Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 841 Scott Adams： Let's Sip!

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00:00:06.120 Hey everybody!

00:00:08.620 I'm a little late this morning.

00:00:10.880 Wasn't watching my clock.

00:00:13.820 Normally I am, but today I wasn't.

00:00:17.160 Well, we got stuff to talk about today, don't we?

00:00:19.980 Yes we do.

00:00:21.980 Before we do that, excuse me,

00:00:24.440 I would like to invite you to enjoy the simultaneous sip.

00:00:28.260 The thing that binds everybody together,

00:00:30.140 and I think that's important in this age of coronavirus.

00:00:34.680 We're all going to have to stick together to get through this thing.

00:00:38.660 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stye

00:00:42.800 and a canteen jug or flask or a vessel of any kind.

00:00:45.700 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:48.480 Did you know I like coffee?

00:00:51.320 And get ready for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine to the day,

00:00:57.080 the thing that makes everything better, including the coronavirus.

00:01:02.800 Go.

00:01:07.500 Ah.

00:01:10.780 Well, I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

00:01:13.640 It always feels good to have a sense of control over your life,

00:01:19.280 even if you don't.

00:01:21.920 Because psychologically, you want to feel like you have control,

00:01:25.280 even if that's not exactly true.

00:01:28.800 And that's important today,

00:01:30.560 because we're watching this coronavirus come toward us,

00:01:33.280 and we're saying,

00:01:34.500 well, what do we do?

00:01:35.880 I'd like to do something,

00:01:37.740 if I could.

00:01:39.140 Let me give you a concrete example.

00:01:40.880 If I could find a way,

00:01:43.100 just personally,

00:01:44.280 just me, a voter, an individual, a citizen,

00:01:47.480 if I could find a way to directly protect a senior citizen 0.91

00:01:52.940 or a group of them,

00:01:55.440 I'd do it.

00:01:56.480 I don't know exactly how to do that.

00:01:59.000 But if I knew how,

00:02:00.360 I'd do it.

00:02:01.540 We're certainly at a place

00:02:02.780 where standing on the sidelines

00:02:05.080 doesn't make sense anymore.

00:02:06.540 If you're still on the sidelines about the coronavirus,

00:02:10.820 meaning that you're just not paying attention to it

00:02:13.880 or you're not doing anything about it,

00:02:16.200 it's probably time to get off the sidelines.

00:02:18.540 Probably time.

00:02:19.840 Now, I do not caution panic,

00:02:22.360 because I don't think we're there at all.

00:02:25.440 But part of the reason we shouldn't panic

00:02:27.040 is that we're pretty good at dealing with this sort of stuff.

00:02:31.200 This sort of stuff,

00:02:31.980 meaning any kind of emergency.

00:02:33.260 Humans are pretty good at it,

00:02:35.180 and Americans are especially good at it.

00:02:37.960 And I would say you should do at least the following things,

00:02:41.760 at the very least.

00:02:44.060 Take care of yourself.

00:02:46.420 You should.

00:02:47.340 I'll tell you what I'm doing.

00:02:48.680 So every day I'm taking a 45-minute walk in the sun.

00:02:53.360 I'm not over-exercising,

00:02:55.240 because I don't want to lower my resistance.

00:02:57.780 But I'm getting some sun.

00:02:59.160 Maybe the vitamin D helps.

00:03:00.580 Maybe it doesn't,

00:03:01.400 but it makes me feel good.

00:03:02.420 It's good for my health.

00:03:04.900 So I would say take a walk.

00:03:06.640 Don't go to the gym.

00:03:08.700 The gym is,

00:03:10.120 well, well, there are people at the gym.

00:03:12.300 Keep your gym membership.

00:03:13.400 You might need it later.

00:03:14.940 But take a walk.

00:03:16.880 Go for a run.

00:03:17.820 Enjoy the outdoors.

00:03:18.640 Get some sun.

00:03:20.340 It's not just a distraction.

00:03:22.920 It might actually help protect you.

00:03:24.800 Eat right,

00:03:25.500 and make sure you get enough sleep.

00:03:28.600 I know, I know.

00:03:29.540 Somebody telling you to get enough sleep.

00:03:31.560 It's just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:03:33.660 But getting enough sleep this year,

00:03:37.620 2020, in the age of coronavirus,

00:03:40.000 it actually makes a difference.

00:03:41.960 Because the amount of sleep you get

00:03:43.320 is a big deal to your overall immune situation.

00:03:48.880 Now, I'm not a doctor,

00:03:51.340 and I don't know if any of the things that I'm suggesting

00:03:54.080 makes a big difference.

00:03:56.700 I think it probably makes a difference,

00:03:59.080 but I'm not a doctor,

00:04:00.260 so don't take any medical advice from me.

00:04:02.220 Here's the advice you should take from me.

00:04:03.860 It will make you feel like you're doing something.

00:04:07.700 I think it is, doing something.

00:04:10.420 But the important thing is,

00:04:12.460 you know, if you're feeling a little stressful

00:04:14.300 about what's happening,

00:04:16.020 go do something.

00:04:17.460 Take control.

00:04:18.640 Take control of yourself.

00:04:20.080 Change your situation.

00:04:21.640 Maybe you'll think about bringing in some food,

00:04:24.420 a little extra food, just in case.

00:04:26.420 I personally think we're not going to run out of food.

00:04:31.020 I personally think we're not going to have

00:04:33.060 some kind of a supply line disruption

00:04:35.720 that actually makes life difficult.

00:04:39.140 I think it will be annoying at worst.

00:04:42.680 That's my prediction.

00:04:44.020 But of course, there's a wide range of possibilities,

00:04:46.200 and you should be ready for all of them.

00:04:51.080 Yesterday, I did an extended interview

00:04:53.900 with Naval Ravikant.

00:04:56.280 I don't know that that's posted yet,

00:04:58.340 and I will tweet it when it is.

00:04:59.980 So I did that offline.

00:05:01.780 I still cannot find any technology

00:05:04.460 that will allow me to create

00:05:07.320 a good side-by-side interview

00:05:09.200 in a reliable way.

00:05:11.720 There are a number of ways to do it,

00:05:13.900 but none of them are reliable.

00:05:15.620 They all require, you know,

00:05:17.740 kludgy combinations of third-party software

00:05:20.380 and things that don't always work.

00:05:22.700 So I recorded that just using Zoom

00:05:26.360 and put that...

00:05:29.020 That'll be up sometime today.

00:05:30.260 I'll tweet about it when it's up.

00:05:31.980 If you don't know Naval,

00:05:33.940 well, you should.

00:05:36.280 So Naval is one of the...

00:05:38.160 I was trying to think yesterday,

00:05:39.420 how many people would be known

00:05:41.040 in the tech world?

00:05:43.580 Let's just, you know, keep it there.

00:05:46.460 In the tech world,

00:05:47.460 how many people would you identify

00:05:49.340 by their first name?

00:05:51.940 Well, there's Jack, right?

00:05:54.160 Jack Dorsey.

00:05:54.840 Everybody identifies him by first name.

00:05:58.160 There's Elon.

00:06:00.080 It has more to do with the fact

00:06:01.360 that it's a unique name.

00:06:03.320 And then there's Naval.

00:06:04.720 And I was trying to think of another one,

00:06:06.260 and I couldn't,

00:06:07.080 because they're either common names

00:06:08.520 like Bill or Steve or Mark or something.

00:06:11.200 So Naval is the clearest thinker

00:06:15.280 I've ever known.

00:06:17.700 So if you're trying to figure out

00:06:19.240 how to think about a situation,

00:06:22.260 listen to whatever he says,

00:06:24.300 and then at least consider it,

00:06:25.840 because it's going to be a clearer,

00:06:28.700 wider, and deeper view

00:06:30.320 than probably whatever you started with.

00:06:33.120 He's remarkable that way.

00:06:35.080 So I wanted to get his thoughts

00:06:36.420 on the coronavirus,

00:06:37.740 not because he's a scientist,

00:06:39.360 not because I'm a scientist,

00:06:41.120 but because sometimes you just need people

00:06:43.200 to package things

00:06:44.300 in the way that helps you the most.

00:06:48.440 So think of it that way,

00:06:49.620 framing the situation,

00:06:50.820 packaging it,

00:06:51.600 helping you see it through

00:06:52.560 a couple of different windows,

00:06:55.340 that sort of thing.

00:06:56.620 All right.

00:06:57.040 I don't know if we have fully understood

00:07:07.280 how powerful President Trump's pardons are

00:07:11.380 for the entire political system.

00:07:15.500 Here's my point.

00:07:17.000 If a politician does something

00:07:19.560 that's good for,

00:07:20.380 let's say it's a good policy,

00:07:22.380 then people say,

00:07:23.560 hey, that politician made a good policy.

00:07:25.740 And if it's a good policy,

00:07:26.600 let's say for the black citizens

00:07:28.860 of this country, 0.94

00:07:30.300 people might say,

00:07:31.060 that's a good policy for black people.

00:07:33.700 That helps us more than other people.

00:07:38.940 But a policy is sort of impersonal.

00:07:42.680 It doesn't really tell you

00:07:44.160 about the person who was behind it.

00:07:46.160 Maybe they did it

00:07:46.860 just for political purposes or whatever,

00:07:48.560 but it feels like just doing their job.

00:07:51.820 But these pardons

00:07:53.280 things that Kim Kardashian

00:07:55.020 is working out with President Trump,

00:07:57.540 I guess there were three more,

00:07:59.460 three more in addition

00:08:00.580 to the one with Alice Johnson

00:08:02.420 that Kim Kardashian got.

00:08:04.860 And I want to say

00:08:05.600 a couple of things about that.

00:08:06.520 First of all,

00:08:07.840 my God,

00:08:09.020 Kim Kardashian,

00:08:10.060 what a great citizen.

00:08:13.540 I'm always impressed

00:08:14.500 by somebody

00:08:15.000 who doesn't have to do the work.

00:08:17.620 Somebody who doesn't have

00:08:18.780 to do the hard work.

00:08:20.600 Kim Kardashian doesn't have

00:08:22.040 to do anything

00:08:22.900 for anybody else.

00:08:25.140 She has what she needs.

00:08:26.980 She's good at it,

00:08:28.060 very good at it.

00:08:29.280 She doesn't have to help the public,

00:08:31.160 and she certainly doesn't have

00:08:32.200 to help specific individuals,

00:08:35.120 but she is.

00:08:37.140 So Kim Kardashian continues

00:08:39.600 to rise in my opinion

00:08:42.860 of one of the best people around.

