Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2568 CWSA 08⧸16⧸24

00:00:00.000 Now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything

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00:00:21.920 All right, well, let me jump into the science that's exciting, and we'll talk about all

00:00:29.120 the politics, as we always do.

00:00:31.120 Do you know that famous experiment where they take two little toddlers, and they put a marshmallow

00:00:36.820 in front of them, and then they would leave the room after telling them, whatever you

00:00:43.200 do, don't eat the marshmallow, the delicious marshmallow.

00:00:47.080 And then they would see that some kids could do what they were told and avoid the marshmallow.

00:00:53.260 But other kids would look around, and they'd say, nobody's looking, and they'd grab the

00:00:58.240 marshmallow and eat it.

00:00:59.820 Now the science told us that that was an indication that one of those children was genetically defective.

00:01:07.980 Okay, those are my words.

00:01:09.480 But the idea is that some people don't have good emotional control, emotional intelligence.

00:01:15.980 In other words, they can't put off pleasure for later.

00:01:20.540 And so they said, these people will not do well in life.

00:01:23.640 Well, there's some new studies.

00:01:25.540 Guess what?

00:01:26.060 But once you control for all the variables, it turns out you can't really see any difference.

00:01:34.840 This is one of the most famous experiments in all of social science.

00:01:41.520 It had no scientific backing at all.

00:01:47.140 Now, here's what I would have told you if you had asked me.

00:01:50.920 Suppose you wanted to, you know, save all that time and money and incorrect science, and you

00:01:57.800 just came to me and you said, you know, we did this experiment.

00:02:00.980 Sometimes the kid will take the marshmallow and sometimes they won't.

00:02:04.820 Which one do you think will do better in life?

00:02:07.760 What would I say?

00:02:10.460 I would have picked the kid who took the marshmallow.

00:02:13.460 Do you know why?

00:02:14.340 Because the kid who took the marshmallow correctly saw the risk benefit.

00:02:21.300 There was no real risk.

00:02:23.380 Do you think the kid was going to be punished reading marshmallow?

00:02:26.080 No, the kid who takes the marshmallow gets the marshmallow and no punishment.

00:02:34.540 And for how many decades, fucking idiot scientists telling us that the guy who doesn't take the

00:02:41.540 marshmallow is going to win.

00:02:44.100 Which do you think Trump was?

00:02:46.360 Do you think Trump was the toddler who took the marshmallow or the one who left it there

00:02:50.760 for no reason whatsoever?

00:02:52.020 No, Trump took the marshmallow and he's the president of the, or well, he was, he might

00:02:57.940 be again, president of the biggest country in the world, or most powerful, I guess.

00:03:05.700 You know, it's funny, once this is debunked, it becomes so obvious why it wasn't true.

00:03:12.600 Of course you want the risk taker.

00:03:14.740 You want the risk taker, but also the one who took the correct risk.

00:03:19.380 There was not one toddler who was ever punished for taking a marshmallow.

00:03:24.360 The toddlers who knew that and took the marshmallow, they're the ones I want to work for.

00:03:31.340 I mean, those are your Elon Musks and you're the people who make the world a better place.

00:03:36.920 Anyway, that one's funny.

00:03:40.300 There's a, the Guardian's running an article talking about Jonathan Watts.

00:03:46.160 He's in the global environment editor and he's talking about how the climate models are having

00:03:54.220 a, not a small problem with predicting the climate.

00:03:59.280 And the problem is that they don't predict the warming.

00:04:04.640 So apparently we had a few extra warm years, last few years, but the models don't predict

00:04:11.180 them.

00:04:12.660 So would it be legitimate to say that the models can't predict at all?

00:04:21.280 If they can't predict warming, you know, in other words, it warmed in those particular

00:04:26.220 years more than they expected.

00:04:28.180 What can it predict?

00:04:30.060 It's only up or down.

00:04:32.020 If they can't get up, are they getting down?

00:04:34.380 Correct.

00:04:34.700 But I doubt it.

00:04:38.340 So anyway, whenever you've got this many variables, it's not really possible to have a, any kind

00:04:44.800 of a model that predicts.

00:04:46.360 And I'll say this a million times.

00:04:48.520 I hope I'm still alive when everybody agrees.

00:04:51.760 Let me make a prediction that I will stand on.

00:04:56.400 If you told me, would you bet your life on it?

00:04:59.180 This prediction, I'd say, oh yeah, I would totally bet my life on it.

00:05:02.780 Like literally, there's no doubt about this.

00:05:06.760 I don't know if I'll be alive when it happens, but someday we will know the climate models

00:05:12.460 were bullshit.

00:05:13.800 Why?

00:05:14.620 Because nobody can predict the future.

00:05:17.040 It's just not a thing.

00:05:19.040 It's never been a thing.

00:05:20.980 Probably never will be a thing.

00:05:22.660 I don't think AI will do it any better.

00:05:24.560 There are just too many variables.

00:05:26.420 And we have, when you reach a certain number of variables, nothing predicts.

00:05:30.160 And that will never change.

00:05:32.460 It's built into the nature of, you know, the nature of the universe.

00:05:36.380 You get a number of variables.

00:05:38.200 And if you can't know them exactly, and you never can, a few iterations later, the whole

00:05:45.060 model just falls apart.

00:05:46.540 It's a chaos theory.

00:05:47.960 So, the fact that that's not 100% obvious to everybody who's looking at it and everybody's

00:05:54.740 doing the work is a little bit funny.

00:05:58.140 To me, it's like the marshmallow test.

00:06:00.560 The marshmallow test was somewhat obviously bullshit.

00:06:06.100 Somewhat obviously bullshit.

00:06:08.340 And now that it's been debunked, you go, oh, I guess I didn't see that coming.

00:06:12.720 And, well, if you don't see the climate model being debunked in the future, you can't see

00:06:18.760 that at all.

00:06:20.060 You know, are there some of you who just can't imagine that?

00:06:23.520 No, it's 100% certain that they will be debunked someday.

00:06:28.960 I hope it's in my lifetime just so I can enjoy the show.

00:06:33.280 Which, by the way, doesn't mean that the climate is not warming.

00:06:37.760 And it doesn't mean that we should not worry about it.

00:06:40.880 I'm just saying that the models are ridiculous.

00:06:45.640 All right.

00:06:46.920 Likewise, I did see a chart that showed that the CO2 went down quite a bit during the pandemic,

00:06:55.440 but the temperatures didn't.

00:06:58.560 So, is there some kind of weird lag between CO2 and temperature that I'm not aware of?

00:07:06.320 Do the models take that into account?

00:07:09.320 Probably not.

00:07:10.880 Probably not.

00:07:12.240 Here's another scientific hypothesis that's against the mainstream.

00:07:18.200 I'm not sure I would put a high confidence in this.

00:07:22.040 What I like about it is that it's not a mainstream opinion.

00:07:25.600 All right.

00:07:25.840 So, this is not me trying to convince you this opinion is true.

00:07:30.360 I'm just convincing you it's interesting.

00:07:33.220 Maybe something to consider.

00:07:34.840 And this comes from BowtideBiohacker on Axe.

00:07:40.080 And he's claiming that ADHD is not a disorder, it's a phenotype.

00:07:45.600 It means you have OG genetics, that people with ADHD were the elite hunters and gatherers.

00:07:53.020 And that the ADHD people are not broken, they're just being forced to live in a society where ADHD doesn't have its benefits like it would if you were a hunter or a gatherer.

00:08:05.280 Now, the thinking is that if you took those people outdoors and their job was to notice danger and notice opportunities and always be looking around their environment to make sure they're safe, that the ADHD would have some benefit.

00:08:19.600 And that you'd need those people to go out and do the dangerous, unexpected things that other people weren't doing.

00:08:28.560 Now, I'm not sure if I completely buy that because I think there might be some modern things that are exacerbating it.

00:08:37.660 You know, like all of our attention spans are going down.

00:08:41.180 I have a major problem with attention span because there's just so many things going on.

00:08:47.200 So the fact that there are so many things going on and that when I'm falling off to sleep, there are 10,000 things in my head, that's got to be different than how it was in caveman days.

00:08:59.620 So I'm not 100% on board with this, but I love the, here's what I like about it.

00:09:05.580 I think I like it philosophically more than I like it scientifically.

00:09:11.720 Philosophically, I like having the following bias.

00:09:16.020 Nobody's the same.

00:09:17.200 Now, that's a really powerful idea and it doesn't feel like it until you think it through.

00:09:25.600 In our current world, we say, if you're black, you're one of the black people.

00:09:30.260 So we got to treat you like one of the black people.

00:09:32.780 If you're a woman, well, you're one of the women.

00:09:35.920 We got to treat you like the women.

00:09:37.580 And then we argue about who's a woman and we argue about who's black.

00:09:40.900 And we get all these unnecessary fights.

00:09:44.500 Every one of these fights is completely unproductive, illogical, and off point.

00:09:49.240 Here's what we should be doing.

00:09:52.160 Treating everybody like there's no other person like them.

00:09:56.520 If I meet an ADHD person, I don't say, this person's broken.

00:10:00.700 I say, everybody's completely different.

00:10:03.980 And the very next person I meet, whether or not they have ADHD, is going to be completely

00:10:09.380 different from that guy and me and everybody else.

00:10:13.540 And that is the most, by far, the most useful filter you can put out in the world.

00:10:24.300 Here's the difference.

00:10:25.700 If somebody comes to me and says, I'm black, so you have to help me, I say, fuck you.

00:10:30.880 Everybody's got problems and yours are not special or magical.

00:10:34.280 And there's no reason whatsoever I should help you versus the next 10 people who come up and

00:10:38.880 ask for my help.

00:10:40.000 What makes you so special?

00:10:41.160 Well, the history of the average of the people, to which I say, I don't care.

00:10:47.360 Everybody's got a problem that has a history.

00:10:50.020 Their problems didn't come out of nowhere.

00:10:52.360 They all came out of some history that wasn't so good for a variety of reasons.

00:10:57.780 So, no, I don't give a fuck about your general generic average problems.

00:11:03.160 But if you come to me as an individual who is different from every other individual,

00:11:08.180 maybe part of that difference is that you're black and you're this and that and that, but

00:11:13.780 you're your own thing.

00:11:15.400 There's not another black person who's you.

00:11:18.640 Never.

00:11:19.540 There's not one person who's like one other person.

00:11:22.700 So if that one person says, I'm an individual and I think maybe you have some advice for me

00:11:29.360 or maybe you could connect me with somebody that would help me get what I want.

00:11:34.900 And I would say, what is it you want?

00:11:36.580 And if it's something like, you know, a good life and a good job or something like that,

00:11:40.240 I'll say, yeah, I could help.

00:11:42.580 Why wouldn't I?

00:11:44.360 Why wouldn't I?

00:11:45.140 I wouldn't help if you're making some kind of average general racial comment.

00:11:51.700 No interest at all.

00:11:53.500 But if you come to me as an individual, sure, if it makes sense.

00:11:58.700 If I've got something you need as an individual, I'm all in.

00:12:03.100 All in.

00:12:04.020 So you go from a situation where people are resistant to helping you because you've created

00:12:08.880 this artificial fight of your group against my group.

00:12:12.260 But as soon as you come to me as an individual, all of that goes away.

00:12:17.240 And I just say, I have this.

00:12:19.360 You need that.

00:12:20.480 What you're asking for would take a little work, but not much.

00:12:25.160 It might help you a lot.

00:12:27.280 I'm in.

00:12:29.100 So by far, the most important filter we need is to get back to we're all different.

00:12:36.100 All right.

00:12:36.680 I have a positive prediction.

00:12:42.260 It goes like this.

00:12:44.920 The reason that we're not forming families and having children as much is economics are

00:12:49.660 bad.

00:12:50.820 And there's not enough meaning in it as there used to be.

00:12:57.100 And we used to be economically required.

00:12:59.160 And, you know, you'd build your whole life around it.

00:13:01.880 And divorce was difficult and all those things.

00:13:05.200 But I do think that having to work all day kind of works against the whole family thing.

00:13:12.660 What happens when the robots are doing all the hard work and you don't have to have a

00:13:18.000 great job or even a job at all, maybe, in order to have a good life?

00:13:22.540 Because the robots are making the food, so it's cheap.

00:13:25.020 The robots are making the energy, so it's cheap.

00:13:28.580 You've got your fusion and your nuclear power, so it's cheap.

00:13:31.660 And then suddenly, basically, everybody could have UBI and there's still plenty to go around.

00:13:39.360 What happens then?

00:13:41.160 Well, what I think happens is that people will have no meaning in life if they don't have

00:13:45.540 jobs.

00:13:46.000 I can't even imagine what my life would be like if I didn't have the structure of having,

00:13:52.240 you know, we're not having to always, but going to work.

00:13:55.060 Part of the reason I don't retire when I'm clearly at retirement age is that I like structure.

00:14:02.260 It gives me meaning.

00:14:03.820 If I can do something that any of you at the end of the day say, you know, that's a new

00:14:07.760 way of thinking.

00:14:08.440 I like thinking about that.

00:14:09.860 I go, okay, there, look at me.

00:14:12.080 I did something.

00:14:13.320 Might be useful.

00:14:13.980 If I introduce a new idea or a new filter on how to see something or a new way to analyze

00:14:19.840 something and it affects some of you, I think, good, there we go.

00:14:25.280 There's a little positivity I put into the world and I have meaning.

00:14:29.100 But suppose you took all that away from me and I didn't have a job and I didn't need a

00:14:33.740 job and if I worked a job, nobody would care because the robots could do it better anyway.

00:14:38.640 What would I do then?

00:14:39.720 Well, I think I would have a natural search for meaning and I think I'd say, you know

00:14:47.540 what, why don't I build a little world where I can build some kids?

00:14:52.640 You know, I'll be in a relationship, I'll make some kids and every day I'll wake up and

00:14:57.240 I'll think, hey, what's good for you guys?

