Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 09, 2023


Episode 2195 Scott Adams: Separating The Real News From The Absurd Stuff. With Coffee


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Scott Adams is in a bad mood and wants to know if this is a good thing. Plus, the New York Post reports that a bag of cocaine found in the West Wing belongs to someone in the Biden Family Orbital. Is this true or false?

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00:00:00.000 Do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, bum-bum-bum-bum.
00:00:06.920 Good morning, everybody.
00:00:09.040 It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, the greatest thing that's ever happened.
00:00:13.540 A little bit late, but, you know, that's the way the day is going.
00:00:17.580 So, if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody's ever seen before,
00:00:22.020 all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug
00:00:25.720 or a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:29.320 I like coffee.
00:00:31.060 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day,
00:00:35.240 the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:37.600 It's called a simultaneous sip.
00:00:41.120 Go.
00:00:45.360 Ah.
00:00:46.840 Have I ever taught you my trick about how to use a bad day?
00:00:51.500 Does anybody remember that?
00:00:54.700 It's one of the best techniques you'll ever learn.
00:00:59.320 It goes like this.
00:01:00.780 If your day already sucks, you should do the tasks that you don't want to do that would ruin your day.
00:01:08.400 So, I didn't get enough sleep last night.
00:01:10.520 So, I note that I'm in a really crappy mood.
00:01:14.480 So, I'm going to take care of some fucking shit that needed to be taken care of today.
00:01:19.680 Because I have no patience.
00:01:21.920 No patience left whatsoever.
00:01:24.180 I'm at the absolute end of my patience.
00:01:26.340 So, I'm going to get some stuff done today that would be really ugly under normal circumstances.
00:01:33.300 But I'm going to enjoy it.
00:01:35.600 It's the best tip.
00:01:37.260 If you need to do some shit and it's really ugly, just match it with a bad day.
00:01:43.240 You'll actually be fine.
00:01:44.860 You'll enjoy it.
00:01:45.680 So, I'm going to enjoy my day, but not everybody else will.
00:01:52.120 Maui's on fire.
00:01:55.200 Did you ever think about moving to an island?
00:01:57.480 I think about this all the time.
00:02:01.060 I think, you know, I could work anywhere.
00:02:04.500 I could be on an island.
00:02:06.720 But every time I think about living on an island, there's a hurricane or a wildfire or an alligator attack or something.
00:02:15.560 And mentally, I can't get past the idea that I could be on an island in the middle of the Pacific or wherever.
00:02:24.340 And I couldn't get off the island, and my 911 was down.
00:02:29.780 That's what's happening in Maui.
00:02:31.760 So, in Maui right now, they don't have phone service or 911, and the island's on fire.
00:02:37.700 I mean, in terms of square footage, it's not that much.
00:02:40.880 But, all right.
00:02:44.260 I don't know.
00:02:45.040 I just, I can't convince myself that it's safe to be on an island more than, you know, two weeks, which is great.
00:02:53.020 Prisoner Island, a whole different situation.
00:02:55.480 All right.
00:02:55.680 So, today's theme is everything is corrupt everywhere and everybody's lying.
00:03:02.400 Although, I feel like that's usually the theme.
00:03:05.840 It's not that different.
00:03:09.400 So, here's some stories on that.
00:03:12.200 And we'll try to figure out which ones are true and which ones are false.
00:03:16.460 All right.
00:03:16.660 So, true and false.
00:03:20.840 Let me ask you on locals.
00:03:22.520 Can you really not tell when I'm already private?
00:03:25.820 Do you have no way to tell?
00:03:30.440 You can't tell?
00:03:32.280 All right.
00:03:34.580 Do me a favor.
00:03:36.220 After the first two or three times you tell me that you want me to go private, don't do it anymore.
00:03:41.580 Because I just, I'm looking at them and they're just distractions after that.
00:03:45.260 I know you're trying to help.
00:03:47.040 I know you're trying to help.
00:03:48.480 Remember, I'm in a bad mood.
00:03:50.540 It's not helping.
00:03:53.500 It's hurting.
00:03:55.020 Right?
00:03:55.640 It makes me just want to turn it off.
00:03:58.200 The first one, fine.
00:03:59.940 If it looks like I didn't see it, just let it go.
00:04:03.100 Just let it go.
00:04:04.420 It's not helping me.
00:04:05.420 It's hurting me.
00:04:06.080 Okay?
00:04:09.080 So, the New York Post is reporting that the bag of cocaine that was found in the West Wing
00:04:15.020 belonged to somebody in the Biden family orbit.
00:04:20.300 And the president apparently knows who it is.
00:04:23.040 All right.
00:04:23.340 Without reading the story, true or false?
00:04:26.920 Does that sound like real news or fake news?
00:04:30.300 Without even reading the details of the story, I'm going to say fake news.
00:04:38.320 Yeah.
00:04:38.540 If I had to bet on it, I'd say fake news.
00:04:42.380 Because what does it mean to be in the Biden family orbit?
00:04:49.320 Seriously?
00:04:54.680 All right.
00:04:55.580 Let me take care of this business right now.
00:04:58.440 I told you.
00:04:59.160 I'm just going to take care of everything that's...
00:05:05.160 All right.
00:05:07.320 Enough of that.
00:05:13.520 So, yeah, that's probably fake news.
00:05:15.380 The problem is that the Biden family orbit is too big of a category.
00:05:20.040 Don't you think?
00:05:21.900 Isn't everybody who goes into the White House and would be in a...
00:05:25.580 If you're in a non-normal part of the White House,
00:05:30.320 you're going to have some connection to the Biden family or orbit or something.
00:05:35.740 So, I don't know.
00:05:36.620 I think that's a...
00:05:37.820 That just doesn't feel real.
00:05:39.980 All right.
00:05:40.660 Jamie Raskin, representative, Democrat.
00:05:43.000 He's saying that Hunter was trying to divert money to accounts of family members,
00:05:48.440 but that didn't involve Joe.
00:05:50.000 Is that real news or fake news?
00:05:56.000 That the money coming from, I don't know, Ukraine and China didn't go into Joe's accounts.
00:06:04.640 It went into family members.
00:06:06.800 Yeah, that's probably technically true, but also intentionally misleading.
00:06:19.440 So, I'm going to say that was not true.
00:06:22.220 Here's a beauty.
00:06:24.000 How many of you heard this one?
00:06:25.400 That after Vice President Biden helped pressure the Ukrainians to get rid of the prosecutor,
00:06:36.540 I've got to turn this off.
00:06:42.860 That the new prosecutor that the Ukrainians got was somehow connected to the Bidens.
00:06:50.020 The next person who got the job had ties to Hunter Biden.
00:07:01.880 Yeah, I'm going to go with true, but be careful about ties, too.
00:07:09.340 One of the things the news always does is it can find a tie to anything.
00:07:15.220 Do you know how many times I've been tied to things?
00:07:17.440 Just imagine, as a public figure, how many times have I been associated with, tied to, connected with,
00:07:28.600 working with, talked to, communicated with, once said something to, included in a tweet, retweeted.
00:07:36.460 That's what the news does.
00:07:37.720 So, the news likes to slime you by association.
00:07:41.360 What are the odds that the high-powered Hunter machine didn't also have connections to lots of other high-powered people?
00:07:52.300 They probably did.
00:07:53.480 But this one seems so suspicious.
00:07:57.140 I'm going to go probably true.
00:08:00.120 Anybody agree?
00:08:02.160 Probably true.
00:08:03.900 There's a tie.
00:08:05.220 Now, how important that tie is, who knows?
00:08:11.080 But it's certainly alarming.
00:08:12.800 Probably true.
00:08:15.060 Here's a Newsweek headline by Max Abrams.
00:08:19.660 Does Ukraine have compromat on Joe Biden?
00:08:23.780 It's an opinion piece.
00:08:25.160 Does Ukraine have compromat?
00:08:26.700 So, in other words, does Ukraine have some blackmail material on Joe Biden?
00:08:31.800 Well, I read the article to find out the details of why this would be suggested.
00:08:37.420 And after several minutes of reading the article talking about Trump, I got bored.
00:08:42.420 And I never really got to anything about Joe Biden and compromat.
00:08:45.840 I don't know if it's in the article.
00:08:48.280 I only know it's in the title.
00:08:50.080 And I know I got really, really bored before I got to the part about Biden.
00:08:55.080 So, let's judge this without reading it, because I don't think it made any difference.
00:08:59.060 It's just an opinion piece.
00:09:01.800 I would only say it's interesting.
00:09:05.400 It's only interesting in the sense that it's a Newsweek headline.
00:09:11.600 There's a headline in Newsweek, which suggests that at least it's a worthy question.
00:09:17.580 It's a worthy enough question to be a headline.
00:09:20.900 I would say it's probably the most important question right now.
00:09:26.900 And there's a weird lack of interest in it.
00:09:31.940 What would be more important than knowing if Ukraine owned the U.S. president in the context of an ongoing war?
00:09:40.340 What's the second most important thing after that?
00:09:44.140 You know, in terms of questions that we don't understand the answer to?
00:09:47.040 I feel like that's right at the top.
00:09:51.780 Right at the top.
00:09:53.340 And total lack of interest.
00:09:55.780 Have you seen CNN or even...
00:09:59.400 I haven't even seen Fox News say,
00:10:02.640 how do we know there's no blackmail potential going on there?
00:10:07.740 I suppose there's always blackmail potential, but more than usual in this case?
00:10:11.540 Well, we'll see.
00:10:17.680 There's a story about Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elena Chow.
00:10:24.900 Now, his wife has connections to a big Chinese shipping company.
00:10:29.140 I think her father owns it.
00:10:31.240 And there's a suggestion that the McConnells have made money with their high-level connections to China.
00:10:39.660 Now, this one's a tough one.
00:10:42.220 If you ask me, is anything illegal happening here,
00:10:45.680 I would say I'm not aware of it.
00:10:49.100 But I also heard Devin Archer talk about Hunter Daniels' operation,
00:10:54.140 and I couldn't really tell that anything was illegal about that.
00:10:58.180 It might be, but, I mean, it's not obviously, drippingly, clearly true.
00:11:05.040 It looks like Hunter was probably smart enough to set up a structure
00:11:09.260 where there'd be some gray area, and if he ever got in trouble, he could get out.
00:11:13.660 So, is the Mitch McConnell situation one of those legal but gray areas
00:11:18.720 where there's, you know, influence and connections,
00:11:22.260 and probably it did help some people, but is it illegal?
00:11:26.400 Is it illegal to know people?
00:11:27.980 Is it illegal to give a better deal to somebody that you know?
00:11:32.640 Well, it might not be ethical.
00:11:34.540 It might not be ideal.
00:11:35.780 It might not be what you want your leaders to be involved in.
00:11:39.280 But it might not be illegal.
00:11:40.640 So, I would say this is in the category of probably true
00:11:45.940 that the McConnells benefited financially.
00:11:52.340 But if you're married to, if you're fully disclosed
00:11:58.180 that you're married to somebody who's got a disconnection
00:12:01.240 to the Chinese government,
00:12:03.080 I feel like that's about as much disclosure as you need.
00:12:07.040 Because wouldn't you make every assumption that you needed to make
00:12:11.420 about his marriage and its connection to China?
00:12:15.280 I mean, you would just assume that there's some influence.
00:12:18.720 But it is transparent.
00:12:20.960 And it's not illegal to marry somebody who grew up in China.
00:12:25.260 So, this one's a real weird one.
00:12:28.460 Because he's probably legal.
00:12:31.700 Probably.
00:12:33.040 But I don't like it.
00:12:35.100 Right?
00:12:35.280 It just raises too many questions.
00:12:38.480 And, you know, maybe it made sense
00:12:40.440 when he was operating at the top of his game.
00:12:43.520 But now he's just, you know, he's turned to Feinstein, Fetterman.
00:12:48.600 You know, he's just a zombie walking around there.
00:12:51.280 So, I'm not sure it makes sense at the moment.
00:12:54.600 You know, maybe you were getting enough benefit
00:12:56.340 from his high level of good work, some would say,
00:13:00.420 that, you know, you can ignore
00:13:02.320 that there might be a connection that's a problem.
00:13:05.920 But if he's completely, you know, out of it,
00:13:09.480 and there's a problem,
00:13:12.480 maybe it's time to look for a safer situation.
00:13:15.440 Somebody who doesn't have that connection.
00:13:16.760 So, but nothing illegal, obviously, as far as I can tell.
00:13:22.520 But I don't like it.
00:13:24.220 All right, how about this story most of you saw if you were on Twitter,
00:13:27.820 which I call X.
00:13:31.120 The Gateway Pundit reported this headline,
00:13:34.400 and you're going to tell me if you think it's true or false.
00:13:37.100 Now we have proof.
00:13:38.620 And it's in capital letters, folks.
00:13:40.720 Capital letters.
00:13:41.360 Now we have proof.
00:13:43.480 It's the Gateway Pundit exclusive.
00:13:46.920 So, the other thing you need to know
00:13:48.580 is that the other entities are not reporting this.
00:13:51.900 Massive 2020 voter fraud uncovered in Michigan,
00:13:57.500 including estimated 800,000 ballot applications
00:14:01.160 sent to non-qualified voters,
00:14:04.180 bags of prepaid gift cards, guns and silencers,
00:14:07.360 burner phones, and a Democrat-funded organization
00:14:09.600 with multiple temporary facilities in several states.
00:14:14.400 True or false?
