.
00:40:39.100 While
00:40:39.420 Newsom is
00:40:40.020 raising his
00:40:40.540 profile by
00:40:41.360 doing things
00:40:41.880 that aren't
00:40:42.320 exactly
00:40:42.840 running for
00:40:44.320 office but
00:40:44.840 look exactly
00:40:45.460 like running
00:40:45.960 for office.
00:40:47.460 All right,
00:40:48.100 the other
00:40:48.320 big story,
00:40:49.100 which I
00:40:49.280 don't believe
00:40:49.760 a bit,
00:40:50.340 is that
00:40:50.880 there are
00:40:51.800 allegedly 17
00:40:52.900 recordings of
00:40:54.280 a Burismo
00:40:54.760 executive talking
00:40:55.820 to the
00:40:56.160 Bidens,
00:40:57.140 two of them
00:40:57.800 with Joe
00:40:58.780 Biden and
00:40:59.400 the rest of
00:40:59.860 them with
00:41:00.160 Hunter,
00:41:01.160 in which
00:41:01.760 allegedly if
00:41:03.540 you were to
00:41:03.900 hear these
00:41:04.520 secret recordings,
00:41:06.660 you would
00:41:07.440 hear evidence
00:41:08.440 of
00:41:09.400 bribery,
00:41:10.360 five million
00:41:11.060 dollars a
00:41:11.560 piece and
00:41:13.180 all run
00:41:13.740 through lots
00:41:14.980 of different
00:41:15.360 secret accounts
00:41:16.720 so nobody
00:41:17.260 can track
00:41:17.800 it.
00:41:20.240 Now, do
00:41:21.060 you know
00:41:21.300 where the
00:41:21.960 recordings are?
00:41:23.360 Has
00:41:23.460 everybody told
00:41:23.900 you where
00:41:24.260 those 17
00:41:25.200 recordings are?
00:41:26.260 Physically,
00:41:26.780 where do they
00:41:27.140 exist?
00:41:28.240 Do you know?
00:41:30.040 No, it
00:41:30.340 hasn't been,
00:41:31.040 nobody's mentioned
00:41:32.280 that, right?
00:41:33.260 Is the only
00:41:33.840 person who has
00:41:34.540 them the
00:41:34.940 Burisma
00:41:35.340 executive?
00:41:36.620 That's the
00:41:37.300 only one who
00:41:37.680 has them?
00:41:38.440 Well, I
00:41:40.240 have some,
00:41:40.720 this is
00:41:41.320 breaking news,
00:41:41.920 so I have
00:41:42.180 some information
00:41:43.260 about this.
00:41:44.540 Those 17
00:41:45.260 recordings,
00:41:45.980 they're actually
00:41:46.480 being kept
00:41:47.220 in the same
00:41:48.540 facility as
00:41:49.600 the 12
00:41:50.540 UFOs.
00:41:52.840 So it's
00:41:53.640 sort of a
00:41:54.300 combined
00:41:54.980 entity.
00:41:57.160 They keep
00:41:57.760 all of the
00:41:58.300 UFOs there.
00:41:59.140 They're about
00:41:59.540 12 now.
00:42:00.640 One of them
00:42:01.140 is as big
00:42:01.600 as a
00:42:02.140 Coliseum.
00:42:03.960 And another
00:42:04.480 one, if you
00:42:04.920 go inside,
00:42:05.640 it's bigger
00:42:06.080 on the inside
00:42:06.660 than the
00:42:07.000 outside.
00:42:07.520 So these
00:42:07.860 are the
00:42:08.100 facts that
00:42:08.840 we know.
00:42:09.920 But also,
00:42:11.160 all 17
00:42:12.140 Burisma
00:42:12.540 recordings are
00:42:13.420 kept in the
00:42:14.000 same secret
00:42:14.580 facility, so
00:42:16.380 that you'll
00:42:16.640 never get to
00:42:17.120 see them.
00:42:17.900 They're all
00:42:18.400 there.
00:42:19.220 The TARDIS
00:42:19.740 is there,
00:42:20.640 and the
00:42:21.980 Battlestar.
00:42:23.240 Yeah, the
00:42:23.680 Battlestar is
00:42:24.200 there, too.
