Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 916 Scott Adams： Come Learn About Bigfoot and Bill Gates and Their Plot to Destroy the Galaxy

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00:01:28.660 Mmm. Mmm. All right. So, as you know, this thing we call reality isn't real. It's actually

00:01:42.880 a giant simulation that plays like a video game. And apparently there aren't that many real

00:01:50.260 characters. So, a lot of characters in this are scenery. And the reason that I know that

00:01:57.280 this is a simulation, I just realized it for sure this morning, is why is it that there

00:02:04.960 are seven and a half billion, whatever, billion people in the world, and every time there seems

00:02:12.240 to be like a national or even international story, somehow I'm connected to it. How does

00:02:19.860 that happen? I mean, seriously. What are the odds that the biggest stories in the world,

00:02:28.300 so often I'm connected to them, like personally connected to them? It just doesn't seem like

00:02:32.400 it could possibly be coincidence. So, case in point, the Economic Reopening Committee, what

00:02:40.200 do they call themselves? The Economic Reopening Committee? I don't know. They need a new name.

00:02:48.000 But it turns out I know two or three people on the committee. And what are the odds of that?

00:02:52.960 It's like the most important thing that's happening out of seven billion people. And I know two that

00:02:59.260 I know of, but maybe three people on the committee. The point being that we have a channel. If any

00:03:08.120 of you have amazing ideas, I'd be happy to pass them along. And you can feel like you're connected

00:03:14.780 to the decision as well. You blow my mind away. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here.

00:03:24.480 All right. How do you win the simulation game? Well, I believe that you win the simulation game

00:03:35.560 by understanding the nature of your reality. And you do that by moving up, you know, layers

00:03:42.840 or challenges, just like a video game. For example, this week you learned that when experts present

00:03:50.680 a model of predicted performance in the future, then it's not real.

00:03:59.600 And second block of the day. And so you moved up a level. So in the video game of life, once

00:04:12.680 you realize the experts are only trying to persuade you, it doesn't mean that they're dishonest

00:04:18.720 or have bad detentions. But when they give you graphs and charts and stuff, those are just

00:04:24.000 for persuasion. It's not some snapshot of the future, because that's not a thing. Nobody

00:04:29.100 knows what's going to happen in the future.

00:04:31.540 All right. It's funny how many people can get blocked for mind reading. I've blocked seven

00:04:42.880 or eight people already this morning for actually stating in public that they can read my inner

00:04:48.700 thoughts. Now, if somebody read my inner thoughts correctly, I wouldn't block you. I'm not going

00:04:56.120 to block you if you get it right. But if you stay in public, Adams is just thinking this because

00:05:01.880 what he really wants is to eat all the ice cream. Well, I don't eat ice cream. So I'm going

00:05:08.560 to block you for that. All right. Have you seen devs? I don't know what that is.

00:05:19.080 We will never be the same again. We've never been the same ever. We're always changing. But yes,

00:05:24.940 it's true. It's changing faster. All right. So you all wondered why Sweden is doing so well.

00:05:33.540 Well, actually, their infection rate is kind of high, but not as high as you'd think it

00:05:38.080 would be, given that they're not doing a lot of distancing. And haven't you been wondering,

00:05:44.920 what is it about Sweden? What is it about Sweden that makes them not have to do all the social

00:05:52.320 distancing? And they're still getting, you know, not the worst result in the world? What is

00:05:57.060 it? Well, here's a hypothesis that I heard today. I think this is true. Came from an editor at

00:06:05.080 BuzzFeed. So you can make your own decisions. But I think we could check this. And here's the

00:06:11.740 statistic. It doesn't seem like it could be true, but I'll just put it out here. That more than 50%

00:06:18.400 of Swedish households have only one person. So it might be there's something about Sweden where they

00:06:26.760 have very small households. And that could be the entire explanation. So every time we think we

00:06:38.400 understand what's going on, we probably don't. So if you were saying to yourself, hey, we should let

00:06:45.140 everybody go back to work in this country because Sweden is doing something like that. And it's not

00:06:50.560 so bad in Sweden. It's not overwhelming their hospitals. So let's be like Sweden. Can't really 0.77

00:06:56.260 be like Sweden. We could try, but can't be like Sweden. Yeah. Adams is saying this because he

