Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2208 Scott Adams： The National Incompetence Crisis As A Filter For The News. Bring Coffee

00:00:00.000 Doo-doo. 1.00

00:00:02.540 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:08.180 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure there's nothing better to watch right now.

00:00:13.420 Nothing.

00:00:14.440 But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody could even conceive,

00:00:19.280 well, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask,

00:00:24.660 a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:28.120 I like coffee.

00:00:30.320 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day,

00:00:34.840 the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:37.120 It's called the simultaneous sip, but it happens now.

00:00:39.220 Go.

00:00:43.700 Let me get rid of somebody over here on YouTube.

00:00:48.980 We're already putting you in timeout.

00:00:53.760 Goodbye.

00:00:55.660 Already bad behavior.

00:00:56.780 My God.

00:00:57.520 Well, I'm going to start out with a prediction.

00:01:02.540 Prediction.

00:01:04.180 Remember this one so you can embarrass me later when I'm so terribly wrong about it, okay?

00:01:09.620 Here's the prediction.

00:01:10.460 In two years, maybe sooner, the news will be reporting that AI was less impressive than any of us thought it would be.

00:01:22.380 Anybody want to take the other side of that?

00:01:24.620 In two years, the news will say, you know, we thought this would be a much sort of a bigger deal.

00:01:29.080 It will still be everywhere.

00:01:31.760 It will be ubiquitous.

00:01:34.340 But we're going to see it as just a new tool.

00:01:37.540 It will not change civilization.

00:01:40.180 It will not fundamentally alter our employment rate.

00:01:44.140 And you won't use it that much because it's too hard to use.

00:01:50.360 All they did is find a new way to show us something we can't do.

00:01:54.680 If you can't do complicated super prompts, you can't do much with it.

00:02:01.940 And you can't do complicated super prompts.

00:02:05.380 So it's sort of like saying, you know what?

00:02:08.500 You know what would be great?

00:02:09.740 You could build your own website, start a commerce store, make yourself a billionaire.

00:02:14.720 I don't know how to do that.

00:02:17.960 I do not know how to program my own commerce site.

00:02:21.580 I would have to hire somebody to do that, just like AI.

00:02:25.080 Do you think someday you're going to be able to build yourself an entire commerce site or anything?

00:02:30.720 Do you think anybody's ever built a website without knowing how to build a website?

00:02:37.460 Do you think that's happened even once?

00:02:39.740 Nope.

00:02:40.880 Nope.

00:02:42.060 Oh, you think so.

00:02:43.080 You think that somebody just said, hey, AI, go get me a domain and sign up for it and then program this thing.

00:02:54.380 And then it was just up and running?

00:02:58.380 There's no way that happened.

00:03:00.760 No, there's no way that happened.

00:03:03.500 I do not believe it.

00:03:04.840 I believe that those people who knew how to do it would know exactly what to use and what to ask for, but nobody else would.

00:03:11.320 There's no non-technical person who built a functioning website with AI.

00:03:17.480 I do not believe that.

00:03:19.520 All right.

00:03:20.140 So two years from now, we're going to say, well, it wasn't that big of a deal.

00:03:25.420 Update.

00:03:26.280 Still waiting for approvals from Amazon for my new blockbusters instant classic, the book that's sweeping the country.

00:03:34.760 It actually is.

00:03:36.920 It's actually going to be a really big deal.

00:03:39.960 You don't know how big it is until it starts getting out there.

00:03:43.500 But what's going to happen is that the reframes in the book, it's already starting to happen.

00:03:48.300 People are already reporting amazing benefits.

00:03:52.460 And when they report that, then the book starts marketing itself.

00:03:55.780 But we should have the audio book as well as the soft cover any hour now, really.

00:04:03.840 They're both submitted.

00:04:05.160 We're just waiting for Amazon to say yes or to say there's something else we need to do.

00:04:10.060 But we'll get that done.

00:04:12.780 All right.

00:04:13.060 Let's talk about the Joe Biden visiting Maui.

00:04:16.640 Wow.

00:04:20.920 By now, you probably all know that that didn't go as well as they'd hoped.

00:04:25.920 Wow.

00:04:27.280 Talk about blowing your opportunity.

00:04:30.000 So I saw at least two videos of Biden being chanted at with the F Biden chant.

00:04:37.420 One was his motorcade and another was when he was at some group.

00:04:41.500 And I'm thinking to myself, they know this is the bluest state in the world, right?

00:04:48.420 Isn't it the most Democrat state of all the states?

00:04:52.780 Am I wrong about that?

00:04:54.000 I think it's number one, right?

00:04:56.000 Of all the states, it's the most Democrat state.

00:04:59.920 And in two places, there were crowds willing to chant him down with F Joe Biden.

00:05:04.700 Now, if I had said to you, well, there's no way that Hawaii would ever turn Republican, you would have laughed.

00:05:14.380 And it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

00:05:16.480 I mean, you know, people don't change that easily.

00:05:18.840 But it's actually within the realm of possibility.

00:05:22.920 Now, if the candidate is Trump, Hawaii will go just the way it always goes.

00:05:28.180 I think you'd agree, right?

00:05:29.960 If it's Trump, they're just going to say, Trump!

00:05:31.900 Ah! And they'll just have an anaphylactic response. 0.83

00:05:37.040 So if it's Trump, Hawaii will vote, you know, all Democrat like always.

00:05:41.720 But what if it's Vivek?

00:05:43.920 What if it's Vivek?

00:05:45.560 Do you remember what Vivek's main theme is?

00:05:49.940 Competence.

00:05:51.280 Competence.

00:05:52.340 Simple competence.

00:05:54.020 Picking people who are qualified, promoting people who are qualified,

00:05:57.740 and not using other considerations to get in the way of competence.

00:06:02.920 If Vivek comes in and says,

00:06:05.160 if I were president, Hawaii might have looked different.

00:06:10.080 And then he explains what things he would do to make it a more, you know, more capable situation.

00:06:16.740 I don't know.

00:06:18.800 He might have a shot.

00:06:20.720 He might have a shot.

00:06:21.820 I mean, a long, long, long shot.

00:06:23.920 Long, long, long, long shot.

00:06:25.920 But it's actually in play.

00:06:27.920 In my opinion, Hawaii's in play.

00:06:30.360 But only under the specific, you know, Vivek is the candidate.

00:06:35.600 And he makes an argument for capability over politics.

00:06:40.500 If you're a Hawaiian right now, especially Maui,

00:06:44.180 and a politician said to you,

00:06:46.280 look, let's drop the politics. 0.99

00:06:48.280 We need to focus on making shit work. 0.99

00:06:51.620 How would you hear that? 1.00

00:06:53.640 Forget the politics.

00:06:54.580 We're just going to make stuff work.

00:06:55.860 Things don't work.

00:06:57.480 Let's fix that first.

00:07:00.280 That would be a strong, strong package.

00:07:03.460 Probably not strong enough, but interesting to think about.

00:07:06.760 So anyway, so Biden's in Maui,

00:07:08.600 and he gave the cringiest, worst empathy speech of all time.

00:07:15.780 Let me start with an analogy.

00:07:20.300 Did you ever have anybody say,

00:07:22.660 hey, let me show you pictures of my new baby?

00:07:26.740 And you're like, oh, great.

00:07:28.060 I guess you're going to have to act pretty excited

00:07:30.360 because babies all look alike,

00:07:31.980 but I'm going to pretend this is the best one ever.

00:07:34.840 Yeah.

00:07:35.000 Yeah, no, they all look like Winston Churchill

00:07:37.460 crossed with, who's that little Star Wars character?

00:07:42.920 I forget.

00:07:43.640 But anyway, who's the Star Wars character

00:07:47.540 who talks backwards?

00:07:49.280 Yoda.

00:07:49.860 Yoda.

00:07:50.700 Yoda, right.

00:07:54.940 So if somebody says, look at a picture of my baby,

00:07:57.320 here's what you don't say.

00:07:59.000 Oh, that baby's great.

00:08:00.820 Here's a picture of my dog.

00:08:02.500 What?

00:08:04.640 What?

00:08:05.800 Yeah, don't do that.

00:08:06.960 Don't do that.

00:08:07.800 Here's another one you shouldn't do.

00:08:09.640 These are just lessons for later.

00:08:11.720 Somebody says to you, oh, my God, I have cancer.

00:08:15.900 I've got six months to live.

00:08:17.940 And you say, oh, that's terrible.

00:08:19.160 That's terrible.

00:08:20.160 You know, I've got this bunion on my left foot,

00:08:23.040 and that's driving me crazy, too.

00:08:27.340 No, no, no.

00:08:29.880 Don't compare anybody's baby to your pet.

00:08:32.760 No, don't do that.

00:08:34.580 Don't do that.

00:08:35.360 Don't compare anybody's cancer to your bunion.

00:08:38.100 No, no.

00:08:39.760 No bunions to cancer.

00:08:42.000 Basic stuff.

00:08:43.360 This is basic stuff, people.

00:08:46.920 And if there is potentially the worst tragedy in American history,

00:08:51.360 that's probably not true, but it's really bad.

00:08:54.580 What you should not compare it to is that kitchen fire you had that one time

00:08:59.020 that was put out in 20 minutes.

00:09:02.760 Yeah, don't do that.

00:09:04.660 If there is a potential massive loss of life,

00:09:09.040 which include way too many children,

00:09:10.920 we don't know the details yet,

00:09:13.360 do not laughingly say your Corvette was at risk for the tiny kitchen fire.

00:09:21.160 All right, am I making my point here?

00:09:23.680 There are some things you just don't compare.