00:14:17.100 Is there really obvious and gigantic voter fraud from 2020
00:14:21.400 with lots of details and numbers,
00:14:24.680 and it's proved?
00:14:26.420 True or false?
00:14:31.340 Is Fox News reporting it?
00:14:34.100 Did you see a big Fox News story on the same story?
00:14:37.620 Let's check.
00:14:38.200 Let's call it the Fox News site.
00:14:46.280 And so this is one of my techniques.
00:14:49.740 If something has at least got evidence,
00:14:53.900 Fox News is going to cover it.
00:14:57.900 Let's see.
00:15:00.740 More about the...
00:15:02.500 It doesn't look like it.
00:15:03.880 All right, so I'm looking for Michigan 2020.
00:15:12.460 Nope.
00:15:16.200 Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
00:15:17.860 Looks like they don't cover it.
00:15:20.100 So this would indicate that
00:15:22.680 the Fox News is not convinced.
00:15:27.600 Because I think you would agree,
00:15:29.960 since it's not a story about voting machines,
00:15:31.940 it's a story about an individual and an organization.
00:15:36.060 So if they thought it was even a little bit true,
00:15:38.100 they'd probably report it, don't you think?
00:15:40.220 How about Breitbart?
00:15:43.600 Breitbart.
00:15:44.840 What do you think?
00:15:47.380 Actually, can somebody look for that while I'm doing that?
00:15:49.540 Check Breitbart, see if they're reporting it as true.
00:15:51.820 I'll tell you one thing about the story.
00:15:57.820 The headline, the details in the headline,
00:16:00.800 are not in the body of the story.
00:16:04.980 The 800,000 ballot applications,
00:16:07.740 it's in the headline.
00:16:09.700 It's not in the story.
00:16:11.220 Now that's what CNN said when they fact-checked it.
00:16:13.840 So Fox News is silent on it.
00:16:17.540 CNN fact-checked it and said,
00:16:19.300 the story doesn't even have the headline.
00:16:22.000 The headline and the story don't even match.
00:16:23.980 Now, do you think that CNN is good at spotting
00:16:26.640 situations where the story doesn't match the headline?
00:16:30.980 It's basically their business model.
00:16:33.420 How many times have I sat here in exactly this place
00:16:36.400 and said, all right, here's the headline on CNN,
00:16:39.240 and it doesn't match the story?
00:16:41.580 It's a very common thing.
00:16:42.560 It's not just CNN, by the way.
00:16:43.820 All right, so I got a confirmation in the story
00:16:47.180 about this alleged proven massive voter fraud
00:16:50.700 is not even on Breitbart, which is not there.
00:16:55.200 So the only one that carried it was debunking it.
00:16:58.200 So CNN mentioned it, debunked it.
00:17:01.780 Fox News, silent.
00:17:03.240 Breitbart, silent.
00:17:06.120 All right, so I'll ask this question again.
00:17:08.680 Now, knowing that the explosive details part
00:17:11.820 is not in the body of the story.
00:17:14.780 What do you say?
00:17:15.840 True story or fake story?
00:17:19.040 Fake news or real news?
00:17:22.500 I'm going to go with probably fake.
00:17:26.680 I'll give this 80%, at least 80% fake.
00:17:32.300 20%, who knows?
00:17:34.140 Anything is possible.
00:17:35.420 Now, let me be clear.
00:17:36.720 Remember my position from the very first day
00:17:40.860 that the 2020 election got some questions.
00:17:44.440 From day one, I told you that whether or not
00:17:47.960 there was any fraud, which I had no way of knowing,
00:17:52.340 there would be plenty of reports of fraud,
00:17:55.380 and that at least, at the very least,
00:17:58.320 95% of the reports would be fake.
00:18:00.760 At the very least.
00:18:02.020 How did I do?
00:18:02.700 How is my estimate that 95% of the reports
00:18:07.280 would be untrue and clearly easy to prove untrue,
00:18:12.000 whereas that says nothing about whether or not
00:18:14.660 there was fraud, right?
00:18:16.660 So, given that I have the smartest audience
00:18:19.580 in all of politics,
00:18:21.620 I think you guys can handle the fact
00:18:24.080 that we don't know if there's any fraud.
00:18:26.400 We do know that 95% of the attacks were unsuccessful.
00:18:34.800 All right.
00:18:36.000 Next story.
00:18:38.200 This one is weird because I can't tell
00:18:40.180 if it's old or new,
00:18:41.480 but Marjorie Taylor Greene, Representative Greene,
00:18:44.040 says that they've got now more evidence
00:18:46.900 or new evidence that the Bidens got paid $20 million.
00:18:51.220 They've got new bank statements
00:18:52.640 show money coming from Russia, Kazakhstan,
00:18:54.920 and, of course, Ukraine.
00:18:57.660 And as MTG points out,
00:19:00.340 Biden doesn't sell,
00:19:01.700 the Bidens don't sell any kind of product or service,
00:19:04.480 so that's a pretty sketchy situation.
00:19:07.540 Now, is anybody having the same issue
00:19:10.340 I am with this story?
00:19:12.100 I can't tell if this is the same story
00:19:14.920 that just gets retold every few days,
00:19:18.500 or are they really finding new evidence
00:19:21.880 of a new and different $20 million?
00:19:25.640 Which is it?
00:19:27.840 A whole new $20 million?
00:19:29.660 Or the same millions that they were looking at before
00:19:32.840 and now they have more evidence?
00:19:34.800 I can't tell.
00:19:36.520 Does anybody know the answer to that?
00:19:39.040 If you don't...
00:19:40.100 Somebody says same and somebody says new.
00:19:42.420 There's my point.
00:19:44.120 Right?
00:19:44.260 So the claim is that there's $20 million
00:19:47.840 paid from these three countries
00:19:49.620 and there are bank statements that show it.
00:19:52.700 So some are saying new,
00:19:54.020 some are saying it's new and old.
00:19:56.340 So I think I made my point.
00:19:59.060 We can't tell when there's a report of new corruption
00:20:02.920 because there's so much past and existing stories.
00:20:08.540 There's so many fake news stories about corruption,
00:20:10.840 but also probably some real ones.
00:20:13.820 The field of news became so dense in the last week
00:20:18.820 that I can't tell what's true.
00:20:21.440 I don't know.
00:20:21.960 Is this an old story or a new story?
00:20:23.660 I don't know.
00:20:24.400 They all look the same.
00:20:26.320 I almost feel like it's intentional
00:20:28.440 because yesterday, last night before I went to bed,
00:20:32.180 I was just scrolling through the news
00:20:33.640 and it all had the same nature,
00:20:36.720 which is there was a big scandal,
00:20:39.500 it was kind of complicated,
00:20:41.560 has something to do with the Bidens.
00:20:44.080 I'm not sure if I've ever seen it before.
00:20:47.180 And I was just flooded with them
00:20:49.020 until I was losing my sense
00:20:51.300 of what had already been debunked,
00:20:54.340 what was new, what was old,
00:20:57.480 and what was important.
00:20:59.920 There's so much of it
00:21:01.260 that all of it seemed unimportant in my brain.
00:21:05.480 Did anybody have that feeling?
00:21:06.720 If you had one really powerful story
00:21:11.120 about the Bidens, and only one,
00:21:13.800 your brain would say,
00:21:14.840 well, that's important.
00:21:16.680 And every time somebody brought up Biden,
00:21:18.300 you'd say, well, but that one thing,
00:21:20.420 that one thing is really big,
00:21:22.200 looks like it's true.
00:21:23.920 But there are now so many varied stories
00:21:28.000 about Biden bad behavior,
00:21:30.620 you know, and some Biden family member or Biden,
00:21:33.340 that I'm not even sure I can sort them out anymore.
00:21:35.700 My brain has decided
00:21:37.220 that they can't be important.
00:21:41.040 Even though my rational brain says,
00:21:43.060 of course they are.
00:21:44.560 Not only are they important,
00:21:45.880 there's a lot of stuff that looks important there.
00:21:48.620 But my brain can't handle it.
00:21:50.400 So my brain is saying,
00:21:51.800 oh, blah, blah, blah, Biden every day?
00:21:54.380 That's all I need to know.
00:21:55.560 There's people saying, blah, blah, blah, Biden.
00:21:57.880 And then my brain says,
00:21:59.540 it's too much to think about,
00:22:01.740 so I'll just think about my own day.
00:22:03.700 I won't think about that.
00:22:06.320 Are you having anything like that feeling?
00:22:09.640 Now, maybe I get more of it
00:22:11.080 because I'm actually looking for the headlines
00:22:12.720 and looking for patterns and stuff.
00:22:14.360 But I feel overwhelmed
00:22:15.880 by the quantity of accusations
00:22:18.740 such that none of them seem important in my mind.
00:22:22.620 And I want to be very clear about this nuance.
00:22:27.340 My rational brain,
00:22:28.560 my rational brain knows it's critically important.
00:22:32.080 Critically.
00:22:33.240 Critically important.
00:22:34.680 I mean, maybe the most important thing is happening.
00:22:37.280 You don't even know if the Ukraine war is legitimate
00:22:39.640 in the sense that somebody thought it was a good idea.
00:22:43.300 It might just be a cover-up.
00:22:45.380 It could be.
00:22:45.960 I mean, these are really, really big questions.
00:22:49.380 But they're so big and so many
00:22:51.160 that I'm going to forget about them
00:22:53.420 as soon as we're done here.
00:22:55.200 If I didn't have them written down,
00:22:57.180 I couldn't even list them in an hour.
00:22:59.680 It's just too much.
00:23:01.140 My brain's full.
00:23:02.440 I don't know if this is intentional.
00:23:04.480 Do you?
00:23:06.260 Is it just because it's the political season,
00:23:08.700 just a coincidence?
00:23:09.900 Or is it some kind of op?
00:23:11.440 Like, are we being played somehow
00:23:13.860 to be just exhausted on all these charges
00:23:17.120 until they don't seem important?
00:23:20.300 I don't know.
00:23:20.860 Just a question.
00:23:22.240 Here's another one.
00:23:24.000 Michael Schellenberger is following up.
00:23:26.040 We already knew the White House
00:23:27.080 was pressuring Facebook
00:23:28.160 to censor the vaccine skeptics.
00:23:31.900 But apparently they had several ways they did it.
00:23:35.500 There was something that needed to be negotiated
00:23:37.760 with Europe that Facebook needed.
00:23:39.580 So it was vitally important
00:23:41.780 that they made the government happy.
00:23:43.640 Facebook thought they might be retaliated against.
00:23:46.860 That's bad.
00:23:48.200 Then they have that,
00:23:49.100 what is it, the Rule 230 protection
00:23:51.940 that the government could rescind?
00:23:54.560 So that's always an implied threat
00:23:56.200 over the social platforms.
00:23:59.520 But the newest report
00:24:00.980 is that the White House was under pressure from...
00:24:03.580 And just see if your outraged mind
00:24:09.300 has any room for this.
00:24:11.400 All right?
00:24:11.740 Your brain is full of outrage.
00:24:14.440 See if there's even room for it.
00:24:17.340 The White House was under pressure
00:24:19.160 from the news media.
00:24:21.060 That's the report.
00:24:22.800 That the New York Times
00:24:24.420 and maybe others
00:24:25.480 were pressuring Facebook
00:24:27.420 to censor.
00:24:30.100 Now, I don't know how much
00:24:32.900 that pressure mattered.
00:24:35.780 So, but when I hear it,
00:24:37.320 like, my head wants to explode,
00:24:39.380 but there are so many things in my head
00:24:41.300 that makes it want to explode,
00:24:43.120 I've discounted them all,
00:24:44.760 including this one.
00:24:46.300 In an hour, I won't remember this.
00:24:48.820 I will not remember the story in an hour.
00:24:52.260 But it looks like it's kind of important.
00:24:54.980 I don't know if it's, you know,
00:24:56.120 if there's any details,
00:24:57.760 I don't know about it,
00:24:58.620 but it's too much.
00:25:01.320 All right, here's one.
00:25:03.640 Portland jury finds Antifa militants
00:25:05.980 not liable in the Andy Ngo attack.
00:25:09.220 Now, I wasn't on the jury,
00:25:13.340 but haven't we seen videos
00:25:15.180 that clearly show these people attacking him?
00:25:19.320 Am I imagining that?
00:25:21.860 Did I imagine it was clearly on video
00:25:24.080 and there's no question about
00:25:25.360 who the individuals were
00:25:26.640 and there doesn't seem to be any question
00:25:28.900 about what they did?
00:25:32.820 Does this look like jury nullification to you?
00:25:36.820 Kind of does, doesn't it?
00:25:38.220 It looks like the jury just decided
00:25:39.800 to ignore the law.
00:25:42.060 Do you know that the defense attorney
00:25:45.200 proudly said she was a member of Antifa?
00:25:49.920 How many of the people in the jury
00:25:51.380 were sympathetic to Antifa?
00:25:53.300 Antifa or thought they would be hurt
00:25:56.420 if they didn't vote a certain way?
00:25:59.020 How many of them were just afraid
00:26:00.320 of the defendants
00:26:01.940 or the defendants' organizations?
00:26:04.480 Don't know.
00:26:05.420 But we do know it doesn't look like
00:26:07.240 the justice system works.
00:26:10.160 I would say our justice system
00:26:11.620 is just fundamentally broken at this point
00:26:14.360 from top to bottom,
00:26:16.480 from presidents to Andy Ngo.