00:14:59.500 What's good for the family?

00:15:00.920 And then we would just do those things.

00:15:02.360 So I've got a feeling that one of the unpredictable effects of a robot AI driven world, which we're

00:15:10.520 going to have and fairly quickly, is that it might make having a family easier.

00:15:16.800 Now, it could easily go the other way.

00:15:19.300 So if anybody is a pessimist here and you're saying, no, it could go the other way, totally.

00:15:25.460 It might, but I would say it's unpredictable and our search for meaning might drive us into

00:15:34.080 family structures just for meaning, just so that when you died, you were part of something

00:15:39.560 because you don't need to be part of anything.

00:15:42.040 If the robots are doing it all, you don't even need to join an organization.

00:15:48.440 Basically, you don't need to do much of anything.

00:15:50.600 I'm not even sure if politics will still be a thing in 10 years.

00:15:55.200 Do you know why?

00:15:57.060 Why would politics not even be a thing in 10 years?

00:16:01.660 Because if AI starts telling us what makes sense and what doesn't make sense, what are

00:16:05.860 we going to have to argue about?

00:16:08.660 Right?

00:16:10.320 So the Democrats have a plan.

00:16:12.160 The Republicans have a plan.

00:16:13.400 In our current world, we just use propaganda and brainwashing and nothing useful.

00:16:20.600 To decide what's right or wrong.

00:16:23.000 But suppose AI starts saying things like, price gaps have failed 100% of the time.

00:16:32.560 By the way, do you know what happens if you ask chat GPT if price gaps are good for society?

00:16:39.960 Try it.

00:16:41.780 It'll tell you something that Democrats don't like.

00:16:44.340 It'll tell you that economists say that price gaps fail, and it will give you historical

00:16:49.800 examples of how they failed terribly.

00:16:53.380 And then you ask it, but what's the counterpoint?

00:16:57.260 Like, what's the argument in favor of them?

00:16:59.540 And then it will tell you.

00:17:01.000 It'll say, well, there's this economist who says this or that.

00:17:04.680 And then you ask it, all right, is that a well-regarded opinion?

00:17:08.840 And chat GPT will say, oh, no.

00:17:12.500 No, there are other opinions, but they're not regarded as serious, basically.

00:17:16.880 So this whole price gap thing has exactly one right answer.

00:17:21.480 Don't do price gaps.

00:17:22.780 And I've teased before that you won't see any economists go on MSNBC or CNN for maybe the

00:17:31.920 rest of the election cycle.

00:17:34.580 You might not see another economist on television, except on Fox News, for the rest of the cycle.

00:17:41.740 And the reason is that the price gap is to have zero support among anybody who knows anything

00:17:46.060 about anything.

00:17:47.180 Zero.

00:17:47.500 Yeah, the only one who tried to make an argument was like a fringe, radical economist, but nobody

00:17:55.420 took that person seriously.

00:17:58.000 Just think about that.

00:17:59.360 What if AI does that for every topic?

00:18:03.000 What are we going to argue about?

00:18:04.840 There would be no point in having a Democrat or a Republican.

00:18:08.960 The AI would just tell you what works and what doesn't.

00:18:13.980 I don't know.

00:18:14.420 A lot of things could be different in 10 years.

00:18:17.500 Anyway, Secret Service has a new plan to let Trump do outdoor rallies.

00:18:23.800 They're going to put him in a bulletproof glass box.

00:18:31.920 Does the glass box have a top?

00:18:35.740 Because don't you have to protect against drones as well?

00:18:39.400 So they're going to put him in a...

00:18:41.840 I don't know what kind of glass shield they're going to use.

00:18:45.140 But the glass shield obviously has to cover the entire front.

00:18:50.440 Duh.

00:18:51.440 We know from the assassination attempt that came from the side, they've got to cover the

00:18:56.220 entire sides.

00:18:58.040 Duh.

00:18:58.920 Of course, they've got to cover the back.

00:19:01.320 Duh.

00:19:02.760 But they also have to cover the top.

00:19:05.540 Because all it would take is a drone attack to drop something down his glass tube.

00:19:11.620 So he's going to literally be in a glass box.

00:19:15.760 Maybe on day one, it won't be a box.

00:19:18.960 But it kind of has to be.

00:19:20.860 How big is the glass box?

00:19:23.080 And are you going to feel like he's there alive if he's in a glass box?

00:19:29.060 And let me ask you this.

00:19:30.120 If all of our outdoor rallies put the candidate in a glass box, what's to stop them from using

00:19:37.700 virtual reality?

00:19:38.980 Have you seen that yet?

00:19:40.300 There's a product, an existing product, you could buy it now, where if you want to do a

00:19:44.940 video call with somebody, they can stand in this big, like closet-sized, no, let's say

00:19:53.360 bigger than a phone booth kind of a booth.

00:19:55.420 And they will appear on the other side as if they're standing in front of you fully 3D.

00:20:02.560 Now, that already exists.

00:20:04.400 So if you could put somebody in a glass box and people are happy about it, because to me,

00:20:09.480 that wouldn't feel like it's live, even though he was live.

00:20:13.400 I mean, I wouldn't care if he were virtual reality at that point.

00:20:17.560 You know, if he's interacting with the audience and you can see him, but he's behind glass.

00:20:22.640 I don't know.

00:20:23.060 Maybe the virtual reality outdoor event is coming.

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00:20:43.200 All right.

00:20:46.000 So Harrison Walsh got some criticism from the right that doesn't matter to anybody.

00:20:50.720 That they did, instead of doing an interview, we're doing a press conference so that the press can ask them tough questions.

00:20:58.720 They decided to do a sit-down interview with each other.

00:21:02.980 So they filmed the two candidates just talking to each other and having a good time.

00:21:07.660 Now, Republicans and the press said, oh, you're afraid of the press.

00:21:13.840 And why don't you do regular press things?

00:21:17.880 And I'm sorry if you don't like this, but it's a really smart strategy.

00:21:23.780 It's a totally smart strategy.

00:21:28.220 Try to think of anything good that comes out of talking to the press.

00:21:32.700 I don't even know why Trump does it.

00:21:34.960 When Trump talks to the press, if it's the unfriendly press, 100% of the time they take something out of context.

00:21:42.480 100% of the time.

00:21:43.560 When was the last time that you saw Trump's numbers went up because he talked to the press?

00:21:50.800 Have you ever seen that?

00:21:52.820 Have you ever seen Trump talk to the press and, wow, look at his numbers, because he said that good thing that everybody liked?

00:22:00.360 I've never seen that.

00:22:02.180 But I've certainly seen bad stories come out of it that live forever.

00:22:06.600 That, in fact, the fine people hoax, that came out of a press event, didn't it?

00:22:11.300 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:22:13.100 I might have it wrong.

00:22:14.080 But didn't his taken out of context thing come from a press event?

00:22:18.280 It did.

00:22:19.220 How about the drinking bleach hoax?

00:22:22.100 That came from a press event.

00:22:25.000 Am I wrong?

00:22:26.860 It was the press.

00:22:28.540 They were there, and then they said, you said what you didn't say, and then it turned into hoax.

00:22:32.740 So everything bad that's ever happened to Trump is because he talked to the press.

00:22:36.700 Now, at some point, you know, in 2016, he had to do it because he was an unknown, and we need to know who he was.

00:22:43.520 But now that we know exactly who Trump is, I don't know if talking to the press makes any sense.

00:22:50.440 I think that the new model will be not talking to the press because it worked for Biden.

00:22:57.280 And when Biden talked to the press, was it ever good?

00:23:00.120 Not once.

00:23:00.960 Not a single time was Biden talking to the press turned into a positive thing.

00:23:05.560 It was all negative.

00:23:06.760 So I think candidates are just going to stop doing it if they're well-known.

00:23:11.440 If they're not well-known, they're going to have to go through a certain amount of pain to get some attention.

00:23:16.080 But if they're well-known like both of these candidates, why would they ever talk to the press?

00:23:21.000 They can just put out their message and make it cleaner.

00:23:25.480 Well, here's what I think.

00:23:29.780 I think that, well, I'll get to that point.

00:23:36.920 I've got a clever point coming up, but it needs a little more introduction to get to it.

00:23:43.300 I think that both candidates should be talking to voters.

00:23:48.400 And I'll keep saying this until I sell it, because I think it's going to happen.

00:23:53.080 Give me, you tell me which of these would tell you something useful.

00:23:59.520 Any reporter who is going to be biased one way or the other talking to any candidate.

00:24:04.100 We know how that goes, just useless.

00:24:06.840 Now compare that to either of the candidates sitting down with somebody from the other party.

00:24:13.340 Somebody who's definitely planning to vote for the other candidate.

00:24:16.100 And maybe more than one, and just talking to them for an hour to find out what they think and let the candidate make their best case one-to-one, person-to-person.

00:24:29.160 Now, I could listen to that all day long.

00:24:30.820 Because that would be fascinating and unpredictable.

00:24:38.200 And I also think that if you picked your citizens right and you didn't get activists, you would get people who actually want to know what's real.

00:24:47.060 Do you think that the reporters want to know what's real?

00:24:51.580 No, they don't.

00:24:52.980 They need a story.

00:24:53.940 They need hits.

00:24:54.820 They need their career to go well.

00:24:57.240 But if you just got some citizens and say, all right, have lunch with Kamala Harris.

00:25:02.020 And tell her what you think from the other team.

00:25:04.340 And same thing with Trump.

00:25:05.640 Let Trump talk to some voters.

00:25:09.040 Because the screen between the candidate and the voters is way too thick.

00:25:14.140 The voters aren't seeing the candidates.

00:25:17.020 They're seeing them through the filter of the news.

00:25:19.400 And the news is completely illegitimate in this context.

00:25:23.600 So got to talk to voters.

00:25:26.840 And I think Trump would have a tremendous advantage in this.

00:25:31.620 Because he's got stronger arguments.

00:25:34.480 And that's going to be an easier sell than let's go communist.

00:25:39.240 That's going to be a hard sell.

00:25:41.020 I mean, just take the comparison.

00:25:44.140 Think of the hardest thing that a Democrat could ask Trump about.

00:25:48.560 You can always think of a reasonable answer that if you were there, you could even give it yourself.

00:25:55.500 You know, like, you know, abortion would be the tough one.

00:25:58.160 And then Trump says, well, you don't want me to be making decisions about your body, do you?

00:26:03.820 Well, of course I don't.

00:26:05.280 Right.

00:26:05.680 That's why I kicked it over to the states.

00:26:07.600 There are more women in the states than men.

00:26:09.700 And men, half of them already agree with you.

00:26:11.660 So all you have to do is convince other women, and you can have abortion any way you want.

00:26:16.940 Now, that would be an absolute kill shot to the accusations about Trump's going to stop abortion.

00:26:24.780 It would be a total kill shot.

00:26:26.500 But you would never be able to do that with the press.

00:26:29.780 You could do it with a human.

00:26:32.020 What would the human say if you said that?

00:26:34.020 Well, they might try, but, but, but, you're in favor of a national ban on abortion.

00:26:39.480 And then Trump would say, no, I'm not.

00:26:41.200 No, they just made that up.

00:26:42.600 I definitely don't want that.

00:26:43.940 I kicked it to the states.

00:26:45.240 I want you to decide.

00:26:47.520 Stop saying I'm going to decide.

00:26:48.900 I've already taken it out of my domain.

00:26:50.860 It's for you to decide.

00:26:52.440 So you work on other women.

00:26:54.020 And if women agree with you, you can have any law you want.

00:26:57.300 That's how our system works.

00:26:59.500 Now, that is a strong, strong answer to the biggest complaint.

00:27:05.020 Now, imagine it went the other way.

00:27:07.200 Let's say you had some well-informed Republicans having lunch with Kamala Harris.

00:27:12.120 And she'd say, I'm going to bring your inflation down by capping prices on food.

00:27:17.840 And suppose you're a Republican and you're well-informed and you say, food?

00:27:21.780 Food only has the narrowest profit margin of every industry.

00:27:28.480 Are you aware of that?

00:27:30.900 Now, if you're talking pharma, you might have big margins.

00:27:34.400 And, you know, in tech, there might be big margins for some things.

00:27:38.100 But in food, it's the smallest margins of any industry.

00:27:44.560 Is there any industry with a smaller margin, profit margin, than food?

00:27:48.180 The only reason they can make any money is that people are eating food every day.

00:27:53.660 You know, you can't really quit the food.

00:27:56.000 So if somebody sitting at lunch said to Kamala Harris, every time price caps have tried, they just created shortages.

00:28:08.080 Can you think of any case where it ever worked?

00:28:10.480 Now, what reporter is going to ask Kamala Harris that question?

00:28:16.460 Can you give me any example where price caps have ever worked?

00:28:20.420 And did you know that food has the smallest margin of profit of any industry ever?

00:28:28.300 You're never going to see that.

00:28:30.240 But a citizen would ask that question.

00:28:32.240 Do you know why a citizen would ask those questions?

00:28:34.280 Because those are the normal, most obvious questions.

00:28:38.640 Citizens will ask the most normal, obvious questions.

00:28:42.500 For whatever reason, reporters won't.

00:28:45.740 They'll ask the one that could get them the gotcha.

00:28:48.680 You know, what do you think about, how do you define a woman?

00:28:52.880 Come on.

00:28:54.400 Is that what you care about?

00:28:56.720 Do you care about how Kamala Harris defines a woman?

00:28:59.180 You know, I get that it has real impact in the real world, but it's not your top 10 problems.

00:29:06.160 So no, you need voters to talk to candidates, nothing in between.

00:29:12.500 All right.

00:29:14.820 Politico says that Harris has a, she's rolling out her plan to fight inflation.

00:29:19.900 That is bullshit and propaganda and brainwashing.

00:29:23.900 She has not rolled down a plan to fight inflation.

