Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2700 CWSA 12⧸25⧸24

00:00:00.960 Well, aren't you glad I'm here?

00:00:03.260 Well, I knew a lot of you would be alone today.

00:00:07.420 And you would need a little extra company.

00:00:11.720 And you'd like to have coffee on Christmas morning

00:00:14.080 with your favorite distant friend.

00:00:19.160 Distance by, you know, only distance.

00:00:23.260 All right, let me call up your comments here.

00:00:27.120 Huh, there we are.

00:00:30.000 Hmm, where are we?

00:00:36.920 Nope, that's not it.

00:00:41.500 Uh, that's not it.

00:00:45.180 That's it.

00:00:49.580 All right, we're ready.

00:00:52.360 You doing wine in the morning?

00:00:55.960 Well, that's quite a Christmas.

00:00:57.480 Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

00:01:04.400 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human Civilization Christmas Edition.

00:01:11.900 Well, if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that even Santa Claus couldn't understand,

00:01:18.920 all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tankard shells,

00:01:25.020 a steiner canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:27.880 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:29.580 I like coffee.

00:01:31.040 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:01:34.160 Dopamine hit of the day thing that makes everything better.

00:01:36.160 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.

00:01:38.380 Go.

00:01:44.000 Oh.

00:01:45.480 It's a Christmas miracle how good that tastes.

00:01:49.060 And I get to do it with all of you.

00:01:51.560 My favorite part of the day.

00:01:53.560 By the way, I don't know if I've ever told you this is literally my favorite part of the day.

00:01:57.080 Maybe it's because I like doing the talking and having you do the listening.

00:02:05.560 Maybe it's not a good sign that this is my favorite part of the day.

00:02:09.740 But it is.

00:02:11.140 So I caused more trouble than I ever imagined yesterday by recommending a movie.

00:02:17.680 Who in the world thought that that would cause hate?

00:02:20.940 I got more hate by recommending a movie I like than just about anything that's happened to me this year.

00:02:27.080 Since I got canceled.

00:02:28.820 And here's the problem.

00:02:31.880 A number of people said that I must be doing it for pay.

00:02:37.820 So I finally said I liked the movie.

00:02:40.120 I liked the movie Red One.

00:02:41.640 It's a Christmas movie.

00:02:43.960 And I got accused.

00:02:46.220 I can't tell you how many people accused me of doing it for money and being a sellout.

00:02:51.500 And I thought, really?

00:02:53.260 When did it become unusual to say you like a movie on social media?

00:02:59.320 And somebody said, you know, why would I be delving into this trivial stuff?

00:03:03.900 You know, why would you be talking about trivial things?

00:03:06.620 To which I thought, is it your first day on social media?

00:03:12.020 Social media is like 90% trivia.

00:03:15.000 10% substance.

00:03:16.500 So I can't have a little bit of Christmas trivia?

00:03:22.760 Anyway.

00:03:24.020 So out of curiosity, since movies, of course, are highly subjective, there's no such thing as a good movie or a bad movie.

00:03:33.960 If I could teach you one thing, it's this.

00:03:37.320 There's no such thing as good art or bad art.

00:03:40.120 There's no such thing as a good comic or a bad one.

00:03:42.600 There's no such thing as a good movie or a bad one.

00:03:46.920 There is such thing as did people go and like it or not.

00:03:52.180 If people like it, it's good.

00:03:54.680 So if you're looking at the comments and you see that 80% of the people commenting say, yeah, that was a good movie.

00:04:00.180 Good recommendation.

00:04:01.440 I enjoyed it.

00:04:03.220 A comment that doesn't make sense is that was a bad movie.

00:04:07.420 It's not a bad movie if 80% of people liked it.

00:04:12.600 If 80% like it, that's a good movie by definition.

00:04:16.440 Your own opinion of the movie is just your own opinion.

00:04:23.080 It's not some kind of universal standard.

00:04:26.440 So out of curiosity, I followed up today just to cause more trouble, which other people are saying I'm trying to just get engagement money.

00:04:36.520 But no, I'm actually curious when I when I ask a question, it's usually because I actually think it'd be an interesting question.

00:04:44.980 So my question was, if you think Red One is not a great movie like I do, I think it's a great movie.

00:04:52.580 What would be your favorite movie recently?

00:04:56.940 So I asked the people who said they didn't like Red One.

00:05:00.300 What movies do you like recently?

00:05:03.460 And most of my answers were movies that were 30 to 50 years old.

00:05:08.560 30 to 50 years old.

00:05:11.420 That's what people answered with their favorite recent movie was 30 to 50 years old.

00:05:19.400 But there are some people who mentioned a little bit more recent movies.

00:05:24.640 For example, Schindler's List and The Shawshank Redemption were high on people's list of all time best movies.

00:05:32.780 Do you know, I think of those two movies is two movies that make you feel like you're in prison and or a concentration camp in Nazi Germany.

00:05:46.600 And it makes you feel that the entire length of the movie.

00:05:50.860 And that's your favorite movie.

00:05:55.340 Who wants to feel like they're in the most horrible prison situation for three hours in a row?

00:06:00.420 Mmm, popcorn.

00:06:02.400 Oh, look what they're doing to them now. 0.99

00:06:04.500 How about that hurt?

00:06:05.540 Oh.

00:06:08.060 So I'm not judging.

00:06:10.640 I'm not judging.

00:06:12.840 But it was hilarious to see what people's favorite movies were.

00:06:17.740 Because some of them are so dark that I actually think that Schindler's List should be illegal. 0.94

00:06:25.100 And I mean that actually literally.

00:06:27.800 Schindler's List, I don't think that should be legal.

00:06:30.420 As a movie.

00:06:31.800 Because I got PTSD from it.

00:06:35.280 So I suffered for years of having flashbacks to the movie.

00:06:40.560 Now I get that, you know, we should all be informed of how bad things were at different times.

00:06:45.560 I get that.

00:06:46.740 We should all be informed.

00:06:48.620 But did I have to get PTSD?

00:06:51.560 Like they couldn't just give me the details and I wouldn't be able to figure out that that was pretty bad.

00:06:55.780 Yeah, I think that should, I wouldn't, I would block somebody from watching that movie if they, if they wanted to.

00:07:04.340 But it was well made.

00:07:05.800 It was just destructive to human, human beings.

00:07:08.980 Anyway, so there's news today.

00:07:13.760 A little bit.

00:07:15.760 Anybody want to talk about some news on Christmas?

00:07:19.240 I'll try to keep it light.

00:07:21.180 Okay.

00:07:22.360 It's mostly an excuse just to hang out today.

00:07:25.740 So here's the theme for today.

00:07:29.560 The theme for today is, it doesn't really matter what's happening in the world.

00:07:35.160 It'll just give me something to talk about while you're talking to each other, usually, in the comments.

00:07:40.520 So just make sure you have an amazing day today, if I can help out by keeping you some company.

00:07:47.540 And by the way, for the local subscribers, I will be back this evening.

00:07:54.480 So 7, 730, I'll tell you the time this time.

00:07:57.640 I don't usually tell you the time.

00:07:59.420 But tonight I'll shoot for 730 Eastern time.

00:08:05.540 Eastern time.

00:08:07.040 730 tonight.

00:08:08.560 And we'll hang out.

00:08:09.680 So there are a lot of people I found out who literally don't have any human contact on all of Christmas Day.

00:08:17.140 And we're going to fix that.

00:08:18.800 I will be your human contact.

00:08:22.100 All right.

00:08:23.840 So the news is all just kind of light and funny today.

00:08:28.700 Some of it is, anyway.

00:08:31.600 Here's my first news item.

00:08:33.140 Does anybody want to make a bet that the drone activity over New Jersey is way down on Christmas?

00:08:41.360 Because if the drone activity is way down on Christmas, that definitely narrows down what the drones might be.

00:08:50.740 Do you agree?

00:08:51.200 It's probably, they're probably not Iranian drones.

00:08:55.980 And they're probably not from another planet.

00:08:57.940 Because they don't, they don't do Christmas.

00:09:01.900 I don't know if the Chinese drones would.

00:09:05.560 That might be a hybrid situation.

00:09:07.580 But let's watch today.

00:09:10.000 We're going to ask, we're going to ask Erica to look outside tonight in the man cave and see what the drone activity looks like.

00:09:17.640 Because one of us, one of us here, I don't know if Erica's here yet, but one of us is in New Jersey and has been taking pictures of the drone activity.

00:09:27.160 So we'll have a pretty good baseline.

00:09:31.360 We'll see if it went down today.

00:09:33.080 That'll tell us something.

00:09:35.180 All right.

00:09:36.420 Biden signed a new law designating the bald eagle as our national bird.

00:09:42.700 Now, I'm glad he's getting, I'm glad he's doing the important stuff before he leaves.

00:09:48.080 Because you might not know this, but the bald eagle was not the national bird.

00:09:54.060 Which came as a surprise to me.

00:09:55.960 If you would ask me, Scott, who is the national bird?

00:09:59.620 I would have said bald eagle.

00:10:01.400 But it turns out it wasn't.

00:10:03.760 How many of you are blown away by the fact that the bald eagle was not the national bird your whole life?

00:10:12.580 Did you know that?

00:10:14.160 It wasn't the national bird?

00:10:16.880 What?

00:10:18.060 Now, it was close to that.

00:10:19.620 It was a national emblem.

00:10:21.200 So back in 1782, Congress decided that it would be our national emblem, but not the national bird.

00:10:33.300 Now, I feel like I've been lied to since 1782.

00:10:37.940 I thought it was a national bird.

00:10:39.200 But the other thing that offends me about this story is that they called it a bald eagle.

00:10:45.600 A bald eagle?

00:10:46.680 Really?

00:10:48.260 Really?

00:10:49.300 I thought we were more woke than that.

00:10:51.780 I don't call it a bald eagle.

00:10:54.200 No.

00:10:54.420 I call it a feather-challenged eagle.

00:10:58.160 Feather-challenged.

00:10:59.860 Not bald.

00:11:03.220 For the people who don't understand how humor works, I'm not actually literally suggesting that bald eagles don't have any feathers on their head.

00:11:14.360 This is just a joke, and if you do not understand jokes, it must be a very terrible life for you, but we're not going to be talking about that for now.

00:11:26.560 For now, we're going to be talking about other things.

00:11:29.500 So, moving on.

00:11:33.020 So, in other hilarious stories, Greenland has decided to beef up its military security.

00:11:39.640 So, Denmark, which owns Greenland, said that because of Trump's saber-rattling, they were going to substantially increase the security of their country.

00:11:55.880 But did you know that the United States has a military defense agreement with Greenland?

00:12:03.220 Greenland, that means that any attack on Greenland is considered something that the U.S. military has already committed to respond to?

00:12:14.220 I'm not surprised, just because the hemisphere is in, but I didn't know that.

00:12:19.820 So, apparently, we would be all in if somebody attacked Greenland.

00:12:23.780 Now, if you're laughing, who's going to attack Greenland?

00:12:28.580 That's actually a possibility now.

00:12:30.300 Because as the Arctic melts, it's going to be a big fight between Russia and China and U.S. and Canada and Denmark, I guess, about who owns what.

00:12:42.200 Because once the ice melts, there's going to be a lot of sea travel and a lot of claiming of territory and whatnot up there.

00:12:49.380 So, whoever owns Greenland's got a good solid base to operate on, so it probably makes a difference.

00:12:55.100 But they're going to increase their security.

00:12:58.900 They're going to have long-range drones, more inspection ships, and sled patrols.

00:13:07.860 And they're going to upgrade one of their airports so it can land a fighter jet.

00:13:11.240 You know, when Trump first brought it up, I thought, I think we can take Greenland.

00:13:22.820 Yeah, we didn't really win Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq didn't really go the way we wanted it to.

00:13:29.860 But I really thought we could take Greenland.

00:13:33.860 Like, I have confidence in the military of the United States.

00:13:36.300 I feel like we can take that, Greenland.

00:13:39.420 But we're a little too late.

00:13:42.340 Too late.

00:13:43.760 They beefed up their security.

00:13:46.360 I mean, we were probably going to send some intercontinental missiles at them.

00:13:54.120 But now they have extra sled patrols.

00:13:57.960 So how are you going to get past that?

00:14:00.540 Extra sled patrols.

00:14:01.820 And over the next several years, they'll build a better airport.

00:14:05.540 So I don't know how you can fight that.

00:14:08.640 So we better give up on our dream of conquering Greenland because they've got new sled patrols. 0.97

00:14:15.720 And that'll stop us.

00:14:17.500 Now, actually, the reason they're stepping up to security, it's even funnier, is the Trump effect.

00:14:24.180 So because Trump made noise about Greenland being a national security risk, Denmark said, oh, wait, you're actually right. 0.65

00:14:35.240 Greenland is a national security risk for everybody because of the Arctic opening up.

00:14:40.600 So they're beefing up with security, which is sort of laughingly small amount, is because they're trying to respond to the fact that Russia and China might be a threat sometime soon.

00:14:54.960 So that's the Trump effect again.

00:14:57.620 So here again, Trump's mere existence and statements make other countries do what we wanted them to do otherwise.

00:15:06.440 Now, apparently, this is also happening with NATO right now.

00:15:10.760 So Estonia and Lithuania, I guess, are all saying we better massively increase our NATO spending because if America ever pulls out, we're in trouble.

00:15:22.340 So Europe is actually saying, hey, we better step up and make sure we're taking care of ourselves because we're relying too much on America, which is Trump's message.

