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00:00:45.280 Ah, that's pretty good.

00:00:48.200 You know, there are some days when the news does not deliver, and then I've got not much

00:00:55.820 to do, but today, the news is amazing, it's like all fun and interesting stuff.

00:01:02.320 Are you ready for this?

00:01:04.320 All right, number one question, people asked after seeing the video of RFK Jr. on doing

00:01:12.320 exercise with his shirt off, we're still talking about it, which by the way was the most brilliant,

00:01:18.820 probably the most brilliant political play of the year, just taking his shirt off, because

00:01:24.320 he's running against somebody who's, you know, barely alive.

00:01:28.380 That's a pretty strong play.

00:01:30.280 It was a strong play, and it totally worked.

00:01:34.280 But, some people asked the following question, how is it possible to look like that when you're

00:01:40.700 nearing 70, unless you're doing something like steroids, right?

00:01:47.420 Were you wondering that?

00:01:49.180 Were you wondering if he was doing something illegal?

00:01:51.760 Well, I'll give you a little insight on that.

00:01:57.220 I was contacted by one of my normal Twitter persons that I talk to a lot, and my Twitter

00:02:07.400 friend said that he was the same age, and he looks the same without a shirt.

00:02:12.240 So, apparently, there are at least two of them.

00:02:16.620 You know, it's somebody I trust, you know, it's somebody I've got a lot of interaction

00:02:20.660 with.

00:02:21.500 So, I believe him, and this individual who said he also looks like this at the same age

00:02:28.480 gave me his method.

00:02:33.080 And testosterone, of course, is right at the top of the list.

00:02:36.320 Testosterone replacement.

00:02:38.220 And then there were a half a dozen other, let's say, supplements, completely legal types.

00:02:45.520 You know, doctor, prescribed, that sort of thing.

00:02:48.180 But, apparently, the technology exists to make normal people look like that.

00:02:56.260 Isn't that amazing?

00:02:59.460 That's not a fluke.

00:03:01.600 It's not a fluke.

00:03:03.060 He just did the things that people know how to do if they're in that, you know, exercise

00:03:07.360 lifestyle.

00:03:08.980 He was probably just a little more aggressive about it in the sense he's almost certainly

00:03:14.200 supplementing in some way.

00:03:15.800 But all of it would be legal, right?

00:03:18.180 So, if you're wondering if he's doing any weird steroids or anything, it doesn't seem to

00:03:22.460 be necessary at all.

00:03:24.260 But I've got a question for you.

00:03:28.220 Doesn't testosterone change your behavior?

00:03:34.080 Doesn't it?

00:03:35.520 How could it not?

00:03:37.260 Wouldn't it make you more aggressive?

00:03:40.540 Let me ask you this.

00:03:42.260 Do you think that RFK Jr. would be running for president at his current age if he had not

00:03:48.020 taken testosterone?

00:03:50.700 Do you think he might have said, you know, gardening would be fun.

00:03:53.480 I think I'll do some gardening.

00:03:57.200 I don't know.

00:03:58.320 You know, those candidates are pretty adventurous, so maybe you would have.

00:04:02.320 But the question you should ask yourself is, is too much testosterone a problem?

00:04:08.540 Now, he doesn't have any indication that, you know, there's nothing about his personality

00:04:14.300 that would suggest that.

00:04:16.140 He's pretty level-headed.

00:04:18.980 But I think you'd have to ask that question, you know?

00:04:21.920 If you had a president that you had elected before testosterone treatment, and then hypothetically

00:04:30.000 that president said, hey, I think I'm going to get some of this testosterone, wouldn't it

00:04:34.840 change how they acted?

00:04:36.880 Wouldn't it make you more likely to go to war?

00:04:40.180 It's a real question.

00:04:42.560 Yeah, we always act like the chemicals in our body are having no impact on us.

00:04:47.000 Of course they are.

00:04:49.940 All right.

00:04:51.080 CNN got exclusive access to the Trump audio tape.

00:04:56.540 How do you think they did that?

00:04:58.700 It's the audio tape where he's shuffling the so-called classified documents.

00:05:03.560 How do you think they got that?

00:05:05.260 Well, this morning, the New York Times says they also have access to it.

00:05:08.700 Huh.

00:05:08.820 CNN and the New York Times, they have access to this top-secret document.

00:05:16.600 Let's see.

00:05:17.400 Does Fox News have access?

00:05:19.680 No, no.

00:05:21.120 Breitbart, Breitbart, Breitbart didn't have access.

00:05:25.780 Interesting.

00:05:27.340 Isn't that interesting?

00:05:29.040 It's almost as if the deep state is on one side.

00:05:34.340 It almost feels like that.

00:05:35.440 Well, anyway, here's a little trick you can do to determine how brainwashed we all are.

00:05:45.420 Go to the media and try to find the transcript, the text-written transcript, from the Trump audio.

00:05:55.460 Because it's pretty short, so it would be very easy for anybody to print the full transcript.

00:06:00.440 It would be about this big on a page, you know, just maybe six inches of size on a page.

00:06:05.800 Very easy, right?

00:06:07.780 Go search for that.

00:06:09.720 See if you can find it.

00:06:11.600 I did.

00:06:12.820 Couldn't find it.

00:06:14.160 The best I could find is, you know, a little bit, you know, this and that.

00:06:18.800 And I pieced it together.

00:06:20.720 I had to listen to it myself.

00:06:23.080 This morning, I listened to it myself and then wrote it down.

00:06:26.500 So I'm going to read it to you.

00:06:28.400 Now, why do you think it's so hard to find the transcript?

00:06:33.940 Why do you think?

00:06:36.220 Same reason it was so hard to find the, for a while, it was hard to find the transcript of Trump's comments in Charlottesville.

00:06:48.120 Here's how this is played.

00:06:49.320 If the news can tell you there's an audio tape that they've heard, but you're too busy to listen to, they win.

00:06:57.700 Because then they just describe it any way they want, and you don't have the time to listen.

00:07:03.660 So you accept their characterization of it because they wouldn't listen to an audio tape and then just lie to you about it when you could just listen to it yourself, right?

00:07:14.680 They wouldn't do that, would they?

00:07:15.860 Do you think the news would just lie to you about what's on this little audio tape when you could so easily just listen to it and find out they were lying?

00:07:24.540 No, of course they would.

00:07:25.940 We live in a world where they'll do anything.

00:07:28.540 That's not even slightly outside the bounds of normal behavior.

00:07:32.940 Of course they would.

00:07:34.800 Are they doing that?

00:07:36.620 Well, I would say they're not lying.

00:07:39.000 I haven't heard anybody say he said something he didn't say or vice versa.

00:07:43.200 But have you heard that they left anything out of the story that's actually in it?

00:07:50.400 Yeah, there's something in the story that's way bigger, way bigger than some documents.

00:07:58.360 So here's what I took from it.

00:08:03.460 So this is just what Trump was saying.

00:08:05.180 So this is not the other side of the conversations with people in the room.

00:08:09.880 But he started out by saying, these are bad, sick people.

00:08:14.220 And we found out in context later that the bad, sick people are generals and people who want them to go to war.

00:08:22.560 That seems like the context.

00:08:24.240 So he goes, these are bad, sick people.

00:08:26.100 I'll show you an example.

00:08:27.200 And then he says, he said, I wanted to attack Iran.

00:08:31.940 It turns out that was General Milley, is the he.

00:08:34.440 So Milley said, I wanted to attack Iran.

00:08:37.100 Then he shuffles his paper.

00:08:39.000 And he goes, all right, this is him.

00:08:42.800 All right, this is off the record.

00:08:47.260 Defense Department and him.

00:08:50.280 So he's saying that the Defense Department and General Milley are, you know, acting similarly.

00:08:57.460 And he says, this wasn't done by me.

00:08:59.800 This being the piece of paper in his hands.

00:09:02.460 This, this was not done by me.

00:09:05.380 It was done by him, meaning Milley.

00:09:08.520 Pages long.

00:09:09.900 So Trump is saying it's a document that's pages long.

00:09:13.260 It's not a summary.

00:09:14.440 It's pages long.

00:09:16.480 At one point, I wondered if it was a summary, but it's pages long.

00:09:20.840 And then Trump says, this totally wins my case.

00:09:25.700 Do you remember what the news reported as the case that he's winning?

00:09:31.800 Do you remember that was a big story?

00:09:34.680 The case that he won?

00:09:37.360 What's the argument?

00:09:38.520 It's not even in the news.

00:09:40.920 The news is leaving out the entire context of the audio.

00:09:45.140 Do you know why they're doing that?

00:09:47.220 Well, it's pretty obvious once you listen to it.

00:09:51.180 All right.

00:09:51.620 Here it goes.

00:09:52.860 He goes, this totally wins my case.

00:09:55.060 So in other words, there's some conversation about Trump being bad in some way.

00:09:59.780 And we're going to find out what that is.

00:10:01.980 Accepted as secret.

00:10:03.660 Confidential.

00:10:05.000 Uh-oh.

00:10:05.280 Look at this.

00:10:07.240 You attack.

00:10:08.660 He wanted to attack Iran.

00:10:12.700 So apparently it was a document from Milley showing an indication that he wanted to attack Iran.

00:10:20.020 At least that's Trump's characterization.

00:10:21.880 We don't know if that's what it was.

00:10:23.440 But that's how Trump characterized it.

00:10:25.040 He says, this was done by the military and given to me.

00:10:32.000 So, and he says, as president, I can declassify, but I can declassify, but now I can't.

00:10:40.500 That's an interesting story because he's got his tense.

00:10:44.220 He's confused the tenses here.

00:10:46.320 I wonder if that's a defense.

00:10:47.420 Because he says, as president, I can declassify, but now I can't.

00:10:53.720 And how did CNN characterize that?

00:10:56.220 As president, I can declassify, but now I can't.

00:11:06.820 So he's called the document Secret and Confidential.

00:11:10.400 And then he said, as president, I can declassify.

00:11:13.900 And he says, but now I can't.

00:11:17.420 Does that say he didn't declassify it?

00:11:20.660 Because that's how it's being presented on CNN.

00:11:22.940 They're telling you that he's admitting he didn't declassify it.

00:11:27.140 Let me read it again and see if you can hear the confession.

00:11:31.640 So these are just the two parts about the document.

00:11:34.100 They're taken out of order, but the other stuff isn't relevant to that.

00:11:42.460 Let's say, he said, except it is secret, confidential.

00:11:45.600 So he's called the document Secret and Confidential.

00:11:49.680 So I would agree that that's probably a fact.

00:11:52.280 Would you?

00:11:53.440 The document probably is secret and confidential.

00:11:56.380 I doubt he'd say it if it were not.

00:11:59.260 Probably it's labeled right on top there.

00:12:01.820 So he's already said it's secret and confidential.

00:12:05.160 But then later he says, as president, I can declassify.

00:12:09.140 But now I can't.

00:12:10.420 Does that say he didn't declassify it?

00:12:16.780 Listen again and see if you can hear him say he did not declassify it.

00:12:21.760 Because that's what CNN says.

00:12:23.980 They say he's saying it in his own words right here.

00:12:26.820 But I'm not hearing it.

00:12:28.360 He's saying it is secret and confidential.

00:12:30.120 But then he's saying, as president, I can declassify.

00:12:36.840 But now I can't.

00:12:40.420 One interpretation, which is valid, is that he didn't declassify it.

00:12:45.140 And he knows it.

00:12:46.500 So that's what CNN is saying.

00:12:48.260 But did he say that?

00:12:50.100 It's not what he said.

00:12:51.120 Instead, he's saying two separate things, which could both be true.

00:12:58.400 One is that it's secret and confidential, which doesn't mean it's not declassified, does it?

00:13:05.780 Aren't those different?

00:13:07.900 Couldn't it be declassified, but still be secret and confidential?

00:13:12.780 In other words, could he have declassified it for his own use,

00:13:16.800 but it's still secret and confidential from the rest of the world,

00:13:20.960 and he would plan to keep it that way.

00:13:23.800 But it would be declassified, if he had declassified it.

00:13:27.620 So simply saying that he could do it then, but he can't do it now,

00:13:30.880 doesn't say he didn't do it.

00:13:33.020 It's just a statement of fact.

00:13:37.580 But here's the biggest part of the story.

00:13:42.500 Here's the biggest part of the story that is not even included.

00:13:45.180 What is a bigger story?

00:13:48.500 That a president potentially took some classified documents

00:13:52.800 that he could have declassified with not even a wave of his hand.

00:13:59.820 He could have just walked out the door and had people watch him.

00:14:03.940 That would be declassified, in my opinion.

00:14:07.120 Given that the declassification thing is not required constitutionally,

00:14:12.360 there are procedures, and that would not be the procedure.

00:14:16.680 But the president gets to decide what the procedure is.

00:14:20.160 That's my understanding.

00:14:21.900 So if he said, watch me walk out the door with this box of secrets,

00:14:26.180 he would be declassifying it, by definition.

00:14:29.740 Now that's my take on it, because there's a lack of standards

00:14:32.760 that are constitutionally described that would make it any different.

00:14:36.520 So that's the argument, anyway.

00:14:39.240 But here's the bigger story.

00:14:40.520 The bigger story is not that he may have taken some classified documents.

00:14:45.400 The bigger story is that the military-industrial complex

00:14:48.480 was trying to frame the president.

00:14:52.580 How's that not the story?

00:14:55.560 Here he is claiming...

00:14:57.340 No, it's a claim.

00:14:58.300 I'll just say it's a claim.

00:14:59.280 So Trump is alleging that his generals and the military

00:15:03.660 were trying to goad him into war with Iran,

00:15:06.880 and they were framing him for the one who wanted to go to war.

00:15:10.060 That's a much bigger story.

00:15:12.300 Am I wrong?

00:15:13.880 And then here's the kicker.

00:15:17.260 Taking that document may have been the way he protected himself.

00:15:21.380 He may have taken that document specifically

00:15:24.160 to win his argument.

00:15:26.640 That's what he's saying.

00:15:27.280 He says, this totally wins my case.

00:15:30.220 The case being the argument

00:15:31.520 that he was never wanting to go to war with Iran,

00:15:34.360 but his military was urging him to do so.