00:29:26.780 She's rolled down a plan to cap profits.

00:29:31.520 That's not really the same.

00:29:33.920 You know, they can argue it's going to lower your prices, but if you don't do something about the money supply and other things that are driving inflation, that ain't it.

00:29:43.320 But Politico carries her water and calls it a plan to fight inflation.

00:29:49.960 So let's talk about some of the economic ideas of Kamala Harris.

00:29:55.480 And let me tell you, they sound good on paper.

00:30:00.300 So in terms of persuasion and running a campaign, this is pretty good stuff.

00:30:07.240 So don't, don't poo poo it because you think, you know, it's, it's inaccurate.

00:30:14.540 It might be inaccurate and a bad idea, but it's pretty sellable.

00:30:19.100 So persuasion wise, they've got a good bite on this economic thing.

00:30:23.720 Let me give you some examples.

00:30:27.640 So Biden administration, so Kamala Harris would presumably get some, you know, credit for this as well.

00:30:36.360 They've negotiated the price down quite a bit, they say, on 10 different drugs.

00:30:42.040 So they let the Medicare, Medicare program negotiated lower prices.

00:30:49.540 Now, do you think this story is that clean?

00:30:54.880 Let's say there were big pharma who is charging too much.

00:30:59.360 And then the government negotiated the prices down, you know, like an average of more than 50%.

00:31:05.480 Wow.

00:31:07.340 You're really going to feel that in your pocket, right?

00:31:10.440 Are you?

00:31:12.440 Well, I have a health insurance.

00:31:17.480 Is my insurance going to go down if my healthcare provider pays less for those drugs?

00:31:22.140 No, no, that's just free money to the insurance company.

00:31:30.000 Because she hasn't told the insurance company to lower the prices.

00:31:33.320 And the insurance company is buying the drug, not me.

00:31:35.980 I'm just paying some copay that would be the same no matter what I paid.

00:31:40.640 Now, there'll be a little bit of bleed through.

00:31:42.600 And presumably, your insurance company would at least have the option of lowering the price

00:31:49.000 or not raising it as much the next year.

00:31:51.440 So you can imagine that it could work through the system a little bit.

00:31:54.860 But in the short run, consumers weren't buying these expensive drugs.

00:32:01.120 They were going without.

00:32:02.800 And they're still going to go without if it's only 50% less cost, right?

00:32:06.600 So you either have insurance that's paying for it, or you're probably not getting it at all

00:32:10.720 because it's just too expensive.

00:32:14.640 Anyway, we also don't know exactly how much they reduce the prices

00:32:19.300 because when they talk about the percentage decrease,

00:32:22.440 they admit in the stories that they don't know what they're decreased from.

00:32:27.880 Because apparently the list price is not necessarily what anybody's paying,

00:32:33.260 but that information is proprietary.

00:32:35.020 So in other words, the Biden administration is claiming specific price decreases

00:32:41.240 without telling you what level they were before they were decreased.

00:32:46.900 So it's a lie because they're not always paying full price already.

00:32:52.560 Now, I think it is very true that the total amount that would be paid,

00:32:57.360 it would be much less.

00:32:58.720 But the actual number is kind of gamed a little bit

00:33:02.540 because they don't know what it's coming down from.

00:33:04.320 But it's almost certainly coming down from something.

00:33:08.280 So here's the punchline on that.

00:33:12.780 So after this long story about how the drug companies argued like crazy

00:33:16.680 and they said, ah, we can't do this.

00:33:19.680 But then it happened anyway.

00:33:21.580 So they had to go along with it.

00:33:23.880 And then they were asked about what would happen to their stock prices.

00:33:27.760 And here's what the experts said when these 10 drug companies

00:33:32.040 had to reduce their costs by about 50%.

00:33:34.860 They said it wouldn't really affect their stock price.

00:33:40.860 Wait, what?

00:33:42.900 How could their products be, the price be cut in half by somebody externally,

00:33:48.040 the government, and yet it doesn't affect their stock price?

00:33:51.080 There's something else going on here.

00:33:55.400 That can't not affect your stock price unless you're such a big company

00:33:59.660 that that one little drug didn't make much difference.

00:34:04.720 Now, the other thing that I assume the government is not including

00:34:08.200 is the research and development costs.

00:34:10.860 So if some companies spend a billion dollars to develop a drug

00:34:15.720 that making the drug is really cheap,

00:34:19.040 but they're going to sell it for like $100 a go,

00:34:23.600 it's because they're getting back their billion dollars.

00:34:28.060 It's not because they're making a killer amount on the per drug.

00:34:34.780 They're just trying to pay back what they put into it.

00:34:38.020 Now, do you think the government said,

00:34:40.340 can you please explain to us how much you invested

00:34:43.480 and then we'll look at your return on investment

00:34:46.460 and if it's outrageous, then we're going to ask you to lower it.

00:34:50.780 No, they just said, lower it by 50%.

00:34:53.880 As soon as you introduce that kind of madness into a system,

00:34:59.980 it can't be good in the long run

00:35:01.680 because presumably there'll be companies that spend a billion dollars,

00:35:06.380 the government said you had to cut the price by 50%

00:35:09.080 and they say, we really can't get our billion dollars back

00:35:13.400 because this will be off a patent before we get our billion back.

00:35:18.940 So do they make another drug?

00:35:21.600 Not if they think the government's going to set their prices.

00:35:24.040 You wouldn't make the next drug if you thought the government

00:35:29.000 might cut the price of it in half

00:35:31.160 because you'll never know if you'll get your billion back.

00:35:34.460 I doubt the government asked them about their ROI

00:35:37.400 and if they did, they'd lie about it anyway

00:35:39.940 so they'd never get that information.

00:35:42.820 So everything about this is a distortion of the free market

00:35:46.780 but in the short run, it's going to sell really well

00:35:50.200 because consumers are just going to say, you lowered my cost?

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00:36:56.580 Harris also wants to give or extend child credits.

00:37:01.200 So if you're a taxpayer with a kid,

00:37:03.420 you get some more.

00:37:04.320 She wants to increase it

00:37:06.340 and make it up to $6,000 if you've got a new kid.

00:37:11.240 These are all real good-sounding policies.

00:37:15.020 Now, of course, this policy will not come

00:37:17.620 with a warning of what it does to the deficit.

00:37:22.840 So it's a half-pinion,

00:37:24.540 meaning they don't tell you what the cost of it is.

00:37:27.160 Yeah, we'd like to just give you stuff.

00:37:29.680 Okay.

00:37:31.040 Were you going to have a kid anyway?

00:37:33.000 I was.

00:37:33.980 How about if we give you $6,000?

00:37:35.900 I'll vote for that.

00:37:36.680 But it's going to sound good.

00:37:41.960 So it's basically a way to buy votes

00:37:44.160 of young people who think they might have kids.

00:37:47.180 So persuasion-wise, it's a winner.

00:37:48.840 And then she wants to boost a new home building.

00:37:56.760 And she would do that by a $40 billion fund

00:37:59.140 to help local governments develop innovative solutions

00:38:02.220 to lack of housing supplies.

00:38:05.920 Biden, I guess, had suggested $20 billion,

00:38:09.100 so she doubled it.

00:38:11.320 And expand the low-income house credits.

00:38:13.420 So basically, she'd be paying local governments

00:38:17.120 to improve their housing situation.

00:38:20.540 Do you know what the problem with this plan is?

00:38:23.140 All local governments are corrupt.

00:38:25.840 If you put $40 billion into cities,

00:38:28.700 they're just going to fucking steal it.

00:38:31.220 At this point, I don't have any confidence

00:38:33.120 that there's a city that can take $40 billion

00:38:36.000 or whatever their share is and build something.

00:38:39.420 I think they just give it to their contractor friends

00:38:41.740 and then the contractor friends

00:38:44.560 give them a little back in return.

00:38:47.900 I think it's just a corrupt system.

00:38:49.920 I don't think that local government

00:38:51.400 should be given money.

00:38:54.240 Local government should only be in charge

00:38:56.440 of making sure your roads get fixed and stuff.

00:38:59.580 Here's my fix for the whole country.

00:39:02.740 Local government should have no decision-making

00:39:04.920 over what vendors are chosen.

00:39:06.900 Local government should have no authority

00:39:13.520 over who gets chosen to do the work

00:39:15.740 that the government is contracting for.

00:39:17.760 Because that's where all the corruption happens.

00:39:20.460 You should have some kind of independent,

00:39:22.860 outside, uninvolved process,

00:39:25.340 if it's even possible.

00:39:26.720 I don't know what that would look like.

00:39:28.100 Where the cities are just told

00:39:29.520 what vendor is going to do what

00:39:30.860 based on some better analysis

00:39:33.200 of who does better work.

00:39:34.300 But the whole kickback thing,

00:39:36.340 it ruins basically every city.

00:39:39.020 Because you get a bunch of crooks in charge

00:39:41.400 because they know they can make a killing.

00:39:44.680 However, on paper, this will sound great.

00:39:46.980 People will say,

00:39:48.000 hey, we need more housing.

00:39:49.200 You're putting a lot of money toward it.

00:39:51.140 I like every bit of that.

00:39:52.860 So persuasion-wise, these are all winners.

00:39:55.500 These are just election year winners

00:39:57.260 because they just sound good.

00:39:59.220 Are they good?

00:40:00.400 Not in the long run.

00:40:01.960 Not in the long run.

00:40:02.720 But they sure sound good.

00:40:05.280 Food price caps, we talked about that.

00:40:07.660 Every economist thinks it's a bad idea.

00:40:10.460 So here's a summary.

00:40:12.880 It seems that the Harris economic plans

00:40:15.080 are all goal-oriented.

00:40:18.160 Meaning they're trying to start

00:40:19.900 with the end point in mind

00:40:21.480 and not think through the system

00:40:24.000 that gets you there.

00:40:24.720 Whereas it seems to me

00:40:26.840 that the Trump-related stuff

00:40:30.600 is a little more system-oriented.

00:40:33.760 And I'll talk about that.

00:40:35.260 But here's an example of something

00:40:36.620 that's system-oriented.

00:40:38.660 There's a new AI-powered robot

00:40:40.940 for weeding fields without herbicides.

00:40:45.840 How good is it if you could eat food

00:40:48.240 that had no herbicides on it?

00:40:51.160 You'd like that, right?

00:40:53.040 So right away, I'm already interested.

00:40:55.920 There are fewer chemicals on my food?

00:40:58.440 Tell me more.

00:40:59.560 But now they've got a robot

00:41:00.900 that apparently doesn't need power

00:41:02.760 except what it gets from the sun.

00:41:05.100 And it will work all day.

00:41:07.220 And it's basically,

00:41:08.360 it looks like a platform

00:41:09.380 with a laser on it, I think.

00:41:11.440 And it just rolls over the fields.

00:41:14.140 It's AI,

00:41:15.160 so it understands what it has to do.

00:41:16.820 And it's completely autonomous.

00:41:19.840 You basically just shove it into a field

00:41:22.160 and it gets rid of your weeds

00:41:24.500 and it figures out the best way to do it.

00:41:26.500 And it learns from what works

00:41:27.900 and it just works all day.

00:41:30.120 You don't even need much maintenance.

00:41:32.520 It sleeps at night,

00:41:34.160 wakes up in the morning

00:41:35.120 and starts working again.

00:41:36.900 So imagine if you could,

00:41:39.580 suppose the government

00:41:40.800 made it easier for these robots

00:41:44.260 to be rolled out.

00:41:46.820 That would be a good system

00:41:48.120 because it would be promoting

00:41:50.100 the free market

00:41:50.900 that would lower your food costs

00:41:53.240 in the long run.

00:41:54.480 It would be hard for employing migrants.

00:41:58.620 Maybe there would be fewer migrants employed.

00:42:00.580 But that too would reduce

00:42:02.440 the pressure on illegal immigration.

00:42:06.540 So working on something like

00:42:08.440 making sure that AI-powered robots

00:42:11.340 for farms get a little more attention

00:42:14.560 or something faster happens.

00:42:20.520 That's a good system

00:42:21.520 because it gets you to food prices,

00:42:24.320 but it gets you in a systems way

00:42:25.800 where you're doing all the right things

00:42:27.020 at the lower level.

00:42:30.420 Anyway,

00:42:31.880 Agen is the new robot maker

00:42:34.540 that makes that.

00:42:35.780 This is a real product.

00:42:36.860 It's not hypothetical.

00:42:37.900 It's already in fields.

00:42:38.840 All right.

00:42:41.900 CNN is making a big deal

00:42:43.240 about people mispronouncing

00:42:44.560 Kamala as Kamala.

00:42:47.760 And I guess it was a big dust up

00:42:49.180 with Republican Nancy Mace

00:42:51.060 who may have pronounced it wrong

00:42:53.060 and said she didn't care.

00:42:54.920 And then one of the black pundits

00:42:57.320 on CNN said,

00:42:58.900 you are a white woman

00:42:59.720 who is disrespecting a black woman

00:43:01.580 and blah, blah, blah.

00:43:03.220 Everything's through a race filter.

00:43:04.800 It just makes everything stupid.

00:43:06.300 I was watching CNN two days ago

00:43:09.580 and I thought it was hilarious

00:43:11.640 that one of Kamala Harris's supporters

00:43:16.100 who was on the show

00:43:17.560 to be her supporter.

00:43:18.960 So it looked like it was maybe

00:43:20.720 just somebody in the campaign

00:43:21.940 and he mispronounced her name.

00:43:26.300 This was a guy who was on the show

00:43:28.180 just to be her supporter.

00:43:30.040 I believe it involves with the campaign.

00:43:32.000 I didn't get the name,

00:43:33.180 but he mispronounces her name

00:43:34.860 and they don't correct him.

00:43:36.300 So it's a pro-Kamala Harris person

00:43:40.220 who calls her Kamala

00:43:41.300 while he's supporting her

00:43:43.200 and they don't correct him.