00:09:26.940 Let me give you another one.

00:09:29.540 My grandmother was in the Holocaust.

00:09:31.460 My grandmother had to use a butter churn to make butter. 1.00

00:09:36.780 They couldn't even buy butter.

00:09:40.160 No, no, do not do that.

00:09:43.540 Do not.

00:09:44.940 Butter churn, Holocaust. 1.00

00:09:47.020 No, no.

00:09:48.820 Don't compare.

00:09:50.240 So that's my lesson for the day.

00:09:52.680 You know, I just laughed at it all.

00:09:56.880 What was your response to the whole Joe Biden fiasco?

00:10:01.460 Did you get angry?

00:10:04.200 Did anybody feel angry?

00:10:06.580 Aren't we way beyond it?

00:10:07.780 It just, it literally played like humor.

00:10:10.100 Like we've gotten to the point where we no longer pretend he's capable.

00:10:14.480 Now you just send him out to see what he does.

00:10:17.680 You teared up?

00:10:19.340 Really?

00:10:21.420 Disgust?

00:10:21.900 I can't even get to disgust.

00:10:25.760 See, the problem is he no longer registers as a capable adult.

00:10:31.420 Are you not there yet?

00:10:33.480 I mean, I do see him as a dementia patient.

00:10:36.420 And I can't get mad at a dementia patient.

00:10:40.200 Can I get mad at the people who send him out there? 0.99

00:10:43.380 I fucking get mad at them. 0.99

00:10:45.980 Yeah. 0.99

00:10:46.680 Am I mad at the people who put him in front of Maui? 0.98

00:10:49.600 Yeah, I'm really fucking mad at them. 0.97

00:10:52.880 That was completely unacceptable. 0.98

00:10:57.640 You know he should be out of office.

00:11:00.560 You know he needs to step back.

00:11:02.260 But you got yourself a problem, don't you?

00:11:04.600 That instead of getting him a vice president who has some capability,

00:11:09.060 you went full DEI and you got yourself somebody who can't do the job. 0.99

00:11:14.720 And now you're fucking stuck. 0.99

00:11:18.340 All right. 1.00

00:11:18.920 Joe Biden, he's just a dementia patient.

00:11:21.920 I actually have empathy for him.

00:11:23.780 Right.

00:11:24.300 He's done some stuff I don't like.

00:11:27.960 But I'm not really thinking about that when I see him.

00:11:30.240 I just think somebody needs to help you.

00:11:34.520 Somebody needs to be the adult in the room and make that a stop.

00:11:37.660 Can we agree this is the last straw?

00:11:42.000 Can we just call this the last straw?

00:11:44.240 Because somebody's just got to call it.

00:11:46.520 We have to call it as done.

00:11:48.600 And I don't believe that the news should be covering him as a president.

00:11:52.020 He should be covered as a dementia patient from now on.

00:11:55.820 We need to just close that door. 1.00

00:11:58.320 Let's stop fucking pretending he's a capable adult. 1.00

00:12:02.520 Everybody can see it now. 1.00

00:12:04.420 Everybody can see it.

00:12:05.680 And politics is separate.

00:12:09.640 Let's argue our politics over here. 0.99

00:12:12.660 But let's agree that we need to treat him with a little bit of fucking dignity. 0.99

00:12:18.460 How about? 0.99

00:12:20.560 He's not my political friend.

00:12:23.200 He's not on my side for a lot of stuff. 0.98

00:12:25.720 But when you reach that point, you need a little fucking dignity. 0.98

00:12:30.320 And he can't give it to himself. 0.99

00:12:32.820 It's going to have to come from the people around him.

00:12:34.840 And it's time.

00:12:36.960 You all see it. 0.99

00:12:38.800 Let Maui be the time when the news finally wakes up, treats the rest of us like we can see with our own fucking eyes, that he's gone. 0.99

00:12:49.280 It's time. 0.99

00:12:51.120 You know, maybe they need to keep him in there as a zombie president for some political reason.

00:12:56.580 But we do not have an obligation to treat him like he's an actual functioning adult.

00:13:02.720 Forget politics.

00:13:03.980 He's not a functioning adult.

00:13:06.080 And we all see it.

00:13:09.340 So I don't even know if I can talk about him like a president anymore.

00:13:13.180 He's a patient.

00:13:14.860 He's a victim.

00:13:16.240 He is a victim of elder abuse at this point.

00:13:18.740 Is elder abuse too far?

00:13:22.460 Do you think that he wanted his legacy to include the Maui visit? 0.98

00:13:26.540 Do you think the Biden fucking museum is going to put that video up there for everybody to watch? 0.98

00:13:31.420 No. 0.99

00:13:32.100 Doesn't help his legacy.

00:13:33.660 Doesn't help his presidency. 0.98

00:13:35.180 Doesn't fucking help Maui at all. 1.00

00:13:38.640 And you're making a mockery of the fucking country. 1.00

00:13:41.820 You're making a mockery of it. 1.00

00:13:43.300 So at least the people on the right-leaning news, can you grow the fuck up and stop treating him like he's a functioning adult? 0.99

00:13:51.020 We can all see he's not. 0.99

00:13:53.700 Stop pretending.

00:13:55.320 Stop calling him the president.

00:13:56.700 He barely knows he is.

00:13:59.180 And again, I'd say I'd tell you exactly the same thing if this were Trump. 1.00

00:14:04.020 If Trump turned into a bumbling moron of this nature, I mean, forget about your opinion of him at the moment. 0.99

00:14:12.000 But if he turned into that, I'd be saying the same thing. 1.00

00:14:15.640 You think if Ivanka and Jared pushed, or Melania, but she's not the pusher, if somebody pushed him out there to act like that, you think I wouldn't be mad at Trump's family?

00:14:29.320 I'd be pretty pissed.

00:14:31.040 I'd be really pissed if his family treated him like that.

00:14:34.960 So this is not even political.

00:14:37.060 This is absolutely human.

00:14:39.240 And as a human, I can't respect this.

00:14:45.380 I just can't respect Jill Biden.

00:14:47.920 Jill Biden.

00:14:49.240 I don't have respect for her right now.

00:14:51.820 She needs to do the wife thing. 1.00

00:14:55.160 You know, the politics thing is done.

00:14:57.960 Let's call it done.

00:14:59.740 You need to be the wife. 1.00

00:15:02.340 You're not doing it.

00:15:03.420 You're not setting an example for the rest of us.

00:15:08.060 And we notice.

00:15:09.940 All right.

00:15:12.280 Well, at least his Corvette survived.

00:15:18.480 I'm going to make a big thing of this.

00:15:20.200 So this will be the theme of my show today.

00:15:23.720 The theme will be the national incompetence crisis.

00:15:26.720 You're all experiencing, right?

00:15:28.620 When I say it, you go, oh, my God, true.

00:15:31.000 You cannot do simple transactions in society in 2023.

00:15:36.600 There is nothing that's easy enough that works.

00:15:40.240 You can't rent a car, buy a car, go shopping for groceries, fill your tank, get car service.

00:15:46.740 You can't call a plumber. 0.99

00:15:48.120 You can't fucking get anything done. 0.98

00:15:50.540 People don't return calls. 0.99

00:15:52.020 They don't show up.

00:15:52.960 They don't know how to do the job.

00:15:54.360 But I've never seen anything like this.

00:15:58.640 And it's not me, right?

00:16:00.080 You're all seeing it.

00:16:02.280 Now, I think it does seem to me that it would be going too far to say that, you know, this is a DEI, kind of too much hiring without looking at qualifications.

00:16:16.940 It's probably one of the variables.

00:16:19.400 It's probably one of the variables.

00:16:21.020 But there's something else going on.

00:16:22.660 And I don't know exactly what it is, but let me speculate.

00:16:27.100 Speculation number one.

00:16:30.000 Have you ever seen a 16-year-old today, and then you remember what 16-year-olds were like when, let's say, some of the older people watching were kids?

00:16:39.160 At 16, kids were running businesses, like actually running entire businesses.

00:16:47.440 I have a few examples in my head, right?

00:16:50.860 Running entire businesses.

00:16:53.760 Small businesses, but businesses.

00:16:55.480 Now, think about the things that you would have been trusted with when you were a teenager.

00:17:03.400 Think about it.

00:17:04.340 The things you would have been trusted to do as a teenager.

00:17:07.980 Now compare that to what you would trust a teenager to do today.

00:17:11.340 It's really different.

00:17:13.600 So part of it is, I think, kids are, let's say, living in, let's say, a bubble of sheltered kind of experience.

00:17:23.600 So that unless you need them to show you how to hook up a video game, you know, a lot of their talents are not translating to the real world.

00:17:30.320 So I think in the old days, children were integrated into the adult world earlier and more extreme.

00:17:38.100 Yes or no?

00:17:39.600 Kids were integrated into the adult world sooner.

00:17:44.300 So I think what you have is maybe everybody's five years behind what they should be.

00:17:49.420 I almost say should.

00:17:50.660 Five years behind what they might have been in a previous generation.

00:17:54.440 So some of it is just lack of exposure to the real world, right?

00:17:58.560 Lack of solving your own problems.

00:18:01.920 Some of it is that the school system might be worse.

00:18:04.960 I don't know.

00:18:06.380 So there's a number of things going on.

00:18:08.460 But I would say if I had to point to one thing that's making us an incompetent country, well, two things.

00:18:17.940 Number one, our employment rate is very good, which is really bad news for competence.

00:18:23.700 You know what I mean?

00:18:24.980 Do you get that immediately?

