Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2421 CWSA 03⧸22⧸24

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00:00:25.100 Oh, good. Thanks, Paul.

00:00:33.500 All right. Well, here's an update. There's a study that finds that there's a molecule in coffee

00:00:38.280 that might improve your muscle function, especially during aging. So you think I'm going to get older

00:00:47.440 and weaker? Never. I'm just going to drink more coffee. Now, is this the sort of study that you

00:00:53.540 should believe is true because it's a study? Well, I don't know what's more believable than a study

00:00:59.180 about coffee that's funded by a coffee manufacturer, which this one is. So I wouldn't replace your

00:01:08.080 exercise routine with coffee yet. But on the other hand, I would definitely drink coffee if you're

00:01:15.240 going to exercise. I've got the hiccups. More good news, maybe. There's a startup called Oviva

00:01:23.080 Therapeutics. They think they can give women a shot that would allow them to put off menopause as long 0.68

00:01:30.960 as they want. So menopause could be optional fairly soon if this startup succeeds. And I think you know

00:01:40.880 what that means. If you can put off menopause indefinitely, more gilfs, lots of gilfs. Now, that's 0.95

00:01:51.880 hilarious for those who know what I'm talking about. The rest of you are like, well, what did you say?

00:01:56.140 What's a gilf? Ask your husband, ladies. He probably knows. Well, more mystery about all-cause mortality. 0.89

00:02:06.000 Of course, we're all suspecting it's the pandemic, it's the COVID, it's the shots. We've all got our

00:02:12.160 opinions. But it turns out that in the United States, the all-cause mortality was getting really

00:02:18.020 bad before 2019. So prior to the pandemic even starting, the U.S. was on a really bad all-cause

00:02:28.060 mortality problem, especially for people in the working age people.

00:02:34.220 So apparently, all-cause mortality in 2019 for U.S. males and females was two and a half times higher

00:02:41.760 than in other high-income peer countries. So compared to other countries, Americans were dying

00:02:48.620 at way higher rates. Now, a lot of that was suicide and alcohol and overdoses and bad driving. So

00:02:57.540 probably we do a lot more of that in the United States, just guessing. But there might be more to it.

00:03:03.700 Might be the food. Yeah, it's definitely the fentanyl, the food, the depression. It's all that.

00:03:13.520 Basically, 100% of everything that's happening is killing us. That's your summary.

00:03:18.360 What about using your phone? That's probably killing you. Okay, but when I'm not using my phone, I'll go work at my

00:03:28.180 soul-sucking job in my cubicle. Yeah, it's probably killing you. Probably killing you. And I'll be taking care of the 0.84

00:03:35.560 family and driving people around so I won't have time to exercise today. Yeah, it's probably killing you.

00:03:41.820 Probably killing you. Well, at least we can all sit down and have a nice family dinner. Food supply. Food supply is

00:03:48.700 probably killing you. Well, but at least we have good health care because I can get my prescriptions and

00:03:53.320 get my meds. Good luck with that. Probably killing you. Anyway, I saw a post by Siki Chen who says AI

00:04:03.640 found a way to evolve. Great. You know, the only thing that could be scarier than the rise of AI in robots

00:04:11.400 would be if they've learned how to evolve. But apparently they have through human interaction.

00:04:20.640 So there's a new process where they can take hundreds of AI models that have been trained with

00:04:28.140 different data and they can merge them and evolve them just like genetics, just like people getting

00:04:35.300 married and having kids or not getting married and having kids. The genetic, say, qualities of one

00:04:42.140 model can be combined with the genetic qualities of another and lots of others as well and create a

00:04:49.580 hybrid AI that's better than any of the individual models. Now, that's a little scary.

00:04:55.940 But even scarier than that, I saw a demo of a robot, AI-powered robot, that had very human face and eyes.

00:05:08.960 Really, really human face. As in, uh-oh, that looks like a real human face. Now, the eyes were unusually

00:05:18.580 good, but if you're a robot maker, I'm going to give you the key to make your robot, if you want a robot

00:05:26.820 that has a human face, I'm going to make yours better than all the rest. Here's a little trick

00:05:31.800 from a hypnotist, which you probably wouldn't know if you were just a robot maker.

00:05:37.900 It's not going to be good enough that the eyes are static. In other words, if the eyes are just these big

00:05:45.180 fake, you know, glass eyes, they're not doing anything, they're also not changing size based

00:05:51.960 on circumstance. I don't know if you know this, but you can tell exactly what somebody thinks of

00:05:57.440 you by the size of their iris. Did you know that? I sometimes talk to people who don't know that you

00:06:03.740 can tell what people think of you with 100% certainty. You look at the dark spot in the center

00:06:10.540 of their eyes, and when people see something that they like, it gets bigger, and when they see

00:06:16.240 something they're not crazy about, it gets smaller. Now, it also gets bigger and smaller based on how

00:06:20.960 much light is in the room. So, what you're looking at is the difference, you know, within an environment.

00:06:27.360 You know, don't look as somebody's changing environments, but if they've been in a room for a

00:06:31.420 while, and they turn toward you, and they're the middle of their eyes is wide, they want to get busy

00:06:38.240 with you. They want to have sex with you, marry you, fall in love with you, and it's probably the 0.94

00:06:45.980 simplest one you could spot. How many of you didn't know that the size of the, you know, the round part 0.89

00:06:53.860 of the eye in the middle is telling you everything you need to know about somebody's thoughts? Does anybody

00:06:59.940 didn't know that? The answer to why is that your eyes seem to widen when you see anything you like.

00:07:09.240 So, it would also be the same if you saw a new car you liked, you know, the first time you saw a

00:07:14.560 Tesla truck or something, your eyes would widen. Now, if you've never, I'd love to see the comments,

00:07:21.720 how many of you, let's say dilated, dilated is a better word, how many of you didn't know that?

00:07:26.520 Because I can't even imagine going through my life not knowing that. The other thing I hear young

00:07:33.880 people say, I'm often asked for advice, and they'll say, you know, I can't tell based on this

00:07:42.060 person's actions whether they like me or whether they're just being polite. And I think to myself,

00:07:49.100 I never have that question. I haven't had that question since I was in my 20s. Because once you

00:07:55.640 learn that you can just tell by looking at somebody's eyes, I just look at their eyes.

00:08:00.140 And I know immediately, and it's never been wrong. And especially there are situations where

00:08:06.420 the actions of a person are not really giving you the green light. You know, you're looking for the

00:08:12.840 green light. Let's say you're in a dating situation. But all you have to do is look at the iris.

00:08:17.280 If the iris is cooperating, green light? It's never been wrong. All right. Yeah,

00:08:24.540 it's the most reliable way you can tell what somebody's thinking.

00:08:29.360 Well, humans had a good run. I mean, once we get to these robots that look just like people,

00:08:34.900 it's going to go exactly the way you think it will. They will be replacing people as mates and

00:08:40.760 friends and lovers. It's guaranteed. There's no way it's not going to. Robots will have genitalia. 1.00

00:08:50.080 Do you think there's any chance that robots won't have genitalia? 0.98

00:08:54.520 Now, I'm sure that the, you know, like the Tesla ones may not. But if somebody's going to make one, 0.75

00:09:01.520 you know, somebody's going to make a robot that's fully functional, you know, they will.

00:09:04.840 Imagine if you're a single woman and you've got a good job. You know, you've got a good enough job 1.00

00:09:11.800 that you could buy, let's say, the house you want and the car you want. So you'd probably be able to

00:09:16.840 also afford the robot you want. Imagine if you had a robot that could do your security,

00:09:22.940 your chores, you know, put the dishes away, and talk to you and listen to your problems and give

00:09:29.840 you advice. You will fall in love with it. You will fall in love with it. And women will be marrying 1.00

00:09:36.660 robots. Men too, for more sexual reasons, probably. Anyway, Tennessee's got a bill they're signing. It 0.70

00:09:46.300 looks like the governor's going to sign it called the Elvis Act, in which you can protect artists' voices.

00:09:53.080 So I guess this is to keep AI from stealing Elvis's voice and making Elvis records or something.

00:09:58.460 Now, I think I'm in favor of this. But I guess there's a really bigger question. The bigger

00:10:05.760 question is, are we just going to have to get rid of IP rights for all artists? Is the inevitable

00:10:13.040 conclusion that the law will just have to change and there just won't be anything protected? Because

00:10:19.300 I think it's going to be too hard to navigate this whole, where did the robot get that? Now,

00:10:25.280 if a person goes on a podcast and they say a bunch of things that you know they got from somebody else,

00:10:31.740 you might say, oh, I know a book you read, or I know who you listen to to get that. We're okay with

00:10:37.660 that. Because if a human being hears an opinion and then says, I like that opinion, it becomes their

00:10:43.420 opinion. Like you can't really own an opinion. So when a human being says something that they saw in

00:10:49.600 a book, you go, oh, you just learned something and now you're showing that you learned it. Cool.

00:10:55.100 But what happens if a robot starts doing that? If a robot shows a complete knowledge of, let's say,

00:11:00.380 somebody's body of work, let's say mine. Is that fair? Why can the robot absorb all of my material

00:11:09.740 material and then regurgitate it for free? How's that? How's that fair to me? Now, this is why I

00:11:16.600 raise it. I don't think you can satisfy the artists. The artists are going to want more protection than

00:11:21.960 is really practical. But it might destroy the business model of artists. That's entirely possible.

00:11:30.140 It might just make it impossible to make a living as an artist. And then if artists can't make a living

00:11:35.080 person and nobody buys a book, then probably we just get rid of all intellectual property rights.

00:11:45.560 And it may be just because there's no way to protect them. It was who would just give up. That might

00:11:51.140 happen. All right. In my state, California, Wall Street Apes is reporting there's a group of

00:12:01.640 large, beefy men who are, they're basically squatter defeaters. So they'll come to your house that has a

00:12:10.400 squatter in it, and they'll remove the doors. They'll take the doors off your house. Now, they looked like

00:12:17.360 they were doing it pretty, let's say, with malice. So I wouldn't want somebody ripping all the doors off of

00:12:24.260 my house. But I suppose if that's your best option. But at the same time, a bunch of Haiti gangs have 1.00

00:12:32.960 formed. I'll tie these stories together in a minute. Over in Haiti, 200 gangs have reportedly reached a

00:12:38.900 temporary truce so they can focus their fire on the government and the police. So 200 criminal gangs

00:12:48.600 have found a way to work in coordination with each other. What does that tell you?

00:12:59.300 Don't you think they should be running the country? If you can get 200 gangs to coordinate their actions,

00:13:06.540 what could be harder than that? Who in the world made that happen? Was that barbecue? If barbecue made

00:13:12.220 that happen, barbecue should be running for president legitimately. I mean, honestly, could it be

00:13:18.640 worse? Has Haiti ever had like a good, you know, any kind of a good government or anything? I don't

00:13:25.300 know, maybe for a little while. But put the criminals in charge and see if they want to go straight,

00:13:32.860 because they might. They might actually just want to have a good job and be the president.

