Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2665 CWSA 11⧸20⧸24

00:00:00.780 Sure enough,

00:00:02.860 there's just one more thing.

00:00:07.080 I can't start this show

00:00:08.660 when I've got a little itch on my back

00:00:11.260 where I can't reach it.

00:00:12.340 Hold on.

00:00:13.040 Oh, God.

00:00:14.100 Oh.

00:00:15.120 And that's why you have a telescoping back scratcher

00:00:19.840 at your desk.

00:00:23.760 Get one.

00:00:30.000 Good morning, everybody,

00:00:36.820 and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:40.780 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:43.120 And if you'd like to take your experience

00:00:45.380 up to a level

00:00:46.760 that nobody can even understand

00:00:49.140 with their tiny, shiny human brains,

00:00:51.400 all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass,

00:00:53.660 a tank or a chalice or a stein,

00:00:54.620 a canteen, a jug or a flask,

00:00:55.740 a vessel of any kind.

00:00:57.720 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:58.820 I like coffee.

00:01:00.640 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure

00:01:02.540 that dopamine is the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:06.460 It's called what?

00:01:08.340 Simultaneous hip.

00:01:09.280 That's right.

00:01:10.080 Go.

00:01:14.460 Ah, simptastic.

00:01:18.680 All right.

00:01:19.340 Well, you know what I usually do?

00:01:21.860 I usually start the live stream

00:01:24.000 with some science updates

00:01:25.500 and then I say something like,

00:01:27.640 well, you could have just asked me

00:01:29.400 because it was obvious

00:01:31.020 what the result of that scientific study

00:01:32.960 was going to be.

00:01:34.100 But now, instead of showing off

00:01:36.480 all of my scientific knowledge,

00:01:40.160 I'm going to ask you, dear viewers,

00:01:43.280 to see if you can get these ones right.

00:01:46.020 I'll tell you what the study was

00:01:47.720 and then you tell me

00:01:49.540 what the result of the study was.

00:01:51.880 You ready?

00:01:52.240 Okay.

00:01:53.960 Study, according to a side post,

00:01:56.780 there was a study to find out

00:01:58.440 if people tend to mate

00:02:02.120 or at least become girlfriend, boyfriend,

00:02:04.860 or get married,

00:02:07.200 are they more likely to be attracted

00:02:09.880 to people of similar physical attractiveness?

00:02:13.980 Now, I'm not saying that you wouldn't be

00:02:15.700 more attractive to somebody

00:02:17.140 who's more attractive than you,

00:02:18.820 but when you actually get together,

00:02:21.660 when you actually pair off,

00:02:23.380 are you more likely to pair off

00:02:25.160 with somebody who's in your same,

00:02:27.420 relatively, same range of attractiveness?

00:02:32.300 And the answer is,

00:02:33.880 of course you are.

00:02:35.340 Did you really need to do a study for that?

00:02:38.100 You know, unless one of you

00:02:39.180 is super rich or something,

00:02:41.560 no, people pair off with people

00:02:44.080 that are roughly in their neighborhood.

00:02:46.740 But why would you do otherwise?

00:02:49.300 If you pair off with somebody

00:02:50.680 who's just way out of your range,

00:02:52.860 they're going to cheat on you. 1.00

00:02:54.660 Because sooner or later,

00:02:55.540 they're going to be,

00:02:56.560 wait a minute,

00:02:58.080 how did you trick me into marrying you?

00:03:00.940 I'm so much better.

00:03:03.080 Yeah, no, people find people

00:03:04.920 who are similar.

00:03:07.600 All right, here's another one.

00:03:08.940 Also from SciPost.

00:03:10.200 They were studying to find out

00:03:12.400 if people are attracted

00:03:14.360 to altruistic behavior.

00:03:17.880 So if you were in a situation

00:03:19.620 where you were single

00:03:20.720 and you saw somebody

00:03:21.900 of your preferred gender,

00:03:23.800 the one you like,

00:03:25.100 and they were being kind

00:03:26.920 and altruistic,

00:03:29.080 doing something that's like a favor

00:03:30.520 for somebody else,

00:03:31.720 would that attract you?

00:03:33.660 What do you think?

00:03:34.900 Did they need to do this study?

00:03:36.360 No, they didn't need to do the study.

00:03:39.700 Of course it attracts you.

00:03:42.160 Of course.

00:03:43.680 People being nice to other people?

00:03:47.560 Yes.

00:03:48.680 Yes.

00:03:49.240 Okay, we didn't need to waste

00:03:50.620 any money on that one.

00:03:52.440 All right, here's another one.

00:03:53.480 They're going to get tougher.

00:03:55.180 All right, those were easy.

00:03:56.360 Here's a tough one now.

00:03:58.220 Somebody studied

00:03:59.220 vitamin D supplementation,

00:04:01.460 vitamin D.

00:04:02.940 Do you think it was helpful

00:04:04.700 to have more vitamin D?

00:04:07.860 Was your health better

00:04:08.940 if you had more vitamin D?

00:04:13.160 Yes, it was.

00:04:16.200 Have you ever seen

00:04:17.180 a vitamin D study

00:04:18.460 where they said,

00:04:19.540 you know, we studied

00:04:20.240 the hell out of it

00:04:21.020 and we couldn't find

00:04:21.740 any difference in your health?

00:04:23.480 It's like it didn't matter

00:04:24.800 if you took it or not.

00:04:26.640 No, every single study

00:04:28.260 shows it's good for your health.

00:04:30.040 But specifically,

00:04:30.940 it's good for your

00:04:33.020 acute respiratory tract infection.

00:04:36.160 Huh, an acute respiratory tract infection.

00:04:40.360 Sounds like COVID,

00:04:42.220 which we already know

00:04:43.480 vitamin D is very important

00:04:45.520 for protection.

00:04:48.280 All right, you're three for three.

00:04:50.720 No science was needed.

00:04:52.220 You all knew the answer to that

00:04:53.520 before you even saw it.

00:04:54.620 Here's one.

00:04:56.220 All right, there was a study

00:04:57.180 on erectile dysfunction meds.

00:05:01.160 So meds to get your stuff stiff.

00:05:04.980 And was it associated

00:05:06.640 with more deaths

00:05:08.040 and cardiovascular disease

00:05:11.520 and dementia

00:05:12.960 or fewer deaths?

00:05:16.660 All right, this one's a tough one.

00:05:18.760 So erectile dysfunction meds,

00:05:20.820 like Viagra

00:05:21.540 and the likes,

00:05:23.740 there's two kinds,

00:05:25.800 Tadalafil

00:05:28.620 and Sildenafil.

00:05:31.120 So were those associated

00:05:33.740 with making you healthier

00:05:35.080 in general

00:05:35.780 or did they have

00:05:37.960 a negative effect?

00:05:40.220 What do you think?

00:05:42.940 I'm seeing more deaths,

00:05:44.220 fewer deaths.

00:05:46.820 More, fewer.

00:05:47.980 The answer is

00:05:50.940 that both of these drugs

00:05:52.060 are super effective

00:05:53.720 at keeping you alive.

00:05:57.920 Apparently,

00:05:59.480 listen to these numbers.

00:06:01.120 This is from UTMB health study,

00:06:04.360 according to the

00:06:05.860 Montgomery County Police Reporter.

00:06:08.440 So mortality overall

00:06:10.120 was reduced 34%

00:06:13.040 with Tadalafil

00:06:15.380 and 24% with Tadalafil.

00:06:17.980 Did you see that?

00:06:20.780 Let me just say that again.

00:06:24.900 Taking these erection 0.85

00:06:26.900 dysfunction medications

00:06:29.240 for men,

00:06:30.480 it reduced their mortality

00:06:32.340 by 34%.

00:06:33.940 And the worst one

00:06:37.000 was 24%.

00:06:38.320 Are you kidding?

00:06:41.180 Heart attacks were down

00:06:42.240 27% with one,

00:06:44.140 17% with the other.

00:06:45.980 The one that gives you

00:06:47.140 the best benefit

00:06:48.800 is the one

00:06:49.480 that lasts longer.

00:06:50.940 So I guess

00:06:51.340 Tadalafil lasts longer.

00:06:54.180 So the more you do,

00:06:55.560 the better are the benefits.

00:06:57.220 So the one that lasts longer

00:06:58.460 gives you substantially

00:06:59.820 more general health benefits.

00:07:02.840 Strokes are down 1.00

00:07:03.640 34%

00:07:05.020 or 22%

00:07:07.320 with the other one.

00:07:08.400 venous thrombombolism

00:07:16.060 venous thrombombolism

00:07:18.220 is down 21%,

00:07:19.500 which is very important

00:07:21.180 because I felt a little

00:07:22.580 venous thrombombolism

00:07:25.180 coming on.

00:07:26.780 I feel it.

00:07:27.940 I feel some thrombombolism

00:07:30.420 right now.

00:07:31.860 And how about dementia?

00:07:36.260 32% reduction in dementia

00:07:38.440 because you've got

00:07:41.860 ED meds.

00:07:43.760 Now,

00:07:44.920 I'm going to tell you

00:07:46.280 something

00:07:46.660 that I'm at that

00:07:49.100 place in life

00:07:50.300 where I can be useful.

00:07:52.360 Have I ever told you

00:07:53.360 that I just try to be useful?

00:07:55.600 It's one of the best

00:07:57.400 hacks for happiness.

00:07:59.300 If you can be useful

00:08:00.700 to other people,

00:08:02.540 ideally your family

00:08:03.560 and the people

00:08:04.020 you're close to,

00:08:04.680 but if you can be useful

00:08:05.560 to anybody,

00:08:07.160 it's going to make you

00:08:08.460 feel good.

00:08:09.380 I'm going to tell you

00:08:10.300 something that the

00:08:11.340 doctors don't tell you

00:08:12.660 because they're not

00:08:13.760 hypnotists.

00:08:15.000 They're doctors.

00:08:16.320 And even the scientists

00:08:17.240 won't tell you this

00:08:18.160 because they're scientists.

00:08:20.000 But,

00:08:20.760 number one,

00:08:22.240 are you ready for this?

00:08:23.620 So this is in the category

00:08:25.040 of the things

00:08:25.620 you can't say

00:08:26.580 if you're worried

00:08:28.400 about being embarrassed.

00:08:30.720 But I'm not.

00:08:34.300 I'm past all of that.

00:08:36.180 Number one,

00:08:37.220 if you're in your

00:08:38.120 late 50s or 60s

00:08:39.800 and you're not

00:08:40.680 taking one of these meds,

00:08:43.300 you're crazy. 0.94

00:08:46.160 You're crazy.

00:08:47.920 Because I get it

00:08:49.380 that everybody's different

00:08:51.080 and so some of you

00:08:51.980 will be exactly like

00:08:53.900 you're 25 years old

00:08:55.180 when you're 70.

00:08:56.720 But not most of you.

00:08:58.400 Not most of you.

00:09:00.320 So here's the first thing.

00:09:02.280 If you think

00:09:03.220 it's embarrassing

00:09:03.980 or it's like,

00:09:06.100 you know,

00:09:06.380 somehow your ego

00:09:07.280 is lessened,

00:09:08.780 don't think about

00:09:10.140 any of that.

00:09:11.500 It's like one of the

00:09:12.520 best drugs

00:09:13.320 of all time.

00:09:15.400 Trust me.

00:09:16.740 Number two.

00:09:19.520 Number two.

00:09:21.060 The scientists

00:09:21.800 will tell you,

00:09:22.980 and by the way,

00:09:23.600 I don't know anybody

00:09:24.300 my age who doesn't

00:09:25.180 take it.

00:09:27.160 I think pretty much

00:09:28.280 everybody my age,

00:09:29.580 if they have any

00:09:30.360 kind of anything

00:09:31.580 going on,

00:09:32.680 pretty much all of them.

00:09:34.340 So that's the first thing.

00:09:36.240 You need somebody

00:09:37.340 who's not embarrassed

00:09:39.240 to tell you

00:09:40.000 that at a certain age,

00:09:41.860 it might be different

00:09:42.640 for you,

00:09:43.520 but at some age,

00:09:45.180 oh,

00:09:45.360 you should absolutely,

00:09:46.640 definitely be taking

00:09:47.420 these drugs.

00:09:48.620 Now,

00:09:48.920 you know how I always

00:09:50.040 tell you

00:09:50.500 I don't give you

00:09:52.320 medical advice.

00:09:54.040 This is not

00:09:54.780 medical advice,

00:09:55.520 it's social.

00:09:57.020 It's relationship advice.

00:09:59.180 You still need to go

00:10:00.280 through your doctor

00:10:01.000 to get them,

00:10:01.620 you can't get them

00:10:02.240 over the counter.

00:10:03.540 So your doctor

00:10:04.260 will tell you

00:10:04.940 if it's a good idea

00:10:05.760 medically.

00:10:07.000 What I'm telling you

00:10:07.960 is lifestyle

00:10:09.020 and relationship,

00:10:11.760 go do this.

00:10:13.820 Trust me,

00:10:14.520 there are like several,

00:10:15.900 let's say,

00:10:16.860 let's say 100,000 people

00:10:18.620 listen to this

00:10:19.260 live stream

00:10:19.960 recorded

00:10:21.420 as well as live.

00:10:24.160 And of 100,000,

00:10:25.800 I probably just

00:10:27.400 dramatically improved

00:10:29.420 the lives of

00:10:30.520 about 5,000 people.

00:10:33.620 Is that cool?

00:10:36.120 It's one of the things

00:10:37.100 you get to do

00:10:37.600 if you have a live stream.

00:10:38.920 It's just something

00:10:39.740 that maybe

00:10:40.240 you hadn't thought

00:10:41.160 about that way

00:10:41.980 or maybe you had

00:10:43.140 some hesitation

00:10:43.940 or you told yourself,

00:10:45.260 oh,

00:10:45.700 I don't need that.

