Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2169 Scott Adams： Musk Pays, Disney Is Dismal, Movies Are Over, Tate Persuades, Tucker Plots

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00:00:53.200 Well, thank the gods of news who have delivered upon us, oh, a bounty.

00:01:07.840 It's a bounty of funny news and interesting news.

00:01:11.960 I don't want to be a spoiler, but it doesn't look like...

00:01:16.860 Goodbye.

00:01:19.220 But it doesn't look like we're going to have World War III. We'll get to that.

00:01:24.900 If you're worried about World War III, probably not. That's the spoiler.

00:01:29.820 All right, let's talk about other things, though.

00:01:32.160 I've developed the best insult for the year 2023.

00:01:37.380 The best insult.

00:01:39.120 I've been testing the sound. I told you I was going to test it.

00:01:42.340 And now I have an outcome.

00:01:46.580 Absolutely nobody likes to hear this.

00:01:49.880 Bob believes in the news.

00:01:53.000 So if you really want to insult somebody, you go,

00:01:56.140 Bob, you believe in the news.

00:01:59.780 Now, I would recommend that you only use this for somebody's name is Bob.

00:02:04.920 I don't really have anything that would work with other names,

00:02:08.600 but this would work really well if your name is Bob.

00:02:11.800 Bob believes the news and just walk away.

00:02:14.980 There's nobody who can respond to that.

00:02:18.960 You have to try it out.

00:02:21.480 The next time you're debating about something in the news, political,

00:02:25.440 just look at the person and say,

00:02:27.740 so, Bob, you believe the news.

00:02:30.320 And then Bob will say something like,

00:02:33.420 well, you know, I do my own research,

00:02:35.640 and I look at multiple sites, and I talk to people,

00:02:39.440 and then you just look at it and say,

00:02:41.840 but in the end, you believe the news.

00:02:46.240 That's it.

00:02:47.040 That's the whole technique right there.

00:02:50.900 All right, well, it looks like actors and writers

00:02:54.100 are going on strike, Hollywood actors and writers,

00:02:57.280 first time since 1960.

00:02:58.800 And so we will not be gifted with the greatness of their products.

00:03:08.080 So, you know, maybe they won't be making more movies right away.

00:03:13.000 And I can't tell you how different my life would be 0.99

00:03:16.600 if I didn't occasionally have to sit through three hours of bullshit 0.99

00:03:20.780 that I imagined was going to be good, 0.99

00:03:23.660 but I was fooled again.

00:03:24.880 Do you really think the world would be worse without movies?

00:03:30.540 I mean, I realize this is heretical,

00:03:34.240 but I don't think we need them.

00:03:38.100 Don't think we need them.

00:03:39.260 I said the same thing about all those species that were becoming extinct.

00:03:47.080 Think about your past week.

00:03:49.800 You know, how did the past week go for you?

00:03:52.220 Do you remember that time this past week

00:03:54.580 when you said everything would be good

00:03:56.540 except for, you know, the dodo is extinct?

00:03:59.040 Because I was going to have dodo, you know, barbecue,

00:04:03.560 and there's no dodos.

00:04:05.160 So my life is ruined because of the animals that have gone extinct.

00:04:09.680 Now, I'm not in favor of animals going extinct.

00:04:12.900 If you could stop it, that'd be great.

00:04:14.940 Be great.

00:04:15.960 But I just want to point out, you have not missed any animals.

00:04:20.440 There's not a single animal that you've said to yourself,

00:04:22.620 if only, if only those specific animals were still here.

00:04:28.020 You know, that bird with a funny head?

00:04:31.160 Things were good when we had that bird,

00:04:33.780 but not anymore.

00:04:35.480 No, it's like that.

00:04:37.240 You would never miss movies.

00:04:41.180 If they stopped forever today,

00:04:43.880 you would miss the habit.

00:04:46.860 You would miss the habit.

00:04:48.620 But then you would replace it with something healthier.

00:04:52.620 You would not be worse off with no movies.

00:04:56.540 So, and by the way, I can say that about myself.

00:05:00.920 I don't believe that getting canceled in newspapers globally

00:05:03.840 is, you know, desperately injuring the people

00:05:07.420 who would have been reading it otherwise.

00:05:10.020 Entertainment is pretty optional, it turns out,

00:05:12.240 if you have other sources.

00:05:14.200 All right.

00:05:16.440 The funniest news from yesterday, which is kind of awesome,

00:05:19.620 is that Twitter had started mailing out checks

00:05:24.460 to people who were not expecting any checks.

00:05:28.360 So it's the bigger accounts that were getting lots of engagement.

00:05:32.660 Musk had promised that he would start paying people for engagement

00:05:36.440 because they can run ads in your comments,

00:05:39.420 which is a much better place to put an ad

00:05:41.600 because you're not going to see it

00:05:43.380 unless you're, you know, interested in that comment.

00:05:45.340 Well, some people, I saw one tweet of somebody

00:05:50.740 who got over $900,000, Matt Wallace.

00:05:54.840 I don't know who Matt Wallace is, but is that true?

00:05:59.640 Maybe it was like a, I don't know.

00:06:02.720 It doesn't seem possible.

00:06:04.320 I don't think the math works

00:06:05.600 because how much engagement would you have to have to get that?

00:06:08.760 Other people were getting, I think Tim Poole said he got $5,000.

00:06:12.060 Krasenstein's got $25,000.

00:06:16.380 I don't, I didn't get any notice that I noticed.

00:06:20.820 They were all, they were all tweeting this little notice of getting paid.

00:06:25.640 I don't think I have,

00:06:27.360 but it might also be because I didn't start my subscription service

00:06:31.500 as soon as they did.

00:06:32.920 So maybe, I don't know, maybe I'd get paid.

00:06:36.480 Allegedly, I would.

00:06:38.880 So here's the funniest thing about this.

00:06:40.740 So, just when people were going to threads,

00:06:47.660 you know, the competition to Twitter,

00:06:51.280 Elon Musk comes up with a plan

00:06:54.140 to monetize your critics.

00:06:58.080 That's right.

00:06:59.000 The more trolls that come into my tweet now, 0.68

00:07:01.760 and they yell at me and call me a racist 0.80

00:07:03.600 or whatever they want to call me,

00:07:05.040 the more money I make.

00:07:06.360 And the funniest thing about this

00:07:11.320 was Mike Cernovich's reaction.

00:07:14.280 So, many of you know Mike Cernovich from Twitter.

00:07:17.320 And he's, you know, one of the biggest, bigger accounts.

00:07:19.800 He's over a million.

00:07:20.900 And he's most famous on Twitter

00:07:24.300 for being the most aggressive blocker of trolls.

00:07:27.460 And he commented, you know, 0.95

00:07:31.080 damn it, I have to unblock 25,000 people now 0.96

00:07:34.280 so they can help mine me money on Twitter. 0.99

00:07:37.240 And he coined the term using the trolls

00:07:39.840 to mine money on Twitter.

00:07:41.740 I love that.

00:07:42.580 I love that term.

00:07:44.240 So, let me remind you

00:07:48.000 that the number one factor in success

00:07:50.960 is just pure luck.

00:07:53.880 So, Cernovich decides

00:07:55.580 to make that sort of almost a brand

00:07:58.080 that he blocks people.

00:08:00.020 And then it turns out that

00:08:01.320 maybe he could have made a lot more money if he didn't.

00:08:04.160 He'll do fine either way

00:08:05.120 because he gets a lot of engagement.

00:08:08.200 But I thought that was funny.

00:08:14.720 I'm going to confess this to you

00:08:16.260 just because it's funny.

00:08:17.120 On Twitter, someone asked me

00:08:20.020 if I had been doing affirmations

00:08:22.720 about creating a new source of cash flow

00:08:27.060 because this just snuck up on me.

00:08:30.280 I wasn't expecting it.

00:08:31.420 Just one day, apparently,

00:08:33.240 I'm eligible for money that I wasn't expecting.

00:08:36.260 And the answer is yes.

00:08:38.580 I only have one affirmation going.

00:08:41.900 And the affirmation is that

00:08:43.340 a magical source of cash flow would open up.

00:08:46.240 One that I was not aware of.

00:08:49.240 And that happened yesterday.

00:08:50.900 How often does that ever happen to you?

00:08:53.980 Have you ever had

00:08:55.060 an unexpected source of cash flow open up?

00:08:58.320 That's never happened to me.

00:08:59.640 I mean, not like that.

00:09:01.880 So, yes, that was actually my affirmation,

00:09:04.400 that specific thing.

00:09:05.940 And it just appeared.

00:09:07.460 Now, let me give you a little background.

00:09:11.260 I don't believe affirmations are magic.

00:09:15.260 And I don't believe I necessarily authored my environment

00:09:17.960 because it seems to have affected other people, too.

00:09:20.780 I doubt I did that.

00:09:22.560 But the weird coincidences,

00:09:26.360 which you appear to have

00:09:28.680 when you're doing an affirmation,

00:09:30.360 is just mind-boggling.

00:09:32.200 I've been doing it all my life.

00:09:33.500 And one coincidence after another

00:09:35.940 will just plop into your lap

00:09:38.060 when you're doing affirmations.

00:09:39.780 I don't know why.

00:09:41.100 It could be because reality is subjective.

00:09:43.680 It could be that you literally

00:09:44.800 just imagine a different path in your reality

00:09:47.040 that is no more or less real

00:09:50.220 than the one you were on.

00:09:52.080 It's just different.

00:09:53.360 So maybe it's just that.

00:09:55.020 Maybe all possibilities exist

00:09:57.040 in like a steady state.

00:10:00.260 Like every path exists,

00:10:01.580 and the only thing that's moving

00:10:03.020 is your consciousness,

00:10:04.880 weaving through the various

00:10:06.260 four-dimensional reality.

00:10:09.140 Maybe.

00:10:10.240 Maybe.

00:10:10.920 I always think of consciousness

00:10:12.360 like the control point in a program.

00:10:16.300 If you're executing a computer program,

00:10:19.160 it doesn't all execute at once, right?

00:10:22.720 It executes in a logical sequence.

00:10:26.340 But I always think that that point of execution,

00:10:29.480 if the computer program could be

00:10:31.340 could have feelings,

00:10:33.380 like, oh, now at this point,

00:10:35.540 it would have consciousness.

00:10:37.380 All you'd have to do

00:10:38.200 is tell the program it has a feeling

00:10:39.880 associated with, you know,

00:10:42.760 the specific place that it's executing.

00:10:44.680 And if it felt different

00:10:46.480 in different parts of that execution,

00:10:49.560 it would be conscious.

00:10:52.420 All right.

00:10:55.700 Tucker Carlson is reportedly

00:10:57.500 creating a new media company

00:10:58.980 and trying to raise hundreds of millions

00:11:00.840 of dollars,

00:11:01.940 and he would run that media company

00:11:03.680 on Twitter.

00:11:04.840 So Twitter is beefing up

00:11:06.100 its video services

00:11:08.140 and now allows long form

00:11:10.660 for some bigger accounts, I guess.

00:11:14.140 And Tucker is looking to build

00:11:16.000 his media company

00:11:17.780 that would run on Twitter.

00:11:19.180 And the reason he would run it

00:11:20.540 on Twitter instead of YouTube

00:11:23.020 is censorship.

00:11:25.180 So one of the things

00:11:28.720 that Elon Musk has created

00:11:30.300 is a safe place for creators,

00:11:33.600 which is also paying them.

00:11:37.140 And I also wonder

00:11:38.260 if my incentives will change.

00:11:41.340 I feel like they will.

00:11:43.540 I feel like they will.

00:11:45.220 Because I spent much of yesterday,

00:11:47.720 you know,

00:11:48.020 I couldn't even get it out of my head,

00:11:49.880 thinking about the worst thing

00:11:51.260 I could tweet

00:11:52.000 that would get the most engagement.

00:11:53.880 Because now that's monetized.

00:11:57.300 And I have to talk myself out of it.

00:11:59.280 All morning long,

00:12:00.060 I've been talking myself out of it.

00:12:01.940 I'm coming back with my full cup of coffee

00:12:03.840 to start the show.

00:12:04.980 And I'm thinking of a tweet.

00:12:06.960 I think I'm going to say

00:12:08.060 that Taylor Lorenz

00:12:11.280 is the hottest woman on Twitter.

00:12:13.620 Just because I know

00:12:14.480 I get a lot of engagement.

00:12:15.920 I barely know what she looks like.

00:12:17.440 I just know people are really mad

00:12:18.600 at her right now.

00:12:19.620 That's all it would take.

00:12:20.460 But I didn't do it.

00:12:23.460 I didn't do it

00:12:24.200 because it's not creative.

00:12:28.320 You know,

00:12:28.600 if you do creative things for a living,

00:12:30.580 you have these sort of standards

00:12:32.720 that develop accidentally

00:12:34.680 where you go,

00:12:35.880 ah, it's not creative enough.

00:12:37.760 So if I were to immediately go out

00:12:39.900 and just do troll bait tweets,

00:12:43.040 I would not feel good about myself,

00:12:45.160 even if I made money,

00:12:46.920 because it would be so uncreative

00:12:47.880 to do that.

00:12:50.160 However,

00:12:52.160 I don't know if you noticed

00:12:53.400 that Mr. Beast,

00:12:55.220 who is an enormous

00:12:56.700 social media presence,

00:12:58.180 if you're not aware of him,

00:12:59.800 Mr. Beast on YouTube and Twitter,

00:13:03.100 just one of the biggest accounts

00:13:04.480 of all time.

00:13:05.200 He's just legendary,

00:13:06.520 legendarily gigantic

00:13:08.760 social media presence.

00:13:10.800 And he said that he would,

00:13:12.340 he would give the money

00:13:15.140 from his engagement this month

00:13:16.680 to whoever had the most engagement

00:13:18.300 on the comments

00:13:19.620 to his tweet.

00:13:22.560 So all the people jumped in

00:13:24.000 with, you know,

00:13:24.500 trying to compete for,

00:13:26.040 because if you got one month

00:13:27.660 of Mr. Beast's Twitter money,

00:13:31.740 I don't know what that would be,

00:13:34.300 but it's a big number.