00:26:19.180 It looks like it's broken
00:26:20.720 from top to bottom.
00:26:22.860 I hate to say that.
00:26:26.400 But the evidence is sort of mounting.
00:26:31.140 All right.
00:26:33.440 There's a Democrat politician in D.C.
00:26:37.960 a young black man
00:26:41.340 who looked pretty sharp.
00:26:45.500 I'd have to say.
00:26:46.180 I'm going to give him good grades
00:26:49.320 for doing what he's doing,
00:26:51.300 which is Treyon White,
00:26:53.440 is his name.
00:26:54.800 And he's calling on the National Guard
00:26:56.520 to help address the rampant violent crime
00:26:58.640 in the nation's capital.
00:27:00.300 Now, I don't know if there's anything else
00:27:02.180 this D.C. councilman has done
00:27:04.520 that you don't like.
00:27:05.860 So, you know,
00:27:06.920 don't jump on me
00:27:08.220 if there's some other thing
00:27:09.480 in his past that you don't like.
00:27:10.780 I don't know that there is.
00:27:12.160 But I love the fact
00:27:15.020 that he lives there
00:27:16.080 and he says it's an emergency
00:27:18.760 and we've got to treat it
00:27:20.320 like an emergency.
00:27:22.460 I like it.
00:27:23.700 But it also tells you
00:27:25.120 that, you know,
00:27:26.420 the defunding the police
00:27:27.580 and the prosecutors
00:27:29.580 that are too liberal
00:27:30.580 and all that
00:27:31.160 have destroyed D.C.
00:27:33.860 I mean, didn't Trump say
00:27:35.580 it's turned into a,
00:27:36.460 basically, a garbage pit?
00:27:39.240 So, is D.C. the only city
00:27:41.080 that's dying?
00:27:42.920 No.
00:27:43.800 San Francisco reports
00:27:45.040 that Nordstrom
00:27:45.860 has closed their two locations.
00:27:49.020 Yeah, Target has locked up
00:27:50.320 all their products,
00:27:51.160 Whole Foods,
00:27:51.960 getting out of town.
00:27:57.020 So,
00:27:57.500 X might be the only company
00:28:00.760 left after a while.
00:28:02.020 But I would add this
00:28:03.480 to the story.
00:28:04.020 I think the story
00:28:04.600 might be a little alarmist
00:28:06.160 in the sense
00:28:06.900 that Nordstrom closed
00:28:08.940 in my town
00:28:09.740 a long time ago.
00:28:11.820 So, you know,
00:28:12.780 I live in a high-end
00:28:13.960 suburb of San Francisco
00:28:15.900 and
00:28:17.260 our Nordstrom
00:28:18.960 went out of business
00:28:19.780 a year ago
00:28:21.480 and
00:28:23.340 I think this is more
00:28:25.200 to do with retail.
00:28:27.040 I think Nordstrom
00:28:28.120 just wasn't supportable
00:28:29.440 and I think that
00:28:31.160 Target
00:28:31.920 needs to be
00:28:35.420 an online company.
00:28:37.640 Why do you go
00:28:38.480 into the store
00:28:39.060 to buy anything
00:28:39.660 at Target?
00:28:42.020 Like,
00:28:42.540 what would even be
00:28:43.040 the purpose
00:28:43.700 of going into a store
00:28:44.780 unless you had
00:28:46.020 to pay cash,
00:28:46.680 I guess?
00:28:49.020 But,
00:28:49.520 so maybe it's
00:28:50.940 because of San Francisco
00:28:52.020 and the crime
00:28:53.460 but maybe these businesses
00:28:54.780 were not viable
00:28:55.600 anyway.
00:28:56.820 I don't think
00:28:57.680 Nordstrom was viable
00:28:59.780 in the long run
00:29:01.120 but of course
00:29:02.340 the looting
00:29:02.800 had to
00:29:03.240 take a toll.
00:29:05.820 Alright,
00:29:06.440 there was a big
00:29:07.160 electric bus company
00:29:08.320 that was going to be
00:29:09.180 changing the world
00:29:10.740 and
00:29:11.080 saving us
00:29:12.040 from climate change,
00:29:12.920 I guess.
00:29:13.720 And it was
00:29:14.300 touted by
00:29:15.020 Kamala Harris
00:29:16.160 and Biden
00:29:16.880 and now
00:29:18.040 they're out of business
00:29:18.920 and
00:29:19.340 some are saying
00:29:21.200 it was a pump
00:29:21.720 and dump scheme
00:29:22.420 and it was never real
00:29:23.380 and
00:29:23.800 all the top Democrats
00:29:25.740 were involved
00:29:26.380 and money is missing
00:29:27.280 and
00:29:27.900 it's basically
00:29:28.980 every accusation
00:29:29.920 you imagine.
00:29:30.980 But the other possibility
00:29:32.120 is
00:29:32.660 startups
00:29:33.960 go out of business.
00:29:36.740 What do you think?
00:29:38.080 Do you think
00:29:38.840 that this bus company
00:29:40.260 was always
00:29:41.580 is just
00:29:42.060 a play
00:29:42.960 although
00:29:44.020 it was just
00:29:44.560 a scam
00:29:44.980 from the start
00:29:45.600 or
00:29:46.280 do you think
00:29:47.440 it was
00:29:47.880 a startup
00:29:48.640 and it just
00:29:49.160 didn't work out?
00:29:51.600 Don't know.
00:29:53.100 Don't know.
00:29:53.980 My guess
00:29:54.740 yeah,
00:29:55.360 there you go.
00:29:56.160 My guess is both.
00:29:58.040 Because
00:29:58.520 if you've been
00:29:59.420 involved with
00:30:00.140 any kind of
00:30:00.880 business startup
00:30:02.400 there is
00:30:04.400 always that
00:30:04.940 scammy phase.
00:30:06.000 there's that
00:30:08.240 phase where
00:30:08.980 you know
00:30:09.860 the startup
00:30:10.500 is wondering
00:30:11.500 well
00:30:12.040 we can't
00:30:13.220 exactly do
00:30:14.020 what we claimed
00:30:14.780 but I'm pretty
00:30:16.320 sure we can
00:30:16.920 if we get
00:30:17.280 a little bit
00:30:17.700 more money.
00:30:18.680 We're like
00:30:19.100 really close.
00:30:20.760 So I feel
00:30:21.460 like
00:30:21.720 the
00:30:22.820 distinction
00:30:23.700 between
00:30:24.320 scam
00:30:24.980 and optimism
00:30:25.960 is actually
00:30:27.620 too overlapping
00:30:28.560 to
00:30:29.080 call it out.
00:30:31.440 If we didn't
00:30:32.360 have people
00:30:32.900 over promising
00:30:33.760 and saying
00:30:34.420 they can do
00:30:35.100 things they
00:30:35.560 can't do
00:30:36.020 we wouldn't
00:30:37.360 do nearly
00:30:37.860 as many
00:30:38.220 things as
00:30:38.680 we do.
00:30:40.200 So
00:30:40.520 while you
00:30:41.380 don't like
00:30:41.960 it when
00:30:42.240 people
00:30:42.520 lie to you
00:30:43.620 it does
00:30:44.980 kind of
00:30:45.380 drive the
00:30:45.820 economy.
00:30:47.500 You know
00:30:47.600 the optimism
00:30:48.540 is what
00:30:49.280 formed the
00:30:50.320 company
00:30:50.680 brought in
00:30:51.420 money.
00:30:52.220 The optimism
00:30:52.820 is what
00:30:53.300 caused them
00:30:53.840 to pay
00:30:54.760 their vendors
00:30:55.400 and think
00:30:56.280 they were
00:30:56.600 in business.
00:30:57.480 So it
00:30:58.160 did create
00:30:58.620 a bunch
00:30:58.880 of economic
00:30:59.380 opportunity
00:31:00.000 even in
00:31:01.440 failing.
00:31:01.740 so
00:31:03.240 weirdly
00:31:04.160 we have
00:31:04.580 an economy
00:31:05.080 that is
00:31:05.720 mostly
00:31:06.080 failure
00:31:06.580 and it
00:31:07.460 works
00:31:07.680 fine
00:31:08.020 because
00:31:08.800 most
00:31:09.080 companies
00:31:09.460 go out
00:31:09.720 of
00:31:09.800 business
00:31:10.160 most
00:31:10.900 eventually.
00:31:12.540 So it's
00:31:12.760 a big
00:31:13.020 old
00:31:13.280 failure
00:31:13.920 driven
00:31:14.400 economy
00:31:15.400 and because
00:31:16.860 of the
00:31:17.100 free market
00:31:17.520 it works.
00:31:18.180 You don't
00:31:18.400 need too
00:31:18.820 many things
00:31:19.280 to succeed
00:31:19.900 big
00:31:20.320 before the
00:31:21.500 average
00:31:21.820 looks pretty
00:31:22.340 good.
00:31:23.300 So I
00:31:23.760 don't know
00:31:23.980 I guess
00:31:25.080 I wouldn't
00:31:25.560 assume
00:31:26.220 corruption
00:31:27.060 here except
00:31:27.920 that we
00:31:28.300 live in a
00:31:28.740 world where
00:31:29.200 everything seems
00:31:29.940 to be corrupt
00:31:30.580 at the
00:31:30.940 moment.
00:31:31.740 Zuby
00:31:34.020 I'm sure
00:31:35.060 you all
00:31:35.340 follow
00:31:35.620 Zuby
00:31:36.300 on X
00:31:37.520 he tweeted
00:31:40.060 but I call
00:31:40.740 it posting
00:31:41.220 because it's
00:31:41.800 not really
00:31:42.160 Twitter
00:31:42.420 that what
00:31:44.300 were those
00:31:45.140 other 80%
00:31:46.000 of Twitter
00:31:46.440 staff doing?
00:31:48.200 Do you
00:31:48.860 remember when
00:31:49.360 all the smart
00:31:50.040 Democrats
00:31:50.840 said that
00:31:52.400 Musk 0.77
00:31:53.600 he must
00:31:54.500 have been
00:31:54.840 just the
00:31:55.920 worst
00:31:56.320 manager?
00:31:58.080 I mean
00:31:58.400 Musk must 1.00
00:31:59.100 have made
00:31:59.360 such a
00:31:59.900 big
00:32:00.520 management
00:32:01.540 mistake
00:32:02.100 to get
00:32:02.480 rid of
00:32:02.780 80%
00:32:03.320 of his
00:32:03.580 staff
00:32:03.860 because
00:32:04.200 how could
00:32:05.980 a company
00:32:06.420 possibly
00:32:07.500 function
00:32:08.140 without 80%
00:32:09.860 of its
00:32:10.160 people suddenly?
00:32:12.880 Turns out
00:32:13.660 the answer
00:32:14.120 is it
00:32:15.040 can innovate
00:32:15.760 faster
00:32:16.400 am I right?
00:32:18.800 Is the
00:32:19.440 innovation at
00:32:20.300 Twitter
00:32:20.620 greater or
00:32:21.960 less?
00:32:23.260 What would
00:32:23.660 you say?
00:32:24.000 I believe
00:32:26.440 I've seen
00:32:26.960 more changes
00:32:27.660 on Twitter
00:32:28.320 now X
00:32:29.660 than at
00:32:30.800 any time
00:32:31.360 in the
00:32:31.720 past.
00:32:32.940 It was
00:32:33.380 the greatest
00:32:33.980 innovative
00:32:35.220 surge.
00:32:36.520 Do you
00:32:37.040 know why
00:32:37.600 there was
00:32:38.660 a great
00:32:39.000 innovative
00:32:39.460 surge?
00:32:41.300 Well
00:32:41.560 several
00:32:42.120 reasons.
00:32:43.440 Elon of
00:32:44.440 course is a
00:32:45.080 driver of
00:32:45.720 innovation
00:32:46.220 so that's
00:32:46.780 automatic.
00:32:47.240 But I
00:32:49.520 think that
00:32:49.920 getting rid
00:32:50.380 of 80%
00:32:51.460 of the
00:32:51.760 staff was
00:32:52.500 a big
00:32:53.340 big part
00:32:54.160 of what
00:32:55.400 could make
00:32:55.920 Twitter or
00:32:57.180 X
00:32:57.520 innovate
00:32:58.200 faster.
00:32:59.520 Have you
00:32:59.940 ever worked
00:33:00.320 at a big
00:33:00.640 company?
00:33:02.420 Here's a
00:33:02.980 big company.
00:33:04.320 Engineer
00:33:04.760 comes in
00:33:05.380 makes a
00:33:05.760 presentation
00:33:06.220 to the
00:33:06.560 boss.
00:33:07.320 Boss
00:33:07.700 says why
00:33:08.220 don't you
00:33:08.460 socialize
00:33:09.060 that with
00:33:09.600 marketing
00:33:10.160 and sales
00:33:10.960 and five
00:33:12.200 other
00:33:12.440 departments
00:33:13.000 talk to
00:33:14.040 the lawyers
00:33:14.760 and then
00:33:15.680 you do
00:33:15.960 that and
00:33:16.400 what happens?
00:33:17.920 Every one
00:33:18.480 of those
00:33:18.800 entities
00:33:19.140 tells you
00:33:19.640 you can't
00:33:20.100 do it
00:33:20.440 and they
00:33:20.700 have a
00:33:20.900 different
00:33:21.080 reason.
00:33:21.960 Well
00:33:22.300 that's
00:33:22.560 probably
00:33:22.820 a legal
00:33:23.180 problem.