00:43:45.340 Then they go to the next topic.

00:43:47.200 It's still the same panel of people

00:43:49.020 and somebody who was anti-Kamala

00:43:54.600 called her Kamala

00:43:56.460 and immediately she was shut down.

00:43:59.320 Oh, no, you're doing it again.

00:44:01.940 You're just using the wrong name.

00:44:03.800 You're racist.

00:44:04.420 And I'm thinking

00:44:05.360 her campaign person

00:44:07.620 just used the wrong name

00:44:08.760 like a minute ago.

00:44:10.500 Have you seen any other Democrats

00:44:13.000 pronounce her name wrong?

00:44:15.520 You've seen it, right?

00:44:18.100 How does everybody not understand

00:44:20.160 that it's just a hard name

00:44:22.180 to remember and pronounce?

00:44:23.840 I've seen Trump do it both ways.

00:44:27.120 I've seen Trump say Kamala

00:44:28.400 and I've seen him say Kamala.

00:44:30.920 Do you think that he's intentionally

00:44:32.640 doing it one way versus the other?

00:44:35.000 I don't think so

00:44:36.020 because I went through an extended phase

00:44:37.760 where I could not remember

00:44:39.220 which way it was

00:44:40.180 and I would often do it wrong.

00:44:42.680 But then every once in a while

00:44:43.920 I'd do it right,

00:44:44.680 but it was probably just by accident.

00:44:46.720 So I think it's just a hard name.

00:44:48.900 To me, I don't think

00:44:50.920 there's anything else going on.

00:44:52.980 And by the way,

00:44:54.260 what racist

00:44:55.160 thinks that they're

00:44:56.880 improving their situation

00:44:58.400 by calling somebody

00:44:59.440 by the wrong name?

00:45:01.160 Like, how is that even

00:45:02.240 connected to racism?

00:45:05.240 You know,

00:45:05.840 I suppose you could argue

00:45:07.240 it's showing disrespect,

00:45:09.480 but do you think

00:45:11.140 we had more respect

00:45:12.180 for Hillary Clinton?

00:45:13.300 And no,

00:45:14.580 it's not because

00:45:15.060 she's a woman.

00:45:16.260 No, it's

00:45:16.920 Democrats and Republicans

00:45:19.220 have some differences.

00:45:20.300 That's all.

00:45:21.040 But I don't think

00:45:21.660 any of the name stuff

00:45:22.680 has anything to do with race.

00:45:25.180 That just seems stupid to me.

00:45:29.300 Anyway,

00:45:30.240 so there's another story

00:45:31.640 every day that we hear

00:45:33.100 about that attempted assassination.

00:45:34.820 It sounds worse.

00:45:36.340 So now we know

00:45:37.480 that the FBI

00:45:38.380 released

00:45:40.240 the assassins,

00:45:42.280 the attempted assassin's body,

00:45:44.120 Thomas Crooks,

00:45:45.220 and he was cremated.

00:45:47.920 And apparently

00:45:48.640 it was a while ago.

00:45:50.240 So anybody who thought

00:45:51.720 they could learn something

00:45:52.920 by studying his corpse,

00:45:55.660 I don't know what

00:45:56.280 you would learn by it,

00:45:57.300 but that's not available.

00:45:59.600 And people are saying,

00:46:01.320 we should have at least

00:46:02.260 known about this,

00:46:03.840 that he was going to be cremated.

00:46:05.420 So if we had an objection

00:46:06.600 because we thought

00:46:07.380 we could learn something,

00:46:08.240 maybe that'd be good.

00:46:09.420 I don't think we,

00:46:10.360 I don't think it makes

00:46:11.400 any difference.

00:46:12.280 If I were the family,

00:46:13.280 I would just want,

00:46:14.300 I'd want

00:46:15.260 to tie things up

00:46:17.080 as quickly as possible.

00:46:18.780 So if the only story here

00:46:20.280 is that the family

00:46:21.040 wanted this to happen,

00:46:22.920 I'm okay with it.

00:46:24.260 I don't think that's

00:46:25.320 the biggest problem

00:46:25.920 in the world.

00:46:28.220 James Carville

00:46:29.080 continues to make news.

00:46:32.140 He says that

00:46:33.560 Republicans support Israel

00:46:35.000 because Jews

00:46:36.140 are whiter than Palestinians.

00:46:37.440 Is that just a drunk comment?

00:46:46.820 Does anybody think

00:46:47.840 that's true?

00:46:49.440 Does that ring,

00:46:50.600 does that ring true

00:46:51.620 to anybody?

00:46:52.900 Oh, I'm seeing somebody

00:46:53.680 agreeing with that.

00:46:55.140 I'm seeing somebody agree.

00:46:57.540 Do you think that's true?

00:47:00.820 That it's because

00:47:01.860 Republicans see

00:47:03.660 Jews as whiter

00:47:05.480 than Palestinians?

00:47:11.940 All right.

00:47:12.560 You have interesting opinions

00:47:13.780 all over the place.

00:47:16.200 Well, I'd hate to think

00:47:17.300 that that's the case.

00:47:18.380 I don't think

00:47:21.600 I've ever witnessed it.

00:47:24.120 You know,

00:47:24.660 when I witness somebody

00:47:25.640 who's a racist,

00:47:26.760 they usually throw

00:47:28.100 both of them

00:47:28.700 in the same category.

00:47:30.840 That's been my experience.

00:47:32.980 I've never seen them say,

00:47:34.640 I like this one

00:47:35.240 because they're

00:47:35.560 a little bit whiter.

00:47:36.980 I've never seen that.

00:47:38.860 Not in person,

00:47:40.300 not in any kind

00:47:40.940 of conversation

00:47:41.560 I've ever been in.

00:47:43.280 But some of you were,

00:47:45.040 but I think you're

00:47:45.780 just assuming it's true.

00:47:46.900 I don't think

00:47:48.760 you're basing it

00:47:49.740 on any conversation

00:47:50.960 or your own opinion

00:47:51.960 or anything,

00:47:52.420 are you?

00:47:54.180 I don't know.

00:47:55.000 It's a weird one.

00:47:57.740 Well, Thailand

00:47:58.280 has a new prime minister,

00:47:59.840 a 37-year-old woman.

00:48:05.640 When do we stop

00:48:06.740 doing this as a story?

00:48:07.980 Is it time yet?

00:48:11.900 Can we stop doing the,

00:48:13.120 it's the first time

00:48:14.660 a woman had a job?

00:48:18.240 Can we just stop doing it?

00:48:21.440 Wouldn't we be better off

00:48:22.780 if nobody mentioned it?

00:48:24.940 What if just nobody

00:48:26.040 mentioned it?

00:48:27.360 Hey, we got a new prime minister.

00:48:29.580 Hey, it's a young woman.

00:48:31.900 So?

00:48:32.140 Oh, okay.

00:48:36.280 Yeah.

00:48:37.300 So I suppose,

00:48:39.180 especially because it's,

00:48:41.480 especially because it's Thailand,

00:48:45.680 so you might imagine

00:48:46.440 they have different

00:48:47.200 thoughts about gender,

00:48:49.000 but apparently

00:48:49.900 the best person won,

00:48:52.140 it looks like.

00:48:53.780 So,

00:48:54.800 yeah,

00:48:55.840 this is my,

00:48:56.780 my observation

00:48:57.760 is always the same.

00:48:58.600 everybody's racist

00:49:01.060 until a good candidate

00:49:02.960 shows up.

00:49:03.940 Have you noticed that?

00:49:05.480 So we had this

00:49:06.320 big old racist country

00:49:07.580 that we never,

00:49:09.920 this America

00:49:10.620 would never be able

00:49:11.700 to elect a black person

00:49:14.000 as president.

00:49:15.440 And then Obama

00:49:16.900 shows up.

00:49:18.580 What made Obama special

00:49:20.360 that allowed him

00:49:21.440 to win two terms?

00:49:22.840 Obama.

00:49:24.120 He just had a lot of skill.

00:49:26.000 End of the story.

00:49:26.840 All you needed

00:49:28.520 was somebody

00:49:29.180 who could do the job

00:49:30.160 and America said,

00:49:31.520 oh, all right.

00:49:33.860 The entire,

00:49:35.160 like the most basic

00:49:36.160 assumption

00:49:36.640 had been America

00:49:37.480 that we're too racist

00:49:39.580 to hire somebody

00:49:41.240 who clearly

00:49:41.920 has the goods.

00:49:43.540 Now,

00:49:43.800 whether you like

00:49:44.360 or don't like Obama,

00:49:45.380 he clearly had the goods

00:49:46.800 to be a president.

00:49:48.580 Right?

00:49:49.100 You can hate him.

00:49:50.000 You can hate his policies,

00:49:51.360 but he had the goods.

00:49:52.820 Right?

00:49:53.280 He had the brains,

00:49:54.500 he had the game,

00:49:55.260 he had the political instincts.

00:49:58.140 He had everything.

00:50:00.900 Likewise,

00:50:01.540 Hillary Clinton

00:50:02.180 came within,

00:50:03.100 you know,

00:50:03.400 a hair of being a president

00:50:04.500 because she also had the goods.

00:50:07.720 Well,

00:50:07.840 she wasn't my choice,

00:50:09.000 but nobody would argue

00:50:10.700 that she didn't have

00:50:11.520 the brains

00:50:12.100 and the experience

00:50:13.020 and,

00:50:14.040 you know,

00:50:14.160 all that stuff.

00:50:15.700 So,

00:50:16.140 when do we just get

00:50:17.540 to stop talking about it?

00:50:19.780 So,

00:50:20.040 this 37-year-old

00:50:21.840 woman

00:50:22.840 who is now

00:50:23.240 the prime minister

00:50:23.900 of Thailand,

00:50:25.280 my guess is

00:50:26.160 that no matter

00:50:26.800 how,

00:50:27.400 you know,

00:50:29.680 misogynist

00:50:30.460 they were in Thailand,

00:50:31.580 I don't know

00:50:31.920 if they are,

00:50:32.780 but no matter

00:50:33.420 how they were,

00:50:34.140 if she showed up

00:50:35.080 and she had the goods,

00:50:37.220 they just said,

00:50:38.360 oh,

00:50:38.700 well,

00:50:38.880 you have the goods.

00:50:40.100 That's okay.

00:50:41.740 Again,

00:50:42.280 let's get back

00:50:42.920 to every person

00:50:43.800 is an individual.

00:50:45.760 Did it really help you?

00:50:47.620 Claudia was leaving

00:50:48.560 for her pickleball tournament.

00:50:49.720 I've been visualizing

00:50:50.720 my match all week.

00:50:52.060 She was so focused

00:50:53.300 on visualizing

00:50:54.080 that she didn't see

00:50:54.980 the column behind her car

00:50:56.120 on her backhand side.

00:50:58.380 Good thing Claudia

00:50:59.380 is with Intact,

00:51:00.340 the insurer

00:51:00.880 with the largest network

00:51:02.020 of auto service centers

00:51:03.000 in the country.

00:51:04.100 Everything was taken care

00:51:05.140 of under one roof

00:51:06.020 and she was on her way

00:51:06.960 in a rental car

00:51:07.680 in no time.

00:51:08.560 I made it to my tournament

00:51:09.920 and lost in the first round.

00:51:12.020 But you got there on time.

00:51:13.880 Intact Insurance,

00:51:15.040 your auto service ace.

00:51:16.500 Certain conditions apply.

00:51:18.640 You heard in the news

00:51:20.240 people reporting

00:51:21.420 that RFK Jr.

00:51:22.400 was going to ask

00:51:23.020 Kamala Harris

00:51:23.680 or did ask her

00:51:24.480 for a cabinet position.

00:51:27.080 RFK Jr.

00:51:27.920 says that is fake news.

00:51:30.500 But also,

00:51:31.360 Nicole Shanahan

00:51:32.540 said it also.

00:51:33.960 That is fake news.

00:51:35.420 Did not happen

00:51:36.200 and would not happen

00:51:37.260 because they don't

00:51:38.480 really have a relationship

00:51:39.880 with the Democrats

00:51:40.840 at this point.

00:51:42.560 And now,

00:51:43.580 you might ask yourself,

00:51:45.340 well,

00:51:45.980 are they lying?

00:51:47.300 What if RFK Jr.

00:51:50.820 and his VP choice,

00:51:52.220 Nicole Shanahan,

00:51:52.900 what if they're lying?

00:51:54.500 Well,

00:51:55.300 I suppose anything's possible

00:51:57.160 in our bigger world,

00:51:58.260 but I'll just give you

00:51:58.900 my personal opinion.

00:52:02.580 So I got to meet

00:52:04.040 and spend some time

00:52:04.860 with Nicole Shanahan

00:52:06.280 because she had me

00:52:07.200 on her podcast.

00:52:08.940 And

00:52:09.260 I'm not going to say

00:52:11.600 I'm the best judge

00:52:12.760 of people in the world,

00:52:13.880 but

00:52:14.760 I judged her

00:52:16.520 to be completely honest.

00:52:18.620 Like,

00:52:18.940 she didn't have

00:52:19.620 a political bone

00:52:21.480 in her body

00:52:22.160 in terms of

00:52:23.020 lying.

00:52:24.980 She just looked like

00:52:26.200 a total legitimate player

00:52:27.840 who just wanted

00:52:29.080 something better

00:52:29.720 for the world

00:52:30.320 and was,

00:52:31.220 you know,

00:52:31.660 putting her money

00:52:32.400 and her time into it.

00:52:34.000 And

00:52:34.440 I'm not sure

00:52:36.060 you get that

00:52:36.620 from everybody.

00:52:38.160 Right?

00:52:38.620 You might come away

00:52:39.340 with a good opinion

00:52:40.400 of a politician,

00:52:41.800 but you still think

00:52:43.140 they're full of shit.

00:52:44.520 Don't you?

00:52:45.640 I love Trump.

00:52:47.400 Like,

00:52:47.860 as an individual,

00:52:48.940 you know,

00:52:49.380 I was lucky enough

00:52:50.200 to get to chat

00:52:50.840 with him once.

00:52:51.840 And he is just

00:52:52.740 totally engaging.

00:52:54.260 He gives you

00:52:55.120 his full attention.

00:52:56.240 You feel like

00:52:56.760 you're the only person

00:52:57.600 in the room.

00:52:58.940 I mean,

00:52:59.220 he's got the whole

00:53:00.040 charisma package,

00:53:01.520 but he's also

00:53:02.260 full of shit.

00:53:03.880 Right?

00:53:04.280 I didn't lose sense

00:53:05.560 to the fact

00:53:06.000 that he's a politician.

00:53:07.420 And in the modern world,

00:53:08.840 all politicians

00:53:09.440 are kind of full of shit.

00:53:10.680 Meaning he's going

00:53:11.880 to exaggerate

00:53:12.600 his benefits.

00:53:13.460 He's going to

00:53:14.280 exaggerate

00:53:14.980 how the other team

00:53:15.800 is doing,

00:53:16.420 et cetera.

00:53:17.200 Now,

00:53:17.780 we don't mind too much

00:53:19.280 because it's the way

00:53:21.060 the game is played.

00:53:22.120 There's some bullshit

00:53:22.880 on their side.

00:53:23.700 There's some bullshit

00:53:24.320 on your side.

00:53:25.360 You don't really,

00:53:26.120 you know,

00:53:26.380 you kind of discount it.

00:53:28.580 But Nicole Shanahan

00:53:30.220 was different.

00:53:31.620 She just seemed

00:53:32.560 like an honest person.

00:53:34.260 And when I was

00:53:35.080 done talking with her,

00:53:36.120 I thought I'd met

00:53:36.980 an honest person.

00:53:37.780 So when she says

00:53:40.180 it didn't happen,

00:53:41.320 I would bet on it.

00:53:43.740 If you said,

00:53:44.560 how much would you bet

00:53:45.580 that she's telling

00:53:46.880 the truth that they

00:53:47.740 did not ask for

00:53:48.880 some cabinet,

00:53:49.580 everything,

00:53:51.220 million dollars,

00:53:52.260 I'm sure.

00:53:53.120 Yeah.

00:53:53.320 I mean,

00:53:53.580 I would trust her

00:53:54.540 completely that it

00:53:55.980 didn't happen.

00:53:57.060 And then RFK Jr.

00:53:58.120 also is highly credible

00:53:59.160 in my opinion.

00:54:00.660 So if the two of them

00:54:01.680 say it didn't happen,

00:54:02.960 I think you could

00:54:03.560 bank on that.

00:54:04.120 All right.

00:54:05.480 My favorite part

00:54:06.380 is that Trump

00:54:07.320 introduced and,

00:54:09.780 well,

00:54:09.940 just gave some more

00:54:10.660 details,

00:54:11.140 I guess,

00:54:11.440 on his idea of,

00:54:13.140 quote,

00:54:13.280 freedom cities,

00:54:14.720 he calls them.

00:54:16.960 Apparently,

00:54:17.560 one third of the

00:54:18.500 landmass of the U.S.

00:54:19.620 is owned by the

00:54:20.200 federal government

00:54:20.920 and not much of

00:54:22.780 that land is used.

00:54:23.840 So he wants to

00:54:24.700 make that available

00:54:26.340 for 10,

00:54:27.800 to charter,

00:54:29.460 10 new

00:54:30.040 mega futuristic

00:54:30.980 cities in various

00:54:32.680 places on federal,

00:54:34.120 land.

00:54:36.100 And he says

00:54:36.960 they would become

00:54:37.640 historic job creation

00:54:40.200 and easing of traffic

00:54:41.420 and hubs of innovation

00:54:43.800 and offer new families

00:54:45.340 the opportunity

00:54:45.880 to own homes

00:54:46.800 and unprecedented

00:54:48.560 opportunities

00:54:49.380 for up-and-coming

00:54:50.100 entrepreneurs,

00:54:50.980 build generation,

00:54:51.940 wealth,

00:54:52.420 low taxes,

00:54:53.200 high reward environment.

00:54:55.260 Now,

00:54:55.540 how much do you hate

00:54:56.360 this idea if you're

00:54:57.300 a Republican?

00:54:58.200 Well,

00:54:58.720 let me give you

00:54:59.300 the worst objections.

00:55:01.860 Right?

00:55:02.100 These are the objections

00:55:02.980 that would be

00:55:04.360 embarrassing

00:55:04.900 if you have them.

00:55:07.760 Now,

00:55:08.440 anything could go wrong

00:55:09.700 with any plan,

00:55:11.460 but here are the

00:55:12.300 worst objections

00:55:13.340 to this plan.

00:55:15.220 Number one,

00:55:18.000 you're creating

00:55:18.880 a 15-minute city,

00:55:20.400 so you're trying

00:55:20.980 to be the World

00:55:21.900 Economic Forum.

00:55:23.440 No,

00:55:23.680 you're not.

00:55:24.400 You're just trying

00:55:24.920 to build a good city.

00:55:25.840 That's it.

00:55:28.980 That's it.

00:55:30.100 And by the way,

00:55:30.740 the plans will be

00:55:31.680 available to everybody

00:55:32.660 to look at.

00:55:33.760 And by the way,

00:55:34.460 you won't be forced

00:55:35.260 to live there.

00:55:36.840 No,

00:55:37.120 it has nothing to do

00:55:37.960 with the World

00:55:38.700 Economic Forum

00:55:39.580 15-minute cities.

00:55:41.540 It would be

00:55:42.180 different people

00:55:42.940 with different

00:55:43.680 objections

00:55:45.000 or different objectives.

00:55:47.600 No,

00:55:48.320 that's the worst

00:55:49.560 analogy you could

00:55:50.460 ever have.

00:55:51.020 It's just a new,

00:55:52.020 better city.

00:55:52.520 The next one is

00:55:55.480 when governments

00:55:56.880 build cities,

00:55:58.180 you end up with

00:55:59.580 ghost cities like

00:56:00.580 China where you

00:56:01.200 have to,

00:56:01.560 you waste all your

00:56:02.480 money and you've

00:56:02.920 got to tear them

00:56:03.360 down later.

00:56:04.560 No.

00:56:05.600 No,

00:56:05.880 there's nothing

00:56:06.380 like China in this.

00:56:08.820 This would be

00:56:09.800 a private industry

00:56:12.360 who decides

00:56:14.600 they could make

00:56:15.160 money.

00:56:16.500 They'll get the

00:56:17.300 government to give

00:56:18.000 them some free land

00:56:19.020 and maybe some

00:56:19.660 less regulation.

00:56:21.220 And then they will

00:56:22.100 build the city

00:56:22.800 that they publicly

00:56:24.120 told you they

00:56:24.760 were going to

00:56:25.060 build.

00:56:25.880 Now,

00:56:26.200 would they build it

00:56:26.900 if they hadn't

00:56:27.300 done some research

00:56:28.200 to know they

00:56:28.720 could fill it

00:56:29.220 with people?

00:56:30.300 Well,

00:56:30.640 pretty much any

00:56:31.280 new development

00:56:31.940 gets filled in

00:56:32.860 America.

00:56:33.680 When was the last

00:56:34.300 time somebody

00:56:34.780 built a development

00:56:35.560 and they didn't

00:56:36.760 sell all the

00:56:37.260 houses?

00:56:38.540 It doesn't

00:56:38.860 happen much.

00:56:39.860 The developers

00:56:40.380 are pretty good

00:56:41.060 at knowing

00:56:41.420 where to put a

00:56:42.200 place.

00:56:44.440 So now,

00:56:45.100 whatever happened

00:56:46.060 in China was

00:56:46.780 completely different

00:56:47.600 than what happens

00:56:48.360 here.

00:56:49.060 In America,

00:56:49.880 we've been

00:56:50.320 approving and

00:56:51.280 building large

00:56:53.240 communities for

00:56:55.400 a hundred years

00:56:56.460 and every one

00:56:58.460 of them got

00:56:58.900 filled with

00:56:59.400 people.

00:57:00.420 This would just

00:57:00.900 be another large

00:57:01.720 community but

00:57:02.540 designed a little

00:57:03.540 better.

00:57:04.180 That's all.

00:57:05.260 It's just

00:57:05.660 designed better.

00:57:07.200 Don't worry

00:57:07.680 about it.

00:57:08.540 It's not going

00:57:09.040 to be a ghost

00:57:09.480 city because it

00:57:10.180 was designed

00:57:10.760 better.

00:57:15.100 Government

00:57:15.660 build cities

00:57:16.380 are a bad

00:57:16.920 idea in general

00:57:17.700 because governments

00:57:18.520 are bad at

00:57:19.020 building things.

00:57:19.720 No, the

00:57:20.760 government's

00:57:21.180 not going

00:57:21.440 to build

00:57:21.640 anything.

00:57:22.820 The plan

00:57:23.560 is not for

00:57:24.080 the government

00:57:24.640 to build

00:57:25.160 anything.

00:57:26.860 The government

00:57:27.820 is going to

00:57:28.400 make it easier

00:57:29.320 for private

00:57:31.040 developers who

00:57:31.880 already build

00:57:32.600 things to

00:57:33.720 build something

00:57:34.320 better.

00:57:35.900 No, it's

00:57:37.000 just making it

00:57:37.740 available to

00:57:38.380 private industry.

00:57:39.220 That's it.

00:57:41.040 And then I

00:57:41.540 heard that

00:57:42.340 rural people

00:57:43.120 are going to

00:57:44.460 be against it.

00:57:45.240 And if I knew

00:57:45.740 more about

00:57:46.200 rural people,

00:57:47.060 I would know

00:57:47.960 that they're not

00:57:48.520 going to like

00:57:48.920 it.

00:57:49.720 What?

00:57:50.640 What do the

00:57:51.320 rural people

00:57:51.920 have to do

00:57:52.340 with anything?

00:57:53.260 It's not

00:57:53.900 going to be

00:57:54.160 on their

00:57:54.460 land.

00:57:55.820 It's going

00:57:56.460 to be

00:57:56.860 literally on

00:57:57.800 land where

00:57:58.440 there are

00:57:58.920 no people.

00:58:00.580 The rural

00:58:01.340 people can

00:58:01.880 just live

00:58:02.340 their life

00:58:02.780 like it

00:58:03.120 never

00:58:03.360 happened.

00:58:04.640 No, the

00:58:06.180 rural people

00:58:06.780 have nothing

00:58:07.220 to worry

00:58:07.640 about.

00:58:09.640 They're going

00:58:10.220 to take

00:58:10.580 your car

00:58:11.160 and make

00:58:11.900 you walk

00:58:12.280 everywhere.

00:58:13.760 No, they're

00:58:14.180 not.

00:58:14.860 You don't

00:58:15.180 have to live

00:58:15.740 there.

00:58:16.060 There's going

00:58:16.360 to be 10

00:58:16.720 of them.

00:58:17.400 Maybe one

00:58:17.860 of them has

00:58:18.280 no cars.

00:58:18.840 Do you

00:58:19.920 have to

00:58:20.300 live there?

00:58:21.360 No.

00:58:22.380 What if it

00:58:23.000 doesn't work?

00:58:24.400 Well, then you

00:58:25.120 do something

00:58:25.600 better.

00:58:26.160 It's like

00:58:26.500 everything else.

00:58:27.500 You try

00:58:27.980 some stuff.

00:58:28.620 If it doesn't

00:58:29.080 work, you

00:58:29.580 do what's

00:58:29.940 better.

00:58:30.360 If they

00:58:30.760 build 10

00:58:31.260 of them

00:58:31.600 and three

00:58:32.640 of them

00:58:32.920 are a

00:58:33.220 big hit

00:58:33.660 and seven

00:58:34.660 of them

00:58:34.980 are a

00:58:35.260 failure,

00:58:35.760 that's a

00:58:36.940 giant leap

00:58:38.280 forward because

00:58:39.600 then we build

00:58:40.120 30 more

00:58:40.740 cities based

00:58:41.760 on the models

00:58:42.380 that work.

00:58:42.820 everything

00:58:45.380 about this

00:58:46.060 is good.

00:58:47.420 This is

00:58:48.040 one of the

00:58:48.380 few ideas

00:58:49.080 where everything

00:58:50.000 about it

00:58:50.520 is good

00:58:50.980 and the

00:58:51.380 arguments

00:58:51.700 are just

00:58:52.660 crazy.

00:58:54.820 Just

00:58:55.120 crazy.

00:58:59.280 All right.

00:59:04.980 According

00:59:05.500 to

00:59:05.900 X user

00:59:06.880 George,

00:59:07.900 who I

00:59:08.240 always tell

00:59:08.680 you is a

00:59:09.000 great follow

00:59:09.580 on X,

00:59:12.720 the

00:59:13.180 Supreme

00:59:13.580 Court,

00:59:14.540 the

00:59:14.740 Georgia

00:59:15.060 Supreme

00:59:15.440 Court,

00:59:15.860 has ruled

00:59:16.360 that private

00:59:17.020 contractors

00:59:17.740 working for

00:59:18.380 the government

00:59:18.880 are also

00:59:19.640 subject to

00:59:21.400 public

00:59:21.860 records

00:59:22.340 requests.

00:59:23.280 You say

00:59:23.660 to me,

00:59:24.320 well,

00:59:24.520 that's a

00:59:24.880 boring

00:59:25.140 story.

00:59:26.220 Why do

00:59:26.540 I care

00:59:26.920 that

00:59:27.120 government

00:59:27.440 contractors

00:59:28.160 are also

00:59:28.960 subject

00:59:29.360 to document

00:59:30.600 requests

00:59:31.240 from the

00:59:31.820 public?

00:59:32.700 Well,

00:59:33.880 some of

00:59:34.360 those

00:59:34.760 vendors

00:59:35.500 might

00:59:35.840 include

00:59:36.440 companies

00:59:38.180 that run

00:59:38.520 elections.

00:59:39.580 So it

00:59:40.700 might,

00:59:41.580 some say,

00:59:42.660 open up

00:59:43.280 disclosure

00:59:44.340 or discovery

00:59:45.280 to companies

00:59:45.980 like

00:59:46.240 Dominion,

00:59:47.520 who would

00:59:48.240 be contracted

00:59:49.020 by a state

00:59:49.840 but would

00:59:50.620 be private

00:59:51.120 entities.

00:59:51.960 So it

00:59:52.380 might give

00:59:52.960 the public

00:59:53.800 some kind

00:59:54.340 of a

00:59:54.840 backdoor

00:59:55.900 into their

00:59:56.380 documents.

00:59:57.600 Is that

00:59:57.880 going to

00:59:58.040 make a

00:59:58.300 difference?

00:59:58.800 I don't

00:59:59.060 know,

00:59:59.840 but it

01:00:00.080 would be

01:00:00.180 interesting

01:00:00.540 to have

01:00:00.800 more

01:00:00.980 transparency.

01:00:03.580 I

01:00:04.100 continue

01:00:04.500 to be

01:00:04.940 baffled

01:00:05.300 by the

01:00:05.640 story of

01:00:06.160 New York

01:00:06.620 Mayor

01:00:06.880 Eric Adams

01:00:07.600 in all

01:00:08.600 of his

01:00:08.880 legal

01:00:09.280 troubles.

01:00:10.000 So he's

01:00:10.520 been accused

01:00:11.220 of a bunch

01:00:11.700 of things.

01:00:12.300 I think

01:00:12.520 they're all

01:00:12.900 corruption

01:00:14.100 related

01:00:14.660 charges.

01:00:15.960 I don't

01:00:16.620 have any

01:00:17.040 idea if

01:00:17.780 any of

01:00:18.080 those are

01:00:18.440 true.

01:00:19.720 But I

01:00:20.580 do have

01:00:20.880 this feeling.

01:00:21.960 I believe

01:00:22.780 that pretty

01:00:23.500 much all

01:00:24.160 local

01:00:24.580 politicians

01:00:25.160 are corrupt

01:00:26.000 or will

01:00:27.580 be eventually.

01:00:29.140 So there

01:00:29.760 may be

01:00:30.040 some cities

01:00:30.640 where there's

01:00:31.120 still a few

01:00:31.560 honest people,

01:00:32.380 but over

01:00:32.980 time it

01:00:33.480 has to turn

01:00:34.020 into the

01:00:35.120 corrupt

01:00:35.400 ones.

01:00:36.080 Because the

01:00:36.680 corrupt

01:00:36.920 ones are

01:00:37.320 the ones

01:00:37.660 who are

01:00:37.860 going to

01:00:38.060 figure out

01:00:38.520 how to

01:00:38.880 monetize

01:00:39.440 the job

01:00:40.040 and how

01:00:41.180 to monetize

01:00:41.900 the people

01:00:42.280 who give

01:00:42.760 them money

01:00:43.140 to get

01:00:43.480 in the

01:00:43.740 job,

01:00:44.200 the people

01:00:44.680 who support

01:00:45.140 their campaigns.

01:00:46.480 So right

01:00:47.700 now our

01:00:48.240 biggest problem

01:00:48.840 in the

01:00:49.080 world is

01:00:49.740 local

01:00:50.200 governments.

01:00:51.740 And

01:00:51.860 specifically

01:00:52.400 local

01:00:53.020 governments,

01:00:53.560 as I

01:00:53.880 said before,

01:00:55.040 who get

01:00:55.440 to decide

01:00:56.060 which vendors

01:00:56.900 do what

01:00:57.420 work.

01:00:58.560 That has

01:00:59.220 to be taken

01:00:59.680 out of the

01:01:00.260 control of

01:01:01.000 the local

01:01:01.400 government.

01:01:02.160 I don't

01:01:02.420 know what

01:01:02.640 the local

01:01:03.000 government would

01:01:03.660 do,

01:01:04.020 if they

01:01:05.100 don't have

01:01:05.820 control over

01:01:06.860 who gets

01:01:07.240 what jobs.

01:01:11.020 But there

01:01:11.500 will probably

01:01:11.720 still be a

01:01:12.160 lot there.

01:01:13.860 You just

01:01:14.320 have to take

01:01:14.780 the money

01:01:15.140 out of the

01:01:15.520 government

01:01:15.800 thing.

01:01:16.320 They just

01:01:16.740 can't control

01:01:17.460 money.

01:01:18.320 That's where

01:01:18.760 all the

01:01:19.100 corruption

01:01:19.360 comes from.

01:01:22.340 And

01:01:22.620 anyway,

01:01:23.160 so here's

01:01:23.540 my biggest

01:01:24.120 complaint with

01:01:24.880 the freedom

01:01:25.320 cities.

01:01:26.940 That Democrats

01:01:27.820 would come

01:01:28.400 to run

01:01:29.260 them.

01:01:30.920 That's it.

01:01:32.240 So suppose

01:01:32.820 a developer

01:01:33.520 builds like

01:01:34.140 this amazing

01:01:35.020 new city,

01:01:36.780 a freedom

01:01:37.120 city,

01:01:37.720 and then

01:01:38.820 they go to

01:01:39.360 populate it.

01:01:40.220 Well,

01:01:40.400 they're also

01:01:40.740 going to need

01:01:41.120 a mayor.

01:01:42.500 But let's

01:01:43.100 say they

01:01:43.420 build it so

01:01:44.020 it's really

01:01:44.420 optimized for

01:01:45.480 people starting

01:01:46.760 out and

01:01:47.300 lower income

01:01:47.860 people.

01:01:49.260 Well,

01:01:49.580 if you

01:01:49.900 optimize it

01:01:50.520 for lower

01:01:50.960 income

01:01:51.240 people,

01:01:52.680 and a lot

01:01:53.460 of them are

01:01:53.820 Democrats,

01:01:54.800 because maybe

01:01:55.300 the Republicans

01:01:55.980 say,

01:01:56.460 you know,

01:01:57.340 I'm going to

01:01:57.760 stay under

01:01:58.160 your 15-minute

01:01:58.940 city.

01:01:59.320 So let's

01:02:00.440 say it's

01:02:00.760 mostly

01:02:01.140 Democrats

01:02:01.660 who move

01:02:02.040 into your

01:02:02.540 new Trump

01:02:03.520 city.

01:02:04.340 What's going

01:02:05.020 to happen?

01:02:06.340 Total

01:02:06.860 destruction.

01:02:08.220 So there

01:02:08.560 is no city

01:02:09.880 designed that

01:02:11.240 can't be

01:02:11.700 ruined by

01:02:12.280 Democrats.

01:02:14.140 And that's

01:02:16.100 not meant to

01:02:16.960 be a political

01:02:17.920 statement.

01:02:19.660 I know it

01:02:20.400 sounds like

01:02:20.820 one.

01:02:22.080 But I don't

01:02:23.300 think there's a

01:02:23.900 scenario where

01:02:24.520 you can put a

01:02:25.240 bunch of

01:02:25.560 Democrats in

01:02:26.200 the city

01:02:26.580 and not

01:02:27.180 have a

01:02:27.620 corrupt

01:02:27.840 leadership

01:02:28.300 because for

01:02:29.660 whatever reason

01:02:30.280 they always

01:02:30.680 vote for

01:02:31.020 corrupt

01:02:31.320 leadership.

01:02:33.200 So if

01:02:35.120 you don't

01:02:35.460 fix the

01:02:36.060 how do

01:02:36.400 you manage

01:02:36.920 the city,

01:02:37.960 there's no

01:02:38.700 point in

01:02:39.040 building it.

01:02:40.360 There's no

01:02:41.100 point in

01:02:41.700 building a

01:02:42.120 new city

01:02:42.620 if it's

01:02:43.680 going to

01:02:43.840 be managed

01:02:44.420 in the

01:02:44.820 same way

01:02:45.240 that the

01:02:45.520 old cities

01:02:45.960 are managed

01:02:46.500 in terms

01:02:46.960 of the

01:02:47.180 government.

01:02:48.960 That's

01:02:49.360 got to

01:02:49.740 be the

01:02:50.000 first thing

01:02:50.400 that changes.

01:02:51.580 I don't

01:02:52.080 know if

01:02:52.300 there's a

01:02:52.560 way to do

01:02:52.960 that.

01:02:54.060 I don't

01:02:54.340 know if

01:02:54.540 you can

01:02:54.840 have a

01:02:55.720 non-normal

01:02:56.820 city

01:02:57.500 management.

01:02:58.840 Can you?

01:02:59.640 I don't

01:02:59.900 know.

01:03:01.240 I don't

01:03:01.560 know.

01:03:03.080 Suppose the

01:03:03.780 developer said

01:03:04.760 I'm going to

01:03:05.640 be in charge

01:03:06.160 of the

01:03:06.420 city and

01:03:07.660 we'll just

01:03:08.020 run it

01:03:08.340 like a

01:03:08.640 business.

01:03:10.340 I don't

01:03:10.860 know.

01:03:11.260 They'd

01:03:11.580 probably

01:03:11.760 become

01:03:12.100 corrupt

01:03:12.420 too over

01:03:13.000 time.

01:03:13.640 There's

01:03:13.840 got to

01:03:14.040 be some

01:03:14.420 way to

01:03:14.700 run a

01:03:15.020 city.

01:03:16.220 That's

01:03:16.680 not what

01:03:17.140 we're

01:03:17.280 doing

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01:03:48.160 Well, meanwhile,

01:03:51.060 the Harris

01:03:51.400 campaign, if you

01:03:52.440 wanted to be a

01:03:53.460 Harris campaign

01:03:54.780 worker, you get

01:03:56.480 to select from

01:03:57.180 nine different

01:03:57.860 pronoun options.

01:04:00.180 Nine different

01:04:00.900 pronoun options.

01:04:01.980 My favorite that I

01:04:02.940 never heard is

01:04:03.640 who who.

01:04:05.220 H-U

01:04:05.860 slash H-U.

01:04:07.720 So I think that

01:04:08.640 means you

01:04:09.420 individually, but

01:04:10.260 also you

01:04:10.860 collectively, like

01:04:12.140 you know, he

01:04:12.600 and they.

01:04:13.880 Who and who.

01:04:14.440 I think that's

01:04:17.660 the most confusing

01:04:18.620 pronoun ever.

01:04:20.600 Why would you

01:04:21.040 introduce a new

01:04:21.800 pronoun that sounds

01:04:22.700 like who when

01:04:23.780 you're talking about

01:04:24.420 people?

01:04:26.440 Who did it?

01:04:27.780 I know.

01:04:29.420 No, who did it?

01:04:31.340 I know.

01:04:33.180 No, who did it?

01:04:35.420 I know.

01:04:36.020 Who did it?

01:04:37.580 I mean, it's

01:04:37.980 exactly the, it's

01:04:39.860 exactly that comedy

01:04:40.840 routine.

01:04:42.100 Except in this

01:04:42.940 case, who refers

01:04:43.900 to, you know, a

01:04:45.080 number of people,

01:04:45.720 not just one.

01:04:47.680 All right.

01:04:48.100 Well, my question

01:04:49.540 is, and you may

01:04:50.280 have had the same

01:04:50.780 question, how can

01:04:52.340 I add to this?

01:04:54.460 Like, what is

01:04:54.900 the crossover

01:04:57.440 point where

01:04:58.840 somebody's personal

01:04:59.860 opinion about what

01:05:00.780 they should be

01:05:01.300 called becomes

01:05:02.840 important enough

01:05:03.640 that it becomes

01:05:04.360 on the list of

01:05:05.580 nine things that

01:05:06.420 you can check?

01:05:08.120 It must be kind

01:05:08.900 of a low bar

01:05:09.700 because I've never

01:05:10.800 even heard of

01:05:11.480 anybody who was

01:05:12.160 a who who.

01:05:12.780 Have you?

01:05:14.960 Or a G, you

01:05:16.680 know, XI.

01:05:17.760 I've never heard

01:05:18.540 of a real person

01:05:19.440 who had those

01:05:20.380 requirements.

01:05:21.460 So it can't be

01:05:22.480 many people.

01:05:24.140 So I'd like to

01:05:24.940 see if I could

01:05:25.420 get one added.

01:05:27.220 I haven't decided

01:05:28.080 what it is yet.

01:05:29.840 But I want to

01:05:30.520 see if maybe,

01:05:31.320 if I get

01:05:33.020 everybody to

01:05:33.620 call me it,

01:05:34.780 whatever it is,

01:05:35.940 then maybe we

01:05:37.060 could popularize

01:05:37.920 it a little bit,

01:05:38.880 see if we can

01:05:39.400 get added to

01:05:39.960 the list.

01:05:40.300 But I think

01:05:42.400 I'd like to

01:05:42.860 do it as

01:05:43.180 more of a

01:05:43.580 prank.

01:05:44.960 So it should

01:05:45.620 be pronouns

01:05:46.460 that have

01:05:47.380 some kind

01:05:48.040 of hidden

01:05:48.380 meaning,

01:05:49.300 or they

01:05:50.040 insult somebody,

01:05:51.540 or they

01:05:52.140 would be

01:05:52.460 impolite to

01:05:53.120 say in

01:05:53.380 public.

01:05:57.560 Or,

01:05:58.720 yeah,

01:06:00.420 I'm thinking

01:06:00.840 of something

01:06:01.220 like,

01:06:02.140 oh,

01:06:03.420 I don't

01:06:03.640 know.

01:06:04.680 It would be

01:06:05.240 funnier if I

01:06:05.820 could come up

01:06:06.260 with an

01:06:06.560 example.

01:06:06.940 I'd like

01:06:08.720 to be

01:06:08.960 called a

01:06:09.360 Dilbert.

01:06:10.940 What?

01:06:11.840 Yeah,

01:06:12.300 instead of

01:06:12.880 he,

01:06:14.020 just call

01:06:14.680 me Dilbert.

01:06:16.260 What if

01:06:16.880 there are

01:06:17.060 more than

01:06:17.420 one?

01:06:18.460 Dilberts.

01:06:20.120 Call me

01:06:20.600 Dilbert or

01:06:21.120 Dilberts.

01:06:23.120 And then

01:06:23.740 they would

01:06:24.020 say,

01:06:24.980 well,

01:06:25.500 does it

01:06:25.760 work for

01:06:26.120 women?

01:06:27.360 And I

01:06:28.000 would say,

01:06:29.200 define a

01:06:29.820 woman.

01:06:31.120 And they'd

01:06:31.820 say,

01:06:32.300 touche.

01:06:33.120 And then

01:06:33.720 they start

01:06:34.140 calling their

01:06:34.640 women Dilbert.

01:06:35.240 I think

01:06:36.860 that's my

01:06:38.040 pronoun.

01:06:38.980 I want

01:06:39.340 to be

01:06:39.540 called

01:06:39.760 Dilbert.

01:06:41.300 And

01:06:41.740 Dilberts,

01:06:43.040 maybe with

01:06:43.500 an S.

01:06:46.160 There were

01:06:46.460 a whole

01:06:46.700 pack of

01:06:47.160 Dilbert

01:06:47.560 coming your

01:06:48.220 way.

01:06:50.800 All right,

01:06:51.300 so there's

01:06:52.080 a,

01:06:52.960 as you

01:06:53.680 know,

01:06:54.900 Republicans

01:06:55.680 are leading

01:06:56.280 on the

01:06:56.800 top issues

01:06:57.940 like the

01:06:58.540 border,

01:06:59.080 the economy,

01:07:00.020 and crime.

01:07:01.660 So if

01:07:02.620 you were

01:07:02.840 to rank

01:07:03.240 the issues

01:07:03.820 from most

01:07:04.360 important to

01:07:04.980 least

01:07:05.160 important,

01:07:05.240 the ones

01:07:06.720 that

01:07:07.000 universally

01:07:08.080 are toward

01:07:08.580 the top,

01:07:09.760 Republicans

01:07:10.220 have a

01:07:10.820 commanding

01:07:11.260 advantage.

01:07:12.800 So,

01:07:13.420 then why

01:07:15.060 isn't

01:07:15.400 Trump way

01:07:15.940 ahead?

01:07:17.840 How does

01:07:18.380 that make

01:07:18.640 sense?

01:07:20.080 Commanding

01:07:20.640 advantage

01:07:21.100 in all

01:07:21.580 the important

01:07:22.260 topics,

01:07:23.740 and yet

01:07:24.220 not running

01:07:25.560 away with

01:07:26.000 the election?

01:07:27.480 Huh.

01:07:28.500 Well,

01:07:29.060 some of it

01:07:29.560 might be the

01:07:30.120 quality of the

01:07:30.820 polling we've

01:07:31.920 talked about

01:07:32.400 before.

01:07:33.680 But,

01:07:34.200 I think

01:07:35.740 it's

01:07:35.980 maybe

01:07:36.240 something

01:07:36.600 more

01:07:36.920 basic,

01:07:38.280 that

01:07:38.580 Democrats,

01:07:40.120 not all

01:07:41.320 of them,

01:07:41.620 of course,

01:07:42.720 can't tell

01:07:43.480 what's

01:07:43.720 important.

01:07:45.920 You know,

01:07:46.240 when I was

01:07:48.280 trying to get

01:07:48.880 my MBA,

01:07:49.800 you take

01:07:50.100 this test

01:07:50.660 called the

01:07:51.120 GMATS.

01:07:52.160 That's a test

01:07:52.780 to see if

01:07:53.920 you're smart

01:07:54.340 enough to get

01:07:54.780 into business

01:07:55.300 school.

01:07:57.160 And one of the

01:07:57.720 tests,

01:07:58.060 I'm not sure

01:07:58.440 they do it

01:07:58.820 anymore,

01:07:59.520 is you were

01:07:59.980 supposed to

01:08:00.400 figure out

01:08:00.760 what was

01:08:01.120 more

01:08:01.380 important

01:08:01.920 in a

01:08:03.320 little story

01:08:03.900 about an

01:08:04.320 event.

01:08:05.240 So,

01:08:05.460 like,

01:08:05.580 what is the

01:08:06.180 important part

01:08:07.060 of this

01:08:07.520 story?

01:08:08.160 And if you

01:08:08.800 couldn't identify

01:08:09.580 what was

01:08:10.080 important,

01:08:11.180 you couldn't

01:08:12.240 even go to

01:08:12.660 business school

01:08:13.260 because they

01:08:14.340 don't want

01:08:14.720 somebody who

01:08:15.180 can't identify

01:08:15.800 what's

01:08:16.140 important.

01:08:17.640 That seems

01:08:17.940 kind of basic,

01:08:19.300 doesn't it?

01:08:20.360 But if

01:08:21.680 somebody says

01:08:22.340 that,

01:08:22.700 for example,

01:08:24.480 abortion,

01:08:27.180 climate change,

01:08:27.960 DEI,

01:08:28.600 reparation,

01:08:29.220 and pronouns,

01:08:31.040 if anybody

01:08:31.820 is making

01:08:32.240 an argument

01:08:32.720 that those

01:08:33.300 should be

01:08:33.620 in the

01:08:33.880 top five,

01:08:36.200 there's

01:08:37.480 something wrong

01:08:38.040 with them.

01:08:39.300 Now,

01:08:39.600 it could be

01:08:40.020 that what's

01:08:40.340 wrong is

01:08:40.840 they don't

01:08:41.820 have the

01:08:42.420 same talent

01:08:44.080 stack as

01:08:44.660 other people.

01:08:45.840 So,

01:08:46.420 if you were

01:08:46.700 an artist

01:08:47.300 your whole

01:08:49.120 life,

01:08:50.040 and you

01:08:50.340 didn't have

01:08:50.700 other experience

01:08:51.560 outside of

01:08:52.060 art,

01:08:52.900 you might

01:08:53.300 think that

01:08:53.780 abortion,

01:08:54.340 climate change,

01:08:55.180 DEI,

01:08:55.740 reparations,

01:08:56.440 and pronouns

01:08:56.920 are right at

01:08:57.580 the top of

01:08:57.980 the list.

01:09:00.040 You would

01:09:00.800 not be

01:09:01.240 very wise

01:09:02.020 if you

01:09:02.480 thought that.

01:09:03.920 Here's how

01:09:04.520 I think of

01:09:04.980 it.

01:09:05.160 If you

01:09:05.400 don't get

01:09:05.700 the economy

01:09:06.340 right,

01:09:06.760 everything is

01:09:07.380 dead.

01:09:08.720 If you

01:09:09.300 don't get

01:09:09.640 immigration

01:09:10.140 right,

01:09:10.660 we're all

01:09:11.140 dead.

01:09:13.080 If you

01:09:13.800 don't get

01:09:14.420 avoiding

01:09:15.620 wars right,

01:09:17.260 we're all

01:09:18.260 dead.

01:09:19.380 If you

01:09:20.000 don't stop

01:09:20.560 crime,

01:09:22.400 we're all

01:09:22.920 dead.

01:09:24.680 That's why

01:09:25.320 those are at

01:09:25.900 the top of

01:09:26.360 my priority

01:09:26.920 list.

01:09:27.300 you're

01:09:28.020 dead.

01:09:29.420 Now let's

01:09:29.780 take theirs.

01:09:32.560 Would the

01:09:33.240 country still

01:09:34.700 be a

01:09:35.780 country if

01:09:37.500 abortion laws

01:09:38.320 were changed?

01:09:40.020 Yes.

01:09:40.960 Yes.

01:09:41.340 It could be

01:09:41.760 very important

01:09:42.420 to you

01:09:42.740 individually,

01:09:43.820 but the

01:09:44.520 country would

01:09:45.180 be somewhat

01:09:45.940 unchanged by

01:09:47.400 the abortion

01:09:48.420 laws.

01:09:49.380 In fact,

01:09:49.780 they did

01:09:50.100 change,

01:09:51.000 and the

01:09:51.660 country just

01:09:52.280 hummed

01:09:53.040 along.

01:09:53.420 Now I'm

01:09:57.200 not going

01:09:57.480 to discount

01:09:57.960 the fact

01:09:58.500 that it

01:09:59.400 has enormous

01:10:00.260 impact on

01:10:02.000 individuals who

01:10:03.180 are under

01:10:03.600 one set of

01:10:04.600 abortion laws

01:10:05.360 and now

01:10:05.680 they're under

01:10:06.040 another.

01:10:07.040 They might

01:10:07.400 be in a

01:10:07.760 state that

01:10:08.180 doesn't support

01:10:08.820 what they

01:10:09.140 want to

01:10:09.480 do.

01:10:09.740 Very big

01:10:10.720 problem for

01:10:11.340 some

01:10:11.680 individuals.

01:10:12.800 But if

01:10:13.520 you're looking

01:10:13.840 at the

01:10:14.180 country,

01:10:15.220 no difference.

01:10:17.800 It just

01:10:18.140 wasn't important

01:10:18.760 to the

01:10:19.180 country.

01:10:20.200 Important

01:10:20.640 topic,

01:10:23.200 just not

01:10:23.680 to the

01:10:23.960 well-being

01:10:24.280 of the

01:10:24.540 whole

01:10:24.700 country.

01:10:26.500 Look at

01:10:27.220 climate

01:10:27.500 change.

01:10:29.380 Climate

01:10:29.980 change,

01:10:30.660 even if

01:10:31.280 you believe

01:10:32.080 it's a

01:10:32.980 kill-the-world

01:10:34.440 problem,

01:10:36.420 Elon Musk

01:10:37.080 has the

01:10:37.740 smart way

01:10:38.600 to play

01:10:38.940 it,

01:10:39.400 which is

01:10:39.880 we're

01:10:41.020 going to

01:10:41.220 try hard

01:10:41.720 to get

01:10:42.060 to that

01:10:42.540 no-carbon

01:10:44.120 future,

01:10:45.160 but it's

01:10:46.700 probably not

01:10:47.620 something you

01:10:48.160 have to

01:10:48.440 do tomorrow

01:10:49.820 and in

01:10:51.180 the short

01:10:51.540 run,

01:10:51.800 you're

01:10:51.940 probably

01:10:52.140 going to

01:10:52.340 have to

01:10:52.560 use tons

01:10:53.460 of carbon

01:10:53.940 energy

01:10:54.400 because

01:10:54.700 otherwise

01:10:54.980 we're all

01:10:55.460 dead.

01:10:57.940 So if

01:10:58.620 climate

01:10:58.980 change is

01:10:59.400 your top

01:10:59.900 thing,

01:11:00.600 then you're

01:11:01.700 not working

01:11:02.220 on the

01:11:02.540 problem of

01:11:03.000 staying

01:11:03.260 alive.

01:11:05.180 You're

01:11:05.660 staying alive

01:11:06.200 maybe in

01:11:06.720 some conceptual

01:11:07.520 long-term

01:11:08.260 that nobody

01:11:08.720 can prove,

01:11:10.280 but you're

01:11:11.680 having trouble

01:11:12.180 immediately and

01:11:13.460 for a long

01:11:13.900 time.

01:11:15.280 How about

01:11:15.860 DEI?

01:11:16.880 I don't even

01:11:17.300 have to tell

01:11:17.760 you about

01:11:18.080 that.

01:11:18.380 Reparations,

01:11:20.360 these are

01:11:20.800 just racist

01:11:22.080 programs.

01:11:23.220 Reparations

01:11:23.680 is just a

01:11:24.400 racist idea.

01:11:26.520 And the

01:11:26.840 pronouns are

01:11:27.380 just silly.

01:11:28.540 So I

01:11:29.540 think that

01:11:30.000 the problem

01:11:30.440 is the

01:11:31.740 Democrats

01:11:32.160 can't tell

01:11:33.140 what's

01:11:33.440 important.

01:11:36.440 And again,

01:11:37.480 I don't mean

01:11:38.020 all Democrats

01:11:38.740 because of

01:11:39.520 course there

01:11:40.080 are plenty

01:11:40.540 of Democrats

01:11:41.180 who would

01:11:41.500 say the

01:11:41.820 economy is

01:11:42.400 the number

01:11:42.680 one thing.

01:11:43.500 But if

01:11:43.860 you're looking

01:11:44.120 at the

01:11:44.360 averages,

01:11:45.680 there does

01:11:46.120 seem to

01:11:46.460 be a

01:11:46.700 difference.

01:11:47.040 Republicans

01:11:48.120 can

01:11:48.720 quite

01:11:50.200 accurately,

01:11:53.060 in my

01:11:53.740 opinion,

01:11:54.160 this has

01:11:54.480 been my

01:11:54.800 experience,

01:11:55.760 they can

01:11:56.160 tell you

01:11:56.500 the most

01:11:56.900 important

01:11:57.260 things in

01:11:57.820 every

01:11:58.020 situation.

01:12:01.580 Am I

01:12:02.360 wrong?

01:12:04.940 Republicans

01:12:05.580 quite

01:12:06.460 predictably

01:12:08.740 and reliably

01:12:09.640 can look at

01:12:11.140 any situation

01:12:12.040 in life

01:12:12.700 and pick

01:12:13.980 out the

01:12:14.320 important

01:12:14.640 parts.

01:12:15.080 Democrats

01:12:16.840 again,

01:12:17.540 this is

01:12:17.900 an average,

01:12:18.420 it doesn't

01:12:18.740 apply to

01:12:19.120 every

01:12:19.300 person.

01:12:20.840 Democrats

01:12:21.320 seem to

01:12:22.160 consistently

01:12:22.840 not be

01:12:24.200 able to

01:12:24.500 find what's

01:12:24.980 important.

01:12:26.440 So it's

01:12:27.000 not even

01:12:27.400 an opinion

01:12:27.860 about what's

01:12:28.780 the best

01:12:29.160 thing to

01:12:29.520 do about

01:12:29.900 things,

01:12:30.480 it's not

01:12:30.940 even knowing

01:12:31.400 what's

01:12:31.680 important.

01:12:32.920 And I

01:12:33.220 would say

01:12:33.500 that that's

01:12:33.920 a talent

01:12:34.420 stack

01:12:34.880 problem.

01:12:37.140 People

01:12:37.580 who have

01:12:37.820 a certain

01:12:38.160 set of

01:12:38.520 experience

01:12:39.100 are always

01:12:39.760 going to

01:12:40.040 agree on

01:12:40.540 what's the

01:12:40.880 most important

01:12:41.440 stuff.

01:12:41.820 and people

01:12:42.960 who are

01:12:43.220 inexperienced

01:12:44.100 or they've

01:12:45.020 been in a

01:12:45.340 little silo

01:12:46.020 of experience

01:12:46.820 can often

01:12:48.340 have opinions

01:12:49.060 that are

01:12:49.600 disconnected

01:12:50.120 from the

01:12:50.720 real world.

01:12:51.360 And I

01:12:51.540 think that's

01:12:51.880 what's

01:12:52.100 happening.

01:12:54.140 Anyway,

01:12:54.980 the Trump

01:12:55.840 campaign,

01:12:56.680 there's rumors

01:12:57.380 that it's

01:12:57.940 going to have

01:12:58.440 a shakeup

01:12:59.080 and that

01:12:59.560 Corey

01:13:01.240 Lewandowski

01:13:02.000 might come

01:13:03.400 back and

01:13:04.000 might be

01:13:04.740 the boss

01:13:06.320 of the

01:13:06.660 existing

01:13:07.060 people that

01:13:07.800 not everybody

01:13:08.780 is delighted

01:13:09.400 with.

01:13:09.720 Now,

01:13:12.540 is that

01:13:13.040 true?

01:13:14.040 I don't

01:13:14.300 know.

01:13:15.280 There's

01:13:15.720 some talk

01:13:16.220 that Trump

01:13:16.880 just wants

01:13:17.760 his old

01:13:18.200 team together.

01:13:19.740 You've

01:13:20.280 seen some

01:13:20.980 social media

01:13:22.220 pressure in

01:13:23.600 that direction,

01:13:24.800 Mike Cernovich

01:13:25.500 specifically.

01:13:27.360 And I

01:13:29.060 don't know

01:13:29.320 if Corey

01:13:29.740 Lewandowski,

01:13:30.120 I don't know

01:13:30.540 anything about

01:13:31.220 Corey Lewandowski

01:13:32.140 on a personal

01:13:33.460 level,

01:13:34.100 but he had

01:13:35.100 some,

01:13:35.540 you know,

01:13:35.820 scandal and

01:13:36.820 he disappeared

01:13:37.920 for a while,

01:13:38.600 but we don't

01:13:38.960 really care about

01:13:39.600 a scandal,

01:13:40.300 do we?

01:13:41.960 Does anybody

01:13:42.700 really care

01:13:43.420 if Corey

01:13:44.600 Lewandowski

01:13:45.240 had some

01:13:45.720 personal scandal,

01:13:47.420 you know,

01:13:47.640 some affair?

01:13:49.280 Not really.

01:13:50.520 I mean,

01:13:50.720 if he can do

01:13:51.080 the job,

01:13:51.540 he can do

01:13:51.820 the job.

01:13:54.140 So Wired,

01:13:55.540 the publication

01:13:56.320 Wired,

01:13:57.320 did this

01:13:58.180 big bubble

01:13:58.940 influencer chart.

01:14:00.580 So they

01:14:01.200 tried to show

01:14:01.780 the influencers

01:14:02.480 on the left

01:14:03.240 and the

01:14:03.620 influencers

01:14:04.100 on the right

01:14:04.960 with this

01:14:05.780 very impressive

01:14:06.520 bubble chart.

01:14:07.240 So I looked

01:14:08.200 at the

01:14:08.500 influencers

01:14:09.000 on the

01:14:09.500 left

01:14:09.820 and I

01:14:12.220 didn't

01:14:12.500 recognize

01:14:13.140 any but

01:14:15.220 maybe one

01:14:15.920 name.

01:14:18.040 A whole

01:14:18.660 bubble chart

01:14:19.320 of the most

01:14:20.320 important

01:14:20.800 influencers,

01:14:21.800 they're talking

01:14:22.080 about internet

01:14:22.860 influencers,

01:14:23.960 and I didn't

01:14:25.660 know who any

01:14:26.120 of them were

01:14:26.580 except one

01:14:27.100 name,

01:14:27.440 Harry Sisson,

01:14:28.700 because people

01:14:29.180 make fun of

01:14:29.740 him on X

01:14:30.440 all the time.

01:14:31.280 That's it.

01:14:31.760 I don't even

01:14:32.640 know much

01:14:32.980 about him.

01:14:34.240 And then I

01:14:34.800 looked at the

01:14:35.200 one on the

01:14:35.600 right,

01:14:36.300 where I

01:14:37.620 should have

01:14:38.040 a little more

01:14:38.540 insight of

01:14:39.280 who the

01:14:39.660 influencers are,

01:14:41.140 and here's

01:14:42.660 what I

01:14:42.960 learned.

01:14:44.840 Wired has

01:14:45.500 no idea

01:14:46.100 who the

01:14:46.460 influential

01:14:46.920 people are

01:14:47.540 on the

01:14:47.760 right.

01:14:49.180 Now, I

01:14:49.740 don't know,

01:14:50.020 maybe they

01:14:50.380 got the

01:14:50.720 left wrong

01:14:51.260 as well,

01:14:52.400 but they

01:14:53.560 seem to be

01:14:54.280 thinking that

01:14:54.960 the size of

01:14:55.660 your audience

01:14:56.380 is,

01:14:58.780 and that you

01:14:59.440 talk about

01:15:00.100 politics,

01:15:00.560 is the

01:15:02.060 determinant

01:15:02.500 of your

01:15:03.140 influence.

01:15:04.420 Has that

01:15:05.040 been your

01:15:05.360 experience?

01:15:08.360 Well, I

01:15:09.440 will just

01:15:09.720 mention again

01:15:10.360 that Mike

01:15:10.820 Cernovich was

01:15:11.480 not on the

01:15:12.260 list of

01:15:12.960 internet

01:15:13.460 influential

01:15:14.100 people.

01:15:15.800 If that's

01:15:16.420 the only

01:15:16.740 thing you

01:15:17.120 knew about

01:15:17.560 it, that

01:15:18.800 should give

01:15:19.240 you all

01:15:19.720 you need

01:15:20.080 to know.

01:15:21.420 The people

01:15:22.700 on the

01:15:22.940 left have

01:15:23.300 no idea

01:15:23.980 who is

01:15:26.120 moving the

01:15:26.660 needle.

01:15:28.600 And good.

01:15:29.360 the less

01:15:31.040 they know

01:15:31.400 about that,

01:15:31.920 probably the

01:15:32.320 better.

01:15:34.040 All right.

01:15:35.920 There's

01:15:36.380 another study

01:15:37.040 from Climate

01:15:38.180 Change

01:15:38.680 Dispatch,

01:15:40.600 or I think

01:15:41.040 that's where

01:15:41.400 they wrote

01:15:41.740 about it.

01:15:42.720 It finds

01:15:43.340 that rising

01:15:44.220 CO2

01:15:44.980 enhances

01:15:45.660 planetary

01:15:46.200 greening and

01:15:47.100 reduces

01:15:47.500 drought risk.

01:15:49.460 Well, how

01:15:49.780 about that?

01:15:50.720 So one of

01:15:51.240 the big

01:15:51.540 problems of

01:15:52.520 climate

01:15:53.180 warming

01:15:53.880 would be

01:15:55.540 the worry

01:15:56.340 about drought.

01:15:56.880 but apparently

01:15:58.360 there's a new

01:15:58.960 study that

01:15:59.480 suggests,

01:16:00.180 and again,

01:16:00.620 I'm not

01:16:00.980 going to say

01:16:01.320 that this

01:16:01.680 one's right

01:16:02.200 and all the

01:16:02.600 other ones

01:16:02.940 are wrong,

01:16:03.800 you can't

01:16:04.300 trust anything

01:16:04.840 about climate

01:16:05.520 or the

01:16:06.660 pandemic.

01:16:07.360 The two

01:16:07.800 things that

01:16:08.240 all of your

01:16:08.760 data is

01:16:09.400 questionable,

01:16:10.140 no matter

01:16:10.520 which direction.

01:16:11.480 It's like,

01:16:11.740 I don't know,

01:16:13.180 I'm not sure

01:16:13.560 I believe

01:16:14.220 anything in

01:16:14.720 those domains.

01:16:15.940 But the

01:16:16.280 idea is

01:16:16.920 that there's

01:16:19.720 a good

01:16:20.080 correlation

01:16:20.620 between

01:16:21.360 warming

01:16:22.220 and CO2,

01:16:24.040 which causes

01:16:25.040 lots of

01:16:25.580 greenery,

01:16:26.020 and apparently

01:16:27.120 if you've

01:16:27.540 got a lot

01:16:27.860 of greenery,

01:16:29.760 it probably

01:16:31.580 follows that

01:16:32.580 there's more

01:16:33.020 access to

01:16:33.600 water.

01:16:35.380 So my

01:16:36.440 question would

01:16:37.040 be this,

01:16:38.160 suppose there's

01:16:38.920 something to

01:16:39.460 it, and

01:16:40.420 suppose this

01:16:41.200 correlation is

01:16:42.000 real.

01:16:42.920 Do you

01:16:43.240 believe that

01:16:43.740 the climate

01:16:44.340 models included

01:16:46.260 these factors?

01:16:47.620 Of course

01:16:48.060 not.

01:16:49.480 Of course

01:16:50.200 not.

01:16:51.560 Climate

01:16:52.120 models are

01:16:52.740 ridiculous.

01:16:54.040 They are

01:16:54.440 ridiculous.

01:16:54.860 and you

01:16:56.480 should be

01:16:56.940 embarrassed and

01:16:57.720 angry that

01:16:59.060 anybody tried

01:16:59.760 to sell

01:17:00.160 them as

01:17:00.540 science.

01:17:03.180 All right.

01:17:05.020 Ladies and

01:17:05.820 gentlemen,

01:17:06.740 that is a

01:17:07.800 rapid review

01:17:08.460 through the

01:17:08.900 news today.

01:17:10.340 I'm going to

01:17:11.060 talk to the

01:17:11.640 people on

01:17:12.480 Locals,

01:17:14.340 my subscribers,

01:17:16.220 and I'm

01:17:17.760 going to say

01:17:18.000 bye to

01:17:18.620 YouTube and

01:17:20.040 Rumble

01:17:21.860 and X.

01:17:25.320 I will tell

01:17:26.100 you that I've

01:17:26.800 got some

01:17:27.300 announcements

01:17:27.820 upcoming of

01:17:29.120 some products

01:17:30.160 you're really

01:17:30.940 going to want.

01:17:32.780 Maybe a

01:17:33.920 calendar for

01:17:36.280 2025.

01:17:37.740 It won't be on

01:17:38.640 Amazon, so you're

01:17:39.420 going to have to

01:17:39.640 wait for me to

01:17:40.240 tell you where

01:17:40.660 it is.

01:17:41.780 And do you

01:17:42.700 remember my

01:17:43.180 book,

01:17:44.540 Win Bigly?

01:17:45.200 It was

01:17:47.460 quite influential

01:17:48.420 in the past.

01:17:50.620 It was

01:17:50.820 talking about

01:17:51.460 Trump's

01:17:52.220 2016 race

01:17:53.900 and his

01:17:54.360 basically it

01:17:55.540 was a lesson

01:17:56.000 on how to

01:17:57.300 persuade as

01:17:58.660 told through

01:17:59.360 the story of

01:18:00.200 Trump and

01:18:01.360 me.

01:18:03.960 So it's

01:18:05.100 going to be

01:18:05.440 reissued

01:18:06.020 because it's

01:18:06.820 part of what

01:18:07.220 got canceled.

01:18:08.400 And I've

01:18:09.100 updated it

01:18:09.740 with just

01:18:10.080 some updates.

01:18:11.080 It's not

01:18:11.580 majorly

01:18:12.160 different,

01:18:13.420 but

01:18:13.620 I'll tell

01:18:15.600 you when

01:18:15.840 it's available

01:18:16.320 and I'll

01:18:17.100 tell you how

01:18:17.480 to get it.

01:18:18.260 That one

01:18:18.680 will be on

01:18:20.040 Amazon, but

01:18:20.860 it's not

01:18:22.060 there yet.

01:18:22.820 I just have

01:18:23.300 to do some

01:18:23.760 final checks

01:18:25.120 and then it'll

01:18:25.540 take a few

01:18:25.960 weeks to be

01:18:26.560 available.

01:18:27.360 So in a few

01:18:27.920 weeks, look

01:18:28.900 for some big

01:18:29.620 announcements

01:18:30.120 in my domain.

01:18:32.760 All right.

01:18:33.900 Thanks for

01:18:34.500 joining everybody.

01:18:36.140 I'm coming to

01:18:37.060 Locals

01:18:37.740 privately.

01:18:39.400 We'll be with

01:18:40.280 Locals in

01:18:40.940 five seconds.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 16, 2024

Episode 2568 CWSA 08⧸16⧸24

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