00:13:37.100 And he makes so many millions a year

00:13:38.920 that he could, you know,

00:13:39.940 he could give away a million dollars.

00:13:41.960 It wouldn't,

00:13:42.680 it wouldn't even touch him.

00:13:43.580 So I thought, 0.99

00:13:46.520 damn it, 0.99

00:13:47.420 I think I can compete for this. 1.00

00:13:49.680 You know,

00:13:49.900 my competitive juices

00:13:51.220 were just automatically triggered

00:13:52.740 because it's a contest.

00:13:54.800 And Mr. Beast says

00:13:55.700 22 million followers.

00:13:58.340 22 million.

00:14:00.760 22 million followers.

00:14:03.280 That's a lot.

00:14:04.560 Anyway,

00:14:06.220 I decided to enter the contest,

00:14:08.840 meaning I made a comment

00:14:10.020 that I hoped

00:14:10.580 to get a lot of tweets.

00:14:11.640 And I got absolutely smoked

00:14:14.560 by Bill Pulte.

00:14:16.880 Bill Pulte just comes in

00:14:18.420 and says he'll donate the money.

00:14:20.360 And I'm like,

00:14:20.760 oh, I can't beat that.

00:14:22.480 Come on, Bill.

00:14:23.660 So I think his engagement

00:14:25.160 was something like

00:14:25.940 50 times mine.

00:14:28.660 All I did was post

00:14:30.460 my Dilbert Reborn comic today

00:14:32.780 about the outcome

00:14:36.080 of the cage match

00:14:37.140 between Dilbert's CEO

00:14:38.780 and another CEO.

00:14:41.100 I won't say it on YouTube,

00:14:42.700 but let's just say

00:14:43.620 it definitely wouldn't run

00:14:44.760 in a newspaper.

00:14:46.060 So you'd have to look

00:14:46.920 at it yourself.

00:14:47.840 If you want to see it,

00:14:49.000 I took it outside the paywall

00:14:50.500 just to compete.

00:14:52.460 Normally,

00:14:52.900 you wouldn't be able

00:14:53.380 to see Dilbert Reborn.

00:14:54.560 It's behind the paywall.

00:14:55.920 But

00:14:56.280 if you go to the

00:14:57.980 Mr. Beast tweet,

00:14:59.960 you can find it there.

00:15:02.240 Possibly the funniest thing

00:15:03.600 I've ever read.

00:15:04.260 I actually think

00:15:05.580 that's true.

00:15:07.060 The comic I put

00:15:08.280 under Mr. Beast's tweet,

00:15:11.680 it might be

00:15:12.500 the funniest thing

00:15:13.900 I've ever read.

00:15:15.240 It's just me.

00:15:17.060 So

00:15:17.240 your mileage will differ.

00:15:20.680 So Tucker Carlson

00:15:21.600 starting his company.

00:15:22.560 It looks like they might

00:15:23.260 get some other hosts.

00:15:25.420 Who do you think

00:15:26.300 Tucker is going to recruit?

00:15:29.280 If Tucker Carlson

00:15:30.580 starts his own

00:15:31.600 thing with other hosts,

00:15:33.920 who would he recruit?

00:15:38.560 Because the problem is

00:15:40.160 everybody who's notable

00:15:41.600 already has a pretty good job.

00:15:44.840 The people working

00:15:46.020 at Fox News,

00:15:47.800 could they really imagine

00:15:48.940 that they would get

00:15:49.480 a bigger paycheck

00:15:50.340 doing this?

00:15:52.380 I don't know.

00:15:53.600 And

00:15:53.980 other names

00:15:55.100 I hear you say,

00:15:56.360 they already have

00:15:57.200 their own thing.

00:15:58.140 Glenn Greenwald

00:15:59.000 already has his own thing.

00:16:00.920 Dan Bongino

00:16:01.960 his own thing.

00:16:03.200 Megyn Kelly

00:16:03.780 her own thing.

00:16:05.020 So there are,

00:16:05.700 there actually

00:16:06.200 aren't that,

00:16:07.140 well,

00:16:07.460 Geraldo,

00:16:08.260 there actually

00:16:09.020 aren't that many people

00:16:10.100 who are big name,

00:16:13.120 let's say,

00:16:14.780 voices in the political realm

00:16:16.380 who are also

00:16:18.020 looking for a job.

00:16:19.880 Because what,

00:16:20.440 the thing that makes you

00:16:21.400 that prominent

00:16:22.120 is that you have

00:16:23.360 a platform

00:16:23.840 that's already working.

00:16:24.640 So that's going to be tough.

00:16:26.620 It's going to be tough

00:16:27.260 to recruit.

00:16:28.380 But wouldn't it be interesting

00:16:29.400 if he recruited young?

00:16:32.520 You know,

00:16:32.900 let's say he looked

00:16:33.860 on Twitter

00:16:34.300 and found the people

00:16:35.220 who are just killing it

00:16:36.120 on Twitter

00:16:36.520 but don't have

00:16:37.100 their own platform yet.

00:16:39.200 That'd be fun.

00:16:41.200 Yeah,

00:16:41.420 that'd be really fun.

00:16:42.980 So we'll keep an eye

00:16:43.760 on that.

00:16:46.100 Zero Hedge tweeted

00:16:47.160 that the use of threads,

00:16:49.120 the competitor

00:16:49.640 to Twitter,

00:16:50.820 is down 20%

00:16:52.720 from Saturday

00:16:53.420 and user time spent

00:16:55.400 is down 50%.

00:16:56.660 Now,

00:16:58.740 I have not checked

00:17:00.360 threads in a few days.

00:17:01.820 I did sign up

00:17:02.540 just to see

00:17:03.040 what it's all about.

00:17:04.660 Haven't felt

00:17:05.340 any need to check it

00:17:06.440 in two days.

00:17:07.780 I've checked Twitter

00:17:08.700 400 times.

00:17:11.000 Why the difference?

00:17:12.360 Well,

00:17:12.800 here's the mistake

00:17:14.360 that Zuckerberg made

00:17:15.540 which sounded like

00:17:16.820 the smartest thing

00:17:17.620 he did

00:17:18.000 which might have

00:17:18.920 turned into 0.98

00:17:19.320 the dumbest thing 1.00

00:17:20.020 he did. 1.00

00:17:20.820 So one of the features

00:17:22.040 when you sign up

00:17:22.740 for threads

00:17:23.300 is that you can

00:17:24.500 automatically bring

00:17:25.820 all of your

00:17:26.340 follows over

00:17:27.220 not the people

00:17:28.600 who follow you

00:17:29.260 but the people

00:17:30.120 you follow

00:17:30.640 you can bring

00:17:31.200 over to threads.

00:17:32.960 So I brought

00:17:33.720 all the people

00:17:34.220 that I follow

00:17:34.940 because they look

00:17:35.980 good and they

00:17:36.500 have good pictures

00:17:37.300 because that's

00:17:38.380 what I do

00:17:38.840 on Instagram.

00:17:40.060 If your pictures

00:17:41.040 are good

00:17:41.560 for whatever reason

00:17:42.860 I follow you.

00:17:45.360 Maybe it's

00:17:46.060 attractive people

00:17:46.820 I want to look at.

00:17:48.400 Could be that.

00:17:49.000 And so I bring

00:17:50.520 all those people

00:17:51.100 over and then

00:17:52.000 I see what

00:17:52.520 happens when

00:17:53.660 they're forced

00:17:54.260 to produce

00:17:55.340 content that's

00:17:56.180 only text.

00:17:58.280 It didn't go

00:17:59.240 well.

00:18:02.860 It's some of

00:18:03.720 the worst

00:18:04.440 tweeting

00:18:05.140 or threading

00:18:06.640 you've ever

00:18:07.740 seen in your

00:18:08.360 life.

00:18:09.060 All the people

00:18:09.960 who look

00:18:10.840 amazing

00:18:11.340 when they

00:18:12.840 have to talk

00:18:13.560 it all just

00:18:15.100 goes right

00:18:15.660 the fuck away. 0.96

00:18:17.160 they don't 0.99

00:18:17.820 have anything.

00:18:19.080 It is so

00:18:20.040 amazingly

00:18:21.500 uninteresting

00:18:22.420 to read the

00:18:23.660 threads

00:18:24.060 from the same

00:18:25.180 people that I

00:18:25.860 happily follow

00:18:26.860 on Instagram

00:18:27.320 and will

00:18:28.240 continue to.

00:18:29.680 Their Instagram

00:18:30.280 posts are great.

00:18:31.880 There was a

00:18:32.360 reason I followed

00:18:32.960 them.

00:18:33.600 But boy when

00:18:34.240 they start

00:18:34.680 talking there's

00:18:36.480 nothing to see

00:18:37.080 there.

00:18:38.000 There's just

00:18:38.480 nothing there.

00:18:40.100 A typical

00:18:40.900 tweet would be

00:18:41.580 like I don't

00:18:43.240 know if I

00:18:43.620 should wear

00:18:43.920 socks today.

00:18:44.660 Let's talk

00:18:51.560 about your

00:18:51.940 socks.

00:18:54.720 So as I

00:18:56.240 tweeted about

00:18:56.820 that it turns

00:18:57.420 out that moving

00:18:57.940 my Instagram

00:18:58.520 followers to

00:18:59.260 threads did

00:19:00.560 not give me

00:19:01.160 the Algonquin

00:19:02.040 roundtable

00:19:02.720 effect I was

00:19:03.440 hoping to

00:19:03.860 achieve.

00:19:05.000 Now I'd

00:19:05.500 like to look

00:19:05.980 to the 5% 0.92

00:19:07.280 of you who

00:19:07.780 understood that

00:19:08.380 joke for a

00:19:09.400 reaction.

00:19:10.520 Anybody

00:19:10.840 understand that

00:19:11.520 joke?

00:19:12.880 Algonquin

00:19:13.400 roundtable.

00:19:14.660 Some of you

00:19:19.500 got it good.

00:19:20.080 The rest of

00:19:20.380 you will just

00:19:20.880 have to Google

00:19:21.460 it.

00:19:22.580 The Algonquin

00:19:23.400 roundtable.

00:19:25.060 Add that to

00:19:26.240 your snooty

00:19:27.920 vocabulary.

00:19:29.880 There's some

00:19:30.440 things that if

00:19:31.380 you know them

00:19:32.060 it sort of

00:19:33.020 signifies that

00:19:35.200 you're sort of

00:19:35.780 a well-informed

00:19:36.460 person.

00:19:37.500 It's like the

00:19:38.080 use of the

00:19:38.540 word zeitgeist

00:19:39.400 or eponymous

00:19:41.560 eponymous.

00:19:43.140 I couldn't even

00:19:43.740 say it.

00:19:44.420 If you ever

00:19:45.060 use the

00:19:45.460 word eponymous

00:19:46.740 or zeitgeist

00:19:49.080 or Algonquin

00:19:51.700 roundtable

00:19:52.540 or schadenfreude

00:19:55.480 schadenfreude

00:19:56.420 thank you

00:19:56.940 excellent one.

00:19:58.340 If you use

00:19:59.080 any of those

00:19:59.660 words in

00:20:00.120 normal conversation

00:20:01.040 you're kind 0.99

00:20:02.420 of a douche 1.00

00:20:02.860 bag. 0.94

00:20:04.580 I'm talking

00:20:05.560 about myself

00:20:06.180 because I do

00:20:06.660 use them.

00:20:07.460 Kind of a

00:20:07.940 douche bag 0.87

00:20:08.440 because there's

00:20:09.780 a very high

00:20:10.900 likelihood that

00:20:11.660 the person you're

00:20:12.220 talking to

00:20:12.660 doesn't know

00:20:13.080 what those

00:20:13.400 words mean.

00:20:14.800 In a normal

00:20:15.720 American circle

00:20:16.840 5% would know

00:20:19.400 what all of

00:20:19.800 those words

00:20:20.180 mean.

00:20:21.220 Maximum.

00:20:21.780 When you say

00:20:22.280 5% would know

00:20:23.220 all of those

00:20:23.820 terms.

00:20:24.900 No more than

00:20:25.440 that.

00:20:26.120 So if you

00:20:26.480 learn them

00:20:27.040 solipsistic

00:20:32.160 if you learn

00:20:34.480 those little

00:20:34.900 terms you can

00:20:35.600 spoof as though

00:20:37.560 you're highly

00:20:38.740 educated even if

00:20:39.740 you're not.

00:20:40.560 It works every

00:20:41.120 time.

00:20:42.520 All right.

00:20:42.940 What else is

00:20:43.380 going on?

00:20:44.300 Disney's

00:20:44.700 business is

00:20:45.280 slumping.

00:20:47.000 Of course you're

00:20:47.960 going to say is

00:20:48.620 it because of

00:20:49.120 the fight with

00:20:49.600 DeSantis and

00:20:50.920 is it because of

00:20:51.620 politics and

00:20:52.300 their wokeness?

00:20:53.400 Is that why

00:20:54.160 they're having

00:20:55.400 low traffic in

00:20:56.960 their theme

00:20:57.320 parks and their

00:20:57.960 movies from

00:20:58.860 Pixar are not

00:20:59.640 doing well?

00:21:00.380 Is that why?

00:21:01.460 What do you

00:21:01.760 think?

00:21:03.520 Do you think

00:21:04.400 Disney is

00:21:05.040 suffering because

00:21:05.840 of wokeness?

00:21:09.740 I'm going to

00:21:10.600 say no.

00:21:12.900 I'm going to

00:21:13.240 say no.

00:21:14.640 I'm just going

00:21:15.460 to make a

00:21:15.800 hypothesis.

00:21:18.580 What could it

00:21:19.340 be?

00:21:19.560 What could it

00:21:19.860 be?

00:21:20.240 What would

00:21:20.920 cause Disney

00:21:21.720 to slump?

00:21:24.480 I got it.

00:21:25.280 I got it.

00:21:25.800 I got it.

00:21:26.600 They make

00:21:27.180 movies.

