Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2407 CWSA 03⧸08⧸24

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00:00:50.580 Ah.

00:00:51.840 Nice.

00:00:52.240 Well, let's see how many people we have here.

00:00:58.160 We've got 1,000 people.

00:00:59.400 That's about our normal for locals.

00:01:02.700 How many of you watched the State of the Union?

00:01:07.920 I saw somebody describe it this morning as old man yells at the teleprompter.

00:01:15.420 Old man yells at the teleprompter.

00:01:18.280 I wish I'd thought of that.

00:01:19.640 It was pretty good.

00:01:20.180 Good.

00:01:22.240 All right.

00:01:23.520 Well, here are some things we know.

00:01:27.840 Look at this fake news.

00:01:30.340 Ask yourself if this sounds like fake news.

00:01:33.800 That Haley voters, 63% of them say they're going to back Biden.

00:01:39.200 So that's the story.

00:01:42.560 Haley voters, 63% said they're going to back Biden.

00:01:48.480 What's left out of the story?

00:01:51.700 What's left out of the story is that, you know, some percentage of them are Democrats.

00:01:57.160 If you leave out the fact that they're Democrats, and they were just gaming the system for the most part, there's no story here at all.

00:02:05.400 Am I wrong?

00:02:07.460 There's no story.

00:02:12.520 All right.

00:02:13.120 Anyway.

00:02:13.360 Here's some fake news from The Hill.

00:02:17.520 So they say that Biden quoted Trump with alarm for boasting that he would encourage Russia and Vladimir Putin to, quote, do whatever the hell they want to NATO allies if those countries do not spend enough on defense.

00:02:32.360 Is that true?

00:02:33.360 Is that true?

00:02:34.200 Did that actually happen?

00:02:36.440 How many of you watched it and can confirm, no, it didn't happen?

00:02:40.840 No, that's, this is false.

00:02:42.500 This is fake.

00:02:43.640 Here's what did happen.

00:02:45.600 What Biden did do is he said that Trump said he wouldn't defend NATO.

00:02:53.660 Biden left out that it was in the sort of negotiating for NATO to pay its fees.

00:02:59.740 If you leave out that, you can't add it in in the story after the fact.

00:03:08.100 You can't add it in in the story.

00:03:10.700 No, it's not part of the story.

00:03:12.360 He didn't say it.

00:03:13.820 And there's a reason he didn't say it.

00:03:16.700 So that's The Hill.

00:03:17.900 Fake news from The Hill.

00:03:20.160 Well, let's talk about the hate of the union.

00:03:22.500 Of course, it was two movies on one screen.

00:03:25.540 It's no surprise that the Democrats thought it was a masterful performance.

00:03:32.260 And it's no surprise that people like me saw it as angry, dementia, yelling, and disunity.

00:03:39.080 Which one of those is true?

00:03:42.580 Neither.

00:03:43.640 I mean, these are just impressions.

00:03:45.520 But let's go through what's going on.

00:03:48.180 So he starts with freedom and democracy, you're under attack both at home and abroad.

00:03:53.520 When you say democracy is under attack, you make it possible to assassinate anybody who's opposed to it.

00:04:02.260 So it sounds like they're calling for assassination, or Biden is for Trump, but doing it indirectly in that mafia boss way.

00:04:10.860 The secret assassination whistle, that's fair, right?

00:04:16.980 If there could be a secret racist dog whistle, can't there be a secret assassination whistle?

00:04:23.420 That's what it looks like to me.

00:04:26.920 Anyway, he didn't say Trump's name once.

00:04:30.120 He referred to him as, quote, my predecessor, but he said it 13 times, which apparently 13 times is a lot.

00:04:39.980 So it was, some say, therefore, it was more of a political speech than a State of the Union speech.

00:04:46.760 I think that's half true.

00:04:48.840 It was definitely more political than usual.

00:04:51.060 Could have been a lot more political than it was.

00:04:53.420 So somewhere in between.

00:04:57.020 And, of course, Biden was pushing hard on the January 6th hoax.

00:05:01.780 So it looks like they're going to focus on the January 6th hoax.

00:05:06.040 He did not mention the fine people hoax once.

00:05:08.400 Think about that.

00:05:10.900 Now, that's more political than the State of the Union, so maybe that's the only reason it wasn't in there.

00:05:17.120 He did mention shrinkflation.

00:05:21.180 I can't believe he put shrinkflation in the speech.

00:05:26.400 The State of the Union, we don't have enough chips.

00:05:29.000 So RFK Jr., quite rightly and cleverly does his response, in which he says, the entire country is suffering from chronic disease because our food supply is bad, and Biden wants to give more chips to the kids.

00:05:44.820 Our biggest problem is the food.

00:05:51.380 He wants to give more junk food to kids.

00:05:55.880 Am I wrong, or do Democrats prefer every policy that's bad for children?

00:06:03.580 Let's say we're going to increase the amount of your unhealthy snacks. 0.72

00:06:06.820 We're going to abort you in nine months. 0.99

00:06:10.360 I don't know how true that is, but let's throw that in the mix.

00:06:14.720 We're going to not let you have school choice.

00:06:17.800 We're going to transition you with surgery while you're a child.

00:06:23.240 We're going to keep you home from school during the pandemic.

00:06:29.760 It's consistent, isn't it?

00:06:34.260 I feel as if that's a theme that needs to be explored, because in every single situation, they do what's bad for children, including the lack of, you know, family as an emphasis.

00:06:47.400 Yeah, this other pro, everything that's bad for children, basically.

00:06:56.060 The exception would be IVF.

00:06:58.880 How many of you are opposed to IVF, in vitro fertilization?

00:07:04.060 How many of you are opposed to that?

00:07:07.100 Honestly, I didn't even know that was a thing.

00:07:10.280 You're opposed to it.

00:07:11.600 Under what logic are you opposed to it?

00:07:17.900 Because the baby doesn't have a soul?

00:07:20.720 Are you saying the baby doesn't have a soul?

00:07:24.280 Now, give me a reason.

00:07:26.240 Some of you gave you a daughter.

00:07:33.880 Does it work very well?

00:07:35.520 Well, it works well enough.

00:07:36.760 But nobody has a reason, right? 1.00

00:07:44.000 So I think the anti-IVF thing is probably the dumbest fucking thing that the Republicans have ever done. 1.00

00:07:51.500 It might be the number one dumbest thing they've ever done. 1.00

00:07:55.700 Because the entire Republican thing is more babies, right? 0.99

00:08:00.560 Help you bring a child into the world.

00:08:03.500 Yeah.

00:08:03.620 Now, being opposed to IVF has no logical, religious, or moral backing. 0.96

00:08:11.820 It's just ridiculous.

00:08:13.600 And it's really bad for your own politics. 0.98

00:08:16.840 So you pick the least important thing, but it's the least important thing.

00:08:24.680 Because you don't care about somebody else's IVF, do you?

00:08:28.420 If it's not your own, why do you care that someone else is doing it?

00:08:31.640 Why is that even your business?

00:08:36.740 You got really quiet when I said, why are you opposed to it, right?

00:08:40.300 So that proves my opinion.

00:08:42.060 That proves my point.

00:08:43.220 There isn't a reason for it.

00:08:45.540 I think there must be some reflex kind of thing.

00:08:48.320 But, yeah, I mean, money's not the problem.

00:08:52.200 The people who are doing it are not complaining.

00:08:54.680 They're still doing it.

00:08:55.540 But, yeah, buying a baby is a different situation than, oh, is that why?

00:09:05.340 Is it an anti-gay thing?

00:09:07.460 Are they opposed to IVF because it's an anti-gay thing?

00:09:11.300 Is that why they're opposed?

00:09:14.440 I'm not even aware of any reason.

00:09:16.460 I've never heard of a reason.

00:09:17.560 So, basically, that's just handing the Democrats a victory.

00:09:23.340 I think Democrats would literally vote a corpse into office if it looked like they could protect abortion rights. 0.99

00:09:32.260 And the IVF stuff looks like a slippery slope to them.

00:09:36.580 So, basically, it's just giving the election away.

00:09:39.400 I don't know why.

00:09:40.080 I have no idea why Republicans would do such a thing.

00:09:42.400 Anyway, did you see all the fact-checking?

00:09:49.920 You know, you turn on the network, CNN, MSNBC, and they've got the fact-checker there.

00:09:55.060 And the fact-checker is just like, oh, that's right.

00:09:58.980 There weren't any fact-checkers.

00:10:01.480 Did anybody see one?

00:10:03.300 Did anybody see a fact-checker?

00:10:08.740 I didn't see one.

00:10:09.660 Now, I didn't look at everything all the time, but they were usually pretty prominent.

00:10:16.540 How many things did Biden say that were literally not true in a pretty easily demonstrated way?

00:10:23.780 A lot.

00:10:25.340 There was a lot that wasn't true.

00:10:27.880 Or at least was out of context.

00:10:30.320 I think he said a lot of things that were true-ish, but, you know, the context is all whacked.

00:10:36.880 All right, so let's see.

00:10:38.100 What else?

00:10:39.660 Biden had a good little line there.

00:10:42.080 He said, you can't love the country only when you win.

00:10:45.640 Now, of course, yeah, that's propaganda and narrative, and it's horrible.

00:10:51.220 But in terms of politics, it's a pretty good line.

00:10:54.720 I would say the speech was pretty well written.

00:10:58.040 What would you say?

00:10:59.980 Well, separately, we'll talk about how he performed.

00:11:02.440 But I thought the speech was pretty well written for his base in a political year.

00:11:10.220 And he had some actually good-sounding little economic things, you know, where he could say that he negotiated lower drug prices.

00:11:19.600 I didn't know anything about that.

00:11:22.980 But there was something about insulin, capping insulin.

00:11:28.980 And I saw on social media somebody said that Trump tried capping it and Biden reversed it.

00:11:34.340 But is there something to that story?

00:11:36.620 So basically, everything has a, but what would Trump have done that's always left out?

00:11:44.100 Is there any reason that Trump would not have negotiated better drug prices?

00:11:48.340 Who stood in his way?

00:11:51.960 Was it the Republicans that were stopping Trump from negotiating better drug prices?

00:11:57.340 I don't think so.

00:12:00.420 I don't think any Republicans were stopping Trump from doing it.

00:12:04.220 So it must have been the Democrats, right?

00:12:07.380 I mean, I sort of missed that story.

00:12:11.420 Yeah.

00:12:12.340 So all of these things are out of context.

00:12:14.720 If the only thing you heard was he reduced your insulin costs, but at the same time, he's recommending more snacks, so you're going to need more insulin.

00:12:26.640 Kind of a break-even situation.

00:12:29.060 The good news is I'm going to lower your insulin costs.

00:12:32.280 The bad news is I'm going to make sure there's a lot more snacks in your bag so you get more diabetes.

00:12:39.700 Anyway.

00:12:39.880 So he made, so Biden started with that really scary, you know, Hitler-like reference.

00:12:50.680 And at first I thought he was entirely talking about Trump.

00:12:55.340 But then he made it something about Putin.

00:12:58.780 But then he said foreign and domestic.

00:13:02.060 So it was like he tried to have it both ways.

00:13:04.280 Well, I'm really just talking about Putin, but it's foreign and domestic problem, so Hitler. 0.84

00:13:13.160 Yeah, it did sound like he went full Hitler right away.

00:13:17.120 As others have pointed out, he seemed to be quite hard on Russia, but soft on China.

00:13:27.120 Hmm.

00:13:28.220 Hmm.

00:13:28.600 I wonder if he's got any lost diamonds that would explain that.

00:13:34.020 All right.

00:13:36.180 He proposed a minimum tax for billionaires of 25%.

00:13:40.020 Do you think there's something missing in that?

00:13:43.800 A minimum tax for billionaires of 25%.

00:13:47.340 25% of what?

00:13:51.720 Of what?

00:13:52.600 Do you know why the billionaires are not paying as high a tax rate?

00:13:59.560 It's because it's not income.

00:14:01.820 What are they going to be tackling?

00:14:03.640 In other words, they get their gains and capital gains and take out loans and do clever things.

00:14:10.060 But it still has to be income.

00:14:14.740 You can't tax somebody's assets.

00:14:17.600 What is he even talking about?

00:14:18.860 I think we need a little, yeah.

00:14:22.380 I think we need, well, unearned income.

