Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2414 CWSA 03⧸15⧸24

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.

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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 1.00

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? 0.97

00:05:16.260 Are women just as interested in security? 1.00

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, 1.00

00:05:43.680 especially single women, 0.91

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 0.94

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. 0.87

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 0.54

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? 0.77

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 0.86

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 0.74

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. 0.82

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 0.83

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. 0.78

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 0.94

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.92

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 0.65

00:32:52.980 drones, Chinese-made 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

00:34:38.080 Americans just 0.98

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 0.55

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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, 0.95

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, 0.99

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 0.66

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. 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.52

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 0.97

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 0.51

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, 0.97

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 0.99

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 0.87

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 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.95

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 0.78

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 0.60

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 0.87

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, 1.00

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 0.98

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. 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.98

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. 1.00

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 15, 2024

Episode 2414 CWSA 03⧸15⧸24

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