00:42:26.520 So, I just
00:42:30.460 got to say I
00:42:31.120 don't believe
00:42:31.760 that these
00:42:32.560 exist.
00:42:33.820 Or if they
00:42:34.340 exist, they
00:42:34.860 don't say
00:42:35.180 anything useful.
00:42:35.780 What do
00:42:36.960 you think?
00:42:37.980 Do you
00:42:38.420 think the
00:42:38.760 walls are
00:42:39.220 closing in?
00:42:40.580 Or does
00:42:40.980 this seem a
00:42:41.500 little bit
00:42:41.840 too on the
00:42:42.300 nose, that
00:42:43.540 they have
00:42:43.980 17 recordings
00:42:45.040 of the exact
00:42:45.840 crime that
00:42:46.480 they're
00:42:46.920 suspecting?
00:42:49.000 Maybe.
00:42:51.160 All right, let
00:42:51.920 me ask you
00:42:52.300 this.
00:42:53.220 Do you
00:42:53.480 think that
00:42:53.900 either Hunter
00:42:54.680 or Joe
00:42:56.140 Biden would
00:42:57.660 be sophisticated
00:42:58.540 enough to get
00:42:59.520 into this
00:43:00.160 alleged, you
00:43:01.520 know, massive
00:43:02.040 bribery, money
00:43:03.240 laundering situation,
00:43:04.240 and yet they
00:43:06.100 would say
00:43:06.460 things on a
00:43:07.180 phone call
00:43:07.840 that would
00:43:09.020 incriminate
00:43:09.640 them criminally?
00:43:11.320 On a phone
00:43:11.960 call.
00:43:13.500 You think that
00:43:14.520 the Vice
00:43:15.000 President of
00:43:15.680 the United
00:43:16.100 States would
00:43:17.520 trust a
00:43:18.340 phone call,
00:43:19.800 knowing that
00:43:20.920 it's the
00:43:21.360 Vice President?
00:43:22.460 Every foreign
00:43:23.120 entity is going
00:43:24.160 to be trying
00:43:24.540 to get that
00:43:25.020 call.
00:43:26.620 No.
00:43:27.640 No.
00:43:28.080 There's nobody
00:43:28.580 who trusts a
00:43:29.160 phone call who
00:43:29.900 does that kind
00:43:30.500 of business.
00:43:31.200 That is in
00:43:31.960 person only.
00:43:32.760 You don't do
00:43:34.720 that on a
00:43:35.160 phone.
00:43:36.300 If there's
00:43:37.060 anything I can
00:43:37.720 tell you to
00:43:38.180 get away with
00:43:38.640 your crimes,
00:43:39.880 never, ever
00:43:40.980 admit a crime
00:43:42.300 on a phone
00:43:42.820 call.
00:43:43.860 Are you
00:43:44.320 fucking kidding
00:43:45.020 me?
00:43:46.040 Have you
00:43:46.420 ever had
00:43:46.800 somebody record
00:43:47.620 your calls
00:43:48.180 that didn't
00:43:49.120 tell you about
00:43:49.640 it?
00:43:50.580 Has anybody
00:43:51.100 had that
00:43:51.460 experience?
00:43:52.560 Has anybody
00:43:53.040 had their
00:43:53.400 phone calls
00:43:54.040 recorded?
00:43:54.740 I have.
00:43:56.260 I've had it
00:43:56.980 on at least
00:43:57.940 two occasions
00:43:58.660 I've had
00:43:59.300 people record
00:44:00.220 my calls
00:44:00.760 without telling
00:44:01.480 me.
00:44:01.760 I found
00:44:02.060 out later
00:44:02.540 so later
00:44:03.500 I found
00:44:03.880 out.
00:44:04.420 But yeah,
00:44:05.920 I had
00:44:06.200 calls illegally
00:44:07.120 recorded on
00:44:07.860 me more
00:44:08.840 than once.
00:44:10.780 Did I say
00:44:11.280 anything in
00:44:11.740 those phone
00:44:12.160 calls that
00:44:12.600 would incriminate
00:44:13.240 me?
00:44:14.200 No.
00:44:14.940 Do you know
00:44:15.300 why?
00:44:16.080 Because it
00:44:16.620 was a
00:44:16.940 fucking
00:44:17.180 phone call.