00:10:47.580 I'm a man.

00:10:48.480 I don't need

00:10:49.240 that little pill.

00:10:50.540 Oh,

00:10:50.820 it's the best thing ever.

00:10:52.860 It's the best thing ever.

00:10:55.620 All right,

00:10:55.800 here's the second thing

00:10:56.580 they don't tell you.

00:10:57.760 You know how

00:10:58.400 they always tell you,

00:10:59.340 but it's not going

00:11:00.600 to change

00:11:01.280 your arousal.

00:11:04.100 It'll only allow

00:11:05.180 your body

00:11:05.720 to react

00:11:06.520 to being in the mood.

00:11:08.520 So it doesn't put you

00:11:09.980 in the mood.

00:11:11.960 It only allows

00:11:13.200 your body

00:11:13.600 to respond

00:11:14.180 if you're in the mood.

00:11:14.980 Is that what

00:11:15.800 you all understand?

00:11:17.600 Everybody understand

00:11:18.540 it that way?

00:11:19.100 It doesn't put you

00:11:19.760 in the mood.

00:11:21.160 It simply allows you

00:11:22.320 to be in the mood

00:11:23.000 if you were going

00:11:24.380 to be there anyway.

00:11:25.960 Totally false.

00:11:27.940 100% false.

00:11:30.480 Let me explain.

00:11:32.180 I don't know

00:11:32.880 why science

00:11:33.580 is so dumb

00:11:34.660 on this.

00:11:35.560 Let me explain this.

00:11:36.500 There are two things

00:11:42.100 that make me happy.

00:11:44.240 Being happy

00:11:45.040 and then pretending

00:11:46.120 I'm happy.

00:11:47.840 If you pretend

00:11:48.760 you're happy,

00:11:49.300 it makes you happy.

00:11:51.100 If your body

00:11:51.940 feels good,

00:11:52.500 it makes your brain

00:11:53.100 feel good.

00:11:54.280 If your brain

00:11:54.700 feels good,

00:11:55.380 sometimes even

00:11:56.160 that will make

00:11:56.520 your body feel good.

00:11:57.900 Your brain

00:11:58.420 and your body

00:11:58.940 are the same device.

00:12:02.040 We only separate them

00:12:03.520 why?

00:12:05.800 I don't know.

00:12:06.080 Just because

00:12:06.640 there are schools

00:12:07.360 for brain surgery

00:12:08.960 and a different school

00:12:09.940 for setting bones

00:12:11.640 that are broken,

00:12:12.300 I guess.

00:12:13.260 So we have

00:12:14.560 these human reasons

00:12:15.700 for saying

00:12:16.300 that the brain

00:12:16.920 is separate

00:12:17.380 from the body.

00:12:18.840 But in all practical ways,

00:12:21.020 they're just one unit.

00:12:22.960 So here's what

00:12:23.560 I'm going to tell you

00:12:24.240 that every hypnotist

00:12:25.400 will agree with.

00:12:26.640 By the way,

00:12:27.200 usually there are

00:12:28.340 a few hypnotists

00:12:29.100 watching because

00:12:29.980 they know I talk

00:12:31.020 about this content.

00:12:32.620 Watch.

00:12:33.180 If there's anybody

00:12:33.760 who's a psychologist

00:12:35.120 or a hypnotist,

00:12:36.960 you're going to agree

00:12:37.600 with what I say

00:12:38.360 right now.

00:12:39.900 If your body

00:12:41.100 starts reacting

00:12:42.680 in a sexual way,

00:12:44.000 your brain

00:12:44.700 will just follow it.

00:12:48.020 Yeah.

00:12:48.680 No,

00:12:48.940 they're completely lying

00:12:49.980 when they say

00:12:50.480 it doesn't put you

00:12:51.140 in the mood

00:12:51.620 because if

00:12:53.140 taking one

00:12:54.740 of those pills

00:12:55.460 causes you

00:12:56.700 to feel a reaction,

00:12:58.000 which would be normal.

00:12:59.400 you'd just be like,

00:13:00.740 oh,

00:13:01.660 I feel a little reaction

00:13:02.940 there and there's

00:13:03.320 almost nothing going on.

00:13:04.740 It immediately

00:13:05.520 puts you in the mood.

00:13:07.660 You can't have an erection

00:13:08.920 and not be in the mood.

00:13:10.640 It's just almost impossible.

00:13:12.700 So when they tell you

00:13:13.800 it doesn't put you

00:13:14.540 in the mood,

00:13:15.260 it's true that

00:13:15.980 it's not designed

00:13:16.720 for that.

00:13:17.960 And it would be true 0.95

00:13:18.760 that if,

00:13:19.240 you know,

00:13:19.580 you're,

00:13:20.620 if you had just

00:13:21.400 some horrible

00:13:22.060 traumatic experience,

00:13:23.440 it's not going to help you

00:13:24.440 because the traumatic

00:13:26.060 experience would be

00:13:26.920 too big.

00:13:27.400 But if you're just

00:13:29.100 having a normal day

00:13:30.120 and your brain

00:13:31.720 isn't,

00:13:32.200 you know,

00:13:32.520 not in the sexiest mood,

00:13:34.960 the pill will put you

00:13:36.280 in the mood.

00:13:37.920 Now,

00:13:38.360 I'm not going to say

00:13:38.960 it's 100% of the time,

00:13:40.300 but it's close to 100%.

00:13:42.080 Look at the reactions.

00:13:45.040 So the people

00:13:45.640 who are brave enough

00:13:46.480 to say,

00:13:46.960 oh yeah,

00:13:48.040 I use it,

00:13:48.640 it's great.

00:13:50.060 So here's what

00:13:50.820 I'm doing for you.

00:13:51.680 I'm going to take

00:13:52.220 the embarrassment

00:13:53.240 part out.

00:13:54.400 It's tremendous.

00:13:55.340 Talk to your doctor

00:13:58.520 about the health

00:13:59.140 part of it.

00:13:59.720 I can't recommend that.

00:14:00.900 But lifestyle-wise,

00:14:03.140 oh my God.

00:14:05.160 Yeah,

00:14:05.440 you'd be crazy

00:14:06.220 not to be honest.

00:14:06.960 After a certain age,

00:14:07.880 you'd be crazy.

00:14:10.600 All right,

00:14:11.100 here's the next one.

00:14:13.360 Science,

00:14:14.020 science question.

00:14:16.260 According to

00:14:16.880 the Marijuana Herald,

00:14:18.360 damn it,

00:14:18.700 I gave away the answer.

00:14:20.280 Shoot.

00:14:20.640 I shouldn't have

00:14:23.360 told you who

00:14:23.820 the source was.

00:14:25.300 The source totally

00:14:26.260 gives it away,

00:14:27.060 but here's the question.

00:14:29.460 Is cannabis use

00:14:30.680 associated with

00:14:32.700 more or less

00:14:33.840 cognitive decline

00:14:35.360 over your lifetime?

00:14:37.420 The people who smoke 0.97

00:14:38.500 a lot of marijuana,

00:14:40.260 do they have more

00:14:41.220 cognitive decline

00:14:42.480 than average

00:14:43.160 or less

00:14:44.720 cognitive decline

00:14:46.220 since everybody

00:14:47.420 has some decline?

00:14:48.140 What do you think?

00:14:53.600 That?

00:14:54.960 That?

00:14:55.920 I see both.

00:14:57.240 I see,

00:14:57.620 huh?

00:14:58.880 Huh?

00:15:00.060 I see less.

00:15:01.400 I see more.

00:15:03.680 So,

00:15:04.260 here's how you

00:15:04.920 should have

00:15:05.200 known the answer.

00:15:06.420 The source was

00:15:07.240 the Marijuana Herald.

00:15:09.100 Do you think

00:15:09.820 the Marijuana Herald

00:15:10.960 is going to

00:15:11.960 report about a study

00:15:13.420 that makes you

00:15:14.040 die from marijuana?

00:15:15.700 Because I think

00:15:16.520 the Marijuana Herald

00:15:17.740 is going to

00:15:18.140 is kind of

00:15:19.620 pro-marijuana.

00:15:20.640 Just guessing.

00:15:21.960 So,

00:15:22.620 the answer is

00:15:23.280 that there's

00:15:24.240 a pretty big

00:15:24.860 difference.

00:15:26.780 The regular

00:15:27.720 marijuana users

00:15:28.840 maintain their

00:15:30.380 cognitive abilities

00:15:31.640 substantially better

00:15:33.220 than non-users.

00:15:35.580 How many of you

00:15:36.600 would have guessed

00:15:37.180 that?

00:15:39.220 It's substantial.

00:15:41.180 Yeah.

00:15:41.440 Now,

00:15:41.700 in both cases,

00:15:42.820 you will lose

00:15:43.520 some cognitive

00:15:44.180 function over time,

00:15:45.280 but the

00:15:46.420 heavy weed

00:15:47.180 smokers

00:15:47.760 only lose

00:15:48.420 a little bit.

00:15:49.800 The people

00:15:50.180 who don't

00:15:50.480 smoke it

00:15:50.920 at all,

00:15:52.580 much bigger

00:15:53.100 chunk.

00:15:54.760 I bet you

00:15:55.080 didn't see that

00:15:55.580 coming,

00:15:55.920 did you?

00:15:56.500 Now,

00:15:56.860 of course,

00:15:57.200 I believe

00:15:57.580 all science

00:15:58.080 that agrees

00:15:58.600 with whatever

00:15:59.160 I want to,

00:16:01.140 you know,

00:16:01.520 whatever's good

00:16:02.540 for me.

00:16:03.620 So,

00:16:04.020 may not be

00:16:04.620 true,

00:16:05.480 but I choose

00:16:06.700 to believe it

00:16:07.320 for recreational

00:16:08.060 belief.

00:16:08.500 I will

00:16:11.360 tell you

00:16:11.700 that my

00:16:12.160 experience of

00:16:13.080 it is

00:16:13.640 exactly that.

00:16:15.600 My experience

00:16:16.660 of it is

00:16:17.280 that it's

00:16:17.600 keeping me

00:16:18.280 more cognitively

00:16:19.520 sharp.

00:16:20.540 Like,

00:16:21.080 I can actually

00:16:21.560 feel that.

00:16:23.180 So,

00:16:23.900 but that's

00:16:24.620 anecdotal.

00:16:27.540 All right,

00:16:28.140 here's one.

00:16:30.320 There are

00:16:30.940 reports,

00:16:31.580 I was reading

00:16:32.020 this on the

00:16:32.680 X account,

00:16:33.680 Vigilant Fox,

00:16:34.940 which is a

00:16:35.460 real good

00:16:35.860 follow.

00:16:36.800 If you want

00:16:37.460 to follow

00:16:37.860 lots of

00:16:38.340 good updates

00:16:39.100 and stories

00:16:39.660 and stuff.

00:16:41.400 Vigilant Fox,

00:16:42.540 all one word.

00:16:44.100 Anyway,

00:16:44.800 there's a

00:16:45.480 story of a

00:16:46.100 doctor who

00:16:46.940 would routinely

00:16:47.980 prescribe

00:16:49.500 non-GMO

00:16:50.620 diets,

00:16:51.660 no matter

00:16:52.500 what the

00:16:53.060 patient came

00:16:53.620 in for.

00:16:54.740 So,

00:16:55.200 it was a

00:16:55.540 doctor who,

00:16:56.260 if he came

00:16:56.680 in for,

00:16:57.340 you know,

00:16:57.700 joint pain

00:16:58.420 or digestive

00:16:59.180 problems or

00:17:00.080 fatigue or

00:17:00.780 anything else,

00:17:02.180 she would

00:17:03.260 treat you in

00:17:04.420 the normal way

00:17:04.980 that you get

00:17:05.400 treated.

00:17:05.820 But in

00:17:06.320 addition,

00:17:06.700 she would

00:17:08.020 say you

00:17:08.480 should eat

00:17:09.260 non-GMO

00:17:10.060 foods.

00:17:11.220 Now,

00:17:11.700 I'm not so

00:17:12.640 sure that

00:17:13.160 non-GMO

00:17:13.920 foods make

00:17:14.660 a difference.

00:17:15.720 I am sure

00:17:16.340 that highly

00:17:17.760 processed foods

00:17:18.640 are bad for

00:17:19.180 you.

00:17:20.000 Pretty sure

00:17:20.620 sugar is bad

00:17:21.480 for you.

00:17:22.380 I don't know

00:17:22.980 exactly what

00:17:23.720 GMO,

00:17:25.920 I don't know

00:17:26.700 why a GMO

00:17:27.360 would be bad

00:17:27.900 for you.

00:17:28.760 Maybe.

00:17:29.520 I'm not saying

00:17:30.080 it isn't.

00:17:30.680 I just don't

00:17:31.180 know one way

00:17:31.660 or the other.

00:17:32.000 But the

00:17:33.600 report is

00:17:34.320 just enormous

00:17:35.140 health benefits

00:17:36.920 across a

00:17:37.700 whole range

00:17:38.400 of things

00:17:39.000 by getting

00:17:40.480 people to

00:17:40.960 switch to

00:17:41.460 non-GMO

00:17:42.220 diets.

00:17:43.280 I'm not

00:17:44.120 sure this

00:17:45.000 is real.

00:17:47.440 It makes

00:17:48.080 me wonder

00:17:48.560 if what

00:17:50.000 really happened

00:17:50.720 is when

00:17:51.360 they went

00:17:51.700 to non-GMO,

00:17:53.160 maybe what

00:17:54.140 they really

00:17:54.640 did was

00:17:55.280 they just

00:17:55.720 cut down

00:17:56.300 on junk

00:17:56.960 food.

00:17:57.280 Maybe people

00:18:00.260 were just

00:18:00.620 more alert

00:18:01.280 to what

00:18:01.600 they were

00:18:01.820 eating,

00:18:02.380 which would

00:18:02.780 make a big

00:18:03.240 difference to

00:18:03.700 all these

00:18:04.000 categories.