00:14:24.440 Well, you can't tax their worth.

00:14:30.360 Well, you know, that was not Elizabeth Warren's plan.

00:14:33.720 She was actually going to tax their worth, like 2% of their net worth. 0.75

00:14:38.480 That's crazy.

00:14:40.340 Oh, my God, that's crazy.

00:14:42.020 So, it looks like he wants to raise taxes on everybody who makes over $400,000 a year as well.

00:14:51.300 So, he's running for president on raising taxes.

00:14:55.380 He's not good at explaining how economies work.

00:14:59.980 Because if you raise taxes on the billionaires, well, they're going to find some other country.

00:15:04.420 Probably they should.

00:15:08.560 All right.

00:15:09.220 He says, no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker, or a nurse.

00:15:16.800 What have I taught you when people use the percentage but not the total dollar amount?

00:15:23.640 Or they use the dollar amount but not the percentage. 0.90

00:15:27.380 In every case, if they do one without the other, it is a lying, bullshit, propaganda, persuasion technique. 0.98

00:15:37.280 Right? 0.99

00:15:37.540 It doesn't matter which one you see.

00:15:39.140 If you see one without the other, it's obvious it's just propaganda.

00:15:44.120 Let's see.

00:15:44.780 You want to put a cap on credit card fees and make the credit card companies only recover, you know, the amount it costs them to recover.

00:15:54.460 You know, I'll tell you, I used to work for the phone company, as you know.

00:16:00.000 So, I got to hear things behind the curtains, what people really thought about things.

00:16:04.620 And we used to laugh that our most profitable line of business in the phone company was unpaid bills.

00:16:13.760 Unpaid bills were our most profitable line of business.

00:16:17.360 Because we would charge somebody, you know, I don't know, $25 or something, a reconnection fee.

00:16:22.840 So, in addition to whatever late fees they would still have to pay, you know, we'd get an extra $25 we weren't going to pay.

00:16:30.000 But the reason it was like free money is that everybody has to pay their phone bill.

00:16:34.920 If you don't pay your phone bill, or at least in those days there was one local phone company,

00:16:39.720 if you didn't pay your phone bill, you didn't have an option of another phone company in those days.

00:16:45.040 So, they could guarantee that you would pay, you had to.

00:16:49.240 So, they could just give you any penalty they wanted, you'd pay it. 0.99

00:16:53.200 So, yeah, we were evil bastards, and we knew it. 0.99

00:16:57.000 What about the banks? 0.98

00:16:58.600 Do you think the banks know that the credit card late fees are really abusive?

00:17:04.560 Of course they do.

00:17:05.440 Yeah, of course they know it's abusive, but they were getting away with it.

00:17:10.960 So, I have to back Biden on capping credit card fees and maybe doing something with drug prices.

00:17:18.740 I don't know that Trump wouldn't have done something with drug prices.

00:17:22.780 I don't think he would have capped credit cards.

00:17:26.220 That feels like anti-competitive.

00:17:28.160 It doesn't seem like something he would have done.

00:17:29.640 And I'm not sure it's necessary in a competitive environment.

00:17:35.520 You'd think that at least one credit card company would come up with the idea of not having that penalty.

00:17:42.840 You'd think the free market would take care of that really easily.

00:17:46.360 Credit cards are a pretty competitive business, right?

00:17:48.620 Nobody wanted that business.

00:17:51.640 I don't know.

00:17:52.920 So, these are things that sound great.

00:17:56.360 In context, they might be very different.

00:17:59.640 They're in bed with the banks, you say.

00:18:02.200 All right.

00:18:04.900 So, Trump tried to be doing live posting on truth.

00:18:10.640 Now, I couldn't get into truth last night because it was unavailable.

00:18:15.960 Did anybody try to get in?

00:18:18.700 It kept crashing.

00:18:20.060 Was it crashing because it was getting attacked?

00:18:23.620 I'll bet it was hacked.

00:18:25.240 I'll bet it wasn't a regular capacity problem.

00:18:29.640 Yeah.

00:18:30.480 To me, that sounds like a dirty trick.

00:18:33.760 Oh, so was X?

00:18:34.860 X had a problem?

00:18:36.480 Well, maybe it's the same thing to knock down my internet.

00:18:38.920 I guess we'll find out.

00:18:41.160 Are there any Californians here?

00:18:43.980 Any Californians with no, especially Northern California?

00:18:47.920 Anybody with no internet in Northern California besides me?

00:18:52.180 Is that a yes?

00:18:52.800 Anybody in Northern California with no internet?

00:18:59.340 No?

00:18:59.900 You've got internet.

00:19:00.980 I guess it's just me.

00:19:02.760 All right.

00:19:05.700 So, Biden was well prepared.

00:19:08.940 And he was well prepared for his critics as well.

00:19:11.680 So, when the critics started yelling, say the name of Lakin Riley, because she was a victim

00:19:18.920 of an undocumented person, he was ready.

00:19:24.920 He had a pin with her face on it, and he said her name.

00:19:29.060 It looked a little too prepared.

00:19:30.680 Well, some say he said her name wrong as Lincoln, but that's probably just because he slurred

00:19:36.840 a lot.

00:19:37.860 So, he did a good job of knowing what the criticism would be in the room and having his little prepared

00:19:45.340 thing.

00:19:47.900 Oh, Marjorie Taylor Greene gave him the pin.

00:19:50.820 Well, he was ready.

00:19:52.240 He was ready because he immediately said her name and then went into a thing about how bad

00:19:56.400 it was she got.

00:19:57.000 So, he was very ready for it.

00:20:00.240 I would say that I would give his...

00:20:05.340 See, the trouble is you have to either decide whether you're ranking him for how well he

00:20:10.180 did considering his age, or you're ranking him compared to everybody.

00:20:15.900 If I rank him compared to good speakers, let's say Obama or Reagan or Bill Clinton or Trump,

00:20:24.180 I would say all of those four I just mentioned would be an A, and I would give maybe C, C- for

00:20:34.480 actual presentation.

00:20:36.380 But, he really only had to survive, and he did.

00:20:42.220 He survived.

00:20:43.640 So, he did everything he needed to do for his base, and the people who don't like him still

00:20:48.640 don't like him, so it didn't make any difference at all, I don't think.

00:20:52.240 I did see, maybe it was Charlie Kirk saying that it looked like there was a change in strategy,

00:21:00.320 and that maybe they found out that the dictator thing wasn't working.

00:21:04.620 So, he didn't say extreme or mega or dictator, did he?

00:21:09.720 Which seemed a little obviously missing.

00:21:15.020 So, it looks like maybe he got the idea that we were going to mock him mercilessly for doing

00:21:21.340 the, you know, the real obvious stuff.

00:21:25.820 It ruined our bingo, too.

00:21:28.640 All right, so he didn't do...

00:21:29.800 He did do something about chaos, though, right?

00:21:32.600 So, he used chaos, he used Hitler. 0.92

00:21:38.060 I don't know if he used extreme.

00:21:40.740 He used predecessor a lot, yeah.

00:21:43.340 So, we don't know if this signals anything about the campaign, because the State of the

00:21:47.120 Union is its own animal.

00:21:49.800 All right, speaking of freedom.

00:21:51.420 Well, I guess Nancy Pelosi slammed Joe, not slammed him, but said Joe Biden should have

00:21:59.060 talked about Lauren, or Lakin Reilly's killer as an undocumented, whereas he referred to

00:22:06.220 the killer as illegal.

00:22:11.200 Man.

00:22:11.720 All right, are you amazed that they're actually telling Democrats that there's no immigration

00:22:22.260 problem?

00:22:24.860 And basically, they're saying there's not really a problem.

00:22:28.720 It's kind of unbelievable that that's happening.

00:22:31.960 All right.

00:22:34.480 According to Rasmussen, 65% of Democrats think Trump should be banned from the X platform.

00:22:41.720 Two-thirds of Democrats think the guy who's going to be probably the next president, or

00:22:51.160 at least if the election's not rigged, and that he should be banned from the major political

00:22:57.100 platform.

00:23:01.180 It's almost amazing.

00:23:02.860 Now, Biden is running to restore freedom and democracy.

00:23:07.860 What freedom is he restoring?

00:23:09.620 He's putting people in jail for free speech.

00:23:14.180 They want to ban free speech on the platform.

00:23:18.940 The only freedom that Republicans are trying to take away is reproductive.

00:23:25.000 Reproductive options for ending determinacy.

00:23:30.120 Well, actually, reproductive options, including IPF.

00:23:32.520 So the only thing that Republicans want to do is limit what women can do with their own bodies. 1.00

00:23:41.800 So Republicans have no argument about freedom, unfortunately.

00:23:45.680 That's not my opinion.

00:23:46.840 I'm saying politically speaking, politically speaking, Republicans have given up freedom as

00:23:52.480 an...

00:23:53.020 You really can't claim freedom.

00:23:55.180 You really can't.

00:23:56.180 You could try, but it would just sound crazy.

00:24:00.900 Yeah.

00:24:01.260 So I would say that both sides are trying to take your freedom away.

00:24:05.140 They're just doing it in different ways.

00:24:07.140 So the Republicans are definitely limiting what women would call their freedom. 1.00

00:24:12.980 And it doesn't matter what you call it.

00:24:14.360 I know you would call it saving a baby or, you know, not having something that God doesn't want.

00:24:21.320 So you'd have a different framing on it, but it doesn't matter what your framing is.

00:24:25.980 Yeah.

00:24:26.640 I know that you think it's banning murder.

00:24:29.000 I get it.

00:24:29.780 I'm not making any arguments about abortion.

00:24:33.080 I'm saying that to the Democrats, he has a completely credible argument that Republicans

00:24:41.120 are the ones who want to ban your freedom.

00:24:42.580 And it's a good argument.

00:24:46.600 He said, no matter how much you hate it, it doesn't matter.

00:24:50.660 No matter how much you say, he's using the wrong words, he should call it, we want to 0.98

00:24:54.920 murder babies. 1.00

00:24:55.860 It doesn't matter what you think. 0.99

00:24:57.320 It's unrelated to whether it works.

00:24:59.580 It works.

00:25:01.160 So his people think you're trying to take their freedom.

00:25:03.820 And they even say, you know, what's next?

00:25:06.360 If you can't do IVF, what's next?

00:25:08.180 So they're telling their people that birth control will be banned next.

00:25:14.500 How many of you would like to ban birth control?

00:25:19.520 Ban birth control.

00:25:21.160 How many of you?

00:25:21.920 Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

00:25:28.160 I've seen them, not a single yes.

00:25:31.380 But it's credible to their audience.

00:25:35.140 Do you think Democrats think it's credible?

00:25:37.660 Of course they do.

00:25:38.900 Because the IVF thing is just too far.

00:25:42.520 Let me say this, you know, in a clear way.

00:25:45.520 But if Republicans are going to die on the IVF hill, they deserve to lose.

00:25:53.400 You really deserve to lose.

00:25:55.380 I mean, if you're going to do something, you're just going to hand it to them. 0.90

00:25:59.480 You deserve to lose.

00:26:02.140 But the other team deserves to lose, too, because they're running Biden.

00:26:05.940 Who runs Biden if they think they should try to earn the election?

00:26:11.660 So it's like both sides are trying to lose.

00:26:14.000 What is Trump's take on IVF?

00:26:18.360 Trump is pro-IVF, right?

00:26:22.420 Oh, so that probably protects him.

00:26:25.140 Yeah, yeah, Trump is pro-IVF.

00:26:27.420 And I think the Republicans should take a note from that.

00:26:31.700 All right.

00:26:32.400 So here's how the Democrats are taking your freedom.

00:26:34.980 They're stealing elections, allegedly.

00:26:37.460 Now remember, this is just the framing that the opposing party would put on.

00:26:41.840 So they'd say he's stealing the election.

00:26:45.060 He's jailing people for their free speech.

00:26:48.140 He's limiting it on the, or at least the government is limiting it on the platforms.

00:26:53.560 Free speech.

00:26:54.300 We know that from the Twitter files.

00:26:56.560 And the open borders are sort of taking away your freedom to be safe in your own country.

00:27:01.820 Now, that's not an explicit freedom, but we had it before.

00:27:10.620 Yeah, we had it before.

00:27:13.820 So I think the Republicans could probably say more about the Democrats taking your freedom.

00:27:19.320 They're taking your money.

00:27:20.280 Yeah.

00:27:25.140 Yeah.

00:27:27.200 All right.

00:27:29.040 So Jerry Nadler came up to Biden afterwards and said,

00:27:32.960 nobody's going to talk about cognitive impairment now.

00:27:37.720 Jerry, you were just talking about cognitive impairment.

00:27:40.540 As you were saying, nobody's going to talk about cognitive impairment.

00:27:43.100 You can't say nobody's going to talk about cognitive impairment when you're talking about it.

00:27:49.740 In other words, it was at the top of his mind.

00:27:54.500 And Nadler's basically saying, well, it's the first thing I was thinking about.

00:27:58.180 But you limp through.

00:28:01.520 Here's what Paul Krugman said.

00:28:04.300 Paul Krugman is sort of the economic wing of the turd caucus.

00:28:07.880 Yes, the turd caucus are the Democrats who are willing to say the most absurd lies

00:28:14.800 that even other people who agree with them on most of stuff would never say in public.

00:28:22.460 So here's what Paul Krugman says.

00:28:25.120 A thought.

00:28:26.220 The whole Biden is too old thing was kind of a bubble

00:28:29.200 in the sense that people were buying it mainly because other people were buying it.

00:28:34.340 Did Biden just burst that bubble?

00:28:37.880 Well, I don't think we saw something that tells us the big picture

00:28:47.280 just because they drugged him up for one hour.

00:28:50.180 You tell me what drugs were in his system, and I'll tell you

00:28:53.140 if I'm concerned about his dementia at his age.

00:28:58.420 No.

00:28:59.160 I think everybody who thought he was too old

00:29:01.100 saw an old man yelling at a teleprompter, and it didn't look good.

00:29:05.280 And everybody who's trying to pretend he's not too old

00:29:08.480 saw him in command and full of energy and seizing the moment and winning the day.

00:29:16.060 So let's not pretend any of this is objective.

00:29:18.560 Well, as Adam Townsend said on the Acts,

00:29:25.380 State Senator Katie Britt is some kind of a rising GOP star,

00:29:31.640 so she did the rebuttal.

00:29:34.120 I would like to give you my impression of listening to Katie Britt give the rebuttal.

00:29:46.820 Click.

00:29:47.520 Let's see what the rebuttal looks like.

00:29:49.400 Oh, God.

00:29:50.620 Oh, God.

00:29:51.920 Oh, God.

00:29:52.900 Turn it off.

00:29:53.600 Turn it off.

00:29:54.360 Turn it off.

00:29:54.960 Did any of you make it through that?

00:30:01.260 Her voice and her charisma are like anti-charismatic.

00:30:05.800 Who in the world thought she's the next Obama? 1.00

00:30:09.820 That's the worst thing I've ever seen.

00:30:11.900 It was a total car wreck.

00:30:14.040 Now, if I'm saying that, now remember, I'd like to see the Republicans do well in this election.

00:30:21.160 Why in the world did they pick her?

00:30:25.080 What is going on?

00:30:27.160 And then one of the other, I forget who, one of the women in Congress, I think,

00:30:33.980 said, why did you put her in the kitchen? 1.00

00:30:36.800 They put her in the kitchen. 1.00

00:30:39.240 So the Republicans finally, you know, which I suppose is not,

00:30:45.440 I'm sure they've had women do the response before, 1.00

00:30:47.860 but it's, you know, if they're trying to show that they're open-minded,

00:30:54.100 that they put their rising star in a kitchen?

00:30:57.560 Seriously?

00:30:58.900 And then have her dressed, you know, semi, you know, maybe like business casual,

00:31:05.900 but something you might have been wearing in the kitchen as well?

00:31:10.100 Terrible.

00:31:11.460 Oh, my God.

00:31:13.640 Haley did the 2016 response.

00:31:15.940 Yeah.

00:31:16.060 Now, Haley is a very credible speaker.

00:31:19.620 I mean, there's a reason she did relatively well.

00:31:22.420 I would consider Haley a very good, very good public speaker, above average.

00:31:29.300 But poor Katie Britt. 0.99

00:31:33.140 Yeah, she's not ready, and she doesn't sound like a serious person, actually.

00:31:40.060 All right, so that didn't work out for the Republicans.

00:31:42.440 Tucker Carlson is doubling down on saying that Biden can't win,

00:31:52.080 and that it's obviously going to be rigged.

00:31:54.880 And he says that they're basically saying it out loud,

00:31:57.700 and they meaning Democrats.

00:32:00.400 And he talks about the attorney general.

00:32:03.160 Well, what's his name?

00:32:07.200 What's our attorney general's name?

00:32:08.880 Merrick Garland.

00:32:11.320 And how he is out there in public talking about getting rid of IDs for voting

00:32:16.960 and doing more mail-in ballots and basically everything that makes your vote less credible?

00:32:23.980 So he's literally out there just strongly promoting things that really don't have a purpose other than cheating.

00:32:32.900 They really don't.

00:32:34.040 There's no other purpose.

00:32:34.980 And to even pretend there's some other purpose other than cheating is a little too far.

00:32:41.760 I can't go there.

00:32:43.560 I can't wrap my brain around the fact that there's any legitimate reason to not require ID. 0.98

00:32:49.640 You know, the whole black people don't have ID thing is beyond absurd. 1.00

00:32:54.580 Because you know what I don't want to fix? 0.98

00:32:56.760 Here's a problem I don't want to fix.

00:32:58.600 I don't want to get more votes from people who can't figure out how to get an ID.

00:33:05.760 Does anybody want that?

00:33:07.520 If you were to talk to black American voters, you say, you know, hey, sir, do you vote?

00:33:13.400 Well, yes, I do.

00:33:14.560 All right. 0.96

00:33:14.900 Well, as a voter, do you think that black voters, black people who can't get an ID, 0.91

00:33:21.700 do you think that they should vote? 0.96

00:33:23.740 What would a black voter say? 0.93

00:33:26.280 I don't know, actually, but what would a black voter say to the idea that black people who can't get an ID 0.89

00:33:35.400 should be adding to the political process? 0.98

00:33:38.760 What exactly are they adding?

00:33:41.640 Their brilliance?

00:33:43.040 Their preferences?

00:33:44.860 Well, why are we trying to solve this problem?

00:33:47.540 What problem is being solved?

00:33:49.700 None.

00:33:50.940 Yeah, they're doing the disenfranchised stuff.

00:33:53.520 Do you think somebody who doesn't have a government ID is worried about being disenfranchised?

00:34:00.600 That might be the last thing they're worrying about.

00:34:04.140 Oh, I'd hate to be disenfranchised.

00:34:06.900 I don't have a bank.

00:34:08.120 I don't have a job.

00:34:09.120 I don't have a credit card.

00:34:11.400 I don't have a way to buy things without cash, and cash is going to go away.

00:34:15.340 No, you have much bigger problems than being disenfranchised from voting for somebody you haven't paid attention to.

00:34:25.500 Anyway.

00:34:27.320 So, Tucker's right, but the funniest thing he said was he referred to Chris Hayes on MSNBC,

00:34:34.180 and I quote, as the most famous lesbian in television. 1.00

00:34:37.620 So, that's something Tucker said.

00:34:46.980 The most famous lesbian in television. 0.93

00:34:56.900 I laugh because it's so wrong.

00:34:58.980 Now, the thing is, that's not an insult to lesbians, is it? 1.00

00:35:07.600 I don't believe anybody's trying to insult lesbians with that. 0.99

00:35:11.620 It's more like Chris Hayes is just morphing to whatever he needs to be.

00:35:17.360 So, to me, it just sounds like a Chris Hayes insult that's kind of funny.

00:35:21.760 But I wouldn't say it if I thought it was intended to be insulting to lesbians. 0.97

00:35:26.540 I love my lesbians. 1.00

00:35:28.840 I'm pro-LGBTQ.

00:35:32.200 You know, I always say the same thing.

00:35:35.220 I'll be anti-LGBTQ the same day that you say,

00:35:39.420 we don't want to go into that neighborhood, 0.99

00:35:41.280 because it's, you know, kind of a crappy neighborhood. 0.98

00:35:43.720 It's full of LGBTQ people. 0.94

00:35:46.080 Never happens.

00:35:47.440 It will never happen.

00:35:49.540 Yeah. 0.84

00:35:49.900 There's no such thing as that dangerous gay neighborhood, 1.00

00:35:52.240 or the lesbian neighborhood where they didn't clean up their yard or something. 1.00

00:35:57.740 Well, it just doesn't happen. 1.00

00:35:59.300 Probably if you were going to, you know, just be a jerk and rank people, 0.99

00:36:03.560 they would rank near the top. 1.00

00:36:05.880 Yeah.

00:36:06.440 If you just said,

00:36:08.420 what do you want a citizen to contribute to the world,

00:36:11.340 and just rank to everybody,

00:36:12.940 they'd be toward the top.

00:36:14.680 Toward the top.

00:36:15.360 So, no, I'm as pro-LGBTQ as you can get at.

00:36:19.460 But, you know, everybody, every interest group can go too far.

00:36:23.440 But I'm very pro.

00:36:27.060 All right.

00:36:28.360 RFK Jr.

00:36:31.120 said,

00:36:31.960 neither my uncle nor my father would recognize the version of America that we have today.

00:36:36.300 And he talks about we're becoming a nation of chronic illness.

00:36:39.040 So I mentioned this, and violence and loneliness.

00:36:40.960 He also mentioned the loneliness and depression.

00:36:46.180 You know, I think this whole loneliness and depression thing

00:36:49.220 is maybe a lot more complicated than we think.

00:36:55.940 You know, your first thought is, well, go make a friend.

00:36:59.780 If you're all lonely, go make a friend.

00:37:04.420 That doesn't really work for men.

00:37:07.240 Do you know most men have zero friends?

00:37:09.640 I saw somebody say that.

00:37:12.260 Like, you're lucky if you have one.

00:37:13.580 You know, and by friend, I mean somebody who comes over to your house

00:37:17.900 and you go over to their house, that sort of thing.

00:37:22.280 Yeah.

00:37:22.800 And a lot of people have zero.

00:37:25.220 A lot of you were saying it in the comments.

00:37:26.940 You have zero friends.

00:37:28.300 That's a lot of people with zero friends.

00:37:29.600 So why is that?

00:37:32.080 Well, I would like to offer some possibilities.

00:37:38.540 One is, you know, we spend a lot of time on our devices, of course, the obvious.

00:37:42.640 But I think people don't have anything in common anymore.

00:37:50.500 We're so divided and so different in our interests.

00:37:54.020 It's hard to find somebody that you want to spend time with on a regular basis

00:37:58.920 because your interests are so different.

00:38:02.020 And then, of course, I remember a day when...

00:38:05.340 It's funny that this used to be true and it's not anymore.

00:38:08.280 Do you all remember a day when, if you got invited to a party,

00:38:12.640 it didn't matter what the politics of the host were?

00:38:16.040 Do you remember that?

00:38:17.580 It didn't make any difference.

00:38:19.380 Like, literally, zero difference.

00:38:23.180 Not five years ago, but before Trump.

00:38:26.200 But after Trump, I lost 100% of, you know, my Democrat-only friends.

00:38:35.240 Which was most.

00:38:36.200 You know, where I live, it was most of them.

00:38:38.500 So that just, you know, wiped out most of my social life.

00:38:42.980 Yeah, and then you've got the dating problem as well.

00:38:45.840 So there are pretty good reasons why we're lonely.

00:38:49.680 And a lot of it has to do with being, you know,

00:38:52.460 out of shape and having chronic illness and all that stuff.

00:38:55.860 So I think our food supply is part of it.

00:38:58.100 I think our food supply is everything from our health care costs

00:39:02.200 to our quality of living to depression to anxiety.

00:39:06.200 So there's another story in the OSINT Defender account I saw.

00:39:15.880 There's a U.S. Army intelligence analyst

00:39:18.920 who sold a whole bunch of top-secret military things to China for $42,000.

00:39:25.380 It makes me wonder, does China have any problem at all buying our secrets?

00:39:34.420 This guy sold, like, really important secrets

00:39:38.400 about our air defenses and stuff like that, our technology,

00:39:43.080 for $42,000?

00:39:44.460 I mean, don't you think that China just has everything?

00:39:49.900 They must have everything.

00:39:51.340 If you could get it for $42,000.