00:44:18.620 Don't say
00:44:19.120 anything on
00:44:19.760 a phone call
00:44:20.300 that would
00:44:20.600 incriminate
00:44:21.080 you.
00:44:21.560 I don't
00:44:21.860 care if
00:44:22.200 you're like
00:44:22.560 the lowest
00:44:23.580 level criminal
00:44:24.360 or you're
00:44:25.320 just talking
00:44:25.800 bullshit with
00:44:26.400 your friends.
00:44:27.800 Don't ever
00:44:28.420 say anything
00:44:29.000 illegal that
00:44:30.040 you did or
00:44:31.040 the other
00:44:31.340 person did.
00:44:31.900 on a
00:44:32.880 phone call.
00:44:33.740 Do not
00:44:34.440 ever,
00:44:36.440 ever admit
00:44:38.360 anything illegal
00:44:39.120 on a phone
00:44:39.540 call.
00:44:42.180 All right.
00:44:44.780 Thanks to
00:44:45.480 AI, this
00:44:46.860 story seems a
00:44:47.540 little bullshitty
00:44:48.100 to me but I'll
00:44:48.760 read it anyway,
00:44:49.640 the Beatles are
00:44:50.320 going to have a
00:44:50.780 new album that
00:44:51.720 would include a
00:44:52.580 digital AI
00:44:53.780 version of
00:44:54.400 John Lennon's
00:44:55.240 vocals.
00:44:56.640 Now I guess it's
00:44:57.240 based on some
00:44:57.880 vocals that they
00:44:58.700 had in some
00:44:59.380 kind of recording
00:45:00.020 but the song
00:45:01.560 itself didn't
00:45:02.820 exist in this
00:45:03.800 form.
00:45:04.840 So Peter Jackson
00:45:05.820 is working on
00:45:06.480 it with Paul
00:45:07.080 McCartney and I
00:45:08.400 guess we'll see
00:45:08.900 it later this
00:45:09.440 year.
00:45:10.100 I'm going to
00:45:10.740 make a prediction
00:45:11.520 about this
00:45:12.160 song.
00:45:13.800 It might get a
00:45:14.680 lot of attention
00:45:15.240 because it would
00:45:16.480 be cool and AI
00:45:18.180 and it's the Beatles.
00:45:19.020 I do not think
00:45:20.640 that you will love
00:45:21.460 this song.
00:45:23.380 I do not believe
00:45:24.600 that it will stick
00:45:25.580 in your mind and
00:45:26.520 become a favorite
00:45:27.240 for you forever.
00:45:29.500 And it has to do
00:45:30.520 with the fact that
00:45:31.220 once you know AI
00:45:32.400 made it, I don't
00:45:33.220 think you're going
00:45:33.700 to appreciate it
00:45:34.380 the same.
00:45:36.040 And it goes back
00:45:37.020 to my theory that
00:45:37.840 all art is an
00:45:39.920 expression of the
00:45:40.760 artist's suitability
00:45:43.180 for procreation.
00:45:44.780 That's actually what
00:45:45.700 you're responding to
00:45:46.540 when you look at
00:45:47.040 the art.
00:45:47.360 If it's AI, you
00:45:49.720 can't reproduce with
00:45:50.600 an AI, so it just
00:45:51.460 won't have the same
00:45:52.020 hit.
00:45:53.220 It just won't give
00:45:53.780 you the same
00:45:54.300 charge.
00:45:56.940 So I think it will
00:45:57.860 be fascinating and
00:45:59.000 I will definitely
00:45:59.520 want to hear that
00:46:00.120 thing, but I do
00:46:01.260 not think it will
00:46:02.220 be a hit except
00:46:03.260 for the novelty
00:46:04.180 of it.
00:46:06.140 All right, over in
00:46:06.960 Ukraine, there's
00:46:07.640 still no useful
00:46:08.620 news whatsoever.
00:46:12.820 Here's something I
00:46:13.640 wonder.
00:46:13.940 Is it because the
00:46:15.360 news organizations
00:46:16.180 don't have money or
00:46:17.100 they don't take
00:46:17.660 risks anymore?
00:46:18.900 Because didn't we
00:46:19.600 always have reporting
00:46:20.480 from war zones until
00:46:21.720 Syria?