00:18:04.820 So that

00:18:05.040 part I

00:18:05.360 believe,

00:18:05.940 if you

00:18:06.320 just took

00:18:06.680 a bunch

00:18:06.960 of people

00:18:07.260 and said,

00:18:07.620 all right,

00:18:08.340 stop eating

00:18:08.860 junk food

00:18:09.480 and only

00:18:10.640 start eating

00:18:11.200 these certain

00:18:11.720 kinds of

00:18:12.120 foods,

00:18:14.060 I can see

00:18:14.620 that that

00:18:14.980 would work.

00:18:15.780 I'm just

00:18:16.220 not convinced

00:18:17.000 that the

00:18:17.580 GMO part

00:18:18.380 of it is

00:18:18.840 the active

00:18:19.600 ingredient.

00:18:20.940 It might

00:18:21.300 be.

00:18:22.300 So I

00:18:23.380 would say

00:18:23.820 this is

00:18:24.220 science that

00:18:24.800 should just

00:18:25.180 make your

00:18:25.560 eyebrow go up.

00:18:26.420 But certainly

00:18:27.880 not confirmation

00:18:28.800 of anything.

00:18:29.980 Hey,

00:18:30.220 Richard,

00:18:30.800 great to

00:18:31.320 speak to

00:18:31.720 you.

00:18:39.780 That

00:18:40.260 moment right

00:18:41.820 there,

00:18:42.580 that's what

00:18:43.080 it feels

00:18:43.400 like to

00:18:43.740 step into

00:18:44.220 a bureau

00:18:44.720 booth.

00:18:45.500 Our

00:18:45.740 soundproof

00:18:46.320 office pods

00:18:47.040 bring deep

00:18:47.660 focus to

00:18:48.600 even the

00:18:48.920 loudest

00:18:49.280 offices.

00:18:50.460 In the

00:18:50.680 bureau

00:18:50.920 booth,

00:18:51.640 no construction,

00:18:52.620 no distractions,

00:18:54.020 just clarity.

00:18:55.720 Search

00:18:55.980 bureau office

00:18:56.720 boosts or

00:18:57.420 visit

00:18:57.680 withbureau.com.

00:19:01.220 Meanwhile,

00:19:01.900 the Wall

00:19:02.160 Street Journal

00:19:02.580 says that

00:19:03.080 beans are

00:19:03.860 getting a

00:19:05.720 big boost.

00:19:07.280 Apparently,

00:19:08.080 people are

00:19:09.120 eating more

00:19:09.560 beans and

00:19:10.360 it's becoming

00:19:10.860 more of a

00:19:11.520 social media

00:19:12.580 thing and

00:19:13.240 people are

00:19:13.620 talking about

00:19:14.100 which beans

00:19:14.880 they're eating.

00:19:16.760 And I guess

00:19:17.520 beans are real

00:19:18.100 good for you.

00:19:18.900 Beans and

00:19:19.580 peas and

00:19:20.080 lentils.

00:19:20.500 so that's

00:19:23.740 good.

00:19:24.760 The nation

00:19:26.380 is eating

00:19:26.760 more beans.

00:19:29.820 All right,

00:19:30.120 here's one.

00:19:32.120 Let's see if

00:19:32.760 you can guess

00:19:33.180 this.

00:19:33.460 This will be

00:19:33.840 the last

00:19:34.200 scientific

00:19:34.640 guess one.

00:19:35.800 There was a

00:19:36.340 study,

00:19:36.720 according to

00:19:37.060 The Guardian,

00:19:38.460 to find out

00:19:39.400 if it's

00:19:40.380 true,

00:19:41.220 what everybody

00:19:41.840 assumed to

00:19:42.380 be true,

00:19:43.240 that most

00:19:43.940 psychopaths

00:19:45.240 are men

00:19:45.760 and that

00:19:47.220 therefore

00:19:47.660 there's a

00:19:48.520 far greater

00:19:49.600 number of

00:19:50.180 psychopaths

00:19:50.840 who are

00:19:51.040 men than

00:19:51.980 women. 0.81

00:19:52.640 Was that

00:19:53.340 confirmed?

00:19:55.100 Or did

00:19:55.900 they find out

00:19:56.640 that there

00:19:57.300 are just as

00:19:58.300 many psychopaths

00:19:59.400 who are

00:19:59.740 women? 1.00

00:20:00.620 It's just

00:20:01.060 that they

00:20:01.520 use their

00:20:02.460 powers

00:20:02.780 differently.

00:20:04.120 Which is it?

00:20:05.760 The answer

00:20:06.620 is there's

00:20:08.720 a suggestion

00:20:09.420 that it

00:20:09.820 might be

00:20:10.140 closer to

00:20:10.680 a tie,

00:20:12.280 meaning that

00:20:13.200 when we

00:20:13.720 assess

00:20:14.200 psychopaths,

00:20:15.760 we tend

00:20:16.340 to assess

00:20:16.860 them on

00:20:17.560 male

00:20:18.100 criteria.

00:20:19.960 Violence.

00:20:21.220 Right?

00:20:21.560 When you

00:20:21.800 think of

00:20:22.060 a psychopath,

00:20:22.740 you think

00:20:23.000 about,

00:20:23.560 oh,

00:20:23.900 would you

00:20:24.200 do some

00:20:24.620 violent

00:20:24.920 thing and

00:20:25.340 then not

00:20:25.680 feel bad

00:20:26.140 about it?

00:20:27.140 That tends

00:20:28.060 to be more

00:20:28.540 of a male

00:20:29.000 behavior in

00:20:29.640 general.

00:20:30.400 Violence.

00:20:31.600 But if

00:20:32.240 you change

00:20:32.880 what you're

00:20:33.380 looking for,

00:20:34.760 such as,

00:20:35.580 let's say,

00:20:35.960 verbal violence,

00:20:37.800 you know,

00:20:37.980 somebody who

00:20:38.480 would say

00:20:38.940 something that

00:20:39.560 would be

00:20:39.860 terribly

00:20:40.220 damaging to

00:20:41.020 somebody,

00:20:41.500 but you

00:20:41.740 wouldn't

00:20:41.940 care,

00:20:43.020 suddenly,

00:20:44.040 it's

00:20:44.820 closer to

00:20:45.420 a tie.

00:20:46.880 Yeah.

00:20:47.460 So women, 1.00

00:20:49.380 according to

00:20:49.920 this study,

00:20:51.100 would be,

00:20:51.840 the psychopaths

00:20:52.840 would be down

00:20:53.360 for violence

00:20:54.200 that's more

00:20:55.060 like the

00:20:55.500 social violence,

00:20:57.000 and men

00:20:57.460 might be

00:20:57.860 more inclined

00:20:58.600 to the

00:20:59.020 physical

00:20:59.500 violence,

00:21:00.160 but still

00:21:01.520 psychopaths.

00:21:02.980 So way

00:21:03.800 more psychopaths

00:21:04.780 than we

00:21:05.740 thought,

00:21:06.180 according to

00:21:06.660 the Guardian.

00:21:08.960 Here's a

00:21:09.600 cool thing,

00:21:10.100 the University

00:21:10.580 of Innsbruck,

00:21:11.280 they're

00:21:13.120 experimenting

00:21:13.700 to see

00:21:15.100 if they

00:21:15.340 could use

00:21:15.740 a betting

00:21:17.700 market

00:21:18.120 to guess

00:21:19.820 which

00:21:20.240 studies

00:21:20.980 in science

00:21:21.640 could be

00:21:22.060 duplicated.

00:21:23.860 So,

00:21:24.620 you know,

00:21:24.920 there's this

00:21:25.340 gigantic

00:21:25.720 problem of

00:21:26.560 peer-reviewed

00:21:27.620 studies that

00:21:28.500 when somebody

00:21:29.500 else tries to

00:21:30.100 duplicate them,

00:21:30.880 they don't

00:21:31.120 work,

00:21:31.900 which means

00:21:32.700 that peer

00:21:33.100 review is

00:21:33.520 kind of

00:21:33.820 broken.

00:21:35.100 Well,

00:21:35.920 apparently,

00:21:36.620 if you say

00:21:37.140 to the science

00:21:37.760 instead of,

00:21:38.480 how about

00:21:39.180 a peer

00:21:39.520 review if

00:21:40.940 you just

00:21:41.220 made the

00:21:41.600 paper available

00:21:42.260 and then

00:21:42.940 you said,

00:21:43.920 hey,

00:21:44.320 let's bet

00:21:44.920 on whether

00:21:45.340 this is

00:21:46.080 reproducible.

00:21:47.360 Turns out

00:21:47.900 that the

00:21:49.500 scientists do

00:21:50.680 a pretty good

00:21:51.140 job of

00:21:51.540 betting which

00:21:52.020 ones are

00:21:52.380 reproducible.

00:21:54.020 Now,

00:21:54.300 that would

00:21:54.640 be,

00:21:55.300 I think,

00:21:56.500 a great

00:21:56.860 addition to

00:21:57.620 the whole

00:21:59.580 stuff,

00:22:00.620 the whole

00:22:00.980 science.

00:22:02.080 I'd love

00:22:02.680 to at least

00:22:03.440 add that

00:22:04.000 bit of

00:22:04.320 information.

00:22:05.560 Wouldn't

00:22:05.840 you love

00:22:06.220 to know

00:22:06.620 if there's

00:22:07.000 a new

00:22:07.240 study,

00:22:07.640 and

00:22:08.720 let's

00:22:09.680 say

00:22:09.820 hypothetically

00:22:10.500 75%

00:22:11.620 of the

00:22:12.100 experts

00:22:13.060 who look

00:22:13.460 at it

00:22:13.780 think,

00:22:14.460 eh,

00:22:15.060 I don't

00:22:15.800 think that

00:22:16.200 one's going

00:22:16.560 to get

00:22:16.760 reproduced.

00:22:17.960 Wouldn't

00:22:18.220 you like

00:22:18.520 to know

00:22:18.820 that?

00:22:19.780 That feels

00:22:20.440 pretty useful.

00:22:21.300 I mean,

00:22:21.480 as long

00:22:21.740 as you

00:22:21.940 know it's

00:22:23.460 statistical

00:22:24.420 and it's

00:22:24.920 not a

00:22:25.440 guarantee,

00:22:26.440 it just

00:22:27.040 means that

00:22:27.620 this one's

00:22:28.900 not likely

00:22:29.680 to work

00:22:30.100 out in

00:22:30.360 the long

00:22:30.740 run.

00:22:31.700 I think

00:22:32.340 that'd

00:22:32.540 be good

00:22:32.780 to know.

00:22:35.700 Anyway,

00:22:36.180 CNN is

00:22:38.140 shocked

00:22:39.540 to learn

00:22:40.200 that X

00:22:41.020 went from

00:22:42.120 being when

00:22:42.980 it was

00:22:43.200 Twitter,

00:22:44.220 it had

00:22:44.500 65% of

00:22:45.720 Twitter users

00:22:46.320 were Democrats.

00:22:47.900 Did it feel

00:22:48.700 like that to

00:22:49.200 you?

00:22:50.360 In the

00:22:50.720 Twitter days,

00:22:51.400 did it feel

00:22:51.760 like two-thirds

00:22:52.560 of the users

00:22:53.080 were Democrats?

00:22:56.060 Maybe it

00:22:56.720 did.

00:22:57.560 Maybe it

00:22:58.040 did.

00:22:58.540 But at the

00:22:59.000 moment,

00:22:59.260 it's a tie.

00:23:00.600 So Democrats

00:23:01.340 48%,

00:23:02.240 Republicans

00:23:02.820 47%.

00:23:03.340 Does it

00:23:05.500 feel like

00:23:05.860 it's a tie

00:23:06.460 now?

00:23:07.780 It does

00:23:08.580 not.

00:23:10.180 So whatever

00:23:11.020 the algorithm

00:23:11.740 is doing,

00:23:12.980 it's completely

00:23:14.260 closing me off

00:23:15.160 from any

00:23:15.500 Democrats.

00:23:18.380 Rarely do

00:23:19.100 I have any

00:23:19.580 encounter with

00:23:20.200 a Democrat

00:23:20.700 on social

00:23:21.620 media.

00:23:23.140 I've got

00:23:23.480 1.2

00:23:24.440 million followers

00:23:25.480 almost never

00:23:27.520 run into

00:23:28.720 a Democrat.

00:23:29.200 Now,

00:23:30.360 I'm exaggerating

00:23:31.220 a little

00:23:31.740 bit,

00:23:32.100 not much.

00:23:33.380 It's got

00:23:33.780 to be

00:23:34.180 20 to

00:23:35.480 1,

00:23:36.320 100 to

00:23:36.860 1,

00:23:37.220 something like

00:23:37.660 that.

00:23:40.340 So that's

00:23:41.140 interesting.

00:23:42.000 That's working

00:23:42.740 out.

00:23:43.460 But meanwhile,

00:23:43.940 there's a

00:23:44.440 competitor to

00:23:45.380 X.

00:23:46.060 I think

00:23:46.580 this is

00:23:47.080 Jack who

00:23:49.500 left Twitter

00:23:50.320 and I think

00:23:52.080 he started,

00:23:52.800 but it's

00:23:53.280 called Blue

00:23:53.720 Sky and

00:23:54.200 they got

00:23:54.440 20 million

00:23:54.960 users,

00:23:55.800 but they're

00:23:56.820 already running

00:23:57.480 into the

00:23:58.080 so many

00:23:59.340 bad posts

00:24:00.960 that are

00:24:01.300 getting reported

00:24:01.920 that they're

00:24:02.440 overwhelmed

00:24:02.960 with bad

00:24:05.580 material.

00:24:07.000 So they're

00:24:07.820 struggling with

00:24:08.640 that.

00:24:09.620 Meanwhile,

00:24:10.100 the Washington

00:24:10.540 Post is

00:24:11.140 set to

00:24:11.520 lose

00:24:11.920 $77

00:24:12.980 million

00:24:13.640 just this

00:24:15.380 year.

00:24:16.660 And that

00:24:17.480 was before

00:24:18.160 the boycott

00:24:18.800 erupted

00:24:19.240 when Jeff

00:24:20.760 Bezos,

00:24:21.300 the owner,

00:24:22.080 said that he

00:24:22.720 wasn't going

00:24:23.260 to endorse

00:24:24.160 Kamala Harris.

00:24:25.540 And after he

00:24:26.020 said that,

00:24:26.520 they lost

00:24:27.020 a quarter

00:24:27.860 million

00:24:28.260 subscribers.

00:24:29.800 Holy shit.

00:24:31.440 They lost

00:24:31.940 a quarter

00:24:32.460 million

00:24:32.840 subscribers

00:24:33.600 because Bezos

00:24:34.940 said he

00:24:35.380 wasn't going

00:24:35.840 to pick

00:24:36.380 favorites and

00:24:37.880 just sort

00:24:38.520 of give

00:24:39.280 you the

00:24:39.580 news.

00:24:41.420 And that's

00:24:42.560 a lot of

00:24:42.880 people who

00:24:43.280 weren't

00:24:43.460 watching it

00:24:43.940 for the

00:24:44.220 news.

00:24:45.240 They were

00:24:45.920 watching it

00:24:46.620 because it

00:24:47.960 agreed with

00:24:48.400 them.

00:24:50.940 So let

00:24:52.280 me say

00:24:52.620 this about

00:24:53.160 that.

00:24:53.540 If this

00:24:55.820 were a

00:24:56.240 business,

00:24:57.280 the

00:24:57.400 Washington

00:24:57.740 Post,

00:24:58.980 and Jeff

00:24:59.880 Bezos

00:25:00.340 was saying

00:25:00.860 to himself,

00:25:01.620 hmm, I'd

00:25:02.800 sure like to

00:25:03.280 make sure

00:25:03.600 this business

00:25:04.300 is successful

00:25:05.180 and makes

00:25:06.220 me some

00:25:06.600 money, do

00:25:07.740 you think

00:25:08.060 he'd still

00:25:08.500 be in this

00:25:08.960 business?

00:25:09.920 The answer

00:25:10.620 is no.

00:25:11.960 It's very

00:25:12.600 obvious to

00:25:13.280 anybody who's

00:25:13.820 got the

00:25:14.480 tiniest bit

00:25:15.220 of business

00:25:15.880 experience that

00:25:17.340 this is not

00:25:18.020 a business

00:25:18.460 you could

00:25:18.880 probably fix.

00:25:20.820 I'm sure

00:25:21.600 it's pretty

00:25:22.080 unrecoverable.

00:25:23.540 It's

00:25:24.020 purely a

00:25:24.900 drain on

00:25:25.420 the assets

00:25:25.980 of whoever

00:25:26.440 owns it.

00:25:27.640 Fortunately,

00:25:28.120 Bezos can

00:25:28.760 afford it.

00:25:30.780 But I

00:25:33.460 think we

00:25:33.900 can stop

00:25:34.460 pretending that

00:25:35.420 it's a real

00:25:35.900 business,

00:25:37.180 can't we?

00:25:38.500 I think

00:25:39.240 if you're

00:25:40.080 going to

00:25:40.200 lose $77

00:25:41.100 million every

00:25:42.140 year,

00:25:43.360 and there's

00:25:44.140 no real

00:25:44.740 realistic way

00:25:45.860 that that's

00:25:46.320 going to go

00:25:46.700 to a positive

00:25:47.360 number,

00:25:47.980 I mean,

00:25:48.280 really,

00:25:48.720 there's no

00:25:49.200 way that's

00:25:49.640 going to

00:25:49.800 happen,

00:25:51.140 but it's

00:25:52.280 still in

00:25:52.600 business.

00:25:54.100 What's

00:25:54.580 that tell

00:25:54.900 you?

00:25:55.580 Well,

00:25:56.080 it tells

00:25:56.360 you for

00:25:56.900 sure the

00:25:57.960 purpose of

00:25:58.580 it is not

00:25:59.140 to make

00:25:59.460 money,

00:25:59.860 so it's

00:26:00.120 not running

00:26:00.580 as a

00:26:00.880 business.

00:26:02.340 And I'm

00:26:03.720 not entirely

00:26:04.300 sure that

00:26:05.740 the purpose

00:26:06.220 of it is

00:26:06.960 to give

00:26:07.600 you better

00:26:08.080 information.

00:26:11.240 I've got a

00:26:11.940 feeling the

00:26:12.300 purpose of

00:26:12.780 it is pure

00:26:13.440 propaganda and

00:26:15.340 brainwashing,

00:26:16.140 because it's

00:26:17.660 the only thing

00:26:18.180 that would be

00:26:18.580 worth that

00:26:19.100 much money

00:26:19.640 to somebody.

00:26:21.720 If you

00:26:22.160 had that

00:26:22.440 much money,

00:26:22.940 it might

00:26:23.120 be worth

00:26:23.440 it.

00:26:23.980 Because you

00:26:24.420 can change

00:26:25.140 the whole

00:26:26.620 nature of

00:26:27.120 the government

00:26:27.600 by changing

00:26:29.480 people's minds

00:26:30.380 through the

00:26:31.160 media.

00:26:32.700 But even

00:26:33.380 Jeff Bezos,

00:26:34.420 I don't think

00:26:35.100 he'd pay

00:26:35.520 $77 million

00:26:36.700 a year just

00:26:38.820 to have this

00:26:39.320 kind of

00:26:39.740 influence,

00:26:40.680 when he could

00:26:41.180 probably do

00:26:41.680 it in a

00:26:42.060 hundred different

00:26:42.560 ways.

00:26:43.620 So I just

00:26:44.820 feel like he's

00:26:45.580 under duress.

00:26:46.420 I mean,

00:26:48.040 everything about

00:26:48.680 this screams

00:26:49.500 the government

00:26:50.160 is making

00:26:50.760 him do it.

00:26:52.440 You know,

00:26:52.840 some element

00:26:53.720 of the government

00:26:54.280 is saying,

00:26:54.840 you have to

00:26:55.360 do this or

00:26:56.080 else,

00:26:57.200 forget about

00:26:57.820 your government

00:26:58.400 contracts.

00:26:59.540 It just feels

00:27:00.380 like he's

00:27:00.880 under duress

00:27:01.520 because it

00:27:02.360 doesn't make

00:27:02.760 sense otherwise.

00:27:03.980 There's no

00:27:04.560 argument for it

00:27:05.380 otherwise.

00:27:07.700 Anyway,

00:27:08.700 according to

00:27:09.340 Harvard-Harris

00:27:10.480 poll,

00:27:11.800 Postmillennial

00:27:12.520 is reporting

00:27:14.600 that Trump's

00:27:15.960 approval rating

00:27:16.740 of 54%

00:27:17.920 with registered

00:27:20.180 voters.

00:27:21.460 Does that

00:27:22.140 sound real?

00:27:23.500 Do you believe

00:27:24.300 that Trump

00:27:24.700 is at 54%?

00:27:25.900 I've never

00:27:26.300 heard of

00:27:26.600 anybody at

00:27:27.060 54%.

00:27:28.060 Has there

00:27:29.360 ever been

00:27:29.720 a president

00:27:30.200 at 54%?

00:27:31.760 Maybe

00:27:32.060 Reagan for

00:27:32.760 10 minutes?

00:27:34.180 Maybe the

00:27:35.140 first Bush

00:27:35.900 for 10

00:27:36.360 minutes when

00:27:36.880 he went

00:27:37.100 into Iraq?

00:27:40.160 54%.

00:27:40.640 Do you

00:27:42.440 know how

00:27:42.720 crazy that

00:27:43.280 is?

00:27:43.620 I mean,

00:27:43.840 normal would

00:27:44.340 be 35.

00:27:46.360 To go from

00:27:47.100 35 to

00:27:47.840 54, I've

00:27:48.840 never even

00:27:49.300 seen that.

00:27:49.920 I don't

00:27:50.180 think I've

00:27:50.520 ever seen

00:27:50.880 it.

00:27:51.460 You can

00:27:52.000 see it

00:27:52.320 when a

00:27:52.680 war starts

00:27:53.480 because it's

00:27:54.920 just everybody

00:27:55.480 getting behind

00:27:56.060 the leader,

00:27:56.560 but you

00:27:56.720 don't see

00:27:57.040 it before

00:27:58.380 somebody takes

00:27:59.020 office.

00:27:59.960 That's crazy.

00:28:01.240 I wonder

00:28:01.460 if that's

00:28:02.480 going to be

00:28:02.760 repeatable.

00:28:04.460 I wouldn't

00:28:05.040 be surprised.

00:28:07.040 I would

00:28:07.640 say that if

00:28:08.580 it turns out

00:28:09.120 that's a real

00:28:09.700 number and

00:28:10.320 you see it

00:28:10.780 more, I

00:28:12.020 wouldn't be

00:28:12.300 surprised.

00:28:14.340 But I'm

00:28:15.680 a little

00:28:16.160 skeptical.

00:28:18.200 Charles

00:28:18.640 Barkley has

00:28:19.340 some kind

00:28:19.740 of a

00:28:20.000 podcast or

00:28:20.820 he was

00:28:21.100 on one.

00:28:22.180 I saw a

00:28:22.560 clip where

00:28:23.080 he was

00:28:23.500 mad at

00:28:24.540 Democrats.

00:28:24.900 He doesn't

00:28:25.780 call himself

00:28:27.560 a Democrat.

00:28:28.200 He's an

00:28:28.580 independent,

00:28:29.720 but he

00:28:30.000 voted Democrat.

00:28:32.280 And he

00:28:32.760 talked about

00:28:33.260 how the

00:28:34.460 Democrats had

00:28:35.560 no policies

00:28:36.280 and they

00:28:37.720 were just

00:28:37.980 trying to

00:28:38.260 use celebrities

00:28:38.920 to get

00:28:39.360 votes, but

00:28:40.180 their messaging

00:28:41.220 and their

00:28:41.580 policies were

00:28:42.180 bad.

00:28:42.940 And he

00:28:43.280 finally just

00:28:44.040 summarized it

00:28:44.640 all by

00:28:44.920 saying,

00:28:45.280 quote,

00:28:45.980 you lost

00:28:46.580 because you

00:28:47.160 are all

00:28:47.400 stupid. 0.90

00:28:49.820 Now, he

00:28:51.040 voted for

00:28:51.660 stupid. 0.90

00:28:54.140 I feel like

00:28:55.040 you should

00:28:55.300 get him a

00:28:55.680 shirt that

00:28:56.260 says, I

00:28:56.760 voted with

00:28:57.440 stupid. 0.90

00:28:59.020 Now, here's

00:28:59.820 what I need

00:29:01.020 to add to

00:29:01.440 this.

00:29:03.480 You've heard

00:29:04.100 me say it

00:29:04.560 before, that

00:29:05.620 Trump is

00:29:06.320 unusually well

00:29:07.540 tuned to

00:29:08.540 his base,

00:29:10.140 at least the

00:29:10.640 base.

00:29:11.000 the country

00:29:12.060 in general,

00:29:12.660 but the

00:29:12.900 base for

00:29:13.320 sure.

00:29:14.260 And when

00:29:14.500 the base

00:29:14.980 changes its

00:29:16.040 opinion, he

00:29:16.760 immediately is

00:29:17.520 alerted to

00:29:18.060 it.

00:29:18.940 He immediately

00:29:19.500 takes it

00:29:20.040 into his

00:29:20.480 consideration.

00:29:21.700 And often

00:29:22.220 we've seen

00:29:23.800 him pivot

00:29:25.660 because the

00:29:26.920 base said,

00:29:27.480 that's more

00:29:29.560 than we can

00:29:30.080 handle, and

00:29:30.660 then he

00:29:30.880 pivots.

00:29:32.040 So Trump,

00:29:32.700 I would say,

00:29:33.280 is the

00:29:33.600 opposite of

00:29:34.740 a strong

00:29:35.900 man dictator

00:29:37.420 type.

00:29:38.440 He presents

00:29:38.980 that way to

00:29:40.860 the rest

00:29:41.220 of the

00:29:41.440 world, and

00:29:42.540 that's what

00:29:42.920 we pay

00:29:43.260 him to

00:29:43.500 do.

00:29:44.600 So of

00:29:45.140 course we

00:29:45.540 want him to

00:29:45.920 look like a

00:29:46.400 strong leader

00:29:46.940 to the rest

00:29:47.420 of the

00:29:47.620 world.

00:29:48.460 But internally,

00:29:49.720 and by the

00:29:50.080 way, no

00:29:50.500 Democrat would

00:29:51.140 know this,

00:29:52.140 that this is

00:29:52.800 something that

00:29:53.320 all Republicans

00:29:54.060 seem to have

00:29:55.700 had experience

00:29:56.360 with.

00:29:57.620 We can

00:29:58.280 almost feel

00:29:59.080 the opinion

00:30:02.080 of his base

00:30:03.200 influencing Trump

00:30:05.280 in real time,

00:30:06.100 and then vice

00:30:06.860 versa.

00:30:07.220 I mean, it's

00:30:08.160 just so

00:30:08.520 connected.

00:30:09.460 The connection

00:30:10.200 between the

00:30:10.840 voters and

00:30:11.340 the candidate

00:30:12.200 is uncanny,

00:30:13.460 really.

00:30:13.840 I've never

00:30:14.100 seen anything

00:30:14.520 like it.

00:30:15.900 And so

00:30:18.060 when I see

00:30:18.540 Charles Barkley

00:30:19.500 say that the

00:30:20.220 Democrats were

00:30:20.940 stupid, now I

00:30:22.860 get that he's

00:30:23.360 not one of

00:30:23.820 them because

00:30:24.180 he's an

00:30:24.520 independent, but

00:30:25.260 he did vote

00:30:25.780 that way.

00:30:27.360 And here's

00:30:28.860 what I would

00:30:29.300 say.

00:30:30.260 If the

00:30:30.860 Democrats were

00:30:31.600 not giving

00:30:32.100 you the right

00:30:32.660 candidate, and

00:30:34.300 they were not

00:30:34.700 giving you

00:30:35.240 policies, and

00:30:37.040 they were

00:30:37.260 doing dumb

00:30:37.820 things like

00:30:38.340 putting celebrities

00:30:39.120 on instead of

00:30:40.140 whatever you

00:30:40.840 thought they

00:30:41.520 should be doing,

00:30:42.080 like more

00:30:42.520 podcasts, for

00:30:43.260 example, that's

00:30:45.000 a little bit on

00:30:45.640 you, the

00:30:47.420 voters, isn't

00:30:48.100 it?

00:30:49.520 If Trump had

00:30:50.920 made a whole

00:30:51.360 bunch of

00:30:52.520 nominations that

00:30:54.460 I hated, and

00:30:56.540 he had so much

00:30:57.100 time, and we're

00:30:57.740 all watching and

00:30:58.600 paying attention,

00:30:59.400 and it's in the

00:30:59.880 news, I would

00:31:00.540 say, whoa,

00:31:01.000 whoa, whoa,

00:31:01.320 that's not just

00:31:02.900 Trump.

00:31:03.320 I mean, the

00:31:05.000 base has to

00:31:05.680 explain why

00:31:06.960 they're okay

00:31:07.980 with it, because

00:31:09.080 if the base was

00:31:09.860 completely not

00:31:11.420 okay with

00:31:11.960 something, it

00:31:12.440 probably won't

00:31:13.000 happen, nomination

00:31:14.820 wise.

00:31:16.040 So to Charles

00:31:16.980 Barkley, I would

00:31:17.720 say, I think

00:31:18.340 you're halfway

00:31:18.820 there.

00:31:20.820 I love Charles

00:31:22.520 Barkley as just

00:31:23.400 a public figure.

00:31:24.960 He's just one

00:31:25.600 of the most

00:31:25.900 entertaining,

00:31:27.740 genuine people

00:31:28.700 of all time.

00:31:30.240 I'll watch

00:31:30.920 Charles Barkley

00:31:31.700 on anything.

00:31:33.040 It doesn't

00:31:33.500 matter what

00:31:33.860 it is.

00:31:34.220 If he's on,

00:31:34.740 I'll be like,

00:31:35.060 okay, I'm

00:31:35.440 watching.

00:31:36.600 But I would

00:31:38.300 like him to

00:31:38.800 be open to

00:31:39.400 the idea that

00:31:40.440 the base needs

00:31:41.360 to support the

00:31:42.580 candidate as

00:31:44.660 much as the

00:31:45.160 candidate needs

00:31:45.840 to support the

00:31:46.560 base.

00:31:47.620 Now, I never

00:31:48.980 would have said

00:31:49.540 that 10 years

00:31:51.220 ago, because I

00:31:52.800 didn't know it

00:31:53.300 could work any

00:31:53.860 other way than

00:31:54.440 the way it

00:31:54.800 always works,

00:31:55.440 which is there's

00:31:56.060 a candidate and

00:31:56.820 we watch him.

00:31:58.800 But in the

00:31:59.380 Trump world,

00:31:59.980 the public and

00:32:02.880 the candidate are

00:32:03.720 just so connected

00:32:05.180 that when one

00:32:06.680 moves, the other

00:32:07.320 moves, and then

00:32:08.200 they're guardrails

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00:33:12.700 Anyway, so I won't

00:33:16.780 go so far as Charles

00:33:18.140 Barkley did to say

00:33:19.960 that Democrats are

00:33:21.540 stupid because, you 0.98

00:33:24.200 know, now that they

00:33:24.820 lost the election, we

00:33:26.300 would expect, obviously,

00:33:28.060 duh, they're going to

00:33:29.140 make smart corrections.

00:33:31.280 So if they were stupid,

00:33:33.580 they would just do the

00:33:35.580 same damn thing again.

00:33:37.420 All right?

00:33:37.860 I mean, it's sort of

00:33:38.480 the definition of

00:33:39.220 crazy.

00:33:40.320 So we could count on

00:33:41.600 them doing something,

00:33:43.040 changing it up.

00:33:45.400 So there's, Breitbart

00:33:46.400 is reporting that

00:33:48.680 there's a new poll

00:33:49.640 showing who the

00:33:52.720 Democrats want for

00:33:53.780 2028.

00:33:54.660 Well, here it is.

00:33:55.220 Okay, so here's the

00:33:56.540 correction.

00:33:57.840 So their top choice

00:33:59.000 by far for a 2028

00:34:01.180 candidate was Kamala

00:34:04.000 Harris.

00:34:08.360 Okay.

00:34:09.320 She's got 41% and the 0.96

00:34:11.320 next best has 8%.

00:34:13.040 Gavin Newsom, Josh

00:34:15.420 Shapiro, 7%.

00:34:17.000 Buttigieg, 6%.

00:34:19.240 Tim Wall, 6%.

00:34:20.880 Okay, I take back

00:34:22.680 everything I said.

00:34:24.300 Apparently, Charles

00:34:25.300 Barkley is just correct.

00:34:26.640 They're just stupid.

00:34:27.320 And they seem to be

00:34:29.140 intent on running

00:34:30.520 Harris again.

00:34:33.260 How much do you

00:34:34.220 love that?

00:34:36.320 If you're a 0.88

00:34:37.220 Republican, you're

00:34:37.880 just like, you're

00:34:38.680 probably, probably

00:34:39.820 thinking, we should

00:34:41.860 start running a

00:34:42.880 prank now to say

00:34:45.300 how afraid we are

00:34:46.400 that Kamala would 0.98

00:34:47.260 be the next

00:34:47.920 candidate.

00:34:49.180 Oh, God.

00:34:50.400 God, no.

00:34:51.820 No, not Kamala

00:34:52.620 Harris.

00:34:53.380 She's so experienced.

00:34:54.660 She'll win this

00:34:55.360 time.

00:34:55.780 Meanwhile, Joy

00:35:00.620 Reid says Tulsi

00:35:01.660 Gabbard is in a

00:35:02.600 religious cult.

00:35:05.020 Nice.

00:35:06.520 Nice, Joy

00:35:07.460 Reid.

00:35:08.180 Now, I asked

00:35:10.020 my digital

00:35:11.240 device what

00:35:12.140 religion Tulsi

00:35:13.460 Gabbard is, and

00:35:15.100 I don't know

00:35:16.600 what it is.

00:35:18.100 So some of

00:35:19.080 it seems

00:35:20.120 to have a

00:35:23.340 Hindu element

00:35:24.400 to it, and

00:35:25.060 some of it

00:35:25.560 has some

00:35:26.660 Christian element

00:35:27.420 to it.

00:35:27.880 I don't know.

00:35:28.640 But as Joy

00:35:30.000 Reid correctly

00:35:30.940 said, people's

00:35:31.980 religion is none 1.00

00:35:33.300 of your business.

00:35:34.760 So I agree with

00:35:35.760 Joy Reid on

00:35:36.340 that.

00:35:36.600 You can have

00:35:37.040 any religion

00:35:37.600 you want in

00:35:38.100 the United

00:35:38.420 States as long

00:35:39.180 as you're not

00:35:39.560 hurting other

00:35:40.080 people.

00:35:40.400 people.

00:35:43.800 However,

00:35:44.280 why did you have

00:35:47.620 to bring it

00:35:48.100 up?

00:35:50.280 What's the

00:35:50.900 cult?

00:35:51.980 Why do you

00:35:52.660 get to say your

00:35:53.340 religion is a 1.00

00:35:54.020 religion and my

00:35:54.740 religion is a 1.00

00:35:55.400 cult?

00:35:56.280 Who gets to

00:35:57.140 determine who the

00:35:58.100 cult is and who

00:35:58.840 isn't?

00:35:59.660 If you have more

00:36:00.520 people, you're not

00:36:01.400 a cult.

00:36:01.720 if suddenly, if

00:36:06.340 Tulsi Gabbard's

00:36:07.420 form of

00:36:09.000 religion, whatever

00:36:09.680 it is, if that

00:36:10.880 became the

00:36:11.680 dominant one in

00:36:12.400 the world and

00:36:12.940 two billion people

00:36:13.740 were practicing it

00:36:14.660 next year, would

00:36:16.120 that make it a

00:36:16.700 religion or is it

00:36:17.540 still a cult?

00:36:19.860 When you see

00:36:20.640 somebody call

00:36:21.140 somebody else's

00:36:21.780 religion a cult, 1.00

00:36:24.000 that's such a

00:36:25.220 red flag for

00:36:27.380 craziness or

00:36:28.620 something.

00:36:31.580 Anyway, so the

00:36:34.440 Democrats and

00:36:35.340 the pundits who

00:36:36.000 have been wrong

00:36:36.580 about literally

00:36:37.460 everything for 10

00:36:38.640 years have a new

00:36:40.000 thing to be wrong

00:36:40.700 about.

00:36:41.940 And their new

00:36:43.060 thing is that the

00:36:43.860 reason that Trump

00:36:44.680 has picked Matt

00:36:46.960 Gates for

00:36:48.140 attorney general

00:36:48.860 when he's so

00:36:50.840 provocative and he's

00:36:52.580 so controversial,

00:36:54.700 they say that the

00:36:55.800 reason is to

00:36:56.860 and the intention

00:36:58.320 and that it's

00:36:59.080 very well thought

00:36:59.780 out, this is not

00:37:00.680 accidental, but the

00:37:02.120 intention from Trump

00:37:03.380 is to humiliate and 0.72

00:37:05.200 break the will of

00:37:06.660 any Republicans who

00:37:07.860 still might oppose

00:37:09.340 him.

00:37:11.660 That's some of the

00:37:13.040 best thinking on the

00:37:14.040 Democrat side, that

00:37:16.200 the reason he wants

00:37:17.320 Matt Gates is so he

00:37:20.720 can break the will of

00:37:21.780 the other Republicans.

00:37:23.500 That might be one of

00:37:24.820 the worst opinions I've

00:37:26.180 ever seen.

00:37:26.860 Let me explain it to

00:37:28.580 you if there's even

00:37:29.800 one Democrat watching

00:37:30.820 this, which I doubt.

00:37:33.420 Why would Trump want

00:37:34.700 Matt Gates?

00:37:36.880 He's been law-fared for

00:37:38.800 what, six years?

00:37:40.740 How many years in a

00:37:41.840 row has Trump been

00:37:42.680 law-fared?

00:37:44.340 A lot.

00:37:46.000 The number one thing

00:37:47.400 you want is to put a

00:37:49.480 pit bull in that job who

00:37:51.300 is loyal to you and

00:37:53.160 that's it.

00:37:53.680 You need a pit bull. 0.99

00:37:56.020 So if somebody picks a

00:37:57.400 pit bull and says, I

00:37:59.820 want my pit bull, the 1.00

00:38:01.360 one who's going to be

00:38:02.100 loyal to me but might

00:38:03.600 bite you in that job, I

00:38:05.840 would say that's the

00:38:06.620 perfect choice.

00:38:08.040 Now, it's not like he

00:38:09.100 doesn't have a law

00:38:09.740 degree.

00:38:10.280 He's practiced law.

00:38:11.280 He's been in Congress for

00:38:13.120 a long time.

00:38:14.340 Knows politics inside out.

00:38:16.600 Yeah, he's the right

00:38:17.500 person.

00:38:18.560 If I were Trump, I'd be

00:38:19.740 picking him and the last

00:38:21.040 thing I'd think about, the

00:38:22.760 last thing I'd think about,

00:38:23.980 it wouldn't even be on my

00:38:25.000 list of variables, is what

00:38:27.420 the other Republicans

00:38:28.240 thought about it.

00:38:30.420 Not, I mean, the

00:38:31.240 Republicans that were not

00:38:32.380 already on his side.

00:38:33.980 Because, sure enough, all

00:38:35.180 the ones who agree with him

00:38:36.080 anyway said, okay, I

00:38:37.860 understand why you're

00:38:38.800 doing that.

00:38:39.380 Makes perfect sense.

00:38:40.700 And by the way, if these

00:38:42.400 were normal times and

00:38:44.220 Trump had not been

00:38:45.140 targeted by these very

00:38:46.900 entities, I don't think

00:38:48.680 that Matt Gaetz would be

00:38:49.540 the right choice.

00:38:51.140 I want him because he's

00:38:52.560 the wrong choice, if you

00:38:54.100 know what I mean.

00:38:55.800 Like, if all you wanted

00:38:57.320 was somebody to go in

00:38:58.260 there and just, you

00:38:59.160 know, keep the lights

00:39:00.020 on, you know, just keep

00:39:02.060 things going in a normal

00:39:03.160 way, probably you'd look

00:39:05.160 for somebody with more

00:39:06.020 direct experience.

00:39:08.280 But if you need somebody

00:39:09.360 to rip the shit out of

00:39:10.680 this completely

00:39:13.120 rotted, corrupt,

00:39:14.640 garbage, then

00:39:17.960 I'll take Matt Gaetz

00:39:18.800 all day long.

00:39:20.460 All right.

00:39:21.140 I need somebody who's,

00:39:23.240 you know, if you want to

00:39:24.280 get rid of some

00:39:25.340 pests in your house,

00:39:28.460 you want somebody who can

00:39:29.720 crawl under your house.

00:39:32.420 You don't want somebody

00:39:33.760 who's going to walk

00:39:34.400 around and say, I don't

00:39:35.360 know, seems like kind of

00:39:37.160 scary under the house, so

00:39:38.440 good luck.

00:39:39.760 No, I want somebody who's

00:39:40.940 going to get in there and

00:39:41.700 do some damage.

00:39:42.480 Damage meaning

00:39:43.900 productive damage.

00:39:45.200 I'm not, you know, I'm

00:39:46.700 not for chaos.

00:39:49.660 Well, I am enjoying, and I

00:39:51.540 probably say this too

00:39:52.560 often, watching Scott

00:39:53.880 Jennings, you know, the

00:39:56.020 lone, often the lone

00:39:57.780 Republican voice on CNN.

00:40:00.700 man, he is enjoying

00:40:03.180 himself way too much.

00:40:05.260 So part of the show is

00:40:07.000 that he's unusually good at

00:40:08.480 communicating, you know, his

00:40:10.060 side of things.

00:40:10.980 But what makes it extra

00:40:12.520 good is that he's so darn

00:40:14.780 likable and he can't get the

00:40:17.460 smile off his face, especially

00:40:18.880 when he's right.

00:40:19.640 And he's like, really, really

00:40:21.180 right?

00:40:22.300 Which happens often.

00:40:24.400 So here he was mocking

00:40:27.620 the CNN panel.

00:40:29.520 He said, quote, I'm amazed.

00:40:31.400 First Biden, now Mika and

00:40:33.300 Joe.

00:40:34.020 Everyone wants to meet

00:40:35.000 literally Hitler. 0.70

00:40:36.500 All the pre-election

00:40:37.360 fascism and that Nazi talk 0.91

00:40:39.260 from Democrats was just

00:40:40.780 BS.

00:40:42.080 If I were a Democrat

00:40:43.180 voter, I'd ask, did you just

00:40:45.300 lie to me for six weeks?

00:40:47.460 No.

00:40:48.780 Come on, Scott.

00:40:51.400 The Democrats didn't just

00:40:53.080 lie to you for six weeks.

00:40:55.040 No, it's been six years,

00:40:57.140 Scott.

00:40:58.120 Six years.

00:40:59.340 And yes, the Democrats

00:41:01.600 have been lied to by their

00:41:03.260 leaders, really lied to,

00:41:06.100 like super, super lied to,

00:41:08.200 for years.

00:41:10.100 And maybe they just figured

00:41:11.580 it out.

00:41:13.040 So I love the fact that

00:41:14.420 there's no comeback to

00:41:16.540 this, really.

00:41:17.960 I haven't seen anybody

00:41:19.600 successfully answer the

00:41:21.300 question, if you thought

00:41:23.060 he was Hitler yesterday, 0.87

00:41:25.340 why are you playing nice

00:41:26.840 with him today?

00:41:28.420 There is no answer to

00:41:29.860 that, except we lied to

00:41:31.080 you the whole time.

00:41:32.360 There is no answer to

00:41:34.000 that.

00:41:34.480 If anybody had one, they

00:41:35.520 would have offered it by

00:41:36.320 now.

00:41:36.840 It would have been

00:41:37.240 something clever like,

00:41:38.740 well, you know, we got to

00:41:40.620 do the best we can to keep

00:41:42.180 him in line.

00:41:43.120 And, you know, but

00:41:44.160 nothing.

00:41:44.480 They just act like, oh,

00:41:47.860 did that happen?

00:41:49.900 Well, was I part of that?

00:41:52.500 I don't know.

00:41:54.540 Anyway, Scott Jennings,

00:41:56.700 keep enjoying yourself.

00:41:58.840 You're just, I can't even

00:42:01.080 imagine how much fun that

00:42:02.180 job would be.

00:42:03.800 Can you imagine how much

00:42:04.720 fun he has going to work,

00:42:06.900 knowing that the arguments

00:42:08.080 are just completely on his

00:42:09.520 side?

00:42:09.820 You know, if you went in

00:42:11.600 and the arguments were sort

00:42:12.680 of a tie, like, oh, I'm

00:42:14.220 going to have to have my

00:42:15.780 best argument today.

00:42:16.860 Otherwise, I'm going to get

00:42:17.740 buried.

00:42:18.480 But you go in there like

00:42:19.660 like you just own the place

00:42:21.340 because you practically do.

00:42:24.280 That's got to be fun.

00:42:27.880 Well, Alice Sharpton is

00:42:30.280 criticizing Trump for not

00:42:32.900 having enough black 1.00

00:42:34.380 cabinet appointees.

00:42:35.900 Let's see.

00:42:38.440 Why would there not be

00:42:39.620 enough black 1.00

00:42:40.780 appointees?

00:42:44.320 Whose fault would that be?

00:42:46.920 Trump's fault?

00:42:48.740 Hmm.

00:42:48.900 Well, it seems to me

00:42:51.820 that if I were a public

00:42:54.000 figure who had been

00:42:55.620 spending years saying

00:42:56.860 that if you were black

00:42:58.080 and you had anything to

00:42:59.700 do with Donald Trump,

00:43:01.340 that there was just

00:43:02.080 something wrong with you,

00:43:04.260 doesn't that decrease

00:43:06.160 the number of people who

00:43:07.220 could potentially work

00:43:08.260 for Trump?

00:43:10.200 I think, Reverend Sharpton,

00:43:12.600 if you'd like more black

00:43:14.400 nominees, which, by the

00:43:15.540 way, I would too.

00:43:16.260 I would also like to see

00:43:18.760 because there are a lot

00:43:19.840 of nominees, right?

00:43:22.180 To get, you know, no

00:43:24.680 black nominees seems a 0.99

00:43:25.980 little, just looks weird

00:43:27.860 because that's not what

00:43:28.960 the country looks like.

00:43:30.560 However, if you're saying

00:43:33.040 who to blame, I blame

00:43:35.200 Alice Sharpton.

00:43:37.320 Because if Alice Sharpton

00:43:38.640 had been saying for 20

00:43:39.820 years, you know, hey,

00:43:41.500 all you young, smart black

00:43:43.080 guys, you should become

00:43:44.100 Republicans because

00:43:46.220 Republicans like merit.

00:43:48.420 So all you have to do to

00:43:49.800 succeed is do a good job.

00:43:51.560 You already know that they

00:43:52.800 want to have some

00:43:53.740 diversity, but you can get

00:43:55.540 it organically.

00:43:57.460 How?

00:43:57.960 By complaining?

00:43:58.960 No, no.

00:43:59.320 You just have to be good

00:44:00.540 at what you do.

00:44:01.600 But also complaining, right?

00:44:03.420 No, no.

00:44:03.900 You don't have to do that

00:44:04.700 if you're a Republican.

00:44:06.260 If you're a Republican,

00:44:07.200 you just have to do a good

00:44:08.160 job.

00:44:08.700 But also complaining.

00:44:10.360 No, no.

00:44:11.900 I swear to God, you don't

00:44:12.920 have to do the complaining.

00:44:14.280 If you're a Republican,

00:44:16.120 you simply have to do the

00:44:17.620 work.

00:44:18.720 And then you're up for

00:44:20.080 promotion, just like

00:44:21.640 everybody else.

00:44:23.320 So I think that blaming

00:44:25.620 Trump for the lack of

00:44:28.540 people who are, let's say,

00:44:30.580 willing to be associated

00:44:32.780 with Trump and also has the

00:44:35.880 right experience for these

00:44:36.900 jobs, unfortunately, there's

00:44:40.100 not enough supply to fit

00:44:42.840 the demand.

00:44:46.660 Let's see what Rob

00:44:47.640 Reiner is saying today.

00:44:48.540 When I found out my friend

00:44:51.080 got a great deal on a wool

00:44:52.560 coat from Winners, I

00:44:53.940 started wondering, is

00:44:55.580 every fabulous item I see

00:44:57.340 from Winners?

00:44:58.420 Like that woman over there 1.00

00:44:59.700 with the designer jeans.

00:45:01.140 Are those from Winners?

00:45:02.680 Ooh, or those beautiful

00:45:03.980 gold earrings?

00:45:05.140 Did she pay full price?

00:45:06.480 Or that leather tote?

00:45:07.500 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:45:08.720 Or those knee-high boots?

00:45:10.160 That dress?

00:45:10.960 That jacket?

00:45:11.620 Those shoes?

00:45:12.640 Is anyone paying full price

00:45:14.380 for anything?

00:45:15.580 Stop wondering.

00:45:16.880 Start winning.

00:45:17.420 Winners find fabulous for

00:45:19.420 less.

00:45:22.400 Oh, now Rob Reiner says all

00:45:24.240 the abuse and hate from

00:45:25.140 Twitter is now spewed over

00:45:26.520 to the Blue Sky Network.

00:45:28.600 So there seems to be no

00:45:29.960 point of it.

00:45:30.880 Oh, I guess he went to the

00:45:31.940 other network and he found

00:45:33.020 out that bad people can find

00:45:34.880 you no matter where you are.

00:45:36.960 Trolls.

00:45:39.440 Good luck with that, Rob

00:45:42.080 Reiner.

00:45:43.520 Meanwhile, Trump has picked

00:45:45.720 Dr. Oz for

00:45:47.820 to be the Medicare and

00:45:49.440 Medicaid service

00:45:50.420 administration guy.

00:45:52.020 Even John Fetterman, who

00:45:53.540 ran against him and won,

00:45:56.000 said that he would actually

00:45:57.420 vote to confirm him.

00:45:58.960 He's just concerned that he

00:46:00.300 wants to make sure that Oz

00:46:01.540 doesn't want to cut the

00:46:04.040 Medicare and Medicaid.

00:46:05.900 I don't know if he does, but

00:46:10.600 you know, I'm not going to stop

00:46:15.980 saying good things about Fetterman

00:46:17.820 if Fetterman stops, keeps doing

00:46:20.760 good things.

00:46:21.900 If he keeps doing good things, I'm

00:46:23.920 going to keep saying good things

00:46:25.240 about him.

00:46:25.660 And I don't know.

00:46:29.340 I think Fetterman is one of the

00:46:30.640 most amazing American stories.

00:46:33.580 Because when he had his, you

00:46:35.420 know, his mental issues, I

00:46:39.260 certainly thought he should not be

00:46:40.960 running for office.

00:46:42.000 And by the way, I don't know that

00:46:44.160 I was wrong about that.

00:46:45.540 Because we didn't know how it would

00:46:47.020 turn out.

00:46:48.100 If you don't know how it's going to

00:46:49.720 turn out, it's a pretty big risk to

00:46:52.220 put on the public.

00:46:52.980 But the truth is, maybe they did

00:46:55.720 know.

00:46:56.280 You know, maybe they knew more

00:46:57.240 than I knew.

00:46:58.460 And he's, he seems all the way

00:47:00.760 back to me.

00:47:02.260 I don't see, I don't see him

00:47:05.280 missing 1%.

00:47:06.200 Not only that, but he's in the

00:47:09.620 very, very, very, very small

00:47:12.020 category of Democrats who impress

00:47:15.680 me with their honesty.

00:47:19.300 Name another one.

00:47:21.100 Name the other Democrat who

00:47:22.460 impresses you with their

00:47:24.260 honesty.

00:47:25.700 I can't think of one.

00:47:27.660 So if he's thinking about running

00:47:29.540 for higher office someday, he

00:47:33.460 might surprise you.

00:47:35.460 You know, I would not be

00:47:36.920 surprised to see Fetterman as the

00:47:39.680 candidate for the next, for 2028.

00:47:44.400 What do you think?

00:47:46.220 Do you think Democrats are smart

00:47:47.920 enough to do that?

00:47:48.720 Because I think they're going to

00:47:51.280 look at him and say, damn it, you're

00:47:52.820 not agreeing with 100% of what we

00:47:54.420 say.

00:47:54.880 You're not woke enough.

00:47:56.520 You don't wear nice clothes.

00:47:58.020 How are we going to ever put you on a

00:47:59.540 podium against some well-dressed

00:48:01.760 Republican?

00:48:03.520 I don't know.

00:48:05.380 That guy has a lot of game.

00:48:07.180 If he were the candidate in 2028, without

00:48:14.160 even knowing who he runs against, you

00:48:17.360 should probably be worried.

00:48:20.180 Because I've got a feeling that the more

00:48:22.240 the public sees of him, the more they

00:48:24.200 like him.

00:48:25.220 That's been my experience.

00:48:26.580 But I don't think most people are paying

00:48:27.920 attention.

00:48:29.760 He's a sleeper.

00:48:31.600 He's a sleeper.

00:48:32.560 I'd watch out for him.

00:48:34.640 Of course, the problem is that he's not

00:48:36.260 DEI enough for the Democrats, but maybe

00:48:38.920 they'll figure it out.

00:48:42.340 Anyway, the Democrats keep writing

00:48:45.000 articles about how Trump's going to get

00:48:47.120 his revenge on all the people who are

00:48:49.320 bad to him.

00:48:50.820 Trump doesn't say that, of course.

00:48:53.460 He says his revenge is doing a good job,

00:48:55.920 and that is the good revenge.

00:48:58.480 But Democrats keep saying that there would

00:49:00.900 be no guardrails, that Trump now

00:49:04.900 has the, let's see, the Supreme Court

00:49:07.220 saying he has all these powers while he's

00:49:09.640 in office, and he's got both the House

00:49:13.700 and the Senate, and then he's got something

00:49:17.260 he's calling a mandate, but Hakeem

00:49:20.760 Jeffries says it's not.

00:49:23.020 So the question is, does Trump have

00:49:28.920 guardrails?

00:49:30.900 And again, I think this is a blind spot.

00:49:35.420 I think this is just a classic blind spot.

00:49:38.120 It's a complete misunderstanding of what a

00:49:40.460 Republican is.

00:49:42.800 The Republicans are the guardrail.

00:49:45.660 All of them.

00:49:47.180 I just told you that Trump is very tuned

00:49:49.560 into the public.

00:49:51.100 If 70% of his base just said nope, like

00:49:55.560 all at once, whatever it was, doesn't even

00:49:57.540 matter what the topic is.

00:49:58.460 Nope, no, 70%, nope.

00:50:01.660 That's not going to happen.

00:50:03.980 And if you think that the Supreme Court,

00:50:08.020 who were chosen because they're these

00:50:10.600 originalists, who are not going to vary from the

00:50:13.540 Constitution, if you think that the Supreme Court,

00:50:17.860 because they have a majority conservative,

00:50:20.560 would allow Trump to do whatever the hell he wanted?

00:50:24.480 No.

00:50:26.080 No, that's the opposite.

00:50:28.080 They would be exactly the people to stop him

00:50:30.120 if he got outside the Constitution.

00:50:32.860 That's their main function.

00:50:34.280 If you're a Democrat and you don't think the

00:50:37.460 Republicans would stop Trump from departing from

00:50:41.740 the constitutional norms, then you don't have

00:50:44.540 any understanding what the whole Supreme Court

00:50:47.600 Constitution Republicans are all about.

00:50:52.240 Yeah.

00:50:52.580 The Supreme Court is designed by Republicans,

00:50:55.920 mostly, to stop any abuse no matter where it comes

00:50:59.920 from.

00:51:00.160 And it's not going to be limited to just one side.

00:51:04.960 So I think that the Republican base and the Supreme

00:51:07.820 Court and just the normal rules and stuff that

00:51:12.460 could be used in the Senate, and probably Trump has two

00:51:15.300 years before he loses the House, I would guess.

00:51:17.860 So I think there are plenty of restrictions on him.

00:51:23.820 And the only thing I would ever worry about with an American 0.97

00:51:26.640 leader is if somehow he started organizing a bunch of

00:51:32.180 killers that were loyal only to him.

00:51:35.520 So if you heard tomorrow that Trump said, I'm going to start a

00:51:38.680 new, I'm going to call it my revolutionary, let's see, I'll

00:51:44.140 call it my mega security force, and there'll be 100,000 of

00:51:48.520 them, and there'll be trained killers.

00:51:50.780 But don't worry, it's just good for the country.

00:51:53.120 Then I'd be out.

00:51:54.820 It's like, no, no, no.

00:51:56.260 No, you cannot have a bunch of trained killers who are loyal

00:52:00.800 only to the leader.

00:52:02.720 That's how you get Saddam Hussein. 0.95

00:52:05.200 That's exactly how you get Saddam Hussein. 0.97

00:52:07.280 Now, as long as there's no organized military group that

00:52:13.260 would die for the leader, and we're nowhere near that, you're

00:52:18.100 fine.

00:52:18.940 You're fine.

00:52:19.820 The rest will work its way.

00:52:21.560 It will work out.

00:52:24.380 Apparently, the Doge people are talking about maybe having a

00:52:29.420 app for your phone where you can pay your taxes.

00:52:31.520 Now, that would only apply to people who had, you know, basic

00:52:34.500 tax situation, a few paychecks and a house maybe.

00:52:40.700 But it should be pointed out that you could already do it on

00:52:43.940 a browser.

00:52:45.380 So you don't need an app.

00:52:47.160 You can still do it on your phone.

00:52:49.400 You just have to use your browser.

00:52:51.900 Although, maybe an app's better.

00:52:54.120 But I'd like to add this to the conversation.

00:52:56.240 My understanding is that Estonia has had a voting app for a

00:53:01.680 long time, and what we should do is ask the Estonians if that's

00:53:07.060 been meeting their needs, and do they feel like it's fair and

00:53:10.560 everything.

00:53:11.560 So I feel like you could solve voting integrity with an app in a

00:53:19.600 way that almost nothing else could.

00:53:21.700 Because one of the things the app could do is make you take a

00:53:24.880 picture of your face when you're voting.

00:53:26.340 Suppose the app said, all right, now you've completed your voting.

00:53:33.000 Before it's submitted, turn your selfie camera on and take a

00:53:37.020 picture of your face, but don't wear a hat or sunglasses.

00:53:41.420 Because our facial recognition now is so good that if it was not a, you 0.99

00:53:47.960 know, current picture, it would have to know that it's a current

00:53:51.240 picture, I guess.

00:53:51.860 Because I don't think a deep fake could fake that yet if it were a

00:53:57.640 selfie picture and it went directly into the app.

00:53:59.660 I think you could avoid most of the problems.

00:54:06.020 All right.

00:54:06.600 What am I looking at here?

00:54:08.340 I'm seeing a meme go by.

00:54:11.460 Did I want to look at it?

00:54:14.820 Oh, interesting.

00:54:16.540 All right.

00:54:17.460 So let's see what Estonia has on voting apps.

00:54:19.960 Trump has announced a school choice supporting secretary of

00:54:26.640 education, Linda McMahon.

00:54:28.280 Don't know much about her, but I saw Corey DeAngelis say that it's

00:54:33.140 a good thing that we have somebody who is very much wanting to send

00:54:38.100 education back to the States and also have some, I think she wants 1.00

00:54:42.360 that, and also to have a school choice.

00:54:46.040 School choice is so underrated.

00:54:48.800 Okay.

00:54:49.960 I mean, I think if you could fix one thing in the country, if you

00:54:55.300 fix school choice, I feel like almost everything else would work

00:54:59.920 out.

00:55:00.680 It would take 20 years, but if you could just educate people well,

00:55:06.560 your crime would go down, your GDP would go up, your debt would go

00:55:11.500 down, your basically everything would work better.

00:55:14.720 Discrimination way down.

00:55:17.520 Well, I guess there's a director in the government, the Pentagon director of

00:55:23.600 UAP phenomenon, the unidentified anomalous phenomenon.

00:55:28.500 And that person testified to Congress, and it was largely useless.

00:55:34.840 It was stuff like, well, there's this guy who saw a thing.

00:55:39.440 There's a number of things we looked into that weren't real, but we don't have an answer to

00:55:45.440 that guy that saw that thing.

00:55:47.580 And then there are a couple other people who saw a thing.

00:55:49.780 How does this guy have a job?

00:55:55.120 Would this be the best or the worst job to have, to be the director of looking into UAPs?

00:56:01.700 On one hand, it would be fascinating.

00:56:04.060 On the other hand, I think every one of them are fake.

00:56:07.680 So you're either going to find out they're fake and go, oh, darn it.

00:56:13.940 Or you're not going to be able to find out one way or another, so you failed.

00:56:17.600 So you're either going to fail or find out they're all fake.

00:56:20.380 It's sort of disappointing both ways.

00:56:24.400 Anyway, so nothing came out of that.

00:56:26.640 I saw an opinion by Adam Dopamine on the X platform, and Adam was saying that the lame

00:56:40.320 duck three months between the transitions of power doesn't make sense in the modern world.

00:56:45.820 And I thought about it, and I said to myself, wait a minute.

00:56:50.900 Look at Ashton Forbes.

00:56:52.500 It's not fake.

00:56:53.540 Like, now, Ashton Forbes, I'm not sure that's your best source.

00:56:58.960 He's got a lot of claims on there that don't seem to be anywhere else.

00:57:02.240 Let's just say that.

00:57:05.240 I don't know that he's wrong.

00:57:07.740 I just, I've seen a lot of his work, and he has more claims than I've seen anybody else make.

00:57:14.140 So, you know the claims about the little orbs that, like, circled that plane, the Malaysian

00:57:22.080 plane that went down?

00:57:23.540 Do those look like physical objects to you?

00:57:28.260 Because they don't to me.

00:57:31.680 To me, it looks like it's either a fake or an artifact of the camera or something.

00:57:38.280 None of it looks real to me.

00:57:40.300 But I can be wrong.

00:57:41.260 I would love to know that we've got real aliens.

00:57:43.200 Anyway, so Adam Dopey was pointing out that we're kind of in a bad situation between the

00:57:49.720 time we elect our new leader and the time that the old one leaves, because Biden's doing some

00:57:55.320 old man stupid stuff. 0.63

00:57:57.980 He's basically getting us into World War III, and he shouldn't be doing that.

00:58:03.340 He should not have three months to get us into World War III before he leaves and dies.

00:58:07.820 I think Trump should, or whoever is the new person, should be taking the reins maybe a

00:58:14.660 lot faster.

00:58:15.960 Now, you do need some time.

00:58:18.520 You probably need at least a month.

00:58:21.320 Maybe we shouldn't include the holiday in the middle of it.

00:58:25.060 You know, you're losing sort of a month to holidays, so maybe it's the wrong time of year as well.

00:58:30.660 But I do like the idea that we should at least look at compressing that three months of lame

00:58:36.920 duck presidency to something that protects us a little bit better.

00:58:41.540 I like that idea.

00:58:42.840 I don't know how practical that would be.

00:58:46.180 All right, I've got an updated opinion on the Matt Gaetz ethics report.

00:58:51.500 So, allegedly, there's an ethics report that's in a rough draft.

00:58:57.680 I don't think it's done yet.

00:58:59.620 That was going to say that Matt Gaetz did bad things with young women.

00:59:06.360 But here's the new thing I want to add to it.

00:59:11.140 Everything that is suggested that he did has been researched by the Justice Department.

00:59:21.500 So, in other words, authorities have looked in, at great detail, every one of the claims.

00:59:27.080 And did you notice that he's not indicted for anything?

00:59:30.720 He's not indicted for anything related to that or anything else.

00:59:35.480 Now, why is this such a big story if the people who would be the most authority on whether a crime had been committed

00:59:44.960 looked into it and found nothing to charge?

00:59:50.380 Shouldn't that be the end of it?

00:59:52.540 It would be one thing if nobody looked into it.

00:59:54.880 Then I'd have questions.

00:59:58.480 But apparently, the correct authorities looked into it and came up with exactly zero things that they were willing to charge.

01:00:06.320 Now, reportedly, the witnesses are not reliable.

01:00:11.720 That's a real good reason not to charge.

01:00:13.880 But that also means that there's not any written documentation that would support the witnesses who are not themselves reliable.

01:00:24.400 So, if you don't have a written documentation and you don't have witnesses that are credible,

01:00:29.800 and they didn't even try for indicting a ham sandwich, you know the old saying, you know, you can indict a ham sandwich.

01:00:37.220 You can almost always get an indictment.

01:00:39.320 It's just really easy.

01:00:41.440 Getting a conviction is harder.

01:00:44.920 But they didn't even get an indictment.

01:00:49.440 So, I feel like that should be the standard that we're using for this.

01:00:57.140 Being accused matters until somebody looks into it.

01:01:01.860 But once somebody's looked into it, and it's the proper authorities,

01:01:05.100 the very people who are experts at looking into this stuff,

01:01:08.600 and they say there's nothing to charge,

01:01:11.600 I think that's got to be the end of it.

01:01:15.700 And I think maybe that's the fastest way to describe it.

01:01:18.800 You know, when you're trying to describe this to your relatives over Thanksgiving,

01:01:22.140 I think the strongest argument is that it was looked at thoroughly,

01:01:27.060 and authorities could not find anything credible to charge it with.

01:01:31.600 So, we don't need to get into the details of, you know,

01:01:34.500 somebody claimed this or somebody claimed that.

01:01:36.560 But if you know the people who really know how to look into it,

01:01:41.000 couldn't find it, that should be the end of it.

01:01:44.020 Because remember, innocent until proven guilty.

01:01:47.760 So, he was innocent, and then he was accused of heinous crimes.

01:01:52.660 It was looked into.

01:01:54.020 They decided not to charge him.

01:01:55.500 That's as innocent as you can get.

01:01:58.080 You can't get more innocent than people really looked into it and didn't find it.

01:02:03.320 That's as innocent as you can get.

01:02:06.420 Now, I'm not an idiot, so I'm not going to say he never did anything bad

01:02:12.920 because they decided not to take him to court.

01:02:17.880 It doesn't mean that.

01:02:20.080 But our system says, if the system looks into you and doesn't find you guilty,

01:02:24.960 we call you innocent.

01:02:28.500 And I'm totally on board with that.

01:02:33.560 All right.

01:02:34.480 Yeah, it does seem like if there had been anything there,

01:02:37.060 they would have found a judge to pursue it.

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01:02:54.960 Anyway, there's reports that are big paper shredding trucks

01:03:00.880 that have appeared outside the Department of Justice.

01:03:03.740 I guess they're afraid of Matt Gaetz finding out

01:03:05.940 what they've been doing for these many years.

01:03:09.180 I'll bet you that there's a lot of stuff in the Department of Justice

01:03:13.140 that is damning to the Department of Justice.

01:03:17.300 So, all right.

01:03:18.800 Now, here's the most surprising story of the day.

01:03:21.860 Mike Benz is all over this.

01:03:23.320 But apparently, one of the people being considered,

01:03:26.240 unless it's changed since we've been talking,

01:03:28.640 is Mike Rogers for FBI director.

01:03:33.100 Now, he's not the only one being considered.

01:03:35.340 I think Kash Patel is being considered as of the moment.

01:03:38.720 And by the way, this is something that could have changed

01:03:40.660 just since I started talking.

01:03:42.640 So, you know, things are happening fast.

01:03:45.620 But here's what Mike Benz says.

01:03:48.880 He said, you literally cannot get worse than this

01:03:51.560 if you give a flying fig about free speech.

01:03:53.920 And I thought, what?

01:03:54.920 I don't know anything about Mike Rogers.

01:03:56.620 What's this all about?

01:03:57.340 And he said that Mike Rogers, he was a Russiagate pusher,

01:04:03.620 to which I say, oh, really?

01:04:08.140 If he believed and promoted Russiagate, that has to be.

01:04:14.260 You know, you can't possibly put that person in charge of the FBI.

01:04:18.320 But there's more.

01:04:19.320 If there were no more, I would already say that's a hard pass.

01:04:24.700 I mean, that's almost like an IQ test or a loyalty test or both.