00:08:44.980 And we should recognize that.

00:08:48.220 But here's my point.

00:08:49.960 President Trump

00:08:50.680 is giving pardons

00:08:52.480 to individuals.

00:08:54.440 That's different

00:08:55.560 from having a program.

00:08:58.680 Program's good.

00:08:59.920 You should do that if you can.

00:09:02.100 But there's something

00:09:03.640 far more powerful

00:09:05.040 about individual pardons.

00:09:07.640 And here's why.

00:09:09.080 If you're trying to decide,

00:09:11.120 hey, what's in President Trump's mind?

00:09:13.380 What's he thinking?

00:09:16.040 Is he privately disliking

00:09:18.220 people who look like me?

00:09:19.940 Because that's what

00:09:20.960 his critics say, right?

00:09:22.520 The critics say,

00:09:23.500 well, in his mind,

00:09:25.120 his secret thoughts, 0.72

00:09:27.340 he's really kind of racist. 0.84

00:09:29.720 That's what his critics say. 0.55

00:09:31.560 Now, if all he did

00:09:32.680 was support a policy

00:09:33.760 that was good for minorities,

00:09:35.500 would you say,

00:09:36.080 well, that proves

00:09:36.760 he's not a racist?

00:09:38.400 Maybe not.

00:09:40.140 You'd say, well,

00:09:41.220 I don't know,

00:09:41.600 that's just sort of

00:09:42.200 doing his job.

00:09:43.040 There were a lot of votes

00:09:44.060 for that policy.

00:09:45.440 He was just agreeing

00:09:46.600 with his party.

00:09:47.600 It doesn't say anything

00:09:48.420 about the politician.

00:09:50.940 But when he,

00:09:51.720 but when the president

00:09:52.460 looks at an individual person

00:09:54.240 and pardons that individual person,

00:09:57.920 that's personal.

00:09:59.520 It's completely personal.

00:10:02.940 And you,

00:10:03.500 and I think you register it differently.

00:10:05.240 And I think the president knows that,

00:10:06.700 which is probably why he's doing it

00:10:08.320 and probably why he's doing it now.

00:10:10.520 So it's never not political,

00:10:13.040 but you register it very differently.

00:10:16.080 A personal act for a range,

00:10:19.680 now there have been four of them,

00:10:21.540 four of them just through Kim Kardashian.

00:10:24.900 I'm not sure how many others.

00:10:27.180 But when you see the president

00:10:28.320 pardoning people

00:10:29.760 on an individual basis like that,

00:10:31.900 and these are people

00:10:32.880 who were in jail for real crimes.

00:10:35.360 These were not people

00:10:36.560 who were unfairly accused.

00:10:39.980 They may have been over,

00:10:41.420 over sentenced,

00:10:43.320 but they certainly did the crimes.

00:10:45.820 And it just looks like

00:10:48.320 it's hard to reconcile in your head

00:10:51.020 how could this man be a racist

00:10:55.020 while he's doing,

00:10:57.140 you know,

00:10:57.460 one black woman,

00:10:59.380 I think they're all black women, 1.00

00:11:01.320 after another pardoning them 0.98

00:11:03.320 for actual crimes.

00:11:05.700 You know,

00:11:05.940 again,

00:11:06.460 these are reasonable pardons.

00:11:07.940 They fall,

00:11:08.340 they fall easily within the,

00:11:09.940 the realm that a reasonable person

00:11:12.120 will say,

00:11:12.580 yeah,

00:11:12.820 I can see that.

00:11:14.040 I can see that.

00:11:17.220 So,

00:11:17.820 I just wanted to point that out

00:11:18.880 for its persuasion power.

00:11:20.280 It's way more powerful

00:11:21.280 than you think.

00:11:22.400 And at this point,

00:11:23.320 I think we're going to,

00:11:24.160 we're going to be surprised

00:11:25.320 at how many black votes

00:11:27.700 President Trump gets.

00:11:29.320 Because it's little stuff like this.

00:11:31.220 It just,

00:11:31.600 it's just really powerful.

00:11:33.660 And then he's got,

00:11:34.880 you know,

00:11:35.140 other things that he can,

00:11:36.580 he can look to.

00:11:37.280 So he's got a good record going.

00:11:39.540 I'm happy about that.

00:11:41.100 So here's some more stuff.

00:11:44.240 The Federalist

00:11:45.420 has been

00:11:47.500 in a couple different ways.

00:11:50.380 Molly Hemingway,

00:11:51.100 who works there,

00:11:51.700 and also Sean Davis.

00:11:52.780 I think he's the founder,

00:11:54.320 a founder,

00:11:55.240 publisher,

00:11:55.700 editor.

00:11:56.640 One of those things,

00:11:57.880 or two of those things,

00:11:58.780 or three of them.

00:11:59.320 And here's Sean Davis's tweet.

00:12:04.400 He said,

00:12:04.800 if only Bloomberg had hired Russians 1.00

00:12:06.560 to buy $100,000

00:12:08.360 in barely literate Facebook ads,

00:12:11.320 instead of spending $700 million,

00:12:13.380 he'd be president now.

00:12:15.720 That's what the media have told us

00:12:17.440 for three plus years.

00:12:19.240 So here's the question.

00:12:20.920 Did Bloomberg prove that money

00:12:23.200 can't buy an election?

00:12:25.620 Or,

00:12:26.820 did he prove that it can?

00:12:28.720 It just didn't work in this case.

00:12:30.880 I would argue

00:12:31.940 very strongly

00:12:33.600 that he proved it can.

00:12:36.720 He just didn't win.

00:12:38.500 Now these,

00:12:39.060 Trump,

00:12:40.640 you know,

00:12:41.160 Trump only won by a narrow margin

00:12:42.760 in a few battleground states,

00:12:45.000 if you take it down to that level.

00:12:47.300 could a Bloomberg level

00:12:51.480 spending

00:12:53.860 have changed that result?

00:12:57.140 Probably.

00:12:58.200 I mean,

00:12:58.600 Bloomberg went from nothing

00:12:59.720 to the teens

00:13:01.080 in support.

00:13:03.000 That's a pretty big move

00:13:04.720 from zero to the teens

00:13:06.460 without any prior experience

00:13:08.600 in this sort of thing.

00:13:11.160 So,

00:13:11.600 I think that Bloomberg

00:13:12.920 proved money makes a difference,

00:13:15.160 but you still need a candidate.

00:13:17.300 You can't get away,

00:13:18.500 you can't get away with that.

00:13:20.300 So I think everybody

00:13:21.080 who says money didn't work,

00:13:22.940 you're really ignoring

00:13:24.080 the candidate here.

00:13:26.240 Let me put it this way.

00:13:28.920 If you put me

00:13:30.200 in the presidential race

00:13:31.440 with 700 million,

00:13:34.220 I think I'd have gotten

00:13:35.980 in the top two.

00:13:37.940 Maybe not,

00:13:38.780 maybe not top one,

00:13:40.460 but I'm pretty sure

00:13:41.580 I could have gotten

00:13:42.180 into the top two

00:13:43.220 with 700 million dollars

00:13:45.440 because I would be

00:13:46.240 a better candidate

00:13:47.040 than Bloomberg.

00:13:48.440 And by the way,

00:13:49.700 I don't think

00:13:50.280 I would be a good candidate.

00:13:52.460 You know,

00:13:52.840 on a scale of one to ten,

00:13:53.980 I'd be a six

00:13:57.640 on my best day.

00:13:59.940 If someone,

00:14:00.560 you know,

00:14:01.080 was generous,

00:14:02.320 they may say

00:14:03.140 I'm a seven and a ten.

00:14:05.000 But Bloomberg was a three.

00:14:06.980 He was a three.

00:14:08.080 He was really terrible

00:14:08.880 at that.

00:14:09.620 I mean,

00:14:09.900 really terrible

00:14:10.540 as a politician,

00:14:12.840 leader type,

00:14:13.460 public speaker

00:14:14.900 and debater.

00:14:16.600 So,

00:14:17.480 it's very funny 0.77

00:14:18.560 to mock the Russians 0.99

00:14:19.820 and their $100,000

00:14:20.860 of barely literate

00:14:22.060 Facebook ads,

00:14:22.940 which I do believe

00:14:24.520 had no impact

00:14:25.380 whatsoever.

00:14:26.440 Because,

00:14:26.880 you know,

00:14:27.480 how many of those people

00:14:28.740 in the battleground states

00:14:30.100 saw a Russia 0.91

00:14:31.980 Facebook ad,

00:14:33.780 barely literate,

00:14:35.060 and said,

00:14:35.720 you know,

00:14:36.880 I changed my mind.

00:14:37.800 I'm going to go

00:14:39.240 for Trump.

00:14:40.460 Nobody.

00:14:43.040 All right.

00:14:44.480 Trump is getting in trouble

00:14:45.700 for saying he has a hunch,

00:14:47.940 hunch being the key word here,

00:14:50.080 that the coronavirus

00:14:51.220 virality

00:14:53.060 is not as high

00:14:54.200 as the scientists

00:14:55.100 are saying at the moment.

00:14:57.220 And,

00:14:57.700 of course,

00:14:58.060 what do the Democrats say

00:14:59.460 when the president says,

00:15:01.080 I have a hunch

00:15:01.700 it's not as bad

00:15:02.800 as the scientists

00:15:04.020 are saying?

00:15:05.380 Well,

00:15:05.880 of course,

00:15:06.200 this plays into

00:15:06.940 their narrative.

00:15:07.920 He's the anti-science guy.

00:15:10.040 Why is he

00:15:10.960 saying the scientists

00:15:12.440 are wrong

00:15:13.100 with his no knowledge

00:15:14.280 whatsoever?

00:15:15.560 Well,

00:15:16.060 I don't think

00:15:16.500 it's no knowledge.

00:15:17.880 Because you know

00:15:18.440 what I think?

00:15:19.860 Same thing

00:15:20.520 the president thinks.

00:15:22.020 Do you know

00:15:22.360 what lots of

00:15:23.480 reasonable observers

00:15:24.460 think?

00:15:25.680 Same thing

00:15:26.240 the president thinks.

00:15:27.600 Do you think

00:15:28.200 the president

00:15:28.660 came up with

00:15:29.280 this opinion

00:15:29.840 completely on his own

00:15:31.860 and that there was

00:15:33.140 nobody who was

00:15:33.880 an expert in the room

00:15:35.000 who had ever said,

00:15:36.480 well,

00:15:36.640 you know,

00:15:36.780 there's a good

00:15:38.320 chance it could be

00:15:38.980 lower?