00:46:23.520 Wasn't it the battle
00:46:25.580 against Al-Qaeda is
00:46:27.180 where the news just
00:46:28.480 stopped covering stuff
00:46:29.460 in the war zone
00:46:30.740 anyway?
00:46:31.260 Because it was always
00:46:31.940 too dangerous, right?
00:46:33.580 Just way too
00:46:34.140 dangerous.
00:46:35.140 But boy, does it
00:46:37.080 seem like it's
00:46:37.600 missing.
00:46:39.180 And here's the
00:46:39.840 question I ask.
00:46:40.740 Will any news
00:46:41.760 organization ever get
00:46:42.800 to the point where
00:46:44.420 they could have their
00:46:45.120 own loitering drone
00:46:48.540 just to look at the
00:46:50.880 ground and just see
00:46:51.920 what's happening?
00:46:54.060 Because we get all
00:46:55.140 these videos from,
00:46:56.080 you know, a
00:46:56.720 Ukrainian drone and
00:46:58.460 here's one from a
00:47:00.740 helicopter, a Russian
00:47:01.980 helicopter, and of
00:47:03.280 course they always show
00:47:03.940 the other side getting
00:47:04.800 blown up.
00:47:06.460 So, but couldn't there
00:47:08.920 be a permanently, you
00:47:10.740 know, just a permanently
00:47:11.600 hovering news drone
00:47:13.520 that's just looking at
00:47:14.420 stuff on the ground.
00:47:16.800 Couldn't do it.
00:47:17.780 Now, obviously somebody
00:47:18.740 would try to shoot it
00:47:19.600 down, but maybe
00:47:23.200 they're not that
00:47:23.760 expensive.
00:47:24.480 Maybe you just have
00:47:25.100 20 of them and you
00:47:26.640 just, you know, send
00:47:28.280 up another one when you
00:47:29.440 need it.
00:47:30.280 I just don't know
00:47:30.980 that there's enough,
00:47:32.260 I don't know that
00:47:34.960 there's enough money in
00:47:36.380 the news business
00:47:37.220 anymore to do
00:47:38.340 something like that.
00:47:39.600 You know, because
00:47:40.000 you'd be talking tens
00:47:40.980 of millions of dollars
00:47:41.720 probably.
00:47:45.180 Anyway, the lack of
00:47:46.780 news goes beyond
00:47:48.240 what I could expect
00:47:50.960 just by the fact
00:47:52.000 that it's hard to get
00:47:52.640 news.
00:47:53.440 It feels like
00:47:54.220 something else going
00:47:54.940 on.
00:47:56.340 Anyway, so some
00:47:57.460 stories, somebody's
00:47:58.620 winning, somebody else
00:47:59.440 is winning, blah, blah,
00:48:00.360 blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:48:02.360 Did you know that
00:48:03.280 back in 2020,
00:48:06.220 the AP, which is
00:48:08.560 an organization that
00:48:10.040 tells you what style
00:48:11.000 to write in, so
00:48:12.560 they'll tell you
00:48:12.980 what words are
00:48:13.740 allowed and, you
00:48:14.820 know, what references
00:48:15.660 are slang and what
00:48:17.700 is not slang and that
00:48:18.800 sort of stuff.
00:48:19.980 And the AP decided
00:48:22.480 in 2020 that they
00:48:23.780 would capitalize the
00:48:24.900 B in black for
00:48:26.500 black people, but
00:48:28.360 they would not, and
00:48:29.480 then in a separate
00:48:30.120 opinion the next
00:48:31.360 day, they clarified
00:48:32.820 that they would not
00:48:33.760 capitalize the W in
00:48:35.120 white.
00:48:39.920 What do you say
00:48:40.740 about that other
00:48:41.420 than it's, as a
00:48:43.740 comment said, racist
00:48:44.800 as fuck?
00:48:46.240 It's not even just a
00:48:47.340 little bit racist.
00:48:49.000 It's racist as fuck.
00:48:52.460 That's seriously
00:48:53.360 racist.
00:48:53.740 Now, in my capacity
00:48:56.180 as a professional
00:48:57.340 writer, I hereby
00:48:59.520 reject the AP style
00:49:00.940 guide, and I adopt
00:49:03.100 Chicago style guide or
00:49:05.440 New York Times or
00:49:06.480 something, but I'll
00:49:07.760 use, I just won't
00:49:08.760 use them.