01:04:29.980 If you push the fine people hoax,

01:04:32.860 you tell me I'm going to be okay with that as the head of the FBI?

01:04:36.500 Hard no. 1.00

01:04:38.340 That's a hard no.

01:04:40.120 But we're not done yet.

01:04:42.620 Apparently, he's on the board of directors of the Atlantic Council.

01:04:45.640 Now, that only means something to you

01:04:50.320 if you've been following the Mike Benz description

01:04:54.160 of how the real world works and who's connected to whom

01:04:57.060 and where power goes after its end of office.

01:05:00.400 The Atlantic Council would be the group that uses George Soros as their bank

01:05:06.360 and is the ex-CIA people and the ex-generals.

01:05:11.060 And some would say the real power behind

01:05:13.800 at least America's projection of power into the world

01:05:17.160 and that this is the group you would least want to pick somebody from.

01:05:24.540 In other words, if you said to me,

01:05:26.240 hey, I've got a good candidate.

01:05:29.960 And before I even heard the person's name,

01:05:32.460 and you said,

01:05:33.460 it's somebody who's a board of directors on the Atlantic Council.

01:05:36.800 Oh, nope.

01:05:37.980 Stop.

01:05:38.880 Stop.

01:05:39.840 Well, I haven't even told you the name yet.

01:05:41.600 You don't need to.

01:05:44.180 You don't even need to tell me who you're talking about.

01:05:46.900 If they're on the board of the Atlantic Council,

01:05:49.380 they have a loyalty somewhere else

01:05:52.080 that doesn't look exactly like what I'd want in charge of the FBI.

01:05:57.480 And as Mike Benz points out,

01:06:00.000 apparently he's associated with a number of other external organizations.

01:06:04.340 They're very clearly CIA-connected.

01:06:09.240 So, Russiagate seemed like it was a CIA op,

01:06:13.880 and he was for it.

01:06:15.620 The Atlantic Council looks like it's basically an umbrella for CIA stuff,

01:06:22.200 and he's a board of directors.

01:06:23.800 And then he's associated with at least a few other organizations

01:06:26.580 that Mike Benz points out are famously CIA kind of cutouts

01:06:32.560 or associated with.

01:06:35.220 Now, I'm not the expert on any of this,

01:06:39.460 but Mike Benz has a lot of credibility.

01:06:44.200 If he says this is a hard no,

01:06:47.040 then I say it's a hard no.

01:06:48.420 But my opinion is not based on Mike Rogers.

01:06:51.800 It's based on if you can't get this past Mike Benz,

01:06:55.660 this has got to stop.

01:06:59.380 You've got to stop this one right away.

01:07:01.800 All right?

01:07:02.660 Because the person who's actually watching

01:07:06.540 what's actually happening in the real world

01:07:09.080 and how it fits together,

01:07:10.460 if he says hard no,

01:07:12.740 you're not going to get it past me.

01:07:15.600 So here's a good little test.

01:07:19.120 What does the Republican base think of Kash Patel?

01:07:26.100 They think a lot of him

01:07:27.240 because he's one of these truth to power,

01:07:30.240 do what you need to do,

01:07:31.460 loyal to the president,

01:07:32.660 super smart,

01:07:34.040 experienced in the government.

01:07:35.840 I like him a lot.

01:07:37.600 You know,

01:07:37.800 I only know from what I see on the news

01:07:40.140 and interviews and stuff,

01:07:41.460 but I like him a lot.

01:07:43.360 So if you've got a choice of somebody that you like a lot

01:07:46.500 and then you've got somebody who's so connected to the CIA

01:07:51.480 who,

01:07:52.420 let me just say it directly,

01:07:53.660 I don't know if they're on our side.

01:07:56.440 At the very least,

01:07:57.540 you would pick somebody that you knew was on your side,

01:08:00.920 i.e.

01:08:02.400 Matt Gaetz.

01:08:03.120 So here's one to watch.

01:08:08.120 So this will be the test.

01:08:10.920 If Trump picks Mike Rogers,

01:08:13.300 then I'm going to have a lot of questions about Trump.

01:08:17.300 Like,

01:08:17.820 did he have to make some kind of accommodation with the CIA

01:08:21.140 in order to do what he needs to do?

01:08:24.780 Because that might be a thing.

01:08:27.220 You know,

01:08:27.420 we always speculate that when a president gets elected,

01:08:30.660 there's a point where the CIA comes in and says,

01:08:33.000 we need to talk.

01:08:35.120 Everything you knew about the world is wrong.

01:08:38.520 Here's what's real.

01:08:40.280 And you can't tell anybody.

01:08:42.780 Now,

01:08:43.500 here's what's going to happen.

01:08:45.400 I always feel like that conversation must happen,

01:08:48.040 but maybe it didn't happen with Trump in his first term

01:08:51.920 because they didn't trust him so much

01:08:54.580 and they're trying to get rid of him

01:08:55.660 that rather than share with him the secrets

01:08:58.760 that they all must hold,

01:09:00.520 they may have kept those secrets

01:09:02.220 and just tried to get rid of them.

01:09:04.620 So if there's anybody who's even tangentially related

01:09:08.760 to the CIA,

01:09:10.660 either through similar organizations or anything,

01:09:16.360 I think that's disqualifying at the moment,

01:09:19.280 only under a Trump administration.

01:09:21.000 If it were a different administration,

01:09:23.020 I wouldn't have a problem with it.

01:09:24.740 But Trump specifically,

01:09:27.200 this doesn't look good to me.

01:09:29.940 So I just told you that Trump,

01:09:31.820 you know,

01:09:32.560 is very responsive to,

01:09:35.200 first of all,

01:09:35.580 smart people,

01:09:37.300 Mike Benz,

01:09:38.340 and second of all,

01:09:39.640 the base.

01:09:41.360 So if he goes ahead and picks Mike Rogers,

01:09:44.380 when I don't think the base is going to support it,

01:09:46.780 but they would support Kash Patel,

01:09:48.400 then I have to wonder if there's something we don't know about.

01:09:53.400 This would be a big problem to me.

01:09:56.120 Like I,

01:09:56.620 I would,

01:09:57.640 I don't think I'd ever be okay with it.

01:10:01.500 You know,

01:10:02.120 you know what I mean?

01:10:05.460 Well,

01:10:05.940 here's a,

01:10:06.960 here's something to make you feel great about your system.

01:10:09.200 In Oregon,

01:10:10.240 they have only vote by mail,

01:10:11.840 but they also have a law that says that if you've put your vote in your

01:10:17.800 envelope and you've sealed it,

01:10:20.120 but you change your mind,

01:10:22.080 you can open up your,

01:10:23.680 your envelope,

01:10:25.820 change your vote,

01:10:27.260 like scratch out the one you didn't want,

01:10:29.060 scratch in the new one,

01:10:30.920 seal it back up and tape it.

01:10:32.860 And it will still be counted.

01:10:35.200 Now,

01:10:36.000 if the reason for that is that sometimes people change their mind before they

01:10:40.760 mail it.

01:10:41.960 Okay.

01:10:43.100 I mean,

01:10:43.400 if that's the only reason for it,

01:10:45.260 but doesn't it make you think that that was designed just for cheating?

01:10:50.200 So basically somebody could take a whole batch of ballots and they can sit in

01:10:54.860 the back room.

01:10:55.660 They can open up every one of them.

01:10:57.940 They can change the vote.

01:10:59.340 They can seal it back up with a piece of tape.

01:11:03.760 And then the person counting the votes will know that it's been tampered with,

01:11:08.300 but could have been tampered with by the original sender,

01:11:12.020 which would be completely legal.

01:11:13.800 So they'd count it.

01:11:16.720 And sure enough,

01:11:18.100 they identified that some of these tampered with ballots that they don't know

01:11:23.760 yet,

01:11:24.460 but they certainly look like they're fake.

01:11:26.880 In other words,

01:11:27.840 it looks like somebody opened it,

01:11:29.260 changed it just to change the vote.

01:11:32.300 Now,

01:11:32.640 I doubt that that would be,

01:11:34.620 I doubt that they could make this a big enough effect that it would change an

01:11:38.900 election because it feels like you'd notice this.

01:11:41.820 It'd be,

01:11:42.040 it'd be just too easy to spot,

01:11:43.880 but it does tell you,

01:11:46.340 you got a lot of holes in the system.

01:11:48.860 This one's probably not the biggest hole,

01:11:50.740 but it's a hole.

01:11:51.420 According to Pennsylvania State University and phys.org,

01:11:59.440 they did a study and they found that social media users probably won't read

01:12:04.360 beyond this headline.

01:12:05.440 There's more to the story,

01:12:09.860 but I didn't read beyond the headline.

01:12:13.720 Do you know,

01:12:14.460 I didn't read that beyond the headline about the story that says people don't read

01:12:18.160 beyond the headline because sometimes the headline is the whole story.

01:12:25.060 And you can tell by the headline.

01:12:28.020 Do you think if I read this story about social media users probably won't read

01:12:33.320 beyond the headline?

01:12:34.740 Do you think that I would learn that social media users probably won't read

01:12:40.120 beyond the headline and that there would be nothing else that I learned

01:12:43.840 whatsoever?

01:12:45.440 That's what I think.

01:12:47.120 So I didn't read it,

01:12:48.380 but meanwhile,

01:12:50.140 the SPLC is going after not the bee,

01:12:55.760 the parody site.

01:12:57.800 Now,

01:12:58.060 if you don't know who the SPLC is,

01:13:00.060 they are a highly discredited scandal-ridden smear factory.

01:13:04.720 That's according to Seth Dillon of the not the bee and according to everybody

01:13:08.800 else who knows anything about them.

01:13:11.120 So they're basically,

01:13:13.080 I'll call them a fake organization.

01:13:16.220 Fake in the sense that what they're supposed to be doing is finding,

01:13:19.880 hate,

01:13:21.040 you know,

01:13:21.340 hate groups and calling them out.

01:13:23.300 What they really do is act as a Democrat proxy to say that Republicans are

01:13:29.860 hate groups.

01:13:31.560 Now I'm exaggerating a little bit,

01:13:34.100 but the problem is that they're likely to identify,

01:13:38.000 you know,

01:13:39.260 law-abiding American citizens as haters,

01:13:43.160 which ruins your career and your life.

01:13:46.000 So they're a terrible,

01:13:47.380 terrible organization.

01:13:48.260 They,

01:13:49.180 you know,

01:13:49.760 they're discredited.

01:13:51.020 They're disgusting.

01:13:52.380 They're horrible.

01:13:53.700 But now they've apparently used some kind of sleuthing techniques to figure out

01:14:00.240 the names of some of the writers who would otherwise be anonymous,

01:14:03.880 I guess,

01:14:04.720 on not the bee.

01:14:06.720 And it looks like they're going to go after these writers individually.

01:14:09.260 And this caused Seth Dillon,

01:14:13.380 head of the not the bee,

01:14:14.720 to go at the SPLC quite hard.

01:14:17.900 And he is certainly in the right on this.

01:14:23.540 So just so,

01:14:24.460 just so you've heard it,

01:14:26.080 the Southern Poverty Law Center is a discredited organization.

01:14:29.880 In the pre-Trump world,

01:14:33.320 you could be forgiven for thinking that was a serious organization.

01:14:39.660 But there are too many examples of them being not serious and being more of a attack dog for Republicans.

01:14:48.100 That I would say discredited and scandal-ridden would be a fair statement.

01:14:53.360 Rand Paul wants to kneecap or get rid of CISA,

01:15:00.280 according to Politico,

01:15:02.020 CISA.

01:15:03.740 So that's the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

01:15:07.600 So he might want to downsize it or eliminate it.

01:15:10.480 And that is the correct take,

01:15:12.420 because they are also a discredited organization.

01:15:16.960 And they're part of that disinformation network.

01:15:20.480 You know,

01:15:21.680 part of this,

01:15:22.540 you know,

01:15:22.940 hundreds of entities that somehow are trying to protect us from disinformation,

01:15:27.860 but really are probably just Democrat entities to make sure Republicans don't get fairly heard or get in trouble.

01:15:38.460 And then last story is Zero Hedge is reporting that according to a Gallup poll,

01:15:44.940 public support for gun bans has cratered.

01:15:48.000 What would cause that?

01:15:49.240 Yeah.

01:15:50.480 What would cause a sudden reduction in support for banning guns?

01:15:58.660 Did something happen?

01:16:00.020 I don't know about.

01:16:01.800 Because nothing really happened in that domain,

01:16:04.060 right?

01:16:05.220 Is it just because Trump won?

01:16:08.140 That doesn't seem like enough.

01:16:10.920 I'm going to say that I don't necessarily think that poll is going to be reproducible,

01:16:16.740 but we'll watch.

01:16:18.220 We'll find out.

01:16:19.060 All right,

01:16:19.860 ladies and gentlemen,

01:16:20.700 that's all I got for today's prepared reports.

01:16:23.640 Thanks for joining.

01:16:24.860 Looks like the golden age is off to a good start.

01:16:28.040 Strong start.

01:16:30.880 You think,

01:16:31.800 Owen,

01:16:32.080 you think it's just because there's more crime?

01:16:34.660 It could be.

01:16:35.680 Maybe just the fact that there are Venezuelan gangs in 16 states or more.

01:16:41.740 That would be probably one of the best reasons to own a gun.

01:16:48.060 But if a gang comes to your house,

01:16:50.000 your one gun is probably not going to keep you alive because it's a gang.

01:16:55.100 But anyway, I can see why people would have them.

01:16:58.420 All right.

01:16:58.660 So I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately.

01:17:02.840 So I'm going to say goodbye to YouTube and Rumble and X.

01:17:08.020 Thanks for joining.

01:17:09.700 And I will see you same time tomorrow because who takes time off?

01:17:14.400 Nobody.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 20, 2024

Episode 2665 CWSA 11⧸20⧸24

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