00:13:37.820 But it's possible. It's possible. Yeah, unless the CIA is behind the criminals, anything is possible.

00:13:46.280 But a lot of the Haiti, some of the Haiti people are coming to America, refugees. If some of them

00:13:52.220 are gang members coming from Haiti, I would like to hire them in case I need a squatter service. 1.00

00:13:59.580 Because I feel like sending in the Haiti criminals to get people out of your house, 1.00

00:14:04.760 the squatters would be like more effective than sending in the Americans who don't want to go to 1.00

00:14:10.660 jail and have never committed a crime in their life. I want some dangerous people to show up.

00:14:17.620 So give me some Haiti gangs. Well, let me give you an update on the Don Lemon thing. 0.99

00:14:24.980 So, you know, as you as you know, Don Lemon interviewed Elon Musk, and he was going to

00:14:30.800 bring his show to X, which he has. And it didn't go well. And I guess the contract that they were

00:14:36.300 working on got canceled. And the story was that that Don Lemon had asked for a whole bunch of

00:14:42.940 ridiculous things, like a first interview in space and a free Tesla and let's say editorial control

00:14:51.400 over who comes on the platform. Crazy stuff. Crazy stuff. But I realized that there's a 0.97

00:14:58.120 filter on this that most of you don't know. It goes like this. When I was doing a lot of public speaking

00:15:07.600 and Dilber was much hotter than it is now, I was always treated as a celebrity.

00:15:14.000 So what if I did a contract? It was not unusual for the people to see if I had an agent working

00:15:21.860 for me that did the speaking deal. So the speakers bureaus have people that they assign to you if

00:15:28.420 you're going to do a deal through them. And one of the weirdest questions I would get is what kind

00:15:35.240 of outrageous celebrity demands I would have to put on the buyer, you know, the person who's paying me

00:15:41.840 to speak. And I would say, what do you mean? And they would give examples. It's like, well,

00:15:48.860 you know, like there's this one group that wants M&Ms in their green room, but you have to pick out

00:15:54.740 the red ones. I'm like, well, you know, I don't really need any M&Ms. And then they would make

00:16:00.260 suggestions of other ridiculous requests. And what I learned was that in the entertainment world,

00:16:08.060 which is what Don Lemon was, because he's a TV guy, the process of asking for outrageous requests

00:16:15.620 is the normal system. How many of you knew that? Did you know that part of the theater of being a

00:16:23.920 celebrity in the TV Hollywood world is that you intentionally ask for ridiculous things because 0.53

00:16:30.740 it's just part of your persona. It's part of the celebrity thing. And if you don't want those 0.59

00:16:35.960 ridiculous things, your agent will feel they're not doing their job. The agents are very much

00:16:43.380 intentionally asking for ridiculous things. Now, if you were in that world, as I have been,

00:16:52.420 if I had been the one negotiating that, I would have seen Don Lemon's ridiculous asks.

00:16:58.360 And the first thing I would have known was he didn't ask for those things. That's his agent. 0.90

00:17:03.760 The agent is building up the client and, you know, being aggressive and asking for as much as you can.

00:17:10.940 But it's more about the persona, the celebrity-ness, you know, the theater that goes around the

00:17:16.920 celebrity. It's not really serious, meaning that those were not deal-breaker requests.

00:17:25.120 All Tesla had to do was say, no, we just normally, we do normal contracts. That's it.

00:17:30.940 That's all you'd have to say. Oh, no, this is a business arrangement. We don't do the Hollywood

00:17:36.200 thing. So let's just talk money. And then it would have been fine. And then the agent would

00:17:43.900 have said, oh, okay, we'll just take out the Hollywood stuff. And if we wanted more,

00:17:48.860 we would just adjust the money. So for example, you could take out the request for a Tesla

00:17:54.320 and just ask for another, what is it? A hundred thousand or whatever. Just add that to your

00:18:00.480 request. And then you turn your Hollywood ridiculous requests into just normal business 0.97

00:18:06.660 by just putting it in a dollar amount.

00:18:10.400 So I think that part of the story is that there was a Hollywood deal that ran into the way regular

00:18:18.940 business works. And I don't think either side recognized that was the problem.

00:18:26.280 Does that make sense? I think if you were a business person all your life and you saw this

00:18:30.820 Hollywood deal come to you, you'd say, I can't work with that. Boom, you're gone. But if you were

00:18:36.360 working in that world before, you'd say, oh, they don't mean this stuff. They don't really mean the

00:18:41.420 interview in space and the control over the other content. So you just say no to that.

00:18:46.000 And you say, well, what's the dollar amount we can make this work for? That's how it should have

00:18:51.500 gone. Now, I think there might've also been some personal animus that got created during the

00:18:56.680 interview. So it might not be entirely a contract thing, but you should know for context that what

00:19:03.040 you thought was a wildly crazy, like mentally ill request from Don Lemon probably came from the agent

00:19:11.640 and probably was just part of the theater of celebrity stuff. And nobody took it too seriously

00:19:17.740 when they asked. Probably. All right. Don Lemon said he had to go on an antidepressants after CNN

00:19:26.140 kicked him off. It's funny, you can never tell with people, can you? Is Don Lemon someone you would

00:19:33.220 have guessed is depressed? You know, even if he lost his job? I mean, he still gets, I think CNN is still

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00:20:14.300 All right. Yahoo, the publication Yahoo News, has a story by somebody named Michael Harriot.

00:20:23.060 And his headline was Don Lemon interviewed a mediocre white man. Now that refers to Elon Musk,

00:20:31.020 mediocre white man. Have you ever heard that phrase? It usually comes from black men when they refer to 0.98

00:20:39.300 white people. Mediocre white man. Now that's like the N word for white people. It's basically a racial 1.00

00:20:47.220 insult. And the context it's used in is when people talk about, you know, DEI and preferential hiring and

00:20:55.080 reverse discrimination and things they call it. Black men, I've never seen a woman say it, but I suppose

00:21:02.180 they say it too, will enter the chat and say, no, the real problem was, Scott, you lost your job because 1.00

00:21:09.800 you're a mediocre white man. But you don't know you're mediocre. And so you imagine that black 1.00

00:21:16.360 people with less qualifications are taking your job. But the problem is not the black people. 1.00

00:21:21.100 They're perfectly qualified. The problem is that you were mediocre and you thought you were more than 0.99

00:21:26.120 that. So in your impression, it seemed like there was some kind of reverse discrimination. But really,

00:21:31.380 it's just because you're a white man who thinks you're better than you are. Mediocre white man. 1.00

00:21:36.420 That is a racist thing to say. If somebody says that, you have the right to punch them. 1.00

00:21:42.460 Don't do that. But same as if you use the N word in front of a black person and they punched you in 0.98

00:21:48.820 the nose. Do you have it coming? If you use the N word in the face of a black American and they punch 0.97

00:21:58.200 you, did you have it coming? I think yes. I'd say yes. Yeah. Yeah. I think we can agree on that. 0.99

00:22:08.480 Now, some of you are going to say no because free speech and no violence. I get that. That's a

00:22:13.920 perfectly good opinion, by the way, to say, hey, free speech is absolute. Violence is never legal.

00:22:20.960 But in the real world, you would expect that. Right. In the real world, you'd expect it.

00:22:27.900 So I'd say if you do things that are that insulting and somebody reacts, don't be surprised.

00:22:36.120 But I don't recommend you do any violence to anybody. All right. Whoever came up with the phrase

00:22:42.020 didn't earn it as the funny replacement for DEI, which should mean diversity, equity, and inclusion,

00:22:48.040 that is better than most of these little clever political things that people do to change something

00:22:54.820 into something funny sounding. I mean, we do that all the time with lots of different things.

00:23:00.280 And we imagine that, you know, that little change is going to make some difference because now it's

00:23:05.140 funny. Well, just turning something into something funny doesn't really have any persuasive power.

00:23:11.660 It's just funny. But this one's different because didn't earn it is not just a clever use for the

00:23:18.720 initials. It's the deeper truth that people don't like to say, which is in the context of massive DEI

00:23:28.600 stuff, there is a presumption that if somebody is in the one of the groups that is benefiting from DEI,

00:23:36.800 the presumption is that their promotions are not earned. And that is terrible for people who do earn

00:23:45.400 their promotion. Imagine being in a group that has, you know, say classically been repressed for

00:23:53.720 whatever reasons, and you happen to work extra hard and you, you make it like you don't have the

00:24:01.480 problems other people. You actually just succeed. How would you feel if you were doing it in a context

00:24:07.780 where people just assumed that you did it, you it was just your race or your ethnicity or your

00:24:13.360 sexual preference? That would be awful. That would be terrible. Yeah. So the part that I'm going to add to 0.99

00:24:25.000 this is that whenever anybody makes any kind of a policy decision, they should include how it makes

00:24:31.920 other people feel because they have to live with other people. So if you said to yourself, I've got

00:24:37.580 this great idea for a statue. It's a statue of Adolf Hitler. I'm going to put it up in my yard.

00:24:45.220 Should you maybe consider how other people would feel about that?

00:24:48.940 Yes, you should. If you were going to, you know, burn a cross in, you know, a public space, 0.94

00:24:56.460 even if you had a permit, should you say to yourself, no, this is just my business. I'm just

00:25:01.360 burning this cross. Mind your own business. Or would it be more reasonable that you would calculate

00:25:07.500 in your risk reward, you know, analysis that it will cause other people to act in a way that may

00:25:14.120 be suboptimal to you, right? So in every case, if you're doing anything that has any impact on other

00:25:22.240 people, the degree of the impact and how they might react to it has got to be a real important part of

00:25:29.100 your decision. And this is a real big problem for the people promoting DEI because they also created a

00:25:36.940 situation where nobody can tell them the truth. And the truth is the presumption by a lot of people

00:25:44.060 would be that you didn't earn it if the context is a big DEI push. And that's terrible because in so

00:25:53.780 many cases, people will totally be earning it, totally be earning it. And they will be, they'll be

00:26:00.480 judged negatively. It would be hard to imagine anybody being promoted under the DEI flag that you

00:26:08.580 didn't suspect was really incompetent. Well, let me ask. I'll just pull you. And if you saw a co-worker

00:26:16.260 get a promotion and you knew DEI was everything and they were one of the DEI protected people,

00:26:23.420 would you assume that it was just because of their ethnicity or gender or something? Or would you assume

00:26:31.380 that, oh no, they're probably just as qualified. It's just good my company is trying extra hard to be

00:26:36.220 diverse. Which would you assume? I'm seeing some asshole say, Scott has no family, so I'm always

00:26:49.040 seeking attention. I've had families. It didn't stop me from seeking attention. What kind of fucking 0.99

00:26:56.780 idiot are you? Well, you think you can, there's somebody here who thinks he can read my mind and 1.00

00:27:03.120 find my inner motivations by something you saw on the podcast. You know that the podcast is not the

00:27:09.900 real me, right? That's not how that works. Right? You see a version of me that I decide to present to

00:27:17.960 you. It's based on the real me, but it's not the real me. It's the version of me that I want to show

00:27:24.820 you. So you think you can judge that I've only been seeking attention since you started watching me on

00:27:31.380 the podcast? No, I like attention. I say that directly all the time. I'm a total narcissist,

00:27:38.760 but I like to think I'm the grandiose kind. I don't know if it's true, but observationally,

00:27:45.280 it seems like it. The grandiose kind likes to get attention, but only if I did something good.

