Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 06, 2020


Episode 842 Scott Adams： Biden, Coronavirus, MSNBC Trying to do Math and Other Disasters


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

152.21904

Word Count

8,139

Sentence Count

547

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Scott Adams talks the latest jobs numbers, the latest on the coronavirus, and the latest in the war in Syria. Plus, the dopamine hit of the day: the " simultaneous sip" that makes everything better.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's time. It's time. It's time for coffee with Scott Adams. Come on in.
00:00:14.800 You came to the right place. Good job. So far your day is going just the way you wanted to.
00:00:21.740 Dr. Drew, good to see you. It's a terrific morning and it's only going to get better.
00:00:27.200 Yes, it is. Because you're about to enjoy something, well, you've heard of it.
00:00:34.120 It's going all around the world now. It's not the coronavirus, it's the simultaneous sip.
00:00:39.860 And all you need to enjoy it is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:48.620 Fill it with your favorite liquid. Have you heard, I like coffee.
00:00:51.820 And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:58.120 The simultaneous sip. Go.
00:01:04.880 Mmm. Better every time.
00:01:09.320 Do you feel your immunity improving?
00:01:12.860 We'll be talking about the coronavirus, but first, some politics, some fun stuff.
00:01:19.440 Here's the least important news you'll ever hear.
00:01:23.320 The jobs numbers are really good.
00:01:28.980 It's such a tragedy that we're getting job numbers that are just crazy good.
00:01:35.720 Like, you know, trashing expectations that are so good.
00:01:39.120 But they're for the last month.
00:01:43.280 So we're going to see a little dip in the economy.
00:01:46.600 There's no question about that.
00:01:48.480 Might not be as big as people think.
00:01:50.420 I don't think it's going to be toward the worst case or anywhere near it.
00:01:53.860 I think it'll be a blip.
00:01:55.200 I think in a year we'll be back at 100%.
00:01:58.420 But those job numbers are a good reminder of this concept.
00:02:07.580 That you need to be strong to get ready for surprises.
00:02:11.960 You know, the black swan event.
00:02:14.580 The thing you didn't see coming.
00:02:17.040 And this is really relevant to the question of climate change, isn't it?
00:02:21.520 Because if you use all of your ammunition on one emergency, how much do you have left for the next emergency?
00:02:31.380 And how many emergencies are there that have global economic disaster potential?
00:02:36.900 Well, you know, I've been saying for years that if we were to spend, you know, whatever is we consider our excess financial ability, if we move it to climate change, that could be a great thing for saving the world from climate change, if that risk turns out to be what the scientists say.
00:02:57.260 But what about the other stuff?
00:03:00.820 People always say you should definitely, you know, even if you don't believe climate change is going to kill us because there's a risk and it's so big and it would destroy the entire planet, you should put all of your resources there to drive that risk to zero.
00:03:15.300 And I've been saying since the beginning, hello, that doesn't make sense.
00:03:20.500 That only makes sense in a world with one risk.
00:03:23.620 In a world with multiple risks that could all take you out, you need to be ready for all of them.
00:03:30.580 And sometimes the best thing you can do is to keep your economy and your people as healthy as possible so that when they take the punch, they can get up.
00:03:41.020 And that's where President Trump has brought us.
00:03:44.700 And I give credit to Obama.
00:03:46.680 I'm not the guy who says Trump did everything right, Obama did everything wrong.
00:03:49.940 I think it took two presidents in two different times with two different personalities, and they were both well fitted for their time, I think.
00:03:57.760 I'm alone in that opinion.
00:03:59.760 But we got to this point where the United States is very strong.
00:04:05.120 And we got here at a point when we needed to be strong.
00:04:08.080 So that might be one of President Trump's greatest accomplishments is to toughen us up and, you know, make the border a big question and make the economy a big question.
00:04:22.980 And we're probably in stronger shape than we could have been without toughening up.
00:04:28.700 So that's good.
00:04:29.200 But I wouldn't make anything from the jobs numbers, except it's better than if it were bad.
00:04:36.580 So the news from Afghanistan and Syria, without getting into the details, are everybody smart is pretty sure that if we leave, or at least not paying attention to either of those places, Afghanistan is more about leaving.
00:04:52.980 Syria is more about should we be more involved in Idlib or not.
00:04:56.580 And the president's made the adult decision.
00:05:00.860 He's made the parent decision that when we leave, those people, those poor people in those regions are going to get slaughtered.
00:05:11.900 But if we stayed, it kind of doesn't make sense because we would just be postponing the inevitable because they were going to get slaughtered anyway.
00:05:21.320 It happens slower.
00:05:22.780 It will happen when we leave eventually.
00:05:24.200 So there wasn't any path to success.
00:05:27.840 And it's a real tough decision, but it's the right one, to get out when there's no path to success.
00:05:34.500 And the president's taken that choice.
00:05:37.080 I applaud it.
00:05:38.880 But you have to have, you know, sympathy, empathy for the people who we are leaving behind.
00:05:44.840 They will be slaughtered.
00:05:45.940 But to keep it in context, there are lots of places in the world that we could put the same amount of effort to save the same amount of lives.
00:05:53.940 It's not the one place.
00:05:56.080 It's just not the one place that needs help where people are dying unnecessarily.
00:06:00.580 We could help all of them if we had enough money, but we don't.
00:06:04.900 So we've got to call our shots.
00:06:07.440 I look at, you know, everything from the coronavirus to the wars to the economy as part of a big system.
00:06:14.800 And you want the system to be as strong as possible.
00:06:19.120 And it's an ugly truth that the system is probably strongest when the biggest player is the strongest.
00:06:30.040 Now, I can't prove that.
00:06:32.660 So I'll put it out there and you can wrestle with it.
00:06:35.380 But let me say it again.
00:06:36.400 I think the world is strongest when its most important player is strongest.
00:06:42.660 Now, that assumes that the most important player is a benevolent kind of force.
00:06:47.980 And I think the United States is.
00:06:49.340 I'm not talking about, you know, Hitler or Putin being the strongest in the world.
00:06:53.600 But if the United States, the most, I would say, most productive, well-intentioned player,
00:07:00.620 the stronger we are, the better the whole world is.
00:07:04.440 Because we're the ones who are going to be able to dole out help.
00:07:08.280 And, you know, we're sort of an anchor that could give the rest of the world some optimism that things can improve.
00:07:18.160 If you let the United States have the same amount of problems that the other countries had,
00:07:24.000 we would be brought down to their problems.
00:07:26.220 And you would have the international relations equivalent of socialism.
00:07:30.680 We have sort of, just by analogy, not in actuality, but by analogy,
00:07:38.640 the way the United States operates, which is staying selfish to a point.
00:07:43.720 We give some international aid, but it's really trivial.
00:07:46.820 Where the United States remains selfish,
00:07:49.760 but I would argue that's what makes the entire system work best.
00:07:53.120 In the same way that, in capitalism, looking out for your own profits kind of makes everybody better off,
00:08:00.040 even if it doesn't sound like you should, even if it doesn't sound kind.
00:08:04.940 So I think the United States is likely to be one of the most, well, probably the most productive player,
00:08:13.040 just by being healthy.
00:08:15.440 All right.
00:08:15.700 You're all laughing, I know, this morning about the amazing math errors that we're watching in the media.
00:08:23.800 It started with a tweet from one Rivas Mikitas, or possibly Mikita Rivas.
00:08:35.640 It's one of those names, I don't know which is the first name.
00:08:38.400 I think it's Mikita Rivas.
00:08:39.680 So she tweeted, and I'll paraphrase, but she tweeted that Bloomberg spent $500 million on his campaign,
00:08:48.820 and all he got was some delegates out of American Samoa,
00:08:52.840 which most of you didn't know even existed until this week.
00:08:57.200 So congratulations.
00:08:58.720 There's something called in America Samoa, and now you all know it exists.
00:09:03.280 I'm not sure I knew it existed last week.
00:09:05.980 So I'm certainly not calling you uninformed.
00:09:10.520 You know, when we're talking about it, I think to myself, oh yeah, I've heard of that.
00:09:14.420 I've heard of America Samoa.
00:09:16.400 Now tell me where it is.
00:09:19.020 And I don't feel guilty one bit that I've not spent much time understanding where America Samoa is.
00:09:28.800 Anyway, back to the tweet.
00:09:29.860 So this presumably left-leaning person, I assume, tweets that Bloomberg spent $500 million
00:09:40.460 just to get a couple of delegates at America Samoa,
00:09:44.400 and then goes on to say that instead of spending that $500 million,
00:09:51.160 given that there are only 327 million people in the United States,
00:09:55.060 that Bloomberg could have given a million dollars to each citizen of the United States,
00:09:58.780 and wouldn't that make everybody's life better?
00:10:03.880 What?
00:10:07.240 So you're probably doing the math in your head, and you just said to yourself,
00:10:11.560 Scott, isn't that math off by a million?
00:10:19.060 Yes, it is.
00:10:20.380 It is off by a million.
00:10:22.820 So, but that's not bad enough.
00:10:28.560 You know, somebody making a dumb math mistake, or a typo, or using a word wrong, or something,
00:10:34.360 a spelling error, in a tweet, I'm the first one to tell you it doesn't mean anything.
00:10:40.820 Right?
00:10:41.080 I've made a lot of tweet mistakes, some of them pretty bad.
00:10:46.160 So I'm not the one who's going to jump on somebody for having a brain flaw on a tweet.
00:10:55.120 But it didn't end there.
00:10:58.340 It got better.
00:11:00.060 Yeah, it got better.
00:11:00.680 MSNBC, Brian Williams, does a segment in which he's talking to Mara Gray,
00:11:06.400 who's on the New York Times editorial board.
00:11:09.440 And they bring up this tweet, and they show the graphic.
00:11:13.580 Now, showing the graphic indicates that this was planned,
00:11:17.420 went through producers and editors, probably a number of people saw it.
00:11:21.360 And they put it on the air, and then they discussed it.
00:11:25.520 And between Brian Williams and Mara Gray of the New York Times editorial board,
00:11:30.440 they also laughed, but not at the tweet.
00:11:35.360 They weren't laughing because the math was wrong by a million.
00:11:42.000 No.
00:11:43.380 They were laughing because they thought it was accurate.
00:11:46.240 And they thought it was a good point.
00:11:48.220 That Bloomberg should have spent a million dollars
00:11:53.100 and just given it to every citizen in the United States,
00:11:57.900 and we'd all be rich.
00:11:59.520 Pretty good idea, right?
00:12:01.780 And nobody stopped the game.
00:12:05.700 There were no refs to say,
00:12:07.780 whoop, tweet, tweet, Brian Williams, Mara Gray, foul.
00:12:14.200 You can't put that on the air.
00:12:15.640 Because people are going to believe that that's actually real math.