00:15:37.660 Now, the counter to that, which is a good counter,

00:15:41.160 is that the military draws up attack plans for lots of places.

00:15:45.600 Any place you might want to attack.

00:15:47.400 They probably have one for Russia.

00:15:48.800 They probably got one for Taiwan,

00:15:50.940 if there's a Taiwan war.

00:15:52.900 And so, of course, they'd have one for Iran.

00:15:54.900 So, is it news that the military had a document

00:15:58.900 that described a battle plan?

00:16:01.700 No.

00:16:02.260 That part's not news.

00:16:03.820 But we have not seen that document.

00:16:06.980 The document might go far beyond describing

00:16:10.960 what an attack might look like.

00:16:14.240 It might be recommending it.

00:16:15.540 That's what, I mean, Trump is kind of suggesting

00:16:20.360 that it was given to him as a recommendation

00:16:23.140 or, let's say, a strong suggestion

00:16:26.260 or maybe they were trying to influence him to do it.

00:16:28.980 That would be a little different than just saying,

00:16:31.980 we have a bunch of attack plans that are always in the file.

00:16:35.900 So here's the file of the Iran attack plan.

00:16:39.840 That'd be really different, wouldn't it?

00:16:41.240 If it were just the file, you know, the basic attack plan,

00:16:45.380 we'd just like to update you.

00:16:46.620 We always have one of these cooking.

00:16:48.060 It's always on the back burner.

00:16:49.960 Don't take it too seriously.

00:16:51.780 Or did they say, we really need to be looking at this.

00:16:55.420 I mean, we should get serious about this.

00:16:57.340 That's very different.

00:16:59.520 So Trump may have used it to protect himself,

00:17:02.800 which to me, if I were on a jury,

00:17:05.520 that would matter to me.

00:17:06.980 It would still mean that he had technically broken a law,

00:17:12.120 but the context in which he was caught breaking the law,

00:17:16.260 he is also caught, allegedly,

00:17:19.100 caught giving you his reason for breaking it.

00:17:22.100 And his reason for breaking it would be to protect himself

00:17:25.240 from a military-industrial complex that's victimizing us all.

00:17:31.200 All right.

00:17:37.380 Have I ever told you that I never get a message

00:17:39.820 unless it's an emergency?

00:17:42.500 Right the fuck now.

00:17:45.380 Right the fuck now.

00:17:46.760 Not in 10 minutes.

00:17:48.580 No, not in an hour.

00:17:50.440 Because I already said, I'll get back to you in an hour.

00:17:52.900 No, it's got to be right now.

00:17:55.080 Right fucking now.

00:17:56.240 So I've got to send a text right now.

00:18:00.680 Right in the middle of my live stream.

00:18:02.360 I've never gotten that.

00:18:03.440 I don't think I ever get texts or just saying,

00:18:05.300 how you doing?

00:18:06.300 I feel like it's everything is,

00:18:08.120 you've got to do something fucking right now

00:18:09.840 at 7 in the morning.

00:18:11.800 How is that even possible?

00:18:14.020 How do so many people live a life

00:18:16.140 that they're creating an emergency for other people?

00:18:22.960 Live streaming.

00:18:26.440 Wait.

00:18:29.420 I hate it when people make their problem my problem

00:18:31.980 all the fucking time.

00:18:34.560 So something, and you know,

00:18:35.560 you know what you have to do, right?

00:18:36.820 You just have to cut them out of your life.

00:18:38.880 You just got to get them out of your life.

00:18:40.800 You can't have people like that

00:18:41.880 who are throwing themselves into one emergency after another

00:18:45.360 and you're the only one who can save them.

00:18:47.980 Jesus, fuck.

00:18:49.940 All right.

00:18:51.380 Enough about that.

00:18:52.180 You all saw the video of the Patriot Front,

00:18:56.900 the alleged group of racists

00:18:59.580 who got unmasked by the Proud Boys.

00:19:03.260 At least some of them did.

00:19:04.540 And now we're doing the thing where we're trying to find out

00:19:06.840 if those unmasked people are feds

00:19:09.000 or if they were at other events.

00:19:11.680 Allegedly, and I don't believe this to be true,

00:19:13.820 but allegedly one of the unmasked Patriot Front people

00:19:18.400 looked like one of the feds at January 6th

00:19:22.960 who was doing some sketchy stuff to make it look like,

00:19:25.720 you know, he was taking down a window

00:19:27.220 so people could crawl through, something like that.

00:19:29.780 I would say at this stage in the reporting,

00:19:32.180 I don't believe any of that.

00:19:34.560 I don't believe that they have accurately identified

00:19:36.960 the unmasked Patriot Front guy as somebody else.

00:19:41.940 Now, Elon Musk weighed in on that tweet about that point,

00:19:46.640 and it sounded like he wasn't quite convinced

00:19:48.880 that they had figured out who that guy was.

00:19:52.220 But he said, Musk tweeted,

00:19:55.060 it looks like one is a college student,

00:19:57.400 and then he says parenthetically,

00:19:59.020 who wants to join the government.

00:20:00.960 I don't know how he would speculate

00:20:02.520 that somebody that he just saw their face

00:20:05.720 wants to join the government.

00:20:08.960 I don't know where he got that.

00:20:10.200 And he says another is maybe an Antifa member,

00:20:13.740 but nonetheless a probable false flag situation.

00:20:17.100 So I agree with the last part.

00:20:18.900 There's something about the Patriot Front

00:20:20.620 that doesn't look genuine at all.

00:20:24.200 It's just nobody on the right thinks they look real.

00:20:29.120 And there's nothing about them that seems real.

00:20:31.880 Everything about them looks like an op of some kind.

00:20:34.880 Or they're funded by somebody sketchy or something.

00:20:38.720 But they definitely don't look like

00:20:40.280 they are what they present to be.

00:20:43.740 So that's all we know about that.

00:20:45.800 Speaking of Musk,

00:20:47.760 there's a lot of conversation about depression

00:20:50.800 being potentially overdiagnosed in the U.S.

00:20:54.160 But Musk agrees that depression is overdiagnosed in the U.S.

00:20:58.400 If you haven't seen the data,

00:21:00.980 the percentage of people in America

00:21:03.000 who take antidepressants is like through the roof.

00:21:06.400 And other countries that you would imagine

00:21:08.020 would be comparable, very little.

00:21:11.720 I mean, just a gigantic difference.

00:21:13.960 And one of the differences is maybe

00:21:15.880 we allow direct advertising from big pharma.

00:21:20.720 So it could be that we're just more hypnotized

00:21:22.800 to buy the stuff.

00:21:24.040 And in other countries,

00:21:25.020 they don't allow the brainwashing,

00:21:26.440 so it doesn't happen.

00:21:27.160 So, I don't know,

00:21:29.340 maybe more Americans are being helped by the meds.

00:21:31.980 That's possible.

00:21:33.540 But it doesn't look like it.

00:21:35.760 So here's the weird part,

00:21:37.380 is that Musk is saying that

00:21:40.640 ketamine might be a better solution,

00:21:42.800 and he has friends who seem to be benefiting from it.

00:21:46.960 Now we're in some dangerous territory here, aren't we?

00:21:50.920 So I do love the fact,

00:21:53.160 it's one of my favorite things,

00:21:54.440 that Elon Musk gives you his opinion.

00:21:58.660 I respect that way more than, let's say, Zuckerberg.

00:22:04.760 Because Zuckerberg, I think, is trying to run a company

00:22:07.020 without at least stating his opinion too much.

00:22:10.900 He's obviously very Democrat.

00:22:12.840 But he's not, like, talking about it.

00:22:15.640 It's not something he's putting out there.

00:22:17.660 But I love the fact that Musk does.

00:22:20.100 Because he's one of our smarter citizens.

00:22:23.060 In his opinion,

00:22:24.140 at least gives you sort of a stake in the ground

00:22:27.320 around which you can argue or debate.

00:22:30.240 But it's like a really good stake in the ground.

00:22:34.040 And so he takes this topic,

00:22:36.660 which I think is vital,

00:22:38.220 I think is a vital one

00:22:39.380 for the well-being of the country.

00:22:42.660 Ketamine and the over-prescription of depression meds.

00:22:47.640 Huge, huge topic.

00:22:51.140 And he can just send a tweet with a few sentences,

00:22:54.060 and he just sticks a fork in the ground

00:22:57.960 and says, let's talk about this.

00:23:01.220 Very good.

00:23:02.760 This is like ideal citizen behavior.

00:23:06.680 This is Internet dad stuff done right.

00:23:09.340 If you say I'm agreeing with him about ketamine,

00:23:12.320 I'm not doing that.

00:23:13.880 I'm not doing that.

00:23:15.020 I'm saying it's a vitally important question,

00:23:17.620 and he's making sure that you're

00:23:19.120 giving it the right amount of attention.

00:23:24.060 You love him.

00:23:26.540 I think the dumbest fucking thing that people say

00:23:29.360 when somebody makes a comment

00:23:30.820 about another public figure

00:23:32.580 is, you love him.

00:23:35.400 You love him.

00:23:36.520 You're in his cult.

00:23:38.800 You just stop doing it.

00:23:40.780 Really.

00:23:41.300 You should just stop doing that.

00:23:43.100 Or is that maybe just an NPC thing?

00:23:45.000 It's not a real person thing?

00:23:46.900 You love him.

00:23:48.320 You want to marry him.

00:23:51.600 All right.

00:23:54.060 Speaking of mental health,

00:23:55.760 I saw a Rob Henderson tweet about a Jonathan Haidt,

00:23:59.020 I think it was a substack,

00:24:00.900 in which he was talking about the percentage of people

00:24:03.260 with mental health problems in America.

00:24:06.880 Did you know that 56% of liberal white women

00:24:09.900 aged 18 to 29 have been diagnosed

00:24:12.740 with a mental health condition?

00:24:14.160 And if you look at the graph

00:24:20.640 of the young females

00:24:23.760 who have been diagnosed with mental conditions,

00:24:26.320 it's up here.

00:24:28.020 If you look at the number of conservative women

00:24:30.280 of all ages

00:24:32.320 who have been diagnosed with mental problems,

00:24:34.540 it's way down here.

00:24:36.720 Now, I think it's sought treatment for,

00:24:38.920 not diagnosed.

00:24:39.740 I think it's sought treatment for.

00:24:40.940 Now, can we stop pretending this is political?

00:24:47.280 We really don't have a political difference

00:24:50.460 in this country.

00:24:51.920 And I think that we're also poorly served

00:24:54.320 by the people who are saying

00:24:55.380 that it's rich versus poor.

00:24:57.420 It is.

00:24:58.780 It's very much rich versus poor.

00:25:01.280 But that's mostly not what's bothering us.

00:25:04.780 Mostly.

00:25:05.960 It's mostly mental illness.

00:25:07.640 It's mostly mental illness

00:25:09.780 that the people in the Democrat Party

00:25:11.540 can't call out

00:25:12.520 because they're too woke.

00:25:14.320 They can't say,

00:25:15.280 you know,

00:25:16.480 I see where you're going.

00:25:18.540 It sounds woke,

00:25:19.500 and we like woke,

00:25:20.540 but honestly,

00:25:22.240 I think that's coming from my mental illness.

00:25:25.080 I'm not sure you thought that through.

00:25:28.080 And why is it that

00:25:30.040 somebody like Vivek or Trump

00:25:32.280 can't call that out directly

00:25:34.380 just to hold up that chart

00:25:36.380 and say,

00:25:37.980 see these people not seeking

00:25:40.080 mental health solutions?

00:25:43.760 These are conservatives.

00:25:46.200 Somewhere in the middle,

00:25:47.200 you've got the independents.

00:25:48.320 They're not very high either.

00:25:50.180 But then look at this.

00:25:51.720 This is the party we're running against.

00:25:54.520 Over half of the young women

00:25:56.260 who are the dominant voice

00:25:57.920 in the Democrat Party,

00:25:59.340 in my opinion,

00:25:59.880 over half of them

00:26:02.380 have a mental illness.

00:26:05.000 And the reason that

00:26:05.860 they're comfortable as Democrats

00:26:07.380 is what?

00:26:10.380 The reason they're comfortable

00:26:11.660 as Democrats is

00:26:13.120 they all have mental problems.

00:26:19.100 No, that's not fair.

00:26:20.820 That's not fair.

00:26:21.980 That was just a joke.

00:26:23.820 No, the Democrats are more the

00:26:25.960 we're going to accept everybody

00:26:27.380 as they are.

00:26:28.060 The Republicans are more like,

00:26:31.780 we're going to accept everybody

00:26:32.800 who doesn't bother us

00:26:33.880 and, you know,

00:26:35.020 obeys the law.

00:26:36.480 A very different standard.

00:26:38.560 Accept everybody

00:26:39.480 versus accept everybody

00:26:41.620 who leaves us alone

00:26:42.540 and obeys the law.

00:26:44.320 Completely different.

00:26:46.340 So I think the Democrats

00:26:48.240 accidentally became

00:26:49.700 a breeding ground

00:26:51.640 for mental illness

00:26:52.700 because if you had

00:26:54.040 a mental illness,

00:26:54.740 you could go there

00:26:55.460 and you'd fit right in

00:26:56.300 and people wouldn't even notice.

00:26:58.060 They literally wouldn't notice.

00:27:01.600 Literally.

00:27:02.780 No joke

00:27:03.460 to talk like Biden now.

00:27:06.520 No joke, people.

00:27:07.500 No joke.

00:27:08.600 You could have

00:27:09.480 a pretty serious

00:27:10.360 mental illness,

00:27:11.260 become a Democrat

00:27:12.020 and nobody would notice

00:27:13.220 because you'd fit right in.

00:27:15.440 And that's,

00:27:15.840 I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.

00:27:18.120 I'm trying to actually

00:27:19.200 accurately describe the situation.

00:27:20.880 I do believe

00:27:22.020 he would fit in.

00:27:23.280 I don't think

00:27:23.800 people would notice.

00:27:25.920 So,

00:27:26.480 the fact that we don't

00:27:28.500 call that down

00:27:29.180 for what it is,

00:27:30.580 a massive mental health problem,

00:27:33.620 you know.