00:18:26.020 Actually, our employment rate is pretty near full employment, you know, in an economic sense, not in a number sense.

00:18:34.540 In the economic sense, when you get around 3%, 4% unemployment, that's considered fully employed.

00:18:41.460 Because you need a little 3%, 4% slop so that if you need to hire somebody, there's somebody available who might be, you know, good enough to hire.

00:18:50.700 Once you reach a point where all the good people have jobs, what happens to the next company that needs to hire somebody?

00:18:57.360 They lower their standards because they just know they need a body in that job. 0.87

00:19:03.200 So it seems to me that high employment is poison at some point.

00:19:09.240 At some point, everybody's operating below the capability level.

00:19:13.180 Whereas if you had enough people to pick from, you know, the best companies could have really good teams.

00:19:20.240 And it's the best companies that make the biggest difference, right?

00:19:23.260 So we might have a too-much-employment problem, weirdly.

00:19:27.940 It's a weird backwards problem. 0.94

00:19:30.080 But the other problem, and I think you'll agree with this one completely, everything's too complicated.

00:19:36.700 In other words, every time you add any complication to a system, its odds of breaking go up, you know, like double.

00:19:44.300 Now, you've seen me complain about it, but it looked like I was just bitching when I do my live stream, that if I add one thing to it, just any one thing, the odds of failure reach 100%.

00:19:59.140 Every change takes the odds of failure to nearly 100%.

00:20:04.780 So, for example, if I added to this morning process that I would do, you know, one extra light or something.

00:20:11.500 For three days, the show would be a mess, because I wouldn't remember to do it, or doing that would make me forget something else.

00:20:21.260 The number of things you have to do just to, let me take any example.

00:20:25.680 Let's say I need to get some prescription meds, right?

00:20:31.500 So I take an anti-acid prescription meds.

00:20:35.140 So what would you think would be the process for getting some medicine that's not very important, you know?

00:20:41.500 Anti-acid, it's not a big deal.

00:20:44.140 And I take it all the time.

00:20:47.180 What should that process look like?

00:20:49.660 Well, I'll tell you.

00:20:50.860 It should look like when I need some, I go to some app, and I, you know, say, hey, I need this again.

00:20:58.460 And then it shows up the next day like any Amazon product, right?

00:21:03.000 Amazon's pretty much next day delivery.

00:21:05.560 That's not what happens.

00:21:08.680 Instead, if I want it delivered, it'll take a week, but they can't guarantee it.

00:21:13.980 Do you think that I plan, do you think I put it on my calendar when I need to redo my medicine?

00:21:21.100 No, because that would be an extra complication.

00:21:24.300 I just, when it looks like it's about done, you know, I hold the thing, I go, oh, not too many left there.

00:21:29.300 I better order some new.

00:21:31.220 So now I try to do it online, but they don't give me an option to get it in time.

00:21:36.280 So now I have to go to look at all the other options of, there's the special delivery, and like, okay, that, but that only applies to new prescriptions, all right?

00:21:45.580 And then there's a regular delivery, but I could sign up for, I think, the special one where they take it to the parking lot, or the one where you stand in line.

00:21:53.940 And then, you know, after all these complications and decisions, I order it, and then I wait for the notification to come on my phone that it's ready to go get it.

00:22:04.240 But the notification never came.

00:22:06.980 But that's okay, because I couldn't get it, because my car was in the shop and they wouldn't call me back.

00:22:12.440 In fact, after four calls and no return call about my car, I was on the verge of reporting it as stolen by the BMW dealership.

00:22:21.420 Not a joke.

00:22:22.860 Not a joke.

00:22:23.420 I mean, I probably wouldn't have done it, but I was on the verge of calling the police and saying, look, there's somebody who has my car, they're not responding, could you give them a call?

00:22:33.020 See if you can release it.

00:22:34.980 That actually was happening.

00:22:36.980 That literally actually happened.

00:22:38.300 Now, so I never get the text, so I don't know if it's ready.

00:22:45.320 And I never had my car, so I couldn't get it, but that's okay, because I can take an Uber.

00:22:49.140 So I signed up to get an Uber, standing in the corner, no Ubers.

00:22:55.880 Uber wasn't working that day.

00:22:58.020 Now, the app was working, but nobody was picking up my ride.

00:23:01.740 So I changed all of my plans, because taking an Uber across town is an all-day thing, by the time you wait for it.

00:23:11.060 By the time the Uber goes to the wrong place, by the time the Uber accepts and then it cancels before it shows up, it cancels on you.

00:23:18.780 You've all had this, right?

00:23:19.800 So I give up on the Uber, but that's okay, because when I ordered the meds, it didn't work for some reason.

00:23:27.740 I don't know why.

00:23:29.100 So I didn't order the meds that I thought I'd ordered. 0.98

00:23:31.700 I didn't have a car to drive it there, and I couldn't get an Uber, because every fucking thing stopped working. 0.98

00:23:39.200 Everything stopped working. 0.63

00:23:40.300 But that's okay, because I had a lot of work to do, you know, self-publishing, well, not self-publishing, but independently publishing.

00:23:48.080 Do you know how many things went wrong trying to sign up for various websites to do different parts of the independent publishing part?

00:23:56.760 Let me tell you what went wrong.

00:23:58.600 Almost everything.

00:23:59.520 Almost every part of it was broken and needed some kind of fix or, you know, pivot or workaround, or maybe there's another service that does it instead.

00:24:13.280 Everything.

00:24:14.680 Do you know, most of the time I tried to prove that I'm the Dilbert guy.

00:24:19.700 Do you know how hard that is?

00:24:22.300 I go, you know, I'm saying I'm a public figure.

00:24:25.440 I'm the easiest person to identify in the world.

00:24:27.680 You can Google me.

00:24:29.520 I'll go on Zoom.

00:24:31.040 I'll show you a picture of my passport.

00:24:34.220 I can prove who I am a thousand different ways.

00:24:37.600 Do you know what way they required?

00:24:39.720 The only way that they would accept is if my email address had a business address.

00:24:47.700 Like I had to be, you know, Scott Adams at somecompany.com, and I only had my own address.

00:24:55.560 I didn't have a business address.

00:24:56.920 I had to hire a lawyer to create a business address just to deal with them to get that done.

00:25:05.880 You know, one of the things.

00:25:07.160 Twice I ran into that.

00:25:08.880 Now, these are just my little problems, so you shouldn't care about my little problems.

00:25:13.480 I'm using this only as an example of your life.

00:25:16.360 When I describe my experience this past few days, how many of you said, oh my God, that's, I'm there.

00:25:24.820 I can't get anything done.

00:25:26.860 Every service doesn't work.

00:25:28.840 Everything.

00:25:29.700 It's all broken.

00:25:31.480 Yeah.

00:25:31.600 I tell you, Vivek isn't exactly the right place, because the Vivek take is that we need to focus on capability and competence again, and we're really not.

00:25:44.240 I just don't see people going to work saying, yeah, I'm going to do this right.

00:25:49.160 You know, I'm really going to add the skills.

00:25:50.700 I'm really going to make, it just feels like we've given up on trying to do good work.

00:25:55.040 Anyway, let's talk about some examples of that as we go.

00:26:01.680 First of all, apparently there's at least one cartel in Mexico that has created an elite drone attack group.

00:26:11.500 That's right.

00:26:12.880 The cartels are creating an air force.

00:26:16.340 That's not a joke.

00:26:17.800 People, as Biden likes to say, not a joke.

00:26:20.420 They're creating an elite unit that's been training for a long time, and they're buying suicide drones that they can control sometimes for many miles away.

00:26:32.100 So they have them searching for their rival cartels, and then when they find them, they crash it and it blows up and kills them.

00:26:40.780 So do you think we should hurry to try to get a military grip on the cartel situation, or should we just wait until they have F-16s of their own?

00:26:50.420 Because I feel like this would be the time to maybe take care of that.

00:26:57.780 So again, Republicans are talking about going in and taking care of it.

00:27:01.740 Democrats are not.

00:27:03.600 So Democrats, if you want the cartel to have an air force, just keep doing nothing.

00:27:11.440 All right.

00:27:12.320 There's a Washington Post is reporting.

00:27:14.980 There's a new study saying that long COVID lasts two years at least.

00:27:19.260 It's reported in the Washington Post, which is not a credible outlet.

00:27:23.800 And they're talking about a scientific study, and it's 2023.

00:27:27.460 So there's no such thing as credible scientific studies in 2023.

00:27:32.180 So this is a double non-credible, a non-credible news reporting source, the Washington Post, and a non-credible scientific study, because they're all non-credible.

00:27:43.600 At best, it's a coin flip, at best.

00:27:50.560 So that's all I have to believe about that.

00:27:52.680 I don't believe any COVID-related data.

00:27:54.920 I don't believe anything about vaccination harm, or anything about vaccination benefit, or anything about COVID harm, or anything about long COVID.

00:28:06.520 My current opinion is there's nothing that I could believe.

00:28:11.080 I have no idea what happened.

00:28:13.680 No idea.

00:28:14.920 I really don't.

00:28:15.960 This is not hyperbole.

00:28:17.380 I don't have any idea what happened for the last three years.

00:28:21.760 Does anybody have that same feeling?

00:28:23.300 I don't know what happened.

00:28:26.200 I think masks are easy.

00:28:28.580 Masks didn't work.

00:28:30.420 That's the whole story.

00:28:34.700 Yeah, it's very disconcerting to not know what I went through for three years.

00:28:42.020 Let's talk about Vivek.

00:28:43.920 Once again, I wake up, and I look at the trending part of Twitter that I call X.