00:33:24.320 Well
00:33:24.680 we can't
00:33:25.300 market that.
00:33:26.480 Well
00:33:26.740 we can't
00:33:27.240 sell that.
00:33:28.360 Well
00:33:28.580 we're
00:33:28.840 busy
00:33:29.080 with other
00:33:29.440 things.
00:33:30.220 Well
00:33:30.440 the budget
00:33:31.000 isn't
00:33:32.760 there for
00:33:33.080 that.
00:33:33.620 Well
00:33:33.800 you better
00:33:34.240 submit your
00:33:35.560 budget with
00:33:36.040 all the
00:33:36.320 others.
00:33:37.300 So
00:33:37.500 basically
00:33:38.040 80%
00:33:39.260 would create
00:33:40.040 a bureaucracy
00:33:40.800 that would
00:33:42.300 limit the
00:33:42.940 effectiveness
00:33:43.380 of the
00:33:43.880 20%
00:33:44.460 who do
00:33:44.800 the real
00:33:45.140 work.
00:33:45.900 That's
00:33:46.300 every big
00:33:46.740 company.
00:33:48.180 Now
00:33:48.440 suppose
00:33:48.800 you
00:33:49.040 insert
00:33:50.300 an
00:33:50.640 Elon Musk
00:33:51.280 into the
00:33:51.780 thing
00:33:52.000 and Elon
00:33:53.220 says
00:33:53.700 if you've
00:33:54.380 got a
00:33:54.660 big
00:33:54.860 important
00:33:55.260 question
00:33:55.840 ask me.
00:33:58.800 Now
00:33:59.040 I'm just
00:33:59.580 imagining
00:34:00.060 that's
00:34:00.400 probably
00:34:00.640 what
00:34:00.820 happens.
00:34:01.820 Now
00:34:01.960 you're
00:34:02.420 the
00:34:02.560 engineer
00:34:02.940 you come
00:34:03.480 up with
00:34:03.760 your
00:34:03.860 good
00:34:04.080 idea
00:34:04.460 the
00:34:05.240 old
00:34:05.540 way
00:34:05.820 is
00:34:06.080 you
00:34:06.160 have
00:34:06.280 to
00:34:06.400 satisfy
00:34:06.820 the
00:34:07.040 other
00:34:07.220 80%
00:34:07.740 of the
00:34:08.000 staff
00:34:08.260 that are
00:34:08.560 already
00:34:08.780 gone
00:34:09.060 and that
00:34:10.720 wasn't
00:34:11.040 going to
00:34:11.280 work.
00:34:12.040 By the
00:34:12.420 way
00:34:12.580 I've
00:34:12.940 been in
00:34:13.320 this
00:34:13.560 situation
00:34:14.040 exactly
00:34:14.620 a number
00:34:15.620 of times
00:34:16.180 I can
00:34:16.980 tell you
00:34:17.360 the other
00:34:17.920 parts of
00:34:18.460 the company
00:34:18.860 are only
00:34:19.460 there to
00:34:19.840 stop you
00:34:20.240 from doing
00:34:20.680 what you
00:34:20.960 want to
00:34:21.200 do.
00:34:21.840 They're
00:34:22.160 only there
00:34:22.780 to stop
00:34:23.220 you.
00:34:24.060 So now
00:34:24.400 you take
00:34:24.680 that same
00:34:25.120 idea that
00:34:25.680 all of
00:34:26.040 those
00:34:26.220 organizations
00:34:26.800 would have
00:34:27.260 said no
00:34:27.780 or later
00:34:28.400 or get
00:34:28.840 in line
00:34:29.180 to and
00:34:30.220 you take
00:34:30.560 it to
00:34:30.740 Elon
00:34:30.940 and you
00:34:31.200 say
00:34:31.380 this is
00:34:32.060 a great
00:34:32.380 idea.
00:34:33.520 You
00:34:33.640 got some
00:34:34.360 risk
00:34:34.800 but what
00:34:35.680 do you
00:34:35.840 think?
00:34:37.060 Then what
00:34:37.380 does Elon
00:34:37.740 say?
00:34:38.120 Oh you
00:34:39.060 better check
00:34:39.580 with
00:34:39.760 marketing
00:34:40.220 that doesn't
00:34:40.980 exist.
00:34:41.340 No.
00:34:42.180 He says
00:34:42.800 yeah let's
00:34:43.880 try that.
00:34:44.500 If it
00:34:44.740 doesn't
00:34:45.020 work we'll
00:34:45.620 reverse it.
00:34:47.500 Right?
00:34:48.780 Just try it.
00:34:49.740 If it
00:34:50.040 doesn't work
00:34:50.600 we'll say
00:34:51.040 we tried
00:34:51.520 it didn't
00:34:51.860 work and
00:34:52.640 then we'll
00:34:52.900 turn it
00:34:53.180 back to
00:34:53.480 the way
00:34:53.680 it was.
00:34:54.900 Which he's
00:34:55.360 actually done
00:34:55.840 a few
00:34:56.060 times I
00:34:56.460 believe.
00:34:57.760 Now compare
00:34:58.360 that level
00:34:59.100 of efficiency
00:34:59.900 where you
00:35:01.020 get to
00:35:01.460 talk to
00:35:02.360 not only
00:35:02.840 one of the
00:35:03.260 smartest
00:35:03.620 business
00:35:04.160 people in
00:35:04.620 the world
00:35:05.060 but he
00:35:06.260 gives you
00:35:06.580 an answer
00:35:07.000 right while
00:35:07.420 you're
00:35:07.600 talking to
00:35:08.020 him and
00:35:08.960 then you
00:35:09.240 go off
00:35:09.580 and do
00:35:09.840 it.
00:35:11.420 There's
00:35:11.880 no way
00:35:12.500 that old
00:35:13.480 Twitter could
00:35:14.000 have competed
00:35:14.720 with a
00:35:15.960 model where
00:35:16.440 the engineer
00:35:17.000 can talk to
00:35:17.680 the smartest
00:35:18.120 business person
00:35:18.880 in the world
00:35:19.380 and get an
00:35:20.240 answer and
00:35:20.640 then go off
00:35:21.060 and implement.
00:35:22.500 That probably
00:35:23.240 just doesn't
00:35:23.720 exist almost
00:35:24.540 anywhere except
00:35:25.800 at X.
00:35:29.000 All right.
00:35:30.360 So that's
00:35:31.780 Elon for the
00:35:32.620 win on that.
00:35:34.400 ESG
00:35:34.880 continues to
00:35:36.020 die.
00:35:37.640 So there's
00:35:38.000 a group
00:35:38.280 called S&P
00:35:38.980 Global that
00:35:40.080 used to give
00:35:40.540 out scores,
00:35:41.620 ESG scores,
00:35:42.900 and they've
00:35:43.380 decided they're
00:35:45.060 a debt rating
00:35:45.620 agency but in
00:35:46.600 addition to the
00:35:47.160 debt rating they
00:35:47.760 would give
00:35:48.000 these ESG
00:35:48.660 scores and
00:35:49.600 they decided
00:35:50.140 not to do
00:35:50.620 it anymore
00:35:50.960 because it
00:35:52.680 was bullshit.
00:35:54.380 That's right.
00:35:55.900 A big ratings
00:35:56.820 agency, one of
00:35:57.760 the main ones
00:35:58.400 that rated you
00:35:59.500 for ESG,
00:36:00.600 decided it was
00:36:01.400 all bullshit and 0.92
00:36:02.360 they're not going
00:36:02.740 to do it anymore.
00:36:03.400 It's just not
00:36:03.780 part of their
00:36:04.140 business now.
00:36:05.840 Now they
00:36:06.400 didn't use the
00:36:06.980 word bullshit
00:36:07.480 but did they
00:36:08.820 need to?
00:36:11.020 I think the
00:36:12.280 essence of it
00:36:13.260 was the ESG
00:36:14.520 rating was not
00:36:15.920 correlating to
00:36:16.680 performance or
00:36:18.520 anything useful.
00:36:20.200 It just wasn't
00:36:20.740 correlated with anything.
00:36:21.840 And the scores
00:36:22.680 seemed to be maybe
00:36:23.580 political or
00:36:24.500 stupid or
00:36:25.440 subjective or
00:36:27.700 something.
00:36:28.660 So the whole
00:36:29.780 thing just seemed
00:36:30.460 stupid I guess and
00:36:31.440 they decided not to
00:36:32.240 be part of it.
00:36:32.820 Well let's look
00:36:35.060 on the other
00:36:35.460 side of that.
00:36:36.220 Best Buy is
00:36:37.260 implementing a
00:36:38.060 management program,
00:36:39.380 training program,
00:36:40.460 that is not
00:36:41.360 available to
00:36:41.920 white people.
00:36:44.780 And says so
00:36:45.780 in direct writing.
00:36:47.600 Yeah you can
00:36:48.060 apply for this if
00:36:49.020 you're this,
00:36:50.080 this, this,
00:36:50.540 this, this,
00:36:50.700 but white people
00:36:52.400 not on the list.
00:36:53.640 It took about a
00:36:57.600 minute and a half
00:36:58.240 before somebody
00:36:59.040 tweeted me the
00:37:00.120 picture of the
00:37:01.140 CEO who is a
00:37:03.240 woman.
00:37:04.120 A woman.
00:37:04.880 So Best Buy is
00:37:05.780 run by a woman 0.64
00:37:06.400 and they
00:37:09.400 implemented a
00:37:10.220 no white people 0.99
00:37:11.920 program for
00:37:12.680 management.
00:37:16.260 If you're a 0.88
00:37:17.100 white person,
00:37:17.860 would you ever
00:37:18.580 shop at Best Buy
00:37:19.740 again if you
00:37:21.440 could avoid it?
00:37:22.100 I won't.
00:37:24.160 I'm not going to
00:37:24.880 shop there again.
00:37:25.760 I'm totally done
00:37:26.600 with them.
00:37:27.360 Because there's
00:37:27.900 nothing, I don't
00:37:29.000 believe Best Buy has
00:37:30.200 a single thing I
00:37:31.160 can't buy somewhere
00:37:31.940 else.
00:37:33.180 Can you think of
00:37:33.860 anything?
00:37:34.780 Name one thing I
00:37:35.720 can't order from
00:37:36.400 Amazon.
00:37:37.660 I can't think of
00:37:38.640 anything.
00:37:41.000 So does Amazon
00:37:42.440 have a program
00:37:43.380 where they
00:37:44.280 exclude white
00:37:45.820 people?
00:37:47.200 Do they?
00:37:47.840 Do you think
00:37:49.140 Jeff Bezos has a
00:37:50.240 program that excludes
00:37:51.360 white people?
00:37:53.000 I don't know.
00:37:54.540 But I'd put a,
00:37:55.580 somebody says yes,
00:37:56.880 maybe, but I
00:37:58.620 haven't heard about
00:37:59.120 it.
00:38:00.260 So, yeah,
00:38:04.700 they're dead to
00:38:05.980 me.
00:38:06.640 I would avoid them
00:38:07.760 like the plague.
00:38:10.440 And there has to
00:38:12.720 be a penalty for
00:38:13.520 this.
00:38:14.320 Am I right?
00:38:14.900 I'm completely
00:38:16.960 against boycotts
00:38:18.460 for sort of
00:38:19.300 ordinary political
00:38:20.240 reasons.
00:38:21.020 But this isn't an
00:38:22.220 ordinary political
00:38:23.120 reason.
00:38:24.100 This is straight up
00:38:24.960 racism.
00:38:26.340 I'm not going to
00:38:27.080 give my money to
00:38:29.560 a company that's
00:38:30.300 overtly racist
00:38:31.800 against me.
00:38:33.860 Like, why would I
00:38:34.600 do that?
00:38:35.900 Under what
00:38:36.600 circumstance would
00:38:37.840 I ever give them
00:38:38.680 money again?
00:38:39.240 Well, if they
00:38:41.320 fire their CEO and
00:38:43.040 reverse the
00:38:44.460 program, I will be
00:38:45.880 there tomorrow.
00:38:47.820 So, Best Buy, if
00:38:48.880 you want my money,
00:38:49.920 it's available.
00:38:52.980 But you're going to
00:38:53.620 have to fire your
00:38:54.320 CEO and you're
00:38:55.280 going to have to
00:38:55.640 get rid of this
00:38:56.240 program.
00:38:56.960 That would be my
00:38:57.560 minimum requirement.
00:38:59.380 Not that you need to
00:39:00.420 do anything for me,
00:39:01.380 but I don't need to
00:39:02.400 do anything for you
00:39:03.180 as well.
00:39:03.640 So, we could agree
00:39:04.320 on that.
00:39:06.040 Well, Trump made
00:39:07.260 what I would
00:39:07.740 consider a rare
00:39:10.100 campaign mistake.
00:39:13.780 Say what you will
00:39:14.780 about Trump's
00:39:16.120 management of the
00:39:17.220 country.
00:39:18.120 But as a
00:39:18.880 campaigner, most
00:39:19.760 people agree that
00:39:20.740 he's sort of in
00:39:23.140 a category of his
00:39:24.060 own.
00:39:25.040 He can get
00:39:25.700 attention and he
00:39:26.520 can move the
00:39:27.020 needle, he can 0.99
00:39:27.600 persuade.
00:39:28.280 I mean, he's got
00:39:28.720 the whole set of
00:39:29.500 tools.