00:27:35.420 Now,

00:27:36.240 what is causing it

00:27:37.300 and

00:27:38.520 do people become Democrats

00:27:40.580 because they have it

00:27:41.780 or does being a Democrat

00:27:43.740 give it to you?

00:27:45.280 Which way

00:27:45.700 does the causation work?

00:27:47.540 I'm thinking

00:27:48.040 maybe both ways.

00:27:49.620 If you're a Republican,

00:27:50.940 you've got a game plan,

00:27:52.020 don't you?

00:27:53.440 You still have to execute.

00:27:55.480 Let's say

00:27:55.900 you're a young woman

00:27:56.980 and you're a Republican.

00:27:59.020 Don't you know

00:27:59.700 exactly what you need to do

00:28:00.960 to be happy?

00:28:03.600 You do.

00:28:05.200 Right?

00:28:06.140 You can make a list

00:28:07.140 of all the things

00:28:08.360 you need to be happy.

00:28:09.860 It would be like

00:28:10.300 find a good guy,

00:28:12.540 get married,

00:28:13.400 have a family,

00:28:14.300 have some kids,

00:28:15.940 go to church,

00:28:17.080 whatever it is.

00:28:18.380 But you'd have a list

00:28:19.740 of all the things

00:28:20.500 to make you happy.

00:28:21.680 All right?

00:28:22.040 I'll do the things

00:28:22.840 on this list

00:28:23.600 and sure enough,

00:28:25.520 I'm happy.

00:28:28.100 But if you're a Democrat,

00:28:29.620 everything goes.

00:28:31.480 You know,

00:28:31.800 traditional family

00:28:32.580 is just one way to go.

00:28:33.940 Religion is

00:28:34.680 unnecessary.

00:28:36.060 So you wake up

00:28:36.940 every morning

00:28:37.420 and you don't have

00:28:38.080 a mission.

00:28:39.440 You don't have a path.

00:28:41.320 What would make you happy

00:28:42.380 if you were a Democrat

00:28:43.200 and a woman?

00:28:44.640 If you're a woman

00:28:45.520 and a Democrat,

00:28:46.320 what would make you happy?

00:28:49.040 I don't know.

00:28:50.600 I mean,

00:28:50.880 I actually don't know.

00:28:52.840 Because the things

00:28:53.640 that make Republican women

00:28:54.740 happy are getting married

00:28:56.660 and having a family

00:28:57.520 and, you know,

00:28:58.540 the relationships,

00:28:59.540 et cetera.

00:29:00.180 Their God,

00:29:01.440 doing the right thing,

00:29:02.440 having a good life,

00:29:03.760 you know,

00:29:04.160 doing the best you can

00:29:05.420 with your character.

00:29:06.740 And that makes people happy.

00:29:08.180 And it's exercise.

00:29:09.700 How about exercise?

00:29:11.680 Exercise even is

00:29:12.800 somewhat becoming

00:29:14.100 a Republican thing,

00:29:15.460 which is weird.

00:29:16.880 I mean,

00:29:17.280 not completely,

00:29:18.360 but in terms of the way

00:29:19.500 we talk about it,

00:29:20.340 it sometimes is.

00:29:22.740 Not saying there,

00:29:23.800 I'm not saying

00:29:24.320 there are no Democrats

00:29:25.100 who exercise,

00:29:25.980 so don't get excited

00:29:27.280 and capital letter me.

00:29:28.660 All right.

00:29:33.320 Let's talk about

00:29:34.140 the Musk

00:29:34.920 and Zuckerberg

00:29:35.880 cage match.

00:29:38.280 I just love

00:29:39.180 everything about this story.

00:29:41.260 Just everything

00:29:41.940 about it is funny.

00:29:43.420 So now,

00:29:44.280 Elon Musk's mom,

00:29:46.180 May,

00:29:47.520 has weighed in

00:29:48.400 and she's canceled

00:29:49.760 the fight.

00:29:51.880 She's canceled it.

00:29:52.700 Now,

00:29:56.360 Elon Musk

00:29:57.080 is not aware

00:29:57.700 that it's canceled

00:29:58.360 and neither is Zuckerberg,

00:30:00.340 but May's canceled it.

00:30:03.060 And by the way,

00:30:04.300 I love the way

00:30:05.600 she handled it.

00:30:07.500 She just says,

00:30:08.420 no,

00:30:08.560 it's canceled.

00:30:09.160 It's not happening.

00:30:12.600 You know,

00:30:13.120 she knows she has

00:30:13.860 no authority

00:30:15.540 to cancel anything,

00:30:16.740 but she's pulling

00:30:17.440 her mom authority

00:30:18.320 and she's saying it

00:30:19.380 that way.

00:30:20.020 No,

00:30:20.340 mom authority,

00:30:20.900 this is canceled.

00:30:23.000 Now,

00:30:23.560 I would be so happy

00:30:25.280 if Elon canceled it

00:30:27.220 because his mom said so.

00:30:29.500 Now,

00:30:29.740 I don't think

00:30:30.120 that's going to happen.

00:30:31.260 I think that's very unlikely.

00:30:32.920 But I think

00:30:33.620 that would just be cool.

00:30:36.040 Like,

00:30:36.300 it would just be

00:30:37.260 a fun way

00:30:37.960 to end it.

00:30:39.540 But anyway,

00:30:40.200 May,

00:30:40.560 May Musk suggested

00:30:41.960 that instead

00:30:44.080 of a physical battle,

00:30:45.420 they have a

00:30:46.260 battle of words.

00:30:49.040 So they'd have

00:30:49.500 some kind of

00:30:50.040 a contest

00:30:50.820 there'd be

00:30:51.680 a battle of words,

00:30:53.020 maybe an insult battle.

00:30:55.820 And I thought,

00:30:56.880 well,

00:30:57.020 if it's going to be

00:30:57.580 an insult battle,

00:30:59.300 he's going to need

00:31:00.620 a coach.

00:31:01.720 So I volunteered.

00:31:04.300 Who better

00:31:05.060 to help

00:31:06.720 Elon Musk

00:31:07.560 write some good

00:31:09.220 insults?

00:31:11.040 I mean,

00:31:11.460 that's really

00:31:11.840 sort of my

00:31:12.360 sweet spot.

00:31:14.540 But I saw

00:31:16.860 that some

00:31:17.240 MMA fighter

00:31:18.080 also offered

00:31:18.940 to coach

00:31:20.000 Elon Musk

00:31:20.780 and Elon Musk

00:31:22.000 accepted.

00:31:23.360 He accepted

00:31:24.240 coaching from

00:31:25.160 an MMA

00:31:25.880 star.

00:31:27.040 I didn't recognize

00:31:27.840 his name.

00:31:29.180 But,

00:31:30.360 so he's still

00:31:31.200 acting like he's

00:31:32.020 serious,

00:31:32.660 which is perfect.

00:31:34.340 So I don't know

00:31:35.420 how serious

00:31:35.960 he actually is

00:31:37.160 or Zuckerberg either.

00:31:38.740 I don't know

00:31:39.260 how serious

00:31:39.720 they both are.

00:31:40.720 They're both

00:31:41.200 playing it

00:31:41.840 like it's serious,

00:31:43.380 which is exactly

00:31:44.340 the right thing

00:31:44.960 to do for both of them.

00:31:46.780 Exactly the right thing.

00:31:47.980 Because it just

00:31:48.520 makes him look good.

00:31:49.560 Just makes him

00:31:50.080 look tough.

00:31:51.380 Gives him some

00:31:51.980 attention.

00:31:53.040 Reminds us that

00:31:53.860 Zuckerberg is a

00:31:54.960 jiu-jitsu guy.

00:31:57.260 Reminds us that

00:31:58.080 Musk might be more

00:31:59.020 of a badass

00:31:59.640 than you think.

00:32:00.640 You know,

00:32:00.840 he's not just all

00:32:01.540 about the thinking

00:32:02.240 and the math.

00:32:03.440 He might actually

00:32:04.220 be able to throw

00:32:04.840 a punch.

00:32:05.820 So I think

00:32:06.360 it's just

00:32:06.640 everybody wins.

00:32:08.080 I would like to

00:32:08.960 see them not

00:32:09.500 get hurt.

00:32:10.360 I like that.

00:32:12.620 I don't want

00:32:12.940 to see them

00:32:13.200 get hurt.

00:32:14.980 But it's

00:32:16.180 a wonderful story.

00:32:18.100 All right.

00:32:18.980 Let me test

00:32:19.840 your memory.

00:32:20.940 This is going

00:32:21.280 to be a memory

00:32:21.700 test.

00:32:22.280 We'll see how

00:32:22.620 you do.

00:32:23.780 Do you remember

00:32:24.660 that Ron DeSantis

00:32:25.660 is running

00:32:26.260 for president?

00:32:27.180 Anybody?

00:32:28.800 Anybody remember

00:32:29.700 that?

00:32:30.780 His name is

00:32:31.280 Ron DeSantis.

00:32:34.520 DeSantis?

00:32:35.140 Have you heard

00:32:35.480 that name?

00:32:36.660 I believe he's

00:32:37.540 running for president.

00:32:38.280 And the

00:32:39.760 process he's

00:32:40.540 used to run

00:32:41.900 for president

00:32:42.440 is he's

00:32:43.740 going to act

00:32:44.940 exactly like

00:32:45.880 the most boring

00:32:47.040 cubicle employee

00:32:48.120 in that movie

00:32:48.860 Office Space.

00:32:51.820 Yeah.

00:32:52.760 So he's telling

00:32:54.260 you that he

00:32:54.760 would be,

00:32:55.280 as a president

00:32:56.000 of the United

00:32:56.460 States,

00:32:57.400 he would make

00:32:58.140 a very good

00:32:58.720 governor of a

00:32:59.500 state.

00:33:01.360 Because he's

00:33:02.140 still saying

00:33:02.680 that he's

00:33:03.740 going to be

00:33:04.080 really effective

00:33:04.860 and efficient

00:33:05.500 and get things

00:33:06.200 done.

00:33:09.880 I'm effective.

00:33:12.460 I'm so

00:33:13.160 efficient.

00:33:14.680 In Florida,

00:33:15.780 we've got a

00:33:17.300 lot of things

00:33:18.000 done.

00:33:22.860 I mean,

00:33:23.840 it looks like

00:33:24.800 he's not even

00:33:25.320 trying.

00:33:26.760 But apparently

00:33:27.440 that's what

00:33:27.880 trying looks

00:33:28.380 like.

00:33:29.120 Now, let me

00:33:30.220 say again,

00:33:31.020 I think he's

00:33:31.700 been a really

00:33:32.140 good governor.

00:33:32.740 And I

00:33:35.240 think the

00:33:35.700 skills of a

00:33:36.420 governor are

00:33:37.260 somewhat

00:33:38.320 different.

00:33:39.280 I don't mind

00:33:40.120 when my

00:33:40.520 governor gets

00:33:43.220 all wonky.

00:33:44.480 I would like

00:33:45.340 a little bit

00:33:45.820 more of that

00:33:46.280 in my state.

00:33:47.680 You tell me

00:33:48.460 I would love

00:33:49.680 to see

00:33:50.880 Gavin Newsom

00:33:53.260 just get all

00:33:54.940 wonky and

00:33:55.620 talk about

00:33:56.080 nuclear energy

00:33:56.960 and how we're

00:33:58.860 going to have

00:33:59.180 to build a

00:33:59.780 dam here and

00:34:01.040 do some really

00:34:01.920 like on-the-ground

00:34:02.840 work.

00:34:05.020 I'd love to

00:34:05.640 hear DeSantis

00:34:06.140 talk about

00:34:06.720 work.

00:34:09.380 DeSantis

00:34:09.900 just talks

00:34:10.460 about how

00:34:10.820 bad the

00:34:11.200 others are.

00:34:12.840 DeSantis

00:34:13.220 does the

00:34:13.740 work.

00:34:15.060 So let me

00:34:16.220 be clear.

00:34:16.780 If DeSantis

00:34:17.320 became president,

00:34:18.800 I would be

00:34:19.680 comfortable

00:34:20.540 because he

00:34:21.960 is somebody

00:34:22.480 who does

00:34:22.860 the work.

00:34:23.840 He's a

00:34:24.580 qualified,

00:34:25.920 serious,

00:34:27.920 no-nonsense,

00:34:29.700 effective

00:34:30.340 executive.

00:34:31.920 could be a

00:34:33.660 great president.

00:34:34.920 I just don't

00:34:35.540 know how he

00:34:35.900 could win

00:34:36.380 because he's

00:34:37.880 just too

00:34:38.240 boring.

00:34:39.140 He's not

00:34:39.520 crazy enough.

00:34:40.620 He doesn't

00:34:41.120 know how to

00:34:41.520 get your

00:34:41.840 juices flowing.

00:34:43.160 Every time I

00:34:43.760 listen to him,

00:34:44.360 I'm like,

00:34:45.020 all right,

00:34:45.760 I don't remember

00:34:46.480 anything you

00:34:46.980 said.

00:34:48.520 So he needs

00:34:49.300 to build a

00:34:49.960 wall or do

00:34:50.960 something that's

00:34:51.480 got a little

00:34:51.800 more visual or

00:34:53.020 fear persuasion

00:34:54.060 or something.

00:34:55.880 Got to get

00:34:56.380 our attention.

00:34:56.860 All right.

00:35:01.820 James O'Keefe

00:35:03.020 is making

00:35:05.680 some news

00:35:06.260 with his

00:35:06.600 new organization,

00:35:07.560 OMG.

00:35:10.740 He says he's

00:35:11.880 got evidence

00:35:12.660 that we haven't

00:35:13.180 seen yet.

00:35:14.780 There will be

00:35:15.140 evidence that

00:35:15.740 over 60% of

00:35:16.780 the money

00:35:17.080 involved in

00:35:18.020 what he calls

00:35:19.080 a massive

00:35:19.620 illegal American

00:35:20.440 political donation

00:35:21.320 funding scheme

00:35:22.000 is apparently

00:35:23.100 coming from

00:35:23.700 China.

00:35:24.060 What?

00:35:26.760 Secret illegal

00:35:27.760 political money

00:35:28.600 flowing into

00:35:29.500 the Democrat

00:35:29.980 Party from

00:35:30.680 China.