00:28:49.860 And how often, now, I can't tell, is the trending part different for different users?

00:28:57.200 Does everybody get the same trending?

00:28:59.180 Because that's sort of what it's for, right?

00:29:01.520 Everybody should see the same one.

00:29:02.920 So, for those of you who use X, are you seeing Vivek trend basically every time, or is that because of the way I use X?

00:29:15.440 Are you seeing him trend basically every day or no?

00:29:19.340 Because I am.

00:29:21.140 It's different.

00:29:21.760 Why would trending be different for all of us?

00:29:24.720 I believe you that it is.

00:29:26.220 But why would it be different for all of us?

00:29:28.980 So it's trending things they think you'd want to see?

00:29:33.040 So it should be trending whether you like it or not, right?

00:29:35.560 I don't get that.

00:29:38.800 But anyway, at least for me, I get a lot of news from him.

00:29:42.220 He makes news every single day, and here it is again.

00:29:46.440 So Caitlin Collins of CNN was interviewing him, and they wanted to paint him as a conspiracy theorist.

00:29:55.980 So they came at it with a predetermined frame they were trying to put on him, because if it's stuck, then everything else they can stick to it.

00:30:12.520 And the frame was that he's a conspiracy theory believer.

00:30:17.440 There's zero evidence of that.

00:30:20.100 Not anywhere.

00:30:21.020 There is no evidence he's ever believed anything except facts that are in evidence.

00:30:27.660 So there was a story, and I guess it was The Atlantic, which grossly misquoted him.

00:30:34.280 He says he asked for the audio tape, and he couldn't get one.

00:30:37.600 Surprise.

00:30:38.540 They wouldn't give him the audio tape.

00:30:40.240 But he clearly didn't say what The Atlantic said.

00:30:42.840 So CNN, watch how they work together. 0.80

00:30:45.400 So The Atlantic, which I would consider the maybe among the least credible, just obvious lie kind of publication.

00:30:55.640 So they go first, and they tell like a really gross lie.

00:30:59.820 They misquote him just terribly.

00:31:02.480 And then that allows CNN to use the misquote lie as a basis for asking him, you know, what do you say to this story?

00:31:12.500 Now, he starts by saying, oh, I didn't say that.

00:31:17.940 That's a misquote.

00:31:19.180 I asked him for the audio.

00:31:21.180 They wouldn't give it to me.

00:31:22.900 So, yeah, no, I don't believe that.

00:31:25.100 Never said it.

00:31:26.000 Nothing like that.

00:31:27.640 So at that point, don't you think the interview should be over?

00:31:30.780 Or at least that part of the interview?

00:31:32.940 But no.

00:31:33.440 Now, apparently Caitlin Collins had decided that she was going to push this thing.

00:31:39.160 And I won't play it for you, but I'll summarize it.

00:31:42.860 So I tweeted a summary.

00:31:44.640 Now, none of the words in my summary are anything that they said.

00:31:48.620 These are my own words.

00:31:50.140 But if you want to get a feel for how it went, my words will give you the feel kind of quickly.

00:31:56.080 All right, here's CNN.

00:31:57.220 It's Caitlin Collins.

00:31:58.500 Again, these are my words, not theirs.

00:31:59.980 So, why do you say 9-11 was an inside job?

00:32:03.140 So that's the thing they were trying to tar him with.

00:32:05.700 They're trying to make him look like he's saying 9-11 was an inside job.

00:32:10.300 And I'm not saying it was or wasn't, but he's not saying that.

00:32:14.760 So CNN says, why do you say 9-11 was an inside job?

00:32:18.220 Vivek, I've never said that.

00:32:20.000 Oh, yeah?

00:32:20.760 Here's a video of you not saying it.

00:32:23.340 This actually happened.

00:32:24.920 This sounds like I'm making it up, right?

00:32:26.260 So to prove that he really did say that 9-11 was an inside job, they showed a video of him talking in which he said nothing like that.

00:32:36.000 Nothing even sort of like that at all.

00:32:39.880 So she shows the video and she says, well, and then she says, oh, yeah, here's a video of you not saying it.

00:32:46.000 Then she shows a video of him not saying it.

00:32:48.900 And then she says, basically, what do you have to say for yourself now?

00:32:53.080 Like, how do you explain that?

00:32:54.100 And he's sitting there thinking, what am I experiencing here?

00:32:58.980 You just showed a video in which I didn't say the thing you said I said.

00:33:02.980 And now you're asking me to explain the video you just showed that showed you lying?

00:33:08.520 And he's basically just laughing at her at that point.

00:33:11.480 Like, you know, at that point, he's just destroyed her.

00:33:14.460 And watch her face. 1.00

00:33:16.440 She starts going into the cognitive dissonance phase where she knows she's fucked. 1.00

00:33:21.140 Or maybe she doesn't. 0.99

00:33:23.600 And maybe she's trying to make sense of her world.

00:33:26.580 But she went into this trying hard to embarrass him, you know, with the I'm going to drop this bomb and then we'll end the interview and you can't defend yourself.

00:33:35.020 And he just tore her apart.

00:33:38.520 Tore her apart.

00:33:39.560 Anyway, and toward the end, he put a cherry on top.

00:33:45.440 He says, this feels like the way you treated another candidate.

00:33:48.840 He didn't mention Trump, but he just laughed at him like, this sounds like the way you treated that other guy. 0.99

00:33:54.060 Just making shit up, basically. 0.98

00:33:56.160 Again, these are all my words. 0.99

00:33:58.360 But so I watched this thing.

00:33:59.580 And I could watch that for eight years.

00:34:05.140 Give me eight years of Vivek going on every left-leaning thing and tearing their fake news apart right in front of them.

00:34:13.760 I didn't think there was anybody in the Republican Party who could even do it.

00:34:17.700 Because you know who else can't do that?

00:34:19.900 Trump.

00:34:21.220 Trump is terrible at defending against fake news.

00:34:26.220 I've never seen Trump once do a good job of defending against all the hoaxes.

00:34:31.800 But Vivek's not going to roll over.

00:34:33.680 He's not going to roll over if they say he said something or did something he didn't do.

00:34:38.020 If Vivek had been accused of saying drink bleach, you know, which Trump also did not say,

00:34:44.160 he would have eviscerated them for saying that in public.

00:34:48.240 Trump just kind of said, oh, I was joking, and he let it live.

00:34:51.260 That was a total mistake.

00:34:52.640 Total mistake.

00:34:53.380 So the fact that there could be a Republican candidate who would eviscerate fake news while you watch,

00:35:02.600 that could be everything.

00:35:05.500 Because the public still thinks the news is real.

00:35:09.740 Right?

00:35:10.360 At least half of the public still thinks news is real.

00:35:13.100 We haven't had real news in a long time, at least on politics, but I don't know if we ever have.

00:35:19.120 So after this total debacle in which CNN is just humiliated, do you think that the people on the left saw it the same way I did?

00:35:31.440 Do you think my interpretation of CNN being humiliated on live TV, do you think that's what they saw?

00:35:38.320 Or is it possible, cognitive dissonance, that either I'm insane, and you can check for yourself, I suppose.

00:35:45.900 See if I'm the one in cognitive dissonance.

00:35:48.080 Or would it be Mehdi Hassan, who said, he plays the video, or actually he retweeted Vivek's tweet about the interview.

00:36:00.420 Because Vivek was so happy about it, he wanted to retweet it.

00:36:02.960 Because he did so well.

00:36:04.820 And then Mehdi Hassan, who's very associated with the left, he tweets it, and then he says, Mehdi says,

00:36:12.440 but the question was, is 9-11 an inside job?

00:36:15.960 And you didn't say no.

00:36:19.440 Now, if you didn't see the interview, and most people are not going to click on it,

00:36:24.560 wouldn't you say that that's a pretty good point?

00:36:27.320 That she made a direct accusation, asked him a direct question, and he didn't answer it?

00:36:32.440 Wow.

00:36:33.920 Except, he answered it directly.

00:36:39.740 Directly.

00:36:41.140 Because she pointed out that he wasn't answering it directly, because he had instead spent time eviscerating her fake news.

00:36:49.680 So when he was done eviscerating all of her fake news, because he had never even talked about the,

00:36:56.080 he never even had been on the topic.

00:36:58.640 Just hold this in your head.

00:36:59.880 He had never even spoken in any way about the topic of it being an inside job.

00:37:05.720 So, he talked about how nothing like that happened in the real world, and then she gets him with, but you didn't deny it.

00:37:14.760 He didn't not deny it.

00:37:16.080 He never even talked about it.

00:37:18.320 It wasn't, I mean, it just wasn't even a topic.

00:37:21.440 So then, realizing that, you know, she's got this little gotcha, that, like, hi, you're not denying it, you're not denying it.

00:37:29.140 He denies it directly and in clear words.

00:37:33.260 And then, Benib Hassan tweets, but you didn't deny it.

00:37:37.600 No, he denied it directly, directly, and with clear, clean words with no ambiguity whatsoever.

00:37:43.620 Well, you wouldn't know that if you just read the tweet.

00:37:48.160 So, when you see him force his, let's say, political opponents into just a ridiculous box, you don't want to see that for eight years? 0.89

00:38:01.560 Or do you want to just see people tell you that you're a Nazi because you support Trump?

00:38:05.860 It's really clean, it's really, I hate to say it because I love Trump, you know, a lot about him.

00:38:15.140 You know, he's the OG.

00:38:16.920 You could only have it as a fake if there had been a Trump, in my opinion.

00:38:20.920 So, I mean, Trump gets a lot of credit from me, but he is far from a perfect candidate.