00:49:09.680 So I would say that
00:49:10.540 this disqualifies the
00:49:12.120 AP as a reasonable
00:49:13.820 guide, because they
00:49:15.480 don't get to tell me
00:49:16.300 what to write, just
00:49:18.000 to make it clear.
00:49:19.420 The AP doesn't tell
00:49:20.480 the professional
00:49:21.060 writers what to
00:49:21.840 write.
00:49:22.640 The professional
00:49:23.300 writers tell the
00:49:24.140 AP what is the
00:49:25.640 standard.
00:49:26.620 We do it first, and
00:49:28.540 then the AP decides
00:49:30.380 what they liked,
00:49:31.120 but they don't get
00:49:33.100 to tell you.
00:49:34.900 AP doesn't tell you
00:49:36.120 how to write.
00:49:37.860 You tell them, or
00:49:39.180 the professional
00:49:39.760 writers do, and
00:49:41.100 then they respond,
00:49:41.980 and I'm telling
00:49:42.500 them, I'm
00:49:43.760 capitalizing both.
00:49:46.620 Capitalizing both.
00:49:47.740 Now, the reason I
00:49:48.380 like capitalizing
00:49:49.040 both is because it
00:49:49.900 adds clarity.
00:49:52.480 If you have a
00:49:53.580 lowercase, then
00:49:55.300 maybe the word is
00:49:56.320 going to refer to
00:49:57.300 just the color of
00:49:58.840 some object.
00:49:59.480 But as soon as
00:50:00.520 you capitalize it,
00:50:01.760 then that's very
00:50:03.480 clear.
00:50:03.960 You talk about
00:50:04.540 people.
00:50:06.180 So anytime that you
00:50:07.320 can add clarity,
00:50:09.000 that's generally
00:50:09.640 better writing.
00:50:10.920 So there's no
00:50:11.600 question which is
00:50:12.340 better writing.
00:50:13.480 No question at
00:50:14.160 all.
00:50:14.980 The clear,
00:50:16.180 straight-ahead,
00:50:20.680 honest way to do
00:50:21.540 it is to capitalize
00:50:22.900 both.
00:50:23.980 So that's what I've
00:50:24.660 been doing since
00:50:25.500 B was capitalized,
00:50:26.880 I've capitalized
00:50:27.700 W.
00:50:28.920 And that's the
00:50:29.920 rule.
00:50:30.700 So AP, you're
00:50:31.380 wrong, and you
00:50:32.740 need to catch up.
00:50:34.180 The rule is
00:50:34.980 capitalize both.
00:50:36.680 I will make it the
00:50:37.720 rule, because I am
00:50:39.040 the vice president of
00:50:40.080 witchcraft and
00:50:40.740 propaganda.
00:50:43.420 Not to mention
00:50:44.300 disgraced cartoonists.
00:50:48.840 All right.
00:50:51.620 Did you ever wonder
00:50:52.600 what people who are
00:50:53.580 multiracial feel about
00:50:55.100 this whole thing?
00:50:57.260 You ever think
00:50:57.960 about that?
00:50:59.400 I feel like the
00:51:00.500 multiracial segment
00:51:02.960 of the population is
00:51:04.840 the least served.
00:51:07.420 Because you imagine
00:51:08.300 like, oh, you know,
00:51:09.700 I'm proud of this,
00:51:10.940 and I'm proud of
00:51:12.340 that.
00:51:12.720 And then the people
00:51:13.400 who are made of like
00:51:14.460 four different things
00:51:15.420 are like, well,
00:51:16.160 what the hell am I?
00:51:18.180 I'm four different
00:51:19.120 things.
00:51:19.700 Do I get to
00:51:20.380 participate in this?
00:51:21.640 Am I discriminating
00:51:22.700 against myself?
00:51:23.700 How does this work?
00:51:26.940 Now, I've often
00:51:27.940 said that one of
00:51:29.900 the reasons I don't
00:51:30.760 feel bigoted against
00:51:33.020 people of different
00:51:33.840 types is that I
00:51:35.220 always felt like I
00:51:35.980 was a mutt.
