Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2250 Scott Adams： Lots Of Media Trickery. Also, I'm Halfway Off Of Prisoner Island

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00:00:53.000 Well, some of you may have noticed I'm about halfway off Prisoner Island.

00:00:58.260 Uh, so we'll talk about that in a little while, but other fun stuff first.

00:01:05.080 I keep quoting Nate Silver, because he's having some fun conversations about what's real and

00:01:10.580 what isn't real on the X platform.

00:01:12.660 And I think he finally reached his limit, because, you know, he's sort of a, let's say,

00:01:19.800 respectable member of the, you know, the smart people.

00:01:24.780 And he sends this post yesterday.

00:01:27.020 On some level, it's kind of amazing how well society functions, despite people believing

00:01:32.320 a lot of super dumb and fucked up shit.

00:01:37.120 Are you ever amazed by the fact that civilization works at all?

00:01:42.640 And it's just filled with idiots, and it still works?

00:01:45.400 Well, I would say there are two reasons for this.

00:01:50.960 Number one reason is that the economy is a failure engine.

00:01:55.460 So most things that people do in economics fail.

00:02:00.340 They start businesses that don't work.

00:02:02.540 And then businesses that do work are introducing new product lines that fail, mostly.

00:02:08.880 Mostly failing.

00:02:09.700 So we've developed a system that everybody does well if 90% of us fail and 10% of us succeed.

00:02:19.500 And it's enough.

00:02:20.420 Because even when you're failing, you still get a paycheck, you know, most of the time.

00:02:24.660 So failure is actually the, it's almost the operating system of why everything works.

00:02:30.140 It's just full of failure.

00:02:31.060 Which is another way to say that nature rewards action.

00:02:37.200 Nature rewards action.

00:02:39.700 So if you don't know what to do, just do something.

00:02:42.920 So that's probably the best advice you'll ever get.

00:02:45.400 If you don't know what to do, do something.

00:02:48.460 Because nature rewards action and energy.

00:02:52.560 The other thing I would note is that it only takes a few smart people to allow everybody else

00:02:58.460 to live comfortably.

00:02:59.260 So you don't need too many geniuses.

00:03:04.280 The rest of us need to just make sure we don't litter too badly and don't stab too many people.

00:03:10.480 Everything else seems to work out.

00:03:12.800 All right.

00:03:15.180 Meta, the company Meta, which you might think of as Facebook,

00:03:19.000 is floating a plan to charge people, at least in the EU, $14 a month to have an ad-free version of Instagram or Facebook.

00:03:32.160 Now, I don't know if that'll work out, but I would make the following point.

00:03:36.400 Civilization can no longer depend on advertising for your information.

00:03:43.460 If you want your information to be accurate and available to people, it cannot depend on advertising.

00:03:52.440 Because advertisers have a very narrow band of what's allowable, whereas free speech is a wide band by definition.

00:04:00.420 So if you limit all of your speech and truth to, you know, this little narrow band, that's bad news.

00:04:08.900 So anything that gets us away from ad-supported anything is good.

00:04:15.680 So I'm no longer ad-supported.

00:04:18.480 Well, I guess I am in a minor way.

00:04:21.060 On YouTube, I am.

00:04:22.760 So I guess on YouTube, I'm ad-supported.

00:04:25.060 But I believe it's obvious that YouTube is suppressing me.

00:04:28.900 Because my YouTube traffic has stayed largely the same for years.

00:04:35.580 Which is pretty much impossible, I think.

00:04:39.120 Pretty much impossible.

00:04:40.360 Well, everything else has gone up.

00:04:41.740 So, I'll be looking to alternatives for YouTube.

00:04:48.360 But technically, sometimes that's difficult.

00:04:51.900 One of the things I'm thinking of doing is just discontinuing YouTube altogether.

00:04:56.400 And just do it on Rumble.

00:04:58.660 It takes a little more technology to do that.

00:05:01.120 So that's why I've been putting that off.

00:05:03.000 But we'll see.

00:05:04.320 I haven't made any decisions yet.

00:05:05.800 But we have to get away from ad-supported everything.

00:05:07.840 Do you know Mike Benz I keep mentioning?

00:05:11.740 So on the X platform, he's often doing little videos and tweet threads.

00:05:17.660 In which he's exposing the powers that be.

00:05:21.520 Typically, the intelligence operations that were behind the things you see.

00:05:26.720 And I've never had such a clean look into reality.

00:05:31.140 Than I do when I absorb his stuff.

00:05:34.520 But he tweeted this yesterday.

00:05:36.940 Just so you know how dangerous it is.

00:05:40.200 He said, they have to kill me because I'm spilling their secrets.

00:05:44.100 Here's how it'll go.

00:05:45.900 Now, keep in mind, his other predictions have been spookily accurate.

00:05:51.400 And he's predicting his own demise.

00:05:54.360 And he's serious.

00:05:55.280 He says, first, they'll flood with hit pieces on bullshit rhetoric grounds.

00:06:00.640 I think that already started.

00:06:02.220 I think there's already a hit piece about him.

00:06:04.260 At least one.

00:06:05.500 Then they'll flood with lawsuits on bullshit tort grounds.

00:06:09.000 So they'll use lawfare to break him.

00:06:13.700 Then they'll flood with charges on bullshit criminal grounds.

00:06:17.240 And then he says, bookmark this.

00:06:20.240 So he believes he'll be taken out by fake criminal charges.

00:06:26.520 What do you think?

00:06:28.960 I think that's very possible.

00:06:31.860 And I like that he's calling it out in advance so we can watch it as it happens.

00:06:36.560 So we'll see.

00:06:39.860 So that's something that Sarah Fisher put together on the X platform,

00:06:46.100 which was the social media is just destroying normal news.

00:06:51.160 So the clicks that used to come from social media

00:06:53.840 and divert people over to regular news platforms,

00:06:58.140 it just collapsed.

00:07:00.580 So neither the meta platform nor the X platform

00:07:04.840 are sending much of any traffic to the major media.

00:07:09.120 So whereas you might have seen a lot of clicks from social media to CNN,

00:07:14.920 now you see very few.

00:07:18.560 Now, here's like a sign of the times.

00:07:24.040 Every morning, literally every morning, seven days a week,

00:07:27.120 even on holidays,

00:07:28.280 I get up in the morning and I check the news

00:07:30.660 so that I can do a live stream in which I talk about what's happening.

00:07:34.540 A number of times lately, let's say in the last month,

00:07:39.660 I have completely prepared my live stream,

00:07:43.040 you know, notes and notes and notes about the news

00:07:45.180 without ever looking at a news site.

00:07:48.900 Sometimes I don't even leave the X platform

00:07:51.340 because at least there you've got stuff I care about,

00:07:55.460 people know what to send me,

00:07:56.940 you know, I get tagged in things.

00:07:58.320 And usually it's a summary of the news stories,

00:08:01.700 I don't necessarily have to go see the story.

00:08:04.200 I usually do if there's a link,

00:08:05.640 but lots of times I don't have to.

00:08:08.180 And I realize that the news on CNN is all just garbage.

00:08:14.780 And I don't even believe that CNN or Fox

00:08:18.120 are paying anybody to do any reporting anymore.

00:08:21.860 They have writers who are writing things

00:08:25.720 that they see on television.

00:08:28.400 That's what it looks like.

00:08:30.080 So I think that the economic model of the news

00:08:33.280 is so degraded at this point that they can't,

00:08:36.860 it feels like they're pretending to be news

00:08:39.500 without actually being news.

00:08:42.160 So for example, we'll talk about this in a minute.

00:08:44.600 Oh, actually, we'll talk about it next.

00:08:46.620 CNN has a long piece to fill up a lot of real estate

00:08:50.400 on their so-called news page

00:08:51.940 about, I guess Jake Tapper wrote this,

00:08:55.760 and it's an exclusive.

00:08:57.320 John Kelly, so he was the chief of staff

00:09:01.300 under Trump, general.

00:09:04.220 He goes on the record to confirm

00:09:05.700 several disturbing stories about Trump.

00:09:09.520 Now, is that news?

00:09:12.120 It's the opposite of news.

00:09:14.500 It's a story about something

00:09:16.060 that we already heard of years ago

00:09:18.980 and the same person is going to say it again.

00:09:24.040 And that's like a really big part

00:09:25.680 of CNN's entire real estate today.

00:09:30.180 They're going to tell us a story

00:09:31.600 about what a guy thought, one person.

00:09:36.020 Now, do you think that there is new information?

00:09:39.260 Do you think they've got, oh, a document?

00:09:41.660 No, no.

00:09:42.600 It's just the same person

00:09:43.700 and he's got some complaints about Trump.

00:09:46.840 And that's news.

00:09:49.800 That's the news.

00:09:51.700 It didn't used to be like this, right?

00:09:53.960 There's no news value to this at all,

00:09:55.760 but it'll be funny when I tell you

00:09:57.320 what he actually says.

00:09:59.460 So, basically, this is the new

00:10:02.640 worse than Watergate.

00:10:03.620 I think CNN just got so tired

00:10:06.420 of saying everything was worse

00:10:08.420 than Watergate when it wasn't

00:10:09.920 and getting mocked for it,

00:10:12.240 that they needed a new go-to.

00:10:14.800 So, it looks like they're going to use the generals.

00:10:17.620 So, it's going to be all of Trump's ex-generals

00:10:20.560 are going to be the new worse than Watergate.

00:10:23.020 Oh, the thing he said.

00:10:25.040 Oh.

00:10:26.180 Now, here's my take

00:10:28.540 on General Milley

00:10:30.120 and on General Kelly.

00:10:34.260 I swear,

00:10:36.180 this might be pure bias on my part.

00:10:38.560 It might be.

00:10:40.180 But they come off as stupid.

00:10:43.200 Does anybody else have that?

00:10:44.740 I mean, Trump called them stupid

00:10:46.060 and I know I'm being primed by that.

00:10:49.640 So, he's influenced me to, you know,

00:10:51.240 maybe look at him in those terms.

00:10:53.600 But they actually act stupid in public.

00:10:56.840 Like, actually, literally.

00:10:57.880 And I don't say that about people

00:10:59.840 that I disagree with.

00:11:01.640 Yeah, you know, it's not automatic.

00:11:03.440 Like, I don't say that

00:11:04.640 Eric Swalwell is stupid.

00:11:07.300 I don't think he's stupid at all.

00:11:09.860 He does things I don't like.

00:11:12.020 That's completely different.

00:11:13.720 He seems smart.

00:11:15.320 But, honestly, the generals don't seem smart.

00:11:17.940 And I don't know what to think about that.

00:11:19.940 Is that just me?

00:11:21.040 Because it could be me, right?

00:11:22.960 If we're being honest,

00:11:24.640 it could entirely be me.

00:11:26.020 Do you see it, too?

00:11:28.260 Or is it just me?

00:11:31.500 Is anybody having the same vibe?

00:11:34.080 That they don't look smart.

00:11:36.380 Yeah, that's worrisome.

00:11:39.220 But let's see what John Kelly says.

00:11:41.340 And you tell me how credible this sounds.

00:11:43.740 You should use all of your tools

00:11:45.220 that I've taught you

00:11:46.800 about what is a credible report

00:11:48.980 and what isn't.

00:11:50.280 So then I'll quiz you

00:11:51.520 and ask you if this is credible.

00:11:53.440 All right?

00:11:53.660 So it starts out by saying

00:11:56.020 that General Kelly

00:11:57.220 confirmed several remarks

00:11:59.740 his former boss, Trump, made.

00:12:02.280 Now, the story is that

00:12:03.920 he's confirming

00:12:04.840 several things Trump said.

00:12:07.380 What does that mean, confirming?

00:12:10.580 It means he's saying it

00:12:11.900 a second time.

00:12:14.700 If you saw confirming,

00:12:16.280 wouldn't you say to yourself,

00:12:17.160 oh, there's a document

00:12:18.100 that shows it, right?

00:12:20.040 That's what your brain would say.

00:12:21.180 Or there are more people

00:12:22.820 who are backing him up

00:12:23.780 because they were

00:12:24.180 in the same meeting.

00:12:25.840 That would sound like confirmation.

00:12:27.380 Oh, a second person

00:12:28.180 says the same thing.

00:12:31.200 But now listen to the story

00:12:32.760 and see if this sounds like

00:12:33.920 he's confirming anything

00:12:35.120 or just restating

00:12:36.480 what he's already said.

00:12:38.980 All right.

00:12:40.700 Blah, blah, blah.

00:12:41.460 A little bit about him

00:12:42.600 and then it says,

00:12:44.440 all right,

00:12:44.820 so here's what Kelly says

00:12:45.980 about Trump.

00:12:47.260 A person that thinks...

00:12:49.260 Oh, a person that thinks.

00:12:52.640 So now he's going to tell us

00:12:53.960 what Trump thinks

00:12:55.260 and his inner thoughts.

00:12:58.480 He thinks that those

00:12:59.820 who defend the country

00:13:00.640 in uniform

00:13:01.200 or are shot down

00:13:02.720 or seriously wounded

00:13:03.860 in combat

00:13:04.500 or spend years

00:13:05.660 being tortured as POWs

00:13:07.900 are all suckers

00:13:08.820 because there's nothing

00:13:10.080 in it for them.

00:13:11.540 Do you believe that

00:13:12.520 even slightly,

00:13:14.260 even slightly

00:13:15.060 is a good summary

00:13:17.560 of what Trump thinks

00:13:19.480 in his inner thoughts?

00:13:21.740 No.

00:13:22.560 Number one,

00:13:23.160 it's mind reading.

00:13:24.660 Number two,

00:13:25.460 it's a made-up quote.

00:13:27.540 Right?

00:13:27.880 So he's basically

00:13:28.780 inventing something

00:13:30.100 to get mad at.

00:13:31.920 And he actually calls it out

00:13:34.980 as talking that he knows

00:13:36.940 what somebody's thinking.

00:13:38.480 But the other tell is this.

00:13:40.140 This one's always good.

00:13:41.320 that those who defend him...

00:13:47.080 Basically,

00:13:47.920 he uses the word all.

00:13:51.100 So he says that

00:13:52.100 Trump says

00:13:52.740 everybody who served,

00:13:55.220 all of them,

00:13:56.300 are suckers.

00:13:57.700 Does that sound like

00:13:58.540 anything that Trump

00:13:59.300 would say in the real world?

00:14:00.920 That all of the people

00:14:02.060 who served in the military

00:14:03.080 were suckers?

00:14:05.060 It doesn't sound

00:14:06.320 like something

00:14:07.580 he would have said.

00:14:08.820 Very inconsistent.

00:14:09.840 And what is the evidence

00:14:11.800 for this?

00:14:12.600 None is given.

00:14:14.420 It's just a statement.

00:14:16.180 I think he thinks this.

00:14:17.940 Now,

00:14:18.240 there is more evidence,

00:14:20.260 but it's not

00:14:20.880 in this part of it.

00:14:25.300 He also says

00:14:26.360 that Trump

00:14:26.840 was a person

00:14:27.840 that did not want

00:14:28.640 to be seen

00:14:29.140 in the presence

00:14:29.780 of military amputees

00:14:31.200 because, quote,

00:14:32.400 it doesn't look good for me.

00:14:34.680 Do you think

00:14:35.120 that's the right context

00:14:36.640 and exactly

00:14:37.300 what Trump said?

00:14:38.220 because somebody

00:14:40.160 said he said it

00:14:40.880 who doesn't like him?

00:14:42.240 So a disgruntled person

00:14:43.560 said he said something.

00:14:45.480 No,

00:14:45.940 it doesn't even

00:14:46.400 sound slightly true.

00:14:48.260 Here's what I think

00:14:49.220 could be true.

00:14:51.140 I think it could be true

00:14:52.580 that privately

00:14:53.240 he would talk about

00:14:54.660 what was a good photo op.

00:14:56.940 Is it a good photo op

00:14:59.060 to show you

00:15:00.580 next to desperately

00:15:01.600 ill people?

00:15:03.260 Maybe not.

00:15:04.900 Maybe not.

00:15:05.580 Is that something

00:15:07.660 that you could say

00:15:08.440 privately,

00:15:10.120 you know,

00:15:10.420 that it's not

00:15:11.020 making you look good?