00:38:26.520 We all agree, right?

00:38:28.200 He can't do this.

00:38:30.660 He can't do this.

00:38:31.840 He can say, fake news, fake news, and it does work.

00:38:35.020 I mean, he did convince half the country that the news is fake, and he was right about it.

00:38:40.860 And I do still like, you know, Trump's policies generally.

00:38:45.020 He seems to be, he seems to promote policies, for the most part, that make complete sense, as does Vivek.

00:38:54.120 But Vivek can do this.

00:38:57.360 You know, I always think of the Avengers.

00:39:00.220 You know, when I think of the Republican Party, I think actually Vivek said something like this.

00:39:05.500 But you think of the Avengers.

00:39:07.180 There's a famous line in whichever Avengers it was, you'll tell me probably.

00:39:13.240 Do you remember when they said, we have a Hulk?

00:39:16.780 It was like one of the funny lines in the series.

00:39:18.940 But we have a Hulk.

00:39:22.300 That's what I think whenever Vivek is on TV.

00:39:26.540 Because Vivek is the Hulk.

00:39:29.020 Like, he's the one they don't want to talk to.

00:39:32.640 Do you know how much they don't want to talk to Vivek?

00:39:36.160 You know, they have to, because he's too important.

00:39:38.680 So he's impossible to ignore, which he did himself.

00:39:42.400 He made himself impossible to ignore.

00:39:45.180 But, yeah, it's totally Vivek smash.

00:39:49.640 Vivek smash is what it feels like.

00:39:52.800 Anyway, I'm liking Vivek more every day, if you couldn't tell.

00:39:58.060 I'll say it again.

00:39:59.200 We need some kind of a TV show with high production qualities, which is important.

00:40:04.120 And just going through all the hoaxes that the media has presented.

00:40:08.840 Now, they could do both left-leaning hoaxes and right-leaning hoaxes.

00:40:12.580 But, man, do we need that.

00:40:14.640 We just need to be the hoax show.

00:40:17.560 All right, the political hoax show.

00:40:18.900 Then you could take clips out of it.

00:40:20.600 And every time you're on social media and somebody says one of those hoaxes,

00:40:24.580 you just play that clip.

00:40:27.060 How useful would that be?

00:40:29.340 But, I don't know, I just need somebody to make that.

00:40:34.120 All right, here's another theme.

00:40:37.860 I'm going to see how long I can push this.

00:40:41.040 The negative comments about Vivek from Republicans

00:40:45.260 have a certain quality to them that, in my opinion,

00:40:51.420 are a racist dog whistle.

00:40:54.500 And I have mocked this whole racist dog whistle thing forever. 0.98

00:40:59.300 It's like, that's not a racist dog whistle.

00:41:01.580 It's just a fact about immigration, for example.

00:41:04.900 But, I gave you some examples yesterday.

00:41:07.800 But, here's another comment somebody made about Vivek.

00:41:10.840 It doesn't matter who, it's just a critic.

00:41:13.860 Says that Vivek is overpolished like Obama.

00:41:18.520 That's the criticism.

00:41:20.140 He's overpolished like Obama.

00:41:23.360 How does that sound to you?

00:41:27.580 Am I being too woke?

00:41:31.280 You tell me.

00:41:32.260 Am I being too woke?

00:41:34.100 Or, is that obviously, you can feel a little whistle there, can't you?

00:41:39.940 Like, I feel I can feel it.

00:41:42.240 But, I'm not a mind reader.

00:41:43.680 So, I don't know what's in the mind of the person who tweeted it.

00:41:46.660 But, watch.

00:41:47.780 Keep an eye on this.

00:41:49.460 Right?

00:41:49.640 Keep an eye on this.

00:41:50.680 Because, there's a whole bunch of people who don't want to say,

00:41:53.240 I'm uncomfortable because he's brown. 1.00

00:41:56.240 But, you know they exist.

00:41:58.380 Right?

00:41:58.620 You know they exist.

00:42:00.320 So, just keep an eye on that.

00:42:02.580 I don't know if it's a thing yet.

00:42:04.660 But, anecdotally, it's kind of bothersome.

00:42:07.880 Tucker Carlson had Colonel Douglas McGregor on

00:42:13.600 to tell us that everything the media is telling us is a lie.

00:42:18.040 That Russia is actually strong and winning.

00:42:21.300 And, Ukraine is actually weaker than we think.

00:42:24.420 And, losing.

00:42:25.640 They're running out of people.

00:42:27.240 And, we're going to end up with Americans fighting Russians 1.00

00:42:30.980 if we keep on this path.

00:42:32.580 Does that sound to you persuasive and credible?

00:42:39.660 Plausible? 0.98

00:42:48.220 Oh, little troll. 0.99

00:42:50.400 Who says, only Scott is virtuous white. 0.99

00:42:53.980 You're in your own little world,

00:42:55.600 and I'm going to make sure you're not in ours anymore.

00:42:58.480 Goodbye.

00:42:58.760 Goodbye.

00:43:00.720 Go back to your little world.

00:43:02.580 All right.

00:43:04.940 So, here's my take on Colonel Douglas McGregor,

00:43:08.320 who I've heard before saying similar things.

00:43:11.040 But, he got a bigger platform for this.

00:43:14.200 How does he know?

00:43:17.060 How does that one guy know?

00:43:20.360 He's the only guy who has the right information?

00:43:23.760 Is he in Ukraine?

00:43:25.600 Does he have secret sources?

00:43:28.020 Yeah.

00:43:28.780 Now, I'm not saying he's wrong.

00:43:31.800 All right.

00:43:32.000 So, I'm not offering a criticism of his opinion.

00:43:35.300 It could be right on.

00:43:36.820 I don't really know.

00:43:38.380 Because I'm not in Ukraine.

00:43:40.540 I don't have any sources.

00:43:42.440 And, I wouldn't trust any sources I had.

00:43:45.660 Do you think there's anybody in Ukraine?

00:43:48.460 Anybody.

00:43:49.820 Or, anybody in Russia?

00:43:51.740 Anybody.

00:43:52.100 Anybody who is telling you an honest opinion of what's happening, as opposed to a spin.

00:43:59.320 Now, if you talk to individual soldiers, they're only seeing their little part of the war.

00:44:04.320 So, if they say, my little part of the war we're losing, it doesn't really tell you much.

00:44:08.800 My little part of the war is all incompetent.

00:44:12.080 Well, maybe it is.

00:44:13.100 It doesn't really tell you that much.

00:44:15.480 Right?

00:44:15.820 So, you can't get news from individuals who are fighting.

00:44:19.940 I don't think that would be dependable at all.

00:44:22.180 They would only know their little corner.

00:44:23.440 You can't get news from the government, because they would all lie.

00:44:28.060 You know, Ukraine and Russia.

00:44:29.900 You can't get news from the news, because the news is basically not allowed in.

00:44:36.060 So, where is he getting his information?

00:44:39.340 Why is his information better than your information?

00:44:43.160 Do you think he has sources that are the good ones, and nobody else has figured out who his good sources are?

00:44:50.660 What is he not telling you?

00:44:52.660 He's got all the good sources, but he's not sharing.

00:44:54.820 Is that happening?

00:44:56.040 Isn't there something terribly suspicious about this whole thing?

00:45:00.020 Right?

00:45:00.760 How in the world could he be so confident of his opinion, which is very favorable to Russia?

00:45:09.980 Now, I'm not making any kind of accusation that sounded like I was.

00:45:14.000 So, the overall statement is, you can't believe anybody about Russia or Ukraine.

00:45:22.000 The fact that somebody is a notable military analyst, that doesn't mean anything.

00:45:28.280 It literally means nothing.

00:45:29.820 It's 2023.

00:45:31.260 All news about wars is fake.

00:45:34.000 So, if he's got a secret source, maybe.

00:45:37.080 If he's just smart enough to, you know, read the situation and kind of knows what's fake and what isn't because of experience, maybe.

00:45:46.240 Yeah.

00:45:46.540 It's entirely possible that his filter of just being experienced is actually seeing this perfectly accurately.

00:45:53.980 So, I'm not going to rule out the, I won't rule out that he's perfectly on point.

00:45:59.820 I will only say, why would you believe it?

00:46:03.600 Like, why would you believe that?

00:46:05.060 Even if he's right, why would you believe it?

00:46:09.660 There's no signal for credibility.

00:46:14.140 You say, well, he doesn't have a history of lying.

00:46:17.040 Nope, not good enough.

00:46:18.500 That doesn't mean you know about the unknowable.

00:46:21.920 He's a military guy, respected colonel.

00:46:25.920 Doesn't mean a thing.

00:46:26.840 If he doesn't have the information, he doesn't have the information.

00:46:30.900 And why does he have better information?

00:46:33.560 So, he might be entirely right.

00:46:37.720 So, I'm not saying he's wrong.

00:46:38.800 I'm just saying that if you believe it because he has the position of somebody who might know what he's talking about,

00:46:46.500 that's not good enough anymore.

00:46:48.720 It's just not good enough.

00:46:49.960 If he showed sources that you could check, then that would be very good.

00:46:56.300 But if he's just opinionating about who's stronger or weaker or where it's going to go,

00:47:00.360 has anybody ever been able to predict something like this?

00:47:05.880 You know, this is a little bit like COVID.

00:47:09.240 The Ukraine situation will either go, you know, more for Ukraine or more for Russia eventually.

00:47:16.180 At some point, history will say, well, one of them chose correctly and one of them didn't, probably.

00:47:22.120 And then half of the people who were on that side, but they were just guessing because nobody had good information,

00:47:29.180 are going to say, I knew it.