00:15:40.820 We don't know.

00:15:42.660 But I would be

00:15:43.520 very surprised

00:15:44.460 if the president

00:15:45.340 is just ignoring

00:15:46.400 100% of experts

00:15:48.080 and just making up

00:15:49.520 a hunch

00:15:49.960 for whatever reason.

00:15:52.320 Now,

00:15:53.040 here's what we know

00:15:54.480 that's new.

00:15:56.280 That's sort of

00:15:57.040 a good news,

00:15:57.600 bad news,

00:15:58.100 and plays into

00:15:58.700 this part.

00:16:00.040 Apparently,

00:16:00.560 the coronavirus

00:16:01.460 has split into

00:16:02.420 two major

00:16:03.820 evolutionary trees

00:16:05.620 with lots of

00:16:06.940 variety,

00:16:08.200 but they're

00:16:08.500 two main

00:16:09.320 strains now.

00:16:11.580 And the

00:16:12.160 70%,

00:16:13.580 let's see,

00:16:15.640 is it,

00:16:17.280 I don't want to

00:16:18.720 get the numbers

00:16:19.300 wrong,

00:16:19.620 so let me just

00:16:20.120 say this.

00:16:21.600 One of the strains

00:16:22.740 is really bad,

00:16:24.220 and one of them

00:16:24.800 is mild.

00:16:26.740 But here's the

00:16:27.700 fun part.

00:16:29.820 This isn't fun.

00:16:30.960 Let me take that

00:16:31.740 word back,

00:16:33.040 erase that word.

00:16:33.780 There's nothing

00:16:34.300 fun about the

00:16:35.080 coronavirus.

00:16:36.660 Here's the

00:16:37.260 interesting part.

00:16:39.920 The bad one

00:16:41.000 seems mostly

00:16:41.940 limited to China,

00:16:43.460 and the weaker

00:16:44.720 one seems to be

00:16:45.640 the one that's

00:16:46.160 spreading.

00:16:47.040 Now,

00:16:47.240 is that a

00:16:47.620 coincidence?

00:16:49.100 It could be.

00:16:50.060 It could be just

00:16:50.760 a coincidence.

00:16:51.860 But,

00:16:52.540 here's me not

00:16:54.960 being a scientist

00:16:55.700 and trying to

00:16:56.400 understand things

00:16:57.160 I've heard.

00:16:58.320 We're all

00:16:59.000 struggling to

00:16:59.700 try to wrestle

00:17:01.060 with the

00:17:02.220 science of it,

00:17:03.080 and we're

00:17:03.300 not scientists,

00:17:04.180 so forgive me

00:17:05.480 in advance

00:17:06.040 for whatever

00:17:07.540 I get wrong

00:17:08.160 in this next

00:17:08.940 part.

00:17:10.260 But my

00:17:10.720 understanding is

00:17:11.480 that there are

00:17:11.940 certain strains

00:17:12.920 of viruses

00:17:13.500 that would be

00:17:14.840 more compatible

00:17:16.460 with or more

00:17:17.760 viral with

00:17:18.780 certain genetic

00:17:19.800 conditions.

00:17:21.520 In other words,

00:17:22.060 if you were

00:17:22.500 Chinese,

00:17:23.700 it could be

00:17:24.420 you're more

00:17:24.800 likely to get

00:17:25.400 one strain

00:17:26.060 than the other.

00:17:26.680 because I've

00:17:28.700 heard,

00:17:29.120 but I'm not

00:17:29.580 a scientist,

00:17:30.180 so I need a

00:17:30.640 fact check on

00:17:31.260 this,

00:17:31.860 I've heard that

00:17:32.540 some strains

00:17:33.280 can have a

00:17:34.360 preference for

00:17:35.420 some genetic

00:17:36.280 types.

00:17:37.980 So it's

00:17:38.600 entirely possible

00:17:39.540 that China is 0.73

00:17:40.380 going to get

00:17:40.820 the bulk of

00:17:42.340 the worst

00:17:42.880 kind.

00:17:43.620 It's not

00:17:43.940 completely

00:17:44.380 restricted,

00:17:45.200 so both of

00:17:45.860 them are

00:17:46.160 everywhere,

00:17:47.160 but it's

00:17:47.900 very dominant

00:17:48.620 in China,

00:17:50.000 and it's

00:17:50.320 the opposite

00:17:51.340 outside of

00:17:51.960 China.

00:17:52.900 So one of

00:17:53.520 the possibilities,

00:17:55.040 and it's way

00:17:55.520 too early to

00:17:56.140 say that this

00:17:56.640 is likely,

00:17:57.940 but certainly

00:17:58.520 one of the

00:17:58.920 possibilities is

00:18:00.200 that the

00:18:00.540 United States

00:18:01.260 and maybe

00:18:01.640 other countries

00:18:02.240 will be hit

00:18:03.260 primarily with

00:18:04.300 a weaker

00:18:04.620 version.

00:18:05.900 Now the

00:18:06.140 other thing

00:18:06.500 that I don't

00:18:06.940 know about,

00:18:09.060 and I would

00:18:09.880 love a fact

00:18:10.520 check on this

00:18:11.100 if there's

00:18:11.440 somebody in the

00:18:13.060 medical community

00:18:13.960 or scientific

00:18:14.540 who can answer

00:18:15.240 this,

00:18:16.060 if you get

00:18:16.960 the weak

00:18:17.520 strain of

00:18:19.760 the coronavirus,

00:18:21.140 would it

00:18:21.540 give you

00:18:21.880 any protection

00:18:22.840 against catching

00:18:24.780 the stronger

00:18:25.640 version later?

00:18:27.440 That's a

00:18:27.960 pretty important

00:18:28.420 question.

00:18:29.860 And if

00:18:30.480 anybody could

00:18:30.940 get back to

00:18:31.580 me on

00:18:31.880 Twitter,

00:18:33.200 I would like

00:18:34.280 to know that.

00:18:35.360 Now it could

00:18:35.720 be it's so

00:18:36.100 different it

00:18:36.460 doesn't help

00:18:36.860 you at all,

00:18:37.380 so we'll

00:18:37.760 find out.

00:18:40.600 Now the

00:18:41.220 president,

00:18:42.780 here's why this

00:18:44.260 ties into the

00:18:45.040 other thing I

00:18:45.620 was saying about

00:18:46.060 the president's

00:18:46.760 hunch.

00:18:47.640 If it's true

00:18:48.480 that there's a

00:18:49.060 mild version,

00:18:50.800 that it's also

00:18:51.500 true there could

00:18:52.620 be lots of

00:18:53.640 people infected

00:18:54.340 who are just

00:18:56.360 unaware of it.

00:18:57.740 And if that's

00:18:58.480 the case,

00:18:59.280 then the

00:18:59.600 virality,

00:19:01.180 you know,

00:19:02.180 it may have a

00:19:03.020 different denominator

00:19:03.980 than we think,

00:19:04.960 at least in terms

00:19:05.500 of the deadly

00:19:05.940 part.

00:19:07.040 So we're

00:19:08.800 going to have

00:19:09.080 this blended

00:19:09.740 death rate that

00:19:12.420 we probably

00:19:12.840 shouldn't.

00:19:13.660 Maybe it'll

00:19:14.160 change.

00:19:14.900 But we should

00:19:15.420 have one

00:19:15.860 death rate

00:19:16.480 that's the

00:19:17.260 bad version

00:19:18.160 of the

00:19:18.520 coronavirus,

00:19:19.780 the worst

00:19:20.280 one,

00:19:20.520 and another

00:19:21.420 death rate

00:19:21.900 for the

00:19:22.220 milder

00:19:22.600 version.

00:19:23.560 And then if

00:19:23.920 you get one

00:19:24.520 versus the 0.55

00:19:25.120 other,

00:19:25.600 or if you're

00:19:26.080 someplace where

00:19:26.780 one is more

00:19:27.360 prevalent than

00:19:27.900 the other,

00:19:29.400 that's better

00:19:29.980 information.

00:19:30.780 But if you

00:19:31.180 combine those

00:19:31.880 two,

00:19:32.340 I think you

00:19:32.860 get a

00:19:33.200 nonsense

00:19:33.540 average.

00:19:35.020 So what we

00:19:35.460 have at the

00:19:35.980 moment,

00:19:36.920 I think,

00:19:38.840 is a

00:19:39.280 nonsense

00:19:39.780 average of

00:19:41.600 two different

00:19:42.260 strains that

00:19:43.080 operate quite

00:19:43.780 differently.

00:19:45.160 Am I wrong?

00:19:46.100 Am I wrong

00:19:46.640 that we have

00:19:47.120 a nonsense

00:19:47.620 average at the

00:19:48.840 moment?

00:19:49.620 So when the

00:19:50.060 president says

00:19:50.680 his hunch

00:19:51.140 is it's

00:19:52.780 going to

00:19:53.000 look different,

00:19:53.860 that could 0.68

00:19:54.700 be because

00:19:55.200 there's a

00:19:55.580 lot of

00:19:55.820 this less

00:19:56.960 viral or

00:19:58.820 less deadly

00:19:59.400 version.

00:20:00.840 I may be

00:20:01.360 mixing up

00:20:01.900 what's deadly

00:20:03.220 versus what's

00:20:04.000 viral.

00:20:05.440 The mild

00:20:06.600 version is

00:20:07.280 less deadly.

00:20:08.940 I'm not

00:20:09.720 entirely sure

00:20:10.400 if it's less

00:20:10.940 viral.

00:20:11.660 That's a

00:20:12.080 separate question.

00:20:14.220 All right.

00:20:15.260 I have

00:20:15.740 heard twice

00:20:16.600 the...

00:20:18.400 Now I'm

00:20:19.940 not going

00:20:20.180 to say

00:20:20.340 this.

00:20:20.940 I'm

00:20:21.060 sorry.

00:20:21.600 I started

00:20:21.940 something,

00:20:22.400 but I'm

00:20:22.560 not going

00:20:22.820 to tell

00:20:23.000 you.

00:20:23.560 I've

00:20:23.760 told you

00:20:24.000 before that

00:20:24.460 one of the

00:20:25.460 ways I

00:20:25.780 trace my

00:20:26.400 influence is

00:20:27.700 by looking

00:20:28.100 for unique

00:20:29.200 word choices.