00:15:12.860 Yeah,

00:15:13.220 I think that's fair.

00:15:14.780 And it has nothing

00:15:15.460 to do with how much

00:15:16.220 empathy you have

00:15:17.000 for the soldiers.

00:15:19.300 It's purely

00:15:20.000 a visual persuasion

00:15:21.440 statement.

00:15:22.580 Now,

00:15:22.860 I don't think

00:15:23.320 he actually said it.

00:15:24.780 My guess is

00:15:25.440 it never came

00:15:25.980 out of his mouth.

00:15:26.960 But if he did,

00:15:28.020 it's more likely

00:15:28.740 in the context

00:15:29.560 of persuasion

00:15:30.900 and it has nothing

00:15:31.960 to do with

00:15:32.500 respecting

00:15:33.040 or disrespecting

00:15:34.040 anybody.

00:15:35.480 That would be

00:15:36.280 my guess.

00:15:37.040 That would be

00:15:37.860 the obvious context

00:15:39.080 that's left out.

00:15:42.440 A person who

00:15:42.960 demonstrated open

00:15:43.940 contempt for a

00:15:44.980 gold star family.

00:15:46.880 Yeah,

00:15:47.400 one.

00:15:48.540 One gold star

00:15:49.720 family that was

00:15:50.500 attacking him.

00:15:52.200 He displayed

00:15:52.920 contempt for

00:15:54.140 somebody who was

00:15:54.960 attacking him.

00:15:57.280 That's not

00:15:58.100 exactly a problem.

00:16:00.580 Now,

00:16:00.900 doesn't he make

00:16:01.520 this look like

00:16:02.340 some kind

00:16:03.040 of disrespect

00:16:03.620 for all

00:16:04.480 gold star

00:16:05.020 parents?

00:16:06.600 Right?

00:16:07.660 Is there

00:16:08.280 anything that

00:16:08.820 would suggest

00:16:09.300 that Trump

00:16:09.720 has disrespect

00:16:10.400 for all

00:16:11.220 gold star

00:16:11.820 parents?

00:16:12.380 Or just

00:16:12.960 the one

00:16:13.300 that was

00:16:13.580 on stage

00:16:14.320 publicly

00:16:15.240 criticizing him?

00:16:19.420 I don't know.

00:16:20.140 If you're

00:16:20.400 a gold star

00:16:20.860 family and

00:16:21.460 you publicly

00:16:22.020 criticize me,

00:16:22.980 I'll go after

00:16:23.520 you in a

00:16:24.400 heartbeat.

00:16:24.940 It would have

00:16:25.300 nothing to do

00:16:25.880 with any

00:16:26.740 gold star

00:16:27.320 anything.

00:16:27.640 He's also

00:16:31.160 saying that

00:16:31.820 Trump called

00:16:33.280 the people

00:16:34.100 who defended

00:16:34.520 America losers

00:16:35.360 and wouldn't

00:16:36.780 visit their

00:16:37.340 graves in

00:16:37.900 France.

00:16:39.400 None of

00:16:39.820 that sounds

00:16:40.320 true.

00:16:41.720 None of

00:16:42.200 that sounds

00:16:42.660 even slightly

00:16:43.320 true.

00:16:44.720 What is the

00:16:45.300 proof?

00:16:45.980 Is there a

00:16:46.460 document?

00:16:47.280 No.

00:16:47.520 Is there a

00:16:47.900 video?

00:16:48.380 No.

00:16:48.840 Is there

00:16:49.160 another person

00:16:49.860 who is saying

00:16:51.660 it at the

00:16:52.000 same time?

00:16:52.600 Well,

00:16:52.820 we'll see.

00:16:54.420 Several

00:16:54.920 senior staffers

00:16:56.000 told the

00:16:56.440 Atlantic,

00:16:58.520 several

00:16:59.560 senior

00:16:59.980 staffers,

00:17:00.600 you mean

00:17:00.820 anonymous

00:17:01.320 people,

00:17:02.640 told the

00:17:03.080 Atlantic the

00:17:04.040 most lying

00:17:04.860 publication in

00:17:07.200 the world.

00:17:08.240 The Atlantic

00:17:08.740 is the

00:17:09.320 least reliable

00:17:10.480 source on

00:17:12.180 anything Trump.

00:17:13.280 They literally

00:17:13.940 are the

00:17:14.420 primary

00:17:15.220 maker-uppers

00:17:16.120 of bullshit

00:17:16.940 about Trump.

00:17:18.840 So several,

00:17:21.040 how many

00:17:21.420 are several?

00:17:23.100 Three?

00:17:24.920 What are

00:17:25.300 their names?

00:17:25.760 Oh,

00:17:26.120 they're all

00:17:26.400 anonymous.

00:17:27.340 Oh,

00:17:27.880 isn't that

00:17:28.360 convenient?

00:17:29.900 Anonymous

00:17:30.400 people talk

00:17:31.860 to the

00:17:32.280 least credible

00:17:33.380 entity in

00:17:34.200 the world.

00:17:35.480 That's some

00:17:36.620 of the

00:17:36.800 evidence.

00:17:40.000 Trump

00:17:40.600 allegedly

00:17:41.060 said,

00:17:42.500 why should

00:17:43.080 I go to

00:17:43.460 that cemetery?

00:17:44.480 It's filled

00:17:45.120 with losers.

00:17:46.620 Do you

00:17:46.860 think there's

00:17:47.240 any chance

00:17:48.060 he said

00:17:48.420 that?

00:17:49.240 Even

00:17:49.680 privately?

00:17:51.240 No.

00:17:52.300 No.

00:17:52.900 It doesn't

00:17:53.320 even sound

00:17:53.820 like him.

00:17:54.320 If you're

00:17:56.040 going to

00:17:56.140 do a

00:17:56.480 fake

00:17:56.820 quote,

00:17:57.880 you should

00:17:58.320 at least

00:17:58.620 put in

00:17:59.000 the time

00:17:59.400 to make

00:17:59.740 it sound

00:18:00.120 like something

00:18:00.680 he would

00:18:01.060 say.

00:18:01.920 This

00:18:02.140 doesn't

00:18:02.340 even sound

00:18:02.800 like his

00:18:03.180 style of

00:18:03.720 talking,

00:18:04.260 much less

00:18:04.740 his opinion.

00:18:06.760 All right.

00:18:10.080 He was,

00:18:11.400 Kelly also

00:18:12.120 criticized his

00:18:12.940 former boss,

00:18:14.100 saying Trump

00:18:14.780 was not

00:18:15.180 truthful in

00:18:16.000 his political

00:18:16.520 positions.

00:18:17.240 Yeah,

00:18:19.100 that really

00:18:19.500 makes him

00:18:19.920 stand out

00:18:20.660 among

00:18:21.160 presidential

00:18:22.900 candidates.

00:18:24.720 Oh,

00:18:25.020 my goodness.

00:18:26.500 There's

00:18:26.800 somebody who

00:18:27.300 thinks a

00:18:27.880 politician

00:18:28.420 didn't tell

00:18:29.720 the truth.

00:18:31.280 Okay,

00:18:31.760 we've kind of

00:18:32.460 factored that

00:18:33.000 in with all

00:18:33.480 the politicians.

00:18:36.840 And he

00:18:37.780 says,

00:18:38.500 Kelly says

00:18:39.040 that Trump

00:18:39.440 is a person

00:18:40.020 that has no

00:18:40.480 idea what

00:18:40.980 America stands

00:18:41.780 for and has

00:18:42.980 no idea what

00:18:43.780 America is

00:18:44.520 all about.

00:18:45.080 That's the

00:18:47.620 best you

00:18:48.000 can do?

00:18:49.220 That you

00:18:49.800 don't know

00:18:50.160 what America

00:18:50.620 is all

00:18:50.960 about?

00:18:51.820 So you're

00:18:52.420 arguing

00:18:52.760 definitions of

00:18:53.780 America or

00:18:54.880 whose history

00:18:55.560 lesson was

00:18:56.100 better?

00:18:57.080 Doesn't he

00:18:57.600 sound like a

00:18:58.300 desperate,

00:19:00.520 just sort of

00:19:01.180 an asshole?

00:19:02.720 I mean,

00:19:02.980 it just feels

00:19:03.420 like an asshole

00:19:03.960 to me.

00:19:06.680 Then he

00:19:07.300 says that

00:19:07.840 Trump is,

00:19:08.500 quote,

00:19:08.580 a person who

00:19:09.220 admires

00:19:09.660 autocrats and

00:19:10.560 murderous

00:19:10.980 dictators.

00:19:12.400 Does he?

00:19:13.920 Or does he

00:19:14.800 admire them

00:19:15.460 the same

00:19:15.840 way we

00:19:16.220 do?

00:19:17.580 The same

00:19:18.080 way I

00:19:18.420 do?

00:19:19.440 Do I

00:19:19.900 admire Putin

00:19:21.020 when I

00:19:22.400 say that

00:19:22.800 he's very

00:19:23.300 effective at

00:19:25.100 getting what

00:19:25.580 he wants?

00:19:26.780 Is that

00:19:27.120 admiring him?

00:19:28.080 Or is that

00:19:28.380 just a

00:19:28.780 statement,

00:19:29.600 an observed

00:19:30.120 statement of

00:19:30.820 fact?

00:19:32.120 If I also

00:19:32.840 say he's a

00:19:33.560 murderous,

00:19:34.220 evil bastard,

00:19:35.480 but he's

00:19:36.720 really good

00:19:37.260 at getting

00:19:38.000 this country

00:19:38.600 to support

00:19:39.300 him and

00:19:39.720 getting stuff

00:19:40.360 done,

00:19:41.600 would I be

00:19:43.320 then admiring

00:19:44.060 them?

00:19:44.800 No,

00:19:45.360 admiring is

00:19:46.300 an asshole

00:19:47.780 word.

00:19:48.860 It's

00:19:49.160 imagining you're

00:19:51.260 reading his

00:19:52.020 mind and

00:19:53.120 then you're

00:19:53.480 interpreting it

00:19:54.180 in the worst

00:19:54.660 possible way.

00:19:58.040 A person

00:19:58.920 who has

00:19:59.260 nothing but

00:19:59.760 contempt for

00:20:00.640 democratic

00:20:01.260 institutions.

00:20:02.580 Really?

00:20:03.640 Trump has

00:20:04.220 only contempt

00:20:05.080 for democratic

00:20:06.500 institutions.

00:20:07.620 More so than

00:20:08.560 the normal

00:20:08.980 person?

00:20:11.380 Don't you

00:20:12.020 think a little

00:20:12.520 bit of contempt

00:20:13.240 is just about

00:20:14.000 right?

00:20:14.800 If you

00:20:15.300 don't have

00:20:15.720 a little

00:20:16.060 bit of

00:20:16.380 contempt

00:20:16.820 for our

00:20:17.500 democratic

00:20:18.000 institutions,

00:20:19.260 you have

00:20:19.740 not been

00:20:20.140 paying

00:20:20.380 attention.

00:20:21.680 So a

00:20:22.000 little bit

00:20:22.300 of contempt

00:20:22.700 is just

00:20:23.340 about the

00:20:23.720 right amount.

00:20:26.920 And the

00:20:27.560 rule of

00:20:27.960 law.

00:20:28.520 Yeah,

00:20:28.760 he hates

00:20:29.140 laws.

00:20:30.980 And then

00:20:31.600 Kelly says,

00:20:32.360 there's nothing

00:20:32.860 more that can

00:20:33.420 be said.

00:20:34.260 God help

00:20:34.820 us.

00:20:35.060 Now,

00:20:37.780 now just

00:20:38.780 keep in

00:20:39.160 your mind

00:20:39.540 that Jake

00:20:40.060 Tapper

00:20:40.460 decided this

00:20:41.980 was newsworthy

00:20:42.940 enough and

00:20:44.160 he called

00:20:44.540 it confirmation.

00:20:46.100 Where was

00:20:46.500 the confirmation?

00:20:48.340 Was it

00:20:48.820 the several

00:20:50.380 senior staffers

00:20:51.520 who were

00:20:51.880 anonymous who

00:20:52.580 told the

00:20:52.920 Atlantic the

00:20:53.980 least credible

00:20:54.660 publication in

00:20:55.500 the world?

00:20:56.800 So CNN,

00:20:57.840 the second

00:20:58.620 least credible

00:20:59.520 organization in

00:21:00.300 the world,

00:21:00.940 is pointing to

00:21:01.900 the Atlantic's

00:21:02.700 reporting about

00:21:04.000 some anonymous

00:21:04.720 people to

00:21:06.700 confirm.

00:21:07.700 That's their

00:21:08.120 confirmation.

00:21:10.260 If I may end

00:21:11.400 this segment

00:21:11.880 with what I

00:21:12.540 call my

00:21:14.000 only good

00:21:14.640 impression,

00:21:16.060 I call it the

00:21:16.760 Jake Tapper

00:21:17.340 tilt or just

00:21:18.380 the Tapper

00:21:19.040 tilt.

00:21:19.960 It's when you

00:21:20.580 ask a question

00:21:21.240 of somebody that

00:21:21.920 you think is

00:21:22.360 lying and you

00:21:23.140 want them to

00:21:23.640 know with your

00:21:24.040 face and your

00:21:24.940 head tilt and

00:21:25.540 it goes like

00:21:25.960 this while

00:21:29.400 listening.

00:21:30.100 Try it.

00:21:30.920 Try it on the

00:21:31.800 holidays.

00:21:32.320 Next time

00:21:32.680 somebody's

00:21:33.400 explaining to

00:21:34.280 you their

00:21:35.260 political opinion

00:21:36.160 if you don't

00:21:36.660 like it,

00:21:37.360 just look at

00:21:37.940 them and

00:21:38.240 give them

00:21:38.580 the Tapper

00:21:39.040 tilt.

00:21:41.820 Just like

00:21:42.480 that.

00:21:42.980 If you're

00:21:43.360 listening on

00:21:43.900 audio,

00:21:44.960 you're missing

00:21:45.560 one of my

00:21:46.220 best impressions.

00:21:47.700 Oh, it's

00:21:48.120 fantastic.

00:21:49.120 Head is tilted,

00:21:50.440 mouth in a

00:21:50.940 mocking position.

00:21:52.580 It's good

00:21:52.980 stuff.

00:21:53.560 If only you

00:21:54.140 had seen it.

00:21:56.280 All right.

00:22:00.920 So Rasmussen

00:22:01.860 had a poll

00:22:02.360 asking people

00:22:03.020 how likely

00:22:03.620 is it that

00:22:04.180 cheating will

00:22:04.780 affect the

00:22:05.200 outcome of

00:22:05.640 the next

00:22:05.920 presidential

00:22:06.400 election.

00:22:08.020 What would

00:22:08.700 be a number

00:22:09.300 that would

00:22:09.820 represent a

00:22:10.680 healthy country?

00:22:14.140 Like what

00:22:14.800 percentage would

00:22:16.020 you feel,

00:22:16.780 oh, that's

00:22:17.280 about right.

00:22:17.760 I would have

00:22:18.740 said that if

00:22:19.800 24% thought

00:22:24.140 it's likely,

00:22:25.760 or 25%

00:22:26.680 thought it

00:22:27.080 was likely,

00:22:27.960 but if 75%

00:22:29.420 thought, oh,

00:22:30.220 no, the

00:22:30.460 elections are

00:22:31.020 fine, I'd

00:22:32.280 feel like we

00:22:32.820 were pretty

00:22:33.120 safe.

00:22:34.080 Because as I

00:22:34.900 often say,

00:22:35.500 24%, 25%

00:22:37.220 will get every

00:22:38.240 question wrong.

00:22:39.560 But if 75%

00:22:40.940 said, I think

00:22:42.760 everything's fine,

00:22:43.600 I would feel

00:22:44.180 comfortable as

00:22:44.960 well.

00:22:45.520 Probably.

00:22:45.900 But it's the

00:22:47.580 opposite of

00:22:48.040 that.

00:22:49.160 So it's

00:22:49.660 closer to,

00:22:50.760 let's say,

00:22:52.280 the people who

00:22:53.540 think that

00:22:54.020 cheating will

00:22:54.600 affect the

00:22:55.080 outcome, very

00:22:56.740 likely is 30%,

00:22:58.160 somewhat likely

00:22:59.120 is 24%.

00:23:01.280 So if you

00:23:03.100 get 54%

00:23:05.340 think it's

00:23:06.060 somewhat likely

00:23:06.800 or very likely

00:23:07.660 that the

00:23:08.060 election will

00:23:08.540 be affected

00:23:09.740 by cheating.

00:23:12.520 Does that

00:23:13.340 feel like a

00:23:14.460 dangerously high

00:23:15.360 number?

00:23:16.840 And would

00:23:17.440 anybody like

00:23:18.020 to argue

00:23:18.420 with me about

00:23:19.240 whether Trump

00:23:19.880 is persuasive?

00:23:21.640 Do you

00:23:22.320 think that

00:23:22.800 this number

00:23:23.340 would be

00:23:23.680 anywhere near

00:23:24.580 what it is

00:23:25.240 if Trump

00:23:26.280 had simply

00:23:26.780 said, I

00:23:27.340 accept the

00:23:28.000 election as

00:23:28.760 it is?

00:23:30.060 No, this

00:23:30.520 is totally

00:23:31.040 Trump.

00:23:32.060 Trump actually

00:23:34.080 convinced more

00:23:35.740 than half of

00:23:36.580 the country

00:23:37.100 that elections

00:23:38.500 are not

00:23:39.460 credible.

00:23:40.860 Think about

00:23:41.580 that.

00:23:42.900 Trump,

00:23:43.960 right?

00:23:44.140 I mean,

00:23:44.460 other people

00:23:45.040 mimicked him

00:23:45.940 and said the

00:23:46.780 same things,

00:23:47.520 but only

00:23:47.900 because he

00:23:48.420 did.

00:23:49.760 Trump by

00:23:50.400 himself got

00:23:51.440 54% of the

00:23:52.640 public, the

00:23:53.240 voting public,

00:23:54.600 to think that

00:23:55.320 the elections

00:23:55.800 are at least

00:23:56.680 somewhat likely

00:23:57.400 to be crooked.

00:23:59.520 That's pretty

00:24:00.300 remarkable.

00:24:01.360 In terms of

00:24:02.000 persuasion, that

00:24:02.980 is one of the

00:24:04.040 all-time most

00:24:05.600 persuasive things

00:24:06.500 I've ever seen.

00:24:07.880 Can you think of

00:24:08.760 anything more

00:24:09.220 persuasive?

00:24:10.860 I mean, the

00:24:12.060 country had a

00:24:12.720 very solid

00:24:13.340 opinion of

00:24:14.580 how safe

00:24:15.140 elections are.

00:24:16.720 I doubt it

00:24:17.540 had changed

00:24:18.000 much in the

00:24:18.680 years until

00:24:19.480 recently.

00:24:20.280 It probably

00:24:20.620 had a big

00:24:21.040 change recently.

00:24:23.280 Well, do

00:24:24.900 you think this

00:24:25.400 is a bad

00:24:26.320 sign or a

00:24:26.880 good sign?

00:24:27.940 Is it bad

00:24:28.500 news or good

00:24:29.040 news that

00:24:29.580 more than

00:24:30.080 half of the

00:24:30.480 country thinks

00:24:31.120 the election

00:24:31.620 might be

00:24:32.060 sketchy?

00:24:32.480 I think this

00:24:35.900 one's too

00:24:36.300 close to

00:24:36.780 call.

00:24:38.240 It's bad

00:24:39.360 in the sense

00:24:40.060 that we

00:24:41.320 wish that

00:24:42.080 elections were

00:24:43.440 not only good

00:24:44.080 but everybody

00:24:44.540 knew it.

00:24:46.040 So it's bad

00:24:46.620 that way.

00:24:47.820 But it's good

00:24:48.500 in the sense

00:24:49.040 that nothing

00:24:50.640 gets fixed

00:24:51.400 until people

00:24:52.260 admit there's

00:24:53.140 a problem.

00:24:54.600 And at the

00:24:55.340 very least,

00:24:56.880 the elections

00:24:57.420 do not have

00:24:58.180 the fully

00:24:58.780 auditable,

00:24:59.660 transparent nature

00:25:00.560 we all want.

00:25:02.480 So maybe

00:25:03.080 having half

00:25:03.700 of the public

00:25:04.200 doubt that it

00:25:04.860 is even in

00:25:05.500 a real election

00:25:06.240 will get you

00:25:07.480 closer to

00:25:08.080 actually fixing

00:25:09.300 something.

00:25:10.260 I'm going to

00:25:10.860 say again why

00:25:11.680 I think the

00:25:12.240 election is

00:25:13.500 not auditable

00:25:14.300 and that it's

00:25:15.900 done in a

00:25:16.340 fashion that

00:25:17.100 gives us,

00:25:17.740 let's say,

00:25:18.380 less comfort

00:25:18.980 than they

00:25:19.420 could.

00:25:20.400 I think it's

00:25:21.260 intentional and

00:25:22.820 I think it's

00:25:23.220 because both

00:25:23.880 sides cheat.

00:25:25.840 I think that's

00:25:26.740 the whole story.

00:25:28.080 Both sides

00:25:28.680 cheat, so

00:25:30.140 neither side

00:25:30.840 has a really

00:25:31.360 strong incentive

00:25:32.160 to change

00:25:33.240 the whole

00:25:33.640 system in a

00:25:34.440 way that

00:25:34.720 nobody can

00:25:35.240 cheat because

00:25:36.240 they want to

00:25:36.620 keep their

00:25:37.300 district, right?

00:25:38.760 Clearly there

00:25:39.540 are power

00:25:39.960 centers that

00:25:40.640 stay Republican

00:25:41.420 and the

00:25:42.620 Republicans would

00:25:43.300 like to not

00:25:44.620 lose them.

00:25:46.020 So I think

00:25:46.620 we've reached a

00:25:47.200 point where

00:25:47.600 both sides

00:25:48.280 are, and

00:25:49.480 this is just

00:25:49.940 speculation based

00:25:51.160 on observation,

00:25:52.540 that it looks

00:25:53.820 like both sides

00:25:54.700 are going to

00:25:55.060 accept cheating

00:25:55.860 and then compete

00:25:57.520 on the cheating

00:25:58.180 itself to see

00:25:59.920 who can out

00:26:00.380 cheat the other

00:26:00.940 side, and

00:26:01.840 cheating in

00:26:02.320 this sense

00:26:03.080 would include

00:26:03.800 legal stuff,

00:26:05.700 things you

00:26:06.260 didn't see

00:26:06.680 coming but

00:26:07.340 somebody had

00:26:08.120 a clever

00:26:08.840 legal maneuver,

00:26:10.660 totally legal,

00:26:11.720 that changes

00:26:12.480 the outcome.

00:26:13.620 So I think

00:26:13.980 we'll see all

00:26:14.480 the legal and

00:26:15.620 maybe less

00:26:16.360 than legal

00:26:16.820 competition.

00:26:19.200 So it looks

00:26:19.520 like a

00:26:20.020 competition of

00:26:21.100 cheaters at

00:26:21.880 this point.

00:26:23.000 Otherwise I

00:26:23.680 don't know

00:26:24.020 what I'm

00:26:24.300 seeing.

00:26:24.600 I cannot

00:26:27.060 explain why

00:26:27.860 Republicans would

00:26:28.740 not want to

00:26:29.260 fix a system

00:26:29.960 they don't

00:26:30.340 trust.

00:26:31.820 Only one

00:26:32.520 reason.

00:26:33.900 The people who

00:26:34.860 could fix it

00:26:35.540 don't want it

00:26:36.260 fixed.

00:26:37.260 I can think of

00:26:38.280 no other

00:26:38.660 reason.

00:26:39.760 Well, there is

00:26:40.360 no other

00:26:40.720 reason.

00:26:41.960 If you can

00:26:43.540 think of any

00:26:44.260 other reason,

00:26:46.020 then maybe it's

00:26:46.700 a failure of

00:26:47.360 imagination on

00:26:48.160 my part.

00:26:49.240 Because it

00:26:49.580 could be.

00:26:50.420 Lots of times

00:26:51.040 it's just a

00:26:51.560 failure of

00:26:52.000 imagination.

00:26:52.380 I just

00:26:53.200 can't imagine

00:26:53.880 any other

00:26:54.480 explanation.

00:26:55.740 But don't

00:26:56.360 you think

00:26:56.680 somebody would

00:26:57.260 want to tell

00:26:57.900 me what the

00:26:58.340 other explanation

00:26:59.000 is?

00:27:00.620 You feel like

00:27:01.580 Republicans would

00:27:02.660 want to say,

00:27:03.120 you know,

00:27:03.740 we're trying

00:27:04.440 real hard to

00:27:05.240 get these

00:27:05.620 elections to

00:27:06.260 be fair,

00:27:07.140 but those

00:27:07.800 darn Democrats

00:27:08.600 keep stopping

00:27:09.240 us for one

00:27:09.920 reason or

00:27:10.320 another.

00:27:11.040 Wouldn't you

00:27:11.360 like to hear

00:27:11.800 that?

00:27:12.620 To at least

00:27:13.160 know that one

00:27:13.820 side was trying

00:27:14.520 to fix the

00:27:15.920 transparency?

00:27:17.120 But I've

00:27:17.780 never heard

00:27:18.120 anything like

00:27:18.540 that.

00:27:19.520 Nothing even

00:27:20.040 close to that.

00:27:22.380 Not at all.

00:27:23.600 So I have

00:27:24.080 to assume

00:27:24.420 they're both

00:27:24.780 in on it.

00:27:25.320 Otherwise,

00:27:26.140 nothing makes

00:27:26.700 sense.

00:27:29.020 I assume

00:27:29.860 the same

00:27:30.280 about corruption.

00:27:32.640 If it were

00:27:33.540 only true

00:27:34.240 that Bob

00:27:34.980 Menendez

00:27:35.620 is the

00:27:37.060 crooked one,

00:27:39.100 well,

00:27:39.460 I'd be

00:27:39.700 amazed.

00:27:41.300 But if you

00:27:42.320 don't think

00:27:42.840 that Republicans

00:27:43.560 could have

00:27:44.900 known what

00:27:45.440 this guy was

00:27:45.960 doing or

00:27:46.480 that people

00:27:47.060 do this

00:27:47.560 and that

00:27:47.900 job,

00:27:49.460 that's

00:27:49.820 probably

00:27:50.120 because

00:27:50.460 Republicans

00:27:50.980 are doing

00:27:51.420 the same

00:27:51.780 thing in

00:27:52.160 a different

00:27:52.460 way.

00:27:53.760 So again,

00:27:54.740 I would

00:27:54.980 assume that

00:27:55.560 corporate or

00:27:56.760 congressional

00:27:58.080 corruption

00:27:58.960 probably is

00:28:00.540 because they're

00:28:01.060 doing it on

00:28:01.520 both sides.

00:28:02.900 Not every

00:28:03.700 person.

00:28:04.740 Not every

00:28:05.300 person.

00:28:06.300 But it's

00:28:06.600 probably on

00:28:07.020 both sides.

00:28:09.540 All right.

00:28:11.000 There's this

00:28:11.380 new study that

00:28:12.860 says you can

00:28:13.340 make yourself

00:28:13.860 look good in

00:28:14.660 interviews and

00:28:15.720 just look good

00:28:16.520 to other people

00:28:17.060 at work by

00:28:18.300 praising your

00:28:19.960 coworkers.

00:28:20.600 leaders.

00:28:21.620 At the

00:28:21.860 same time,

00:28:22.440 you maybe

00:28:23.140 say good

00:28:23.760 things about

00:28:24.220 yourself.

00:28:25.680 So the

00:28:26.020 research says

00:28:26.820 that instead

00:28:28.280 of saying,

00:28:29.500 I did this

00:28:30.460 and I did

00:28:30.960 that,

00:28:31.720 you say,

00:28:32.340 ah,

00:28:32.600 my coworker,

00:28:33.560 Bob,

00:28:33.980 he's great,

00:28:34.700 he's really

00:28:35.100 killing it,

00:28:36.120 and together

00:28:36.700 with,

00:28:37.180 you know,

00:28:37.900 Alice and

00:28:38.620 Joe and

00:28:39.480 Isaac,

00:28:40.600 you know,

00:28:41.180 and I did

00:28:41.520 my part,

00:28:42.180 I think I

00:28:42.620 did a good

00:28:43.000 part too,

00:28:43.700 but man,

00:28:44.520 we got a

00:28:44.940 good team.

00:28:46.080 Supposedly,

00:28:46.580 that makes

00:28:46.920 you look like

00:28:48.800 the best

00:28:49.220 person you

00:28:49.700 could hire.

00:28:51.040 Now,

00:28:52.400 did you

00:28:52.860 need to

00:28:53.220 do research

00:28:54.040 to know

00:28:54.660 that?

00:28:55.900 Or could

00:28:56.380 you watch

00:28:56.940 every athlete

00:28:58.360 doing an

00:28:59.040 interview ever

00:28:59.780 who had

00:29:00.780 been trained

00:29:01.340 by professionals

00:29:02.140 and had

00:29:02.580 asked?

00:29:03.600 All right,

00:29:04.040 let me give

00:29:05.240 you every

00:29:06.220 athlete.

00:29:09.060 Scott,

00:29:09.780 you scored

00:29:10.640 80 points

00:29:11.280 in the

00:29:11.520 basketball game

00:29:12.180 today.

00:29:12.560 It's the

00:29:12.840 most anybody's

00:29:13.500 ever scored

00:29:14.080 in decades

00:29:15.520 since

00:29:16.060 Will,

00:29:17.120 I guess,

00:29:18.460 anyway,

00:29:19.680 Will Chamberlain

00:29:20.300 or something.

00:29:22.080 And so

00:29:22.740 how do you

00:29:23.200 feel about

00:29:23.580 your great

00:29:24.020 accomplishment?

00:29:26.500 Well,

00:29:27.040 Carl,

00:29:27.840 I like to

00:29:28.900 think it's

00:29:29.200 a team

00:29:29.520 effort.

00:29:30.280 The team

00:29:30.800 played really

00:29:31.300 well.

00:29:31.780 I don't

00:29:32.120 think too

00:29:32.500 much about

00:29:32.900 my personal

00:29:33.880 stats.

00:29:34.400 I was just

00:29:34.780 thinking about

00:29:35.260 getting the

00:29:35.640 win.

00:29:36.420 And if we

00:29:36.820 can get the

00:29:37.240 win,

00:29:37.880 then our

00:29:38.480 team is

00:29:38.900 working as

00:29:40.000 one unit,

00:29:40.820 and that's

00:29:41.180 all I care

00:29:41.520 about.

00:29:41.740 Now,

00:29:44.280 literally

00:29:44.920 everybody has

00:29:45.840 known forever

00:29:46.540 that if that

00:29:47.820 same athlete

00:29:48.540 had said,

00:29:49.540 you know,

00:29:50.220 I did this

00:29:51.280 largely alone.

00:29:53.040 You know,

00:29:53.500 normally I'd

00:29:54.380 expect my

00:29:54.860 teammates to

00:29:55.440 be like

00:29:55.860 kicking in a

00:29:56.500 little bit of

00:29:56.940 scoring,

00:29:57.620 but my

00:29:58.080 God,

00:29:58.480 they were

00:29:58.740 slow today.

00:29:59.800 So I had

00:30:00.260 to take all

00:30:00.840 the scoring

00:30:01.400 upon my

00:30:01.960 own shoulders.

00:30:02.980 I hope

00:30:03.460 they can

00:30:03.780 pick up

00:30:04.120 the pace

00:30:04.480 tomorrow,

00:30:05.100 but what

00:30:05.600 the hell

00:30:06.040 happened to

00:30:06.540 the rest

00:30:06.840 of the team?

00:30:07.700 If I'm

00:30:08.040 scoring 80

00:30:08.660 points,

00:30:09.560 something's

00:30:10.000 wrong with

00:30:10.400 the rest of

00:30:10.800 the team,

00:30:11.200 let me tell

00:30:11.620 you.

00:30:11.740 Right?

00:30:14.280 Doesn't

00:30:14.800 everybody know

00:30:16.040 not to do

00:30:16.600 that?

00:30:18.240 Did we

00:30:18.700 really need

00:30:19.360 to study

00:30:20.020 the people

00:30:21.580 who give

00:30:22.040 credit to

00:30:22.720 those around

00:30:23.300 them?