00:12:20.640 It's going to be kind of embarrassing.
00:12:23.100 But no whistle was sounded, and so that went on.
00:12:26.280 And they are getting absolutely pilloried today.
00:12:31.260 I do not envy Brian Williams and Mara Gray's week,
00:12:36.420 maybe their month.
00:12:38.320 I don't know if you can ever recover from this.
00:12:40.800 Now, again, let's be fair.
00:12:46.300 Do you think that Mara Gray and Brian Williams
00:12:49.640 can do math well enough to know that this is wrong?
00:12:53.960 And the answer is yes.
00:12:55.500 Yes, of course.
00:12:57.200 Neither of them are so dumb
00:12:58.540 that they don't know this math is wrong.
00:13:01.680 But why did they act like they didn't know?
00:13:04.580 Why did they put it on the air?
00:13:06.160 And the answer is it's an optical illusion.
00:13:10.200 And I'm using that in a figurative sense.
00:13:13.380 It's not actually optical.
00:13:15.220 So there's something about this little tweet
00:13:17.560 that is weirdly, cleverly misleading.
00:13:23.460 Because if you just read it fast,
00:13:26.560 hey, he gave $500 million to the campaign,
00:13:31.880 327 million people, that's a million dollars a piece.
00:13:34.500 We could have all had a million dollars.
00:13:36.000 If you just say it fast,
00:13:38.120 you actually think it does make sense.
00:13:41.480 But I think the reason you make sense
00:13:43.820 is because it made sense to other people.
00:13:47.280 See where I'm going with this?
00:13:49.000 This has been studied quite a bit.
00:13:51.320 If you put a bunch of people in the room,
00:13:53.200 and let's say nine of them are working for the researcher,
00:13:56.760 so they're in on the joke,
00:13:59.560 and one of them is not
00:14:00.560 and doesn't know that he's the only one in the room
00:14:03.140 who's not in on it,
00:14:04.500 if nine people give an opinion that's ridiculous,
00:14:08.960 you can test this.
00:14:10.040 It's very well tested.
00:14:13.020 The tenth person will be positive
00:14:15.880 those nine people are wrong
00:14:17.440 and still agree with them.
00:14:20.460 Very easily just say,
00:14:21.800 okay, it must be me.
00:14:23.820 If nine people are all on this crazy opinion,
00:14:26.920 yeah, I'll go there too.
00:14:30.900 So peer pressure overcomes math
00:14:34.900 and common sense and your own judgment
00:14:37.360 all the time.
00:14:38.180 It's easily proven.
00:14:39.620 So if you're laughing at Brian Williams
00:14:41.900 and Mara Gray for being bad at math,
00:14:45.220 that's probably not exactly what's happening.
00:14:49.300 You should feel sorry for them
00:14:51.440 because they got in a little cognitive trap.
00:14:55.120 And I'm going to say this.
00:14:56.980 You're not going to like it.
00:14:59.600 It could have happened to a lot of people.
00:15:01.820 I'm not going to say it could have happened to everybody
00:15:03.720 because I don't think it would have happened to me.
00:15:06.760 And I'd like to think that most of you
00:15:08.900 it would not have happened to.
00:15:11.700 But if you took a hundred people in the media
00:15:14.360 and you put them in Brian Williams' chair
00:15:18.060 for that exact situation,
00:15:19.840 how many out of a hundred
00:15:21.400 would have caught that?
00:15:25.100 Half?
00:15:26.600 Maybe half?
00:15:27.980 Because, you know,
00:15:29.020 illusions don't fool everybody all the time.
00:15:32.220 But I'm going to show him some empathy
00:15:35.580 for this being a cognitive illusion,
00:15:38.880 not a math problem,
00:15:40.180 which would look just stupid.
00:15:41.740 Now, I do say all the time that
00:15:43.020 one of the problems with the media
00:15:45.660 is that they're not trained in economics
00:15:47.580 and science and engineering
00:15:49.740 and other things that would be useful
00:15:51.100 for them to give the public
00:15:53.100 a good idea of what's going on.
00:15:55.760 But I don't know if that's the case here.
00:16:01.160 I do think that if they had been economists,
00:16:03.420 they would be more alert to the problem.
00:16:06.800 So probably the fact that there were no economists
00:16:09.560 or engineers or scientists
00:16:11.060 who looked at this graphic
00:16:12.500 before it went on air
00:16:13.960 probably does mean something.
00:16:16.100 I would like to guess
00:16:16.980 that if you had a hundred engineers
00:16:18.560 and you tried to pull this cognitive trick on them,
00:16:22.700 that almost 100% of them
00:16:25.460 would not fall for it.
00:16:27.520 So they're not innocent
00:16:29.240 for having fallen for a trick
00:16:31.160 because there are other people
00:16:32.920 with wider exposure to things
00:16:35.640 I think would have caught it right away.
00:16:37.160 I'm pretty sure I would have.
00:16:39.920 So, does that mean liberals are dumb
00:16:42.080 and can't do math?
00:16:43.220 Well, as it turns out,
00:16:45.720 we have a very interesting case
00:16:47.280 with a Matt Gaetz tweet
00:16:51.000 about the same time.
00:16:52.900 Matt Gaetz, of course,
00:16:53.800 associated with the right.
00:16:54.760 And what he said was
00:16:56.320 and again, I'll paraphrase,
00:17:00.540 he said that Bloomberg spent $500 million
00:17:03.780 to get those two delegates
00:17:05.500 in America's Samoa
00:17:07.220 and the entire GDP of America's Samoa
00:17:10.600 is only $700 million.
00:17:12.480 So he spent $500 million
00:17:13.740 just to get two delegates
00:17:14.860 and Matt Gaetz says
00:17:16.580 you could have bought
00:17:17.440 you could have bought
00:17:18.580 the entire America's Samoa
00:17:20.420 for $700 million.
00:17:23.620 Do you see anything wrong with that?
00:17:28.200 Because we're laughing about those,
00:17:30.220 we're laughing about Brian Williams
00:17:31.680 and Mara Gray, right?
00:17:33.240 Oh, how dumb they are
00:17:34.560 with that math error,
00:17:36.560 which was really a cognitive trick.
00:17:41.060 But when Matt Gaetz says
00:17:42.560 he should have bought
00:17:43.960 America's Samoa
00:17:45.000 for $700 million
00:17:47.520 because that's
00:17:48.240 their entire GDP.
00:17:50.680 Does that make sense?
00:17:52.560 Now, I'm not talking about
00:17:53.520 the question of whether
00:17:54.360 or not it's for sale
00:17:55.440 because obviously
00:17:56.200 he's speaking in the Twitter way
00:17:59.340 of hyperbole
00:18:01.000 and just having fun.
00:18:02.500 It's not as serious
00:18:03.380 in any way.
00:18:04.600 But let me explain
00:18:05.660 something about the GDP.
00:18:08.740 That's not what makes
00:18:10.100 the price tag of your state
00:18:11.980 or your country
00:18:12.560 or your region
00:18:13.340 or your whatever the hell
00:18:14.620 America's Samoa is.
00:18:16.860 That's not what does that.
00:18:19.820 I'm going to help you,
00:18:21.800 Mark or Richard.
00:18:23.580 Richard says this is boring,
00:18:24.980 so we're going to make him
00:18:25.700 go away.
00:18:27.280 Goodbye.
00:18:32.420 Here's the thing.
00:18:33.740 The price or the value
00:18:35.080 that you would pay
00:18:35.920 for a country or a state,
00:18:37.560 should it be for sale,
00:18:39.080 be it Greenland
00:18:40.080 or America's Samoa
00:18:41.080 or anywhere else,
00:18:42.240 is not the GDP.
00:18:44.700 Because the GDP
00:18:45.780 is just how much
00:18:48.080 they do per year
00:18:48.960 in economic activity.
00:18:50.240 It has nothing to do
00:18:51.280 with what you would pay
00:18:52.160 for the country.
00:18:53.380 So,
00:18:54.620 now,
00:18:55.700 does Matt Gaetz
00:18:56.580 know what I just said?
00:18:58.060 Does he know
00:18:58.780 that the GDP
00:18:59.540 is not telling you
00:19:00.900 the price tag
00:19:01.920 of a region?
00:19:02.940 Yeah,
00:19:03.360 he knows that.
00:19:04.460 Of course he knows that.
00:19:06.160 But when I saw the tweet,
00:19:07.340 I said to myself,
00:19:08.240 oh,
00:19:08.600 here it comes.
00:19:10.160 All the nitpickers
00:19:10.960 are going to say,
00:19:13.200 Matt Gaetz,
00:19:13.960 what don't you understand
00:19:15.100 about economics?
00:19:17.040 The GDP
00:19:17.800 doesn't tell you
00:19:18.580 the price of the country.
00:19:19.560 I mean,
00:19:19.760 it's related.
00:19:20.840 It can tell you
00:19:21.740 a sizing
00:19:22.840 relative to others,
00:19:24.180 so it's useful for that.
00:19:25.440 But it's not
00:19:25.820 the price tag
00:19:26.420 of the country.
00:19:26.880 So I looked
00:19:30.100 in the comments
00:19:31.340 to see how many people
00:19:33.160 would say,
00:19:34.080 Matt,
00:19:34.320 you got this all wrong.
00:19:36.400 And there weren't any.
00:19:38.060 So apparently,
00:19:39.500 apparently nobody noticed
00:19:42.160 when Matt Gaetz
00:19:43.660 said that Bloomberg
00:19:44.880 could have bought
00:19:45.400 America's Samoa
00:19:46.180 for the value
00:19:47.100 of their GDP,
00:19:47.780 which makes no sense
00:19:48.800 at all.
00:19:49.960 And nobody nitpicked him.
00:19:51.420 And I thought,
00:19:52.120 did they not nitpick him
00:19:53.280 because they know
00:19:54.000 he's not being serious
00:19:55.000 and he knows
00:19:56.320 that you don't
00:19:57.180 pay the GDP
00:19:58.240 as the price tag?
00:20:00.040 Or do they not know?
00:20:02.460 It's an open question.
00:20:03.760 All right,
00:20:03.960 let's talk about
00:20:04.460 something else.
00:20:06.620 Bill Clinton
00:20:07.520 found a way
00:20:08.980 to make things worse
00:20:10.980 for Monica Lewinsky.
00:20:13.700 So,
00:20:14.820 decades after
00:20:16.080 poor Monica Lewinsky
00:20:18.360 goes through this ordeal,
00:20:20.060 something that,
00:20:20.800 you know,
00:20:21.020 lives with her forever,
00:20:23.000 and you think,
00:20:23.920 well,
00:20:24.180 maybe she's finally
00:20:24.900 getting used to it.
00:20:25.820 You know,
00:20:26.600 you can get used
00:20:27.240 to anything
00:20:27.640 after a while.