00:20:30.900 And I'm

00:20:31.440 seeing some

00:20:32.060 of my unique

00:20:32.740 word choices

00:20:33.420 out in the

00:20:33.920 wild, but I'm

00:20:35.100 not going to

00:20:35.420 tell you what

00:20:35.780 it is until

00:20:36.900 later.

00:20:38.500 But it looks

00:20:39.120 like it's

00:20:39.440 getting out

00:20:39.800 there.

00:20:40.500 All right.

00:20:41.320 You know,

00:20:41.880 the big news

00:20:42.480 of the day.

00:20:43.780 You know,

00:20:44.320 I could not

00:20:44.880 be more

00:20:45.320 bored by this.

00:20:46.400 It's the

00:20:47.020 headline.

00:20:47.880 Everybody's

00:20:48.220 talking about it.

00:20:48.880 So Schumer

00:20:50.440 stood in front

00:20:52.260 of the Supreme

00:20:52.840 Court and

00:20:54.120 threatened by

00:20:55.160 name, by

00:20:56.700 name, Gorsuch

00:20:57.980 and Kavanaugh

00:20:58.780 for they're

00:21:00.120 working on

00:21:00.680 some kind of

00:21:01.240 case with

00:21:01.920 reproductive

00:21:02.300 rights,

00:21:03.120 abortion.

00:21:04.520 And Schumer

00:21:05.460 actually threatened

00:21:07.000 them by name

00:21:07.880 and said,

00:21:08.460 you know,

00:21:09.700 that the

00:21:10.420 whirlwind would

00:21:12.120 be released and

00:21:13.100 they'd pay for

00:21:14.440 it somehow.

00:21:14.820 Now, here's

00:21:16.660 the thing.

00:21:18.020 We live in

00:21:19.000 a gotcha

00:21:20.480 world and

00:21:21.140 gotcha times and

00:21:22.240 a gotcha

00:21:23.140 election year.

00:21:24.440 So, of course,

00:21:25.340 everybody on the

00:21:26.820 conservative side

00:21:27.880 jumped all over

00:21:29.520 him and said,

00:21:30.200 my God, if

00:21:31.140 Trump had said

00:21:32.060 this, it'd be

00:21:33.080 impeachment time.

00:21:34.140 It probably

00:21:34.480 would.

00:21:35.100 If any

00:21:35.540 Republican had

00:21:36.300 said this, it

00:21:37.440 would be the

00:21:37.820 end of the

00:21:38.180 world.

00:21:39.380 Kind of would

00:21:40.180 be.

00:21:42.200 But I

00:21:43.060 watched it

00:21:43.700 live.

00:21:45.120 If you watch

00:21:45.760 it live, first

00:21:46.540 of all, it's

00:21:47.060 hard to figure

00:21:47.460 out what's

00:21:47.820 going on because

00:21:48.600 his staff just

00:21:49.460 lied about it

00:21:50.140 and said, oh,

00:21:50.620 he was talking

00:21:51.100 about politicians.

00:21:53.560 He wasn't

00:21:53.900 talking about

00:21:54.380 the Supreme

00:21:54.820 Court.

00:21:55.540 But that was

00:21:56.080 just a bold

00:21:56.600 faced lie because

00:21:57.740 if you look at

00:21:58.420 it, he named

00:21:59.020 the Supreme

00:21:59.580 Court members

00:22:00.180 by name.

00:22:02.160 There's no

00:22:03.020 ambiguity about

00:22:03.940 who he was

00:22:04.320 talking about.

00:22:04.780 He named

00:22:05.160 them.

00:22:06.360 So he

00:22:07.900 names them

00:22:08.440 and then he

00:22:09.560 goes into

00:22:09.960 this threatening

00:22:10.700 kind of thing

00:22:11.380 if they make

00:22:11.880 the wrong

00:22:12.220 decision.

00:22:13.420 But if you

00:22:14.160 watched his

00:22:14.960 performance, you

00:22:16.740 could see that

00:22:17.280 he had a

00:22:17.660 smile.

00:22:19.180 So he was

00:22:20.000 doing a

00:22:20.700 performance and

00:22:21.760 it was that.

00:22:22.900 He was

00:22:23.600 performing for

00:22:24.500 a crowd.

00:22:25.020 It was

00:22:25.280 theater and

00:22:26.820 he had a

00:22:27.180 smile on his

00:22:27.840 face even

00:22:28.380 though he

00:22:28.680 was talking

00:22:29.200 angrily about

00:22:30.220 all the bad

00:22:31.780 things that are

00:22:32.260 happening and

00:22:32.740 what they'll

00:22:33.060 do.

00:22:33.820 But he

00:22:34.200 literally had a

00:22:34.760 smile the

00:22:35.260 whole time.

00:22:36.440 He wasn't

00:22:37.320 even a little

00:22:38.420 bit serious.

00:22:40.440 He was

00:22:40.760 just playing

00:22:41.140 to the

00:22:41.400 crowd.

00:22:42.300 Now here's

00:22:42.660 my hypothesis

00:22:45.560 because what

00:22:47.240 you really

00:22:47.580 wonder is what

00:22:48.120 the hell was 0.96

00:22:48.580 he thinking? 0.84

00:22:49.760 Right?

00:22:50.240 What was he

00:22:50.960 thinking?

00:22:52.160 Was he

00:22:52.820 actually thinking

00:22:53.900 that he would

00:22:54.880 get revenge on

00:22:55.940 a life-appointed

00:22:57.160 Supreme Court

00:22:58.120 judge and that

00:22:59.260 he was going to

00:22:59.800 say it in public

00:23:00.600 before he did

00:23:01.300 it?

00:23:02.960 That doesn't

00:23:03.800 seem realistic.

00:23:04.600 think.

00:23:05.220 So it

00:23:05.560 doesn't seem

00:23:06.080 realistic that

00:23:07.900 he intended

00:23:08.520 it the way

00:23:09.320 it has been

00:23:10.120 taken in

00:23:10.660 its worst

00:23:11.120 way.

00:23:12.520 But what 0.61

00:23:12.880 the hell 0.78

00:23:13.120 was he 0.96

00:23:13.500 thinking?

00:23:14.720 What possible

00:23:16.240 interpretation

00:23:16.960 could you put

00:23:17.580 on that

00:23:18.020 that doesn't

00:23:19.540 make it

00:23:19.860 evil?

00:23:21.160 I will give

00:23:22.000 you one.

00:23:23.620 He was

00:23:24.060 talking without

00:23:24.800 thinking.

00:23:26.380 That's it.

00:23:27.300 I think that's

00:23:27.860 the whole

00:23:28.080 explanation.

00:23:28.580 I believe

00:23:30.600 that he was

00:23:31.080 getting caught

00:23:31.560 up in his

00:23:32.020 own rhetoric

00:23:32.580 and when he

00:23:33.920 thought of

00:23:34.360 this you'll

00:23:35.340 reap the

00:23:35.760 whirlwind or

00:23:36.480 something like

00:23:37.020 if you sow

00:23:38.160 the whirlwind

00:23:38.880 you'll reap

00:23:39.620 it or whatever

00:23:40.120 that saying

00:23:40.620 is.

00:23:41.060 I feel like

00:23:41.340 Joe Biden

00:23:41.780 now.

00:23:42.060 I can't

00:23:42.240 remember

00:23:42.500 common

00:23:42.860 sayings.

00:23:43.980 But I

00:23:45.240 think that

00:23:46.020 he sort

00:23:46.860 of fell in

00:23:47.520 love with

00:23:47.900 his own

00:23:48.260 rhetoric and

00:23:49.880 then he

00:23:50.400 knew he

00:23:50.820 was talking

00:23:51.200 about the

00:23:51.620 Supreme

00:23:52.000 Court and

00:23:52.880 he just

00:23:53.180 sort of put

00:23:54.380 his rhetoric

00:23:55.180 and the

00:23:55.620 Supreme

00:23:55.900 Court

00:23:56.180 together.

00:23:57.520 And I

00:23:57.880 don't think

00:23:58.360 he knew

00:23:58.660 what he

00:23:58.940 did when

00:23:59.340 he did

00:23:59.620 it.

00:24:01.300 I think

00:24:02.200 it was a

00:24:03.820 complete

00:24:04.240 Joe Biden

00:24:05.080 conflating

00:24:06.740 cool rhetoric

00:24:07.600 with the

00:24:08.040 names of

00:24:08.440 the Supreme

00:24:08.880 Court and

00:24:09.960 I feel like

00:24:10.720 he didn't

00:24:11.060 know he

00:24:11.400 was doing

00:24:11.840 it because

00:24:13.860 of the

00:24:14.140 smile.

00:24:15.160 Because you

00:24:15.820 don't smile

00:24:16.320 like that if

00:24:17.640 you're saying

00:24:19.060 that seriously.

00:24:20.600 Nobody in

00:24:21.160 the world

00:24:21.540 says,

00:24:22.720 yeah,

00:24:22.980 you know,

00:24:23.640 they're really

00:24:24.640 going to pay

00:24:24.980 for it.

00:24:26.760 That doesn't

00:24:28.020 match.

00:24:30.100 So the

00:24:30.560 smile is

00:24:32.160 the tell.

00:24:33.880 And again,

00:24:34.520 I see in the

00:24:35.220 comments,

00:24:35.700 and you're

00:24:35.960 absolutely right,

00:24:36.820 in the comments

00:24:37.380 if you're

00:24:37.740 saying,

00:24:38.060 I can't

00:24:38.440 read his

00:24:38.780 mind,

00:24:40.060 that's

00:24:40.440 exactly what

00:24:41.000 you should

00:24:41.280 be saying.

00:24:42.000 So you

00:24:42.320 should be

00:24:42.600 treating what

00:24:43.120 I'm saying

00:24:43.540 with 100%

00:24:45.100 skepticism.

00:24:46.320 That's

00:24:46.740 exactly the

00:24:47.440 right way

00:24:47.780 to listen

00:24:48.460 to this.

00:24:50.000 I'm just

00:24:50.580 giving you

00:24:50.940 an option.

00:24:52.060 So I'm

00:24:52.420 not saying

00:24:52.900 that that's

00:24:53.580 what he was

00:24:53.960 thinking.

00:24:54.780 I'm saying

00:24:55.360 that of the

00:24:55.940 alternatives of

00:24:56.820 what he was

00:24:57.280 thinking.

00:24:58.000 It was

00:24:58.580 intentional

00:24:59.140 and he

00:24:59.480 meant it.