00:47:30.360 I told you all along.

00:47:32.240 Because that's the way this works.

00:47:34.460 If it's a binary, you'll always have people who said, I told you. 0.78

00:47:39.700 Whenever there's a yes, it'll happen, or no, it won't,

00:47:42.900 the people who get lucky are pretty sure it's skill.

00:47:46.320 And that will never change.

00:47:48.380 And if you suggest to them, you know it was a 50-50, right?

00:47:52.400 So whichever way this went, half of the country was going to say they were geniuses.

00:47:58.160 There's no way around that.

00:48:00.000 Half will say they were geniuses.

00:48:04.420 Well, all right, enough about that.

00:48:06.000 Do you think that Ukraine is going to run out of people and that U.S. Americans will be on the front?

00:48:19.760 Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can.

00:48:26.980 If America decided to go directly against Russia,

00:48:31.420 as in American soldiers shooting at and being shot at by Russians,

00:48:34.760 that's Civil War time.

00:48:38.420 You might as well just say Russia won, 0.99

00:48:40.720 because we're going to fucking go after our own country if they do that. 0.99

00:48:44.440 If my government starts a fucking war on the ground, 0.99

00:48:48.580 or even in the air, I suppose, with Russia, 1.00

00:48:50.920 we're done with our government.

00:48:52.680 We have to get rid of them right away.

00:48:55.260 So let me say it as clearly as possible.

00:48:57.540 January 6th, I don't think that was a nothing.

00:49:00.820 I think that was a protest.

00:49:02.540 But if you want an actual revolution, 0.99

00:49:05.220 start me a fucking war with Russia, 0.99

00:49:07.280 and I'm going to be armed and in the capital, 1.00

00:49:10.300 all right, that's a red line.

00:49:12.220 We're not going to go to war with Russia.

00:49:14.380 Because the citizens, we will revolt,

00:49:16.980 and we will do it violently.

00:49:19.640 Let me just say it directly.

00:49:21.640 War with Russia is a violent revolution in America.

00:49:24.860 And I'll sign up first.

00:49:29.240 We'll be armed and driving to the capital.

00:49:31.580 We're not going to do that.

00:49:33.220 We're not going to go to war with Russia.

00:49:36.420 All right.

00:49:38.560 There's your clip for the day.

00:49:40.900 All right.

00:49:42.380 What else we got?

00:49:43.240 I have an observation for you that's going to blow your mind,

00:49:48.540 I think, a little bit.

00:49:49.540 I tried this out in the man cave last night,

00:49:51.400 so you guys, some of you have seen this.

00:49:54.020 But on Bill Maher's show, Club Random,

00:49:56.400 where he has, you know, a little smoking and drinking

00:49:59.020 and casual conversation with a variety of people,

00:50:02.840 he had Vivek.

00:50:04.860 So Bill Maher was talking to Vivek.

00:50:06.940 And it was fascinating.

00:50:08.860 I really recommend it.

00:50:10.280 I mean, it's hard to watch the partying part of it

00:50:13.020 because it's just a little uncomfortable, frankly.

00:50:16.240 But I'm guilty of it myself.

00:50:19.340 But you have to watch it.

00:50:21.960 And here's what's interesting.

00:50:24.480 Bill Maher clearly respects Vivek's intellect.

00:50:28.920 That comes through very, very clearly.

00:50:31.320 He also seems very confused

00:50:35.200 why Vivek could believe some of the things he believes.

00:50:39.820 But it's also clear to, let's say,

00:50:42.480 an observer who knows what the hoaxes are

00:50:44.660 that Bill is in a TDS still believing hoaxes.

00:50:49.600 He still believes that there was no,

00:50:53.000 that there was not a peaceful transfer of power in 2020

00:50:57.160 or that there was a risk of no transfer of power,

00:51:00.220 that the January 6th stuff was a risk

00:51:04.840 to the peaceful transfer of power. 0.57

00:51:07.140 Now, I consider that a form of mental illness,

00:51:09.900 temporary, you know, TDS,

00:51:11.960 something you could recover from. 0.93

00:51:13.860 But to me, that looks like mental illness. 0.73

00:51:16.120 Because how in the world do you connect the dots 0.92

00:51:18.440 from somebody doing some paperwork

00:51:20.720 over an alternate set of electors,

00:51:25.140 which apparently has happened in the past,

00:51:26.820 the worst-case scenario is it would end up in the courts,

00:51:30.640 like it has before.

00:51:32.280 And then the court would say,

00:51:33.500 hey, these electors are either valid,

00:51:37.020 in which case everything was fine,

00:51:38.840 or they're invalid, in which case it's reversed.

00:51:42.920 We were never in trouble

00:51:44.380 because the paperwork is the paperwork.

00:51:47.340 We have a bureaucracy that takes care of this stuff.

00:51:50.280 You make crazy claims,

00:51:51.700 and then the court says,

00:51:52.800 oh, that's a crazy claim, get out of here. 0.84

00:51:54.300 So we were never even in the domain

00:51:58.340 of a non-peaceful transfer.

00:52:01.860 There was a question which way it would transfer to,

00:52:04.860 but that would be settled by courts

00:52:07.520 with no bullets or anything.

00:52:09.180 And we would have all pretty much accepted it,

00:52:11.860 especially if a conservative court said,

00:52:14.920 get out of here with your claims. 0.96

00:52:17.460 So, but anyway, that's not what I was going to talk about.

00:52:19.340 There was a lot of interrupting.

00:52:25.400 So when they would talk,

00:52:27.700 neither of them are ones who back down.

00:52:31.840 So they're both, I'd say they're both highly capable,

00:52:35.380 and I don't want to say aggressive,

00:52:37.020 I'll say assertive.

00:52:38.400 So they're both very assertive verbally.

00:52:42.120 So you put two assertive verbally people together,

00:52:44.900 and they end up talking over each other

00:52:46.940 and interrupting continuously.

00:52:49.600 And I've made this observation before

00:52:51.760 that I've done a lot of media interviews

00:52:54.260 and a lot of them with people who didn't agree with me.

00:52:57.560 I don't get interrupted.

00:52:59.640 And I've been trying to figure out why.

00:53:02.640 And he was getting interrupted like crazy.

00:53:04.640 And I feel like if I'd been in that same interview,

00:53:06.840 I wouldn't have been interrupted.

00:53:08.400 And I'm trying to figure out why that was,

00:53:09.920 and I finally had an insight.

00:53:12.600 And it goes like this.

00:53:14.920 If you don't acknowledge the point of the other person,

00:53:18.740 they're going to interrupt you until you do. 1.00

00:53:21.260 And it's your own fucking fault. 1.00

00:53:23.520 Right? 0.99

00:53:24.120 If you don't acknowledge what somebody said,

00:53:26.880 and you just talk about something else,

00:53:29.240 they will interrupt you, and you deserve it.

00:53:31.920 The reason I don't get interrupted

00:53:33.480 is that I'm very fastidious

00:53:35.300 about making sure that the person

00:53:37.300 who made a point I don't agree with,

00:53:39.900 I speak it back.

00:53:42.420 Okay, well, what you're saying is this.

00:53:45.940 Once they know that you heard them,

00:53:48.520 they can now listen to what you have to say.

00:53:51.040 And they'll also trust

00:53:52.300 that when you're done saying what you say,

00:53:54.560 you'll give them space to say what they say,

00:53:57.660 especially if you model that once or twice.

00:54:00.000 So, here's a suggestion to Vivek.

00:54:06.540 He was in a very casual conversation situation,

00:54:10.040 but he never left campaign mode.

00:54:13.360 Campaign mode is you say,

00:54:15.060 somebody says,

00:54:15.740 what do you think about X?

00:54:17.540 But your answer is something about Y.

00:54:20.780 And he kept doing that.

00:54:22.480 Now, as much as I love Vivek,

00:54:24.340 and he's just intellectually gifted

00:54:26.980 and communication better

00:54:29.100 than anything we've seen,

00:54:30.320 he does have one problem

00:54:31.860 with his communication.

00:54:33.560 He does not repeat back

00:54:35.340 what the other side said

00:54:36.680 or acknowledge it in full

00:54:38.580 so that then they can listen to him.

00:54:41.720 He does a great job of talking over

00:54:43.620 and getting his point through anyway.

00:54:45.440 So, he's got sort of a Trumpian,

00:54:49.020 you know, energy monster kind of thing.

00:54:52.340 So, Vivek is good with energy.

00:54:53.680 So, he uses his energy

00:54:55.620 to at least make his side

00:54:58.600 think he won conversations.

00:55:01.440 Right?

00:55:01.720 So, the talking over

00:55:02.760 is part of a dominance alpha

00:55:04.600 kind of thing.

00:55:06.040 And you definitely pick up on that.

00:55:07.680 He definitely looks dominant.

00:55:09.480 He definitely looks alpha

00:55:10.540 when he's doing the talking through

00:55:12.880 and talking interrupting.

00:55:14.920 But, and you can go a long way with that.

00:55:18.080 People do respond to that,

00:55:19.400 the acts of dominance,

00:55:20.760 as long as it's not obnoxious.

00:55:22.000 But, he could go to the next level.

00:55:25.800 He just has to say,

00:55:27.100 all right, Bill,

00:55:27.560 what you're saying is

00:55:28.420 that you believe, you know, this.

00:55:31.960 And your source was probably that.

00:55:34.920 But, let me tell you another source

00:55:36.380 perhaps you haven't seen.

00:55:38.200 Now, people will listen to that.