00:39:30.240 But here's one,
00:39:30.880 you're not going to
00:39:31.360 agree with me
00:39:32.060 until I give you
00:39:33.400 my reasons and
00:39:34.100 you will all agree
00:39:34.740 with me immediately.
00:39:36.340 So, he quite
00:39:37.640 humorously made
00:39:39.320 fun of Chris
00:39:40.040 Christie's weight
00:39:41.180 at a rally.
00:39:43.520 So, he said,
00:39:46.020 I'm not going to
00:39:46.520 call him a fat
00:39:48.000 slob or
00:39:48.620 something, fat
00:39:49.320 pig, fat
00:39:50.020 pig.
00:39:50.220 So, he was
00:39:51.360 pretending like
00:39:52.100 somebody in the
00:39:52.640 audience said it
00:39:53.380 and he was
00:39:53.860 pointing to the
00:39:54.400 audience member.
00:39:55.480 But we don't
00:39:56.000 know if anybody
00:39:56.540 really was in the
00:39:57.280 audience saying
00:39:57.780 that.
00:39:58.380 He might have
00:39:58.820 been just acting
00:39:59.620 it out.
00:40:00.380 But he did the
00:40:00.980 I'm not going to
00:40:01.580 say it, you know,
00:40:02.740 but you're saying
00:40:03.880 he's a fat pig,
00:40:04.620 I'm not going to
00:40:05.140 say it.
00:40:07.420 All right, here's
00:40:08.240 my take.
00:40:10.480 Number one,
00:40:12.040 was it funny?
00:40:14.320 Answer, was it
00:40:15.320 funny?
00:40:16.800 Absolutely.
00:40:17.700 Yeah, a lot of
00:40:18.320 people laughed.
00:40:19.960 So, if you say
00:40:20.940 no, it means it
00:40:22.600 wasn't funny to
00:40:23.380 you, which is
00:40:24.840 valid, because it's
00:40:25.760 subjective, right?
00:40:26.820 So, humor is not
00:40:28.340 objective.
00:40:29.360 So, those of you
00:40:30.060 saying it was
00:40:30.660 funny, you're
00:40:31.260 right.
00:40:31.960 Those of you
00:40:32.600 saying it wasn't
00:40:33.560 funny, you're
00:40:34.240 right too, because
00:40:36.300 there's no standard
00:40:37.300 for funny.
00:40:38.000 If it was funny to
00:40:38.800 you, it's funny.
00:40:39.540 If it's not funny to
00:40:40.240 you, it's not funny.
00:40:41.400 That's the whole
00:40:42.060 story.
00:40:42.640 However, strategically,
00:40:46.920 you should never say
00:40:48.740 something if you're
00:40:49.680 running for office
00:40:50.840 that would have the
00:40:53.040 following quality.
00:40:54.920 Nobody's going to
00:40:55.880 vote for you because
00:40:57.100 of it, but some
00:40:59.480 people might change
00:41:01.900 their vote because
00:41:02.700 of it.
00:41:04.960 Two-thirds of Trump's
00:41:07.540 voters are overweight.
00:41:09.180 Two-thirds.
00:41:09.760 Two-thirds of
00:41:11.780 Trump's voters are
00:41:13.280 pretty overweight, and
00:41:15.960 he just made fun of
00:41:17.080 being overweight in
00:41:18.480 public.
00:41:19.760 Now, others would
00:41:20.840 point out that he's
00:41:21.620 got a weight problem
00:41:22.360 of his own.
00:41:23.100 I get it.
00:41:23.760 I get it.
00:41:24.500 But that's not going
00:41:25.520 to be really where
00:41:26.500 people focus.
00:41:27.800 So, I'm going to
00:41:28.480 teach you something
00:41:29.100 that I learned as a
00:41:30.680 cartoonist.
00:41:32.240 I would often think,
00:41:33.760 you know, here's a
00:41:35.360 joke that's really,
00:41:36.880 my audience is going
00:41:38.140 to love this joke.
00:41:39.760 It is a little mean
00:41:40.800 to some group, and
00:41:42.460 because I used to make
00:41:43.540 fun of people who had
00:41:44.500 extra weight.
00:41:45.780 I've changed that
00:41:46.700 opinion because I
00:41:47.360 don't believe in free
00:41:48.060 will, and I don't
00:41:49.240 believe that people are
00:41:52.380 overweight by choice.
00:41:54.220 I think it's just their
00:41:55.680 brain can't handle
00:41:56.920 sugar, basically.
00:41:58.240 I think that's
00:41:58.780 basically the whole
00:41:59.440 thing.
00:42:00.120 So, I can maintain my
00:42:01.900 weight fairly well,
00:42:03.680 because I don't love
00:42:04.940 sugar.
00:42:06.160 I'm just not addicted
00:42:07.720 to it.
00:42:08.480 If I were, I'd
00:42:10.060 weigh 400 pounds, and
00:42:11.760 I wouldn't hate
00:42:12.660 myself.
00:42:13.180 I'd just say, I just,
00:42:14.400 I'm addicted.
00:42:15.180 What can I do?
00:42:16.720 So, I don't do fat
00:42:18.720 shaming, but here's
00:42:19.580 what I learned.
00:42:20.920 Never do a joke that
00:42:23.000 99% of the people
00:42:24.480 will love if 1% will
00:42:27.020 stop following you.
00:42:29.500 That never makes
00:42:30.500 sense.
00:42:31.400 And this is a, this
00:42:32.800 is probably a 95 to
00:42:34.880 5 situation.
00:42:35.800 I would bet you 5%
00:42:38.060 of the people who
00:42:38.680 are in the news
00:42:39.180 about Trump making
00:42:40.260 fun of Christie's
00:42:41.200 weight, just said to
00:42:42.900 themselves, I did
00:42:45.100 like you, and I was
00:42:46.700 going to, I was going
00:42:47.520 to get up and I was
00:42:48.640 going to vote for
00:42:49.240 you.
00:42:49.880 I still kind of like
00:42:51.040 your politics, but
00:42:51.980 you know what?
00:42:53.260 I'm going to eat
00:42:53.740 breakfast instead of
00:42:55.140 voting.
00:42:56.980 I would say that
00:42:57.980 this is clearly a
00:42:59.840 mistake.
00:43:01.520 Because there's,
00:43:02.540 would you agree with
00:43:03.540 the following statement?
00:43:04.560 Zero people decided
00:43:06.940 to vote for Trump
00:43:08.280 because he mocked
00:43:09.320 somebody for their
00:43:09.900 weight.
00:43:10.600 Do you agree with
00:43:11.200 that part?
00:43:12.020 Just the first part,
00:43:13.580 that he gained no new
00:43:15.260 voters.
00:43:16.440 Agree.
00:43:17.260 Now, would you agree
00:43:18.140 with the second part,
00:43:19.300 that there might be
00:43:19.940 some sliver of people
00:43:21.660 who were turned off
00:43:24.080 enough by that,
00:43:24.900 because it's personal.
00:43:25.940 It's very personal.
00:43:27.800 Very personal.
00:43:28.420 Let me give you my
00:43:32.060 take on it.
00:43:33.140 If he had made fun
00:43:34.760 of some other
00:43:37.600 immutable characteristic
00:43:38.820 and I happened to
00:43:40.360 have it, I wouldn't
00:43:41.580 be too happy about
00:43:42.340 it.
00:43:43.940 I wouldn't say,
00:43:45.220 well, it was really
00:43:45.740 funny.
00:43:47.660 I'd probably say,
00:43:48.640 you know, I think I
00:43:49.500 need somebody with
00:43:50.100 better judgment.
00:43:51.400 And I would talk
00:43:52.040 myself out of it.
00:43:54.140 Yeah, weight is not
00:43:55.340 immutable unless you
00:43:56.540 believe, weight is not
00:43:58.120 immutable if you
00:43:58.920 believe in free will.
00:44:01.380 So if you believe in
00:44:02.560 superstition, it's not
00:44:03.560 immutable.
00:44:04.260 If you believe that
00:44:05.200 free will is an
00:44:06.400 illusion, then whatever
00:44:08.580 nature your brain is
00:44:10.140 guarantees that you
00:44:11.400 will act a certain
00:44:12.060 way.
00:44:13.280 In mine, luckily,
00:44:15.800 luckily, my brain
00:44:17.220 seems to be different.
00:44:18.540 So I'm not attracted
00:44:19.860 to massive eating.
00:44:21.260 But I could easily
00:44:22.180 imagine I would be.
00:44:23.500 Right?
00:44:23.640 It's easy to imagine.
00:44:26.600 Scott, you sound a bit
00:44:27.660 to PC.
00:44:31.500 Really?
00:44:38.340 No.
00:44:40.400 PC would, my entire
00:44:44.400 opinion is based on
00:44:45.840 science.
00:44:47.500 Right?
00:44:48.880 I don't even think it's
00:44:50.000 an opinion.
00:44:51.200 And math.
00:44:52.100 So the math of it is
00:44:54.640 that you don't gain
00:44:55.360 anybody, but you
00:44:56.200 might lose somebody.
00:44:57.700 There's no part of my
00:44:59.160 opinion in that.
00:45:00.960 Which part of that is
00:45:01.800 an opinion?
00:45:02.700 That's just math.
00:45:03.720 And it's obvious and
00:45:04.640 it's observable.
00:45:06.860 All right.
00:45:07.280 Now, the part where I'm
00:45:08.840 not giving people a hard
00:45:09.900 time for weight is
00:45:11.720 because I don't believe
00:45:12.420 in free will, which is
00:45:13.360 longer, longer
00:45:14.080 discussion.
00:45:16.220 But it's not based on
00:45:17.800 PC.
00:45:18.780 It's based on science.
00:45:19.820 Either there's free will
00:45:21.200 or there's not.
00:45:22.180 If science showed me there
00:45:23.320 is free will, then I would
00:45:25.400 change my opinion.
00:45:26.640 Is that PC?
00:45:27.940 Or is that just kind of
00:45:29.240 going where the argument
00:45:31.000 seems to go?
00:45:32.940 All right.
00:45:33.800 That's such an NPC comment
00:45:35.500 to say that somebody is like
00:45:37.080 to this or to that.
00:45:39.440 Sometimes we have a variety
00:45:41.120 of opinions.
00:45:42.340 Well, Bill Maher continues
00:45:43.380 to make news almost every
00:45:44.720 single day, at least in the
00:45:46.300 political right, for bashing
00:45:48.680 the team that you imagine
00:45:51.060 he used to be on or is on
00:45:52.440 for being too woke.
00:45:55.260 But I guess on his, what's
00:45:58.460 it called?
00:45:59.760 His little podcast where he
00:46:01.180 talks to one person.
00:46:02.860 What's that called?
00:46:03.680 Bill Maher's Club Random.
00:46:06.340 On Club Random, he had
00:46:07.680 Riley Gaines, the woman who
00:46:09.880 competed against Leah Thomas.
00:46:11.600 And finally, all the news
00:46:17.720 there's been about Leah
00:46:19.460 Thomas, all the news about
00:46:20.880 Riley Gaines, I mean, at
00:46:22.620 least if you're following
00:46:23.440 right-leaning news, it's just
00:46:25.040 been the news continuously.
00:46:27.120 And it took all of that for
00:46:29.480 Bill Maher to ask the only
00:46:30.740 question I was actually
00:46:31.640 interested in, which is, how
00:46:34.160 big is Leah Thomas' dick?
00:46:35.740 Now, under normal conditions,
00:46:42.140 that question would not have
00:46:43.620 a news-related element.
00:46:47.140 It would just be kind of
00:46:48.280 gratuitous.
00:46:49.840 But part of the complaint, and
00:46:52.200 here I'm going to describe the
00:46:54.100 complaint, if you imagine I'm
00:46:56.460 taking sides, then you're
00:46:58.580 probably imagining it.
00:46:59.620 I'm just describing it, right?
00:47:01.440 These are people's opinions, and
00:47:03.520 they get to have their
00:47:04.320 opinions.
00:47:05.520 So the women who are in the 0.97
00:47:07.000 changing room with trans 0.99
00:47:08.960 athlete Leah Thomas said the
00:47:11.620 report is that many of them
00:47:12.800 were uncomfortable because
00:47:14.620 Leah Thomas is, what they
00:47:16.200 would say, an intact male body,
00:47:20.160 meaning that there's a penis 0.54
00:47:22.140 there.
00:47:23.260 Now, if you were a woman and 0.96
00:47:25.460 you were uncomfortable with that
00:47:26.820 situation, completely normal and
00:47:29.560 understandable, would it matter to
00:47:32.220 you, how big the penis is? 0.98
00:47:36.880 Because it was actually part of
00:47:38.240 the story.
00:47:39.040 I think it was Riley Gaines who
00:47:40.980 was saying that Leah Thomas was
00:47:42.840 six foot four and proportional.
00:47:47.980 So impressive, I guess.
00:47:51.860 And I actually think it's part of
00:47:54.340 the story.
00:47:56.180 Does anybody disagree?
00:47:57.360 Because the story is about how
00:47:59.980 people feel.
00:48:01.780 It's a story about how people
00:48:03.000 feel.
00:48:04.180 You don't think that the women 1.00
00:48:06.120 would feel different if Leah had a
00:48:09.340 micropenis versus a big old
00:48:12.680 sausage.
00:48:15.280 You don't think it makes a
00:48:16.240 difference how people feel about
00:48:17.560 it.
00:48:18.640 Yeah.