00:25:01.560 Or it

00:25:02.220 was just,

00:25:02.880 he sort of

00:25:03.600 misspoke

00:25:04.100 because he

00:25:04.520 got carried

00:25:05.580 away with

00:25:05.960 himself.

00:25:06.740 There's just

00:25:07.120 two possibilities.

00:25:08.440 I would just

00:25:08.980 say that the

00:25:09.480 possibility that

00:25:10.300 he meant it,

00:25:12.120 exactly the way

00:25:13.080 it was taken,

00:25:13.900 is very low.

00:25:15.460 It's very low,

00:25:16.840 in my opinion.

00:25:19.120 And I have

00:25:19.820 no objection

00:25:20.620 if you disagree

00:25:22.660 with that,

00:25:23.160 because it's

00:25:23.840 speculation and

00:25:24.620 mind-reading.

00:25:25.500 And if you

00:25:26.940 disagree,

00:25:27.460 that would

00:25:27.680 be completely

00:25:28.580 fair.

00:25:30.600 All right.

00:25:34.260 I don't

00:25:34.780 think a

00:25:35.140 vaccine's

00:25:35.800 coming.

00:25:38.080 We keep

00:25:38.680 hearing the

00:25:39.060 news that

00:25:39.700 they're working

00:25:40.620 on that

00:25:41.020 vaccine.

00:25:41.680 It might

00:25:41.880 take a year,

00:25:42.500 it might

00:25:42.660 take a year

00:25:43.080 and a half.

00:25:43.420 And I've

00:25:43.620 been thinking

00:25:44.040 to myself,

00:25:45.100 yeah, but

00:25:45.620 I'll bet

00:25:45.860 they could

00:25:46.140 do it

00:25:46.380 faster,

00:25:47.080 because it's

00:25:47.480 an emergency.

00:25:48.880 You might

00:25:49.540 cut some

00:25:50.000 corners in

00:25:50.600 an emergency

00:25:51.080 that you

00:25:51.480 would never

00:25:51.820 do in

00:25:52.160 any other

00:25:52.520 situation.

00:25:53.000 So I

00:25:53.960 was thinking

00:25:54.280 to myself,

00:25:54.920 yeah, they're

00:25:55.360 saying it's

00:25:55.980 18 months

00:25:56.600 to a year,

00:25:57.360 but maybe

00:25:58.880 we could get

00:25:59.400 it in nine

00:25:59.780 months.

00:26:00.540 Just internally,

00:26:01.540 I was thinking

00:26:01.960 that.

00:26:03.160 And then,

00:26:03.940 I find out a

00:26:05.360 little bit

00:26:05.660 more.

00:26:07.080 We've never

00:26:07.660 made a vaccine

00:26:09.280 that worked

00:26:09.880 for this sort

00:26:10.600 of thing.

00:26:11.740 So this sort

00:26:12.760 of thing being

00:26:13.460 these super

00:26:14.720 dangerous

00:26:15.260 types of

00:26:16.940 viruses,

00:26:17.720 apparently it's

00:26:18.360 never been

00:26:18.800 done.

00:26:20.540 So if we

00:26:21.480 were to do

00:26:21.900 it in nine

00:26:22.340 months,

00:26:23.000 it would

00:26:23.460 not only

00:26:23.840 be the

00:26:24.240 fastest

00:26:24.640 you could

00:26:25.960 imagine,

00:26:27.220 but it

00:26:27.980 would be

00:26:28.400 a miracle.

00:26:29.880 In other

00:26:30.320 words, we've

00:26:30.740 never done

00:26:31.220 it, we

00:26:32.200 don't know

00:26:32.520 how to

00:26:32.800 do it.

00:26:34.620 We've

00:26:35.020 never done

00:26:35.440 it, and we

00:26:35.800 don't know

00:26:36.120 how to do

00:26:36.500 it.

00:26:36.980 It's not

00:26:37.560 going to

00:26:37.760 happen.

00:26:38.880 So I

00:26:39.400 think you

00:26:39.720 should make

00:26:40.400 your plans

00:26:41.160 based on

00:26:41.920 a vaccine

00:26:43.280 that either

00:26:43.720 doesn't exist

00:26:44.380 or doesn't

00:26:44.840 work, or

00:26:45.780 doesn't work

00:26:46.280 very well.

00:26:47.440 So make

00:26:47.820 your plans

00:26:48.340 for the future

00:26:48.900 based on no

00:26:49.860 vaccine is

00:26:50.840 my recommendation.

00:26:54.240 Just assume

00:26:54.820 it's not

00:26:55.140 coming, but

00:26:55.720 you'll still

00:26:56.060 be okay,

00:26:56.980 most of

00:26:57.400 us.

00:27:01.980 So let's

00:27:02.580 talk about

00:27:02.940 masks.

00:27:04.940 I learned

00:27:05.580 a little bit

00:27:06.380 more about

00:27:06.940 medical masks.

00:27:08.680 One of the

00:27:09.080 funny things

00:27:09.540 about following

00:27:10.080 the news is

00:27:10.600 you learn

00:27:11.000 about all

00:27:11.420 these things

00:27:12.040 that you

00:27:12.920 never knew

00:27:13.320 you had to

00:27:13.720 learn about,

00:27:14.500 and now I'm

00:27:15.140 a semi-expert

00:27:16.240 on medical

00:27:16.960 masks, and

00:27:18.320 when I say

00:27:18.740 semi, that's

00:27:19.640 probably

00:27:19.960 overstating it.

00:27:21.220 But here's

00:27:21.660 something that

00:27:23.480 I didn't

00:27:23.860 know.

00:27:24.620 So you're

00:27:25.000 all seeing

00:27:25.360 in the

00:27:25.600 news these

00:27:26.140 so-called

00:27:26.760 N95 masks.

00:27:28.840 I don't

00:27:29.040 know if

00:27:29.320 that's a

00:27:29.680 rating or

00:27:30.360 a brand

00:27:30.860 or what,

00:27:31.760 but apparently

00:27:32.220 the N95s 1.00

00:27:33.580 are the

00:27:34.300 ones that

00:27:34.900 the health

00:27:35.480 professionals

00:27:36.060 use, and

00:27:37.260 they're

00:27:37.460 engineered, and

00:27:38.400 they fit

00:27:38.900 your face,

00:27:39.720 you know, you

00:27:40.000 have to fit

00:27:40.500 them, and

00:27:40.880 so these

00:27:42.360 are the

00:27:42.620 good ones.

00:27:43.600 And you

00:27:43.800 want the 0.55

00:27:44.580 medical

00:27:44.900 professionals to

00:27:45.660 have the

00:27:45.880 good ones,

00:27:46.780 because if

00:27:47.280 they have the

00:27:47.660 ones you

00:27:47.960 can just

00:27:48.300 buy at

00:27:48.760 your drug

00:27:49.280 store, they

00:27:50.360 will not

00:27:50.660 be fully

00:27:51.060 protected,

00:27:52.260 right?

00:27:53.320 Obvious.

00:27:54.020 It's obvious,

00:27:54.620 right?

00:27:55.160 It's obvious

00:27:55.820 that you

00:27:56.120 want your

00:27:56.380 health care

00:27:56.800 people to

00:27:57.640 have the

00:27:57.880 good masks,

00:27:58.800 not the

00:27:59.620 crappy 0.89

00:28:00.240 drugstore

00:28:00.720 one, except

00:28:01.600 apparently

00:28:04.700 there's no

00:28:05.220 research to

00:28:06.120 show that

00:28:06.460 there's any

00:28:06.820 difference.

00:28:08.780 The only

00:28:09.660 studies that

00:28:10.520 have tried

00:28:10.940 to study it

00:28:11.640 found no

00:28:12.600 statistical

00:28:13.220 difference

00:28:13.820 between

00:28:14.580 wearing the

00:28:15.280 N95 and

00:28:17.320 weaker

00:28:18.440 versions that

00:28:19.320 are less

00:28:21.200 designed.

00:28:22.680 So that's

00:28:23.120 not to

00:28:23.440 say it

00:28:23.680 doesn't

00:28:23.940 make a

00:28:24.240 difference,

00:28:26.060 and that's

00:28:27.320 an important

00:28:27.680 distinction.

00:28:28.540 I'm not

00:28:28.960 saying they

00:28:29.340 don't work

00:28:30.040 or that

00:28:30.560 they're not

00:28:30.920 better.

00:28:31.980 I'm saying

00:28:32.440 there's no

00:28:32.840 science behind

00:28:33.560 it.

00:28:34.480 It could be

00:28:35.300 that common

00:28:36.080 sense is

00:28:36.660 enough to

00:28:37.080 tell you one

00:28:37.560 is better

00:28:37.880 than the

00:28:38.200 other if

00:28:38.560 you were to

00:28:38.880 look at

00:28:39.120 the details.

00:28:40.200 Maybe that's

00:28:40.760 what they're

00:28:41.040 operating off,

00:28:41.780 but it's

00:28:42.200 not scientifically

00:28:42.980 demonstrated

00:28:43.620 apparently.

00:28:45.640 But not

00:28:46.520 in the

00:28:46.760 bad way,

00:28:47.240 but in

00:28:47.480 the good

00:28:47.720 way.

00:28:48.840 And what

00:28:49.060 I mean by

00:28:49.520 that is

00:28:50.080 that the

00:28:51.220 good masks

00:28:51.980 were no

00:28:52.640 better than

00:28:53.980 the less

00:28:55.040 designed masks

00:28:56.040 at protecting

00:28:56.940 the health

00:28:57.300 professionals.

00:28:58.380 So the

00:28:58.860 bottom line

00:28:59.280 is that the

00:28:59.740 masks work

00:29:01.260 as far as

00:29:02.380 we know,

00:29:02.960 and as far

00:29:03.320 as the

00:29:03.580 medical

00:29:03.820 community

00:29:04.280 knows,

00:29:05.080 but they

00:29:05.880 don't know

00:29:06.320 that the

00:29:06.680 N95s work 1.00

00:29:07.800 better.

00:29:10.300 Somebody's

00:29:10.740 answering my

00:29:11.260 question here.

00:29:11.760 the N95

00:29:12.980 is a

00:29:13.600 rating.

00:29:14.160 Oh, that

00:29:14.380 makes sense

00:29:14.820 because there's

00:29:15.260 also an

00:29:15.680 N99.

00:29:17.240 Yeah, it's

00:29:17.640 a filter

00:29:18.060 rating.

00:29:19.100 So it

00:29:19.520 must be

00:29:19.820 95% of

00:29:20.900 something

00:29:21.240 versus

00:29:21.600 N99

00:29:22.620 is 99%.