00:20:28.900 And then there's
00:20:29.800 this Netflix documentary,
00:20:31.780 which is not kind
00:20:34.940 to Monica Lewinsky,
00:20:37.320 but accidentally.
00:20:39.220 And so Bill Clinton
00:20:40.120 was talking about
00:20:40.920 essentially what was
00:20:42.040 his motivation
00:20:42.760 or why did he have
00:20:44.140 this extramarital affair
00:20:45.980 with Monica Lewinsky.
00:20:47.400 And he said it was,
00:20:49.020 quote,
00:20:49.220 that there was a lot
00:20:49.920 of stress on the job.
00:20:51.960 Being the president
00:20:52.740 was giving him
00:20:54.000 a lot of anxiety
00:20:54.900 and he thought
00:20:56.260 that having this affair
00:20:57.560 with Monica Lewinsky
00:20:58.540 would be a way
00:20:59.500 of managing my anxieties.
00:21:03.760 Now,
00:21:06.080 first choice,
00:21:09.360 just don't talk
00:21:10.200 about it anymore.
00:21:11.700 That's first choice.
00:21:12.760 if you want
00:21:14.720 to be kind
00:21:15.400 to Monica Lewinsky,
00:21:18.380 don't do the documentary.
00:21:19.960 And if you do,
00:21:20.600 don't talk about it.
00:21:21.760 And if you talk about it,
00:21:22.820 don't say anything new.
00:21:24.100 Don't say anything new.
00:21:25.820 Don't surprise us.
00:21:28.080 Bill Clinton
00:21:28.740 comes up
00:21:29.640 with saying
00:21:30.260 that Monica Lewinsky
00:21:31.240 was nothing
00:21:32.080 but a way
00:21:32.640 of managing
00:21:33.340 his anxieties.
00:21:34.380 That is one
00:21:35.860 of the most
00:21:36.300 insulting things
00:21:37.440 I have ever heard
00:21:38.520 in my entire life.
00:21:40.680 Am I wrong?
00:21:42.240 Imagine you're
00:21:42.940 Monica Lewinsky
00:21:43.660 and you're reading
00:21:44.920 that Bill Clinton
00:21:45.840 only had a relationship
00:21:47.200 with you
00:21:47.780 to manage
00:21:49.080 his anxiety.
00:21:51.220 Ouch.
00:21:52.480 That's like
00:21:53.220 the biggest
00:21:53.760 dickhead move
00:21:55.440 I've ever seen
00:21:56.360 in my life.
00:21:58.240 Seriously,
00:21:59.060 that's horrible.
00:22:00.540 So,
00:22:01.160 you know,
00:22:01.620 I apologize
00:22:02.500 on behalf
00:22:03.780 of the United States
00:22:04.920 for electing
00:22:05.640 Bill Clinton
00:22:06.220 who would say that
00:22:07.920 decades after
00:22:09.560 the wound
00:22:10.800 is healing.
00:22:12.560 I mean,
00:22:12.840 that's messed up.
00:22:14.080 Isn't it?
00:22:14.880 That's messed up.
00:22:16.200 To me,
00:22:16.620 that looks like
00:22:17.280 taking a wound
00:22:18.660 that had closed
00:22:19.360 and just opening it up
00:22:20.580 for no reason at all
00:22:21.960 except,
00:22:22.920 I don't know,
00:22:23.420 what,
00:22:23.680 to feel good about yourself?
00:22:25.380 Bill Clinton?
00:22:26.240 Don't be proud of that.
00:22:28.240 All right.
00:22:31.400 I tweeted
00:22:32.240 one of the worst
00:22:34.660 tweets of my life
00:22:36.560 in which I called
00:22:37.740 something
00:22:38.180 a fatal kill shot.
00:22:40.240 Well,
00:22:40.560 you might imagine
00:22:41.180 that people on Twitter
00:22:42.200 said,
00:22:42.720 a fatal kill shot
00:22:44.620 is a little redundant,
00:22:46.060 Scott.
00:22:46.660 A little redundant.
00:22:47.440 And you're right.
00:22:48.860 But it was on this.
00:22:50.740 So,
00:22:51.500 President Trump
00:22:52.200 tweeted
00:22:52.920 a quote,
00:22:54.420 I guess it came from
00:22:55.260 Lisa Marie Booth,
00:22:56.460 probably on Fox,
00:22:57.840 probably on
00:22:58.420 Ed Henry's show
00:22:59.180 based on
00:22:59.660 who he tagged.
00:23:00.860 And the quote
00:23:03.120 that the president
00:23:04.220 thought was worthy
00:23:05.160 of retweeting
00:23:05.840 to his 73 million
00:23:07.180 followers
00:23:07.680 was,
00:23:08.880 Joe Biden
00:23:09.540 represents the past.
00:23:11.580 President Trump
00:23:12.220 represents the future.
00:23:15.140 That's really strong.
00:23:17.360 Because
00:23:17.880 even if you like
00:23:19.220 everything that
00:23:20.340 Biden
00:23:21.320 is offering,
00:23:23.780 it is
00:23:24.200 unambiguously
00:23:25.320 more like,
00:23:27.100 and he's selling it
00:23:28.060 this way,
00:23:28.420 more like,
00:23:28.980 going back
00:23:30.120 to the
00:23:30.440 Obama world.
00:23:31.960 Now,
00:23:32.440 even if you think
00:23:33.180 that was a good idea,
00:23:35.340 and a lot of people do,
00:23:36.480 if I just explained it
00:23:37.640 to you that way,
00:23:38.360 if I said,
00:23:39.340 do you want to stay
00:23:40.040 in this
00:23:40.480 Trump-like
00:23:41.960 administration world
00:23:43.660 that has
00:23:44.760 this set of
00:23:46.280 problems,
00:23:46.960 according to you,
00:23:48.060 or would you like
00:23:48.980 to be in more
00:23:49.760 of an Obama-like
00:23:50.900 world
00:23:51.400 where we're not
00:23:52.520 like that?
00:23:53.600 Now,
00:23:53.820 if you put the
00:23:54.240 question that way,
00:23:55.000 people say,
00:23:56.100 well,
00:23:56.400 at least a lot of people,
00:23:57.160 Democrats would say,
00:23:58.660 I like that
00:23:59.380 Obama world.
00:24:00.740 Yeah.
00:24:01.440 Yeah,
00:24:01.640 let's do that again.
00:24:03.000 That worked out
00:24:03.460 pretty well.
00:24:04.940 Doing something again,
00:24:06.780 that doesn't sound bad,
00:24:08.140 does it?
00:24:08.980 Doesn't sound bad.
00:24:10.300 Doing something again
00:24:11.400 that was good.
00:24:13.100 But the moment
00:24:13.840 the president,
00:24:14.720 in this case,
00:24:15.880 he picked it up
00:24:16.660 from Lisa Marie Booth,
00:24:18.160 but the moment
00:24:18.820 you see this
00:24:19.600 as you reframe it
00:24:21.240 as Biden's going
00:24:22.980 to take you
00:24:23.520 to the past
00:24:24.340 and Trump
00:24:25.800 is going
00:24:26.100 to take you
00:24:26.480 to the future,
00:24:28.120 the election's over.
00:24:30.860 That's it.
00:24:31.680 That's the election's over.
00:24:32.740 Because everybody
00:24:33.400 who also thinks
00:24:34.620 that the Obama-like style
00:24:36.120 or whatever
00:24:37.080 that they liked
00:24:37.680 about him
00:24:38.000 was good
00:24:38.940 and that we should
00:24:39.600 do it,
00:24:40.240 the moment you tell
00:24:41.500 them that's the past,
00:24:43.840 they'll walk away
00:24:44.520 from it.
00:24:45.420 I mean,
00:24:45.800 mentally walk away
00:24:46.600 from it.
00:24:46.940 They'll still say it,
00:24:47.800 but mentally
00:24:48.400 you don't want
00:24:49.780 to go backwards.
00:24:50.380 We are really,
00:24:52.640 really well,
00:24:54.540 not well designed,
00:24:55.860 we're designed
00:24:56.600 by evolution
00:24:58.060 or whatever you want
00:24:59.060 to,
00:25:01.100 now,
00:25:01.700 I know I have
00:25:02.500 the coronavirus,
00:25:03.780 I don't think,
00:25:06.160 we're very designed
00:25:07.440 to not want
00:25:08.120 to walk backwards,
00:25:09.660 to not want
00:25:10.200 to go backwards,
00:25:11.060 to not want
00:25:11.480 to revisit the past.
00:25:12.680 We're pretty much
00:25:14.140 future-oriented creatures.
00:25:16.020 I think we evolved
00:25:17.560 to care more
00:25:18.760 about the future
00:25:19.360 than the past,
00:25:20.380 that's how
00:25:21.040 you survive.
00:25:24.400 And then I saw
00:25:25.700 Representative McCarthy
00:25:28.500 talking about
00:25:31.040 how Biden
00:25:33.520 would take us
00:25:34.240 backwards.
00:25:35.120 It's the same
00:25:35.700 thought.
00:25:37.160 So if you see
00:25:38.560 the administration
00:25:39.300 pick up on this,
00:25:40.600 the idea that
00:25:41.380 Biden is taking
00:25:42.480 us backwards,
00:25:43.380 Biden is bringing
00:25:44.120 us back to the past,
00:25:45.400 you don't even have
00:25:46.340 to talk about
00:25:46.840 what that means.
00:25:48.440 You don't even
00:25:48.980 have to address
00:25:49.760 the details
00:25:50.920 of what the past
00:25:51.880 looks like
00:25:52.380 versus what
00:25:53.000 the future
00:25:53.400 looks like.
00:25:54.820 Just that frame
00:25:55.740 alone is the
00:25:56.280 end of the story.
00:25:57.140 It's a devastating
00:25:58.300 frame.
00:25:59.160 If you ever have
00:25:59.760 a chance to do
00:26:00.460 that to a nemesis,
00:26:02.740 watch how well
00:26:03.560 it works.
00:26:03.980 You can use this
00:26:04.560 in the corporate
00:26:05.100 world.
00:26:06.160 If you say
00:26:06.640 somebody comes in
00:26:07.520 and they're in
00:26:07.880 the meeting
00:26:08.220 and they say,
00:26:08.700 hey, let's do
00:26:09.340 this because it
00:26:09.880 worked before.
00:26:11.240 If you're the one
00:26:12.080 who says,
00:26:12.580 you know,
00:26:13.340 let's just not
00:26:14.240 go back to the
00:26:14.960 past,
00:26:15.340 you'd need
00:26:17.380 more of a reason
00:26:18.060 than that.
00:26:18.720 If it worked
00:26:19.320 well in the
00:26:19.760 past,
00:26:20.180 that's a pretty
00:26:20.700 good argument
00:26:21.800 for doing it
00:26:22.420 again.