00:51:37.880 Like, I always felt
00:51:38.840 like I was a mixture
00:51:39.620 of several things.
00:51:41.600 At one point, I
00:51:42.420 thought I was Native
00:51:43.040 American, but it
00:51:44.040 turns out I got
00:51:44.720 Elizabeth warned on
00:51:45.940 that.
00:51:46.260 I don't have any
00:51:46.780 Native American blood.
00:51:48.500 But for most of my
00:51:51.020 childhood, I didn't
00:51:51.980 think I was
00:51:52.480 identifiable as one
00:51:53.780 obvious thing.
00:51:55.500 To me, this is how
00:51:57.500 white the town was I
00:51:58.460 grew up in.
00:51:59.540 This is like super
00:52:00.520 white.
00:52:01.540 If I thought I was a
00:52:02.700 combination of, you
00:52:03.620 know, German and
00:52:05.200 Irish and British and
00:52:07.840 Dutch, which I am, I
00:52:11.680 thought, well, those are
00:52:12.360 all different things.
00:52:14.460 So I'm a combination of
00:52:15.840 like all these
00:52:16.380 completely different
00:52:17.180 things.
00:52:18.240 Scotch and German.
00:52:19.100 But if you talk to
00:52:21.900 somebody black, they're
00:52:22.840 going to say, well,
00:52:23.420 that's the same fucking
00:52:24.120 thing.
00:52:25.260 Don't tell me you're
00:52:26.120 Scottish and British or
00:52:28.620 you're Scottish versus
00:52:30.000 Irish.
00:52:31.700 It's the same fucking
00:52:32.400 thing.
00:52:33.400 I don't see any
00:52:34.020 difference.
00:52:34.900 But when I grew up, that
00:52:35.800 was a difference.
00:52:37.440 Yeah.
00:52:37.720 I mean, it was a
00:52:38.280 difference when I grew
00:52:38.960 up.
00:52:39.480 So I always thought I was
00:52:40.760 not one thing.
00:52:41.660 I just thought I was
00:52:42.280 some soup of things.
00:52:43.580 So when I looked at
00:52:44.880 other people, I never
00:52:46.900 thought, oh, I'm this
00:52:48.020 thing and you're not my
00:52:49.920 thing.
00:52:50.340 You're a different
00:52:50.860 thing.
00:52:51.400 I just said, I'm a
00:52:52.620 soup.
00:52:54.320 You're a muffin or a
00:52:56.280 soup, but we're both
00:52:57.660 food.
00:52:58.580 Like, my mindset was not
00:53:00.720 black and white.
00:53:02.380 It was more like mutt
00:53:03.700 and mutt.
00:53:04.800 I'm a mutt.
00:53:05.440 You're a mutt.
00:53:06.280 So what?
00:53:07.560 We're all mutts.
00:53:08.300 So what?
00:53:08.600 That was sort of my
00:53:09.560 hypothesis at the time.
00:53:13.580 All right.
00:53:15.800 Yeah, the whole black
00:53:16.720 and white thing is a
00:53:18.040 political construct.
00:53:19.260 It doesn't exactly
00:53:21.140 comport with how I see
00:53:23.040 the world.
00:53:24.520 And the fact that we
00:53:25.580 call somebody like
00:53:26.380 Obama black, do you
00:53:29.900 ever stop to think
00:53:30.780 that if being black
00:53:32.920 was so bad, wouldn't
00:53:34.980 people try to get
00:53:35.780 away with calling
00:53:36.380 themselves white if
00:53:37.360 they were half white?
00:53:39.160 Or wouldn't they at
00:53:40.120 least say, hey, I'm
00:53:40.880 half white, if being
00:53:42.600 white was the good
00:53:43.360 part?
00:53:44.460 Clearly not.
00:53:46.560 If only one of them
00:53:47.940 is capitalized and
00:53:49.140 anybody who's even 25%
00:53:51.860 black wants to call
00:53:52.840 themselves black in
00:53:53.800 America.
00:53:56.340 So the discrimination
00:53:57.840 is so bad that you'd
00:53:59.840 rather call yourself
00:54:00.640 that.
00:54:03.240 So anyway, that,
00:54:06.240 ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:06.720 is all I needed to
00:54:07.580 say today.
00:54:08.260 Is there any story I
00:54:09.120 missed that is of
00:54:10.080 great interest to you
00:54:11.160 when you wish you
00:54:12.560 knew what I said
00:54:13.320 about it?
00:54:20.940 Meghan Markle don't
00:54:22.380 care.
00:54:23.840 Oh, you're using her
00:54:25.200 as an example of a
00:54:27.340 black woman who's not
00:54:28.400 black?
00:54:29.620 Meghan Markle is 25%
00:54:32.980 black.
00:54:35.520 Is that right?
00:54:36.420 But does she call
00:54:38.260 herself black?
00:54:40.760 See, I just don't
00:54:41.740 understand it.
00:54:42.540 I feel like if all the
00:54:43.740 people who were at
00:54:44.820 least two things got
00:54:46.560 together, we could rule
00:54:48.440 the world.
00:54:50.220 And just make all the
00:54:51.300 people who were, you
00:54:52.100 know, only one thing
00:54:53.840 the assholes.
00:54:55.860 I saw Conan O'Brien
00:54:59.120 was doing a thing
00:55:00.160 where he got his DNA
00:55:01.820 checked, and he said
00:55:03.420 that whoever checked
00:55:04.120 his DNA was amazed
00:55:05.300 that he was the most
00:55:06.840 100% Irish person
00:55:08.260 they'd ever seen.
00:55:10.160 He had zero of
00:55:11.420 anything but Irish.
00:55:13.260 I don't even know
00:55:14.000 how that's possible.
00:55:15.280 That doesn't seem,
00:55:15.980 it doesn't seem
00:55:16.600 possible to me.
00:55:17.820 Like, I don't know
00:55:18.580 how you could not
00:55:19.180 have something else.
00:55:22.900 But, but when I look
00:55:25.180 at Conan O'Brien,
00:55:26.260 I see somebody who
00:55:27.380 could theoretically
00:55:28.500 be proud of his
00:55:29.720 ethnicity, in theory,
00:55:32.140 because he's exactly
00:55:32.980 one thing.
00:55:34.580 If you're a
00:55:35.460 combination of two
00:55:36.320 things, you're just
00:55:38.020 like everybody else.
00:55:39.680 If you're at least
00:55:40.480 two things, even if
00:55:41.580 those two things are
00:55:42.340 kind of close together,
00:55:43.840 you're just a mutt.
00:55:45.680 This whole I'm white
00:55:47.340 and you're black thing
00:55:48.460 is just complete,
00:55:49.840 you know, political
00:55:51.660 theater.
00:55:53.580 All right.
00:55:54.200 Although, it's not
00:55:56.300 theater that we
00:55:57.020 treat each other
00:55:57.720 differently.
00:56:00.180 All right.
00:56:01.860 YouTube, I think
00:56:03.040 that's all we got
00:56:03.580 for you today.
00:56:05.300 And, uh, did I hear
00:56:08.220 Ben Shapiro's take
00:56:09.200 on the pride flag?
00:56:10.280 Yeah, his take, I
00:56:11.460 guess Ben Shapiro's
00:56:12.340 take, so the pride
00:56:14.080 flag was being flown
00:56:14.980 at the White House.
00:56:16.800 And he was saying
00:56:17.840 that nobody died for
00:56:21.160 the pride flag or
00:56:22.180 something.
00:56:23.160 So, so he didn't
00:56:24.340 feel like it was
00:56:24.900 like a regular flag
00:56:26.020 where patriots die
00:56:27.820 for the values of
00:56:29.880 the flag.
00:56:30.720 And then other
00:56:31.540 people said, uh,
00:56:33.480 we went to war so
00:56:34.900 that people could be
00:56:36.600 LGBT gay if they
00:56:38.060 wanted to.
00:56:39.280 L-B-G-T-Q, not gay.
00:56:43.220 Which I thought was
00:56:44.140 the better argument.
00:56:44.800 Um, so while I
00:56:47.520 understood what Ben
00:56:48.480 was saying in a, you
00:56:50.520 know, say, uh, opinion
00:56:52.540 context, um, I'm
00:56:55.640 pretty sure that the
00:56:56.620 people who were
00:56:57.260 fighting for our
00:56:57.940 freedom were fighting
00:56:59.380 for all of our
00:57:00.240 freedom.