00:29:24.000 There's

00:29:24.560 some even

00:29:25.120 higher level

00:29:25.780 of mask

00:29:26.200 apparently.

00:29:29.140 So I

00:29:30.340 would say

00:29:30.680 that we

00:29:31.020 can completely

00:29:31.740 dismiss

00:29:33.460 the idea

00:29:34.800 that masks

00:29:35.540 don't work.

00:29:36.940 And I

00:29:37.140 think we

00:29:37.800 can also

00:29:38.280 dismiss,

00:29:39.900 at least

00:29:40.540 on a

00:29:41.080 practical

00:29:42.140 level,

00:29:42.580 we can

00:29:42.840 dismiss

00:29:43.180 it.

00:29:43.540 Still

00:29:43.800 need some

00:29:44.200 confirmation.

00:29:45.440 But I

00:29:45.700 would dismiss

00:29:46.240 the idea

00:29:46.820 that the

00:29:47.380 poorly

00:29:48.340 designed

00:29:48.820 masks have

00:29:49.580 no value.

00:29:51.220 It seems

00:29:52.000 that they

00:29:52.380 do,

00:29:53.720 but that's

00:29:54.240 still not

00:29:55.780 completely

00:29:56.180 proven.

00:29:57.420 All right.

00:30:00.260 I was

00:30:00.780 going to say

00:30:01.040 something else

00:30:01.540 about masks,

00:30:02.240 but I just

00:30:02.740 forgot it.

00:30:03.680 So maybe

00:30:04.120 I'll get

00:30:04.360 back to that.

00:30:05.440 I saw

00:30:05.760 Tucker Carlson's

00:30:06.760 show.

00:30:07.180 I was just

00:30:07.420 watching it

00:30:07.900 on replay.

00:30:08.840 He was

00:30:09.040 talking about

00:30:09.480 how AT&T

00:30:10.280 employees are

00:30:11.380 being forced

00:30:12.720 to train

00:30:13.240 their foreign 0.75

00:30:14.560 replacements,

00:30:15.560 I think

00:30:16.300 their HB1

00:30:17.300 visa types

00:30:18.920 from other

00:30:19.420 countries,

00:30:19.940 mostly from

00:30:20.420 India.

00:30:20.880 And some

00:30:21.260 of the

00:30:21.480 American

00:30:21.780 employees

00:30:22.180 were angry

00:30:22.980 that they

00:30:24.020 had to

00:30:24.420 train people

00:30:25.160 to be

00:30:25.500 their

00:30:25.820 replacements.

00:30:26.960 citizens.

00:30:27.440 Now,

00:30:27.620 one of the

00:30:27.820 things Tucker

00:30:28.260 said is

00:30:29.280 that Silicon

00:30:30.560 Valley likes

00:30:31.420 these HB1

00:30:32.800 visas because

00:30:34.240 Silicon Valley

00:30:35.120 says they

00:30:35.900 can't find

00:30:36.560 American

00:30:37.960 workers to

00:30:39.540 fill these

00:30:40.000 technology

00:30:40.600 jobs.

00:30:41.800 And Tucker

00:30:42.280 says that's

00:30:43.620 false.

00:30:45.040 And I

00:30:45.540 wanted to

00:30:45.960 add something

00:30:46.500 to that.

00:30:47.720 And it's

00:30:48.320 this.

00:30:48.980 You have to

00:30:49.840 make a

00:30:50.180 distinction

00:30:50.620 between a

00:30:52.120 technology

00:30:52.780 worker and

00:30:54.780 somebody who

00:30:55.300 actually is

00:30:56.080 a technology

00:30:57.660 expert

00:30:58.760 programmer

00:30:59.760 technologist.

00:31:01.620 They're not

00:31:02.100 the same

00:31:02.460 thing.

00:31:03.480 A technology

00:31:04.240 worker might

00:31:05.840 be tech

00:31:06.540 support,

00:31:07.580 which is

00:31:08.820 just sort

00:31:09.380 of a user

00:31:10.320 level.

00:31:11.480 They don't

00:31:11.880 have to be

00:31:12.240 a technical

00:31:12.680 expert.

00:31:13.900 So my

00:31:14.520 guess,

00:31:15.800 because I

00:31:16.440 live near

00:31:17.060 Silicon Valley,

00:31:18.260 I've got a

00:31:18.880 startup,

00:31:20.020 I've been

00:31:20.600 involved in

00:31:21.060 this world

00:31:21.460 a long

00:31:21.840 time,

00:31:22.760 I can tell

00:31:23.660 you for

00:31:24.020 sure the

00:31:24.760 high-tech

00:31:25.820 companies do

00:31:27.120 not have

00:31:27.840 access to

00:31:29.100 enough

00:31:29.440 technical

00:31:30.420 talents.

00:31:31.640 So the

00:31:31.900 H-1B

00:31:32.360 visas for

00:31:33.020 people who

00:31:33.420 actually know

00:31:33.880 how to

00:31:34.120 program,

00:31:34.860 people with

00:31:35.280 full stacks,

00:31:36.700 that sort

00:31:37.100 of thing,

00:31:37.760 there is a

00:31:38.700 shortage of

00:31:39.180 them.

00:31:39.900 And these

00:31:40.220 companies are

00:31:41.180 limited in

00:31:42.600 their growth

00:31:43.160 by access to

00:31:44.340 that kind of

00:31:44.860 person.

00:31:45.920 But it

00:31:46.460 wouldn't

00:31:46.700 surprise me

00:31:47.280 if technology

00:31:48.120 workers,

00:31:49.260 people who

00:31:49.660 do lesser

00:31:50.860 skilled jobs,

00:31:52.260 it wouldn't

00:31:52.620 surprise me if

00:31:53.180 they're being

00:31:53.560 replaced by

00:31:54.500 foreign workers

00:31:55.240 and maybe

00:31:55.700 that's an

00:31:56.100 issue that

00:31:56.440 needs to

00:31:56.720 be addressed.

00:31:57.480 So I think

00:31:57.780 Tucker's on to

00:31:58.440 something,

00:31:59.300 but I like to

00:32:00.140 make that

00:32:00.420 distinction.

00:32:01.020 We really do

00:32:01.700 have a

00:32:02.020 shortage,

00:32:02.780 and always

00:32:03.280 would,

00:32:03.880 by the way.

00:32:04.900 I don't

00:32:05.480 think there

00:32:05.820 would be

00:32:06.060 any such

00:32:06.540 thing as

00:32:07.960 enough

00:32:08.440 highly trained

00:32:10.140 technical

00:32:10.660 workers,

00:32:11.480 because the

00:32:12.120 more you

00:32:12.480 have,

00:32:13.440 the more

00:32:13.920 startups get

00:32:14.580 started.

00:32:15.860 So you

00:32:16.780 don't hire

00:32:17.260 them all and

00:32:17.760 then you don't

00:32:18.140 need any more,

00:32:19.100 you just create

00:32:19.760 more startups the

00:32:20.620 more you have.

00:32:21.200 So there's

00:32:21.960 no such

00:32:22.380 thing as

00:32:23.040 having enough

00:32:23.780 of the best

00:32:25.540 technical people

00:32:27.540 from India.

00:32:29.480 We want

00:32:30.260 more,

00:32:31.740 not less.

00:32:33.840 You know,

00:32:34.260 if you want

00:32:34.980 your country to

00:32:35.600 be prosperous and

00:32:36.540 you want Americans 0.86

00:32:37.280 to have jobs,

00:32:39.020 bring in,

00:32:39.980 you know,

00:32:40.640 bring in a

00:32:41.300 high-end Indian

00:32:42.540 programmer and

00:32:44.180 have them start a

00:32:44.820 company.

00:32:45.440 You're going to

00:32:45.900 make some jobs.

00:32:46.600 because we

00:32:48.640 weren't doing it

00:32:49.160 without them.

00:32:50.280 In other words,

00:32:51.200 you know,

00:32:51.540 the more of them

00:32:52.060 we have,

00:32:52.460 the better.

00:32:53.760 One prediction I

00:32:54.660 made,

00:32:55.020 which is,

00:32:56.120 wasn't a hard

00:32:57.120 prediction,

00:32:57.980 is that Amazon

00:32:58.720 would go crazy

00:33:01.980 because we'd

00:33:02.460 have a lot of

00:33:02.840 business.

00:33:03.260 Now,

00:33:03.440 of course,

00:33:03.780 they have

00:33:03.980 challenges with

00:33:04.740 their own supply

00:33:05.380 chain,

00:33:05.840 but I think

00:33:06.180 they have that

00:33:06.600 mostly under

00:33:07.120 control.

00:33:07.980 The real

00:33:08.300 problem is

00:33:08.740 the demand

00:33:09.240 is so high.

00:33:10.680 People are

00:33:11.260 ordering from

00:33:11.940 Amazon to

00:33:12.560 stock up,

00:33:13.840 but I think

00:33:14.740 that that's going

00:33:15.320 to create a

00:33:15.840 habit,

00:33:16.600 that some

00:33:17.940 of us already

00:33:18.480 had and

00:33:19.040 others were

00:33:19.720 getting hooked

00:33:20.820 on it.

00:33:21.760 So I think

00:33:22.120 the days of

00:33:22.820 going to

00:33:23.360 stores,

00:33:24.660 which had

00:33:25.300 been,

00:33:25.660 of course,

00:33:26.040 in a long

00:33:26.480 decline,

00:33:27.340 you know,

00:33:27.560 we were doing

00:33:27.960 more online

00:33:28.580 shopping,

00:33:29.460 but I think

00:33:29.980 this last

00:33:30.640 little shock,

00:33:32.380 the coronavirus,

00:33:34.120 it's going to

00:33:35.120 take Amazon

00:33:35.960 and everybody

00:33:36.800 else who sells

00:33:37.380 online into

00:33:38.060 another realm,

00:33:40.340 I think.

00:33:41.040 I mean,

00:33:41.380 think about it,

00:33:41.940 this could go

00:33:42.360 through Christmas.

00:33:44.000 You know,

00:33:44.180 if we're still

00:33:44.620 dealing with this

00:33:45.300 or even talking

00:33:46.020 about it at

00:33:46.520 Christmas,

00:33:47.500 you're going

00:33:47.840 to buy

00:33:48.100 everything

00:33:48.740 online.

00:33:51.160 All right,

00:33:52.060 what else

00:33:53.020 we got going

00:33:53.500 here?

