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

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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.

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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