00:15:35.320 Trump's message is you're relying too much on us.

00:15:37.540 Step up your spending.

00:15:39.220 And they're just doing it anyway in anticipation.

00:15:42.080 This is the Trump effect.

00:15:44.020 The Trump effect is very real.

00:15:46.140 It seems like every country is making fairly substantial adjustments just to accommodate the fact that he's a completely different character and more effective in so many ways that they have to change things.

00:16:03.420 When Biden came into office, do you remember anybody making any changes in other countries?

00:16:09.220 I don't.

00:16:10.920 Did any other country do anything differently?

00:16:14.180 I don't think so.

00:16:15.120 But as soon as Trump comes along, we better change everything we're doing in the right direction.

00:16:22.520 Now, one of the funny questions going along around social media was if the United States takes over Greenland, what will we name it?

00:16:32.520 Now, obviously, we would just keep it the same name, Greenland.

00:16:35.660 But it's funny to think about.

00:16:38.640 And so people had suggestions like Magaland and others.

00:16:42.960 But my suggestion, I think, is the best.

00:16:47.120 If the United States takes it over under Trump's administration, we should change the name from Greenland to Orange Land.

00:16:57.980 Greenland to Orange Land.

00:17:00.360 Yeah.

00:17:01.020 Yeah, you wish you thought of it.

00:17:02.360 All right, what else is happening?

00:17:07.320 Apparently, according to the Byte, the Washington Post is trying to get some new leadership in there to run the paper.

00:17:15.160 And the people who are applying or had been considered for the job are pulling out because they don't like the question they get when they interview.

00:17:26.140 And the question is, how would they use AI and technology basically to make the paper more successful?

00:17:33.580 And all these newspaper people don't know anything about technology or AI.

00:17:39.800 And they're just like, I'm out.

00:17:42.200 I'm out.

00:17:42.660 So I would go further and say, if Jeff Bezos wants the Washington Post to be more of a technically driven enterprise, you can't hire an editor.

00:18:02.000 You can't hire somebody who's been in journalism their whole life.

00:18:04.720 You're going to have to get somebody like a Vivek or an Elon Musk or you're going to have to get somebody who really, really understands technology.

00:18:15.500 Anything short of that would be, why bother?

00:18:20.580 Yeah.

00:18:20.840 A regular newspaper editor is not going to be bringing in a new technology way of doing things.

00:18:28.120 That's just not going to happen.

00:18:29.260 That would be like asking a bookstore in 1985 to build Amazon.

00:18:37.800 Bookstores don't know how to build Amazon. 0.91

00:18:40.740 Newspaper people don't know how to do AI.

00:18:46.140 All right.

00:18:49.020 Politico has a story with this headline.

00:18:53.420 Elon Musk's, quote, move fast and break things attitude clashes with Washington.

00:19:00.260 Now, weirdly, I've been hearing the following complaint from people in my own life, you know, people that I interact with.

00:19:08.700 People are saying that Elon Musk, unique among all human beings, is the only person who won't be able to figure out that governments operate differently than businesses and some adjustments might need to be made.

00:19:24.240 To which I say, okay, let me understand this, right?

00:19:30.440 You're saying that Elon Musk, unique among all a billion people, would be the only one.

00:19:37.020 You'd be the only one who couldn't see what every one of us see, which is government runs differently than business.

00:19:46.940 Secondly, if you believe that move fast and break things won't work in government, what is your basis for saying that?

00:19:56.740 What data are you looking at?

00:20:00.420 What experience are you relying on that move fast and break things won't work in government?

00:20:06.020 Now, I would agree it might not.

00:20:08.220 It might not work in every situation.

00:20:09.840 But do you really think that Elon Musk looks at a brand new situation and says, I think I'll treat this the way I treat it, a completely different thing?

00:20:21.220 Elon Musk.

00:20:22.260 You think that Elon Musk is uniquely unable to see that every situation is different, and therefore you must adjust.

00:20:32.420 Elon Musk?

00:20:34.340 Why am I even having that conversation with multiple people?

00:20:38.680 What does Politico think he is?

00:20:43.240 How could you watch him do what he's done so far, what he's done so far, and think he can't navigate a new situation?

00:20:52.700 He's literally the most famous navigator of new situations in the history of the entire planet.

00:21:03.600 That'd be like me sitting at home saying, what does Arnold Schwarzenegger know about bodybuilding?

00:21:12.020 I mean, I think he was working in construction before that.

00:21:18.460 So anyway, that's a weird criticism.

00:21:20.880 I didn't even read the Politico article, because when I saw the headline, I was like, oh, there's nothing here for me.

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00:21:42.300 Mike Benz, who's working on Christmas Eve, found the receipts to prove the following.

00:21:51.120 Now, if you haven't followed Mike Benz, you're absolutely confused about the real world.

00:21:57.020 I mean, for the first time, all the stuff I didn't understand about the world, at least in terms of how governments and the United States are operating, finally it all came together.

00:22:08.580 Because what he does is he describes how the CIA has all these cutouts that control other countries.

00:22:18.720 And more recently, they tried to use that trick to control the United States directly, which they're not supposed to do.

00:22:24.440 But let me just tell you what he discovered recently, just the other day.

00:22:32.640 So as he often describes, there's an enormous entity that the United States controls and funds.

00:22:40.620 It's a U.S. entity called USAID.

00:22:43.760 U.S.A.I.D.

00:22:45.120 Now, if you heard USAID, and you knew it operates to influence other countries, and you knew it was hugely funded, I forget their budget, but it's gigantic, wouldn't you assume that it was like foreign aid?

00:23:01.880 Just because of the name of it, USAID, and it's externally focused.

00:23:07.340 It's not aid to the U.S., it's U.S. aid to other countries, is what it sounds like.

00:23:14.260 But it turns out it's nothing like that.

00:23:17.940 Its mission is, the mission of USAID is to act innocent while overthrowing other countries on behalf of the CIA.

00:23:27.300 So it's a regime change entity trying to look like something else, but basically it's just a CIA weapon.

00:23:35.240 And did you know, according to Mike Benz, that AOC and Liz Cheney were both spawned by the USAID?

00:23:46.000 They both have a prehistory that went through USAID.

00:23:50.860 Do you know what that means?

00:23:51.780 Well, the suggestion is that AOC and Liz Cheney are both essentially CIA-influenced operatives, and that they're not exactly operating for the benefit of the country so much as maybe the benefit of the CIA.

00:24:11.480 Now, that's a big leap.

00:24:14.700 It's a big leap.

00:24:15.920 It's a leap from they had, you know, important contacts with USAID, like extensive ones, so much so that at one time they were certainly working with the CIA and you could argue for them.

00:24:31.060 But, is it also true that the USAID and the CIA still have their hooks in them, and they're just puppets for those guys?

00:24:44.060 Could be.

00:24:45.160 Could be.

00:24:45.700 It would explain everything you see.

00:24:47.840 It would explain 100% of your observations about the two of them.

00:24:52.360 But there's no direct evidence of that.

00:24:55.580 There's no direct evidence.

00:24:57.180 But that's also how it works.

00:24:58.600 The way it works is, hey, there's no direct evidence.

00:25:03.700 So, I'm not going to say that they're CIA operatives.

00:25:08.700 I will say that Mike Benz's, you know, research on them, it's public.

00:25:14.080 You can see the documents.

00:25:15.520 He shows them to you.

00:25:16.700 You can see it for yourself.

00:25:18.800 But he makes a strong case.

00:25:20.440 He makes a strong case that they grew out of an entity that isn't, let's say, exclusively patriotic.

00:25:31.200 But, well, maybe in its own special way.

00:25:33.660 I guess if you get pulled into that world, you always think you're on the other side of goodness, even if you're not.

00:25:39.680 So, that was interesting.

00:25:44.280 I continue to enjoy watching the Democrat experts talking about why things went wrong and getting everything wrong.

00:25:53.620 But the, what I call the doom spiral of the Democrat Party is way, way more entertaining than I expected.

00:26:04.220 I knew the Democrats were going to have some, you know, dissension and chaos if they lost the election, which they did.

00:26:11.460 But I didn't know it would destroy the entire Democratic Party for I don't know how long.

00:26:18.000 But the question, and I've joked yesterday that the smart people who are Democrats have decided that the only way they can recover is by copying Trump.

00:26:29.860 That's right.

00:26:30.920 The Democrat experts, the smart people, went from the only thing we have to say is, is orange man bad. 0.51

00:26:39.980 That's all we have to say.

00:26:41.620 Trump's worse.

00:26:42.600 And they often said it directly, by the way.

00:26:44.980 They would often say, sure, our guy or our lady later may have some issues, but at least they're not Trump.

00:26:54.200 Right?

00:26:54.960 It was just an anti-Trump message.

00:26:57.220 And now they've decided that they have to have a Trump copycat message to win.

00:27:04.380 So, they literally went from anti-Trump to, can we copy everything he did that worked?

00:27:09.860 And that happened in, like, days.

00:27:14.360 So, how artificial was their entire, their entire program was artificial?

00:27:21.080 It wasn't anything that smart people believe in, because they wouldn't have changed their minds overnight.

00:27:27.000 It must have been that everything they were doing was seen as a tactic, as opposed to a good idea for the public.

00:27:33.600 And when they realized their tactic didn't work, you can change a tactic.

00:27:38.480 So, a tactic can change on a dime.

00:27:41.620 But your core values aren't going to change on a dime.

00:27:45.600 So, when you see that what they think they need to do to win changed on a dime, do you think that had anything to do with core values?

00:27:55.420 I doubt it.

00:27:56.840 It suggests to me they didn't believe the core values that were being espoused by their own party.

00:28:01.540 But they were too cowardly to say it.

00:28:04.500 Or too loyal.

00:28:06.860 I guess you could go both ways.

00:28:08.480 Too cowardly or too loyal to their team.

00:28:11.320 Ends up being, it looks the same.

00:28:12.700 But, here's a question.

00:28:19.540 How in the world are they going to recover?

00:28:21.980 So, let me lay out the situation for the Democrats.

00:28:24.740 And you tell me if you think they can recover.

00:28:27.480 Because we kind of ordinarily imagine that if Republicans have a bad election, they can recover.

00:28:33.840 If Democrats have a bad election, they can recover.

00:28:36.780 Because that's all we've ever seen.

00:28:38.960 You know, usually there's always a comeback.

00:28:41.100 But there's a real interesting situation now with the Democrats that I haven't seen before.

00:28:48.640 So, here's my description.

00:28:49.940 Number one, Democrats have no leader.

00:28:53.020 Would you agree?

00:28:53.840 Now, we've talked before about, you know, Obama, you know, secretly pulling the strings.

00:29:00.920 But then other people say, no, it's the advisors.

00:29:04.600 The advisors are secretly pulling the strings.

00:29:07.520 And other people say, hmm, I think it's the Clintons.

00:29:10.700 Or the deep states.

00:29:12.340 Or the CIA.

00:29:14.560 Or it's the military-industrial complex.

00:29:17.400 Or it's Israel. 0.72

00:29:20.080 Everybody's got some idea of who's controlling the president.

00:29:24.100 But would you agree that the Democrats have no identifiable leader?

00:29:29.920 I mean, Hakeem Jeffries says some things once in a while.

00:29:32.880 But it's in the context of his current job.

00:29:35.940 He doesn't feel like a leader of the party.

00:29:38.100 They also have no popular policies.

00:29:43.700 Just think about that.

00:29:45.560 They have no leader.

00:29:47.180 And they have no popular policies.

00:29:49.820 Because they got beaten.

00:29:51.520 And the polls showed that the public didn't like any of their top policies.

00:29:55.780 Now, I'm talking about the top ones.

00:29:57.600 Once you get down to the, you know, fifth and sixth preference,

00:30:01.380 then they start getting some support.

00:30:04.280 Like abortion, for example.

00:30:05.580 But if you look at the top three, it's just all Trump.

00:30:10.340 And so they would just have to.

00:30:11.920 So how are they going to win with no leader, no charismatic leader,

00:30:16.780 no popular policies, let's say the top three priorities?

00:30:21.700 They also have no unity.

00:30:24.600 At the moment, the Republicans are completely unified under Trump.

00:30:29.620 Even Mitt Romney says, oh, it's Trump's party.

00:30:33.120 The Republican Party is Trump's party.

00:30:34.860 And when Mitt Romney said it, he didn't say it like an insult.

00:30:39.460 He did not say it like an insult, which is pretty remarkable.

00:30:44.680 Pretty remarkable.

00:30:46.480 So somehow Trump found unity by simply success.

00:30:52.120 Boy, if you want to unify people, try being successful.

00:30:55.900 That'll get it done.

00:30:57.960 So he's got unity.

00:30:58.920 And then the Democrats don't seem to have any positive messaging.

00:31:04.400 So Trump's talking about, you know, the golden age and how great we're going to be.

00:31:09.420 And the Democrats mostly talk about how bad we've been.

00:31:14.640 Those are not competitive.

00:31:15.860 How great we're going to be is a strong message.

00:31:20.140 How bad we used to be.

00:31:21.900 And we have to beat ourselves up for that.

00:31:24.520 You can't win with that.

00:31:26.860 And then, of course, the entire party is DEI infected.

00:31:30.860 Meaning that their enthusiasm for diversity should, all things being equal, cripple their effectiveness forever.

00:31:42.040 Because they can't back up from diversity and DEI.

00:31:46.400 There's no way out.

00:31:47.580 Like, once you get there, you're going to have to die in that hell.

00:31:50.840 You can't back out.