00:48:19.280 Now, logically, you know, that
00:48:20.800 shouldn't, you shouldn't be making
00:48:22.040 any laws based on the size of a
00:48:24.640 penis. 0.57
00:48:26.080 So, you know, there's nothing you
00:48:27.220 can do about it.
00:48:27.960 But I think it's actually a
00:48:29.160 legitimate question.
00:48:30.400 So, weirdly, I'm just going to give
00:48:32.020 Bill Maher credit for asking an
00:48:34.500 actually useful question that
00:48:39.260 tells us a little bit more about
00:48:40.540 the situation.
00:48:43.540 Now, again, did I express an
00:48:46.760 opinion?
00:48:47.800 Did anybody hear an opinion in
00:48:49.280 that?
00:48:51.580 Because I was trying to do it
00:48:52.760 without an opinion coming
00:48:53.920 through.
00:48:55.420 Because my take on all this is
00:48:57.940 that my opinion should be
00:49:00.480 worthless.
00:49:02.460 It's clearly bad for the women who 1.00
00:49:05.640 are competing against the trans 1.00
00:49:07.160 athletes.
00:49:08.780 Nobody's questioning that.
00:49:11.360 And it's clearly good for the
00:49:13.460 trans athletes who are benefiting
00:49:14.960 from this access.
00:49:16.840 So you've got one group that's
00:49:18.040 benefiting, one group that feels
00:49:20.480 injured, and they both have their
00:49:24.200 arguments.
00:49:24.760 They live in a free country.
00:49:26.120 They get to, you know, press
00:49:27.340 their arguments.
00:49:28.180 These things get settled by power.
00:49:31.960 So to imagine that, you know, the
00:49:33.820 argument about what's right or wrong
00:49:35.440 coming from me should have any
00:49:38.620 weight on this, I think not.
00:49:41.780 I think that women as a group are 1.00
00:49:45.400 going to collectively reverse this.
00:49:48.320 And correct me if I'm wrong, but
00:49:49.720 haven't there been a number of
00:49:51.060 notable reverses?
00:49:54.900 Are the women not winning at this
00:49:57.120 point?
00:49:57.560 Because it seems to me that I've
00:49:59.120 heard more about trans athletes
00:50:01.400 being banned lately, just the last few
00:50:03.900 weeks, than being included.
00:50:05.880 Am I wrong about that?
00:50:08.580 Haven't there been some high-level
00:50:10.740 bans, but not any new high-level
00:50:13.000 new access?
00:50:15.340 So to me, it looks like a power
00:50:18.480 struggle, which both sides always
00:50:21.420 put in terms of what's right or
00:50:23.140 wrong.
00:50:24.880 I don't feel like I'm the judge of
00:50:26.700 what's right or wrong.
00:50:28.320 I can tell you that there's a victim
00:50:30.360 in this case, or a victim in that
00:50:32.500 case, but since there's always
00:50:34.420 something that's imperfect, is it my
00:50:37.940 job to tell you what should and should
00:50:39.300 not be?
00:50:39.680 I don't know.
00:50:40.760 I did see there was, what league was
00:50:43.000 it, if you want the real person
00:50:49.020 answer, the real person, if it were my
00:50:51.360 daughter, I would back my daughter.
00:50:55.820 Are you okay with that?
00:50:58.200 If it were my daughter, of course, I'd
00:51:00.600 say get that Leah Thompson or Leah 0.99
00:51:03.760 Thomas out of there.
00:51:04.960 I would just say if it's bothering my
00:51:06.780 daughter, I don't like it.
00:51:09.000 It would be as simple as that.
00:51:10.600 So don't worry that I don't have
00:51:11.980 opinions.
00:51:13.000 I was just trying to tell the story
00:51:14.520 without it, because I don't think my
00:51:16.540 opinion should be in this story.
00:51:18.460 I feel like I don't add anything.
00:51:21.000 Right?
00:51:21.980 If you put me in the story, I could
00:51:24.020 very easily have an opinion, but I'm
00:51:26.100 not in the story.
00:51:28.400 All right.
00:51:28.960 I was questioning whether I was going
00:51:34.160 to talk about this, but I've decided
00:51:36.060 to do it.
00:51:37.560 I saw a Mike Cernovich tweet about Sam
00:51:41.280 Harris, and it included a clip in which
00:51:43.900 he was talking about Trump in January
00:51:46.680 6th and the insurrection, I guess he
00:51:49.960 imagined he saw.
00:51:51.560 And Cernovich asked this.
00:51:53.260 And I spent a long time deciding whether
00:51:57.420 I'd retweet it or whether it was too
00:52:00.680 far.
00:52:01.560 Like, is this unfair?
00:52:03.340 And here's what it is.
00:52:03.960 You decide.
00:52:05.260 So this is Mike Cernovich.
00:52:06.300 He said, is Sam Harris in early stage
00:52:08.500 of dementia?
00:52:09.700 Did he have a concussion?
00:52:11.620 Or maybe his alcoholism caught up with
00:52:13.720 him.
00:52:14.160 What?
00:52:15.380 And then Mike says, anyone familiar
00:52:18.180 with alcoholics sees the red flags
00:52:20.620 here.
00:52:20.900 So I watched the video, and I thought
00:52:25.020 to myself, really?
00:52:26.740 Am I going to see that in the video?
00:52:30.860 And here's the problem.
00:52:33.560 If you're primed for it, you can
00:52:36.080 definitely see it.
00:52:38.280 But don't let that influence you.
00:52:40.960 If you're primed for it, as in you just
00:52:43.420 read the tweet, and then you listen to
00:52:45.740 him, you can very easily tell yourself,
00:52:48.520 wait a minute, there is something wrong.
00:52:50.900 Right?
00:52:51.480 But don't let that fool you, because
00:52:53.420 that's because of the priming.
00:52:55.220 Right?
00:52:56.080 So I do not make the accusation.
00:53:00.980 So I'm removing myself from the
00:53:03.340 accusation.
00:53:04.920 However, is it an unfair question?
00:53:08.900 Is it unfair if somebody acts in a way that
00:53:14.560 should be identified with maybe not
00:53:16.660 reason, but some other mechanism?
00:53:19.960 Is it unfair to call that out?
00:53:22.760 That's why I couldn't decide whether to
00:53:25.200 tweet it.
00:53:26.780 Because subjectively, and in my biased
00:53:30.100 way, because I was very biased by the
00:53:31.780 tweet itself, I felt like I could see it.
00:53:34.480 And when I listened to him talk, I
00:53:39.120 thought to myself, you couldn't possibly
00:53:41.860 be that smart and think that there was
00:53:45.580 not an orderly transfer of power on
00:53:47.960 January 6th, or a peaceful transfer.
00:53:51.140 There was, in fact.
00:53:53.020 I mean, the worst case scenario, the
00:53:55.340 biggest risk is it might have been a few
00:53:57.840 days later.
00:54:00.040 There was never any risk of a non, of a 1.00
00:54:03.820 non, or there was never any risk that it
00:54:08.040 wouldn't be a largely peaceful transfer of
00:54:10.420 power like every other time.
00:54:12.100 But he seems to be in this world in which
00:54:14.080 that was a real thing.
00:54:16.120 And so the question is, am I crazy?
00:54:19.720 And could I rule it out?
00:54:22.020 No.
00:54:22.840 So I cannot rule out that he's the only
00:54:25.620 sane person in the world.
00:54:26.820 You can't rule it out.
00:54:29.520 Sam Harris might be the only one who
00:54:31.200 makes sense, and all the rest of us are
00:54:33.480 in a weird, biased situation.
00:54:36.460 Totally possible, which is weird.
00:54:38.980 But if you don't acknowledge that that's
00:54:40.760 possible, you'll get in trouble later.
00:54:44.560 Maybe this time it's about Sam.
00:54:46.740 Maybe next time it's about us.
00:54:48.700 I don't know.
00:54:49.680 We're not going to know the difference.
00:54:50.980 But, so I'm not going to back the speculations
00:54:59.100 about his mental decline.
00:55:01.220 But I'll tell you, I see it.
00:55:04.680 My impression, and from what I can tell from
00:55:07.540 other people online, it looks like mental
00:55:09.720 decline.
00:55:10.800 It does actually look like it.
00:55:12.160 I wouldn't put it on any one cause.
00:55:14.960 If I had to gun to head, if I had to put
00:55:17.880 a cause on it, I would just say standard
00:55:19.780 Trump derangement syndrome.
00:55:22.760 It's just that he got more attention about
00:55:25.940 his Trump opinions than other people.
00:55:27.640 So, in theory, you know, if you were an
00:55:30.600 independent thinker and you got a lot of
00:55:32.840 pushback on something you thought was a
00:55:34.840 good take, you'd probably triple down because
00:55:38.540 you were confident you had the right take on
00:55:40.100 it.
00:55:40.560 So, it would look to us like mental decline.
00:55:44.780 It would look like he's drunk.
00:55:46.640 It would actually look like he's drunk.
00:55:48.700 And it does.
00:55:50.480 But it could be the things you can't rule out
00:55:53.800 are just standard Trump derangement syndrome
00:55:56.080 because it affects everybody at every
00:55:58.680 intelligence level.
00:56:00.120 Intelligence won't help you a bit.
00:56:02.220 And it could be that you and I are the
00:56:06.440 ones with the problems.
00:56:07.820 Maybe he's not the one with the problem.
00:56:09.460 Maybe he's the only one with the right take.
00:56:12.780 Absolutely possible.
00:56:14.380 Can't be ruled out.
00:56:19.180 All right.
00:56:22.360 DeSantis, he was tweeting that today,
00:56:25.420 hey, drug cartels are responsible for killing
00:56:27.620 more Americans than any other group or
00:56:29.420 country, yet we sit back and do nothing.
00:56:32.800 All right.
00:56:33.460 All right.
00:56:34.360 DeSantis, you're talking my language now.
00:56:37.520 Let's see what else you got here.
00:56:39.340 As president, all right, here it comes.
00:56:41.380 I will authorize use of deadly force.
00:56:43.260 I like it.
00:56:44.200 Against drug smugglers.
00:56:45.440 Yes.
00:56:45.820 Yes.
00:56:46.480 Cutting through the border wall.
00:56:49.320 What?
00:56:51.260 Deadly force against drug smugglers.
00:56:53.360 Cutting through the border wall.
00:56:57.960 That's it.
00:56:59.860 That's it.
00:57:01.900 The biggest problem in the United States.
00:57:04.060 And he's only going to use force against the ones he
00:57:09.960 catches cutting through the wall.
00:57:12.240 Just the cutters. 0.95
00:57:15.280 This is so weak that it's embarrassing.
00:57:20.060 It's actually embarrassing.
00:57:22.540 What's wrong with him?
00:57:24.560 What is wrong with DeSantis?
00:57:27.480 I don't understand this.
00:57:29.280 Because here's, let me give you a hypothesis.
00:57:32.360 All right.
00:57:33.220 I have a hypothesis.
00:57:34.800 You might remember that, let's say, a year ago, every time DeSantis made news as a governor,
00:57:41.280 I said something that sounded the same every time.
00:57:44.160 Oh, my God, that's a good idea.
00:57:46.420 Oh, my God, he's good at getting the headlines in a productive way.
00:57:50.300 Oh, my God.
00:57:50.900 It's like one right move after another for his base.
00:57:54.160 Right.
00:57:54.340 You could argue whether they were good moves or bad, but politically and for his base,
00:57:59.040 they were all genius.
00:58:00.240 They were just right on, right on, right on every time.
00:58:03.700 Now, he moves from governor, making one political home run after another for his base.
00:58:11.600 Others don't like it.
00:58:12.700 And then he moves into the campaign, and it feels like he lost all that magic.
00:58:19.680 Now, do you think that one person can go from, you know, the governor domain to the presidential domain and lose their skill?
00:58:26.320 How do you lose your skill just changing that domain?
00:58:31.960 I don't think the presidential race is that different, because in both cases, you say things that your base would like,
00:58:38.980 and you try to say it first or best.
00:58:41.640 You try to do something about it.
00:58:42.820 It's all the same game, politically.
00:58:45.100 But why did he suddenly become bad at it when he was not just only good, he was about the best I've ever seen.
00:58:53.760 I mean, he was crazy.
00:58:54.580 What would be a good hypothesis for that change?
00:58:59.080 And don't say alcoholism or Trump derangement syndrome.
00:59:04.380 There you go.
00:59:05.800 Key staff exit.
00:59:07.200 My hypothesis is this.
00:59:09.600 Whoever was advising him in the governor's race was way above average.
00:59:16.120 Way above average.
00:59:17.920 As in, you haven't even seen that kind of operation before.
00:59:21.180 I have some suspicions who it might have been, because there aren't that many people in the country who are that capable.
00:59:30.320 And I'm not going to tell you because I don't have any proof.
00:59:32.300 I have no proof at all.
00:59:33.280 So based just on the capability, there's probably one person, and I'm not going to tell you ever who it is.
00:59:42.740 But there is one person who has that capability who could have been advising him in the governorship
00:59:48.660 and would have quite potentially switched to Trump.
00:59:53.120 So, no, not Cialdini.
00:59:57.620 Nothing to do with any academics.
01:00:04.640 Right?
01:00:04.840 Nothing with an academic.
01:00:05.760 But does anybody see that same effect?
01:00:12.980 No, Matt Gaetz would have been Trump from the start.
01:00:16.180 Matt Gaetz was always pro-Trump.
01:00:18.540 So that's not a case of him leaving and going anywhere.
01:00:21.760 But does anybody see that the skill level just fell off as if a major advisor, like the best one, switched?
01:00:32.440 Doesn't it seem like that?
01:00:35.540 That's what I think.
01:00:37.280 So, now this is pure speculation.
01:00:39.420 It's just based on observation of the skill level dropping off suddenly.
01:00:43.480 I feel like that was, had to be a key advisor.
01:00:50.080 Yeah.
01:00:52.620 All right.
01:00:54.800 Oh, you think he's playing to the donors instead of the base?
01:00:59.420 No, it doesn't look like that to me.
01:01:01.200 It looks like a capability fall off.
01:01:05.000 All right.
01:01:07.000 How about the Ukraine counteroffensive, huh?
01:01:10.640 Huh?
01:01:11.740 Ukraine counteroffensive.
01:01:13.260 It's just tearing up the Russian lines.
01:01:16.680 Getting a little quiet about that, aren't they?
01:01:19.680 Can we stop pretending there's a war?
01:01:22.660 Because there isn't a war.
01:01:25.180 It is a negotiation.
01:01:27.520 And it's waiting for Trump.
01:01:29.100 If you see it any other way, what evidence would there be to support your point?
01:01:35.260 How do you support your point if you think this is a war?
01:01:37.940 Because you think Ukraine's going to break down the Russian lines and defeat the Russian army?
01:01:43.020 And Putin's going to surrender?
01:01:45.700 Or you think the Russians have only been joking around, and as soon as they get serious, 0.93
01:01:51.560 they're going to run through those Ukrainian lines and take Kiev?
01:01:57.040 That's all ridiculous.
01:01:59.420 It's ridiculous.
01:02:01.220 The situation there is only for the benefit of people selling, you know, arms and other goods.
01:02:07.560 And it's just a holding pattern.
01:02:11.400 We're just waiting for Trump.
01:02:14.040 And nothing should change this situation because the Democrats apparently are benefiting from it.
01:02:21.520 There's somebody making money, a lot of money.
01:02:23.960 You know, the money that's going to Ukraine isn't all going into bullets, right?
01:02:27.480 A lot of it's being siphoned off because it always is.
01:02:29.920 That's an easy statement to say.
01:02:32.740 So you've got the Democrats and their siphoning off group.
01:02:36.060 They don't want to wrap up the war.
01:02:39.000 And you've got the Russians that can't possibly end the war because it would look like a defeat. 0.89
01:02:48.520 So there isn't anything, there's nothing happening that could change this from a bloody negotiation into an actual war.
01:02:57.580 This is not a war.
01:02:58.640 The war is fucking over, right?
01:03:02.320 And every time that the news refuses to report that the war has been over for a while, it's bloody.
01:03:11.100 But it's a negotiation.
01:03:13.620 Now, you could get, you know, real conceptual and say every war is a negotiation.
01:03:18.220 But no, it isn't.
01:03:19.580 No, it isn't.
01:03:20.700 Not like this.
01:03:21.540 This is pure negotiation.
01:03:23.420 This is not a little bit of war.
01:03:26.260 This is just a negotiation.
01:03:27.720 Because there is no reasonable chance that the situation is going to change before Trump gets in office.
01:03:35.460 That's my take.
01:03:36.860 What do you think?
01:03:37.480 Is my take useful and or?
01:03:46.580 So if we reframe this as a negotiation, that's our best situation.
01:03:53.960 The U.S. should reframe it as a negotiation.
01:03:57.320 Which also is very positive for a Republican candidate.
01:04:03.580 Am I right?
01:04:04.780 Because I don't hear the Democrats saying, hey, let's negotiate this war.
01:04:09.480 Have you heard any?
01:04:11.060 Maybe some have.
01:04:12.180 But Biden doesn't talk like that, does he?
01:04:14.460 When was the last time Biden said negotiate?
01:04:16.440 I don't believe I've heard that.
01:04:19.780 So the Democrats aren't even on that wavelength.
01:04:22.660 So if you define it as a negotiation, then you could see the mismatch between the Biden, you know, unwilling to even consider that.
01:04:31.680 And several, I think several Republicans, do me a fact check on this.
01:04:38.440 Aren't there several Republicans besides Trump, Ramaswamy, who are saying they can wrap this up pretty quickly with a negotiation?
01:04:49.560 Am I wrong that, so Trump and Vivek, give me a fact check on this.
01:04:54.900 They're both clear about, we'll wind this down right away, this is a negotiation.
01:05:02.180 I think so.
01:05:03.260 There might be other, did RFK say the same?
01:05:07.260 I think RFK Jr. is pretty close to that as well.
01:05:10.760 Yeah.
01:05:15.480 Yeah, it looks like Russia will keep some of that territory.
01:05:19.460 I don't see any way around it.
01:05:20.820 All right, ladies and gentlemen, is there any topic I have not covered?
01:05:33.680 Marin County armed car break-in, haven't seen that.
01:05:38.720 So I don't know what's going on in Niger.
01:05:41.560 I guess the rebels have taken over.
01:05:43.840 But since I have no opinion about whether the rebels are better or worse than the government they took over,
01:05:48.640 I don't have an opinion on Niger.
01:05:51.760 And I don't believe it's the sort of thing where I would ever get a good opinion.
01:05:58.400 It sounds like something we'll never know.
01:06:03.920 All right.
01:06:08.620 Victoria Nuland.
01:06:10.020 You know, I've been avoiding the Victoria Nuland stuff,
01:06:13.580 because there's a whole lot of mind-reading you have to do.
01:06:21.940 Somebody's disagreeing with me.
01:06:23.620 Sorry, Scott, it's a bloody stalemate.
01:06:25.820 Russia doesn't want to escalate to NATO involvement and recreatment.
01:06:30.480 A bloody stalemate?
01:06:32.000 Is that disagreeing with me?
01:06:33.780 So when you agree with me completely,
01:06:36.500 this is just a writing tip,
01:06:38.060 don't start it with,
01:06:39.980 sorry, Scott,
01:06:41.960 right,
01:06:42.400 when you're completely agreeing.
01:06:44.720 Better,
01:06:45.720 that would be better left for when there's a disagreement
01:06:48.540 that follows the,
01:06:50.340 sorry, Scott.
01:06:51.520 But when you're agreeing with me completely,
01:06:54.300 maybe,
01:06:55.480 yes, Scott,
01:06:57.100 do that.
01:06:58.340 Yes, Scott.
01:06:59.620 And then agree with me.
01:07:01.420 It's just better for him.
01:07:02.320 The Alabama fight.
01:07:11.380 All right.
01:07:12.680 So there's a big fight on the dock in Alabama.
01:07:16.280 I don't care.
01:07:17.580 Why do I care about that?
01:07:19.820 You're trying to make me care
01:07:21.320 because there were black participants in the fight
01:07:23.940 in the state I don't live in.
01:07:26.240 I don't care.
01:07:30.020 Why is that news?
01:07:32.320 Some people got in the fight.
01:07:34.180 Apparently there was a reason for the fight.
01:07:36.400 Something about a,
01:07:37.400 you know,
01:07:38.040 a boat dock or something,
01:07:39.820 dispute.
01:07:40.920 But why do we care about that?
01:07:42.460 Why is that news?
01:07:44.740 Right.
01:07:45.180 Be,
01:07:45.620 be careful
01:07:47.160 of trying to make news
01:07:49.180 the anecdotes.
01:07:51.180 You know,
01:07:51.400 take,
01:07:51.660 take Vivek as your guide.
01:07:54.840 Vivek said on an interview recently,
01:07:56.620 you would mock us
01:07:57.700 if we used anecdotes for science.
01:08:00.520 Don't use your anecdotes
01:08:02.000 about a fight
01:08:02.760 to make some policy decision.
01:08:05.480 It was a fight.
01:08:08.440 No big deal.
01:08:11.020 All right.
01:08:12.620 And may I suggest
01:08:14.560 that if you lived near a place
01:08:17.260 where such fights might break out,
01:08:19.880 you should consider relocating.
01:08:22.060 I feel like location
01:08:24.660 is 80% of success.
01:08:30.220 What is this?
01:08:31.080 Looking at the street.
01:08:32.720 A pedophile shot and killed
01:08:34.220 two FBI agents.
01:08:35.700 I haven't seen this covered at all.
01:08:37.780 Yeah,
01:08:38.060 because I don't care.
01:08:40.540 I don't care.
01:08:41.720 There are some things
01:08:42.760 that are not covered
01:08:43.560 because we don't care.
01:08:45.980 Now,
01:08:47.480 I'm not saying
01:08:47.940 I don't care about
01:08:48.620 the tragic deaths
01:08:49.680 of two law officers.
01:08:50.800 Of course.
01:08:51.860 Of course I care.
01:08:52.880 But, you know,
01:08:53.520 a million people died yesterday.
01:08:55.640 I'm not doing a wake
01:08:57.800 for all of them.
01:08:59.120 So,
01:09:00.700 a pedophile
01:09:01.600 shoots some FBI people.
01:09:03.420 That sounds like
01:09:04.300 a horrible,
01:09:05.040 tragic thing,
01:09:05.880 but it's not really
01:09:06.840 a story of the country,
01:09:07.840 is it?
01:09:09.560 Is there any bigger message there?
01:09:11.200 I don't think so.
01:09:12.300 Bad person
01:09:13.060 shot some good people.
01:09:15.040 That's the story.
01:09:17.160 All right.
01:09:19.360 I'm seeing prods.
01:09:20.980 I'm being prompted
01:09:21.880 to talk about
01:09:22.560 black-on-black crime.
01:09:24.400 Why?
01:09:26.360 Why would I talk about that?
01:09:28.680 I would get away from it.
01:09:30.480 If you live near it,
01:09:31.800 you should move.
01:09:35.320 That's the only thing
01:09:36.060 I'm going to say about it.
01:09:37.220 Because if you haven't
01:09:38.120 figured out,
01:09:39.260 what are you going to do
01:09:39.920 about it?
01:09:41.440 What are you going to do
01:09:42.200 about black-on-black crime?
01:09:43.320 The Democrats
01:09:44.320 want fewer police.
01:09:47.360 Let them live
01:09:48.160 in the city
01:09:48.680 the way that they want to...
01:09:49.980 If they'd like to live
01:09:51.000 in the city
01:09:51.400 under those conditions,
01:09:53.000 it's a free country.
01:09:55.540 And, you know,
01:09:56.520 here's what I think.
01:09:58.020 I think we should take
01:09:59.260 all of our attention
01:10:00.620 that we're putting on,
01:10:02.140 you know,
01:10:02.400 the average of this group
01:10:03.900 versus this group.
01:10:05.000 Oh, this group
01:10:05.700 has bad stats.
01:10:07.500 Forget about all of that.
01:10:09.500 Forget about all of it.
01:10:10.460 And just create a system
01:10:12.720 that allows everybody
01:10:13.780 to move easily.
01:10:16.680 If you lived in an inner city
01:10:18.160 and it was full of crime,
01:10:19.980 it doesn't matter
01:10:20.780 what your color
01:10:21.760 or ethnicity is.
01:10:23.340 You might want
01:10:24.140 to get out of there.
01:10:25.320 But it might not be easy
01:10:26.400 because if you're
01:10:27.180 in an inner city,
01:10:28.220 there's a reason.
01:10:29.960 And it may be that,
01:10:31.660 you know,
01:10:31.920 there's no jobs,
01:10:32.740 you don't know where to go,
01:10:34.200 you wouldn't be comfortable
01:10:35.140 someplace else,
01:10:36.200 et cetera.
01:10:36.520 I feel like
01:10:37.760 the best thing
01:10:39.200 you can do
01:10:39.800 is create a way
01:10:41.540 that people
01:10:42.160 who just want to
01:10:42.840 stay out of trouble
01:10:43.560 and go to school,
01:10:45.360 that those families
01:10:46.300 can be moved
01:10:47.020 out of any environment
01:10:48.260 that would stop
01:10:48.960 that from happening.
01:10:50.800 But once you move
01:10:51.880 the good people
01:10:52.620 who want to succeed
01:10:54.080 from the bad people
01:10:55.940 who want to be criminals,
01:10:57.640 if you're not going
01:10:59.000 to arrest the criminals,
01:10:59.840 you just have to
01:11:00.400 get out of there.
01:11:01.860 You just have to
01:11:02.700 get away. 0.73
01:11:03.120 Rogan said that
01:11:08.580 Obama is the
01:11:09.420 greatest president.
01:11:10.360 I'd have to see
01:11:10.920 the context of that.
01:11:21.220 Would we be able to...
01:11:22.980 Oh, so what's the latest
01:11:24.020 on LK99?
01:11:25.940 I saw some
01:11:26.820 mocking references
01:11:28.300 to it
01:11:28.900 as if it's been proven
01:11:30.480 not to be real.
01:11:31.620 Did that happen?
01:11:33.120 Because I was sort of
01:11:34.000 looking for the story
01:11:34.720 and couldn't find it.
01:11:38.300 Lots of uncertainty.
01:11:41.500 So the current
01:11:43.220 feeling of
01:11:44.200 superconductivity
01:11:45.220 is not real.
01:11:46.720 Is it leading
01:11:47.520 not real?
01:11:50.100 Damn it.
01:11:52.260 You know,
01:11:53.080 you could feel it,
01:11:54.340 couldn't you?
01:11:54.620 Yeah.
01:11:56.680 You know,
01:11:57.500 I went at this
01:11:58.760 with maximum optimism
01:12:00.360 because I just like
01:12:01.580 to be optimistic.
01:12:02.280 You know,
01:12:03.000 whenever you have
01:12:03.440 a chance.
01:12:04.880 Rather than worrying
01:12:05.920 about bad things
01:12:06.740 that never happen,
01:12:08.160 I'd rather talk
01:12:08.940 about good things
01:12:09.640 that aren't going
01:12:10.080 to happen.
01:12:11.680 At least your
01:12:12.380 brain is with
01:12:13.360 the good things.
01:12:14.800 So, well,
01:12:15.760 who's surprised?
01:12:17.860 Is anybody surprised?
01:12:19.960 I thought it went
01:12:20.900 further than it
01:12:22.020 should have
01:12:23.040 before
01:12:23.740 the questions
01:12:26.120 were raised.
01:12:26.660 they have
01:12:27.940 strange magnetic
01:12:28.800 properties.
01:12:29.460 Are they useful?
01:12:30.680 Are the strange
01:12:31.400 magnetic properties
01:12:32.360 useful for anything?
01:12:34.340 Is it some
01:12:35.260 other kind of?
01:12:39.580 Potentially.
01:12:40.940 All right,
01:12:41.400 well,
01:12:41.920 I'm going to be
01:12:42.680 completely,
01:12:44.060 I'm going to go
01:12:44.900 negative on
01:12:45.880 LK99.
01:12:46.700 so I'm going
01:12:48.520 to adjust
01:12:49.100 my current
01:12:49.720 thinking just
01:12:50.400 based on this
01:12:51.120 to probably
01:12:52.360 not.
01:12:53.580 Probably not.
01:12:56.220 Which is
01:12:57.020 very disappointing
01:12:58.040 because I had
01:12:59.040 some optimism
01:13:00.820 there.
01:13:03.260 All right,
01:13:03.900 what else?
01:13:04.440 Am I missing
01:13:04.940 anything else?
01:13:05.860 Yeah,
01:13:06.460 so it means
01:13:06.980 cold fusion
01:13:07.760 won't be so easy,
01:13:09.460 et cetera.
01:13:09.800 If you report
01:13:17.020 about leotipers
01:13:17.820 to hear
01:13:19.920 about yours
01:13:20.480 as well.
01:13:24.980 All right,
01:13:27.320 pedophile
01:13:28.020 is a thought
01:13:28.660 crime.
01:13:29.740 Not if they
01:13:30.540 do it.
01:13:33.420 It's the
01:13:34.120 zero resistance.
01:13:36.020 But does it
01:13:37.020 have zero
01:13:37.500 resistance?
01:13:37.980 Is it
01:13:40.080 not super
01:13:40.820 conductive
01:13:41.660 but has
01:13:42.260 zero resistance?
01:13:43.420 I think
01:13:43.820 that's
01:13:44.280 not possible,
01:13:45.840 right?
01:13:48.700 I don't know.
01:13:51.360 Am I
01:13:52.060 positive or
01:13:52.680 negative about
01:13:53.320 magnetism?
01:13:54.320 Good one.
01:13:55.540 Dad joke.
01:13:59.200 It has
01:13:59.700 small resistance.
01:14:00.800 Does it
01:14:01.100 have less
01:14:01.520 resistance
01:14:02.080 than normal?
01:14:04.400 Maybe that
01:14:05.180 would be
01:14:05.420 useful.
01:14:06.040 I don't
01:14:06.240 know.
01:14:07.980 Friction
01:14:08.760 less is
01:14:09.340 possible,
01:14:10.520 somebody says.
01:14:12.980 You know,
01:14:13.780 I would say
01:14:14.380 that my
01:14:14.940 journey
01:14:16.000 into
01:14:16.720 denying
01:14:17.960 reality
01:14:18.660 started with
01:14:20.040 magnets.
01:14:21.500 When I was
01:14:22.180 a little
01:14:22.440 kid,
01:14:23.380 I could
01:14:23.780 not understand
01:14:24.480 how a
01:14:24.860 magnet
01:14:25.120 could be
01:14:25.700 possible.
01:14:27.360 And it
01:14:27.920 was the
01:14:28.180 first thing
01:14:28.580 that suggested
01:14:29.300 that I
01:14:29.800 don't understand
01:14:30.440 reality itself.
01:14:32.020 Like,
01:14:32.300 you know,
01:14:32.600 what I'm
01:14:33.220 looking at
01:14:33.720 right in
01:14:34.040 front of
01:14:34.300 me
01:14:34.520 may not
01:14:35.740 be real.
01:14:36.140 now,
01:14:37.220 that's my
01:14:37.540 current
01:14:37.800 view as
01:14:38.400 an older
01:14:39.540 adult.
01:14:40.580 But I
01:14:41.540 think it
01:14:41.940 was the
01:14:42.340 weirdness of
01:14:43.080 magnets that
01:14:44.620 made me lose
01:14:45.520 all trust that
01:14:46.700 what I'm
01:14:47.040 seeing could
01:14:48.400 be understood
01:14:49.040 by my
01:14:49.540 brain.
01:14:50.720 Whatever
01:14:51.120 magnets are
01:14:51.920 doing,
01:14:53.220 your brain
01:14:54.080 is not
01:14:54.820 capable of
01:14:55.560 understanding
01:14:56.140 it.
01:14:57.000 Likewise
01:14:57.440 with gravity.
01:14:59.600 So gravity
01:15:00.280 is folded
01:15:01.080 or bent
01:15:01.700 in space,
01:15:02.920 and time
01:15:03.720 is not
01:15:04.080 real,
01:15:04.460 but space-time
01:15:05.140 is.
01:15:06.260 How does
01:15:06.780 your brain
01:15:07.120 handle that?
01:15:08.440 And non-locality,
01:15:09.900 you know,
01:15:10.300 spooky action
01:15:11.340 at a distance,
01:15:12.320 how does
01:15:12.580 your brain
01:15:12.900 handle that?
01:15:14.200 The only
01:15:14.800 way my
01:15:15.240 brain can
01:15:15.780 understand
01:15:16.280 those things,
01:15:18.880 wrong,
01:15:19.440 just study
01:15:19.820 physics.
01:15:21.380 I'm going
01:15:21.940 to challenge
01:15:22.300 you on
01:15:22.540 that.
01:15:23.320 Somebody
01:15:23.640 said,
01:15:23.940 wrong,
01:15:24.280 just study
01:15:24.720 physics.
01:15:27.320 And once
01:15:28.020 you study
01:15:28.460 physics,
01:15:29.420 then all
01:15:30.480 these spooky
01:15:31.060 things are
01:15:31.520 explained,
01:15:32.060 right?
01:15:32.260 No.
01:15:34.320 If you
01:15:34.860 believe that,
01:15:36.760 you've
01:15:37.180 really been
01:15:37.660 brainwashed.
01:15:38.960 Physics
01:15:39.480 replaces
01:15:41.120 understanding
01:15:41.860 with words
01:15:42.700 and formulas.
01:15:44.400 Sometimes
01:15:44.860 those words
01:15:45.560 and formulas
01:15:46.140 work,
01:15:47.000 in the sense
01:15:47.660 that they're
01:15:47.980 predictive,
01:15:48.740 and they're
01:15:49.100 useful,
01:15:49.740 but there's
01:15:50.500 nothing like
01:15:50.980 understanding
01:15:51.660 of physics.
01:15:53.080 Physics
01:15:53.360 is 100%
01:15:54.720 not understood.
01:15:56.900 100%.
01:15:57.500 There's
01:15:58.660 not even
01:15:58.960 1%
01:15:59.440 understood.
01:16:00.520 They only
01:16:01.180 know what
01:16:01.620 works.
01:16:02.760 That's it.
01:16:04.360 And they
01:16:05.020 only know
01:16:05.360 that because
01:16:05.780 they can
01:16:06.040 repeat it.
01:16:07.320 That's it.
01:16:08.900 There's
01:16:09.380 nothing like
01:16:10.440 understanding
01:16:11.860 of physics.
01:16:13.660 Do you
01:16:14.300 believe there
01:16:14.680 is?
01:16:15.460 Just because
01:16:16.200 somebody can
01:16:16.700 put words
01:16:17.240 around it?
01:16:18.400 All right,
01:16:18.640 let me prove
01:16:19.600 to you that
01:16:20.120 I'm as smart
01:16:20.820 as Einstein.
01:16:21.640 Watch,
01:16:22.120 watch.
01:16:24.560 There's no
01:16:25.240 time,
01:16:25.740 there's only
01:16:26.060 space time,
01:16:26.840 and gravity
01:16:27.560 is really
01:16:28.240 about the
01:16:28.900 bent space.
01:16:32.360 How about
01:16:33.040 that?
01:16:34.220 There,
01:16:34.580 I put words
01:16:35.500 on physics,
01:16:36.360 so therefore
01:16:36.820 I understand
01:16:37.480 physics,
01:16:38.000 right,
01:16:38.280 as well as
01:16:38.840 Einstein.
01:16:39.800 He used
01:16:40.460 the same
01:16:40.760 words.
01:16:42.020 Oh,
01:16:42.240 I'll do it
01:16:42.620 again.
01:16:42.920 Watch this.
01:16:44.260 E equals
01:16:44.900 MC squared.
01:16:45.920 Boom.
01:16:46.980 Boom.
01:16:48.200 I know
01:16:48.880 that those
01:16:49.300 letters,
01:16:49.980 when you put
01:16:50.520 an equal,
01:16:51.700 and then you
01:16:52.160 put things
01:16:52.600 on either
01:16:52.920 side,
01:16:53.720 I know
01:16:54.160 how to
01:16:54.440 pronounce it,
01:16:55.800 so therefore
01:16:56.300 I understand
01:16:57.040 some physics.
01:16:59.480 No.
01:17:00.520 Nobody
01:17:00.960 understands
01:17:01.520 any physics.
01:17:03.060 But they
01:17:03.460 do know
01:17:03.840 sometimes
01:17:04.260 what works
01:17:04.860 and what
01:17:05.140 doesn't.
01:17:06.200 That's all
01:17:06.620 they know.
01:17:09.080 We don't
01:17:09.860 know the
01:17:10.260 why of
01:17:10.740 anything.
01:17:12.540 All of
01:17:13.300 the why
01:17:13.840 questions are
01:17:14.720 sort of
01:17:15.320 imaginary.
01:17:19.780 All right.
01:17:20.460 what would
01:17:26.240 define
01:17:26.700 understanding?
01:17:28.820 Well,
01:17:30.240 that's a
01:17:32.440 good question,
01:17:33.560 but let me
01:17:34.040 answer it
01:17:34.500 indirectly,
01:17:35.140 because it's
01:17:35.460 the best I
01:17:35.940 can do.
01:17:37.280 What are
01:17:37.640 the odds
01:17:38.100 that your
01:17:38.420 brain evolved
01:17:39.680 to understand
01:17:40.480 reality?
01:17:42.940 So it's
01:17:43.580 not that
01:17:44.400 there's
01:17:44.640 something to
01:17:45.080 understand,
01:17:45.840 and your
01:17:46.320 brain isn't
01:17:46.900 keeping up.
01:17:47.740 I think
01:17:48.660 that your
01:17:48.900 brain was
01:17:49.400 never meant
01:17:49.880 to give
01:17:50.340 you a 0.57
01:17:51.020 picture of
01:17:51.440 reality in
01:17:51.980 the first
01:17:52.260 place.
01:17:53.460 So your
01:17:54.160 question is
01:17:54.720 sort of
01:17:55.360 like,
01:17:56.880 why can't
01:17:58.660 a toothbrush
01:17:59.420 be a rocket
01:18:00.240 ship or
01:18:00.740 something?
01:18:02.460 It's like,
01:18:03.240 it's not
01:18:04.200 meant for
01:18:04.520 that.
01:18:05.840 I could give
01:18:06.860 you a long
01:18:07.380 explanation of
01:18:08.940 why an
01:18:09.960 astronaut would
01:18:10.760 not fit inside
01:18:11.640 a toothbrush,
01:18:12.100 or I
01:18:14.200 could just
01:18:14.560 say,
01:18:15.020 it's the
01:18:15.740 wrong
01:18:15.900 question.
01:18:18.040 I don't
01:18:18.720 need to
01:18:18.980 get into
01:18:19.220 the details.
01:18:23.560 All right.
01:18:26.700 That is
01:18:27.280 not physics.
01:18:29.480 Boy, if
01:18:29.900 there's one
01:18:30.320 thing you
01:18:30.640 can guarantee
01:18:31.240 that the
01:18:31.860 people who
01:18:33.040 are under
01:18:33.500 the illusion
01:18:34.060 that they
01:18:34.440 understand
01:18:34.880 physics,
01:18:36.200 they will
01:18:36.600 be quite
01:18:37.320 prickly when
01:18:38.720 I tell them
01:18:39.180 that they
01:18:39.480 don't.
01:18:40.480 All right,
01:18:40.800 that's all
01:18:41.100 I have for
01:18:41.440 now.
01:18:41.720 I'm going
01:18:41.920 to talk
01:18:42.120 to you
01:18:42.320 later.
01:18:42.840 I'm going
01:18:43.160 to see
01:18:43.720 what's
01:18:43.980 what,
01:18:44.500 and I
01:18:44.760 will talk
01:18:45.200 to you
01:18:45.720 tomorrow,
01:18:46.440 YouTube.
01:18:46.980 Thanks for
01:18:47.340 joining.