00:39:55.820 Yeah.

00:39:56.160 So I don't know if this is, you know, he's innocent until proven guilty,

00:40:01.500 but it doesn't sound good.

00:40:05.280 The leftover fetuses from IVF bother you.

00:40:08.620 All right, let's talk about TikTok.

00:40:13.780 The House panel unanimously approved a bill.

00:40:17.880 Now, that doesn't mean the bill has been voted on.

00:40:20.200 It's just the panel that's coming up with the bill

00:40:22.160 that could ban TikTok from all U.S. phones and tablets if enacted.

00:40:28.960 U.S. phones and tablets, okay.

00:40:30.440 Now, here's the thing.

00:40:34.880 Do you think that's going to get voted on and it's going to get banned?

00:40:39.320 Because I think the ban is really a ban

00:40:42.300 only if ByteDance doesn't sell it to an American interest.

00:40:48.540 Now, my information as of this morning is that there's no buyer.

00:40:54.160 Now, that doesn't mean there won't be,

00:40:55.960 but at the moment there's no buyer.

00:40:57.400 So that would mean that if the bill passed,

00:41:01.700 TikTok would just be shut down.

00:41:04.440 Now, I just don't think there's any chance of it happening.

00:41:10.960 What do you think?

00:41:13.020 Is there any chance that the larger Congress and Senate

00:41:16.380 will vote to kill TikTok?

00:41:19.460 Because TikTok is very popular with the young

00:41:22.240 and the Democrats need the young

00:41:25.180 and there might be people who are working for China.

00:41:28.980 And then you've got your Rand Pauls

00:41:30.860 who don't want to ban it because of free speech.

00:41:35.940 Let me deal with the Rand Paul complaint.

00:41:38.840 So you know that typically I love my Rand Paul,

00:41:42.320 but he's, in my opinion,

00:41:44.960 analytically just totally wrong on this one.

00:41:47.800 Now, he says it's a free speech thing

00:41:51.200 and you don't want to be against free speech,

00:41:53.320 so don't ban it.

00:41:54.880 Now, I like the simplicity of the argument.

00:41:57.680 However, it's not really a free speech question.

00:42:02.300 Let me give you another example

00:42:06.480 as a, say, a mental experiment.

00:42:09.640 Let's say you had a terrorist

00:42:13.000 who captured a U.S. citizen in a foreign country

00:42:16.940 and the terrorist was probably going to kill them

00:42:20.040 and they were, you know, under duress.

00:42:22.300 And then the captured person

00:42:24.380 produces one of those captive videos

00:42:27.180 where they say,

00:42:28.620 ISIS is great, you know, 1.00

00:42:30.880 and all the things you know are lies.

00:42:33.380 Now, should, let's say

00:42:36.380 that the military gets a hold of it.

00:42:39.520 Should the military provide it to the world

00:42:42.780 because, you know, free speech,

00:42:45.340 or should they say,

00:42:46.580 this is more of a military thing

00:42:47.980 and we should prevent it

00:42:49.840 because we don't want more of these videos.

00:42:53.160 Would it be a violation of free speech

00:42:55.380 to prevent a terrorist video

00:42:58.760 that featured an American

00:43:01.760 saying something with their own voice?

00:43:04.260 Would it be a violation of free speech

00:43:08.200 to suppress that

00:43:09.240 for military purposes?

00:43:12.900 Now, remember,

00:43:13.520 it would be coming from another country

00:43:15.340 and the video is not being made

00:43:17.540 by the person speaking,

00:43:19.400 but they are,

00:43:20.260 it's an American speaking.

00:43:22.100 Now, I would say that's not free speech.

00:43:25.220 That there's, you know,

00:43:26.620 a minor element of somebody

00:43:27.880 who's American who's saying something,

00:43:29.640 but he's not saying something he believes

00:43:31.460 and it's being done for military purposes,

00:43:35.420 you know, terrorist purposes.

00:43:36.820 I would say that's not free speech.

00:43:39.220 That's an enemy using a weapon.

00:43:42.040 I believe we can stop a weapon,

00:43:44.700 but not free speech.

00:43:46.840 So the fact that a weapon

00:43:48.160 has some free speech embedded in it

00:43:50.120 shouldn't stop you

00:43:51.560 from being able to stop a weapon.

00:43:54.240 Do you agree?

00:43:55.040 And I say that TikTok is a weapon

00:43:57.780 the way it's used now

00:44:00.100 because although the people using it

00:44:03.640 probably are mostly looking

00:44:05.000 at American content,

00:44:06.620 they're producing it

00:44:07.880 and consuming American content,

00:44:09.560 mostly.

00:44:11.220 But who gets to decide

00:44:13.520 who sees what?

00:44:16.000 Whose free speech are we protecting?

00:44:18.920 See, the free speech

00:44:20.300 of an American to say something

00:44:21.920 is still available

00:44:23.640 because they can go to any platform

00:44:25.220 and say it,

00:44:26.140 except TikTok,

00:44:27.200 if the ban happens.

00:44:29.200 But if they say it on TikTok,

00:44:32.700 the presumption is

00:44:33.680 that how many people see it

00:44:35.220 and hear it

00:44:36.100 is going to be determined

00:44:38.140 by a Chinese company.

00:44:40.600 So what's only being banned

00:44:42.820 is the ability

00:44:43.880 for a Chinese company

00:44:45.220 to determine

00:44:46.120 how much free speech

00:44:47.580 Americans have.

00:44:49.080 we're not banning

00:44:51.540 the Americans' free speech.

00:44:53.320 We're banning China's ability 1.00

00:44:55.280 to regulate our free speech

00:44:57.560 because that same person

00:44:59.780 can just walk over

00:45:00.680 to Facebook or Meta

00:45:01.920 or anyplace else

00:45:03.080 and just do the speech.

00:45:06.300 Right?

00:45:07.160 So really,

00:45:07.940 it's about the danger

00:45:10.740 of the tool

00:45:11.420 and the fact

00:45:13.320 that there's a free speech element

00:45:14.800 in it is true

00:45:16.360 and it's not nothing

00:45:18.120 but it's so much less important

00:45:20.440 than the fact

00:45:20.980 that we're brainwashing

00:45:22.140 our youth

00:45:22.680 to rip off 1.00

00:45:23.860 their own genitals. 1.00

00:45:25.580 I mean, 0.90

00:45:25.840 I think that matters.

00:45:28.020 All right.

00:45:31.020 I have a suspicion

00:45:32.420 that something else

00:45:33.360 is going on here

00:45:34.240 which is

00:45:35.580 if it turns out

00:45:37.020 that this gets voted,

00:45:39.940 let's say,

00:45:41.300 my guess is

00:45:42.140 it'll get defeated

00:45:43.660 because I think

00:45:45.360 there are too many people

00:45:46.720 in Congress

00:45:47.240 who either rely on TikTok

00:45:49.620 for their election

00:45:50.840 or, you know,

00:45:52.260 don't want to make

00:45:53.140 their young voters mad 0.99

00:45:54.780 or some other reason.

00:45:58.260 But I think

00:45:59.540 it'll be turned down.

00:46:01.420 Now,

00:46:01.780 I haven't heard anybody say

00:46:03.160 that the vote counter

00:46:05.060 say that it has the votes.

00:46:07.180 Usually,

00:46:07.760 you hear that pretty early,

00:46:09.020 don't you?

00:46:10.180 Am I wrong?

00:46:11.180 Usually,

00:46:11.700 it was something like this,

00:46:12.540 a high-profile thing.

00:46:13.500 You hear right away

00:46:14.880 whether it's likely to pass.

00:46:17.320 That's completely missing

00:46:18.640 in the story.

00:46:20.420 That's like a giant

00:46:21.360 dog not barking,

00:46:22.760 isn't it?

00:46:24.260 I mean,

00:46:24.520 it's like,

00:46:24.820 think about that.

00:46:27.000 That we don't hear

00:46:30.380 whether it's likely to pass.

00:46:33.180 We always know that

00:46:34.540 in advance.

00:46:35.860 And for some reason,

00:46:36.760 this one,

00:46:37.500 that story is missing.

00:46:39.200 So I think it's going to fail

00:46:40.800 because I think Democrats

00:46:43.000 are unable

00:46:43.640 or unwilling

00:46:44.360 to ban it.

00:46:46.540 But

00:46:46.900 I'm going to give you

00:46:49.200 a conditional

00:46:49.900 prediction.

00:46:52.500 Conditional prediction.

00:46:53.580 If it flies through

00:46:56.260 and gets passed,

00:46:57.860 then there's something else

00:46:59.240 going on.

00:47:02.140 Because nothing really changed

00:47:03.620 from the last time

00:47:04.380 they tried to do it

00:47:05.060 and it didn't work.

00:47:05.740 The only thing

00:47:07.400 that could have changed

00:47:08.320 is maybe our

00:47:09.360 intelligence people

00:47:10.220 said,

00:47:10.560 you know what?

00:47:11.500 It would be great

00:47:12.240 if we're the ones

00:47:12.860 who controlled this.

00:47:15.060 So if there's a,

00:47:16.460 if you see suddenly

00:47:17.800 there's an American company

00:47:19.120 that just pops up

00:47:21.640 out of nowhere

00:47:22.240 and says,

00:47:23.340 hey,

00:47:23.500 I'll buy it.

00:47:24.500 Maybe a Microsoft

00:47:25.380 or somebody else.

00:47:27.680 Then you would have

00:47:28.520 to assume

00:47:28.920 that they're in cahoots

00:47:31.100 with the intelligence people

00:47:32.340 who just want to control it

00:47:33.440 like the rest

00:47:33.920 of the platforms.

00:47:34.500 So if Microsoft

00:47:36.420 bought it,

00:47:37.040 for example,

00:47:38.420 I would assume

00:47:39.280 that they had already

00:47:40.300 worked out an agreement

00:47:41.200 in which the CIA

00:47:43.160 or FBI

00:47:44.080 or whoever

00:47:44.480 has a back door.

00:47:46.060 So I think

00:47:46.500 the problem

00:47:47.140 with TikTok

00:47:47.620 is our intelligence people

00:47:48.960 don't have a back door.

00:47:51.280 So that's my summary.

00:47:54.280 That the real problem

00:47:55.440 with TikTok

00:47:55.900 from the perspective

00:47:58.380 of the people

00:47:58.880 who are really in charge

00:47:59.700 of our government,

00:48:00.580 the intelligence people,

00:48:01.780 is that they don't

00:48:02.840 have access to it,

00:48:03.700 the back door.

00:48:05.280 And China does. 0.80

00:48:06.800 So certainly

00:48:07.800 America wants 0.76

00:48:09.180 to be the only one

00:48:10.040 who has access

00:48:10.740 to the social media platforms

00:48:12.480 so that they can

00:48:14.000 tweak it

00:48:15.020 as they did

00:48:15.580 with the Twitter files

00:48:16.900 or at least

00:48:17.540 know what people

00:48:18.620 are doing.

00:48:21.620 All right.

00:48:22.620 So we'll...

00:48:23.480 So if it turns out

00:48:25.520 a company wants

00:48:26.240 to buy it

00:48:26.780 and then actually

00:48:27.560 gets away

00:48:28.620 with buying it,

00:48:29.360 that's going

00:48:30.420 to tell you

00:48:30.800 a lot about

00:48:31.300 that company.

00:48:32.940 You might not

00:48:33.820 want to know

00:48:34.220 that stuff.

00:48:36.000 All right.

00:48:36.800 I saw an article

00:48:38.100 that people

00:48:39.740 think they can

00:48:40.500 do lie detecting

00:48:41.520 by just looking

00:48:42.300 at people

00:48:42.740 and that it's

00:48:44.120 not true,

00:48:44.880 that there are

00:48:45.340 no reliable

00:48:46.060 nonverbal cues

00:48:47.460 from liars.

00:48:49.540 Do you believe

00:48:50.240 that?

00:48:50.960 Do you believe

00:48:51.700 that you can't

00:48:52.440 tell who's lying

00:48:53.340 by looking

00:48:55.480 at the body language?

00:48:56.480 Well, they did

00:48:58.460 some tests

00:48:58.980 and they said

00:48:59.560 that people

00:49:01.660 look for

00:49:02.280 when you can't

00:49:03.620 look somebody

00:49:04.080 in the eye.

00:49:05.280 But they found

00:49:06.000 there was no

00:49:06.460 difference between 0.90

00:49:07.320 liars and non-liars 0.76

00:49:08.580 in terms of 0.93

00:49:09.560 eye contact.

00:49:10.880 Probably that's

00:49:11.560 more about being

00:49:12.120 shy, right?

00:49:13.800 And then they also

00:49:14.720 said there's no

00:49:15.460 correlation with

00:49:16.480 fidgeting.

00:49:17.700 So if you look

00:49:18.600 nervous,

00:49:20.080 it didn't make

00:49:21.000 much difference

00:49:21.580 to, you know,

00:49:22.740 predicting whether

00:49:23.420 you were lying.

00:49:24.520 Do you believe

00:49:24.920 that?

00:49:26.480 I believe it

00:49:27.720 because by the

00:49:28.940 time somebody's

00:49:29.600 trying to determine

00:49:30.380 if you're lying,

00:49:31.440 it's already

00:49:32.100 a tense situation.

00:49:33.760 So I can imagine

00:49:35.160 everybody's fidgety

00:49:36.320 if they're being

00:49:36.860 accused of lying.

00:49:38.380 And it matters.

00:49:40.880 But here's,

00:49:41.960 so their take

00:49:42.920 is that the way

00:49:43.780 you can detect

00:49:44.440 lying the best

00:49:45.180 is by looking

00:49:45.880 at what they say

00:49:46.700 or don't say.

00:49:48.000 Their choice of words.

00:49:49.500 Now I've told you

00:49:50.220 the same thing,

00:49:51.740 that choice of words

00:49:52.900 always tells you

00:49:54.480 what's going on.

00:49:55.160 The day before

00:49:56.960 Nikki Haley

00:49:58.120 dropped out of the

00:49:59.700 race,

00:50:00.580 do you know

00:50:01.040 what she said?

00:50:02.740 I'm not dropping

00:50:03.920 out of the race

00:50:04.640 yet.

00:50:07.700 She actually

00:50:08.600 said yet.

00:50:10.160 And I said,

00:50:11.400 oh,

00:50:11.620 you're going to

00:50:11.920 do it tomorrow.

00:50:13.160 And then she

00:50:13.620 did it tomorrow.

00:50:16.120 Yeah.

00:50:16.980 If somebody

00:50:17.920 puts yet

00:50:18.720 at the end

00:50:20.000 of a sentence,

00:50:21.020 they mean yet.

00:50:22.100 they mean

00:50:23.080 that she

00:50:24.320 very clearly

00:50:25.280 was telling you

00:50:26.780 she was lying

00:50:27.480 because the yet

00:50:28.980 told you

00:50:30.620 she was going

00:50:31.000 to do it

00:50:31.320 tomorrow

00:50:31.600 and she did.

00:50:32.760 Now I do agree

00:50:33.740 that words

00:50:34.260 are a better

00:50:34.700 detector.

00:50:35.360 However,

00:50:35.840 here's what

00:50:36.220 they have wrong.

00:50:37.600 The eyes

00:50:38.460 definitely tell you

00:50:39.460 if somebody's lying.

00:50:40.940 Now there are

00:50:41.420 a few exceptions.

00:50:42.820 A psychopath's

00:50:43.780 eyes will not

00:50:44.380 tell you anything

00:50:45.060 because they'll

00:50:46.240 tell you a lie

00:50:46.880 the same as,

00:50:47.520 even with details,

00:50:48.760 the same as if

00:50:49.520 they told the truth.

00:50:50.260 You can't tell

00:50:51.320 the difference

00:50:51.720 if they're a 0.93

00:50:52.800 psychopath or 1.00

00:50:53.560 sociopath. 0.81

00:50:54.680 If somebody's

00:50:55.560 a professional,

00:50:57.220 let's say a trial

00:50:58.420 lawyer,

00:50:59.640 they would also

00:51:00.720 be practiced

00:51:01.560 at keeping

00:51:02.360 their face

00:51:03.040 normal while

00:51:04.460 they tell

00:51:05.100 something that

00:51:05.640 isn't true.

00:51:07.600 But if you

00:51:08.960 catch somebody

00:51:09.620 in a casual

00:51:10.660 spontaneous

00:51:11.240 situation and

00:51:12.920 they're not

00:51:13.320 a professional,

00:51:14.660 their eyes

00:51:15.400 will tell you

00:51:15.960 everything you

00:51:16.580 need to know.

00:51:17.860 You just have

00:51:18.620 to look for it.

00:51:19.300 Rachel Maddow

00:51:20.600 does the

00:51:21.100 rapid blinking.

00:51:23.620 Watch it

00:51:24.220 when she's

00:51:24.600 listening.

00:51:25.480 When she's

00:51:25.940 listening,

00:51:26.480 she blinks

00:51:26.880 normally.

00:51:27.900 When she

00:51:28.460 says something

00:51:29.140 that everybody

00:51:29.700 agrees with

00:51:30.340 and is obvious,

00:51:31.660 normal.

00:51:32.660 But then when

00:51:33.320 she does her

00:51:33.800 closer,

00:51:34.560 it'll be

00:51:34.880 something like,

00:51:36.220 and that's

00:51:36.840 why Trump

00:51:37.500 is going

00:51:39.040 to give a

00:51:39.460 reach around

00:51:39.980 to Putin.

00:51:41.360 And then she

00:51:42.120 goes into

00:51:42.500 the rapid

00:51:42.940 blinking.

00:51:45.080 So it's

00:51:46.380 not a

00:51:46.720 coincidence.

00:51:47.220 And then

00:51:49.320 you look

00:51:49.860 at the

00:51:50.060 people,

00:51:50.760 the Democrats

00:51:51.360 who do

00:51:51.640 the wide-eyed

00:51:52.360 thing.

00:51:52.980 The wide-eyed

00:51:53.640 thing is just

00:51:54.240 the easiest

00:51:54.740 tell.

00:51:55.640 You can see

00:51:56.120 that right

00:51:56.480 away.

00:51:57.800 It's like

00:51:58.420 three fake

00:51:59.100 things and

00:51:59.580 then one

00:51:59.900 wide-eyed

00:52:00.380 thing.

00:52:02.040 It's like,

00:52:03.280 yes,

00:52:04.260 the rate

00:52:06.680 of,

00:52:07.220 let's see,

00:52:07.560 the unemployment

00:52:08.140 rate is

00:52:08.860 looking pretty

00:52:09.660 good,

00:52:10.900 and the

00:52:12.440 job claims

00:52:13.180 are good,

00:52:13.920 but Trump

00:52:15.900 is the

00:52:16.180 one that

00:52:16.460 let people

00:52:16.840 in the

00:52:17.080 border.

00:52:18.840 And then

00:52:19.140 her eyes

00:52:19.440 go big,

00:52:20.080 and you

00:52:20.500 can see

00:52:20.780 the wrinkles

00:52:21.240 in the

00:52:21.540 forehead

00:52:21.800 because the

00:52:22.560 eyebrows go

00:52:23.580 up when

00:52:25.180 they lie.

00:52:26.360 It's very

00:52:26.900 obvious.

00:52:29.540 All right,

00:52:30.920 Fox News

00:52:33.300 is reporting

00:52:33.800 that almost

00:52:34.740 all the

00:52:35.160 hospitals are

00:52:35.900 trying to

00:52:36.320 increase the

00:52:37.000 racial diversity

00:52:38.020 among the

00:52:42.780 leadership.

00:52:43.920 so you

00:52:48.300 might have

00:52:48.780 some risk

00:52:49.400 of flying

00:52:50.040 or going

00:52:50.460 to the

00:52:50.700 hospital

00:52:51.080 that's a

00:52:51.680 little extra.

00:52:52.940 Now,

00:52:53.300 I hasten

00:52:54.020 to say,

00:52:55.300 not because

00:52:56.040 of diversity.

00:52:57.740 That's not

00:52:58.320 the point.

00:52:59.120 There's no

00:52:59.500 risk that

00:52:59.940 comes from

00:53:00.360 just diversity.

00:53:02.360 The risk

00:53:03.120 is trying

00:53:03.560 too hard

00:53:04.040 to get

00:53:04.340 diversity.

00:53:05.920 Do we

00:53:06.300 all agree

00:53:06.700 on that?

00:53:07.880 The problem

00:53:08.760 is not

00:53:09.520 the diversity.

00:53:11.520 It's the

00:53:12.040 trying too

00:53:12.660 hard in a

00:53:13.740 situation

00:53:14.220 where the

00:53:14.640 pipeline

00:53:15.060 doesn't have

00:53:15.540 enough to

00:53:16.540 select.

00:53:18.120 The one

00:53:18.880 thing that

00:53:19.320 the Republicans

00:53:20.140 absolutely get

00:53:21.700 wrong,

00:53:22.360 like just

00:53:22.760 terribly,

00:53:23.640 terribly wrong,

00:53:24.780 is they

00:53:25.560 should say

00:53:26.140 that systemic

00:53:26.980 racism is

00:53:27.900 real and

00:53:29.000 the only

00:53:29.300 place you

00:53:29.720 can stop

00:53:30.240 it is in

00:53:31.320 early school.

00:53:32.440 people.

00:53:34.180 That's what

00:53:34.800 they should

00:53:35.100 say.

00:53:35.980 Systemic

00:53:36.480 racism,

00:53:37.100 totally

00:53:37.380 real,

00:53:38.400 and the

00:53:38.900 only place

00:53:39.320 you can

00:53:39.600 stop it

00:53:40.180 practically

00:53:41.340 is making

00:53:42.320 sure everybody

00:53:42.820 has a good

00:53:43.200 education.

00:53:44.040 If you have

00:53:44.420 a good

00:53:44.640 education,

00:53:45.540 it won't

00:53:46.000 bother you

00:53:46.760 as much.

00:53:48.460 You'll be

00:53:48.900 able to

00:53:49.140 slice through

00:53:49.640 it as an

00:53:50.100 adult.

00:53:50.740 But if you

00:53:51.180 don't,

00:53:52.060 and you

00:53:52.340 don't have

00:53:52.620 any skills,

00:53:54.500 yeah,

00:53:55.380 probably it

00:53:55.900 does matter

00:53:56.360 what your

00:53:56.840 ethnicity is.

00:53:57.760 But you

00:53:58.180 want to

00:53:58.400 make it

00:53:58.660 not matter

00:53:59.260 by just

00:54:00.400 being capable.

00:54:02.180 That's

00:54:02.500 usually all

00:54:03.060 you need.

00:54:04.460 So,

00:54:04.960 yes,

00:54:05.500 the

00:54:06.020 Republicans

00:54:06.640 should be

00:54:07.220 saying,

00:54:08.200 we love

00:54:08.600 diversity,

00:54:09.500 we hate

00:54:10.100 forced

00:54:11.220 diversity,

00:54:12.600 because it

00:54:13.040 forces you

00:54:13.600 to try

00:54:13.920 too hard

00:54:14.460 and then

00:54:15.520 bad things

00:54:17.040 happen.

00:54:19.360 That's

00:54:19.960 what I

00:54:20.200 say.

00:54:24.220 All

00:54:24.820 right,

00:54:25.040 so there's

00:54:26.140 a study that

00:54:26.720 says a

00:54:27.120 single

00:54:27.400 dose of

00:54:27.920 LSD

00:54:28.340 can give

00:54:29.480 people

00:54:29.760 lasting

00:54:30.240 anxiety

00:54:30.880 relief.

00:54:31.460 And the

00:54:31.620 FDA has

00:54:32.960 granted

00:54:33.360 breakthrough

00:54:34.940 therapy

00:54:35.560 status to

00:54:36.180 LSD.

00:54:38.900 Amazing.

00:54:39.840 To treat

00:54:40.160 generalized

00:54:40.540 anxiety

00:54:41.200 disorder.

00:54:42.440 Now,

00:54:42.600 that just

00:54:42.880 means

00:54:43.300 breakthrough

00:54:45.040 therapy.

00:54:46.580 Does that

00:54:46.900 mean you

00:54:47.180 can do

00:54:47.640 it,

00:54:48.280 or does

00:54:48.500 that mean

00:54:48.740 you can

00:54:49.020 test it?

00:54:50.660 Let's

00:54:50.820 see.

00:54:51.960 It still

00:54:52.800 has to

00:54:53.100 go through

00:54:53.420 trials.

00:54:55.800 So I

00:54:56.060 guess that's

00:54:56.460 just a

00:54:57.400 approval

00:54:57.940 to get

00:54:58.400 to go

00:54:58.860 into a

00:54:59.180 trial,

00:54:59.580 right?

00:55:01.180 It's just

00:55:01.720 approval for

00:55:02.320 a trial,

00:55:02.900 yeah.

00:55:03.380 Which is

00:55:03.900 good.

00:55:04.740 Still want

00:55:05.200 to do

00:55:05.380 the trial.

00:55:07.500 This is

00:55:08.080 the funniest

00:55:08.600 statement

00:55:09.200 from it.

00:55:10.400 The most

00:55:10.840 common

00:55:11.280 adverse

00:55:11.800 effects

00:55:12.400 of the

00:55:13.520 LSD

00:55:14.000 are usually

00:55:16.420 only on

00:55:16.940 the day

00:55:17.240 of the

00:55:17.500 dose.

00:55:18.860 And some

00:55:19.500 of the

00:55:19.920 problems

00:55:20.580 are

00:55:20.780 hallucinations,

00:55:21.860 euphoric mood,

00:55:23.400 abnormal

00:55:23.820 thinking,

00:55:24.960 headache,

00:55:25.440 dizziness,

00:55:25.800 and

00:55:26.160 nausea.

00:55:27.660 You know

00:55:28.260 what?

00:55:28.540 I've known

00:55:29.040 a billion

00:55:29.840 people who

00:55:30.400 have done

00:55:30.820 LSD.

00:55:32.020 I've never

00:55:32.380 heard a

00:55:32.680 single person

00:55:33.320 say they

00:55:33.740 have a

00:55:34.060 headache,

00:55:34.500 dizziness,

00:55:34.900 or nausea.

00:55:36.940 Has anybody

00:55:37.660 had that

00:55:38.100 side effect?

00:55:40.520 Dizziness or

00:55:41.180 nausea?

00:55:43.600 Because I'm

00:55:44.260 sure we

00:55:44.620 got some

00:55:45.080 day trippers

00:55:45.740 in here.

00:55:47.640 I've never

00:55:48.260 even heard of

00:55:48.620 it.

00:55:49.220 But, you

00:55:49.660 know, like

00:55:49.980 every other

00:55:50.440 drug, there

00:55:50.880 are some

00:55:51.140 people who

00:55:51.500 have bad

00:55:51.900 effects.

00:55:53.100 I do

00:55:53.480 not

00:55:53.700 recommend

00:55:54.140 LSD or

00:55:56.020 any other

00:55:56.440 drug.

00:55:57.540 Only your

00:55:58.080 doctor can

00:55:59.100 recommend that.

00:56:04.020 So,

00:56:05.820 there's a

00:56:06.680 book, I

00:56:08.280 think Elon

00:56:08.700 Musk was

00:56:09.280 recommending it,

00:56:10.160 and people were

00:56:10.540 talking about it.

00:56:11.360 I forget the

00:56:11.780 name of it.

00:56:12.700 But one of the

00:56:13.340 takeaways is that

00:56:14.240 the reason all of

00:56:14.980 our children are

00:56:16.060 anxious and

00:56:17.440 incompetent, it 0.97

00:56:18.780 seems, is

00:56:20.220 that the

00:56:21.740 only way you

00:56:22.500 become capable

00:56:23.480 and confident is

00:56:24.500 by doing tasks

00:56:25.640 and succeeding.

00:56:28.260 Now, that

00:56:29.640 does match

00:56:30.360 observation.

00:56:32.540 Now, let me

00:56:33.060 ask you, how

00:56:34.800 many of you

00:56:35.320 have had kids,

00:56:36.320 let's say,

00:56:37.560 you know,

00:56:37.800 recently, and

00:56:39.480 have you ever

00:56:40.720 tried to ask

00:56:41.420 them to do

00:56:41.860 something?

00:56:44.240 Now, it's

00:56:44.860 very kid

00:56:45.340 dependent.

00:56:46.300 You know,

00:56:46.460 every kid's

00:56:46.960 different.

00:56:47.660 Here's what

00:56:48.120 happens in

00:56:48.580 the modern

00:56:48.920 world.

00:56:50.240 All right,

00:56:50.640 kid, when

00:56:51.880 you come

00:56:52.180 home from

00:56:52.540 school, I

00:56:54.360 want you to

00:56:54.800 do some

00:56:55.520 work around

00:56:56.880 the house,

00:56:57.580 let's say,

00:56:58.320 to earn an

00:57:00.480 allowance.

00:57:02.560 What happens?

00:57:04.120 What happens

00:57:04.860 in the real

00:57:05.340 world if you

00:57:06.780 say, all

00:57:07.120 right, we're

00:57:07.440 going to

00:57:07.460 give you

00:57:07.740 some discipline,

00:57:09.220 you're going

00:57:09.620 to do some

00:57:10.400 stuff around

00:57:10.880 the house

00:57:11.380 when you

00:57:12.360 get home?

00:57:13.320 What happens?

00:57:15.160 In the real

00:57:15.920 world?

00:57:17.480 In the real

00:57:18.260 world, the

00:57:18.680 kid says,

00:57:19.340 oh, I

00:57:19.600 have so

00:57:19.900 much

00:57:20.080 homework,

00:57:21.420 let me

00:57:21.780 do the

00:57:22.120 homework

00:57:22.460 first, and

00:57:24.220 when I'm

00:57:24.560 done, because

00:57:25.640 you would

00:57:25.940 agree, Dad,

00:57:26.900 I mean, I

00:57:27.280 think you'd

00:57:27.620 agree, homework's

00:57:28.240 more important,

00:57:29.080 so I'm going to

00:57:29.620 do the

00:57:29.860 homework first,

00:57:31.240 and then if

00:57:32.220 time is

00:57:32.620 left, you

00:57:33.840 know, we'll

00:57:34.020 do those

00:57:34.400 chores, and

00:57:35.600 then Dad

00:57:35.960 says, okay,

00:57:37.920 well, I don't

00:57:38.280 want you to have

00:57:38.680 a bad grade

00:57:39.240 in school.

00:57:40.860 How much

00:57:41.360 homework do

00:57:41.760 you have?

00:57:42.220 Oh, hours.

00:57:43.680 Oh, man.

00:57:44.220 All right, well,

00:57:46.460 okay, we'll do

00:57:46.980 it your way.

00:57:47.760 Yeah, do your

00:57:48.200 homework, and

00:57:49.180 then catch up

00:57:49.960 with me, and

00:57:50.400 we'll do those.

00:57:51.640 Then what

00:57:51.980 happens?

00:57:52.980 They run out

00:57:53.520 of time, which

00:57:54.760 they always

00:57:55.160 knew, right?

00:57:57.180 They always

00:57:57.780 knew they'd

00:57:58.140 run out of

00:57:58.520 time.

00:58:00.600 So what

00:58:01.380 happens if

00:58:01.980 your kids

00:58:02.540 have shared

00:58:03.040 custody?

00:58:05.280 Have you

00:58:05.700 ever been in

00:58:06.120 that situation

00:58:06.720 where the

00:58:07.880 kids are with

00:58:08.360 you half the

00:58:09.020 time and

00:58:09.440 half the time

00:58:09.960 with another

00:58:10.360 parent?

00:58:10.700 And then

00:58:12.360 you want to

00:58:12.940 tell the

00:58:13.340 kids, all

00:58:13.740 right, kids,

00:58:15.260 you're going

00:58:15.780 to have chores

00:58:16.440 to do at

00:58:16.920 my house, even

00:58:17.980 if the other

00:58:18.460 parent doesn't 0.74

00:58:19.080 do it at

00:58:19.480 my house, you're

00:58:20.900 going to do

00:58:21.200 chores.

00:58:22.320 What happens

00:58:23.000 then?

00:58:24.420 Then the

00:58:24.980 kid says,

00:58:25.900 there's no way

00:58:27.380 I'm doing chores

00:58:28.220 at your house.

00:58:29.180 I'll go live

00:58:29.760 with the other

00:58:30.200 parent.

00:58:32.500 And that's

00:58:33.100 it.

00:58:33.760 Game over.

00:58:35.300 Because no

00:58:35.980 parent wants to

00:58:36.620 say, okay, go

00:58:37.280 live with the

00:58:37.680 other parent, because

00:58:38.380 they will.

00:58:39.180 They actually

00:58:39.820 will.

00:58:40.100 You lose

00:58:41.040 your kids.

00:58:42.500 So let's

00:58:44.280 say you

00:58:44.560 say, all

00:58:45.140 right, kid, you

00:58:46.620 keep messing

00:58:47.160 around, so I'm 0.97

00:58:49.100 going to punish 0.99

00:58:49.560 you.

00:58:50.640 Nobody punishes

00:58:51.580 kids for doing

00:58:52.480 their homework

00:58:52.960 instead of

00:58:53.420 their chores.

00:58:54.700 There's just

00:58:55.080 nothing you

00:58:55.500 can do.

00:58:56.700 There's just

00:58:57.160 nothing you

00:58:57.740 can do.

00:58:58.780 So modern

00:58:59.320 children are

00:58:59.900 basically free

00:59:01.020 range chickens

00:59:01.860 that can kind 0.65

00:59:03.640 of do what

00:59:04.020 they want.

00:59:05.340 Now, I know

00:59:06.420 every situation

00:59:07.280 is different, and

00:59:08.280 there are kids

00:59:09.340 who are born,

00:59:10.100 able to do

00:59:12.140 their homework

00:59:12.640 and their

00:59:12.980 chores, and

00:59:13.440 they want to

00:59:13.860 do both.

00:59:15.760 That's a

00:59:16.280 thing.

00:59:17.280 But there's

00:59:18.300 a whole bunch

00:59:18.820 of, you

00:59:19.160 know, average

00:59:19.800 kids who

00:59:20.560 are just,

00:59:22.000 they'll never

00:59:22.740 do the things

00:59:23.780 that make them

00:59:24.860 confident.

00:59:25.300 When I look

00:59:26.840 at the number

00:59:27.300 of things I

00:59:28.100 did as a

00:59:28.700 kid, just

00:59:29.660 things.

00:59:30.860 Like, how

00:59:31.220 many different

00:59:31.760 things I

00:59:32.480 did.

00:59:33.560 Like, my

00:59:34.080 normal weekend

00:59:35.040 would be,

00:59:35.640 your uncle

00:59:37.140 the farmer

00:59:37.760 needs somebody

00:59:39.180 to help

00:59:39.840 stack up

00:59:41.280 the hay bales.

00:59:42.900 So one day

00:59:43.660 I'm stacking

00:59:44.220 hay bales.

00:59:45.540 Your uncle

00:59:46.100 the farmer,

00:59:47.400 it's the

00:59:48.060 sapping season,

00:59:49.100 so you could

00:59:49.440 be walking

00:59:49.820 through the

00:59:50.300 snow and

00:59:51.580 carrying big

00:59:52.200 buckets of

00:59:52.980 sap that came

00:59:54.160 from trees.

00:59:55.740 All right.

00:59:56.040 And, you

00:59:58.220 know, one

00:59:58.540 day I'd be

00:59:59.020 shoveling snow,

01:00:00.340 moving furniture,

01:00:01.640 mowing lawns.

01:00:04.280 You know, I'd

01:00:05.040 play three

01:00:05.540 different sports.

01:00:07.920 It was just

01:00:08.640 one thing

01:00:09.320 after another

01:00:09.920 that I had

01:00:10.460 to navigate.

01:00:11.560 I had to

01:00:11.900 figure out how

01:00:12.380 to do it,

01:00:12.880 and then I

01:00:13.160 had to do

01:00:13.560 it.

01:00:14.360 And, you

01:00:14.820 know, no

01:00:15.080 screens.

01:00:16.160 So I

01:00:17.840 developed

01:00:18.500 insane

01:00:19.820 confidence,

01:00:21.260 almost to the

01:00:21.960 point of having

01:00:22.400 too much,

01:00:23.340 because every

01:00:24.200 time I did

01:00:24.720 something,

01:00:25.140 it worked.

01:00:27.720 Mow the

01:00:28.200 lawn, oh,

01:00:28.820 it might be

01:00:29.200 a problem,

01:00:30.500 but it

01:00:30.820 worked.

01:00:32.560 So by the

01:00:34.300 time I got

01:00:34.820 to college,

01:00:37.920 I've never,

01:00:39.840 I don't know,

01:00:40.260 I think I

01:00:40.580 told this

01:00:40.920 story in

01:00:41.200 the man

01:00:41.460 cave.

01:00:41.960 By the

01:00:42.220 time I

01:00:42.480 got to

01:00:42.780 college,

01:00:43.700 I practically

01:00:44.740 took over

01:00:45.280 the college,

01:00:46.440 because everything

01:00:47.420 I tried up to

01:00:48.220 that point

01:00:48.600 worked.

01:00:49.900 So working

01:00:50.400 with some

01:00:51.020 of my

01:00:52.700 classmates who

01:00:54.140 lived in

01:00:54.580 the dorm,

01:00:55.140 we said,

01:00:56.120 hey, why

01:00:56.480 don't we run

01:00:56.980 the dorm and

01:00:57.500 get rid of

01:00:57.900 the resident

01:00:58.960 assistant,

01:00:59.740 and we'll

01:00:59.980 take the

01:01:00.360 money and

01:01:00.740 get single

01:01:01.480 rooms for

01:01:02.100 ourselves.

01:01:03.740 Do you

01:01:04.220 know how

01:01:04.420 crazy that

01:01:05.000 sounds?

01:01:05.900 We literally

01:01:06.680 sat in our

01:01:07.240 dorm room and

01:01:07.740 said, huh,

01:01:09.140 why is there

01:01:09.660 like this

01:01:10.160 adult in

01:01:11.660 our dorm?

01:01:12.720 We're

01:01:13.020 adults.

01:01:14.120 Why do we

01:01:14.560 need an

01:01:14.900 adult to

01:01:15.360 watch adults?

01:01:16.620 How about

01:01:17.020 we vote and

01:01:18.040 we'll pick

01:01:18.440 somebody in

01:01:19.780 the building,

01:01:21.080 and we'll

01:01:21.580 get paid.

01:01:22.060 The students

01:01:23.680 will get paid

01:01:24.240 from the

01:01:24.840 college, and

01:01:25.780 we'll just

01:01:26.140 do that

01:01:27.360 work.

01:01:28.460 So we

01:01:28.980 actually pitched

01:01:29.640 it to the

01:01:30.140 college, and

01:01:32.580 they said,

01:01:33.280 well, if you

01:01:34.000 can get people

01:01:34.560 to agree to

01:01:35.240 it for next

01:01:35.940 year, we'll

01:01:36.460 try it.

01:01:37.340 And so we

01:01:37.820 did.

01:01:39.000 So we went

01:01:39.760 out and got

01:01:40.140 people to agree

01:01:40.840 to it who

01:01:41.500 were going to

01:01:41.820 live there

01:01:42.100 next year.

01:01:43.560 And then we

01:01:44.340 had an

01:01:44.820 election, and

01:01:46.300 the three of

01:01:46.960 us who came

01:01:47.420 up with this

01:01:47.840 idea, we ran

01:01:48.580 against other

01:01:49.240 people, so

01:01:50.460 other people

01:01:50.940 could have

01:01:51.300 won the

01:01:51.600 election and

01:01:52.340 gotten those

01:01:52.820 jobs that we

01:01:53.420 created.

01:01:54.140 But we won

01:01:54.800 because we'd

01:01:55.700 created the

01:01:56.200 whole situation.

01:01:57.600 So I ended

01:01:58.160 up managing

01:01:59.460 the dormitory,

01:02:01.180 but there was

01:02:02.320 also one

01:02:02.900 business on

01:02:03.560 campus.

01:02:04.580 It was a

01:02:05.340 coffee house,

01:02:06.300 so it was

01:02:06.840 the only

01:02:07.100 entertainment,

01:02:08.380 live entertainment,

01:02:09.880 get-a-beer kind

01:02:10.860 of place on

01:02:11.320 campus.

01:02:12.460 And the

01:02:13.880 people who

01:02:14.320 ran it were

01:02:14.760 volunteers.

01:02:16.140 So I

01:02:16.480 volunteered to

01:02:17.140 take over the

01:02:17.720 finance part,

01:02:18.800 because I was

01:02:19.120 an economics

01:02:19.700 major, and

01:02:21.340 I redid

01:02:22.580 the entire

01:02:23.620 accounting and

01:02:24.360 finance for

01:02:26.120 class credit.

01:02:27.460 I just created

01:02:28.440 a class for

01:02:29.060 myself.

01:02:30.040 I said,

01:02:30.400 hey, there's

01:02:31.180 no accounting

01:02:31.660 process here.

01:02:32.900 How about I

01:02:33.360 work with my

01:02:33.900 accounting

01:02:34.220 professor, and

01:02:35.540 if I created

01:02:36.300 an accounting

01:02:36.800 process for a

01:02:38.040 business, he

01:02:39.380 should give me

01:02:39.820 credit.

01:02:40.760 And he thought

01:02:41.260 so, too.

01:02:42.400 So I got

01:02:42.960 accounting credit

01:02:44.000 for creating an

01:02:44.960 accounting system

01:02:45.760 for a real

01:02:46.380 business, and

01:02:46.980 then maintaining

01:02:47.560 it, which

01:02:48.520 allowed me to

01:02:49.800 learn accounting

01:02:50.660 inside out by

01:02:52.860 the time you're

01:02:53.320 done, the way

01:02:54.700 the classroom

01:02:55.280 couldn't do it.

01:02:56.080 It was really

01:02:56.480 good.

01:02:57.540 So that was my

01:02:58.780 college experience.

01:03:00.200 So I ran the

01:03:02.380 biggest entertainment

01:03:05.100 industry in the

01:03:06.220 college.

01:03:06.960 I was one of

01:03:07.760 three managers in

01:03:08.880 my dormitory, and

01:03:10.300 then we started

01:03:10.880 building interlocking

01:03:12.460 directorates.

01:03:14.380 We formed an

01:03:15.460 oligarchy. 0.94

01:03:18.100 This is a real

01:03:18.940 thing.

01:03:20.060 So we, one of

01:03:22.460 our friends ran

01:03:24.820 for the head of

01:03:25.300 the student

01:03:25.720 council.

01:03:26.680 So we had a

01:03:27.580 student council

01:03:28.420 head in our

01:03:29.280 dorm.

01:03:30.260 The head of the

01:03:30.760 local radio station

01:03:32.000 was our best

01:03:33.260 friend.

01:03:34.560 So we owned,

01:03:35.320 like, all the

01:03:35.900 entities, you

01:03:37.140 know, the leaders

01:03:37.640 of all the

01:03:38.080 entities.

01:03:38.340 So anything we

01:03:39.140 wanted to do, we

01:03:39.780 had all the free

01:03:40.380 publicity, you

01:03:42.020 know, just

01:03:42.560 everything.

01:03:43.160 So basically,

01:03:44.320 because I grew

01:03:46.720 up in a do

01:03:48.800 this, I don't

01:03:50.160 know how to do

01:03:50.720 this, well, you

01:03:51.560 will in a minute.

01:03:53.500 That was my

01:03:54.240 life.

01:03:55.180 Do this, I don't

01:03:56.060 know how to do

01:03:56.600 that, you will.

01:03:58.200 You're going to

01:03:58.620 know how to do

01:03:59.120 this by the time

01:03:59.780 you're done, and

01:04:01.180 then you do it.

01:04:02.620 Over and over and

01:04:04.160 over and repeat

01:04:05.240 and repeat.

01:04:06.360 By the time I was

01:04:07.200 18, I didn't think

01:04:08.380 anything could stop

01:04:09.120 me.

01:04:10.280 Now, there were

01:04:11.700 certainly things that

01:04:12.500 could stop me, so

01:04:13.820 it's, you know, more

01:04:14.400 of a mindset.

01:04:15.360 But my mindset was, I

01:04:16.880 don't see why

01:04:17.420 anything would stop

01:04:18.120 me.

01:04:19.540 Here's another

01:04:20.140 example.

01:04:21.300 We wanted to play

01:04:22.280 indoor soccer, but

01:04:23.800 the gym had, you

01:04:24.940 know, limited

01:04:25.300 capacity, and it

01:04:26.200 was always cold in

01:04:27.420 the winter, you

01:04:27.940 couldn't play

01:04:28.320 indoors.

01:04:29.400 So I said, how

01:04:31.280 come we can't just

01:04:32.560 rent space like

01:04:33.440 everybody else did?

01:04:34.280 And they said,

01:04:34.680 well, the only

01:04:35.480 people who can, you

01:04:37.140 know, reserve time in

01:04:39.220 the gym are people

01:04:40.640 who have, like,

01:04:41.240 organizations.

01:04:42.660 So if you were, like,

01:04:43.560 a league or an

01:04:44.340 organization or

01:04:45.100 something, you know,

01:04:46.060 you could do it.

01:04:46.780 So I said, what's it

01:04:47.960 take to form an

01:04:48.780 organization?

01:04:50.480 And they said, well,

01:04:51.840 you know, you fill out

01:04:52.660 this paperwork and the

01:04:54.520 dean approves it or

01:04:55.500 whatever.

01:04:56.460 And I said, where do I

01:04:57.440 get the paperwork?

01:04:58.940 And they said, well,

01:04:59.860 you know, go to the

01:05:00.480 dean's office or

01:05:01.540 whatever it asks for

01:05:02.300 it, the business

01:05:03.400 office.

01:05:04.140 So I go to the

01:05:04.780 business office, I get

01:05:05.640 the paperwork, I

01:05:06.380 fill it out, I hand

01:05:07.280 it to the dean.

01:05:07.840 And I was a soccer

01:05:09.600 club.

01:05:10.660 So I was the only

01:05:11.520 one in my dorm that

01:05:12.400 could, I could

01:05:14.200 schedule time in the

01:05:15.140 gym.

01:05:17.480 All I did was

01:05:18.460 identify a problem,

01:05:20.180 and then I said,

01:05:21.340 okay, what's the

01:05:22.200 solution?

01:05:23.240 And then I just

01:05:24.000 slogged through it,

01:05:25.040 like everything else

01:05:26.020 I'd done to that

01:05:26.960 point in my life.

01:05:29.620 So how do you get

01:05:31.220 rid of anxiety?

01:05:33.180 How do you get rid

01:05:34.060 of depression?

01:05:34.600 That's how.

01:05:37.280 An unending series of

01:05:39.380 challenges, which you

01:05:41.040 eventually succeed at

01:05:42.240 almost every time, you

01:05:44.100 know, because they're

01:05:44.480 not such big challenges

01:05:45.620 that you can't do it.

01:05:48.620 So by the time I got my

01:05:50.420 big break to become a

01:05:53.340 cartoonist, I thought it

01:05:56.120 would work.

01:05:57.120 By the time I wrote my

01:05:58.340 first book, my first, you

01:06:00.340 know, book that wasn't

01:06:01.500 just comics, I said, this

01:06:03.940 will be a best-selling

01:06:04.780 book, number one

01:06:05.860 best-seller book.

01:06:07.340 I hadn't even taken a

01:06:08.460 writing class, except one

01:06:09.900 two-day class in business

01:06:11.360 writing, and it became a

01:06:13.000 number one book.

01:06:14.440 Now, I have a level of,

01:06:17.080 I'm sure you've witnessed

01:06:19.260 it, I have a level of

01:06:21.400 confidence that's

01:06:24.940 unnatural, because it is

01:06:27.660 unnatural.

01:06:28.080 It's a learned, preferred

01:06:31.360 mindset that I've developed

01:06:33.520 over time.

01:06:34.540 But it's not based on

01:06:35.660 reality.

01:06:37.320 You know, if I take a

01:06:38.160 moment to say, well, in

01:06:39.340 reality, you could

01:06:41.300 definitely be stopped.

01:06:43.320 But I just don't live my

01:06:45.120 life like I can be

01:06:46.020 stopped.

01:06:46.920 I just assume.

01:06:48.500 If I see something that's

01:06:49.880 wrong with the entire

01:06:50.640 country, like, you know,

01:06:53.680 fentanyl or anything else, I

01:06:55.520 say to myself, well, I

01:06:57.300 could probably put a dent

01:06:58.120 in that.

01:06:59.520 You know, I might be able

01:07:00.320 to change the narrative on

01:07:01.440 that.

01:07:02.320 I just don't think anything

01:07:03.500 can stop me.

01:07:06.060 And that's how you get rid

01:07:07.400 of your anxiety.

01:07:09.440 I just figure always a way

01:07:11.240 out.

01:07:11.900 And so far, so good.

01:07:14.120 All right.

01:07:15.580 So if you can figure out

01:07:17.600 how to get your kids to do

01:07:18.660 something useful in today's

01:07:20.300 world, it would be really

01:07:21.540 good for them.

01:07:22.660 Just so they can succeed

01:07:24.020 over and over again.

01:07:25.520 Oh, you always say the

01:07:29.920 rules don't apply to you.

01:07:31.400 I say that all the time.

01:07:34.000 That's one of my favorite

01:07:35.000 sayings, is that the, well,

01:07:37.420 I say the odds don't apply

01:07:38.940 to me.

01:07:40.520 Yeah, so you're saying the

01:07:41.460 rules don't apply, but I

01:07:42.460 think you're saying the

01:07:43.220 odds.

01:07:44.420 And maybe that's a little

01:07:45.500 more expensive than what

01:07:46.660 I'm saying.

01:07:47.400 So if I embark on something

01:07:49.180 where it's unlikely people

01:07:50.640 would ever succeed at it, I

01:07:52.720 just don't think it applies.

01:07:53.740 I just think it's up to me.

01:07:56.740 And I just live my life that

01:07:58.140 way.

01:08:01.360 All right.

01:08:03.640 You were, yeah, if you, I

01:08:06.100 also worked in a lab, you

01:08:08.080 know, an engineering sort of

01:08:09.480 lab in the phone company.

01:08:10.520 And we had unlimited daily

01:08:13.600 problems that we had to

01:08:16.200 solve, you know, why

01:08:17.140 something wasn't working.

01:08:19.420 Pretty much we always did.

01:08:21.160 I don't think there was ever

01:08:22.240 a case where we just said,

01:08:23.240 ah, just give up.

01:08:25.180 We always figured it out

01:08:26.240 somehow.

01:08:26.540 All right.

01:08:34.460 Is there any story that I

01:08:35.620 missed before I sign off?

01:08:41.600 Yeah, Kerry said some things

01:08:43.020 about the Ukraine war.

01:08:45.780 Jobs build confidence, too.

01:08:47.740 Yeah, it's always good to

01:08:48.660 change jobs.

01:08:50.680 So I've changed jobs.

01:08:52.140 Let's see in the comments, how

01:08:55.100 many times, you tell me how

01:08:56.180 many times you've changed

01:08:57.100 jobs so far.

01:08:59.280 And that, just as an adult.

01:09:01.680 I probably had 20 different

01:09:03.200 jobs as a teenager.

01:09:05.200 But as an adult, I've changed

01:09:06.640 jobs.

01:09:07.860 Now, I also changed jobs within

01:09:09.440 companies.

01:09:10.320 So I'm going to count all of

01:09:11.360 that.

01:09:12.820 Changed jobs maybe,

01:09:14.140 maybe 15 times,

01:09:21.460 if you count adding jobs.

01:09:23.500 Maybe 12 to 15 times.

01:09:26.820 And every time you change jobs

01:09:29.200 and, you know, you get up to

01:09:30.700 speed in a new job, there's

01:09:32.420 your confidence.

01:09:35.180 Yeah.

01:09:36.020 If you include within the

01:09:37.280 company, yeah.

01:09:38.660 And a lot of you are having

01:09:39.640 numbers from, six is a very

01:09:41.860 common number.

01:09:42.400 A whole bunch of you have

01:09:43.780 six.

01:09:45.160 That's very common for some

01:09:46.620 reason.

01:09:49.940 You've been a cook and an IT

01:09:51.360 director.

01:09:52.300 Huh.

01:09:56.620 Oh, yeah.

01:09:57.220 So, there's a COVID vaccine

01:10:02.860 liability bill that's being

01:10:05.140 floated.

01:10:06.340 I don't think it'll pass.

01:10:08.760 But the idea would be that the

01:10:11.220 company that gives you the

01:10:13.000 meds would be responsible if 0.70

01:10:15.340 something happens.

01:10:16.400 See, here's the problem.

01:10:19.200 The problem is the vaccine

01:10:20.620 companies are going to say, we

01:10:22.500 won't make any vaccines because

01:10:24.860 the liability is too big.

01:10:27.300 So it seems like an obvious and

01:10:29.360 good idea.

01:10:31.240 And RFK Jr.

01:10:32.160 says the same thing.

01:10:34.860 But look what you wouldn't have.

01:10:37.600 Would you agree that there are

01:10:38.980 some vaccinations that work?

01:10:42.300 Do you believe that?

01:10:44.080 I'm not talking about COVID.

01:10:46.140 But do you believe there's any

01:10:47.380 vaccination that works?

01:10:50.240 You don't think it prevents the

01:10:52.040 mumps?

01:10:54.760 Yeah.

01:10:55.960 So, here's the thing.

01:10:57.760 None of those would exist if the

01:10:59.960 companies had to take full

01:11:01.100 liability.

01:11:01.620 Because if you've got something

01:11:03.520 that could make 10 million people

01:11:05.200 die, you don't go into that

01:11:08.300 business at all.

01:11:09.800 If you're already making money.

01:11:11.820 Yeah.

01:11:12.320 So, the argument for not having

01:11:15.280 that liability is actually pretty

01:11:17.340 good.

01:11:19.180 Maybe they should have some kind of

01:11:20.780 cap or something.

01:11:23.060 There should be a cap on the

01:11:24.460 liability.

01:11:25.260 Because unlimited liability means

01:11:26.760 you're out of business.

01:11:27.460 And nobody would do that drug.

01:11:31.220 If you already had, let's say

01:11:32.920 you're a big drug company,

01:11:33.960 you're Pfizer, and you have a

01:11:36.780 dozen, you know, blowout

01:11:38.680 money-making drugs.

01:11:40.780 So, you're making money on the

01:11:42.600 drugs you have.

01:11:43.460 And then the government says,

01:11:44.520 oh, we really need this new

01:11:45.760 drug.

01:11:47.100 But you're going to be liable.

01:11:50.000 And then they say, how many

01:11:51.380 people are going to take it?

01:11:52.240 Well, everybody.

01:11:53.840 So, 100 million people will take

01:11:55.320 it, at least.

01:11:57.000 There you go.

01:11:57.660 All right.

01:11:57.960 100 million people.

01:11:59.960 If 5 million of them have a bad

01:12:01.840 reaction, I'm out of business.

01:12:04.180 I'm completely out of business.

01:12:08.320 So, it would be irrational for

01:12:10.180 Pfizer ever to make another

01:12:11.580 vaccine for anything, even if it

01:12:14.080 was a good idea.

01:12:17.720 Any arguments for not putting a

01:12:19.500 cap on liability on any product?

01:12:22.620 Yeah.

01:12:22.860 If there's a company that makes

01:12:24.760 one product, and it kills

01:12:26.920 people, you don't need a cap.

01:12:30.360 You can take 100% of their money

01:12:32.160 and close them down.

01:12:33.720 It's just that if you're already

01:12:35.140 profitable with other lines of

01:12:36.880 business, they're all at risk with

01:12:39.660 the new venture, and that's not

01:12:41.400 normally the case.

01:12:42.860 So, it would be a bad business

01:12:44.700 decision to do a new vaccine if you

01:12:47.260 had all liability.

01:12:49.460 True with all products?

01:12:50.540 Not really.

01:12:53.000 No.

01:12:54.000 Now, do you think that the iPhone

01:12:57.740 has the same risk as a vaccine or

01:13:01.180 an iPad?

01:13:03.860 Does my microphone have the same

01:13:05.820 liability risk?

01:13:08.000 Ow, it hit me in the eye.

01:13:10.020 No.

01:13:10.400 Most things you can reasonably know

01:13:12.620 that your liability is sort of just

01:13:15.340 naturally capped.

01:13:16.240 But if vaccines have unlimited, I

01:13:20.620 mean, it could be a $100 billion

01:13:22.520 fine, you know, or not fine, but

01:13:25.640 let's say lawsuits.

01:13:30.180 Get rid of school vax mandates.

01:13:32.560 Yeah, that's another topic.

01:13:33.620 Yeah, none of us like the mandate.

01:13:43.480 I wonder if we'd be talking about

01:13:45.160 the mandate if the vaccination

01:13:46.400 worked and was safe.

01:13:50.300 Do you think you'd care?

01:13:52.080 Or would you just say, eh, not a,

01:13:55.080 yeah.

01:13:55.780 You'd care on an intellectual level,

01:13:57.720 but you wouldn't care.

01:13:58.400 You know, you'd put it in your,

01:14:01.620 next time I have an intellectual

01:14:03.020 argument, I'll pull this out.

01:14:05.780 But you wouldn't care.

01:14:07.380 You know, as long as everybody did

01:14:08.540 well, and you did well, and nobody

01:14:11.320 died, you wouldn't care. 0.72

01:14:14.460 You really wouldn't.

01:14:16.680 Mandatory only matters if,

01:14:20.900 when they are mandated, there should

01:14:23.520 be a compensation.

01:14:24.780 But would the compensation come from

01:14:26.980 your government or from the vaccine?

01:14:30.520 I think the compensation would have

01:14:32.220 to be from whoever mandated it,

01:14:34.600 not from the vaccine company.

01:14:38.560 Because otherwise it never happens.

01:14:40.860 There would be no vaccine if the

01:14:42.620 vaccine company, if the government

01:14:44.220 mandates it, they're going to have

01:14:45.420 to, they're going to have to

01:14:46.460 insure it.

01:14:48.340 Although you could argue that in a

01:14:50.080 way they do, because they end up

01:14:53.140 being on the hook for a lot of

01:14:54.100 health care.

01:14:56.980 Um, yeah.

01:15:01.360 There's another ivermectin study I

01:15:03.300 don't believe in the news today.

01:15:05.220 And it doesn't matter which way it

01:15:07.060 goes or anything else.

01:15:08.000 I just don't believe any ivermectin

01:15:09.480 study.

01:15:10.480 By the way, it may very well have

01:15:12.700 been a miracle drug.

01:15:14.140 But I don't, I don't believe any

01:15:15.480 data about the pandemic.

01:15:17.260 There are always, we have so many

01:15:25.280 mandates.

01:15:28.680 I don't think you, you know, the

01:15:31.020 medical mandates are worse, I'll

01:15:32.300 give you that.

01:15:33.900 But we have a lot of mandates.

01:15:39.640 Go look at the old data about ivermectin.

01:15:41.260 You know, I've, it's like there's

01:15:43.740 some things that can't be

01:15:44.760 communicated.

01:15:46.420 Watch this.

01:15:47.500 Here's something that I can say it,

01:15:49.620 it can be very clear, but I can't

01:15:52.260 make you hear it.

01:15:54.040 I will not, under any circumstances,

01:15:57.680 and there's nothing you can do that

01:15:59.600 will change my mind, believe any data

01:16:02.860 from the pandemic.

01:16:03.660 And then somebody will say, but what

01:16:07.300 about this study?

01:16:09.560 No.

01:16:11.140 Listen to me.

01:16:13.560 None of it.

01:16:14.780 Don't believe any of it.

01:16:15.900 Doesn't mean ivermectin doesn't work.

01:16:18.260 I'm just going to say I'm not going

01:16:19.580 to believe it because the study said

01:16:21.160 it did.

01:16:22.180 Do not believe it.

01:16:26.720 Yeah.

01:16:27.740 If there's any money linked to it,

01:16:29.600 that's all you need to know.

01:16:33.660 Yeah, you can still post them.

01:16:36.980 I might not be reporting.

01:16:43.620 You're in a weird segment space with

01:16:45.860 only a few dozen people.

01:16:47.340 What's that mean?

01:16:49.300 All right.

01:16:51.380 That's all I got for now.

01:16:53.760 And maybe.

01:16:58.080 No, my internet's still out.

01:17:00.420 So I guess that's what I'm going to

01:17:01.840 be doing all day today.

01:17:03.660 Yeah.

01:17:04.700 Yes, it's massage night.

01:17:06.020 I will.

01:17:10.540 See you in the man cave earlyish.

01:17:12.920 And I'll talk to you then.

01:17:14.720 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 08, 2024

Episode 2407 CWSA 03⧸08⧸24

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