00:35:32.640 60% of it

00:35:33.780 going into

00:35:34.280 at least some

00:35:34.860 area of

00:35:35.360 funding.

00:35:35.840 I don't know.

00:35:37.200 Now,

00:35:38.380 does that

00:35:38.720 sound true?

00:35:40.520 Do you think

00:35:41.280 that's going to

00:35:41.760 pan out?

00:35:44.900 60% of the

00:35:45.940 money involved

00:35:46.780 in this

00:35:47.560 massive illegal

00:35:49.500 American.

00:35:50.160 So I guess

00:35:50.940 there's two

00:35:51.960 categories of

00:35:52.640 things.

00:35:53.440 One is

00:35:54.000 that there's

00:35:54.460 some illegal

00:35:55.220 category of

00:35:56.020 funding.

00:35:57.220 So it's not

00:35:57.980 all the

00:35:58.420 funding for

00:35:58.860 the Democrats.

00:35:59.480 It's just

00:35:59.780 there's a

00:36:00.280 category of

00:36:00.980 illegal funding.

00:36:02.520 And within

00:36:02.840 that category

00:36:03.480 of illegal

00:36:04.060 funding,

00:36:04.720 60% of it

00:36:05.680 allegedly,

00:36:07.240 according to

00:36:07.720 James O'Keefe,

00:36:08.780 is coming from

00:36:09.600 China.

00:36:10.540 Do you think

00:36:10.880 that's going to

00:36:11.320 pan out?

00:36:13.500 I think I'd

00:36:14.280 bet against it.

00:36:17.440 It's not

00:36:18.140 impossible.

00:36:19.580 Not impossible.

00:36:20.760 In fact,

00:36:21.420 I don't know.

00:36:23.080 There's a

00:36:24.440 very good

00:36:24.900 chance it's

00:36:25.500 true.

00:36:26.500 I'd say the

00:36:26.880 chances of it

00:36:27.420 being true

00:36:27.860 are solid,

00:36:29.180 but I would

00:36:30.220 still bet

00:36:30.860 against it.

00:36:32.540 I don't know.

00:36:34.140 There's something

00:36:34.820 about it that's

00:36:35.560 not quite

00:36:36.360 tripping my

00:36:37.120 credibility

00:36:37.680 trigger here,

00:36:39.260 but maybe.

00:36:41.420 I mean,

00:36:41.920 he says he

00:36:42.800 has the goods,

00:36:43.420 he says we're

00:36:44.000 going to see

00:36:44.340 it, so

00:36:44.940 maybe yes.

00:36:46.360 That's what

00:36:46.960 makes James

00:36:47.500 O'Keefe

00:36:47.840 interesting.

00:36:50.120 Lots of

00:36:50.820 provocative

00:36:51.280 claims, and

00:36:52.160 every now and

00:36:52.840 then he's got

00:36:53.460 the goods, so

00:36:55.200 keep an eye

00:36:55.820 on that.

00:36:57.400 All right,

00:36:57.720 Reuters did a

00:36:58.500 little analysis,

00:36:59.700 didn't come out

00:37:00.380 maybe the way

00:37:00.900 they hoped.

00:37:02.540 They were

00:37:03.160 looking for

00:37:03.760 which presidents

00:37:04.660 in all the

00:37:07.220 history of the

00:37:07.700 United States,

00:37:08.640 which presidents

00:37:09.440 are descended

00:37:10.080 from slaveholders?

00:37:12.920 Which presidents?

00:37:13.700 And I think

00:37:15.700 they might have

00:37:16.260 been disturbed

00:37:16.960 to learn that

00:37:18.340 every single

00:37:19.180 president of the

00:37:19.880 United States,

00:37:20.640 including Obama,

00:37:22.180 was descended

00:37:23.480 from slave owners

00:37:24.620 in the case of

00:37:25.480 Obama on his

00:37:26.340 mother's side.

00:37:27.900 There was one

00:37:28.780 exception.

00:37:30.220 One exception.

00:37:30.980 There's only one

00:37:31.880 American president

00:37:32.640 who has not

00:37:34.080 been descended

00:37:35.840 from slave owners.

00:37:37.540 See who that

00:37:38.060 is.

00:37:38.280 Donald Trump.

00:37:44.900 Donald Trump.

00:37:46.280 He is the only

00:37:47.020 president who has

00:37:47.960 not descended

00:37:48.600 from slave owners.

00:37:51.980 Now, don't you

00:37:53.940 think he should

00:37:54.440 mention that?

00:37:57.100 Don't you think

00:37:57.920 he should mention

00:37:58.460 that?

00:37:59.500 I think so.

00:38:01.320 I think he

00:38:01.920 should mention it.

00:38:03.700 Not that it

00:38:04.480 means anything.

00:38:05.640 All right?

00:38:06.080 It doesn't mean

00:38:06.520 anything.

00:38:06.780 To me,

00:38:08.420 personally,

00:38:09.920 it means nothing

00:38:10.720 whatsoever that

00:38:11.760 somebody was

00:38:12.320 descended from

00:38:13.060 somebody.

00:38:13.620 It doesn't mean

00:38:13.980 anything.

00:38:14.780 I don't care that

00:38:15.660 the KKK were

00:38:16.980 Democrats 50

00:38:18.940 years ago.

00:38:20.060 I don't care.

00:38:21.020 That was a long

00:38:21.740 time ago.

00:38:23.820 But it's a good,

00:38:25.300 fun political

00:38:26.040 point.

00:38:27.380 All right.

00:38:28.340 Jonathan Turley

00:38:29.180 is a great

00:38:31.280 writer, of course,

00:38:32.280 and lawyer,

00:38:33.200 talking about the

00:38:34.240 Hunter defense.

00:38:36.780 So it looks

00:38:38.100 like Democrats

00:38:38.980 are trying to

00:38:39.560 float the idea

00:38:40.620 that if Hunter

00:38:42.080 did anything

00:38:42.680 bad, such as

00:38:44.860 lying that his

00:38:45.800 father was sitting

00:38:46.520 next to him when

00:38:47.220 he was extorting

00:38:48.040 some Chinese guy

00:38:49.080 on the phone,

00:38:50.280 that anything he

00:38:51.160 did that was

00:38:51.600 bad might have

00:38:54.100 been done under

00:38:54.720 the context of

00:38:55.600 him being an

00:38:56.160 addict, and so

00:38:57.480 you should go

00:38:57.940 easy on him.

00:38:58.600 It's basically

00:38:59.200 just all part of

00:39:00.140 him being an

00:39:00.700 addict, which he's

00:39:01.820 now recovered from,

00:39:03.420 I think.

00:39:04.020 I don't know.

00:39:06.340 But as Turley

00:39:07.220 points out, the

00:39:08.020 Hunter was an

00:39:08.660 addict defense

00:39:09.460 has one problem,

00:39:11.800 which is they've

00:39:13.420 also been

00:39:14.020 presenting him as

00:39:15.120 a capable business

00:39:16.140 person who earned

00:39:17.140 every penny he got

00:39:18.200 by being on the

00:39:19.480 board of Burisma.

00:39:21.940 He can't be both.

00:39:23.640 He can't be the

00:39:24.940 addict who is so

00:39:26.240 out of it that he

00:39:29.120 doesn't, he has no

00:39:30.120 control over his

00:39:31.040 actions, but he

00:39:32.660 also earned every

00:39:33.560 penny he got with

00:39:34.660 these overseas

00:39:35.300 companies by doing

00:39:36.320 his good works of

00:39:37.260 some kind.

00:39:38.760 That's a little bit

00:39:41.100 of a stretch, a

00:39:42.180 little hard sell.

00:39:44.200 Anyway, Turley is

00:39:45.340 great.

00:39:46.940 All right, so now

00:39:47.520 we've got a situation

00:39:48.440 where we've got this

00:39:50.160 WhatsApp message

00:39:51.200 discovered in which

00:39:52.640 Hunter seemed to

00:39:53.780 be soliciting a

00:39:55.560 bribe from China

00:39:56.940 and saying that his

00:39:58.780 father was in on

00:39:59.640 it.

00:40:00.260 That's the indication.

00:40:01.800 It doesn't mean it's

00:40:02.500 true, it's just

00:40:03.280 allegations.

00:40:05.540 At the same time,

00:40:06.480 we've, what a

00:40:07.620 coincidence, at the

00:40:08.400 same time, we've got

00:40:09.140 this audio about

00:40:10.660 Trump's handling of

00:40:11.760 the classified

00:40:12.280 documents, which

00:40:13.660 some say makes him

00:40:16.340 look like he's

00:40:17.420 confessing, which I

00:40:19.240 think is a little

00:40:19.820 murky, but that's the

00:40:21.540 story.

00:40:22.800 Now, here's what

00:40:25.340 this boils down to,

00:40:27.540 and I'm not making

00:40:28.540 this up.

00:40:29.920 The primary reason

00:40:31.420 that Biden and

00:40:32.500 Trump are likely to

00:40:33.620 run against each

00:40:34.460 other is the

00:40:36.180 following.

00:40:37.300 It's the only way

00:40:38.460 either of them can

00:40:39.260 stay in a jail.

00:40:42.060 They both need to

00:40:43.260 pardon themselves.

00:40:44.540 It's a pardon

00:40:45.300 election.

00:40:46.280 We're seeing which

00:40:47.040 one of them gets to

00:40:47.900 pardon themselves and

00:40:48.840 stay in a jail.

00:40:52.000 Am I wrong?

00:40:53.560 I don't think either

00:40:54.760 of them would be

00:40:55.420 running for office if

00:40:56.500 they didn't need to

00:40:57.100 stay in a jail, and

00:40:59.100 you know, but Trump

00:41:00.820 may be thinking

00:41:01.480 differently, I think.

00:41:02.760 I mean, Trump may be

00:41:03.520 running for revenge as

00:41:05.160 well, but you don't

00:41:06.520 think it matters to

00:41:07.440 him that he has all

00:41:08.340 these legal difficulties,

00:41:09.540 and it sure would be

00:41:11.300 convenient if he also

00:41:13.720 happened to be the

00:41:14.500 only person that can

00:41:15.320 pardon somebody.

00:41:16.420 Wouldn't that be

00:41:17.040 convenient?

00:41:18.440 I think that history is

00:41:20.240 forcing us to find out

00:41:22.120 if a president can

00:41:23.220 pardon him or herself.

00:41:24.700 Don't you think

00:41:26.680 Trump's going to test

00:41:27.540 that?

00:41:29.380 And Biden might

00:41:30.300 test it, too.

00:41:31.580 You know, if Biden

00:41:32.300 stays in office, he'll

00:41:33.160 test it.

00:41:34.040 But I think that

00:41:34.760 Trump, if he went in

00:41:36.020 office, the first thing

00:41:36.900 he'd do is pardon

00:41:37.600 himself from everything,

00:41:38.760 and everybody would be

00:41:40.000 fine with it.

00:41:40.620 Just get rid of all

00:41:41.600 that stuff.

00:41:42.160 He just won the

00:41:42.760 election.

00:41:45.240 Well, so, just think

00:41:50.040 about this situation.

00:41:52.200 Right?

00:41:52.340 If you're an American,

00:41:53.300 just think about this.

00:41:56.100 In the, let's call it

00:41:57.320 the second tier of

00:41:58.920 candidates, you've got

00:42:01.180 Vivek Ramaswamy,

00:42:04.560 Republican.

00:42:05.600 You've got RFK Jr.,

00:42:07.600 Democrat.

00:42:09.320 I would be completely

00:42:11.260 happy with either of

00:42:12.660 those two people as my

00:42:13.740 president.

00:42:15.140 I think they're in it

00:42:16.200 for the right reasons.

00:42:17.880 They're both brilliant.

00:42:19.600 They're both patriots.

00:42:20.760 They have some, you

00:42:21.980 know, policy

00:42:22.760 disagreements, but not

00:42:24.240 the crazy kind.

00:42:25.940 You know what I'm

00:42:26.400 saying?

00:42:27.220 If you saw Vivek and

00:42:29.320 RFK Jr.

00:42:31.080 debate, you wouldn't

00:42:32.920 find much difference

00:42:33.920 because both of them

00:42:35.840 are factual based.

00:42:39.480 And I think both of

00:42:40.940 them would change their

00:42:41.880 minds right in front of

00:42:43.480 you if the data, if some

00:42:46.060 new data arrived.

00:42:46.960 I think both of them

00:42:48.540 would publicly change

00:42:50.340 their minds with better

00:42:51.900 data.

00:42:52.860 How much better could you

00:42:53.820 do, right?

00:42:55.220 As a president.

00:42:55.880 If you wanted to have a

00:42:56.760 president, could you do

00:42:58.560 better than somebody who

00:42:59.600 is completely a patriot,

00:43:01.060 no doubt about it,

00:43:02.580 hugely talented, hugely

00:43:05.000 talented, does not have,

00:43:07.380 you know, any kind of a

00:43:08.840 past that's going to be a

00:43:11.240 problem, right?

00:43:12.500 I think RFK Jr.

00:43:13.680 has a really interesting

00:43:14.660 past.

00:43:15.120 But it's kind of

00:43:16.360 personal stuff.

00:43:17.320 There's not really

00:43:17.940 anything that bothers

00:43:19.640 us.

00:43:19.960 He's got the vaccine

00:43:20.760 stuff he has to explain,

00:43:21.940 but I told you how he

00:43:22.620 could do that pretty

00:43:23.220 easily.

00:43:24.300 So our second tier of

00:43:25.880 candidates, and I would

00:43:26.720 include DeSantis in

00:43:28.400 there, a solid, solid

00:43:30.300 patriot, a solid

00:43:33.140 operator, right?

00:43:35.580 Any one of these

00:43:36.600 candidates, and you could

00:43:38.020 add three or four more,

00:43:39.940 any one of them I would

00:43:41.460 be really happy to have

00:43:42.440 as my president, Democrat

00:43:43.780 or Republican.

00:43:45.120 In this case.

00:43:47.080 And, but the two who

00:43:48.480 are running are the only

00:43:49.320 two who are a problem.

00:43:50.880 Tim Scott.

00:43:52.020 Tim Scott, a highly

00:43:52.940 qualified candidate.

00:43:54.680 Right?