00:21:29.080 They make

00:21:29.480 movies. 1.00

00:21:31.200 Movies suck. 1.00

00:21:33.380 All of them. 1.00

00:21:34.460 They pretty much 1.00

00:21:35.000 all suck. 1.00

00:21:35.520 And they 1.00

00:21:36.500 have a theme

00:21:37.080 park that if

00:21:40.420 you were to

00:21:41.000 put the

00:21:41.680 entire experience

00:21:43.640 of the entire

00:21:44.420 day at the

00:21:45.040 theme park,

00:21:46.080 it would be

00:21:46.640 about equal

00:21:47.760 to five

00:21:48.680 minutes of

00:21:49.180 strolling on

00:21:49.700 a smartphone.

00:21:51.040 Scrolling.

00:21:51.680 Not strolling.

00:21:53.500 Yeah.

00:21:54.620 Who goes to

00:21:55.320 a Disney

00:21:56.260 theme park?

00:21:59.380 Masochists? 0.88

00:22:01.380 If you went

00:22:02.240 to a Disney

00:22:02.720 theme park,

00:22:03.980 isn't it

00:22:04.460 mostly standing

00:22:05.460 in the

00:22:05.840 sweltering

00:22:06.380 heat,

00:22:07.380 waiting for

00:22:08.160 something that

00:22:08.720 wasn't that

00:22:09.160 good in the

00:22:09.560 first place?

00:22:10.600 And then when

00:22:11.080 you're done,

00:22:12.300 you go wait

00:22:12.980 in the

00:22:13.200 sweltering

00:22:13.580 heat for

00:22:14.820 yet another

00:22:15.420 thing that

00:22:15.920 you didn't

00:22:16.300 want to do

00:22:16.700 in the

00:22:16.900 first place

00:22:17.420 because you

00:22:19.220 have children.

00:22:20.940 Who in

00:22:21.600 the world

00:22:22.000 does that

00:22:22.600 voluntarily?

00:22:25.100 The news

00:22:26.460 should not

00:22:26.920 be that

00:22:27.420 their business

00:22:28.160 is slumping.

00:22:29.640 The news

00:22:30.220 should be that

00:22:30.760 somehow they

00:22:31.280 built a

00:22:31.660 business on

00:22:32.180 this.

00:22:33.420 Now,

00:22:33.680 again,

00:22:34.000 in the

00:22:34.240 old days,

00:22:35.020 this was

00:22:35.380 pretty

00:22:35.620 interesting

00:22:36.000 stuff.

00:22:37.060 Ooh,

00:22:37.960 it's a

00:22:38.540 small world

00:22:39.160 after all.

00:22:40.200 Are you

00:22:40.660 kidding?

00:22:41.680 I didn't

00:22:42.260 know that.

00:22:42.900 It's a

00:22:43.260 small world

00:22:43.820 after all.

00:22:44.600 And they're

00:22:45.000 singing.

00:22:45.720 Look,

00:22:46.160 look,

00:22:46.740 look,

00:22:47.200 they're

00:22:47.400 animatronic

00:22:48.040 and they're

00:22:48.600 in boats

00:22:48.920 and they're

00:22:49.540 singing,

00:22:50.300 they're

00:22:50.560 singing.

00:22:51.240 Oh my

00:22:51.640 God,

00:22:52.080 oh my

00:22:52.480 God,

00:22:52.920 oh.

00:22:54.840 It's not

00:22:55.560 really the

00:22:56.260 thrill it

00:22:56.720 used to be.

00:22:58.400 So,

00:22:58.980 I would

00:22:59.960 think that

00:23:00.320 Disney's

00:23:00.800 biggest problem

00:23:01.500 is they 1.00

00:23:02.260 make shit 0.99

00:23:02.780 nobody 1.00

00:23:03.140 wants.

00:23:04.620 Am I

00:23:04.960 wrong about

00:23:05.360 that?

00:23:07.540 Your kids

00:23:08.360 enjoy it.

00:23:09.200 Do you

00:23:09.400 know what

00:23:09.640 kids enjoy?

00:23:11.580 Kids enjoy

00:23:12.540 anything that's

00:23:13.380 got bright

00:23:13.860 lights and

00:23:14.500 junk food.

00:23:16.580 Hey kids, 0.57

00:23:17.340 I'm going to

00:23:17.640 take you to a

00:23:18.220 place that's

00:23:18.720 got a lot

00:23:19.540 of bright

00:23:19.900 lights and

00:23:20.480 colors and

00:23:21.880 junk food.

00:23:23.520 Can we eat

00:23:24.180 good healthy

00:23:25.280 food there

00:23:25.780 too?

00:23:26.220 Nope.

00:23:26.960 Don't even

00:23:27.380 have any.

00:23:28.020 Actually,

00:23:28.440 they probably

00:23:28.780 do,

00:23:29.160 but kids

00:23:29.660 don't want

00:23:30.060 it.

00:23:31.920 Yeah,

00:23:32.600 kids are

00:23:33.480 delighted to

00:23:34.600 go anywhere

00:23:35.140 that they

00:23:35.560 can run

00:23:35.960 around,

00:23:36.360 have a

00:23:36.580 little freedom

00:23:37.040 and eat 0.97

00:23:37.360 some junk

00:23:37.740 food.

00:23:38.780 So yeah,

00:23:39.160 the kids

00:23:39.520 love it.

00:23:41.260 They don't

00:23:41.820 love it as

00:23:42.220 much as

00:23:42.560 playing on

00:23:42.960 their iPad,

00:23:44.540 but they

00:23:44.920 love it.

00:23:47.060 Actually,

00:23:47.540 they do

00:23:47.780 probably love

00:23:48.240 it more

00:23:48.500 than their

00:23:48.800 iPad,

00:23:49.220 but I

00:23:51.100 think the

00:23:51.420 direction of

00:23:52.000 Disney is

00:23:52.560 clear unless

00:23:53.380 they do

00:23:53.760 something pretty

00:23:54.520 radical.

00:23:55.160 I can't

00:23:56.140 imagine their

00:23:56.600 business model

00:23:57.200 working in

00:23:58.360 the long

00:23:58.660 run,

00:23:59.180 unless they

00:23:59.640 change it

00:24:00.000 quite a

00:24:00.240 bit.

00:24:01.660 All right,

00:24:02.620 so a little

00:24:03.120 clip of

00:24:03.640 Congresswoman

00:24:04.600 Summer Lee,

00:24:06.900 Representative

00:24:07.460 Summer Lee.

00:24:08.600 I would

00:24:08.980 like to

00:24:09.300 first compliment

00:24:12.860 Summer Lee,

00:24:14.760 Congresswoman

00:24:15.480 Summer Lee,

00:24:17.000 for having one

00:24:17.680 of the best

00:24:18.120 names of

00:24:20.300 people who

00:24:20.800 have ever

00:24:21.040 been named.

00:24:22.600 You know,

00:24:22.800 Summer is a

00:24:23.260 pretty good

00:24:23.580 name, but

00:24:24.780 Lee is an

00:24:25.500 excellent last

00:24:26.320 name to go

00:24:26.920 is Summer.

00:24:28.180 Summer Lee.

00:24:30.100 Am I wrong?

00:24:31.020 That's like one

00:24:31.460 of the best

00:24:31.800 names I've

00:24:32.240 ever heard.

00:24:34.140 Like, I

00:24:34.700 always wonder

00:24:35.080 if that

00:24:35.400 actually affects

00:24:36.240 your life,

00:24:37.540 to have a

00:24:37.960 name that

00:24:38.340 people really,

00:24:39.220 really like

00:24:39.620 to say.

00:24:40.620 Like, I'll

00:24:41.200 probably say

00:24:41.620 that name

00:24:42.080 to myself

00:24:42.920 later when

00:24:43.420 I'm thinking

00:24:43.760 about it.

00:24:44.560 Summer Lee.

00:24:45.760 It's like a

00:24:46.240 perfect name.

00:24:47.760 Anyway, so

00:24:48.340 that's not

00:24:48.640 what the

00:24:48.880 story is

00:24:49.160 about.

00:24:50.300 Summer Lee

00:24:50.900 pointed out

00:24:51.600 in a tweet,

00:24:52.860 and I guess

00:24:53.200 she was talking

00:24:53.740 in Congress,

00:24:54.300 grilling

00:24:55.340 somebody,

00:24:56.400 and said,

00:24:56.840 how much

00:24:57.860 does the

00:24:58.960 military spend

00:24:59.620 on Viagra

00:25:00.460 each year?

00:25:01.880 And the

00:25:02.300 director of

00:25:02.880 defense contracts

00:25:03.800 said, I don't

00:25:05.000 have that

00:25:05.500 figured out.

00:25:06.980 But Summer Lee

00:25:08.000 did have it

00:25:09.060 figured out,

00:25:09.680 and answered

00:25:10.260 her own

00:25:10.880 question,

00:25:11.700 $41.6

00:25:13.140 million spent

00:25:14.180 by the military

00:25:14.860 every year

00:25:15.460 for Viagra.

00:25:17.480 And then she

00:25:18.000 pointed out,

00:25:19.120 Summer Lee

00:25:19.620 did, a name

00:25:20.420 I just can't

00:25:21.320 stop saying,

00:25:22.360 Summer Lee.

00:25:24.040 Do you know

00:25:24.720 how many

00:25:25.060 bridges in

00:25:25.880 my district

00:25:26.440 of Pittsburgh

00:25:27.060 could be

00:25:27.880 repaired with

00:25:28.500 that amount?

00:25:29.200 It turns out

00:25:29.700 I think it's

00:25:30.320 two bridges.

00:25:31.600 You could fix

00:25:32.400 two bridges

00:25:33.020 for the amount

00:25:34.840 that the military

00:25:35.760 spends on

00:25:36.420 Viagra.

00:25:38.340 And so I

00:25:39.300 introduced the

00:25:40.000 hashtag

00:25:40.540 BridgesNotBoners. 0.88

00:25:43.280 We'll see

00:25:43.980 if that trends.

00:25:44.840 BridgesNotBoners. 0.88

00:25:45.800 And the

00:25:49.080 thing that

00:25:49.600 you should

00:25:50.240 be worried

00:25:50.600 about is

00:25:51.340 military

00:25:53.660 or military

00:25:55.660 vulnerability.

00:25:58.320 Yeah.

00:25:59.440 Or military

00:26:00.220 vulnerability.

00:26:02.600 I said it.

00:26:04.560 I'm not

00:26:05.240 embarrassed.

00:26:06.180 No, I said

00:26:06.720 it.

00:26:07.100 I said it

00:26:07.540 twice.

00:26:09.820 I stole

00:26:10.580 that one

00:26:10.940 from somebody

00:26:12.500 on Twitter.

00:26:13.480 That wasn't

00:26:13.820 my own

00:26:14.140 work.

00:26:15.800 And I

00:26:18.840 would just

00:26:19.140 I would like

00:26:20.180 to add a

00:26:21.220 counterpoint.

00:26:22.360 The counterpoint

00:26:23.180 to this.

00:26:24.540 That it

00:26:25.480 seems to me

00:26:25.920 that's $42

00:26:26.580 million well

00:26:27.640 spent.

00:26:29.620 Because you

00:26:30.260 know what I

00:26:30.660 don't want?

00:26:32.920 Maybe this is

00:26:33.720 just me.

00:26:34.240 I'd like to

00:26:34.600 get a feel

00:26:35.440 from the

00:26:35.840 audience.

00:26:36.940 I don't

00:26:37.600 really want

00:26:38.280 a military

00:26:39.020 that can't

00:26:40.120 get hard.

00:26:42.280 Is that

00:26:42.880 just me?

00:26:44.580 Is anybody

00:26:45.240 with me?

00:26:45.800 I want

00:26:46.320 a military

00:26:46.780 that's

00:26:47.100 rock hard

00:26:47.720 all the

00:26:48.040 time and

00:26:48.920 ready to

00:26:49.480 rock.

00:26:51.160 They'll

00:26:51.560 fight or

00:26:52.000 they'll 1.00

00:26:52.180 fuck. 1.00

00:26:53.920 And if 1.00

00:26:54.780 you interrupt

00:26:56.460 them after

00:26:57.400 they've taken

00:26:57.860 the Viagra

00:26:58.520 but before

00:26:59.080 they do

00:26:59.380 the thing

00:26:59.700 they want

00:27:00.040 to do,

00:27:00.420 well,

00:27:00.660 they'll

00:27:00.800 fight.

00:27:01.960 I like

00:27:02.660 them angry 0.84

00:27:03.220 and turgid.

00:27:05.900 Harder

00:27:06.300 the better.

00:27:07.220 I think

00:27:07.720 that's the

00:27:08.080 best money

00:27:08.520 we're spending.

00:27:09.840 I want

00:27:10.220 these guys

00:27:10.720 to be

00:27:11.220 saluting

00:27:11.960 at all

00:27:12.360 times,

00:27:12.760 if you know

00:27:13.260 what I mean.

00:27:14.360 And I think

00:27:14.840 you know

00:27:15.080 what I

00:27:15.300 mean.

00:27:16.920 All right.

00:27:18.020 So,

00:27:18.700 Summer Lee,

00:27:19.460 you're awesome.

00:27:20.520 However,

00:27:21.060 I do like

00:27:21.620 a hard

00:27:23.820 military is

00:27:24.580 what I'm

00:27:24.820 saying.

00:27:27.000 It takes

00:27:27.520 hard men,

00:27:28.480 hard men

00:27:29.500 to fix

00:27:29.940 things

00:27:30.220 sometimes.

00:27:31.980 Well,

00:27:32.300 CNN is

00:27:33.100 directly going

00:27:34.160 after Biden

00:27:35.020 in ways that

00:27:36.020 you would not

00:27:36.560 imagine they

00:27:37.100 would do

00:27:37.540 unless they

00:27:38.460 really don't

00:27:39.060 want him to

00:27:39.560 run for

00:27:39.860 office.

00:27:40.220 So,

00:27:41.820 you don't

00:27:42.060 expect CNN

00:27:42.680 to just

00:27:43.120 directly go

00:27:43.980 after the

00:27:45.320 Democrat,

00:27:45.980 but they

00:27:46.260 did.

