Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2274 Scott Adams： CWSA 10⧸27⧸23, How Hypnotists See Politics

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00:00:51.080 Oh yeah, that's some good, that's some good stuff right there.

00:00:59.260 Well, if you don't mind, would you agree that we need a light news day?

00:01:09.320 Everybody on board for this?

00:01:10.720 I don't know about you, but my brain and body have just been crushed lately.

00:01:18.620 And while we cannot ignore the horrors that are happening around the world,

00:01:24.920 we can take a little bit of a time off.

00:01:28.160 So I'm going to talk about some silly news today. 0.94

00:01:30.680 I mean, it's real news, it's in the headlines, but most of it is kind of silly. 0.57

00:01:33.920 And, I don't know if you've noticed, oh, I can't show you the, don't look yet, don't look.

00:01:40.400 I'm going to show you how a hypnotist sees politics on the whiteboard.

00:01:44.980 But first, there's a video out of Representative Jamal Bowman,

00:01:49.860 a proud member of the so-called squad.

00:01:52.340 But really, not the member that the rest of the squad is too proud of at the moment.

00:01:58.800 Because he's the one that pulled the fire alarm,

00:02:01.520 and now we see video of him tearing off the signs of the door

00:02:05.480 that say something about the alarm.

00:02:09.780 And it turns out that everything he said about that event was a lie.

00:02:14.220 And it's all on video.

00:02:15.980 Now, there's not much to say about it, 1.00

00:02:20.460 except that he did an insanely stupid thing, 1.00

00:02:24.820 and then he lied about it, 1.00

00:02:26.500 without realizing there might be a video camera on the exit.

00:02:32.000 So, I can't wait to see what great ideas he brings to Congress.

00:02:38.560 I hope he's sponsoring some bills and stuff,

00:02:41.000 because he seems like quite the leader.

00:02:43.360 Quite the leader.

00:02:44.000 But, yeah, he still has his job.

00:02:47.500 No problem.

00:02:48.960 Nobody sees that as a problem, but again.

00:02:52.340 I continue to use my technique of not arguing with Democrats who are brainwashed.

00:02:59.760 Now, I don't think everybody's brainwashed.

00:03:03.680 You know, not the whole world or anything like that.

00:03:06.360 But on X, you see people who are clearly just brain damaged by the news.

00:03:12.040 And I mean that literally.

00:03:14.000 Their brains are actually damaged by watching news that is just so biased

00:03:18.260 that their idea of their own reality is so distorted.

00:03:22.760 It could only be called brain damage.

00:03:25.580 Now, you know what the difference is between brainwashing and brain damage?

00:03:30.700 Do you know what the difference is?

00:03:32.800 None.

00:03:34.040 None.

00:03:34.460 Because in both cases, your brain would be degraded, and you couldn't use it.

00:03:40.220 It is just brain damage.

00:03:42.000 So, if you're watching only one side of the news, and it's just giving you one side of the views,

00:03:46.980 and it wouldn't matter if it's just left or just right, you're kind of brain damaged.

00:03:50.760 And we should understand it that way.

00:03:54.020 These are not people with different preferences and, you know, different priorities,

00:03:59.180 and we're working out the details.

00:04:00.880 Nothing like that's happening.

00:04:02.720 No.

00:04:03.420 Half of the country is literally, literally, using the word correctly here, literally,

00:04:09.320 brain damaged from the news they consume.

00:04:12.160 Primarily, by just sticking with one type of news.

00:04:17.340 That would absolutely give you brain damage.

00:04:20.320 And if you think it's just stuff you watch on TV, wow, you're in real trouble.

00:04:27.600 It's brain damage.

00:04:30.060 So, when I see it, and somebody will be like, blah, blah, blah, some talking points I saw on CNN,

00:04:37.740 I just don't engage.

00:04:41.080 Because engaging, what would it do?

00:04:43.100 You're talking to somebody who's literally got a brain problem.

00:04:47.700 Would you treat somebody who had some other kind of brain damage the same as you would treat people who didn't have brain damage?

00:04:55.460 You wouldn't. 0.99

00:04:56.660 You would treat them with, if you're not a jerk, and you understood what was happening, 0.98

00:05:02.020 you would treat them with sympathy. 0.94

00:05:03.980 So, now I just respond that I'm sorry that their news sources did this to them.

00:05:12.100 And then they complain a little bit more, why won't you come to fight with me?

00:05:16.480 And I just say, I'm really sorry what they did.

00:05:19.900 And just walk away.

00:05:21.900 Because, do you really think that debate is going to somehow improve the situation? 0.95

00:05:28.220 It would be like yelling at somebody with a mental, you know, some mental problem.

00:05:33.980 To just not have a mental problem. 0.98

00:05:36.600 Stop having that mental problem.

00:05:39.060 That doesn't really work. 0.55

00:05:41.620 So, don't get in a fight with people who have mental problems.

00:05:46.800 Which makes me want to go to the whiteboard.

00:05:50.760 I'm going to the whiteboard early.

00:05:53.400 Anybody with me?

00:05:54.360 Who's with me?

00:05:55.460 Whiteboard?

00:05:56.620 Premature whiteboard?

00:05:58.500 Let's do with this.

00:06:00.260 I'll get you all mad before you hear the rest of the news.

00:06:04.680 I had a really good night of sleep last night.

00:06:07.120 It feels weird.

00:06:09.240 All right.

00:06:09.680 Here is what I call the hypnotist view of politics.

00:06:14.420 I don't know if all hypnotists see it this way.

00:06:17.860 But I do.

00:06:18.300 I see politics as not a continuum, as some people do.

00:06:23.860 Where there's a far left on the left and there's a far right on the right.

00:06:27.480 I see it as a circle.

00:06:29.880 Where on the left of the circle is, let's call it the team left.

00:06:35.040 You know, the Democrats.

00:06:36.280 On the right is team right.

00:06:37.540 And at the bottom, at the farthest of the left and the farthest of the right, if you're thinking of it as a circle, they come together as racists.

00:06:48.600 They're just racists about different things.

00:06:51.060 So the farthest right would be racist against people of color.

00:06:56.320 The farthest left would be racist against the colonizers.

00:07:01.060 People like me. 0.99

00:07:02.480 So basically, these are just a bunch of horrible people.

00:07:05.660 And whether they're left or right has some detailed differences.

00:07:10.900 But it's basically the worst of humanity, basically.

00:07:14.900 Now, the least brainwashed people would be at the top.

00:07:18.540 Let me give you an example of a person who is political, still political, but not brainwashed.

00:07:25.940 Necessarily.

00:07:26.940 I'm going to say that everybody's a little bit brainwashed.

00:07:30.100 Because if you identify with a team, you are brainwashed.

00:07:34.340 Does everybody understand that?

00:07:37.760 Simply identifying as a team guarantees that you're a little bit brainwashed.

00:07:44.300 Maybe not enough to be crippled, but a little bit.

00:07:47.700 There's no exceptions to that.

00:07:49.840 If you're a human being and you identify with a political team, you're brainwashing yourself, but it's still brainwashed.

00:07:57.840 I mean, you're sort of voluntarily saying, oh, this is my team.

00:08:01.600 And you start to adopt all those views.

00:08:03.800 How often do you ever see somebody who disagrees with their own team?

00:08:09.100 Pretty rare, right?

00:08:11.360 Pretty rare.

00:08:12.080 It happens.

00:08:12.560 But let's say there's a Democrat who's sort of middle of the road, and the Democrat says, you know what?

00:08:20.720 I always thought Trump had something about that wall.

00:08:24.440 That's probably somebody who's not too brainwashed.

00:08:27.660 Would you agree?

00:08:29.020 A Democrat who says, you know, I've got to say the wall thing made sense.

00:08:32.880 That would be a very strong signal of somebody you could talk to, somebody who's, you know, maybe likely to look at the facts, et cetera, right?

00:08:44.340 Now, there's probably a similar example like that for Republicans, you know, something that a middle-of-the-road Republican might say, you know, okay, I'll give you an example.

00:08:56.440 A middle-of-the-road Republican might say, oh, and actually do.

00:09:00.800 They say things like, if you're an adult, and you leave our kids alone, and you want to be trans or gay married, why do I even care?

00:09:11.900 What's that got to do with me?

00:09:14.260 Now, that would be like somebody who's probably not too brainwashed, but identifies as Republican.

00:09:21.240 Somebody says a rhino.

00:09:23.020 Maybe.

00:09:23.540 But I think if you're yelling rhino, you're yelling that people need to be on a team, and I'm not sure that that's productive.

00:09:33.360 Anyway, so this is how the hypnotist sees it.

00:09:36.200 So the reason that I can fluidly move around this circle wherever I want, currently I'm registered as a Democrat, but most of my audience leans right.

00:09:46.500 And the reason I'm sort of irrelevant to the circle is the only thing I'm trying to do is stay out of the bottom.

00:09:53.880 I'm just trying to avoid the bottom.

00:09:56.600 That's it.

00:09:57.840 Otherwise, I want to, you know, hear your argument on both sides.

00:10:02.720 So that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I see politics.

00:10:06.780 All right, there's a new video, which you might be interested in.

00:10:12.780 Joshua Lysak and I are talking on a new video just dropped.

00:10:18.140 But this time, instead of just talking about the usual things that people talk about, we're talking about writing a book.

00:10:26.240 For reasons that have puzzled me a little bit, I've noticed that since I became an author, people are really, really curious about the process.

00:10:35.720 Like what's your mental process when you approach something like writing.

00:10:41.420 And you might love this one more than my other interviews if you like process-y stuff.

00:10:48.500 You know, you want to see a little bit behind the curtain.

00:10:51.680 So I recommend that.

00:10:52.540 You can find that on Joshua Lysak's thread on X or mine.

00:10:57.960 Probably can search for it on YouTube, too.

00:11:00.540 All right.

00:11:03.460 Big news.

00:11:04.380 Big news on UFOs.

00:11:06.680 Special UFO secrets were put into a skiff.

00:11:10.240 Those places where you can't take a copy and you can't bring your phone.

00:11:14.220 But you go into a room that's well-protected.

00:11:16.780 And if you're a special person of Congress, you can look at top secret American secrets as long as you don't talk about them, too specifically.

00:11:26.460 And as long as you don't take a copy.

00:11:28.500 So that's a skiff.

00:11:29.340 So apparently Congress demanded more information.

00:11:34.800 And so a special skiff was created of UFO secrets.

00:11:41.180 Finally, finally, at least members of our Congress can find out the real truth about the dead aliens that we have in storage and all of their many spaceships.

00:11:51.400 So we have a huge warehouse facility, they say.

00:11:55.580 And the results from the skiff are, oh, nothing new.

00:12:01.720 Nothing new.

00:12:03.120 So that was a big surprise.

00:12:06.540 There was a big surprise to people like me.

00:12:11.000 Oh.

00:12:12.920 I'm starting to think that UFOs are not real.

00:12:17.000 Starting to have that suspicion that maybe we don't have a big locker full of dead aliens.

00:12:24.220 I don't know.

00:12:25.420 Just starting to think maybe it's not true.

00:12:28.420 That's just me.

00:12:30.920 Well, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells us, and oh, my God, this is scary.

00:12:39.400 So yesterday, an intruder climbed over his fence at his home and was arrested.

00:12:44.600 And then after being released from police custody later in the day, he immediately returned to my home and was arrested again.

00:12:51.440 Now, you might know the background to the story, that RFK Jr. has asked for Secret Service protection and has been denied by Biden.

00:13:07.740 Now, you might say to yourself, but, but, but, Scott, I read, I saw that story.

00:13:12.360 Sure you did.

00:13:14.240 The story the Democrats are seeing is that he's not eligible.

00:13:18.820 That's what Democrats are seeing.

00:13:22.720 That's the news that is abusing Democrats right now, is that he's not eligible.

00:13:29.360 Well, let me say this as clearly as possible.

00:13:32.600 First of all, I'm pretty sure he is eligible because there's some precedent with Biden.

00:13:37.080 I'm sorry, precedent with Obama, who is also not technically eligible, but got it anyway.

00:13:42.880 Do you know why Obama got protection, even though maybe it wasn't technically eligible? 0.98

00:13:51.300 Because there was a real good chance somebody was going to fucking kill him. 0.99

00:13:55.140 That's why. 0.99

00:13:57.060 You need a better reason than that?

00:14:00.040 Really?

00:14:01.320 Yeah, you're going to look at the paperwork, right?

00:14:03.140 Who the hell is going to look at the paperwork to decide if you're going to save somebody's life?

00:14:10.140 I mean, how evil is that?

00:14:11.980 It's not like we ran out of money for this one thing.

00:14:16.940 So, just think about this.

00:14:20.400 Joe Biden's plan right now is to jail his main challenger for the White House, Trump,

00:14:27.280 and to leave the other one vulnerable to assassination.

00:14:32.620 That's happening right in front of us.

00:14:35.540 Now, none of those things are really controversial in terms of the facts.

00:14:42.320 I'm pretty sure that if the Biden administration, led by Biden,

00:14:46.800 wanted to not have local states and whatever prosecuting Trump,

00:14:53.440 I'm pretty sure they could make it happen.

00:14:55.080 You know, through a political process, not necessarily a legal one.

00:14:59.220 Which would be the more reasonable thing to do.

00:15:02.340 But right in front of us, with, let's say, the tacit blessing of the White House,

00:15:08.060 which you know they do bless it,

00:15:10.640 they're trying to jail the person who's leading in the polls.

00:15:15.700 He's leading in the polls. 0.98

00:15:17.780 And his challenger is trying to put him in jail for any fucking thing they can come up with, 0.99

00:15:22.680 if they can, you know, concoct anything that looks like a crime. 0.97

00:15:27.580 And in that context, they're leaving the, you know, some would say one of the strongest contenders,

00:15:35.940 I think Vivek's pretty strong, you know, in the next tier.

00:15:39.280 But to leave this guy vulnerable to actually assassination,

00:15:45.420 and you know it's a risk, you know it's an outside risk, it's not a normal risk,

00:15:50.520 it's a way above average risk.

00:15:52.920 And you're going to leave him unprotected.

00:15:54.460 Now, if you can't say that a Democrat absolutely needs to be protected from a clear and obvious risk 1.00

00:16:04.620 just because you're a Republican, well then you kind of suck. 1.00

00:16:10.300 Right? 1.00

00:16:10.460 It has nothing to do with anybody's politics or who's what.

00:16:13.440 But this isn't really political.

00:16:15.420 You don't let a human citizen of the United States be unprotected in this scenario

00:16:23.500 when that citizen is running to help the United States.

00:16:28.340 He seems to be primarily motivated by making something right.

00:16:32.060 You know, fixing stuff.

00:16:35.040 Anyway, this is one of the most evil things I've ever seen,

00:16:38.580 and yet there's no move to impeach Biden over it.

00:16:42.140 What could be more impeachable than trying to jail your biggest opponent

00:16:46.820 and intentionally leaving the other one vulnerable to assassination?

00:16:51.640 Can you think of anything that would be more worthy of taking somebody out of office?

00:16:58.420 Now, maybe it doesn't technically violate any laws.

00:17:02.480 I'd impeach him anyway.

00:17:04.260 I mean, at some point you've just got to put down a marker.

00:17:08.600 Well, in other funny news,

00:17:10.340 it turns out that Maggie Haberman 0.98

00:17:13.840 made Trump angry with a New York Times story

00:17:17.560 about his gag order that he didn't like.

00:17:20.360 And so now Trump has given a new nickname

00:17:23.260 to who used to be Maggie Haberman,

00:17:26.460 and forevermore she will be called now Maggie Haberman.

00:17:30.680 Maggie Haberman.

00:17:33.100 Now,

00:17:34.080 the thing I like about it,

00:17:38.100 and of course I do like it,

00:17:39.620 I like it for the entertainment value,

00:17:42.340 but I also like it for the,

00:17:44.340 you know, watching the persuasion elements of it,

00:17:47.120 and I love the fact that

00:17:48.540 he waited so long

00:17:50.440 to attack her this hard.

00:17:53.120 I mean, he's actually been friendly with Maggie Haberman

00:17:55.280 even when she's been vicious to him for years.

00:17:58.560 I don't know why.

00:17:59.500 I never really understood it,

00:18:00.720 but he would, you know, grant her access and stuff.

00:18:02.840 But now he's just going full out Maggie Haberman.

00:18:06.560 And what do I love better

00:18:09.300 than the President of the United States

00:18:11.820 calling out the fake news

00:18:13.800 and calling one of their star reporters a Maggie?

00:18:17.060 You know, if we lived in normal times,

00:18:22.120 this would be so far over the line, right?

00:18:25.060 I would never, ever want my president

00:18:28.380 or my presidential top contender

00:18:30.800 to be calling a news person a maggot.

00:18:34.780 Under no conditions,

00:18:37.320 except this one,

00:18:38.980 would I think that was acceptable.

00:18:41.060 In this case, I think it's actually

00:18:42.320 not just acceptable,

00:18:44.240 practically mandatory.

00:18:46.260 Practically mandatory.

00:18:48.220 And if you take it too seriously,

00:18:50.060 you're doing it wrong.

00:18:51.620 So don't take it too seriously.

00:18:53.740 But I can't remember a time

00:18:55.460 when this would have been

00:18:56.700 the biggest story in the country.

00:18:59.080 Can you imagine the early days of Trump 0.94

00:19:00.920 if he'd called Maggie Haberman a maggot? 0.91

00:19:03.580 It would be a sexism story first. 0.91

00:19:07.000 Am I right?

00:19:08.340 It would be all about the sexism. 0.89

00:19:10.420 Uh-oh, he's not calling, you know, 0.93

00:19:12.380 Jim Acosta a maggot. 0.86

00:19:13.520 He's just saying other things. 1.00

00:19:14.760 But, oh, the woman is a maggot. 1.00

00:19:17.060 Oh, oh, oh, the guys are just, 1.00

00:19:19.440 you know, some other thing. 0.99

00:19:20.740 But you're calling the woman a maggot, right? 0.89

00:19:23.960 It was only a few years ago 0.97

00:19:25.220 that would have been the story.

00:19:26.780 But Trump has made us

00:19:28.600 so accustomed to his technique

00:19:31.320 that now it's just a minor story

00:19:33.780 that he called a major name 0.95

00:19:36.600 in the news a maggot. 0.99

00:19:38.740 Not only did he call her a maggot, 0.99

00:19:40.420 but he's branded her. 0.97

00:19:42.060 That's now her name going forward

00:19:44.020 for the rest of time

00:19:44.940 to at least Trumpers.

00:19:48.340 Well, here's the most interesting story of the day,

00:19:51.460 and I'm just boggled.

00:19:53.840 Apparently, and I think I mentioned this,

00:19:56.780 Linda Iaccarini said that

00:19:58.140 the ex-platform, which was Twitter,

00:20:01.480 might actually be profitable

00:20:03.680 in 2024 for the first time.

00:20:08.320 Now, that would be the most remarkable business turnaround

00:20:11.260 I've ever witnessed by far.

00:20:14.140 But that's not even close to the full story.

00:20:19.440 The full story is just mind-boggling.

00:20:22.960 But let me just give you

00:20:24.480 like a little taste of it.

00:20:27.380 Here are some things we learned just yesterday.

00:20:29.700 That ex is aiming to roll out

00:20:31.440 full payment plus financial services

00:20:34.740 by the end of 2024.

00:20:37.080 By the end of this coming year,

00:20:41.960 the ex-platform will be an online bank

00:20:44.460 where you can pay people

00:20:46.920 and do other financial services unnamed.

00:20:49.840 Now, given the amount of time

00:20:53.620 that I spend logged into X,

00:20:56.240 would I ever use Venmo?

00:20:59.080 Don't know why.

00:21:00.880 Why would I log out on something

00:21:02.300 and then open another app?

00:21:04.540 Would I ever use Google Pay?

00:21:06.800 I have it.

00:21:08.300 I use it sometimes.

00:21:10.560 But if I had X, I wouldn't use anything else

00:21:12.780 because I'm already there all the time anyway.

00:21:16.140 So that's totally going to succeed.

00:21:18.080 Creator payouts will increase significantly.

00:21:23.140 Hello.

00:21:26.000 So I'd like to do, you know,

00:21:28.680 reasonable full disclosure

00:21:30.400 that I am monetized on the ex-platform.

00:21:35.020 I'm a creator who...

00:21:36.600 So I'm monetized two different ways.

00:21:38.700 One is there's a subscription.

00:21:40.540 You hit the button in my profile

00:21:41.840 and you can watch the Dilbert Reborn comic.

00:21:44.940 And I think I'm going to launch

00:21:45.940 the Dilbert Calendar digital only.

00:21:48.700 On there as well.

00:21:49.760 But also on the scottadams.locals.com platform,

00:21:54.000 you can see both of those.

00:21:56.540 And on Locals, lots more.

00:21:58.600 My other comics, et cetera.

00:22:00.880 But on the ex-platform alone,

00:22:05.720 I've got the Dilbert stuff and the subscription.

00:22:07.700 And I've got the money that they pay

00:22:12.460 just for the engagement that I bring through my comments,

00:22:15.940 comment sections.

00:22:17.380 Between the two of them,

00:22:19.740 you know, it's actually weird.

00:22:21.660 I'm having trouble figuring out how much they're paying me

00:22:24.220 because it's not once a month.

00:22:27.080 It's at these random times.

00:22:28.600 So I end up, like, eyeballing it.

00:22:31.080 I'm like, oh, it looks like this much per month.

00:22:33.720 But you have to sort of eyeball it.

00:22:35.980 But I'm already well over six figures.

00:22:40.700 So the ex-platform is returning to me

00:22:44.880 through those two mechanisms,

00:22:47.320 you know, over 100,000 a year.

00:22:50.800 So that's a fairly big account,

00:22:53.400 but growing.

00:22:54.660 It's also growing quite quickly.

00:22:57.340 The subscription part is growing faster

00:22:59.500 than the just traffic part.

00:23:02.880 But it's actually a legitimate business.

00:23:07.280 You know, I have other ways I could make money as well.

00:23:10.300 But if you were just trying to make a living,

00:23:15.400 and you could be fascinating

00:23:17.640 and get up to, you know, a million followers,

00:23:19.980 there are a number of people,

00:23:21.880 you could name them as well,

00:23:23.620 who have somehow amazingly got

00:23:25.380 a million followers on the ex-platform,

00:23:27.800 which is what I have.

00:23:29.800 But they weren't starting out as famous.

00:23:33.000 Yeah, Mike Cernovich,

00:23:33.960 the most impressive tweeter of all time, probably.

00:23:40.000 And now they can build this into a real business.

00:23:43.120 So that's impressive.

00:23:44.160 Anyway, so the other thing is

00:23:45.380 the ex-platform could launch a dating feature.

00:23:49.500 Love it.

00:23:50.840 You know what I'd like to see in a dating feature?

00:23:53.000 I would like the algorithm to figure out

00:23:55.980 who likes the same stuff I do.

00:23:58.840 Boom.

00:24:00.220 Right?

00:24:01.700 What would be better

00:24:03.020 than to be matched based on your activity

00:24:06.560 on the ex-platform?

00:24:08.800 You put two people together

00:24:10.420 who seem to like the same stuff on ex,

00:24:13.360 how are they not going to have a fun dinner?

00:24:16.100 Right?

00:24:16.660 Like, they might not fall in love,

00:24:18.040 but, you know, getting together for coffee

00:24:20.940 would totally be fun.

00:24:22.840 Like, you could guarantee,

00:24:25.060 basically guarantee,

00:24:26.300 that the first date would be pretty good.

00:24:30.080 So that's a genius idea.

00:24:33.760 They could launch a video player

00:24:35.560 that'll be integrated into TVs.

00:24:37.560 Good.

00:24:40.040 They're seeing over 500 million posts

00:24:42.140 and over 100 billion impressions per day.

00:24:44.360 Holy cow. 0.89

00:24:45.020 They think they can build

00:24:47.660 a viable LinkedIn competitor,

00:24:49.900 which is interesting.

00:24:53.420 Can you imagine a LinkedIn competitor

00:24:55.700 using the ex-platform?

00:24:58.060 So you could know about their social media life

00:25:01.260 as well as their business life

00:25:02.580 at the same time.

00:25:04.360 Because what's the point of learning

00:25:06.040 about somebody's business life only

00:25:07.860 on LinkedIn?

00:25:09.300 Because you really sort of want to know

00:25:11.280 what they're saying about,

00:25:13.220 what are you thinking about Gaza?

00:25:14.500 You know what I mean?

00:25:16.140 You know what I mean?

00:25:16.960 I'd like to know what they say

00:25:18.040 and think about Gaza

00:25:18.960 before I hire them.

00:25:21.220 So that's genius.

00:25:23.960 Totally genius

00:25:24.880 to combine those.

00:25:28.600 They're achieving technical parity,

00:25:31.140 and that might even surpass YouTube

00:25:32.620 and their video player.

00:25:35.000 Holy cow. 0.89

00:25:36.760 I mean, the big advantage of YouTube

00:25:38.100 is that it's technically remarkable.

00:25:40.540 I mean, just unbelievable.

00:25:41.520 YouTube is whatever you want to complain

00:25:44.840 about their censorship.

00:25:47.980 Their technical competence is insane.

00:25:54.900 You know, YouTube is just...

00:25:57.460 I think of that,

00:25:58.660 and I think of Amazon

00:25:59.580 as maybe the two most spectacular

00:26:02.440 technical accomplishments of all time.

00:26:04.920 The fact that Amazon works

00:26:06.800 almost every time,

00:26:08.580 when you think of the scale of it,

00:26:12.120 I mean, that's just so mind-boggling,

00:26:13.820 the level of excellence

00:26:14.860 that it takes to make those things work.

00:26:20.520 And Musk says that

00:26:23.080 X's progress over the past year

00:26:24.560 may be the fastest change

00:26:26.180 of any internet company.

00:26:28.860 Maybe.

00:26:30.480 Maybe?

00:26:30.920 I think you could get rid of the maybe.

00:26:35.400 There's nobody who's changed

00:26:36.660 this much at that scale.

00:26:39.400 Ever.

00:26:41.720 Ever.

00:26:42.600 There's no way there's anybody

00:26:43.820 who's ever close to this.

00:26:45.540 Do you think there is?

00:26:48.620 I mean, I've never seen a pivot.

00:26:50.540 Like, this is like a 10-point pivot.

00:26:55.140 It's incredible.

00:26:56.020 And anyway,

00:26:59.560 and they're going to have

00:27:00.140 some kind of newswire service

00:27:01.520 called Xwire.

00:27:03.040 We don't know what that is yet.

00:27:04.900 But if X starts integrating news,

00:27:08.980 how exactly would they do it?

00:27:11.740 You know, that's a fun mental exercise.

00:27:14.240 If you were going to recreate news

00:27:15.860 from scratch,

00:27:17.420 and you had to solve the thing

00:27:18.980 that nobody solved first,

00:27:21.080 nobody's figured out how to do this.

00:27:23.480 Make people want to see it,

00:27:25.000 so it's a little bit addictive.

00:27:27.420 And you're also trying to be true.

00:27:30.760 That's the holy grail.

00:27:33.160 Nobody's ever done that.

00:27:35.020 But X could do it.

00:27:37.100 X could do it

00:27:38.280 by bringing in both arguments.

00:27:41.660 Let me describe my perfect service on X.

00:27:46.480 It would be there'd be a news story,

00:27:48.360 and then what X would do

00:27:49.960 is make sure that you paired

00:27:52.540 the best arguments pro and con

00:27:55.060 for the story.

00:27:56.760 You do that for me,

00:27:58.860 and I will just,

00:27:59.520 I will just, like, die happy.

00:28:01.780 It would be the fix for the country.

00:28:06.040 Let me say it again.

00:28:08.920 If X could pull this off,

00:28:10.740 and I don't think there's anybody else

00:28:12.000 who could, frankly.

00:28:13.040 I think this is,

00:28:13.920 this is so only Elon Musk could do it

00:28:16.660 that you wouldn't even,

00:28:17.920 I wouldn't even imagine anybody else doing it.

00:28:20.680 He could actually pair the story

00:28:22.660 with the pro and the con,

00:28:24.640 and somehow the algorithm could

00:28:27.340 make the best argument on both sides,

00:28:30.600 pro and con,

00:28:32.120 rise to the top

00:28:33.140 because they get more likes or whatever.

00:28:34.680 It would be amazing.

00:28:40.200 There's somebody here

00:28:41.300 who's saying they're losing respect here.

00:28:43.100 What was I doing recently

00:28:52.160 that was causing you to lose respect?

00:28:57.560 Was it that I suggested

00:28:58.940 it'd be good to see both sides?

00:29:01.480 You hate that?

00:29:05.340 All right.

00:29:06.080 You see every kind of mental illness online.

00:29:10.240 Remember those Boston dynamic robots

00:29:12.560 that have been scaring you

00:29:13.600 for about 10 years

00:29:14.580 because they walk around like people.

00:29:17.260 And then they built the little robot dog,

00:29:19.840 and that scared you twice as much

00:29:21.580 because it looks like some monster from hell.

00:29:25.460 Well, what's the only thing

00:29:26.380 that could make it scarier?

00:29:28.080 I will suggest adding AI to it

00:29:31.140 so now it can operate autonomously.

00:29:34.380 And there's a video,

00:29:35.340 you can see it on my thread,

00:29:37.200 of the dog giving somebody

00:29:41.160 a tour of their warehouse

00:29:42.520 and saying in a British accent,

00:29:46.100 well, why don't you come over here?

00:29:47.460 Just follow me.

00:29:48.220 That's the worst British accent 1.00

00:29:49.420 of all time.

00:29:50.400 I apologize to everybody

00:29:52.360 who has any association with England

00:29:54.240 for what I just did.

00:29:56.860 I feel like I should just quit now.

00:29:59.880 No, I'm not going to quit.

00:30:00.920 But it was a terrible, terrible accent.

00:30:03.340 I'll never do it again in public.

00:30:04.620 Impressions?

00:30:08.060 Not my thing.

00:30:10.480 All right, but the point is

00:30:12.140 you really got to see that dog

00:30:13.640 walking around and talking

00:30:15.000 like a British aristocrat

00:30:17.280 while giving a tour of the warehouse.

00:30:20.060 Now, if you tell me

00:30:21.120 you don't want one of those dogs,

00:30:23.640 well, I just, I don't even know you.

00:30:26.680 Who wouldn't want a robot dog 0.71

00:30:28.740 that could follow them around

00:30:30.660 and answer questions

00:30:32.120 in a conversational way?

00:30:34.620 Oh, I'd like that a lot.

00:30:36.600 I assume it would be connected

00:30:37.820 to the internet, wouldn't it?

00:30:39.580 I want to do Google searches

00:30:42.620 by robot dog.

00:30:44.440 That's the only way I want to do it.

00:30:46.400 I do not want to

00:30:47.320 pick up my phone.

00:30:50.500 Oh, you have to unlock your phone.

00:30:53.660 Oh, well, there's a message here.

00:30:55.620 No, no, ignore the message.

00:30:57.080 I meant to go to Google.

00:30:58.620 Go to Google, misspelled it.

00:31:00.120 Google misspelled it. 1.00

00:31:01.080 God damn it, Google. 1.00

00:31:02.200 G-O-O. 1.00

00:31:03.920 Okay, there's Google.

00:31:05.480 And I ask a question

00:31:06.520 and search through all the garbage

00:31:08.300 and the sponsored ads

00:31:09.360 and, you know,

00:31:10.340 that's what searching is today.

00:31:12.620 Just a completely broken process.

00:31:16.240 But imagine your robot dog

00:31:17.880 is walking around the house with you

00:31:19.340 and you just go,

00:31:21.040 robot dog,

00:31:22.680 could you tell me something

00:31:24.020 about the history of Gaza?

00:31:25.540 Fill me in.

00:31:26.940 Well, yes, Scott.

00:31:27.920 I would love to. 1.00

00:31:29.380 Damn it. 1.00

00:31:30.440 Damn it. 1.00

00:31:31.760 That was an Indian accent. 1.00

00:31:33.220 I was trying to do British again.

00:31:34.580 I just can't do it.

00:31:36.360 Why can't I do a British accent?

00:31:38.720 What's wrong with me?

00:31:40.820 Anyway,

00:31:42.100 here's something I've learned

00:31:45.180 from the internet,

00:31:46.960 from the relationship gurus.

00:31:49.080 Now, if you're in a relationship

00:31:50.440 or have ever been in one

00:31:52.320 or would like to be in one,

00:31:54.000 here's some of the most important things

00:31:55.580 you'll ever learn

00:31:56.160 about heterosexual relationships.

00:31:58.560 Now, I would make no claim

00:32:01.200 that this applies

00:32:01.960 to the LGBTQ community

00:32:03.880 more broadly,

00:32:05.080 but it's sort of a hetero thing

00:32:07.160 because a lot of the relationship experts

00:32:08.940 are hetero types.

00:32:11.900 And here are the three things

00:32:14.420 that I've learned

00:32:15.740 that are pretty much guaranteed.

00:32:18.560 Number one,

00:32:20.940 there are three things

00:32:21.660 that would guarantee

00:32:22.560 a failed relationship.

00:32:25.020 Number one,

00:32:26.220 the man does not give the woman 0.97

00:32:27.800 everything she wants

00:32:28.860 because if the man

00:32:30.840 doesn't give her

00:32:31.440 everything she wants,

00:32:33.040 she'll kind of look

00:32:33.760 for somebody who will.

00:32:35.420 So that doesn't work.

00:32:37.080 Number two,

00:32:38.180 man always gives,

00:32:39.720 yeah,

00:32:41.280 man always gives woman 1.00

00:32:42.420 everything she wants.

00:32:44.700 You would think

00:32:45.400 that would be the solution

00:32:46.420 to man does not give woman 1.00

00:32:48.960 everything she wants

00:32:49.920 because then she won't need

00:32:51.100 to look for somebody

00:32:52.000 because you're giving her

00:32:53.680 everything she wants.

00:32:54.940 But I'm told by the experts,

00:32:56.380 if a man gives a woman 0.96

00:32:57.360 everything she wants,

00:32:58.740 she will think he's a simp

00:33:00.080 and not any kind of alpha man

00:33:02.820 and then she'll go searching

00:33:04.240 for a better man.

00:33:06.280 So don't do that.

00:33:08.360 Now the third thing

00:33:09.220 that doesn't work

00:33:09.820 is if the woman 0.98

00:33:10.580 doesn't need anything

00:33:11.400 from the man

00:33:12.080 in the first place,

00:33:13.520 in which case

00:33:14.180 she'll cheat on him 1.00

00:33:14.940 because, you know,

00:33:16.480 he's not really

00:33:17.220 adding much to her life anyway.

00:33:19.840 So don't do any

00:33:20.760 of these three things.

00:33:21.600 Do not give a woman 1.00

00:33:22.340 everything she wants.

00:33:23.240 Do not give woman 1.00

00:33:26.460 almost everything she wants.

00:33:29.000 And do not be with a woman 1.00

00:33:31.540 who already has

00:33:32.760 everything she wants.

00:33:35.180 Now, the good news is

00:33:37.260 those are just the three things

00:33:39.500 that don't work.

00:33:41.340 So you're saying to yourself,

00:33:43.000 my God, that sounds terrible.

00:33:45.700 Right.

00:33:46.360 But, you know,

00:33:46.860 I'm not done with the story.

00:33:48.560 Hold on, hold on.

00:33:50.160 It's not all doom and gloom.

00:33:51.340 Because I've been listening

00:33:52.800 to a lot of these

00:33:53.460 relationship experts

00:33:54.440 and I can tell you for sure

00:33:55.740 they don't just tell you

00:33:57.740 what doesn't work.

00:33:59.720 They'll also tell you

00:34:00.720 what works

00:34:01.420 to make a long,

00:34:02.800 happy relationship.

00:34:04.120 And here's their list.

00:34:11.320 All right, next story.

00:34:13.080 You know that guy

00:34:13.840 who's missing

00:34:14.420 who killed a bunch

00:34:15.280 of people in Maine?

00:34:17.120 His name is Card.

00:34:18.540 No car.

00:34:19.040 So they found

00:34:21.480 Carr's car.

00:34:23.540 Carr's car was

00:34:24.700 left at a boat dock.

00:34:27.060 Now,

00:34:27.900 I have a personality flaw

00:34:30.400 which I cannot hide.

00:34:33.700 Well,

00:34:34.380 quite a few of them,

00:34:35.320 actually.

00:34:36.080 But one of them

00:34:37.200 that I have is

00:34:38.020 I sometimes have

00:34:41.120 respect

00:34:41.760 for the wrong people.

00:34:44.140 I'm not proud of it.

00:34:45.920 I'm just confessing.

00:34:47.100 So, for example,

00:34:48.660 if there's a dictator

00:34:50.100 who's pure evil

00:34:52.100 but they're also

00:34:53.700 really good

00:34:54.360 at being a dictator,

00:34:55.920 I say to myself,

00:34:57.480 okay, evil,

00:34:58.400 sure,

00:34:59.480 but really good

00:35:00.380 at the job.

00:35:01.720 Really good

00:35:02.360 at the job.

00:35:05.640 No,

00:35:06.220 Hitler wasn't good 1.00

00:35:06.980 at his job

00:35:07.540 because he got killed.

00:35:09.660 There's no upside

00:35:10.660 to Hitler. 0.68

00:35:11.820 In fact,

00:35:12.360 as Norm MacDonald

00:35:13.140 says,

00:35:14.260 the more I find out

00:35:15.200 about that guy,

00:35:15.780 the less I like him.

00:35:17.940 Yeah,

00:35:18.240 that's Norm MacDonald.

00:35:19.700 But anyway,

00:35:20.840 I also have

00:35:22.660 this personality flaw

00:35:23.900 where when there's

00:35:25.460 a mass murderer

00:35:26.440 who's unusually capable,

00:35:30.280 I can't turn off

00:35:31.860 the fact

00:35:32.380 that I'm impressed.

00:35:34.540 So this guy is,

00:35:35.680 you know, 1.00

00:35:36.300 pure shit 1.00

00:35:37.180 and he killed 1.00

00:35:38.260 innocent people

00:35:39.020 and he should be 1.00

00:35:40.160 ripped apart by dogs 1.00

00:35:41.360 and, you know,

00:35:42.760 I have full empathy

00:35:43.640 for the victims

00:35:44.500 as any normal person

00:35:46.960 should.

00:35:48.520 But

00:35:48.840 something's going on

00:35:50.940 with this guy

00:35:51.580 that isn't like

00:35:53.340 other killers

00:35:54.120 and we haven't

00:35:55.740 quite figured it out.

00:35:58.300 But he did,

00:35:59.460 he seems to have done

00:36:00.220 everything right.

00:36:01.060 First of all,

00:36:01.540 he's a wilderness guy.

00:36:03.860 So he's a weapons expert

00:36:05.840 and a wilderness guy

00:36:07.840 and he's got some,

00:36:08.900 you know,

00:36:09.620 training.

00:36:10.040 So if there was

00:36:13.480 anybody who was

00:36:14.020 going to do

00:36:14.320 a terrible crime

00:36:15.140 and then get away

00:36:15.800 with it,

00:36:16.620 it would be this guy.

00:36:18.080 And he seems to have

00:36:19.140 done everything right

00:36:20.460 except one thing

00:36:22.520 that's a little suspicious

00:36:23.540 which makes me think

00:36:25.860 there's something to it.

00:36:28.500 It goes like this.

00:36:29.760 Here are the things

00:36:30.460 he did,

00:36:31.240 I'll say right,

00:36:32.460 but in an evil way.

00:36:33.520 So

00:36:35.060 he was,

00:36:37.460 he picked

00:36:38.060 an area

00:36:40.440 where he could

00:36:41.200 operate

00:36:41.780 and there were no,

00:36:43.500 I guess there was

00:36:44.080 nobody armed

00:36:44.900 to shoot back

00:36:45.800 so that was good.

00:36:47.740 I mean good

00:36:48.440 in an evil way.

00:36:50.520 He was,

00:36:51.680 you know,

00:36:52.280 trained

00:36:52.780 and had

00:36:53.200 high powered weapons,

00:36:55.320 he had a nice scope,

00:36:56.580 you know,

00:36:56.960 so he basically

00:36:57.600 had all that done.

00:36:58.460 And he also

00:37:02.260 spent very little time

00:37:03.820 doing what he did.

00:37:05.700 Then apparently

00:37:06.780 the car that he was using,

00:37:08.560 his car they say,

00:37:09.960 he left it at a boat dock

00:37:11.660 and apparently

00:37:12.640 he owns a 15 foot boat

00:37:14.320 that I assume

00:37:15.440 is missing.

00:37:17.240 So the assumption is

00:37:18.500 that he murdered people,

00:37:20.420 drove to the boat dock,

00:37:22.100 got in his boat

00:37:22.940 and when I thought about it

00:37:24.920 I said to myself,

00:37:26.300 I don't think

00:37:27.380 there's anything

00:37:28.040 harder to track

00:37:29.000 than a boat,

00:37:29.960 is there?

00:37:31.620 Is that true?

00:37:32.760 Is that like the perfect,

00:37:34.360 you know,

00:37:34.540 the dogs can't find you,

00:37:38.320 you know,

00:37:39.000 if you were doing the,

00:37:40.060 I guess the law enforcement

00:37:41.460 now has this heat

00:37:42.580 identifying thing,

00:37:44.760 infrared,

00:37:45.700 so they could fly

00:37:46.360 a helicopter

00:37:46.940 over the forest

00:37:47.900 and they could pick out

00:37:49.480 an animal or a person.

00:37:51.680 So that's how they find

00:37:52.800 somebody who's escaped

00:37:54.140 into the main forest.

00:37:55.820 But here's the beauty.

00:37:56.800 The boat dock

00:37:58.460 also has a hiking trail

00:38:00.860 next to it.

00:38:02.480 But also,

00:38:03.580 it's a parking lot

00:38:05.320 so the guy drove

00:38:07.340 to a place

00:38:08.120 where the authorities

00:38:09.380 don't know

00:38:09.920 if he hiked away,

00:38:12.180 boated away,

00:38:13.720 or got in another vehicle

00:38:15.180 and left.

00:38:17.220 Now you tell me,

00:38:18.380 have you ever seen

00:38:19.100 a more capable,

00:38:21.760 terrible person?

00:38:23.540 The level of capability

00:38:26.880 that that implies

00:38:28.340 is crazy.

00:38:30.400 Now,

00:38:31.780 but how do you explain

00:38:33.080 that he showed his face

00:38:36.100 and made no attempt

00:38:38.000 to mask his face

00:38:39.160 when clearly a person

00:38:40.700 with that capability

00:38:41.620 would know that he would

00:38:43.060 be captured on video?

00:38:44.540 How do you explain that?

00:38:45.380 Well,

00:38:48.640 one of the parts

00:38:49.560 that is interesting

00:38:50.960 is that the identification

00:38:52.720 of the person

00:38:53.620 they're looking for,

00:38:54.940 this guy Carr,

00:38:56.280 in my opinion,

00:38:58.100 doesn't look enough

00:38:59.080 like the video

00:38:59.840 to identify him

00:39:03.160 positively from the video.

00:39:05.200 So indeed,

00:39:05.900 that's why law enforcement

00:39:06.940 was calling him

00:39:07.680 a person of interest

00:39:08.700 because they had

00:39:10.040 a video of a guy

00:39:11.700 doing the crime

00:39:12.500 and they had a photo

00:39:13.440 of the guy they suspect

00:39:14.420 and you have to know,

00:39:17.720 I'm sure,

00:39:19.560 that the law enforcement

00:39:20.540 people had this big argument

00:39:21.820 behind the scenes.

00:39:23.020 I don't think that's him.

00:39:24.620 No, it is, kind of.

00:39:25.580 He's got the beard.

00:39:26.640 Maybe he lost weight.

00:39:28.280 I think it's just

00:39:28.960 the angle of the photo.

00:39:32.760 And then somehow,

00:39:33.920 the guy who's the perp

00:39:37.820 also has an established record

00:39:40.560 of saying he might do

00:39:41.800 such a thing

00:39:42.440 and being a weapons expert

00:39:44.640 and a military guy.

00:39:47.680 And he was released

00:39:48.940 from some facility.

00:39:51.580 So it was like

00:39:52.200 every bad thing

00:39:53.040 and then he had access

00:39:53.820 to weapons.

00:39:56.320 So,

00:39:57.220 but why did he show his face?

00:39:59.640 See,

00:40:00.000 the showing the face part

00:40:01.540 is the part

00:40:02.500 that doesn't fit

00:40:03.340 with all of the

00:40:04.220 super prepared

00:40:05.980 other parts.

00:40:07.920 Right?

00:40:09.460 Because what advantage

00:40:10.760 would he have

00:40:11.520 that police could

00:40:13.280 immediately identify him?

00:40:16.240 Wouldn't that be

00:40:16.800 the opposite

00:40:17.400 of somebody

00:40:18.080 who's so prepared

00:40:18.900 that they drive

00:40:20.080 their car

00:40:20.600 to the best place

00:40:22.760 you could ever escape from,

00:40:24.060 the three-way

00:40:24.980 different escape paths?

00:40:27.760 So,

00:40:28.520 I'll just throw

00:40:29.340 on another hypothesis.

00:40:31.480 Very unlikely

00:40:32.360 and you should

00:40:33.040 vote against it.

00:40:34.400 Like,

00:40:34.600 if you had a bet,

00:40:36.060 you should bet

00:40:36.600 that my hypothesis

00:40:37.620 is wrong.

00:40:38.460 The most likely

00:40:39.340 explanation is 0.98

00:40:40.280 it's a crazy guy 0.94

00:40:42.060 with a lot of capabilities 0.97

00:40:43.160 and he didn't care

00:40:45.440 about his identity

00:40:46.220 because he

00:40:47.280 knew he had to disappear.

00:40:50.100 Like,

00:40:50.500 they knew he would

00:40:51.020 figure out who he was

00:40:51.840 anyway,

00:40:52.300 so there's no point

00:40:52.920 in figuring it out.

00:40:53.840 He didn't need to,

00:40:54.900 he didn't really need

00:40:56.160 to hide his identity

00:40:57.020 because allegedly

00:41:00.040 he left a note

00:41:01.100 that,

00:41:03.080 you know,

00:41:03.280 told where

00:41:03.840 some of his

00:41:04.500 financial stuff

00:41:05.300 could be found.

00:41:06.240 So maybe he wanted

00:41:07.120 people to know

00:41:07.880 that he was the guy

00:41:08.760 so that his relatives

00:41:11.260 could go,

00:41:11.960 you know,

00:41:12.160 take care of his house

00:41:12.980 or whatever.

00:41:14.180 So maybe he wanted

00:41:14.980 them to know.

00:41:15.720 But they would have

00:41:16.300 found out

00:41:16.860 fairly soon.

00:41:19.480 You know,

00:41:19.740 they would have

00:41:20.540 found out.

00:41:21.700 So here's another

00:41:22.680 hypothesis.

00:41:23.900 This is more

00:41:24.420 the TV movie hypothesis

00:41:26.280 that there is

00:41:30.140 a guy in this car

00:41:30.980 and he was

00:41:31.920 a gun instructor

00:41:32.920 and he did have

00:41:33.720 these mental conditions

00:41:35.000 but that

00:41:36.360 somebody simply

00:41:38.400 dressed like him

00:41:39.340 to do the crime

00:41:40.140 and that his body

00:41:41.880 will be found

00:41:42.800 in an unusual place.

00:41:45.060 So here's what

00:41:45.720 I'm predicting.

00:41:47.840 If it turns out

00:41:49.280 they have the wrong guy,

00:41:51.480 then the guy

00:41:52.060 that they've identified,

00:41:53.120 this car guy,

00:41:53.860 they will find

00:41:55.020 his body

00:41:55.700 and he will 0.91

00:41:59.140 look murdered

00:41:59.660 but it will be

00:42:01.120 in a place

00:42:01.660 that doesn't

00:42:02.560 make sense.

00:42:04.120 It will be like

00:42:04.800 his body was,

00:42:05.900 you know,

00:42:06.260 in the woods

00:42:06.940 or something.

00:42:08.160 You know,

00:42:08.420 just someplace

00:42:08.900 that doesn't

00:42:09.300 make sense.

00:42:11.420 That would suggest

00:42:12.420 that somebody

00:42:12.920 used him

00:42:13.940 as the patsy,

00:42:15.940 shaved off

00:42:17.140 their beard,

00:42:17.920 drove away,

00:42:19.320 maybe put somebody

00:42:21.360 else on a boat

00:42:22.100 or sent the boat

00:42:22.840 out.

00:42:23.860 My guess is,

00:42:24.780 here's how

00:42:25.460 I would have

00:42:25.840 done it.

00:42:27.060 I would have

00:42:27.860 taken my car

00:42:28.960 to my boat

00:42:30.560 and then I would

00:42:31.700 have taken my boat

00:42:32.660 to some far away

00:42:34.720 place on the lake

00:42:35.620 where I had

00:42:36.600 another vehicle.

00:42:38.400 Then I would

00:42:39.100 take the other

00:42:39.580 vehicle

00:42:40.020 and I would

00:42:41.740 take that to,

00:42:42.640 you know,

00:42:42.940 my true hiding place.

00:42:44.740 That's how I'd play it.

00:42:45.700 So I'm sure

00:42:48.060 it's exactly

00:42:48.580 what they say.

00:42:49.620 You know,

00:42:49.920 most likely

00:42:50.800 it's exactly

00:42:51.540 what it looks like.

00:42:52.580 But there's

00:42:53.140 something about

00:42:53.780 the fact

00:42:54.500 that he doesn't

00:42:55.680 look like the picture

00:42:56.540 and he's so capable

00:42:58.740 that just screams

00:43:01.420 something weird.

00:43:05.480 Somebody says

00:43:06.280 they think

00:43:06.660 he might have

00:43:07.000 been wearing

00:43:07.360 a mask

00:43:07.900 during the crime.

00:43:08.700 Maybe.

00:43:10.340 Who knows?

00:43:11.360 But, yeah,

00:43:12.700 maybe.

00:43:16.300 All right.

00:43:17.220 Let's see.

00:43:17.840 Who's got

00:43:18.640 free speech lately?

00:43:20.000 Let's see.

00:43:21.360 There's an agent

00:43:23.460 who got canceled,

00:43:26.140 CAA agent

00:43:26.980 by Aaron Sorkin

00:43:28.560 because the CAA,

00:43:30.540 CAA is the

00:43:31.440 big agency

00:43:32.220 for, you know,

00:43:33.780 there's one

00:43:34.560 biggest

00:43:35.180 Hollywood agency,

00:43:37.700 CAA.

00:43:38.080 So one of

00:43:38.820 their agents

00:43:39.200 who handled

00:43:39.620 Aaron Sorkin

00:43:40.440 said some

00:43:42.860 pro-Gaza

00:43:45.600 things,

00:43:46.260 I guess.

00:43:47.360 And so

00:43:48.240 she got fired 1.00

00:43:49.020 and got taken

00:43:50.220 off committees

00:43:50.780 and stuff.

00:43:51.820 So without

00:43:53.480 agreeing with

00:43:54.320 her point of

00:43:54.860 view,

00:43:56.100 I would just

00:43:56.580 note that she

00:43:57.120 doesn't have

00:43:57.560 free speech

00:43:58.160 in America.

00:43:59.140 Would you

00:43:59.440 agree?

00:44:00.440 Again,

00:44:01.080 I disagree

00:44:01.700 with her

00:44:02.120 point of

00:44:02.440 view.

00:44:03.360 I'm just

00:44:03.980 saying it's

00:44:04.380 obvious she 0.61

00:44:04.840 didn't have

00:44:05.120 free speech.

00:44:05.760 So she

00:44:07.880 got,

00:44:08.360 her career

00:44:09.060 just got

00:44:09.480 destroyed.

00:44:11.060 There's also

00:44:11.880 a big truck

00:44:12.560 that has the

00:44:13.280 faces and

00:44:14.040 information about

00:44:15.180 the Harvard

00:44:16.340 students who

00:44:17.300 signed a

00:44:18.040 pro-Hamas,

00:44:19.840 some would

00:44:20.400 say,

00:44:21.160 statement.

00:44:23.460 And so

00:44:25.100 they're being

00:44:25.540 doxed and

00:44:26.220 their lives

00:44:26.620 are being

00:44:26.900 ruined.

00:44:27.500 So those

00:44:27.860 Harvard

00:44:28.140 students,

00:44:29.360 whose views

00:44:29.960 I disagree

00:44:30.580 with,

00:44:32.240 don't have

00:44:32.840 free speech

00:44:33.540 in America.

00:44:35.060 And don't

00:44:35.640 imagine that

00:44:36.200 they do.

00:44:36.820 They do not

00:44:37.280 have free

00:44:37.560 speech.

00:44:40.340 And then

00:44:41.840 there's a

00:44:42.520 school in

00:44:42.920 LA that's

00:44:43.480 cancelling

00:44:43.900 Halloween

00:44:44.380 because they

00:44:45.540 say one

00:44:45.980 third of

00:44:46.500 their students

00:44:47.220 don't celebrate

00:44:48.760 it.

00:44:49.320 So it's not

00:44:49.820 inclusive

00:44:50.220 enough.

00:44:52.560 That's

00:44:53.080 interesting.

00:44:56.980 Now,

00:44:57.700 there is one

00:44:58.500 scenario in

00:44:59.140 which I can

00:44:59.540 imagine it

00:45:00.260 being a

00:45:01.760 problem.

00:45:02.780 If you had

00:45:03.380 a massive

00:45:03.820 amount of

00:45:04.580 recent

00:45:05.100 immigrants and

00:45:07.240 they were

00:45:08.260 poor and

00:45:08.820 they couldn't

00:45:09.120 afford to

00:45:09.540 have their

00:45:09.960 fancy costumes

00:45:10.880 like their

00:45:11.420 white classmates,

00:45:13.400 I can kind

00:45:14.120 of almost see

00:45:14.760 why this

00:45:15.160 would make

00:45:15.480 sense.

00:45:16.900 I don't

00:45:17.460 hate the

00:45:17.900 idea that

00:45:18.420 some schools

00:45:19.000 have uniforms.

00:45:20.520 I would

00:45:20.820 have hated

00:45:21.140 it as a

00:45:21.680 kid.

00:45:22.960 Or maybe

00:45:23.260 not.

00:45:23.620 I don't

00:45:23.780 know.

00:45:23.980 Maybe I

00:45:24.280 wouldn't

00:45:24.440 have.

00:45:25.020 But I

00:45:25.900 do like

00:45:26.460 not creating

00:45:27.680 a situation

00:45:28.320 where some

00:45:28.880 of the

00:45:29.100 students feel

00:45:30.220 super

00:45:30.600 uncomfortable

00:45:31.060 because of

00:45:31.640 their economic

00:45:32.280 situation.

00:45:33.360 So it

00:45:33.880 might be

00:45:34.280 economic.

00:45:35.220 In which

00:45:35.560 case,

00:45:36.180 I don't

00:45:37.560 know.

00:45:37.900 Maybe you

00:45:38.360 keep your

00:45:38.680 Halloween

00:45:38.940 stuff at

00:45:39.420 home.

00:45:39.680 It doesn't

00:45:39.940 have to be

00:45:40.300 a school

00:45:40.640 anyway.

00:45:41.940 But I

00:45:42.440 keep an

00:45:42.740 eye on

00:45:43.000 that one.

00:45:43.320 It seems

00:45:44.400 like

00:45:44.600 cancelling

00:45:45.000 fun.

00:45:46.600 Did you

00:45:46.900 know that

00:45:47.400 Israel has 1.00

00:45:48.140 a space

00:45:48.720 laser,

00:45:49.760 which they've

00:45:50.160 been working

00:45:50.500 on for a

00:45:50.940 while,

00:45:51.300 and they're

00:45:51.520 going to,

00:45:52.000 I guess,

00:45:52.420 spin it up

00:45:53.320 a little

00:45:53.560 early?

00:45:53.940 It wasn't

00:45:54.600 quite,

00:45:55.100 quite ready.

00:45:57.040 But it

00:45:57.700 must work

00:45:58.140 in tests

00:45:58.660 because they

00:46:00.700 need it for

00:46:01.140 air defense.

00:46:03.100 So if a

00:46:04.160 whole bunch

00:46:04.580 of missiles

00:46:05.400 start incoming,

00:46:07.020 they could

00:46:07.480 quickly run

00:46:08.120 out of

00:46:08.500 anti-missile

00:46:09.880 missiles.

00:46:10.680 But it's

00:46:11.360 harder to

00:46:11.880 run out of

00:46:12.860 lasers.

00:46:14.120 You know,

00:46:14.300 if your laser

00:46:14.780 has electricity

00:46:16.060 in a lot of

00:46:17.360 it, it can

00:46:18.480 shoot down a 0.73

00:46:19.560 lot of missiles

00:46:20.220 kind of one

00:46:21.240 after another.

00:46:21.780 So if you

00:46:24.140 could get

00:46:24.540 a space

00:46:25.920 laser defense

00:46:27.520 system, then

00:46:29.460 that would

00:46:29.800 certainly go a

00:46:30.460 long way toward

00:46:31.300 allowing Israel 0.96

00:46:32.740 to live in a

00:46:34.220 part of town

00:46:34.960 that's a

00:46:36.020 little dangerous.

00:46:38.540 I guess I

00:46:39.440 could get to

00:46:39.940 the question

00:46:41.240 of how can

00:46:42.040 Israel survive

00:46:42.860 for 200 years

00:46:43.900 as technology

00:46:45.520 keeps improving

00:46:46.300 and it makes it

00:46:47.220 easier for one

00:46:48.180 person to destroy

00:46:49.080 a whole country

00:46:49.780 and they're

00:46:50.620 surrounded by

00:46:51.220 one people

00:46:51.760 who want to

00:46:52.460 do that and

00:46:53.080 have the

00:46:53.380 access to

00:46:54.560 weapons.

00:46:56.000 But if

00:46:56.380 they've got a

00:46:56.780 space, if

00:46:58.440 they've got a

00:46:58.860 laser for

00:46:59.460 shooting down

00:47:00.100 rockets, it's

00:47:01.860 not a space

00:47:02.360 laser because

00:47:02.900 it's not

00:47:03.700 space-based.

00:47:06.120 It just sort

00:47:07.120 of shoots into

00:47:07.680 space.

00:47:10.600 All right.

00:47:13.500 Here's the

00:47:14.760 story that I

00:47:16.020 love watching

00:47:16.840 and tweeting

00:47:17.440 about, but I

00:47:19.920 don't know what

00:47:20.440 to believe.

00:47:20.920 And if you're

00:47:23.060 not following

00:47:23.540 the Rasmussen

00:47:24.400 report account

00:47:25.760 on the X

00:47:26.360 platform, you're

00:47:27.760 kind of missing

00:47:28.360 a whole saga

00:47:30.360 about the

00:47:31.460 2020 election

00:47:32.420 and the

00:47:33.700 various claims

00:47:35.160 and lawsuits

00:47:35.860 and technical

00:47:36.620 claims and

00:47:37.300 everything else.

00:47:38.120 I don't know

00:47:38.580 what to believe.

00:47:40.100 Let me say

00:47:41.080 up front, I'm

00:47:42.940 not personally

00:47:43.660 aware, I'm not

00:47:45.620 personally aware

00:47:46.540 of any

00:47:48.020 factual statement

00:47:50.140 that would say

00:47:50.740 the 2020

00:47:51.280 election was

00:47:52.060 rigged.

00:47:53.140 Personally, I'm

00:47:54.540 not aware of

00:47:55.000 that.

00:47:55.780 But when you

00:47:56.420 look through, the

00:47:57.160 claims are just

00:47:58.360 mind-boggling.

00:48:00.140 I want to give

00:48:00.700 you just a few

00:48:01.540 things I've

00:48:02.100 learned lately

00:48:02.660 that I don't

00:48:05.620 know what to

00:48:05.960 think about, but

00:48:06.600 I'll just put

00:48:07.020 them out there

00:48:07.420 and you can.

00:48:07.860 All right.

00:48:09.080 Here's something

00:48:09.800 I learned.

00:48:10.360 at least on

00:48:12.680 some of the

00:48:13.200 machines that

00:48:13.740 were used in

00:48:14.200 2020.

00:48:14.980 To me, it

00:48:15.720 doesn't even

00:48:16.120 matter which

00:48:16.580 company it

00:48:17.180 was.

00:48:18.220 So there are

00:48:18.680 a few different

00:48:19.200 machine companies

00:48:20.100 involved.

00:48:20.820 It's not just

00:48:21.300 Dominion.

00:48:22.460 But some of

00:48:23.580 the machines

00:48:24.100 had internal

00:48:25.740 Wi-Fi ports.

00:48:28.280 Did you know

00:48:29.040 that?

00:48:30.860 In other words,

00:48:31.580 if you were to

00:48:32.020 inspect the

00:48:32.580 machine, it

00:48:34.380 would be locked

00:48:35.160 so you couldn't

00:48:36.660 see what's

00:48:37.100 inside.

00:48:38.920 But if it

00:48:39.840 had a Wi-Fi

00:48:40.340 connection to

00:48:41.200 the internet, it

00:48:42.940 would have been

00:48:43.540 in a slot inside

00:48:44.760 the machine, so

00:48:46.400 there's no way

00:48:46.980 you could tell by

00:48:47.660 looking at the

00:48:48.220 outside whether

00:48:49.460 it was connected

00:48:50.120 to the internet.

00:48:54.180 Apparently, that's

00:48:56.280 an established

00:48:56.820 fact.

00:48:58.660 Did you know

00:48:59.400 that?

00:49:00.460 Some of you

00:49:01.140 knew that.

00:49:02.500 Now, I did

00:49:03.280 know that there

00:49:03.860 was a question

00:49:04.460 about whether

00:49:05.260 some machines

00:49:06.100 were attached

00:49:06.700 to the internet.

00:49:08.300 So I've known

00:49:09.320 for a long

00:49:09.840 time that

00:49:11.040 there was

00:49:11.300 the allegation

00:49:12.220 that some

00:49:13.420 were attached.

00:49:14.640 But I always

00:49:15.340 thought, just 0.99

00:49:17.080 my dumb 1.00

00:49:18.060 old head, I 1.00

00:49:19.340 always thought

00:49:19.760 that you could

00:49:20.160 tell by looking

00:49:20.740 at it.

00:49:21.900 Like it would

00:49:22.460 be a...

00:49:23.300 I just assumed

00:49:24.260 that the slot

00:49:24.900 would be

00:49:25.220 external.

00:49:26.900 Didn't you?

00:49:28.180 I just thought

00:49:28.700 it was something

00:49:29.040 you stick in the

00:49:29.760 back, and if

00:49:30.960 you looked at

00:49:31.480 it and there's

00:49:31.940 nothing in the

00:49:32.480 Wi-Fi slot,

00:49:33.380 you'd say,

00:49:33.800 okay, it's not

00:49:34.800 connected to the

00:49:35.420 internet.

00:49:36.260 I don't know

00:49:36.660 why I even

00:49:37.020 thought that.

00:49:38.220 But if it's

00:49:38.680 internal to the

00:49:39.460 machine and

00:49:40.320 it's locked,

00:49:41.740 come on.

00:49:45.200 So it gets

00:49:45.920 better.

00:49:48.040 Mike Lindell,

00:49:49.100 who you know

00:49:49.600 has been in

00:49:50.140 deep trouble

00:49:50.660 in fighting the

00:49:51.600 2020 election,

00:49:53.440 apparently he's

00:49:54.480 funded and

00:49:55.180 developed a

00:49:56.700 technology that

00:49:58.260 would identify

00:49:59.280 Wi-Fi in an

00:50:01.140 area that's an

00:50:03.980 unknown Wi-Fi.

00:50:06.180 So in other

00:50:06.680 words, you

00:50:07.000 could put one

00:50:07.520 in a polling

00:50:07.980 place, and it

00:50:09.300 would know if

00:50:10.180 one of these

00:50:10.720 polling machines

00:50:11.600 spun up the

00:50:12.780 Wi-Fi.

00:50:15.700 So that's a

00:50:16.420 good idea,

00:50:16.960 right?

00:50:17.900 How could it

00:50:18.460 ever be a

00:50:18.980 bad idea to

00:50:20.460 detect, you

00:50:21.860 know, who

00:50:22.380 would be against

00:50:22.980 that?

00:50:23.900 Like, why in

00:50:24.520 the world?

00:50:26.040 Why in the

00:50:26.760 world would

00:50:27.220 you be opposed

00:50:28.180 to tracking to

00:50:30.120 see if anybody

00:50:30.860 had done anything

00:50:31.560 illegal by

00:50:32.880 checking to

00:50:33.440 see if any

00:50:33.880 Wi-Fi fired

00:50:34.740 up that

00:50:35.580 wasn't supposed

00:50:36.120 to be there?

00:50:37.920 What's wrong

00:50:38.520 with that?

00:50:41.240 Well, Kentucky

00:50:42.620 wants it to be

00:50:43.340 illegal.

00:50:47.160 Huh.

00:50:48.320 Why would

00:50:48.920 anybody want

00:50:49.500 that to be

00:50:49.940 illegal?

00:50:50.740 You know, if

00:50:51.140 it were me,

00:50:52.040 and I were

00:50:52.540 trying to make

00:50:53.020 sure that my

00:50:53.620 elections were

00:50:54.200 nice and tight,

00:50:55.720 I'd want to

00:50:56.240 buy it.

00:50:57.480 I'd want to

00:50:58.020 say, Mike

00:50:59.200 Lindell, can

00:51:00.320 you do us

00:51:01.260 first?

00:51:02.320 Do us first,

00:51:03.120 because I'd

00:51:03.720 like to

00:51:03.980 know, at

00:51:05.160 the end of

00:51:05.520 this, I'd

00:51:07.720 really like to

00:51:08.260 know if any

00:51:09.860 Wi-Fi came

00:51:10.500 on, because

00:51:11.380 we're going to

00:51:11.700 have to defend

00:51:12.340 against it if

00:51:13.080 somebody claims

00:51:13.680 it did.

00:51:14.660 Wouldn't it be

00:51:15.200 great to have

00:51:16.160 a record that

00:51:17.500 no unusual

00:51:18.760 Wi-Fi activity

00:51:19.820 happened, and

00:51:21.040 then at least

00:51:21.480 we'll know our

00:51:22.300 little area, we

00:51:24.020 passed all the

00:51:24.640 tests.

00:51:25.360 We audited, we

00:51:26.440 checked for the

00:51:26.920 Wi-Fi, we did

00:51:27.560 everything we could.

00:51:28.880 There's no way

00:51:29.420 this is ripped.

00:51:30.480 Wouldn't that be a

00:51:31.180 great tool to

00:51:31.840 have?

00:51:33.600 Well, the

00:51:34.260 argument against

00:51:36.820 it is that it

00:51:37.780 itself would be

00:51:38.700 the hacking tool,

00:51:40.100 that it would

00:51:41.060 cause its own

00:51:42.060 problem, to

00:51:44.220 which I say,

00:51:45.360 how would it

00:51:46.680 do that, unless

00:51:48.700 the Wi-Fi was

00:51:49.420 on?

00:51:50.820 How could it

00:51:51.540 cause a problem

00:51:52.280 unless an illegal

00:51:53.980 Wi-Fi was on?

00:51:57.240 Can you give me

00:51:58.100 an example of how

00:51:58.900 that would be a

00:51:59.360 problem?

00:52:00.780 I mean, I'm no

00:52:01.480 technical expert,

00:52:02.880 but it seems like

00:52:03.980 if the Wi-Fi isn't

00:52:04.960 on, then the

00:52:06.860 electronic Wi-Fi

00:52:07.980 thing wouldn't

00:52:09.460 have much effect

00:52:10.140 on it.

00:52:11.140 Let's see how

00:52:11.720 much effect the

00:52:13.020 Wi-Fi has on my

00:52:14.120 bottle of water.

00:52:15.380 Anything?

00:52:16.060 Anything?

00:52:17.040 No.

00:52:18.100 Can't really hack

00:52:18.860 a bottle of water.

00:52:21.120 So, I don't know

00:52:23.380 what's true and

00:52:24.220 what isn't true on

00:52:25.400 the election stuff.

00:52:26.560 Probably never will.

00:52:27.620 Well, but the

00:52:29.580 story is way more

00:52:30.800 interesting than

00:52:32.880 you've been led to

00:52:33.700 believe by the

00:52:34.820 mainstream news.

00:52:36.740 Now, you know the

00:52:37.680 left isn't going to

00:52:38.440 cover any of this

00:52:39.240 stuff, right?

00:52:39.860 So, CNN, MSNBC,

00:52:41.900 even if there are

00:52:42.860 things that are just

00:52:43.540 sort of rumor,

00:52:44.760 claims are made,

00:52:46.700 they've kind of

00:52:47.320 stopped talking

00:52:47.940 about it completely.

00:52:50.420 But, thank God,

00:52:52.480 we have an open

00:52:54.340 media situation

00:52:55.400 where you don't

00:52:56.380 have to depend

00:52:57.180 on the biased,

00:52:59.220 left-leaning media.

00:53:00.660 Thank God,

00:53:02.160 you've got Fox

00:53:03.020 News that can do

00:53:04.680 full coverage about

00:53:06.000 suspected problems.

00:53:08.860 Oh.

00:53:10.300 Whoa, no, that

00:53:11.260 won't work, will it?

00:53:13.200 No, that's right.

00:53:13.800 Dominion just sued

00:53:14.740 the piss out of Fox

00:53:15.760 News for making

00:53:16.620 claims that weren't

00:53:17.300 true, according to

00:53:19.240 them.

00:53:19.440 So, all right, so

00:53:22.880 you can't report it

00:53:24.480 on the left because

00:53:25.440 they don't want you

00:53:26.020 to hear it, and you

00:53:28.120 can't report it on

00:53:28.840 the right because the

00:53:29.840 left will crush you

00:53:30.980 if you do.

00:53:33.900 So, if you're not

00:53:37.100 following the Rasmussen

00:53:38.140 report on X, you

00:53:40.780 probably have no idea

00:53:41.720 what's going on.

00:53:43.700 I don't know that

00:53:44.800 they're going to find

00:53:45.400 anything, but here's

00:53:47.420 what I can say for

00:53:48.180 certain, our

00:53:50.480 elections are not

00:53:51.260 secure.

00:53:54.840 Everybody okay with

00:53:55.820 that?

00:53:57.940 For sure, they're

00:53:58.940 not secure.

00:54:00.360 Whether anything has

00:54:01.480 happened, I have no

00:54:02.480 information to suggest

00:54:04.080 that.

00:54:04.880 Now, I do hope that

00:54:06.240 there's some way that

00:54:07.080 you could audit after

00:54:08.220 the fact and you

00:54:09.760 would pick up any of

00:54:10.780 these, you know, any

00:54:12.620 alleged improprieties,

00:54:14.920 but I don't think so.

00:54:16.880 I don't think our

00:54:17.600 audits can pick up

00:54:18.660 some of the things

00:54:20.240 which would be

00:54:20.840 alleged that could

00:54:22.480 or did happen.

00:54:24.340 So, I think two

00:54:26.760 things can be true,

00:54:27.960 that there's no

00:54:28.720 evidence that is

00:54:29.960 conclusive or even

00:54:31.980 credible based on

00:54:33.980 your own opinion,

00:54:35.140 and that there might

00:54:37.040 be something there we

00:54:37.860 don't know about.

00:54:39.080 Both could be true.

00:54:39.980 All right.

00:54:42.700 Molly Hemingway was

00:54:45.380 tweeting, and there's

00:54:47.040 an article in the

00:54:47.740 Federalist.

00:54:50.840 So, as you know, it's

00:54:52.080 been reported that

00:54:53.020 there were many

00:54:54.520 attempts at

00:54:55.200 investigating the

00:54:56.000 Biden crime family

00:54:56.960 for the past 15

00:54:57.940 years.

00:54:58.540 The claim is that

00:55:00.000 all these

00:55:00.940 investigations were

00:55:02.360 obstructed because it

00:55:04.520 was Biden, and so

00:55:06.080 Biden lovers were 1.00

00:55:07.120 obstructing it.

00:55:07.760 But until you read

00:55:10.520 the details, until

00:55:13.720 you read the

00:55:14.260 details, you don't

00:55:16.420 really realize how

00:55:17.840 bad it was.

00:55:20.500 So, I call it the

00:55:21.880 dilberting of the

00:55:23.660 investigations.

00:55:24.980 Apparently, the way

00:55:25.880 they were all

00:55:26.460 thwarted was with

00:55:28.280 bureaucracy.

00:55:29.980 So much bureaucracy

00:55:32.620 that, for example,

00:55:34.980 one of the

00:55:36.040 whistleblowers, I

00:55:36.980 guess, said that

00:55:38.420 normally you'd need,

00:55:39.880 I think, one

00:55:40.840 approval to renew an

00:55:42.820 investigation for

00:55:43.760 another 30 days,

00:55:45.020 which is a normal

00:55:46.300 routine.

00:55:47.420 You start an

00:55:48.000 investigation, but

00:55:49.240 you don't want to be

00:55:49.800 investigating forever,

00:55:51.180 you know, unless

00:55:51.780 you're finding

00:55:52.220 something useful.

00:55:53.420 So, the process is,

00:55:54.900 after a month, just

00:55:56.520 make sure you get

00:55:57.180 approval to renew the

00:55:58.540 investigation.

00:55:59.160 So, that's a

00:56:00.060 normal process.

00:56:01.160 Kind of a pain in 1.00

00:56:01.840 the ass, wouldn't 1.00

00:56:02.300 you say? 1.00

00:56:03.020 If you were working

00:56:03.680 there, wouldn't you

00:56:04.160 say, oh my God,

00:56:05.880 every 30 days I've

00:56:07.420 got to go get this

00:56:08.440 signature and

00:56:09.500 re-justify everything

00:56:11.240 I'm doing, make my

00:56:12.540 case, explain it all

00:56:14.360 to whoever's going to

00:56:15.120 sign off on it?

00:56:16.080 And that would be

00:56:16.640 like sort of a

00:56:18.260 bureaucratic obstacle,

00:56:19.520 wouldn't you say?

00:56:21.760 Yeah, that's the way

00:56:22.520 it usually worked.

00:56:23.600 Except in the case of

00:56:24.640 the Biden

00:56:24.960 investigations, which

00:56:26.040 at least in one

00:56:26.800 instance or one

00:56:27.840 investigation, they

00:56:30.260 required 17

00:56:31.200 approvals, and you

00:56:32.860 needed to do it

00:56:33.560 every month.

00:56:35.460 17.

00:56:38.700 And when that

00:56:39.640 number came out,

00:56:40.520 the Democrat who

00:56:42.260 was talking to him

00:56:43.380 in Congress, I

00:56:44.220 guess, publicly

00:56:45.520 asked the question,

00:56:47.520 you know, is that

00:56:48.280 hyperbole?

00:56:50.220 Like, you don't

00:56:50.920 mean actually like

00:56:51.800 literally 17, right?

00:56:53.180 And the answer

00:56:55.980 was, it's literally

00:56:57.920 17.

00:57:00.180 That's the exact

00:57:01.040 number.

00:57:02.320 That's not an

00:57:02.880 estimate.

00:57:04.120 It was 17.

00:57:07.220 Now, if you've

00:57:09.220 ever read the

00:57:09.720 Dilbert comic, you

00:57:11.180 know that sometimes

00:57:11.920 in the Dilbert

00:57:12.600 universe, this is

00:57:13.980 exactly how problems

00:57:15.080 are solved.

00:57:16.240 Somebody will just

00:57:17.060 throw so much

00:57:17.640 bureaucracy in front

00:57:18.660 of it that it just

00:57:19.820 makes it impossible.

00:57:20.540 And that's just

00:57:23.280 one of the

00:57:25.540 examples of the

00:57:26.580 ways that they

00:57:27.140 were obstructed.

00:57:28.120 The others are,

00:57:29.160 you know, roughly

00:57:29.780 as outrageous.

00:57:31.380 But when you read

00:57:32.360 them, you easily

00:57:34.000 see how they can

00:57:34.740 hide their evil.

00:57:37.620 Because if you

00:57:38.140 heard any one of

00:57:39.040 these stories, you'd

00:57:40.300 say, really?

00:57:41.300 Well, and then

00:57:42.300 you'd explain it

00:57:43.060 away to yourself.

00:57:44.180 You'd say, all

00:57:45.160 right, but, you

00:57:45.740 know, it's

00:57:47.020 Biden's family, so

00:57:48.280 this is more

00:57:48.800 political.

00:57:49.260 So if it's more

00:57:50.540 political, you'd

00:57:51.420 want more

00:57:51.840 approvals.

00:57:53.160 You know, maybe

00:57:53.520 the 17 wasn't

00:57:54.620 really 17.

00:57:55.700 Maybe it was like

00:57:57.180 some of the

00:57:57.620 people just had to

00:57:58.400 know that the

00:57:58.940 other person said

00:57:59.660 yes, and they

00:58:00.620 were sort of

00:58:01.040 automatic.

00:58:01.900 So if you really

00:58:02.440 came down to it,

00:58:03.200 it might have

00:58:03.480 been five people,

00:58:04.640 but those five

00:58:05.480 people influenced,

00:58:06.440 you know, the

00:58:06.740 larger group of

00:58:07.560 people, and you

00:58:08.420 could talk yourself

00:58:09.020 out of it, right?

00:58:10.900 You could easily

00:58:11.780 say, okay, that's

00:58:13.120 true, and that

00:58:14.280 was an obstacle, but,

00:58:16.020 you know, here are

00:58:16.660 the reasons, reasons,

00:58:17.840 reasons, reasons.

00:58:18.600 And you just

00:58:19.580 move on.

00:58:20.680 But when you see

00:58:21.460 them all together,

00:58:22.940 yeah, it's pretty

00:58:23.640 obvious what was

00:58:24.320 happening.

00:58:25.500 They were just 0.95

00:58:26.140 trying to kill the

00:58:26.780 investigations.

00:58:29.760 All right.

00:58:32.460 So I've avoided

00:58:34.040 talking about the

00:58:34.760 Middle East up until

00:58:35.560 now, and let's do

00:58:39.380 that.

00:58:40.940 For reasons that

00:58:42.040 are not entirely

00:58:42.740 clear, or maybe

00:58:44.340 they should be, the

00:58:45.820 Gaza situation has

00:58:47.720 gone way down in

00:58:48.880 the headlines.

00:58:50.540 Now, some of it

00:58:51.620 is because, you

00:58:52.780 know, the shocking

00:58:54.200 part has led to

00:58:55.760 more of a process

00:58:56.560 part where the

00:58:57.880 Israelis will 1.00

00:58:58.900 dismantle the bad

00:59:00.540 guys a little at a

00:59:01.740 time, apparently.

00:59:02.920 But there have

00:59:03.300 been, Israel's doing 0.99

00:59:05.340 some probing, but

00:59:06.360 not a major ground

00:59:07.600 assault.

00:59:08.340 The U.S. has 0.85

00:59:08.900 taken out two

00:59:10.300 militant bases, I

00:59:11.400 think, in Syria.

00:59:12.000 So they're Iranian 0.92

00:59:14.760 proxies, and then

00:59:15.700 gave a warning to

00:59:16.480 Iran, the U.S. 0.99

00:59:17.580 did, that, you

00:59:19.080 know, the proxies

00:59:20.280 attacking American 0.96

00:59:21.360 bases in the Middle 0.65

00:59:22.240 East, which apparently

00:59:23.040 is happening a lot,

00:59:24.580 won't be tolerated.

00:59:27.020 So they do that.

00:59:28.840 Now, this does open

00:59:29.940 up at least one path

00:59:32.220 of strategy for Israel

00:59:35.100 and the United States

00:59:36.340 that would not cause

00:59:37.400 World War III, which

00:59:40.020 would be eliminating

00:59:41.260 all the proxies, which

00:59:44.000 would include

00:59:44.480 Hezbollah.

00:59:46.560 As long as they

00:59:47.540 didn't actually attack

00:59:48.520 the mainland in any

00:59:50.140 way of Iran, I

00:59:52.800 think they could

00:59:53.480 actually do anything

00:59:55.280 they wanted anywhere

00:59:56.140 else at the moment

00:59:58.180 without inviting in,

01:00:00.140 let's say, Russia,

01:00:01.080 where somebody would

01:00:01.780 turn it into a, you

01:00:03.620 know, world war.

01:00:04.800 I feel like even

01:00:06.120 Russia would stay out 0.99

01:00:07.040 of the way and just

01:00:08.780 let America use up

01:00:09.840 all its bullets that

01:00:10.860 could have otherwise

01:00:11.840 gone to Ukraine.

01:00:14.200 I think Russia would 0.96

01:00:15.140 say, wait, you're

01:00:16.820 going to use up a

01:00:18.680 whole bunch of

01:00:19.180 military assets on

01:00:20.580 Hezbollah? 0.54

01:00:21.280 Because that would be

01:00:22.020 a big job.

01:00:23.700 I think Russia would 0.96

01:00:24.700 say, knock yourself

01:00:25.900 out.

01:00:26.680 Use up all your

01:00:27.420 munitions.

01:00:27.980 Spend all your money.

01:00:28.800 Go ahead.

01:00:29.520 Does it matter to

01:00:30.280 Russia that Hezbollah 1.00

01:00:31.280 gets destroyed?

01:00:33.560 I mean, I don't know

01:00:34.160 the answer to that

01:00:34.660 question.

01:00:35.300 That sounded like it

01:00:36.660 was, it sounded like I

01:00:38.060 was making a point,

01:00:38.780 but that's actually

01:00:39.380 a question.

01:00:40.440 Does Russia care?

01:00:42.280 Russia would care 0.92

01:00:43.100 about Iran for sure

01:00:44.240 because Iran is 0.52

01:00:45.680 helping them.

01:00:47.340 But do they care

01:00:48.160 about Hezbollah?

01:00:49.760 I don't know why

01:00:51.680 they would, but if

01:00:52.560 somebody has a reason

01:00:54.020 for it, I'll listen to

01:00:55.040 it.

01:00:56.060 So it seems to me

01:00:57.340 that there is a

01:00:58.120 non-World War III

01:00:59.420 path.

01:01:00.820 And it would

01:01:02.520 involve parking

01:01:03.420 our Navy off 0.86

01:01:05.340 the coast and

01:01:07.020 one by one

01:01:07.780 dismantling and

01:01:09.040 destroying every

01:01:10.080 proxy that Iran

01:01:11.680 has ever funded.

01:01:12.960 Because it seems to

01:01:13.940 me if you were

01:01:14.600 thinking of being

01:01:15.340 an Iranian proxy

01:01:16.760 in the future,

01:01:19.060 that you would be

01:01:20.200 at least a little

01:01:22.160 bit concerned

01:01:23.560 about the fact

01:01:24.300 that 100% of

01:01:25.260 them had turned

01:01:25.800 into dust recently.

01:01:27.960 I mean, that would

01:01:28.520 certainly discourage

01:01:30.260 you, wouldn't it?

01:01:31.440 So it feels to me

01:01:34.280 like Hezbollah will 0.99

01:01:35.440 probably be destroyed

01:01:36.640 and Lebanon will 0.98

01:01:39.120 be turned into dust

01:01:40.160 is my guess.

01:01:41.880 But that, I don't

01:01:43.300 know, who is

01:01:43.780 Lebanon's big ally?

01:01:46.640 Do they have some

01:01:47.180 big ally that we

01:01:48.080 have to worry about

01:01:48.760 besides Iran?

01:01:51.740 So I think this is

01:01:53.020 what it's going to

01:01:53.500 look like.

01:01:54.580 I think Israel is 0.99

01:01:56.540 going to go slower

01:01:57.400 than most people

01:01:58.840 expect.

01:02:00.260 Because they're

01:02:01.320 going to want to

01:02:01.700 make sure that

01:02:02.180 every action they

01:02:02.980 do has the

01:02:03.680 minimum amount

01:02:04.560 of blowback

01:02:05.760 and death.

01:02:07.420 But they will be

01:02:08.580 just as tough

01:02:09.780 as you imagine

01:02:11.580 they should be,

01:02:13.160 which is they are 1.00

01:02:13.960 going to kill 1.00

01:02:14.360 every member of 1.00

01:02:16.160 Hamas. 0.73

01:02:17.860 That's definitely

01:02:18.800 going to happen.

01:02:20.080 I heard somebody

01:02:20.700 say, was it,

01:02:22.280 I think it was

01:02:22.760 Hamas, one of the 1.00

01:02:23.860 sons of Hamas, 0.54

01:02:25.260 who is now

01:02:26.040 pro-Israel,

01:02:26.940 says it's just

01:02:27.500 crazy, he rejects

01:02:28.680 Hamas. 0.76

01:02:29.900 But he's saying

01:02:30.720 that, I think it

01:02:31.760 was him, who

01:02:32.940 said that the

01:02:33.580 Israelis should 1.00

01:02:34.320 kill all the 1.00

01:02:35.000 Hamas prisoners, 1.00

01:02:37.420 the ones that

01:02:37.940 are looking to

01:02:38.840 trade for the,

01:02:40.460 and I thought,

01:02:41.560 wow, wow,

01:02:43.980 that's pretty

01:02:45.480 rough.

01:02:46.780 But how in the

01:02:48.180 world can Israel 0.91

01:02:49.860 keep Hamas 1.00

01:02:50.960 alive?

01:02:51.480 If they've got

01:02:53.420 Hamas fighters

01:02:54.800 in jail, are

01:02:56.380 they just going

01:02:56.800 to keep them

01:02:57.160 in jail while 0.99

01:02:58.260 they're killing 0.99

01:02:58.840 the other ones

01:02:59.380 on the battlefield?

01:03:02.800 I've got a

01:03:03.480 feeling they're

01:03:03.940 going to release

01:03:04.500 them into the

01:03:04.980 middle of the

01:03:05.380 war zone without

01:03:06.580 weapons.

01:03:07.980 Just say, hey,

01:03:08.960 here you go.

01:03:10.380 Good luck.

01:03:11.400 No food, no

01:03:12.080 water, no

01:03:12.540 weapons.

01:03:13.620 But you're

01:03:14.200 free.

01:03:14.420 So I'm going

01:03:18.080 to say lots

01:03:19.080 of targeted

01:03:19.640 attacks.

01:03:21.540 Gaza will 0.94

01:03:22.200 never be the

01:03:22.780 same, of

01:03:23.300 course.

01:03:24.040 It looks like

01:03:24.680 they're going

01:03:24.940 to blow up

01:03:25.540 as much as 0.56

01:03:26.500 they can to

01:03:27.220 get a clear

01:03:28.660 path at the

01:03:29.500 bad guys.

01:03:30.600 If I were

01:03:31.440 Israel, I

01:03:32.860 don't know

01:03:33.160 enough about

01:03:33.600 the specifics

01:03:35.280 there, but it

01:03:36.380 seems like what

01:03:37.000 they should be

01:03:37.520 doing is just

01:03:38.840 shrinking the

01:03:40.000 battlefield.

01:03:42.220 Am I wrong?

01:03:43.080 Knowing nothing

01:03:45.060 about urban

01:03:45.700 warfare.

01:03:46.500 Normally what

01:03:47.080 you're trying

01:03:47.460 to do is

01:03:48.560 go into an

01:03:49.920 existing city

01:03:50.900 and go through

01:03:52.920 the existing

01:03:53.460 streets and

01:03:54.260 stuff and

01:03:54.800 people are 0.79

01:03:55.540 shooting you 0.98

01:03:56.100 from everything. 0.71

01:03:59.720 But it

01:04:00.000 seems to me

01:04:00.460 they could

01:04:00.780 just essentially

01:04:02.160 turn to

01:04:03.240 rubble

01:04:03.640 everything that

01:04:06.100 would have a

01:04:06.520 window or a

01:04:07.140 door.

01:04:08.500 And then it's

01:04:09.020 just big piles.

01:04:11.280 And once it's

01:04:11.880 big piles, can't

01:04:12.840 you see almost

01:04:13.440 everybody from

01:04:14.040 the air?

01:04:15.440 If there's no

01:04:16.300 indoors, you

01:04:17.860 just eliminate the

01:04:18.880 concept of

01:04:19.480 indoors, I

01:04:21.600 feel like you

01:04:22.100 can see them.

01:04:23.000 So what I

01:04:24.020 imagine might

01:04:24.700 happen, take a 0.61

01:04:26.100 lot of bombs,

01:04:27.020 but that they

01:04:27.720 would just keep

01:04:28.340 bombing and

01:04:29.260 shrinking the

01:04:30.340 area that the

01:04:31.040 bad guys are

01:04:31.660 in while

01:04:32.680 continuing to

01:04:33.460 negotiate for

01:04:34.520 the hostages

01:04:37.280 while not doing

01:04:39.180 something that

01:04:39.720 looks like an

01:04:40.460 obvious collective

01:04:41.720 punishment,

01:04:43.200 destroying a

01:04:43.800 bunch of

01:04:44.400 innocent people

01:04:45.280 because the

01:04:46.100 innocents could 1.00

01:04:46.740 get plenty of 0.79

01:04:47.740 notice.

01:04:48.860 This building

01:04:49.560 will disappear

01:04:50.160 in four hours.

01:04:51.900 Don't be in it.

01:04:53.060 Now this building

01:04:53.880 will disappear and

01:04:54.620 they just keep

01:04:55.080 shrinking it.

01:04:56.600 Because if they

01:04:57.260 shrink the area

01:04:57.860 enough, they

01:05:00.320 should be able to

01:05:00.820 get control of the

01:05:01.500 tunnels and then

01:05:03.440 finish it off.

01:05:04.920 But I don't know

01:05:05.680 anything about

01:05:06.140 the military, so

01:05:06.900 that's just my 0.99

01:05:08.120 dumb thoughts 0.99

01:05:09.900 about it. 0.99

01:05:11.860 But what do

01:05:12.320 you think, just

01:05:13.720 strategically and

01:05:15.540 hearts and minds

01:05:17.300 wise, do you

01:05:19.560 think that the

01:05:20.440 smart play is to

01:05:21.660 eliminate 100% of 0.98

01:05:23.420 the Iranian

01:05:24.140 proxies but not

01:05:25.980 put a bomb on

01:05:26.920 the homeland of 0.94

01:05:27.720 Iran? 0.79

01:05:29.280 What do you

01:05:29.900 think of that?

01:05:31.020 That might not

01:05:31.880 be enough for

01:05:32.940 Israel, but you'd

01:05:35.980 have to consider

01:05:36.600 it.

01:05:38.200 I think if the

01:05:40.180 Iranians can't 1.00

01:05:41.100 find anybody to

01:05:41.900 give money to to

01:05:42.800 be a proxy because

01:05:44.380 they keep disappearing,

01:05:46.800 that would be a

01:05:48.900 good start.

01:05:52.760 All right.

01:05:54.880 So much death.

01:05:56.040 Yeah.

01:05:59.280 I think the idea

01:06:00.740 of, you know, just

01:06:01.740 wiping out Gaza is 1.00

01:06:03.680 a complete non-starter

01:06:04.840 border because it

01:06:06.100 would be giving

01:06:06.600 away so much

01:06:07.400 moral authority

01:06:08.160 that I would

01:06:10.180 argue that moral

01:06:12.060 authority is the

01:06:12.840 only thing that

01:06:13.340 keeps Israel 1.00

01:06:14.760 alive.

01:06:17.180 If they didn't

01:06:17.960 have that, they

01:06:19.600 wouldn't have

01:06:19.940 support.

01:06:21.800 So they can't

01:06:23.200 lose that.

01:06:23.760 It's the biggest

01:06:24.260 asset.

01:06:25.520 And that's the

01:06:26.740 asset that Hamas 0.77

01:06:28.060 was trying to take

01:06:28.800 from them.

01:06:29.780 They were trying

01:06:30.260 to take their

01:06:30.920 moral authority by

01:06:32.680 forcing them to

01:06:33.720 respond like

01:06:35.520 Hamas. 0.73

01:06:36.720 They want Israel 1.00

01:06:37.880 to turn into

01:06:38.600 Hamas so it's a 1.00

01:06:40.240 fair fight.

01:06:42.540 And Israel is 0.94

01:06:44.460 basically hate 0.99

01:06:46.060 crazy at the

01:06:46.780 moment.

01:06:48.020 Now, I want to be

01:06:48.520 very careful when I

01:06:49.420 say this.

01:06:50.420 If you put anybody

01:06:51.780 in Israel's

01:06:52.680 situation, there's

01:06:54.680 no way they can

01:06:55.360 think clearly.

01:06:56.740 Would you agree

01:06:57.400 with that?

01:06:59.840 Is that a fair

01:07:00.720 statement?

01:07:01.640 This is nothing

01:07:02.220 about Israel.

01:07:03.580 You couldn't put

01:07:04.340 anybody into such

01:07:05.460 a PTSD situation

01:07:07.640 and expect them

01:07:09.200 to act exactly as

01:07:10.380 if they had not

01:07:10.940 been in that

01:07:11.460 situation.

01:07:12.780 That's not a

01:07:13.540 thing.

01:07:14.940 So if you're

01:07:15.740 expecting them to

01:07:16.480 be completely

01:07:17.200 cool and calm

01:07:18.480 and just follow

01:07:20.280 the odds and do

01:07:21.300 a good risk

01:07:21.860 assessment, that's

01:07:23.720 something you

01:07:24.200 could ask anybody

01:07:25.200 else.

01:07:26.620 But you can't

01:07:27.320 ask somebody who

01:07:28.060 just watched their

01:07:28.740 children be

01:07:29.240 slaughtered. 0.99

01:07:30.720 can't ask.

01:07:32.800 That is off the 1.00

01:07:33.900 fucking table. 1.00

01:07:35.400 They're going to 1.00

01:07:35.860 do what they

01:07:36.260 need to do to

01:07:38.260 reassemble their

01:07:39.900 minds.

01:07:41.860 Because right now

01:07:42.400 their minds are

01:07:43.100 scrambled by

01:07:44.720 Havats. 0.53

01:07:45.960 They've got to

01:07:46.360 put that back

01:07:46.920 together as they

01:07:47.640 can and it

01:07:49.500 might require

01:07:50.040 violence as part

01:07:51.280 of the, well

01:07:52.260 it does, it does

01:07:53.240 require violence

01:07:54.020 as part of the

01:07:55.180 solution.

01:07:56.080 They're going to

01:07:56.580 need to feel that

01:07:57.360 there was something

01:07:58.200 like justice,

01:08:01.580 something like

01:08:02.820 payback, something

01:08:04.000 like revenge, or

01:08:05.600 otherwise you just

01:08:06.440 can't move on, as

01:08:08.880 if you could ever

01:08:09.480 move on.

01:08:10.200 You'll never be able

01:08:10.920 to move on from

01:08:11.660 it, but you'll be

01:08:13.140 at least something.

01:08:15.800 So with the

01:08:17.680 greatest respect and

01:08:18.720 empathy, I think we

01:08:20.400 have to understand

01:08:21.400 that Israel's got the 0.97

01:08:22.860 toughest problem a

01:08:23.940 population could deal

01:08:25.000 with, which is in

01:08:26.760 order to feel

01:08:27.520 better, they would

01:08:29.180 have to become the

01:08:30.120 thing they hate the

01:08:31.140 most.

01:08:35.100 That's a problem.

01:08:37.480 I don't know what

01:08:38.280 the solution is.

01:08:39.720 But they are a very

01:08:41.460 capable nation and if

01:08:42.880 somebody is going to

01:08:43.540 solve that problem, I

01:08:46.340 like their odds.

01:08:47.620 I like their odds.

01:08:48.840 But the thing that is

01:08:49.920 most important, by

01:08:52.380 far, is that they

01:08:55.340 slow down.

01:08:57.300 Because the slowing

01:08:58.240 down is where the

01:08:59.620 reason can start to

01:09:01.260 replace the emotion.

01:09:03.100 It's going to be a

01:09:03.620 slow process.

01:09:05.420 But anything you do

01:09:06.540 fast is going to be

01:09:07.660 emotion.

01:09:08.760 Anything you do

01:09:09.500 slower is going to

01:09:10.320 have a little bit of

01:09:11.040 reason mixed in a

01:09:12.000 little bit better.

01:09:13.640 So it looks to me,

01:09:17.060 because Israel is in 0.97

01:09:18.220 fact moving slowly, and

01:09:19.580 by the way, I think

01:09:20.800 they could have said

01:09:21.360 no to America. 0.68

01:09:23.560 They could have.

01:09:24.660 They could have said

01:09:25.480 no, we're going in

01:09:26.720 now, we're not going

01:09:27.880 to wait for your

01:09:28.680 missiles or anything,

01:09:29.740 we've just got to go

01:09:30.660 in now.

01:09:31.300 They could have.

01:09:32.880 I feel like it was

01:09:34.400 wisdom that slowed

01:09:35.880 them down and not the

01:09:37.640 United States.

01:09:39.340 Just a feeling.

01:09:40.960 I feel like their

01:09:41.740 collective wisdom

01:09:42.880 slowed them down.

01:09:46.760 Which, you know, you

01:09:47.900 could argue was God

01:09:49.260 himself.

01:09:51.500 You know, God took a

01:09:52.740 little time.

01:09:54.100 But I feel like there's

01:09:55.240 got to be some God in

01:09:56.400 this story, right?

01:09:57.580 I'm not a believer, but

01:09:58.780 bear with me.

01:10:01.240 If you were Israel, you 1.00

01:10:03.860 would be feeling

01:10:04.520 something like God's

01:10:06.100 presence through this

01:10:07.860 entire ordeal.

01:10:09.360 And you'd have to be

01:10:10.440 asking yourself, what

01:10:13.000 would God do?

01:10:14.420 What would God want

01:10:15.560 you to do?

01:10:17.920 Good questions.

01:10:19.440 But I would say the

01:10:20.420 key question for Israel,

01:10:24.220 and here's your

01:10:25.400 reframe that's the

01:10:27.500 most important one.

01:10:29.680 We think that Israel is 0.99

01:10:31.480 deciding what to do.

01:10:34.940 That's not what's

01:10:35.820 happening.

01:10:36.700 That might be how they

01:10:37.840 think of it.

01:10:39.460 They're not deciding what

01:10:40.880 to do.

01:10:43.020 They're deciding who to

01:10:44.380 become.

01:10:46.540 That's different.

01:10:48.460 Deciding what to do is

01:10:49.620 kind of easy. 1.00

01:10:50.800 Go in and kill all the 1.00

01:10:51.980 bad guys as fast as you 1.00

01:10:53.080 can.

01:10:54.000 It's kind of easy.

01:10:55.440 Deciding who you want to

01:10:56.640 be for the next 50 years,

01:10:59.560 that's hard.

01:11:00.780 So they're going to have

01:11:03.160 to balance what they

01:11:04.960 know they need to do,

01:11:06.580 which is crush their

01:11:08.620 mortal enemies, with who

01:11:11.080 they want to be.

01:11:12.500 And those might not be

01:11:13.820 exactly the same.

01:11:16.440 So who they might want

01:11:18.820 to be is the people who

01:11:21.360 were wounded in the most

01:11:24.660 severe way anything or

01:11:27.420 anybody could be wounded.

01:11:28.540 And indeed, death to

01:11:31.420 many of them. 0.98

01:11:32.720 And still, retain their

01:11:35.600 humanity.

01:11:38.120 That's who they can be.

01:11:40.360 That's who they can be.

01:11:42.520 But it's a choice.

01:11:44.720 So they can either be the

01:11:45.920 ones who, you know, mowed

01:11:47.480 down the Palestinians who 1.00

01:11:49.380 were in the way, or they

01:11:51.160 can be the ones who saved

01:11:53.580 their enemies to save

01:11:56.800 themselves.

01:11:58.540 And by that, I mean, you

01:12:01.620 know, minimize the

01:12:02.840 civilian damage.

01:12:04.460 Some civilians will die.

01:12:05.600 There's just no way around

01:12:06.700 it.

01:12:08.080 So that's a big thing.

01:12:13.000 So far, I would say Israel 1.00

01:12:14.720 has played it exactly

01:12:16.000 correctly.

01:12:18.080 By making the biggest

01:12:20.520 amount of response and

01:12:22.500 then holding back.

01:12:24.320 To me, that seems the

01:12:27.880 wisest path.

01:12:29.920 And, you know, we

01:12:30.680 should all wish

01:12:33.620 everybody the best of

01:12:34.700 luck in that region.

01:12:38.100 It's almost impossible to

01:12:39.680 wrap your head around

01:12:40.800 what's going on over

01:12:41.620 there.

01:12:43.080 So all of us have to

01:12:44.720 take little mental

01:12:45.400 vacations.

01:12:46.940 Yesterday, I sort of

01:12:48.820 stopped watching the bad

01:12:50.260 news, you know, earlier

01:12:51.960 in the day than I usually

01:12:53.020 do.

01:12:53.420 Usually, I'm hooked to

01:12:54.500 the news all day.

01:12:55.360 I'm always just checking it

01:12:56.300 all the time.

01:12:57.100 But I realized that my

01:12:58.540 mental health was really

01:12:59.800 suffering.

01:13:01.100 Has anybody had that same

01:13:02.160 experience?

01:13:04.320 Yeah.

01:13:04.620 My actual mental health

01:13:06.260 was very much at risk.

01:13:09.100 Not, no hyperbole

01:13:10.820 involved.

01:13:11.640 It was a mental health

01:13:12.660 problem, for sure.

01:13:14.320 Yeah.

01:13:14.480 It was PTSD, and I'm an

01:13:16.760 ocean away.

01:13:19.180 So, think about the

01:13:20.780 effect that it had on you,

01:13:22.580 an ocean away, and now

01:13:25.060 think about how scrambled

01:13:27.340 the minds of the Israeli

01:13:28.700 citizens are today.

01:13:31.040 Yeah.

01:13:31.820 It's beyond, I can't even

01:13:35.020 imagine it.

01:13:35.840 I don't even know how to,

01:13:36.860 like, put a thought on it.

01:13:38.980 It's so horrible.

01:13:39.620 But, uh, the good news

01:13:43.660 is, we might have a way

01:13:46.960 to survive.

01:13:48.500 And let me, let me, uh,

01:13:49.860 change your minds to

01:13:50.900 something crypto, so I

01:13:52.660 can just take you out of

01:13:53.460 this, uh, mode, okay?

01:13:54.940 I don't want to end on

01:13:55.760 this.

01:13:56.680 I just want to throw out

01:13:57.740 an idea.

01:14:00.020 Is there any way we could

01:14:01.020 solve the national debt

01:14:03.260 with crypto?

01:14:05.480 Now, does anybody ever

01:14:08.200 come up with a play for

01:14:09.120 that?

01:14:09.620 Only if you want another,

01:14:16.280 uh, situation?

01:14:17.920 No, I mean, it would

01:14:19.000 obviously be a, a U.S.

01:14:21.140 backed crypto, so it 0.99

01:14:23.060 wouldn't be a shit coin. 0.98

01:14:26.480 Because, I don't know if 0.98

01:14:28.280 I understand crypto well

01:14:29.520 enough, but you can make

01:14:31.900 money on a thin air, right?

01:14:34.580 So, couldn't you make

01:14:35.680 enough to pay off the debt

01:14:37.940 debt and then just tell

01:14:39.680 people it's worth something

01:14:40.800 or at least you can use

01:14:42.460 it?

01:14:42.760 Oh, actually, America can

01:14:44.120 make any crypto valuable

01:14:45.600 by just saying they will

01:14:47.280 accept it for your tax

01:14:48.660 payments.

01:14:49.100 because so many people pay taxes

01:14:51.480 because so many people pay taxes

01:14:51.500 they would, it would just

01:14:53.180 give it a market. 0.99

01:14:54.180 holy shit, he's off the deep end. 0.99

01:15:00.840 Really? 1.00

01:15:02.400 I'm off the deep end?

01:15:04.000 Do any of you think that in 200 years

01:15:06.620 you're going to be paying for stuff

01:15:07.720 with pieces of paper that you

01:15:08.920 carried in your pocket?

01:15:11.360 You know that crypto is

01:15:13.180 guaranteed, right?

01:15:15.400 You're not going to have paper.

01:15:16.680 Oh, here's my piece of paper

01:15:19.840 to pay for my robot.

01:15:22.240 That's not going to happen.

01:15:24.420 And, well,

01:15:25.920 credit cards are basically crypto.

01:15:29.300 The difference between

01:15:30.480 a credit card and crypto

01:15:32.220 is that the credit card

01:15:33.160 has too many bureaucratic

01:15:34.520 steps and too many people

01:15:36.220 taking a cut and

01:15:37.120 all that.

01:15:39.240 But otherwise, it's digital money.

01:15:41.460 It's digital money.

01:15:42.300 So, I'm just wondering

01:15:45.200 if the math works.

01:15:47.900 Could there be a math

01:15:48.960 where all U.S. debt

01:15:50.900 is paid off with some crypto

01:15:52.380 and everybody doesn't care?

01:15:56.140 Is that even possible?

01:15:58.440 Or does that create

01:16:00.620 an inflation, like, super bomb?

01:16:04.660 Would that create

01:16:05.280 an immediate inflation super bomb

01:16:07.620 if you paid off

01:16:08.940 all the debt right away?

01:16:10.120 Or maybe you could pay it down

01:16:11.500 over time?

01:16:16.760 Yeah.

01:16:18.340 Well, I'm asking you how.

01:16:20.380 The only thing

01:16:21.480 that I'm starting with

01:16:22.800 is we've got a debt

01:16:24.720 that cannot be paid

01:16:25.920 in any normal way.

01:16:28.280 In my opinion,

01:16:29.760 the amount of debt

01:16:30.680 cannot be paid

01:16:32.000 by normal economic activity.

01:16:34.660 That's what I think.

01:16:36.700 So, if you have a debt

01:16:38.380 that cannot be paid

01:16:39.440 and will destroy the world, 0.86

01:16:40.740 suddenly you get

01:16:42.100 really creative, right?

01:16:43.820 You don't have an option.

01:16:46.000 What's the other option?

01:16:47.700 Infinite debt

01:16:48.460 until you all go poor?

01:16:50.800 Give me your other idea.

01:16:52.820 Because if your other idea...

01:16:53.780 Well, inflation.

01:16:54.860 Yeah.

01:16:55.240 You can inflate it away

01:16:56.280 and then we all become poor

01:16:57.960 the other way.

01:16:59.160 But, is it true

01:17:03.160 that you can create money

01:17:04.660 out of nothing

01:17:05.360 with a crypto product?

01:17:08.440 That's true, right?

01:17:11.180 No?

01:17:12.520 Because you always have to pay money

01:17:14.160 to buy the crypto?

01:17:15.220 Is that why?

01:17:15.720 Why?

01:17:15.800 Did Bitcoin create value

01:17:22.040 or did it just transfer value

01:17:24.420 from somewhere

01:17:25.100 where it already existed?

01:17:26.540 Which did it do?

01:17:28.160 Did Bitcoin create value

01:17:29.780 out of nothing

01:17:30.280 or did it simply transfer

01:17:32.780 dollar bills

01:17:33.900 into a different form?

01:17:36.240 Somebody says both,

01:17:37.360 which means it created value, right?

01:17:39.820 If it did both,

01:17:42.120 then crypto is a thing

01:17:43.400 that can create money

01:17:44.360 out of nothing.

01:17:44.880 Wrong?

01:17:47.500 Am I wrong

01:17:48.040 or am I right?

01:17:49.640 That it could create

01:17:50.780 money out of nothing.

01:17:52.040 Now, Bitcoin requires mining,

01:17:54.800 but you could make a coin

01:17:58.080 that didn't require mining.

01:18:01.600 All you would need is...

01:18:03.320 See, the reason that Bitcoin

01:18:04.680 became valuable

01:18:05.600 because it was hard to mine it,

01:18:07.520 you know, that's part of

01:18:08.300 the scarcity value,

01:18:10.800 but the United States

01:18:12.120 could make it valuable

01:18:14.240 just by saying,

01:18:15.180 we'll accept our new coin

01:18:16.540 if you're paying your taxes.

01:18:18.500 Don't worry about anything else.

01:18:20.100 If you want to pay your taxes,

01:18:21.400 we'll take that coin.

01:18:22.720 And then it instantly has value.

01:18:26.860 All right.

01:18:27.640 Well, it's interesting

01:18:29.060 that most of us

01:18:30.460 don't know the answer

01:18:31.320 to this question.

01:18:32.980 Could you pay off

01:18:33.840 all of the debt

01:18:34.740 with a clever move,

01:18:37.440 once in history,

01:18:38.240 you'd only do it once

01:18:39.840 and just drive away

01:18:41.540 all the dollar bill debt?

01:18:43.900 What would be the...

01:18:45.100 What would be the problem with it?

01:18:49.600 Inflation?

01:18:53.940 Yeah, I don't know.

01:18:55.060 I'll just put that out there.

01:18:56.400 I have a prediction.

01:18:59.440 There will be no other way.

01:19:01.920 There are two things

01:19:02.740 that are guaranteed,

01:19:03.500 in my opinion.

01:19:04.840 There's no normal way

01:19:05.880 to pay down our debt.

01:19:07.640 And so if we didn't do

01:19:08.520 something abnormal,

01:19:09.940 we would be doomed.

01:19:12.260 Does anybody disagree with that?

01:19:14.680 There's no normal way

01:19:16.100 to pay down our existing debt.

01:19:18.460 Because it's also growing

01:19:19.800 faster than we're paying it down.

01:19:21.280 I mean, we're not even close

01:19:22.180 to being able to handle it.

01:19:25.740 Number two,

01:19:26.460 at some point

01:19:28.380 in American history,

01:19:30.280 paper money will go away

01:19:31.860 and there will be

01:19:33.000 some kind of cryptocurrency.

01:19:34.680 There's no way around it.

01:19:35.940 Would you agree

01:19:36.440 there's no way around it

01:19:37.740 no matter how much you hate it?

01:19:40.100 Would you agree with that?

01:19:41.500 Like, it's just guaranteed.

01:19:43.800 Yeah.

01:19:44.380 You can hate it

01:19:45.120 and you can try to stop it.

01:19:47.860 But it's kind of guaranteed.

01:19:49.740 Now, the only thing

01:19:50.960 that's variable

01:19:51.580 is when it will happen.

01:19:54.300 Oh, it's guaranteed.

01:19:55.240 Yeah, it's guaranteed.

01:19:58.820 In fact,

01:20:00.500 I'd love to see

01:20:01.380 what the X platform does

01:20:03.320 when it becomes more financial.

01:20:06.500 What it does with crypto.

01:20:09.140 That could be a world changer.

01:20:11.740 All right.

01:20:12.160 Well, I'll just put

01:20:12.840 that thought in your head.

01:20:13.980 I want to leave you

01:20:14.920 with something confusing

01:20:16.240 but potentially optimistic.

01:20:21.860 Reduce debt

01:20:22.460 by selling U.S. citizenship.

01:20:24.120 I don't know

01:20:24.500 if we could sell it

01:20:25.160 for enough.

01:20:32.820 Not the only option.

01:20:34.100 I'd love to hear

01:20:34.740 other options

01:20:37.240 for paying down the debt.

01:20:41.320 All right.

01:20:44.500 That is all for today.

01:20:45.740 Thanks for joining.

01:20:47.120 Uh-oh.

01:20:51.440 And I'll talk to you

01:20:52.700 tomorrow

01:20:54.180 or in the case of

01:20:55.320 locals people

01:20:56.640 tonight

01:20:57.560 in the man cave.

01:20:59.200 and I'll talk to you

01:21:09.640 ongoing.

01:21:10.320 I'll talk to you

01:21:11.080 tomorrow.

01:21:12.660 And I'll talk to you

01:21:13.060 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 27, 2023

Episode 2274 Scott Adams： CWSA 10⧸27⧸23, How Hypnotists See Politics

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