00:07:07.100 wants all the DoorDash deliveries. That's right. Devs is about the simulation. Oh, it's a show

00:07:15.560 on Hulu. I'll check that out. All right. Somebody says 60% are in one person households. That doesn't

00:07:26.100 seem like it could be possible, but maybe. All right. I still get people on the internet who say things to

00:07:39.460 me fairly frequently, almost every day. This sounds something like this. Scott, Scott, Scott. Why don't

00:07:47.820 you listen to the experts? Listen to the doctors? You're just a cartoonist. How could you be right

00:07:55.800 if you disagree with the doctors and the experts? And the funny thing about that is that's a perfectly

00:08:03.780 reasonable thing to say. I think I've said it many times myself. Over the course of my life, I'll bet

00:08:10.440 there are plenty of times I've said, you know, Bob, you're a gas station attendant. You're not a

00:08:19.240 neurosurgeon. And if the neurosurgeon disagrees with you, I'm going to go with the neurosurgeon if it's

00:08:26.280 about neurosurgeon. So I certainly understand trusting experts over idiots, right? I'm not saying

00:08:36.100 that the gas station attendant is an idiot. I'm making a general point that experts, you should

00:08:41.960 believe them over people who don't know anything. But should you believe the experts over people who

00:08:48.980 have consistently and publicly outperformed the experts? Right? You've fallen for the fake models and

00:09:00.140 hysteria. Block. Because what I've fallen for, or haven't, first of all, none of that ever happened. But if you

00:09:11.340 think I've fallen for something, that's my internal thoughts that you're interpreting. And you can't do that. You

00:09:18.020 don't actually have mind reading ability. You could observe that I say something. But you can't observe

00:09:23.940 my inner thoughts. That's not actually a thing. And it would be hard to guess my inner thoughts, because

00:09:30.100 they're somewhat non-standard, if I do say so. So here's my point. If there's somebody who's a non-expert,

00:09:39.720 who has a long public track record of predicting things, and being right more often than the experts,

00:09:46.400 does it still make sense to listen to the experts? Well, you're certainly going to listen to them.

00:09:53.320 Yeah, you wouldn't want to ignore them. But at what point, and how much of a track record do I need

00:09:59.400 of being right in public, publicly predicting things, and being right? And when the experts are wrong,

00:10:07.100 how much do I have to do it before people will stop saying, Scott, you're just a car terrorist?

00:10:12.140 So I don't know how much I have to do it. But I think I've demonstrated that I can detect

00:10:19.160 BS. So I do not claim I have expertise that is greater than the experts. I certainly don't

00:10:28.700 believe that. And I don't believe that you should take any kind of a technical recommendation from a

00:10:35.400 cartoonist over an expert. What I'm saying is, I do have a really good nose for BS. I did, you know,

00:10:43.900 as you know, I've been on a lot of stories early and said, no, this was not true. And then you've

00:10:50.640 watched them not be true. So you watched me say, let's close the flights from China before the experts,

00:10:58.300 before the experts. And now they agree with me. You saw me say that masks do help before all the

00:11:05.360 experts. And that at least the ones who were talking in public, the CDC and Fauci and all those

00:11:12.580 people. And who was right? Was it all the experts? No, it was me. It's not because I have some kind of

00:11:19.960 technical knowledge that I picked up from the air, and that I can override the experts who've been

00:11:26.280 studying these things forever. It's simply that I can detect obvious BS. If it's obvious,

00:11:33.340 you don't have to be an expert, right? If the best doctor in the world comes in and says,

00:11:39.460 Scott, Bigfoot was in your kitchen, he's been rummaging through your groceries. Do you need to

00:11:46.860 be an expert to know that didn't happen? I would argue, I would argue that's a perfect example of where

00:11:54.100 the non-expert could be relied on more than the expert. Because if the expert says Bigfoot is in

00:12:00.620 your kitchen, you don't have to do any research, do you? Do you have to do any research? Do you have

00:12:06.920 to look into it? Do you need to Google it? Do you need to go look in your kitchen? You don't have to do

00:12:11.520 any of that. It's obvious that Bigfoot is not in your kitchen. So it doesn't matter how qualified the

00:12:18.160 expert is, who says Bigfoot absolutely is in your kitchen. You're not really comparing expertise.