00:27:47.140 And it's

00:27:48.840 the kind

00:27:49.280 of story

00:27:49.680 that seems

00:27:50.260 designed to

00:27:51.020 take him

00:27:51.360 out of

00:27:51.560 the office.

00:27:53.180 See if

00:27:53.620 you think

00:27:53.960 this is

00:27:54.340 just

00:27:54.700 unbiased

00:27:56.340 news,

00:27:57.240 because they're

00:27:57.960 criticizing their

00:27:58.900 own side,

00:27:59.480 in a sense.

00:28:00.460 Is it just

00:28:01.020 unbiased

00:28:01.480 news and

00:28:02.100 welcome,

00:28:03.280 or is it

00:28:04.100 clearly designed

00:28:05.360 to remove

00:28:06.060 him from

00:28:06.440 office?

00:28:07.780 Right?

00:28:08.560 So,

00:28:09.500 the article

00:28:11.880 is about

00:28:12.420 how the

00:28:13.460 big donors

00:28:15.180 are worried

00:28:16.760 that he's

00:28:17.420 not worth

00:28:17.900 the money.

00:28:19.120 If you

00:28:19.660 want to 1.00

00:28:19.940 kill 1.00

00:28:20.160 somebody's 1.00

00:28:20.700 campaign,

00:28:21.800 run a

00:28:22.240 story on

00:28:22.680 CNN,

00:28:23.420 the one

00:28:23.820 that everybody

00:28:24.560 on your

00:28:24.940 team is

00:28:25.700 aware of,

00:28:26.900 and tell

00:28:27.320 them that

00:28:27.760 big donors,

00:28:28.600 other big

00:28:29.040 donors,

00:28:30.020 I'm not

00:28:30.840 going to

00:28:31.080 name them,

00:28:32.100 oh,

00:28:32.280 do you

00:28:32.420 need the

00:28:32.720 names of

00:28:33.120 the big

00:28:33.360 donors?

00:28:33.760 No,

00:28:33.980 I'm not

00:28:34.280 going to

00:28:34.440 give you

00:28:34.600 the names

00:28:34.980 of them,

00:28:35.780 but trust

00:28:36.280 me,

00:28:36.820 trust me,

00:28:37.540 I've talked

00:28:37.880 to people,

00:28:38.600 those big

00:28:39.300 donors,

00:28:39.880 who I

00:28:40.220 won't name,

00:28:41.300 are very

00:28:42.080 hesitant,

00:28:42.660 they're looking

00:28:42.980 for somebody

00:28:43.460 else to

00:28:43.780 give money

00:28:44.100 to.

00:28:44.820 Now,

00:28:45.180 if you

00:28:45.480 were a

00:28:45.760 big donor

00:28:46.180 also,

00:28:47.620 and you

00:28:48.040 were on

00:28:48.820 the verge

00:28:49.360 of giving

00:28:49.800 Biden a

00:28:50.600 lot of

00:28:50.920 money,

00:28:51.900 and you

00:28:52.200 read in

00:28:52.600 CNN that

00:28:53.380 other big

00:28:53.980 donors have

00:28:54.560 decided they

00:28:55.180 might not,

00:28:55.960 or are not,

00:28:57.720 wouldn't your

00:28:58.240 money feel

00:28:58.680 wasted?

00:29:00.840 That's the

00:29:01.460 play.

00:29:02.260 The play is

00:29:03.000 to make the

00:29:03.440 other donors

00:29:04.160 think they're

00:29:04.620 wasting their

00:29:05.220 money,

00:29:05.480 by saying

00:29:06.720 that there's

00:29:07.100 so much

00:29:07.380 doubt and

00:29:08.060 he might

00:29:08.320 not run,

00:29:08.960 he might

00:29:09.200 be replaced,

00:29:09.940 and the

00:29:10.820 big donors,

00:29:12.080 when they say

00:29:12.600 big donors,

00:29:13.400 do you know

00:29:13.880 what the

00:29:14.220 synonym for

00:29:14.880 that is?

00:29:15.600 They don't

00:29:15.940 say it out

00:29:16.420 loud.

00:29:17.480 Big donor

00:29:18.420 equals what?

00:29:21.060 Big donor,

00:29:22.260 not just

00:29:22.780 victory,

00:29:23.820 but not

00:29:25.480 lobbyist,

00:29:26.780 big donor

00:29:27.620 equals

00:29:28.540 smart.

00:29:31.820 Smart.

00:29:32.320 Because people

00:29:33.760 assume that

00:29:34.440 the billionaire

00:29:35.200 class and

00:29:36.680 the big

00:29:37.000 donors are

00:29:38.000 going to do

00:29:38.400 their homework.

00:29:39.880 That's the

00:29:40.320 group that's 0.99

00:29:41.040 making damn

00:29:41.880 sure they

00:29:42.380 know who to

00:29:42.800 give their

00:29:43.100 money to,

00:29:43.840 because it's

00:29:44.260 a lot of

00:29:44.740 money, and

00:29:45.640 they're smart,

00:29:47.000 high-functioning

00:29:48.760 people who are

00:29:50.100 not just

00:29:50.540 guessing,

00:29:51.900 they're doing

00:29:52.520 good risk

00:29:53.100 analysis and

00:29:53.840 they know

00:29:54.100 where their

00:29:54.340 money is

00:29:54.620 going.

00:29:55.460 So if you

00:29:55.980 say, oh,

00:29:58.100 I don't know

00:29:58.520 if you knew

00:29:58.860 this, but the

00:30:00.160 smart big

00:30:01.540 donors, the

00:30:02.440 smart ones,

00:30:03.600 the smart

00:30:04.380 billionaires,

00:30:05.200 they've decided

00:30:06.020 not to give

00:30:06.560 money to

00:30:07.000 Joe Biden.

00:30:08.480 So, I

00:30:08.920 mean, you

00:30:09.240 can if you

00:30:09.920 want, I

00:30:10.440 mean, that's

00:30:11.340 up to you.

00:30:12.100 It's a free

00:30:12.580 world, you

00:30:13.020 can give

00:30:13.320 your money

00:30:13.660 to anybody

00:30:14.000 you want,

00:30:14.400 but the

00:30:14.720 smart ones,

00:30:16.320 the smart

00:30:16.860 ones, they've

00:30:17.580 already decided

00:30:18.200 not to.

00:30:19.180 Now, you

00:30:19.680 tell me, I'm

00:30:20.720 exaggerating,

00:30:21.620 you know, that's

00:30:22.380 hyperbole, the

00:30:23.260 article doesn't

00:30:23.980 go that far,

00:30:25.080 but don't you

00:30:26.960 think this

00:30:27.320 article is

00:30:27.800 designed to

00:30:28.380 take him

00:30:28.720 out?

00:30:30.260 You know,

00:30:30.540 and of

00:30:30.780 course, they

00:30:31.180 mention, you

00:30:32.220 know, people

00:30:32.680 are looking at

00:30:33.220 the alternatives

00:30:33.800 and all that.

00:30:35.220 It feels like

00:30:35.840 it's designed

00:30:36.420 only for that

00:30:37.200 purpose.

00:30:38.020 It does not

00:30:38.860 feel like news.

00:30:40.480 It doesn't

00:30:40.900 even have the

00:30:41.440 vibe of we

00:30:42.940 just wanted to

00:30:43.600 inform you as

00:30:44.580 a citizen,

00:30:45.300 nothing like

00:30:45.800 that.

00:30:46.360 It just feels

00:30:46.920 like a play,

00:30:48.860 an actual

00:30:49.460 op instead of

00:30:50.680 news.

00:30:52.480 All right,

00:30:53.280 let's see what

00:30:55.320 else is going

00:30:55.720 on.

00:30:56.020 Michael

00:30:59.180 Schellenberger

00:30:59.800 tweeted this.

00:31:01.340 There's some

00:31:02.500 entity called

00:31:03.380 Public.

00:31:04.700 I don't know

00:31:05.120 who they are,

00:31:05.740 but they,

00:31:06.540 some kind of

00:31:07.440 publication or

00:31:09.560 entity.

00:31:10.640 But Schellenberger

00:31:11.580 is tweeting that

00:31:12.640 Biden and the

00:31:13.320 FBI suggest that

00:31:14.940 domestic terrorism

00:31:15.880 is increasing,

00:31:16.980 but it's not.

00:31:18.400 And now, a new

00:31:19.520 investigation by

00:31:20.480 Public, whoever

00:31:21.440 they are, reveals

00:31:22.560 that the FBI is

00:31:23.520 deliberately stoking

00:31:24.520 domestic extremism

00:31:25.960 and white supremacy

00:31:27.100 in order to paint

00:31:28.640 Republicans as

00:31:29.720 terrorists. 0.91

00:31:31.820 Now, I'm not

00:31:33.300 going to say that

00:31:34.040 this is confirmed

00:31:35.440 to the level that

00:31:36.680 I feel comfortable

00:31:38.120 with it, but on

00:31:39.320 the other hand,

00:31:40.660 Schellenberger

00:31:41.160 isn't wrong a lot,

00:31:44.180 if at all.

00:31:45.460 I can't think of

00:31:46.300 an example.

00:31:47.500 But, anyway, he

00:31:49.480 thought it was

00:31:49.820 credible enough to

00:31:50.740 retweet it.

00:31:51.680 I would put a

00:31:52.200 little caution on

00:31:52.900 it, you know,

00:31:53.580 just put a

00:31:55.120 little skepticism

00:31:55.900 on whether

00:31:58.020 public has the

00:31:59.120 goods, but

00:32:00.380 it's a report.

00:32:03.900 And, it

00:32:06.600 does, you

00:32:07.240 know, here's

00:32:07.620 the problem.

00:32:08.540 I guess here's

00:32:09.120 the problem.

00:32:09.600 This has to

00:32:10.080 work both ways.

00:32:11.320 It feels too

00:32:11.960 on the nose,

00:32:13.740 doesn't it?

00:32:14.740 If the politics

00:32:15.920 of this were

00:32:16.580 reversed, that's

00:32:17.860 the first thing

00:32:18.400 I'd tell you.

00:32:19.640 That's a little,

00:32:21.080 that's like exactly

00:32:22.240 what you suspected.

00:32:23.780 Isn't that a

00:32:24.200 little on the

00:32:24.640 nose?

00:32:25.700 Might be true.

00:32:27.500 Might be exactly

00:32:28.280 true.

00:32:29.420 But, it has a

00:32:30.420 feel like things

00:32:31.720 that aren't true.

00:32:33.520 You know what I

00:32:34.020 mean?

00:32:34.380 If you just use

00:32:35.280 pattern recognition,

00:32:36.840 it looks like maybe

00:32:38.180 somebody is stretching

00:32:39.680 the story a little

00:32:40.480 bit.

00:32:40.780 But, it's also

00:32:43.020 possibly completely

00:32:44.120 true.

00:32:45.460 So, the fact that

00:32:46.560 we don't know if

00:32:47.840 we can trust our

00:32:48.680 FBI to be

00:32:50.180 working for the

00:32:51.120 public or

00:32:52.360 actively against

00:32:53.540 it, you know,

00:32:54.520 by playing in

00:32:55.140 politics, I would

00:32:55.840 call that actively

00:32:56.800 working against the

00:32:57.720 public.

00:32:59.100 Isn't that weird?

00:33:00.260 We actually don't

00:33:01.480 know if the

00:33:03.160 FBI is actively

00:33:04.240 working for or

00:33:05.420 against the

00:33:06.140 public.

00:33:09.000 That's pretty

00:33:09.700 scary.

00:33:12.440 Anyway, so it

00:33:14.600 does seem to me

00:33:15.240 that white supremacy

00:33:15.960 is the new 0.69

00:33:16.800 hoax.

00:33:17.920 So, maybe I

00:33:18.820 should add that to

00:33:19.340 my hoax list.

00:33:20.620 FBI white supremacy

00:33:21.920 hoax.

00:33:23.100 What do you think?

00:33:24.360 I think we should

00:33:25.260 call white supremacy

00:33:26.120 a hoax at this

00:33:26.900 point.

00:33:28.540 Now, you know how

00:33:30.440 the argument always

00:33:31.220 goes, right?

00:33:33.100 The side that

00:33:34.840 disagrees with you

00:33:35.820 will tell you if

00:33:37.600 there are three

00:33:38.260 white supremacists

00:33:39.280 in a group of

00:33:40.020 80 million, all

00:33:41.500 80 million are 0.72

00:33:42.240 white supremacists.

00:33:44.360 Right? 0.94

00:33:44.520 That's where we

00:33:45.880 go next.

00:33:47.040 So, next we go

00:33:47.940 that, if you have

00:33:48.940 two or three in

00:33:49.660 that group of

00:33:50.280 80 million,

00:33:51.440 probably the whole

00:33:52.960 group is white

00:33:53.480 supremacists.

00:33:54.840 And you'd know

00:33:57.460 where it's going.

00:33:58.680 There's not going

00:33:59.240 to be any question.

00:34:00.540 But if the rate,

00:34:02.240 apparently there's

00:34:02.860 some jiggering

00:34:03.560 with the numbers

00:34:04.260 to make it look

00:34:05.020 like the white 0.63

00:34:05.500 supremacy was worse

00:34:06.500 than it was,

00:34:07.940 and that maybe

00:34:08.700 that was intentional.

00:34:10.400 It's scary, but we

00:34:11.900 don't know how much

00:34:12.500 is real.

00:34:14.360 So, there was a

00:34:15.280 story today about

00:34:16.180 a Republican

00:34:16.980 representative who

00:34:19.960 was speaking in

00:34:20.640 Congress, and he

00:34:21.780 used the phrase

00:34:24.140 colored people.

00:34:25.240 A black woman 0.97

00:34:31.280 whose name

00:34:31.800 insisted that

00:34:35.740 that be stricken

00:34:36.580 from the

00:34:36.920 and then the

00:34:38.920 individual who

00:34:39.920 said it,

00:34:40.840 realizing that he

00:34:41.460 had misstoken,

00:34:42.800 said he would

00:34:43.440 like to revise

00:34:44.240 the record from

00:34:45.480 colored people to

00:34:46.480 people of color.

