Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2353 CWSA 01⧸14⧸24

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, the finest experience you'll

00:00:13.760 ever have in your life.

00:00:15.180 And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand,

00:00:20.940 all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or sign, a canteen

00:00:24.740 judge or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:28.720 I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:00:33.180 It's the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:36.440 It's called a simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:00:39.920 Oh.

00:00:43.720 Yeah, that's good.

00:00:47.100 Possibly top ten, one of the best sips of the entire sipping universe.

00:00:51.860 Now, we got news, a lot of kinds of news, but I saw this little article about there was

00:01:01.560 a place in upstate New York where they found what might be the oldest existing forest that

00:01:09.800 might be so old and has like old kinds of plants and stuff.

00:01:13.640 It might be so old that the dinosaurs saw the same kind of plants.

00:01:18.700 Where is this place in upstate New York?

00:01:22.660 It turns out it's practically across the house from where I grew up.

00:01:27.120 It turns out, have I ever told you, too many times, that I end up in the middle of stories

00:01:35.060 for no reason whatsoever.

00:01:37.340 So, I'm reading this story about the oldest forest.

00:01:42.320 I'm like, okay, well, the story about dinosaurs in the oldest forest clearly will have no connection

00:01:48.000 to me.

00:01:49.320 So, I'm reading this story.

00:01:50.580 Where is this oldest forest?

00:01:52.340 Oh, it's in the Catskill Mountains.

00:01:54.280 Oh, that's interesting.

00:01:55.680 Catskill Mountains is where I grew up.

00:01:58.300 And where is it?

00:01:59.880 Cairo.

00:02:00.720 Cairo.

00:02:01.240 Cairo.

00:02:02.420 Cairo.

00:02:02.980 That's where I did my grocery shopping.

00:02:04.620 And why did they say, oh, apparently you're not allowed to visit this oldest forest place.

00:02:14.320 So, visitors can't go there because they don't want people ruining it with their traffic.

00:02:18.540 So, it's just for science.

00:02:20.360 So, there's this place in New York that would be cool to look at and it would be the only

00:02:24.460 thing in New York worth looking at.

00:02:26.800 But you're not allowed.

00:02:29.040 You're not allowed in.

00:02:30.560 You grew up in Cairo?

00:02:32.480 I'll be down.

00:02:33.060 Maybe we knew each other.

00:02:35.560 But then they throw into the article, this is in the New York Post, for no reason at

00:02:41.240 all, they throw the following thing into the article.

00:02:44.740 Well, you can't go to this old growth forest, but there are other things you can go to.

00:02:51.300 Why is that even in the article?

00:02:53.720 The only point of the article is there's this great, like, old forest that may have been

00:02:57.980 around during the dinosaurs, and then they end it with, but you can't go see it.

00:03:02.980 It's closed.

00:03:04.260 However, the good news is there are other completely unrelated things in upstate New York you can

00:03:09.240 do instead.

00:03:09.800 And then it lists one of them as Ski Wyndham, the ski slope in Wyndham, New York, that was

00:03:16.020 literally across the street from my house.

00:03:20.180 I literally could look out the window and watch the people ski on the mountain across from the

00:03:25.160 house.

00:03:25.660 That's where I worked.

00:03:26.980 I used to work at the Wyndham ski slope.

00:03:28.820 Anyway, all stories about me.

00:03:30.060 Speaking about things about me, I made a discovery that is just blowing my frickin' mind.

00:03:38.320 Now, I know this will be more about me than you, but this is really interesting to me.

00:03:45.080 It might not be interesting to you.

00:03:47.260 I'll say that right up front.

00:03:49.400 So I made a little discovery.

00:03:50.800 Somebody has uploaded the old Dilbert animated TV show that ran for two half seasons on UPM

00:03:58.480 back in the year 2000 and 2001.

00:04:02.400 And they took out the opening and closing credits, so it's like 10 hours of just solid

00:04:09.280 Dilbert.

00:04:10.540 Now, I didn't remember most of it, even though I wrote, I think I wrote at least half of it,

00:04:16.440 the scripts.

00:04:17.700 But it's been so long that I didn't really remember the specific jokes or anything.

00:04:22.160 So I started watching and I thought, oh, wow, strangely, this held up really well.

00:04:26.640 You know, a lot of humor doesn't hold up, but it held up really well.

00:04:31.100 And then I did something that was really interesting.

00:04:34.880 I had one complaint with the series myself, you know, when it was made, and it was that

00:04:41.220 the actors all talked slowly.

00:04:43.640 And I didn't know that until the first initial animation came back.

00:04:48.200 And I thought, why is everybody talking slowly?

00:04:50.940 Now, they were not talking slowly.

00:04:53.480 They were talking normal.

00:04:55.460 But what I didn't realize, and it just took me a while to piece it together, I always wondered

00:05:00.760 why the Simpsons and other, you know, really well-performing comics, everybody seemed to

00:05:06.640 talk fast.

00:05:08.280 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

00:05:11.500 So in just a whim of curiosity, I set the YouTube viewing at 1.25 speed. 0.99

00:05:20.940 And at 1.25 speed, that is a fucking magical show. 0.99

00:05:27.340 Oh, my God. 0.99

00:05:29.440 It's so good at 1.25.

00:05:31.640 I screamed.

00:05:33.060 Like, I howled.

00:05:34.320 I was crying, watching things that some of it I wrote.

00:05:39.240 I just didn't remember.

00:05:40.720 Yeah, the difference between regular speed and 1.25 takes it into a whole new category.

00:05:47.900 Now, if you're interested enough to watch it, and especially if you've watched it before,

00:05:53.020 here's what to look for.

00:05:55.040 Look for the first half of the episodes, you know, the first 10 or so.

00:06:00.000 They're not really that strong.

00:06:02.100 And there's a reason for that.

00:06:03.600 In the first season, you have no feedback because you've got all these episodes you've written

00:06:08.340 and they're in the pipeline.

00:06:09.340 And you don't really see them until they're on TV.

00:06:12.680 So you don't know what you did right and what you did wrong.

00:06:15.580 By the second season, half season, the last 10 shows or so, watch those last 10 shows.

00:06:23.580 Now, here's the political part.

00:06:25.860 I'm going to tie this into the politics.

00:06:28.580 Ask yourself if that show should have been canceled.

00:06:30.980 Now, the back story is that it ran on a Monday night on the old network, UPN.

00:06:37.380 The UPN decided strategically that they were going to turn Monday night into an all-black

00:06:42.720 comedy block.

00:06:44.800 Now, nothing wrong with that.

00:06:46.000 That's just probably, you know, good marketing and stuff.

00:06:49.680 But Dilbert ran on that Monday after Aisha or something. 0.97

00:06:54.620 And it had a good audience, good enough to be re-upped for the next year.

00:07:00.360 But as soon as a TV show has moved to a new time slot, and this is well understood in

00:07:05.480 the TV industry, it almost always kills it.

00:07:08.840 Oh, Moesha. 0.61

00:07:09.680 Moesha.

00:07:10.260 That's correct.

00:07:11.360 Yeah.

00:07:11.600 It was after a show called Moesha.

00:07:13.740 And it did well.

00:07:14.700 I retained, you know, a good lot of that audience.

00:07:18.020 So basically, Dilbert got canceled for being white. 0.90

00:07:23.620 Yeah.

00:07:24.620 And, but look at the, look at the quality of the show and ask yourself if that show should

00:07:31.240 have been canceled.