00:57:01.780 It wasn't like
00:57:02.820 fighting for some of
00:57:03.780 our freedoms.
00:57:04.860 I think they were
00:57:05.340 fighting for all of
00:57:06.060 them.
00:57:07.020 Like all the
00:57:07.760 freedoms.
00:57:08.700 So that would
00:57:09.280 include, um,
00:57:11.120 certainly they were
00:57:12.140 fighting for that flag
00:57:13.480 indirectly in the
00:57:14.740 sense that it's part
00:57:15.680 of freedom.
00:57:17.660 But I get his
00:57:18.480 point.
00:57:19.260 I get his point.
00:57:19.940 I, you know, the,
00:57:21.100 the question of
00:57:21.840 whether you're
00:57:22.380 putting, we're
00:57:23.060 putting too much, uh,
00:57:25.260 let's say emphasis
00:57:26.220 in one area of
00:57:27.600 concern, I think
00:57:29.900 that's a good point
00:57:31.500 to make.
00:57:32.220 We are definitely
00:57:33.200 putting a lot of
00:57:34.080 emphasis in one area
00:57:35.400 that for most of us
00:57:37.240 is irrelevant.
00:57:39.480 Right?
00:57:40.980 How many of you
00:57:41.880 actually interact
00:57:43.480 with somebody
00:57:44.580 who's trans
00:57:45.340 on a daily
00:57:46.160 basis?
00:57:47.720 Let's say,
00:57:48.220 not daily,
00:57:49.200 but let's say
00:57:49.460 a regular basis.
00:57:50.740 How often do you
00:57:51.760 interact with a
00:57:52.700 trans person?
00:57:56.780 I don't have
00:57:57.520 any contact.
00:57:59.360 You know,
00:57:59.680 it's like every
00:58:00.500 single day I'm
00:58:01.280 forced to talk
00:58:02.120 about the news
00:58:02.780 about trans this
00:58:03.780 and trans that.
00:58:04.660 It's like they
00:58:05.220 don't exist in my
00:58:06.220 life.
00:58:07.200 I know they do
00:58:08.000 exist, obviously.
00:58:09.260 I'm just saying
00:58:09.960 that I have no
00:58:10.500 contact.
00:58:11.940 At least that I
00:58:12.860 know of.
00:58:14.040 Now, I have
00:58:14.840 in the past,
00:58:16.300 in prior jobs
00:58:17.600 and stuff,
00:58:18.120 I've had contact.
00:58:19.320 But it never
00:58:19.940 mattered.
00:58:21.700 It never
00:58:22.440 mattered.
00:58:23.320 It was never
00:58:23.860 anything of
00:58:24.380 concern.
00:58:25.060 It didn't
00:58:25.460 matter to the
00:58:26.300 person I
00:58:27.840 associated with.
00:58:28.760 It didn't
00:58:29.040 matter to me.
00:58:29.840 It just wasn't
00:58:30.420 on anybody's
00:58:31.360 mind.
00:58:32.980 But to say
00:58:33.780 that it matters
00:58:34.520 now, it just
00:58:35.200 is so not
00:58:36.220 part of my
00:58:37.800 experience at
00:58:38.520 all.
00:58:41.700 Right.
00:58:47.100 I used to
00:58:47.740 work with
00:58:48.080 one, right?
00:58:55.500 Yeah, how
00:58:56.120 does Hooters
00:58:56.700 handle it?
00:58:57.580 What about
00:58:57.960 all the
00:58:58.500 trans who
00:59:00.220 want to work
00:59:00.680 at Hooters?
00:59:01.440 How does
00:59:01.800 Hooters handle
00:59:02.380 that?
00:59:03.900 I wonder if
00:59:04.320 they can.
00:59:05.260 All right,
00:59:05.760 that's it for you,
00:59:06.500 YouTube.
00:59:06.920 I'll talk
00:59:07.200 to you
00:59:07.380 tomorrow.
00:59:07.940 Lots of
00:59:08.300 exciting things
00:59:09.000 happening today,
00:59:09.760 so don't
00:59:11.000 stop watching
00:59:12.560 the news.
00:59:13.320 Bye for
00:59:13.640 now.