00:34:48.440 Does that sound

00:34:49.260 reasonable?

00:34:51.200 He immediately

00:34:52.040 went up.

00:34:53.160 No argument.

00:34:55.180 No argument.

00:34:56.240 He immediately

00:34:56.700 went up and said,

00:34:57.200 I'd like to revise

00:34:57.840 that to people of

00:34:58.800 color.

00:35:00.280 And then the

00:35:01.820 woman who was 1.00

00:35:02.440 challenging it

00:35:03.860 said that's

00:35:04.760 unacceptable.

00:35:06.040 She wants to

00:35:06.560 just take it out

00:35:07.760 of the record.

00:35:08.160 I don't know

00:35:10.280 why.

00:35:10.980 I feel like

00:35:11.560 amending it would

00:35:12.320 get her more than

00:35:13.480 taking it out.

00:35:14.960 Because amending the

00:35:16.000 record, if there's

00:35:16.880 any record of, I

00:35:18.380 don't know, if they

00:35:18.840 keep a record of what

00:35:19.680 God amended,

00:35:21.180 wouldn't it be

00:35:21.680 better to show the

00:35:22.360 path?

00:35:23.780 To show the, you

00:35:24.500 said something, you

00:35:25.240 misspoke, you

00:35:25.860 corrected it, move on

00:35:27.320 with your life?

00:35:28.620 All right, here is my

00:35:29.980 overall opinion on

00:35:32.120 this topic.

00:35:33.840 Don't care.

00:35:35.500 Don't care.

00:35:36.000 Do you know why?

00:35:38.200 The reason I don't

00:35:39.100 care is because 0.90

00:35:40.700 black Americans have 0.90

00:35:42.040 been promoted

00:35:42.760 recently to full

00:35:44.840 citizenship and full

00:35:46.240 respect.

00:35:48.420 Full respect.

00:35:50.360 Full citizenship.

00:35:51.440 That just happened

00:35:52.180 with the affirmative

00:35:53.680 action thing being

00:35:55.560 overturned.

00:35:56.560 Once you have full,

00:35:58.400 full citizenship for

00:36:00.980 the first time, in my

00:36:02.180 opinion, we don't

00:36:05.040 care about this.

00:36:06.000 Now it doesn't

00:36:08.280 matter.

00:36:09.880 Nobody cares.

00:36:11.860 Nobody cares that

00:36:12.920 you were offended by

00:36:13.700 it.

00:36:14.760 Do you know why?

00:36:16.360 Because if a white 0.94

00:36:17.600 person had been

00:36:18.320 offended in, let's

00:36:19.260 say, the same

00:36:19.740 fashion, nobody 0.99

00:36:21.200 would give a shit 1.00

00:36:21.720 about that white 1.00

00:36:22.320 guy.

00:36:23.220 Nobody.

00:36:24.720 How about an

00:36:25.120 Asian American who

00:36:25.940 was offended in the

00:36:26.800 same way? 0.99

00:36:27.660 I don't give a shit. 0.99

00:36:29.080 Do you? 1.00

00:36:30.040 I don't care who got

00:36:31.020 offended by something

00:36:32.020 that was just clearly

00:36:32.940 misspeaking.

00:36:34.560 Don't care at all.

00:36:35.260 And the reason I

00:36:36.500 don't care is not

00:36:37.380 because I don't

00:36:38.880 care.

00:36:39.860 It's because you've

00:36:40.800 been promoted.

00:36:42.420 It's literally because

00:36:43.780 black lives matter.

00:36:47.180 I can't agree with you

00:36:48.720 more that you need the

00:36:50.660 full respect of a full

00:36:52.400 citizen.

00:36:53.900 Take it.

00:36:55.540 We're offering it.

00:36:57.080 I mean, the whole world

00:36:57.760 is offering it.

00:36:58.560 Just take it.

00:36:59.840 You'll love it.

00:37:00.740 Have you ever seen

00:37:02.180 the, there were

00:37:03.300 studies, I don't

00:37:03.980 know if the science

00:37:05.000 backs this, but I

00:37:05.820 believe, I believe it

00:37:07.420 has been studied many

00:37:08.420 times, that if you

00:37:11.100 take students and tell

00:37:12.140 them they're good at

00:37:13.180 math, they get good

00:37:15.100 grades.

00:37:16.240 If you take students

00:37:17.380 and tell them they're

00:37:18.080 bad at math, they

00:37:19.900 don't, because they

00:37:21.120 think they're bad at

00:37:21.740 math, they get bad

00:37:22.500 grades, relatively

00:37:23.800 speaking.

00:37:24.180 Now, if that's true,

00:37:27.140 then the ending of

00:37:28.160 affirmative action

00:37:29.060 should, should, in the

00:37:31.980 long run, have the

00:37:32.760 effect of making

00:37:34.020 everybody think that

00:37:34.820 they could be good at

00:37:35.840 math, you know, if

00:37:37.220 somebody tells them

00:37:37.860 they're good at math.

00:37:39.000 So, I think the end

00:37:41.020 of affirmative action is

00:37:42.380 an insanely positive

00:37:44.320 thing for black 0.85

00:37:45.760 America, that looks 0.98

00:37:47.780 like an insanely bad

00:37:48.940 thing, at the moment.

00:37:50.740 I get that.

00:37:51.800 There are certainly

00:37:52.560 individuals who are

00:37:53.580 maybe counting on,

00:37:54.640 you know, rules being

00:37:56.540 different and got

00:37:58.040 disappointed.

00:37:59.000 That's a real thing.

00:37:59.920 That's a real problem.

00:38:01.400 But overall, the full

00:38:05.200 respect of being a full

00:38:07.260 citizen of the United

00:38:08.080 States is way more

00:38:09.360 important.

00:38:10.320 That'll get you more

00:38:11.040 in the long run.

00:38:12.040 Make you feel better,

00:38:13.200 make you perform

00:38:13.760 better, make everybody

00:38:15.100 like you better.

00:38:16.120 It's all good.

00:38:17.180 It just doesn't feel

00:38:17.920 like it in the short

00:38:18.580 run.

00:38:20.400 Well, more to this

00:38:21.340 point, 13 attorney

00:38:22.720 generals from different

00:38:25.440 states, 13 states, sent

00:38:30.180 a message to their

00:38:31.380 states that the

00:38:33.880 affirmative action

00:38:34.860 decision that applied

00:38:36.480 to colleges must also

00:38:39.680 be applied to

00:38:40.600 corporations and

00:38:41.600 businesses.

00:38:42.780 And the thinking is

00:38:44.280 that if the Supreme

00:38:46.160 Court found racial

00:38:47.800 preference to be illegal

00:38:49.020 in the context of

00:38:50.420 colleges, obviously, it

00:38:54.620 would be also equally as

00:38:56.400 illegal if businesses

00:38:57.620 were doing exactly the

00:38:58.700 same thing.

00:38:59.640 So there's 13 states that

00:39:01.220 just says it's illegal to

00:39:03.380 do anything that even has

00:39:04.880 the effect of affirmative

00:39:06.000 action.

00:39:07.420 And specifically, in those

00:39:09.840 13 states, DEI is dead

00:39:14.300 because the AG has just

00:39:16.760 turned it off.

00:39:18.420 They just made it illegal

00:39:19.760 to have a diversity,

00:39:21.340 equity, and inclusion

00:39:22.420 department.

00:39:24.600 Well, you could have the

00:39:25.420 department, I suppose, but

00:39:26.680 you couldn't actually do

00:39:27.540 anything that changed the

00:39:28.780 mix of people.

00:39:30.080 So the DEI couldn't do the

00:39:32.020 job of the DEI.

00:39:33.500 I mean, the essential part.

00:39:36.040 In 13 states, that's

00:39:37.580 illegal now.

00:39:41.980 Goodbye, DEI.

00:39:42.980 Now, of course, these

00:39:44.260 would be 13 most

00:39:45.880 conservative states, I

00:39:47.120 assume.

00:39:47.560 I didn't see the list.

00:39:48.820 Tennessee's on the list,

00:39:49.740 I think.

00:39:50.560 So that should give you

00:39:51.320 a hint.

00:39:53.080 Don't know if more states

00:39:55.120 will join, but I think

00:39:59.340 they might.

00:40:01.040 It could stay at 13.

00:40:04.380 Well, Biden found some

00:40:05.840 new technical way to

00:40:07.300 cancel a bunch of

00:40:08.100 student debt.

00:40:09.000 Not all of it, but a

00:40:10.760 big old chunk of it.

00:40:11.780 has something to do

00:40:13.200 with, and this is what

00:40:14.020 you can do by executive

00:40:15.020 order.

00:40:15.760 It took me a long time

00:40:16.880 to figure out why an

00:40:18.940 executive order can work

00:40:20.320 when it's not Congress and

00:40:22.500 it's not a law.

00:40:23.200 Like, why can you just say

00:40:25.060 the executive, the

00:40:26.260 president, can just change

00:40:27.440 stuff?

00:40:28.700 You know, I saw Congress

00:40:29.640 as the only one who could

00:40:30.340 do that.

00:40:31.060 But the details are that if

00:40:33.720 the law allows the federal

00:40:36.020 government and the president

00:40:38.640 to manage something, then

00:40:41.760 that president can manage

00:40:43.360 that thing as long as it's

00:40:45.020 within the bounds of the

00:40:45.980 law according to, you know,

00:40:48.200 a number of subjective or

00:40:49.800 different, you know,

00:40:51.400 technical ways to get it

00:40:52.540 done.

00:40:53.260 So the trick is that you have

00:40:54.920 to write your executive

00:40:57.460 order so that it looks like

00:41:00.540 you're just making a

00:41:01.600 technical, operational,

00:41:04.100 administrative change, but it

00:41:06.320 doesn't affect the law itself.

00:41:07.980 The law is still the law 0.57

00:41:08.880 and you're still obeying it.

00:41:10.220 You're just modifying how

00:41:12.180 you're observing it or

00:41:13.900 implementing it.

00:41:15.700 So apparently they found

00:41:17.460 some technicality where

00:41:20.000 people got billed more than

00:41:24.300 they should have, or at least

00:41:26.120 you could define it that way,

00:41:27.660 or you could interpret it

00:41:29.020 that way.

00:41:30.040 And so they're going to use

00:41:30.960 that technicality to make a

00:41:32.580 bunch of mostly interest

00:41:34.160 payment go away, I think.

00:41:37.120 I don't know.

00:41:38.100 I don't know what to think

00:41:39.160 about this.

00:41:40.120 Because you'd have to see

00:41:41.140 the technical argument, and

00:41:42.460 I didn't.

00:41:44.600 But if it's true that these

00:41:47.600 people were paying money

00:41:50.840 that obviously they didn't

00:41:53.160 need to, well, then we need

00:41:55.000 to fix that, and then that

00:41:56.060 would be a good thing that

00:41:56.940 he's doing.

00:41:57.700 But I don't know if that's

00:41:58.580 the case.

00:41:59.540 You know, maybe it's just a 0.97

00:42:00.380 bullshit technicality to 0.98

00:42:02.800 make it sound like he did 0.99

00:42:04.300 more than he did.

00:42:06.320 Well, if you were following

00:42:08.040 social media today, you saw

00:42:10.020 some frightened people say

00:42:12.120 that Biden is calling up

00:42:13.180 reserves in the U.S., and

00:42:15.880 the worry would be that the

00:42:17.180 reserves are being called up

00:42:18.680 because of Ukraine, and that

00:42:20.600 it's a preparation step toward

00:42:23.480 putting boots on the ground,

00:42:25.560 American boots on the ground

00:42:26.560 to Ukraine, which I think we

00:42:28.480 all think is the worst idea of

00:42:30.480 all time.

00:42:31.060 But also, I was reading a tweet

00:42:34.200 thread by Joshua Steinman, who

00:42:36.880 you should follow.

00:42:38.160 Really good follow if you want

00:42:39.400 to know what's going on, Joshua

00:42:40.600 Steinman.

00:42:41.920 And he had some experience in

00:42:45.780 this domain and explained the

00:42:49.180 different various reserves and

00:42:51.480 who's a weekend reserve and who's

00:42:53.860 a Coast Guard and National Guard

00:42:55.860 and I don't know.

00:42:56.740 So he kind of broke down what all

00:42:58.160 the parts are and how they move.

00:43:00.240 And then his takeaway was it

00:43:01.980 probably was not related to

00:43:03.300 Ukraine.

00:43:05.020 It's more likely related, he's

00:43:07.500 speculating, but based on his

00:43:09.120 experience, which seemed directly

00:43:11.060 applicable to the topic, he thinks

00:43:14.120 it's more about talent retention

00:43:16.960 because the military is having a

00:43:18.760 talent retention problem.

00:43:20.260 And he thought that the move might

00:43:22.240 be getting at that, although that's

00:43:24.160 unconfirmed.

00:43:24.840 But it doesn't look like an obvious

00:43:27.900 thing you would do to get ready to

00:43:29.580 put boots on the ground in Ukraine.

00:43:32.040 Can we all agree that we're not

00:43:34.220 going to put boots on the ground in

00:43:35.500 Ukraine?

00:43:36.440 And when I say let's agree, I mean,

00:43:39.600 we can stop that from happening.

00:43:42.300 Right?

00:43:42.900 The public can absolutely stop that

00:43:46.060 from happening.

00:43:47.180 If we want to.

00:43:48.720 If we don't want to, we won't.

00:43:50.340 But if we want to, we can absolutely

00:43:52.460 stop it.

00:43:52.940 It's not up to Biden.

00:43:54.920 He's going to have to bow to the

00:43:56.160 public.

00:43:56.880 If the public is 80% against it, it's

00:44:00.760 just not going to happen.

00:44:02.200 But you'd probably have to get to

00:44:03.460 about 80%.

00:44:04.320 All right.

00:44:06.400 The 50-50 won't get it done. 0.99

00:44:09.540 So I wouldn't worry about World War 0.99

00:44:11.000 Three just yet.