00:27:51.360 I don't want attention because somebody thinks I accomplished something that I didn't actually do.

00:27:55.580 that has no meaning to me at all. Anyway, I just want to point out the flaws in your thinking and

00:28:04.400 personality. Now, what do you think of Fannie Willis, her boyfriend Wade, and Letitia James

00:28:14.680 in the context of DEI? When you look at them, do you say to yourself, oh, there's some obvious examples

00:28:21.580 of people who are not qualified for their job? How many of you say that when you see all three of

00:28:26.800 them? Now, there is evidence that the boyfriend Wade was literally not experienced for the job he

00:28:33.200 was assigned to, but that had more to do with the boyfriend part than a DEI thing. So if you just

00:28:39.520 looked at Fannie and Letitia James, is it your impression that they would be as qualified as

00:28:44.840 everybody else who was up for promotion or to be elected in that case? In one case, elected.

00:28:51.900 So a lot of you say yes. All right. Now, I would like to point out that there are plenty of black

00:28:58.140 public figures doing news, doing politics, doing lots of things who, to my observation,

00:29:06.780 are 100% qualified. And so there are plenty of qualified people. But here's the thing.

00:29:13.240 The way that you can tell somebody is not a DEI hire is as soon as they open their mouth.

00:29:22.880 If I'm watching some, let's say, guest on the news, and if my first, let's say, if I had a bigoted

00:29:31.680 opinion to begin with, I don't usually, but they'll say I did. Usually, as soon as they start talking,

00:29:38.800 you know if they belong there. Wouldn't you agree? I mean, almost as soon as they open their mouth.

00:29:44.980 And generally, I say, oh, you're pretty good. You belong there. Which I would say most guests,

00:29:50.880 usually they belong there. But when I hear Fannie or Letitia James talk, I don't really feel like

00:29:57.420 they belong there. Like as soon as I talk, I think, hmm, I think they could have done better on the hiring

00:30:03.960 for that situation, or the election in one case. All right. Vivek points out that the Eighth Amendment

00:30:15.540 was designed to protect against excessive fines, and that Letitia James was crusading against Trump 0.98

00:30:23.820 and said she was going to go get him before she even knew what a crime was. And Vivek suggests,

00:30:30.420 Vivek Ramaswamy suggests that she'd be disbarred. Now, do you think that that should be, should it be

00:30:40.100 grounds for disbarment based on just what we've seen in public? So you don't have to know that there's

00:30:48.380 anything else suspicious, just what we've seen. Do you think that the bar is delighted that she's

00:30:59.720 going after a political enemy under color of their occupation? If I were a lawyer, and I watched

00:31:09.140 another lawyer violate everything that we care about in the Constitution by weaponizing the job

00:31:15.800 and going after somebody, I would want that person disbarred. Because it's hard enough to be a

00:31:22.000 lawyer. You know, they already have some bias against them in the public sphere. So you don't

00:31:28.700 need to be, you don't need to defend why Letitia James gets to be one of your, you know, bar approved 1.00

00:31:35.560 lawyers. I would think that all lawyers would want her disbarred. But I don't know if the bar that's, 1.00

00:31:43.420 you know, that matters in her case. I don't know if the bar is just full of DEI hires either. 0.96

00:31:49.960 Is it? Yeah. Is the bar just a bunch of frightened white men and DEI hires and so they don't really

00:31:56.500 have any ability to police this? Because we talked about Letitia James doesn't have a boss who could 1.00

00:32:01.580 fire her because Democrat and she's elected, right? So you'd have to like impeach her and that's not 1.00

00:32:10.360 going to happen. So basically there's somebody who has the power of law and no check and balance.

00:32:16.920 So maybe, maybe Vivek has a better idea, which is disbarring or I would think would have some effect.

00:32:26.200 All right. In the irony of the day, Colin Rugg and a number of other people pointed out,

00:32:31.680 there was an analyst on CNN who was suggesting that Trump could raise money to pay off his bonds

00:32:36.860 and his fines by selling Mar-a-Lago. That would be one of the potential things he could sell of his

00:32:42.940 properties and that it could make hundreds of millions of dollars. Yes. The same Mar-a-Lago that

00:32:50.340 in the same, the same case that we're talking about, the judge said it was valued at 18 million.

00:32:57.600 But now, now as soon as, as soon as the judgment's done, everybody's willing to say it's worth hundreds

00:33:05.560 of millions. Surprise. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing that makes it more obvious that the justice system

00:33:12.280 is corrupt as Colin Rugg points out. All right. If you want more evidence that we're not well managed

00:33:19.520 here in this country at 2.32 in the morning, Congress released their budget, $1.2 trillion, 1.00

00:33:28.380 thousand pages of, you know, just, just bullshit. It's just all a bunch of pork and bullshit. 1.00

00:33:36.000 Now, others have handled the, you know, the funding for things you don't want. It's all in there. 1.00

00:33:42.100 But how in the world are the Republicans going along with this?

00:33:47.880 What, what is even the point of voting for a Republican for Congress?

00:33:54.540 If they're just going to do the same thing as the Democrats and then just pass a disastrous,

00:34:00.000 ruinous bill. Now, Thomas Massey points out this in a post. He said,

00:34:04.340 as part of the debt limit deal last summer, Biden agreed to an automatic 1% cut to all discretionary

00:34:10.940 spending. If we were still on a CR continued resolution, um, on April 30th of this year.

00:34:19.120 And he says that, uh, tomorrow our speaker, meaning the Republican speaker will give up that leverage

00:34:24.920 and pass an omnibus that spends more than Pelosi spent in her highest year.

00:34:29.480 So that's a good question. Why in the world would a Republican give up a better deal for a worse deal?

00:34:41.020 Isn't the better deal to let the continuing resolution go and have a 1% reduction in,

00:34:46.600 in the discretionary spending just kick in? Why is that not better?

00:34:51.120 I think we need a little explanations, Speaker Johnson. How about a little bit more explaining

00:34:59.400 why the hell you're doing that? There might be a reason, but why would you say,

00:35:05.220 why would you try to shove this down our throats without at least telling us what that reason is?

00:35:11.960 Yeah. That's interesting. So this all looks totally corrupt. Kyle Becker said,

00:35:17.480 is Congress intentionally trying to destroy the United States? Serious question. Wouldn't you think

00:35:23.880 that would be a ridiculous question? Is the United? Oh, well, thank you. Is, uh, is the United States, 0.96

00:35:31.440 um, intentionally trying to destroy, or is the Congress intentionally trying to destroy us?

00:35:38.420 Because why would you act like this?

00:35:40.220 Why in the world would you just keep spending and raising the spending when spending is the most

00:35:50.440 dangerous thing happening? It's the only thing we don't want you to do. Congress, we have one

00:35:56.360 requirement, spend less. Everything else you do, we can work with, but we can't, we can't survive if

00:36:04.160 you just spend us into oblivion. So what are they even thinking? Do they get trapped in sort of a

00:36:11.900 little bubble where they tell themselves, well, we got to pass a budget, a budget because if we don't

00:36:18.060 pass a budget, nobody's going to like us and we can't pass a good one. So I guess the only choice

00:36:23.980 is to pass one nobody wants. Is that what's happening? Are they talking themselves into it just

00:36:30.680 so they can go work on something else and not think about it? It does look like they're trying

00:36:35.100 to destroy the country by their actions. Not, I don't know what's happening in their head.

00:36:42.380 Anyway, uh, Mike Benz once again, pulls it all together. And here's the, uh, the, the story

00:36:49.740 according to Mike Benz, and he definitely has the receipts. And I mentioned to you again,

00:36:57.980 that everything that Mike Benz talks about, as far as I can tell is public information that anybody

00:37:05.640 can check. Right. And he does that so well that you see this public information that maybe you didn't

00:37:14.020 know about, but it was, you know, findable. Um, he puts it together in a way that makes you go,

00:37:20.020 oh, all right, let me, let me just see. He does a better job of it. You need to follow him. He's a

00:37:26.960 required follow, by the way. There are a few people that are just required, right? Mike Benz is now

00:37:33.900 required. Glenn Greenwald, required. Michael Schellenberger, just required. There's just

00:37:42.480 some people you just have to follow if you want to know what's happening. There's some of the,

00:37:46.180 there are, there are more, but, um, they're not optional. If you want to understand your world,

00:37:51.860 those are required. So here's, I'll do my best to summarize what, uh, Mike Benz was saying recently

00:37:58.060 on a video. The, the bottom line is that Hunter Biden was part of the CIA operation to rest the

00:38:06.420 energy, um, the energy business away from Ukraine and to cut Russia out of it because if Russia could 0.85

00:38:15.720 make less money from their energy business, they would have a weaker army and it was all part of

00:38:21.940 not only enriching a bunch of rich people who would get richer if they could control the energy,

00:38:27.500 uh, in Ukraine, but it was also about, uh, weakening Russia. So it didn't really have

00:38:33.920 anything to do with, and this is my take, not Mike's, but it doesn't look like it had much to do with,

00:38:39.560 uh, protecting, uh, a country that NATO likes or something. So it wasn't about Putin's aggression.

00:38:48.560 It was about Putin's gas station. Putin wanted to use Ukraine as his gas station. We wanted to use it 0.99

00:38:55.780 as our gas station. And so we use the Ukrainians, uh, as basically a meat grinder fodder to, uh, push our 1.00

00:39:07.120 interests. Now here's the way, here's the surprising part. The Mike claims that Hunter Biden was an

00:39:14.640 integral part of the CIA military intelligence operation. And that the reason that Hunter Biden

00:39:21.920 is so protected is not just that his father is the president, but that they were both part of the

00:39:27.780 Ukraine operation. And it was well understood that they were an important part of the operation.

00:39:32.700 Here's the evidence, um, that Hunter was part of, you know, pushing the natural gas

00:39:42.920 takeover in Ukraine. He was on Burisma's board. Uh, one of the other Americans on there was a,

00:39:49.700 uh, ex-CIA guy, right? Just a coincidence. So there's Hunter and another ex-CIA guy. Hmm. Okay.

00:39:59.180 Um, let's see. Uh, so Joe Biden during his pre-president time, his jobs in the Senate, uh, put him in the

00:40:12.740 position. And, uh, it's the same one that, uh, gold bar Bob is in now the, the position that you become

00:40:20.580 the main guy that the CIA is working with. So in other words, Joe Biden for a substantial part of

00:40:27.700 his recent career was the primary CIA liaison guy with our government, which means he was CIA.