00:12:26.040 You're comparing one person who's good at spotting obvious lies, and one person who's telling an

00:12:31.540 obvious lie. The frame of expert versus non-expert is completely irrelevant to spotting obvious lies.

00:12:39.160 All right? So that's all. So my only claim is that I can tell an obvious lie. I don't make a claim

00:12:46.420 that you should listen to me over experts in some kind of general way. All right. If we don't hear a

00:12:56.480 date for at least a partial or proposed reopening, even if assuming it's a phased reopening, if we don't

00:13:05.140 feel any kind of, if we don't get a date by tomorrow, it could change, you know, tentative date. But I

00:13:11.940 think tomorrow is as far as I'm willing to go. This is just my personal opinion. You'll all make your

00:13:18.440 own decisions. My personal opinion is that, well, today, actually, I'm going to start breaking my social

00:13:25.600 isolation today. Now, the reason I'm going to do it is because nobody in power has proposed a workable

00:13:35.880 plan. And I think it's because there isn't one. I don't think it's a failure of planning. I think

00:13:42.680 it's a failure of there's no path. So there's no path where everything works out. Right? If we wait

00:13:51.760 for a vaccine, it's too long. The therapeutics may or may not slow things down, but it's not going to

00:13:57.380 stop you from spreading it and giving it to people. You know, maybe the blood serum works. But now

00:14:04.400 there's a report out of South Korea that 140 people got rid of the virus and then later tested positive.

00:14:11.900 So it doesn't even look like immunity is promising at this point. So our only choices are to slowly

00:14:20.000 stay home and slowly die, or to go out and risk what I think will be hundreds of thousands of deaths.

00:14:28.940 That would be my assumption. I could be wrong. You know, nobody can predict this stuff, right?

00:14:34.540 So if you believe that I could predict it, well, that's not a good, that wouldn't be a good opinion.

00:14:40.920 But don't believe anybody else can predict it, because you've seen that people can't predict this

00:14:45.320 stuff. However, if you're looking at the risk, yeah, the risk is probably up to a million people

00:14:51.780 in this country alone. And my read of the public is we're ready to take that risk.

00:14:58.000 Now we probably I'll talk about I'll talk about Kennedy and Bill Gates. We'll get to that. But I want to I

00:15:06.700 don't want to make you all mad first, because I'm going to go on a blocking spree once we get to that

00:15:11.740 topic. So just hold on to that. So there are no proposed or known ways to thwart the virus.

00:15:24.700 We could do I think you'll see lots of advances in testing. So we could have widespread testing

00:15:30.760 and test, test, test. But given the virality of it, and how many months it will take to roll out

00:15:36.240 testing? We can't really wait. Right? Somebody says chloroquine works perfectly, I hear. My confidence

00:15:46.100 in the hydroxychloroquine is dropping every day. So I would say that anecdotally, it sounded kind of

00:15:54.300 promising in the beginning. But here's what I fear is true. It's been quite a long while that they've

00:16:01.460 been testing this hydroxychloroquine. And it's something that you could definitely tell is

00:16:07.080 working in 10 days. Because if it doesn't work in 10 days, it doesn't work. And it's been multiple

00:16:14.260 10 day periods with multiple trials. Now I heard that there's one trial that's completed, but it

00:16:20.900 hasn't been written up. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? It just hasn't been written up.

00:16:27.300 Do they know? Do they know if it works? Yeah, they know. They know if it works, and they know if it

00:16:31.720 didn't. Do you think you would have already heard about it if it worked? I hate to tell you, but I

00:16:38.740 think you would have already heard about it if it worked. So the one test that I think will be the

00:16:44.680 first of maybe a series of them that are more dependable, you know, a little bit higher level of

00:16:49.920 credibility and scientific rigor. The first one's done, and you haven't heard a rumor of how it's

00:16:58.900 going to go. I think, I think it's because it doesn't work. Unfortunately, I think, you know,

00:17:12.040 and this is a tentative opinion, and I'm only basing it on this specific, fairly undependable

00:17:19.820 factor, right? So, you know, this is not 100% kind of a prediction. I'm starting to lean, I'll say 60-40,

00:17:30.020 where if you'd asked me a month ago, I would have said, 60% chance this hydroxychloroquine is the real