00:43:55.400 But think about it.

00:43:56.420 The two who are likely

00:43:57.720 to be in the general

00:43:58.540 election are the two who

00:44:00.280 are probably running at

00:44:01.580 least in part to pardon

00:44:02.920 themselves for major

00:44:03.960 crimes.

00:44:07.300 Felonies.

00:44:07.820 Now, in my opinion, Trump's

00:44:11.760 alleged felonies, you know,

00:44:14.040 are a little more trivial.

00:44:16.640 If everything said about

00:44:18.240 both people is true, Trump's

00:44:19.960 would be trivial, in my

00:44:21.720 opinion, whereas Biden's is

00:44:23.780 pretty serious, in my

00:44:25.160 opinion.

00:44:25.900 And it's all alleged, so we're

00:44:27.660 just guessing at this point.

00:44:30.380 But how did we get here?

00:44:32.060 How did we get so we have

00:44:33.180 some of the best, solid,

00:44:35.060 real candidates, genuine

00:44:37.200 candidates, best, the best

00:44:39.180 group we've ever had, and

00:44:41.100 they won't get to run because

00:44:42.340 the two top people are trying

00:44:43.480 to stay out of jail?

00:44:45.260 In part.

00:44:46.620 In part.

00:44:47.100 I mean, I don't think that

00:44:50.660 could be worse, could it?

00:44:53.600 And maybe something will

00:44:54.800 change.

00:44:56.220 You know, if Biden dropped

00:44:57.780 out, and whoever was

00:45:01.980 leading in the polls promised

00:45:03.260 to pardon them both, would

00:45:07.600 Trump drop out?

00:45:12.200 Probably not.

00:45:12.940 He's a fighter.

00:45:13.660 I think he'd want to win.

00:45:15.120 Yeah.

00:45:15.220 All right.

00:45:17.280 Probably not.

00:45:21.360 I saw some reporting from

00:45:22.960 Jesse Waters on Fox News

00:45:25.160 saying that Hunter allegedly

00:45:28.800 paid for Joe Biden's burner

00:45:31.060 phone while Joe was in

00:45:32.660 office as vice president.

00:45:36.240 He had a burner phone.

00:45:40.560 So I guess Biden had three

00:45:42.940 phones.

00:45:43.400 He had a personal phone, a

00:45:46.680 business phone, and a

00:45:49.000 burner.

00:45:54.040 You should put him in jail

00:45:55.300 just for having a burner

00:45:56.400 phone.

00:45:57.680 Well, I don't think that's

00:45:58.800 illegal.

00:46:00.460 But if your president has a

00:46:03.040 burner phone, next, let me

00:46:08.520 say that again.

00:46:09.100 If your candidate has a burner

00:46:11.980 phone for anything, next, maybe

00:46:19.320 Vivek and RFK Jr. have burner

00:46:22.100 phones.

00:46:23.220 But I don't think so.

00:46:25.220 You know what I think they do

00:46:26.280 instead?

00:46:27.660 I think instead they don't say

00:46:29.380 things on phones that are

00:46:31.000 criminal behavior.

00:46:33.100 Just a guess.

00:46:34.780 Just a guess.

00:46:35.520 I'll bet Vivek doesn't need a

00:46:37.760 burner phone because he never

00:46:39.540 does anything illegal.

00:46:41.780 And if he did, he wouldn't do

00:46:43.020 it on the phone.

00:46:45.960 Isn't that a better way to go?

00:46:47.940 Maybe somebody who doesn't need

00:46:49.620 the burner phone?

00:46:51.440 I mean, that should be like a

00:46:52.740 minimum requirement for your

00:46:54.100 candidate.

00:46:55.120 So, have you ever felt you needed

00:46:57.460 a burner phone?

00:46:58.360 If the answer is yes, you don't

00:47:01.840 need to ask any further

00:47:03.160 questions.

00:47:04.160 If you've ever had a burner

00:47:05.860 phone, next.

00:47:11.800 All right.

00:47:14.800 There's some more allegations,

00:47:17.180 this time from Ken Akoa the

00:47:18.860 Great, who's got a great website

00:47:21.080 and his threads, I don't know who

00:47:24.540 he is, but his threads are more

00:47:25.960 insightful than other people, which

00:47:27.780 makes me very curious what his

00:47:29.280 real identity is.

00:47:30.860 I don't know how he continuously

00:47:33.040 gets more scoopy material than

00:47:35.460 other people.

00:47:36.900 But he says, I'll just read what

00:47:39.920 he says in his tweet.

00:47:41.920 In a groundbreaking revelation

00:47:43.400 has come to light that Dr.

00:47:44.860 Peter Hotez, he's the one who

00:47:46.920 RFK Jr. wants to debate, an

00:47:49.760 esteemed vaccine researcher has

00:47:51.980 been entangled in a web of funding

00:47:53.920 collaboration and research with

00:47:55.500 Chinese military scientists,

00:47:56.960 potentially involved in the

00:47:58.780 development of COVID-19.

00:48:00.140 The intricate tale weaves together

00:48:01.720 key Chinese military virologists

00:48:04.140 and culminates in the smoking gun

00:48:06.300 evidence surrounding COVID-19's

00:48:08.320 notorious fur and cleavage site.

00:48:11.640 Now, let's do an analysis on here to

00:48:15.060 pick the propaganda.

00:48:17.140 All right.

00:48:18.060 Propaganda doesn't come from just one

00:48:20.080 side.

00:48:20.500 If you saw the Democrats say a story

00:48:24.640 that something had come to light

00:48:28.820 and that somebody was, quote,

00:48:31.860 entangled in a web of funding

00:48:33.740 collaboration and research with, you

00:48:36.800 know, bad characters, China, and

00:48:40.220 there was another word here that I'm

00:48:45.160 looking for, potentially, potentially

00:48:49.360 involved in the development of

00:48:51.160 COVID-19.

00:48:53.400 Sounds a little sketchy, doesn't it?

00:48:56.560 That it's about, there's a definite

00:48:58.960 connection to somebody who's potentially

00:49:02.560 connected to something.

00:49:03.960 That's like not a connection.

00:49:05.460 It would be a connection if you knew

00:49:08.240 they were connected.

00:49:09.480 That's a connection.

00:49:10.780 But to say that somebody is

00:49:12.320 potentially related to something

00:49:16.680 says you don't know.

00:49:19.220 That's like we cannot determine there's

00:49:21.460 a connection.

00:49:23.200 I feel like this was written in an

00:49:27.020 anti-Dr. Hotez way that seems deeply

00:49:31.360 unfair.

00:49:32.800 And I'm not saying that there's nothing

00:49:34.820 to it.

00:49:35.800 I don't know.

00:49:36.920 I'm just saying that, boy, you

00:49:39.540 wouldn't want to see your own name

00:49:40.800 in this, would you?

00:49:42.840 Imagine if this is you.

00:49:45.100 And you get on social media and you

00:49:47.060 see that somebody's accusing you of

00:49:49.120 doing this dirty work with Chinese

00:49:50.740 military scientists, but the

00:49:52.880 strongest word to connect you is the

00:49:54.520 word potentially.

00:49:56.080 Potentially they were working on

00:49:57.400 COVID-19.

00:49:59.820 That's really, that's seriously messed

00:50:02.540 up, in my opinion.

00:50:03.500 Might be true.

00:50:06.040 I mean, there might be something to

00:50:07.220 it, but I don't know.

00:50:08.660 I think you need a little more than

00:50:09.980 that to go public.

00:50:14.300 Rasmussen did a poll on RFK Jr.

00:50:17.160 talking about his chances.

00:50:18.960 And nearly half of voters have a

00:50:20.460 favorable opinion of RFK Jr.

00:50:23.280 And among Democrat voters, more than a

00:50:25.380 third think he could win the nomination.

00:50:27.780 One-third think he could win the

00:50:30.280 nomination.

00:50:32.860 That's bigger than it used to be, I'll

00:50:34.440 bet.

00:50:35.800 I'll bet it's grown.

00:50:38.320 So far he's doing the best campaign

00:50:41.760 that I've seen.

00:50:45.000 Ever?

00:50:46.680 Maybe ever.

00:50:47.900 Yeah, I'm going to double down.

00:50:49.960 I think RFK Jr.

00:50:51.580 is running the best campaign that I've

00:50:53.160 ever seen.

00:50:54.880 Now he's doing what Vivek is doing.

00:50:57.580 So, you know, there's, those two guys

00:50:59.820 have a lot in common, and it's in a

00:51:01.740 good way.

00:51:02.180 Um, so, uh, that's weird.

00:51:12.960 All right, just a weird meme.

00:51:15.200 Um, so anyway, I've got a feeling that

00:51:20.220 RFK Jr.'s willingness to talk to

00:51:23.340 anybody, his, his viral videos, he went

00:51:26.700 down to the border.

00:51:27.780 So far, the expense for RFK Jr., the

00:51:31.700 expense, is him holding his phone out.

00:51:35.080 That's his expense.

00:51:36.240 And travel.

00:51:37.040 Basically just personal travel, and him

00:51:39.500 talking to his phone.

00:51:40.800 So he goes down to the border, holds up

00:51:43.300 his phone, you know, does a selfie

00:51:45.220 video, and it's very, it's very good.

00:51:48.240 Made national news, you know, identified

00:51:51.920 him with concern for the, the border,

00:51:54.960 which you don't expect from a Democrat

00:51:57.200 in this day and age.

00:51:58.300 So he, he went counter to, uh, counter to

00:52:02.940 the Democrat profile of trying to avoid

00:52:05.260 that issue.

00:52:05.940 He went right at it.

00:52:07.400 So that makes news.

00:52:09.220 That, that's a man bites dog, because

00:52:11.520 Democrat is not supposed to go to the

00:52:13.360 border and say it's a problem.

00:52:15.200 Perfect.

00:52:15.680 And all it cost him was travel, and he

00:52:19.800 held up his phone.

00:52:21.560 That was it.

00:52:23.200 Then he does, then he does this video,

00:52:25.960 releases a video of him working out with

00:52:28.100 his shirt off.

00:52:30.200 Super effective.

00:52:31.400 It's like the thing we all talked about

00:52:32.900 as much as that stupid submarine.

00:52:35.900 Right?

00:52:36.740 Totally effective.

00:52:37.600 And then he goes on every podcast,

00:52:40.640 including ones that are going to give

00:52:42.040 him a hard time, left or right.

00:52:45.200 And the other candidates are looking

00:52:46.780 like cowards.

00:52:48.200 Except for Vivek, right?

00:52:50.140 Vivek, I think, is modeling.

00:52:52.540 I feel like RFK Jr. might be borrowing

00:52:54.720 from Vivek, who's sort of the, the OG

00:52:57.840 of using the podcast as a primary push.

00:53:01.400 So, great job on campaigning.

00:53:06.140 So I would expect him to keep rising.

00:53:10.420 I'll say again that my, somebody said

00:53:12.500 I was in the bag for RFK Jr.

00:53:15.420 And that's not true.

00:53:16.920 I'm still, I'm still endorsing Ramaswamy.

00:53:20.460 Now I'm a single issue voter on fentanyl,

00:53:22.680 so that's, that's a big part of it.

00:53:24.580 But Ramaswamy's great.

00:53:26.720 And I would say that my, my ideal situation

00:53:29.760 for the next presidential election,

00:53:31.920 and maybe you could agree with me,

00:53:33.940 the ideal situation is you're happy

00:53:36.820 no matter who wins.

00:53:39.100 Have you ever been in that situation before?

00:53:43.060 I was in that situation once.

00:53:46.240 When Gore ran against Bush,

00:53:49.980 I actually would have been, you know,

00:53:51.520 about, felt about the same

00:53:52.680 no matter which one won,

00:53:54.080 which is why I didn't care too much

00:53:55.560 that it went to Bush.

00:53:57.240 I preferred Gore.

00:53:58.220 I know you don't like him on climate change,

00:54:01.360 but I always thought he was a serious guy.

00:54:04.240 Climate change, you can have your questions

00:54:05.840 and I'll, I'll give you that.

00:54:08.100 But that was, that was the closest I came

00:54:10.880 to thinking that the candidates

00:54:12.860 were kind of a coin toss.

00:54:15.500 Now, as it turns out,

00:54:16.680 Bush started a, a major unnecessary war.

00:54:20.580 Maybe Gore would not have.

00:54:22.920 Maybe Gore would not have.

00:54:24.440 I don't know.

00:54:27.100 So, but anyway, I'd love, you know,

00:54:30.280 a contest between RFK Jr. and Ramaswamy.

00:54:34.620 I'd feel pretty comfortable with the country,

00:54:36.900 whichever way that went.

00:54:38.380 Now I'm going to give you

00:54:39.300 my most provocative thought.

00:54:40.940 Are you ready?

00:54:42.360 If you're a Democrat

00:54:43.400 and you don't like Republicans,

00:54:46.180 who do you want to be your president?

00:54:49.540 Seems like a simple question, right?

00:54:51.520 You're a Democrat.

00:54:52.680 You don't like your Republicans.

00:54:54.420 They're doing all the wrong policy stuff.

00:54:56.860 So who do you want to be your president?

00:54:59.040 A Democrat, right?

00:55:00.060 Obviously, obviously a Democrat.

00:55:01.780 No, you're wrong.

00:55:03.280 That would be the dumbest way to play it.

00:55:06.200 If you don't like Republicans

00:55:07.800 and they're your biggest problem,

00:55:09.580 you know, everything the Republicans

00:55:10.800 doing is a problem,

00:55:12.320 your best case scenario

00:55:13.880 is a Republican that changes

00:55:15.380 the Republicans.

00:55:17.580 That's your best case scenario.

00:55:18.820 It's called Trump.

00:55:21.460 Do you remember,

00:55:22.420 actually a lot of you are,

00:55:24.320 most of you are probably right-leaning

00:55:25.600 so you don't remember this at all,

00:55:27.240 but let me tell you,

00:55:28.860 Republicans used to be a lot scarier.

00:55:31.560 Do you know that?

00:55:33.180 Are you aware of that?

00:55:34.620 Republicans used to look like the crazy ones

00:55:37.140 because they seemed more war-like, crazy, right?

00:55:42.580 Trump changed that.