00:33:56.760 I'll just

00:33:57.280 make you wait

00:33:57.800 while I'm

00:33:58.120 looking at my

00:33:58.540 notes.

00:33:59.460 That's fun.

00:34:01.280 All right,

00:34:01.640 well,

00:34:01.780 that's about

00:34:02.060 all I got

00:34:02.420 today.

00:34:02.840 There's not

00:34:03.400 much going

00:34:03.860 on.

00:34:04.120 I think

00:34:04.340 this Schumer

00:34:05.680 thing is just

00:34:06.620 a whole lot

00:34:07.140 of political

00:34:08.900 nothing.

00:34:09.360 I think

00:34:10.860 the coronavirus

00:34:11.360 is the

00:34:11.960 only story

00:34:12.420 that's

00:34:13.220 worth having.

00:34:14.820 I think

00:34:15.120 that watching

00:34:16.320 the Joe

00:34:17.620 Biden story

00:34:19.060 is fascinating.

00:34:20.740 Also watching

00:34:21.920 Tucker,

00:34:22.820 you know,

00:34:23.080 Tucker was,

00:34:24.140 and I always

00:34:24.600 appreciate this

00:34:25.300 because Tucker

00:34:25.800 was confessing

00:34:28.080 more than once

00:34:28.880 on just

00:34:29.520 yesterday's show

00:34:30.320 that he had

00:34:32.060 been saying

00:34:32.600 with complete

00:34:33.520 certainty,

00:34:34.160 Biden will

00:34:34.660 never get

00:34:35.060 the nomination.

00:34:36.380 And now he's

00:34:36.880 saying that,

00:34:37.640 at least apparently,

00:34:38.280 it looks like

00:34:38.940 that's wrong.

00:34:40.420 So the first

00:34:41.220 thing I appreciate

00:34:41.840 is anybody

00:34:42.540 who says,

00:34:43.280 I predicted

00:34:44.120 this,

00:34:44.660 I was 100%

00:34:45.420 wrong.

00:34:47.280 I just always

00:34:48.220 appreciate that.

00:34:50.880 But I'm not

00:34:52.440 so sure it's

00:34:53.140 over.

00:34:54.540 I think we're

00:34:55.360 a little bit

00:34:55.980 quick on this.

00:34:56.980 I think it

00:34:57.400 will be.

00:34:57.920 I mean,

00:34:58.160 my prediction

00:34:58.680 at this point

00:34:59.960 is that it's

00:35:01.560 going to be

00:35:01.940 Kamala Harris.

00:35:03.380 Oh,

00:35:03.640 did I say

00:35:04.040 Kamala Harris?

00:35:05.380 What I meant

00:35:06.060 was Joe Biden

00:35:06.920 would pick

00:35:07.860 Kamala Harris

00:35:08.560 as the

00:35:09.120 vice president

00:35:09.720 and through

00:35:10.960 her,

00:35:11.680 the real

00:35:12.220 power of

00:35:12.920 the presidency

00:35:14.060 would flow,

00:35:15.680 meaning that

00:35:16.480 Joe wouldn't

00:35:17.640 really be in

00:35:18.420 charge if he

00:35:19.020 were the

00:35:19.280 president.

00:35:19.900 And I think

00:35:20.300 people are

00:35:20.800 starting to

00:35:21.300 say that.

00:35:22.580 And you're

00:35:23.140 seeing it

00:35:24.140 expressed as

00:35:24.800 a question,

00:35:26.020 which is

00:35:26.440 actually more

00:35:26.940 powerful persuasion.

00:35:28.980 If you get

00:35:29.400 a chance,

00:35:30.680 if you want

00:35:31.140 to use this

00:35:31.600 persuasion,

00:35:32.200 let me tell

00:35:32.520 you the

00:35:32.740 strong form.

00:35:33.380 the weak

00:35:35.320 form is

00:35:36.620 if Joe

00:35:37.120 Biden is

00:35:37.500 president,

00:35:38.820 Hillary Clinton

00:35:39.660 will be using

00:35:40.440 him as a

00:35:40.920 puppet,

00:35:41.560 or Obama,

00:35:42.240 or somebody

00:35:42.520 else.

00:35:43.200 That's a

00:35:43.640 direct

00:35:43.980 statement.

00:35:44.920 When you

00:35:45.220 make a

00:35:45.520 direct

00:35:45.740 statement of

00:35:46.220 fact,

00:35:46.520 it's easy

00:35:46.940 for people

00:35:47.400 to say,

00:35:47.980 no,

00:35:48.160 that's not

00:35:48.460 true.

00:35:49.420 That's not

00:35:49.860 true.

00:35:50.460 So it's

00:35:50.900 not very

00:35:51.280 persuasive,

00:35:52.380 because people

00:35:52.860 just reflexively

00:35:53.920 say,

00:35:54.400 no,

00:35:54.640 that's not

00:35:54.920 true,

00:35:55.100 it's going

00:35:55.360 to be

00:35:55.540 Joe Biden.

00:35:56.960 So put it

00:35:57.700 in the form

00:35:58.080 of a question.

00:35:59.080 I saw

00:35:59.360 somebody do

00:35:59.840 this on

00:36:00.220 Twitter.

00:36:00.640 I wish I

00:36:01.000 could credit

00:36:01.440 them,

00:36:01.680 but I

00:36:01.900 don't

00:36:02.000 remember.

00:36:02.920 It's

00:36:03.240 more

00:36:03.440 powerful,

00:36:04.120 and it

00:36:04.380 goes like

00:36:04.740 this.

00:36:05.800 If Joe

00:36:06.340 Biden

00:36:06.620 becomes

00:36:07.080 president,

00:36:08.420 who's

00:36:08.880 really

00:36:09.220 running

00:36:09.520 the

00:36:09.720 country?

00:36:11.340 See the

00:36:12.040 difference?

00:36:12.820 If you

00:36:13.440 say who's

00:36:13.940 running

00:36:14.140 the

00:36:14.360 country,

00:36:14.840 then it

00:36:15.160 allows

00:36:15.580 everybody

00:36:16.120 to inhabit

00:36:17.020 the question

00:36:17.760 with their

00:36:18.820 own answer.

00:36:20.340 The thing

00:36:20.780 you don't

00:36:21.300 disagree with

00:36:22.120 is your

00:36:22.540 own opinion.

00:36:23.800 You always

00:36:24.600 disagree with

00:36:25.300 other people's

00:36:25.940 opinion if

00:36:26.460 they're on

00:36:26.700 the other

00:36:26.980 side.

00:36:27.360 It's just

00:36:27.620 a reflex.

00:36:28.720 But you

00:36:28.980 can take

00:36:29.300 that reflex

00:36:29.820 away by

00:36:30.480 putting it

00:36:31.300 in question

00:36:31.840 form.

00:36:32.780 You say,

00:36:33.360 if Joe

00:36:34.160 Biden's

00:36:34.520 president,

00:36:35.860 in all

00:36:36.680 seriousness,

00:36:38.040 who's

00:36:38.380 running the

00:36:38.860 country?

00:36:40.520 Because you

00:36:41.280 know,

00:36:41.540 even the

00:36:42.000 Democrats,

00:36:43.260 this is just

00:36:45.200 an opinion,

00:36:46.040 again,

00:36:46.580 this would be

00:36:47.320 mind-reading,

00:36:48.420 but it's my

00:36:49.300 impression,

00:36:50.860 my speculation

00:36:51.800 at best,

00:36:53.120 the Democrats

00:36:53.900 can see it

00:36:54.720 too.

00:36:55.720 And when I

00:36:56.380 say they

00:36:56.700 can see it

00:36:57.380 too,

00:36:57.880 I mean

00:36:59.140 that they're

00:36:59.660 watching Joe

00:37:00.280 Biden just

00:37:00.840 like we

00:37:01.300 are,

00:37:02.240 and they're

00:37:02.900 not seeing

00:37:03.400 a different

00:37:03.800 Joe Biden,

00:37:05.180 I think.

00:37:06.460 Now,

00:37:06.880 it's possible

00:37:07.760 that Democrats

00:37:08.860 are caught

00:37:10.360 in a two-movie

00:37:11.440 situation and

00:37:12.260 they actually

00:37:12.660 don't see it.

00:37:14.600 But can

00:37:15.780 anybody confirm

00:37:16.500 for me?

00:37:17.580 Let me ask

00:37:18.260 the question.

00:37:18.820 I'll bet

00:37:19.300 there's enough

00:37:20.340 data points

00:37:21.540 right here in

00:37:22.000 the comments.

00:37:22.480 So in the

00:37:23.280 comments,

00:37:24.860 tell me,

00:37:25.580 have you

00:37:25.900 talked to

00:37:26.420 any people

00:37:28.360 who are

00:37:29.140 Biden supporters,

00:37:30.420 even if

00:37:30.880 they're reluctant,

00:37:31.900 they may have

00:37:32.280 come over from

00:37:33.000 some other

00:37:33.400 candidate they

00:37:34.080 were supporting,

00:37:35.080 but anybody

00:37:35.520 who's a

00:37:35.880 current Biden

00:37:37.220 supporter,

00:37:38.420 has anybody

00:37:38.960 said to you

00:37:39.780 that they

00:37:41.560 can see his

00:37:42.260 mental acuity

00:37:43.860 starting to

00:37:44.720 decline?

00:37:46.200 Has anybody

00:37:46.880 said that?

00:37:48.440 Because I'm

00:37:48.960 actually curious,

00:37:49.640 it's a good

00:37:50.000 question,

00:37:50.840 whether it's

00:37:51.640 only obvious

00:37:52.420 to one side.

00:37:53.400 And the

00:37:53.580 reason I ask

00:37:54.040 that is,

00:37:54.480 remember,

00:37:55.320 it wasn't

00:37:55.800 long ago that

00:37:57.300 every Democrat

00:37:58.040 in the world

00:37:58.620 was looking at

00:37:59.620 President Trump

00:38:00.280 and said,

00:38:00.820 there's something

00:38:01.200 wrong with his 1.00

00:38:01.780 brain.

00:38:03.440 But,

00:38:04.320 while they were

00:38:05.580 doing that,

00:38:06.740 the Republicans

00:38:07.440 were looking at

00:38:08.180 the same thing

00:38:09.000 and saying,

00:38:10.160 I don't see it.

00:38:11.920 I don't see it.