00:31:52.720 But the Republicans don't have that problem at all.

00:31:56.920 And wokeness, the whole idea of wokeness, it appears to have just turned into a joke.

00:32:04.600 Like, I don't even see Democrats supporting wokeness anymore.

00:32:09.300 They all seem to have said, oh, this was a losing theme.

00:32:13.120 It wasn't good for the country.

00:32:15.100 You know, it totally destroyed the Democratic Party.

00:32:18.360 And they're right.

00:32:19.380 It did.

00:32:20.200 It totally destroyed the Democratic Party.

00:32:22.480 But possibly in a way they can't come back.

00:32:25.060 Which I worry about because I want a competitive party.

00:32:29.760 And Gloria Romero, former state senator of California, said the Democrats were in complete collapse.

00:32:35.960 Now, at this point, that story, complete collapse, which is shared by other people, their opinion, that's forming a narrative.

00:32:46.020 And the Democrats, of course, like everybody, they'll seize on whatever narrative seems to capture things and other people are talking about.

00:32:54.460 So, if enough Democrats say we're in complete collapse, that's how they will see their party.

00:33:01.920 It's not going to take too many pundits to use those words, complete collapse or words like it, for the mainstream to say, yeah, we're in complete collapse.

00:33:12.880 And then it becomes self-fulfilling.

00:33:14.700 So, they're definitely circling the drain.

00:33:19.220 And I feel like I've switched a little bit from, yeah, the less of them, the better, to, oh, we may have overcorrected.

00:33:30.900 If we overcorrect, then we don't have a good fight.

00:33:36.860 I mean, our system depends on a nice, fair fight.

00:33:39.980 But, so, you know, I hope Democrats can come back, but only if they're competing with good ideas this time.

00:33:48.300 If they're competing with bullshit, we don't need it.

00:33:55.420 News Max was reporting on Trump, how he did with young people.

00:33:59.800 And he said, quote, we got the highest vote ever for a Republican with young people, Trump said.

00:34:05.400 My son, Barron, said, Dad, you got to talk to this one and that one.

00:34:10.160 He likes Joe Rogan a lot.

00:34:11.680 He said, Dad, you got to do an interview.

00:34:13.760 He has a feel for young people.

00:34:16.140 I might have to start thinking about TikTok, meaning keeping TikTok so we can benefit from it.

00:34:24.860 Here, in my opinion, is Trump's least appreciated skill.

00:34:30.400 And when I say skill, I mean way above average, like skill, skill like you haven't seen before skill.

00:34:39.220 His most important skill is at the age of 78, he is a really good listener.

00:34:46.620 Have you heard that before?

00:34:48.940 Because the bad guys, the Democrats, were all about Trump's a narcissist.

00:34:54.680 So he's not even going to listen to you or he's going to make a decision based on the last person who talked to him.

00:35:01.400 Or, you know, which is just laughable.

00:35:04.560 Or he's going to use his narcissism and he's just going to do things that are good for him.

00:35:11.160 Which is completely at odds with the observable fact that he's the best listener I've ever seen in politics.

00:35:18.880 Does he understand what his base wants?

00:35:22.040 Yes, yes, I've never seen anybody understand what their base wants more than Trump understands what his base wants.

00:35:32.060 He knows how to joke with us.

00:35:33.800 He knows how to tease us.

00:35:35.340 He knows how to get us interested.

00:35:36.900 He knows how to inspire.

00:35:38.560 He understands his base.

00:35:40.980 But it goes further than that.

00:35:43.100 When he talks about listening to Barron,

00:35:45.160 he was taking political advice from a teenager.

00:35:49.760 Do you know why?

00:35:51.740 Why was he taking political advice, like important political advice, from a teenager?

00:35:57.560 Let me tell you why.

00:35:59.520 Because he listened to him.

00:36:01.340 He listened to him like genuinely listened to him.

00:36:04.040 And he heard things he'd never heard before.

00:36:07.820 And then he probably checked it with other people.

00:36:10.900 And then he operationalized it.

00:36:13.720 Put it into practice.

00:36:16.140 Now, I see this everywhere.

00:36:20.320 And by the way, people who have talked to him in person will say the same thing.

00:36:25.260 I think every one of them says the same thing.

00:36:27.500 That he absolutely listens.

00:36:29.940 And I'll tell you from my, I've told you this before,

00:36:32.340 but my one experience where I talked to him personally

00:36:35.760 when he invited me to the White House in 2018.

00:36:40.940 And I think he was just, the reason I was there,

00:36:43.080 he was just, it was a slow summer, 2018.

00:36:46.320 Not much news.

00:36:47.560 And I think he was just firming up support with the people who were public supporters.

00:36:52.260 So I got an invitation.

00:36:55.240 And if you can imagine this, it's like, it's beyond imagination.

00:36:59.100 Imagine me sitting in the Oval Office, like I'm on the other side of the desk,

00:37:05.000 and I'm just chatting with him about nothing in particular.

00:37:08.920 Nothing in particular.

00:37:10.420 I mean, I'm not going to give you details of the conversation,

00:37:12.800 but it kind of went from one topic to another,

00:37:16.400 because I wasn't there for a specific purpose.

00:37:18.980 But here's the part that will blow you away.

00:37:23.400 A good percentage of it was him asking questions about my life and my career life

00:37:32.400 and how Dilbert worked and how many papers was in and, you know, how that was working out.

00:37:39.560 And he was completely engaged, or it felt like it.

00:37:43.080 So imagine, imagine somebody who's got the weight of the entire world on their shoulders,

00:37:48.800 and you sit in front of them, and for 30 minutes,

00:37:52.620 you feel like you're the only person in the room that he cares about.

00:37:57.800 Like, it was amazing.

00:38:01.140 So as a listener, it's like his top skill.

00:38:06.580 And he's got a lot of skills, but that might be his top skill.

00:38:09.720 So when you see the Barron story about he got his advice from a teenager,

00:38:16.620 that's more like who he is.

00:38:19.680 That's not the exception.

00:38:24.180 Meanwhile, in that hellscape called Europe,

00:38:27.420 apparently starting July 6th,

00:38:32.060 no, apparently that already started,

00:38:34.480 there's some kind of technology they're putting in the cars in Europe

00:38:37.300 that will make your car beep if you exceed the speed limit.

00:38:41.580 So your car will start scolding you for driving fast.

00:38:47.320 And the funny thing is that the guy who gets a lot of bad press in Great Britain,

00:38:52.620 that teary or theory Breeden guy,

00:38:56.400 the anti-free speech guy,

00:38:58.440 or the censorship guy, let's call him that,

00:39:00.280 now he wants your car to be scolding you.

00:39:06.120 I'll tell you, the reasons not to go to Europe just keep adding up.

00:39:12.180 Anyway,

00:39:13.620 I got some technology stories,

00:39:17.700 but I thought because it's close to year-end,

00:39:23.380 I would give a little review of my best predictions that involve Trump.

00:39:31.600 All right.

00:39:32.120 So clearly I'm better at predicting Trump-related things

00:39:35.600 than other things for whatever reason.

00:39:37.960 And I wanted to just give you my best list,

00:39:43.840 because if you haven't heard them all at once,

00:39:45.620 it's different.

00:39:46.860 So these are all things you've heard,

00:39:48.820 but if you don't hear them in a list at the same time,

00:39:51.700 it won't feel the same.

00:39:54.100 So of course you know that I kind of got a lot of notoriety,

00:39:59.400 because in 2015 I said that not only would he win,

00:40:04.380 but he would change how we saw reality.

00:40:07.440 Now those were two of the best predictions of all time,

00:40:12.060 that Trump would win when people thought he was a joke,

00:40:15.480 and that he would not just win,

00:40:17.040 he would change reality.

00:40:18.960 I said that in 2016.

00:40:21.700 Did he change reality?

00:40:23.400 The way you see reality.

00:40:24.660 Did he change the way you see reality?

00:40:27.660 Oh my God.

00:40:30.180 Now we understand that the news was never a legitimate industry.

00:40:34.660 I had no idea how bad the fake news was,

00:40:38.920 but he let us see it,

00:40:40.700 and he was on it early.

00:40:42.580 Now why did he see it before the rest of us?

00:40:45.620 Because he was in it.

00:40:47.480 He knew how often the news was fake about himself.

00:40:51.300 So he knew the news was fake,

00:40:53.720 because it was fake about him for years.

00:40:56.020 So he let us in on the secret,

00:40:57.760 the news is fake,

00:40:58.720 and then we could start to see it.

00:41:00.760 Once you see the news is fake,

00:41:03.220 you start to realize that everything from the Russia collusion

00:41:07.020 is more than an accident,

00:41:09.900 and that there are forces behind the curtain

00:41:13.500 who are orchestrating things,

00:41:15.480 and then you start to understand Soros,

00:41:17.760 and suddenly everything starts coming together.

00:41:21.880 And then you start thinking the experts might not know things.

00:41:26.800 You know, he calls climate change a hoax,

00:41:29.780 and the first time you hear it,

00:41:30.840 you're like, oh God, really?

00:41:33.920 Oh my God, I was supporting that guy,

00:41:36.140 and now he's saying that science is like,

00:41:39.380 their main thing is a hoax.

00:41:41.160 And then the more you see about climate change,

00:41:43.980 the more you think,

00:41:45.300 oh, yeah, you might be right about that too.

00:41:49.460 And then you find that all experts who have bosses are lying.

00:41:54.960 All experts who have bosses are lying.

00:41:59.520 And then you learn that every organization

00:42:01.440 that reaches a certain scale is fully corrupt.

00:42:06.860 Just all of them.

00:42:08.700 I didn't see that coming.

00:42:09.960 I didn't know all of them were corrupt,

00:42:12.360 but it seems to me that all of them are corrupt.

00:42:16.200 So he did change reality.

00:42:18.240 I also said in 2016

00:42:20.080 that he was one of the best communicators,

00:42:22.880 not just persuaders,

00:42:25.200 but one of the best communicators we've ever seen.

00:42:28.400 And people laughed.

00:42:30.100 And they said, Scott,

00:42:31.420 they say he has a sixth grade vocabulary.

00:42:36.000 We think he has mental illness.

00:42:37.920 And I said, no,

00:42:41.020 that sixth grade vocabulary,

00:42:44.480 you don't see what he's doing.

00:42:47.140 He's talking the way people talk.

00:42:49.740 He's communicating on their level.

00:42:52.760 That's how you do it.

00:42:54.520 That's the right way to do it.

00:42:56.240 If you don't even recognize it as a technique,

00:42:59.760 and you think you must have mental illness,

00:43:01.960 you are so far from understanding how things work.

00:43:04.880 You're just flying blind there.

00:43:08.240 Today, would you agree that even the people

00:43:11.300 who are on his enemies list,

00:43:14.280 would you agree that even they say

00:43:15.740 he's the best communicator around?

00:43:18.700 You would.

00:43:20.100 They basically say he out-communicated us.

00:43:22.600 I mean, the Democrats are kind of being honest about that.

00:43:26.280 And I would say that his slogans,

00:43:29.120 his summaries,

00:43:30.820 his ability to provoke,

00:43:32.400 make you think,

00:43:33.080 make you think differently,

00:43:34.580 reframe things,

00:43:36.220 you've never seen anything like it.

00:43:38.180 He's the best.

00:43:40.060 You know, Reagan was amazing.

00:43:42.500 I think Trump's better.

00:43:45.180 I think Trump's better.

00:43:46.880 And Reagan was amazing.

00:43:48.400 But Trump's a little bit better.

00:43:51.360 He's the best, I think, we've ever seen.

00:43:56.580 So here's what else I predicted.

00:44:02.460 By the way,

00:44:03.240 along with, you know,

00:44:05.460 our idea of reality changing,

00:44:07.480 the simulation theory,

00:44:08.840 and the fact that string theory

00:44:10.060 doesn't look like it works,

00:44:11.360 and then some,

00:44:14.880 maybe even things about aliens,

00:44:16.940 I don't know.

00:44:17.640 But certainly the way we look at reality

00:44:19.900 is completely different since Trump.

00:44:23.200 I predicted that after Trump lost in 2020,

00:44:26.980 even though his reputation was in the toilet

00:44:29.320 and he was being called a traitorous insurrectionist,

00:44:33.500 I predicted against the grain

00:44:35.440 that he would get more popular every day,

00:44:38.580 every day,

00:44:39.560 and he did.

00:44:42.180 And he just reached his peak popularity.

00:44:45.120 He got more popular every day.

00:44:49.220 I predicted incorrectly,

00:44:51.880 so this is my biggest incorrect one,

00:44:54.120 that Russia would not invade Ukraine.

00:44:58.360 And my reasoning was

00:44:59.520 that if they did, it wouldn't work.

00:45:02.100 And all the experts were saying,

00:45:03.740 oh, Scott, it's going to take two weeks.

00:45:06.360 Russia will just roll into Kiev. 0.84

00:45:08.460 There's nothing to stop him, basically.

00:45:10.160 And I said, no,

00:45:11.740 I think drones are going to stop him.

00:45:14.300 And today it's a drone war.

00:45:17.120 So Ukraine was reporting

00:45:20.000 they did their first all-robot attack.

00:45:23.300 Today I'm going to say,

00:45:24.540 I don't believe that's true.

00:45:25.620 I think their alleged all-robot attack

00:45:29.920 was just propaganda.

00:45:32.280 Good propaganda.

00:45:33.780 Well done.

00:45:34.480 Because in war,

00:45:35.340 propaganda is one of the tools.

00:45:37.100 It's one of the tools of war.

00:45:38.220 So if you judge wartime propaganda

00:45:40.760 as to whether it's true or false,

00:45:43.380 you're in the wrong conversation.

00:45:46.460 Wartime propaganda is just supposed to work or not work.

00:45:50.160 True or false isn't.

00:45:52.580 Who cares?

00:45:54.240 It's a war.

00:45:55.620 You're just trying to win the war.

00:45:57.260 If it works, it works.

00:45:58.460 That's the end of it.

00:45:59.520 It doesn't need to be true.

00:46:00.440 So Ukraine came up with this great propaganda 0.61

00:46:04.540 that they're so advanced

00:46:06.380 with their robots and their drones

00:46:08.120 that they can now launch all-robot attacks,

00:46:12.140 which conveniently sends the message

00:46:17.140 that, sure, they're running out of human beings

00:46:19.820 because they're all dead,

00:46:21.160 but that won't stop their war effort

00:46:23.280 because they'll just replace human beings

00:46:25.140 with all-robot warriors.

00:46:27.780 So I would look at that first report as propaganda.

00:46:32.920 I don't think you're going to see them

00:46:35.180 duplicating their all-robot attack

00:46:38.000 and suddenly taking Crimea back with robots.

00:46:41.360 That's not going to happen.

00:46:43.540 The story about that is way ahead of the reality.

00:46:47.880 I feel very confident in saying that,

00:46:50.620 although the reality will certainly be all robots.

00:46:53.460 There's no doubt that it will have robot war,

00:46:56.420 but not in Ukraine and not this year.

00:47:02.120 So that was my best prediction about Ukraine 0.88

00:47:06.640 is that they would use drones and technology

00:47:09.480 that Russia had not seen yet

00:47:11.240 to make it impossible to hold ground.

00:47:15.560 And I thought, really?

00:47:17.060 They're going to roll tanks.

00:47:18.780 They're going to bring tanks into Ukraine,

00:47:20.820 and they think any of them are going to survive.

00:47:23.220 And sure enough, most of the tanks got taken out.

00:47:27.520 So I beat all of the military experts

00:47:30.200 on not the question of whether Putin would invade,

00:47:35.680 but what would happen if he did.

00:47:40.460 I predicted in 2019, and most of you did too,

00:47:43.560 that Biden's brain was shot,

00:47:45.540 and there was no way he could last

00:47:47.360 to the end of his term.

00:47:50.480 So I beat the medical doctors,

00:47:53.280 the medical experts,

00:47:54.940 in my prediction about Biden's brain.

00:47:59.060 I beat the military experts

00:48:00.760 on how Ukraine would fare if Russia attacked.

00:48:04.480 I beat all the political experts

00:48:06.760 when I said that you're going to be surprised

00:48:10.200 how much the Hispanics like Trump.

00:48:12.380 And I said, if you live and work

00:48:15.380 among the Hispanic community, as I do,

00:48:18.380 you will see that they're just basically Republicans.

00:48:22.700 They love their family.

00:48:24.440 They like hard work.

00:48:25.540 They're willing to do it.

00:48:27.680 And their religion.

00:48:29.960 And yesterday, I was watching a clip

00:48:32.800 of a Hispanic American saying,

00:48:35.660 yeah, I think the Democrats underestimated

00:48:38.080 our Catholic beliefs.

00:48:40.320 They're just closer to Republican.

00:48:43.300 So I alone, in the entire world,

00:48:46.400 predicted that although Trump was being demonized

00:48:49.020 for his border policies,

00:48:51.440 that he would gain in Hispanic votes.

00:48:56.400 I alone, in the entire world,

00:48:59.340 predicted that.

00:49:00.880 Now, I say I alone.

00:49:02.700 I mean in just the political pundit class.

00:49:06.180 There might be plenty of you who predicted it too.

00:49:08.760 I also predicted that Trump would pick up black votes 0.87

00:49:14.780 mostly among men, long before it happened.

00:49:19.660 So at the same time that people were saying,

00:49:21.620 you know, fine people hoax and everything else

00:49:23.560 that seemed impossible,

00:49:25.000 I said, hmm, he might not win the black vote,

00:49:28.840 but watch what he does with black men.

00:49:32.040 Sure enough, black men. 1.00

00:49:34.380 I also told you way before anybody was onto it,

00:49:37.620 that the Democrats were becoming the party of women

00:49:41.600 and men who were willing to go along with the women.

00:49:46.920 And sure enough, it became the party of women.

00:49:53.700 I also predicted

00:49:55.300 that the fine people hoax wasn't like the others,

00:50:00.100 and that it was the tentpole hoax.

00:50:02.120 And if you could pull out the tentpole,

00:50:04.840 the entire tent would come down.

00:50:07.800 And I think that's what happened.

00:50:10.120 I think that, you know,

00:50:11.940 with the amazing work of Steve Cortez

00:50:15.480 and Joel Pollack and I,

00:50:18.080 the three horsemen of the anti-fine people hoax,

00:50:22.060 I think we just stayed on it

00:50:24.580 and stayed on it and stayed on it

00:50:26.080 until most people knew it was a hoax on the right.

00:50:29.940 Would you agree?

00:50:32.860 Most people know that's a hoax on the right

00:50:34.740 and didn't really know it right away.

00:50:37.500 It took a while for that to become

00:50:39.660 the common view on the right.

00:50:41.960 It was, some people saw it right away,

00:50:44.200 but before it was a common view,

00:50:46.180 it had to be persuaded.

00:50:48.260 And then I think that's the main reason

00:50:50.500 that the, I'll call them,

00:50:52.900 the common sense switchovers switched.

00:50:56.880 You've heard Joe Rogan say

00:50:59.920 the fine people hoax affected him.

00:51:01.720 I think you've heard Elon Musk,

00:51:04.040 maybe Sachs, David Sachs.

00:51:07.260 So there are several very notable people

00:51:12.060 who were flipped by that one hoax

00:51:14.460 when it got debunked,

00:51:15.620 when they realized it was debunked.

00:51:17.820 And I was right.

00:51:20.420 It turned out to be the tentpole hoax.

00:51:22.400 It was the one that allowed you to see

00:51:25.800 that the others were hoaxes.

00:51:27.620 Because once you see that they pulled that off,

00:51:30.360 then you can see that if the news

00:51:32.640 could pull off that hoax,

00:51:34.380 so easily debunked,

00:51:36.120 and they still pulled it off.

00:51:38.440 They still pulled it off.

00:51:39.820 So much so that Biden ran on that message.

00:51:43.620 That's how well they pulled it off.

00:51:46.020 So once that got pulled out,

00:51:48.600 especially after Snopes debunked it,

00:51:50.700 I think that was like the domino

00:51:53.420 that just destroyed the Democrat Party.

00:51:57.220 I think the fine people hoax

00:51:59.580 allowed the highly credible people

00:52:02.600 such as the Elon Musks to come over.

00:52:07.420 RFK Jr. too, probably.

00:52:09.420 I think it allowed the common sense people

00:52:12.220 to say, you know what?

00:52:14.340 We like these things, not everything,

00:52:17.500 but we like these things that Trump is saying.

00:52:19.520 We can work with that.

00:52:20.700 So that was the biggest thing.

00:52:24.340 And I think it was probably hugely helpful

00:52:26.860 when I created the original hoax list,

00:52:30.480 the list of 12 or so hoaxes

00:52:32.480 that later got expanded to about 20 of them.

00:52:36.700 And it became memeable.

00:52:38.800 And for the first time,

00:52:40.480 because the hoaxes had names by then,

00:52:43.280 you got your Russia collusion hoax,

00:52:45.080 you got your fine people hoax,

00:52:47.600 your drinking bleach hoax,

00:52:48.840 they had names.

00:52:50.120 So naming them and putting them on a list

00:52:52.200 allowed it to be memeable.

00:52:54.120 But more importantly,

00:52:55.720 it allowed you to see that this is a giant psyop

00:52:58.880 and that the Democrats and the CIA

00:53:01.580 and the media were all one entity

00:53:06.580 running psyops one after another.

00:53:08.520 And once you saw that,

00:53:10.560 you can't unsee it.

00:53:14.000 Because it creates vision for you.

00:53:16.920 You can actually see it happening.

00:53:19.940 So I got to say,

00:53:24.480 I'm pretty proud of those predictions.

00:53:26.400 But if you'd like to be good at predicting too,

00:53:30.760 learning persuasion is probably what gets you there.

00:53:34.960 Because persuasion is predictive.

00:53:38.380 You know, specifically,

00:53:39.420 if I see the best persuader in the world

00:53:41.620 enter a field,

00:53:43.960 I know where things are going to go.

00:53:46.860 Oh, it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing.

00:53:50.280 The best persuader just entered the field.

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00:54:57.380 Bill Gates was calling for anti-vaxxers

00:55:01.220 to be censored by AI.

00:55:04.020 And he questions,

00:55:05.620 he says questioning vaccines

00:55:07.540 is tantamount to inciting violence.

00:55:11.600 So he wants the free speech of anti-vaxxers

00:55:14.940 to be limited

00:55:15.700 in a pretty serious way.

00:55:18.820 All right.

00:55:21.640 You win.

00:55:24.060 For how many years have I been saying,

00:55:26.760 why are you calling Bill Gates evil

00:55:28.880 when he's just trying to make the world

00:55:31.320 a better place with all his charities?

00:55:33.500 Now, I get it

00:55:35.180 that he was,

00:55:36.800 you know,

00:55:37.600 he was pretty tough

00:55:38.460 when he was running Microsoft

00:55:39.640 and did some things

00:55:41.000 you think are anti-competitive.

00:55:42.460 I get that.

00:55:43.800 But when he switched over to,

00:55:46.440 you know,

00:55:47.760 charity or philanthropy

00:55:49.920 being his main thing

00:55:51.100 and he started developing

00:55:52.900 better toilets for Africa

00:55:54.440 and cleaner water and stuff,

00:55:56.500 I thought,

00:55:57.120 how in the world

00:55:58.280 are you criticizing

00:55:59.280 somebody working full-time

00:56:00.980 to make the world better,

00:56:03.280 especially in the worst places

00:56:04.540 like Africa?

00:56:05.240 How in the world

00:56:06.740 is that evil?

00:56:08.580 And people would say,

00:56:09.420 oh,

00:56:09.940 the vaccines,

00:56:10.820 the vaccines,

00:56:11.620 something about the vaccines.

00:56:13.120 And then I would say something like,

00:56:15.120 well,

00:56:15.400 I don't know that whole story,

00:56:17.960 but,

00:56:18.420 you know,

00:56:20.880 are you saying all vaccines are bad?

00:56:22.980 Because at the time,

00:56:25.160 I thought he was just trying to help

00:56:27.100 and he thought vaccines

00:56:28.040 would make a difference.

00:56:29.640 Then people would say,

00:56:31.200 yes,

00:56:31.440 but he used Africa

00:56:32.480 as a guinea pigs

00:56:34.900 and sometimes it didn't work out

00:56:37.680 and people died from the vaccines.

00:56:40.080 To which I say,

00:56:41.620 how do you think any medicine

00:56:43.680 gets tested?

00:56:45.180 At some point,

00:56:46.080 it gets tested on people

00:56:47.100 and you're going to have to find a place

00:56:49.800 where the people say yes.

00:56:51.000 So using Africans as guinea pigs 0.95

00:56:54.980 to me is just a subset

00:56:57.160 of all Big Pharma uses

00:56:58.780 human beings as guinea pigs.

00:57:01.060 That's sort of their whole business model.

00:57:03.740 They use the guinea pigs as guinea pigs

00:57:05.620 and then if it,

00:57:06.940 or rats,

00:57:08.040 and then if it works on the animals,

00:57:10.340 they use human beings as guinea pigs.

00:57:14.300 That's what it is.

00:57:15.820 So I said to myself,

00:57:17.120 are you making too much

00:57:18.340 of this Africa thing?

00:57:19.860 No,

00:57:20.040 I get that it was a mistake

00:57:21.480 and I get that it turned out

00:57:23.720 horribly wrong

00:57:25.340 for way too many people.

00:57:27.440 I get that.

00:57:28.640 But does that mean

00:57:29.320 it was poorly intentioned

00:57:31.280 or is it just built into

00:57:33.160 the nature of vaccines

00:57:34.240 that every once in a while

00:57:35.140 you're going to get

00:57:35.680 a real bad result?

00:57:38.140 And we all know that

00:57:39.120 and it's just sort of built

00:57:40.000 into the risk management of it.

00:57:41.900 So I had a million

00:57:43.220 different ways to say,

00:57:44.740 I think you're misinterpreting

00:57:45.880 this Bill Gates guy.

00:57:47.320 Just because he's seemingly creepy,

00:57:50.880 you know,

00:57:51.080 and maybe his social life

00:57:53.260 and his connections to Epstein

00:57:54.620 make you uncomfortable,

00:57:56.820 that doesn't mean his philanthropy

00:57:59.200 is all evil.

00:58:00.780 Come on.

00:58:01.260 And then I hear this story today

00:58:04.420 that he wants the anti-vaxxers

00:58:06.220 to be censored by AI

00:58:07.640 and he's questioning

00:58:09.200 whether vaccine questioning

00:58:11.680 is inciting violence.

00:58:14.640 And I'm out.

00:58:17.320 I'm out.

00:58:19.280 Yeah.

00:58:20.780 I'm not going to,

00:58:21.740 I'm not going to review

00:58:23.140 any of the old arguments

00:58:24.520 because this is all I need to know.

00:58:27.420 This is all I need to know.

00:58:31.560 Once I see that he's all in

00:58:33.620 on the vaccines,

00:58:34.540 whether they work or not,

00:58:35.840 basically,

00:58:37.620 I don't need to know anything else.

00:58:41.140 So it took a while

00:58:42.780 for me to see something

00:58:43.760 that I considered unambiguous

00:58:45.560 because all the other complaints

00:58:47.800 about him,

00:58:48.280 they always had that ambiguity.

00:58:50.120 Well, you know,

00:58:51.080 maybe you're misinterpreting this.

00:58:53.440 Well, you can't read his mind,

00:58:55.100 I would say.

00:58:55.600 You can't read his mind.

00:58:56.700 But in this case,

00:58:58.000 you don't really need

00:58:58.620 to read any minds.

00:59:00.840 This is,

00:59:02.380 I don't even have to say

00:59:03.860 what this is.

00:59:05.460 You probably have

00:59:06.640 the same opinion I do.

00:59:08.580 So he's on his own now.

00:59:11.120 If Bill Gates rises or falls

00:59:15.140 or helps the world or doesn't,

00:59:17.240 it's all him.

00:59:18.580 I'm not going to back him

00:59:19.700 on anything from now on.

00:59:21.900 I'm out.

00:59:26.700 So RFK Jr.

00:59:28.400 was asking

00:59:29.020 on a Theo Vaughn

00:59:30.180 interview

00:59:31.920 not too long ago.

00:59:34.540 He noted that

00:59:35.900 Bill Gates

00:59:36.640 and the CIA

00:59:37.540 were co-hosting

00:59:39.020 an event

00:59:39.540 in 2019.

00:59:41.860 And he said to Theo,

00:59:43.560 quote,

00:59:43.960 you have in New York City

00:59:45.000 Bill Gates

00:59:45.640 hosting a coronavirus

00:59:46.960 pandemic simulation.

00:59:49.180 His co-host

00:59:50.260 is Avril Haynes,

00:59:52.400 the deputy director

00:59:53.400 of the CIA.

00:59:54.040 What is the CIA

00:59:55.860 doing at a public

00:59:56.840 health forum?

00:59:57.820 They don't do public

00:59:58.940 health.

00:59:59.400 They do coup d'etats.

01:00:01.500 Coup d'etats.

01:00:04.220 To which I say,

01:00:06.600 yeah,

01:00:07.960 why would Bill Gates

01:00:09.840 and the CIA

01:00:11.640 be hosting a coronavirus

01:00:13.040 event in 2019,

01:00:14.960 which was right before

01:00:16.480 the coronavirus got out?

01:00:20.140 None of that sounds good.

01:00:21.680 None of that sounds good.

01:00:24.540 I'm not comfortable

01:00:25.400 with that.

01:00:27.500 So,

01:00:28.180 again,

01:00:29.380 if this had been

01:00:30.620 a year ago,

01:00:31.380 I would have said,

01:00:32.580 well,

01:00:33.000 the CIA probably

01:00:33.900 has an interest

01:00:34.540 in this

01:00:35.540 and Bill Gates

01:00:36.880 is trying to help,

01:00:37.820 so maybe they

01:00:38.420 just got together.

01:00:40.140 Today I say,

01:00:41.720 I don't like any of this.

01:00:43.540 I don't know

01:00:44.240 what it means.

01:00:45.480 I don't like it.

01:00:47.060 So I'm with you

01:00:47.940 on that.

01:00:48.280 So there's

01:00:56.040 a new battery

01:00:56.840 breakthrough.

01:00:57.900 Lithium-ion batteries

01:00:58.860 will double the,

01:01:00.460 according to Tech Explorer.

01:01:03.040 So the reason I tell you

01:01:04.060 there's a breakthrough

01:01:05.240 in batteries

01:01:06.000 every single day

01:01:07.460 is because

01:01:08.580 there's a breakthrough

01:01:09.680 in batteries

01:01:10.480 every single day.

01:01:11.900 and what you should

01:01:13.560 get from this

01:01:14.120 is the world

01:01:15.660 is going to be

01:01:16.100 really different

01:01:16.800 and technology

01:01:18.880 and engineering

01:01:19.640 are really focusing

01:01:20.800 in the right place

01:01:21.760 because if you can get

01:01:23.340 batteries that are

01:01:24.440 twice as good,

01:01:25.400 five times as good,

01:01:26.380 really everything changes.

01:01:27.920 It changes the economics

01:01:29.140 of almost every industry

01:01:31.940 and every residence

01:01:33.940 as well.

01:01:34.520 So it's a big deal.

01:01:41.240 So there's this

01:01:42.460 airline crash

01:01:43.900 in Azerbaijan.

01:01:45.900 Somebody got on film

01:01:46.960 and there's some kind

01:01:49.720 of weird

01:01:50.100 structural failures

01:01:52.040 that didn't seem

01:01:53.840 to be

01:01:54.300 the proximate cause

01:01:56.880 of the crash,

01:01:57.540 but maybe it was,

01:01:58.620 but it's a mystery.

01:01:59.820 So it looks like

01:02:00.680 a whole bunch of,

01:02:02.200 almost like an explosion

01:02:03.560 from outside

01:02:04.940 may have ripped

01:02:06.400 a whole bunch

01:02:07.020 of little holes

01:02:07.800 in the fuselage,

01:02:09.700 which might have been

01:02:10.680 the original problem.

01:02:12.320 So nobody knows

01:02:13.860 what those holes

01:02:14.900 are caused by,

01:02:16.320 but there are

01:02:17.240 a bunch of them

01:02:17.860 and they're randomly

01:02:18.620 scattered on the outside

01:02:20.020 of the plane.

01:02:21.020 To me,

01:02:21.480 it looks like shrapnel

01:02:23.100 that happened

01:02:24.580 from the outside.

01:02:27.820 Wait,

01:02:28.460 I'm seeing something here.

01:02:30.700 What about Ben Shapiro?

01:02:31.700 I can't go backwards

01:02:34.440 in the comments.

01:02:35.960 They won't back up.

01:02:38.560 So your comment

01:02:40.300 about the fine people

01:02:41.380 hoax and Ben Shapiro,

01:02:42.880 I couldn't read it

01:02:43.880 as it went by.

01:02:45.400 I saw you were trying

01:02:46.380 to flag me desperately.

01:02:48.740 But I'll watch now

01:02:49.800 if you want to put it back,

01:02:51.000 but it'll take about

01:02:51.600 30 seconds for it

01:02:52.560 to show up.

01:02:55.140 All right.

01:02:55.720 Well,

01:02:55.980 I'm not going to see

01:02:56.620 that one,

01:02:56.940 I guess.

01:02:57.220 If somebody saw that,

01:02:59.700 you can put it

01:03:00.560 in the locals' feed

01:03:01.720 if it was important.

01:03:04.700 It looked like

01:03:05.420 it might have been

01:03:05.820 some good point

01:03:06.540 that I was missing.

01:03:07.440 So if I was missing

01:03:08.620 something important,

01:03:09.900 I wanted to back up

01:03:11.300 and get it.

01:03:12.480 All right.

01:03:12.900 Well,

01:03:13.100 look for that.

01:03:15.300 So we don't know

01:03:16.120 what that was,

01:03:17.220 but it's a mystery

01:03:17.880 of why that plane

01:03:18.600 went down.

01:03:19.760 Meanwhile,

01:03:20.360 over in Saudi Arabia,

01:03:21.640 you know they're building

01:03:22.360 that miles-long city

01:03:25.360 called Gnome,

01:03:27.500 I think.

01:03:28.340 So it's the biggest

01:03:29.240 construction site

01:03:30.160 in the world.

01:03:31.820 And so it's basically

01:03:32.840 this straight-line build

01:03:36.620 of businesses,

01:03:38.280 mostly businesses,

01:03:39.240 maybe some residents.

01:03:42.100 And here's the thing

01:03:44.500 that makes news.

01:03:45.580 So they're replacing

01:03:46.920 the number of the workers

01:03:47.900 with robots.

01:03:49.400 So that's why

01:03:50.180 it got in the news

01:03:50.920 because the robots

01:03:51.740 are coming in.

01:03:52.880 But apparently

01:03:54.800 21,000 foreign workers,

01:03:59.840 Ben Shapiro,

01:04:00.860 the ground zero of TDS.

01:04:02.580 Oh,

01:04:03.180 so somebody's telling me

01:04:04.140 that Ben Shapiro

01:04:04.960 believed the

01:04:06.720 fine people hoax

01:04:07.740 at first.

01:04:09.540 Well,

01:04:09.960 there's nothing wrong

01:04:10.700 with believing it at first.

01:04:13.100 See,

01:04:13.560 here's the standard

01:04:14.880 that you should all

01:04:15.800 adopt.

01:04:19.300 If your complaint

01:04:20.920 is somebody got

01:04:21.720 something wrong

01:04:22.400 at first

01:04:23.040 and then when

01:04:25.480 better information

01:04:26.220 was available,

01:04:27.140 they revised

01:04:27.980 their opinion,

01:04:28.880 that should be

01:04:29.860 a compliment

01:04:30.520 to the person.

01:04:32.340 It shouldn't be

01:04:32.900 an insult

01:04:33.380 because they got

01:04:34.020 something wrong

01:04:34.520 at first.

01:04:36.500 The very best

01:04:37.800 thing a person

01:04:38.380 can do

01:04:38.900 is adjust

01:04:40.440 from wrong

01:04:41.060 to right.

01:04:42.600 If you tell me

01:04:43.600 that Ben Shapiro

01:04:44.680 with bad information

01:04:46.580 got something wrong

01:04:47.600 and then with good

01:04:48.400 information

01:04:48.880 got something right,

01:04:49.780 I say kudos

01:04:51.400 to Ben Shapiro.

01:04:53.360 That to me

01:04:53.980 sounds like

01:04:54.440 just a compliment

01:04:55.180 to his intelligence,

01:04:56.900 flexibility,

01:04:57.900 and open-mindedness.

01:04:59.800 So,

01:05:00.200 did you mean

01:05:00.680 to compliment him?

01:05:02.520 Because that

01:05:02.980 comes across

01:05:04.160 as a compliment.

01:05:05.580 Or is this

01:05:06.060 just another

01:05:06.600 anti-Semitic

01:05:08.460 rant?

01:05:10.040 Because his last name

01:05:11.160 is Shapiro

01:05:11.640 and he's Jewish,

01:05:12.260 so you've got

01:05:13.140 to shove

01:05:14.740 that into

01:05:15.180 every topic

01:05:16.320 to find

01:05:17.500 something that

01:05:18.440 fits your little

01:05:19.780 preconceived

01:05:21.000 anti-Semitic frame.

01:05:22.680 Is that what

01:05:23.200 we're doing?

01:05:26.280 Sometimes it's

01:05:27.160 hard to

01:05:27.820 sort out

01:05:28.540 how much

01:05:29.040 is a political

01:05:29.700 opinion

01:05:30.200 and how much

01:05:31.340 is just pure

01:05:31.960 anti-Semitic

01:05:33.000 garbage.

01:05:36.860 Because I got

01:05:37.600 a real question

01:05:38.200 on that one.

01:05:38.740 Are we all

01:05:42.780 on the same page?

01:05:43.940 You can disagree

01:05:45.000 with Ben Shapiro

01:05:46.840 all you want,

01:05:48.120 but if he

01:05:49.980 improves his opinion

01:05:51.220 with better

01:05:51.800 information,

01:05:53.020 he's still the

01:05:53.660 smartest guy

01:05:54.260 in the game.

01:05:55.840 Like,

01:05:56.060 he's smarter

01:05:56.500 than I am.

01:05:57.400 And I don't

01:05:57.800 say that a lot.

01:05:59.660 Right?

01:06:00.780 I think you would

01:06:01.700 agree,

01:06:02.580 you don't hear

01:06:03.080 that a lot.

01:06:04.360 But no,

01:06:04.740 he's smarter

01:06:05.200 than I am.

01:06:06.240 So if he and I

01:06:07.200 disagree,

01:06:08.280 and it's

01:06:08.660 not based

01:06:09.320 on some

01:06:09.680 obvious values

01:06:10.840 or religious

01:06:11.560 difference,

01:06:12.620 I'm going to

01:06:13.060 stop what I'm

01:06:13.620 doing.

01:06:14.660 I'm going to

01:06:15.020 listen to what

01:06:15.620 he says,

01:06:16.220 and I'm going

01:06:16.620 to listen to

01:06:17.040 his evidence,

01:06:17.860 and I'm going

01:06:18.680 to definitely

01:06:19.140 question my

01:06:19.780 own opinion

01:06:20.260 if he disagrees

01:06:21.260 with me.

01:06:22.340 I love that

01:06:23.160 there are people

01:06:23.680 in the world

01:06:24.300 who,

01:06:25.780 if they disagree

01:06:26.420 with me,

01:06:26.980 I will stop

01:06:27.600 on a dime

01:06:28.080 and say,

01:06:29.040 oh,

01:06:29.380 uh-oh,

01:06:30.520 you know,

01:06:31.060 Naval would be

01:06:31.800 one.

01:06:32.220 He'd be at

01:06:32.520 the top of

01:06:32.980 my list.

01:06:33.960 If Naval said

01:06:34.960 something that

01:06:35.420 was opposite

01:06:35.960 of what I

01:06:36.400 thought,

01:06:36.760 I would stop

01:06:37.460 what I was

01:06:37.820 doing.

01:06:39.060 And say,

01:06:39.760 what?

01:06:41.180 Like,

01:06:41.700 where does

01:06:42.060 this come

01:06:42.400 from?

01:06:43.080 Ben Shapiro

01:06:43.740 is another

01:06:44.120 one.

01:06:44.460 Jordan Peterson

01:06:45.140 is another

01:06:45.640 one.

01:06:47.480 You could

01:06:48.040 probably come

01:06:48.460 up with a

01:06:49.200 few more.

01:06:50.380 On the

01:06:50.920 legal side,

01:06:53.040 Jonathan

01:06:53.840 Turley or

01:06:54.700 Dershowitz,

01:06:56.360 if they disagree

01:06:57.100 with me,

01:06:57.520 I immediately

01:06:57.960 change my

01:06:58.820 opinion to

01:06:59.280 their opinion

01:06:59.760 because I'm

01:07:00.880 not going

01:07:01.180 to out

01:07:01.640 legal opinion

01:07:02.400 them for

01:07:03.340 sure.

01:07:05.260 So,

01:07:05.620 yeah.

01:07:07.080 So,

01:07:07.800 I don't

01:07:08.340 think,

01:07:09.720 I don't

01:07:11.700 think the

01:07:12.080 people on

01:07:12.480 the right

01:07:12.860 are fully

01:07:13.500 appreciative

01:07:14.060 of what Ben

01:07:16.560 Shapiro brings

01:07:17.400 to the whole

01:07:17.980 conversation.

01:07:18.620 like,

01:07:20.680 you'll

01:07:20.980 always have

01:07:21.520 one person

01:07:22.280 whose logic

01:07:24.280 and knowledge

01:07:25.340 of the

01:07:25.780 event,

01:07:26.740 eventually,

01:07:27.500 maybe not

01:07:27.900 on day

01:07:28.200 one,

01:07:29.080 will be

01:07:29.600 nearly

01:07:29.880 perfect.

01:07:30.280 So,

01:07:32.620 I don't

01:07:33.060 think we

01:07:33.340 understand how

01:07:33.900 important that

01:07:34.640 is.

01:07:35.580 There are half

01:07:36.920 a dozen

01:07:37.200 people on

01:07:37.680 the right,

01:07:38.620 they have

01:07:38.900 that kind

01:07:39.500 of intellectual

01:07:41.440 weight,

01:07:42.260 and they can

01:07:43.320 bring it to

01:07:43.800 almost any

01:07:44.280 topic.

01:07:45.080 Elon Musk,

01:07:45.780 right?

01:07:45.920 If I

01:07:47.100 disagreed with

01:07:47.880 Elon Musk,

01:07:49.960 for example,

01:07:51.740 Elon Musk

01:07:52.260 says our

01:07:52.700 biggest problem

01:07:53.400 in the world

01:07:53.920 is depopulation,

01:07:56.800 you know,

01:07:57.080 not reproducing

01:07:57.920 enough.

01:07:58.220 I see a lot

01:08:00.300 of people

01:08:00.580 saying,

01:08:00.940 oh my god,

01:08:01.360 he's so

01:08:01.740 wrong,

01:08:02.420 our biggest

01:08:02.920 problem is

01:08:03.440 too many

01:08:03.880 people.

01:08:05.320 To which

01:08:06.020 I say,

01:08:06.980 do you

01:08:07.660 hear yourself?

01:08:09.500 If Elon

01:08:10.360 Musk,

01:08:11.000 who has

01:08:11.720 looked into

01:08:12.220 it a lot,

01:08:13.820 says with

01:08:14.560 no reservation

01:08:15.360 whatsoever,

01:08:16.400 not maybe,

01:08:17.440 not if,

01:08:18.180 biggest problem

01:08:18.900 is our

01:08:19.960 lack of

01:08:20.380 reproducing,

01:08:21.600 you should

01:08:22.220 immediately

01:08:22.900 pause your

01:08:23.720 opinion and

01:08:25.320 say,

01:08:25.840 I need to

01:08:26.440 find out more

01:08:26.960 about this

01:08:27.480 because I

01:08:27.860 probably

01:08:28.260 wrong.

01:08:29.700 Right?

01:08:32.540 You know,

01:08:33.500 I'm not

01:08:35.660 sure I

01:08:36.040 was totally

01:08:36.520 on that

01:08:36.980 page until

01:08:38.920 I heard how

01:08:39.740 confident he

01:08:40.520 was and

01:08:41.000 then I

01:08:41.240 started looking

01:08:41.820 at the

01:08:42.140 data and

01:08:43.420 once you

01:08:43.760 look at

01:08:44.040 the data,

01:08:44.560 oh yeah,

01:08:45.380 he's right,

01:08:46.220 he's definitely

01:08:46.640 right.

01:08:47.120 If you know

01:08:47.580 a little bit

01:08:48.060 about economics,

01:08:50.080 you know

01:08:50.460 that you have

01:08:50.820 to have a

01:08:51.600 certain ratio

01:08:52.180 of new

01:08:52.720 people to

01:08:53.180 old people 0.85

01:08:53.620 or everything

01:08:54.100 breaks.

01:08:54.560 although

01:08:57.480 robots will

01:08:58.140 be

01:08:58.280 interesting.

01:09:00.240 So,

01:09:00.900 all right,

01:09:02.540 ladies and 0.98

01:09:03.040 gentlemen,

01:09:04.600 there wasn't

01:09:07.180 much in the

01:09:07.820 way of news

01:09:08.500 today,

01:09:09.120 so I just

01:09:10.100 tried to keep

01:09:10.660 you company

01:09:11.120 and keep

01:09:13.460 you going.

01:09:15.240 Yeah,

01:09:15.440 Japan in

01:09:15.980 particular

01:09:16.480 is losing

01:09:19.000 people like

01:09:19.500 a million

01:09:19.860 a year.

01:09:23.120 Mike

01:09:23.560 Burt said

01:09:24.500 the same

01:09:24.900 thing Elon

01:09:25.380 did way

01:09:25.940 back when

01:09:26.400 this group

01:09:26.820 was new.

01:09:27.980 You get

01:09:28.360 the credit,

01:09:28.840 Mike Burt?

01:09:36.240 Someone

01:09:36.720 says,

01:09:37.600 so Bighorn

01:09:38.400 Shaver says,

01:09:39.180 we'd love to

01:09:39.640 see Ben

01:09:40.120 and Candace,

01:09:41.180 Candace Owens,

01:09:42.500 knock down, 0.66

01:09:43.240 drag out,

01:09:43.700 fight over

01:09:44.160 Zionism versus 1.00

01:09:45.280 the Catholic

01:09:45.900 Church.

01:09:47.300 I wouldn't.

01:09:48.160 Why would

01:09:48.580 you want

01:09:48.800 to see

01:09:49.020 that?

01:09:51.500 Can't

01:09:51.940 they have

01:09:52.200 different

01:09:52.480 opinions?

01:09:56.000 See,

01:09:56.580 the thing

01:09:56.920 is,

01:09:57.520 I'm not

01:09:57.920 asking you

01:09:58.460 to have

01:09:58.720 the same

01:09:59.120 opinion

01:09:59.520 as Ben

01:10:00.900 Shapiro.

01:10:01.620 If you

01:10:02.120 heard that,

01:10:02.720 you heard

01:10:02.940 it wrong.

01:10:04.400 I ask

01:10:05.080 you that,

01:10:05.760 you know,

01:10:06.000 if he's

01:10:06.420 talking about

01:10:06.900 values or

01:10:07.900 Israel,

01:10:08.920 you know,

01:10:09.060 he has a

01:10:09.440 certain

01:10:09.700 emotional

01:10:10.240 connection

01:10:10.700 to things,

01:10:11.440 you don't

01:10:11.820 have to

01:10:12.100 take those

01:10:12.520 opinions,

01:10:14.200 because those,

01:10:15.060 I think he

01:10:15.420 would be,

01:10:15.840 you know,

01:10:16.340 quite transparent

01:10:17.240 and saying

01:10:17.900 where his,

01:10:20.040 even where his

01:10:20.720 biases are.

01:10:21.480 I think he'd be

01:10:22.060 completely transparent

01:10:22.980 about that.

01:10:24.060 He always is,

01:10:25.120 right?

01:10:29.300 All right.

01:10:34.520 You love to listen

01:10:35.660 to me rapping

01:10:36.320 while you're rapping?

01:10:37.540 You're rapping on

01:10:38.400 Christmas Day?

01:10:39.600 I guess your family's

01:10:40.480 coming later,

01:10:41.060 huh?

01:10:41.160 Yeah.

01:10:45.840 He's a performer,

01:10:52.980 not a deep

01:10:53.540 intellectual.

01:10:56.720 All right.

01:10:57.460 So let me

01:10:58.380 comment this.

01:10:59.360 So somebody's

01:11:01.000 commenting that

01:11:02.440 Ben Shapiro is a

01:11:03.380 performer,

01:11:04.140 not a deep

01:11:04.980 intellectually honest

01:11:06.260 thinker.

01:11:07.880 Now,

01:11:08.520 in order for you

01:11:09.180 to have that

01:11:09.860 opinion,

01:11:10.400 you would have

01:11:10.980 to be smarter

01:11:12.120 than Ben Shapiro,

01:11:13.120 because if you

01:11:16.200 didn't recognize

01:11:16.960 what he's doing

01:11:17.620 as intellectually

01:11:18.840 deep,

01:11:21.080 depending on the

01:11:21.880 topic,

01:11:23.580 how could you

01:11:24.900 judge that?

01:11:26.120 Can your dog

01:11:27.340 judge your

01:11:28.120 intelligence?

01:11:29.720 No.

01:11:30.400 Can you judge

01:11:31.560 your dog's

01:11:32.160 intelligence?

01:11:33.260 Probably.

01:11:35.100 So in general,

01:11:36.580 the smartest

01:11:37.160 person can judge

01:11:38.220 the intelligence

01:11:38.820 of the less

01:11:39.540 intelligent person,

01:11:40.740 but not vice

01:11:41.980 versa.

01:11:44.060 So if you

01:11:44.900 think that

01:11:45.400 he's a

01:11:45.720 performer and

01:11:46.520 not an

01:11:48.060 honest

01:11:48.520 intellectual

01:11:49.140 thinker,

01:11:51.560 that kind

01:11:52.140 of puts

01:11:52.880 you that

01:11:53.500 your opinion

01:11:54.020 is that

01:11:54.500 you're smarter

01:11:55.040 than he

01:11:55.400 is.

01:11:56.520 Is that

01:11:57.120 what you're

01:11:57.360 saying?

01:12:00.880 Like I

01:12:01.520 say,

01:12:02.140 I'm an

01:12:02.740 egomaniac,

01:12:03.560 and even I

01:12:03.940 don't say

01:12:04.260 that.

01:12:04.660 He's clearly

01:12:05.240 smarter than

01:12:05.920 I am.

01:12:06.480 Clearly.

01:12:07.560 If we

01:12:08.200 took any

01:12:09.080 kind of

01:12:09.440 standardized

01:12:09.880 test,

01:12:10.520 or a

01:12:11.380 history

01:12:11.700 test,

01:12:12.800 a math

01:12:13.260 test,

01:12:14.540 he would

01:12:14.880 beat me

01:12:15.200 on probably

01:12:15.840 every

01:12:16.320 parameter.

01:12:18.580 So I

01:12:19.220 don't judge

01:12:19.800 that he's

01:12:21.360 not a

01:12:21.680 deep

01:12:21.900 thinker.

01:12:22.660 I judge

01:12:23.300 that I

01:12:23.740 can't

01:12:24.060 tell.

01:12:24.940 It's

01:12:25.360 deeper

01:12:25.600 than I

01:12:25.960 can go.

01:12:27.060 If it's

01:12:27.420 deeper

01:12:27.620 than I

01:12:27.960 can go,

01:12:28.940 then I'm

01:12:29.400 getting a

01:12:29.740 lot of

01:12:29.940 value out

01:12:30.400 of it.

01:12:33.340 So I

01:12:34.860 think some

01:12:35.620 of the

01:12:36.040 criticisms

01:12:37.080 are

01:12:38.620 overblown.

01:12:40.520 he

01:12:43.380 wouldn't

01:12:43.580 beat me

01:12:43.900 at

01:12:44.060 tennis.

01:12:45.200 Maybe.

01:12:48.640 He does

01:12:49.540 have

01:12:49.740 youth.

01:12:55.540 He has

01:12:56.460 a Harvard

01:12:57.180 law degree,

01:12:58.600 but he

01:12:59.260 is a

01:12:59.540 performer.

01:13:01.060 So one

01:13:01.720 of the

01:13:01.880 things that

01:13:02.320 seems to

01:13:03.800 be directed

01:13:05.940 as an

01:13:06.880 insult,

01:13:07.280 that

01:13:08.920 doesn't

01:13:09.800 come across

01:13:10.320 as an

01:13:10.660 insult,

01:13:11.240 is that

01:13:11.900 somebody is

01:13:12.640 just doing

01:13:13.400 something for

01:13:14.080 clicks.

01:13:16.380 That's

01:13:16.980 literally the

01:13:17.580 business

01:13:17.920 model.

01:13:18.780 The

01:13:19.360 business

01:13:19.740 model of

01:13:20.260 everybody who

01:13:20.920 talks about

01:13:21.540 politics is

01:13:22.940 quote,

01:13:23.740 doing things

01:13:24.700 for clicks.

01:13:27.720 It's not

01:13:28.480 an insult.

01:13:30.100 It just

01:13:30.900 means that

01:13:31.380 they're doing

01:13:31.740 more than

01:13:32.100 one thing

01:13:32.540 at a time.

01:13:33.080 that they

01:13:34.360 can do

01:13:34.760 things for

01:13:35.240 clicks while

01:13:36.780 making the

01:13:37.300 world a

01:13:37.660 better place.

01:13:39.880 I do

01:13:40.560 things for

01:13:41.060 clicks,

01:13:41.820 but I

01:13:43.120 try to

01:13:43.460 make sure

01:13:43.840 that people

01:13:44.340 are getting

01:13:44.660 value from

01:13:45.360 it.

01:13:46.080 So I'll

01:13:46.840 get your

01:13:47.200 click,

01:13:48.080 you get

01:13:48.560 some value

01:13:49.140 if you

01:13:49.520 like the

01:13:49.900 entertainment

01:13:50.300 or you

01:13:50.700 learn

01:13:50.900 something,

01:13:51.620 and then

01:13:52.260 we're both

01:13:52.640 happy.

01:13:54.340 You got

01:13:55.000 some

01:13:55.200 entertainment,

01:13:55.700 I got a

01:13:56.060 click.

01:13:56.740 Why is

01:13:57.100 that a

01:13:57.340 problem?

01:13:58.860 Why is

01:13:59.280 that a

01:13:59.520 problem?

01:13:59.760 To me,

01:14:01.120 those kinds

01:14:01.560 of complaints

01:14:04.180 seem like

01:14:05.340 you're not

01:14:06.620 in a

01:14:06.940 winning

01:14:07.200 mindset.

01:14:09.180 A winner

01:14:09.860 mindset is

01:14:10.900 you're doing

01:14:12.240 something good

01:14:12.900 and you're

01:14:13.360 getting paid

01:14:13.860 and people

01:14:15.140 are all

01:14:15.500 happy about

01:14:15.960 that.

01:14:16.660 Good for

01:14:17.260 you.

01:14:18.440 That should

01:14:19.100 be the

01:14:19.440 approach.

01:14:20.500 So if

01:14:21.540 somebody is

01:14:22.000 an entertainer,

01:14:23.440 in addition

01:14:25.360 to being

01:14:25.820 able to

01:14:26.180 think deeply,

01:14:27.880 isn't that

01:14:28.360 just a

01:14:28.740 talent stack?

01:14:30.520 Trump's an

01:14:31.200 entertainer,

01:14:32.160 but clearly

01:14:33.260 he can go

01:14:33.840 deeper.

01:14:35.620 That's a

01:14:36.280 talent stack.

01:14:37.980 So sometimes

01:14:38.620 your insults

01:14:39.380 are just

01:14:39.680 compliments,

01:14:40.800 and I don't

01:14:41.280 know what

01:14:41.520 to do

01:14:41.740 with it.

01:14:43.680 Or when

01:14:44.720 you say,

01:14:45.800 when people

01:14:46.400 mock me

01:14:47.420 for changing

01:14:47.980 my mind,

01:14:49.180 that's a

01:14:50.380 compliment

01:14:50.820 that I

01:14:51.940 change my

01:14:52.440 mind.

01:14:53.520 If you're

01:14:54.240 trying to

01:14:54.580 make that

01:14:54.920 seem like

01:14:55.360 an insult

01:14:55.940 to embarrass

01:14:56.620 me,

01:14:57.260 that's not

01:14:58.040 going to

01:14:58.240 work.

01:14:58.520 every time

01:15:00.440 anybody

01:15:00.820 changes

01:15:01.280 their mind,

01:15:01.960 you've

01:15:02.320 seen me

01:15:02.640 a million

01:15:02.940 times say,

01:15:04.580 oh,

01:15:04.820 it looks

01:15:05.080 like

01:15:05.600 Cenk or

01:15:06.380 Bill Maher

01:15:07.200 or somebody

01:15:07.680 are coming

01:15:09.680 closer to

01:15:10.420 an opinion

01:15:10.820 that I

01:15:11.240 hold. 0.96

01:15:11.520 I always

01:15:12.600 compliment

01:15:13.040 them.

01:15:14.400 I don't

01:15:14.940 insult

01:15:15.320 them for

01:15:15.820 their old

01:15:16.220 opinions.

01:15:18.140 So,

01:15:18.740 yes,

01:15:19.420 we're going

01:15:20.180 to work

01:15:20.480 for clicks,

01:15:21.180 we're going

01:15:21.560 to be

01:15:21.780 entertaining

01:15:22.280 if we

01:15:22.760 can,

01:15:23.920 and we're

01:15:24.440 going to

01:15:25.000 try to

01:15:25.240 make as

01:15:25.580 much money

01:15:26.060 as we

01:15:26.420 can,

01:15:26.980 but you're

01:15:27.940 never going

01:15:28.360 to succeed

01:15:29.140 unless the

01:15:30.380 audience is

01:15:30.920 getting a

01:15:31.280 lot out

01:15:31.660 of it.

01:15:34.320 How's that

01:15:34.900 a crime?

01:15:41.540 Would the

01:15:42.260 solution to

01:15:42.740 the economic

01:15:43.320 problem be

01:15:44.160 more babies?

01:15:45.460 Well,

01:15:46.180 if we knew

01:15:47.720 how to do

01:15:48.120 that.

01:15:49.760 The assumption

01:15:50.740 is that

01:15:51.720 there's something

01:15:52.480 we could do

01:15:53.040 in the United

01:15:53.460 States to

01:15:54.300 improve the

01:15:55.900 number of

01:15:57.240 American-born

01:15:58.680 babies.

01:16:00.620 I don't

01:16:01.360 know if

01:16:01.640 there is.

01:16:02.980 There's

01:16:03.560 nothing I've

01:16:04.120 heard that

01:16:04.660 could get

01:16:05.020 that job 0.53

01:16:05.520 done.

01:16:07.460 Probably

01:16:08.060 in the

01:16:08.600 long run,

01:16:09.760 if you

01:16:10.160 improved

01:16:10.640 your

01:16:11.100 economic

01:16:11.860 situation,

01:16:13.760 or the

01:16:14.500 way we

01:16:14.840 raise kids,

01:16:15.760 or the

01:16:16.160 way schools

01:16:16.780 work,

01:16:17.560 or something,

01:16:19.020 you can

01:16:19.600 easily imagine

01:16:20.340 that if

01:16:21.460 we changed

01:16:22.160 enough,

01:16:22.720 we could

01:16:23.020 get back

01:16:23.400 to having

01:16:23.740 more kids,

01:16:24.840 but I

01:16:25.340 don't see

01:16:25.740 it happening.

01:16:27.240 I think

01:16:28.100 the structure

01:16:30.420 of the

01:16:30.740 United States

01:16:31.340 and how

01:16:31.720 much it

01:16:32.060 costs to

01:16:33.060 live is

01:16:35.040 just so

01:16:35.380 expensive

01:16:35.800 that people

01:16:37.180 say,

01:16:37.700 I can do

01:16:38.460 one baby

01:16:39.000 at most.

01:16:40.040 I don't

01:16:40.700 think that's

01:16:41.100 going to

01:16:41.320 change unless

01:16:42.420 the economy

01:16:43.060 changes radically.

01:16:44.560 I don't

01:16:45.100 see it

01:16:45.460 radically

01:16:45.880 changing.

01:16:49.120 Maybe,

01:16:50.440 all right,

01:16:50.860 here's one

01:16:51.180 way it

01:16:52.520 could change.

01:16:54.300 Suppose

01:16:54.820 robots start

01:16:56.240 doing all

01:16:56.660 the work

01:16:57.160 and people

01:16:58.760 have too

01:16:59.080 much free

01:16:59.480 time.

01:17:01.820 Let's say

01:17:02.560 that all

01:17:02.840 the basics

01:17:03.500 are provided

01:17:04.620 by robots

01:17:05.340 so that

01:17:06.180 nobody's

01:17:06.620 out of

01:17:06.860 food,

01:17:07.720 nobody's

01:17:08.120 going to

01:17:08.300 run out

01:17:08.600 of diapers,

01:17:09.800 nobody's

01:17:10.320 going to

01:17:10.500 run out

01:17:10.800 of health

01:17:11.100 care.

01:17:12.360 Basically,

01:17:12.900 all the

01:17:13.140 basics

01:17:13.500 are being

01:17:13.820 taken care

01:17:14.360 of,

01:17:14.800 and you're

01:17:15.480 bored.

01:17:17.020 If you

01:17:17.640 were bored

01:17:18.260 because you

01:17:18.880 didn't need

01:17:19.200 to work

01:17:19.620 and it

01:17:20.980 didn't cost

01:17:21.440 you extra

01:17:21.960 to have a

01:17:22.880 baby,

01:17:23.160 well,

01:17:25.440 maybe that's

01:17:26.220 exactly what

01:17:27.080 would cause

01:17:27.440 you to have

01:17:27.720 more babies.

01:17:28.840 But you

01:17:29.120 know what

01:17:29.320 the problem

01:17:29.740 would be?

01:17:31.040 By the

01:17:31.780 time your

01:17:32.340 robots are

01:17:33.180 handling all

01:17:34.020 that stuff,

01:17:35.120 you're not

01:17:36.100 going to need

01:17:36.460 more babies.

01:17:37.040 so by the

01:17:39.780 time the

01:17:40.160 robots are

01:17:40.760 really doing

01:17:41.380 the work

01:17:41.720 of people

01:17:42.180 at a

01:17:43.420 large scale,

01:17:44.400 we're going

01:17:45.360 to start

01:17:45.640 talking about

01:17:46.140 having too

01:17:46.620 many people

01:17:47.140 again because

01:17:48.700 they won't

01:17:50.480 have a

01:17:50.780 purpose.

01:17:52.120 So if

01:17:52.740 people stop

01:17:53.360 having a

01:17:53.860 purpose because

01:17:55.780 they don't

01:17:56.140 work,

01:17:57.000 what happens

01:17:57.840 to them?

01:17:59.960 Can you

01:18:00.740 imagine me

01:18:01.660 with only

01:18:03.300 leisure?

01:18:05.580 I don't

01:18:06.340 think I

01:18:06.740 could survive

01:18:07.300 that.

01:18:08.960 I've

01:18:09.440 evolved over

01:18:10.560 a million

01:18:11.960 years,

01:18:12.760 like I'm

01:18:13.100 the result

01:18:13.720 of a million

01:18:14.260 years of

01:18:14.780 evolution,

01:18:15.680 that turned

01:18:16.780 me into a

01:18:17.800 creature that

01:18:18.720 prefers work.

01:18:21.560 I prefer it.

01:18:22.920 I mean,

01:18:23.140 not every

01:18:23.600 kind of

01:18:24.040 work,

01:18:25.080 but I'm

01:18:27.060 working on

01:18:27.680 Christmas Day

01:18:28.380 because I

01:18:28.920 want to be

01:18:29.420 here.

01:18:29.980 I don't

01:18:30.400 have to be

01:18:30.820 here.

01:18:31.620 There's

01:18:31.980 nothing that

01:18:32.380 makes me

01:18:32.740 be here.

01:18:33.160 I want to

01:18:33.740 be here.

01:18:34.840 So I

01:18:36.440 don't know

01:18:36.780 that I

01:18:37.060 would love

01:18:37.420 the world

01:18:37.820 where the

01:18:38.200 robots are

01:18:38.760 doing the

01:18:39.120 podcasts,

01:18:39.960 even if

01:18:40.780 they're really

01:18:41.080 good at

01:18:41.480 it.

01:18:42.740 So I

01:18:43.340 still need

01:18:43.780 a person.

01:18:47.560 Doing

01:18:47.960 nothing is

01:18:48.460 boring.

01:18:49.460 That's right.

01:18:50.280 Doing

01:18:50.600 nothing that's

01:18:51.240 useful to

01:18:52.760 me is

01:18:53.200 torture.

01:18:54.380 If I do

01:18:55.080 something that's

01:18:55.700 hard or easy

01:18:56.600 or whatever,

01:18:58.020 as long as I

01:18:58.620 know it's

01:18:58.860 really making a

01:18:59.480 difference for

01:19:00.320 me or for

01:19:00.840 somebody else,

01:19:01.460 then I'm all

01:19:01.900 in.

01:19:02.460 It has to

01:19:02.960 make a

01:19:03.240 difference.

01:19:04.460 But I

01:19:06.440 don't really

01:19:07.100 like the

01:19:07.560 world where

01:19:08.040 the robots

01:19:08.540 are working

01:19:09.060 and I'm

01:19:09.420 watching TV

01:19:10.240 or going

01:19:13.060 to the

01:19:13.420 gym.

01:19:14.460 I don't

01:19:14.800 know.

01:19:15.840 That doesn't

01:19:16.560 seem like the

01:19:17.020 world I want

01:19:17.500 to live in.

01:19:18.460 I worry

01:19:19.340 that the

01:19:20.600 only way

01:19:21.040 humans can

01:19:21.860 survive and

01:19:23.280 thrive is

01:19:24.680 if one

01:19:25.400 third of

01:19:25.800 them are

01:19:26.120 starving,

01:19:27.760 one third

01:19:28.360 of them are

01:19:28.960 getting by,

01:19:30.160 and one

01:19:30.660 third of

01:19:30.980 them are

01:19:31.280 thriving and

01:19:32.060 really trying

01:19:32.720 to change

01:19:33.140 the world.

01:19:34.740 And I

01:19:35.060 think if you

01:19:35.460 change that

01:19:36.080 to everybody

01:19:36.720 is just

01:19:37.140 fine, then

01:19:39.380 it doesn't

01:19:40.120 work.

01:19:41.820 Because the

01:19:43.020 thing that

01:19:43.420 propels humans

01:19:44.260 forward is the

01:19:45.200 one third that

01:19:46.040 are going to

01:19:47.300 really make

01:19:47.680 things happen,

01:19:49.120 one third

01:19:49.800 that are

01:19:50.120 showing up

01:19:50.640 and making

01:19:51.620 sure that

01:19:52.060 things are

01:19:52.500 clean and

01:19:53.500 the paperwork

01:19:54.460 gets where

01:19:55.020 it needs.

01:19:56.160 And then

01:19:56.680 one third

01:19:57.200 will always

01:19:57.760 be below

01:19:58.720 the level

01:19:59.260 that society

01:19:59.980 needs.

01:20:00.980 for work.

01:20:02.480 There will

01:20:02.700 be one third

01:20:03.260 of the world

01:20:03.920 at least.

01:20:05.120 It's probably

01:20:05.700 beyond that

01:20:06.240 already.

01:20:07.000 That doesn't

01:20:08.000 really have

01:20:08.600 an economic

01:20:09.160 value in

01:20:11.480 terms of

01:20:11.780 taking a

01:20:12.140 job.

01:20:14.140 So I

01:20:14.760 think it

01:20:15.020 has to be

01:20:15.420 that way.

01:20:15.920 I don't

01:20:16.160 think we

01:20:16.460 can all

01:20:17.000 be in

01:20:17.360 the middle.

01:20:19.400 So that's

01:20:19.960 what I worry

01:20:20.320 about.

01:20:23.100 When you

01:20:23.600 listen to

01:20:24.140 Ben Shapiro

01:20:24.700 talk to

01:20:25.100 Russell Brand,

01:20:25.800 your head

01:20:26.120 will explode.

01:20:26.760 that's a

01:20:29.820 lot of

01:20:30.220 vocabulary

01:20:30.800 between

01:20:31.340 those two.

01:20:33.380 You can

01:20:34.060 tell Russell

01:20:34.660 Brand's

01:20:35.200 intelligence

01:20:35.900 by how

01:20:37.200 quickly he

01:20:38.000 can compose

01:20:39.580 perfect but

01:20:42.040 complicated

01:20:42.640 sentences with

01:20:43.840 big vocabulary,

01:20:45.060 but not so

01:20:45.840 big that you

01:20:46.320 don't know

01:20:46.580 what he's

01:20:46.800 talking about.

01:20:49.340 That's

01:20:49.980 quite a

01:20:50.500 skill.

01:20:50.760 We'll be

01:20:55.440 like cats,

01:20:56.260 just laying

01:20:56.840 around and

01:20:57.380 licking 0.94

01:20:57.840 ourselves.

01:21:02.080 Why won't

01:21:03.040 Ben debate

01:21:03.900 Nick Fuentes?

01:21:04.880 Is that a

01:21:05.320 serious question?

01:21:07.260 Really?

01:21:09.080 Are you

01:21:10.200 genuinely

01:21:10.740 confused about

01:21:11.760 why Ben

01:21:12.480 Shapiro would 0.97

01:21:13.100 not debate

01:21:13.740 Nick Fuentes?

01:21:15.140 That can't

01:21:16.020 be a real

01:21:16.360 question.

01:21:20.760 And by

01:21:23.860 the way,

01:21:24.280 I'm not

01:21:25.120 insulting

01:21:25.700 Nick Fuentes.

01:21:27.700 I'm just

01:21:28.300 saying it

01:21:29.140 wouldn't make

01:21:29.540 any sense

01:21:29.920 for Ben

01:21:30.300 to talk

01:21:30.680 to him.

01:21:32.960 I wouldn't

01:21:34.840 want to see

01:21:35.240 that.

01:21:35.860 I wouldn't

01:21:36.160 want to see

01:21:36.580 it at all.

01:21:37.620 And I

01:21:37.820 wouldn't

01:21:38.000 recommend

01:21:38.400 he do

01:21:38.740 it.

01:21:43.340 Santa

01:21:43.760 looks like

01:21:44.240 me without

01:21:44.680 the beard.

01:21:45.740 It's funny

01:21:46.160 you should

01:21:46.560 say that

01:21:47.100 because I

01:21:47.560 was saying

01:21:47.980 that while

01:21:48.360 I was

01:21:48.580 watching the

01:21:49.120 show.

01:21:50.760 I was

01:21:51.960 joking about

01:21:52.560 Santa being

01:21:53.140 too much

01:21:53.540 like me.

01:21:59.000 All right.

01:22:00.620 I'm going

01:22:01.300 to go talk

01:22:01.700 to the

01:22:02.080 locals

01:22:02.680 people

01:22:03.100 privately.

01:22:05.080 How about

01:22:05.960 Matt Walsh?

01:22:07.100 What about

01:22:07.420 him?

01:22:08.660 You mean

01:22:09.020 to talk

01:22:11.360 to Nick

01:22:11.720 Fuentes?

01:22:12.780 How about

01:22:13.460 never ask

01:22:16.360 me that

01:22:16.760 again?

01:22:17.020 I'm going

01:22:20.900 to put

01:22:21.120 it on the

01:22:21.420 list of

01:22:21.820 things I

01:22:22.180 never want

01:22:22.660 to answer

01:22:23.180 or see a

01:22:23.840 question on

01:22:24.380 is who

01:22:25.340 should talk

01:22:25.840 to Nick

01:22:26.220 Fuentes?

01:22:26.980 And I'm

01:22:27.440 not insulting

01:22:28.020 Nick.

01:22:29.840 I'm just

01:22:30.460 saying I

01:22:32.140 don't want to

01:22:32.560 really even

01:22:32.960 deal with

01:22:33.280 that question

01:22:33.760 again.

01:22:34.800 Because the

01:22:35.400 problem is

01:22:35.980 he let me

01:22:37.340 be more

01:22:37.720 specific.

01:22:38.220 Nick

01:22:41.120 Fuentes

01:22:41.480 his business

01:22:44.600 model is

01:22:46.660 to involve

01:22:48.040 creating

01:22:48.520 controversy

01:22:49.200 that would

01:22:50.480 rub off on

01:22:51.220 anybody who

01:22:51.760 got near

01:22:52.160 him.

01:22:54.320 Why do

01:22:55.020 you think

01:22:55.440 the people

01:22:56.120 you like

01:22:56.540 should get

01:22:56.880 near him?

01:22:57.740 Because you

01:22:58.500 hate them?

01:23:03.900 When does

01:23:04.640 Christmas

01:23:04.980 start?

01:23:06.040 It's already

01:23:06.860 on.

01:23:08.220 We've got

01:23:11.920 the Christmas

01:23:12.540 trolls in

01:23:14.200 the comments.

01:23:17.500 Yeah, I

01:23:18.180 mean, you

01:23:18.680 can love

01:23:19.440 him or

01:23:19.740 hate him,

01:23:20.460 but don't

01:23:20.920 ask other

01:23:21.720 people to

01:23:22.560 be part of

01:23:23.800 his act.

01:23:25.160 His act

01:23:26.060 does not

01:23:26.600 really lend

01:23:28.380 itself to

01:23:28.940 guests.

01:23:31.260 Now, I'm

01:23:31.980 talking to

01:23:32.420 somebody who

01:23:32.840 got canceled.

01:23:34.280 Now, trust

01:23:35.000 me when I

01:23:35.460 say half of

01:23:36.200 the country,

01:23:37.380 at least

01:23:37.820 half,

01:23:38.220 would have

01:23:40.200 no interest

01:23:40.820 in dealing

01:23:41.420 with me.

01:23:43.440 I had the

01:23:44.440 experience

01:23:44.880 recently of

01:23:46.460 asking, and

01:23:47.160 this is rare,

01:23:47.900 I don't ask

01:23:48.440 people to be

01:23:49.360 guests on

01:23:49.820 the show a

01:23:50.460 lot, but

01:23:51.760 there was

01:23:52.200 one person

01:23:53.480 in the public

01:23:54.620 domain, I

01:23:55.440 won't be

01:23:55.800 specific,

01:23:57.160 who I've

01:23:59.300 chatted with

01:24:00.260 a thousand

01:24:01.880 times,

01:24:02.960 maybe a

01:24:04.280 thousand times,

01:24:05.000 so somebody

01:24:06.280 I know

01:24:06.600 really well,

01:24:08.120 and somebody

01:24:08.640 who at

01:24:09.080 one point

01:24:09.560 had been

01:24:10.400 a big

01:24:10.680 fan.

01:24:12.500 And I

01:24:13.200 asked that

01:24:13.620 person to

01:24:14.180 come on

01:24:14.700 my show,

01:24:15.820 because that

01:24:18.040 person would

01:24:18.520 be unusually

01:24:19.260 interesting,

01:24:19.720 nothing, and

01:24:20.660 I got turned

01:24:21.720 down, I

01:24:22.660 got turned

01:24:23.060 down hard.

01:24:25.320 I got a

01:24:26.100 hard turn

01:24:26.600 down.

01:24:28.620 I think the

01:24:29.580 answer was,

01:24:30.800 if I'm ever

01:24:32.080 interested, I'll

01:24:32.900 let you know.

01:24:33.400 what?

01:24:38.360 This was

01:24:39.140 somebody that

01:24:39.820 I had quite

01:24:41.320 an extensive

01:24:42.060 multi-year

01:24:44.960 ongoing

01:24:45.640 conversation

01:24:46.360 with, and

01:24:46.920 it was all

01:24:47.260 positive.

01:24:49.060 But after I

01:24:50.800 got canceled,

01:24:52.420 nope.

01:24:54.340 Nope.

01:24:55.360 Now, was

01:24:57.020 he wrong?

01:24:58.220 It was a

01:24:58.500 he.

01:24:59.400 Was he

01:24:59.860 wrong?

01:25:01.040 I'm not

01:25:01.640 going to tell

01:25:01.960 you who it

01:25:02.280 was.

01:25:02.580 But if I

01:25:03.760 did tell

01:25:04.080 you who

01:25:04.380 it was,

01:25:05.200 he was

01:25:05.480 probably

01:25:05.700 right.

01:25:06.860 He was

01:25:07.120 probably

01:25:07.300 right.

01:25:07.860 I would

01:25:08.440 be a

01:25:08.880 reputational

01:25:09.840 stain on

01:25:11.860 his world,

01:25:13.740 and he

01:25:14.840 doesn't need

01:25:15.260 that.

01:25:16.200 Why would

01:25:16.860 he do

01:25:17.100 that?

01:25:18.500 So I

01:25:19.060 completely

01:25:20.820 understand if

01:25:21.580 somebody doesn't

01:25:22.120 want to go

01:25:22.480 on Nick

01:25:22.880 Fuentes, in

01:25:24.440 exactly the

01:25:25.100 same way, I

01:25:25.960 understand if

01:25:26.640 somebody doesn't

01:25:27.240 want to come

01:25:27.600 on my

01:25:27.940 show, because

01:25:29.240 I do present

01:25:30.140 a reputational

01:25:31.620 risk.

01:25:32.580 And that's

01:25:35.000 just a fact.

01:25:36.220 It has

01:25:36.580 nothing to do

01:25:37.200 with my

01:25:38.040 character or

01:25:38.840 anything else.

01:25:39.740 I don't take

01:25:40.440 it personally.

01:25:41.440 So I didn't

01:25:42.100 take it

01:25:42.420 personally when

01:25:44.120 I got turned

01:25:44.860 down by

01:25:45.260 somebody who

01:25:46.000 kind of

01:25:48.040 surprised me.

01:25:49.140 But if you

01:25:49.800 looked at what

01:25:50.440 their job is,

01:25:52.160 or let's say

01:25:53.180 their role in

01:25:53.800 the world, I

01:25:54.400 won't call it

01:25:54.800 the job, but

01:25:55.820 if you look at

01:25:56.300 their role in

01:25:57.020 the world,

01:25:57.460 yeah, yeah,

01:26:00.160 keeping the

01:26:01.140 canceled guys

01:26:02.260 staying off of

01:26:03.220 them, probably

01:26:04.920 a good play.

01:26:07.820 He's got other

01:26:08.480 fish to fry.

01:26:12.720 All right.

01:26:13.500 well, we

01:26:21.080 appreciate you

01:26:21.760 all, too.

01:26:27.200 All right.

01:26:29.200 Ladies and 0.98

01:26:30.020 gentlemen, look

01:26:31.720 at all that

01:26:32.180 flannel.

01:26:33.360 That's a good

01:26:33.920 looking Dilbert

01:26:35.300 doll.

01:26:36.300 I'm going to

01:26:36.560 talk to the

01:26:37.180 locals people

01:26:38.060 privately for a

01:26:39.080 moment, and I'll

01:26:41.860 see the rest of

01:26:43.020 you tomorrow.

01:26:43.900 Thanks for

01:26:44.240 joining me on

01:26:45.020 this special

01:26:45.660 Christmas Day.

01:26:47.180 You're all

01:26:47.600 amazing, and

01:26:48.560 thanks for the

01:26:49.820 great year.

01:26:51.080 All right,

01:26:51.360 locals, I'm

01:26:51.960 coming to you

01:26:52.840 privately.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 25, 2024

Episode 2700 CWSA 12⧸25⧸24

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