00:55:44.100 Trump turned the Republicans

00:55:45.820 into the anti-war party.

00:55:47.280 He did that.

00:55:48.860 I think he did that alone, right?

00:55:51.740 And that was one of the big reasons I liked him

00:55:53.700 because he was going to take some of the crazy

00:55:56.340 out of the Republicans.

00:55:57.820 Now, I'm going to offend some of you now,

00:55:59.920 but it has to be done

00:56:00.840 in the interest of, you know,

00:56:03.580 being useful and honest.

00:56:05.720 It has to be done.

00:56:08.580 20 years ago,

00:56:10.140 the Republicans looked a little too religious.

00:56:13.140 And by that I mean we didn't care,

00:56:17.460 not we, but other people,

00:56:18.880 didn't care what they believed.

00:56:20.980 They just didn't want that belief

00:56:22.380 to become their policies.

00:56:24.120 They didn't want policies

00:56:25.280 that were religiously inspired.

00:56:28.600 Abortion's kind of a special case

00:56:30.200 because it's sort of a life-and-death situation.

00:56:32.900 There's nothing like it.

00:56:34.060 Don't make any analogies to abortion

00:56:35.880 or the Holocaust.

00:56:37.780 There's nothing like them.

00:56:38.960 So any analogy to the Holocaust

00:56:42.640 or abortion just fails immediately

00:56:45.720 because they're too unique.

00:56:48.440 Now, I'll make the same argument.

00:56:50.320 So the argument about Trump

00:56:51.580 is he took the crazy out of the Republicans

00:56:53.960 and made me very comfortable

00:56:56.360 enjoying the Republicans.

00:57:00.940 I would say it changed me

00:57:02.600 because I had always been,

00:57:04.860 you know, policy-wise,

00:57:07.060 I'd always been pretty liberal,

00:57:09.960 you know, let people do

00:57:11.280 what they want to do.

00:57:12.960 But the Republicans were scary to me

00:57:16.120 because they were saying,

00:57:17.540 God is telling me to do this,

00:57:19.340 and I don't like that.

00:57:21.720 I don't like that.

00:57:23.560 I want you to tell me

00:57:24.680 why you want to do it

00:57:25.740 and give me reasons

00:57:26.780 and risks and benefits

00:57:28.060 and show me the budget

00:57:29.460 and tell me what's going to break

00:57:30.820 if you do it.

00:57:32.120 I like that.

00:57:33.240 That's what Trump does.

00:57:34.700 Trump tells you why he's doing it.

00:57:37.060 Here's why I'm doing this.

00:57:39.300 Okay, good.

00:57:40.280 Don't tell me that God told you to do it.

00:57:42.340 Then I get scared

00:57:43.240 because I don't know

00:57:44.780 if your God's my God.

00:57:46.320 I don't know which God

00:57:47.400 you're listening to,

00:57:48.580 which demon sounding like a God

00:57:50.460 is talking to you,

00:57:51.560 but that's scary stuff.

00:57:53.560 Trump got rid of all of that

00:57:55.360 while still being respectful

00:57:58.660 to religion,

00:58:00.480 very respectful to religion,

00:58:02.340 which I like.

00:58:03.460 I like being respectful to religion.

00:58:04.960 So I think Trump

00:58:07.800 normalized the Republican Party.

00:58:11.500 That's what I think.

00:58:13.860 If you had been a Democrat,

00:58:15.420 the best possible president

00:58:17.120 you could have had

00:58:17.760 would have been Trump

00:58:18.540 and you got what you wanted,

00:58:20.760 I think.

00:58:22.960 Now, RFK Jr.

00:58:24.240 maybe could do the same thing

00:58:26.000 to Democrats

00:58:26.680 because the Democrats

00:58:28.080 have been, you know,

00:58:29.280 captured by the

00:58:31.080 actually literally medically,

00:58:33.860 clinically, mentally ill

00:58:35.060 part of the party.

00:58:36.020 There's no doubt about that.

00:58:37.760 They've been captured

00:58:38.520 by the mentally ill part

00:58:39.800 of the party.

00:58:41.640 RFK Jr. is not crazy.

00:58:44.300 If he were to win,

00:58:46.180 he would be the Democrat.

00:58:47.980 I want to be the president

00:58:49.340 because he would fix Democrats.

00:58:52.780 Do you get that?

00:58:54.060 He would fix Democrats.

00:58:55.400 I want them fixed,

00:58:57.240 just like I wanted Republicans fixed.

00:58:59.060 So, for me,

00:59:01.540 I could live with that situation

00:59:03.420 even not lining up

00:59:05.700 with all of his policies necessarily.

00:59:07.700 I don't know if I do, actually.

00:59:09.300 Maybe I do.

00:59:10.520 You know,

00:59:10.760 if he explained all his policies

00:59:12.200 in some detail,

00:59:13.060 maybe I'd like them.

00:59:14.500 But it's not about policy.

00:59:16.160 It's just about

00:59:16.660 we have two candidates

00:59:18.540 that can take the crazy

00:59:19.740 out of both sides

00:59:20.660 and that would be good.

00:59:23.320 All right.

00:59:23.900 There's a viral video

00:59:29.580 of a bunch of Russian women

00:59:31.520 in some big gathering

00:59:32.840 dancing and celebrating

00:59:34.740 in Moscow.

00:59:35.760 And I think the celebration

00:59:36.900 was related to

00:59:38.440 maybe Prigozhin being,

00:59:40.820 you know,

00:59:41.860 pushed away or something.

00:59:43.440 But instead of commenting

00:59:45.740 on the politics of it,

00:59:47.320 the Internet has decided

00:59:49.120 to comment on the weight

00:59:51.360 of the women.

00:59:53.860 Well, that became the story.

00:59:56.000 And the reason

00:59:57.960 it became a huge comment

00:59:59.520 is there were no

01:00:01.040 overweight women

01:00:02.420 in this enormous crowd.

01:00:06.100 There weren't any.

01:00:07.500 Or I'll say

01:00:08.100 there were no obese women.

01:00:09.320 There were no obese women

01:00:10.420 in this huge,

01:00:12.260 gigantic crowd of women.

01:00:15.500 What's up with that?

01:00:18.680 Do you think

01:00:19.500 they're eating different food

01:00:20.540 over there?

01:00:21.360 What do you think

01:00:23.440 is going on?

01:00:25.980 Well,

01:00:26.580 they're definitely

01:00:27.700 taking fewer

01:00:28.640 pharma products.

01:00:33.420 That's a fact, right?

01:00:34.960 America just,

01:00:36.040 you know,

01:00:36.400 there's tons of products.

01:00:39.000 I would argue

01:00:40.060 that also in America,

01:00:42.340 weight has gone through

01:00:44.880 a psychological change here

01:00:46.900 so that the

01:00:48.380 be okay with your body

01:00:49.980 people are making

01:00:51.520 a lot of progress.

01:00:52.980 The people who are saying,

01:00:54.400 you know,

01:00:54.760 being overweight

01:00:55.440 is, you know,

01:00:56.500 just a personal choice.

01:00:58.060 Leave me alone.

01:00:59.620 They've, yeah,

01:01:00.460 the fat acceptance.

01:01:01.440 I think fat acceptance

01:01:02.500 has become normal

01:01:03.480 in America

01:01:04.000 and the obvious

01:01:06.500 predictable impact

01:01:07.820 of that

01:01:08.200 would be more people

01:01:09.240 saying,

01:01:09.600 oh,

01:01:10.540 you mean I can just

01:01:11.320 not work out

01:01:12.040 and people won't

01:01:12.780 mock me?

01:01:13.320 I can just buy

01:01:14.260 two seats on the plane

01:01:15.320 and that's acceptable now

01:01:16.640 and it is.

01:01:18.700 I mean,

01:01:19.000 it's more acceptable

01:01:19.680 than at any time

01:01:20.980 in history.

01:01:21.540 So you're always

01:01:22.360 going to get more

01:01:23.020 of whatever you

01:01:23.880 incentivize

01:01:25.300 and less of whatever

01:01:26.480 you put some friction on.

01:01:28.480 Now,

01:01:29.020 if you're in,

01:01:29.980 if you're a young woman

01:01:31.460 in Moscow,

01:01:32.500 do you think that

01:01:35.240 if you became obese,

01:01:37.660 your outcomes in life

01:01:39.140 would still look good

01:01:40.120 and you think

01:01:40.860 that's working out

01:01:41.720 and nobody

01:01:42.760 would mention it

01:01:43.440 to you?

01:01:44.900 I don't know.

01:01:46.560 I mean,

01:01:46.820 I don't know

01:01:47.180 what the culture

01:01:47.660 is there.

01:01:48.800 But it's not clear

01:01:50.220 to me if this is

01:01:51.220 because their food

01:01:52.140 source is cleaner,

01:01:53.500 which may in fact

01:01:54.860 be the case,

01:01:56.140 their prescription

01:01:58.780 drug taking

01:01:59.500 is much less,

01:02:01.200 maybe,

01:02:02.160 or it might be

01:02:03.500 in the culture

01:02:04.120 where they're

01:02:05.940 incentivized

01:02:07.660 to look,

01:02:08.540 let's say,

01:02:10.420 incentivized

01:02:11.260 to look like

01:02:11.940 they're good

01:02:14.520 for marriage,

01:02:15.940 meaning they look

01:02:16.600 like they can

01:02:17.120 produce children

01:02:17.840 so they're healthy.

01:02:21.180 Yeah.

01:02:22.100 Could be.

01:02:22.540 So I don't know

01:02:23.220 what it is.

01:02:23.540 There's probably

01:02:23.880 a number of factors,

01:02:25.260 but I remember

01:02:25.740 looking at the,

01:02:26.460 there's an old

01:02:27.160 video that had

01:02:28.980 been colorized

01:02:29.800 from, I don't know,

01:02:30.560 1920s or some

01:02:31.980 early time in New York,

01:02:33.420 and you would see

01:02:34.320 thousands of people

01:02:35.680 walk by in the streets,

01:02:37.500 adults,

01:02:38.520 and no obesity.

01:02:41.260 None.

01:02:42.720 In all of New York City.

01:02:44.800 You could just

01:02:45.420 watch that video

01:02:46.420 for like minutes

01:02:48.040 at a time.

01:02:48.900 People are walking

01:02:49.600 by, there are no

01:02:50.280 overweight people.

01:02:52.540 So that, I mean,

01:02:53.580 I think that has

01:02:54.200 probably mostly

01:02:55.140 to do with food

01:02:55.940 more than anything.

01:02:58.680 So the Russian diet

01:03:00.140 is obscene carbs.

01:03:03.600 You know,

01:03:03.900 the men don't seem

01:03:04.780 that thin, do they?

01:03:06.880 I don't think the men

01:03:07.880 are that thin.

01:03:08.360 Bergogian looks like

01:03:10.520 he's a little plump.

01:03:12.420 All right, anyway,

01:03:13.140 that became a big thing.

01:03:16.240 I've told you that

01:03:17.180 I think AI is not

01:03:18.560 as scary as other

01:03:19.520 people, right?

01:03:20.240 Have you heard me

01:03:20.760 say that?

01:03:21.980 That AI, I think

01:03:23.200 we're exaggerating

01:03:23.960 the risk from it.

01:03:26.740 Mark Andreessen

01:03:27.660 has done a very long

01:03:29.600 thread, and he's

01:03:30.680 written about it.

01:03:31.280 And his opinion

01:03:32.400 is the same,

01:03:33.880 that people are

01:03:34.920 freaking out about

01:03:35.800 AI, but it's just

01:03:37.020 code, and it's not

01:03:37.980 going to attack you,

01:03:38.680 and it doesn't want

01:03:39.440 to kill you.

01:03:40.380 Now, his argument

01:03:41.140 is that code

01:03:42.120 doesn't have opinions.

01:03:44.320 So it's not going

01:03:45.180 to want anything,

01:03:47.220 right?

01:03:47.580 So AI is not going

01:03:48.760 to independently

01:03:49.400 want to kill you

01:03:51.100 because it didn't

01:03:52.400 evolve to be

01:03:53.400 competitive with

01:03:54.140 humans, right?

01:03:55.840 We want to kill

01:03:56.820 each other because

01:03:57.420 we evolved that way

01:03:58.480 with those impulses.

01:04:00.220 But AI isn't

01:04:01.420 going to have

01:04:01.720 any, you know,

01:04:02.960 any two million

01:04:04.160 years of evolution

01:04:05.100 impulses in it.

01:04:06.800 It's just going to

01:04:07.620 be working with

01:04:08.920 the facts.

01:04:10.140 Now, of course,

01:04:11.020 it's picking up

01:04:11.600 some opinions

01:04:12.400 from patterns

01:04:13.580 and stuff like

01:04:14.260 that, but they're

01:04:15.060 not translating

01:04:15.800 into I want to

01:04:16.580 kill you in a

01:04:18.500 real way.

01:04:19.220 Now, I don't

01:04:19.900 think he addressed

01:04:20.780 the accidental

01:04:22.820 hypothesis.

01:04:25.520 It's not that AI

01:04:26.580 will want to kill

01:04:27.580 you like it wants

01:04:28.740 to compete with

01:04:29.460 you in real

01:04:30.200 rub you out.

01:04:30.920 I don't think

01:04:31.420 that's a risk,

01:04:32.300 honestly.

01:04:33.100 Here's what I'd

01:04:33.820 be worried about.

01:04:34.660 I'd be worried

01:04:35.080 about an individual

01:04:36.140 weaponizing it.

01:04:38.640 That's a risk,

01:04:39.920 right?

01:04:40.780 You know, one

01:04:41.220 individual having

01:04:42.040 the power to

01:04:42.940 change minds

01:04:44.260 anywhere in the

01:04:44.860 world through

01:04:45.520 manipulating images

01:04:47.180 and stuff.

01:04:48.800 That's pretty

01:04:49.500 scary.

01:04:50.340 But I think

01:04:51.320 we'll figure out

01:04:52.000 how to work

01:04:52.820 our way through

01:04:53.340 it like we do

01:04:54.400 with most things.

01:04:56.120 So his opinion

01:04:57.540 matches my own

01:04:58.880 at the top

01:04:59.600 level, some

01:05:00.580 of the details

01:05:01.380 we might talk

01:05:02.740 about.