00:26:23.300 But that's if
00:26:24.260 it's a specific
00:26:25.060 plan.
00:26:26.340 When you're
00:26:26.960 talking about
00:26:27.480 Biden,
00:26:28.000 you're talking
00:26:28.340 about a
00:26:28.800 concept of
00:26:29.600 the past
00:26:30.140 that has
00:26:30.580 some Obama-like
00:26:31.960 quality to it.
00:26:33.500 If you're
00:26:33.940 talking about
00:26:34.380 only concepts,
00:26:36.260 nobody wants
00:26:37.160 to go backwards.
00:26:38.820 All right.
00:26:41.000 Here's another
00:26:41.780 dog that won't
00:26:42.860 be barking.
00:26:43.380 What was one
00:26:44.840 of the biggest
00:26:45.420 complaints about
00:26:46.160 the president
00:26:46.640 for the last
00:26:47.180 four years?
00:26:47.820 Let me tell
00:26:48.180 you.
00:26:49.100 In the top
00:26:50.200 five,
00:26:51.220 maybe in the
00:26:51.760 top three,
00:26:52.740 is that he's
00:26:53.380 mentally incapable.
00:26:56.200 Mentally
00:26:56.700 incapable,
00:26:57.460 meaning that
00:26:57.940 he's losing
00:26:58.400 it,
00:26:58.840 he's got
00:26:59.380 dementia,
00:27:00.460 etc.
00:27:01.880 Have you
00:27:02.340 heard that
00:27:03.260 recently?
00:27:05.540 Is anybody
00:27:06.340 talking about
00:27:07.060 President Trump
00:27:08.320 not having
00:27:10.140 good mental
00:27:11.480 acuity?
00:27:12.180 Well,
00:27:13.720 sometimes you
00:27:14.460 see a little
00:27:14.880 pushback when
00:27:15.780 people are
00:27:16.160 making fun
00:27:16.660 of Joe
00:27:17.000 Biden,
00:27:17.580 but it's
00:27:18.200 only in
00:27:18.600 the pushback
00:27:19.380 way.
00:27:21.160 Because one
00:27:22.180 of the most
00:27:22.540 important things
00:27:23.200 you'll ever
00:27:23.540 learn about
00:27:24.240 the world
00:27:25.180 is that
00:27:26.240 everything is
00:27:27.040 contrast.
00:27:28.860 You should
00:27:29.600 just have
00:27:29.940 that mantra.
00:27:31.020 Just repeat
00:27:32.260 it in your
00:27:32.760 head for the
00:27:33.300 rest of your
00:27:33.740 life.
00:27:34.200 Everything is
00:27:34.840 contrast.
00:27:36.200 Because the
00:27:36.900 moment that
00:27:37.460 Biden became
00:27:38.260 the,
00:27:39.000 people are
00:27:39.640 presuming he's
00:27:40.360 going to be
00:27:40.620 the nominee.
00:27:41.780 I don't
00:27:41.960 think it's
00:27:42.260 done yet,
00:27:43.320 but people
00:27:44.360 are presuming
00:27:44.920 it.
00:27:45.720 He's so
00:27:46.400 obviously
00:27:47.100 mentally
00:27:47.760 more frail
00:27:50.000 that that
00:27:51.560 causes a
00:27:52.120 new contrast
00:27:52.640 with President
00:27:53.480 Trump and
00:27:54.040 it will
00:27:54.320 eliminate,
00:27:55.440 it will
00:27:55.920 eliminate the
00:27:57.480 Democrats
00:27:58.040 one of their
00:27:59.140 top five
00:27:59.860 attacks,
00:28:03.360 which is that
00:28:03.980 President Trump
00:28:04.860 can't put a
00:28:05.900 sentence together.
00:28:06.660 But if you're
00:28:07.960 comparing him
00:28:08.440 to Biden,
00:28:09.040 that argument's
00:28:09.680 gone.
00:28:10.300 It's all
00:28:10.660 gone.
00:28:14.580 I tweeted
00:28:15.420 yesterday that
00:28:16.020 you can't
00:28:16.560 realize how
00:28:17.400 good President
00:28:18.200 Trump is at
00:28:19.560 tweeting and
00:28:20.180 communicating and
00:28:21.040 memes until you
00:28:21.780 see somebody
00:28:22.280 else try it.
00:28:23.580 So Mike
00:28:24.220 Bloomberg tweeted
00:28:25.540 the Star Wars
00:28:26.720 meme in which
00:28:27.540 he was fighting
00:28:28.600 Trump with a
00:28:30.340 lightsaber,
00:28:31.600 and it took
00:28:32.280 about ten
00:28:32.740 minutes for the
00:28:33.460 Trump team to
00:28:34.340 create a brand
00:28:35.100 new response
00:28:36.660 to that from
00:28:37.780 the movie
00:28:38.200 Spaceballs,
00:28:39.080 which itself
00:28:39.640 made fun of
00:28:40.260 the Star Wars
00:28:40.900 franchise,
00:28:42.200 showing a
00:28:42.840 large person
00:28:43.780 holding the
00:28:44.360 head of a
00:28:44.840 small person,
00:28:46.440 and they put
00:28:47.240 the head of
00:28:47.640 the small
00:28:47.960 person,
00:28:48.600 Mike Bloomberg's
00:28:49.320 head on it,
00:28:49.980 and Trump's
00:28:50.400 head on the
00:28:50.760 big person.
00:28:51.580 He's just
00:28:51.980 holding the
00:28:52.440 small one by
00:28:52.980 the head,
00:28:53.700 while the
00:28:54.000 little one's
00:28:54.440 flailing around
00:28:55.080 with the
00:28:55.380 lightsaber and
00:28:58.120 can't reach
00:28:58.500 him.
00:28:59.000 And I
00:28:59.340 thought,
00:29:00.160 oh my
00:29:00.660 God,
00:29:00.960 it's just
00:29:01.300 a slaughter.
00:29:03.020 The Trump
00:29:04.180 team is
00:29:04.700 just so
00:29:05.520 good at
00:29:05.920 this that
00:29:07.020 I don't
00:29:07.560 even see,
00:29:09.160 do you
00:29:09.540 remember there
00:29:10.160 was one
00:29:10.500 point where
00:29:11.100 when Trump
00:29:12.480 was running,
00:29:13.740 there was a
00:29:14.280 lot of
00:29:14.620 criticism about
00:29:15.680 the quality
00:29:16.560 of his
00:29:17.240 campaign and
00:29:18.460 whatever?
00:29:19.440 You don't
00:29:19.880 see that
00:29:20.200 now, do
00:29:20.560 you?
00:29:21.120 Is anybody
00:29:21.840 making fun
00:29:22.640 of the
00:29:23.720 quality of
00:29:24.600 the Trump
00:29:25.180 re-election
00:29:26.160 campaign?
00:29:27.700 How about
00:29:28.460 no?
00:29:30.540 There's a
00:29:31.260 dog that's
00:29:31.700 not barking.
00:29:32.940 Do you
00:29:33.360 hear that
00:29:33.700 dog barking?
00:29:34.700 Oh, the
00:29:35.340 Trump
00:29:35.560 campaign,
00:29:36.160 it can't
00:29:36.540 raise money.
00:29:37.400 Okay, it
00:29:37.960 can raise
00:29:38.320 money.
00:29:38.760 It can
00:29:38.960 raise a
00:29:39.220 lot of
00:29:39.420 money.
00:29:39.660 Oh my
00:29:39.920 God, look
00:29:40.460 how much
00:29:40.740 money it's
00:29:41.100 raising.
00:29:41.900 But the
00:29:42.220 Trump
00:29:42.460 campaign is
00:29:43.600 not good
00:29:44.020 at
00:29:44.180 communicating.
00:29:45.760 Okay, look
00:29:46.320 at that
00:29:46.580 meme.
00:29:47.180 Oh my
00:29:47.560 God, that's
00:29:48.160 a good
00:29:48.400 meme.
00:29:49.120 Look at
00:29:49.420 that ad.
00:29:50.340 Oh my
00:29:51.080 God, that's
00:29:51.660 such a good
00:29:52.200 ad.
00:29:53.680 All right.
00:29:55.340 Ukraine
00:29:55.860 fired its
00:29:56.460 top prosecutor.
00:29:57.940 What the
00:29:58.600 hell?
00:29:58.880 the
00:30:00.300 simulation is
00:30:01.280 just
00:30:01.480 entertaining
00:30:01.940 us like
00:30:02.400 crazy because
00:30:04.100 I don't
00:30:05.640 know how
00:30:05.920 important it
00:30:06.460 is, probably
00:30:06.920 not too
00:30:07.280 important, but
00:30:08.420 Ukraine firing
00:30:09.460 its top
00:30:09.900 prosecutor while
00:30:11.160 Biden is in
00:30:12.780 the news and
00:30:13.700 Trump is in
00:30:14.420 the news.
00:30:15.020 It's just the
00:30:15.980 simulation and
00:30:16.780 code reuse.
00:30:17.640 have you
00:30:20.840 tried talking
00:30:21.480 to anybody
00:30:22.020 who doesn't
00:30:22.720 follow the
00:30:23.260 news about
00:30:24.600 the coronavirus?
00:30:26.300 Has anybody
00:30:26.740 had that
00:30:27.100 experience?
00:30:28.420 Because I've
00:30:28.920 tried to
00:30:30.000 help some
00:30:30.720 people who
00:30:31.340 are not
00:30:31.780 watching the
00:30:32.340 news to
00:30:33.960 be prepared.
00:30:35.320 You know,
00:30:35.500 just to be
00:30:36.020 careful, be
00:30:36.620 prepared.
00:30:38.340 Let me see
00:30:39.620 if you've had
00:30:40.120 this conversation
00:30:40.980 because it's
00:30:41.800 easy for us
00:30:42.420 to think that
00:30:43.660 other people
00:30:44.260 are watching
00:30:44.700 the news.
00:30:45.860 They're not.
00:30:47.640 Most people
00:30:48.500 are not
00:30:49.080 watching the
00:30:49.620 news.
00:30:51.180 And if
00:30:52.800 they're not
00:30:53.140 watching the
00:30:53.660 news, their
00:30:54.480 fear has not
00:30:56.300 been amped up
00:30:57.100 to the level
00:30:57.740 that yours and
00:30:58.480 mine are.
00:30:59.080 If you're
00:30:59.460 watching me
00:30:59.940 right now,
00:31:00.360 you probably
00:31:00.700 watch the
00:31:01.140 news.
00:31:02.220 And it's
00:31:04.520 a mind-boggling
00:31:05.800 experience.
00:31:07.080 Let me give
00:31:07.540 you an example
00:31:08.120 of that
00:31:08.580 conversation.
00:31:10.480 Hey, Bob,
00:31:11.240 did you know
00:31:11.820 the coronavirus
00:31:12.560 is coming and
00:31:13.680 scientists say
00:31:14.740 it's going to
00:31:15.060 be really bad?
00:31:15.860 It's not like
00:31:16.300 the regular
00:31:16.700 flu.
00:31:17.060 A lot of
00:31:17.960 people could
00:31:18.320 die.
00:31:18.740 It could
00:31:18.880 disrupt our
00:31:19.620 economy.
00:31:20.640 Maybe you
00:31:20.980 should, you
00:31:21.740 know, just
00:31:22.340 to be careful,
00:31:23.960 get in a
00:31:24.420 little extra
00:31:24.860 food, just
00:31:26.380 to be careful.
00:31:27.420 Do you know
00:31:27.700 what Bob
00:31:28.080 will say?
00:31:29.180 If he's not
00:31:30.020 watching the
00:31:30.520 news, Bob
00:31:31.740 will say,
00:31:32.820 eh, I'm not
00:31:33.180 worried about
00:31:33.560 it.
00:31:34.720 Then you
00:31:35.420 say, okay,
00:31:36.700 Bob, I hear
00:31:37.980 you when you
00:31:38.400 say you're not
00:31:38.840 worried about
00:31:39.280 it.
00:31:39.820 But what I'm
00:31:40.280 telling you is
00:31:40.880 every expert in
00:31:42.560 the world is
00:31:43.820 pretty sure they
00:31:45.560 should be worried
00:31:46.320 about it.
00:31:47.440 So I hear you
00:31:48.160 that you're not.
00:31:48.940 I'm telling you
00:31:49.600 you should be.
00:31:50.580 And you should
00:31:51.100 get some food
00:31:51.820 in, probably
00:31:52.780 won't need it,
00:31:53.760 just to be
00:31:54.320 careful.
00:31:55.500 And Bob
00:31:55.940 will say,
00:31:56.580 it's just the
00:31:57.560 flu.
00:31:58.560 I go, Bob,
00:31:59.140 Bob, okay,
00:31:59.900 did you hear the
00:32:00.700 part where all
00:32:01.580 the experts in
00:32:02.340 the world say
00:32:03.080 it's not just
00:32:05.040 the flu?
00:32:06.180 This is like a
00:32:07.060 special danger.
00:32:08.320 So you should
00:32:08.800 get ready, Bob.
00:32:10.160 And Bob will
00:32:10.720 say, eh, you
00:32:12.840 can't worry
00:32:13.920 people who are
00:32:14.500 not watching the
00:32:15.160 news.
00:32:15.480 Have you noticed
00:32:15.880 that?
00:32:18.220 Now, some
00:32:19.040 people in the
00:32:19.500 comments say,
00:32:20.120 I'm not worried
00:32:20.660 about it, and
00:32:21.140 we'll talk about
00:32:21.660 that.
00:32:22.580 So apparently,
00:32:23.760 most of you know
00:32:24.820 I live in the
00:32:25.320 Bay Area, outside
00:32:26.380 of San Francisco.
00:32:27.300 There are a couple
00:32:27.700 of cases reported
00:32:28.600 now, and there's
00:32:29.820 another cruise ship
00:32:30.780 that may or may
00:32:31.800 not be infected
00:32:32.580 off the coast
00:32:33.520 that wants to
00:32:34.460 get into San
00:32:35.060 Francisco.
00:32:36.160 So it's here.
00:32:37.060 So if you're
00:32:39.080 waiting for your
00:32:39.740 town to get
00:32:40.420 the first
00:32:40.960 coronavirus
00:32:41.820 confirmation,
00:32:43.820 I'll tell you
00:32:44.980 what it's like.
00:32:46.400 It's here for
00:32:46.920 me.
00:32:48.300 So I'm just
00:32:52.280 going to jump
00:32:52.840 around some
00:32:53.280 topics.
00:32:54.260 There's something
00:32:54.920 about this
00:32:55.460 coronavirus that
00:32:56.340 feels like it's
00:32:56.960 a Green New
00:32:57.640 Deal virus.
00:32:59.580 Because the
00:33:01.780 Green New
00:33:02.180 Deal was all
00:33:03.920 about reducing
00:33:04.620 our use of
00:33:06.180 fossil fuels,
00:33:07.060 and this
00:33:08.160 virus did it
00:33:09.040 really quickly.
00:33:10.300 So you saw
00:33:11.140 that the
00:33:11.480 pollution cleared
00:33:12.080 up in China,
00:33:12.800 etc.
00:33:13.180 Now people are
00:33:13.860 going back to
00:33:14.360 work, so we
00:33:15.000 do expect the
00:33:15.740 level of
00:33:16.340 pollution to
00:33:16.900 go back up.
00:33:18.500 But I think
00:33:19.640 we may be at
00:33:22.220 a permanent
00:33:23.000 turning point in
00:33:24.480 terms of
00:33:24.980 traffic.
00:33:26.820 Would you
00:33:27.400 agree with
00:33:27.760 that?
00:33:28.540 Are we not
00:33:29.360 at a permanent
00:33:30.320 turning point in
00:33:32.840 terms of
00:33:33.340 traffic?
00:33:34.260 I think we
00:33:34.920 are.
00:33:35.520 We may also be
00:33:36.460 at a turning
00:33:36.880 point in
00:33:37.520 how much
00:33:37.940 AC we
00:33:38.740 use and
00:33:40.100 how often
00:33:40.680 we keep
00:33:40.980 the windows
00:33:41.440 closed and
00:33:42.440 stuff like
00:33:42.980 that.
00:33:43.240 So there
00:33:43.420 could be a
00:33:43.780 lot of
00:33:43.960 different
00:33:44.240 changes.
00:33:45.500 But one
00:33:45.760 of the
00:33:46.000 unintended
00:33:46.540 outcomes of
00:33:49.740 the virus
00:33:50.340 might be
00:33:50.840 that we're
00:33:51.360 permanently
00:33:51.880 more
00:33:52.500 telecommuting.
00:33:53.140 and that
00:33:55.640 could be one
00:33:56.040 of the
00:33:56.220 biggest
00:33:56.440 changes in
00:33:57.180 the world
00:33:57.520 in terms
00:33:57.940 of carbon
00:33:58.440 use.
00:34:02.760 There's
00:34:03.200 some
00:34:03.380 indication
00:34:03.800 that the
00:34:04.280 summer
00:34:04.700 reduces
00:34:06.200 the risk
00:34:09.020 of the
00:34:09.440 virus
00:34:10.080 transmitting.
00:34:11.040 People
00:34:11.240 aren't quite
00:34:11.740 sure why.
00:34:12.620 They've got a
00:34:13.100 number of
00:34:13.500 ideas.
00:34:13.880 One of
00:34:14.100 them is
00:34:14.400 humidity.
00:34:15.680 So I
00:34:16.140 just bought
00:34:16.940 a humidifier
00:34:17.680 for my
00:34:18.080 house.
00:34:19.180 Now,
00:34:19.980 what are
00:34:20.360 the odds
00:34:20.860 that if
00:34:22.260 it's true,
00:34:22.800 I think the
00:34:23.180 experts agree
00:34:23.860 that humidity
00:34:24.520 will decrease
00:34:25.800 the transmission.
00:34:28.740 But does it
00:34:29.580 therefore follow
00:34:30.360 that adding a
00:34:31.480 humidifier to
00:34:32.340 your house
00:34:32.780 would make
00:34:33.400 any difference
00:34:33.920 at all?
00:34:35.160 And I
00:34:36.620 don't know,
00:34:37.140 maybe it only
00:34:37.780 makes a
00:34:38.160 difference if
00:34:38.700 everyone does
00:34:39.540 it.
00:34:39.780 If you only
00:34:40.180 do it in
00:34:40.580 one place,
00:34:42.000 it might
00:34:42.640 make such a
00:34:43.180 small difference
00:34:43.660 it's not
00:34:44.060 worth it.
00:34:45.620 Maybe it's
00:34:46.300 hard to do
00:34:46.800 for more than
00:34:47.420 one room
00:34:47.880 at a time.
00:34:49.060 People are
00:34:49.560 coming in
00:34:49.960 and out.
00:34:50.560 Maybe it
00:34:50.860 doesn't make
00:34:51.240 any difference
00:34:51.680 because people
00:34:52.400 are always
00:34:52.780 in and out
00:34:53.360 anyway.
00:34:54.600 But I
00:34:55.080 got one.
00:34:56.440 Now,
00:34:56.820 I was
00:34:57.040 interested to
00:34:57.600 find that
00:34:57.980 there was
00:34:58.360 no shortage,
00:34:59.180 at least on
00:34:59.640 Amazon.
00:35:00.180 So I
00:35:00.440 ordered it
00:35:00.840 on Amazon,
00:35:01.680 says it'll
00:35:02.060 be here
00:35:02.320 tomorrow.
00:35:03.220 Didn't cost
00:35:03.680 that much.
00:35:04.680 I'm going
00:35:04.920 to put one
00:35:05.280 in.
00:35:05.680 It's just
00:35:05.980 one of the
00:35:06.320 things I
00:35:06.680 can do.
00:35:07.720 And a
00:35:09.120 lot of the
00:35:09.440 things that I
00:35:09.900 plan to do
00:35:10.780 about the
00:35:12.100 coronavirus,
00:35:13.120 I am
00:35:13.620 completely
00:35:14.140 aware,
00:35:15.440 completely
00:35:15.960 aware that
00:35:17.200 there's very
00:35:17.820 small chance
00:35:18.740 that any of
00:35:20.020 the things I
00:35:20.460 do are the
00:35:21.000 thing that
00:35:21.360 makes a
00:35:21.680 difference.
00:35:22.700 But I'm
00:35:23.260 going to take
00:35:23.660 over a
00:35:24.060 sense of
00:35:24.520 control because
00:35:26.180 that's good for
00:35:26.960 my mental
00:35:27.700 state and
00:35:29.140 for the
00:35:29.700 benefit of
00:35:30.160 myself as
00:35:30.840 well as the
00:35:31.540 benefit of
00:35:32.120 you.
00:35:32.400 two, I
00:35:33.240 would like to
00:35:33.740 keep my
00:35:34.100 mental state
00:35:34.720 as calm
00:35:35.680 and functional
00:35:37.260 as possible.
00:35:38.460 So I'm
00:35:38.980 going to do
00:35:39.420 stuff that I
00:35:41.160 consciously know
00:35:42.020 probably doesn't
00:35:42.660 make a lot of
00:35:43.360 difference, but
00:35:44.440 it makes a
00:35:44.840 difference and
00:35:45.940 it's something and
00:35:47.140 I'm going to do
00:35:47.620 it.
00:35:48.200 So it's going to
00:35:48.840 make me feel
00:35:49.340 good, that
00:35:49.900 will make me
00:35:50.320 more productive
00:35:51.000 and capable to
00:35:52.340 help all of
00:35:53.640 you.
00:35:54.100 So think about
00:35:54.800 that as a
00:35:55.400 mental strategy.
00:35:56.660 Find something
00:35:57.180 you can do and
00:35:58.500 then go do it
00:35:59.180 so you feel like
00:36:00.180 you have a little
00:36:00.600 sense of control.
00:36:04.920 Here's my
00:36:05.620 opinion, subject
00:36:07.340 to change.
00:36:10.260 Here's what I
00:36:10.980 think you should
00:36:11.600 not care about.
00:36:13.940 Number one is
00:36:14.560 the vaccine.
00:36:16.340 I don't think
00:36:17.200 you should count
00:36:17.760 on it.
00:36:18.700 I don't think
00:36:19.200 there's necessarily
00:36:20.020 even a high
00:36:20.640 chance we'll
00:36:21.160 ever have one.
00:36:23.260 But I don't
00:36:23.940 think that that
00:36:24.520 means it's the
00:36:25.060 end of the
00:36:25.400 world.
00:36:27.080 So I don't
00:36:27.720 think the
00:36:28.160 vaccine is
00:36:28.880 coming.
00:36:29.120 The other
00:36:29.340 thing I think
00:36:30.440 you should
00:36:30.940 ignore as
00:36:32.700 being possibly
00:36:33.820 good is
00:36:35.160 containment.
00:36:37.080 I don't
00:36:37.720 think there's
00:36:38.100 any chance
00:36:38.620 it will be
00:36:39.060 contained.
00:36:40.820 And I
00:36:42.140 don't think
00:36:42.680 that there's
00:36:43.620 no chance
00:36:46.380 it's going to
00:36:46.700 be contained.
00:36:47.560 And I don't
00:36:47.880 think the
00:36:48.200 vaccine will
00:36:48.960 save us.
00:36:50.700 Here's what I
00:36:51.500 believe is the
00:36:52.600 real strategy
00:36:53.500 that the
00:36:54.460 government can't
00:36:55.380 tell you.
00:36:56.820 I almost
00:36:58.300 hate to say
00:36:58.820 this, but I
00:36:59.340 think if you're
00:37:00.580 watching this
00:37:01.020 periscope, you're
00:37:01.660 probably among
00:37:02.320 the smarter
00:37:03.400 level-headed
00:37:04.380 people, I
00:37:05.440 like to think.
00:37:06.880 And I will
00:37:08.360 start with this
00:37:09.000 assumption.
00:37:10.340 I agree that
00:37:12.120 our government
00:37:12.800 should lie to
00:37:14.300 us whenever
00:37:15.340 that's for the
00:37:16.000 greater good.
00:37:17.180 Now, you
00:37:17.600 could argue that
00:37:18.680 there should
00:37:19.040 never be a
00:37:19.720 never, your
00:37:20.820 government should
00:37:21.300 never lie to
00:37:21.880 you.
00:37:22.600 But I'm not
00:37:23.340 going to have
00:37:23.560 that conversation
00:37:24.200 today.
00:37:24.840 I think there
00:37:25.400 are special
00:37:25.940 cases where it's
00:37:27.480 just better
00:37:27.940 for the
00:37:28.260 government to
00:37:28.820 lie to you.
00:37:29.880 And this
00:37:30.700 might be one
00:37:31.240 of them.
00:37:31.720 It's probably
00:37:32.340 one of them.
00:37:33.840 I think that
00:37:34.760 the government
00:37:35.160 knows that the
00:37:35.880 vaccine isn't
00:37:36.660 going to stop
00:37:37.200 it.
00:37:38.400 I think the
00:37:39.280 government knows
00:37:39.980 that closing
00:37:41.760 borders, as
00:37:42.960 mildly as we've
00:37:44.240 done it, isn't
00:37:44.880 going to stop it.
00:37:45.860 Because we've
00:37:46.540 stopped travel from
00:37:47.920 the high-impact
00:37:49.360 places, but it's
00:37:50.240 in 80 countries
00:37:51.080 now.
00:37:51.780 It's in 80
00:37:52.480 countries, including
00:37:53.340 ours.
00:37:53.700 And we're
00:37:55.380 not stopping
00:37:56.040 travel, apparently,
00:37:57.100 from Italy.
00:37:59.120 So I just saw
00:38:00.800 a tweet from
00:38:01.360 somebody who was
00:38:02.440 on the medical
00:38:03.500 team, went over
00:38:04.280 to Italy, came
00:38:05.400 back to the
00:38:05.840 United States, and
00:38:06.580 nobody even asked
00:38:07.320 her where she
00:38:07.760 was.
00:38:08.540 She was literally
00:38:09.220 in the middle of
00:38:10.420 the coronavirus
00:38:11.160 epidemic, for
00:38:13.160 medical treatment
00:38:14.360 reasons, and
00:38:15.720 nobody asked her
00:38:16.460 when she came
00:38:16.880 back.
00:38:17.640 Now, how many
00:38:18.120 of those are
00:38:18.640 there?
00:38:19.260 I don't know
00:38:19.940 how many there
00:38:20.500 are, but there
00:38:20.940 are enough that
00:38:22.000 the virus is
00:38:22.660 coming.
00:38:22.900 So here's
00:38:23.940 what I believe
00:38:24.620 is the
00:38:25.180 unstated, real
00:38:27.600 strategy.
00:38:28.420 This is based
00:38:29.120 on picking up
00:38:29.920 what all the
00:38:30.800 experts are
00:38:31.320 saying individually
00:38:32.280 and trying to
00:38:33.720 collate it.
00:38:34.560 It seems to me
00:38:35.580 that the strategy
00:38:36.360 is a controlled
00:38:38.180 spread, because
00:38:40.880 there is no hope
00:38:41.520 of stopping it.
00:38:43.040 There are only
00:38:43.520 two options.
00:38:46.100 Spreads quickly,
00:38:47.080 because we don't
00:38:47.720 do anything, or
00:38:49.280 we fight like
00:38:50.960 hell to slow
00:38:52.580 it down so
00:38:53.400 it doesn't
00:38:53.800 overwhelm our
00:38:54.580 systems.
00:38:56.000 So the goal
00:38:57.400 is to get
00:38:58.980 infected, because
00:39:00.580 until you get
00:39:01.420 infected, until
00:39:02.460 enough people are
00:39:03.480 infected, and
00:39:04.080 apparently 80%
00:39:04.940 don't even have
00:39:06.180 anything like a
00:39:06.920 symptom, or
00:39:07.800 they're mild.
00:39:09.360 So you need 80%
00:39:10.740 to get it once,
00:39:12.080 to have some
00:39:12.900 immunity, which
00:39:13.760 apparently is not
00:39:14.520 complete immunity,
00:39:16.060 and it doesn't
00:39:17.160 last forever, but
00:39:18.400 it gives you some
00:39:19.040 immunity so that if
00:39:20.360 somebody does get
00:39:21.260 it, they're less
00:39:22.540 likely to have
00:39:23.200 anybody they
00:39:23.760 could give it
00:39:24.300 to.
00:39:25.360 Apparently, that's
00:39:26.240 the only thing
00:39:27.060 that stops the
00:39:27.660 virus.
00:39:28.820 It's the only
00:39:29.400 thing.
00:39:30.200 Because even the
00:39:31.340 good weather and
00:39:32.240 going outdoors will
00:39:33.680 slow it down, but
00:39:35.040 then it's going to
00:39:35.580 come raging back in
00:39:37.020 the winter.
00:39:37.980 And I've not heard
00:39:39.840 any expert who
00:39:40.700 disagrees that it
00:39:42.480 needs to run its
00:39:43.220 course.
00:39:44.400 Have you?
00:39:45.080 So if you don't
00:39:46.660 hear that, the
00:39:48.100 real strategy is to
00:39:49.560 not panic you,
00:39:51.520 because there's
00:39:52.780 nothing you can do
00:39:53.500 about it, aside
00:39:54.780 from washing your
00:39:55.820 hands and the
00:39:56.720 small stuff you can
00:39:57.520 do about it.
00:39:58.220 But there's not
00:39:58.800 much you can do
00:39:59.740 about the fact that
00:40:01.780 much of the country
00:40:02.560 is going to get it
00:40:03.400 like every other
00:40:04.240 virus.
00:40:06.100 Now, if that
00:40:08.940 sounded like a
00:40:10.460 doomsday thing,
00:40:11.220 it's the opposite.
00:40:12.540 It's the opposite of
00:40:13.680 doomsday.
00:40:14.900 It's actually the
00:40:16.420 only plan that
00:40:17.140 makes sense, in my
00:40:18.060 opinion.
00:40:19.320 And that's an
00:40:19.880 opinion based on
00:40:20.620 just watching the
00:40:21.420 experts.
00:40:21.920 I'm certainly no
00:40:22.520 expert.
00:40:23.760 But somebody says
00:40:25.260 they're trying to
00:40:28.240 not get it.
00:40:29.120 You should all try
00:40:29.840 that.
00:40:30.920 You should all try
00:40:31.920 to not get it,
00:40:33.540 even if,
00:40:34.800 individually, it
00:40:35.780 might be better if
00:40:36.560 you got it and got
00:40:37.580 it over with.
00:40:38.880 Because it's the
00:40:39.760 difference between
00:40:40.440 what's good for you
00:40:41.440 versus what's good
00:40:42.640 for the society.
00:40:44.780 What's good for you
00:40:46.220 would be to get a
00:40:47.900 mild case and get
00:40:48.780 it over with.
00:40:50.400 Don't do that.
00:40:52.220 What's good for
00:40:52.900 society is that you
00:40:54.540 fight and fight
00:40:56.560 and fight to put
00:40:58.420 it off.
00:40:59.420 Because you want to
00:41:00.100 spread it out.
00:41:01.320 If you don't spread
00:41:02.000 it out, you're going
00:41:03.100 to overwhelm our
00:41:04.240 facilities and the
00:41:05.780 hospitals and then
00:41:07.100 everything just
00:41:07.760 falls apart.
00:41:08.780 But I don't think
00:41:09.340 that's going to
00:41:09.740 happen because we're
00:41:10.440 going to spread it
00:41:10.960 out.
00:41:11.140 And the United
00:41:12.020 States is doing a
00:41:12.700 good job.
00:41:13.480 Now, here's my
00:41:14.380 opinion of why
00:41:15.380 this is the real
00:41:16.860 strategy, but it's
00:41:18.200 not one you can
00:41:18.920 tell the public.
00:41:19.920 If you told the
00:41:20.540 public that, I
00:41:22.500 think it would
00:41:22.920 cause the wrong
00:41:23.520 behavior.
00:41:24.220 People would say,
00:41:24.760 ah, let's just get
00:41:25.460 it then, or let's
00:41:26.700 not care about it.
00:41:27.520 And those are the
00:41:28.000 wrong moves.
00:41:29.680 But the fact that
00:41:32.340 the airports are
00:41:33.320 not all closed is
00:41:36.500 everything you need
00:41:37.200 to know.
00:41:38.780 Closing it from
00:41:39.720 China probably was
00:41:41.420 in a few of the
00:41:42.780 other hotspots.
00:41:43.740 It makes sense
00:41:44.660 because that could
00:41:45.660 have caused us to
00:41:46.420 suddenly surge.
00:41:48.700 But I feel like
00:41:49.580 we're letting it in
00:41:50.480 intentionally.
00:41:52.340 In other words,
00:41:53.620 the actions we're
00:41:55.040 taking are clearly
00:41:57.060 meant to allow
00:41:59.400 some risk into
00:42:00.420 the country, but
00:42:01.220 a small one.
00:42:02.360 Now, the small
00:42:02.940 risk is not a risk
00:42:04.260 of something
00:42:04.700 happening or not
00:42:05.400 happening.
00:42:05.920 It's a guarantee.
00:42:07.920 It's a guarantee
00:42:09.120 that if you let
00:42:10.000 world travel happen
00:42:11.880 and the only things
00:42:13.140 that you stop are
00:42:13.860 the hotspot travel,
00:42:15.860 you're still going
00:42:16.440 to get a guarantee.
00:42:17.240 There's no question
00:42:18.220 about it.
00:42:20.820 So here's somebody
00:42:22.220 in the comments
00:42:22.640 that says, let's
00:42:23.280 just get it.
00:42:24.460 And did you hear
00:42:25.440 me?
00:42:26.720 If we all got it
00:42:27.920 right away, it
00:42:28.440 would be the end
00:42:28.960 of civilization.
00:42:30.340 Probably not,
00:42:31.120 but it would be
00:42:31.560 pretty bad.
00:42:32.580 You need to fight
00:42:33.800 like heck to not
00:42:34.960 get it.
00:42:36.080 Spread it out.
00:42:37.420 Don't overwhelm
00:42:38.320 the resources.
00:42:43.240 So, let's see,
00:42:44.220 what else we got
00:42:44.720 here?
00:42:47.400 CNN had a headline
00:42:48.780 that said that
00:42:49.620 Dr. Gupta,
00:42:52.200 their medical TV
00:42:53.500 doctor, who was
00:42:54.260 a real doctor,
00:42:54.940 their headline
00:42:57.660 said that he
00:42:58.220 debunked Trump's
00:42:59.760 hunch that the
00:43:01.540 coronavirus would
00:43:02.520 be lower than
00:43:03.620 the 1% death
00:43:04.520 rate after we've
00:43:05.540 found out all
00:43:06.380 the people who
00:43:06.820 have no
00:43:08.420 symptoms.
00:43:09.280 So the president
00:43:10.080 was saying that
00:43:11.660 he thinks the
00:43:12.340 death rate is
00:43:12.880 lower because we're
00:43:14.260 going to find a
00:43:14.740 whole bunch of
00:43:15.220 people we didn't
00:43:16.020 know had it that
00:43:17.520 weren't in the
00:43:18.200 denominator.
00:43:19.520 Now, he was
00:43:20.900 widely mocked for
00:43:21.760 that, saying,
00:43:22.920 my God, the
00:43:24.260 scientists say
00:43:25.000 it's, I don't
00:43:25.620 know, 3% or
00:43:26.540 whatever they were
00:43:27.040 saying at the
00:43:27.500 time, and Trump
00:43:28.780 says it's less, and
00:43:29.780 he's not a
00:43:30.300 scientist, and he's
00:43:31.200 so anti-science, and
00:43:32.360 what kind of an
00:43:33.360 idiot, and then a
00:43:34.400 few hours later,
00:43:35.680 scientists started
00:43:36.700 lowering their
00:43:37.540 estimates.
00:43:39.040 In other words,
00:43:40.700 President Trump
00:43:41.460 was completely
00:43:43.760 correct.
00:43:44.600 It wasn't just a
00:43:45.800 hunch.
00:43:46.720 He was listening to
00:43:47.700 the experts, and he
00:43:48.540 was watching the
00:43:49.340 estimate go down
00:43:50.300 and down and
00:43:50.760 down every day.
00:43:51.440 If you're watching
00:43:52.580 an estimate go
00:43:53.240 down every day, and
00:43:54.840 there's an obvious
00:43:55.680 reason why it's
00:43:56.440 going down, which
00:43:57.300 is more testing, it's
00:43:59.540 not a hunch, per se,
00:44:01.440 that it's going to
00:44:02.000 keep going down.
00:44:02.780 It's just a pretty
00:44:03.540 good guess.
00:44:04.640 And the President
00:44:05.440 made his pretty
00:44:06.240 good guess.
00:44:07.400 I think it was a
00:44:08.400 totally responsible
00:44:10.160 thing to say as
00:44:11.120 President, because
00:44:12.340 there's an estimate
00:44:13.060 of where things are
00:44:13.780 going, and it
00:44:14.260 would look like it
00:44:14.860 might go in the
00:44:15.360 right direction.
00:44:16.540 That's exactly what
00:44:17.380 you want your
00:44:17.820 President to say.
00:44:19.300 If the President
00:44:19.900 thinks things are
00:44:20.880 going to go
00:44:21.440 in the right
00:44:21.820 direction, the
00:44:22.960 experts do, there's
00:44:24.520 a reason for it, of
00:44:25.920 course you should
00:44:26.700 say it out loud.
00:44:28.640 Now, did Dr.
00:44:30.740 Gupta debunk, because
00:44:33.520 that's the word used
00:44:34.320 in the headlines,
00:44:35.180 Trump's hunch?
00:44:36.440 And the answer is,
00:44:37.920 no, he didn't.
00:44:39.160 If you read the
00:44:39.860 article, he didn't
00:44:40.560 debunk it at all.
00:44:42.160 He didn't really talk
00:44:43.360 about it in those
00:44:44.020 terms.
00:44:44.840 So the headline says
00:44:45.900 that Gupta is
00:44:46.600 debunking Trump, but
00:44:47.760 the article doesn't
00:44:48.900 doesn't do that.
00:44:50.360 Typical BS.
00:44:56.600 There's an
00:44:57.160 interesting story out
00:44:58.620 of Africa.
00:45:00.440 Reportedly, there
00:45:01.120 are only three cases
00:45:02.200 out of Africa, which
00:45:03.340 makes no sense.
00:45:05.400 It should be ravaging
00:45:06.620 the continent by now
00:45:07.800 because they don't
00:45:08.340 have the same
00:45:08.920 quarantine and medical
00:45:11.040 facilities and testing
00:45:12.280 and all that stuff we
00:45:13.020 have.
00:45:13.480 Only three cases?
00:45:14.440 Is it because it's
00:45:15.680 hot and humid?
00:45:17.040 Is it because?
00:45:18.580 We've confirmed that
00:45:19.760 there are genetic
00:45:20.760 differences in terms
00:45:22.820 of who can get it.
00:45:24.220 But one expert said
00:45:25.420 there's nothing about
00:45:26.240 the coronavirus that
00:45:27.380 we've identified that
00:45:29.240 has a genetic
00:45:30.100 preference.
00:45:31.800 But just because we
00:45:32.980 haven't identified it
00:45:33.860 doesn't mean it's not
00:45:34.740 the case.
00:45:35.880 It could be that
00:45:37.280 Africa gets through
00:45:38.860 this pretty well.
00:45:40.180 I mean, fingers
00:45:41.040 crossed.
00:45:41.600 We'll see.
00:45:42.380 It's going to be
00:45:42.940 pretty bad if it
00:45:43.560 doesn't.
00:45:47.140 Let's see what else
00:45:48.140 we've got here.
00:45:49.860 The other possibility
00:45:51.040 is that when we
00:45:52.320 start testing, we're
00:45:53.800 going to find out
00:45:54.400 that so many people
00:45:55.540 already have the
00:45:56.400 coronavirus that
00:45:58.240 we're in way better
00:45:59.860 shape than we
00:46:00.420 thought.
00:46:01.540 It could be, for
00:46:02.880 example, that, no,
00:46:06.100 I guess we would
00:46:06.680 know that by now.
00:46:08.140 If there's enough
00:46:09.020 testing, maybe we
00:46:09.900 don't.
00:46:10.360 It could be that,
00:46:11.520 I'm just going to
00:46:12.100 throw this out there,
00:46:12.800 maybe so many
00:46:13.560 people in
00:46:14.020 Africa already
00:46:14.720 have it, but
00:46:16.120 have it mildly
00:46:16.960 that it doesn't
00:46:18.020 catch on in any
00:46:19.420 deadly way there.
00:46:20.800 Possible, but I
00:46:22.120 would think they
00:46:22.520 would have tested
00:46:22.980 that by now.
00:46:28.380 Kellyanne Conway
00:46:29.260 says, oh, here's
00:46:30.560 another thing on
00:46:31.280 masks.
00:46:33.960 Those N95 masks,
00:46:36.880 you know, a lot of
00:46:37.340 experts have been
00:46:39.120 contacting me privately
00:46:40.340 to give their
00:46:41.260 opinions on the
00:46:42.060 masks.
00:46:43.060 I didn't realize
00:46:43.560 that the N95 masks
00:46:44.780 you can buy at a
00:46:45.440 hardware store.
00:46:47.160 I thought these
00:46:47.980 were some kind of
00:46:49.300 high-end medical
00:46:51.560 special masks, the
00:46:53.320 ones everybody wants,
00:46:54.220 but apparently you
00:46:54.700 could just buy them
00:46:55.300 at the hardware
00:46:56.500 store because people
00:46:57.860 use them for
00:46:58.400 construction to keep
00:46:59.480 the dust down.
00:47:01.000 Now, there's some
00:47:01.740 thought that they
00:47:02.420 don't have enough
00:47:03.620 of a filter for a
00:47:04.820 virus because virus
00:47:05.680 is smaller than the
00:47:06.580 filter, even of the
00:47:07.920 high-end masks.
00:47:09.540 But here's just the
00:47:10.600 new thing I'm going
00:47:11.240 to add to it.
00:47:12.040 I heard directly from
00:47:14.440 somebody whose job
00:47:15.300 it was to work in
00:47:16.980 the ER or work in
00:47:19.460 surgery rooms and
00:47:21.300 make sure that people
00:47:22.060 have the right
00:47:22.480 protective gear.
00:47:24.400 And apparently, did
00:47:25.360 you know this, that
00:47:26.940 surgeons will typically
00:47:29.520 wear the non-N95
00:47:31.320 masks?
00:47:32.460 In fact, the only time
00:47:33.380 they use the high-end
00:47:34.340 mask, even when
00:47:35.620 they're doing
00:47:36.200 surgery, the only
00:47:38.180 time they use the
00:47:38.840 good mask is if
00:47:39.960 there's something
00:47:40.360 special, yeah, like
00:47:42.220 the dust.
00:47:43.080 Let's say they're
00:47:43.520 grinding a bone and
00:47:45.180 there's some bone
00:47:45.800 dust or there's some
00:47:47.120 fumes or something
00:47:48.780 coming out.
00:47:49.640 But for an ordinary
00:47:50.720 operation, they just
00:47:52.200 use the same cheap
00:47:53.220 old face masks
00:47:54.580 everybody else does.
00:47:55.680 So that should tell
00:47:56.480 you something.
00:47:57.720 All right.
00:47:59.400 I don't know what.
00:48:01.100 Kellyanne Conway had
00:48:02.680 a funny tweet.
00:48:03.580 So Elizabeth Warren
00:48:05.300 is claiming that
00:48:06.800 misogyny and sexism
00:48:09.460 were part of the
00:48:10.520 reason that she had
00:48:11.160 to leave the race and
00:48:12.080 was not victorious.
00:48:14.100 And Kellyanne Conway
00:48:15.100 tweets this.
00:48:17.700 If true that
00:48:18.460 Elizabeth Warren,
00:48:19.300 Kirsten Gillibrand,
00:48:20.440 Kamala Harris, and
00:48:21.120 Amy Klobuchar lost,
00:48:22.780 quote, because they
00:48:24.040 are women, then the
00:48:26.720 Democrats aren't just
00:48:27.700 hapless, they're
00:48:28.760 sexist.
00:48:29.840 These women lost
00:48:31.240 among Democrat
00:48:32.020 voters in Democrat
00:48:33.720 primaries and
00:48:35.420 caucuses.
00:48:36.660 And I thought, oh
00:48:38.220 yeah, every time
00:48:39.620 Warren says that
00:48:40.860 sexism is what kept
00:48:42.220 her from being
00:48:42.760 president, you have
00:48:44.200 to ask yourself,
00:48:45.220 who is sexism?
00:48:47.320 Because I don't
00:48:47.800 think the Republicans
00:48:48.700 were part of that
00:48:49.480 process.
00:48:50.880 So apparently
00:48:51.360 Democrats don't
00:48:52.320 think that any of
00:48:54.060 those women were
00:48:54.800 the ones that were
00:48:55.800 qualified.
00:48:57.920 Now, here's
00:48:59.360 something that
00:48:59.860 Elizabeth, I'm
00:49:01.700 going to say
00:49:02.020 something that
00:49:02.540 nobody says.
00:49:03.960 All right.
00:49:05.460 I don't know
00:49:06.200 why.
00:49:07.620 When you hear me
00:49:08.500 say this, you're
00:49:09.120 going to say, oh
00:49:10.060 yeah, I'm thinking
00:49:10.860 that.
00:49:11.900 Why doesn't
00:49:12.600 anybody say that?
00:49:14.080 It's something I
00:49:14.860 guess you can't
00:49:15.400 say on TV or in
00:49:16.420 public, but I'm
00:49:17.000 going to say it
00:49:17.400 anyway.
00:49:18.540 For every voter
00:49:19.720 who would say, I'm
00:49:21.680 not going to vote
00:49:22.340 for a candidate
00:49:22.960 because this person
00:49:23.980 is a woman, there
00:49:26.320 are two that will
00:49:27.480 vote for her
00:49:28.220 because she is.
00:49:29.340 I'm not wrong.
00:49:32.280 And those two
00:49:33.140 aren't necessarily
00:49:33.860 both women.
00:49:35.540 You don't think
00:49:36.440 there were plenty
00:49:37.340 of men who
00:49:38.620 said, yeah, it's
00:49:39.280 time for a woman.
00:49:40.660 Time for a woman.
00:49:41.620 I'm going to take
00:49:42.380 that under
00:49:42.800 consideration.
00:49:43.580 That's a variable.
00:49:44.860 I'm going to put
00:49:45.380 that in there.
00:49:45.940 I think we should
00:49:46.440 have a woman
00:49:46.880 president.
00:49:48.040 Yes.
00:49:49.140 How about when
00:49:49.800 President Obama
00:49:50.860 ran for office?
00:49:52.560 Did he fail to
00:49:53.840 win two terms
00:49:54.900 because the public
00:49:56.640 would not vote for
00:49:57.580 him because he's
00:49:58.420 black?
00:49:59.720 Oh, there must
00:50:00.380 have been somebody.
00:50:01.820 There must have
00:50:02.520 been somewhere.
00:50:04.820 There were
00:50:05.220 Republicans who
00:50:06.080 didn't vote for
00:50:06.860 Obama because he's
00:50:08.260 black.
00:50:08.740 That's fair to
00:50:09.720 assume.
00:50:10.120 We've got a racist
00:50:11.280 enough country that
00:50:12.520 that's true.
00:50:14.340 But there were
00:50:16.300 two people who
00:50:17.220 voted for him
00:50:18.480 for being black
00:50:19.520 for everyone who
00:50:20.460 voted against him.
00:50:23.220 And I would put
00:50:23.900 myself in that
00:50:24.580 category.
00:50:25.020 I didn't vote,
00:50:25.700 but I'm in the
00:50:26.720 category of people
00:50:27.600 who said,
00:50:28.260 sounds like an
00:50:29.460 advantage.
00:50:30.460 As long as he
00:50:31.480 doesn't say it's
00:50:32.220 an advantage,
00:50:32.800 and I make that
00:50:33.340 point a lot.
00:50:34.200 As long as Obama
00:50:35.880 wasn't selling his
00:50:37.080 blackness as an
00:50:38.800 asset, that allowed
00:50:40.740 me as a citizen to
00:50:41.960 say, yeah, that
00:50:42.880 gives us a little
00:50:43.820 extra.
00:50:44.620 If it makes people
00:50:45.420 more comfortable
00:50:46.160 that we're an
00:50:46.820 inclusive country,
00:50:48.160 he's got the
00:50:48.920 skills, people
00:50:49.700 voted for him,
00:50:50.900 it's a benefit.
00:50:51.700 It's an absolute
00:50:53.440 plus.
00:50:54.980 Why wouldn't I
00:50:55.740 vote for the
00:50:56.440 candidate who
00:50:57.020 has a little
00:50:57.460 extra, a little
00:50:58.480 extra plus?
00:51:00.140 So when I hear
00:51:01.420 Warren say that
00:51:02.380 there's misogyny,
00:51:04.500 oh my God, I
00:51:05.320 almost lost it.
00:51:06.900 Whew.
00:51:07.960 I caught myself.
00:51:11.140 I almost just
00:51:12.420 launched into a
00:51:13.860 profanity-laden
00:51:15.620 monologue, because
00:51:18.240 this does bother
00:51:19.320 me more than I'm
00:51:20.160 letting on, because
00:51:21.860 it's so dishonest.
00:51:23.540 It's dishonest.
00:51:25.600 Elizabeth Warren,
00:51:27.020 the only reason
00:51:27.840 you got that far
00:51:28.840 is because you
00:51:29.960 were a woman.
00:51:31.800 Sorry.
00:51:32.640 The only reason
00:51:33.480 you got that far
00:51:34.520 is because you
00:51:35.720 were a woman.
00:51:36.560 And the reason
00:51:37.260 that you didn't
00:51:38.520 go farther is
00:51:40.020 because you
00:51:40.340 weren't good
00:51:40.760 enough.
00:51:41.740 That's it.
00:51:42.880 That's the whole
00:51:43.500 thing.
00:51:45.260 I've been telling
00:51:46.280 you I tempered
00:51:47.720 early.
00:51:47.920 I'm prednisone
00:51:48.800 for my sinus
00:51:49.780 things, getting
00:51:50.340 ready for some
00:51:51.080 upcoming surgery.
00:51:52.620 And one of
00:51:54.760 the side effects
00:51:55.580 is anger.
00:51:58.000 Now, somebody
00:51:58.440 is saying, do
00:51:59.540 it, don't hold
00:52:00.080 back.
00:52:00.820 The only reason
00:52:01.840 I'm holding
00:52:02.160 back is not
00:52:03.520 because it was
00:52:05.980 a genuine
00:52:06.520 emotion, and
00:52:08.440 not because I'm
00:52:09.320 being kind to
00:52:10.920 anybody listening
00:52:11.640 or whatever.
00:52:12.360 The reason I'm
00:52:12.980 holding back is
00:52:13.580 I don't think
00:52:14.060 it's real.
00:52:15.420 Because I'm
00:52:16.160 on prednisone,
00:52:17.000 and one of the
00:52:17.440 side effects is
00:52:18.160 it can make
00:52:18.720 you flash to
00:52:20.720 anger.
00:52:21.960 And I felt
00:52:22.920 myself starting
00:52:23.940 to flash to
00:52:24.780 anger for a
00:52:25.900 reason that I
00:52:26.960 didn't know was
00:52:27.740 real.
00:52:28.960 So this is one
00:52:29.940 of the most
00:52:30.200 valuable lessons
00:52:30.940 you'll ever have
00:52:31.460 in your life.
00:52:33.300 Your attitude
00:52:34.520 is caused by
00:52:35.660 environment and
00:52:37.360 chemistry and
00:52:38.280 what you ate and
00:52:39.200 how tired you are
00:52:40.040 and all that
00:52:40.420 stuff.
00:52:41.020 If you believe
00:52:41.820 the reason you're
00:52:42.540 mad at a thing
00:52:43.580 is because of
00:52:44.900 the thing, you
00:52:46.360 have not
00:52:46.760 understood the
00:52:47.400 most basic
00:52:48.280 concept of
00:52:50.300 life.
00:52:51.620 Your anger or
00:52:53.340 your attitude is
00:52:54.400 sort of self-
00:52:55.040 generated, I
00:52:56.140 mean, given that
00:52:56.980 it's influenced by
00:52:57.740 the chemistry that
00:52:58.480 you choose to put
00:52:59.100 in your body and
00:53:00.380 whatever's there.
00:53:01.900 But once you
00:53:03.340 learn that your
00:53:04.140 anger is entirely
00:53:06.040 about you and
00:53:07.920 that the events
00:53:08.560 are just the
00:53:09.100 events, there are
00:53:10.460 certainly things
00:53:11.040 that are worth
00:53:11.420 getting mad at,
00:53:12.160 but it's good
00:53:13.740 to know the
00:53:14.120 difference.
00:53:14.780 When are you
00:53:15.180 really mad because
00:53:16.520 it's a bad thing
00:53:17.340 and when are you
00:53:17.960 mad because you
00:53:19.000 didn't get enough
00:53:20.340 sleep?
00:53:21.260 Alright, that's
00:53:24.060 all I got for
00:53:24.540 now and I will
00:53:26.140 talk to you
00:53:26.880 later.