00:07:32.180 You're going to be surprised.

00:07:34.320 All right.

00:07:37.000 I saw a fascinating thread from Kyle Becker on X, who believes that the NFL is rigged and

00:07:45.200 that it was obvious in the game.

00:07:46.760 I guess it was a game last night.

00:07:48.420 I'm not really following football.

00:07:49.720 But do I understand the story right?

00:07:55.740 I want to make sure I get the allegation right.

00:07:57.900 Now, this is just an allegation.

00:07:59.820 I didn't watch it.

00:08:00.880 So it wasn't at the Chiefs against the Dolphins.

00:08:04.620 And don't we understand that Taylor Swift is dating one of the Chiefs? 0.77

00:08:09.700 And therefore, that's like the biggest story in sports because Taylor Swift is attached to

00:08:14.320 it.

00:08:14.660 And wouldn't it be great to have a Super Bowl with Taylor Swift?

00:08:19.940 Now, according to Kyle, who's watched a lot of football, he says, it was kind of obvious

00:08:26.720 that the refs were pushing for the Chiefs.

00:08:30.840 Do you think that's true?

00:08:32.640 Did anybody watch the game?

00:08:34.720 How many of you have the same impression that it looked like it was rigged?

00:08:38.280 Yeah, I don't have an opinion on this, but I'm interested in yours.

00:08:42.820 A lot of yeses.

00:08:44.120 A lot of yeses.

00:08:47.240 Has anybody started to figure out what I finally came to realize?

00:08:53.320 That nothing is real?

00:08:57.020 Nothing's real.

00:08:58.880 Absolutely nothing is real.

00:09:00.660 You know where I learned this?

00:09:01.760 I learned this as a child.

00:09:02.940 I remember watching professional wrestling as a child, and I'd watch it and I'd say, I'm

00:09:12.420 almost positive that's not real.

00:09:15.280 I feel like they would be hurting themselves far more if they were really trying to hurt

00:09:21.260 each other.

00:09:22.120 So as a young child, I was like, I feel like TV's lying to me.

00:09:26.960 That's not real.

00:09:27.960 So, and then do you remember the game shows, like what's the one with tic-tac-tac-tow?

00:09:36.880 Celebrity Squares?

00:09:38.420 Hollywood Squares, right?

00:09:39.900 Hollywood Squares.

00:09:41.280 And there was a little notice that came toward the end of the show, just a little notice.

00:09:47.840 It would say, sometimes, just sometimes, just occasionally, we might tell the contestants

00:09:54.640 what the question is before the question.

00:09:57.960 Do you remember, I forget the one celebrity who was always hilarious?

00:10:05.460 It was always obvious to me that his joke had been written in advance.

00:10:11.720 Yeah, Paul Lin, right.

00:10:13.120 Paul Lin was always the one who had the funny, naughty answer.

00:10:17.260 It was so obvious that was scripted.

00:10:20.420 So I grew up in a world as a kid, and I'd think, I think the people around me think wrestling

00:10:26.100 is real.

00:10:26.680 And then I'd turn on Hollywood Squares, and I'd be like, I'm not positive, but I think

00:10:32.220 the other people watching the show think that these are spontaneous answers, when kind of

00:10:37.100 obviously they're not spontaneous answers.

00:10:39.260 And then, and then I remember Jerry Springer.

00:10:45.800 Do you remember the Jerry Springer show?

00:10:48.800 And every single episode, there would be a chair that involved, there'd be a fight.

00:10:55.180 Every episode, there'd be a fight.

00:10:57.680 And I said to myself, well, that doesn't happen by accident.

00:11:04.220 It's obviously, obviously rigged.

00:11:07.520 And I looked around, and people would be like, wow, look at all those fighters.

00:11:11.800 And I would think, you really can't tell that that's not real, right?

00:11:15.400 Well, let's go watch some Hollywood Squares and some wrestling.

00:11:20.140 We'll work this out.

00:11:23.500 Now, by the time I got to watch the news as an adult, oh, and here's another one.

00:11:28.840 Do you remember when, which magician was it that made an airplane disappear on live TV?

00:11:36.560 Who was that, the famous magician?

00:11:41.400 One of the big ones.

00:11:42.680 David Copperfield?

00:11:43.640 Yeah, I think it was Copperfield.

00:11:45.160 So, remember watching TV?

00:11:47.160 I think it might have been live.

00:11:49.480 And a bunch of people would join hands around this real airplane.

00:11:54.080 And then they'd do some things, and the airplane disappears.

00:11:57.640 And then they'd talk to the people, and they're like, oh, I don't know.

00:12:00.940 Oh, that was amazing.

00:12:02.420 Oh, that was amazing.

00:12:03.300 I don't know how that plane disappeared.

00:12:05.060 You know how they do that trick?

00:12:06.560 All of the people are in on it.

00:12:12.340 All they do is they just unjoined their hands and moved the airplane out or whatever they did.

00:12:18.440 I forget the details.

00:12:20.060 But the trick is that you imagine that the people making the TV show are playing it straight.

00:12:27.500 They're not playing it straight.

00:12:28.920 It's just entertainment.

00:12:30.220 So they're pretending that the people who were on site saw something amazing, but they didn't.

00:12:36.320 They didn't.

00:12:37.480 Have you seen the...

00:12:39.300 Is it David Blaine or something?

00:12:42.780 Or somebody, Angel or something?

00:12:44.460 Who's the one who did the levitation on the street?

00:12:47.220 Chris Angel?

00:12:47.740 And you'd see the clips of where he'd go, and it would look like he levitated off the ground.

00:12:54.580 And you'd see all the people go, do you think the people standing behind him couldn't tell that he was just lifting up on one toe?

00:13:04.500 Oh, really?

00:13:08.880 You think everybody there was amazed?

00:13:11.620 The whole crowd was amazed, right?

00:13:14.820 Yeah.

00:13:15.320 The other thing they would do is he would do two tricks.

00:13:18.920 Now, this is just in general.

00:13:21.120 I'm not saying that David Blaine did these things.

00:13:23.460 I'm saying that one of the ways they do that is they'll do two tricks.

00:13:26.880 One trick would be obvious how it's done.

00:13:30.400 So if you filmed the reactions to it, it wouldn't be much of a show.

00:13:34.660 People would be like, you're just...

00:13:36.120 Looks like you're just lifting off on one of your toes, but you're angling your body so that I don't see the toe.

00:13:44.760 So it looks like you're levitating, but really, you're just lifting yourself off on one toe.

00:13:50.340 So the way they do it is that he does a different trick.

00:13:52.880 So the different trick is just, you know, a real magic trick.

00:13:56.360 So the person who sees the real one is like, oh!

00:13:59.380 And then they splice in the reaction with the trick that wasn't a trick if he were there in person.

00:14:05.860 And it looks like that they were fooled by his levitating.

00:14:09.040 Now, I think that's how it was done.

00:14:10.840 I don't know for sure.

00:14:11.780 But if you believe that magic tricks on television are the same as they would be if you were in person,

00:14:17.120 no reason for that to be true.

00:14:20.240 Now, let's get to the news.

00:14:21.700 By the time I was an adult, I had a very long, you know, history already of knowing that the things on television were made up.

00:14:34.320 Yeah.

00:14:35.320 And so I wasn't too surprised to find out that the news is not real news.

00:14:39.640 But let's talk about the real news.

00:14:41.120 So there's a story that the East Coast is sinking because of all the buildings.

00:14:48.260 So not only is the news scaring us because climate change might raise the water level,

00:14:56.300 but apparently the buildings are so heavy that places like Long Island and New York City

00:15:02.380 are actually starting to sink a few millimeters a year in a fairly substantial way.

00:15:11.640 Now, what I think is funny about this is that Governor Abbott of Texas

00:15:15.940 keeps sending busloads of immigrants to the place that's sinking into the ocean 1.00

00:15:21.280 because it's already too heavy.

00:15:24.520 I think Governor Abbott is only about two or three busloads away from solving his problem,

00:15:30.640 if you know what I mean.

00:15:33.300 Two, three more busloads ought to take care of the whole problem.

00:15:38.360 So Governor Abbott for the win.

00:15:44.120 Well, this is tragic news.

00:15:45.720 John Kerry will be stepping down from his job as Biden's special envoy for climate.

00:15:51.360 Yeah, there will no longer be a special envoy for climate.

00:15:58.440 Oh, my God.

00:16:00.440 Oh, my God.

00:16:02.820 What are you going to do?

00:16:05.160 Do you all have the backup plan?

00:16:07.900 We're not going to have any kind of Biden's special envoy for climate.

00:16:14.400 We're actually exposed.

00:16:16.340 People, we're exposed.

00:16:18.760 I don't know what's going to happen now.

00:16:21.360 I feel so taken care of when, you know, I'd go outside, it'd be like a little too warm

00:16:28.080 or a little too cold, and I'd be like, ah, curse the climate change.

00:16:31.820 And then somebody would remind me, it's okay, Scott.

00:16:34.960 We got this.

00:16:37.140 John Kerry is riding around in his private jets, filling the sky with God knows what. 0.98

00:16:44.200 And he's got this, because not only is he John fucking Kerry, but he's the Biden's special 0.98

00:16:54.760 envoy for climate. 0.98

00:16:56.760 Now, if he had been still on the job, do you think that the football game last night would

00:17:02.820 have been canceled because of the blizzard?

00:17:05.040 I don't think so.

00:17:06.460 No, I don't think so.

00:17:07.540 That's exactly the kind of problem you get when the special envoy for climate steps down.

00:17:15.800 All hell breaks loose.

00:17:17.320 Snow everywhere.

00:17:18.240 Terrible temperatures.

00:17:20.820 I don't think this could be worse.

00:17:23.480 So, wear your jackets, people.

00:17:26.800 Well, the Wall Street Journal reports that interest in UFOs has reached a new recent high.

00:17:33.920 Huh.

00:17:34.140 I wonder what would have caused a recent high in interest in UFOs.

00:17:42.000 Is it because Jerry Springer's guests always get in fights?

00:17:47.180 Is it because professional wrestling was always real?

00:17:51.700 Is that why? 1.00

00:17:56.320 Is it because we've been fed a load of bullshit to keep us distracted? 0.99

00:18:01.060 Because Biden's not doing so well, and we've got three wars or four wars or six wars going 0.99

00:18:06.260 on, and the border is open?

00:18:09.840 Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go with the UFOs are a distraction by our intelligence

00:18:17.520 agencies.

00:18:18.600 There is nothing to it.

00:18:20.600 Nothing to it.

00:18:21.800 You're never going to see a UFO.

00:18:25.780 You're never going to see a UFO.

00:18:28.180 Sorry.

00:18:31.060 You will actually be a UFO before you see one.

00:18:35.340 That's actually literally true.

00:18:37.500 You will be a UFO before you see one.

00:18:41.200 In other words, the odds of you someday, one of you, at least one of you, flying on a SpaceX

00:18:48.260 rocket to Mars, pretty good, actually.

00:18:51.940 Over the course of the next 50 years or so, pretty good.

00:18:55.380 The odds of at least one of you being on a rocket ship to Mars.

00:18:59.620 So you will actually be a UFO before you ever see one, if there is one.

00:19:05.940 I heard there's some planet that we saw some indications of life.

00:19:10.320 Not a planet, a moon.

00:19:12.400 And I don't know why we don't call moons planets.

00:19:15.100 It seems like discrimination.

00:19:17.400 I mean, I get there's a difference, but.

00:19:21.360 So maybe.

00:19:22.600 Maybe.

00:19:23.440 I doubt it.

00:19:24.060 Maybe.

00:19:25.380 I'm going to go with there's no life on that planet and the data is wrong, but we'll see.

00:19:32.440 Also, according to the Wall Street Journal, the probability of recession is dropping, according

00:19:37.960 to the experts.

00:19:39.840 Or actually.

00:19:41.320 Yeah.

00:19:41.660 So here's what they say.

00:19:43.120 According to economists surveyed, they lowered their probability of recession within the next

00:19:48.960 year.

00:19:49.860 So it used to be about half of them thought there'd be a recession.

00:19:52.560 Now 39% of them.

00:19:55.380 And I ever told you that surveying economists is about as useful as nothing.

00:20:05.760 Nothing.

00:20:06.340 Nothing.

00:20:06.720 It's as useful as nothing.

00:20:09.020 The best economic prediction in the past year was from me.

00:20:15.640 Yeah.

00:20:16.460 Literally the only person I know who said in public, you know what?

00:20:19.840 I think we'll do okay after the pandemic.

00:20:23.220 I'm the only one.

00:20:25.060 But now it looks like things may be slowing down.

00:20:27.800 Now the economists on average are expecting 1% growth in 2024.

00:20:34.840 And normally we would be closer to 2.6.

00:20:37.240 So that would be very slow growth.

00:20:40.180 But it would be technically not a recession because it's still growing 1%.

00:20:45.580 Now let me ask you this.

00:20:47.600 Do you think economists, if you're taking their average especially, can predict the GDP within

00:20:55.020 1%?

00:20:57.360 No.

00:20:58.740 No.

00:20:59.900 These are pure guesses.

00:21:01.900 Nobody knows.

00:21:02.600 Well, there's an insurrection going on right now at the White House.

00:21:09.400 Apparently the Palestinian supporters were protesting, broke through the one barrier, and they've

00:21:16.640 reached an inner barrier of the White House on their attempt to take over the country.

00:21:23.480 And non-essential personnel have already been evacuated, and the White House has fallen.

00:21:29.220 Well, is that too strong?

00:21:35.060 If they're evacuating people from the White House, hasn't the White House fallen?

00:21:43.440 I don't think, I'm pretty sure that Biden is not in the White House, right?

00:21:48.520 It's a weekend.

00:21:49.120 So if you take out the non-essential people from the White House, and the President is

00:21:55.680 already not there, you kind of just gave up the White House.

00:22:01.440 It's not like Congress where you've got hundreds of people wandering around.

00:22:05.300 You've got basically one guy who matters, and then a bunch of non-essential people.

00:22:10.860 I'm exaggerating a little bit.

00:22:12.400 But to me, it feels like if the top guy is already gone, the only one that matters, and

00:22:18.380 then the non-essential people are leaving already, didn't the White House just fall?

00:22:24.380 All right, I'm exaggerating a little bit. 0.95

00:22:26.440 It's only to make a point that January 6th was bullshit, and this is not a real insurrection 0.96

00:22:32.160 either. 0.94

00:22:32.560 May I remind you, that should they take over the White House, we don't automatically give

00:22:39.780 them the nuclear codes.

00:22:41.460 You all know that, right?

00:22:43.160 If they take over the White House, no matter how much sauntering they do, I'm worried that

00:22:49.600 they're going to start taking selfies, maybe touch a lectern or two.

00:22:53.980 This could get ugly, people.

00:22:55.900 It could get ugly.

00:22:56.720 But of course, this is all helping battle against the weird narrative that January 6th was some

00:23:04.740 kind of an unarmed insurrection, and if only they'd taken control of the Capitol building,

00:23:09.920 they would own the military by trespassing, I guess.

00:23:15.100 That's how you take over another country's military, by trespassing in one building.

00:23:21.460 That's what the news said, and I know the news is real, just like Hollywood Squares.

00:23:26.720 Well, so here's some Vivek news.

00:23:33.040 Is it my imagination, or is Vivek making all the positive news, and everybody else is making

00:23:38.900 negative news?

00:23:40.280 Well, let's watch that theme develop as I go.

00:23:44.000 So, first, Vivek news.

00:23:46.660 I tweeted something about Vivek, and Elon Musk commented on my post, and he said,

00:23:53.440 if it is accurate that Vivek did more meetings with voters than all of the candidates combined,

00:23:59.360 then I think he will do very well in the vote on Monday.

00:24:01.840 And then he explains, the power of an extreme work ethic is usually underestimated.

00:24:07.000 Now, I'm used to looking on the X platform and seeing people make comments and opinions

00:24:15.560 who are not qualified to hold that comment or opinion, you know, such as me talking about

00:24:21.200 economics, such as me talking about climate change, such as me talking about politics.

00:24:27.080 You know, basically all things I shouldn't be talking about, because I have no expertise. 0.96

00:24:32.460 But when Elon fucking Musk says he's impressed by somebody's work ethic, drop your tools. 0.99

00:24:41.600 Drop your tools. 0.99

00:24:43.640 Pay attention.

00:24:45.300 Right?

00:24:45.560 Wake up.

00:24:46.780 Wake up.

00:24:48.460 Elon Musk just said he impressed him with his work ethic.

00:24:51.840 That's a long way from nothing.

00:24:57.220 Right?

00:24:57.420 A long way from nothing.

00:24:59.700 And who would know that better than anybody?

00:25:01.620 Elon Musk.

00:25:02.320 By the way, I've always thought that the Elon Musk work ethic thing was true. 0.74

00:25:07.260 I mean, I do believe he's an insane worker.

00:25:10.400 But some of it might be a little bit, you know, let's say, what would be the word?

00:25:18.020 Not hyperbole, but romanticized.

00:25:21.840 Yeah, that's the right word.

00:25:23.460 Romanticized.

00:25:24.540 Because we always hear the story about him, you know, sleeping at the office when there's

00:25:28.020 a big project.

00:25:29.480 He slept at Tesla under his desk or wherever.

00:25:32.700 He slept at Twitter somehow.

00:25:35.880 And I do think that that's real.

00:25:37.700 I do think he really did those things.

00:25:39.740 But when we hear the stories, we imagine he's just sort of awake 24 hours a day.

00:25:46.300 I'm sure he finds some way to enjoy himself.

00:25:48.980 He does have a lot of children.

00:25:50.100 You know, I always say it's interesting that we think we know somebody. 0.99

00:25:56.660 Do you think you know who Elon Musk is if you don't know anything about his fucking? 0.99

00:26:03.600 Because he must spend a lot of time during the 24-hour day enjoying the company of women 0.99

00:26:08.980 who don't mind spending time with the richest man in the world.

00:26:12.280 He does have like, how many kids?

00:26:15.020 It's 300.

00:26:16.760 So I feel like we, you know, we see this little sliver of a person, even though in this case,

00:26:22.620 his work life is a giant sliver.

00:26:24.540 But there's always so much you don't know about famous people.

00:26:29.000 Don't assume you know anybody if they're in the news.

00:26:31.780 All right.

00:26:32.840 So let's see.

00:26:33.820 So Vivek is that good hit by really one of the best endorsements you could ever have,

00:26:40.060 which is Elon Musk saying that he's impressed with his work ethic, assuming these numbers are real.

00:26:47.700 But Vivek is not the only one who made news.

00:26:49.780 DeSantis also made news, which is important because this is the big weekend that Iowa is going to putting in all their votes for the caucus.

00:27:00.060 So DeSantis made some news.

00:27:01.420 Let's see.

00:27:01.880 DeSantis' news was, oh, that's not good.

00:27:05.860 He was introduced by a guy at an event who gave him a participation trophy.

00:27:11.960 And he said he has no hope of winning, but it was nice for him to participate.

00:27:19.860 And then he called him a snowflake.

00:27:23.220 So that made news.

00:27:26.620 All right.

00:27:26.860 Let's see.

00:27:27.320 Compare.

00:27:28.860 Vivek made news for the hardest work ethic we've ever seen, so much so that he was complimented for his work ethic by literally the most famous person in the world for having an extreme work ethic.

00:27:41.240 So that's pretty good.

00:27:42.940 That's pretty good.

00:27:44.040 But DeSantis also made news for being pranked for doing so poorly that we all think it's hilarious he got a participation trophy.

00:27:54.120 Now, I pride myself on being able to identify professional work from amateur.

00:28:04.480 This troll who came up with the idea of a participation trophy, that's a little too good.

00:28:10.180 Now, if this was an amateur who was just sitting around and said, hey, I got an idea.

00:28:16.700 This is my own idea.

00:28:17.760 I'm just going to give a participation trophy.

00:28:20.320 Now, I would be very impressed if an amateur came up with that.

00:28:24.680 This looks like professional work to me.

00:28:28.020 It looks like somebody put him up to it.

00:28:31.280 Speaking of which, do you remember the...

00:28:34.280 No, I don't think it was Vivek.

00:28:35.420 There's no indication that Vivek's doing dirty tricks, by the way.

00:28:40.020 There's another dog not barking.

00:28:42.520 Think about it.

00:28:43.940 Think about any lie that Vivek has told during the campaign.

00:28:48.100 None.

00:28:49.020 None.

00:28:49.980 As far as I know, he's not even been accused of one.

00:28:53.120 The fact-checkers have been like, oh, goddammit, didn't say anything that was a lie again.

00:28:59.220 Zero fact-checking.

00:29:01.060 Zero accusations of dirty tricks.

00:29:04.660 I mean, you've got to pay attention to the dog that's not barking here.

00:29:09.180 It's pretty impressive, the non-barking part.

00:29:12.320 Anyway, so I think that was probably...

00:29:14.180 There was a professional behind that funny troll about the participation trophy.

00:29:19.960 But, okay, so DeSantis didn't do well.

00:29:22.200 But at least Nikki Haley made some good news, a little positive news.

00:29:28.260 The positive news of Nikki Haley is that...

00:29:31.040 Oh, okay, well, not some positive.

00:29:33.400 Axios is reporting that some Iowa Democrats and independents are going to pretend to be Republicans

00:29:40.120 just so they can distort the caucus results.

00:29:45.080 So they'll be what they call Republicans for a day, because the system allows it.

00:29:49.420 It's completely legal.

00:29:51.460 And they would do it to vote for Nikki Haley, but mostly just to screw Trump.

00:29:57.700 You know, to make Trump look not as strong or to get themselves a weaker candidate, they say.

00:30:03.460 Now, let me ask you this.

00:30:05.300 I'm introducing today my new segment that I call, Is It News or Propaganda?

00:30:11.860 So this is reported in Axios.

00:30:14.200 I didn't see it anywhere else, but maybe it's somewhere else.

00:30:16.740 But Axios has decided that this is a story that I hadn't heard before, that people are

00:30:22.980 crossing over, Democrats are pretending to be Republicans to screw the Republicans.

00:30:29.640 Now, is that news?

00:30:31.600 Or is Axios prodding the Democrats to do this trick?

00:30:37.720 Is this responsible?

00:30:39.080 Is it responsible for them to report it when it guarantees there will be more of it because

00:30:46.140 of the reporting?

00:30:47.540 Because keep in mind, the reporting is saying this is perfectly legal.

00:30:50.840 This is not illegal.

00:30:53.120 It's transparent in a sense, because everybody knows it's happening.

00:30:57.980 So is Axios becoming the news or reporting the news?

00:31:04.740 To me, it looks like Axios wanted to create the news or create more of it.

00:31:11.240 This doesn't look legitimate to me.

00:31:14.180 Does it look legitimate to you?

00:31:16.000 Or do you think this is just politically motivated and you wouldn't normally see it as news?

00:31:21.240 I'm interested in it.

00:31:22.580 I think the fact of it is very interesting.

00:31:24.760 But why are the other outlets not also reporting on it?

00:31:31.120 Because it's so interesting that I would say, wow, this is actually pretty important.

00:31:37.520 I'm going to take a guess that some of the other outlets might be hiding it.

00:31:43.560 Yeah, they might just like the fact that you don't know.

00:31:46.620 Maybe.

00:31:46.900 But I would think that others just have a higher ethical standard, because I consider

00:31:52.060 this unethical reporting on the weekend of the event.

00:31:56.520 It seems like it's more prodding them to do it than it is talking about it.

00:32:01.060 That's just how I receive it.

00:32:04.280 All right.

00:32:05.140 I told you the other day that I didn't know who all these Haley supporters were.

00:32:11.580 You know, this could be one of the reasons that she polls better than you think. 0.99

00:32:15.460 Because I had noted that in my own life, I knew only one person, literally one, who supported

00:32:23.100 Nikki Haley.

00:32:24.520 But when I told you that, I lied.

00:32:27.500 I'm sorry.

00:32:29.080 All right.

00:32:29.320 So I have to confess.

00:32:30.600 I told you publicly that I only knew one Nikki Haley supporter.

00:32:36.560 And that's not true.

00:32:38.080 It's not true.

00:32:40.100 That one supporter informed me that he switched to Vivek.

00:32:45.460 I don't know one.

00:32:48.060 I do not know a single Nikki Haley supporter.

00:32:51.020 I did for a while.

00:32:52.740 You know, for a few weeks there, I totally knew one.

00:32:56.280 But not anymore.

00:32:58.920 Not anymore.

00:33:02.240 All right.

00:33:04.360 Let's see.

00:33:05.140 And then I saw a comment by the Amuse account on X.

00:33:10.700 Amuse is a good account to follow.

00:33:13.040 And by the election rigging.

00:33:15.600 Now, Amuse says the reason multiple states are refusing to allow anyone to run against

00:33:19.360 Biden in the primary is to allow Democrats to vote for Nikki Haley in the GOP primaries.

00:33:28.420 Huh.

00:33:29.240 Now, I don't think that's the only reason.

00:33:31.140 You know, Biden just doesn't want a primary, doesn't want to lose.

00:33:35.080 But one of the effects of not having a primary is it frees up some Democrats who would have

00:33:41.160 otherwise had to register as a Democrat to vote in the Democrat primary.

00:33:46.020 But what if there is no Democrat primary?

00:33:48.220 Ah.

00:33:49.100 Now they're all free agents.

00:33:51.360 Now they can rig the system by voting as Republicans.

00:33:56.080 Right.

00:33:56.760 So you already have your answer that the election is rigged.

00:34:01.140 It's already rigged in the primary.

00:34:05.460 To me, that's obviously rigged.

00:34:07.940 Now, it could be accidental.

00:34:10.100 But it's no less rigged.

00:34:11.960 Because it introduces a variable that is independent from the will of people.

00:34:19.520 Would you give me that?

00:34:21.340 You might say, oh, rigged is too strong a word because it implies something.

00:34:25.720 But I say, if you introduce a variable that changes the outcome and it's not based on the

00:34:35.200 will of the people, that's rigged.

00:34:38.840 Yeah.

00:34:39.160 Anything that isn't something like giving the voters useful information and making it easier

00:34:45.300 to vote legally, anything that's outside of that domain is probably rigging.

00:34:51.120 It might be legal, but it's rigging nonetheless.

00:34:57.760 So the big story you want me to talk about is that Trump slapped Vivek in some comments

00:35:04.600 and called him a fraud.

00:35:06.240 Now, when I first heard the news that Trump had maybe backed off from his love affair with

00:35:14.340 Vivek and vice versa, but not really, I thought, oh, this is some story.

00:35:22.180 Looks like we're going to have some fighting.

00:35:24.300 We're going to have some intrigue.

00:35:25.880 We're going to have some drama.

00:35:27.820 Okay.

00:35:28.360 It looks like he was just sort of misunderstanding.

00:35:30.160 So the reporting, if you can trust it, is that there was a photograph of Vivek posing with

00:35:39.000 some people who had shirts on that said something like, protect Trump, vote for Vivek.

00:35:46.840 Is that what he said?

00:35:48.640 Protect Trump, vote for Vivek.

00:35:51.600 Now, the first thing you need to know, oh, save Trump.

00:35:54.600 Save Trump, vote for Vivek.

00:35:57.820 Now, I don't even know what that means.

00:35:59.440 Oh, Vivek made the shirt?

00:36:02.940 Well, did he?

00:36:04.360 I don't know if that's true.

00:36:06.400 Can you confirm that?

00:36:10.120 I don't know if you can confirm that.

00:36:13.760 But what does it mean?

00:36:16.300 What does it even mean?

00:36:17.540 I don't know what it means.

00:36:18.640 Save Trump, vote for Vivek.

00:36:22.320 What does that mean?

00:36:24.580 The only thing I can think it means is that they think Vivek would be his vice president.

00:36:29.440 Because having Vivek in the race does make Trump more assassination-proof and also lawfare-proof.

00:36:40.120 Because the last thing they want is a stronger candidate.

00:36:43.740 They, the other team.

00:36:44.580 So, in some sense, I do think that Vivek having a strong showing does protect Trump.

00:36:53.040 It literally could save his life.

00:36:56.040 So, I think that Trump and his team may have, actually, I don't know what this shirt means.

00:37:02.180 Does anybody have a different interpretation?

00:37:03.900 Does anybody have a different interpretation?

00:37:11.220 Oh, was it about pardoning Trump?

00:37:13.780 But the others would have pardoned him, too.

00:37:16.620 It's about the pardon.

00:37:18.100 Is that how you interpret it?

00:37:23.340 Well, I don't know.

00:37:24.600 So, here's what I think.

00:37:25.640 So, what happened was Trump, Trump attacked him and called him a fraud.

00:37:32.920 But when I first heard the story, what I thought was that Trump was attacking him the same way his enemies are.

00:37:40.940 Because the anti-Vivek people are saying, you know, there's something suspicious about how well he's doing.

00:37:47.380 So, they're thinking he must be, you know, from the WEF or the CIA is endorsing him or something because he's too good.

00:37:57.020 He was always too good.

00:37:59.060 Like, he's always been too good.

00:38:01.820 You know, he went to a really good school.

00:38:04.240 Did really well in business.

00:38:05.560 He's always been too good.

00:38:06.680 He's just more of it.

00:38:08.380 So, he just happens to take his being too good to politics.

00:38:11.200 So, it's not mysterious, and it's not an indication that there are dark forces behind it.

00:38:18.660 There's no indication of that at all. 0.99

00:38:20.400 It's all complete bullshit. 0.98

00:38:22.200 But, I thought that Trump was jumping on that train because that seems to be where he has some weakness, Vivek, in terms of trust. 0.99

00:38:32.400 I don't think that's a valid concern, but people have that concern.

00:38:36.820 Now, I think that Trump, well, when I read Trump's actual words, he went after Vivek for not being as much a supporter of Trump as he said he was.

00:38:49.820 So, Trump's only problem with Vivek is that Vivek went from full-throated support to something that was a little bit less, or could be looking like that.

00:39:03.680 So, basically, Trump was not attacking Vivek for who Vivek was, or what he stood for, or his policies, or his character.

00:39:12.940 It was really all about what Vivek thought of Trump himself.

00:39:16.900 That's it.

00:39:18.300 So, that's just the most Trumpian thing in the world, because one of the things I like about Trump is he says out loud,

00:39:25.480 I like the people who like me.

00:39:27.700 I just love that he says that right out loud.

00:39:30.700 Yeah, I like the people who like me.

00:39:33.680 Because that literally describes all of us.

00:39:37.500 It's really hard to dislike somebody who actively likes you.

00:39:41.620 Yeah, it's just very human.

00:39:43.460 So, every time he says that, I go, okay, that's the most honest thing somebody said today.

00:39:47.400 I like the people who like me.

00:39:49.920 So, if Vivek looked like he was pulling back from his full-throated support of Trump,

00:39:55.480 Trump was giving him a brushback pitch, none of this is important.

00:39:58.860 So, then Vivek came out with a long thread in which he explained that he appreciates and respects Trump's job, etc., the work he's done.

00:40:10.720 So, they're all good.

00:40:12.340 There's no real issue there.

00:40:15.200 That was just pure politics.

00:40:16.580 A little bit of a brushback in the context of a game.

00:40:21.840 No problem.

00:40:23.020 No harm, no foul, I think.

00:40:25.060 So, that's a non-story that could have been a story, but really, it was a slight miss.

00:40:31.900 Now, like I say, the biggest complaints about Vivek, and this isn't a joke.

00:40:35.800 This is literally true.

00:40:37.560 The biggest complaints about Vivek is that he seems too good to be true.

00:40:42.060 Don't let that stop you.

00:40:47.300 Don't let that stop you.

00:40:49.140 Too good to be true isn't the reason to not trust him.

00:40:53.280 How about the fact that he hasn't been in politics his whole life,

00:40:57.260 and he's bringing you a Jeffersonian almost approach that we long for and are thirsting for,

00:41:06.060 and that he's recommended practical solutions for almost all of our problems.

00:41:12.860 I think those are important things, not he's too good, so he must be a trick.

00:41:18.260 Sometimes people are just better than other people.

00:41:21.240 That's the thing.

00:41:23.620 All right.

00:41:23.980 And I think it's interesting that Vivek's entire campaign is built on bringing merit back as our Central American theme instead of race.

00:41:36.900 And the first thing they do to the guy who's saying merit, merit, merit, is people say,

00:41:42.520 I'm not sure you deserve this.

00:41:44.560 Come on.

00:41:46.220 He just did a double grassley in Iowa.

00:41:49.340 Listen to Elon Musk.

00:41:50.480 Nobody deserves it more if you're going to look at effort.

00:41:53.980 At risk, too.

00:41:57.400 He's putting himself at a great risk.

00:41:59.600 Well, as Steve Malloy points out on X, the New York Times had these two articles so far in January.

00:42:08.000 These are two headlines, both in the New York Times.

00:42:11.140 On January 2nd, global warming to end the snow.

00:42:16.120 Ten days later, also New York Times, January 12th, headline, global warming to increase snow.

00:42:23.980 Oh, my God.

00:42:29.600 It's getting hard not to be a climate skeptic. 1.00

00:42:32.540 It's getting really hard to think any of this is not bullshit. 1.00

00:42:36.840 Yeah, it looks like bullshit to me. 0.99

00:42:39.440 And what Steve Malloy says is it's the say-anything science behind climate hoax. 0.98

00:42:44.580 It really is say anything.

00:42:45.800 I saw a snowflake yesterday, so it must be climate change.

00:42:51.360 I saw a bird die.

00:42:53.780 Climate change.

00:42:54.980 Just say anything.

00:42:57.380 I've got hiccups.

00:43:00.340 Climate change.

00:43:01.600 Say anything.

00:43:02.180 There's a little viral video going around, and I could talk about this for the first time.

00:43:11.240 I'm going to throw a little free speech at you.

00:43:13.380 Ready?

00:43:14.280 You ready for some unfiltered free speech for the first time ever on this topic?

00:43:20.140 All right.

00:43:20.560 So in Australia, there's some kind of public hearing on the gender pay gap, and it features

00:43:26.260 a politician who was politely asking questions about how it was calculated down there in Australia.

00:43:33.480 And it looked like there was nothing but women who were testifying and in the audience. 0.94

00:43:38.720 So it was just all women on sort of one end of things. 1.00

00:43:42.220 And on the other end of things was this looked like a politician.

00:43:47.000 And he was asking questions, just asking how they calculated it.

00:43:53.000 So he asked, have they taken into account the difference in hours worked between men and women?

00:44:01.560 And the answer was, well, we annualized the women. 1.00

00:44:09.140 Now, annualized means you didn't actually measure what they made.

00:44:12.400 You imagined what it could have been under different situations.

00:44:18.060 You annualized it.

00:44:19.720 Annualizing isn't measuring it.

00:44:22.900 That's not what that is.

00:44:24.800 So then the gentleman asked very politely, so suppose you were looking at it on an hourly basis.

00:44:34.140 What would be the difference between the men and the women on an hourly basis? 0.95

00:44:38.420 Because that would be the logical way to measure this, right?

00:44:40.940 And they said, well, they didn't know.

00:44:46.220 That was the whole argument.

00:44:48.060 The whole argument is if you do the same amount of work for the same amount of hours,

00:44:53.420 you're measuring whether or not there's a difference.

00:44:57.940 And they didn't measure that.

00:45:00.420 So the only thing that they didn't measure is the only thing that mattered.

00:45:05.120 If you did the same job for the same hours, did you get the same pay?

00:45:08.380 The only thing that mattered, they didn't measure that.

00:45:13.480 They measured some other stuff and annualized it, came up with the wrong number.

00:45:18.040 Now, I'm going to say the thing that I couldn't say out loud before.

00:45:21.800 The reason that people still believe there's a gender pay gap is because women are bad at math. 1.00

00:45:27.580 I'll just let that sit there for a while.

00:45:32.560 That's not a joke.

00:45:34.180 That's true.

00:45:35.560 Now, let me say as clearly as possible.

00:45:38.940 There are lots of women who are better at math than I am. 1.00

00:45:43.000 So just hear this clearly.

00:45:44.720 I'm not saying I'm better than math than women. 0.99

00:45:49.320 I could name three women in my personal circle who are unambiguously better at math and statistics than I am.

00:45:58.100 No doubt about it.

00:45:59.540 But here's the secret.

00:46:03.460 You know those women I said are better at math than I am? 1.00

00:46:06.360 Not a single one of them believes there is such a thing as the gender pay gap.

00:46:12.800 That's right.

00:46:13.780 There are lots of women who know more math than I do, but none of them believe in the gender pay gap. 1.00

00:46:19.680 None of them.

00:46:20.860 You know why?

00:46:22.200 Well, I tipped it off.

00:46:23.440 Why?

00:46:24.740 They're good at math.

00:46:27.180 Yeah.

00:46:27.440 If you're good at math, it doesn't exist. 0.97

00:46:29.000 You actually have to be dumb enough not to know how to calculate it or to not understand how somebody is tricking you with their weird calculations to even think it exists. 0.94

00:46:41.020 It's been measured for years. 0.95

00:46:43.020 And whenever you control for all the variables, it disappears.

00:46:46.600 I think it gets down to about three cents on the dollar.

00:46:49.820 And three cents on the dollar, we can't really measure that to that precision.

00:46:54.080 We can't measure to that precision.

00:46:55.680 So basically it's similar.

00:46:57.220 So let me say it again. 0.93

00:47:01.040 The only reason that the gender pay gap is still an issue is because women in general are bad at math. 1.00

00:47:10.580 Now, in general, men are bad at math too.

00:47:13.000 Most people are not good at math.

00:47:14.880 But it couldn't exist without the vast majority of women not understanding really basics of math. 1.00

00:47:20.880 Now, if this were the other way around, would I be saying, oh, the problem is that men don't understand math? 0.91

00:47:28.780 Probably.

00:47:29.880 Probably that's exactly what I would say.

00:47:31.980 Because most people can't do math.

00:47:34.740 Does anybody disagree with that?

00:47:35.960 The majority of ordinary humans would not be able to work through what annualized even means.

00:47:44.420 They wouldn't know what that meant.

00:47:46.880 Much less know that if you didn't account for all the other variables, you would get the wrong answer.

00:47:52.820 So it's a little bit more than math.

00:47:56.240 It's knowing what to study.

00:47:57.640 It's closer to economics than math.

00:47:59.940 But if you didn't have that little background on economics and math, you would easily be fooled into thinking the gender pay gap was a real thing. 0.73

00:48:09.380 It hasn't been a real thing in memory.

00:48:11.100 I'm sure it was at one point.

00:48:13.760 But certainly not now.

00:48:18.280 So Cigna, a big insurance company, has an employee training manual in which it says that the scientific studies have shown there are no biological differences between the races.

00:48:30.880 So they want you to know, as Cigna, that the science shows, scientific studies, that there are no biological differences between the races.

00:48:41.100 You know what question that raises for me?

00:48:46.680 How do they know who's black? 1.00

00:48:51.260 Because there's no difference.

00:48:52.980 No biological difference.

00:48:56.900 Can they sort the Asians from the blacks? 0.97

00:49:01.160 Can they tell the difference?

00:49:02.700 Because I'm told by Cigna that the studies say there's no biological difference.

00:49:06.200 So you can't tell by looking at them.

00:49:07.460 And probably if you check their DNA, they'd all be identical, according to Cigna, because there's no biological difference between the races.

00:49:19.360 Now, let me tell you my view, in case you haven't heard it lately.

00:49:24.560 I think measuring the biological difference on the average in any group, whether it's gender or race, it's just causing trouble.

00:49:35.800 It's a useless number because there are no average people.

00:49:38.700 What if you really could do a good job and knew exactly the average biological difference between any two groups?

00:49:50.220 What the hell is that going to do for you?

00:49:52.460 Cause trouble?

00:49:53.760 Start a fight?

00:49:54.480 The only thing that matters is the person that walks in the room and is standing in front of you.

00:50:00.300 If the person who walks in the room and stands in front of you is Yao Ming, a seven foot four tall Chinese guy who is good at basketball,

00:50:11.440 it doesn't matter if the average Chinese national doesn't play good basketball.

00:50:17.260 You're standing in front of Yao Ming.

00:50:19.940 It only matters that he's seven foot, whatever he was, real tall.

00:50:24.480 Likewise, if Thomas Sowell walks in the room, what does it matter if some other group, on average, isn't doing good at their economics classes?

00:50:36.320 You're standing in front of one of the smartest people in the world, and he's black, telling you about economics and explaining it to you really well.

00:50:45.260 So what matters is that person.

00:50:47.000 And every time anybody tries to trick you and say that the average should be part of your mental process, don't let that happen.

00:50:57.480 That's just a trick.

00:50:59.180 It's a trick to manipulate you.

00:51:01.260 You should care deeply about not discriminating against a person, you know, a real person.

00:51:07.520 But you can discriminate against their average all you want, because that's not even real.

00:51:10.980 Who cares about the average?

00:51:15.180 The only thing it's good for is politics, and it shouldn't be there.

00:51:18.880 We shouldn't be treating people by their race, says me.

00:51:27.820 And then I saw also on the Cigna thing, it's explaining to their employees that gender is not binary.

00:51:36.860 Gender is not you're a boy or a girl, but rather it's a continuum.

00:51:44.260 Now, I agree with that.

00:51:46.220 I disagree with many of you.

00:51:48.540 I believe that sex is binary.

00:51:52.300 You know, there's some very unusual exceptions.

00:51:56.200 Somebody might have some mixed equipment or something.

00:51:59.040 But sex is definitely binary.

00:52:00.660 You know, a boy isn't having a baby unless there's, you know, major surgery involved or something.

00:52:08.660 But gender is what you call yourself. 1.00

00:52:11.920 So I actually, you know, probably different from many of you.

00:52:16.560 I accept that, yeah, gender is probably this infinite, you know, infinite difference to scale. 0.96

00:52:22.480 Because I think that's true of every other characteristic of every person.

00:52:25.900 All of our characteristics are sort of, you know, infinitely different from everybody else.

00:52:31.800 So I accept that gender is very much a, not as binary as sex is.

00:52:39.080 Sex is definitely binary.

00:52:41.140 Now, here's my question, though.

00:52:44.740 Why is gender the one thing you can be all nuanced about and public about?

00:52:52.220 Aren't we all a bunch of gigantic fakes?

00:52:55.900 Right?

00:52:57.240 So let's say if I go to the office and I've got, let's say I've got lupus.

00:53:03.640 And I don't want you to know about it because I've got it under control.

00:53:07.660 You know, I can do all my work and everything.

00:53:09.640 But I don't want you to know.

00:53:12.780 Do I make you know?

00:53:14.480 I mean, do you need to know?

00:53:17.180 I feel like there are all kinds of things about a person that we're better off if we keep to ourselves.

00:53:24.060 Like, it's just sort of your business.

00:53:27.180 But why do we have to tell everybody our gender?

00:53:31.480 Like, I get why you'd have to maybe make a sex distinction.

00:53:37.160 Because, you know, at the very least, they're restrooms. 0.99

00:53:39.880 You know, so you have to figure that out.

00:53:41.480 But why does everybody have to tell us about where they are on the scale?

00:53:45.480 Like, why is that the one category where people's infinite differences matter?

00:53:52.740 Like, why aren't we all talking about our, I don't know, our religious beliefs or how fast we can run?

00:54:00.900 You know, I'm working with people who can run marathons.

00:54:04.180 I'm totally different from them.

00:54:05.440 I think I should be measured on the scale of how hard I can run.

00:54:10.580 But why is this one thing? 0.98

00:54:13.220 Your preference of where you put your genitalia. 0.97

00:54:18.160 That we all have to know that. 0.99

00:54:20.020 We all got to know what you're doing with your genitalia. 1.00

00:54:23.340 It's like, I'd like you to know I'm non-binary. 0.91

00:54:25.360 Oh, thank you. 1.00

00:54:26.340 Because I was wondering if you used your cock just on women, or do you also use your cock with men? 1.00

00:54:32.620 Because, you know, that's what I was wondering when I met you. 1.00

00:54:35.240 It was the first thing I thought. 1.00

00:54:36.300 I was like, what do you do with your cock? 1.00

00:54:39.480 I don't wonder that. 1.00

00:54:41.240 Don't need to know it.

00:54:43.180 Don't need to know it.

00:54:44.440 I don't need to know if you can run a marathon, or if you can't.

00:54:49.100 Those are things you can keep to yourself.

00:54:52.560 Now, I don't want to discriminate, because I legitimately don't have any bad feelings about anybody's gender preferences.

00:55:00.140 And I don't even know why anybody would.

00:55:01.500 I don't even understand the point of discriminating against people by gender.

00:55:07.780 What's the point of that?

00:55:10.580 But why do we need to know about it?

00:55:13.840 Keep that off my forms.

00:55:16.100 Take that off my government forms. 1.00

00:55:18.480 Just get that shit out of my face. 1.00

00:55:20.560 If you want to have sex, that's fine. 1.00

00:55:21.900 All right. 0.79

00:55:26.380 So it looks like this is the weirdest story, because we're living in this artificial world, talking about Gaza and Israel. 0.94

00:55:34.140 So the new news is that Israel's looking to do some military operations on the border, on their side of the border with Gaza, and on the Egypt border.

00:55:46.480 Now, the reason they would do that is you might say to yourself, hey, why do you need to control the Egypt border when Egypt is controlling it just fine?

00:55:54.900 And the answer is, Egypt is not controlling it just fine. 0.75

00:55:57.860 They're doing a good job of keeping Hamas from entering Egypt, apparently, but they're doing a bad job of keeping the tunnels from Egypt into Hamas from supplying them with weapons.

00:56:14.380 So Israel is going to have to control it because Egypt's not doing all they could to stop the tunnels.

00:56:22.720 So, but here's the funny part of this.

00:56:24.520 Well, not funny, but here's this part of the story that caught my interest.

00:56:29.220 This said it was a, I'm going to look for the exact words here.

00:56:35.160 Yeah, so the Palestinians would be concerned about Israel doing this military action on that border,

00:56:41.080 because for Palestinians, it would roll back a symbol of Palestinian sovereignty.

00:56:47.080 It could also open the door to Israel maintaining longer-term control of the border after the war.

00:56:55.720 Palestinian sovereignty.

00:57:00.100 Palestinian sovereignty?

00:57:02.080 Who thinks that still exists?

00:57:04.460 Or ever will?

00:57:08.120 Gaza's never going to go back to the Palestinians. 0.96

00:57:11.080 How in the world do we write about this like that's still on the table?

00:57:14.640 That is so off the table.

00:57:17.280 That is completely off the table.

00:57:20.060 Now, Gaza might be rebuilt, 0.83

00:57:22.040 but it will be forever under Israeli security control. 1.00

00:57:27.880 Because to do otherwise would be absolutely stupid. 1.00

00:57:31.520 And Israel doesn't really do stupid stuff. 0.99

00:57:34.960 You know, they might do things that you wouldn't do or you don't like it, 0.99

00:57:37.280 but it's never stupid.

00:57:38.180 Even when it's stuff you don't like.

00:57:40.880 Like, for example, if you don't like the building of the settlements,

00:57:45.740 a lot of Americans would say,

00:57:47.140 hey, stop building those settlements.

00:57:49.280 It's going to cause trouble for you, and then it causes trouble for us.

00:57:52.000 But even if you disagree with it, it's really smart.

00:57:59.040 I hate to say it.

00:58:00.720 But if I were there and I wanted to expand my control,

00:58:04.520 I would build settlements as long as I could get away with it.

00:58:09.160 And so eventually the, you know, the facts on the ground are more in my favor. 0.98

00:58:14.080 So, they don't do stupid things. 0.99

00:58:18.780 And it would be absolutely stupid to just say, 1.00

00:58:22.740 all right, we'll hand over Gaza now that we destroyed it. 1.00

00:58:26.300 We'll hand it back over to some people who say they don't like Hamas.

00:58:31.620 Some Palestinians who promise us they don't like Hamas. 0.60

00:58:34.360 So, go ahead and run Gaza. 0.94

00:58:36.840 Knock yourself out.

00:58:37.460 That's not going to happen.

00:58:39.180 Do any of you think, am I wrong?

00:58:41.860 Is there anybody here who actually thinks that Gaza is going to be run by Palestinians?

00:58:47.520 In a real way, as in controlling security?

00:58:50.780 Because whoever controls security controls Gaza.

00:58:54.560 But why does the news still treat it like that's an option?

00:58:58.300 Is that just because they know they have to?

00:59:02.020 That they just can't deal with reality on this?

00:59:04.360 Yeah, certainly for the next 20 years, there's no real chance of the Palestinians having real control over that area.

00:59:13.100 All right.

00:59:14.180 Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks

00:59:18.460 for what I think all of you would judge as the best live stream that you're going to see today.

00:59:23.760 And did I miss any topics that you just knew I needed to ask about?

00:59:30.720 I think I covered it all.

00:59:40.880 My God.

00:59:42.400 I'm what you call thorough.

00:59:48.040 All right.

00:59:50.740 Not liking Hamas and not having the same agenda as Hamas are not the same.

00:59:54.660 That is correct.

00:59:56.160 That is correct.

00:59:57.680 Yeah.

00:59:57.840 It's not enough to say that you don't agree with Hamas.

01:00:01.020 It would be really helpful if you didn't want to destroy Israel and kill all the people there. 1.00

01:00:06.720 Although I think they usually talk more about conquering it than, you know, 0.72

01:00:11.200 I don't think they care per se whether there are Jewish people living in other countries.

01:00:25.700 All right.

01:00:27.840 The Trump-Evake dynamic, we've talked about that.

01:00:34.300 Yeah.

01:00:34.860 I think we've done what we've done.

01:00:36.460 So, ladies and gentlemen, on the YouTube and Rumble and X platforms, thanks for joining.

01:00:43.720 I hope you like this microphone upgrade, even though it's in my face.

01:00:47.840 I call it the BBC microphone.

01:00:53.300 It's a BBC microphone.

01:00:56.300 No, I'm sorry.

01:00:57.360 I like the British Broadcasting Company.

01:00:59.820 They use this kind of...

01:01:01.000 What were you thinking? 1.00

01:01:02.720 God, you're disgusting. 1.00

01:01:04.780 No. 0.99

01:01:05.540 British Broadcasting Company.

01:01:06.900 They use this kind of equipment.

01:01:08.020 Jesus, you people.

01:01:11.240 I just can't believe it.

01:01:12.480 All right. 0.99

01:01:13.040 Thanks for joining, and I'll see you tomorrow, all you disgusting people. 1.00

01:01:16.860 I'll see you tomorrow. 0.87

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 14, 2024

Episode 2353 CWSA 01⧸14⧸24

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript