Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 813 Scott Adams： The Strongest Democrat Presidential Candidate, and an Inspirational Story

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00:01:23.340 All right, let's jump into the stuff, all the stuff that's happening.

00:01:29.640 I was listening yesterday to a new podcast by Sam Harris, I mean a new episode.

00:01:36.880 Now, those of you who have been following me for a while know that I famously had,

00:01:41.600 I had an appearance on Sam Harris' podcast in 2016, I think it was,

00:01:50.720 in which I was talking about why President Trump, then-candidate Trump,

00:01:56.200 was better than people thought.

00:01:58.840 In other words, I described his persuasion ability and made a case for him.

00:02:03.240 Now, that podcast got a lot of attention, and people talk about it literally every day.

00:02:10.060 I still hear about it every day.

00:02:11.780 Somebody mentions that they heard me on that.

00:02:14.300 So it made a fairly big impression.

00:02:18.180 So it was interesting to hear Sam's sort of update, you know,

00:02:22.640 most current thinking about the president, and I thought I'd update you.

00:02:27.180 One of the things, and I think this is interesting,

00:02:30.660 and it's one of the things that makes Sam Harris special and notable and worth listening to,

00:02:37.560 which is that he acknowledges that TDS is a real thing,

00:02:41.220 and he acknowledges that he might be suffering from it.

00:02:45.780 Now, I've got to say that if you have the intellectual firepower to rise above your own bias

00:02:54.600 and then look back down on it and say,

00:02:57.460 yep, there I am down there with my bias,

00:03:00.620 that is a higher level of thinking than most people can accomplish.

00:03:05.980 But it doesn't help you get past the bias,

00:03:08.760 because the whole point of bias is that you can't see past it.

00:03:13.040 If you could easily see past it, well, it wouldn't be bias.

00:03:18.160 So he acknowledges he has it, but then he makes his argument,

00:03:21.500 and apparently his feelings about the president have crystallized around this thought,

00:03:28.720 and he offers a provocative challenge, and this is where it gets fun.

00:03:34.860 His theory about Trump is that he's essentially the Chauncey Gardner candidate.

00:03:41.320 Now, if you're not familiar with the movie and book of the same name called Being There,

00:03:46.560 it was about somebody who had no skills, and was not smart,

00:03:53.620 but through an amazing series of lucky coincidences,

00:03:58.120 becomes the president of the United States.

00:04:00.740 And the whole point of the Chauncey Gardner mythical story

00:04:05.820 is that these coincidences were so unusual,

00:04:09.400 but they were all strung together,

00:04:10.700 and it ended up in this moron being the president.

00:04:15.260 So Sam's belief is that it was just luck,

00:04:20.940 you know, just a coincidence of the way the variables lined up,

00:04:24.660 that we got a president who is a moron.

00:04:28.760 That's my word, but in effect, that's what Sam Harris is saying.

00:04:33.180 And here's the fun part.

00:04:35.940 Do I have something on my lip here?

00:04:38.500 I was just eating a little chocolate bar.

00:04:42.260 I think so. I got it.

00:04:43.740 Okay. So Sam makes this provocative challenge, if you will.

00:04:49.760 He said, in effect, that he would only need to hear Trump talking

00:04:54.420 like a regular person with a full vocabulary,

00:04:59.200 like a normal adult, just once,

00:05:02.680 in order to believe that the face we see in his rallies

00:05:07.260 and his tweets and everything else is not his real one,

00:05:11.380 and that he actually is a normal person

00:05:13.780 who simply chooses to communicate in a way that's effective for the people.

00:05:19.980 Now, that's an interesting challenge, isn't it?

00:05:23.220 All it would take is five minutes, or even less, I suppose,

00:05:28.880 of seeing President Trump talk like a normal, educated person.

00:05:33.880 Now, here's the fun part.

00:05:38.140 I've had a private conversation with President Trump.

00:05:41.760 Most of you know I got to meet him in the Oval Office

00:05:44.520 in the summer of 2018.

00:05:47.220 He invited me in because I'm a supporter,

00:05:50.520 which is common.

00:05:51.820 He invites in other supporters,

00:05:53.900 just to make sure that he's supporting his supporters, essentially.

00:05:57.560 And I have a window into this that Sam Harris does not,

00:06:05.960 which is I had a private, personal conversation

00:06:08.920 with President Trump in the Oval Office.

00:06:14.400 Now, there was one other person there.

00:06:16.200 You don't need to know the details,

00:06:18.100 but it was a private conversation, essentially.

00:06:19.960 And I'm here to report that when you talk to him privately,

00:06:28.080 he is a normal, educated adult.

00:06:33.260 Surprise!

00:06:35.020 Surprise!

00:06:36.080 When you talk to him personally,

00:06:38.360 he's just like every other normal, college-educated adult

00:06:41.940 you've ever talked to.

00:06:43.300 No difference.

00:06:44.180 And when he goes on stage for his rallies,

00:06:49.180 he takes on his stand-up, comedian, provocative personality.

00:06:54.100 He lowers his vocabulary,

00:06:55.960 and he becomes that person.

00:06:58.820 Now, there's a legitimate question of,

00:07:02.100 you know, at a certain age,

00:07:03.720 are people slowing down or whatever?

00:07:05.980 That's a good question.

00:07:07.560 But I like Sam Harris' challenge

00:07:10.660 only because I have a little insight into it

00:07:13.220 in the sense that I've talked to him,

00:07:15.500 and I know that he's just a regular, normal, educated,

00:07:19.560 college-educated adult who knows a lot of stuff.

00:07:22.740 You know, no difference at all.

00:07:25.100 All right.

00:07:28.040 Of course, the news today is that

00:07:29.860 Vindman and Sondland got fired.

00:07:32.720 This is sort of a non-story.

00:07:35.300 You know, the anti-Trumpers are trying to make it

00:07:37.360 into a story about he's abusing his king-making,

00:07:42.020 or his dictatorial powers,

00:07:44.300 to get rid of his critics.

00:07:46.460 And then, of course,

00:07:47.600 everybody who supports the president

00:07:48.960 says some version of this.

00:07:52.760 What's wrong with that?

00:07:55.560 What exactly is wrong

00:07:57.300 with getting rid of somebody

00:07:59.780 that you don't trust on your staff?

00:08:02.520 I'm not getting the criticism here.

00:08:04.860 If there's something wrong with that,

00:08:07.140 I haven't heard it.

00:08:08.400 So, of course, he has the power to do it.

00:08:10.180 He has the right to do it.

00:08:11.860 It's actually, I would argue,

00:08:13.240 it's his responsibility to do it.

00:08:15.400 Because we want a president

00:08:16.720 whose team, generally, he can trust.

00:08:19.880 So that's a non-story.

00:08:21.140 You'd expect it to happen.

00:08:26.260 Here's a little update

00:08:27.480 in the confirmation bias world.

00:08:32.820 There was a surgeon and his girlfriend,

00:08:34.720 I guess he was like a TV doctor for a while.

00:08:39.640 And they were accused of being serial rapists,

00:08:43.640 of luring women in, the two of them,

00:08:47.020 and then drugging them

00:08:48.040 and having sex with them.

00:08:50.020 The charges were just dropped

00:08:52.060 because they couldn't find enough evidence

00:08:56.620 that would be credible.

00:08:59.280 So think about that.

00:09:00.480 They were accused of being serial rapists.

00:09:04.660 It's not just something

00:09:05.640 that he was accused of doing one time,

00:09:08.340 but apparently a whole host

00:09:10.280 of similar rapes.

00:09:13.760 And when they were done,

00:09:14.500 the prosecutor looked around and said,

00:09:16.480 um, turns out we don't have enough evidence for this.

00:09:21.640 Yeah, they were swingers, somebody says.

00:09:23.680 Um, and so I think they admit

00:09:26.000 that they, you know,

00:09:27.320 had relations with those women,

00:09:29.600 but it was,

00:09:30.720 no, it was, uh, consensual.

00:09:33.240 Now here's the thing.

00:09:34.660 We don't know what happened

00:09:35.920 and what didn't happen.

00:09:37.000 I'm going to assume innocence

00:09:38.220 because that's the country we live in.

00:09:40.840 If you're not guilty,

00:09:41.820 you're assumed to be innocent.

00:09:43.420 But this reminded me a lot

00:09:45.380 of the, um,

00:09:48.000 the, uh,

00:09:49.480 the McMartin preschool case.

00:09:52.400 And it's, it's a,

00:09:55.000 if you don't already know

00:09:56.260 the McMartin preschool case,

00:09:58.440 it was the 70s maybe,

00:10:00.880 in which a preschool was accused

00:10:02.580 of having an underground

00:10:04.600 satanic worship room

00:10:06.720 that they were taking kids down there

00:10:08.380 and abusing them

00:10:09.280 and teaching them to worship Satan

00:10:11.660 or whatever it was.

00:10:12.940 And they got brought into court

00:10:14.660 and there was so much evidence.

00:10:16.780 I mean, because it was,

00:10:19.180 you know,

00:10:20.120 there was just tons of evidence

00:10:22.360 because they interviewed the kids

00:10:23.760 and the kids actually said

00:10:24.840 it was happening.

00:10:26.100 Now it turns out

00:10:27.040 that they had led the witnesses

00:10:28.320 and when,

00:10:29.700 and when the replays

00:10:31.060 of the interviews

00:10:31.600 were,

00:10:32.340 were shown people

00:10:33.720 who had my skill set,

00:10:35.720 in other words,

00:10:36.300 they were hypnotists

00:10:37.400 or they understand

00:10:38.600 how that world works,

00:10:39.900 they saw that the questions

00:10:41.280 were leading the kids

00:10:42.560 into an imaginary world

00:10:44.600 and the kids were just speaking

00:10:46.120 with their imagination

00:10:47.100 and the police

00:10:48.660 took it as fact

00:10:49.620 and tried to prosecute

00:10:51.760 these people.

00:10:52.780 But in the end,

00:10:53.460 there was not even any room

00:10:54.860 under the preschool

00:10:56.640 and it turned out

00:10:57.520 the whole thing fell apart

00:10:58.560 and there was no evidence at all.

00:11:00.840 So it went from

00:11:02.000 a mountain of evidence

00:11:03.600 that all said the same thing

00:11:05.380 to,

00:11:07.140 oops,

00:11:07.780 there wasn't any.

00:11:09.640 Not any.

00:11:10.700 There was zero evidence

00:11:11.760 in the end.

00:11:13.220 It ruined their lives,

00:11:14.180 et cetera.

00:11:14.400 So I'm looking at this case

00:11:16.260 of the California surgeon

00:11:17.600 and his girlfriend

00:11:18.220 and who knows

00:11:21.160 who did what,

00:11:22.100 right?

00:11:22.480 You and I can't tell

00:11:23.900 who's guilty,

00:11:25.060 who's innocent

00:11:25.520 from a distance,

00:11:26.680 but this looks a lot

00:11:28.500 like that.

00:11:30.180 You know,

00:11:30.500 if I had to,

00:11:31.080 if I had to place a bet,

00:11:33.780 I would bet

00:11:34.680 that there was tons

00:11:35.720 of evidence

00:11:36.460 and then when I looked

00:11:38.120 into it,

00:11:38.540 there wasn't any.

00:11:40.220 That's my guess

00:11:41.160 is how that happened.

00:11:42.700 So,

00:11:42.980 keep an eye on that.

00:11:44.980 That's one that tells you

00:11:46.380 something about the world

00:11:47.600 you live in.

00:11:50.160 All right,

00:11:50.680 let's talk about

00:11:51.480 the

00:11:52.560 democratic debate.

00:11:55.400 I tried to watch it.

00:11:57.240 I kept falling asleep.

00:11:59.180 So,

00:11:59.760 I watched as much

00:12:00.480 as I could

00:12:01.080 in between napping

00:12:02.020 and then I caught up

00:12:04.000 with other people's opinions

00:12:05.460 in the clips

00:12:06.080 this morning.

00:12:06.840 Here's my take.

00:12:07.520 first of all,

00:12:09.720 it was the most

00:12:10.460 generic

00:12:11.180 stuff I've ever

00:12:13.340 seen in my life.

00:12:15.220 So generic.

00:12:16.960 Oh,

00:12:17.420 my God.

00:12:18.300 They were all talking

00:12:19.220 about high-level concepts.

00:12:22.100 Nothing seemed

00:12:23.140 to be about me

00:12:24.400 as a citizen.

00:12:27.260 I kept waiting

00:12:28.080 for the

00:12:29.220 fact

00:12:30.200 or the detail

00:12:30.980 or the proposal

00:12:31.860 or the policy

00:12:32.760 that would have

00:12:33.660 some direct effect

00:12:34.680 on me.

00:12:35.160 And they did talk

00:12:36.260 about health care

00:12:36.960 but not in a way

00:12:38.660 that I could

00:12:39.800 connect it to me

00:12:40.600 except that it would

00:12:41.540 make my taxes go up.

00:12:43.300 So I watched all night

00:12:44.860 and I could only

00:12:46.280 identify one thing

00:12:47.700 that would actually

00:12:49.240 affect me personally.

00:12:51.440 My taxes would go up.

00:12:53.140 That's it.

00:12:54.020 That's all it was.

00:12:55.600 And so I thought,

00:12:56.500 well,

00:12:56.620 that's not good.

00:12:58.000 But let's talk about

00:12:59.040 the winners and losers.

00:13:00.060 So the first thing

00:13:00.780 to realize

00:13:02.000 is that none of them

00:13:02.920 were interesting.

00:13:04.380 That's it.

00:13:04.660 None of them

00:13:05.120 were interesting.

00:13:06.580 And whoever it is

00:13:07.540 is going to run

00:13:08.260 against the most

00:13:09.200 interesting person

00:13:10.160 in the history

00:13:10.920 of civilization.

00:13:12.780 Trump running

00:13:13.620 for re-election.

00:13:15.200 So I don't know

00:13:15.860 how you run

00:13:16.480 uninteresting people

00:13:18.060 against the most

00:13:18.960 interesting person

00:13:19.820 we've ever known.

00:13:21.800 But that's their challenge.

00:13:23.440 So let's talk

00:13:24.220 about the individuals.

00:13:28.620 Some notable things

00:13:29.900 is that Steyer,

00:13:31.800 he had this argument.

00:13:33.260 He said that

00:13:33.840 you have to beat

00:13:34.560 Trump on the economy

00:13:35.800 because all of

00:13:37.400 the Democratic candidates

00:13:38.460 have essentially

00:13:39.760 identical policies.

00:13:42.360 They all want

00:13:43.000 universal health care

00:13:44.100 of some kind,

00:13:45.140 different details.

00:13:46.360 They all want

00:13:47.060 more gun control,

00:13:48.800 more,

00:13:49.300 more lots of stuff

00:13:50.500 that Democrats want.

00:13:51.840 So Steyer says

00:13:52.580 we're basically

00:13:53.180 all alone,

00:13:53.960 all the same.

00:13:55.220 And so you should

00:13:56.000 pick somebody

00:13:56.600 who can beat

00:13:57.180 Trump on the economy

00:13:58.300 because it's the economy

00:13:59.920 that people care about.

00:14:00.900 That's the part

00:14:01.420 that touches people.

00:14:03.160 Now,

00:14:03.960 do you think that

00:14:05.180 Steyer

00:14:05.980 can beat Trump

00:14:07.680 on the economy?

00:14:10.460 I'm thinking to myself,

00:14:12.120 that might be

00:14:13.240 the worst strategy

00:14:14.160 I've ever heard

00:14:14.780 in my life.

00:14:16.400 Because,

00:14:17.180 sure,

00:14:17.620 sure,

00:14:17.880 sure,

00:14:18.180 Steyer can make

00:14:18.840 the argument

00:14:19.340 that,

00:14:20.120 you know,

00:14:20.620 make the argument

00:14:21.460 that it's not

00:14:22.360 Trump's doing,

00:14:23.960 that things are doing

00:14:24.680 so well,

00:14:25.480 etc.

00:14:25.760 But it's not

00:14:26.700 the way voters think.

00:14:28.760 Voters don't

00:14:29.380 understand economics.

00:14:31.400 They just say,

00:14:32.620 who's the president?

00:14:33.720 How's the economy

00:14:34.480 going?

00:14:35.560 That's it.

00:14:36.840 Who's the president?

00:14:38.200 Trump.

00:14:38.960 How's the economy

00:14:39.920 doing?

00:14:40.740 Amazing.

00:14:42.080 Amazing.

00:14:43.820 That's the end

00:14:44.600 of the argument.

00:14:45.660 There is no way

00:14:46.420 that Steyer

00:14:46.940 is going to beat

00:14:47.720 Trump on economics.

00:14:49.800 It's just not

00:14:50.300 going to happen.

00:14:50.680 It's the dumbest

00:14:51.300 strategy I've ever seen.

00:14:53.260 But he does

00:14:53.860 point out

00:14:54.380 that all the

00:14:56.900 candidates are

00:14:57.560 kind of similar

00:14:58.560 on the policies.

00:15:02.480 I think Biden

00:15:03.660 is the only

00:15:04.360 candidate

00:15:04.820 who has a

00:15:06.020 solid chance

00:15:06.780 of bringing

00:15:07.380 in the black

00:15:08.000 vote.

00:15:09.660 But he's so

00:15:10.580 weak as a

00:15:11.440 candidate,

00:15:12.060 it's hard to

00:15:12.480 imagine him

00:15:13.080 getting there.

00:15:17.940 Let's talk

00:15:18.640 about who

00:15:19.040 has a chance.

00:15:20.220 Well,

00:15:21.920 let me give

00:15:22.940 you this

00:15:23.340 take.

00:15:24.380 It's basically

00:15:25.360 I'm triangulating

00:15:26.460 from the

00:15:26.960 networks.

00:15:27.980 So I looked

00:15:28.520 at CNN,

00:15:29.620 Fox,

00:15:30.060 and MSNBC

00:15:30.960 this morning

00:15:31.620 to find out

00:15:32.860 who they

00:15:33.360 thought won.

00:15:35.560 And it's

00:15:35.980 very interesting

00:15:36.800 to watch

00:15:37.200 who the

00:15:37.480 networks

00:15:37.960 think

00:15:38.560 who they

00:15:39.580 thought won

00:15:40.280 because that

00:15:42.160 sort of tells

00:15:42.680 you how the

00:15:43.280 coverage is

00:15:43.860 going to

00:15:44.080 happen and

00:15:44.620 how they're

00:15:44.960 going to

00:15:45.760 persuade the

00:15:46.700 voters.

00:15:47.040 voters.

00:15:48.020 So over

00:15:48.360 at CNN,

00:15:49.100 Chris

00:15:49.320 Silliza

00:15:49.700 wrote,

00:15:51.180 the main

00:15:52.220 article about

00:15:53.260 the debates

00:15:53.960 was written

00:15:54.420 by Chris

00:15:55.100 Silliza.

00:15:56.340 And here's

00:15:56.980 his ranking.

00:15:57.640 He said that

00:15:58.280 Buttigieg won,

00:16:00.120 he was a

00:16:00.480 winner,

00:16:01.180 and Klobuchar

00:16:01.680 two.

00:16:02.820 And then lower

00:16:04.120 down were

00:16:04.780 Sanders and

00:16:05.640 Bloomberg.

00:16:05.920 group.

00:16:06.240 So basically

00:16:06.760 his winner

00:16:07.240 was Buttigieg

00:16:07.900 and number

00:16:10.120 two,

00:16:10.480 Klobuchar.

00:16:11.260 So that's

00:16:11.700 CNN.

00:16:12.700 Over at

00:16:13.260 Fox,

00:16:13.860 they had

00:16:14.340 a woman

00:16:15.140 named Leslie

00:16:16.080 Marshall,

00:16:16.720 don't know

00:16:17.080 much about

00:16:17.500 her,

00:16:18.100 wrote an

00:16:18.560 opinion piece

00:16:19.180 about the

00:16:19.620 debates.

00:16:21.460 And her

00:16:21.980 two winners

00:16:22.520 were Klobuchar

00:16:23.480 and Warren.

00:16:25.740 Now,

00:16:26.140 here's what I

00:16:26.800 would note.

00:16:28.620 Is it

00:16:29.300 unfair to

00:16:29.920 say that

00:16:30.860 CNN is

00:16:31.760 the most

00:16:32.320 pro-LGBTQ

00:16:34.280 network?

00:16:34.800 Wouldn't

00:16:36.620 you say?

00:16:37.080 I mean,

00:16:37.340 MSNBC,

00:16:38.200 obviously,

00:16:39.120 is in the

00:16:39.540 same realm.

00:16:40.680 But I

00:16:40.980 think it'd

00:16:41.300 be fair to

00:16:41.760 say,

00:16:42.660 and this

00:16:43.060 is not

00:16:44.340 in any

00:16:45.300 way a

00:16:45.720 criticism,

00:16:47.000 it's just

00:16:47.420 a statement

00:16:47.900 of fact.

00:16:49.440 Would you

00:16:49.940 agree that

00:16:51.080 CNN is

00:16:51.920 the most

00:16:52.340 pro-LGBTQ

00:16:53.780 network,

00:16:54.700 at least in

00:16:55.260 terms of

00:16:55.760 the people

00:16:56.200 they put

00:16:56.560 on the

00:16:56.840 air,

00:16:57.960 the way

00:16:58.560 they cover

00:16:58.960 stories,

00:16:59.580 etc.

00:17:01.260 And again,

00:17:02.140 I'm not

00:17:02.640 criticizing,

00:17:03.440 I'm just

00:17:03.700 stating a

00:17:04.280 fact.

00:17:04.800 And why

00:17:05.520 would I

00:17:05.800 criticize that

00:17:06.440 anyway?

00:17:07.160 It's just

00:17:07.420 stating a

00:17:07.800 fact.

00:17:08.680 Now,

00:17:09.400 CNN picks

00:17:10.080 the only

00:17:10.580 openly gay

00:17:11.300 guy who's

00:17:11.760 running.

00:17:13.220 Is that

00:17:13.540 a coincidence?

00:17:15.000 If you

00:17:15.500 work for

00:17:15.920 CNN,

00:17:17.300 and it's

00:17:18.900 sort of

00:17:19.180 neck and

00:17:19.500 neck between

00:17:20.120 Klobuchar and

00:17:21.160 an openly gay

00:17:21.900 man,

00:17:23.460 if I work

00:17:24.140 for CNN,

00:17:25.620 I'm going

00:17:26.080 to say

00:17:26.380 Buttigieg

00:17:26.880 one.

00:17:28.180 Right?

00:17:28.840 Because you

00:17:29.600 sort of

00:17:30.060 always have

00:17:30.660 to,

00:17:31.480 you're working

00:17:32.220 for your

00:17:32.640 boss and

00:17:33.640 you're working

00:17:34.000 for your

00:17:34.360 co-workers and

00:17:35.160 you're working

00:17:35.520 for your

00:17:35.880 company more

00:17:36.520 than you're

00:17:36.840 working for

00:17:37.220 the audience.

00:17:38.520 Then over

00:17:39.000 at Fox,

00:17:40.800 a woman

00:17:41.560 writes an

00:17:42.020 opinion that

00:17:42.760 two women

00:17:43.320 won.

00:17:43.600 So here

00:17:45.800 again,

00:17:47.260 the skeptic

00:17:48.520 in me says,

00:17:49.160 is it a

00:17:51.200 coincidence that

00:17:52.520 a woman writes

00:17:53.320 an opinion

00:17:53.760 about the

00:17:54.360 debates and

00:17:55.000 she says

00:17:55.440 that the

00:17:55.780 two winners

00:17:56.420 were the

00:17:56.880 women?

00:17:58.380 Maybe.

00:17:59.400 I mean,

00:17:59.700 maybe they

00:18:00.120 were.

00:18:00.920 Maybe that's

00:18:01.500 unbiased,

00:18:02.180 but you have

00:18:02.920 to put a

00:18:04.380 little asterisk

00:18:05.780 next to

00:18:06.700 that.

00:18:07.780 Then over

00:18:08.340 at MSNBC,

00:18:11.620 Chris Matthews

00:18:12.520 was calling

00:18:13.040 out Klobuchar

00:18:13.780 for looking

00:18:15.160 presidential.

00:18:17.560 So if

00:18:19.360 you look at

00:18:19.720 the three

00:18:20.100 networks,

00:18:21.660 Klobuchar

00:18:22.020 was either

00:18:22.720 number one

00:18:24.180 or number

00:18:25.700 two.

00:18:27.520 Think about

00:18:28.380 that.

00:18:29.380 Klobuchar

00:18:29.800 just went

00:18:30.440 from,

00:18:30.900 what,

00:18:31.480 fifth in

00:18:33.240 the voting

00:18:33.660 to all

00:18:35.260 three networks

00:18:36.260 called her

00:18:37.780 as number

00:18:38.420 one or

00:18:38.860 number two.

00:18:41.320 Something's

00:18:41.940 happening

00:18:42.240 here.

00:18:43.400 But there's

00:18:44.180 more.

00:18:46.700 When I

00:18:47.420 watched it

00:18:47.880 last night,

00:18:48.420 before I'd

00:18:48.900 seen any

00:18:49.440 opinions,

00:18:50.700 I'm watching

00:18:51.200 the debates

00:18:51.820 and my

00:18:52.540 personal opinion

00:18:53.300 without any

00:18:53.980 influence from

00:18:54.640 any other

00:18:55.060 pundit was,

00:18:56.600 huh,

00:18:57.880 it looks to

00:18:58.560 me like

00:19:00.000 Klobuchar

00:19:00.580 just won

00:19:01.220 hard.

00:19:02.540 I thought

00:19:03.240 she won

00:19:03.740 unambiguously.

00:19:05.160 That was my

00:19:05.600 opinion.

00:19:06.440 I thought

00:19:06.820 she unambiguously

00:19:07.920 won the

00:19:08.460 night.

00:19:08.720 But I

00:19:09.600 wasn't

00:19:09.840 sure if

00:19:11.640 my opinion

00:19:12.120 was matching

00:19:12.920 with anybody.

00:19:13.780 This morning

00:19:14.240 I checked

00:19:14.760 Twitter.

00:19:15.900 I see

00:19:16.140 Dave Rubin,

00:19:17.780 famously

00:19:18.340 open-minded

00:19:19.060 person.

00:19:21.120 So he

00:19:21.380 understands the

00:19:23.060 left and the

00:19:23.560 right.

00:19:23.980 He sort

00:19:24.900 of straddles

00:19:26.320 worlds.

00:19:28.060 And he

00:19:28.240 said Klobuchar

00:19:28.840 won.

00:19:30.300 And then

00:19:30.680 I see a

00:19:31.620 tweet from

00:19:32.320 Greg

00:19:32.800 Gottfeld,

00:19:34.020 also one

00:19:35.020 of the

00:19:35.220 people who

00:19:35.720 would be

00:19:36.040 willing to

00:19:36.500 say something

00:19:37.020 good about

00:19:37.540 the other

00:19:37.900 side if

00:19:38.440 they did

00:19:38.780 something

00:19:39.000 good.

00:19:39.560 You know,

00:19:39.800 also one

00:19:41.020 of the

00:19:41.280 more open-minded

00:19:42.420 people in

00:19:43.800 this realm.

00:19:45.200 And he

00:19:45.560 picked

00:19:45.960 Klobuchar.

00:19:49.200 That's a

00:19:49.880 lot of

00:19:50.220 Klobuchar

00:19:50.660 for one

00:19:51.240 night.

00:19:52.820 Now,

00:19:53.140 let me

00:19:53.360 break down,

00:19:54.880 I'm going

00:19:55.220 to give

00:19:55.480 you my

00:19:57.360 take from

00:19:58.560 best to

00:19:59.180 worst of

00:20:00.380 which of

00:20:00.740 the Democratic

00:20:01.280 candidates would

00:20:02.160 stand the

00:20:02.660 best chance

00:20:03.380 against Trump.

00:20:05.080 Okay?

00:20:05.240 So this

00:20:06.480 is not

00:20:06.820 who I

00:20:07.180 like,

00:20:08.080 it's not

00:20:08.560 my

00:20:08.760 preferences.

00:20:10.000 I'm just

00:20:10.340 saying who

00:20:10.660 would be

00:20:10.880 the strongest

00:20:11.580 matchup.

00:20:13.800 At the

00:20:14.340 top of

00:20:14.680 my list

00:20:15.220 is Yang.

00:20:18.640 Yang's at

00:20:19.180 the top of

00:20:19.620 my list

00:20:20.060 because what

00:20:20.800 would be

00:20:21.120 the only

00:20:21.540 bad thing

00:20:22.120 you could

00:20:22.420 say about

00:20:22.820 Yang?

00:20:24.020 Because

00:20:24.420 think of

00:20:24.960 them in

00:20:25.260 terms of

00:20:25.660 their flaws.

00:20:27.020 Because

00:20:27.340 whatever

00:20:27.780 flaws they

00:20:28.520 have,

00:20:28.880 either real

00:20:29.360 or imagined,

00:20:30.540 President

00:20:30.960 Trump is

00:20:31.460 going to

00:20:31.680 find their

00:20:32.100 flaw,

00:20:33.080 and then

00:20:33.280 he's going

00:20:33.560 to magnify

00:20:34.140 it until

00:20:34.600 you can't

00:20:35.060 imagine

00:20:35.340 voting for

00:20:35.900 him.

00:20:36.860 Because

00:20:37.420 that's

00:20:37.660 what he

00:20:37.920 does.

00:20:38.860 So you

00:20:39.260 got to

00:20:39.500 find

00:20:39.700 somebody

00:20:40.100 whose

00:20:40.360 flaw

00:20:40.860 is the

00:20:42.200 most

00:20:42.420 defensible.

00:20:43.900 What is

00:20:44.240 Yang's

00:20:44.820 flaw?

00:20:46.920 Lack of

00:20:47.660 experience

00:20:48.260 as a

00:20:49.340 politician.

00:20:50.640 He's a

00:20:51.300 successful

00:20:51.760 business

00:20:52.260 person.

00:20:53.280 Oh,

00:20:53.520 wait.

00:20:55.120 Oh,

00:20:55.440 wait.

00:20:56.880 Yang's

00:20:57.480 flaw

00:20:57.940 is that

00:20:59.360 he's never

00:20:59.780 been in

00:21:00.440 government.