00:30:24.360 Wait for

00:30:24.900 it.

00:30:25.100 Wait for

00:30:25.460 it.

00:30:25.780 Hold on.

00:30:27.600 This will

00:30:28.280 shock you.

00:30:30.080 Turns out

00:30:30.700 that according

00:30:31.240 to science,

00:30:32.800 the people

00:30:33.260 who are

00:30:33.660 generous to

00:30:34.440 the people

00:30:34.820 around them

00:30:35.660 are more

00:30:37.120 liked by

00:30:38.040 who?

00:30:39.140 Who?

00:30:39.360 the people

00:30:40.400 who are

00:30:40.620 generous to

00:30:41.260 the people

00:30:41.620 around them

00:30:42.420 are more

00:30:43.500 well-liked

00:30:44.220 by the

00:30:45.840 people around

00:30:46.440 them.

00:30:47.840 Yeah.

00:30:48.420 The people

00:30:48.880 around them.

00:30:51.360 So that's

00:30:52.400 quite a

00:30:53.360 shocking

00:30:53.700 thing.

00:30:54.700 they have

00:30:56.700 not studied

00:30:57.320 this,

00:30:57.680 but I have

00:30:58.340 a hypothesis

00:30:59.040 that if you

00:31:00.720 did a

00:31:01.160 control group,

00:31:02.280 one group

00:31:02.840 of people

00:31:03.320 was punching

00:31:04.440 the people

00:31:04.940 around them

00:31:05.520 every time

00:31:06.360 they saw

00:31:06.740 them.

00:31:07.240 Hey,

00:31:07.700 hey,

00:31:07.940 Bob,

00:31:08.380 punch you.

00:31:10.180 That they

00:31:10.760 would be

00:31:11.080 less liked,

00:31:12.720 probably.

00:31:13.440 I mean,

00:31:13.660 you'd have to

00:31:14.080 do the

00:31:14.360 science,

00:31:15.100 but probably

00:31:15.440 less liked

00:31:16.280 than the

00:31:17.140 people who

00:31:17.580 see you,

00:31:18.160 and every

00:31:18.440 time they

00:31:18.780 see you,

00:31:19.760 they give

00:31:20.580 you a

00:31:20.820 compliment.

00:31:21.120 So if

00:31:22.460 you were

00:31:22.660 to compare

00:31:23.140 the two

00:31:23.540 groups,

00:31:24.040 the complimenting

00:31:24.920 everybody versus

00:31:26.100 the punching

00:31:26.720 everybody,

00:31:27.520 I feel like

00:31:28.140 you'd see a

00:31:28.560 difference.

00:31:30.520 Now,

00:31:31.280 don't say

00:31:32.780 I'm some

00:31:33.240 kind of a

00:31:33.700 scientist

00:31:34.040 because I'm

00:31:34.760 not.

00:31:35.840 I just

00:31:36.380 have some

00:31:37.180 theories that

00:31:37.760 I think

00:31:38.000 should be

00:31:38.380 checked out.

00:31:39.760 I think we

00:31:40.160 should do a

00:31:40.520 study on

00:31:40.900 that.

00:31:42.020 Pfizer can

00:31:42.720 fund that.

00:31:44.300 All right.

00:31:46.280 Mr.

00:31:46.800 Beast,

00:31:47.340 who's a

00:31:48.520 beast on

00:31:49.040 social media,

00:31:50.480 I believe

00:31:51.100 his number

00:31:51.600 of followers,

00:31:52.820 Mr.

00:31:53.140 Beast,

00:31:53.540 is one

00:31:54.220 trillion.

00:31:54.900 One

00:31:55.220 trillion people

00:31:55.860 follow him.

00:31:56.440 I don't

00:31:56.620 know,

00:31:56.780 it's a

00:31:57.020 lot.

00:31:57.720 I think

00:31:58.160 he has

00:31:58.400 the most

00:31:58.720 followers.

00:32:00.000 But there's

00:32:00.700 a deep

00:32:01.040 fake scam

00:32:02.200 of him,

00:32:04.060 a little

00:32:04.480 video in

00:32:05.260 which he's

00:32:05.660 scamming

00:32:06.060 people to,

00:32:06.880 I don't know,

00:32:07.600 do something,

00:32:08.720 pay him some

00:32:09.160 money.

00:32:10.200 And he was

00:32:10.980 tweeting around

00:32:11.580 to make sure

00:32:12.120 people knew

00:32:12.540 it was a

00:32:12.880 scam.

00:32:14.040 And he

00:32:14.440 says,

00:32:15.100 this is a

00:32:16.740 serious

00:32:17.060 problem,

00:32:18.720 but is

00:32:19.300 it?

00:32:21.100 Is it?

00:32:22.380 I wonder

00:32:22.960 if the

00:32:23.480 deep

00:32:23.900 fakes are

00:32:24.640 going to

00:32:24.820 be so

00:32:25.200 obvious that

00:32:26.800 everybody will

00:32:27.520 just stop

00:32:27.960 giving money

00:32:28.460 to everybody.

00:32:30.460 Like,

00:32:31.020 I can't

00:32:31.560 imagine seeing

00:32:32.220 a video of

00:32:33.020 somebody saying

00:32:33.700 give me money

00:32:34.380 in any

00:32:34.860 context,

00:32:35.940 unless they

00:32:36.520 were selling

00:32:36.860 me a

00:32:37.120 product and

00:32:37.720 I knew it

00:32:38.060 was an

00:32:38.280 advertisement.

00:32:39.180 But I

00:32:39.720 can't imagine

00:32:40.260 being influenced

00:32:40.980 by a

00:32:42.200 person talking,

00:32:43.620 because I

00:32:43.900 just wouldn't

00:32:44.340 believe that,

00:32:44.860 if they were

00:32:45.140 a real person,

00:32:45.700 I wouldn't

00:32:45.920 believe them.

00:32:46.360 but then the

00:32:47.560 possibility that

00:32:48.320 they're AI,

00:32:49.400 twice as many

00:32:50.220 reasons to

00:32:50.760 not believe

00:32:51.200 them, I

00:32:52.060 think we'll

00:32:52.340 just stop

00:32:52.740 believing

00:32:53.020 everything.

00:32:54.660 I think

00:32:55.020 people will

00:32:55.520 adjust.

00:32:56.820 So instead

00:32:57.240 of being

00:32:57.720 super gullible

00:32:58.820 and we

00:33:00.000 keep falling

00:33:00.540 for this

00:33:00.940 stuff,

00:33:01.380 that'll

00:33:01.620 happen in

00:33:02.020 the short

00:33:02.320 run.

00:33:02.720 In the

00:33:03.140 long run,

00:33:04.380 we'll just

00:33:04.860 not believe

00:33:05.320 anything.

00:33:07.060 I think

00:33:07.680 that's where

00:33:08.020 we're going.

00:33:10.980 That's not a

00:33:11.700 good place to

00:33:12.220 be.

00:33:13.520 Well, you're

00:33:14.300 probably wondering

00:33:14.980 about this

00:33:15.480 story I

00:33:16.180 haven't talked

00:33:16.620 about yet.

00:33:17.560 There was

00:33:17.840 a journalist

00:33:18.520 named Josh

00:33:19.400 Kruger, who

00:33:21.140 was fatally

00:33:21.980 shot seven

00:33:22.840 times early

00:33:23.780 morning, I

00:33:24.920 think it was

00:33:25.160 yesterday, and

00:33:26.680 he was in

00:33:27.500 Philadelphia.

00:33:29.280 Now, the

00:33:30.640 story is

00:33:31.220 notable for a

00:33:32.200 few reasons.

00:33:33.020 One is it

00:33:33.760 was a

00:33:34.060 journalist and

00:33:35.120 an activist

00:33:35.640 and a

00:33:36.840 Democrat type.

00:33:38.500 But also he

00:33:39.800 was quite

00:33:40.200 active on

00:33:41.160 social media,

00:33:42.700 including two

00:33:43.600 days before he

00:33:44.440 was shot to

00:33:45.100 death in

00:33:45.380 his home.

00:33:46.460 He was

00:33:47.000 mocking me

00:33:48.080 on Twitter.

00:33:49.100 I didn't

00:33:49.420 know it.

00:33:50.020 I didn't

00:33:50.240 realize it

00:33:50.680 until after

00:33:51.020 he was

00:33:51.260 already dead.

00:33:52.320 But apparently

00:33:52.780 he had just

00:33:53.520 been mocking

00:33:54.160 me for an

00:33:56.080 old tweet of

00:33:56.920 mine from

00:33:57.300 2020 that I

00:33:58.940 said that if

00:33:59.460 Biden is

00:33:59.920 elected, this

00:34:00.580 was before

00:34:01.020 the last

00:34:02.700 election, I

00:34:03.220 said if

00:34:03.480 Biden is

00:34:03.880 elected, there's

00:34:04.740 a good chance

00:34:05.240 he'll be dead

00:34:05.860 in a year.

00:34:07.180 And he

00:34:07.660 mocked me for

00:34:08.360 saying that and

00:34:10.200 mocked my

00:34:10.980 ability to see

00:34:11.880 the future, and

00:34:13.560 he was slain

00:34:14.960 violently in

00:34:16.040 his home

00:34:16.460 hours later.

00:34:18.960 Now, today's

00:34:20.940 news is that

00:34:22.440 there was

00:34:22.960 another person

00:34:24.020 who had

00:34:24.440 tweeted some

00:34:25.340 trash at me

00:34:26.020 recently who

00:34:27.780 was also

00:34:28.260 stabbed to

00:34:28.860 death at

00:34:29.640 Malcolm X

00:34:30.240 Boulevard, a

00:34:31.680 32-year-old

00:34:32.740 activist who

00:34:34.340 was sort of

00:34:35.100 anti-fossil

00:34:36.000 fuel.

00:34:36.300 So that

00:34:37.620 would be two

00:34:39.040 of my

00:34:39.460 critics who

00:34:41.300 were slain

00:34:43.100 within days

00:34:44.180 of criticizing

00:34:44.800 me, and

00:34:47.000 people are

00:34:47.720 asking, is

00:34:49.300 this some

00:34:49.660 kind of a

00:34:50.120 trend?

00:34:51.200 Do you

00:34:51.540 have alibis?

00:34:52.900 Well, I do

00:34:53.280 have alibis, but

00:34:54.840 no, it's

00:34:55.860 a coincidence.

00:34:57.740 It's a

00:34:58.220 coincidence.

00:34:59.700 Also, there's

00:35:02.000 a report that

00:35:02.780 in Washington,

00:35:03.880 D.C., there

00:35:06.120 was a

00:35:06.400 member of

00:35:06.900 Congress

00:35:07.620 who got

00:35:08.900 carjacked.

00:35:11.320 Yeah.

00:35:12.540 Who was

00:35:12.940 it?

00:35:14.960 Henry

00:35:15.480 Cuellar?

00:35:17.160 So, a

00:35:17.580 Democrat, a

00:35:18.640 member of

00:35:18.980 Congress, who

00:35:19.520 got carjacked

00:35:20.260 in D.C.,

00:35:21.540 which is

00:35:22.880 also a

00:35:24.260 coincidence.

00:35:25.980 Right?

00:35:26.600 Now, I

00:35:27.360 would have

00:35:27.640 said you

00:35:28.940 should get

00:35:29.320 out of

00:35:29.620 D.C.

00:35:30.120 because there's

00:35:30.660 a lot of

00:35:31.000 crime there.

00:35:32.180 But Congress

00:35:33.680 is going to

00:35:34.160 wait around and

00:35:34.800 just keep

00:35:35.360 getting victimized

00:35:36.100 I guess.

00:35:36.720 That would

00:35:37.160 be their

00:35:37.440 choice.

00:35:39.020 So, I

00:35:41.360 would like to

00:35:41.780 report that I'm

00:35:42.720 about halfway

00:35:44.080 off of

00:35:44.640 Prisoner

00:35:45.120 Island.

00:35:46.440 You remember

00:35:47.240 what the

00:35:47.580 middle phase

00:35:48.140 is, right?

00:35:49.380 I'll remind

00:35:50.160 you what

00:35:50.460 Prisoner

00:35:50.900 Island is.

00:35:51.720 Prisoner

00:35:52.080 Island is the

00:35:52.780 story that

00:35:54.560 I hold in

00:35:56.520 my head

00:35:57.020 about, you

00:35:59.480 know, when

00:35:59.740 things get

00:36:00.200 bad, what

00:36:01.480 that's about.

00:36:03.020 So, Prisoner

00:36:03.760 Island is, I

00:36:04.380 imagine that if

00:36:05.140 you drop me on

00:36:05.860 an island full

00:36:06.880 of just

00:36:07.260 prisoners and

00:36:08.300 no law, they

00:36:09.960 would beat me and

00:36:11.120 rape me on the

00:36:11.680 first day and

00:36:12.380 leave me for

00:36:13.020 dead.

00:36:13.940 But I'd

00:36:14.340 probably live.

00:36:15.500 And then the

00:36:15.880 next day they'd

00:36:16.440 do the same

00:36:16.900 thing and beat

00:36:17.720 me and rape me.

00:36:19.320 But if you came

00:36:19.960 back in a year,

00:36:22.200 they would all be

00:36:22.980 dead and I would

00:36:23.820 be, everyone who

00:36:24.780 touched me would

00:36:25.340 be dead, and I

00:36:26.040 would be the king

00:36:26.600 of Prisoner

00:36:27.140 Island.

00:36:27.400 because I

00:36:29.760 don't like to

00:36:30.180 lose.

00:36:32.640 So, that's

00:36:33.780 just a story I

00:36:34.920 tell myself.

00:36:36.980 So, when I got

00:36:37.720 canceled, it did

00:36:39.260 look like I'd

00:36:40.080 been dropped on

00:36:40.680 Prisoner

00:36:41.200 Island.

00:36:42.640 But if you

00:36:43.780 were worried

00:36:44.260 about me, you

00:36:46.520 should pay

00:36:47.160 attention to the

00:36:47.800 news.

00:36:48.680 Because the

00:36:49.320 news is just

00:36:49.960 one story after

00:36:50.860 another confirming

00:36:53.540 that we have a

00:36:55.700 dangerous situation,

00:36:57.400 and that it's

00:36:58.080 being made more

00:36:58.860 dangerous every

00:36:59.540 day by Democrats

00:37:01.740 poisoning the

00:37:03.320 racial relations

00:37:04.500 and not handling

00:37:05.900 crime.

00:37:07.420 And that as

00:37:09.120 Democrat bodies

00:37:10.200 start to fall,

00:37:12.440 all of them

00:37:13.200 tragedies, not

00:37:14.000 making fun of

00:37:14.640 anybody's death,

00:37:15.820 it will start to

00:37:17.180 create a pattern

00:37:17.860 which will suggest

00:37:19.600 that there was

00:37:21.480 something wrong,

00:37:22.340 and maybe I had

00:37:23.160 a point, which

00:37:24.500 had nothing to do

00:37:25.260 with anybody's

00:37:25.820 DNA, not

00:37:27.380 nothing I said,

00:37:28.460 nothing to do

00:37:29.120 with anybody's

00:37:29.620 culture.

00:37:30.740 It has everything

00:37:31.700 to do with the

00:37:32.320 fact that we've

00:37:32.880 been trained that

00:37:34.260 one group of

00:37:35.120 Americans are the

00:37:37.120 oppressors, and

00:37:39.220 they have your

00:37:39.740 stuff, and you

00:37:40.460 should go get it

00:37:41.060 back.

00:37:42.060 And if you happen

00:37:42.740 to be in that

00:37:43.280 group that has

00:37:43.980 been labeled the

00:37:45.360 group that

00:37:45.940 oppressed you who

00:37:46.740 has your stuff,

00:37:47.920 and you need to

00:37:48.560 get it back, you

00:37:51.060 should be very

00:37:51.600 cautious about that.

00:37:52.520 All right, let's

00:37:55.640 talk about Letitia

00:37:57.180 James, or maybe

00:37:58.220 Letitia.

00:37:59.700 Does anybody know

00:38:00.560 how to pronounce

00:38:01.220 her name?

00:38:02.760 I've heard it,

00:38:04.060 people just say it

00:38:04.940 quickly because

00:38:05.540 they're not sure.

00:38:06.600 Letitia, Letitia.

00:38:09.060 I think it's sort

00:38:10.520 of a, you know,

00:38:12.300 everybody just does

00:38:13.060 it the way they

00:38:13.520 want.

00:38:14.740 Letitia.

00:38:16.660 Letitia.

00:38:17.220 Letitia.

00:38:18.420 It's exactly how

00:38:19.460 it's spelled.

00:38:21.200 All right.

00:38:22.000 Well, I'm going to

00:38:22.740 pronounce it any way

00:38:23.440 I want.

00:38:24.440 So I saw a tweet

00:38:25.300 by Kaneko of the

00:38:26.240 Great, showed a

00:38:26.920 video from 2018

00:38:28.280 of Letitia James

00:38:30.780 vowing to use the

00:38:34.800 law to get Trump.

00:38:36.660 Now, if you hear

00:38:37.720 it, it's very clear

00:38:39.060 that she is a

00:38:41.220 political person

00:38:42.320 who's going to

00:38:43.020 use the law to

00:38:44.360 weaponize the law

00:38:46.480 to go after

00:38:46.840 Trump.

00:38:47.220 So she made a

00:38:48.260 bunch of claims

00:38:48.900 that she couldn't

00:38:49.540 back up and

00:38:51.300 ended it with

00:38:52.580 saying, understand

00:38:53.320 that the days of

00:38:54.280 Donald Trump are

00:38:55.120 coming to an end.

00:38:59.400 Wow.

00:39:01.240 And so after all

00:39:04.220 these grand

00:39:04.880 charges of

00:39:05.820 colluding with

00:39:06.560 other countries

00:39:07.200 and money laundering,

00:39:08.300 all these charges,

00:39:09.560 the thing that

00:39:10.300 they're trying to

00:39:11.300 nail him on,

00:39:12.300 after all those

00:39:12.960 great charges,

00:39:14.340 are that he

00:39:15.020 took out a

00:39:15.640 loan and

00:39:16.840 paid it back

00:39:17.700 and paid it back

00:39:17.720 with interest.

00:39:19.860 That's what he's

00:39:20.620 being charged

00:39:21.160 with.

00:39:21.880 Now, as part of

00:39:22.600 that, they say

00:39:23.200 that he overvalued

00:39:24.120 his assets.

00:39:25.360 But their

00:39:26.000 argument is

00:39:26.900 ridiculous on

00:39:28.000 his face,

00:39:28.800 because the way

00:39:29.600 they valued his

00:39:30.540 assets were so

00:39:31.500 laughably wrong

00:39:32.840 that it wouldn't

00:39:34.080 matter what he

00:39:34.660 did.

00:39:35.760 Their case is so

00:39:36.700 laughably,

00:39:38.300 obviously,

00:39:39.520 purely political,

00:39:40.440 legal, that

00:39:42.040 I think

00:39:42.560 Letitia James

00:39:43.320 should go to

00:39:43.760 jail.

00:39:45.760 I mean,

00:39:46.200 when I listen

00:39:46.880 to her and

00:39:47.420 then I see

00:39:47.820 what she's

00:39:48.220 doing, I

00:39:49.100 think, how

00:39:49.520 in the world

00:39:50.180 is this

00:39:50.580 legal?

00:39:52.040 I mean, she's

00:39:52.500 using the

00:39:53.000 legal system,

00:39:54.480 so she's not

00:39:55.640 committing a

00:39:56.280 crime per se,

00:39:57.180 but it looks

00:39:57.860 like a crime,

00:39:59.000 it feels like a

00:40:00.000 crime, it

00:40:00.940 has the effect

00:40:02.440 of a crime.

00:40:04.060 Why isn't it

00:40:04.800 a crime?

00:40:06.940 The crime

00:40:07.640 should be,

00:40:08.300 well, actually,

00:40:08.760 there probably

00:40:09.040 is a crime.

00:40:09.700 There probably

00:40:10.180 is a crime

00:40:10.800 about, you

00:40:12.020 know, what

00:40:13.620 would it be,

00:40:14.220 unsupported

00:40:16.120 prosecution.

00:40:18.680 What would be

00:40:19.320 the name for

00:40:19.760 that?

00:40:21.560 Not just

00:40:22.300 defamation,

00:40:23.220 unsubstantiated,

00:40:25.060 frivolous

00:40:25.620 prosecution,

00:40:27.140 malicious

00:40:27.440 prosecution.

00:40:29.080 Let's go

00:40:29.720 with malicious

00:40:30.320 prosecution.

00:40:31.720 If I were a

00:40:32.560 lawmaker, I

00:40:34.660 would have

00:40:34.940 made a law

00:40:35.420 against malicious

00:40:36.440 prosecution.

00:40:37.560 There must be

00:40:38.240 one.

00:40:39.040 Is there not?

00:40:40.340 Is there no

00:40:40.920 law against

00:40:41.720 using the

00:40:42.360 law maliciously?

00:40:44.420 I feel like

00:40:45.200 there should be

00:40:45.600 a specific

00:40:46.100 law against

00:40:46.620 that.

00:40:49.640 Because there's

00:40:50.420 no way,

00:40:51.720 I don't believe

00:40:52.580 there's any way

00:40:53.200 that Letitia

00:40:53.900 James and her

00:40:54.760 staff believed

00:40:56.340 their own

00:40:57.000 charges.

00:40:58.480 I think they

00:40:59.300 should have to

00:40:59.800 prove that they

00:41:00.760 believed their

00:41:01.560 own charges.

00:41:02.640 Because do you

00:41:03.120 think they have

00:41:03.540 any evidence

00:41:04.400 of any crime?

00:41:05.680 I think I

00:41:08.000 would have

00:41:08.220 seen it.

00:41:09.400 I've seen

00:41:09.900 nothing that

00:41:10.440 would suggest

00:41:10.980 they have

00:41:11.300 evidence of

00:41:11.820 a crime.

00:41:12.620 Have you?

00:41:13.760 So should

00:41:14.780 they not be

00:41:15.540 pushed to

00:41:17.720 show that

00:41:18.240 they had

00:41:18.900 evidence of

00:41:19.460 a crime

00:41:19.840 before they

00:41:20.420 pursued it?

00:41:21.760 I think you

00:41:22.540 could show

00:41:22.900 that they

00:41:23.280 did not

00:41:23.720 have any

00:41:24.240 evidence of

00:41:24.800 a crime

00:41:25.200 and they

00:41:25.780 pursued it

00:41:26.300 anyway.

00:41:27.420 Don't you

00:41:28.060 think?

00:41:28.280 So I

00:41:29.240 think that

00:41:29.800 Trump should

00:41:30.940 get elected

00:41:31.580 and that

00:41:34.000 one way or

00:41:36.100 another she

00:41:36.800 should be

00:41:37.180 brought to

00:41:37.600 justice.

00:41:38.400 Could you

00:41:38.740 do it on

00:41:39.100 federal charges

00:41:39.860 or would it

00:41:40.360 have to be

00:41:40.660 a state

00:41:40.980 charge?

00:41:43.160 Is there

00:41:43.680 any way

00:41:43.940 the feds

00:41:44.600 could get

00:41:45.500 at her

00:41:45.840 for a

00:41:46.140 break in

00:41:46.460 the law?

00:41:47.560 If she

00:41:47.880 goes after

00:41:48.400 a federal

00:41:48.900 case?

00:41:49.380 Oh,

00:41:49.680 she would

00:41:50.480 be interfering

00:41:51.480 with a

00:41:51.900 federal election.

00:41:53.340 There we

00:41:53.680 go.

00:41:54.580 Yeah.

00:41:54.980 She would

00:41:55.300 be interfering

00:41:55.880 with a

00:41:56.480 federal process

00:41:57.420 by trying

00:41:58.000 to put a

00:41:58.360 candidate in

00:41:58.960 jail without

00:41:59.540 legitimate

00:42:00.200 charges.

00:42:01.860 And it

00:42:02.120 would also

00:42:02.480 be RICO.

00:42:04.340 So you

00:42:04.900 could get

00:42:05.240 RICO,

00:42:05.980 because I'm

00:42:06.480 sure it's

00:42:06.760 coordinated,

00:42:07.520 you could

00:42:07.780 find,

00:42:08.400 if you got

00:42:08.880 a hold of

00:42:09.220 her communications,

00:42:10.540 you don't

00:42:11.100 think you

00:42:11.460 would find

00:42:11.820 that she's

00:42:12.220 talking to

00:42:12.740 Democrat

00:42:13.260 leadership?

00:42:15.140 Of course

00:42:15.720 she could.

00:42:17.220 So if you

00:42:18.100 got a hold

00:42:18.520 of her

00:42:18.760 communications,

00:42:19.620 you could

00:42:19.860 find out

00:42:20.340 just how

00:42:21.480 coordinated

00:42:22.000 it was.

00:42:23.720 And I

00:42:24.220 do think

00:42:24.560 there's

00:42:24.800 enough

00:42:25.040 evidence

00:42:25.540 of a

00:42:26.380 crime that

00:42:27.200 you should

00:42:27.460 at least

00:42:27.760 be able

00:42:28.060 to indict,

00:42:29.360 because you

00:42:29.700 can indict

00:42:30.140 for just

00:42:30.700 about anything.

00:42:31.820 So I

00:42:32.220 think it

00:42:32.500 needs to

00:42:32.820 be mutually

00:42:35.020 assured

00:42:35.540 disaster.

00:42:38.220 I think

00:42:39.060 that if

00:42:39.600 Trump doesn't

00:42:40.280 go to jail,

00:42:40.880 that the

00:42:41.140 prosecutor does

00:42:41.900 have to go

00:42:42.320 to jail in

00:42:42.760 this case.

00:42:44.440 Yeah.

00:42:45.220 Yeah,

00:42:45.500 mutually

00:42:45.820 assured

00:42:46.220 destruction.

00:42:48.020 I think

00:42:48.700 that the

00:42:49.160 prosecutors all

00:42:50.100 need to go

00:42:50.520 to jail if

00:42:52.020 they lose.

00:42:52.920 If they win,

00:42:53.820 we're in bad

00:42:54.300 shape.

00:42:54.920 But if they

00:42:55.340 lose, they

00:42:55.700 all have to

00:42:55.980 go to jail.

00:42:56.400 That's my

00:42:57.140 take.

00:43:02.520 All right.

00:43:04.080 Rasmussen also

00:43:04.960 asked how

00:43:05.680 many people

00:43:06.120 think our

00:43:07.040 intelligence

00:43:07.520 agencies in

00:43:08.420 the U.S.

00:43:08.780 are influencing

00:43:09.400 the news

00:43:10.000 media.

00:43:11.140 65%

00:43:12.220 think it

00:43:13.480 is likely

00:43:13.940 that U.S.

00:43:14.540 intelligence

00:43:14.860 agencies are

00:43:15.840 influencing

00:43:16.460 news coverage.

00:43:19.800 65%.

00:43:20.480 So two-thirds

00:43:23.340 of the

00:43:23.620 public thinks

00:43:24.820 the news

00:43:25.360 is fake

00:43:26.060 and fake

00:43:27.360 because our

00:43:28.080 intelligence

00:43:28.500 people are

00:43:29.440 manipulating

00:43:30.520 it.

00:43:31.680 How in the

00:43:32.160 world is that

00:43:32.700 not 100%?

00:43:35.060 That's low.

00:43:36.600 It's amazing

00:43:37.460 that there are

00:43:38.040 that many people

00:43:38.640 who don't

00:43:39.000 understand how

00:43:39.920 anything works.

00:43:40.760 If you actually

00:43:42.260 believe that the

00:43:43.080 news operated

00:43:43.980 independently,

00:43:45.180 you would be

00:43:46.280 so confused

00:43:47.300 by what

00:43:48.300 you're seeing.

00:43:49.320 As soon as

00:43:50.000 you realize

00:43:50.420 it's all

00:43:50.960 fixed,

00:43:53.040 I'll tell

00:43:54.340 you,

00:43:54.640 I stopped

00:43:55.580 worrying about

00:43:56.420 Rob Reiner's

00:44:00.020 tweets.

00:44:01.080 They used to

00:44:01.800 drive me crazy.

00:44:03.660 But then I

00:44:04.340 look at him

00:44:04.720 and I go,

00:44:05.260 oh,

00:44:06.580 he's probably

00:44:07.180 just working

00:44:07.800 with somebody,

00:44:08.560 if you know

00:44:08.860 what I mean.

00:44:10.120 And then once

00:44:10.620 you realize

00:44:11.040 that,

00:44:11.960 and I don't

00:44:12.260 know that

00:44:12.600 that's true,

00:44:13.520 it's just

00:44:13.900 observably,

00:44:15.720 it looks like

00:44:16.260 the logical

00:44:16.820 conclusion.

00:44:18.320 It looks like

00:44:19.120 the obvious

00:44:19.780 conclusion.

00:44:20.460 Doesn't mean

00:44:20.820 it's true,

00:44:21.800 but it looks

00:44:22.260 obvious.

00:44:23.460 Then it doesn't

00:44:24.120 bother you anymore.

00:44:25.000 He's just like

00:44:25.620 a commercial.

00:44:26.780 Commercials

00:44:27.220 don't bother you.

00:44:29.260 All right,

00:44:29.740 let's talk about

00:44:30.460 Gates trying

00:44:32.040 to vacate

00:44:32.860 McCarthy's seat,

00:44:34.800 the Republican

00:44:37.500 Speaker of the

00:44:38.660 House.

00:44:39.740 So,

00:44:41.680 let's see if I

00:44:42.520 can summarize

00:44:43.020 this for those

00:44:43.860 of you who

00:44:44.260 are not paying

00:44:44.740 attention.

00:44:45.100 So,

00:44:46.660 every year

00:44:47.440 the Congress

00:44:48.340 has to pass

00:44:49.020 a budget,

00:44:50.160 but nobody

00:44:50.700 wants to cut

00:44:51.380 anything because

00:44:52.040 that makes

00:44:52.360 you unpopular.

00:44:53.920 So,

00:44:55.060 they all get

00:44:56.540 together and

00:44:57.180 they try to

00:44:57.600 screw the

00:44:58.100 public by

00:44:59.260 putting all

00:44:59.940 the separate

00:45:01.480 bills into

00:45:02.120 one big one

00:45:02.900 so that if

00:45:04.100 you vote

00:45:04.480 against the

00:45:04.960 one big one,

00:45:06.280 you're a loser

00:45:07.860 and you're

00:45:08.280 terrible.

00:45:09.660 But then they

00:45:10.520 can get all

00:45:11.080 their little

00:45:11.820 budgets through

00:45:12.500 without being

00:45:13.040 cut.

00:45:13.340 So,

00:45:16.960 PJ says,

00:45:18.620 Scott,

00:45:19.020 is purposely

00:45:19.620 undervaluing

00:45:20.200 your property's

00:45:21.020 tax evasion?

00:45:22.720 For a loan?

00:45:24.140 No.

00:45:27.400 No.

00:45:31.240 Was that the

00:45:32.060 question?

00:45:32.740 How about for

00:45:33.320 insurance?

00:45:34.700 For insurance,

00:45:35.720 it would be

00:45:36.440 paying more

00:45:37.000 insurance than

00:45:37.660 you need to

00:45:38.080 pay.

00:45:39.120 If you're

00:45:39.740 talking about

00:45:40.180 property tax,

00:45:41.280 I don't believe

00:45:41.860 that's part of

00:45:42.340 the charges.

00:45:43.940 So,

00:45:44.360 here's what I

00:45:44.900 would advise

00:45:45.460 you,

00:45:45.740 because based

00:45:46.180 on this

00:45:46.480 comment,

00:45:47.840 if you're

00:45:48.540 looking at

00:45:48.920 the Trump

00:45:49.540 legal jeopardy

00:45:52.000 and you're

00:45:52.780 looking at

00:45:53.160 what he did

00:45:53.580 with banks

00:45:54.120 and insurance

00:45:54.740 companies,

00:45:55.640 if you do

00:45:56.540 not have a

00:45:57.240 business

00:45:57.620 education,

00:46:00.280 shut the

00:46:00.740 fuck up.

00:46:01.720 You have

00:46:02.120 no idea

00:46:02.540 what's

00:46:02.780 happening.

00:46:04.480 Just shut

00:46:05.140 the fuck

00:46:05.500 up.

00:46:06.780 Right?

00:46:07.160 Or talk

00:46:07.680 to a banker.

00:46:09.140 Talk to a

00:46:09.680 banker.

00:46:10.280 Ask a banker

00:46:11.060 if they

00:46:12.080 take the

00:46:13.520 customer's

00:46:14.380 word for

00:46:15.320 what they're

00:46:15.700 worth.

00:46:16.940 Nobody does.

00:46:18.140 Right?

00:46:18.960 So,

00:46:19.400 your minimum

00:46:20.000 requirement for

00:46:20.840 being part of

00:46:21.380 this conversation

00:46:22.060 is you have to

00:46:22.660 have a business

00:46:23.400 background.

00:46:24.480 If your

00:46:25.140 background is

00:46:25.800 art,

00:46:26.900 you might be

00:46:27.380 an awesome

00:46:27.700 person who

00:46:28.220 makes great

00:46:28.700 art.

00:46:29.800 But you

00:46:30.420 shouldn't be

00:46:30.840 in this

00:46:31.100 conversation.

00:46:32.260 You're not

00:46:32.620 qualified.

00:46:33.620 If you think

00:46:34.320 the news is

00:46:35.100 telling you

00:46:35.460 something useful

00:46:36.240 about the

00:46:37.720 nature of the

00:46:38.240 charges,

00:46:38.700 they're not.

00:46:39.240 Not even

00:46:40.000 close.

00:46:41.200 The story

00:46:41.880 is so

00:46:42.640 botched.

00:46:43.780 I think

00:46:44.520 it's partly

00:46:45.040 because there

00:46:46.060 aren't that

00:46:46.420 many business

00:46:46.980 people who

00:46:47.480 do the

00:46:47.800 news.

00:46:48.860 But I

00:46:49.480 doubt it's

00:46:49.960 even being

00:46:50.360 reported

00:46:50.740 correctly on

00:46:51.580 the business

00:46:52.580 channels.

00:46:53.780 I haven't

00:46:54.180 watched them,

00:46:54.840 but I'll bet

00:46:55.180 the business

00:46:55.680 channels are

00:46:56.240 totally botching

00:46:56.920 the story.

00:46:58.020 Have you seen

00:46:58.440 any of the

00:46:58.840 business stories

00:46:59.480 say,

00:47:00.380 there's no

00:47:00.680 such thing

00:47:01.140 as a bank

00:47:01.760 that trusts

00:47:02.980 you when you

00:47:03.660 say your

00:47:03.960 asset is worth

00:47:04.720 a certain

00:47:05.080 amount?

00:47:06.140 In the history

00:47:06.980 of the world,

00:47:07.460 that's never

00:47:07.820 happened.

00:47:08.120 But only

00:47:09.500 business people

00:47:10.200 know that.

00:47:11.340 Artists don't

00:47:11.880 know that.

00:47:12.620 The artists

00:47:13.000 think that

00:47:13.620 this is real

00:47:14.300 because the

00:47:15.440 court is

00:47:15.820 involved,

00:47:16.380 so it must

00:47:16.800 be real.

00:47:17.780 No, it's

00:47:18.140 not real.

00:47:19.280 It is just

00:47:20.140 a political

00:47:20.840 attack.

00:47:22.080 You need to

00:47:22.700 understand you

00:47:23.420 don't live in

00:47:23.920 the country you

00:47:24.500 thought you

00:47:24.880 did.

00:47:26.020 We do not

00:47:26.780 live in a

00:47:27.620 country where

00:47:28.380 the law is

00:47:30.260 being properly

00:47:30.940 applied and

00:47:32.400 that our

00:47:32.860 political

00:47:33.420 participants are

00:47:35.960 being fairly

00:47:36.540 treated.

00:47:36.920 We're not

00:47:37.540 in that

00:47:37.920 world.

00:47:38.760 They are

00:47:39.060 being absolutely

00:47:40.120 targeted for

00:47:41.120 destruction by

00:47:42.560 very bad

00:47:43.540 people.

00:47:45.100 And part of

00:47:45.820 that is fooling

00:47:46.880 you with

00:47:48.060 complicated stories

00:47:49.220 so that you

00:47:50.000 think you

00:47:50.500 understand what's

00:47:51.300 going on.

00:47:52.300 Oh, he's in

00:47:53.500 court for a

00:47:54.700 banking thing.

00:47:55.560 I guess he

00:47:55.980 tried to do

00:47:57.300 some fraud.

00:47:58.360 No, there's

00:47:59.280 absolutely no

00:48:00.040 evidence of

00:48:00.580 that.

00:48:01.340 None.

00:48:02.300 And there

00:48:02.860 probably won't

00:48:03.480 be because the

00:48:04.600 nature of a

00:48:05.400 banking relationship

00:48:06.380 is that the

00:48:07.380 banking checks

00:48:08.100 everything

00:48:08.540 themselves.

00:48:09.960 That's core to

00:48:11.180 their job.

00:48:12.420 It's not

00:48:12.820 something that

00:48:13.360 might have

00:48:13.780 happened this

00:48:14.240 time and

00:48:14.660 maybe not.

00:48:15.740 No, it's

00:48:16.240 central to

00:48:17.640 what a banker

00:48:18.240 does.

00:48:19.120 They check.

00:48:20.400 I was a banker

00:48:21.100 so I'm not

00:48:21.560 talking from,

00:48:22.660 and I was a

00:48:23.220 lender as well.

00:48:24.220 So I'm not

00:48:24.580 talking from,

00:48:26.280 you know, because

00:48:26.600 I read a book

00:48:27.200 about it.

00:48:28.060 I was an

00:48:28.480 actual bank

00:48:29.080 lender.

00:48:30.180 We don't take

00:48:30.900 anybody's word

00:48:31.560 for anything,

00:48:32.260 ever.

00:48:33.040 There are no

00:48:33.420 exceptions to

00:48:34.100 that.

00:48:34.360 If the

00:48:40.120 property tax

00:48:40.960 thing comes

00:48:41.640 up, maybe

00:48:44.280 there's more

00:48:44.860 of a story

00:48:45.300 there, but I

00:48:45.740 haven't even

00:48:46.040 heard that

00:48:46.380 one.

00:48:46.900 I don't

00:48:47.180 even think

00:48:47.480 that's part

00:48:47.860 of the

00:48:48.040 charges.

00:48:51.360 So let

00:48:52.140 me explain

00:48:52.560 this Gates

00:48:53.600 McCarthy

00:48:54.000 thing.

00:48:54.980 So Gates

00:48:55.500 said he

00:48:56.200 got McCarthy

00:48:56.860 some months

00:48:57.960 back in

00:48:58.500 order to,

00:48:59.980 as part of

00:49:00.720 Gates agreeing

00:49:01.500 to support

00:49:02.140 McCarthy to be

00:49:02.900 the speaker,

00:49:04.460 Gates and

00:49:05.360 his little

00:49:06.420 pack of

00:49:07.260 rogues got

00:49:08.560 McCarthy to

00:49:09.180 agree that

00:49:09.760 they would

00:49:10.100 only give

00:49:10.500 them spending

00:49:11.120 deals in

00:49:12.380 packages that

00:49:13.720 were separate.

00:49:14.920 But then I

00:49:15.600 guess he did

00:49:16.060 a trick where

00:49:16.640 he waited until

00:49:17.380 they didn't

00:49:17.700 have time to

00:49:18.220 read the

00:49:18.600 packages, which

00:49:19.500 was just as

00:49:20.100 good as

00:49:20.480 putting them

00:49:21.100 all in one

00:49:21.520 place.

00:49:22.540 So there

00:49:23.120 does seem

00:49:23.600 to be some

00:49:24.320 trickery involved

00:49:25.640 that clearly

00:49:27.820 the process

00:49:28.660 cannot stand

00:49:30.200 transparency.

00:49:31.440 So there

00:49:33.180 is an

00:49:34.060 obvious

00:49:35.380 observable

00:49:36.260 move to

00:49:37.520 make the

00:49:38.300 budget dealings

00:49:39.540 less transparent

00:49:40.720 in front of

00:49:42.140 the public

00:49:42.740 whose money

00:49:43.840 it is.

00:49:44.760 If anybody

00:49:45.420 is trying to

00:49:45.940 make the

00:49:46.260 process less

00:49:47.300 transparent,

00:49:48.540 as in you're

00:49:49.400 not going to

00:49:49.720 have time to

00:49:50.260 read the

00:49:50.600 bills, you

00:49:51.700 got to vote

00:49:52.100 on it, but

00:49:52.720 trust us, you

00:49:53.380 don't have time

00:49:53.820 to read it,

00:49:55.080 no good.

00:49:56.220 Or if they

00:49:56.700 take a bunch

00:49:57.200 of bills and

00:49:57.660 they stick them

00:49:58.240 together into

00:49:58.800 one big

00:49:59.320 Frankenstein

00:50:00.000 bill so

00:50:00.920 you don't

00:50:01.280 quite know

00:50:01.720 what's going

00:50:02.080 on, no

00:50:03.280 good, no

00:50:04.480 good.

00:50:04.940 You've got to

00:50:05.320 be transparent

00:50:06.000 because it's

00:50:07.220 our money.

00:50:08.980 So Gates is

00:50:09.620 working toward

00:50:10.180 that transparency

00:50:10.980 and also

00:50:11.980 making politicians

00:50:13.480 keep their

00:50:14.060 word because

00:50:15.560 McCarthy promised

00:50:16.480 to deal with

00:50:17.080 them one way

00:50:17.580 and Gates

00:50:18.140 says that

00:50:18.680 he's not

00:50:19.040 doing it.

00:50:19.940 So even

00:50:21.400 Thomas Massey

00:50:22.220 thinks that

00:50:23.540 McCarthy should

00:50:24.460 not be removed

00:50:25.380 because in

00:50:26.420 many ways he's

00:50:27.220 a better speaker

00:50:28.080 than the

00:50:28.480 Republicans have

00:50:29.160 had before.

00:50:29.700 That's what

00:50:30.800 Massey says.

00:50:32.360 But is this

00:50:34.480 one issue

00:50:35.140 the one that

00:50:37.020 you want to

00:50:37.800 throw everything

00:50:38.720 away for?

00:50:39.680 And my answer

00:50:40.540 is yes.

00:50:41.840 Yes, this is

00:50:42.580 the one issue

00:50:43.140 to throw

00:50:43.580 everything away

00:50:44.320 for.

00:50:45.180 You should put

00:50:45.740 the entire

00:50:46.260 country at

00:50:46.920 risk to get

00:50:48.320 this done.

00:50:50.020 Normally I

00:50:50.800 would say,

00:50:51.260 no, no, no,

00:50:51.680 don't do

00:50:52.120 anything that

00:50:52.500 puts the

00:50:52.780 whole country

00:50:53.360 at risk.

00:50:54.560 But this,

00:50:55.200 you have to

00:50:55.540 do it.

00:50:55.860 This is

00:50:57.120 an existential

00:50:57.960 risk.

00:50:58.980 If we just

00:50:59.860 keep voting

00:51:00.500 money that

00:51:01.020 we don't

00:51:01.360 have, we

00:51:02.620 are guaranteed

00:51:03.280 to be out of

00:51:03.960 business as a

00:51:04.620 country.

00:51:05.360 So we have

00:51:06.080 a design that

00:51:06.900 guarantees

00:51:07.320 failure.

00:51:09.600 Nobody's

00:51:10.200 arguing with

00:51:10.760 that statement.

00:51:12.220 Let me say

00:51:12.680 it again.

00:51:13.500 And keep in

00:51:13.960 mind that

00:51:14.360 there's nobody,

00:51:15.120 left or right,

00:51:16.560 who will

00:51:16.900 disagree with

00:51:17.540 this following

00:51:18.040 statement.

00:51:19.500 Our current

00:51:20.440 design of

00:51:22.300 how we

00:51:22.640 approve things

00:51:23.400 guarantees the

00:51:24.900 destruction of

00:51:25.580 America.

00:51:26.840 It guarantees

00:51:27.360 it.

00:51:28.380 It's not even

00:51:29.020 up for debate.

00:51:30.300 You couldn't

00:51:30.780 find anybody

00:51:31.380 who would

00:51:31.620 debate with

00:51:32.040 that point.

00:51:33.140 Nobody believes

00:51:33.920 you can keep

00:51:34.460 spending more

00:51:35.880 money than

00:51:36.300 you have

00:51:36.680 forever.

00:51:37.660 That's not

00:51:38.220 a thing.

00:51:39.800 But we're

00:51:40.480 in that

00:51:40.780 system.

00:51:41.780 And there's

00:51:42.140 exactly one

00:51:42.860 person who's

00:51:44.040 willing to

00:51:44.500 take the

00:51:44.940 risk that's

00:51:45.760 big enough

00:51:46.280 that maybe

00:51:47.360 could fix

00:51:47.860 it.

00:51:48.640 I don't

00:51:49.020 even know

00:51:49.340 if it

00:51:49.540 would.

00:51:50.480 I don't

00:51:50.820 know if it

00:51:51.160 can be

00:51:51.460 fixed.

00:51:52.440 But I

00:51:52.760 know there's

00:51:53.340 only one

00:51:53.740 person trying

00:51:54.520 and he

00:51:56.040 will be

00:51:56.520 almost,

00:51:57.360 if he's

00:51:57.960 not completely

00:51:58.620 destroyed by

00:51:59.380 this, he's

00:52:00.320 going to be

00:52:00.620 totally attacked.

00:52:01.900 They're going

00:52:02.240 to try to

00:52:02.640 impeach him

00:52:03.400 and remove

00:52:04.020 him from

00:52:04.420 everything.

00:52:05.360 I mean,

00:52:05.520 they're going

00:52:05.760 to go really

00:52:06.240 hard because

00:52:07.340 transparency is

00:52:08.400 something that

00:52:08.900 the Congress

00:52:09.380 can't handle.

00:52:11.120 They can't do

00:52:12.040 their job if

00:52:12.680 you're watching,

00:52:14.240 which tells

00:52:15.240 you something

00:52:15.660 about the job

00:52:16.320 they're doing.

00:52:18.540 So I'm

00:52:20.440 going to take

00:52:20.860 a different

00:52:21.300 position from

00:52:22.200 Thomas Massey.

00:52:23.340 And it's

00:52:24.940 because I

00:52:25.280 have a

00:52:25.460 different risk

00:52:26.140 profile.

00:52:28.040 So if

00:52:28.620 you're a

00:52:28.840 member of

00:52:29.180 Congress, I

00:52:30.120 can see how

00:52:30.620 you'd want to

00:52:31.220 not take

00:52:32.180 super big

00:52:32.820 risks, which

00:52:33.940 is a good

00:52:34.340 impulse.

00:52:35.080 So I still

00:52:35.940 like Thomas

00:52:36.520 Massey's way

00:52:37.800 of thinking.

00:52:38.420 I like his

00:52:38.800 transparency.

00:52:39.960 I like that he

00:52:40.600 says in public

00:52:41.220 why he's doing

00:52:41.880 what he's doing.

00:52:42.680 So I respect

00:52:43.260 all of that

00:52:43.800 even when I

00:52:44.320 disagree.

00:52:45.400 This is an

00:52:46.240 existential

00:52:47.280 moment.

00:52:48.260 and there's

00:52:49.460 only one

00:52:49.860 person who's

00:52:50.400 even acting

00:52:51.080 like he

00:52:51.540 understands

00:52:52.160 it.

00:52:53.220 The rest

00:52:53.880 don't even

00:52:54.240 act like

00:52:54.580 they understand

00:52:55.160 it.

00:52:56.120 Like I

00:52:56.460 think they

00:52:56.760 do, but

00:52:58.020 they act

00:52:58.320 like they

00:52:58.660 don't.

00:52:59.320 That's no

00:52:59.860 good.

00:53:01.540 So I

00:53:02.860 hope Gates

00:53:03.400 succeeds in

00:53:04.460 completely

00:53:05.000 destroying the

00:53:05.880 effectiveness of

00:53:06.660 Congress until

00:53:08.100 something useful

00:53:09.080 gets done.

00:53:11.720 All right.

00:53:12.280 three scientists

00:53:16.540 won the

00:53:16.960 Nobel Prize

00:53:17.580 in physics

00:53:18.280 for studying

00:53:22.160 how electrons

00:53:23.600 zip around

00:53:24.280 the atom

00:53:24.860 in the

00:53:25.760 tiniest

00:53:26.120 fraction of

00:53:26.680 a second.

00:53:27.700 So I

00:53:27.880 guess somehow

00:53:28.340 they figured

00:53:28.800 out how to

00:53:29.440 get a

00:53:30.780 video of

00:53:31.280 an atom

00:53:31.620 or an

00:53:32.180 electron

00:53:32.560 zipping

00:53:33.000 around.

00:53:33.780 It's a

00:53:34.200 fuzzy picture

00:53:34.760 and they

00:53:35.260 don't know

00:53:35.580 what to do

00:53:36.000 with it

00:53:36.320 or how

00:53:36.840 useful it

00:53:37.320 will be,

00:53:37.680 but someday

00:53:38.660 that might

00:53:39.120 be super

00:53:40.120 important.

00:53:41.580 They're not

00:53:41.940 quite sure

00:53:42.360 how.

00:53:43.880 But the

00:53:44.500 three are,

00:53:45.480 let's say,

00:53:45.980 Pierre Agostini,

00:53:48.540 Ferenc Krauss,

00:53:50.140 and French-born

00:53:51.620 Anne Hulier.

00:53:53.520 Now it's

00:53:54.180 two guys

00:53:54.800 and a

00:53:55.040 woman,

00:53:56.840 and the

00:53:57.620 AP did a

00:53:58.240 big story

00:53:58.660 about it,

00:53:59.120 and that's

00:53:59.300 where I

00:53:59.560 saw it.

00:54:00.520 Do you

00:54:01.120 think they

00:54:01.540 showed the

00:54:02.000 three of

00:54:02.380 them standing

00:54:02.860 there?

00:54:03.940 No,

00:54:04.420 they didn't.

00:54:05.080 They showed

00:54:05.540 a half-page

00:54:07.620 photo of

00:54:08.340 the woman.

00:54:10.320 Now,

00:54:10.920 how many

00:54:11.460 women,

00:54:12.580 either

00:54:12.840 individually

00:54:13.500 or as

00:54:14.240 part of

00:54:14.540 a team,

00:54:15.500 do you

00:54:15.820 think were

00:54:16.160 nominated

00:54:16.660 for the

00:54:17.320 Nobel Prize?

00:54:21.340 You know

00:54:21.900 where I'm

00:54:22.120 going with

00:54:22.580 this,

00:54:22.800 right?

00:54:25.420 Now,

00:54:25.900 she wasn't

00:54:26.820 a black

00:54:27.160 lesbian,

00:54:27.760 but you

00:54:28.040 know where

00:54:28.300 I'm going

00:54:28.660 with this,

00:54:29.100 right?

00:54:29.940 Did you

00:54:30.540 used to

00:54:30.940 think the

00:54:31.300 Nobel Prize

00:54:32.000 was something

00:54:34.540 you'd be

00:54:35.020 proud of

00:54:35.500 if you

00:54:35.800 won?

00:54:37.720 I used

00:54:38.540 to think

00:54:38.900 that.

00:54:39.300 I used

00:54:39.560 to think,

00:54:39.920 wouldn't it

00:54:40.140 be great

00:54:40.480 if I

00:54:40.700 won a

00:54:40.980 Nobel Prize

00:54:41.600 for

00:54:41.840 something.

00:54:42.880 Doesn't

00:54:43.300 matter what.

00:54:44.660 And now

00:54:44.940 I see

00:54:45.240 this,

00:54:45.660 and the

00:54:45.880 first thing

00:54:46.220 I think

00:54:46.560 is,

00:54:47.280 this is

00:54:49.080 terrible

00:54:49.480 for the

00:54:49.940 woman,

00:54:50.760 because the

00:54:52.020 woman is a

00:54:52.540 scientist,

00:54:53.900 and for,

00:54:54.660 as far as I

00:54:55.260 know,

00:54:55.520 she did a

00:54:55.900 great job,

00:54:56.480 and she

00:54:56.720 absolutely

00:54:57.220 deserves this,

00:54:58.620 right?

00:54:59.160 Let's say

00:54:59.660 that first.

00:55:01.720 It's entirely

00:55:02.560 possible,

00:55:03.840 if not

00:55:04.480 probable,

00:55:04.960 that the

00:55:06.580 woman was

00:55:07.260 an important

00:55:07.920 part of

00:55:08.280 the team,

00:55:09.600 her contributions

00:55:10.500 really opened

00:55:11.600 up a field

00:55:12.480 of study

00:55:13.060 that wasn't

00:55:13.880 there before,

00:55:15.000 and could

00:55:15.500 be really

00:55:15.960 important.

00:55:16.780 But,

00:55:17.460 in the

00:55:18.100 context of

00:55:19.100 overdone

00:55:20.120 wokeness,

00:55:21.100 I assume

00:55:21.900 the opposite.

00:55:23.600 I assume

00:55:24.140 she didn't

00:55:24.700 deserve it.

00:55:26.620 That's what

00:55:27.280 I assume.

00:55:28.300 And that

00:55:28.720 is really

00:55:29.420 fucked up,

00:55:30.800 right?

00:55:31.620 It's not,

00:55:32.600 it sounds

00:55:33.020 like it

00:55:33.360 would be

00:55:33.760 misogynist,

00:55:35.720 but it's

00:55:36.380 not,

00:55:36.820 because it

00:55:37.040 has nothing

00:55:37.400 to do

00:55:37.740 with the

00:55:37.960 woman,

00:55:39.240 right?

00:55:39.480 It has

00:55:39.820 nothing to

00:55:40.260 do with

00:55:40.480 other

00:55:40.680 women.

00:55:41.740 It has

00:55:41.960 to do

00:55:42.240 with

00:55:42.540 wokeness

00:55:43.380 is going

00:55:44.160 to give

00:55:44.460 the prize

00:55:44.960 to the

00:55:45.280 woman if

00:55:45.840 there's

00:55:46.040 one running.

00:55:47.180 The only

00:55:47.840 thing we

00:55:48.240 had to

00:55:48.540 know is

00:55:49.940 that there

00:55:50.340 was at

00:55:50.640 least one

00:55:51.200 woman on

00:55:51.960 at least

00:55:52.340 one team,

00:55:54.280 and then

00:55:54.980 you could

00:55:55.320 have predicted

00:55:55.800 she would

00:55:56.180 win the

00:55:56.480 award,

00:55:57.300 as well

00:55:57.820 as the

00:55:58.080 rest of

00:55:58.480 the team.

00:55:59.360 Now,

00:55:59.800 I would

00:56:00.400 love to

00:56:00.800 think it's

00:56:01.360 all legitimate

00:56:01.860 and this

00:56:02.460 was the

00:56:03.180 best team

00:56:03.860 and as

00:56:05.160 best the

00:56:05.680 judges could

00:56:06.280 determine it

00:56:07.120 was the

00:56:07.460 most impressive

00:56:08.500 accomplishment and

00:56:09.540 everybody

00:56:09.880 contributed.

00:56:11.920 It's actually

00:56:12.740 probable,

00:56:13.840 but the

00:56:14.600 entire process

00:56:15.520 has no

00:56:17.040 credibility left

00:56:17.960 at all.

00:56:19.100 There's just

00:56:19.440 no credibility.

00:56:21.480 So,

00:56:22.820 all of

00:56:25.220 these awards

00:56:25.880 went from

00:56:27.020 being the

00:56:28.100 best thing

00:56:28.580 that could

00:56:28.860 ever happen

00:56:29.320 to you in

00:56:29.920 life to

00:56:31.400 absolutely

00:56:32.260 being

00:56:32.960 sort of

00:56:34.220 icky.

00:56:35.760 Like,

00:56:36.260 imagine if

00:56:37.640 you're the

00:56:37.900 guys.

00:56:39.260 Imagine the

00:56:39.820 two men

00:56:40.280 on the

00:56:40.580 team.

00:56:41.920 Do you

00:56:42.200 think that

00:56:42.540 they're going

00:56:42.920 home and

00:56:43.400 saying privately

00:56:44.060 to their

00:56:44.480 spouses,

00:56:45.300 this is like

00:56:46.080 the greatest

00:56:46.520 thing that's

00:56:47.020 ever happened

00:56:47.480 to me,

00:56:47.980 but do you

00:56:49.600 think we

00:56:49.960 would have

00:56:50.260 won if we

00:56:50.740 didn't have

00:56:51.040 a woman

00:56:51.360 on the

00:56:51.740 team?

00:56:51.940 And the

00:56:53.980 spouse will

00:56:54.520 say,

00:56:55.480 I don't

00:56:56.700 know.

00:56:56.960 it's

00:56:58.640 really

00:56:58.880 messed up.

00:57:00.020 So,

00:57:00.200 even the

00:57:00.580 guys are

00:57:01.240 not going

00:57:01.540 to have

00:57:01.700 a clean

00:57:02.100 win,

00:57:02.720 like I

00:57:03.200 would

00:57:03.340 imagine.

00:57:04.000 In their

00:57:04.480 minds,

00:57:04.940 they're probably

00:57:05.260 thinking,

00:57:06.660 yes,

00:57:07.120 our teammate,

00:57:09.180 the woman

00:57:09.780 on the team

00:57:10.200 was great,

00:57:11.300 but probably

00:57:12.420 a lot of

00:57:12.860 other people

00:57:13.340 did great

00:57:13.820 things too.

00:57:15.300 Why did

00:57:15.760 we get

00:57:16.080 picked?

00:57:17.800 And it's

00:57:18.480 going to

00:57:18.640 make their

00:57:19.020 accomplishment

00:57:19.560 feel lessened.

00:57:21.640 So,

00:57:22.320 that's

00:57:23.120 going on.

00:57:28.500 Here's a

00:57:29.140 story that

00:57:29.560 made the

00:57:29.980 social media

00:57:30.600 news that

00:57:31.780 trans women

00:57:32.860 will be

00:57:33.320 banned from

00:57:34.080 female hospital

00:57:35.080 wars in

00:57:35.580 the UK under

00:57:37.200 a new plan

00:57:37.900 to push

00:57:38.720 back against

00:57:40.000 wokery,

00:57:41.600 as the

00:57:42.460 tweet goes.

00:57:44.380 Now,

00:57:45.500 why is

00:57:46.960 that news?

00:57:48.560 Why is

00:57:49.000 it news that

00:57:49.780 trans women,

00:57:51.020 which would

00:57:51.320 be people

00:57:52.620 who were

00:57:52.860 born biologically

00:57:53.820 with male

00:57:55.160 parts,

00:57:56.220 why would

00:57:57.920 they be

00:57:58.220 banned from

00:57:58.800 a female

00:57:59.300 hospital ward?

00:58:00.780 Well,

00:58:01.120 the reason

00:58:01.480 given is

00:58:02.180 for the

00:58:03.640 safety and

00:58:04.420 comfort of

00:58:05.140 the other

00:58:06.680 people in

00:58:07.160 the female

00:58:07.880 ward.

00:58:09.280 But,

00:58:10.080 more importantly,

00:58:11.300 why is it

00:58:11.760 news?

00:58:14.620 Just think

00:58:15.420 about this

00:58:15.820 for a moment.

00:58:17.240 Why is

00:58:17.700 it news?

00:58:19.780 Because it

00:58:21.200 gets clicks?

00:58:21.960 No,

00:58:22.200 not really.

00:58:24.380 It's news

00:58:25.500 because somebody

00:58:26.320 did something

00:58:26.960 smart.

00:58:29.220 Normally,

00:58:30.100 that's not

00:58:30.580 news.

00:58:33.720 Think about

00:58:34.700 it.

00:58:35.920 What is it

00:58:37.200 news to do

00:58:38.660 something that's

00:58:39.440 obvious and

00:58:40.140 smart?

00:58:42.560 Right.

00:58:43.240 That we've

00:58:44.140 reached a point

00:58:44.720 in history,

00:58:45.220 we've

00:58:46.320 actually

00:58:46.580 reached a

00:58:47.060 point where

00:58:48.040 our level

00:58:49.200 of incompetence

00:58:50.280 is so

00:58:51.340 stunningly

00:58:52.360 thorough that

00:58:53.720 when somebody

00:58:54.240 does something

00:58:54.800 that makes

00:58:55.240 sense to

00:58:55.720 you,

00:58:56.600 it's a

00:58:57.760 fucking

00:58:58.020 headline.

00:59:02.120 We're

00:59:02.760 very close

00:59:03.520 to the point

00:59:04.040 where it

00:59:04.520 will be

00:59:04.780 news that

00:59:06.180 there was a

00:59:06.680 vote in

00:59:07.120 Congress on

00:59:08.600 a specific

00:59:09.260 bill,

00:59:10.120 you know,

00:59:10.420 without being

00:59:10.880 lumped with

00:59:11.360 other things,

00:59:12.160 and nobody

00:59:13.020 pulled a

00:59:13.560 fire alarm.

00:59:15.220 And that'll

00:59:15.780 be like a

00:59:16.180 headline.

00:59:16.860 Whoa!

00:59:18.440 There was

00:59:19.040 transparency in

00:59:19.920 the vote,

00:59:20.700 and there was

00:59:21.880 no fuckery,

00:59:22.800 and nobody

00:59:23.480 pulled an

00:59:23.900 alarm, and

00:59:24.300 they just

00:59:24.600 voted on it,

00:59:25.240 and then they

00:59:25.680 passed it into

00:59:26.480 law, and then

00:59:26.920 it was a

00:59:27.220 thing.

00:59:28.580 Like, we're

00:59:29.060 so close to

00:59:30.580 complete

00:59:31.360 incompetence that

00:59:32.820 any little

00:59:33.400 glimmer of

00:59:34.400 smartness feels

00:59:35.620 like, can you

00:59:37.860 do that?

00:59:40.340 I would argue

00:59:41.280 that my

00:59:41.720 cancellation

00:59:42.340 was national

00:59:45.960 news, because

00:59:47.560 what I said

00:59:48.180 made sense,

00:59:49.360 not because

00:59:50.420 it was

00:59:50.720 offensive.

00:59:52.900 If it was

00:59:53.680 simply offensive,

00:59:55.020 it probably

00:59:55.580 wouldn't have

00:59:55.900 made news.

00:59:58.780 It's because

00:59:59.480 it made

00:59:59.800 sense.

01:00:01.180 The people

01:00:01.620 heard it in

01:00:02.180 context.

01:00:02.740 Again, I

01:00:03.420 never said

01:00:03.820 anything about

01:00:04.300 anybody's DNA

01:00:05.140 or their

01:00:05.620 culture.

01:00:06.560 I don't do

01:00:07.060 that.

01:00:08.360 But certainly

01:00:09.000 you can say

01:00:09.460 things about

01:00:10.000 the way people

01:00:10.600 are trained

01:00:11.760 and educated,

01:00:13.020 and if one

01:00:13.580 group of

01:00:14.020 people are

01:00:14.380 trained and

01:00:14.920 educated to

01:00:16.280 think that

01:00:16.660 the other

01:00:16.980 group are

01:00:17.460 their enemies

01:00:18.020 and the

01:00:18.860 enemy has

01:00:19.340 your stuff

01:00:19.740 and you

01:00:20.000 should get

01:00:20.300 it back,

01:00:21.140 that's a

01:00:22.300 bad place

01:00:22.940 to be.

01:00:24.120 If you

01:00:24.640 had a

01:00:24.860 choice, you

01:00:26.500 should go

01:00:26.800 somewhere else.

01:00:27.540 There's not

01:00:27.860 really any

01:00:28.260 practical way

01:00:28.900 to do that,

01:00:29.500 but that

01:00:30.540 was the

01:00:30.940 hyperbolic

01:00:32.040 point.

01:00:34.360 Well, I

01:00:34.920 saw a story

01:00:35.480 that I don't

01:00:36.000 believe, which

01:00:36.780 is the

01:00:37.360 Sinaloa

01:00:38.900 cartel, which

01:00:40.780 has traditionally

01:00:41.660 been a big

01:00:42.200 fentanyl source.

01:00:43.680 Now, I

01:00:43.920 guess since

01:00:44.660 the boss

01:00:45.340 El Chapo

01:00:46.220 got locked

01:00:47.400 up, his

01:00:49.520 cartel is

01:00:50.480 now partly

01:00:51.200 run by his

01:00:51.840 four sons

01:00:52.480 and partly

01:00:54.040 run by some

01:00:54.800 other leader

01:00:55.900 who took a

01:00:56.460 part of it.

01:00:57.860 And I guess

01:00:58.380 the other

01:00:58.720 leader is

01:00:59.460 continuing to

01:01:00.140 do fentanyl,

01:01:01.220 but the

01:01:01.580 four sons

01:01:02.300 allegedly,

01:01:03.500 don't know

01:01:03.860 if this is

01:01:04.280 true, were

01:01:05.640 trying to

01:01:06.920 tell their

01:01:07.320 own operation

01:01:08.020 to stop

01:01:08.540 doing fentanyl

01:01:09.440 and get

01:01:09.880 out of the

01:01:10.240 fentanyl

01:01:10.640 business.

01:01:11.720 Now, what

01:01:12.060 do you

01:01:12.200 make of

01:01:12.520 that?

01:01:14.140 First of

01:01:14.740 all, does

01:01:15.120 that sound

01:01:15.500 even a

01:01:16.000 little bit

01:01:16.440 true, that

01:01:17.820 any part of

01:01:18.540 the cartels

01:01:19.140 for any

01:01:19.740 reason would

01:01:20.740 try to get

01:01:21.160 out of the

01:01:21.480 fentanyl

01:01:21.860 business?

01:01:22.980 It doesn't

01:01:23.840 sound true.

01:01:25.260 But you

01:01:25.700 could imagine

01:01:26.320 that El Chapo

01:01:28.120 was being

01:01:28.720 pressed in

01:01:30.500 some way

01:01:31.120 like this.

01:01:32.940 Here's the

01:01:33.480 deal, El

01:01:33.880 Chapo.

01:01:34.880 We've got

01:01:35.540 five or so,

01:01:37.220 I don't

01:01:37.780 know how

01:01:38.100 many, maybe

01:01:38.580 at least

01:01:39.000 four Republican

01:01:40.840 presidential

01:01:41.500 candidates who

01:01:42.820 are going to

01:01:43.180 send the

01:01:43.580 military in

01:01:44.340 to destroy

01:01:44.880 you.

01:01:46.100 If you

01:01:46.700 don't want

01:01:47.140 that, go

01:01:48.020 back to

01:01:48.460 just selling

01:01:48.980 marijuana and

01:01:49.960 cocaine and

01:01:51.280 heroin, which

01:01:52.420 don't kill

01:01:52.900 nearly as much

01:01:53.600 as fentanyl.

01:01:54.460 If you go

01:01:54.940 back to that,

01:01:55.780 we won't

01:01:56.260 invade the

01:01:56.800 country.

01:01:57.640 We'll just

01:01:58.060 do the

01:01:58.400 usual

01:01:58.760 interdiction

01:01:59.660 stuff and

01:02:00.580 try to

01:02:00.940 arrest you

01:02:01.360 as we can.

01:02:02.300 We'll go

01:02:02.680 back to our

01:02:03.160 cat and

01:02:03.500 mouse thing,

01:02:04.660 and by the

01:02:05.160 way, we

01:02:05.760 might even do

01:02:06.340 some business

01:02:06.880 with you,

01:02:07.860 some secret

01:02:08.640 business.

01:02:09.580 Maybe our

01:02:10.120 CIA needs a

01:02:11.040 little secret

01:02:11.440 money.

01:02:12.240 Maybe we

01:02:12.620 can go easy

01:02:13.160 on you, you

01:02:13.820 help us

01:02:14.220 out, that

01:02:15.120 sort of

01:02:15.380 thing.

01:02:16.080 That's what

01:02:16.600 it looks

01:02:16.840 like.

01:02:18.400 So my

01:02:19.020 guess is

01:02:19.520 that somebody

01:02:20.040 tried to

01:02:20.720 negotiate a

01:02:21.460 deal in

01:02:22.140 which the

01:02:22.720 Sinaloa folks

01:02:24.340 would get

01:02:24.740 out of

01:02:25.040 fentanyl in

01:02:27.180 return for

01:02:27.840 some kind

01:02:28.520 of easier

01:02:29.900 action, or

01:02:32.560 somebody gets

01:02:33.080 out of jail

01:02:33.580 or something.

01:02:34.440 El Chapo's

01:02:35.020 wife was

01:02:35.580 released.

01:02:36.800 Could it

01:02:37.120 be possible

01:02:37.700 that El

01:02:38.440 Chapo worked

01:02:39.100 a deal where

01:02:40.220 his wife would

01:02:41.020 be released

01:02:41.720 in return for

01:02:43.420 him causing

01:02:45.100 his sons to

01:02:45.780 get out of

01:02:46.100 the fentanyl

01:02:46.560 business?

01:02:47.680 Maybe.

01:02:49.560 You can

01:02:50.200 imagine that

01:02:50.760 being a deal.

01:02:51.700 I don't know

01:02:52.100 that it was.

01:02:53.400 But this

01:02:57.000 was always the

01:02:57.780 way to get

01:02:58.260 this done.

01:03:00.480 The way to

01:03:01.240 stop fentanyl

01:03:02.040 was probably

01:03:03.960 for intelligence

01:03:04.920 people to

01:03:06.220 work a deal

01:03:06.840 with the

01:03:07.420 cartels so

01:03:09.120 that they

01:03:09.420 could still

01:03:09.840 be rich,

01:03:10.700 but we

01:03:11.160 wouldn't send

01:03:11.640 their military

01:03:12.140 in because

01:03:12.700 there was too

01:03:13.120 much public

01:03:14.160 pressure to

01:03:14.700 do it.

01:03:16.100 So something's

01:03:17.420 happening,

01:03:18.360 but I doubt

01:03:19.340 it will have

01:03:19.660 any impact on

01:03:20.400 the supply of

01:03:21.300 fentanyl.

01:03:22.400 All right.

01:03:24.420 So yesterday

01:03:25.140 I did a

01:03:26.960 podcast

01:03:28.180 interview.

01:03:32.500 And I'm

01:03:33.240 going to do

01:03:33.440 one tomorrow.

01:03:34.500 I'll let you

01:03:34.880 know all

01:03:35.960 about those.

01:03:36.500 So yesterday

01:03:36.880 I talked to

01:03:37.580 Pearl,

01:03:38.320 of pearly

01:03:38.840 things.

01:03:40.160 I'll let you

01:03:40.840 know when

01:03:41.100 that's up.

01:03:42.100 And in

01:03:42.780 theory,

01:03:43.440 unless it

01:03:44.280 gets postponed,

01:03:45.460 I better

01:03:45.780 check my

01:03:46.180 messages.

01:03:46.560 So unless

01:03:55.760 it gets

01:03:56.780 canceled,

01:03:57.240 I'll be

01:03:57.460 doing Russell

01:03:58.360 Brand today.

01:04:00.700 And I think

01:04:01.860 it would show

01:04:02.540 up for your

01:04:03.440 viewing a

01:04:04.280 little later

01:04:04.660 this week,

01:04:05.220 but I don't

01:04:06.060 want to give

01:04:06.380 you a date

01:04:07.400 on that until

01:04:08.900 it's confirmed.

01:04:10.660 Because with

01:04:11.440 podcasting,

01:04:12.460 things get

01:04:13.120 rescheduled

01:04:13.860 just all the

01:04:14.620 times.

01:04:16.560 All right.

01:04:19.740 So that's

01:04:20.540 happening.

01:04:21.340 My other

01:04:21.900 podcast would

01:04:23.900 be Megan

01:04:24.560 Kelly, if

01:04:25.660 you want to

01:04:26.020 do a Google

01:04:26.540 search.

01:04:27.500 I'm told the

01:04:28.180 Megan Kelly

01:04:29.020 interview and

01:04:29.900 the Michael

01:04:30.260 Malice

01:04:30.740 interviews,

01:04:31.620 you can

01:04:32.020 Google both

01:04:32.780 of those,

01:04:33.820 were some

01:04:34.700 of my best

01:04:35.180 work.

01:04:35.940 So if you

01:04:36.220 like to see

01:04:36.620 some of my

01:04:37.080 best work,

01:04:38.300 apparently it's

01:04:38.800 there.

01:04:40.400 All right.

01:04:46.560 Those are the

01:04:49.240 only ones that

01:04:49.860 are scheduled

01:04:50.600 right now.

01:04:53.480 Can you go

01:04:54.240 on the

01:04:54.520 all-in

01:04:55.020 podcast?

01:04:56.040 Well, I

01:04:57.220 don't know.

01:04:57.620 I've got a

01:04:58.200 few other

01:04:58.500 podcasts I'll

01:04:59.160 be looking

01:04:59.800 at going

01:05:00.520 on, but

01:05:01.120 they're not

01:05:02.060 all practical.

01:05:02.740 They're not

01:05:03.300 all really

01:05:04.520 in my sweet

01:05:06.740 spot.

01:05:07.080 If drugs

01:05:12.600 were legal,

01:05:13.360 dosages would

01:05:14.560 be known

01:05:15.100 and consistent

01:05:15.780 and overdoses

01:05:16.680 would decline.

01:05:18.040 You know, I

01:05:18.440 used to think

01:05:19.000 that.

01:05:20.820 So there's

01:05:21.520 one view that

01:05:22.280 if drugs were

01:05:23.080 legal, people

01:05:24.620 would get,

01:05:25.120 let's say, a

01:05:25.680 legal fentanyl

01:05:26.580 pill, and

01:05:27.800 then they would

01:05:28.220 take it, and

01:05:29.080 it wouldn't be

01:05:29.640 enough to give

01:05:30.160 them any

01:05:31.140 kind of an

01:05:31.540 OD.

01:05:33.280 That is

01:05:34.880 from somebody

01:05:35.480 who has never

01:05:36.180 met an

01:05:36.620 addict.

01:05:38.040 Can I

01:05:38.640 explain an

01:05:39.180 addict for

01:05:39.640 you?

01:05:40.440 Hey, your

01:05:40.920 fentanyl is

01:05:41.680 now legal, and

01:05:43.520 it's all

01:05:44.080 regulated, and

01:05:45.780 it's free.

01:05:47.480 It's free.

01:05:48.580 Just come in,

01:05:49.120 and we'll give

01:05:49.480 you a fentanyl

01:05:50.120 pill that

01:05:50.540 definitely won't

01:05:51.160 kill you.

01:05:52.040 What does the

01:05:52.740 addict do?

01:05:54.200 Every time.

01:05:55.260 Not sometimes,

01:05:56.040 but every time.

01:05:57.200 They go in,

01:05:58.040 they get their

01:05:58.460 free pill.

01:05:59.640 Oh, thank you

01:06:00.440 for the free

01:06:00.900 pill.

01:06:02.720 And then they

01:06:03.460 send their

01:06:03.880 friend in to

01:06:04.380 get another

01:06:04.780 free pill.

01:06:05.980 Friend is not

01:06:06.720 an addict, but

01:06:07.360 they go in

01:06:07.820 and say, oh,

01:06:08.120 I'm a totally

01:06:08.520 addict, give

01:06:09.300 me a free

01:06:09.640 pill.

01:06:10.780 Friend gets

01:06:11.300 a free

01:06:11.620 pill, gives

01:06:13.180 it to the

01:06:13.540 addict, so

01:06:13.960 he has two

01:06:14.320 pills.

01:06:15.620 Because the

01:06:16.140 addict says,

01:06:16.800 one pill's not

01:06:17.420 enough for me.

01:06:18.500 I've built up so

01:06:19.500 much tolerance, I'm

01:06:20.560 like a three-pill

01:06:21.280 person.

01:06:22.560 So the addict

01:06:23.440 keeps taking the

01:06:24.400 free pills as

01:06:25.680 much as he can

01:06:26.320 get.

01:06:27.140 And then if the

01:06:28.060 free pills are

01:06:28.660 not enough, what

01:06:30.060 does he do?

01:06:30.500 He buys illegal

01:06:33.040 drugs to add to

01:06:35.200 the free pill.

01:06:37.300 Now, if you

01:06:37.940 didn't know that

01:06:38.780 that will happen

01:06:39.420 every time with

01:06:41.400 a serious addict,

01:06:42.460 then you shouldn't

01:06:43.780 be part of this

01:06:44.320 conversation.

01:06:45.840 That's basic.

01:06:47.280 If you don't

01:06:48.060 understand the

01:06:48.680 addicts will do

01:06:49.620 whatever they can

01:06:50.540 to get more, and

01:06:52.420 that more is the

01:06:53.500 only quantity that

01:06:54.440 makes sense, there's

01:06:55.820 no such thing as,

01:06:57.020 here's enough,

01:06:57.820 hey, addict, why

01:07:00.720 don't you try that

01:07:01.360 with alcohol?

01:07:04.040 Why don't you say

01:07:04.920 to alcoholics, hey,

01:07:06.020 alcoholic, I've got

01:07:07.000 a deal for you.

01:07:08.260 One free beer every

01:07:10.180 day.

01:07:11.920 That should take

01:07:13.460 care of your

01:07:13.780 problem, right?

01:07:14.800 Because your problem

01:07:15.400 is drinking too

01:07:16.180 much.

01:07:16.700 But I will give

01:07:17.340 you one free beer

01:07:18.680 every day.

01:07:20.840 No more

01:07:21.520 alcoholics.

01:07:22.800 Hey, I solved

01:07:23.520 alcoholism because I

01:07:25.200 gave them one free

01:07:26.100 beer every day, and

01:07:27.060 it's well-measured

01:07:27.800 and safe, and I

01:07:29.740 guarantee you that

01:07:31.120 nobody's going to

01:07:31.740 have an overdose or

01:07:32.800 die of alcoholism

01:07:33.840 from one beer a

01:07:34.740 day.

01:07:35.840 So, I guess I

01:07:37.360 nailed that, didn't

01:07:38.120 I?

01:07:38.840 Eh?

01:07:39.320 Is there any other

01:07:39.880 problems you'd like

01:07:40.500 me to solve?

01:07:41.340 No.

01:07:41.620 So that's the

01:07:42.080 problem with

01:07:42.560 legalized drugs.

01:07:45.180 If you look at

01:07:46.400 legalized drugs from

01:07:47.520 your own non-addict

01:07:49.220 point of view, it

01:07:50.120 sort of makes

01:07:50.580 sense.

01:07:51.720 But as soon as

01:07:52.640 you say an

01:07:53.860 addict only wants

01:07:54.800 one quantity,

01:07:56.420 more,

01:07:56.820 more, there's

01:07:58.200 only one quantity

01:07:59.420 an addict wants

01:08:01.240 more, right?

01:08:04.540 Once you learn

01:08:05.260 that trick, then

01:08:06.620 everything makes

01:08:07.200 sense.

01:08:07.760 Like why things

01:08:08.560 don't work, why

01:08:09.460 things do work, it

01:08:10.780 all makes sense when

01:08:12.540 you realize that they

01:08:13.520 only want more.

01:08:14.940 In all cases, every

01:08:16.400 time.

01:08:16.820 That's what addiction

01:08:17.640 is.

01:08:20.580 Addicts always go to

01:08:21.620 11.

01:08:22.040 That is correct.

01:08:22.700 They don't stop at

01:08:23.740 10.

01:08:26.820 All right.

01:08:31.080 And that, ladies

01:08:31.940 and gentlemen, was

01:08:33.560 everything I needed

01:08:34.260 to do today.

01:08:34.960 I've got to get

01:08:35.520 ready to talk to

01:08:36.640 Russell Brand.

01:08:37.580 I'll let you know

01:08:38.200 when that drops.

01:08:40.220 And that's all for

01:08:42.420 today.

01:08:43.880 I'll talk to you

01:08:44.660 later.

01:08:44.860 But I would

01:08:59.400 stop.

01:08:59.800 I'll let you have

01:09:00.420 you

01:09:00.800 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 03, 2023

Episode 2250 Scott Adams： Lots Of Media Trickery. Also, I'm Halfway Off Of Prisoner Island

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