00:55:41.500 That's why I don't get interrupted.

00:55:43.540 It's just basic persuasion strategy

00:55:46.900 that if you don't let the other person

00:55:49.200 say their whole thing,

00:55:50.620 the whole thing,

00:55:51.680 the way they want to say it,

00:55:52.980 and then acknowledge it back to them,

00:55:55.180 you can't get anywhere.

00:55:57.580 There's no point in having the conversation.

00:56:01.760 Yeah.

00:56:02.820 All right.

00:56:03.280 So, I would say,

00:56:04.980 if you feel yourself getting interrupted,

00:56:07.200 the question you should ask is,

00:56:09.280 are you doing your part?

00:56:12.340 So, the great,

00:56:13.580 the aha here

00:56:15.080 is that the getting interrupted

00:56:16.720 is something you bring on yourself.

00:56:21.640 So, think about it.

00:56:23.000 Next time you're watching,

00:56:24.360 if you watch this one,

00:56:25.320 you'll really see it.

00:56:26.240 So, watch the Club Random

00:56:27.760 with Vivek and Bill Maher,

00:56:30.320 and watch how often that's true.

00:56:33.640 Vivek's answers were great,

00:56:35.740 he just wasn't acknowledging

00:56:37.720 what Bill was saying all the time.

00:56:39.380 That cost them, I think.

00:56:44.280 Well, you know,

00:56:44.940 it's not enough to repeat

00:56:46.280 what they said.

00:56:48.620 Sometimes you have to actually

00:56:50.020 accentuate it.

00:56:52.460 So, for example,

00:56:53.560 if somebody said,

00:56:54.740 you know, blah, blah,

00:56:56.340 you know, somebody lied,

00:56:58.800 instead of just, you know,

00:57:00.560 talking about something else,

00:57:02.700 it's way stronger to say,

00:57:04.420 you know, all the politicians are lying,

00:57:06.240 yeah, that probably is a lie.

00:57:08.080 Now, blah, blah, blah.

00:57:09.580 So, good example.

00:57:12.420 All right.

00:57:16.520 Yeah, you have to acknowledge

00:57:17.680 their thought.

00:57:21.280 Ladies and gentlemen,

00:57:22.340 I don't have much else today.

00:57:23.500 Is there a topic I missed?

00:57:24.840 I got a late start today.

00:57:28.880 I want to make sure

00:57:29.640 I didn't miss anything.

00:57:30.800 It works except when you're talking

00:57:35.180 to a narcissist.

00:57:37.960 I disagree.

00:57:39.760 I actually think it would work

00:57:41.180 with a narcissist.

00:57:42.600 I get that that's the highest degree

00:57:44.340 of difficulty,

00:57:45.100 but I think it actually would work.

00:57:46.380 Because the narcissist wants you 0.92

00:57:47.860 to acknowledge their point.

00:57:49.020 I think it does work.

00:57:53.980 In fact, with a narcissist,

00:57:55.780 I would even take it a little further.

00:57:57.860 I would say, you know,

00:57:58.680 that's an insightful point,

00:58:01.720 and I don't think everybody

00:58:02.980 is paying enough attention to it.

00:58:05.220 And then you give your debunk.

00:58:08.180 Oh, Hawaiians become Republicans. 0.90

00:58:14.140 Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen,

00:58:16.060 but the window's open.

00:58:22.820 All right.

00:58:24.660 Did you talk about Nick Fuentes?

00:58:27.080 No.

00:58:27.920 Is he making some news?

00:58:29.800 I didn't say any news about him.

00:58:31.260 Ronan Farrow did a hit job on Elon.

00:58:36.620 Oh, my God.

00:58:38.420 Oh, my God.

00:58:41.080 Seriously?

00:58:44.520 Wow.

00:58:45.700 Wow.

00:58:47.800 You know,

00:58:49.200 how does that strike you?

00:58:52.960 Do you think what the country really needs

00:58:55.540 is a hit job on Elon Musk?

00:58:58.880 Is that what we need right now?

00:59:01.260 You know, Ronan Farrow

00:59:02.380 has done apparently great work in the past,

00:59:05.000 so, you know,

00:59:05.840 we can respect his work,

00:59:08.200 but is that what we need?

00:59:11.300 Is a country better off for that?

00:59:14.620 Wow.

00:59:16.080 All right.

00:59:16.700 That's all I have to say about that.

00:59:22.200 Yeah.

00:59:24.660 Restrictions.

00:59:25.760 So Alex Jones says there's restrictions.

00:59:28.580 Here's what I think.

00:59:29.400 I think that there are definitely bureaucrats

00:59:32.700 talking about restrictions.

00:59:35.000 Definitely people in the medical community,

00:59:37.200 and the reason is cognitive dissonance.

00:59:40.040 If you were a medical professional

00:59:41.780 who had been pushing, you know,

00:59:44.640 mandates and masks and stuff,

00:59:46.600 and at the end you found out

00:59:48.800 you were wrong about everything,

00:59:50.180 your cognitive dissonance probably kicked in

00:59:53.220 and told you you were right about everything.

00:59:55.680 You better do it again.

00:59:56.580 So I understand why people would talk about it.

00:59:59.780 Here's what I don't think would happen.

01:00:01.660 I don't think you can pass the political filter.

01:00:06.600 So this is why I'm not worried

01:00:08.240 about the restrictions coming back.

01:00:10.560 I believe that at this point

01:00:12.100 you could get 100% of the medical community 0.99

01:00:14.580 to say any bullshit you want, 0.99

01:00:16.860 because they seem to be all, you know, 1.00

01:00:18.260 it's 99% cowards 0.95

01:00:19.680 in the medical and science professions. 0.97

01:00:23.900 And when I say cowards, that's probably unkind,

01:00:27.700 because they actually would lose their jobs. 0.56

01:00:31.040 I guess it's easy for me to say

01:00:32.660 because I already got cancelled.

01:00:34.600 So, you know, I'm one of the few people

01:00:36.420 who can say, well, maybe you should say

01:00:38.320 what you're thinking even at the risk of your career,

01:00:41.020 because I literally did that.

01:00:43.240 But it's not really reasonable

01:00:45.040 to expect people trying to pay the bills

01:00:47.240 and feed their family

01:00:48.120 and, you know, help the public

01:00:49.760 with their medical experience.

01:00:51.940 So it's not really, you can't really ask them

01:00:53.980 to risk their lives.

01:00:56.320 But the politicians are subject

01:00:59.080 to the voters' opinions,

01:01:01.520 and if the Democrats started pushing restrictions

01:01:05.060 with a presidential race coming up,

01:01:08.060 you tell me the odds of that happening.

01:01:10.200 Go.

01:01:10.960 You tell me the odds that the Democrats,

01:01:13.480 from a purely political perspective,

01:01:16.000 would allow mandates

01:01:17.340 in the context of a presidential race.

01:01:19.960 No.

01:01:24.000 No way.

01:01:25.340 The first time, maybe.

01:01:26.980 Because the first time was, you know,

01:01:28.240 fool me once territory.

01:01:30.560 We're squarely in fool me twice territory.

01:01:34.260 Once you get to fool me twice territory,

01:01:36.600 you've got a political problem

01:01:38.240 that you're not going to solve.

01:01:39.880 So if you're worried about the mandates,

01:01:42.360 I mean, I suppose we should be a little worried,

01:01:44.020 but there's no way

01:01:46.180 that passes the political filter.

01:01:49.340 And I can't even imagine it.

01:01:51.780 It's unimaginable at this point.

01:01:53.560 It would be political suicide.

01:01:56.160 And the Republicans wouldn't need

01:01:58.280 to talk about anything else.

01:02:01.200 A Republican could just say,

01:02:04.040 I know you don't like all of my policies,

01:02:05.800 but I'll get rid of your masks.

01:02:08.440 You got my vote.

01:02:09.480 All right.

01:02:13.740 RNC debate is coming up.

01:02:15.400 I forgot to talk about this.

01:02:17.280 Larry Elder has been blocked

01:02:18.500 out of the RNC debates

01:02:20.660 for the weirdest reason.

01:02:24.400 One of the requirements to qualify

01:02:26.500 was that you had to show

01:02:28.780 a certain performance

01:02:29.700 in at least one major poll.

01:02:32.580 He submitted his performance

01:02:34.240 in the Erasmuson poll,

01:02:36.060 and they rejected it

01:02:37.320 because the Erasmuson poll, they say,

01:02:39.660 has too much of a Trump connection

01:02:42.340 or flavor or influence or whatever.

01:02:45.840 Now, don't you think

01:02:47.280 it's a good argument

01:02:48.140 to say that they've had

01:02:49.280 some of the best polling

01:02:51.300 on the presidential races?

01:02:53.740 Which Larry did.

01:02:55.200 That was his defense,

01:02:56.320 that they're among the best.

01:02:58.980 There's a very long list

01:03:00.200 of polling companies.

01:03:02.400 Erasmuson is always in that top tier.

01:03:04.200 Give me a fact check.

01:03:07.500 Is that not true?

01:03:09.400 Tell me that's not true.

01:03:11.200 I believe they're always in the top,

01:03:13.080 you know, at least five or ten

01:03:14.920 or something,

01:03:16.220 and they're out of a long list.

01:03:19.300 So Larry Elder was denied

01:03:22.180 because of the Erasmuson poll,

01:03:25.480 that that wasn't good enough.

01:03:28.560 Now, the Erasmuson poll

01:03:30.040 has a little bit to do

01:03:32.100 with my personal history,

01:03:33.180 so I might be a little sensitive

01:03:35.020 to this question,

01:03:36.440 but this is unacceptable.

01:03:38.620 The Republicans need to fix this.

01:03:41.260 Republicans, you need to fix this.

01:03:43.760 Yeah, you need to put Larry Elder

01:03:46.440 on that stage or change your rules.

01:03:48.940 Either change your rules

01:03:49.880 or put him on the stage.

01:03:51.740 But this is not cool.

01:03:53.820 Not cool at all.

01:03:54.900 In fact, I think the other candidates

01:03:56.300 should rebel against it.

01:03:58.160 I think the other candidates

01:03:59.340 should insist he be included

01:04:01.040 because it's a big stage.

01:04:03.140 Nobody's going to get

01:04:03.900 much time anyway. 1.00

01:04:05.600 So why would you fuck 1.00

01:04:07.340 with your own team 1.00

01:04:08.240 over something like this?

01:04:12.260 Now, I don't think it's racist,

01:04:13.800 but it's certainly wrong.

01:04:17.980 All right.

01:04:21.560 I think that's all I have for today.

01:04:23.140 Oh, by the way,

01:04:24.640 the Reframe Your Brain,

01:04:27.420 the audio book is submitted

01:04:29.020 to Amazon as well as the softcover.

01:04:32.900 I don't know when they're going

01:04:34.080 to say yes,

01:04:35.460 but all of our work,

01:04:36.900 I think, is done.

01:04:38.420 So maybe today,

01:04:39.840 maybe tomorrow,

01:04:41.200 you'll have both the audio book.

01:04:42.760 The audio book is not in my voice

01:04:44.820 because my dyslexia was

01:04:46.480 too great for me to record it.

01:04:50.140 By the way,

01:04:50.720 here's a tip for dyslexics.

01:04:52.140 Do we have any dyslexics here?

01:04:54.780 Or anybody who has

01:04:55.540 a child who's dyslexic?

01:04:59.720 If you do,

01:05:01.040 and there's a reading problem,

01:05:04.300 consider teaching them speed reading

01:05:07.360 because speed reading is sort of,

01:05:10.220 which is something I learned

01:05:11.420 when I was very young.

01:05:13.280 Now, I'm not like an expert speed reader,

01:05:15.240 but the basic,

01:05:16.300 well, I'll give you an example.

01:05:17.820 All right.

01:05:18.120 I'll take one of my own sentences here

01:05:20.300 to speed read.

01:05:22.480 Let's see if I can pick one.

01:05:26.480 All right.

01:05:27.060 So here's one of my sentences

01:05:28.280 I wrote to myself.

01:05:29.600 I said,

01:05:30.020 I'd watch a program

01:05:30.940 that explained all the political hoaxes

01:05:32.860 in the past several years

01:05:33.920 and how they were done.

01:05:35.920 Now, if you're not dyslexic,

01:05:38.940 you read this in the order written,

01:05:40.580 each word just in the order.

01:05:42.280 If you are dyslexic,

01:05:44.080 the words jump around.

01:05:46.140 But if you speed read,

01:05:48.180 you're looking for the keywords

01:05:49.520 and then you're assembling them

01:05:51.020 in your mind.

01:05:52.360 So I'd look at the keywords

01:05:53.700 and I'm like,

01:05:54.260 program political hoaxes.

01:05:56.240 Yeah, I'd watch that.

01:05:58.080 Program political hoaxes.

01:06:00.160 So that's how I read this.

01:06:01.400 If someone else had written it,

01:06:03.860 I would say,

01:06:04.460 I'm going to do something

01:06:05.380 about political hoaxes.

01:06:06.800 That sounds good.

01:06:07.760 And then I would just keep reading.

01:06:08.780 So, this is just a wild idea.

01:06:13.660 Just try it.

01:06:15.040 See if you can,

01:06:16.260 if you're dyslexic

01:06:17.320 or you know somebody who is,

01:06:18.640 try not reading the sentence

01:06:20.240 in the order.

01:06:21.780 Try picking out the keywords

01:06:23.080 and then Yoda the sentence.

01:06:25.520 Do you know what I mean

01:06:26.200 by Yoda the sentence?

01:06:28.820 Here's what I mean.

01:06:30.260 Yoda the character would say,

01:06:32.180 he wouldn't say,

01:06:33.400 the boy hit the ball.

01:06:36.640 Yoda would say,

01:06:37.960 ball hit me.

01:06:38.780 by boy or something like that, right?

01:06:40.700 He would reverse the words.

01:06:42.480 But you know what he's talking about.

01:06:44.720 Because if there's a bat,

01:06:46.520 a boy, and a ball,

01:06:48.400 you kind of immediately,

01:06:49.820 yeah, boy, bat, ball,

01:06:51.120 he hit the ball, right?

01:06:52.800 So, speed reading

01:06:54.140 is pick out the keywords,

01:06:56.460 assemble them in your mind,

01:06:58.660 you know,

01:06:58.960 un-yoda them,

01:07:00.520 and then just decide

01:07:02.300 what that must have said.

01:07:04.600 Now, if there's a sentence

01:07:06.080 where it's like a key sentence

01:07:07.940 so you know you really

01:07:08.660 got to get that one right,

01:07:09.940 well, then you stop.

01:07:11.580 And if you go slowly enough,

01:07:13.860 you know, you're fine.

01:07:14.500 I don't know what that comment is about.

01:07:30.360 Yes.

01:07:31.260 Oh, yeah,

01:07:32.080 there's also a way

01:07:32.900 to print things

01:07:34.340 so they're easier to read.

01:07:37.200 That really works.

01:07:38.500 There's an example

01:07:39.220 on the locals platform

01:07:40.680 going by

01:07:41.240 of a paragraph

01:07:42.460 in which part of each word

01:07:44.540 is highlighted

01:07:45.240 but not the entire word.

01:07:47.500 And because we tend to read

01:07:48.780 the first part of words

01:07:49.960 but not necessarily

01:07:51.200 the whole word

01:07:51.800 because you know

01:07:52.220 what the rest of the word is,

01:07:53.440 right?

01:07:54.100 That just looking

01:07:55.020 at the first parts

01:07:56.060 creates a landscape

01:07:57.960 in which the words

01:07:59.220 are further distanced

01:08:00.300 from each other.

01:08:01.240 Does that make sense?

01:08:02.240 If you only highlighted

01:08:03.400 the first two or three letters

01:08:05.340 of each word

01:08:06.560 in a sentence

01:08:07.300 and you looked at it,

01:08:08.840 the highlighted parts

01:08:09.680 would be pretty distant

01:08:10.600 from each other

01:08:11.300 and probably distant enough

01:08:13.540 that you wouldn't mix them

01:08:15.460 the way you would

01:08:16.580 with a regular

01:08:17.080 packed sentence.

01:08:18.720 So because you don't need

01:08:20.100 the rest of the word,

01:08:22.100 so if you see

01:08:22.620 refrigerator,

01:08:23.880 you know,

01:08:24.240 R-E-F-R 1.00

01:08:25.360 tells you it's refrigerator,

01:08:26.960 right?

01:08:27.480 Because you can also tell

01:08:28.380 how long it is.

01:08:29.860 So that might actually

01:08:31.860 be really interesting.

01:08:33.060 I would imagine

01:08:33.900 that you could write

01:08:34.700 a program,

01:08:35.260 oh, I wonder

01:08:36.820 if anybody's done this.

01:08:38.160 I wonder if anybody's

01:08:38.920 written a program

01:08:39.600 that changes regular text

01:08:41.420 into that highlighted

01:08:43.220 first part of the text thing.

01:08:45.040 That would be useful.

01:08:46.860 It would definitely

01:08:47.560 increase your reading.

01:08:51.040 John Q. Public

01:08:52.360 is yelling at me

01:08:53.260 in all caps

01:08:53.960 over and over again.

01:08:55.340 Can you say

01:08:56.020 mensamoron?

01:08:57.360 LOL.

01:08:58.360 Can you say

01:08:58.920 mensamoron?

01:09:01.120 John Q. Public.

01:09:02.900 John, you're drinking

01:09:04.040 a little bit early

01:09:04.880 this morning,

01:09:05.980 so I'm going to

01:09:06.520 put you on timeout.

01:09:08.420 Goodbye.

01:09:10.300 That morning drinking

01:09:11.240 is not working for you.

01:09:13.680 All right.

01:09:17.720 He's sipping box wine

01:09:19.160 and watching my broadcast.

01:09:21.920 All right, YouTube,

01:09:22.540 thanks for joining.

01:09:24.260 Yeah,

01:09:24.600 Pergosian's still in his RV 1.00

01:09:25.940 traveling around.

01:09:28.360 I've talked about

01:09:29.180 X blocking.

01:09:30.040 Yeah, well,

01:09:30.700 let me quickly.

01:09:31.160 The X getting rid

01:09:33.420 of blocking,

01:09:34.900 wait to see

01:09:35.720 what they come up with

01:09:36.540 because they're coming up

01:09:37.360 with an alternative

01:09:38.100 that has not been described.

01:09:40.320 So I'm not going to say

01:09:41.340 yes or no

01:09:41.820 until I see the alternative.

01:09:43.200 It might be better.

01:09:44.000 You never know.

01:09:45.060 All right,

01:09:45.720 that's all for now, YouTube.

01:09:48.060 Thanks for joining.

01:09:48.700 All right.

01:09:49.900 Amen.

01:09:50.500 Let's see.

01:09:50.620 Let's see.

01:09:50.960 Let's see.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 22, 2023

Episode 2208 Scott Adams： The National Incompetence Crisis As A Filter For The News. Bring Coffee

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript