Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 15, 2024


Episode 2414 CWSA 03⧸15⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 22 minutes

Words per Minute

146.35246

Word Count

12,001

Sentence Count

835

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

39


Summary

A funny story about a plane crash, and a theory about why men are less likely to vote Democratic than they are to vote Republican, and why women are more interested in massive numbers of numbers than men are in numbers of security.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
00:00:09.500 It's time for me to stop my complaining. I've been complaining this morning.
00:00:14.100 It's time to stop all that, because the fun stuff is about to begin.
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00:00:36.140 The other day, the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:38.200 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
00:00:46.680 Well, if you missed the pre-show, I was saying that the Dilbert comic will be posted a little bit late today,
00:00:53.820 because I got a massive computer failure, but I do have backup computers.
00:00:57.820 Backup computers. That's the way I roll, so I just have to get my backup computers up to speed.
00:01:04.240 Well, here's a funny story, unless you'd ever like to travel again for the rest of your life,
00:01:09.820 and then it's not funny at all.
00:01:11.640 But yet another airline-related incident.
00:01:16.580 You've probably heard of this one.
00:01:17.600 So the flight from Sydney to New Zealand, but there's a funny part of the story.
00:01:22.540 So it was a 787 Dreamliner, and it had a sudden drop.
00:01:26.760 So it's flying along, and it suddenly just dropped.
00:01:29.980 It lost engines.
00:01:31.300 But the funniest story is from one of the passengers who was asleep.
00:01:35.560 So one of the passengers tells the story.
00:01:37.740 I think it was in the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post.
00:01:39.880 It tells the story of waking up to the jolt.
00:01:44.060 So imagine this.
00:01:45.920 This is the story.
00:01:47.420 He's asleep, and all of a sudden the plane has a sudden, you know, goes down.
00:01:52.420 He wakes up.
00:01:53.940 He looks around to see what's going on.
00:01:56.180 He looks up, and there's another passenger who's completely stuck to the ceiling
00:02:00.360 because the plane was still going down, and he didn't have his seatbelt on.
00:02:07.960 So the guy's actually stuck to the ceiling, and then the plane levels out,
00:02:12.820 and the guy's, ah!
00:02:16.540 Now, I hope he didn't get hurt because that wouldn't be funny.
00:02:22.100 But can you imagine waking up and seeing your fellow passenger
00:02:26.320 pressed to the ceiling of the airplane?
00:02:30.360 All right, well, it's a tragedy, but it was funny.
00:02:34.120 Anyway, I have this hypothesis that everything we do is rationalization
00:02:42.980 of our mating instincts.
00:02:47.020 That's a little bit of an oversimplification, but it explains so much of life.
00:02:52.200 For example, the job you get, the clothes you wear, the car you buy,
00:02:57.860 I think are all a representation of your mating instinct.
00:03:01.940 You're either signaling something or, you know, you're peacocking
00:03:06.280 to try to look like you're a good mate, that sort of thing.
00:03:09.020 And that's even if you already have a mate,
00:03:11.020 because I think we're just biologically wired to be mating people.
00:03:17.040 So that hypothesis says that everything else we do is a rationalization
00:03:21.920 because we're not totally aware that we're just basically bumping around
00:03:26.880 trying to mate.
00:03:28.120 So we come up with all these reasons why we did things.
00:03:32.000 So this is important because if you're seeing a shift of men
00:03:36.500 from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party,
00:03:39.480 there's a real obvious reason for that.
00:03:41.840 And I haven't seen anybody talk about it except me.
00:03:44.280 And the answer is that when the border is open,
00:03:48.140 it's not a political problem.
00:03:51.980 That's not a political problem.
00:03:54.040 That is a security problem.
00:03:56.100 That's a physical problem.
00:03:58.260 What happens when there's a physical security problem
00:04:01.500 anywhere in society, in any part of society,
00:04:05.820 any country, any time in history?
00:04:07.900 The men take the lead because it's a physical security problem
00:04:13.720 because they're bigger and they're more expendable
00:04:16.460 and they basically can handle stuff like that on average, right?
00:04:21.700 Every person is different, but on average, men.
00:04:25.840 And when you see that the Democratic Party is in favor
00:04:29.060 of keeping the border open and you see the men saying,
00:04:32.880 screw that, I guess I'm not a Democrat anymore,
00:04:35.940 it's because of the mating instinct.
00:04:38.840 That's all it is.
00:04:40.020 Politics, politics, politics.
00:04:42.000 But men are seeing too many men coming in to compete
00:04:45.200 and the men are saying, uh-uh, nope.
00:04:48.480 But what about all the reasons?
00:04:50.740 Nope, nope.
00:04:52.540 How about not sending in massive numbers of men
00:04:54.940 to compete with me and take my stuff and kill me?
00:04:57.980 Nope, hard no.
00:04:59.760 Uh-uh, nope.
00:05:01.720 Now, I don't believe that men are, of course,
00:05:05.200 consciously conceiving it as a risk to their mating strategies.
00:05:11.640 But that's what it is.
00:05:13.460 And then you say to yourself, but what about women?
00:05:16.260 Are women just as interested in security?
00:05:19.400 Yes.
00:05:20.460 But you know what they like more than that?
00:05:23.120 Massive numbers of new men coming into their environment
00:05:26.080 that they can mate with
00:05:27.300 because they can't find mating possibilities
00:05:30.720 in their current country with the current population.
00:05:33.640 And if you think I'm joking, nope, not even a little bit.
00:05:38.980 The mating instinct would suggest that because women,
00:05:43.680 especially single women,
00:05:45.000 who have the biggest play in the Democratic Party,
00:05:49.480 the single women would automatically and subconsciously favor
00:05:53.780 the introduction of more mating-age men,
00:05:57.840 even under dangerous situations,
00:06:00.600 if they don't have mating options that they like where they are.
00:06:04.920 Do you think that single women are saying to themselves,
00:06:08.160 wow, I got all the mating options from high-quality men
00:06:12.380 that I could ever have?
00:06:13.340 I have so many dates I can barely handle it.
00:06:16.400 Well, some do, top 10%.
00:06:18.620 But probably 90% of women are like,
00:06:20.920 where are all the good men?
00:06:22.460 Not enough good men.
00:06:24.120 Why aren't men asking me out?
00:06:25.660 And so it should be no surprise
00:06:29.440 that men would be trying to close the border
00:06:32.120 so that more men can't get in and compete
00:06:34.320 and women would be, on average,
00:06:36.700 yeah, this is all just on average,
00:06:38.140 not any specific man or woman,
00:06:41.700 and that all we're seeing is biology playing out
00:06:44.380 through our pretend political process
00:06:46.940 where we act like that's really what's happening,
00:06:49.980 but probably not.
00:06:51.460 Well, here's a shout-out to Lex Friedman,
00:06:54.260 who did something that was amazing
00:06:57.160 and so useful
00:06:59.280 and so good for the country.
00:07:02.040 I want him to go a little bit further next time.
00:07:04.640 But what he did was he had a debate
00:07:06.860 on his podcast
00:07:08.040 in which he got some
00:07:09.820 people on different sides
00:07:13.180 of the Israel-Gaza situation,
00:07:15.220 and he let them talk it out
00:07:18.640 with no time limit.
00:07:21.820 Now, you know I've been talking about
00:07:23.480 what I call the Joe Rogan problem
00:07:26.000 of talking about topics,
00:07:28.880 and it's nothing about Joe Rogan, of course.
00:07:31.240 I just use him because he's famous.
00:07:33.520 But it's about any podcaster
00:07:35.120 who has one expert come on
00:07:36.840 and present one point of view for an hour.
00:07:39.700 That is not helping you.
00:07:43.020 You think it is, but it's not.
00:07:45.260 Because if you're not hearing
00:07:46.260 the counter-argument at the same time,
00:07:48.940 you're really just being brainwashed.
00:07:51.100 It might be true.
00:07:52.700 It might be useful.
00:07:54.280 It often is.
00:07:55.880 But you don't know.
00:07:57.020 You don't really know
00:07:57.720 without seeing the other side of the argument.
00:07:59.540 So the only way the society can move forward
00:08:02.280 in terms of debate and understanding
00:08:04.080 and being rational,
00:08:05.360 the only way is if the people
00:08:07.260 on different sides are in the same place
00:08:09.060 at the same time
00:08:09.920 without too many constraints.
00:08:12.700 Now, the one...
00:08:13.580 And so Lex did that.
00:08:15.460 And I'm going to say
00:08:16.640 one of the greatest things
00:08:17.860 has happened in a year.
00:08:21.180 Does that sound like an exaggeration?
00:08:23.300 That the Lex Friedman podcast,
00:08:25.980 just letting people talk about
00:08:27.420 would be one of the greatest things
00:08:29.220 that's happened in a year?
00:08:30.440 Yes.
00:08:31.220 Because I contend that 100% of our problems
00:08:33.760 are brainwashing.
00:08:36.140 100%.
00:08:36.580 That if we can get our minds right,
00:08:38.860 we actually don't have
00:08:39.780 too many unsolvable problems.
00:08:41.860 We just don't have our minds right.
00:08:43.800 And our minds are not right
00:08:45.060 because we're being massively brainwashed
00:08:47.000 in every possible domain all the time.
00:08:50.120 And our media is completely illegitimate.
00:08:53.500 The news business is completely broken.
00:08:55.940 So you're not getting anything useful
00:08:57.600 from the news.
00:08:59.000 And even our science and our experts
00:09:00.900 are all broken.
00:09:02.100 So if you can find some way
00:09:03.720 to get some little beacon of truth
00:09:05.640 through all the BS,
00:09:07.500 that would be the most important thing
00:09:09.940 that our civilization has experienced.
00:09:13.420 And Lex is right on the edge of it.
00:09:16.140 He didn't get there.
00:09:17.360 Here's what's missing.
00:09:19.000 You still need a strong moderator.
00:09:22.000 But you'd have to find a moderator
00:09:23.880 who can actually just keep
00:09:25.480 the flow of the conversation right
00:09:28.200 without putting too much of a thumb
00:09:29.760 on the content.
00:09:31.300 That's a real tough thing to do.
00:09:33.520 So Lex experimented.
00:09:35.900 And so I'm 100% in favor of the experiment,
00:09:39.000 which is what would happen
00:09:40.100 if you just let them talk?
00:09:42.140 Just film them and let them talk.
00:09:44.540 Give them as much time as they want.
00:09:46.260 And the answer is,
00:09:47.720 it's probably really took a big step forward.
00:09:50.380 I think anybody who watched it
00:09:51.900 probably saw two sides
00:09:54.080 and maybe they got smarter.
00:09:55.360 But the bit that I watched suggested
00:09:58.740 that a little bit firmer moderating
00:10:02.180 might have helped it a little,
00:10:04.080 as long as the moderator
00:10:05.320 wasn't putting a thumb on the content.
00:10:08.000 So that is a gigantic beam of positivity
00:10:13.000 that I hope can be taken into something bigger.
00:10:17.480 So great job, Lex.
00:10:18.920 And I recommend this podcast.
00:10:20.440 You're aware that the government
00:10:25.340 has been flying in the illegals,
00:10:27.640 not just people who are coming
00:10:29.000 across the border on their own,
00:10:30.620 but we've been flying them in.
00:10:33.580 And Rasmussen did a poll
00:10:35.020 to find out what people think
00:10:36.140 about that idea of flying.
00:10:40.240 We won't call them illegal,
00:10:42.120 even though the crime of being illegal
00:10:45.760 in entry is a real thing.
00:10:48.020 But let's just say
00:10:50.520 they're bringing in the migrants.
00:10:52.740 And how many people do you think
00:10:54.360 are in favor of that?
00:10:58.360 Take a guess.
00:10:59.540 How many people are in favor
00:11:00.980 of spending money
00:11:04.160 to fly in extra migrants
00:11:06.400 while we've got a migrant emergency?
00:11:10.920 How many citizens do you think
00:11:12.700 think that's a good idea?
00:11:15.800 You know the answer.
00:11:16.860 It's exactly 25%.
00:11:19.360 Yep, 25% favor the program,
00:11:23.440 according to Rasmussen.
00:11:25.220 Now, 60% disapprove,
00:11:29.300 and then there's some other people
00:11:30.540 in the gray areas.
00:11:33.480 But how in the world
00:11:35.440 does our government
00:11:37.080 continually get away
00:11:38.380 with doing things
00:11:39.140 that the majority disagree with vigorously?
00:11:43.720 The only way I can think
00:11:47.140 that this is happening,
00:11:48.480 besides not telling people,
00:11:51.100 is that people are so afraid
00:11:54.740 of speaking the truth in public
00:11:57.160 that they can get away
00:11:58.900 with doing things hugely unpopular.
00:12:01.660 Because if you speak out
00:12:02.900 against the migrants,
00:12:04.360 you're a big old racist.
00:12:06.500 And maybe just people
00:12:07.860 don't want to be painted that way.
00:12:10.880 So that might be part of it.
00:12:12.780 But we have a pretty big problem
00:12:15.060 if the government continues
00:12:16.340 to do things
00:12:17.180 that the vast majority
00:12:18.580 of the public says,
00:12:19.680 I completely understand this issue.
00:12:22.700 You know,
00:12:23.120 immigration isn't that complicated
00:12:25.080 compared to other things.
00:12:26.940 We do understand.
00:12:28.960 And we don't want it.
00:12:30.160 I mean, the way it's happening now.
00:12:31.540 We do want immigration.
00:12:32.780 We need it.
00:12:33.640 But we need to do it right.
00:12:35.100 All right.
00:12:35.380 I asked the question
00:12:38.920 the other day,
00:12:40.400 is all of our alleged
00:12:43.180 good economic performance
00:12:45.300 compared to other countries
00:12:46.620 because the United States
00:12:48.460 is doing such a great job
00:12:49.860 or is it because
00:12:51.080 we ran up our debt more?
00:12:54.060 So I asked Grok,
00:12:55.940 which three countries,
00:12:57.740 developed countries,
00:12:59.460 industrialized countries,
00:13:00.800 which ones had the greatest
00:13:02.400 biggest increase in debt,
00:13:04.260 percentage increase in debt,
00:13:06.300 not dollar,
00:13:07.080 biggest percentage increase
00:13:08.480 in debt since the pandemic.
00:13:10.920 And the three winners were
00:13:12.220 Japan,
00:13:13.460 losers, I guess,
00:13:14.940 Japan, United States,
00:13:16.180 and the UK.
00:13:17.260 So those are the countries
00:13:18.540 that ran up their debt the most
00:13:20.800 as a percentage of their GDP.
00:13:22.940 So let's check the news
00:13:24.500 and see which countries
00:13:25.500 are getting positive
00:13:26.480 economic reports.
00:13:28.040 Well, Japan.
00:13:28.620 Japan is in the news
00:13:30.720 for its unusually strong economy.
00:13:33.900 It's the number one
00:13:35.020 increaser of debt.
00:13:37.680 Number two,
00:13:38.880 United States.
00:13:40.560 The United States
00:13:41.220 is doing great
00:13:42.200 compared to European countries,
00:13:43.780 we're told,
00:13:44.600 and also is the second
00:13:46.640 biggest increaser of debt
00:13:48.320 as a percentage of GDP.
00:13:50.720 Now, third is the UK.
00:13:52.560 The UK is not exactly
00:13:53.960 killing it, are they?
00:13:55.900 How's the UK doing?
00:13:56.840 I didn't think
00:13:59.060 they were killing it,
00:14:00.000 but I think the point is made.
00:14:05.720 How many great economists
00:14:09.320 and smart people
00:14:11.260 have you seen recently
00:14:12.180 who have told you that,
00:14:14.060 oh, our economy's looking good,
00:14:15.560 jobs are good,
00:14:16.800 and startups are good,
00:14:18.960 and then they don't mention
00:14:21.520 that the obvious reason for it
00:14:23.100 is too much debt
00:14:23.920 and that we're in a debt-to-death spiral.
00:14:26.400 Well, we'll probably figure it out,
00:14:28.060 but I feel like
00:14:30.040 that's kind of important.
00:14:32.300 Don't you think?
00:14:33.720 Kind of important
00:14:34.480 to mention that?
00:14:36.920 Well, there's a weird thing
00:14:38.020 happening with the comments here.
00:14:42.100 Let's see what's happening
00:14:43.160 because it looks like,
00:14:44.680 oh, I see what's happening.
00:14:47.080 I'm going to see
00:14:47.680 if the comments
00:14:48.240 are self-scrolling now.
00:14:49.560 It looks like they almost were.
00:14:50.580 Oh, yeah.
00:14:53.620 I wonder if it's fixed.
00:14:55.500 Huh.
00:14:55.780 Looks like the comments
00:14:56.800 are scrolling properly now.
00:15:00.360 It's like it got fixed
00:15:01.480 while we were on the call.
00:15:03.560 That's a weird thing.
00:15:05.380 All right.
00:15:05.780 Well, good news there.
00:15:10.600 Here's another presidential poll
00:15:12.540 that looks pretty fake to me,
00:15:13.820 or at least the headlines.
00:15:14.560 So I think this was in the Hill
00:15:18.160 that said that
00:15:18.740 Biden is holding
00:15:19.420 a one-point lead
00:15:21.020 over Trump
00:15:22.060 in a national poll.
00:15:24.620 Do you believe that?
00:15:26.380 Do you believe
00:15:27.100 there's a national poll
00:15:28.240 in which
00:15:29.780 Biden is suddenly
00:15:31.420 leading over Trump?
00:15:32.980 Does that sound
00:15:37.740 even possible?
00:15:40.200 Well, let's see.
00:15:40.980 Who did such a poll?
00:15:43.420 Reuters, Ipsos.
00:15:45.000 Reuters.
00:15:45.820 Hmm, Reuters.
00:15:47.500 Well, Reuters
00:15:48.320 is known as
00:15:49.540 completely independent
00:15:51.100 and unbiased.
00:15:54.440 Am I right?
00:15:57.540 Wait.
00:15:58.480 In the comments,
00:15:59.160 you're disagreeing with me.
00:16:00.920 You're acting like Reuters
00:16:02.100 is one of those
00:16:02.960 biased toward the Democrats.
00:16:05.760 Well, as you know,
00:16:07.000 no matter what
00:16:07.520 the real polling results are
00:16:09.200 toward the,
00:16:10.040 when we get closer
00:16:10.840 to the election,
00:16:12.120 the illegitimate polling
00:16:13.540 groups will tell you
00:16:15.080 it's really close.
00:16:16.640 We all know that, right?
00:16:18.600 The illegitimate pollsters
00:16:20.160 will all tell you
00:16:21.060 it's a neck-and-neck race
00:16:22.440 and there's no way
00:16:23.200 to know who's going to win.
00:16:24.940 So,
00:16:25.980 if something unusual
00:16:27.080 happened
00:16:27.580 in the outcome,
00:16:29.560 I guess that would be
00:16:30.540 completely explained
00:16:31.480 by all those polls
00:16:32.440 as, hey,
00:16:32.840 it was so close
00:16:33.460 you can't even tell
00:16:34.100 who's going to win.
00:16:35.860 So, yes,
00:16:36.460 we can see all the plays
00:16:37.560 developing way ahead of time.
00:16:40.620 Now,
00:16:41.000 I don't know
00:16:41.300 if the Reuters poll,
00:16:43.200 Reuters-Ipsos poll
00:16:44.540 is accurate or not.
00:16:46.900 No way to know.
00:16:47.980 But,
00:16:48.820 they do go on
00:16:50.240 in the body
00:16:50.920 of the article
00:16:51.460 saying that
00:16:52.220 Trump is ahead
00:16:53.160 in seven of the
00:16:54.260 close states.
00:16:56.680 So,
00:16:57.180 another way
00:16:57.600 to report
00:16:58.100 this same story
00:16:59.020 would be
00:16:59.640 Trump has
00:17:01.160 a dominant
00:17:01.760 lead
00:17:03.120 because if he's
00:17:04.660 going to win
00:17:05.060 in all the
00:17:05.500 close states,
00:17:06.520 it doesn't matter
00:17:07.600 if he loses
00:17:08.300 by a mile
00:17:08.940 in California
00:17:09.780 because he was
00:17:11.180 going to lose
00:17:11.540 California anyway.
00:17:12.660 So,
00:17:13.160 the overall vote
00:17:14.400 isn't telling you
00:17:15.020 as much as
00:17:15.520 individual state races,
00:17:17.200 especially the swing states,
00:17:18.400 and it looks like
00:17:20.080 Trump is still,
00:17:21.900 he's got a handy
00:17:22.600 lead in the
00:17:23.320 important states.
00:17:25.040 And,
00:17:25.540 also,
00:17:26.520 you have to read
00:17:27.440 on into it
00:17:28.220 to find out
00:17:28.820 that if you
00:17:29.840 throw Kennedy
00:17:30.540 in the mix,
00:17:31.240 then Trump wins.
00:17:33.280 The popular vote
00:17:34.420 as well.
00:17:35.380 Don't you think
00:17:35.820 that should have
00:17:36.240 been the headline?
00:17:37.220 Given that we're
00:17:38.100 pretty sure
00:17:38.740 RFK Jr.
00:17:39.980 will be
00:17:40.520 in most of
00:17:43.080 the states
00:17:43.600 or all of them,
00:17:45.020 don't you think
00:17:45.700 that all the polling
00:17:47.420 should include him?
00:17:49.120 They should do
00:17:49.960 the poll
00:17:50.320 with Kennedy
00:17:50.940 in first,
00:17:52.280 and then if they
00:17:53.560 want to do
00:17:53.960 a hypothetical,
00:17:55.560 take him out.
00:17:57.080 But the headline
00:17:58.040 should have said
00:17:58.900 Trump is ahead
00:18:01.360 in all the key states
00:18:02.740 and he's completely
00:18:04.620 ahead of his
00:18:05.700 other two competitors
00:18:06.660 in the race.
00:18:09.720 Is that the
00:18:10.500 correct headline?
00:18:11.920 Why was the headline
00:18:12.980 that Biden
00:18:14.220 is beating Trump?
00:18:17.540 That's actually
00:18:18.380 not what was
00:18:19.020 happening.
00:18:19.740 That's actually
00:18:20.260 just misleading.
00:18:23.180 Well, Bernie's
00:18:24.020 talking about
00:18:24.520 his 32-hour
00:18:25.820 work week.
00:18:27.140 So it would be
00:18:27.960 a mandatory
00:18:28.480 30-hour work week,
00:18:29.940 which really is
00:18:30.540 a clever way
00:18:31.360 to get a raise
00:18:32.120 for salaried people.
00:18:34.960 So Bernie is,
00:18:36.940 he might be crazy,
00:18:38.620 but he's not stupid
00:18:39.540 because if you get
00:18:41.740 paid time and a half
00:18:42.820 for working over
00:18:43.420 32 hours,
00:18:44.400 there's going to be
00:18:44.760 a lot of people
00:18:45.460 who are going
00:18:45.780 to work over
00:18:46.240 32 hours
00:18:47.160 because they just
00:18:47.780 need to and
00:18:49.020 they'll get a bunch
00:18:49.580 of overtime.
00:18:51.180 So I don't know
00:18:53.420 that it's a good
00:18:54.560 idea or a bad
00:18:55.240 idea.
00:18:56.980 I'll tell you
00:18:57.720 from my personal
00:18:58.400 experience that if
00:18:59.940 you have a business
00:19:01.000 meeting and you
00:19:02.500 don't have an end
00:19:03.600 time, it will use up
00:19:05.220 all the time until
00:19:06.300 people are too hungry
00:19:07.420 and they got to pee.
00:19:08.860 But if you go into
00:19:09.720 the same meeting
00:19:10.360 and say,
00:19:11.280 people, I've got
00:19:12.880 20 minutes and
00:19:14.160 the meeting's over.
00:19:15.160 We've got to do
00:19:15.700 all this work in
00:19:16.380 20 minutes.
00:19:17.160 Go.
00:19:18.020 Can they do it?
00:19:19.440 Usually.
00:19:20.760 Yep, usually.
00:19:22.080 You can make your
00:19:23.640 work fit the time
00:19:24.780 and humans have a
00:19:26.480 vast history of
00:19:27.420 doing that very
00:19:28.060 consistently.
00:19:29.320 So if you cut
00:19:30.540 your work hours
00:19:31.240 down to 32,
00:19:32.160 would you get
00:19:32.720 roughly the same
00:19:33.520 amount of work in?
00:19:34.740 Well, it depends
00:19:35.260 on your job.
00:19:37.020 Right?
00:19:37.240 If your job is
00:19:37.940 just standing there
00:19:38.560 processing stuff,
00:19:39.620 you're going to
00:19:40.580 do less of it
00:19:41.300 in 32 hours.
00:19:42.540 But there are
00:19:43.240 other jobs where
00:19:43.900 you're thinking
00:19:44.400 and solving and
00:19:45.460 fixing and you
00:19:46.760 definitely could do
00:19:47.580 the same amount
00:19:48.200 of work in 32
00:19:49.000 hours.
00:19:50.340 Only the good
00:19:51.040 employees, bad
00:19:51.980 employees will just
00:19:53.040 do less.
00:19:54.800 So it's hard to
00:19:55.660 know how that
00:19:56.060 would work out,
00:19:56.540 but I'd love to
00:19:57.000 see an experiment.
00:19:59.580 I would love to
00:20:00.380 see if it makes
00:20:01.100 people happier and
00:20:02.120 they get the same
00:20:02.660 amount of money.
00:20:03.560 I don't think
00:20:04.120 this one's crazy.
00:20:05.900 Do you?
00:20:07.000 How many think
00:20:07.700 it's just crazy to
00:20:08.600 go to 32 hours?
00:20:09.620 I feel like
00:20:12.000 it's totally
00:20:12.420 worth a try,
00:20:13.480 but maybe not
00:20:14.180 nationally.
00:20:15.840 Don't you think
00:20:16.340 it's more of a
00:20:16.880 state laboratory
00:20:17.660 situation?
00:20:19.120 So Bernie should
00:20:19.720 probably maybe be
00:20:21.620 a thought leader
00:20:22.300 on this,
00:20:22.800 but I don't think
00:20:23.240 we need any
00:20:23.780 federal.
00:20:25.000 I'd be against
00:20:25.800 any kind of
00:20:26.300 federal quick
00:20:27.180 action on this.
00:20:28.520 But give it a
00:20:29.060 try.
00:20:30.720 Find a state,
00:20:31.700 give it a try.
00:20:32.320 Maybe it works.
00:20:33.440 I think that's
00:20:34.180 within the range
00:20:36.240 of unpredictable
00:20:37.200 behavior.
00:20:38.860 Because what if
00:20:39.480 it makes everybody
00:20:40.140 happier and
00:20:40.740 healthier?
00:20:42.040 It could make us
00:20:42.940 happier and
00:20:43.420 healthier.
00:20:44.260 It's possible.
00:20:46.680 Yeah, you know,
00:20:47.620 if you're betting
00:20:48.120 against it being a
00:20:49.160 good idea, I'm not
00:20:50.660 going to argue with
00:20:51.280 you.
00:20:52.200 But isn't it
00:20:54.300 true that Europe
00:20:56.040 has a shorter
00:20:57.560 work week?
00:20:59.720 Now, Europe is
00:21:01.160 probably not killing
00:21:01.940 it compared to the
00:21:02.920 United States.
00:21:03.840 But I think what
00:21:04.340 would happen is
00:21:04.960 the people who
00:21:05.480 want to work
00:21:05.920 more would still
00:21:06.560 do it.
00:21:07.700 Just employers
00:21:08.520 would have to pay
00:21:09.120 more.
00:21:10.400 And there'll be a
00:21:11.080 lot of entrepreneurs
00:21:11.780 who can work as
00:21:12.500 long as they want.
00:21:14.380 Well, here's an
00:21:15.100 update on the
00:21:16.140 Trump lawfare.
00:21:18.040 I don't think that
00:21:19.140 I'm the best one to
00:21:20.040 give you updates on
00:21:20.940 the Trump lawfare
00:21:21.820 stuff because I'm
00:21:22.540 not a lawyer and
00:21:23.280 all of them look
00:21:23.940 the same to me.
00:21:25.420 I cannot keep
00:21:26.580 these straight.
00:21:28.020 Let me see.
00:21:29.260 Which one is the
00:21:30.540 one with the
00:21:31.600 Soros funded
00:21:33.240 black prosecutors
00:21:35.300 who are just
00:21:36.100 trying to get
00:21:36.820 Trump with
00:21:38.940 complete BS?
00:21:40.680 Which one is
00:21:41.340 that?
00:21:42.120 Oh, that's
00:21:43.180 right.
00:21:43.480 It's all of
00:21:44.040 them.
00:21:45.020 How am I
00:21:45.440 supposed to keep
00:21:45.920 them straight?
00:21:47.760 So, let's
00:21:49.340 see.
00:21:49.580 There's the
00:21:49.940 Mar-a-Lago
00:21:50.520 case where the
00:21:52.720 judge is asking
00:21:53.600 questions that
00:21:54.440 strongly suggest
00:21:55.560 that it looks
00:21:57.100 like selective
00:21:57.860 prosecution.
00:21:59.600 And if the
00:22:00.540 judge is even
00:22:01.200 asking the
00:22:02.000 question, has
00:22:03.080 anybody else
00:22:03.760 ever been
00:22:04.200 prosecuted for
00:22:05.020 this, doing
00:22:05.580 exactly the
00:22:06.320 same thing, and
00:22:07.600 if the answer is
00:22:08.360 no, nobody's
00:22:09.680 ever been
00:22:10.180 prosecuted for
00:22:10.960 doing exactly
00:22:11.660 the same thing,
00:22:13.000 and in fact,
00:22:13.800 Biden did at
00:22:15.180 least exactly the
00:22:16.000 same thing in the
00:22:16.880 documents, not the
00:22:17.740 obstruction part.
00:22:18.460 So, to my
00:22:23.380 non-lawyer
00:22:24.360 eyes, I
00:22:25.740 think that
00:22:26.140 one's going to
00:22:26.580 get tossed
00:22:27.040 down.
00:22:28.840 What do you
00:22:29.480 think?
00:22:30.320 So, that's my
00:22:31.260 stupid non-lawyer
00:22:32.320 opinion, just
00:22:33.440 common sense, so
00:22:35.120 there's no way
00:22:35.780 that that judge is
00:22:36.580 going to do a
00:22:37.100 trial in which
00:22:39.340 even if the
00:22:40.280 person is
00:22:40.720 convicted, it
00:22:41.460 would look
00:22:41.780 like, well,
00:22:42.820 no matter, it
00:22:43.360 would just look
00:22:43.820 like a, you
00:22:45.140 know, not
00:22:45.580 justice.
00:22:46.060 So, I
00:22:48.360 think Trump
00:22:49.240 is going to
00:22:49.880 get a good
00:22:50.440 outcome on
00:22:51.140 that.
00:22:51.960 Now, the
00:22:52.280 secondary part
00:22:53.120 is that it's
00:22:53.620 not about
00:22:54.160 retention of
00:22:55.180 documents, it's
00:22:55.880 about Trump
00:22:56.400 allegedly
00:22:56.880 obstructing the
00:22:58.220 attempt to get
00:22:58.980 them back.
00:23:00.180 But here's the
00:23:00.800 thing, then it
00:23:01.680 gets complicated.
00:23:02.720 Again, I'm not
00:23:03.420 a lawyer, so
00:23:04.420 don't trust
00:23:05.300 anything I say
00:23:05.980 on this topic,
00:23:07.420 but isn't it
00:23:09.840 true that if
00:23:11.580 there's no
00:23:12.020 underlying crime,
00:23:13.880 or at least
00:23:14.600 one that's not
00:23:15.220 going to be
00:23:15.520 charged,
00:23:16.060 is there
00:23:17.880 obstruction?
00:23:19.380 Can you have
00:23:20.180 obstruction of
00:23:21.100 a case that
00:23:23.160 shouldn't have
00:23:23.480 been brought?
00:23:25.660 I mean, I
00:23:26.520 guess technically
00:23:27.400 you could,
00:23:29.020 maybe, I
00:23:29.740 mean, that's
00:23:30.540 up to the
00:23:30.840 lawyers, but
00:23:31.760 even if it's
00:23:32.440 technically
00:23:33.080 obstruction against
00:23:34.320 something that
00:23:35.020 shouldn't have
00:23:35.420 been charged,
00:23:37.080 still that
00:23:38.240 doesn't become a
00:23:39.060 court case,
00:23:39.720 does it?
00:23:40.960 That you
00:23:41.440 technically
00:23:42.440 obstructed
00:23:43.300 something that
00:23:43.880 shouldn't have
00:23:44.280 been a charge
00:23:44.900 in the first
00:23:45.380 place?
00:23:46.060 Can you
00:23:47.160 actually go to
00:23:47.740 jail for that?
00:23:49.440 Well, maybe
00:23:50.480 technically you
00:23:51.240 can, but if it
00:23:52.320 happened, people
00:23:54.980 would have a lot
00:23:55.480 of explaining.
00:23:56.940 So I've got a
00:23:57.640 feeling that's
00:23:58.360 going to go
00:23:58.920 Trump's way, but
00:23:59.760 too early to
00:24:00.420 say.
00:24:00.600 we're still
00:24:03.400 waiting for the
00:24:03.980 Fonnie Willis
00:24:04.720 decision about
00:24:06.760 whether she
00:24:07.220 stays on the
00:24:08.140 case.
00:24:08.480 Has that
00:24:08.700 been decided?
00:24:09.340 Well, I've
00:24:09.840 been, it
00:24:11.580 hasn't been
00:24:11.980 decided yet,
00:24:12.580 right?
00:24:13.680 I don't think
00:24:14.440 so.
00:24:15.360 So, but one
00:24:16.080 of the things
00:24:16.460 that could happen
00:24:16.900 there is if
00:24:17.520 Fonnie is
00:24:17.980 taking off the
00:24:18.560 case, there
00:24:19.120 might be a
00:24:19.600 prosecutor who
00:24:21.560 doesn't even
00:24:22.020 want to
00:24:22.280 prosecute and
00:24:23.480 just says,
00:24:23.900 pass.
00:24:26.860 So that
00:24:27.520 could just
00:24:27.920 go away.
00:24:29.920 The whole
00:24:30.500 thing, you
00:24:30.820 just go
00:24:31.940 away.
00:24:35.100 Because I
00:24:35.820 think unless
00:24:36.460 they prosecute
00:24:37.400 Fonnie, which
00:24:39.240 they probably
00:24:39.800 are reluctant
00:24:40.880 to do, how
00:24:41.960 can you, how
00:24:43.680 can you say
00:24:44.240 that?
00:24:44.920 Well, you
00:24:45.440 know, I
00:24:45.840 don't have to
00:24:46.180 finish that.
00:24:47.260 All right.
00:24:47.900 And then
00:24:48.560 Alvin Bragg
00:24:49.280 said, I
00:24:49.960 guess he
00:24:50.220 allowed some
00:24:50.680 kind of
00:24:51.240 delay.
00:24:52.520 I don't
00:24:52.840 even remember
00:24:53.380 what the
00:24:53.700 Alvin Bragg
00:24:54.360 one is
00:24:54.720 about.
00:24:55.620 Was that
00:24:55.980 about Stormy
00:24:56.820 or payments
00:24:57.440 or something?
00:24:59.000 Was that
00:24:59.380 the Alvin
00:24:59.800 Bragg
00:25:00.120 one?
00:25:02.940 Oh, the
00:25:03.620 judge ruled
00:25:04.280 that Fonnie
00:25:04.820 is staying,
00:25:05.460 somebody is
00:25:05.860 saying.
00:25:06.280 So that
00:25:06.580 just happened?
00:25:09.640 Oh, that's
00:25:10.420 even better.
00:25:14.140 That's even
00:25:14.860 better, isn't
00:25:15.460 it?
00:25:16.640 Because now
00:25:17.420 it looks so
00:25:18.000 obviously
00:25:18.580 unfair that
00:25:21.060 it kind of
00:25:21.680 guarantees that
00:25:22.660 either,
00:25:23.100 either they're
00:25:24.140 going to
00:25:24.300 have to
00:25:24.540 find him
00:25:24.900 innocent or
00:25:26.460 it largely
00:25:26.920 guarantees that
00:25:27.800 the outcome
00:25:28.560 will not be
00:25:29.140 seen as
00:25:29.520 credible.
00:25:31.440 It's kind
00:25:32.120 of perfect.
00:25:35.260 This is the
00:25:36.000 only situation
00:25:36.860 in which I
00:25:38.220 case, which
00:25:39.200 I'm hoping
00:25:39.980 they get the
00:25:40.480 law wrong
00:25:41.120 because they've
00:25:43.260 painted themselves
00:25:44.020 in such a
00:25:44.840 corner that if
00:25:46.400 all the law
00:25:47.040 fair went
00:25:47.480 away, I think
00:25:48.140 it would hurt
00:25:48.600 Trump at this
00:25:49.200 point.
00:25:49.440 I think
00:25:50.660 Trump will
00:25:51.080 do better
00:25:51.620 if he's
00:25:53.020 under immediate
00:25:54.760 direct law
00:25:56.760 fair risk of
00:25:57.600 jail right up
00:25:58.720 until election
00:25:59.900 day.
00:26:00.440 That would be
00:26:01.120 the ideal
00:26:01.640 situation.
00:26:03.160 So maybe
00:26:03.720 we'll see.
00:26:05.740 All right.
00:26:06.060 As I often
00:26:08.820 tell you, we
00:26:09.960 think we come
00:26:11.200 to our
00:26:11.600 opinions because
00:26:12.360 we did our
00:26:13.360 own research
00:26:14.120 and we've
00:26:15.560 got priorities
00:26:16.180 and we read
00:26:16.880 the news and
00:26:17.520 we formed an
00:26:18.160 opinion.
00:26:18.800 Nothing like
00:26:19.340 that happens.
00:26:20.380 You could ask
00:26:21.040 science if you
00:26:21.720 don't believe
00:26:22.100 me.
00:26:22.800 We are
00:26:23.100 assigned our
00:26:23.600 opinions.
00:26:25.680 That's it.
00:26:26.640 You're assigned
00:26:27.200 your opinion.
00:26:28.360 You choose a
00:26:29.160 team and then
00:26:29.740 you choose a
00:26:30.280 news source and
00:26:31.100 then the news
00:26:31.560 tells you what
00:26:32.040 your opinion is
00:26:32.780 and then next
00:26:33.820 time somebody
00:26:34.320 asks you what
00:26:34.820 your opinion
00:26:35.220 is, you
00:26:35.900 repeat what
00:26:36.520 you heard
00:26:36.940 Jake Tapper
00:26:37.600 say and
00:26:39.080 that's your
00:26:39.500 opinion and
00:26:40.960 you'll defend
00:26:41.760 it and you'll
00:26:43.180 actually think
00:26:43.700 you came up
00:26:44.200 with it on
00:26:44.560 your own.
00:26:46.080 The news is
00:26:46.980 about assigning
00:26:47.660 opinions and
00:26:48.880 people not
00:26:49.340 realizing that's
00:26:50.060 what happened.
00:26:50.820 That's what the
00:26:51.200 whole business
00:26:51.700 is about.
00:26:53.160 Let me give
00:26:53.560 you, if you
00:26:54.360 don't believe
00:26:54.780 that, let me
00:26:55.320 give you an
00:26:55.640 example.
00:26:58.480 So RFK
00:26:59.740 Jr.
00:27:00.100 says,
00:27:00.440 America has
00:27:00.940 the highest
00:27:01.480 chronic disease
00:27:02.580 burden in
00:27:03.180 the world.
00:27:04.120 America spends
00:27:04.960 $4.5 trillion
00:27:07.000 a year on
00:27:09.460 health care
00:27:10.000 with 90% of
00:27:11.860 that going to
00:27:12.380 treat people
00:27:12.940 with chronic
00:27:13.540 diseases.
00:27:19.180 $4.5 trillion.
00:27:22.200 Probably
00:27:22.960 unnecessary.
00:27:24.440 Probably
00:27:25.200 because of
00:27:26.280 some combination
00:27:27.140 of pollution,
00:27:28.800 microplastics,
00:27:30.000 food that's
00:27:30.620 poison and
00:27:31.600 lack of
00:27:32.220 exercise and
00:27:33.300 pharmaceutical
00:27:34.720 stuff.
00:27:36.640 Now, that's
00:27:37.420 all the stuff
00:27:38.040 that RFK
00:27:38.580 Jr.
00:27:39.640 has targeted
00:27:40.600 as our
00:27:41.860 highest priority.
00:27:43.220 And let me
00:27:43.700 say this as
00:27:44.240 clearly as I
00:27:45.080 possibly can.
00:27:47.340 If we were
00:27:48.280 capable of
00:27:49.160 making our
00:27:49.660 own decisions
00:27:50.280 and we came
00:27:51.820 up with our
00:27:52.260 own opinions,
00:27:53.340 RFK Jr.
00:27:54.100 would be
00:27:54.400 leading in the
00:27:55.540 presidential race
00:27:56.300 by a mile.
00:27:58.180 He's the only
00:27:58.920 one who's even
00:27:59.480 identified our
00:28:00.280 biggest problems.
00:28:01.060 What are the
00:28:03.020 other guys
00:28:03.440 working on
00:28:04.080 that would
00:28:05.260 save you
00:28:05.680 $4.5 trillion
00:28:06.800 a year and
00:28:08.480 make you
00:28:08.800 happier?
00:28:09.680 What problems
00:28:10.580 would be
00:28:10.980 solved if we
00:28:12.420 got rid of
00:28:12.920 chronic disease?
00:28:14.360 Well, it
00:28:15.320 would fix the
00:28:15.880 economy because
00:28:16.960 people would be
00:28:17.640 working instead
00:28:18.400 of sick.
00:28:19.100 It would free
00:28:19.820 up $4.5 trillion
00:28:21.720 a year that we
00:28:22.640 would spend on
00:28:23.440 other goods and
00:28:25.160 services, which
00:28:25.960 probably would be
00:28:26.700 better for the
00:28:27.200 economy than
00:28:27.800 spending it on
00:28:28.460 health care for
00:28:29.060 things you
00:28:29.400 didn't need to
00:28:29.940 spend it on.
00:28:31.080 Our mental
00:28:32.040 health, our
00:28:32.600 mindset, our
00:28:33.620 rates of
00:28:34.240 depression would
00:28:34.940 be much better
00:28:35.680 if we didn't
00:28:36.140 have chronic
00:28:36.640 disease.
00:28:37.520 People would be
00:28:38.280 willing and able
00:28:39.100 to reproduce
00:28:39.700 because they
00:28:40.220 wouldn't be
00:28:40.540 obese and sick
00:28:41.480 and they would
00:28:41.900 look good to
00:28:42.380 other people like
00:28:43.140 they did in
00:28:43.700 100 years ago.
00:28:45.220 And maybe our
00:28:46.120 national defense
00:28:47.020 would be better
00:28:47.560 because we could
00:28:48.320 field a military
00:28:49.420 that wasn't all
00:28:50.220 sickly and fat.
00:28:51.060 there is nothing
00:28:54.940 we're doing in
00:28:56.340 any other form of
00:28:57.300 politics that is
00:28:58.060 as important as
00:28:58.760 this.
00:28:59.120 Nothing.
00:29:00.280 Do you think the
00:29:00.960 war in Ukraine has
00:29:02.380 the same risk as
00:29:03.400 this chronic disease
00:29:04.520 thing?
00:29:05.920 Nope.
00:29:07.040 As bad as the
00:29:08.680 Ukraine thing is,
00:29:09.700 it's very unlikely
00:29:10.680 it's going to turn
00:29:11.520 nuclear because
00:29:13.080 there's just no
00:29:13.820 reason.
00:29:15.440 And it has a
00:29:17.940 limited number of
00:29:18.980 deaths.
00:29:19.300 let's say another
00:29:21.260 million people
00:29:22.060 die.
00:29:23.160 It's nowhere near
00:29:24.480 as bad as the
00:29:26.340 stuff that RFK
00:29:27.180 Jr. is talking
00:29:27.940 about.
00:29:28.400 That's a million
00:29:28.980 people.
00:29:30.260 I'm not minimizing
00:29:31.800 the death of a
00:29:32.560 million people.
00:29:34.040 I mean, that's
00:29:34.480 pretty awful.
00:29:36.380 But it's not
00:29:36.880 nearly the size.
00:29:38.580 The size and
00:29:39.700 scale of what
00:29:40.620 RFK Jr. is
00:29:41.480 talking about and
00:29:42.640 what should be its
00:29:43.520 importance is not
00:29:46.060 even close to
00:29:47.920 anything else we
00:29:48.740 think is
00:29:49.140 important.
00:29:50.060 Climate change,
00:29:52.120 trivial compared to
00:29:53.260 this.
00:29:53.900 Trivial.
00:29:54.400 Even if it's
00:29:54.900 real.
00:29:55.880 Even if the
00:29:56.560 alarm people are
00:29:57.260 right, it's still
00:29:57.760 trivial.
00:29:58.780 If you don't
00:29:59.220 understand that,
00:30:00.660 you've been
00:30:01.220 brainwashed by the
00:30:02.060 news.
00:30:03.500 If this isn't
00:30:04.800 immediately registering
00:30:06.160 to you as true,
00:30:07.900 you've been
00:30:08.280 brainwashed by the
00:30:09.080 news.
00:30:10.120 These are not
00:30:10.740 hard things to
00:30:12.420 compare.
00:30:13.500 $4.5 trillion
00:30:14.780 dollars and
00:30:15.540 90% going to
00:30:17.700 chronic disease.
00:30:18.800 Everybody you
00:30:19.320 know has got some
00:30:19.900 kind of chronic
00:30:20.480 disease that we
00:30:21.260 didn't used to
00:30:21.760 have.
00:30:23.440 There's nothing
00:30:24.320 we're doing that's
00:30:24.980 this important.
00:30:25.840 Not even close.
00:30:27.900 And he's running a
00:30:28.820 distant third.
00:30:29.840 So that's how you
00:30:30.620 know that the media
00:30:31.260 signs your opinion.
00:30:32.000 Well, you've seen
00:30:35.380 some videos probably
00:30:36.300 of the New York
00:30:36.960 subway.
00:30:37.600 There was a fight
00:30:38.400 and somebody got
00:30:38.980 shot in the head
00:30:39.760 and there was
00:30:40.260 video, so it
00:30:41.120 looks terrible
00:30:41.620 because the
00:30:42.620 videos bring you
00:30:43.400 right into the
00:30:44.160 terrifying scene.
00:30:45.560 So you're actually
00:30:46.000 on the subway
00:30:46.800 while somebody's
00:30:47.800 getting shot in
00:30:48.920 the car that
00:30:49.460 you're in.
00:30:50.920 Oh, my God.
00:30:52.520 Now that looks
00:30:53.260 really scary.
00:30:54.900 However, I
00:30:56.600 believe there is a
00:30:57.520 solution on the
00:30:58.200 way.
00:30:59.240 We are shipping
00:31:00.340 in enough Haitian
00:31:01.500 refugees to
00:31:05.600 eat all of the
00:31:06.500 criminals.
00:31:07.640 No, I'm just
00:31:08.480 kidding.
00:31:08.960 The Haitians are
00:31:09.560 not cannibals.
00:31:10.500 That's just a
00:31:11.460 rumor that people
00:31:12.820 started.
00:31:13.960 There is no
00:31:14.760 evidence that any
00:31:15.580 of them were
00:31:15.920 cannibals.
00:31:16.520 That is just a
00:31:17.400 joke.
00:31:19.280 And by the way,
00:31:20.860 it's not a racist
00:31:21.680 joke because if I
00:31:23.600 heard that the
00:31:24.100 Swiss were rumored
00:31:25.820 to be cannibals,
00:31:26.920 I'd be having just
00:31:28.400 as much fun with
00:31:29.140 it.
00:31:30.160 So before you go
00:31:31.260 off and say,
00:31:31.760 well, would he
00:31:33.320 call white people
00:31:35.140 cannibals?
00:31:36.520 Yes.
00:31:37.460 Yes, I would.
00:31:38.420 If it was funny.
00:31:39.900 If it were funny,
00:31:40.960 I would call white
00:31:41.560 people cannibals.
00:31:43.100 In fact, who
00:31:44.420 was the serial
00:31:45.600 killer?
00:31:46.660 Jeffrey Dahmer.
00:31:48.360 Jeffrey Dahmer,
00:31:49.280 white guy
00:31:49.640 cannibal.
00:31:51.040 Have I ever made
00:31:51.960 fun of Jeffrey
00:31:52.820 Dahmer being a
00:31:53.740 white guy and a
00:31:54.320 cannibal?
00:31:55.140 Yes, I have.
00:31:56.620 Yes, I have.
00:31:57.240 All right.
00:31:59.280 There's a report
00:32:00.000 that the cartels
00:32:01.380 are using massive
00:32:02.340 drones on the
00:32:03.260 border to check
00:32:04.780 for places they
00:32:05.540 can get across.
00:32:06.940 And I guess our
00:32:08.480 military said that
00:32:09.420 over 1,000 drones
00:32:11.000 per month are
00:32:11.640 crossing into U.S.
00:32:12.560 airspace from
00:32:13.680 Mexico.
00:32:14.680 1,000 a month.
00:32:16.120 Now, I assume
00:32:17.140 that's really, you
00:32:18.200 know, 10 drones
00:32:19.460 that are making
00:32:20.040 lots of trips.
00:32:21.200 I don't think it's
00:32:21.720 1,000 drones.
00:32:23.240 It's probably 10
00:32:24.140 that work every day
00:32:25.080 because, you know,
00:32:25.940 you got to check
00:32:26.560 every day.
00:32:28.600 Still, way too
00:32:29.900 much.
00:32:32.640 And one of those
00:32:33.620 drones may have
00:32:34.280 been in my
00:32:34.700 backyard the other
00:32:35.440 day, so that
00:32:36.040 bothers me.
00:32:38.100 And there's
00:32:41.360 actually a debate
00:32:42.280 about whether
00:32:43.240 Chinese-made
00:32:44.400 drones should be
00:32:46.120 available for sale
00:32:47.160 in the United
00:32:47.600 States.
00:32:48.720 Does it seem like
00:32:49.460 a good idea that
00:32:51.260 our skies should be
00:32:52.180 filled with Chinese
00:32:52.980 drones, Chinese-made
00:32:54.560 drones?
00:32:54.920 Is there
00:32:56.380 nothing they can
00:32:57.060 put in those
00:32:57.560 devices that would
00:32:58.460 be bad for us
00:33:00.620 later?
00:33:01.560 Do they have
00:33:02.100 software updates?
00:33:04.640 Do drones get
00:33:05.460 software patches?
00:33:06.820 Probably.
00:33:07.740 Probably get smarter.
00:33:09.660 Yeah, I'd worry
00:33:10.200 about that.
00:33:12.560 Well, Whoopi
00:33:13.340 Goldberg said
00:33:15.660 this on their
00:33:17.020 show.
00:33:18.120 Quote, I have to
00:33:19.580 say this before we
00:33:20.500 go.
00:33:21.140 I don't believe
00:33:21.920 Trump is actually
00:33:22.900 out there, she
00:33:23.820 confessed.
00:33:24.660 I think that's
00:33:25.360 an AI of him.
00:33:28.340 Okay.
00:33:30.800 And then she
00:33:31.440 doubled down.
00:33:32.380 I think a lot of
00:33:33.220 that has been AI,
00:33:34.060 she said.
00:33:34.620 That's just my
00:33:35.360 opinion, but that's
00:33:36.540 what I think.
00:33:38.680 Okay.
00:33:39.080 So, it's a good
00:33:45.240 thing we're getting
00:33:45.800 our important
00:33:46.460 opinions from
00:33:48.120 the view, because
00:33:49.660 that's one I
00:33:50.220 wouldn't have heard
00:33:50.660 anywhere else.
00:33:52.800 Okay, sure.
00:33:55.120 However, the
00:33:56.420 press has given
00:33:57.200 some cover to
00:33:58.060 that opinion, and
00:33:59.420 noting that there
00:34:00.140 are in fact AI
00:34:01.660 generated or
00:34:02.580 photoshopped
00:34:03.160 pictures of what
00:34:04.420 appears to be
00:34:05.300 Trump being
00:34:07.580 popular with
00:34:08.500 black voters.
00:34:10.460 So, I think
00:34:11.340 you've seen that
00:34:11.900 one?
00:34:12.120 I've seen that
00:34:12.600 one, where
00:34:13.400 Trump is just,
00:34:14.500 you know, he's
00:34:15.060 surrounded by
00:34:16.180 black voters who
00:34:17.340 are clearly loving
00:34:18.180 him, and he's
00:34:18.840 hugging him and
00:34:19.480 loving him back,
00:34:20.240 and they're all
00:34:20.720 smiling.
00:34:21.560 That's a fake
00:34:22.380 photo.
00:34:23.840 But I would
00:34:25.920 imagine that
00:34:26.760 there's going to
00:34:27.300 be a lot more
00:34:28.000 of those.
00:34:29.940 Given the power
00:34:31.060 of visual
00:34:31.860 persuasion, don't
00:34:34.480 you think there
00:34:34.980 are going to
00:34:35.220 be a lot more
00:34:35.880 of those photos
00:34:36.580 showing black
00:34:38.080 Americans just
00:34:39.080 having a great
00:34:39.740 time with
00:34:40.220 President Trump,
00:34:41.720 hugging and
00:34:42.300 kissing him and
00:34:43.080 kissing some
00:34:44.340 black babies and
00:34:45.180 stuff like that?
00:34:46.720 Now, is that
00:34:47.940 legal?
00:34:49.920 I'm not
00:34:50.540 recommending it,
00:34:51.300 by the way, just
00:34:51.800 in case it's
00:34:52.340 illegal.
00:34:53.000 It's unethical, so
00:34:54.440 don't do it.
00:34:56.100 But would it
00:34:57.120 work?
00:34:57.780 In terms of
00:34:58.580 persuasion, if,
00:35:00.700 let's say you're
00:35:01.360 a black voter,
00:35:02.820 you're on the
00:35:03.560 fence, you're
00:35:04.720 not too happy
00:35:05.320 with Biden, but
00:35:06.720 you haven't been
00:35:07.720 sold on Trump.
00:35:09.000 And then you
00:35:09.520 see a bunch of
00:35:10.220 pictures that
00:35:11.240 you think are
00:35:11.760 real, let's say
00:35:12.540 they're AI, but
00:35:13.280 they look real
00:35:13.800 enough, and you
00:35:14.800 see that other
00:35:15.680 black Americans
00:35:16.800 not only are
00:35:18.560 okay with Trump,
00:35:19.800 but they love
00:35:20.440 him.
00:35:20.840 Oh, my God.
00:35:22.120 Look at him
00:35:22.540 laughing.
00:35:23.240 He's at the
00:35:23.760 barbecue.
00:35:24.560 He's at the
00:35:25.080 barbershop.
00:35:26.340 Yeah, they're
00:35:27.180 laughing it up.
00:35:28.080 They're high-fiving.
00:35:29.620 Well, I don't know
00:35:30.360 how much high-fiving
00:35:31.320 happens in the
00:35:32.060 black community.
00:35:36.400 Probably not as
00:35:37.240 much as I'm
00:35:37.780 used to.
00:35:40.760 If you come to
00:35:41.580 a party, I got
00:35:42.900 like a piece of
00:35:43.760 cheese in one
00:35:44.320 hand, and I'm
00:35:44.820 high-fiving people
00:35:45.620 with the other.
00:35:46.560 I feel like if you
00:35:47.360 go to a black
00:35:48.260 party, it might be
00:35:49.600 less of that,
00:35:50.880 you know, less
00:35:51.320 cheese and
00:35:52.100 high-fiving.
00:35:53.380 But anyway.
00:35:54.580 So I think it
00:35:58.620 would be an
00:35:59.320 excellently
00:36:01.520 effective dirty
00:36:03.120 trick to show
00:36:04.840 the president
00:36:05.380 being liked by
00:36:06.240 people.
00:36:08.380 But it would
00:36:09.000 work, because
00:36:09.940 our visual
00:36:10.800 senses dominate
00:36:13.180 our other
00:36:13.660 senses in
00:36:15.060 terms of how
00:36:15.440 we think about
00:36:15.960 the world.
00:36:16.760 But on top of
00:36:17.600 that, it would
00:36:18.280 not be just a
00:36:19.020 visual.
00:36:19.400 it would be
00:36:21.140 a, what do
00:36:22.900 you call it,
00:36:23.180 sort of a
00:36:23.700 group, what's
00:36:25.060 the word for
00:36:25.460 that?
00:36:27.100 What's the
00:36:27.680 scientific word
00:36:28.520 when you see
00:36:29.460 people that are
00:36:30.120 like you, and
00:36:30.960 then you just
00:36:31.640 agree with them
00:36:32.280 because they're
00:36:34.120 like you?
00:36:35.140 What's that
00:36:35.700 called?
00:36:36.420 Social proof.
00:36:37.700 Social proof.
00:36:38.520 Right.
00:36:39.820 So it'd be a
00:36:40.540 good social
00:36:40.940 proof.
00:36:42.280 And I love
00:36:43.340 the fact that
00:36:43.980 she's just
00:36:44.440 going to go
00:36:44.780 out there and
00:36:45.180 say that
00:36:45.500 Trump's an
00:36:46.880 AI.
00:36:47.100 All right.
00:36:49.740 So let's
00:36:50.380 talk about
00:36:50.740 that Boeing
00:36:51.280 whistleblower.
00:36:52.140 You know
00:36:52.340 the story,
00:36:53.040 the Boeing
00:36:53.400 whistleblower
00:36:54.100 had one
00:36:54.740 more day of
00:36:55.260 testimony about
00:36:56.760 Boeing and
00:36:58.000 then was
00:36:59.100 allegedly
00:36:59.980 committed suicide
00:37:00.820 in his car
00:37:01.560 outside a
00:37:02.100 hotel.
00:37:03.480 So he
00:37:04.180 committed suicide
00:37:04.940 in his car
00:37:05.720 outside a
00:37:06.320 hotel after
00:37:08.640 extending the
00:37:09.760 day of his
00:37:10.580 leave.
00:37:14.860 That's right.
00:37:15.920 He extended
00:37:16.640 the time at
00:37:17.300 the hotel
00:37:17.800 and paid
00:37:20.460 for it.
00:37:22.080 Well, I
00:37:22.540 don't know if
00:37:22.780 he paid for
00:37:23.220 it, but he
00:37:24.120 extended his
00:37:24.740 time and
00:37:26.060 then allegedly
00:37:26.860 killed himself
00:37:28.260 in his truck
00:37:28.900 because that's
00:37:31.140 how you do
00:37:31.540 it.
00:37:32.420 That's the
00:37:32.940 normal way you
00:37:33.520 kill yourself,
00:37:34.100 isn't it?
00:37:34.920 First, you
00:37:35.500 extend your
00:37:36.080 time at the
00:37:36.540 hotel and
00:37:37.300 then you go
00:37:37.700 kill yourself.
00:37:40.560 So let me
00:37:42.920 ask you this.
00:37:43.480 I don't
00:37:45.160 know much
00:37:45.700 about this
00:37:46.420 field, but
00:37:48.640 how many
00:37:49.880 people have
00:37:51.520 killed
00:37:51.820 themselves in
00:37:52.580 the morning?
00:37:56.000 I feel like
00:37:56.840 it's close to
00:37:57.420 zero.
00:37:58.820 Like, I don't
00:37:59.560 know.
00:38:00.140 I'll take a
00:38:00.900 fact check on
00:38:01.520 that.
00:38:02.140 But I'm just
00:38:03.680 sort of looking
00:38:04.400 at my own
00:38:04.980 mind and
00:38:05.820 experience.
00:38:06.700 I've never
00:38:07.340 had a bad
00:38:07.840 morning.
00:38:11.020 Morning's
00:38:11.500 usually pretty
00:38:12.040 good.
00:38:13.300 But if you
00:38:14.040 check in with
00:38:14.660 me at, you
00:38:15.200 know, nine
00:38:15.540 o'clock at
00:38:16.060 night, if
00:38:17.020 things aren't
00:38:17.480 going well,
00:38:19.260 completely
00:38:19.700 different
00:38:20.100 attitude.
00:38:21.800 Right?
00:38:22.260 So do you
00:38:22.920 think that this
00:38:23.460 guy killed
00:38:24.560 himself in
00:38:25.260 his truck in
00:38:26.040 the morning?
00:38:29.320 And here's
00:38:31.760 the other
00:38:32.020 thing.
00:38:35.060 Did he
00:38:35.460 not want to
00:38:38.540 be found?
00:38:39.000 why would
00:38:41.320 you kill
00:38:41.660 yourself in
00:38:42.140 a place
00:38:42.480 that's going
00:38:43.220 to take a
00:38:43.540 while to
00:38:43.860 find you?
00:38:46.660 Well, maybe
00:38:47.340 that doesn't
00:38:47.820 matter.
00:38:48.860 But everything
00:38:49.460 about this
00:38:50.020 looks like a
00:38:52.240 murder.
00:38:53.520 Looks like a
00:38:54.280 murder.
00:38:54.880 No way to
00:38:55.380 know.
00:38:56.200 But on the
00:38:56.940 surface,
00:38:57.880 it doesn't
00:38:58.280 track.
00:38:59.800 Well, there's
00:39:00.380 more people
00:39:00.820 talking about
00:39:01.300 this idea of
00:39:02.140 people who
00:39:03.360 don't hear
00:39:04.480 conversation in
00:39:06.000 their head.
00:39:07.260 In the
00:39:07.920 comments,
00:39:08.440 how many
00:39:09.420 of you do
00:39:10.020 not hear
00:39:10.780 an ongoing
00:39:11.880 conversation in
00:39:13.120 words in
00:39:14.140 your head
00:39:14.680 that's like a
00:39:15.760 dialogue that's
00:39:16.460 running all the
00:39:17.040 time?
00:39:17.560 Now, I hear
00:39:18.160 the dialogue all
00:39:18.920 the time.
00:39:19.620 How many of
00:39:20.220 you do not
00:39:21.120 hear the
00:39:23.680 dialogue in
00:39:24.200 your mind
00:39:24.540 like all
00:39:25.060 the time?
00:39:30.360 Somebody
00:39:30.840 says 7
00:39:31.360 p.m.
00:39:32.240 Did it
00:39:32.560 happen in
00:39:33.280 the evening?
00:39:33.640 No.
00:39:38.440 Oh, I'm
00:39:39.980 getting a
00:39:40.340 fact check.
00:39:41.520 I'm getting a
00:39:42.300 fact check that
00:39:42.980 it happened in
00:39:43.560 the evening of
00:39:44.340 7 o'clock,
00:39:45.120 somebody says.
00:39:45.680 All right, so
00:39:52.060 there's some
00:39:52.400 question about
00:39:53.000 the time.
00:39:55.640 But even if
00:39:56.940 it's 7 p.m., I
00:39:58.740 guess I'd ask the
00:39:59.420 same question.
00:40:02.960 Yeah.
00:40:03.900 Well, I'll bet
00:40:05.160 there's a time of
00:40:05.920 day when it
00:40:06.580 almost always
00:40:07.220 happens.
00:40:07.660 I'll bet it's
00:40:08.340 after 9 o'clock.
00:40:11.120 Doesn't mean,
00:40:12.180 it doesn't rule it
00:40:12.980 out, but it'd be
00:40:14.520 one of those
00:40:14.960 indications.
00:40:15.780 Anyway, talking
00:40:17.060 about mind
00:40:17.620 blindness, so
00:40:19.100 some of you, I
00:40:20.220 guess, maybe up
00:40:20.940 to a third, don't
00:40:21.900 see your language,
00:40:23.140 but here's the
00:40:23.640 more shocking
00:40:24.140 thing.
00:40:26.180 You don't see
00:40:27.020 pictures when you
00:40:27.800 close your mind,
00:40:28.840 when you close
00:40:29.580 your eyes, and
00:40:31.240 there's a test
00:40:31.840 where you look at
00:40:32.460 a red star, and
00:40:34.220 then you close
00:40:34.720 your mind and
00:40:35.320 try to imagine
00:40:36.060 the red star, and
00:40:37.780 some people can't
00:40:38.600 do it.
00:40:41.760 That's mind
00:40:42.460 blowing to me.
00:40:44.520 So, here's
00:40:46.140 something I've
00:40:49.140 always known
00:40:49.520 about myself, but
00:40:50.780 I didn't talk
00:40:51.360 about much.
00:40:53.900 When I was
00:40:56.260 young, I was
00:40:58.380 not into reading
00:40:59.220 fiction, and I
00:41:01.580 didn't like movies
00:41:02.380 and TV as much
00:41:04.100 as I should,
00:41:05.420 because my
00:41:06.540 imagination was
00:41:08.100 better, meaning
00:41:09.960 that I could
00:41:10.620 build entire
00:41:11.380 stories with
00:41:12.240 characters and
00:41:13.060 dialogue in my
00:41:13.920 head, and then
00:41:14.500 just watch that.
00:41:15.780 And then I'd
00:41:16.300 always watch what
00:41:16.880 I wanted to
00:41:17.320 watch.
00:41:18.440 So, when I
00:41:19.040 made the movie
00:41:19.540 in my head, it
00:41:20.180 was like, you
00:41:20.640 know, I'm the
00:41:21.080 hero of the
00:41:21.560 movie, and, you
00:41:23.080 know, I kill all
00:41:23.860 the bad guys, and
00:41:24.740 I get the woman,
00:41:25.940 and stuff like
00:41:26.420 that.
00:41:26.960 So, I could
00:41:29.260 not, I
00:41:30.160 couldn't explain
00:41:30.920 to people why I
00:41:32.820 was so entertained
00:41:33.860 without being
00:41:34.580 entertained, because
00:41:36.220 I can do the
00:41:36.840 whole movie in my
00:41:37.540 head.
00:41:38.140 Now, that
00:41:38.940 shouldn't be
00:41:39.440 surprising, now
00:41:40.360 that you know I
00:41:40.820 have 36 years
00:41:43.240 of a cartooning
00:41:44.160 career, which is
00:41:45.320 literally imagining
00:41:46.480 a scene in my
00:41:47.140 head and then
00:41:47.580 writing it down.
00:41:49.100 So, it
00:41:50.040 shouldn't be too
00:41:50.580 surprising that I
00:41:52.080 have that, you
00:41:52.920 know, specific
00:41:53.820 talent.
00:41:56.020 But how many of
00:41:56.880 you cannot do
00:41:57.900 that?
00:41:59.900 So, in my head, I
00:42:01.600 can put Dilber in
00:42:03.320 any scene and
00:42:04.280 rotate him.
00:42:05.120 I can rotate him
00:42:06.000 360.
00:42:07.500 I could have him
00:42:08.400 doing, I'm doing it
00:42:09.440 right now.
00:42:10.020 In my mind, I'm
00:42:10.960 seeing Dilber rotating
00:42:12.140 and doing jumping
00:42:12.980 jacks in complete
00:42:14.580 detail, just like
00:42:16.300 it's in front of
00:42:16.820 me.
00:42:17.860 I could trace it.
00:42:20.100 When I draw, I'm
00:42:21.440 tracing.
00:42:23.420 Did you know
00:42:23.920 that?
00:42:24.840 When I draw, I
00:42:26.200 have a blank piece
00:42:27.100 of paper, I project
00:42:29.060 my mind onto it, I
00:42:31.220 see the picture, and
00:42:32.060 then I trace it.
00:42:35.060 Now, if you can't
00:42:36.280 see an image,
00:42:39.440 in your mind, you
00:42:41.300 probably can't
00:42:42.180 draw.
00:42:43.520 So, that might be
00:42:44.420 one way to tell if
00:42:45.380 people can picture
00:42:46.580 things.
00:42:47.180 Just ask them to
00:42:47.880 draw it.
00:42:49.140 And even if you
00:42:50.020 haven't practiced and
00:42:50.960 you don't have
00:42:51.360 drawing talent, because
00:42:52.760 have you ever
00:42:53.120 noticed there's some
00:42:53.700 people who don't
00:42:54.280 spend any time
00:42:55.060 learning to draw, but
00:42:56.980 if you hand them a
00:42:57.640 pencil, they can draw
00:42:58.420 like a face?
00:42:59.960 And you think, how
00:43:00.880 the hell did you do
00:43:01.420 that?
00:43:02.460 You never even
00:43:03.260 practiced.
00:43:04.040 It's because they're
00:43:04.720 just tracing.
00:43:05.320 So, our minds are
00:43:07.960 so wildly
00:43:09.040 different, and we
00:43:11.240 just don't realize
00:43:12.100 it.
00:43:12.520 We're walking
00:43:13.020 around like we're
00:43:13.660 all the same.
00:43:15.660 Well, let's talk
00:43:16.440 about RFK Jr.'s
00:43:17.700 choice for VP.
00:43:19.400 Aaron Rodgers, the
00:43:20.320 football player, has
00:43:21.920 come up a few
00:43:22.600 times, and now
00:43:23.440 there's a story.
00:43:24.660 CNN wants to
00:43:25.600 trash him by
00:43:26.320 saying that in
00:43:27.680 2013, he shared a
00:43:30.440 conspiracy theory in
00:43:31.640 person, but not
00:43:33.240 publicly, just, I
00:43:34.340 guess, one-on-one
00:43:35.140 with a reporter, and
00:43:36.880 it was about that
00:43:37.520 Sandy Hook thing.
00:43:39.460 Publicly, he's
00:43:40.220 always treated it
00:43:40.960 like it was exactly
00:43:42.020 what it was, you
00:43:43.020 know, a real
00:43:43.420 event.
00:43:44.300 So, publicly, he
00:43:45.220 has no problems
00:43:46.420 with anything he
00:43:46.940 said publicly about
00:43:47.860 it.
00:43:48.800 But privately,
00:43:50.220 allegedly, and
00:43:51.680 reportedly, he
00:43:53.260 said, you know, he
00:43:54.460 had some doubts
00:43:55.080 about the
00:43:55.600 legitimacy of it.
00:43:57.020 Now, I'm not
00:43:58.160 going to say that
00:43:58.680 really happened.
00:44:00.020 I'm going to say I
00:44:01.160 do not like this
00:44:02.000 standard for
00:44:02.740 reporting.
00:44:03.220 I don't like this
00:44:05.100 standard.
00:44:06.600 The things you
00:44:07.540 say in public
00:44:08.400 should always
00:44:11.200 supersede anything
00:44:12.940 you said
00:44:13.380 privately, even
00:44:16.720 if they're
00:44:17.040 different.
00:44:18.380 Because the
00:44:18.900 things you say
00:44:19.580 in public are
00:44:26.160 what you want
00:44:26.840 people to hear
00:44:27.460 you express.
00:44:28.440 the things you
00:44:29.440 say in private
00:44:30.180 are often more
00:44:32.160 conspiratorial or
00:44:33.740 it's just funny
00:44:35.020 or it's, you
00:44:36.660 know, it's, you're
00:44:37.940 just playing
00:44:38.340 around.
00:44:39.200 So, to be held
00:44:40.120 to that standard
00:44:40.880 of something that
00:44:41.620 you said
00:44:42.000 individually, when
00:44:44.040 you've also said
00:44:44.940 something publicly,
00:44:46.760 that's a bad
00:44:49.420 look.
00:44:50.220 So, CNN, I
00:44:50.980 think this is
00:44:51.840 unethical
00:44:52.760 reporting.
00:44:54.240 I think it's just
00:44:54.780 unethical.
00:44:55.300 I think you
00:44:56.400 have to take
00:44:56.920 the public
00:44:57.480 statements,
00:44:58.240 especially if
00:44:58.820 there's more
00:44:59.160 than one.
00:45:00.260 Take the
00:45:00.680 public statement.
00:45:02.740 Now, that'd be
00:45:03.440 different.
00:45:04.780 You know, I
00:45:05.740 wouldn't say that
00:45:06.700 for every topic.
00:45:08.060 You know, if it's a
00:45:08.740 politician who
00:45:09.460 privately said,
00:45:10.380 ah, we're just
00:45:11.360 trying to screw
00:45:12.080 people and then
00:45:12.820 publicly, you know,
00:45:14.560 say, oh, it's a
00:45:15.040 good idea.
00:45:15.920 That'd be
00:45:16.260 different.
00:45:16.640 But if you're
00:45:17.620 talking about a
00:45:18.180 private citizen
00:45:19.080 who's just
00:45:20.260 noodling with, you
00:45:21.660 know, about the
00:45:22.200 news and
00:45:22.760 speculating, you
00:45:24.260 don't take that
00:45:25.180 and report it.
00:45:27.300 That is so
00:45:28.440 low.
00:45:30.140 It's just low.
00:45:31.960 Yeah.
00:45:32.460 So, CNN, you
00:45:33.580 suck.
00:45:35.940 Let's talk about
00:45:36.800 the TikTok ban,
00:45:38.060 which should be an
00:45:38.900 easy topic, but
00:45:40.440 boy, did it get
00:45:41.200 complicated.
00:45:43.140 So, Rand Paul got
00:45:44.540 into it with
00:45:45.340 Brian Kilmeade,
00:45:46.640 about the
00:45:47.220 question of
00:45:47.820 who owns
00:45:48.460 TikTok.
00:45:50.020 So, Rand Paul
00:45:50.820 is sticking with
00:45:51.700 the technical
00:45:53.060 definition of
00:45:53.940 ownership, as
00:45:55.220 in who owns
00:45:56.080 shares of the
00:45:56.840 company, which
00:45:58.060 is not the
00:45:59.240 Chinese government.
00:46:00.820 So, therefore,
00:46:02.120 says Rand Paul,
00:46:04.040 stop saying that
00:46:05.000 China owns
00:46:06.600 TikTok.
00:46:08.100 But the real
00:46:10.900 question is who
00:46:11.580 controls it, and
00:46:13.020 there is no
00:46:13.520 debate that
00:46:14.560 TikTok can tell
00:46:15.600 this company to
00:46:16.440 do things, and
00:46:17.280 it has to do
00:46:17.860 it.
00:46:19.180 So, why is
00:46:20.180 Rand Paul doing
00:46:21.920 this weasel,
00:46:22.940 lawyerly, yeah,
00:46:24.220 but technically,
00:46:25.460 technically the
00:46:26.380 ownership is not
00:46:27.960 Chinese, so why
00:46:28.740 do you keep saying
00:46:29.340 it is, when
00:46:30.240 everybody knows
00:46:31.060 that's not
00:46:31.540 relevant?
00:46:32.660 Why is he doing
00:46:33.540 it?
00:46:34.180 It's not because
00:46:35.020 he's dumb, because
00:46:36.540 he has a long
00:46:37.500 body of work that
00:46:38.480 have proven to
00:46:39.260 us over and
00:46:39.820 over again.
00:46:40.480 He's one of the
00:46:41.320 smartest.
00:46:42.580 So, why would he
00:46:43.320 do something that's
00:46:44.040 so obviously
00:46:44.660 dumb, when we
00:46:46.820 know he's not
00:46:47.280 dumb?
00:46:49.300 And how
00:46:49.680 about when he
00:46:53.120 treats, let's
00:46:55.460 say, the data and
00:46:56.380 the persuasion of
00:46:57.420 TikTok as if that
00:46:59.200 should be treated
00:46:59.800 the same as our
00:47:00.600 domestic companies,
00:47:01.580 like Facebook?
00:47:03.780 Is there anybody
00:47:04.560 watching this who
00:47:06.200 thinks that you
00:47:06.860 should treat an
00:47:07.580 adversary the same
00:47:09.340 way as a friend?
00:47:10.100 Does that make
00:47:12.780 sense to anybody?
00:47:14.740 Like, why would
00:47:15.240 he even say that
00:47:16.000 out loud in public,
00:47:17.140 that you should
00:47:17.600 treat your
00:47:18.000 adversaries the
00:47:18.820 same as your
00:47:19.200 friends?
00:47:21.360 Because Facebook,
00:47:22.740 you know, I can
00:47:23.520 disagree with
00:47:24.320 Zuckerberg on any
00:47:26.480 number of things,
00:47:27.480 but he's not my
00:47:29.180 enemy.
00:47:31.500 I'm pretty sure
00:47:32.300 that Zuckerberg
00:47:33.020 wants what's good
00:47:33.840 for the country,
00:47:34.660 if not the world.
00:47:37.100 How is he my
00:47:37.920 enemy?
00:47:38.820 Not at all.
00:47:39.520 If he does
00:47:40.360 something that,
00:47:41.080 you know, is
00:47:41.440 damaging, you can
00:47:43.180 work with him and
00:47:44.020 he would probably
00:47:44.420 try to fix it.
00:47:46.100 If China did
00:47:47.720 something that was
00:47:48.240 damaging to the
00:47:48.940 United States, would
00:47:50.080 they fix it?
00:47:51.140 Or would they say,
00:47:52.060 double down on
00:47:53.180 that, that's
00:47:53.820 working?
00:47:54.860 How does a smart
00:47:56.080 person say in
00:47:57.780 public anything
00:47:59.720 along the lines of
00:48:00.860 treating a domestic
00:48:01.900 company and an
00:48:02.960 adversary country's
00:48:04.880 control of another
00:48:05.720 company, how do
00:48:07.440 you treat that as
00:48:08.160 roughly the same?
00:48:10.240 That's not
00:48:10.900 honest, is it?
00:48:14.040 So the trouble
00:48:15.080 with being smart,
00:48:16.840 by the way, I've
00:48:17.860 had this trouble
00:48:18.640 myself.
00:48:19.540 Let's see if any
00:48:20.220 of you have had
00:48:20.620 this trouble.
00:48:22.140 It's hard to be
00:48:23.060 smart and also
00:48:23.940 trusted.
00:48:26.100 They don't work
00:48:26.940 well together.
00:48:28.060 Because when you're
00:48:28.920 smart, people think,
00:48:30.580 eh, he's saying
00:48:32.460 the thing I like to
00:48:33.400 hear, but what's
00:48:35.060 he really mean?
00:48:35.940 Does he have a
00:48:36.460 clever trick?
00:48:37.260 You know, if
00:48:37.760 somebody's dumb, you
00:48:38.560 figure you know the
00:48:39.300 whole game, you're
00:48:40.460 like, all right, you
00:48:41.040 probably mean exactly
00:48:41.820 what you say.
00:48:42.800 But if somebody's
00:48:43.400 smarter than you, or
00:48:44.880 just smart, you think,
00:48:46.000 eh, there might be
00:48:46.780 something more to
00:48:47.460 this, could be more
00:48:48.740 cleverness to this than
00:48:50.020 I see.
00:48:51.720 So, anyway, if you
00:48:54.980 can understand why
00:48:56.080 Rand Paul is trying
00:48:57.780 so hard to not act
00:48:59.200 like Rand Paul, I
00:49:00.780 guess that's the best
00:49:01.420 way to say it.
00:49:02.020 Why is Rand Paul
00:49:03.300 doing so much
00:49:04.340 work to not be
00:49:05.820 Rand Paul?
00:49:07.560 Because he doesn't
00:49:08.500 do this.
00:49:09.520 This is really the
00:49:10.260 opposite of what he
00:49:10.940 does.
00:49:12.380 So, there's
00:49:13.260 something amiss.
00:49:15.220 Here's the part
00:49:16.100 that we can say
00:49:16.740 for sure.
00:49:17.980 There's something
00:49:18.800 amiss about the
00:49:20.100 TikTok story.
00:49:21.640 But let's go on.
00:49:24.480 So, you probably
00:49:25.460 heard in the news
00:49:26.160 two opposite
00:49:26.980 stories, which I
00:49:28.440 think I have the
00:49:29.140 answer to now.
00:49:29.800 You probably heard
00:49:31.600 somebody say the
00:49:32.980 bill is specifically
00:49:34.140 about TikTok and
00:49:36.080 it names them by
00:49:37.020 name.
00:49:38.180 It's a TikTok
00:49:38.940 bill.
00:49:40.060 So, if you think
00:49:40.740 it's going to
00:49:41.340 influence any
00:49:42.280 American companies,
00:49:44.240 well, you're just
00:49:44.820 not reading the
00:49:45.500 bill right.
00:49:46.280 It says TikTok.
00:49:47.780 It's a TikTok
00:49:48.740 specific ban.
00:49:50.080 Is that true?
00:49:51.420 Let's test your
00:49:52.180 knowledge.
00:49:53.280 Is it true that it
00:49:55.060 names TikTok and
00:49:56.180 it's a TikTok
00:49:56.880 specific ban?
00:49:59.320 Yes or no?
00:49:59.800 Well, it turns
00:50:03.840 out that other
00:50:05.100 people say, no,
00:50:06.680 this is a general
00:50:08.020 thing about social
00:50:09.120 media companies and
00:50:10.900 it could allow the
00:50:11.680 president to shut
00:50:12.420 down the X
00:50:13.200 platform if he
00:50:14.980 declares, you
00:50:16.420 know, it's doing
00:50:16.860 bad things.
00:50:18.240 Well, it turns out
00:50:19.300 that both are
00:50:19.860 true.
00:50:20.600 It is a specific
00:50:22.220 bill aimed at
00:50:23.080 TikTok, but then
00:50:24.320 they added in this
00:50:25.320 extra part and the
00:50:27.400 extra part doesn't
00:50:28.300 name anybody, but
00:50:29.260 says it would
00:50:30.080 also apply to
00:50:31.700 another social
00:50:32.500 media type entity
00:50:33.460 with over, I
00:50:34.360 don't know, a
00:50:34.560 million users.
00:50:35.480 So it has to be a
00:50:36.260 certain size.
00:50:38.860 And if they are
00:50:40.800 influenced by an
00:50:43.720 adversary, huh,
00:50:47.440 influenced.
00:50:48.360 So it doesn't say
00:50:49.160 owned by an
00:50:49.840 adversary, not
00:50:52.420 owned.
00:50:52.840 So that takes care of
00:50:54.480 Rand Paul's concern.
00:50:55.780 So it's not about
00:50:56.700 ownership, it's about
00:50:58.180 influence.
00:50:59.600 So suppose you had a
00:51:01.080 American social media
00:51:02.200 company that, I
00:51:04.460 don't know, let's
00:51:06.040 say the owner of that
00:51:06.820 company, we'll just
00:51:07.580 brainstorm.
00:51:08.700 Let's say there was a
00:51:09.620 social media company in
00:51:10.600 which the owner of the
00:51:11.460 company had other
00:51:12.860 businesses that
00:51:14.420 depended on China.
00:51:15.840 would you say that
00:51:19.280 that's a social media
00:51:20.360 company that is
00:51:21.340 influenced by an
00:51:22.760 adversary?
00:51:25.660 Yes.
00:51:27.900 No doubt about it.
00:51:29.700 Yes.
00:51:30.760 That is a social media
00:51:33.080 company that's
00:51:33.800 influenced by an
00:51:34.680 adversary.
00:51:35.580 No doubt about it.
00:51:37.500 No doubt about it.
00:51:39.720 Do I think that
00:51:40.580 therefore the X
00:51:41.320 platform should be
00:51:42.260 banned or changed?
00:51:43.420 Of course not.
00:51:45.080 Of course not.
00:51:46.480 I mean, it's all
00:51:47.160 transparent.
00:51:48.060 I mean, you can see
00:51:48.960 Musk's business in
00:51:50.100 China.
00:51:50.540 There's no surprise
00:51:51.360 about any of that.
00:51:52.360 And you can see what
00:51:53.140 he does on X.
00:51:54.580 And you can, I
00:51:55.800 believe he's published
00:51:56.580 the source code.
00:51:57.800 So you can see the
00:51:59.280 algorithm, the source
00:52:00.680 code, not of the
00:52:02.060 algorithm.
00:52:04.360 And you can observe
00:52:05.540 for yourself if it's
00:52:06.880 pro-China.
00:52:07.820 I don't see a lot of
00:52:09.460 pro-China content on
00:52:10.820 X.
00:52:11.380 Do you?
00:52:13.300 So the reality is
00:52:15.280 it doesn't, it
00:52:16.400 doesn't seem to
00:52:17.020 express itself in
00:52:18.280 anything I can
00:52:19.040 notice.
00:52:20.720 But what if, what
00:52:22.160 if Biden said it
00:52:23.240 did?
00:52:24.280 What if Biden said,
00:52:25.720 you know, there's a
00:52:27.400 lot of posts on that
00:52:28.320 their network, that
00:52:29.660 X platform, seeing a
00:52:31.740 lot of stuff that
00:52:32.680 even though China
00:52:34.340 didn't say you have
00:52:35.440 to do it, I feel
00:52:37.280 like there's a
00:52:38.520 little bit of a
00:52:39.060 thumb on the scale
00:52:40.020 there that maybe it
00:52:41.480 looks a little too
00:52:42.080 pro-China, so we
00:52:43.300 better cut, better
00:52:44.300 ban that X
00:52:45.160 platform.
00:52:46.780 So do the people
00:52:47.920 who say it includes
00:52:49.060 other platforms, are
00:52:50.920 they right?
00:52:53.220 Yes, they are.
00:52:54.720 Yes, they are.
00:52:55.580 Because the word, it's
00:52:57.020 written with enough
00:52:57.760 weasel language that
00:53:00.020 you could imagine a
00:53:01.120 president, you know,
00:53:03.000 saying it applies to
00:53:05.080 something else like
00:53:06.360 X.
00:53:06.680 So, how hard would
00:53:12.320 it be to fix that?
00:53:14.660 Here's the other
00:53:15.360 thing you should look
00:53:16.060 forward to do today.
00:53:18.100 The disagreement over
00:53:19.760 the ban, not every
00:53:23.360 person, the Rand Pauls
00:53:24.680 and the Massey's have,
00:53:25.720 I think, different
00:53:26.140 issues, but one of the
00:53:29.860 biggest complaints
00:53:30.660 about the ban
00:53:32.660 legislation is that it
00:53:34.580 would maybe apply to
00:53:35.860 other things, not
00:53:36.660 TikTok.
00:53:37.980 How hard would that
00:53:38.920 be to fix?
00:53:42.140 Let me show you the
00:53:43.520 total effort to fix
00:53:45.260 that and make the
00:53:46.080 bill completely
00:53:46.840 acceptable to 100% of
00:53:48.800 Americans.
00:53:49.380 It goes like this.
00:53:53.080 Let's see, where's
00:53:53.940 that one paragraph
00:53:55.280 that says it applies
00:53:56.460 to the other, could
00:53:57.960 apply to any other
00:53:58.840 company that meets a
00:54:00.560 certain threshold?
00:54:01.680 Oh, there it is.
00:54:02.400 There you go.
00:54:06.660 That's it.
00:54:08.560 And then you, and
00:54:09.580 then you vote on it.
00:54:11.580 And then you, now
00:54:13.020 your bill would be
00:54:13.660 different from the
00:54:14.400 House, right?
00:54:15.260 So you'd have that
00:54:15.860 change.
00:54:16.780 And then the process
00:54:18.060 allows that.
00:54:19.100 Our process allows
00:54:20.260 that one of the
00:54:21.920 Houses, you know,
00:54:23.000 modifies and
00:54:23.820 approves, but then
00:54:24.680 they work it out in
00:54:25.540 some kind of committee
00:54:26.820 or something.
00:54:27.720 Am I right?
00:54:29.160 That's how the
00:54:29.780 process works, right?
00:54:30.760 So we're acting
00:54:32.520 like there's this
00:54:33.120 big problem with
00:54:33.960 the bill, and
00:54:35.300 they literally have
00:54:35.900 to line out one
00:54:36.780 paragraph.
00:54:38.620 It's not connected
00:54:39.680 to anything else.
00:54:40.720 It's just by itself,
00:54:41.940 and it's totally
00:54:43.720 offensive, and it
00:54:45.400 doesn't get to the
00:54:46.220 issue at hand.
00:54:47.300 Later, if they
00:54:47.980 wanted some other
00:54:48.800 legislation that
00:54:49.680 affected the
00:54:50.280 best of the
00:54:50.660 company, maybe, if
00:54:52.540 they have an
00:54:52.880 argument.
00:54:54.000 But we have a
00:54:54.960 TikTok problem.
00:54:56.560 Now, here's the
00:54:57.440 other argument I'm
00:54:58.140 hearing from
00:54:59.500 allegedly smart
00:55:00.480 people.
00:55:02.640 We have to take
00:55:03.900 care of all of
00:55:04.780 the social media
00:55:06.440 bias, you know,
00:55:07.800 not just picking
00:55:08.660 this one.
00:55:11.460 What?
00:55:12.860 How does that
00:55:13.500 make sense?
00:55:15.060 So we have one
00:55:16.080 problem that we
00:55:16.780 can solve easily
00:55:17.780 just by voting on
00:55:19.820 the ban.
00:55:20.780 You know, get rid
00:55:21.260 of that one
00:55:21.660 paragraph, but
00:55:22.480 then vote on it.
00:55:23.220 So we've got one
00:55:24.020 easily solvable
00:55:25.300 problem with an
00:55:26.240 adversary, and then
00:55:28.560 there's the
00:55:29.100 domestic stuff, which
00:55:30.740 is not easily
00:55:31.600 solvable, and
00:55:33.440 doesn't have
00:55:33.940 anywhere near the
00:55:34.620 same level of
00:55:35.260 risk, because
00:55:36.320 they're our
00:55:37.440 friends.
00:55:38.200 They disagree on
00:55:39.340 politics in some
00:55:40.840 cases, but
00:55:42.280 Zuckerberg is my
00:55:43.120 friend.
00:55:43.500 He's not my
00:55:43.920 enemy, right?
00:55:45.040 We could just
00:55:45.620 disagree on
00:55:46.160 politics.
00:55:48.920 So watching
00:55:50.320 smart people
00:55:51.160 pretend that you
00:55:52.020 can't solve the
00:55:52.820 easy problem because
00:55:54.140 you don't know how
00:55:54.820 to solve the
00:55:55.380 unrelated hard
00:55:56.380 problem, that's
00:55:58.560 not what smart
00:55:59.140 people do anywhere
00:56:00.980 in the world.
00:56:02.360 Every smart
00:56:03.080 person acts the
00:56:03.860 same way.
00:56:04.620 Oh, I have one
00:56:05.960 big immediate
00:56:06.600 problem I can
00:56:07.440 solve easily.
00:56:08.820 I'll solve that,
00:56:10.320 and then I'll go
00:56:11.240 work on the other
00:56:11.900 ones.
00:56:13.520 Nobody waits to
00:56:14.960 solve all problems
00:56:15.900 before you solve
00:56:16.660 the easy one.
00:56:18.120 Nobody, nobody,
00:56:19.440 nobody.
00:56:20.820 And yet, they're
00:56:22.280 adult human beings
00:56:23.520 walking around
00:56:24.200 telling us that
00:56:24.860 that's the ordinary
00:56:25.600 way to do
00:56:26.180 things.
00:56:26.960 It's never been
00:56:27.620 ordinary.
00:56:28.200 It's never
00:56:28.560 happened.
00:56:29.580 Nobody's ever
00:56:30.100 acted like that.
00:56:31.260 It doesn't even
00:56:31.680 make any sense to
00:56:33.580 connect these two
00:56:34.960 things, the
00:56:36.240 domestic and the
00:56:37.000 foreign.
00:56:38.380 But then China is
00:56:39.380 throwing in a
00:56:39.940 little wrinkle,
00:56:43.480 and they're
00:56:44.400 indicating that
00:56:45.240 they'd rather stop
00:56:48.160 serving America
00:56:49.040 than to sell the
00:56:50.300 American business.
00:56:52.420 Now, knowing that
00:56:53.620 at this stage of
00:56:55.060 things people
00:56:55.660 would bluff,
00:56:57.240 so ByteDance
00:56:57.980 might be
00:56:58.460 bluffing, and
00:56:59.320 that, you
00:56:59.980 know, if you
00:57:00.520 said, you
00:57:01.600 know, your
00:57:01.840 option is to
00:57:02.940 get $30
00:57:04.000 billion or not
00:57:05.160 get $30
00:57:05.600 billion, whatever
00:57:06.460 the price is,
00:57:07.660 they'll take the
00:57:08.460 $30 billion.
00:57:10.660 But China, who,
00:57:12.760 by the way,
00:57:14.100 Rand Paul does
00:57:14.820 not own
00:57:15.880 TikTok, but
00:57:17.720 seems to have
00:57:18.300 some undue
00:57:18.980 influence over
00:57:19.740 them, despite
00:57:20.700 not owning them.
00:57:21.500 how could that
00:57:23.380 be possible?
00:57:25.180 So, I'm just
00:57:26.160 doing my Rand
00:57:26.780 Paul expression,
00:57:28.580 me listening to
00:57:29.960 Rand Paul.
00:57:32.020 Well, sure.
00:57:35.540 By the way,
00:57:36.360 Rand Paul is
00:57:36.880 brilliant, so
00:57:38.740 whatever's going
00:57:39.400 on has nothing
00:57:40.640 to do with his
00:57:41.240 brain being
00:57:41.760 defective.
00:57:42.880 We don't know
00:57:43.340 what's going on,
00:57:44.900 but it's not
00:57:45.420 because he's
00:57:45.840 dumb.
00:57:46.100 All right.
00:57:49.700 So, I don't
00:57:50.400 know if China's
00:57:50.920 bluffing.
00:57:51.460 Maybe in the
00:57:52.000 end they would
00:57:52.460 do it, but in
00:57:53.140 my opinion, there
00:57:54.080 is no way that
00:57:55.020 China will allow
00:57:55.960 it to happen.
00:57:57.060 And the reason I
00:57:57.620 say that is, how
00:57:59.040 in the world is
00:57:59.940 China going to
00:58:00.600 allow some other
00:58:01.620 company to have
00:58:02.320 their source code?
00:58:05.560 Who thinks that's
00:58:06.520 going to happen?
00:58:08.480 Do you think that
00:58:09.320 China is going to
00:58:10.180 allow TikTok to
00:58:11.100 exist while taking
00:58:12.900 the same source
00:58:13.760 code and all the
00:58:15.420 data about
00:58:15.920 Americans and
00:58:17.100 forming a
00:58:17.780 competing company
00:58:18.700 with their
00:58:19.800 source code?
00:58:22.220 And then
00:58:22.840 everybody can
00:58:23.420 look at the
00:58:23.860 source code and
00:58:24.500 see what it
00:58:24.900 was?
00:58:27.900 That's not
00:58:28.500 going to happen.
00:58:30.120 Who thinks
00:58:30.920 that's going to
00:58:31.380 happen?
00:58:32.140 Well, apparently
00:58:32.940 former Treasury
00:58:35.240 Secretary Mnuchin
00:58:36.260 thinks so.
00:58:37.060 He says he's
00:58:37.560 putting together
00:58:38.140 a consortium to
00:58:39.760 buy TikTok.
00:58:41.760 does anybody
00:58:47.120 think that that
00:58:47.780 could actually
00:58:48.280 happen?
00:58:49.900 How many of you
00:58:50.640 think that in the
00:58:51.280 real world, a
00:58:53.020 portion of TikTok
00:58:53.800 can be purchased
00:58:55.340 and just run as
00:58:56.720 its own company?
00:58:59.340 It's called
00:59:00.040 licensing?
00:59:02.140 Yeah, you can
00:59:03.680 imagine a
00:59:04.260 licensing model.
00:59:06.340 I don't know what
00:59:07.120 you'd be licensing
00:59:07.860 though.
00:59:09.300 Yeah, I mean, I
00:59:10.300 see where you're
00:59:10.660 going on that.
00:59:18.680 All right.
00:59:19.520 Israel wants
00:59:20.300 TikTok.
00:59:21.220 There's always
00:59:21.860 an Israel
00:59:22.780 conspiracy on
00:59:24.440 every topic.
00:59:25.980 All right.
00:59:26.680 So that's
00:59:27.420 happening.
00:59:28.000 So I'm going to
00:59:28.480 predict that there
00:59:29.460 will not be a
00:59:31.740 TikTok purchase.
00:59:34.320 Now, here's
00:59:35.120 another thing they
00:59:35.720 could do.
00:59:37.240 Here's something
00:59:37.800 that could be
00:59:38.280 done.
00:59:38.500 suppose, just
00:59:44.500 supposing, suppose
00:59:47.560 TikTok said, we're
00:59:49.680 going to close the
00:59:50.540 American business
00:59:51.440 and we're not
00:59:52.660 going to sell it
00:59:53.220 to you, but
00:59:54.600 here's what we
00:59:55.780 will sell to
00:59:56.440 you, the
00:59:58.980 American data
00:59:59.940 because they
01:00:02.240 wouldn't be able
01:00:02.640 to use it much
01:00:03.220 anymore.
01:00:03.720 Well, they still
01:00:04.460 have it, but they
01:00:05.200 could sell a copy
01:00:06.100 of the data.
01:00:06.520 So what if
01:00:07.520 they sold all
01:00:08.180 the user
01:00:08.960 characteristics and
01:00:10.740 data to an
01:00:11.900 American company
01:00:12.660 since Instagram
01:00:13.300 and say, let's
01:00:14.840 say Instagram
01:00:15.400 said, hey, we
01:00:16.860 will take every
01:00:17.540 one of you
01:00:18.080 American users.
01:00:19.540 We will give
01:00:20.480 you the same
01:00:21.280 user account
01:00:22.120 that you had
01:00:22.820 on TikTok.
01:00:24.080 You don't even
01:00:24.520 have to change
01:00:25.080 your name.
01:00:25.660 It'll automatically
01:00:26.620 be there.
01:00:27.180 and all of
01:00:28.300 the American,
01:00:29.600 but not the
01:00:30.180 others, the
01:00:30.980 American users
01:00:32.000 who are also
01:00:32.920 following you
01:00:33.700 will come with
01:00:34.780 you.
01:00:35.480 Their accounts
01:00:35.980 will also be
01:00:36.700 automatically
01:00:37.360 populated into
01:00:39.120 Instagram and
01:00:40.360 will give you an
01:00:41.180 Instagram Reels
01:00:42.520 kind of experience
01:00:44.560 with whatever
01:00:46.680 content you bring
01:00:48.280 with you or put
01:00:49.000 there.
01:00:49.600 So it could be
01:00:50.240 maybe a combination
01:00:51.000 of, let's say,
01:00:52.080 posts that somebody
01:00:52.980 has already made
01:00:53.720 from their account,
01:00:55.200 their characteristics
01:00:57.220 that would show
01:00:57.960 you what kind of
01:00:58.680 things you want to
01:00:59.300 feed to them in
01:00:59.900 the future,
01:01:00.560 although you
01:01:01.040 wouldn't even need
01:01:01.620 that, and they
01:01:03.300 don't have to do
01:01:03.820 any work.
01:01:04.720 It's automatic.
01:01:06.780 Nobody has to
01:01:07.540 sign up for
01:01:08.100 anything.
01:01:08.760 You just take all
01:01:09.760 of their signups
01:01:10.460 and you just
01:01:11.080 duplicate them.
01:01:12.380 Now, that would
01:01:14.180 allow China to
01:01:15.840 sell the business
01:01:16.980 in a sense without
01:01:18.600 selling any code
01:01:19.680 because there's no
01:01:21.120 way they're going
01:01:21.520 to sell their
01:01:21.960 code.
01:01:22.860 That's not going
01:01:23.380 to happen.
01:01:23.640 So would that
01:01:26.420 work?
01:01:27.300 Now, the problem
01:01:28.100 is that it would
01:01:29.520 give extra power
01:01:30.520 to Instagram
01:01:31.960 and Facebook
01:01:32.500 and meta,
01:01:34.140 but it would
01:01:35.480 work, wouldn't
01:01:37.400 it?
01:01:38.980 Is there some
01:01:39.860 hybrid situation
01:01:40.860 where you can
01:01:41.500 take the business
01:01:43.560 part of the
01:01:44.280 accounts and the
01:01:45.060 information and
01:01:45.820 the people and
01:01:46.360 the profiles,
01:01:47.960 move them with
01:01:48.980 their users so
01:01:50.760 that they come
01:01:51.540 with already 100,000
01:01:52.800 users just like
01:01:53.620 like they had
01:01:53.960 before, but none
01:01:55.020 of the foreign
01:01:55.560 ones?
01:01:56.600 Most of the
01:01:57.100 Americans have
01:01:57.700 American followers,
01:01:58.740 I'm guessing.
01:02:00.200 Wouldn't you say?
01:02:01.720 Most Americans on
01:02:02.880 TikTok, most of
01:02:04.500 their followers would
01:02:06.360 be Americans.
01:02:07.580 Not, when I say
01:02:08.580 most, 80%, I'm
01:02:10.580 guessing.
01:02:12.160 So there is
01:02:13.140 probably some way
01:02:13.960 to do that, but
01:02:15.300 it would be putting
01:02:16.220 a lot of power in
01:02:17.480 constraint in one
01:02:18.360 hand.
01:02:18.580 All right, the
01:02:21.860 Biden impeachment
01:02:22.520 is off.
01:02:23.420 I guess there
01:02:23.900 was a, Republicans
01:02:25.400 were looking into
01:02:26.200 the whole Biden
01:02:27.340 business situation
01:02:29.340 to see if Joe
01:02:30.140 Biden was
01:02:30.680 benefiting from
01:02:32.640 the foreign
01:02:33.380 actions of
01:02:34.260 Hunter.
01:02:34.980 I guess there's
01:02:36.000 not enough
01:02:36.400 information, so
01:02:37.240 they're going to
01:02:37.560 drop it.
01:02:38.640 You should know
01:02:39.380 that two expert
01:02:40.160 witnesses to
01:02:42.820 the House GOP's
01:02:43.700 first impeachment
01:02:44.300 hearing included
01:02:45.940 Jonathan Turley
01:02:47.240 and Bruce
01:02:47.680 Dubinsky, who
01:02:49.100 both said there
01:02:49.820 was not enough
01:02:50.300 evidence of
01:02:51.000 wrongdoing to
01:02:51.960 support articles
01:02:53.180 of impeachment.
01:02:54.760 So Turley is
01:02:56.020 one of those
01:02:56.540 rare people in
01:02:58.700 the public eye
01:02:59.920 who is willing
01:03:01.940 to take stances
01:03:03.400 that are on
01:03:04.560 both sides of
01:03:05.320 the political
01:03:05.920 divide, just
01:03:07.240 depending on
01:03:07.780 what makes
01:03:08.180 sense.
01:03:09.100 Very rare.
01:03:10.960 Very rare.
01:03:12.600 So he's willing
01:03:13.660 to tell the
01:03:14.560 Republicans what
01:03:15.280 they didn't want
01:03:15.860 to hear, because
01:03:17.000 it just happens
01:03:17.720 to be true,
01:03:19.020 which is there
01:03:19.960 wasn't enough
01:03:20.460 evidence.
01:03:21.060 Now, I agree
01:03:21.660 with Turley.
01:03:23.480 I did not
01:03:24.360 personally ever
01:03:25.300 see enough
01:03:25.920 evidence that
01:03:26.600 I think Biden
01:03:27.600 could be
01:03:29.700 charged or
01:03:31.260 impeached.
01:03:32.240 That was always
01:03:33.060 my take.
01:03:34.220 Now, I was
01:03:34.720 open to maybe
01:03:35.420 they find
01:03:35.880 something, but
01:03:36.620 I didn't see
01:03:37.160 anything.
01:03:37.900 And the
01:03:38.280 problem is that
01:03:38.960 this indirect,
01:03:40.500 the indirect way
01:03:41.600 that the family
01:03:42.340 members did
01:03:43.860 things, and
01:03:44.560 you know, when
01:03:45.060 he was in
01:03:45.500 office and
01:03:46.060 when he
01:03:46.400 wasn't, and
01:03:47.200 you know, how
01:03:47.980 the money
01:03:48.380 flowed, there
01:03:49.980 would always be
01:03:50.620 enough of an
01:03:51.320 argument that
01:03:52.940 you probably
01:03:53.340 wouldn't prevail.
01:03:54.900 Now, do I
01:03:55.400 think that
01:03:56.100 Biden himself
01:03:57.480 was financially
01:03:58.420 benefiting from
01:03:59.920 these foreign
01:04:00.460 deals?
01:04:00.920 Of course, of
01:04:01.760 course, it's
01:04:02.420 obvious.
01:04:03.280 Everybody knows
01:04:04.100 that.
01:04:04.600 So there's no
01:04:05.160 doubt about what
01:04:05.760 was happening.
01:04:06.900 I don't think
01:04:07.340 there's any fact
01:04:08.240 question that the
01:04:09.720 money was flowing
01:04:10.360 from Biden to
01:04:11.120 the big guy,
01:04:11.680 no doubt, but
01:04:13.420 to find the
01:04:14.060 actual crime, I
01:04:17.700 agree.
01:04:18.200 I agree with
01:04:18.800 Turley.
01:04:19.760 It's short of
01:04:20.960 what I would
01:04:21.480 want to take
01:04:23.240 on a president.
01:04:24.180 Now, again,
01:04:25.240 let's be
01:04:26.400 consistent.
01:04:27.400 If this were
01:04:28.340 reversed and
01:04:30.280 this were
01:04:30.640 Trump, would
01:04:32.100 I have the
01:04:32.440 same opinion?
01:04:32.960 I think so.
01:04:36.700 I think so.
01:04:37.440 I tend to be
01:04:38.460 soft on
01:04:39.640 presidents,
01:04:41.080 meaning that
01:04:42.100 if we're going
01:04:43.100 to lawfare our
01:04:43.940 presidents, it's
01:04:45.520 just bad for
01:04:46.180 the public.
01:04:47.840 So I do, I
01:04:49.360 think that the
01:04:49.900 time to check
01:04:50.660 them out is
01:04:51.380 while they're
01:04:51.960 running.
01:04:52.980 The time to
01:04:53.880 investigate is
01:04:54.520 not once they
01:04:55.020 get in office
01:04:55.540 and they're
01:04:56.240 doing a few
01:04:56.720 things you
01:04:57.140 like.
01:04:58.600 Once you're
01:04:59.280 in office, I
01:05:00.760 only care about
01:05:01.600 the job.
01:05:02.960 So I don't
01:05:03.320 want a whole
01:05:03.720 lot of
01:05:04.060 impeaching of
01:05:05.060 Republicans or
01:05:05.800 Democrats, even
01:05:07.020 if you think
01:05:07.660 there's a
01:05:08.040 pretty good
01:05:08.560 shot.
01:05:09.660 Don't do
01:05:10.160 it.
01:05:10.880 That's not
01:05:11.480 helping me.
01:05:12.320 You do it
01:05:12.840 before.
01:05:13.720 And if you
01:05:14.060 miss it, well,
01:05:15.340 then you just
01:05:15.840 judge the
01:05:16.420 person on
01:05:16.840 their job
01:05:17.140 performance.
01:05:18.860 Yeah.
01:05:19.280 Now, we
01:05:19.740 don't have any
01:05:20.660 question about
01:05:21.280 whether or not
01:05:22.180 something sketchy
01:05:24.380 and unethical
01:05:25.060 happened.
01:05:26.320 But just
01:05:27.060 don't put a
01:05:28.320 lot of presidents
01:05:28.800 in jail or
01:05:29.800 impeach them if
01:05:30.520 you don't need
01:05:30.880 to.
01:05:31.640 All right.
01:05:32.960 apparently the
01:05:35.200 transcript of
01:05:36.060 Biden talking
01:05:36.740 to special
01:05:38.540 counsel
01:05:39.160 her, H-U-R,
01:05:42.000 is available
01:05:43.160 to some
01:05:43.540 people.
01:05:43.900 I haven't
01:05:44.120 seen it yet.
01:05:45.300 But apparently
01:05:46.080 if you read
01:05:46.600 the transcript,
01:05:47.820 the question
01:05:48.880 of Biden's
01:05:49.520 brain is
01:05:50.120 really well
01:05:50.720 settled.
01:05:52.400 Apparently it's
01:05:53.340 horrifying to
01:05:55.040 see him in
01:05:55.620 action answering
01:05:56.800 questions in
01:05:57.840 the text.
01:06:00.200 So, yeah,
01:06:01.620 so at least
01:06:02.200 one person
01:06:02.760 who wrote
01:06:03.100 on hot air
01:06:03.720 said it's
01:06:04.920 just a hot
01:06:06.300 mess and
01:06:06.820 he's clearly
01:06:07.440 not capable.
01:06:09.680 Do you
01:06:10.000 think everybody
01:06:10.540 who reads
01:06:11.040 this is going
01:06:11.360 to have the
01:06:11.600 same opinion?
01:06:14.180 Do you
01:06:14.580 think when
01:06:14.980 the Democrats
01:06:15.600 look at it,
01:06:16.320 they're going
01:06:16.540 to say,
01:06:16.780 he's perfectly
01:06:17.320 fine, I
01:06:17.960 don't see a
01:06:18.340 problem here?
01:06:19.640 Some will.
01:06:20.960 Schiff will
01:06:21.560 and Swalwell
01:06:22.160 will and
01:06:22.840 Jamie Raskin
01:06:23.540 will because
01:06:24.000 they're the
01:06:24.500 turd caucus
01:06:25.560 and they'll
01:06:26.360 say anything.
01:06:26.980 So, here's
01:06:31.320 maybe the
01:06:32.120 biggest story
01:06:32.780 but it's so
01:06:33.520 complicated that
01:06:34.660 you may not
01:06:35.740 fully appreciate
01:06:38.060 how big this
01:06:38.720 is.
01:06:40.440 So, as you
01:06:41.360 know, Mike
01:06:42.300 Benz has been
01:06:42.920 telling us about
01:06:43.500 the so-called
01:06:44.200 blob, you
01:06:45.440 know, the
01:06:45.640 intelligence
01:06:46.080 people and
01:06:46.920 all these
01:06:47.320 non-government
01:06:48.760 organizations and
01:06:49.940 Soros funding
01:06:51.000 and the
01:06:51.820 Democrats doing
01:06:52.640 this and that
01:06:53.340 and it's
01:06:55.280 real complicated
01:06:56.100 stuff but all
01:06:57.100 of it seems
01:06:57.620 to be related
01:06:58.360 to or a
01:06:59.520 lot of it
01:06:59.880 to censorship
01:07:00.760 but now
01:07:02.280 there's like
01:07:02.740 the mother
01:07:03.180 of all
01:07:03.800 censorship
01:07:05.240 fines,
01:07:07.580 things you
01:07:08.160 didn't know
01:07:08.600 about.
01:07:09.700 So, I
01:07:10.380 can't give
01:07:10.820 you the
01:07:12.800 entire details
01:07:14.620 here.
01:07:14.980 I'll give you
01:07:15.340 a summary as
01:07:16.320 much as I
01:07:16.780 can.
01:07:17.880 The summary
01:07:18.440 is there's
01:07:19.060 a massive
01:07:19.840 American
01:07:20.360 brainwashing
01:07:21.180 operation that
01:07:22.520 started around
01:07:23.240 2016 and
01:07:25.120 we now have
01:07:25.920 all the
01:07:26.220 details of
01:07:26.840 it, but
01:07:28.060 when you
01:07:28.480 read the
01:07:28.800 story it
01:07:29.200 will be
01:07:29.460 framed as
01:07:30.000 censorship.
01:07:31.860 So, it's
01:07:32.860 censorship on
01:07:33.620 the surface
01:07:34.240 but it's
01:07:35.500 really censorship
01:07:36.240 for the
01:07:36.980 purpose of
01:07:37.440 brainwashing.
01:07:38.800 And I
01:07:39.000 think that
01:07:39.440 when we
01:07:39.780 call it
01:07:40.100 censorship we
01:07:40.960 don't do
01:07:41.360 ourselves a
01:07:41.960 favor because
01:07:43.460 censorship feels
01:07:44.680 like sort of
01:07:45.340 the ordinary
01:07:46.440 back and
01:07:47.000 forth of
01:07:47.520 deciding, you
01:07:48.180 know, what
01:07:48.780 gets published
01:07:49.360 and what's
01:07:50.080 true.
01:07:50.700 It feels
01:07:51.180 like ordinary
01:07:51.760 when we
01:07:53.000 complain about
01:07:53.560 censorship.
01:07:53.960 This is
01:07:54.860 massive
01:07:55.200 brainwashing.
01:07:57.280 The censorship
01:07:58.080 is in the
01:07:58.820 service of
01:07:59.360 brainwashing.
01:08:01.220 Not even
01:08:02.180 that's not
01:08:03.940 subjective.
01:08:05.280 This is
01:08:05.780 exactly
01:08:06.300 literally what
01:08:07.220 it was.
01:08:08.000 A massive
01:08:08.620 brainwashing
01:08:09.280 operation on
01:08:10.060 the domestic
01:08:11.420 audience.
01:08:12.800 So, here's
01:08:13.380 the story.
01:08:14.500 There's this
01:08:15.020 group called
01:08:17.500 USAID,
01:08:19.160 that's their
01:08:19.580 acronym, the
01:08:20.140 U.S.
01:08:20.440 Agency for
01:08:20.960 International
01:08:21.360 Development,
01:08:22.600 Center on
01:08:23.200 Democracy,
01:08:23.580 Human Rights
01:08:24.320 and Governance,
01:08:24.960 they've got a
01:08:25.300 big name, and
01:08:26.900 they've created
01:08:27.540 an internal
01:08:28.100 disinformation
01:08:28.900 primer that
01:08:31.560 showed that
01:08:32.080 they were
01:08:32.300 trying to
01:08:32.700 work with
01:08:33.500 the private
01:08:34.540 sector to
01:08:35.860 get them to
01:08:36.920 censor stuff
01:08:38.000 they thought
01:08:38.400 needed to be
01:08:39.080 censored.
01:08:40.280 Now, the
01:08:40.840 story is the
01:08:41.820 massive scope
01:08:43.480 of this.
01:08:44.880 So, for a
01:08:45.620 number of
01:08:46.000 years, our
01:08:46.960 government,
01:08:47.540 through this
01:08:48.160 entity, has
01:08:50.280 been trying to
01:08:50.840 influence media
01:08:51.860 and private
01:08:52.400 sectors to
01:08:53.260 get rid of
01:08:54.560 what they
01:08:54.840 would call
01:08:55.140 misinformation,
01:08:56.160 but, of
01:08:56.420 course, it's
01:08:57.320 just censorship.
01:09:00.320 Anyway, they
01:09:02.700 endorsed an
01:09:03.480 advertiser
01:09:04.300 outreach.
01:09:05.400 In other
01:09:05.720 words, this
01:09:06.600 government
01:09:07.000 entity was
01:09:10.600 trying to get
01:09:11.320 advertisers to
01:09:12.220 not advertise on
01:09:13.220 places that they
01:09:14.100 didn't think were
01:09:14.720 credible.
01:09:15.780 In other words,
01:09:16.600 places that
01:09:17.320 weren't Democrat
01:09:17.940 organs.
01:09:20.520 This is really
01:09:21.360 happening.
01:09:21.900 And by the
01:09:22.180 way, it's
01:09:23.260 not the
01:09:23.540 past.
01:09:25.160 This is still
01:09:25.980 happening.
01:09:27.060 This is
01:09:27.660 happening now.
01:09:29.200 It's been
01:09:29.660 happening for a
01:09:30.160 long time, but
01:09:30.900 still now.
01:09:32.560 I guess I
01:09:33.360 recommended
01:09:33.840 Google's
01:09:34.920 redirect method
01:09:36.360 for pre-bunking.
01:09:39.640 Now, pre-bunking
01:09:40.540 is where somebody
01:09:41.180 is looking for
01:09:41.800 some conspiracy
01:09:42.540 theory they
01:09:43.200 heard about and
01:09:43.860 they want to
01:09:44.180 find out more,
01:09:45.320 but instead of
01:09:45.920 showing them that
01:09:46.680 a search result,
01:09:47.960 they give you a
01:09:48.920 search result that
01:09:49.760 debunks it.
01:09:51.260 So you see the
01:09:51.900 debunk before you
01:09:53.140 read the story.
01:09:55.560 Is that a
01:09:56.440 censorship?
01:09:58.300 Or is that
01:09:58.980 brainwashing?
01:10:00.340 That's brainwashing.
01:10:02.320 You know,
01:10:03.320 tactically, you
01:10:04.280 could call it
01:10:04.720 censorship.
01:10:05.800 Like, I get it.
01:10:07.000 It fits the
01:10:07.540 definition.
01:10:08.400 But the purpose
01:10:09.140 is brainwashing.
01:10:10.940 Like, the
01:10:11.400 larger purpose is
01:10:12.440 to make you
01:10:12.900 think something's
01:10:14.760 true that may
01:10:15.620 not be true.
01:10:16.680 So I
01:10:19.240 recommend that
01:10:19.980 you read
01:10:20.620 this.
01:10:21.020 I reposted
01:10:22.640 this this
01:10:23.180 morning from
01:10:26.580 Owen.
01:10:27.000 Thank you,
01:10:27.380 Owen.
01:10:28.000 And you
01:10:29.600 really just
01:10:30.120 have to read
01:10:32.280 it to understand
01:10:33.180 the scope.
01:10:34.520 So it is
01:10:35.300 literally true
01:10:36.020 that your
01:10:36.420 government has
01:10:37.320 undertaken a
01:10:39.440 massive brainwashing
01:10:41.000 operation,
01:10:42.180 primarily to
01:10:42.940 brainwash
01:10:43.540 Republicans into
01:10:45.100 not believing
01:10:45.720 the things
01:10:46.180 they believe.
01:10:48.660 That's a real
01:10:49.540 thing.
01:10:50.680 It's a real
01:10:51.200 thing.
01:10:53.340 It's kind of
01:10:54.280 head-shaking.
01:10:57.020 But whenever
01:10:57.480 you hear that
01:10:58.080 there's, oh,
01:10:59.080 in California,
01:11:00.220 listen to this,
01:11:00.940 California and
01:11:01.560 some other
01:11:01.880 states, they've
01:11:03.180 created a
01:11:03.700 media literacy
01:11:05.140 courses.
01:11:07.680 Media literacy.
01:11:08.840 What do you
01:11:10.260 think they
01:11:10.580 teach?
01:11:12.980 Oh, I'm
01:11:13.780 going to
01:11:14.020 guess the
01:11:15.020 CNN is real
01:11:16.120 news, the
01:11:17.540 New York
01:11:17.860 Times is real
01:11:18.700 news, but
01:11:20.000 don't you
01:11:20.540 look at
01:11:20.940 Breitbart,
01:11:21.960 don't you
01:11:22.840 open that
01:11:23.360 Fox News
01:11:24.000 app, because
01:11:25.200 that's where
01:11:25.620 all the fake
01:11:26.120 news is and
01:11:26.720 it's going to
01:11:27.120 get you.
01:11:28.400 What?
01:11:29.660 Don't you
01:11:30.240 think that's
01:11:30.640 what it is?
01:11:31.500 Of course
01:11:31.920 it is.
01:11:32.780 Of course
01:11:33.260 it is.
01:11:34.480 That's exactly
01:11:35.420 what it is.
01:11:36.660 Now, I
01:11:39.960 did sit down
01:11:40.700 and spend
01:11:41.220 some time
01:11:41.660 trying to
01:11:42.060 write my
01:11:42.600 own media
01:11:43.300 literacy course
01:11:44.220 for kids.
01:11:46.840 And you
01:11:47.560 don't have to
01:11:48.020 write very
01:11:48.480 long before
01:11:49.040 you realize
01:11:49.620 it can't be
01:11:50.620 done.
01:11:52.160 Because the
01:11:53.000 truth is
01:11:54.760 way too
01:11:55.900 rugged for
01:11:56.460 children.
01:11:58.360 Here's the
01:11:59.060 truth.
01:12:00.240 First line,
01:12:01.060 of my
01:12:01.640 media
01:12:02.060 literacy
01:12:02.500 course.
01:12:03.880 All of
01:12:04.340 the news
01:12:04.700 is fake
01:12:05.200 and your
01:12:07.120 parents are
01:12:07.640 too dumb
01:12:08.020 to know
01:12:08.340 the difference.
01:12:09.720 Your
01:12:09.880 teachers are
01:12:11.520 mostly
01:12:11.920 partisans
01:12:12.700 and you
01:12:13.720 cannot rely
01:12:14.440 on them
01:12:14.820 for anything
01:12:15.740 about the
01:12:17.400 world.
01:12:18.780 That's
01:12:19.360 first sentence.
01:12:20.800 Who's
01:12:21.360 going to
01:12:21.560 buy that?
01:12:23.160 Nobody.
01:12:24.640 Nobody.
01:12:25.520 There's no
01:12:26.100 mechanism to
01:12:26.920 teach children
01:12:27.520 the truth.
01:12:29.020 Because the
01:12:30.000 constraints on
01:12:31.040 giving them
01:12:31.500 the truth
01:12:31.900 are
01:12:32.300 extraordinary.
01:12:34.100 And part
01:12:34.420 of it is
01:12:34.800 we believe
01:12:35.640 that children
01:12:36.140 can't be
01:12:36.760 trusted with
01:12:37.900 the truth.
01:12:40.360 There's a lot
01:12:41.100 of stuff that
01:12:41.740 a good parent
01:12:42.580 will not tell
01:12:43.340 a child.
01:12:45.100 There's a lot
01:12:45.580 of stuff you
01:12:45.980 say,
01:12:46.300 all right,
01:12:46.540 we're not
01:12:46.900 going to talk
01:12:47.260 about that,
01:12:47.780 or don't
01:12:48.340 put that in
01:12:48.800 your head,
01:12:49.320 or think
01:12:50.120 this,
01:12:50.480 don't think
01:12:50.860 that.
01:12:51.940 So the
01:12:52.500 process of
01:12:53.460 raising a
01:12:53.960 child is the
01:12:54.540 process of
01:12:55.100 brainwashing
01:12:55.620 them.
01:12:56.260 It's just
01:12:56.900 you're trying
01:12:57.280 to brainwash
01:12:57.860 them into
01:12:58.200 good habits,
01:12:58.860 not bad.
01:13:01.280 So brainwashing
01:13:02.320 is the
01:13:02.800 universal
01:13:03.620 process that's
01:13:04.720 going on
01:13:05.040 with kids.
01:13:05.980 And if I
01:13:06.720 gave them
01:13:07.080 actual media
01:13:07.940 literacy,
01:13:08.520 it would
01:13:08.720 ruin everything.
01:13:10.400 They would
01:13:10.800 become bad
01:13:11.380 citizens.
01:13:13.100 Because I
01:13:13.720 would teach
01:13:14.100 them that all
01:13:14.600 the news is
01:13:15.160 fake.
01:13:16.680 Because all
01:13:17.320 the news is
01:13:17.860 fake.
01:13:19.700 Yeah.
01:13:20.380 So there's no
01:13:20.980 way you can get
01:13:21.400 that published.
01:13:22.200 Who's going to
01:13:22.720 publish it?
01:13:23.180 In fact,
01:13:24.580 if I did
01:13:25.100 write that,
01:13:26.440 and I even
01:13:26.980 got somebody
01:13:27.520 to publish
01:13:27.960 it,
01:13:29.420 it would be
01:13:31.280 added to
01:13:31.860 California's
01:13:32.800 media literacy
01:13:33.700 course as
01:13:35.340 another thing
01:13:35.960 you shouldn't
01:13:36.360 look at.
01:13:37.940 Right?
01:13:38.940 Suppose I
01:13:39.580 made my own
01:13:40.180 media literacy
01:13:42.120 class for
01:13:43.000 young people,
01:13:43.760 and I gave
01:13:44.820 it away for
01:13:45.240 free.
01:13:46.080 And then,
01:13:46.460 let's say it
01:13:47.120 trended on
01:13:48.040 X and became
01:13:49.240 a big thing
01:13:49.840 and everybody
01:13:50.180 started talking
01:13:50.700 about it.
01:13:51.100 California
01:13:53.260 would have
01:13:54.020 to add
01:13:54.500 it by
01:13:54.960 name to
01:13:56.300 the list
01:13:56.720 of things
01:13:57.060 you shouldn't
01:13:57.480 trust.
01:13:58.960 That would
01:13:59.540 happen.
01:14:00.800 You know
01:14:01.180 that would
01:14:01.480 happen.
01:14:02.920 So yeah,
01:14:03.260 you can't
01:14:03.480 get there
01:14:03.760 from there.
01:14:04.820 All right,
01:14:05.720 Senator Schumer
01:14:06.620 got in trouble
01:14:07.260 for seeming
01:14:08.580 to call for
01:14:09.160 a new
01:14:09.580 government
01:14:10.060 in Israel,
01:14:11.080 which is
01:14:11.900 none of his
01:14:12.320 business,
01:14:12.900 because that's
01:14:13.500 not what
01:14:13.920 America does.