00:21:01.620 But he'd

00:21:02.240 be running

00:21:02.620 against the

00:21:03.260 guy who

00:21:03.880 proved that's

00:21:04.480 not important.

00:21:07.160 That's a

00:21:07.760 good matchup.

00:21:09.340 If Yang

00:21:10.140 ran against

00:21:10.720 somebody who

00:21:11.200 had experience,

00:21:12.500 you know,

00:21:12.720 been a

00:21:13.120 senator and

00:21:13.860 a governor

00:21:14.240 and like

00:21:14.940 that,

00:21:15.140 that'd be a

00:21:15.480 real problem.

00:21:16.360 Because I'm

00:21:16.980 not sure

00:21:17.500 Yang has

00:21:18.300 enough firepower

00:21:19.140 the way

00:21:19.560 Trump did

00:21:20.260 to break

00:21:21.560 through and

00:21:22.960 become an

00:21:23.540 inexperienced

00:21:24.340 president the

00:21:26.220 way Trump

00:21:27.020 did.

00:21:27.860 So I think

00:21:28.640 Yang actually

00:21:29.360 has the

00:21:29.900 strongest

00:21:30.340 natural

00:21:31.420 situation,

00:21:32.140 and then

00:21:32.880 he also

00:21:33.260 has the

00:21:33.960 best

00:21:34.640 attack

00:21:37.460 against

00:21:38.020 Trump.

00:21:39.400 Because he

00:21:39.980 doesn't go

00:21:40.500 so much

00:21:40.920 for the

00:21:41.240 racism

00:21:41.680 and the

00:21:42.180 easy

00:21:42.560 social

00:21:44.080 justice

00:21:44.620 warrior

00:21:44.920 things.

00:21:45.280 He talks

00:21:45.680 about those

00:21:46.120 things in

00:21:46.680 the right

00:21:46.980 ways,

00:21:47.620 but that's

00:21:48.140 not his

00:21:48.460 emphasis.

00:21:49.340 He's more

00:21:49.720 about solutions

00:21:50.680 and the

00:21:51.540 future and

00:21:52.160 robots and

00:21:52.880 technology and

00:21:53.820 using science

00:21:54.580 and stuff.

00:21:55.500 And there's

00:21:55.920 nobody who

00:21:56.420 doesn't like

00:21:56.880 that stuff.

00:21:57.420 literally

00:21:58.880 everything

00:21:59.360 Yang says,

00:22:01.320 both sides

00:22:02.240 say,

00:22:03.000 yeah,

00:22:03.320 it's pretty

00:22:03.620 good.

00:22:04.400 And his

00:22:04.680 $1,000

00:22:05.280 thing would

00:22:07.040 be easy

00:22:07.420 to test.

00:22:08.420 You could

00:22:08.800 test it

00:22:09.300 small and

00:22:09.820 find out

00:22:10.180 if it

00:22:10.380 works.

00:22:11.180 And if

00:22:11.460 he asked

00:22:11.800 Andrew

00:22:12.160 Yang,

00:22:13.220 Andrew,

00:22:13.780 do you

00:22:14.160 think this

00:22:14.500 is something

00:22:14.860 we should

00:22:15.220 implement

00:22:15.680 nationally,

00:22:17.700 this $1,000

00:22:18.360 a month

00:22:18.860 idea,

00:22:19.460 or should

00:22:20.040 we test

00:22:20.440 it and

00:22:21.560 then decide?

00:22:22.800 Well,

00:22:23.260 I don't

00:22:23.500 know what

00:22:23.860 he'd say,

00:22:24.880 but everything

00:22:25.660 that I know

00:22:26.260 about him

00:22:26.800 suggests that

00:22:27.540 he would

00:22:27.800 say,

00:22:28.580 well,

00:22:28.760 of course

00:22:29.020 you test

00:22:29.480 it first.

00:22:30.240 Of course.

00:22:31.480 He even

00:22:31.960 tried to

00:22:32.420 test it

00:22:32.820 first on

00:22:33.780 his campaign,

00:22:34.880 giving away

00:22:35.380 money to

00:22:35.760 some people.

00:22:36.240 Not a

00:22:36.780 good test,

00:22:37.420 but at

00:22:38.300 least he

00:22:38.580 was thinking

00:22:39.020 in those

00:22:39.380 terms.

00:22:41.680 I don't

00:22:42.520 think there's

00:22:42.900 any chance

00:22:43.340 that Yang

00:22:43.880 will have

00:22:45.300 enough support

00:22:46.340 from the

00:22:46.820 Democratic

00:22:47.320 machine to

00:22:48.740 get the

00:22:49.540 nomination.

00:22:50.500 So he's

00:22:50.900 not a risk

00:22:51.620 of getting

00:22:52.320 nominated,

00:22:53.680 but he

00:22:54.440 would be the

00:22:54.840 strongest

00:22:55.180 candidate against

00:22:56.100 Trump.

00:22:56.420 And he's

00:22:56.980 also the

00:22:57.380 only candidate

00:22:57.980 who could

00:22:58.540 pick up

00:22:59.100 Republicans

00:23:00.620 without them

00:23:02.120 feeling bad

00:23:03.580 about it.

00:23:05.080 Right?

00:23:05.800 I think Yang

00:23:06.760 could pick up

00:23:07.340 Republicans who

00:23:08.100 just say,

00:23:08.540 you know,

00:23:09.580 some of those

00:23:10.340 ideas I haven't

00:23:11.100 heard before.

00:23:11.720 They resonate

00:23:12.760 and I like

00:23:14.060 his pro-science

00:23:14.880 look.

00:23:15.320 He doesn't

00:23:15.680 offend me

00:23:16.100 too much.

00:23:17.160 So I think

00:23:17.940 he'd pick up

00:23:18.560 some of those.

00:23:19.800 All right.

00:23:20.160 Number two on

00:23:20.740 my list of

00:23:21.440 strongest candidates

00:23:22.320 is Klobuchar.

00:23:24.560 Unlike Yang,

00:23:25.500 she could

00:23:27.040 actually get

00:23:27.620 nominated.

00:23:29.440 I don't

00:23:30.060 think it's

00:23:30.480 the most

00:23:31.120 likely outcome,

00:23:32.880 but it's,

00:23:34.040 it could

00:23:34.500 happen.

00:23:35.740 Yang is

00:23:36.220 harder to

00:23:36.640 imagine getting

00:23:37.260 nominated,

00:23:37.740 but Klobuchar

00:23:38.200 could,

00:23:38.640 especially after

00:23:39.260 last night

00:23:39.860 when you've

00:23:40.680 got all

00:23:41.100 three networks

00:23:41.860 and a lot

00:23:42.340 of independent

00:23:42.920 observers

00:23:43.400 saying,

00:23:44.340 huh,

00:23:45.320 that was

00:23:45.720 pretty good.

00:23:46.960 Pretty good.

00:23:48.000 Now let me

00:23:48.400 tell you what's

00:23:48.840 the best thing

00:23:49.420 about Klobuchar.

00:23:50.100 she doesn't

00:23:53.140 have an

00:23:53.660 obvious flaw,

00:23:55.680 the kind

00:23:56.480 that you

00:23:56.900 already believe

00:23:57.880 about her

00:23:58.460 and then

00:23:59.300 Trump just

00:24:00.000 magnifies it.

00:24:01.960 Almost

00:24:02.360 everybody else

00:24:03.180 has something

00:24:04.020 except Yang.

00:24:05.180 They have

00:24:05.660 something that

00:24:06.420 he could just

00:24:06.920 pick on and

00:24:07.700 blow it up

00:24:08.500 and that would

00:24:09.500 be the end

00:24:09.920 of them.

00:24:10.640 Most of

00:24:11.340 them are

00:24:11.640 one nickname

00:24:12.400 away from

00:24:13.000 oblivion,

00:24:13.980 if you think

00:24:14.900 about it.

00:24:15.420 Klobuchar

00:24:18.220 simply by

00:24:19.200 not having

00:24:19.820 an obvious

00:24:20.520 flaw,

00:24:21.580 meaning she's

00:24:22.280 not too

00:24:22.860 socialist,

00:24:23.500 she was

00:24:23.800 actually the

00:24:24.200 only one

00:24:24.520 who raised

00:24:24.920 her hand

00:24:25.440 and said

00:24:26.200 it would

00:24:26.340 be a

00:24:26.600 problem

00:24:27.000 having a

00:24:28.180 candidate

00:24:28.520 who was

00:24:29.160 labeled as

00:24:29.840 a democratic

00:24:30.780 socialist.

00:24:32.240 She's the

00:24:32.760 only one.

00:24:33.220 So she's

00:24:33.620 shooting right

00:24:34.040 from that

00:24:34.320 middle and

00:24:35.580 that does

00:24:36.100 give her

00:24:36.560 some

00:24:37.040 possibility

00:24:37.660 of bringing

00:24:38.260 in some

00:24:38.780 moderate

00:24:39.440 Republicans

00:24:40.060 and

00:24:40.280 independents.

00:24:41.940 So

00:24:42.020 simply,

00:24:42.920 now here's

00:24:43.460 her flaw.

00:24:43.900 If I

00:24:45.440 can say

00:24:45.760 it's a

00:24:46.020 flaw.

00:24:47.300 She has

00:24:47.760 no excitement

00:24:48.740 whatsoever.

00:24:50.920 She has

00:24:51.560 no charisma

00:24:52.740 and no

00:24:54.300 excitement

00:24:54.780 whatsoever.

00:24:57.000 But,

00:24:58.120 and that's

00:24:58.720 a big deal

00:24:59.240 when you're

00:24:59.600 in the

00:25:00.280 primaries

00:25:01.780 because she's

00:25:02.320 trying to

00:25:02.620 break through

00:25:03.000 the crowded

00:25:03.440 field.

00:25:04.320 But what

00:25:04.620 would happen

00:25:05.140 if she

00:25:06.000 got the

00:25:06.360 nomination?

00:25:07.520 It would

00:25:07.760 be one

00:25:08.120 on one.

00:25:09.560 How much

00:25:10.280 excitement

00:25:10.720 would Democrats

00:25:11.600 bring to

00:25:13.100 a candidate

00:25:13.640 who actually

00:25:14.600 had a

00:25:14.940 shot?

00:25:15.940 Somebody

00:25:16.420 who actually

00:25:16.820 had a

00:25:17.140 chance?

00:25:18.240 And they

00:25:18.900 don't totally

00:25:19.480 hate her.

00:25:20.760 Well,

00:25:21.240 I think the

00:25:21.700 progressives

00:25:22.400 are absolutely

00:25:24.000 going to say,

00:25:24.740 yeah,

00:25:25.320 she's not

00:25:25.880 saying the

00:25:26.300 stuff we

00:25:26.760 want about

00:25:27.420 health care

00:25:27.860 and stuff,

00:25:28.540 but we're

00:25:29.100 certainly not

00:25:29.620 going to

00:25:29.820 support Trump

00:25:30.480 and we

00:25:30.980 want him

00:25:31.400 gone.

00:25:32.580 So she

00:25:33.880 would get

00:25:34.200 all the

00:25:34.520 progressives

00:25:35.120 and she

00:25:36.280 would get

00:25:36.520 all the

00:25:36.800 people in

00:25:37.140 the middle

00:25:37.420 and she'd

00:25:38.440 pick up

00:25:38.720 a few

00:25:39.000 independents.

00:25:40.620 And she

00:25:41.160 wouldn't have

00:25:41.600 to be that

00:25:42.060 exciting.

00:25:42.460 She would

00:25:42.860 just have

00:25:43.180 to show

00:25:43.620 up and

00:25:44.900 just be

00:25:45.620 presidential,

00:25:46.600 which she

00:25:47.300 has accomplished.

00:25:48.160 She accomplished

00:25:48.940 acting presidential.

00:25:50.700 I believe she's

00:25:51.460 worked her way

00:25:52.620 into the

00:25:53.340 gravitas of

00:25:54.440 that situation.

00:25:55.920 So congratulations,

00:25:57.240 Amy Klobuchar.

00:25:58.560 I think she

00:25:59.380 took the

00:25:59.980 tortoise and

00:26:01.020 the hare

00:26:01.420 approach where

00:26:03.360 she just hung

00:26:03.960 in there and

00:26:04.820 didn't make

00:26:05.200 mistakes.

00:26:07.720 Yeah,

00:26:08.300 she's dull,

00:26:08.880 but that's

00:26:09.900 not going

00:26:10.320 to hurt

00:26:10.700 her when

00:26:11.120 it's

00:26:11.280 one-on-one.

00:26:12.820 Being

00:26:13.180 dull is

00:26:13.800 a big

00:26:14.200 problem if

00:26:15.460 you've got

00:26:15.760 all these

00:26:16.100 exciting

00:26:16.520 candidates and

00:26:17.340 you're trying

00:26:17.640 to stand

00:26:18.040 out.

00:26:19.120 But as

00:26:19.420 the field

00:26:20.500 is winnowed

00:26:21.880 down and

00:26:23.080 you see that

00:26:23.600 the other

00:26:23.920 candidates don't

00:26:24.760 have much

00:26:25.160 to offer or

00:26:26.000 they have

00:26:26.360 fatal flaws,

00:26:28.160 if Democrats

00:26:29.220 want to win,

00:26:31.440 she's their

00:26:31.920 best bet.

00:26:32.960 So that's my

00:26:33.440 current thinking.

00:26:34.140 I could change

00:26:34.620 that tomorrow.

00:26:35.480 After her,

00:26:36.100 I would say

00:26:36.440 Buttigieg,

00:26:37.100 but he's got a

00:26:37.660 black voter

00:26:38.220 problem that

00:26:39.360 I don't know

00:26:39.800 he can

00:26:40.100 overcome.

00:26:41.220 Then there's

00:26:41.860 Bloomberg who

00:26:42.640 has, guess

00:26:43.740 what, a

00:26:44.760 black voter

00:26:45.320 problem that

00:26:46.300 I don't think

00:26:46.780 he can

00:26:47.060 overcome.

00:26:47.980 Anybody who

00:26:48.560 has a black

00:26:49.080 voter problem,

00:26:50.980 I don't know

00:26:51.740 how they can

00:26:52.120 beat Trump

00:26:52.940 because Trump

00:26:53.580 probably will

00:26:54.500 get more

00:26:55.040 black male

00:26:56.780 votes, at

00:26:57.520 least, than

00:26:59.100 any Republican

00:26:59.960 ever got.

00:27:00.660 That's my

00:27:01.020 guess.

00:27:03.220 Then you've

00:27:03.880 got, next

00:27:04.860 down on the

00:27:05.400 list, Biden

00:27:06.660 plus a good

00:27:07.580 VP.

00:27:08.220 Now, if

00:27:09.000 you're just

00:27:09.740 thinking of

00:27:10.080 Biden, he

00:27:10.460 doesn't have

00:27:10.820 any chance

00:27:11.380 against Trump,

00:27:11.980 really none.

00:27:13.140 But if you

00:27:13.800 paired him with

00:27:14.340 a strong,

00:27:15.100 younger VP,

00:27:16.240 person of

00:27:16.620 color, a

00:27:17.640 Kamala Harris

00:27:18.200 type, somebody

00:27:18.940 interesting, you

00:27:20.800 could give it a

00:27:21.380 shot because he

00:27:21.940 could at least

00:27:22.340 get the black

00:27:22.940 vote, but he's

00:27:24.580 so vulnerable to

00:27:25.860 just being, I

00:27:28.660 don't know,

00:27:29.500 pistol whipped by

00:27:30.420 Trump every time

00:27:31.220 Trump goes in

00:27:31.880 public that I

00:27:32.580 don't think Biden

00:27:33.260 could survive that.

00:27:34.700 Then down the

00:27:35.260 list you've got

00:27:35.820 Warren and

00:27:36.740 Bernie.

00:27:37.020 they both

00:27:37.720 have the

00:27:38.000 same problem

00:27:38.540 and Mike

00:27:40.000 Cernovich called

00:27:41.180 the doubt

00:27:41.600 succinctly on

00:27:42.960 Twitter today.

00:27:44.460 He said that

00:27:45.220 when he talks

00:27:45.780 to his

00:27:46.340 progressive

00:27:46.980 friends, he

00:27:48.380 asked them how

00:27:48.960 you could have

00:27:49.640 both open

00:27:50.600 borders and

00:27:51.920 free health

00:27:52.480 care.

00:27:53.960 How do those

00:27:54.800 two work

00:27:55.280 together?

00:27:55.740 You can have

00:27:56.080 one or the

00:27:56.520 other, but

00:27:58.000 how, just

00:27:58.640 logically, just

00:27:59.720 explain to me

00:28:00.540 logically how

00:28:02.200 both those

00:28:02.800 things could

00:28:03.320 coexist.

00:28:03.720 I don't

00:28:05.400 think anybody

00:28:05.840 can explain

00:28:06.420 it.

00:28:07.260 So, both

00:28:08.380 of them are

00:28:08.860 dead the

00:28:10.180 minute Trump

00:28:10.760 says, these

00:28:12.600 candidates want

00:28:13.400 to take your

00:28:13.900 money and give

00:28:14.480 it to people in

00:28:15.160 other countries

00:28:15.760 for their

00:28:16.180 health care, but

00:28:17.240 not for yours,

00:28:18.900 because there

00:28:19.380 won't be much

00:28:20.040 left, or some

00:28:21.840 version of that.

00:28:22.760 He won't say

00:28:23.520 that there's none

00:28:24.280 for you because

00:28:24.860 the others want

00:28:25.900 universal health

00:28:26.660 care.

00:28:27.160 But all he

00:28:27.500 has to do is

00:28:27.980 say we're going

00:28:28.420 to pay for

00:28:28.880 health care for

00:28:29.600 illegal immigrants,

00:28:30.700 and that's

00:28:32.160 sort of the

00:28:32.520 end of the

00:28:32.860 election.

00:28:35.260 And then

00:28:35.800 there's Steyer,

00:28:36.560 who's dead

00:28:36.980 last.

00:28:37.460 He has no

00:28:38.020 real chance.

00:28:39.240 All right, so

00:28:39.560 that's how I'd

00:28:40.180 rank them.

00:28:41.280 Yang, although

00:28:41.920 he cannot get

00:28:42.600 the nomination,

00:28:43.360 he'd be the

00:28:43.780 strongest.

00:28:44.760 Klobuchar,

00:28:45.800 solid chance.

00:28:47.980 And then it

00:28:48.640 starts going

00:28:49.140 into hard to

00:28:50.120 imagine them

00:28:50.720 winning, Buttigieg,

00:28:51.960 Bloomberg, etc.

00:28:54.180 All right.

00:28:57.760 Update on the

00:28:58.760 coronavirus.

00:28:59.280 The numbers

00:29:00.880 keep going up

00:29:02.000 into scary

00:29:03.080 numbers.

00:29:03.900 86 people

00:29:04.640 died in a

00:29:05.440 single day

00:29:06.140 in China.

00:29:08.760 In one day,

00:29:09.780 86 people

00:29:10.580 died.

00:29:12.400 The death

00:29:13.140 stool stands

00:29:14.120 at 724.

00:29:17.400 There's a

00:29:18.540 whistleblowing

00:29:19.140 nurse who

00:29:19.740 says that

00:29:20.340 even a while

00:29:21.400 ago that

00:29:21.820 there were

00:29:22.080 90,000

00:29:22.740 cases, but

00:29:23.620 there are

00:29:25.220 34,000 that

00:29:26.280 are reported

00:29:26.780 in 27

00:29:27.560 countries, etc.

00:29:28.360 Now, we

00:29:29.180 have this

00:29:29.500 news that

00:29:30.080 there's a

00:29:30.500 first U.S.

00:29:33.040 national

00:29:33.540 fatality, but

00:29:35.540 it didn't

00:29:35.820 happen in

00:29:36.240 this country.

00:29:36.800 It was a

00:29:37.100 six-year-old

00:29:37.720 woman who

00:29:38.980 was in

00:29:39.420 Wuhan, and

00:29:41.600 she died

00:29:42.160 from complications

00:29:43.240 from the

00:29:44.420 virus.

00:29:46.380 I hate to be

00:29:47.380 the only person

00:29:48.040 in the world

00:29:48.520 saying this,

00:29:50.100 but I keep

00:29:51.260 waiting to

00:29:51.940 find out if

00:29:53.120 there's anybody

00:29:53.700 dying who

00:29:54.380 is not

00:29:54.860 ethnic

00:29:55.680 Chinese.

00:29:57.480 You know

00:29:57.880 I am

00:29:58.160 asking, right?

00:29:59.120 Because it's

00:29:59.980 so conspicuously

00:30:01.280 absent from

00:30:02.180 the story.

00:30:04.020 Now, if I'd

00:30:04.600 read, so this

00:30:05.920 is an

00:30:06.240 American who

00:30:06.960 died, but

00:30:08.180 this American

00:30:08.740 was a woman

00:30:09.480 living in

00:30:10.320 China.

00:30:11.680 What are the

00:30:12.400 odds that

00:30:13.360 she was not,

00:30:15.380 at least by

00:30:16.680 background,

00:30:18.720 Chinese, but

00:30:19.780 an American?

00:30:21.000 So she had

00:30:21.620 probably Chinese

00:30:22.340 ethnicity because

00:30:23.720 she was living

00:30:24.280 in China.

00:30:24.860 This is just

00:30:25.200 a guess.

00:30:25.680 I'm speculating.

00:30:27.460 So, yeah, the

00:30:29.000 first USA

00:30:29.820 death was

00:30:30.420 reported, but

00:30:31.000 it wasn't in

00:30:31.540 the USA.

00:30:32.120 It was just a

00:30:32.620 U.S. citizen

00:30:33.280 living in

00:30:34.480 China who

00:30:34.920 might actually

00:30:35.620 be ethnically

00:30:36.520 Chinese.

00:30:37.700 So I'm

00:30:39.060 just waiting

00:30:39.960 for the first

00:30:40.620 report of

00:30:41.300 somebody who's

00:30:41.800 not Chinese.

00:30:43.140 Now, there's

00:30:43.580 a report that

00:30:44.180 a Japanese

00:30:45.600 citizen died,

00:30:47.600 but there's

00:30:48.340 some ambiguity

00:30:49.080 because they

00:30:49.940 couldn't confirm

00:30:50.820 that that was

00:30:52.020 the cause of

00:30:52.560 death, and

00:30:53.180 it's not

00:30:53.560 quite clear.

00:30:54.580 So that was

00:30:55.040 a little gray

00:30:55.820 area we were

00:30:56.320 waiting for

00:30:56.620 that.

00:30:58.560 And so we

00:30:59.420 wait.

00:31:00.520 And I ask

00:31:01.260 you this.

00:31:03.040 The United

00:31:04.060 States keeps

00:31:04.860 saying that

00:31:05.400 we're safe,

00:31:07.020 right?

00:31:09.440 Our government

00:31:10.600 keeps telling

00:31:11.260 us it's under

00:31:11.960 control, we're

00:31:12.940 doing pretty

00:31:13.360 good, and we're

00:31:14.620 actually kind of

00:31:15.240 slow closing the

00:31:16.200 airports and

00:31:16.740 stuff.

00:31:17.920 What is it

00:31:19.040 about this

00:31:19.520 virus that

00:31:21.420 would make us

00:31:22.040 think it's a

00:31:22.920 gigantic problem

00:31:24.060 in China yet

00:31:25.180 would not

00:31:25.840 obviously become

00:31:26.800 a gigantic

00:31:27.320 problem here?

00:31:29.020 Is it because

00:31:29.920 we're so good

00:31:30.600 at taking care

00:31:32.540 of stuff?

00:31:33.440 Or is it

00:31:34.220 because our

00:31:34.800 government knows

00:31:35.720 it doesn't

00:31:37.000 treat everybody

00:31:37.680 the same?

00:31:39.120 Maybe your

00:31:40.620 DNA might be

00:31:42.280 one of the

00:31:42.920 markers for

00:31:45.020 whether it's

00:31:45.440 going to kill

00:31:45.780 you or not.

00:31:46.220 So these are

00:31:48.040 just questions,

00:31:48.780 it's all

00:31:49.080 speculation, I

00:31:50.000 don't want to

00:31:50.340 start any

00:31:50.800 conspiracy theories,

00:31:52.280 but it's so

00:31:53.420 obviously missing

00:31:54.380 from the story

00:31:55.220 of whether it's

00:31:57.120 affecting everybody

00:31:57.960 the same, I

00:31:59.380 got to ask

00:31:59.820 about it.

00:32:00.780 All right,

00:32:01.060 there's a

00:32:01.560 horrible story

00:32:02.560 in the news

00:32:03.260 about Jordan

00:32:04.760 Peterson.

00:32:05.920 Now, apparently

00:32:06.420 he's gone

00:32:07.960 through some

00:32:08.380 tough times

00:32:09.120 with his...

00:32:10.740 So the story,

00:32:11.540 if you don't

00:32:11.820 know, Jordan

00:32:12.320 Peterson apparently

00:32:14.600 was prescribed

00:32:15.400 some benzos

00:32:16.580 because his

00:32:18.140 wife was

00:32:19.460 diagnosed with

00:32:20.160 cancer and

00:32:20.860 he was having

00:32:21.240 a problem with

00:32:21.760 that, and

00:32:22.660 then he got

00:32:23.060 physically addicted,

00:32:24.540 but he had...

00:32:25.140 Here's the

00:32:26.380 just incredibly

00:32:27.540 bad part about

00:32:28.620 this.

00:32:29.600 Apparently the

00:32:30.560 benzos had

00:32:31.600 what's called

00:32:32.300 a paradoxical

00:32:33.380 effect, meaning

00:32:35.460 instead of

00:32:36.160 helping him,

00:32:37.180 they made

00:32:37.540 things much

00:32:38.080 worse.

00:32:38.980 Apparently that

00:32:39.640 can happen.

00:32:40.660 It doesn't

00:32:41.020 happen often,

00:32:41.820 but it's

00:32:42.560 common enough

00:32:43.180 that it's a

00:32:43.720 thing.

00:32:44.040 It has a

00:32:44.380 name and

00:32:44.680 everything.

00:32:45.760 So the

00:32:46.160 worst case

00:32:47.000 scenario, he

00:32:48.580 got addicted

00:32:49.300 to the drugs

00:32:51.240 that were also

00:32:52.740 making him

00:32:54.200 much worse.

00:32:55.700 Oh my God.

00:32:57.020 Like, that

00:32:57.640 doesn't get

00:32:58.140 any worse,

00:32:58.680 right?

00:32:59.220 So I guess

00:33:00.040 Western or

00:33:01.680 Canadian and

00:33:02.920 American hospitals

00:33:03.940 couldn't help

00:33:04.620 him.

00:33:05.240 He tried to

00:33:05.780 get off, he

00:33:06.560 tried to, you

00:33:07.600 know, wind

00:33:07.980 down and get

00:33:08.620 off in all

00:33:09.140 the ways he

00:33:09.640 do.

00:33:10.020 It didn't

00:33:10.180 work.

00:33:10.840 He ended

00:33:11.260 up in

00:33:11.600 Russia because

00:33:13.800 Russia had

00:33:14.600 some kind

00:33:15.140 of treatment

00:33:15.620 not available

00:33:16.400 here that

00:33:18.640 apparently has

00:33:19.520 worked.

00:33:20.540 So he

00:33:21.260 seems to

00:33:21.880 have gotten

00:33:22.180 off the

00:33:22.620 benzos and

00:33:23.420 seems to

00:33:23.920 have been

00:33:24.220 the worst

00:33:25.100 of those

00:33:25.500 effects, but

00:33:26.640 there's some

00:33:27.000 lingering,

00:33:27.840 some kind of

00:33:29.040 lingering damage.

00:33:29.940 We don't

00:33:30.200 know what it

00:33:31.300 is.

00:33:31.520 But here's

00:33:31.880 the part that

00:33:32.820 is just

00:33:33.060 mind-blowing.

00:33:33.680 There's some

00:33:35.320 gentleman named

00:33:36.160 Amir Ataran

00:33:37.980 who tweeted

00:33:39.480 this.

00:33:40.920 Hashtag

00:33:41.520 karma.

00:33:42.900 Jordan

00:33:43.220 Peterson,

00:33:44.040 oracle to

00:33:44.700 gullible young

00:33:45.540 men, preacher

00:33:47.080 of macho

00:33:47.800 toughness, and

00:33:48.760 hectoring bully

00:33:49.580 to snowflakes,

00:33:51.100 is addicted to

00:33:51.920 strong drugs,

00:33:52.960 and is brain

00:33:53.560 riddled with

00:33:54.960 neurological

00:33:55.600 damage.

00:33:56.680 I don't know

00:33:57.120 that that's

00:33:57.500 true.

00:33:57.840 That's just

00:33:58.200 something he's

00:33:58.720 saying in the

00:33:59.160 tweet.

00:34:00.120 And then he

00:34:00.480 says, he

00:34:01.280 deserves as

00:34:02.020 much sympathy

00:34:02.860 as he

00:34:03.600 showed others.

00:34:06.440 What?

00:34:07.820 That's like the

00:34:08.680 worst thing I've

00:34:09.600 ever heard anybody

00:34:10.260 say.

00:34:11.680 That is really,

00:34:13.120 that is dark.

00:34:15.940 I mean, I'm

00:34:17.020 not above

00:34:17.660 enjoying a

00:34:19.280 little revenge

00:34:20.120 when it's

00:34:21.920 appropriate.

00:34:22.920 I'm not above

00:34:23.960 a little

00:34:24.880 schadenfreude

00:34:25.720 if something

00:34:26.280 bad happens

00:34:26.900 to somebody

00:34:27.400 that I

00:34:28.380 think deserved

00:34:28.960 it.

00:34:29.940 But what

00:34:30.780 the hell

00:34:31.360 did Jordan

00:34:32.300 Peterson do

00:34:33.040 other than

00:34:33.520 try to

00:34:33.840 help people?

00:34:36.600 Why was

00:34:37.360 he addicted

00:34:37.840 in the

00:34:38.220 first place?

00:34:39.420 It was

00:34:40.060 because of

00:34:40.660 his empathy

00:34:41.180 for his

00:34:41.700 wife.

00:34:43.580 All right?

00:34:44.500 And when

00:34:46.000 he says

00:34:46.720 young men,

00:34:47.760 he goes,

00:34:48.400 oracle to

00:34:49.040 gullible young

00:34:49.800 men.

00:34:51.600 Let me

00:34:52.200 ask you

00:34:52.520 this.

00:34:54.020 What young

00:34:54.840 man is not

00:34:55.620 gullible?

00:34:56.860 It's sort of

00:34:57.680 built into

00:34:58.160 being young.

00:34:59.340 Everybody

00:34:59.720 young is

00:35:00.580 gullible.

00:35:01.120 So first

00:35:01.500 of all,

00:35:01.800 that's not

00:35:03.520 fair.

00:35:04.460 Everybody

00:35:04.800 young is

00:35:05.820 gullible

00:35:06.200 compared to

00:35:06.980 older people.

00:35:07.900 There's no

00:35:08.320 exception to

00:35:08.940 that.

00:35:10.400 And he

00:35:10.780 calls it a

00:35:11.440 preacher of

00:35:12.080 macho

00:35:12.520 toughness.

00:35:14.020 No.

00:35:15.740 No, I

00:35:16.780 wouldn't call

00:35:17.220 it macho

00:35:17.880 toughness at

00:35:18.940 all.

00:35:19.680 That's not

00:35:20.120 how I would

00:35:20.620 label it.

00:35:21.780 And a

00:35:22.220 hectoring

00:35:22.720 bully to

00:35:23.240 snowflakes.

00:35:25.300 So?

00:35:25.700 Is that

00:35:28.560 a crime?

00:35:29.340 He's telling

00:35:29.900 people to

00:35:30.520 take more

00:35:31.020 responsibility for

00:35:31.960 life and

00:35:32.520 toughen up and

00:35:33.760 do things

00:35:34.940 according to

00:35:35.740 ways that we

00:35:36.820 know work and

00:35:37.500 are biologically

00:35:38.240 compatible.

00:35:39.380 None of that

00:35:39.980 seems like

00:35:40.600 anything that

00:35:42.240 should be a

00:35:43.020 cause for

00:35:43.860 hatred.

00:35:44.980 I mean,

00:35:45.240 this is

00:35:45.540 amazing.

00:35:47.060 So I think

00:35:47.900 he's a

00:35:48.180 professor up

00:35:49.100 in Canada

00:35:49.500 somewhere.

00:35:49.820 Alright, so

00:35:50.940 that's the

00:35:51.320 most hateful

00:35:52.020 thing I've

00:35:52.580 ever seen.

00:35:54.020 Probably the

00:35:54.760 worst thing I've

00:35:55.360 ever seen on

00:35:55.840 the internet.

00:35:57.160 Here's my

00:35:57.860 prediction about

00:35:58.560 Jordan Peterson.

00:35:59.820 He's going to

00:36:00.420 come back

00:36:00.840 stronger.

00:36:02.660 Because going

00:36:03.740 through this

00:36:04.260 situation,

00:36:05.160 first of all,

00:36:05.900 he's learning a

00:36:06.720 lot that

00:36:07.280 probably didn't

00:36:07.920 want to learn.

00:36:10.000 But he's

00:36:10.960 going to come

00:36:11.340 back stronger.

00:36:13.600 So watch

00:36:14.660 for that.

00:36:15.840 Alright, I

00:36:16.180 promise you I

00:36:16.780 will tell you

00:36:17.300 an inspirational

00:36:18.860 story.

00:36:19.460 Are you

00:36:19.740 ready?

00:36:20.820 A little

00:36:21.240 Saturday

00:36:21.720 inspirational

00:36:22.420 story.

00:36:24.800 There's a

00:36:25.520 quote of

00:36:26.160 mine from

00:36:26.900 one of my

00:36:27.420 books,

00:36:27.960 or someplace,

00:36:28.900 I don't know

00:36:29.200 where it came

00:36:29.560 from, but

00:36:30.540 there's a

00:36:31.000 quote of

00:36:31.380 mine that's

00:36:31.860 become semi-famous

00:36:33.120 and it's

00:36:33.620 something I

00:36:34.040 said decades

00:36:35.380 ago, but it

00:36:37.040 still gets

00:36:37.580 passed around

00:36:38.320 the internet

00:36:38.720 every now and

00:36:39.320 then.

00:36:40.320 And the

00:36:40.640 quote was that

00:36:41.360 there's no

00:36:41.720 such thing as

00:36:42.320 a small act

00:36:43.060 of kindness

00:36:43.580 because every

00:36:45.520 action has a

00:36:46.840 ripple effect to

00:36:47.940 infinity.

00:36:49.460 And I

00:36:50.240 wanted to

00:36:50.600 tell you a

00:36:50.980 story about

00:36:52.220 a small

00:36:53.680 act of

00:36:54.160 kindness that

00:36:55.680 had a ripple

00:36:56.420 effect that is

00:36:59.040 fun to watch.

00:37:00.360 Alright?

00:37:00.420 The first part

00:37:02.700 some of you

00:37:03.360 have heard.

00:37:04.380 In 1988,

00:37:05.600 before I was a

00:37:06.320 cartoonist, but

00:37:07.060 I knew I wanted

00:37:07.680 to be one, I

00:37:08.800 sent a letter to

00:37:09.560 a cartoonist who

00:37:10.740 had a special on

00:37:11.940 TV about how to

00:37:12.640 be a cartoonist.

00:37:13.640 His name is

00:37:14.100 Jack Cassidy, and

00:37:15.380 I asked him for

00:37:16.500 advice.

00:37:17.660 I had not drawn

00:37:18.700 any comics

00:37:19.460 professionally.

00:37:21.140 I just wanted to

00:37:22.300 know how to get

00:37:22.800 into business.

00:37:24.100 And his first

00:37:25.320 act of kindness,

00:37:27.180 there was nothing

00:37:28.160 in it for him.

00:37:28.740 There was

00:37:29.680 nothing to be

00:37:30.400 gained by him

00:37:31.720 answering my

00:37:32.320 letter, but he

00:37:32.880 did.

00:37:33.480 He wrote a

00:37:33.940 two-page

00:37:34.380 handwritten letter.

00:37:35.280 He told me what

00:37:35.940 materials to buy,

00:37:37.320 told me what

00:37:37.880 book to look at,

00:37:39.560 to know where to

00:37:40.360 send my samples,

00:37:42.020 etc.

00:37:42.160 So I got the

00:37:43.560 book, followed

00:37:44.380 the directions,

00:37:45.200 did what he

00:37:45.600 said, sent out

00:37:46.840 some comics to

00:37:47.680 the big magazines

00:37:48.660 that publish

00:37:49.200 comics, or

00:37:50.260 cartoons, and I

00:37:52.480 got rejected by

00:37:53.620 everybody.

00:37:54.640 And I put my

00:37:55.780 materials away, and

00:37:56.740 I thought, well, at

00:37:57.380 least I tried.

00:37:58.840 And I just forgot

00:37:59.620 about it.

00:38:00.360 A year later, I

00:38:02.920 got a letter from

00:38:03.800 Jack Cassidy.

00:38:05.500 A year later, I

00:38:06.800 hadn't even thanked

00:38:07.880 him for his first

00:38:08.780 letter.

00:38:09.060 So we'd had no

00:38:10.480 communication in

00:38:11.360 that time.

00:38:12.180 And I go to my

00:38:12.700 mailbox, and

00:38:13.420 weirdly, there's a

00:38:15.160 letter from Jack

00:38:15.840 Cassidy again, a

00:38:16.660 follow-up letter.

00:38:17.860 And he said that he

00:38:18.540 was cleaning his

00:38:19.720 office, and he

00:38:20.960 found my original

00:38:21.960 letter to him from

00:38:22.680 a year ago, and he

00:38:24.900 said that he was

00:38:25.920 just writing to make

00:38:27.060 sure that I hadn't

00:38:29.060 given up.

00:38:31.440 That's it.

00:38:32.580 There was nothing

00:38:33.300 else in the letter.

00:38:34.880 He only wrote to

00:38:36.200 make sure that I

00:38:37.980 hadn't given up.

00:38:39.720 Now, in his first

00:38:40.760 letter, he told me I

00:38:42.120 would get a lot of

00:38:42.720 cancellations or a

00:38:44.040 lot of rejections, and

00:38:45.680 he told me, don't

00:38:46.300 give up.

00:38:46.840 So his first letter

00:38:47.640 said, don't give up.

00:38:49.340 And then I gave up.

00:38:51.460 His second letter

00:38:52.440 said, just making

00:38:56.220 sure you didn't give

00:38:56.960 up.

00:38:57.900 So I got my

00:38:58.740 materials out of the

00:38:59.580 closet and put

00:39:01.020 together some sample

00:39:02.220 cartoons that were

00:39:03.580 roughly based on my

00:39:05.000 experience in the

00:39:05.840 workplace, and that

00:39:07.180 cartoon was called

00:39:08.000 Dilbert.

00:39:09.060 And I submitted

00:39:10.200 it, and the rest

00:39:11.680 you know.

00:39:12.940 So that small act

00:39:15.180 of kindness in

00:39:16.420 1988 created a

00:39:19.920 billion dollars of

00:39:22.320 total activity.

00:39:23.560 That's not the part I

00:39:24.660 earned or anything

00:39:25.400 close to that.

00:39:26.480 But if you look at

00:39:27.600 all the publishing,

00:39:28.540 all the effects that

00:39:29.340 Dilbert's had, the

00:39:30.720 secondary effects and

00:39:31.800 third effects, etc.

00:39:32.680 One letter that took

00:39:35.840 him probably 15

00:39:37.000 minutes, put a stamp

00:39:38.360 on it, tiny, tiny

00:39:40.000 act of kindness,

00:39:41.680 caused a billion

00:39:43.020 dollars, changed my

00:39:44.720 life.

00:39:46.000 Now, most of you

00:39:47.880 have seen that I'm

00:39:49.940 certainly at this part

00:39:50.880 of my life.

00:39:51.420 And by the way, I am

00:39:52.440 currently at, I think,

00:39:54.920 approximately the age

00:39:56.360 that Jack Cassidy was

00:39:57.760 when he gave me his

00:39:59.540 advice.

00:40:00.980 Jack Cassidy, by the

00:40:02.040 way, is a veteran.

00:40:05.320 I think it was, I'm

00:40:09.100 not sure which war he

00:40:10.000 was in, but he's a

00:40:11.620 veteran, so he has a

00:40:13.400 history of service.

00:40:15.180 Now, the thing that I

00:40:17.960 don't tell people is

00:40:19.020 that while he made my

00:40:21.320 career, his small act

00:40:23.740 of kindness, no, it's

00:40:25.760 not Jack Cassidy, the

00:40:27.100 actor.

00:40:27.600 It is Jack Cassidy, a

00:40:29.340 cartoonist.

00:40:30.120 Somebody you probably

00:40:31.120 have never seen his

00:40:32.120 work.

00:40:33.380 He wasn't famous as a

00:40:34.720 cartoonist.

00:40:37.640 So, here's the thing.

00:40:40.060 Even though he changed

00:40:41.040 my life, and he's in

00:40:43.020 some ways responsible for

00:40:44.540 everything good that

00:40:45.420 ever happened to me

00:40:46.160 after that point, he

00:40:48.840 also cursed me.

00:40:51.440 It came with a curse.

00:40:53.660 And the curse goes

00:40:55.220 like this.

00:40:56.620 I have to help other

00:40:57.900 people.

00:40:59.460 I have to.

00:41:01.080 I could try not to,

00:41:03.180 but it doesn't work

00:41:04.300 because of the curse.

00:41:06.840 So, throughout my life,

00:41:08.300 I've tried to help

00:41:09.060 other people.

00:41:10.020 When the situation

00:41:11.420 made sense, obviously,

00:41:12.580 I can't help everybody.

00:41:13.500 I can't even help

00:41:14.320 everybody who asks for

00:41:15.200 it.

00:41:16.060 But I can pick my

00:41:17.200 shots.

00:41:18.600 So, I wrote my book,

00:41:20.460 How to Fail with

00:41:20.980 Almost Everything, and

00:41:21.900 Still Win Big.

00:41:23.060 And that was primarily

00:41:24.620 to be helpful.

00:41:26.820 And I hear every day

00:41:27.920 about people who've

00:41:28.760 changed their lives and

00:41:29.900 lost weight and people

00:41:32.300 who've gotten off of

00:41:32.960 drugs because of that

00:41:34.660 book.

00:41:35.040 Just amazing things.

00:41:36.100 this all came from

00:41:39.820 this one letter in

00:41:41.560 1988.

00:41:43.420 But it's better.

00:41:46.680 After Dilbert became

00:41:47.780 successful, and this is

00:41:49.360 going back to, I think,

00:41:50.740 the mid-90s or so,

00:41:52.840 the syndication company

00:41:54.700 that handled Dilbert was

00:41:56.100 introducing new comics

00:41:57.360 regularly.

00:41:58.660 And, of course, most new

00:41:59.560 comics don't do well, and

00:42:01.060 they just sort of, you

00:42:02.720 know, they make a small

00:42:03.760 splash, and then they

00:42:04.640 die.

00:42:05.560 So, probably 19 out of

00:42:07.440 20 new comics don't go

00:42:08.900 anywhere.

00:42:09.800 And there was this new

00:42:10.640 comic called Pearls

00:42:12.480 Before Swine.

00:42:14.260 And the syndication

00:42:15.460 company looked at it,

00:42:16.540 and they decided, well,

00:42:18.260 you know, it's not good

00:42:19.120 enough to put in

00:42:20.020 newspapers.

00:42:21.380 But we have this new

00:42:22.640 website that has, you

00:42:24.620 know, good comics, but

00:42:25.780 also lesser comics.

00:42:27.100 You know, we just have

00:42:27.640 lots of comics there.

00:42:28.960 So they said, well, we'll

00:42:30.280 put it on the website.

00:42:32.000 They put it on the

00:42:32.680 website.

00:42:33.000 And it didn't make

00:42:33.880 much of a difference.

00:42:35.080 You know, not many

00:42:36.100 people noticed it.

00:42:37.460 But I saw it.

00:42:38.920 So, and I saw it, and I

00:42:40.120 thought, huh, there's

00:42:41.960 something about this

00:42:42.740 comic that's not like the

00:42:44.600 other ones.

00:42:45.880 There just isn't.

00:42:47.440 This one's special.

00:42:49.080 And even though it

00:42:50.260 wasn't fully formed,

00:42:53.960 there was something

00:42:54.740 special about it.

00:42:55.640 I could see it in the

00:42:56.380 writing.

00:42:56.920 There was some

00:42:57.620 intelligence that came

00:42:59.280 through the writing that

00:43:00.080 you don't often see.

00:43:01.920 So, at the time, I had

00:43:03.380 this newsletter that I

00:43:04.340 was sending out that

00:43:05.020 had just tons and tons

00:43:06.940 of people read it.

00:43:07.700 And I, so I called out

00:43:08.620 that comic, and I said,

00:43:10.500 you know, this is great,

00:43:11.480 and gave a link to it so

00:43:13.060 people could go see it.

00:43:14.520 It almost immediately,

00:43:15.900 entirely just because I

00:43:17.340 recommended it to my

00:43:18.960 readers, it became the

00:43:20.740 second, I think the

00:43:21.800 second most trafficked

00:43:23.400 comic on the website.

00:43:25.140 Now, because it became

00:43:27.280 the second most

00:43:27.980 trafficked of all their

00:43:29.120 comics, they had to

00:43:31.060 rethink it, the

00:43:32.640 syndication company.

00:43:33.860 And they looked at it

00:43:34.660 and said, huh, with all

00:43:36.300 this attention, maybe we

00:43:37.420 missed something.

00:43:38.440 So let's give it a run

00:43:40.260 and see if it works in

00:43:41.560 newspapers.

00:43:43.180 And it did.

00:43:44.400 It's one of the top

00:43:45.400 cartoons in the country

00:43:46.360 right now.

00:43:47.820 So, Stefan Postis is the

00:43:50.160 author of the comic.

00:43:51.660 And the other part of

00:43:53.020 the story is that he

00:43:54.220 has an amazing talent

00:43:55.560 stack, which he

00:43:56.560 continues to build.

00:43:58.020 He was an attorney

00:43:58.740 before he became a

00:43:59.900 cartoonist, so he had

00:44:00.880 that talent.

00:44:02.460 And he met with me,

00:44:06.300 thanked me, and picked

00:44:07.800 my brain about technique

00:44:09.080 and how to be a

00:44:10.340 cartoonist.

00:44:11.020 And he's the only person

00:44:12.260 I know who's asked me

00:44:14.220 for cartooning advice

00:44:15.420 and then took it.

00:44:18.920 You can't imagine how

00:44:20.520 many people have

00:44:21.080 asked me for advice.

00:44:22.920 And lots of times I

00:44:24.180 give it.

00:44:24.580 I would say the total

00:44:26.500 number of cartoonists

00:44:27.580 I've given direct

00:44:28.840 cartooning advice to,

00:44:30.740 it's in the hundreds.

00:44:32.920 Hundreds?

00:44:33.740 I don't know.

00:44:34.040 Several hundred?

00:44:35.420 Over my career.

00:44:37.380 But as far as I know,

00:44:38.800 and I haven't surveyed

00:44:40.320 each one of them,

00:44:41.360 as far as I know,

00:44:42.020 he's the only one.

00:44:43.300 He took my advice,

00:44:44.340 he incorporated it,

00:44:45.600 and his comic became

00:44:46.700 one of the hottest

00:44:47.680 sellers.

00:44:48.680 But that's not the

00:44:49.600 best part.

00:44:50.080 So I opened up my

00:44:52.160 computer today,

00:44:53.140 just checking the news,

00:44:54.280 and I see a hashtag

00:44:56.200 trending.

00:44:58.260 And the hashtag,

00:44:59.120 maybe you saw it today,

00:44:59.900 but the trending hashtag

00:45:00.920 is for a new Disney movie

00:45:03.540 called Timmy Failure.

00:45:06.940 Have you seen that yet?

00:45:08.680 So it's about a young boy

00:45:10.360 who's like,

00:45:11.680 either pretends or he's a

00:45:13.120 detective, I guess,

00:45:14.120 and he's got a gigantic

00:45:15.420 polar bear who's his

00:45:17.500 companion.

00:45:20.220 Now here's the thing.

00:45:21.920 Timmy Failure is,

00:45:22.980 it's a Disney movie,

00:45:24.040 and it's going to stream

00:45:24.940 on their new streaming

00:45:26.340 service, so, you know,

00:45:27.920 how great is it to have

00:45:28.960 a Disney movie?

00:45:30.920 This Disney movie

00:45:32.060 is based on a series

00:45:34.640 of very successful

00:45:35.660 kids' books called

00:45:36.780 Timmy Failure,

00:45:38.540 written by

00:45:39.900 Stephen Postis.

00:45:43.540 Stephen Postis

00:45:44.780 has left cartooning,

00:45:47.740 and now he's a movie.

00:45:50.200 He's successful in movies.

00:45:52.820 All of this happened

00:45:54.220 because Jack Cassidy

00:45:56.900 did one small act of

00:45:59.700 kindness in 1988.

00:46:04.280 That caused me to succeed.

00:46:06.960 It caused me to write

00:46:08.020 and had to fail

00:46:08.700 at almost everything.

00:46:09.900 It caused me to help

00:46:10.780 Stephen Postis

00:46:11.680 because the curse.

00:46:14.220 He cursed me.

00:46:15.280 I had to help him.

00:46:17.120 Has Stephen Postis

00:46:18.220 helped other cartoonists?

00:46:21.140 Yes.

00:46:22.580 Because he has the curse.

00:46:24.700 He doesn't have a choice.

00:46:26.960 He doesn't have a choice.

00:46:28.960 I cursed him the way

00:46:30.320 Jack Cassidy cursed me.

00:46:32.940 So, Timmy Failure,

00:46:33.880 it's a great movie,

00:46:34.500 and you should all watch it.

00:46:35.820 And that's all I have

00:46:36.880 for today.

00:46:37.240 I'm going to leave it

00:46:37.920 on that note.

00:46:39.320 One small act of kindness.

00:46:41.560 It's a big deal.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 08, 2020

Episode 813 Scott Adams： The Strongest Democrat Presidential Candidate, and an Inspirational Story

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