00:38:13.300 And in fact,

00:38:14.340 I've argued

00:38:14.920 that since

00:38:16.900 2015,

00:38:17.940 and I think

00:38:18.480 I'm going to

00:38:18.940 take credit

00:38:19.520 for being,

00:38:21.220 well,

00:38:21.900 okay,

00:38:22.140 I'm going to

00:38:22.880 be immodest

00:38:23.720 for a moment.

00:38:25.380 I can't

00:38:26.060 prove this,

00:38:27.620 but it's my

00:38:28.580 opinion that

00:38:29.840 I am the

00:38:30.360 primary reason

00:38:31.420 that people

00:38:32.080 see President

00:38:32.720 Trump as a

00:38:33.340 good communicator

00:38:34.220 with tools

00:38:35.840 that are

00:38:36.240 designed to

00:38:36.900 do this

00:38:37.280 thing,

00:38:38.220 as opposed

00:38:39.220 to a random 0.75

00:38:39.780 crazy guy

00:38:40.420 who's just 1.00

00:38:40.880 spouting things.

00:38:42.420 I think I'm

00:38:43.460 the biggest

00:38:43.920 influence on

00:38:44.900 that.

00:38:45.560 But the

00:38:45.980 surprising part

00:38:46.760 is that the

00:38:47.820 Democrats have

00:38:48.920 bought into it.

00:38:49.600 at this

00:38:50.980 point,

00:38:51.760 even the

00:38:52.560 most

00:38:53.340 virulent

00:38:55.500 I shouldn't

00:38:57.520 say that

00:38:57.860 word in

00:38:58.200 public,

00:38:59.020 virulent,

00:39:00.500 even the

00:39:01.520 most rabid

00:39:02.480 Trump

00:39:03.960 hater,

00:39:05.180 at this

00:39:05.720 point in

00:39:06.260 2020,

00:39:06.980 would also

00:39:07.660 say,

00:39:08.680 grudgingly,

00:39:10.060 but he is

00:39:10.700 really good at

00:39:11.360 this stuff.

00:39:12.320 He's really

00:39:12.860 good at this

00:39:13.440 campaigning.

00:39:14.000 He does

00:39:15.200 give a rally

00:39:15.980 that's quite

00:39:16.680 a show.

00:39:18.080 He does

00:39:18.740 persuade.

00:39:21.120 So even

00:39:21.500 people who

00:39:23.280 are inclined

00:39:23.700 to hate him

00:39:24.160 are saying

00:39:24.500 that.

00:39:25.580 So we

00:39:26.120 have the

00:39:26.360 two movies

00:39:26.860 with Trump.

00:39:28.840 But do we

00:39:29.560 have two

00:39:29.900 movies with

00:39:30.460 Biden?

00:39:31.880 Because it

00:39:32.540 feels like

00:39:33.580 people are

00:39:35.100 seeing the

00:39:35.580 same movie

00:39:36.140 on him.

00:39:36.600 I just

00:39:36.900 don't know.

00:39:38.300 Somebody

00:39:38.720 says that

00:39:40.600 Biden has

00:39:41.280 a stutter

00:39:41.940 or has a

00:39:42.960 stutter he's

00:39:43.400 overcome.

00:39:44.120 I guess he

00:39:44.440 had one.

00:39:45.800 And that

00:39:46.680 that might

00:39:47.160 be causing

00:39:47.820 him to

00:39:48.480 pause in

00:39:50.080 sentences and

00:39:51.080 try to figure

00:39:52.360 out how to

00:39:52.700 say stuff.

00:39:53.760 Maybe.

00:39:54.900 That could 0.68

00:39:55.380 be part of

00:39:56.180 it, but it

00:39:56.760 doesn't seem

00:39:57.380 to explain

00:39:57.920 what we're

00:39:58.340 seeing.

00:39:59.500 Your stutter

00:40:00.480 doesn't make

00:40:03.520 you forget

00:40:04.360 a common

00:40:05.180 saying or

00:40:05.900 forget where

00:40:06.500 your wife

00:40:06.960 is or

00:40:07.380 anything.

00:40:07.980 And by

00:40:08.220 the way,

00:40:08.500 the wife

00:40:09.080 and sister 0.50

00:40:09.560 thing,

00:40:10.580 totally

00:40:11.140 overblown.

00:40:12.400 He was

00:40:12.780 literally

00:40:13.140 facing

00:40:13.760 forward and

00:40:14.580 they switched

00:40:15.000 sides behind

00:40:15.660 him.

00:40:17.760 It looked

00:40:18.480 like a

00:40:18.900 gaffe and

00:40:19.800 we all had

00:40:20.240 fun with it.

00:40:20.960 We treated

00:40:21.340 it that way.

00:40:22.540 But that's

00:40:23.440 not a gaffe

00:40:24.040 that you

00:40:24.500 wouldn't have

00:40:25.160 made.

00:40:26.660 I mean,

00:40:27.020 put yourself

00:40:27.500 in that

00:40:27.820 situation.

00:40:28.740 You're

00:40:29.000 standing at

00:40:29.520 the podium.

00:40:29.900 your entire

00:40:30.740 focus is on

00:40:31.560 the crowd.

00:40:32.700 Your wife

00:40:33.160 and your

00:40:33.440 sister switch

00:40:34.040 places behind

00:40:34.800 you.

00:40:35.920 Are you

00:40:36.260 going to

00:40:36.480 catch that

00:40:36.880 in time?

00:40:38.080 No.

00:40:39.320 Probably

00:40:39.760 not.

00:40:40.680 Because he

00:40:42.000 motioned to

00:40:43.440 who he

00:40:43.840 thought was

00:40:44.200 his sister

00:40:44.640 without

00:40:44.880 actually

00:40:45.280 looking

00:40:45.680 first.

00:40:46.740 So it

00:40:47.360 was a

00:40:47.660 gaffe.

00:40:48.120 It was

00:40:48.400 embarrassing.

00:40:49.020 We all

00:40:49.240 had fun

00:40:49.620 with it.

00:40:50.040 I don't

00:40:50.260 think that

00:40:50.780 one means

00:40:51.260 anything.

00:40:51.660 I think

00:40:51.880 the other

00:40:52.180 ones do.

00:40:53.380 Oh, I

00:40:53.800 do think

00:40:54.180 the other

00:40:54.480 ones do.

00:40:54.900 This one's

00:40:57.540 just political,

00:40:58.280 but I

00:40:58.480 think the

00:40:58.760 other

00:40:58.960 stuff

00:40:59.300 suggests

00:41:00.340 there's

00:41:01.860 a problem

00:41:02.400 there.

00:41:05.440 But

00:41:05.680 watching

00:41:06.080 Trump

00:41:09.240 start to

00:41:10.720 settle on

00:41:11.700 Biden's

00:41:13.160 brain as

00:41:13.960 his main

00:41:15.300 angle of

00:41:16.880 attack is

00:41:18.300 going to

00:41:18.620 be really

00:41:19.080 fun.

00:41:20.640 It's not

00:41:21.040 going to

00:41:21.300 be

00:41:23.720 kind,

00:41:26.920 but it's

00:41:27.480 going to

00:41:27.720 be fun.

00:41:28.960 So he's

00:41:29.500 already saying

00:41:30.040 that Biden

00:41:30.780 doesn't know

00:41:31.280 what he's

00:41:31.520 saying and

00:41:31.960 doesn't know

00:41:32.260 what he's

00:41:32.500 talking about,

00:41:33.200 and that

00:41:33.420 will be

00:41:33.660 great.

00:41:34.300 All right.

00:41:38.080 Looking at

00:41:38.800 your comments,

00:41:42.620 he says

00:41:43.180 somebody's

00:41:43.820 saying once

00:41:44.300 in office

00:41:44.800 they'll give

00:41:45.260 him mind

00:41:45.740 altering

00:41:46.280 drugs like

00:41:47.340 they give

00:41:47.720 new

00:41:47.940 presidents.

00:41:50.980 Well, I

00:41:51.580 don't think

00:41:51.920 so.

00:41:52.480 I got to

00:41:52.820 show you a

00:41:53.280 picture.

00:41:53.500 I took

00:41:53.840 yesterday

00:41:54.260 outside.

00:41:55.820 I don't

00:41:56.480 want to

00:41:56.700 start a

00:41:57.260 rumor, but

00:41:59.740 this one's

00:42:00.120 kind of

00:42:00.420 fun.

00:42:01.500 So you

00:42:02.280 probably can't

00:42:02.820 see it, but

00:42:03.300 I went

00:42:03.800 outside and

00:42:04.320 I was just

00:42:04.660 filming the

00:42:05.240 sky in my

00:42:06.260 neighborhood.

00:42:07.280 Look at all

00:42:07.660 the contrails.

00:42:10.000 There was

00:42:10.640 some kind of

00:42:11.380 world record

00:42:12.480 number of

00:42:14.100 contrails.

00:42:15.340 Now it's

00:42:15.640 only funny

00:42:16.080 because the

00:42:16.820 coronavirus is

00:42:17.760 out there,

00:42:18.640 which again

00:42:19.120 is not funny.

00:42:20.440 There's nothing

00:42:20.980 funny about the

00:42:21.700 coronavirus.

00:42:22.980 But it

00:42:23.360 was, our

00:42:24.660 simulation likes

00:42:25.540 to serve up

00:42:26.300 coincidences, and

00:42:27.880 just when you

00:42:28.360 think the

00:42:28.700 government might

00:42:29.380 be spraying the 0.54

00:42:31.660 planet to, I

00:42:32.760 don't know, get

00:42:33.180 rid of the

00:42:33.500 coronavirus, you

00:42:34.580 see all these

00:42:35.040 contrails up

00:42:35.780 there.

00:42:36.500 Now just to

00:42:36.960 be clear, it's

00:42:39.360 just a coincidence,

00:42:40.680 and I'm not a

00:42:41.480 believer in

00:42:42.380 contrails, none

00:42:44.080 of that.

00:42:45.180 But when I

00:42:45.740 walked outside and

00:42:46.500 I looked up, I

00:42:47.200 was like, I've

00:42:48.440 never seen this

00:42:49.540 many before, all

00:42:50.740 at the same

00:42:51.220 time, so I

00:42:52.920 thought it was

00:42:53.240 worth taking a

00:42:53.840 picture.

00:42:54.460 But don't make

00:42:55.000 anything of it, it's

00:42:55.720 not real.

00:42:58.500 All right, that's

00:42:59.080 all I got.

00:42:59.540 I'll talk to you

00:42:59.980 later.

00:43:00.160 here.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 05, 2020

Episode 841 Scott Adams： Let's Sip!

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