00:44:13.600 India is launching a second attempt to 0.84

00:44:15.720 put a rover on the moon.

00:44:18.080 Boy, you know, I had not been paying

00:44:20.300 attention to India at all when it

00:44:22.860 comes to space.

00:44:24.500 But I don't know if you've heard

00:44:25.700 this.

00:44:26.620 This might be the first time you've

00:44:27.820 heard this, but there are some good

00:44:30.240 Indian engineers.

00:44:34.280 Did anybody know that?

00:44:36.780 Yeah, they got really good.

00:44:38.240 They got smart people.

00:44:39.600 They got really, really good engineers

00:44:41.400 and they launched a rocket.

00:44:42.720 I haven't heard yet if there's any

00:44:45.120 problem with it.

00:44:46.160 So far, so good.

00:44:48.740 I would love to see another rover on

00:44:50.460 the moon.

00:44:51.440 And I would love it to be an ally.

00:44:53.440 That would be ideal.

00:44:56.500 So keep an eye on India and space.

00:44:59.100 And I also think it's important that

00:45:00.720 India might want to, you know, get a 1.00

00:45:03.640 get a foothold on the moon.

00:45:05.860 Because the moon is going to be a

00:45:07.440 battlefield.

00:45:08.100 You know that, right?

00:45:09.860 The odds that we're never going to

00:45:11.460 have a war on the moon are pretty

00:45:12.940 low.

00:45:14.140 Because the moon is sort of the

00:45:15.960 ultimate space attack base for

00:45:18.620 Earth.

00:45:20.360 If you wanted to have like a military

00:45:22.880 base on the moon, someday that feels

00:45:26.360 like it would be a good play.

00:45:29.300 You know, someday I could imagine them,

00:45:31.100 you know, a spaceship that does

00:45:32.360 nothing but, you know, drag giant 1.00

00:45:34.580 boulders, you know, into our 0.89

00:45:36.660 atmosphere from Mars and just

00:45:38.940 release them.

00:45:40.340 You know, but figure out where

00:45:41.320 they're going to land so it's like a

00:45:42.440 rocket if they don't burn up.

00:45:45.860 That's the worst idea I've had

00:45:47.140 lately.

00:45:47.980 All right.

00:45:50.100 I saw on, I think it was in the

00:45:52.160 Hill or something, that Trump is

00:45:54.620 less popular than Kamala Harris in

00:45:57.880 the whole country.

00:45:59.660 Do you think that's true?

00:46:00.700 Do you think Trump is less popular

00:46:03.420 than Kamala Harris? 0.98

00:46:05.420 Might be.

00:46:06.580 Might be true.

00:46:08.840 So, do you really want another four

00:46:13.000 years of being called a white 0.98

00:46:15.240 supremacist and a monster just because 0.99

00:46:18.180 it's Trump? 0.98

00:46:20.000 I feel like he's the only candidate

00:46:21.980 that would make his supporters look 1.00

00:46:26.280 like shit. 1.00

00:46:26.820 I mean, it happened the first time. 1.00

00:46:31.760 I mean, it was devastating for

00:46:32.800 anybody who supported him.

00:46:33.820 They were just demonized as racist.

00:46:36.700 But if, you know, if Tim Scott is the

00:46:38.780 candidate, I have a good four years.

00:46:43.280 No matter what happens, I'll have a

00:46:44.760 good four years.

00:46:45.540 If Trump's the candidate, I'm going to

00:46:46.960 get a lot of trouble.

00:46:49.020 Like, there's just a lot of trouble

00:46:50.380 to come my way.

00:46:51.060 And I'm even endorsing Ramaswamy.

00:46:54.020 And I'm still, if I say anything

00:46:56.600 positive about his persuasion or

00:46:58.540 something, I'm still going to get just

00:47:00.360 villainized for all that.

00:47:02.320 Do I need that?

00:47:04.520 I don't really need it.

00:47:06.120 But I also object to the fact that the

00:47:08.200 Democrats would make me, you know, try to

00:47:11.520 support somebody different because they're

00:47:13.160 going to put pressure on me.

00:47:14.300 They're going to put pressure on me.

00:47:20.660 That's not cool.

00:47:22.640 You can put pressure on the candidate as

00:47:25.280 much as you want.

00:47:25.920 They signed up for that.

00:47:27.320 But if you come after me because I have a

00:47:30.420 political preference, that's not cool at

00:47:33.420 all.

00:47:34.740 Yeah.

00:47:35.260 Not cool at all.

00:47:37.540 So we'll see what happens.

00:47:38.840 So the conversation about whether we're

00:47:45.660 experiencing something called a woke

00:47:47.280 mind virus, I was actually in a

00:47:50.060 conversation with somebody who does a

00:47:52.540 great job of looking at both the left

00:47:54.140 and the right and insists that the

00:47:57.260 woke mind virus is a illusion by the

00:48:00.860 right, that there's no such thing.

00:48:04.860 And then I said, well, do you believe

00:48:07.420 that, let's say, the trans situation

00:48:11.040 would be exactly the same except for the

00:48:14.840 psychology of the current situation?

00:48:17.540 And I didn't get quite a good answer to

00:48:19.340 that.

00:48:20.000 But it seems to me it's obviously a

00:48:22.560 woke mind virus.

00:48:24.460 And it's operating exactly like a virus in

00:48:28.420 that you catch it from other people.

00:48:30.980 You know, they have to talk to you about

00:48:32.200 it.

00:48:33.040 And it's spreading.

00:48:35.160 So if you get it from other people and

00:48:37.680 it's spreading, is that wrong to call

00:48:40.240 that a mind virus?

00:48:42.140 I mean, it's not a physical virus, but

00:48:43.740 obviously it's a mental process that's

00:48:45.900 spreading from one to another.

00:48:47.580 And it has negative effects.

00:48:50.260 I mean, I think a woke mind virus fits

00:48:52.100 perfectly and is observable and

00:48:54.500 scientifically measurable and the data

00:48:57.660 supports it.

00:48:59.140 To me, it's the most obviously true thing

00:49:01.340 in politics.

00:49:02.900 You like TDS, right?

00:49:06.420 But, so I saw a little back and forth.

00:49:10.920 By, I saw, first it was a tweet that

00:49:13.440 Jordan Peterson was boosting.

00:49:17.600 And the tweet said, Megan Fox has three

00:49:20.020 boys.

00:49:21.260 Charlize Theron adopted two boys.

00:49:24.140 Both are woke Hollywood stars.

00:49:26.520 Both are unmarried white women.

00:49:27.980 Both have sons identifying as girls.

00:49:31.660 And then this tweet said, it doesn't take

00:49:33.400 a rocket scientist.

00:49:34.720 So in other words, it was suggesting that

00:49:36.720 these children would not have made these

00:49:39.440 choices, except that their parents are

00:49:42.460 woke, white liberals and single.

00:49:46.000 And single.

00:49:46.780 And, you know, that the implication is dad

00:49:48.720 wouldn't let them do that.

00:49:51.240 I don't know about the dad part.

00:49:52.740 But, then I saw a tweet by Jordan

00:49:56.480 Peterson who calculated the odds.

00:49:59.340 So he did the odds.

00:50:00.760 What are the odds that you would have

00:50:02.420 two non-binaries or, you know, two kids

00:50:06.300 who think they're in the wrong gender? 1.00

00:50:09.380 And it's like, you know, one in hundreds

00:50:12.240 of billions or something like that.

00:50:13.700 Just crazy odds.

00:50:15.560 But, I would like to add the following

00:50:17.620 thing.

00:50:17.960 I've talked about the McMartin school

00:50:21.560 preschool case before.

00:50:24.500 I think it was 70s or 80s.

00:50:27.380 I forget.

00:50:28.420 Was it 80s or 70s?

00:50:29.300 80s.

00:50:29.920 Yeah, it was in the 80s.

00:50:31.160 And the famous case, just to remind you,

00:50:34.400 it's well documented.

00:50:35.780 You can see it on Wikipedia.

00:50:37.800 Is that there was a preschool in which

00:50:40.280 there were allegations that the children

00:50:41.820 were being tortured and used in

00:50:46.080 satanic rituals.

00:50:47.980 And that there was a basement under the

00:50:50.180 school in which they took the kids and

00:50:52.060 did all kinds of, you know, very

00:50:53.780 elaborate rituals and everything.

00:50:56.200 And the reason that they were accused of

00:50:57.880 this is that that's what the children

00:50:59.720 said.

00:51:01.180 So when the children were interviewed,

00:51:03.200 they said, oh yeah, we're taken

00:51:04.720 underground and these bad things happen

00:51:07.000 and they touch me and you get her and

00:51:09.640 blah, blah, blah.

00:51:10.180 And one child after another had a story

00:51:14.060 that had these same satanic elements.

00:51:17.700 And so it went to trial.

00:51:19.980 The people who owned the school had to

00:51:21.560 go to trial to defend themselves against

00:51:24.940 being Satanists, which they had no

00:51:27.660 connection to whatsoever.

00:51:29.660 No connection to Satanism whatsoever.

00:51:32.200 But yet they were really Satanists and

00:51:35.140 they had a secret basement under the

00:51:36.660 school.

00:51:36.940 Now, think about this.

00:51:39.480 They went to trial even after it was

00:51:42.620 discovered that the school has no

00:51:44.280 basement.

00:51:46.440 Pretty much most of the charges involved

00:51:48.880 being taken into the basement, which

00:51:50.380 didn't exist.

00:51:51.760 And everybody agreed it didn't exist.

00:51:55.380 Well, the good news is that the

00:51:57.220 McMartins school defendants, they won.

00:52:01.440 You know, they won completely because

00:52:03.420 there was literally no physical evidence

00:52:06.380 or anything to back up the children.

00:52:09.560 But then you say to yourself, but the

00:52:10.960 children are not nothing, right?

00:52:12.820 You had lots of children and they were

00:52:15.500 telling similarly terrible stories.

00:52:17.860 You can't ignore that, right?

00:52:19.700 Well, here's how we figured out how to

00:52:21.600 ignore it intelligently, which is people

00:52:26.660 who knew what they were talking about, people

00:52:28.880 with actual right kind of skills, looked at

00:52:31.880 the videos of the investigators interviewing

00:52:34.860 the children.

00:52:36.020 And they learned very quickly that the

00:52:39.020 investigators were putting the ideas into

00:52:41.020 the children's minds.

00:52:42.520 And at that age, and when you put them in

00:52:44.760 this like high pressure situation where

00:52:47.680 they're alone talking to a cop, imagine being

00:52:50.780 a little kid alone being interviewed by

00:52:55.180 adults about something pretty important.

00:52:57.560 Apparently, you can get the kids to agree to

00:53:00.300 whatever it is you think that they should

00:53:02.000 be agreeing to.

00:53:03.160 And that's what happened.

00:53:04.400 So the explanation of the McMartin

00:53:06.020 preschool case is that children can be

00:53:10.700 really easily hypnotized, brainwashed, to

00:53:14.760 say things that are completely untrue, so

00:53:18.160 long as the person asking the questions is

00:53:20.380 leading them.

00:53:21.620 So it's not about asking the questions, it's

00:53:24.100 about leading them.

00:53:24.960 So the difference is, would be this.

00:53:27.600 So if you didn't lead them, you'd say, hey,

00:53:29.920 little Bobby, is there anything happening in

00:53:32.920 your school that we should know about?

00:53:35.160 Is there anything that worries you?

00:53:37.380 Have you heard any stories?

00:53:38.780 Something like that might not be leading

00:53:42.960 them, depending on what else the kid had

00:53:45.580 heard about the situation.

00:53:46.620 But if you say, were you taken into a secret

00:53:51.980 basement?

00:53:53.440 And the child says, no.

00:53:56.600 Nobody said, why don't you come down here and

00:54:00.420 you'll enjoy this?

00:54:03.100 No.

00:54:04.500 But so the head of the preschool never said to

00:54:07.900 you that we have a place we go, you know, a

00:54:10.160 location, a room in which we'd like to take you.

00:54:13.260 Well, okay, yeah, yeah.

00:54:18.060 And was that the basement?

00:54:22.460 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the basement.

00:54:25.180 And what did you do down there that was

00:54:26.800 satanic?

00:54:28.420 What?

00:54:29.640 Satanic.

00:54:30.500 What satanic things did you do in the

00:54:32.180 basement?

00:54:33.080 I didn't do any satanic things in the basement.

00:54:36.020 Well, but did anybody put you on a table and

00:54:39.400 have like a, you know, blood or something?

00:54:42.020 Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was put on a table.

00:54:47.340 So that's what happens when you, when somebody

00:54:49.540 in power interviews a very young kid.

00:54:54.040 Remember, this is preschool.

00:54:56.180 Preschool.

00:54:57.000 These are really little kids.

00:54:58.980 And those kids just, they will adopt a 0.96

00:55:01.560 fantasy as a reality without even really being

00:55:04.720 too aware of the crossover point.

00:55:07.280 It's really dangerous.

00:55:08.500 Children can be hypnotized by their environment.

00:55:13.460 They can be hypnotized by questions.

00:55:16.300 They can be hypnotized by simply reading the

00:55:18.500 intention of their parents.

00:55:20.620 They can be hypnotized by overhearing a conversation.

00:55:24.520 That's all it takes.

00:55:25.960 They just have to overhear a conversation.

00:55:28.620 And a little kid can be completely hypnotized.

00:55:30.960 So, if you're asking me, is the, you know,

00:55:35.740 sudden spike in number of trans kids and gender

00:55:40.700 confusion, is it caused by something in the environment

00:55:44.620 specifically the way people talk about it?

00:55:47.820 Yes.

00:55:49.640 I can tell you I'm an expert in this domain,

00:55:52.800 meaning persuasion, and it's obvious.

00:55:55.720 Jordan Peterson is an expert in this domain.

00:56:01.980 When he talks about it, he's not guessing.

00:56:05.280 He's not guessing.

00:56:07.000 He does know.

00:56:08.640 He literally knows.

00:56:10.120 This is not an opinion.