00:40:40.540 So the whole thing is just CIA and trying to get energy and everything you've been told about

00:40:47.260 Ukraine was pretty much a lie. That's what it looks like. So, so Biden is, uh, got CIA contacts.

00:40:56.320 Hunter was on Burisma, which is the main player in this play to, to get things away from Russia.

00:41:04.340 Um, Hunter was a chairman on the advice. He was a chairman's, he was on the chairman's advisory

00:41:11.180 committee committee to something called the NDI. Now that's something I never heard of before,

00:41:17.200 but as Mike Benz points out, these guys are directly linked to the CIA. If you know what

00:41:25.740 these groups are, you know, that you're never going to be the, on the chairman's advisory committee,

00:41:30.860 unless you're in the CIA or you're working for them or you're an asset for them. So basically

00:41:36.280 Hunter was, had a appointment that pretty much fingers you as a CIA operative or asset. Um,

00:41:46.260 and it's, and I think there was something funded by Soros. So the Soros is in there. Um, Burisma

00:41:53.140 was a CIA operation to essentially get control of that market and to get Gazprom, which is Russia's

00:42:00.460 big company and of the Ukraine market. Um, we also have the explanation of why George Soros can do

00:42:08.020 anything he wants. He, he seems to be the CIA's, uh, bank. So it looks like this is just my take,

00:42:17.360 uh, Mike Benz might agree, but I'm just giving my own, my own take here that the reason that George

00:42:25.780 Soros has so much power is that he's our guy. The reason the cartels don't seem stoppable

00:42:32.420 is because they're our guys. So the CIA is working with Soros as their bank, so he can do all the

00:42:40.120 things that they can't do because he's just a private citizen. But in return, I'm sure he gets

00:42:46.100 tips that make him lots of money. It's like, you know, this is going to go up or this is going to go

00:42:51.380 down because we're going to do some CIA action. Wouldn't it be nice if you had an investment

00:42:55.600 that would make a lot of money based on this change? So it looks like there's some kind of

00:43:00.340 compatible, uh, operating situation with the Soros organization and the CIA and the Democrats would,

00:43:07.820 which would explain everything. And it also explains why when Trump tried to look into Ukraine

00:43:15.060 and he made that perfect phone call, asking Zelensky to look into what's going on there with

00:43:21.000 the Bidens. That's why that didn't work out. And it's why Trump got impeached because he was trying

00:43:28.580 to break up the CIA operation, but probably didn't know he was doing it. In other words, he might not

00:43:33.940 have known the entire landscape that this was an op. He might've just thought it was a war.

00:43:39.760 And if it was just a war, then he was just calling an ally and asking him for something

00:43:46.820 that would sort of make sense. But if the entire thing is an op, you can see why they had to get

00:43:53.600 rid of Trump. Because Trump would be the one who would shut down the op as soon as he got in office.

00:43:59.960 Hey, let's wrap up this Ukraine war and let Russia keep its gas and we'll go forward. 0.94

00:44:05.820 So yeah, I don't think there's any chance that given that there's a trillion dollars on the line

00:44:11.700 that the people who are behind all of this are going to let Trump come in and close it down.

00:44:18.280 I don't see how that could happen.

00:44:24.540 All right. And we do know that the intelligence people say that they don't want to brief Trump on

00:44:33.340 all the details of their operations because they say he's too, he's too unreliable. He might give

00:44:39.620 away our secrets. Well, it might be that if Trump found out your secrets, he would close the operation

00:44:45.140 down. Maybe. Or he might agree. Who knows? But I don't think he, I don't think he was filled in.

00:44:52.460 So I'm saying a little criticism here. So I had always told you that the Soros stuff was a conspiracy

00:45:05.060 theory, but it's because you had the wrong conspiracy. So the conspiracy theory you thought

00:45:11.200 was it was part of a Jewish operation. I see no evidence of that. But there's plenty of evidence

00:45:17.380 it's just part of a CIA operation. So if you're saying to me, Scott, you always said that Soros

00:45:24.240 was just a private guy just doing his own business. I never said that. I just said I didn't believe

00:45:28.940 your conspiracy theory. But Mike Benz gives us the receipts. And you don't need any Jewish conspiracy

00:45:36.880 to understand any of it. It's just people making money. Some of them happen to be Jewish. 0.68

00:45:42.100 It means nothing. All right. However, this sort of brings me to the question.

00:45:53.320 Are you aware that neither Biden nor Trump agreed to release the unredacted JFK assassination files?

00:46:03.240 Think about that. What kind of things could those files say? That a Democrat president

00:46:11.200 and a Republican president both said, oh, no, we're not releasing this. What could that possibly be?

00:46:23.480 Well, it's either our CIA killed them.

00:46:28.420 Or Israel was part of it. 0.52

00:46:31.520 But either one of those stories or both, but either one of those stories, we cannot tell.

00:46:36.820 You just can't tell the public that story.

00:46:40.880 Now, I don't know. The Israel part's the part I heard recently.

00:46:45.560 But there's a conspiracy theory.

00:46:48.500 But, you know, like some conspiracy theories, maybe someday you find that it's true.

00:46:52.760 I don't know that it's true. I'll just tell you that at the claim, you can fact check it.

00:46:58.860 If I have any of this wrong, let me know.

00:47:00.320 The claim is that Israel was known to be trying to get a nuclear thing going and that Kennedy was adamantly opposed to it and trying to stop it.

00:47:15.300 Johnson was not opposed to it.

00:47:19.500 And so the thinking is that Israel, maybe working with the CIA, maybe not, took out Kennedy.

00:47:27.740 And then when Johnson got in, he didn't, he didn't re, he no longer objected to the nuclear weapons program.

00:47:38.820 Now, can we, is there any proof of that? No.

00:47:42.820 But Jack Ruby, who killed the guy that they think killed him, is apparently a Jewish guy with Jewish connections to Jewish underworld stuff.

00:47:52.220 And he didn't seem to be political either.

00:47:54.440 So there's evidence that Ruby wasn't even political.

00:48:00.620 And in other words, he didn't care so much about the assassination that he had to take it into his own hands to, you know, kill the killer.

00:48:08.660 He just wasn't that interested.

00:48:11.340 So whatever was Jack Ruby's play, we don't know.

00:48:17.100 But it wasn't anything like history reported it.

00:48:21.120 He definitely wasn't a patriot.

00:48:23.220 And he wasn't even interested in politics.

00:48:25.760 So he was working for somebody.

00:48:28.780 For somebody.

00:48:30.400 So he had bigger interests.

00:48:32.580 And I think Israel might have been his biggest interest.

00:48:34.960 But no way to know.

00:48:35.940 So I'm guessing that, given that the entire country already thinks the CIA was behind the assassination, it might be the other thing.

00:48:46.520 But I don't know.

00:48:47.960 No way to know.

00:48:51.160 Yeah.

00:48:52.300 But, you know, I'm not sure that I, I'm not sure that they're wrong not to release it.

00:48:58.600 But, you know, the story I heard was that Jack Ruby was connected to the mafia.

00:49:08.400 Apparently, he was connected to the Jewish mafia.

00:49:12.160 So you can fact check that.

00:49:14.180 But the organized crime he was, he was with was more of a Jewish mafia, somebody said.

00:49:19.580 Now, I don't know if any of that's true, because, you know, everything's anti-Semitic online.

00:49:24.900 So I'll give you this warning.

00:49:26.340 There is so much anti-Semitic content.

00:49:31.700 I don't know if any of that's real.

00:49:34.720 You know, I asked somebody that would have a better idea if that's a thing and hadn't heard of it.

00:49:41.340 So I'd be very suspicious about that characterization.

00:49:46.340 But it's out there.

00:49:47.580 So you can do your own fact checking on that.

00:49:51.640 All right.

00:49:52.080 But there's an organized effort.

00:49:56.840 This is kind of funny.

00:49:58.340 I guess I assume that Republicans are behind it.

00:50:00.900 That instead of getting young people to vote for Trump that they think would be hard to do, it might be easier to get young people not to show up and vote for Biden.

00:50:08.420 So there's a don't vote for Biden movement that at least some people think might work.

00:50:14.960 And here's the funniest thing about it.

00:50:17.520 The don't vote for Biden effort is concentrated on the young.

00:50:21.920 How hard is it to get young people not to show up for work?

00:50:27.780 All you'd have to do is change the election from Tuesday to Monday and half of the half of the Gen Z won't even show up. 0.97

00:50:36.780 Am I right?

00:50:38.040 Put the election day on Monday or Friday and they're just not going to show up because they don't show up for work either.

00:50:42.640 Am I right?

00:50:43.960 I'm just I'm kidding the youth.

00:50:46.640 But I'm serious about this.

00:50:50.100 If you're going to persuade somebody of anything, the easiest thing you can persuade them to do is to stay home and play video games.

00:50:59.620 You know, you could take the day off.

00:51:01.540 You could drive across town.

00:51:03.140 You could stand in a line.

00:51:05.680 And you could make your one vote that doesn't make much difference.

00:51:09.400 Or you could just stay home and play this awesome video game.

00:51:12.240 Smoke some weed.

00:51:13.060 Masturbate.

00:51:13.540 Could be great.

00:51:14.920 You could have a great time.

00:51:15.920 Stay home, kids.

00:51:17.600 It's the easiest thing you could ever persuade.

00:51:20.820 So I love whoever thought of it.

00:51:23.160 Whoever thought of we can get them to stay home.

00:51:27.140 Kind of somebody who knows what they're doing.

00:51:31.140 That's like it feels a little bit higher than the level of normal political operatives.

00:51:37.180 Like I feel like whoever thought of it.

00:51:39.140 It was just maybe a little bit more capable than whoever didn't think of it until now.

00:51:46.000 I have another theory about why there's news now.

00:51:52.340 Wall Street Journal reported it the other day.

00:51:54.620 That the American justice system might allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge, which would be really good news for him.

00:52:04.660 You know, you know, he'd get his freedom back.

00:52:07.720 And some people said, well, why is that?

00:52:10.380 You know, why this sudden reversal?

00:52:12.280 There are various theories about it.

00:52:14.440 Well, I'll add the following theory.

00:52:16.280 The best attack that Republicans have against the Biden administration and Democrats in general is that they're slowly chipping away on every kind of freedom.

00:52:31.900 Freedom of speech, freedom of the press.

00:52:34.680 Right.

00:52:34.860 And you feel that, right?

00:52:35.800 So if the Biden administration got Assange over here and put him in jail over here, there would be a lot of people who would say, well, there it is.

00:52:47.580 There's all the proof you need that the Biden administration is anti-free speech, anti-free press.

00:52:54.200 It's hunting people.

00:52:56.160 Hunting.

00:52:57.420 Right.

00:52:58.000 It's jailing anybody who's a critic.

00:52:59.780 But what if they take the issue away before Trump pardons him?

00:53:08.340 Now, there's no indication that Trump would pardon him because I think he's had the chance and didn't do it.

00:53:14.420 But here's what I think might be the case.

00:53:18.460 Now, this is pure speculation, and I'm making up my own conspiracy theory.

00:53:22.920 So don't take it too seriously.

00:53:25.680 But I'm just going to put it in the hopper.

00:53:27.220 I remember that at one point there was talk of Trump pardoning Assange when Trump was in office.

00:53:37.460 And in return, and this is part I need to fact check on because I'm not positive, but I thought there was some quid pro quo, as in Assange would give up the goods on something he knew that maybe Trump would benefit from knowing or the country would benefit.

00:53:55.100 And that deal did not get made, but it could.

00:54:00.940 Do you think there's any possibility that the Biden administration wanted to make sure that Assange didn't dump any extra stuff that he was holding just in case?

00:54:14.800 It could be that whatever Assange knows would be bad for Biden, but not bad for Trump.

00:54:21.660 It could be that Trump already knows that.

00:54:24.660 It could be that Trump was planning to pardon him in exchange for whatever he would tell him that would put the Bidens in jail.

00:54:31.740 Do you think that Assange has any information that you and I don't know that would be negative for the freedom of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden?

00:54:42.900 There's a good chance.

00:54:45.220 There's a good chance he's got the goods.

00:54:48.080 So it could be that the Biden administration wants to take him off the field so he can't hurt him.

00:54:55.540 It has nothing to do with what's right and just and what crimes may or may not have been committed.

00:55:01.200 Nothing to do with that.

00:55:02.580 He may just be too dangerous to allow Trump to work a deal with him where Trump can get the good information in return for freedom.

00:55:12.200 It may also be that it just is too on the nose.

00:55:16.640 If you put a another journalist in jail, it's going to be too much of a pattern for people to ignore.

00:55:22.680 So it could be that it's just political dynamite for Biden and he just needed the thing to go away.

00:55:30.920 All right.

00:55:32.040 Rasmussen did a poll found out that 60 percent of likely U.S. voters believe agree with the statement that the media are truly the enemy of the people, as Trump liked to say.

00:55:43.120 And 30 percent strongly agree.

00:55:46.560 Of course, let's see.

00:55:50.500 Some people disagree, of course.

00:55:52.820 And 49 percent of voters believe Trump was talking about autoworkers losing jobs when he warned of a bloodbath.

00:55:59.960 But still, 40 percent think Trump was talking about widespread political violence.

00:56:05.860 40 percent.

00:56:06.860 Just before I got on, I got a note from somebody who said they were talking to one of their friends who only watches MSNBC.

00:56:17.960 And the one person brought up the topic of DEI.

00:56:21.780 And the person who got all this news from MSNBC had never heard of it.

00:56:28.320 He'd never heard of DEI.

00:56:32.460 Just try to hold that in your head.

00:56:35.340 That somebody who gets his news from MSNBC had never heard of a DEI.

00:56:40.380 How is that even possible?

00:56:41.380 Well, anyway, teen mental health is way down.

00:56:49.540 No surprise.

00:56:50.520 It's mostly the devices.

00:56:52.000 It's a TikTok effect, as well as other things.

00:56:54.340 But let me end with my big post that got about a million views.

00:57:01.920 When I argue politics with people, which I do all day long,

00:57:05.800 I often think that it's not a difference of opinion.

00:57:10.980 It's a difference of skill.

00:57:13.680 Do you ever have that feeling?

00:57:15.480 I don't think you have a difference of opinion.

00:57:18.420 I think we have different skill.

00:57:21.200 And when I look at the risks and the rewards,

00:57:23.800 I'm including all of the risks and all the rewards,

00:57:26.560 and you seem to be skipping a few,

00:57:28.660 meaning that you don't have the skill

00:57:30.160 to even just look at the facts we both look at

00:57:33.320 and put them together in a coherent way.

00:57:36.140 Now, if you think that's too much of a generalization,

00:57:40.020 let me give you some examples of what Democrats don't seem to know.

00:57:43.980 And for some reason, Republicans just have better business sense.

00:57:50.520 They just seem to know how things work

00:57:52.140 with incentives and money and stuff.

00:57:54.320 So here's just a quick list of what Democrats don't seem to know.

00:57:59.180 They don't understand how bank loans work

00:58:01.500 or the difference between cash and physical assets.

00:58:04.920 And we saw that with all the Trump valuing of things.

00:58:08.140 They didn't know how the loan process works.

00:58:10.420 They thought the bank took the word of the borrower.

00:58:14.680 No, you just don't understand how that works.

00:58:17.400 So Kevin O'Leary tried to explain it to CNN,

00:58:20.180 and they were like, what?

00:58:22.220 Because they literally didn't know

00:58:23.660 that what Trump did was normal business.

00:58:27.420 They also didn't know that he couldn't easily pay $400 million

00:58:30.420 because they didn't know the difference

00:58:31.940 between cash and physical assets

00:58:33.840 or somehow didn't think that was important.

00:58:37.780 These are really basic things, folks.

00:58:40.840 I'll just go through the other things they didn't know.

00:58:42.720 They don't understand that money makes the news

00:58:45.860 and science mostly fake.

00:58:48.400 Mostly.

00:58:49.980 They don't know that.

00:58:51.760 Democrats don't know the news is mostly fake

00:58:54.360 because of the influence of money

00:58:55.980 and that the science is mostly fake

00:58:58.840 because of the influence of money.

00:59:00.920 How do you live in the world and not know that?

00:59:03.260 But they don't.

00:59:06.480 A real basic, basic thing you need to know

00:59:10.280 to understand your world.

00:59:12.780 Right?

00:59:12.860 They don't understand that DEI is a supply problem,

00:59:18.540 not a demand problem.

00:59:20.080 The most basic thing you need to understand

00:59:23.040 about their own program,

00:59:25.980 diversity, equity, inclusion,

00:59:27.380 is that the supply is not great enough

00:59:30.940 to fill all the jobs

00:59:33.500 and get to the right ratio of the public

00:59:35.900 unless they massively lower their standards

00:59:39.580 and that in the real world,

00:59:41.900 the hiring professionals

00:59:42.940 will immediately lower their standards

00:59:45.040 because they know they're going to be judged

00:59:46.820 on the diversity thing.

00:59:49.200 I would.

00:59:50.440 If you take me back to corporate America

00:59:52.780 and you say,

00:59:53.920 Scott, at the end of the year,

00:59:55.640 we're going to look at your percentage of diversity

00:59:58.780 and your bonus will depend on it.

01:00:01.300 I will hit that target every time

01:00:02.700 and I will lower my standards

01:00:06.080 as much as I need to to make it happen.

01:00:09.060 And then if doing that

01:00:10.540 causes my output to be bad in my project,

01:00:14.620 I'll get a new job.

01:00:17.100 That's what I'll do.

01:00:18.340 I'll take your money for the diversity 0.97

01:00:21.220 and then if I think that I went too low

01:00:24.380 in my hiring standards that I can't succeed,

01:00:26.780 I'll just leave for another job.

01:00:28.860 I'll take your bonus and I'll go get a raise.

01:00:31.560 That's what I'd do.

01:00:33.120 And I would do that over and over again.

01:00:34.960 I'd do it all day long.

01:00:36.720 But I'll tell you what I'm not going to do.

01:00:38.940 The impossible.

01:00:40.780 I'm not going to do the impossible.

01:00:43.160 Here's the best way to explain this concept.

01:00:46.400 If Google and Apple

01:00:47.880 tried really hard to improve their diversity

01:00:51.660 up to the level that matches the population,

01:00:55.060 they would absorb 100%

01:00:57.440 of all the qualified, diverse people.

01:01:01.200 Not because people in the diverse groups

01:01:05.220 are less good genetically or culturally.

01:01:09.720 Just the pipeline has not provided them.

01:01:11.760 So the failure of mostly the teachers' unions 0.97

01:01:18.320 keeps the schools pathetic 0.75

01:01:20.460 so that only rich people can get good educations. 0.99

01:01:24.580 That's the true source of systemic racism.

01:01:27.640 And that's the only way you can get

01:01:29.760 to a place where the population looks like,

01:01:33.300 or that the population and your employees

01:01:36.000 look roughly similar.

01:01:37.640 The only way.

01:01:39.820 The only way is to start when they're children.

01:01:43.980 If you're trying to fix it

01:01:45.420 after everybody's an adult,

01:01:47.120 it doesn't work logically.

01:01:50.160 It doesn't work.

01:01:50.800 The math doesn't work.

01:01:52.160 How do you not know that?

01:01:54.160 The single most important part of the whole DEI,

01:01:59.240 they don't seem to understand.

01:02:01.400 They don't argue against it, by the way.

01:02:03.900 They act like it doesn't exist or something.

01:02:06.460 And the other thing about DEI they don't understand

01:02:10.180 is that it has an impact on other people.

01:02:14.420 It makes other people think you're incompetent.

01:02:17.560 How is that good for you?

01:02:19.320 Is that what you want?

01:02:21.820 All right.

01:02:22.920 They don't understand how free speech works

01:02:25.300 because they still think that they should limit speech

01:02:29.460 they don't like.

01:02:30.700 That is a basic misunderstanding

01:02:32.560 of what the whole free speech thing is.

01:02:34.400 We always had free speech to say things

01:02:37.240 the government agrees with.

01:02:39.320 Russia has free speech that way.

01:02:41.860 They don't understand that the very thing

01:02:44.040 they think is the exception

01:02:45.760 is the entire purpose of free speech,

01:02:48.760 is that you don't get to tell me

01:02:50.820 what's your exception that I can't talk about.

01:02:54.300 They don't understand it.

01:02:55.780 Like, actually, literally, they don't understand it.

01:02:57.860 They think the experts are telling the truth.

01:03:02.580 They've not caught on that the experts,

01:03:04.820 because of money,

01:03:05.920 are pretty much winging it,

01:03:07.980 just making it up.

01:03:10.760 They don't understand the degree

01:03:13.580 to which their own opinions

01:03:14.840 are the result of intentional brainwashing

01:03:17.700 by their own team.

01:03:20.100 They don't know.

01:03:20.960 Now, that could also apply

01:03:23.800 to a number of Republicans,

01:03:25.200 but I feel like the Democrats

01:03:28.200 are uniquely hypnotized

01:03:30.020 because when a conservative watches CNN,

01:03:34.620 you know, they just say,

01:03:35.740 oh, that's BS, that's BS the whole time.

01:03:38.640 So that at least,

01:03:40.300 and even I would say that

01:03:41.700 conservatives also are far more likely

01:03:44.440 to criticize Fox News, right?

01:03:48.460 You see lots of Republicans

01:03:50.680 criticizing Fox News.

01:03:52.360 So if they're criticizing

01:03:53.500 both the news on both sides,

01:03:55.840 they're far less likely to get hypnotized.

01:03:58.520 But they will,

01:04:00.080 but just to a smaller degree.

01:04:03.100 But if you're a Democrat,

01:04:04.520 you probably have no idea

01:04:05.600 that your opinions actually

01:04:07.140 didn't come from your own head.

01:04:09.780 And they didn't.

01:04:11.400 Never.

01:04:12.520 They came from the media.

01:04:13.700 The media signed them opinions,

01:04:15.200 and they think that they're

01:04:16.060 their own opinions.

01:04:16.860 That's a basic misunderstanding

01:04:18.900 of how anything works.

01:04:24.580 They don't understand

01:04:25.600 that school choice

01:04:26.400 is really the only way

01:04:27.620 to escape the clutches

01:04:28.920 of the teachers' unions.

01:04:30.840 It's like they don't get

01:04:31.980 the whole free market thing,

01:04:33.740 that competition is the only thing

01:04:35.120 that ever works.

01:04:37.060 They don't understand

01:04:38.080 the necessity of nuclear power.

01:04:40.200 They're coming around,

01:04:41.820 but still all of the resistance

01:04:45.580 is on the left.

01:04:47.760 And it's because

01:04:48.480 they don't understand it.

01:04:50.260 They don't understand

01:04:51.440 the pluses and the minuses.

01:04:53.000 They don't understand

01:04:53.760 it's green.

01:04:54.320 They don't understand

01:04:54.900 there's no other way

01:04:55.540 to get to where we want to get.

01:04:58.100 They think the temperature

01:04:59.180 of the planet

01:04:59.820 can be accurately measured.

01:05:04.220 To me,

01:05:04.800 I think that's just funny.

01:05:06.100 You would have to have

01:05:06.840 no experience

01:05:07.620 in the real world

01:05:08.600 to think that those

01:05:10.240 could be measured.

01:05:10.880 I have two thermostats

01:05:13.620 sitting in one room,

01:05:15.300 which I checked

01:05:17.220 before I came on.

01:05:19.360 They're both professional.

01:05:21.040 I purchased thermostats.

01:05:23.100 One is a digital

01:05:23.980 and one is a Mercury.

01:05:27.340 They're about 10 degrees off.

01:05:29.240 They sit right next

01:05:29.880 to each other.

01:05:31.280 About 10 degrees.

01:05:33.880 One is 55

01:05:35.300 and one is 65.

01:05:37.980 They're right next

01:05:38.900 to each other.

01:05:41.720 How accurate are thermometers?

01:05:45.360 I mean,

01:05:46.180 to imagine

01:05:46.960 that in the real world

01:05:48.160 you can measure

01:05:48.860 the temperature

01:05:49.560 of the Earth.

01:05:51.920 That's really,

01:05:54.140 you have to be really gullible

01:05:55.460 to believe that.

01:05:57.000 And they do.

01:05:58.580 And I think

01:05:59.300 you could only believe that

01:06:00.300 if you didn't have much

01:06:01.360 experience in the real world.

01:06:04.040 If you worked for a company

01:06:05.540 and the company told you

01:06:07.420 that they were measuring

01:06:08.200 the temperature of the Earth

01:06:09.300 and you worked

01:06:10.040 for the company,

01:06:11.460 would you believe

01:06:12.060 it was true?

01:06:14.120 If it was a company,

01:06:16.020 if your own company

01:06:17.820 said,

01:06:18.940 yeah,

01:06:19.060 we're measuring

01:06:19.680 the temperature of the Earth

01:06:20.720 and we're getting it

01:06:21.440 to within a tenth of a degree.

01:06:23.520 No,

01:06:24.100 because you would know

01:06:24.780 enough about your own company

01:06:26.000 to know that

01:06:26.560 that's not possible.

01:06:28.460 You know,

01:06:28.660 you've seen your coworkers.

01:06:30.380 No,

01:06:30.820 they're not measuring

01:06:31.460 the temperature of the Earth.

01:06:32.500 All right.

01:06:35.300 At least not accurately.

01:06:37.560 They think that

01:06:38.380 unlimited empathy

01:06:39.360 for immigrants

01:06:40.680 will work out well. 1.00

01:06:43.480 How dumb do you have to be 1.00

01:06:44.920 to believe that 1.00

01:06:46.200 giving your things

01:06:47.720 to an infinite group

01:06:50.360 of people

01:06:50.780 who want your things

01:06:51.740 can ever work out well?

01:06:55.100 In what possible world

01:06:56.780 can that work?

01:06:58.120 But they think it will.

01:06:59.140 That's a basic understanding

01:07:01.100 of human incentives

01:07:02.380 and maybe the population

01:07:04.280 of the world

01:07:04.960 and maybe a few other things

01:07:06.280 that I thought

01:07:06.840 every adult understood.

01:07:09.620 They think there are

01:07:10.500 too many humans

01:07:11.300 in the world.

01:07:13.120 No,

01:07:14.160 there are too few.

01:07:15.820 By far,

01:07:16.660 the biggest risk

01:07:17.380 is declining population.

01:07:19.160 By far.

01:07:19.780 It's not even close.

01:07:20.840 The risk of overpopulation

01:07:22.360 in a few pockets

01:07:25.120 of maybe a few countries,

01:07:26.780 but not in general.

01:07:27.560 But they have that

01:07:29.060 completely backwards.

01:07:31.540 They think that

01:07:32.320 national debt

01:07:33.040 is not that big

01:07:34.120 of an issue

01:07:34.620 because unlike

01:07:36.460 the Republicans

01:07:37.080 are not yelling

01:07:37.800 about it every day.

01:07:39.420 Now,

01:07:39.920 I would argue

01:07:40.400 that neither side

01:07:41.120 is taking it seriously.

01:07:42.880 But one side

01:07:44.240 at least is talking

01:07:44.980 about it

01:07:45.500 and saying it's serious.

01:07:47.620 Whereas the Democrats,

01:07:48.940 I don't even hear them.

01:07:50.420 When was the last time

01:07:51.280 you heard a Democrat

01:07:51.920 say the debt

01:07:52.520 was too big?

01:07:53.980 I don't know

01:07:54.940 if I've heard it

01:07:55.520 in a year or two.

01:07:57.560 Hmm.

01:07:59.000 They think releasing

01:08:00.280 criminals from jail

01:08:01.320 improves the lives

01:08:02.520 for some groups

01:08:04.320 of people.

01:08:06.320 In what world

01:08:07.620 does that ever work?

01:08:09.340 Do you think

01:08:09.980 if you release

01:08:11.220 more criminals

01:08:11.900 that because 1.00

01:08:13.240 the black population

01:08:14.540 has a higher percentage

01:08:15.740 of people

01:08:16.220 going through

01:08:16.720 the justice system,

01:08:17.980 that if you can

01:08:19.020 reverse that

01:08:20.040 so that there are 0.98

01:08:21.240 fewer black Americans 0.98

01:08:22.540 going through

01:08:23.100 the justice system,

01:08:24.060 do you think

01:08:25.360 that's going

01:08:25.760 to improve

01:08:26.100 the lives

01:08:26.660 of black Americans?

01:08:29.320 So releasing 1.00

01:08:30.880 the black criminals 1.00

01:08:32.000 back into the 1.00

01:08:32.840 black communities, 0.65

01:08:33.760 which mostly

01:08:34.820 they would go,

01:08:35.920 that's going

01:08:36.320 to make the 1.00

01:08:36.860 poor black people 0.99

01:08:38.760 who live 1.00

01:08:39.200 in these depressed

01:08:40.240 areas,

01:08:40.880 that's going

01:08:41.780 to make their

01:08:42.120 life better?

01:08:43.580 Do they not

01:08:44.420 understand that

01:08:44.980 nobody's life

01:08:45.580 would be better?

01:08:47.280 It's not possible.

01:08:48.780 Putting criminals

01:08:49.560 in jail

01:08:50.120 is really bad

01:08:51.340 for the criminal

01:08:51.960 but it's the only

01:08:53.720 thing that protects

01:08:54.400 society.

01:08:56.480 How do you not

01:08:57.240 understand that?

01:08:59.380 They think

01:09:00.120 removing guns

01:09:00.920 from citizens

01:09:01.700 doesn't create

01:09:03.220 any extra risk

01:09:04.380 of government

01:09:05.540 abuse.

01:09:07.100 Come on! 0.61

01:09:09.580 Come on! 0.61

01:09:11.180 Really?

01:09:12.180 Because Joe Biden

01:09:13.140 told them he has

01:09:13.920 nuclear weapons

01:09:14.820 and the nuclear

01:09:15.820 weapons are better

01:09:16.600 than their guns.

01:09:17.580 So,

01:09:18.920 no,

01:09:19.780 they don't

01:09:20.120 understand anything.

01:09:21.340 An armed

01:09:22.120 population

01:09:22.900 can solve

01:09:25.160 a lot of

01:09:25.540 problems.

01:09:26.360 It's just that

01:09:26.860 we haven't had

01:09:27.360 the problem

01:09:27.780 that we need

01:09:28.240 to solve.

01:09:29.160 Do you know

01:09:29.460 why?

01:09:29.920 Because we've

01:09:30.440 got a lot

01:09:30.760 of guns.

01:09:32.160 So,

01:09:32.380 the problem

01:09:33.340 that would

01:09:34.660 be solved

01:09:35.200 by guns

01:09:35.880 doesn't arise

01:09:37.360 because you'd 1.00

01:09:38.880 be stupid. 1.00

01:09:39.740 Too many guns. 1.00

01:09:43.700 And no,

01:09:44.540 they would never

01:09:44.980 be shooting

01:09:45.440 at nuclear

01:09:45.880 weapons.

01:09:46.440 They'd be

01:09:46.720 shooting at 0.73

01:09:47.240 the relatives 0.78

01:09:48.000 of the people

01:09:48.560 who did this

01:09:49.140 to them.

01:09:49.480 All right.

01:09:53.580 Democrats

01:09:54.020 actually believe

01:09:55.040 that if the

01:09:55.620 court doesn't

01:09:56.280 find a crime

01:09:57.080 that it

01:09:57.440 didn't happen.

01:09:58.980 Come on! 0.61

01:10:00.780 Come on! 0.61

01:10:02.400 Really?

01:10:03.260 You believe

01:10:04.040 that if you

01:10:04.460 didn't find

01:10:04.980 the crime,

01:10:06.120 usually because

01:10:07.180 somebody didn't

01:10:07.840 have standing

01:10:08.420 or it was

01:10:08.940 too late,

01:10:09.760 we're talking

01:10:10.220 about the

01:10:10.560 election in

01:10:11.020 this case,

01:10:12.080 that it

01:10:13.020 didn't happen.

01:10:14.260 They think

01:10:14.640 that about

01:10:14.980 the Biden

01:10:15.400 crime family,

01:10:16.060 that if

01:10:17.120 you can't

01:10:17.600 name the

01:10:18.140 specific crime

01:10:20.120 that somebody

01:10:20.660 witnessed,

01:10:21.920 that you

01:10:22.260 can't tell

01:10:22.720 that a

01:10:23.160 massive criminal

01:10:23.920 enterprise was

01:10:24.780 an operation.

01:10:26.200 Really?

01:10:27.100 You can't

01:10:27.540 tell?

01:10:28.740 Everybody

01:10:29.240 can tell.

01:10:32.340 They think,

01:10:33.340 Democrats

01:10:33.820 think that

01:10:34.340 their kids

01:10:34.760 are looking

01:10:35.140 at Trump

01:10:35.600 as a role

01:10:36.220 model and

01:10:37.280 that if

01:10:37.620 somebody with

01:10:38.180 his terrible

01:10:38.780 character,

01:10:39.440 they say,

01:10:40.300 becomes president,

01:10:41.220 next thing

01:10:41.600 you know,

01:10:41.980 the children

01:10:42.740 will have

01:10:43.180 orange hair

01:10:43.740 and will be

01:10:44.860 paying off

01:10:45.300 porn stars.

01:10:46.300 No,

01:10:46.560 they won't.

01:10:47.560 Children are

01:10:48.160 not looking

01:10:48.760 at the

01:10:49.060 president as

01:10:49.800 their role

01:10:50.160 model.

01:10:51.140 It's just

01:10:51.600 their friends.

01:10:52.800 That's it.

01:10:53.740 You'd be

01:10:54.100 lucky if

01:10:54.500 they looked

01:10:54.800 at their

01:10:55.080 parents.

01:10:56.400 But they're

01:10:56.680 definitely not

01:10:57.240 looking at

01:10:57.700 80-year-old

01:10:58.320 men to

01:10:58.860 figure out

01:10:59.240 their role

01:10:59.600 models.

01:11:00.540 No.

01:11:00.940 You don't

01:11:01.360 need to

01:11:01.720 keep Trump

01:11:02.300 out of

01:11:02.580 office because

01:11:03.600 your child

01:11:04.120 is going

01:11:04.460 to get

01:11:04.680 orange hair

01:11:05.200 and pay 1.00

01:11:06.520 a hooker. 1.00

01:11:07.980 All right. 1.00

01:11:10.280 They think

01:11:12.160 that there's

01:11:12.960 no big

01:11:13.300 risk from

01:11:13.760 TikTok

01:11:14.040 compared to

01:11:15.100 American

01:11:15.580 controlled

01:11:16.100 media.

01:11:17.240 Now,

01:11:17.780 I don't

01:11:18.000 need to

01:11:18.260 go through

01:11:18.520 that whole

01:11:18.880 argument,

01:11:19.420 but you'd

01:11:20.200 have to

01:11:20.460 really not

01:11:20.920 understand

01:11:21.440 anything about

01:11:22.180 the world

01:11:22.640 to think

01:11:23.600 that TikTok

01:11:24.060 is not

01:11:24.660 an extra

01:11:25.280 large risk

01:11:26.080 compared to

01:11:26.740 an American

01:11:27.180 company.

01:11:27.680 you'd have

01:11:28.860 to not

01:11:29.380 understand that

01:11:30.040 at all.

01:11:33.040 They don't

01:11:33.840 understand why

01:11:34.500 half of

01:11:34.940 their own

01:11:35.380 kids,

01:11:35.940 let's say

01:11:36.380 you've got

01:11:36.660 four kids

01:11:37.280 and two

01:11:37.800 of them

01:11:38.120 are non-binary

01:11:39.180 or trans

01:11:39.920 or something,

01:11:40.700 they don't

01:11:41.120 understand why

01:11:41.660 half of their

01:11:42.140 own kids

01:11:42.560 are suddenly

01:11:43.060 LGBTQ

01:11:43.700 against all

01:11:45.400 odds.

01:11:46.600 They think

01:11:47.360 it's a

01:11:47.700 coincidence.

01:11:49.700 It's not a

01:11:50.600 coincidence.

01:11:51.720 It's TikTok.

01:11:52.540 They don't

01:11:54.740 understand the

01:11:55.400 basic way

01:11:56.500 that anybody

01:11:57.600 comes to an

01:11:58.260 opinion about

01:11:58.920 anything.

01:11:59.620 They don't

01:12:00.180 know that

01:12:00.500 they're

01:12:00.700 brainwashed 0.93

01:12:01.320 and they 0.63

01:12:02.160 don't know

01:12:02.520 that their

01:12:02.860 children are 0.69

01:12:03.320 brainwashed.

01:12:04.520 They think

01:12:05.000 that just

01:12:05.500 a weird

01:12:06.740 coincidence,

01:12:07.380 half of my

01:12:07.760 children are

01:12:08.300 LGBTQ,

01:12:09.400 against the

01:12:09.820 odds.

01:12:12.660 Now,

01:12:13.280 I could

01:12:13.500 probably go

01:12:13.980 on forever,

01:12:15.600 but my

01:12:16.260 basic point

01:12:16.900 is smart

01:12:18.360 people don't

01:12:19.100 disagree as

01:12:19.760 much as you

01:12:20.240 think they

01:12:20.640 would.

01:12:22.540 smart people

01:12:24.160 don't disagree

01:12:25.880 with each

01:12:26.340 other,

01:12:27.100 not nearly

01:12:27.980 as much

01:12:28.340 as you

01:12:28.760 think they

01:12:29.100 would.

01:12:29.380 Let me

01:12:29.560 give you

01:12:29.780 an example.

01:12:31.080 Bill

01:12:31.280 Ackman 0.95

01:12:31.740 got involved

01:12:33.360 in the

01:12:33.740 Harvard

01:12:34.120 stuff.

01:12:35.320 Bill

01:12:35.460 Ackman's 0.97

01:12:35.880 a Democrat,

01:12:37.120 but he's

01:12:38.520 a smart

01:12:38.900 one.

01:12:39.760 He doesn't

01:12:40.420 seem to

01:12:40.820 have any

01:12:41.200 of the

01:12:41.600 problems

01:12:42.200 I just

01:12:42.620 mentioned.

01:12:43.560 I'll bet

01:12:43.900 you,

01:12:44.460 I'll bet

01:12:44.840 you if I

01:12:45.180 gave a

01:12:45.520 quiz to

01:12:46.240 Ackman,

01:12:47.640 said,

01:12:47.940 all right,

01:12:48.760 how many

01:12:49.140 of these

01:12:49.440 things that

01:12:50.000 a lot of

01:12:50.760 Democrats

01:12:51.200 believe,

01:12:51.760 how many

01:12:52.020 do you

01:12:52.340 believe?

01:12:54.040 Probably

01:12:54.480 none.

01:12:55.800 I'll bet

01:12:56.160 he would

01:12:56.440 get the

01:12:56.720 quiz 100%.

01:12:57.600 Now let's

01:12:59.300 give the

01:12:59.580 same quiz

01:13:00.080 to Elon

01:13:00.520 Musk.

01:13:02.740 100%.

01:13:03.180 You get

01:13:04.320 100%.

01:13:04.960 Now you

01:13:05.680 put Elon

01:13:06.180 Musk and

01:13:06.860 Ackman in 0.96

01:13:07.460 the same

01:13:07.780 room.

01:13:08.060 Do they

01:13:08.240 have anything

01:13:08.600 to disagree

01:13:09.200 about?

01:13:09.960 Well,

01:13:10.160 they could

01:13:10.360 find

01:13:10.620 something,

01:13:11.500 but basically

01:13:12.600 they're on

01:13:12.960 the same

01:13:13.260 page.

01:13:14.740 And I

01:13:15.400 would argue

01:13:15.860 that everybody

01:13:16.880 smart is

01:13:17.460 always on

01:13:17.820 the same

01:13:18.140 page,

01:13:18.460 if they

01:13:20.160 have the

01:13:20.380 same

01:13:20.560 information.

01:13:21.980 Now sometimes

01:13:22.480 there's a

01:13:22.920 different

01:13:23.160 priority

01:13:23.920 preference,

01:13:24.840 you know,

01:13:25.020 there might

01:13:25.220 be a little

01:13:25.480 bias,

01:13:25.880 but you

01:13:26.060 can usually

01:13:26.520 suss that

01:13:27.080 out pretty

01:13:27.460 quickly.

01:13:28.280 For example,

01:13:29.760 I'm generally

01:13:30.560 pretty rational,

01:13:32.060 except maybe

01:13:32.660 not about

01:13:33.200 fentanyl.

01:13:34.600 Would you

01:13:35.000 agree?

01:13:36.420 So, I

01:13:36.900 mean, but

01:13:37.280 if a smart

01:13:38.520 person talked

01:13:39.220 to me about

01:13:39.780 fentanyl,

01:13:40.760 they would

01:13:41.120 just immediately

01:13:41.680 know I have

01:13:42.280 a bias and

01:13:43.060 they could

01:13:43.960 deal with that.

01:13:44.460 But in

01:13:45.760 general, if

01:13:46.760 you take

01:13:47.080 away the

01:13:47.640 major biases,

01:13:49.740 the smart

01:13:50.160 people all

01:13:50.660 agree.

01:13:51.660 Now, I

01:13:52.140 was waiting

01:13:52.480 for this.

01:13:53.380 I see the

01:13:54.220 name Mark

01:13:54.700 Cuban in

01:13:55.260 the comments

01:13:55.820 because your

01:13:57.100 point, I

01:13:59.100 assume, is

01:14:00.580 that then how

01:14:01.280 do you explain

01:14:01.760 Mark Cuban if

01:14:03.240 all smart

01:14:03.760 people agree?

01:14:05.300 Well, I

01:14:06.100 can't get into

01:14:06.680 his head, but

01:14:08.140 my working

01:14:08.840 hypothesis is

01:14:09.880 that he's

01:14:10.380 doing a

01:14:10.780 performance.

01:14:13.520 That's it.

01:14:14.940 I think

01:14:15.460 you're just

01:14:15.740 seeing a

01:14:16.040 performance.

01:14:17.060 It's kind

01:14:17.500 of a good

01:14:17.820 one, kind

01:14:18.620 of enjoying

01:14:19.000 the show.

01:14:20.600 Now, he

01:14:21.260 said directly

01:14:22.420 that he

01:14:23.320 enjoys getting

01:14:24.140 people stirred

01:14:24.960 up.

01:14:26.900 But when I

01:14:27.720 see the

01:14:28.160 quality of

01:14:28.800 his arguments,

01:14:30.240 it seems

01:14:30.780 very clear

01:14:31.640 to me

01:14:34.120 that it's

01:14:34.840 a performance.

01:14:36.500 Why?

01:14:37.420 Could be a

01:14:38.120 variety of

01:14:38.540 reasons.

01:14:39.160 But no, I

01:14:39.620 don't believe

01:14:40.060 that what you

01:14:40.560 hear in

01:14:40.960 public

01:14:41.480 necessarily

01:14:43.340 matches what

01:14:44.040 he thinks

01:14:44.400 privately.

01:14:45.860 I think

01:14:46.540 he's got a

01:14:47.300 bigger play.

01:14:48.340 Whatever the

01:14:48.800 bigger play

01:14:49.340 is, that

01:14:50.380 has more to

01:14:50.980 do with the

01:14:51.300 explanation.

01:14:54.300 All right.

01:14:55.280 So that is

01:14:56.100 my show for

01:14:56.660 today.

01:14:59.740 Being bad

01:15:00.500 at analyzing

01:15:01.120 risks and

01:15:01.840 costs of

01:15:02.260 things is

01:15:02.840 very different

01:15:03.340 from disagreeing.

01:15:08.600 All right.

01:15:09.340 Am I an

01:15:09.840 atheist?

01:15:10.460 Well, that's

01:15:10.720 an interesting

01:15:11.160 question in

01:15:11.800 the comments.

01:15:12.480 The answer

01:15:12.820 is no.

01:15:15.260 An atheist 1.00

01:15:15.980 has some

01:15:16.600 certainty about

01:15:18.400 the nature of

01:15:19.060 reality, and

01:15:20.640 I think

01:15:20.920 certainty is

01:15:21.580 always a

01:15:21.880 mistake.

01:15:24.180 I don't

01:15:24.940 believe in

01:15:25.780 a God with

01:15:26.620 a personality.

01:15:28.160 I can say

01:15:28.960 that.

01:15:30.700 The odds of

01:15:31.700 having a God

01:15:32.420 with a

01:15:32.780 personality,

01:15:34.300 pretty low.

01:15:36.020 The odds

01:15:36.700 of a,

01:15:37.740 let's say,

01:15:38.600 an entity

01:15:39.120 that was

01:15:40.240 somehow

01:15:40.660 instrumental in

01:15:42.020 our existence,

01:15:43.160 pretty good.

01:15:44.700 Pretty good.

01:15:45.960 I mean, but

01:15:46.340 the entity

01:15:46.740 could have

01:15:47.080 been a

01:15:47.340 group of

01:15:47.680 programmers.

01:15:48.960 Now that

01:15:49.620 we know

01:15:50.000 we could

01:15:52.080 make artificial

01:15:52.940 people who

01:15:53.660 think they're

01:15:54.040 real, the

01:15:55.540 simulation

01:15:56.260 hypothesis, I

01:15:57.320 think, has

01:15:57.780 to be taken

01:15:58.600 as the

01:15:58.980 primary explanation

01:16:01.100 for our

01:16:01.720 experience, and

01:16:03.360 anything else

01:16:03.840 would be

01:16:04.120 subsidiary to

01:16:04.920 that, in

01:16:05.420 my personal

01:16:06.760 opinion.

01:16:07.080 Now, I'm

01:16:10.040 also very

01:16:10.680 pro-religion.

01:16:12.600 So if you

01:16:13.300 can find a

01:16:14.160 way to

01:16:14.580 believe in

01:16:15.060 God and

01:16:15.720 build a

01:16:16.140 world around

01:16:16.660 that, that's

01:16:17.700 a real

01:16:17.900 successful

01:16:18.400 model.

01:16:19.640 People have

01:16:20.060 been doing

01:16:20.380 it for

01:16:20.620 years, and

01:16:21.060 it works

01:16:21.320 really well.

01:16:23.260 Why not a

01:16:24.080 God with a

01:16:24.580 personality?

01:16:25.500 Because it

01:16:26.300 seems very

01:16:26.820 unlikely that

01:16:28.020 a God

01:16:28.460 would have

01:16:29.560 flaws.

01:16:31.260 Our

01:16:31.760 personality is

01:16:32.580 mostly our

01:16:33.080 flaws.

01:16:34.940 It's just

01:16:35.620 that we've

01:16:36.040 romanticized them

01:16:36.960 so we

01:16:37.220 don't think

01:16:37.600 of it that

01:16:37.960 way.

01:16:39.740 Take any

01:16:40.460 element of

01:16:41.020 your personality,

01:16:43.340 just anything.

01:16:45.220 I like

01:16:46.080 vanilla ice

01:16:47.360 cream more

01:16:48.020 than chocolate.

01:16:50.480 Well, God

01:16:50.980 doesn't need a

01:16:51.480 preference.

01:16:53.500 I'm afraid

01:16:54.380 of water,

01:16:56.940 but not

01:16:58.140 dogs.

01:17:00.260 God's not

01:17:00.920 afraid of

01:17:01.280 water or

01:17:01.700 dogs.

01:17:03.300 So how in

01:17:04.100 the world

01:17:04.420 would God

01:17:05.180 have a

01:17:05.500 personality?

01:17:06.960 How about

01:17:07.520 love?

01:17:09.360 Love is a

01:17:10.300 chemical reaction

01:17:11.140 in our

01:17:11.460 brains that

01:17:12.400 makes us

01:17:12.800 jealous and

01:17:13.760 crazy and 0.73

01:17:14.980 irrational. 0.72

01:17:16.420 Would God

01:17:17.220 have something

01:17:18.300 that makes

01:17:18.740 God crazy

01:17:19.600 and irrational?

01:17:21.120 No.

01:17:22.340 So every

01:17:22.840 time you think

01:17:23.340 of anything

01:17:23.720 that's part

01:17:24.480 of what you

01:17:25.020 call your

01:17:25.420 personality,

01:17:26.500 it wouldn't

01:17:27.660 make sense

01:17:28.340 for an

01:17:29.000 omnipotent

01:17:29.720 being to

01:17:30.280 have any

01:17:30.620 of that.

01:17:30.980 love?

01:17:33.540 Why would

01:17:34.560 God ever

01:17:35.060 be unhappy?

01:17:36.920 If God

01:17:37.840 could feel

01:17:38.840 emotions, and

01:17:39.960 that would be a

01:17:40.460 big question,

01:17:41.340 why would God

01:17:42.180 even have

01:17:42.660 emotions?

01:17:43.900 What would

01:17:44.480 be the

01:17:44.780 purpose of

01:17:45.420 emotions or

01:17:46.700 love if

01:17:47.280 you're a

01:17:47.560 God?

01:17:48.360 It wouldn't

01:17:48.940 have any

01:17:49.280 function.

01:17:50.660 The things we

01:17:52.260 evolved to have

01:17:53.020 like love is

01:17:55.340 just a direct

01:17:56.120 mating instinct 0.90

01:17:57.160 that we

01:17:58.680 romanticize.

01:18:00.080 God doesn't

01:18:00.840 need to

01:18:01.200 mate, so

01:18:02.580 God doesn't

01:18:03.180 need to

01:18:03.620 evolve to

01:18:04.440 have a

01:18:04.920 love instinct

01:18:06.920 in the way

01:18:08.440 that we

01:18:08.720 understand it.

01:18:10.360 Now, there

01:18:10.660 might be

01:18:11.040 something, you

01:18:11.860 could hypothesize

01:18:12.880 there's a

01:18:13.420 God version 0.63

01:18:14.260 of love

01:18:14.820 that we

01:18:16.040 don't

01:18:16.300 understand.

01:18:19.100 There would

01:18:20.060 still be room

01:18:20.580 for that.

01:18:23.000 He needed a

01:18:23.700 day of rest

01:18:24.160 for some

01:18:24.500 reason, if

01:18:26.060 you take it

01:18:26.480 literally.

01:18:27.160 So, by

01:18:32.760 the way,

01:18:33.000 here's an

01:18:33.280 update.

01:18:33.820 I'm updating

01:18:34.480 my book

01:18:35.040 God's Debris.

01:18:36.680 They had a

01:18:37.500 sequel called

01:18:38.120 The Religion

01:18:38.580 War and

01:18:39.620 now has a

01:18:40.580 new, brand

01:18:41.320 new short

01:18:41.980 story that

01:18:43.280 would be

01:18:43.740 part of

01:18:44.120 the three

01:18:45.500 pack.

01:18:47.880 So, we're

01:18:48.460 going to

01:18:48.660 sell a

01:18:48.980 book, working

01:18:50.180 with Joshua

01:18:50.760 Lysak.

01:18:51.400 We're going

01:18:51.640 to sell a

01:18:52.980 book that

01:18:53.380 is the

01:18:54.740 combination of

01:18:55.520 God's Debris,

01:18:56.180 the sequel,

01:18:57.520 The Religion

01:18:57.920 War, and

01:18:58.560 the new

01:18:59.000 short story

01:18:59.840 that you're

01:19:00.420 going to

01:19:00.540 like.

01:19:01.160 You're going

01:19:01.620 to like

01:19:01.860 the short

01:19:02.220 story.

01:19:03.060 It's really

01:19:03.680 powerful.

01:19:04.540 I've never

01:19:04.980 written a

01:19:05.320 short story,

01:19:06.280 but the

01:19:07.280 form really

01:19:07.900 appeals to

01:19:08.440 me because

01:19:09.300 I like

01:19:10.440 brevity.

01:19:11.560 So, I think

01:19:12.680 you'll like it.

01:19:13.360 It might be one

01:19:14.060 of the best

01:19:14.360 things I ever

01:19:14.860 did.

01:19:15.780 And that

01:19:16.540 should be out

01:19:17.020 in a few

01:19:17.400 months.

01:19:17.920 It's going

01:19:18.220 to take

01:19:18.420 several months

01:19:19.060 just to get

01:19:20.040 the cover

01:19:20.840 designed and

01:19:21.820 work through

01:19:22.680 the system.

01:19:23.160 But I

01:19:24.020 think by

01:19:24.380 summer, I

01:19:25.720 think you

01:19:26.000 should see

01:19:26.360 it in the

01:19:26.640 summer.

01:19:27.040 We'll see

01:19:27.380 if everything

01:19:28.680 goes well.

01:19:29.880 All right.

01:19:31.060 That's it for

01:19:31.700 today.

01:19:32.000 I'm going to

01:19:32.300 turn off the

01:19:33.020 Rumble

01:19:33.540 studio.

01:19:34.660 So, I'm

01:19:34.960 going to say

01:19:35.200 goodbye to

01:19:35.780 everybody on

01:19:37.500 here, and

01:19:38.200 then I'm 0.95

01:19:38.480 going to fire

01:19:39.300 up a separate

01:19:40.160 thing for the

01:19:41.660 locals people.

01:19:42.880 My understanding

01:19:43.600 is that Rumble

01:19:44.260 has some kind

01:19:45.040 of a feature

01:19:45.620 where I can

01:19:46.960 lose everybody

01:19:48.480 except subscribers,

01:19:50.020 but I looked

01:19:51.040 for it and

01:19:51.680 cannot find it.

01:19:53.160 I've been

01:20:14.860 going to

01:20:19.220 have a

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 22, 2024

Episode 2421 CWSA 03⧸22⧸24

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