01:14:14.760 We don't
01:14:15.100 tell other
01:14:15.520 countries
01:14:15.960 democracies.
01:14:17.500 We don't
01:14:17.980 tell other
01:14:18.380 democracies to
01:14:19.320 go have
01:14:19.780 another
01:14:20.060 election.
01:14:21.100 That's a
01:14:22.920 little bit
01:14:23.160 over the
01:14:23.520 line.
01:14:24.700 But on
01:14:25.320 the other
01:14:25.560 hand,
01:14:26.540 he also
01:14:27.220 is a
01:14:28.000 free citizen
01:14:29.400 in America
01:14:30.060 and he's
01:14:30.400 got an
01:14:30.680 opinion.
01:14:31.800 He's got
01:14:32.160 free speech.
01:14:33.400 So I'm a
01:14:34.100 little bit
01:14:34.380 mixed on
01:14:34.800 this one,
01:14:35.440 honestly.
01:14:36.520 On one
01:14:36.920 hand,
01:14:37.380 no,
01:14:37.740 it's not
01:14:38.080 appropriate
01:14:38.560 for the
01:14:38.980 United States
01:14:39.520 to lean
01:14:39.960 on Israel
01:14:40.420 to change
01:14:40.920 their
01:14:41.080 government.
01:14:42.100 That's
01:14:42.580 only up
01:14:43.140 for Israel.
01:14:44.120 Nobody
01:14:44.480 gets a
01:14:44.880 vote.
01:14:45.900 Anywhere
01:14:46.360 but Israel.
01:14:47.420 On the
01:14:48.020 other hand,
01:14:49.220 that's his
01:14:49.680 opinion.
01:14:51.100 that's his
01:14:52.140 opinion.
01:14:53.080 And I
01:14:53.580 respect it.
01:14:55.600 I don't
01:14:56.180 agree with
01:14:56.620 it.
01:14:56.880 I don't
01:14:57.240 think it's
01:14:57.540 the best
01:14:57.820 thing for
01:14:58.180 Israel to
01:14:58.620 do.
01:14:59.120 But I
01:15:00.320 definitely
01:15:00.680 support his
01:15:01.460 right to
01:15:02.540 say it in
01:15:03.100 any job
01:15:03.640 that he
01:15:03.960 holds.
01:15:05.260 And he
01:15:05.760 did.
01:15:06.840 So I
01:15:08.640 just don't
01:15:08.980 agree with
01:15:09.300 it.
01:15:10.020 All right.
01:15:11.420 Ladies and
01:15:12.220 gentlemen,
01:15:12.600 this completes
01:15:13.200 my amazing,
01:15:14.960 amazing podcast.
01:15:16.980 podcast.
01:15:18.000 It's
01:15:18.440 been a
01:15:18.880 heck of
01:15:19.180 a year,
01:15:20.180 past year.
01:15:21.700 Quite a bit
01:15:22.120 has happened
01:15:22.480 in the past
01:15:22.960 year, but
01:15:23.620 probably nothing
01:15:24.320 like the
01:15:24.680 next nine
01:15:25.100 months.
01:15:26.340 We're going
01:15:26.860 to have a
01:15:27.160 fun ride.
01:15:28.260 So I hope
01:15:28.780 you stay
01:15:29.080 with me
01:15:29.460 through the
01:15:29.920 whole process
01:15:31.100 and we're
01:15:32.760 going to
01:15:32.920 learn a lot.
01:15:34.020 But I'll
01:15:34.280 tell you one
01:15:34.660 thing that's
01:15:35.020 really different
01:15:35.520 this time,
01:15:36.220 that's way
01:15:36.820 different than
01:15:37.380 any other
01:15:38.040 election cycle.
01:15:40.700 The
01:15:41.060 Republicans,
01:15:41.900 at least,
01:15:42.260 I don't think
01:15:42.620 Democrats know it,
01:15:43.580 but Republicans
01:15:44.280 have seen all
01:15:45.340 the gears of
01:15:46.000 the machine.
01:15:48.040 If you
01:15:48.620 talk to
01:15:49.020 anybody who
01:15:49.840 doesn't lean
01:15:50.500 left, the
01:15:51.920 conversation will
01:15:52.660 be, hey,
01:15:53.620 what do you
01:15:54.180 think the
01:15:54.600 summer hoax
01:15:55.260 will be?
01:15:56.920 Because we
01:15:57.520 all know it's
01:15:57.940 coming.
01:15:58.620 We're all
01:15:59.220 waiting for
01:15:59.580 the summer
01:15:59.960 hoax.
01:16:01.180 Am I right?
01:16:02.500 Every one of
01:16:03.320 you is waiting
01:16:03.840 for a summer
01:16:04.400 hoax.
01:16:05.440 And you're
01:16:06.060 saying, who
01:16:07.020 will it be?
01:16:08.080 Black Lives
01:16:08.640 Matter?
01:16:09.540 Antifa?
01:16:10.320 Or are they
01:16:11.120 already trying to
01:16:11.800 get the
01:16:12.360 Patriot Front?
01:16:13.480 Or are they
01:16:14.480 jamming up some
01:16:15.140 other fake
01:16:15.700 organization?
01:16:16.780 Because they
01:16:17.100 need some
01:16:17.480 kind of fake
01:16:18.100 group to
01:16:18.740 protest.
01:16:20.100 So which
01:16:20.500 one will
01:16:20.840 it be?
01:16:22.100 And we're
01:16:22.660 all just
01:16:22.940 watching the
01:16:23.540 gears of the
01:16:24.040 machine now.
01:16:25.920 So now you
01:16:27.340 see the
01:16:28.120 TikTok
01:16:28.780 conversation.
01:16:30.640 Have you
01:16:31.240 ever seen a
01:16:31.920 conversation
01:16:32.600 about a,
01:16:34.560 let's say,
01:16:35.020 a bill that's
01:16:35.800 being proposed
01:16:36.600 that was as
01:16:37.860 rich and
01:16:38.640 realistic as
01:16:39.600 the TikTok
01:16:40.060 conversation?
01:16:41.860 Because to me,
01:16:42.740 you're watching
01:16:43.260 people being
01:16:43.960 bought off right
01:16:44.700 in front of
01:16:45.040 your eyes.
01:16:47.480 Obviously.
01:16:48.720 And when I
01:16:51.240 say bought
01:16:51.640 off, I
01:16:51.960 don't mean
01:16:52.220 that they're
01:16:52.580 individually
01:16:53.020 getting money.
01:16:54.000 I mean that
01:16:54.800 there's something
01:16:55.320 good for their
01:16:56.000 political party
01:16:56.940 or their
01:16:57.300 political ambitions.
01:16:58.680 That's the
01:16:59.280 bought off I'm
01:16:59.860 talking about.
01:17:01.260 Not personal
01:17:02.540 enrichment.
01:17:03.440 I have no
01:17:03.820 evidence of
01:17:04.400 anything like
01:17:04.980 that.
01:17:06.380 So,
01:17:07.500 yeah,
01:17:09.240 I think
01:17:10.300 watching the
01:17:11.060 TikTok
01:17:11.440 debate gives
01:17:13.560 you every
01:17:14.200 gear of the
01:17:14.900 machine.
01:17:15.720 You can see
01:17:16.480 the whole
01:17:16.740 thing.
01:17:17.460 And it's all
01:17:17.900 transparent now.
01:17:19.360 And I don't
01:17:20.000 think that ever
01:17:20.600 was the case
01:17:21.060 before.
01:17:21.820 You can see
01:17:22.500 that the
01:17:23.000 media,
01:17:24.200 now we've
01:17:24.940 all become
01:17:25.360 kind of
01:17:25.700 experts at
01:17:26.460 detecting that
01:17:28.200 the headline
01:17:28.820 doesn't match
01:17:29.400 the story,
01:17:30.880 detecting that
01:17:31.560 when they report
01:17:32.260 the good
01:17:32.700 economic news,
01:17:34.380 you know,
01:17:34.800 a few months
01:17:35.240 later it's
01:17:35.640 going to be
01:17:35.940 revised down.
01:17:37.120 We know
01:17:37.760 that when
01:17:38.040 they say,
01:17:38.580 hey,
01:17:38.860 GDP is up,
01:17:40.300 and they
01:17:40.600 don't tell
01:17:40.960 you that the
01:17:41.340 way you got
01:17:41.760 there is by
01:17:42.320 running the
01:17:42.900 debt up to
01:17:43.580 ruinous levels,
01:17:44.800 we all see
01:17:45.500 it now.
01:17:46.760 Am I right?
01:17:47.640 We see the
01:17:48.520 NGOs and
01:17:49.480 the censorship.
01:17:50.820 We see the
01:17:51.660 finger being
01:17:53.520 put on things
01:17:54.180 by the social
01:17:54.720 media companies.
01:17:56.020 These are all
01:17:56.940 the things we
01:17:57.580 only speculated
01:17:58.680 about before.
01:18:00.120 If you think
01:18:00.960 how simple
01:18:01.480 times were in
01:18:02.200 2016,
01:18:03.780 when you didn't
01:18:04.300 know how
01:18:04.660 anything worked,
01:18:05.980 like I
01:18:06.360 thought we
01:18:06.760 were a
01:18:07.080 republic in
01:18:07.680 2016.
01:18:09.260 Didn't you?
01:18:11.360 Or what
01:18:12.080 do we call
01:18:12.460 it?
01:18:12.720 A constitutional
01:18:14.720 federal republic
01:18:16.060 or whatever the
01:18:16.720 official name
01:18:17.240 is.
01:18:17.580 I thought we
01:18:18.340 actually were
01:18:19.060 one.
01:18:20.180 I didn't
01:18:21.120 realize that
01:18:21.700 we haven't
01:18:22.180 been one
01:18:22.560 for maybe
01:18:23.580 ever.
01:18:25.940 That we're
01:18:26.660 basically run
01:18:27.300 by the
01:18:27.660 intelligence
01:18:28.040 groups for
01:18:28.820 anything
01:18:29.080 important.
01:18:30.280 The intel
01:18:30.720 people don't
01:18:31.280 care about
01:18:31.740 what post
01:18:32.380 office name
01:18:33.320 has,
01:18:34.060 but they
01:18:34.680 definitely
01:18:35.220 care about
01:18:35.860 a war.
01:18:37.540 They're
01:18:37.820 running that
01:18:38.240 stuff.
01:18:38.520 They're
01:18:38.620 running the
01:18:38.940 border.
01:18:39.640 I also
01:18:40.040 thought that
01:18:40.660 the border
01:18:41.680 was some
01:18:42.120 kind of
01:18:42.480 a problem
01:18:44.440 with crime
01:18:45.560 and drugs
01:18:46.260 and a
01:18:47.580 cartel and
01:18:48.220 we couldn't
01:18:48.580 stop them.
01:18:50.060 Now it's
01:18:50.500 obvious that
01:18:51.260 the cartel
01:18:51.820 is working
01:18:52.540 with the
01:18:52.860 United States.
01:18:53.540 Otherwise,
01:18:54.020 it wouldn't
01:18:54.300 look the
01:18:54.640 way it
01:18:54.900 looks.
01:18:56.020 It's obvious
01:18:56.660 that we
01:18:57.100 use them
01:18:57.560 to control
01:18:58.180 Central and
01:18:58.800 South America
01:18:59.400 and they're
01:19:00.320 just the
01:19:00.700 muscle that
01:19:01.260 we use
01:19:01.620 down there
01:19:02.000 because we
01:19:02.460 always pair
01:19:03.600 up with
01:19:03.920 the muscle.
01:19:05.540 I didn't
01:19:06.180 know that.
01:19:07.060 In 2016,
01:19:07.880 that wouldn't
01:19:08.180 have been
01:19:08.400 obvious at
01:19:08.920 all, but
01:19:09.200 now it's
01:19:09.460 really obvious.
01:19:11.780 Would you
01:19:12.360 agree?
01:19:13.600 Would you
01:19:14.240 agree that
01:19:14.660 you can see
01:19:15.180 all the
01:19:15.660 gears of
01:19:16.120 the machine
01:19:16.540 now?
01:19:17.740 And I
01:19:18.040 think,
01:19:18.880 and then
01:19:19.400 COVID really
01:19:20.200 revealed a
01:19:20.860 lot.
01:19:21.800 COVID told
01:19:22.380 us for
01:19:23.120 sure that
01:19:24.600 all of the
01:19:25.220 experts can
01:19:25.820 be lying at
01:19:26.420 the same
01:19:26.740 time.
01:19:28.220 We didn't
01:19:28.920 know that
01:19:29.320 for sure.
01:19:30.840 We
01:19:31.160 suspected
01:19:31.700 it.
01:19:32.720 You
01:19:33.000 suspected
01:19:33.620 it, right?
01:19:34.120 Because you
01:19:34.600 knew that
01:19:34.900 money was
01:19:36.000 going to be
01:19:36.320 a big
01:19:36.620 gating factor
01:19:37.340 and nobody
01:19:37.860 wanted to
01:19:38.220 ruin their
01:19:38.560 career.
01:19:38.880 You knew
01:19:39.160 it, but
01:19:40.240 you didn't
01:19:41.040 know it,
01:19:42.160 know it.
01:19:43.420 And now
01:19:43.720 you know
01:19:45.300 it.
01:19:46.360 You don't
01:19:46.640 have to
01:19:46.900 speculate.
01:19:48.540 You don't
01:19:48.820 have to
01:19:49.100 wonder.
01:19:50.400 No, it's
01:19:51.540 just the
01:19:52.020 money.
01:19:52.880 That's it.
01:19:54.420 So then
01:19:54.820 you look at
01:19:55.220 climate change.
01:19:56.160 You say,
01:19:57.060 but climate
01:19:57.980 change, all
01:19:58.600 the experts
01:19:59.200 are on the
01:19:59.620 same side.
01:20:01.880 Yeah, they're
01:20:02.780 all wearing
01:20:03.120 masks.
01:20:06.740 There's your
01:20:07.360 kill shot.
01:20:09.280 But Scott,
01:20:10.400 don't you
01:20:11.000 realize that
01:20:11.900 97% of
01:20:13.160 scientists say
01:20:14.400 climate change
01:20:15.140 is a huge
01:20:15.620 problem?
01:20:16.560 You just
01:20:16.940 lean in and
01:20:17.560 say, how
01:20:19.360 many of
01:20:19.680 them are
01:20:19.940 wearing masks
01:20:20.680 right now?
01:20:22.640 How many?
01:20:23.580 Tell me.
01:20:24.320 How many
01:20:24.680 have a mask
01:20:25.300 on?
01:20:25.940 Tell me.
01:20:27.000 No, no,
01:20:28.100 don't change
01:20:28.540 the subject.
01:20:29.180 Tell me.
01:20:29.920 How many of
01:20:30.380 them are
01:20:30.600 wearing masks?
01:20:31.160 Now we
01:20:33.760 can see
01:20:34.080 through it
01:20:34.380 all.
01:20:35.200 You can
01:20:35.560 see that
01:20:35.880 everything
01:20:36.160 from the
01:20:36.760 nutrition
01:20:37.640 science
01:20:38.300 through climate
01:20:38.900 science was
01:20:39.520 always fake.
01:20:40.840 It was
01:20:41.440 always fake.
01:20:43.520 And this
01:20:44.620 is really
01:20:44.940 different.
01:20:46.360 And I
01:20:46.920 think that
01:20:47.400 we can
01:20:47.940 see Trump
01:20:48.720 now in
01:20:50.480 a way that
01:20:50.920 we couldn't
01:20:51.320 see him
01:20:51.760 before.
01:20:52.160 because now
01:20:55.040 you say
01:20:55.360 to yourself,
01:20:55.840 all right,
01:20:57.320 you know,
01:20:57.600 maybe he's
01:20:58.100 all this
01:20:58.480 dangerous
01:20:59.100 chaos guy
01:21:00.160 and all
01:21:01.340 this other
01:21:01.740 stuff,
01:21:02.260 but you
01:21:03.280 know what
01:21:03.680 he does
01:21:04.060 when he's
01:21:04.400 in office.
01:21:05.700 He just
01:21:06.440 wants to
01:21:06.800 do more
01:21:07.140 of that.
01:21:08.140 So a lot
01:21:09.340 of the
01:21:09.700 guesswork
01:21:10.480 of how
01:21:11.920 crazy and
01:21:12.580 dangerous he
01:21:13.160 would be,
01:21:13.700 we don't
01:21:14.000 have to
01:21:14.240 guess anymore.
01:21:15.240 We just
01:21:15.820 watch.
01:21:16.520 We saw it.
01:21:18.120 So I
01:21:18.920 think that
01:21:19.420 we're probably
01:21:20.200 in a much
01:21:20.740 better place
01:21:21.480 than we've
01:21:21.840 ever been
01:21:22.280 in terms of
01:21:22.860 understanding
01:21:23.440 our situation.
01:21:25.720 And that
01:21:26.740 should translate
01:21:27.500 into good
01:21:28.060 things,
01:21:29.100 eventually.
01:21:30.700 But we're
01:21:31.520 in a situation
01:21:32.120 where predicting
01:21:33.260 anything a year
01:21:34.220 in advance
01:21:34.680 makes no sense
01:21:35.540 anymore.
01:21:36.640 Because robots
01:21:37.300 and AI will
01:21:38.000 change everything.
01:21:39.860 Everything.
01:21:41.280 I'm doing the
01:21:41.900 Joe Biden
01:21:42.600 whisper.
01:21:43.260 I'm quite a
01:21:43.900 fan of it,
01:21:44.380 actually.
01:21:45.560 Because robots
01:21:46.620 will change
01:21:47.400 everything.
01:21:50.480 All right.
01:21:51.520 And that's
01:21:52.140 all I got
01:21:52.380 for you today.
01:21:53.280 Go forth and
01:21:53.800 have a great
01:21:54.400 day.
01:21:54.760 It's a great
01:21:55.060 Friday.
01:21:56.060 And it's
01:21:56.720 the Ides
01:21:57.060 of March.
01:21:58.400 So don't
01:21:59.320 let anybody
01:21:59.640 stab you.