00:56:12.500 I mean, it's, well, I mean, I suppose that you could,

00:56:14.880 you could call it an opinion.

00:56:16.940 But there's no way he's wrong about this.

00:56:19.040 This is solidly right in the middle of his sweet spot.

00:56:22.880 So, if your job is plumber, and you're disagreeing with him,

00:56:27.540 stop it.

00:56:28.860 Stop it.

00:56:30.060 He's not arguing with you about the plumbing.

00:56:32.520 Don't argue with him about how brains work.

00:56:35.740 That's not smart.

00:56:37.080 Go fix your plumbing.

00:56:38.620 He won't tell you your plumbing is wrong.

00:56:40.780 You just don't tell him his cognitive behavior stuff is wrong.

00:56:45.680 So, yes, it's very obvious.

00:56:48.360 You know, I don't know about these particular Hollywood women. 1.00

00:56:50.960 I'm not saying that I know anything about their specific situations.

00:56:54.720 But it's very obvious that children are being brainwashed into gender confusion.

00:56:59.680 Very obvious.

00:57:01.020 There may also be other things.

00:57:03.160 When RFK Jr. talks about maybe something in the environment,

00:57:07.360 could be.

00:57:09.360 What's that called?

00:57:10.220 Atrazine?

00:57:11.620 There's some chemical in the water that turns frogs into female frogs or something. 1.00

00:57:16.540 But I would certainly look into that atrazine stuff.

00:57:22.080 You know, you could imagine that there's an interplay of two forces.

00:57:25.360 One force is changing the chemical balance of the children.

00:57:30.460 And the other force is the hypnosis.

00:57:32.540 And one makes the other easier.

00:57:35.140 Very easy to imagine that that's happening.

00:57:38.060 Don't know.

00:57:39.020 But very easy to imagine it.

00:57:40.240 And just a preview in tomorrow's Dilbert Reborn, which will not be public.

00:57:44.800 For only the subscribers will see it.

00:57:46.800 You can subscribe either on Twitter or the Locals platform, scottadams.locals.com.

00:57:52.660 But anyway, tomorrow's Dilbert Reborn comic features Dilbert's CEO,

00:57:58.840 who lost a cage match with another CEO.

00:58:02.980 And apparently they had a bet. 0.90

00:58:04.640 And so that boss has to marry the other CEO, even though Dilbert's boss is not gay. 0.96

00:58:10.280 So he's trying to figure out how he can pay off his bet of marrying the other CEO while not being gay. 0.98

00:58:17.640 And so Dilbert recommends atrazine. 0.92

00:58:22.260 So the CEO tries some atrazine.

00:58:26.440 And if you want to know what happens after that, you better subscribe.

00:58:32.500 There's my commercial for the day.

00:58:34.640 I saw Jim Jordan tweeting that Joe Biden's FTC wanted Ernst & Young to punish Musk's Twitter.

00:58:43.900 In other words, the FTC was putting pressure on the accounting firm,

00:58:48.200 presumably this was Twitter's accounting firm,

00:58:51.860 to slap him down.

00:58:55.060 To basically do something bad to Twitter.

00:58:57.660 And if they didn't do something bad to Twitter, they'd pay for it later.

00:59:00.420 The FTC putting the hammer on Ernst & Young.

00:59:05.120 Now, I don't know how much of that is right.

00:59:07.560 That feels like a Twitter story.

00:59:10.820 Meaning like we're not hearing the whole story.

00:59:13.340 But it's pretty messed up if it's true.

00:59:15.840 I'll just say, big if true.

00:59:19.560 I suspect there's more to this story.

00:59:21.740 So don't buy it completely.

00:59:22.880 All right, Joel Pollack was writing about, there's a thing coming up in the election

00:59:31.900 that you probably need to pay more attention to in terms of prediction.

00:59:36.760 And that's the New Hampshire primary for the Democrats.

00:59:40.040 Now, Joe Biden is going to skip New Hampshire and what's the other state?

00:59:45.780 Iowa?

00:59:47.500 He's going to do South Carolina because that's a big, diverse state.

00:59:51.540 Yeah.

00:59:51.820 So he's going to skip New Hampshire and Iowa, partly because he doesn't know he would do well.

00:59:57.500 You don't want to go into New Hampshire and lose to somebody on the first one.

01:00:00.800 That's a bad look.

01:00:01.780 So he's just going to skip it.

01:00:04.080 However, RFK Jr. will not be skipping it.

01:00:08.780 And he's pretty popular in that part of the country.

01:00:11.780 So if RFK Jr. pulls off a win in the first primary, at the same time Biden's cognitive decline is happening,

01:00:20.540 at the same time that the big donors are saying, maybe not,

01:00:25.700 could that be enough to swing the momentum toward RFK Jr.?

01:00:31.780 And I guess the only real answer is, it could.

01:00:38.560 And even though Joe Biden is skipping New Hampshire because it doesn't represent the country and it's small,

01:00:44.900 that's not how people are going to see it.

01:00:48.380 People are very trained that New Hampshire matters, even if it doesn't.

01:00:53.720 In our brains, it matters.

01:00:55.720 It doesn't matter in the real world in terms of its size.

01:00:59.040 It's such a small thing.

01:01:00.000 But, yeah, it actually could change the psychology of what's possible.

01:01:05.300 And that change could absolutely create a path for RFK Jr.

01:01:09.480 So I'm not saying it will.

01:01:12.420 I'd bet against it.

01:01:13.900 If I had to put a bet on it, I'd bet against it.

01:01:16.040 But it's definitely within the realm of, I don't know, 30% impossible.

01:01:20.420 It's kind of a serious consideration.

01:01:25.840 All right.

01:01:27.300 I had an observation about the Andrew Tate lover boy charges in Romania.

01:01:33.960 So according to Tate, and of course, he's not the final authority on this because he's, you know, he's selling a version that he wants you to hear.

01:01:42.880 But he says that the only charges that got put on him by Romania is that he was making girls fall in love with him.

01:01:53.860 And it's called the lover boy approach, which is, by the way, not even illegal in a lot of places.

01:01:59.640 So, but in Romania, it is. 0.74

01:02:01.220 And the idea is that you seduce these women, and then when they think they're really just your girlfriend, you use your persuasion to turn them into sex workers. 0.96

01:02:13.580 And then you take some of their money. 0.88

01:02:15.940 So that's the lover boy technique.

01:02:18.200 Now, what Tate did, and I think he admits it, is that he had girlfriends fall in love with him.

01:02:25.760 And he did, in fact, create an opportunity for them to do webcam, you know, sex talk stuff.

01:02:35.460 Now, he says he didn't take any of their money.

01:02:38.400 I don't know, one way or the other.

01:02:39.740 That's just what he says.

01:02:41.480 The prosecutors say something else.

01:02:43.940 But I don't think the girls are complaining.

01:02:47.200 So my understanding is there are no witnesses against them,

01:02:50.320 and that there is no victim who is willing to define themselves as a victim.

01:02:56.960 So after all of this, there's not one person in the real world who says he victimized them.

01:03:05.920 None.

01:03:06.880 There's actually none.

01:03:09.420 Now, that's his claim, right?

01:03:13.400 For all I know, there could be hundreds of them.

01:03:16.320 But his claim is that there's nobody.

01:03:18.500 But in the Romanian system, the Romanian Department of Justice,

01:03:23.460 they can declare that the woman is a victim,

01:03:26.960 even if she says, what are you talking about?

01:03:29.720 I'm no victim.

01:03:31.420 I didn't get brainwashed.

01:03:34.140 I was offered this opportunity by somebody I care about a lot,

01:03:38.560 and then I decided to take the opportunity because it looked good.

01:03:42.660 That's what they say.

01:03:44.360 Now, you might ask, are they under duress?

01:03:48.500 Are they being maybe bribed?

01:03:51.440 Are they afraid?

01:03:52.720 Are they afraid?

01:03:53.460 Or are they just in love?

01:03:54.600 Maybe they're just in love with him, so they don't want to say anything bad.

01:03:58.660 But it is a weird situation that there's no victim.

01:04:05.000 In turn, at least no victim who admits being a victim.

01:04:07.780 So that's kind of a sketchy situation, wouldn't you say?

01:04:11.640 But here's the thing I realize.

01:04:13.960 The charges are basically that he's one of the most persuasive people in the world

01:04:19.200 because he's not being charged with convincing one woman to be his girlfriend

01:04:24.760 and then turning her into a webcam girl. 0.99

01:04:28.600 No.

01:04:29.280 He's accused of doing it 75 times.

01:04:31.540 Do a fact check on that.

01:04:36.040 But I think at one point, there was word that he had 75 webcam girls

01:04:40.740 that he had got there under at least some number of them under similar circumstance.

01:04:47.040 Now, do you believe that he is so persuasive

01:04:51.220 that he could get dozens of girls to not only fall in love with him,

01:04:56.480 presumably had physical encounters with him,

01:05:00.800 and then also he convinced them to become sex operators in Romania

01:05:05.680 because he's that persuasive?

01:05:09.700 Yeah, he could do that.

01:05:14.140 Yep.

01:05:15.660 You want a definitive answer?

01:05:18.220 Yes.

01:05:19.320 Yes, he could do that.

01:05:20.680 He does have the talent.

01:05:21.900 He has the entire persuasion stack from the physicality,

01:05:27.000 which is a good half of what he does.

01:05:29.880 Women like tall, muscular guys who talk in a confident way

01:05:34.600 and have a lot of money and have a lot of swagger.

01:05:38.480 So, yes, he is persuasive enough

01:05:42.340 that he may have convinced 75 people to do something they wouldn't have done otherwise.

01:05:47.080 But this is where it gets interesting.

01:05:49.260 If he's really that persuasive,

01:05:52.900 there's no way in the world they're going to beat him in a trial,

01:05:56.860 or even if it's just a judge.

01:06:00.240 If he's that persuasive, he's going to persuade himself out of prison.

01:06:08.580 Yeah.

01:06:09.420 Oh, well, yeah.

01:06:10.600 So, Tate said that he got him to do TikToks, not webcam stuff.

01:06:18.320 So, that's what he said to Tate.

01:06:20.700 Separately, he said that he had webcam operators.

01:06:25.460 So, he said it.

01:06:26.760 It's not from news reports.

01:06:28.500 But it could be.

01:06:29.420 It could be that none of the women who were part of the charges were on webcams.

01:06:33.840 That's possible.

01:06:34.440 It could be that they were only doing TikTok.

01:06:37.840 It's also possible that they were using TikTok as a way to get customers for a webcam business,

01:06:45.000 and the prosecutors can't find evidence of the webcam business.

01:06:49.700 And maybe they just don't have access to those records.

01:06:53.240 Because if somebody did a bunch of webcams, but nobody recorded it,

01:06:58.640 and whoever would have records of that is maybe a company in another country that doesn't want to give you access,

01:07:05.460 it's entirely possible that there was massive webcaming, sex webcaming,

01:07:11.060 but it's impossible to prove.

01:07:13.480 Because you go to the girls and you say, were you webcaming?

01:07:15.960 And they go, no, I was just TikTok-ing.

01:07:18.740 What do you do?

01:07:20.520 If that's their story.

01:07:21.440 Because probably they don't want to be implicated in anything sketchy either.

01:07:25.840 So they might say, no, I didn't do any of that webcaming.

01:07:29.220 Can you prove it?

01:07:31.140 Can you prove I did some webcaming?

01:07:33.300 Maybe they can't.

01:07:34.580 It feels like they could, but maybe they can't.

01:07:38.360 Anyway, so here's the funny part.

01:07:39.800 If Tate is as persuasive as the prosecution says,

01:07:45.000 then he's also persuasive enough to get out of the charges

01:07:47.740 by literally persuading himself out of jail.

01:07:51.440 Does he have the talent to actually persuade himself out of jail

01:07:56.220 if he's being targeted and or actually guilty?

01:08:02.940 And the answer is yes.

01:08:05.820 Now, I got some pushback on my tweet because somebody said,

01:08:08.780 Scott, Scott, Scott.

01:08:10.420 Trials are about evidence.

01:08:12.080 The evidence will determine whether he's found guilty.

01:08:16.860 To which I said,

01:08:18.460 oh, get back in your time machine and go back to 1953.

01:08:26.000 Because in the world of today,

01:08:28.220 no, it's not about the evidence.

01:08:29.620 If it were about the evidence,

01:08:31.040 everybody would have agreed on OJ.

01:08:33.940 Right?

01:08:34.300 If it were about the evidence,

01:08:35.780 Biden would be in jail.

01:08:38.320 Right?

01:08:38.880 It's never about the evidence.

01:08:40.220 Not with high-profile stuff.

01:08:42.260 It's about persuasion.

01:08:43.900 And so,

01:08:45.040 the government of Romania

01:08:46.480 is trying to enter a persuasion contest,

01:08:50.680 which is what a trial would be,

01:08:52.420 a persuasion contest,

01:08:53.600 against allegedly

01:08:55.580 one of the most persuasive humans

01:08:58.940 on planet Earth.

01:09:01.960 Which actually he is.

01:09:03.860 You know,

01:09:04.100 I don't know if he's in top five or top ten,

01:09:06.460 but he's one of the most persuasive human beings

01:09:09.260 on the planet.

01:09:12.220 Right?

01:09:12.920 That's just a fact.

01:09:14.620 And how does he lose a jury trial?

01:09:20.300 Because he also has, you know,

01:09:21.520 the brains and the strategy.

01:09:22.680 He's a chess player.

01:09:24.420 I mean, he's got the whole thing.

01:09:26.220 How does he lose?

01:09:28.820 Now, there are two possibilities.

01:09:30.820 One,

01:09:31.920 he really is as persuasive

01:09:33.660 as the Romanians claim.

01:09:35.540 If that's true,

01:09:36.280 then he'll persuade himself out of jail.

01:09:38.500 Two,

01:09:39.140 he's not very persuasive at all.

01:09:42.040 In which case,

01:09:43.160 how did he persuade 75 women

01:09:45.000 to move to Romania

01:09:45.900 and do webcams?

01:09:47.200 Or TikToks?

01:09:47.960 Or whatever.

01:09:49.000 How did he do that

01:09:49.680 if you're not persuasive?

01:09:50.540 So there's sort of a logical problem here.

01:09:55.200 If the charges are true,

01:09:56.900 he'll go free.

01:09:59.100 If the charges are false,

01:10:01.100 he's innocent.

01:10:03.200 And there's only two possibilities.

01:10:04.960 It's true or false.

01:10:06.380 And they both get him out of jail.

01:10:07.640 Is that weird?

01:10:11.140 That he has two paths

01:10:12.520 and both of them are getting out of jail.

01:10:15.000 Unless it's rigged.

01:10:16.580 Which is a very good possibility.

01:10:18.740 Unless it's rigged.

01:10:20.020 So his suggestion was

01:10:21.780 that maybe Great Britain

01:10:22.640 was trying to suppress him

01:10:24.620 because his message wasn't good

01:10:26.480 for the youth of Great Britain.

01:10:28.640 I think there might be something to that.

01:10:31.260 There definitely might be

01:10:32.400 some political little pressure

01:10:35.200 on Romania

01:10:36.000 to tamp him down a little bit.

01:10:38.400 Maybe.

01:10:39.080 Seems reasonable.

01:10:40.720 But we'll see how that turns out.

01:10:42.800 It's probably the most interesting contest

01:10:45.220 in the world

01:10:45.980 because he genuinely

01:10:48.220 is more persuasive

01:10:50.580 than any prosecutor is going to be.

01:10:54.940 I don't know what kind of evidence they have,

01:10:56.540 but if that evidence

01:10:58.520 isn't just super airtight

01:11:00.860 with witnesses,

01:11:03.260 with witnesses who admit they are victims,

01:11:06.200 I just don't see how he can be convicted.

01:11:09.000 He's just too good at this.

01:11:11.180 Specifically this.

01:11:13.780 We'll see.

01:11:16.820 That, ladies and gentlemen,

01:11:18.400 concludes my amazing live stream.

01:11:21.340 The very best thing

01:11:22.340 that's ever happened to any of you.

01:11:24.360 Is there any topic I missed today

01:11:26.560 that I should have

01:11:27.360 spoke about?

01:11:30.440 He does not speak Romanian,

01:11:32.300 but that shouldn't change the result

01:11:35.080 because whatever persuasion

01:11:37.340 he possesses,

01:11:40.060 he can just run through his lawyer.

01:11:43.320 He basically just tells the lawyer

01:11:44.660 how to handle things

01:11:45.520 and should work out fine.

01:11:47.740 You assume a trial?

01:11:53.680 No.

01:11:54.260 When I say trial,

01:11:55.240 I mean a judge will decide.

01:11:57.200 Are you making a distinction there?

01:12:00.040 My understanding is

01:12:01.100 that in Romania,

01:12:01.900 you talk to judges,

01:12:03.220 not a jury of your peer,

01:12:05.060 or at least for this case.

01:12:06.240 I don't know if it's different

01:12:07.080 for others.

01:12:08.900 But I still call that a trial

01:12:10.900 and the rules of persuasion

01:12:13.000 would still apply.

01:12:13.660 He would have an easier deal.

01:12:18.140 Well, let me say it this way.

01:12:19.520 There isn't the slightest chance

01:12:20.940 a jury of his peers

01:12:22.180 would convict him.

01:12:24.380 Let me say that flat out.

01:12:27.100 Flat out,

01:12:29.040 if the trial,

01:12:29.880 and I think it won't be,

01:12:30.700 it'll be a judge or judges,

01:12:32.540 but if it were

01:12:33.400 a jury of his peers,

01:12:34.980 there isn't the slightest chance

01:12:36.420 there would be

01:12:37.660 a unanimous 12-people conviction.

01:12:40.200 None.

01:12:41.400 That literally is zero chance.

01:12:42.900 It couldn't happen

01:12:43.940 because his powers

01:12:45.500 are just too big.

01:12:48.380 He could persuade himself to,

01:12:50.380 he could take out

01:12:51.240 a few jurors just easily.

01:12:56.500 The NXIVM cult leader 0.96

01:12:58.140 was very persuasive

01:12:59.060 but still received

01:13:00.020 a 100-year sentence.

01:13:02.180 Now,

01:13:03.480 good point.

01:13:05.820 That's a good point.

01:13:07.580 But do you think

01:13:08.400 he was as persuasive?

01:13:09.640 I think there's a level

01:13:12.880 of difference here

01:13:13.640 because I never even heard

01:13:15.540 of NXIVM

01:13:16.100 until they got in trouble

01:13:17.060 but the entire planet

01:13:18.660 heard of Tate.

01:13:21.160 So,

01:13:21.840 I would say

01:13:22.400 the NXIVM guy

01:13:23.440 has skills

01:13:25.080 but he was still

01:13:26.780 a B-plus

01:13:27.760 compared to

01:13:29.440 what you're seeing

01:13:30.160 from Tate.

01:13:31.180 You know,

01:13:31.320 Tate's at the

01:13:31.920 A-plus-plus level

01:13:32.960 of persuasion.

01:13:35.340 You know,

01:13:35.620 by the way,

01:13:36.100 I don't like him personally.

01:13:37.840 I just want to

01:13:38.400 make sure you know that.

01:13:39.800 Don't like him personally.

01:13:41.860 Personally,

01:13:42.560 nothing.

01:13:43.300 But,

01:13:43.800 I've promised

01:13:44.740 I'm going to call

01:13:45.300 balls and strikes

01:13:46.020 as they say.

01:13:47.480 God,

01:13:47.760 I hate saying that.

01:13:49.560 Calling balls and strikes.

01:13:51.380 Let's retire on that.

01:13:52.560 It's such an NPC thing

01:13:53.700 to say.

01:13:54.940 But I told you

01:13:55.760 I'd say when people

01:13:56.500 have good persuasion

01:13:57.580 and when they don't

01:13:58.300 and you could probably

01:13:59.580 learn.

01:14:01.120 Watch his technique

01:14:02.120 and you could probably

01:14:02.760 learn.

01:14:05.560 All right.

01:14:07.360 The NXIVM guy 0.95

01:14:14.220 was too ugly 0.99

01:14:15.080 to be persuasive. 0.85

01:14:16.460 Well,

01:14:16.860 who's that?

01:14:22.520 Who's your favorite

01:14:23.400 puppet?

01:14:25.820 Please discuss

01:14:26.720 The Sound of Freedom.

01:14:27.940 No plans to watch it.

01:14:30.160 I recommend you

01:14:30.940 don't watch it either.

01:14:32.320 Not because it isn't great

01:14:33.840 and not because

01:14:34.460 it isn't important.

01:14:35.260 It's like

01:14:37.380 I'm not going to watch

01:14:38.980 things that are going

01:14:40.080 to bring me down.

01:14:42.600 I get the topic,

01:14:43.900 right?

01:14:44.240 If you understand

01:14:45.080 the topic,

01:14:46.420 I feel like that's enough.

01:14:50.760 All right.

01:14:51.560 I'm in the zeitgeist.

01:14:54.980 Cool pool vacuums?

01:14:56.380 I don't.

01:14:56.860 I wish I did.

01:14:57.460 I wish I did.

01:14:57.500 That's the worst

01:14:59.940 suggestion I've ever

01:15:00.880 heard you make.

01:15:03.560 What would be

01:15:04.580 the counter argument?

01:15:05.780 Give me the counter argument.

01:15:07.180 What's the argument

01:15:07.780 for watching it?

01:15:09.080 If you're aware

01:15:10.140 of the situation,

01:15:12.380 let's say you read

01:15:13.080 about,

01:15:13.560 let's say you read

01:15:14.160 a review

01:15:14.500 or you read an article,

01:15:15.820 what would be

01:15:16.440 the point of

01:15:17.420 suffering through

01:15:18.300 two and a half hours

01:15:19.320 of the worst thing

01:15:20.640 I could imagine?

01:15:21.880 What do you get

01:15:22.640 from that?

01:15:24.620 You need to be

01:15:25.640 talking about it.

01:15:26.360 Now,

01:15:26.600 I'm out.

01:15:27.960 I'm out.

01:15:28.540 I'm tapping out.

01:15:29.640 I'm not going to do

01:15:30.360 every topic.

01:15:32.680 And I'm not going to

01:15:33.500 turn this live stream

01:15:34.940 into that.

01:15:36.580 All right?

01:15:36.900 There are plenty

01:15:37.600 of people working

01:15:38.260 on that and doing

01:15:39.060 a great job.

01:15:40.280 The fact that you're

01:15:41.220 begging me to talk

01:15:42.060 about it tells me

01:15:42.840 you already know

01:15:43.460 about it.

01:15:44.740 You don't need me.

01:15:46.380 All right?

01:15:47.560 Whatever is happening

01:15:48.900 in that domain

01:15:49.680 looks like it's

01:15:50.400 happening exactly

01:15:51.180 the way it should,

01:15:52.640 meaning that somebody

01:15:53.760 made a movie,

01:15:54.480 it's very persuasive,

01:15:55.400 and it's getting

01:15:58.480 tons of attention.

01:16:00.560 You don't need me

01:16:01.640 for this.

01:16:02.560 You would need me

01:16:03.280 if it were getting

01:16:03.960 no attention.

01:16:05.400 And then I'd probably

01:16:06.360 actually have a

01:16:06.900 different opinion.

01:16:08.260 But at the moment,

01:16:09.280 I'm not additive.

01:16:10.640 I would be just

01:16:11.380 one more person

01:16:12.320 to make you think

01:16:13.120 about bad things.

01:16:14.660 And you have enough

01:16:15.560 people making you

01:16:16.280 think about bad stuff.

01:16:17.940 So you don't need me.

01:16:18.960 So I'm not minimizing

01:16:21.360 the problem,

01:16:22.840 and I'm not minimizing

01:16:23.820 the movie.

01:16:24.480 I'm saying it's doing

01:16:25.340 fine just the way it is.

01:16:26.380 It doesn't need

01:16:26.860 any extra help.

01:16:37.240 Scott just says

01:16:38.160 it doesn't exist

01:16:39.020 like they say it is.

01:16:40.660 Have I ever said that?

01:16:41.960 No.

01:16:42.120 So people on YouTube,

01:16:45.400 could you please

01:16:46.800 go to Twitter

01:16:48.240 with the rumors

01:16:49.820 that you're making up

01:16:50.580 about me?

01:16:51.980 Because I don't think

01:16:53.060 enough people

01:16:53.500 are seeing your comments.

01:16:55.160 They're kind of wasted

01:16:56.280 over here on YouTube. 1.00

01:16:58.600 I feel like an idiot 1.00

01:16:59.640 like me. 1.00

01:17:01.200 I mean,

01:17:01.460 you really need

01:17:02.080 to tell me off.

01:17:03.520 Sometimes I just need that.

01:17:05.460 Sometimes I just need

01:17:06.480 to be put in my place,

01:17:07.460 and I know it.

01:17:08.400 I know it.

01:17:08.960 So if you wouldn't mind,

01:17:11.300 the criticisms on YouTube

01:17:12.900 were very well intended

01:17:14.580 and very effective,

01:17:16.020 and I thank you for them.

01:17:17.180 I really think you need

01:17:18.240 a bigger audience for them.

01:17:20.340 So I've got a million followers,

01:17:23.120 close to a million,

01:17:24.340 on Twitter,

01:17:25.400 whereas my live streams

01:17:27.160 are just in the thousands.

01:17:29.880 So if you want that criticism

01:17:31.420 to get the credit

01:17:32.840 that you deserve

01:17:33.940 for really insightful,

01:17:36.380 made-up thoughts,

01:17:37.540 with no connection

01:17:39.800 to reality,

01:17:40.920 I think you deserve

01:17:42.120 a bigger venue.

01:17:43.760 You need a bigger platform.

01:17:45.240 Take that to Twitter.

01:17:46.520 It's at Scott Adams Says,

01:17:49.200 and then under any tweet,

01:17:51.320 it doesn't even have

01:17:52.040 to be on topic.

01:17:53.100 This is the beauty.

01:17:54.400 I could be tweeting

01:17:55.240 about a new building material

01:17:56.680 for your house.

01:17:57.720 You can slip in those comments

01:17:59.080 and tell them that

01:18:00.320 I'm just not as angry 0.91

01:18:02.620 at pedophiles

01:18:03.820 as I should be,

01:18:04.820 and that probably means

01:18:06.780 something, doesn't it?

01:18:08.200 So slip that in there. 0.91

01:18:10.080 Make sure that it's all caps.

01:18:12.440 If you could do me a favor,

01:18:14.300 all caps.

01:18:15.620 Because then I can find it easier.

01:18:17.520 I'll be looking through my comments,

01:18:18.760 looking for the good ones,

01:18:20.100 and I'll be like,

01:18:20.800 bad one, bad one, bad one.

01:18:22.760 Oh, that's a good criticism there.

01:18:25.660 That is nicely done.

01:18:28.280 Crisply put together,

01:18:30.040 well designed.

01:18:31.560 Good for you.

01:18:32.620 Good for you.

01:18:33.180 So all caps will draw me to it.

01:18:35.520 Bigger platform.

01:18:37.480 I would like to see you

01:18:39.160 get the credit that you deserve.

01:18:41.920 Can we all agree on this?

01:18:43.560 I believe my critics

01:18:44.660 have not been getting

01:18:45.440 the platform and the credit

01:18:47.200 that they deserve.

01:18:48.560 Can we all finally agree

01:18:49.980 that I should be criticized

01:18:51.720 far more aggressively?

01:18:54.600 Please.

01:18:56.080 Do it right.

01:18:58.180 All right.

01:19:00.460 Thanks for that.

01:19:01.400 YouTube.

01:19:05.040 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:19:06.420 You're awesome.

01:19:07.740 Well, most of you are.

01:19:10.500 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 14, 2023

Episode 2169 Scott Adams： Musk Pays, Disney Is Dismal, Movies Are Over, Tate Persuades, Tucker Plots

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