01:05:03.400 But at the top

01:05:04.100 level, I agree

01:05:04.780 with him that

01:05:05.240 AI is going to

01:05:06.020 be almost all

01:05:07.400 positive.

01:05:09.520 That's what I

01:05:10.180 think.

01:05:10.500 I think almost

01:05:11.100 all positive.

01:05:12.220 We will have to

01:05:12.960 work hard to make

01:05:14.580 sure the potential

01:05:15.540 problems don't

01:05:16.400 become real

01:05:16.880 problems, but I

01:05:17.800 feel we'll be

01:05:18.620 fine.

01:05:19.460 This would be,

01:05:20.520 and I think

01:05:21.020 Mark Andreessen

01:05:22.240 was pointing this

01:05:22.940 out, this would be

01:05:24.100 like the

01:05:24.520 hundredth time

01:05:25.460 society saw

01:05:27.740 something that

01:05:28.260 was going to

01:05:28.620 kill us all,

01:05:29.940 and then it

01:05:31.300 didn't.

01:05:32.240 This is probably

01:05:32.800 just another one

01:05:33.480 of those.

01:05:35.140 Probably.

01:05:35.620 Of course, that's

01:05:37.040 also exactly

01:05:37.860 famous last words.

01:05:40.340 Somebody always,

01:05:41.320 there should be an

01:05:42.020 NPC coming in

01:05:42.920 at any moment

01:05:43.380 now, it's like,

01:05:44.060 famous last words.

01:05:47.640 But we're still

01:05:48.680 here, so nobody's

01:05:50.960 been wrong yet.

01:05:51.720 Nobody who

01:05:53.880 said we won't

01:05:54.620 all die has

01:05:55.940 ever been wrong.

01:05:57.540 Ever.

01:05:58.500 In the history

01:05:59.020 of the world,

01:05:59.960 they've never

01:06:00.300 been wrong.

01:06:01.520 Sure, some

01:06:02.100 civilizations

01:06:02.720 crumbled, but

01:06:03.520 not the whole

01:06:04.020 world.

01:06:05.200 All right, let's

01:06:05.600 talk about Russia

01:06:06.880 and Wagner.

01:06:08.200 Probably some

01:06:08.860 things have

01:06:09.300 happened since I

01:06:10.020 started the

01:06:10.540 live stream.

01:06:17.260 And so here's

01:06:18.460 the update.

01:06:19.240 There was some

01:06:19.820 kind of plane

01:06:20.440 that took off

01:06:21.240 that some

01:06:22.880 allege might

01:06:23.740 have Progrosian

01:06:24.900 on it heading

01:06:25.780 to Belarus.

01:06:27.360 Do you want

01:06:28.020 to take bets

01:06:28.460 on that?

01:06:29.820 Do you think

01:06:30.580 that the plane

01:06:31.480 that left

01:06:32.260 was carrying

01:06:33.740 Progrosian

01:06:34.480 to Belarus?

01:06:36.580 Put your bets

01:06:37.400 down.

01:06:39.880 I'm going to

01:06:40.500 say no.

01:06:42.220 I'm going to

01:06:42.760 say no.

01:06:43.940 Maybe.

01:06:45.000 I mean,

01:06:45.280 anything's

01:06:45.980 possible, right?

01:06:47.020 If he's under

01:06:47.960 arrest,

01:06:48.580 you know,

01:06:49.780 if let's say

01:06:50.780 Progrosian is

01:06:51.520 under the

01:06:51.920 control of

01:06:53.240 Putin,

01:06:53.980 let's say his

01:06:54.600 forces are

01:06:55.900 literally standing

01:06:56.940 in the room

01:06:57.400 with him,

01:06:58.400 then yes.

01:06:59.720 Then yes,

01:07:00.380 that might be

01:07:00.820 exactly what

01:07:01.360 happened.

01:07:02.020 But if

01:07:02.640 Progrosian is

01:07:03.380 only surrounded

01:07:03.980 by his own

01:07:04.600 troops,

01:07:05.080 and he got to

01:07:06.840 decide what he

01:07:07.540 did and what he

01:07:08.080 didn't because he

01:07:08.660 was hiding,

01:07:10.160 I doubt he got

01:07:11.060 on a plane and

01:07:11.680 went to Belarus.

01:07:13.260 That sounds

01:07:13.700 very unlikely.

01:07:18.920 And here's

01:07:19.520 why.

01:07:20.820 That would

01:07:21.420 require him to

01:07:22.300 be separated

01:07:22.980 from his

01:07:23.940 military.

01:07:25.900 That's the only

01:07:26.320 thing protecting

01:07:26.920 him.

01:07:27.840 So do you

01:07:28.240 think he

01:07:28.640 would get

01:07:29.580 on a plane

01:07:30.280 away from

01:07:32.460 the only

01:07:32.940 people who

01:07:33.420 can protect

01:07:33.980 him and

01:07:34.920 go to another

01:07:35.480 country that's

01:07:36.860 controlled by

01:07:37.700 his nemesis,

01:07:39.420 Putin,

01:07:40.360 and Putin has

01:07:41.000 all the assets

01:07:41.580 he needs

01:07:42.040 there, he

01:07:43.140 can make

01:07:43.480 anything happen

01:07:44.120 in Belarus,

01:07:45.100 and that he

01:07:45.640 would go there

01:07:46.200 on a plane

01:07:46.800 without his

01:07:47.480 military to

01:07:48.220 protect him?

01:07:49.580 And that maybe

01:07:50.460 they'll follow up

01:07:51.240 later and the

01:07:52.080 military will

01:07:52.660 catch up with

01:07:53.220 him?

01:07:53.400 Is that what

01:07:53.760 you think?

01:07:55.000 I don't think

01:07:55.900 so.

01:07:57.320 Unless he's

01:07:58.120 the dumbest

01:07:58.940 leader of a

01:08:02.480 military of all

01:08:03.580 time.

01:08:05.080 No.

01:08:05.920 He's definitely

01:08:06.640 not going to

01:08:07.200 separate himself

01:08:07.880 from his

01:08:08.340 military under

01:08:10.020 these conditions.

01:08:10.880 now, at

01:08:12.520 the same

01:08:12.840 time, so I'm

01:08:13.920 going to bet

01:08:14.300 that he's

01:08:15.020 not on the

01:08:15.640 plane.

01:08:16.480 Anybody want

01:08:17.040 to take the

01:08:17.400 other bet?

01:08:19.100 Want to take a

01:08:19.620 bet the other

01:08:20.020 way?

01:08:22.540 Now, I could

01:08:23.660 be wrong, and

01:08:25.440 I wouldn't be

01:08:26.200 shocked, but it

01:08:29.380 seems unlikely.

01:08:30.380 Unless there's

01:08:31.140 something else

01:08:31.700 about the story

01:08:32.340 that we're not

01:08:32.880 told, I don't

01:08:34.940 see him getting

01:08:35.580 on a plane

01:08:36.060 without his

01:08:36.600 military.

01:08:37.720 Now, I saw

01:08:41.480 a report that

01:08:42.500 Russia is

01:08:43.460 trying to take

01:08:44.940 the heavy

01:08:45.740 weapons away

01:08:46.540 from Wagner.

01:08:47.780 Do you think

01:08:48.480 that's happening?

01:08:50.080 Do you think

01:08:50.720 Wagner is giving

01:08:51.540 up its heavy

01:08:52.160 weapons as we

01:08:53.120 speak?

01:08:55.840 Maybe some of

01:08:56.720 them.

01:08:57.800 Because there's

01:08:58.260 some of them

01:08:58.680 that were not

01:08:59.240 part of the

01:08:59.960 alleged coup

01:09:01.340 attempt.

01:09:02.280 So maybe some

01:09:02.940 of them, when

01:09:05.120 Putin says

01:09:06.680 that the

01:09:07.120 Wagner people

01:09:07.820 can go to

01:09:08.700 Belarus with

01:09:10.780 their leader, or

01:09:12.780 they can join

01:09:13.720 the military, or

01:09:14.680 they can just

01:09:15.160 go home to

01:09:15.680 their family, do

01:09:16.760 you think they

01:09:17.140 feel comfortable

01:09:17.800 about that?

01:09:20.040 Because I saw

01:09:20.880 some smart

01:09:21.460 people saying,

01:09:22.500 if you put the

01:09:23.000 Wagner people,

01:09:23.940 the potential

01:09:24.940 coup people, in

01:09:26.460 with the regular

01:09:27.080 army, the

01:09:28.260 regular army

01:09:28.920 will kill

01:09:29.500 them.

01:09:30.860 Because they

01:09:31.520 were enemies

01:09:32.160 a day ago.

01:09:32.940 So, or

01:09:35.140 Putin will

01:09:35.880 have them

01:09:36.240 killed within

01:09:37.040 the context

01:09:37.660 of the

01:09:37.940 military, by

01:09:38.820 just putting

01:09:39.360 them in all

01:09:39.680 the dangerous

01:09:40.220 jobs.

01:09:41.780 So, joining

01:09:43.260 the Russian

01:09:44.200 military looks

01:09:44.900 like a death

01:09:45.400 sentence.

01:09:46.580 What about

01:09:46.960 just going

01:09:47.420 home to

01:09:47.840 their families?

01:09:50.300 Do you

01:09:50.800 think Russia

01:09:51.200 is just

01:09:51.540 going to let

01:09:51.840 them go

01:09:52.040 home to

01:09:52.580 their families

01:09:53.060 and get

01:09:54.160 a regular

01:09:54.560 job?

01:09:56.260 I doubt

01:09:57.040 it.

01:09:58.000 I think

01:09:58.600 something bad

01:09:59.300 will happen

01:09:59.800 to them,

01:10:01.500 one way or

01:10:02.200 the other.

01:10:02.940 And if

01:10:04.340 they went

01:10:04.700 to Belarus,

01:10:06.240 how many

01:10:08.000 of them

01:10:08.260 could go

01:10:08.800 and they

01:10:09.440 wouldn't be

01:10:09.800 bringing their

01:10:10.280 heavy weapons?

01:10:12.260 So, if

01:10:13.080 Wagner goes

01:10:13.880 without heavy

01:10:14.760 weapons,

01:10:15.360 what is

01:10:15.840 Wagner?

01:10:17.520 Wagner isn't

01:10:18.520 really anything

01:10:19.240 without heavy

01:10:20.440 weapons.

01:10:22.300 So, I

01:10:24.360 don't know,

01:10:24.600 it looks like

01:10:25.080 all bad

01:10:25.580 choices for

01:10:26.200 them.

01:10:26.340 I think

01:10:26.960 they're going

01:10:27.200 to be killed

01:10:28.300 no matter what

01:10:28.900 happens.

01:10:29.240 all right,

01:10:31.200 so my

01:10:31.560 hypothesis

01:10:32.180 still about

01:10:33.340 what happened

01:10:33.980 goes like

01:10:35.580 this.

01:10:36.220 I think I

01:10:36.660 said this

01:10:37.040 on the

01:10:37.280 man cave,

01:10:38.160 but I'll

01:10:38.660 say it to

01:10:39.060 you as

01:10:39.380 well.

01:10:40.960 I think

01:10:41.800 that the

01:10:42.520 intelligence

01:10:44.180 agencies for

01:10:45.100 NATO,

01:10:46.260 so it could

01:10:46.620 be the

01:10:47.300 British

01:10:47.560 intelligence,

01:10:49.140 French,

01:10:50.160 American,

01:10:50.780 et cetera,

01:10:51.040 I think

01:10:52.520 that they

01:10:53.440 intentionally

01:10:53.980 were trying

01:10:54.560 to stoke

01:10:55.520 the division

01:10:57.020 between

01:10:57.800 Prigozhin

01:11:00.120 and Putin

01:11:00.780 because that's

01:11:01.740 their job.

01:11:03.040 Would you

01:11:03.420 agree that

01:11:03.820 that would

01:11:04.100 be their

01:11:04.380 job to

01:11:05.240 make sure

01:11:05.760 that the

01:11:06.280 Russians are

01:11:07.340 fighting each

01:11:07.860 other instead

01:11:08.360 of Ukraine?

01:11:09.200 Of course.

01:11:10.360 So, they

01:11:11.000 probably

01:11:11.400 exacerbated

01:11:12.920 that, but

01:11:13.600 it probably

01:11:14.280 didn't need

01:11:14.800 to be

01:11:15.080 exacerbated

01:11:15.820 that much.

01:11:16.780 I mean,

01:11:17.000 it could

01:11:17.200 have happened

01:11:17.560 on its own,

01:11:18.160 but maybe

01:11:18.540 they gave

01:11:18.920 it a little

01:11:19.200 push.

01:11:21.040 here's my

01:11:23.140 speculation

01:11:23.900 that has

01:11:24.360 no evidence

01:11:24.960 for it.

01:11:26.040 If I were

01:11:26.620 an intelligence

01:11:27.160 agent and

01:11:28.360 I'd gotten

01:11:29.220 Prigozhin

01:11:29.720 all worked

01:11:30.200 up, but

01:11:31.400 he didn't

01:11:31.700 know what

01:11:32.040 to do

01:11:32.540 about being

01:11:33.520 worked up,

01:11:34.440 I would

01:11:35.240 give him

01:11:35.600 some suggestions.

01:11:37.240 And here's

01:11:37.960 how I would

01:11:38.480 play it.

01:11:39.380 I'd say,

01:11:40.320 hey, Prigozhin,

01:11:41.160 we have assets

01:11:42.120 in the Kremlin.

01:11:43.360 We totally

01:11:43.940 know what's

01:11:44.380 going on in

01:11:44.880 that place.

01:11:45.960 And by the

01:11:46.440 way, there's

01:11:47.400 a whole bunch

01:11:47.900 of generals

01:11:48.400 who are going

01:11:49.040 to support

01:11:49.640 you if you

01:11:50.380 move,

01:11:50.640 if you

01:11:51.300 move on

01:11:51.800 Putin.

01:11:52.960 Every one

01:11:53.540 of them,

01:11:53.880 they're just

01:11:54.160 waiting for

01:11:54.600 the signal.

01:11:55.600 The moment

01:11:56.080 you move,

01:11:56.760 they're going

01:11:57.020 to switch

01:11:57.360 sides.

01:11:58.200 You won't

01:11:58.560 even have

01:11:58.900 to fire

01:11:59.280 a shot.

01:12:00.240 You'll

01:12:00.480 basically

01:12:00.800 just walk

01:12:01.460 your roll

01:12:02.020 into Moscow.

01:12:03.240 All the

01:12:03.660 generals flip.

01:12:05.100 Boom, you're

01:12:05.800 in charge.

01:12:06.760 And don't

01:12:07.580 contact them

01:12:08.640 yourself.

01:12:09.920 Whatever you

01:12:10.500 do, whatever

01:12:11.580 you do, don't

01:12:12.360 try to talk

01:12:12.840 to those generals

01:12:13.540 yourself, because

01:12:14.860 that will be

01:12:15.340 detected.

01:12:16.660 I mean, you

01:12:17.100 can't even put

01:12:17.640 one phone call

01:12:18.420 to one of these

01:12:18.940 people we tell

01:12:19.600 you are on

01:12:20.060 your side, because

01:12:22.420 that's going to

01:12:22.820 be detected.

01:12:23.720 So trust us.

01:12:25.160 We have

01:12:25.560 listening and

01:12:27.040 assets everywhere.

01:12:28.340 As soon as you

01:12:29.000 make your move,

01:12:29.720 you're going to

01:12:30.020 be massively

01:12:30.620 supported by the

01:12:31.900 Russian people.

01:12:32.720 And by the way,

01:12:33.820 we will work with

01:12:34.800 you when you

01:12:35.240 become the new

01:12:35.860 leader and make

01:12:36.960 sure you're

01:12:37.340 successful, because

01:12:38.100 you're not Putin.

01:12:40.000 We'll absolve you

01:12:41.480 of your past

01:12:42.300 actions.

01:12:44.480 And you'll be

01:12:45.060 our guy now.

01:12:45.680 You just have a

01:12:46.540 successful Russia.

01:12:48.620 So then

01:12:48.880 Progrosian says,

01:12:49.760 all right, I've

01:12:50.800 got a plan.

01:12:51.540 They're all going

01:12:51.860 to switch to my

01:12:52.540 side.

01:12:53.480 And he starts

01:12:53.960 going, and he

01:12:54.580 finds out that

01:12:55.160 they lied to

01:12:55.820 him, that the

01:12:57.140 intelligence agents

01:12:58.360 did not have any

01:12:59.300 assets in the

01:12:59.940 Kremlin, or at

01:13:01.360 least ones that

01:13:01.960 were doing what

01:13:02.460 they said, and

01:13:03.640 that there was

01:13:05.620 nobody going to

01:13:06.260 change sides to

01:13:07.080 them, except

01:13:08.060 maybe Rostov,

01:13:09.940 Vandong, one

01:13:11.260 small place.

01:13:12.440 So, yes, I'm

01:13:15.480 making this all

01:13:16.140 up.

01:13:17.320 There's no

01:13:17.840 evidence to

01:13:18.500 suggest it.

01:13:19.580 The reason I

01:13:20.460 think it's

01:13:21.020 possible, or

01:13:21.780 even likely, I

01:13:22.740 would go as

01:13:23.080 far as likely, is

01:13:24.340 that that's what

01:13:25.040 I would do.

01:13:26.680 That's what I

01:13:27.340 would do.

01:13:28.080 If I were in

01:13:28.880 the CIA, that's

01:13:30.620 what I would do.

01:13:32.200 Now, are you

01:13:32.560 telling me that

01:13:33.140 there's nobody in

01:13:33.800 the CIA who's at

01:13:34.960 least as smart as

01:13:35.820 me sitting here at

01:13:36.600 my desk, having

01:13:37.780 never been in

01:13:38.400 the CIA?

01:13:40.040 It's the obvious

01:13:41.040 thing to do.

01:13:41.660 Isn't it?

01:13:43.340 Am I wrong that

01:13:44.100 it's the obvious

01:13:45.380 thing to do?

01:13:46.200 To tell them that

01:13:47.120 it's going to work

01:13:47.640 out if they do a

01:13:48.540 civil war?

01:13:49.920 Yeah, it'll work

01:13:50.460 out great.

01:13:50.940 We'll help you.

01:13:54.120 I mean, to me,

01:13:54.740 it seems obvious.

01:13:56.220 So, it may not

01:13:57.260 be what happened,

01:13:58.600 but if it didn't

01:13:59.580 happen, then you

01:14:00.620 should have some

01:14:01.120 issue with your

01:14:01.760 intelligence services,

01:14:03.040 because they

01:14:03.700 should have been

01:14:04.600 doing that.

01:14:06.100 Now, am I wrong

01:14:06.800 about that?

01:14:08.480 Check my work.

01:14:09.480 They should have

01:14:11.360 been doing that.

01:14:12.800 I can't say they

01:14:13.500 were, but would

01:14:14.620 you agree they

01:14:15.140 should have?

01:14:16.960 Everybody on the

01:14:17.700 same page with

01:14:18.300 should have?

01:14:20.620 At least, right?

01:14:22.440 And more, and

01:14:23.460 more.

01:14:23.960 Okay.

01:14:24.800 If you agree with

01:14:25.880 should have, it's a

01:14:27.460 very short distance

01:14:28.580 to did.

01:14:32.480 Very short

01:14:33.240 distance.

01:14:33.680 All right.

01:14:37.340 We've now

01:14:37.980 entered what I

01:14:38.760 call the

01:14:39.180 Highlander phase

01:14:40.300 of the Russia

01:14:41.540 situation.

01:14:42.820 If you know the

01:14:43.900 old movie and

01:14:45.400 TV show

01:14:45.940 Highlander, there

01:14:47.820 were these people

01:14:48.400 called Highlanders

01:14:49.400 who were immortal,

01:14:50.520 with the exception

01:14:51.620 of if another

01:14:52.700 Highlander cut off

01:14:54.000 their head with a

01:14:54.660 sword, all their

01:14:56.260 secret powers from

01:14:58.300 the one Highlander

01:14:59.100 would be transferred

01:15:00.400 to the winner of

01:15:01.580 the fight, and

01:15:03.140 then that one

01:15:03.640 would be stronger.

01:15:05.200 But in the end,

01:15:06.460 the Highlanders

01:15:07.200 would have to kill

01:15:08.080 each other until

01:15:08.760 there was only one

01:15:09.500 left, so their

01:15:10.840 little tagline was

01:15:11.980 there can only be

01:15:12.900 one.

01:15:13.880 In the end, there

01:15:14.900 can only be one

01:15:15.560 Highlander.

01:15:17.020 Well, in my

01:15:18.320 opinion, what's

01:15:18.980 happening right now

01:15:19.800 is that both Putin

01:15:20.840 and Prigozhin are

01:15:22.380 hiding as much as

01:15:23.640 they can from

01:15:25.480 everybody they can

01:15:26.440 because they don't

01:15:26.920 know who's got

01:15:27.800 spies where.

01:15:29.020 Presumably, Prigozhin

01:15:30.060 has spies, don't

01:15:31.940 you assume?

01:15:32.400 There's at least

01:15:33.680 somebody in the

01:15:35.020 inner circle who's

01:15:35.860 talking to him, I'm

01:15:36.800 sure, because he

01:15:37.860 was part of the

01:15:38.340 inner circle, right?

01:15:39.880 He was part of the

01:15:40.660 inner circle, so of

01:15:41.800 course he has

01:15:42.260 sources.

01:15:43.400 So don't you think

01:15:44.200 that Putin is

01:15:45.000 worried that if

01:15:46.280 Prigozhin ever knew

01:15:47.360 what building he was

01:15:48.400 in and when, as

01:15:50.520 long as Wagner still

01:15:51.520 has heavy weapons,

01:15:53.080 that building would

01:15:54.500 be vaporized and it

01:15:56.060 would be a

01:15:56.580 decapitation strike,

01:15:58.580 right?

01:15:58.860 If Prigozhin takes

01:16:01.600 down Putin, there's

01:16:04.620 a reasonable argument

01:16:05.700 that Prigozhin is the

01:16:07.000 next leader of

01:16:07.940 Russia.

01:16:08.880 It's just one missile.

01:16:11.300 Do they have

01:16:11.720 missiles?

01:16:12.280 They must have some

01:16:13.060 kind of assets that

01:16:13.940 could kill him

01:16:14.480 wherever he is.

01:16:16.240 Now, the same would

01:16:17.140 be true for Prigozhin.

01:16:19.580 Don't you think that

01:16:20.420 Putin has his winged

01:16:23.340 monkeys looking for

01:16:24.280 Prigozhin?

01:16:25.420 Maybe he knows where

01:16:26.140 he is, but don't

01:16:27.320 you think they're

01:16:27.780 going to try to

01:16:28.260 find him and at

01:16:29.200 least follow him

01:16:30.920 long enough to get

01:16:31.860 the kill shot,

01:16:33.000 whatever that looks

01:16:33.800 like?

01:16:34.500 And they'll blame it

01:16:35.180 on somebody else.

01:16:36.380 But, I mean, they

01:16:36.920 just have to put a

01:16:37.620 bullet in him and

01:16:39.140 say that, oh, it

01:16:40.060 was a traitor.

01:16:41.560 One of his own

01:16:42.500 people shot him.

01:16:44.320 I mean, it'd be

01:16:44.840 easy to lie about it

01:16:45.900 after it's done.

01:16:47.460 So it wouldn't be

01:16:48.480 hard to kill him.

01:16:49.420 You just have to

01:16:50.020 find him.

01:16:51.060 So in my opinion,

01:16:52.080 what's happening in

01:16:52.760 Russia is that

01:16:53.940 Prigozhin is hiding

01:16:55.080 as hard as he can,

01:16:56.540 while looking as

01:16:57.640 hard as he can for

01:16:58.460 Putin.

01:16:59.460 Putin is hiding as

01:17:00.880 hard as he can while

01:17:01.720 looking as hard as he

01:17:02.780 can for Prigozhin.

01:17:04.540 And it's just

01:17:05.060 Highlander now.

01:17:06.180 It's just, it's down

01:17:07.220 to two people.

01:17:08.380 They're looking for

01:17:09.280 each other.

01:17:10.060 They're going to kill

01:17:10.900 the other one if they

01:17:11.700 find him.

01:17:12.800 It's just about whether

01:17:13.940 you can hide better

01:17:15.660 than the other for as

01:17:17.080 long as possible.

01:17:18.120 So remember, Putin is

01:17:19.480 not being seen in

01:17:20.320 public.

01:17:21.120 And when he is seen,

01:17:22.300 it looks like it might

01:17:23.300 be recorded so that his

01:17:25.280 location is never

01:17:26.200 known.

01:17:27.420 So it's Highlander.

01:17:29.400 We're literally down to

01:17:30.620 two people trying to

01:17:31.560 kill each other if they

01:17:33.020 can find him.

01:17:35.100 And they both have the

01:17:36.080 assets to kill.

01:17:36.800 All right.

01:17:41.480 I saw one report, not a

01:17:43.260 credible one, that the

01:17:44.480 Ukrainians are breaking

01:17:45.740 through everywhere.

01:17:47.360 That the Ukrainians have

01:17:48.780 finally successfully

01:17:50.220 probed, you know, the

01:17:52.120 line so much and they've

01:17:53.480 degraded them so much.

01:17:54.900 And, of course, Wagner's

01:17:55.960 gone.

01:17:57.040 Maybe their morale is

01:17:58.300 lower.

01:17:58.680 We don't know.

01:17:59.320 But it seems reasonable

01:18:00.280 that it would be.

01:18:00.920 And maybe Ukraine is

01:18:05.380 getting ready for the

01:18:06.100 big push real soon.

01:18:08.380 Now, do I need to

01:18:10.520 remind the NPCs that

01:18:12.740 100% of what you hear

01:18:14.280 from Ukraine is not

01:18:15.580 reliable, no matter

01:18:17.060 the source?

01:18:18.220 Does anybody need me to

01:18:19.240 do that speech again?

01:18:20.400 Or can we skip it this

01:18:21.840 time?

01:18:23.480 All right.

01:18:23.740 Let's skip it this

01:18:24.360 time.

01:18:26.060 All right.

01:18:26.480 So that's about what's

01:18:31.400 happening.

01:18:33.160 Kind of an interesting

01:18:34.060 day.

01:18:34.460 Was there a story I

01:18:35.200 missed today?

01:18:38.060 Well, thank you for

01:18:39.220 asking, Dawson.

01:18:40.400 I'm having a nice

01:18:41.200 Tuesday.

01:18:42.340 I hope you do, too.

01:18:50.800 Highlander viewing

01:18:51.500 party.

01:18:52.060 Yeah, that sounds

01:18:52.520 fun.

01:18:54.120 Yeah, I think this was

01:18:54.980 one of my best live

01:18:56.100 streams.

01:18:56.480 No doubt about it.

01:19:03.400 Bruce Willis playing

01:19:04.720 Pregosian.

01:19:14.860 Did you sleep well?

01:19:16.760 Not bad.

01:19:18.020 Yeah, I only got up at

01:19:19.280 four-ish.

01:19:24.260 All right.

01:19:24.900 Your assumptions were

01:19:28.560 what?

01:19:30.280 All right, I think I've

01:19:31.160 done everything I need

01:19:31.960 to do today and

01:19:32.800 covered all the big

01:19:33.500 stories.

01:19:35.140 And I haven't seen

01:19:38.000 Roseanne's special, so

01:19:39.240 she has a Fox Nation

01:19:40.680 comedy special, right?

01:19:42.640 I just got a copy of Joshua

01:19:48.640 Lysak's new book.

01:19:51.000 Just got it.

01:19:52.220 I'm going to take a look

01:19:53.240 at that and I'll give you

01:19:55.360 some opinions on that.

01:19:57.080 What?

01:20:00.540 What?

01:20:01.420 All right, that's it for now.

01:20:02.800 So thank you, YouTube.

01:20:05.140 Thanks for joining.

01:20:06.380 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 27, 2023

Episode 2152 Scott Adams： Too Many News Stories To List, All Of Them Interesting. Grab Coffee & Join

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