00:17:36.260 thing. Because there's a lot of anecdotal blah, blah, blah, might not be scientifically proven yet,

00:17:42.200 but it sure feels good. As of today, I'm going to reverse those ratios. Still a solid 40% chance

00:17:50.560 that it helps. So I'm not going to say it doesn't help. A good 40% chance helps. But I would say the

00:17:57.860 weight of evidence, because of how long we've waited to at least hear the initial hints, if there's a

00:18:05.640 major study that's a valid type, in which they're waiting to write up the results, that means it

00:18:13.800 didn't work. I think it's not what I want to be true. You know, I really, really don't want it to be

00:18:22.040 true. But it feels like those tests are not going to tell us what we want, or we would have heard it

00:18:27.560 already. I just think, you know, just the way humans work, we would have heard about it already.

00:18:33.140 So, my suspicion is that some of the tests are showing no results, the hydroxychloroquine,

00:18:41.080 and that's not the news that people are anxious to give you, so it might take a few weeks before we

00:18:46.960 hear that for sure. So, given all of the, there are lots of things that could make a difference,

00:18:53.600 but they're all too slow. You know, how long it takes to ramp up to massive testing? I don't know.

00:19:00.960 It won't solve the problem. I mean, massive testing could slow it down, but it's not going to stop

00:19:06.800 60 or 70% of the public from getting this thing, ultimately. Somebody says, you said they worked,

00:19:16.420 now it's, I don't know. Well, how about, if you hadn't, see, Chris, if you hadn't done the laughy

00:19:23.460 faces, I wouldn't be blocking you now. But I just told you my entire thought process. I told you what

00:19:31.580 I based it on before, and that it was a 60% chance it looked good, and I've told you what changed,

00:19:38.500 and that that new information that we're not hearing from these trials has changed my opinion to 60-40

00:19:44.400 the other way. Why does that earn me four hilarious laughing icons after the sentence,

00:19:53.980 you said they worked, now it's, I don't know. You said it worked, and now it's, I don't know.

00:19:59.480 No, no, Chris. I never said it worked. I said it looked good. I said the odds were good. Okay?

00:20:07.300 So, at least have something in your mind that's approximately like my opinion before you criticize

00:20:15.720 me for it. All right? Because that's, again, it's sort of mind reading. So, Chris goes to the dustbin

00:20:23.440 of blocking history. At the very least, you should be in the neighborhood of my opinion if you're

00:20:31.300 going to be, if you're going to be mocking me. All right. Here's the thing you really wanted to talk

00:20:37.480 about. Let's talk about the going back to work. So, let me say again that I'm just making a personal

00:20:47.800 decision that I'm going to start loosening my social isolation starting today. Now, part of it is

00:20:53.460 because I don't believe there's a reasonable plan to keep me from getting the virus. So, I could wait

00:21:01.820 and then get the virus later, but I don't have an option of not getting the virus. You know, it's like

00:21:09.640 a 70% chance if I just live my life. So, here's the strategy I plan to take, independent of whatever

00:21:17.500 the Economic Reopening Committee does. Now, of course, you know, I'm going to be supportive of

00:21:24.280 that, I'm sure. You know, I'd like to be as supportive of that as possible, make sure that's

00:21:28.440 a good plan. But I'm going to make my own decisions, and I know all of you will. And here's what I think

00:21:33.460 is my best plan. And I want to be really clear now. I don't think any of you should take my plan for

00:21:42.980 your own. This is not a smart plan. It's just my plan. It's not based on expert opinions. It's not

00:21:53.060 based on good judgments. It's based on who I am and what I need to do, right? So, a lot of this is

00:21:59.220 is just a personal decision, right? And I've told you before that I'm a pull-the-band-aid-off kind of

00:22:05.940 guy. You know, and everybody is one of those two personalities. Some people will delay forever and,

00:22:11.360 you know, wait for something good to happen and maybe act later. And there are people like me who

00:22:16.080 say, I'm not going to live in a world where I might get this virus, but I will live in a world

00:22:22.780 where I go out and get it right away. I'm going to pull the band-aid off. I don't want delayed pain

00:22:30.400 anymore. I'm no longer willing to put up with delayed risk or delayed pain. I'm ripping the band-aid

00:22:39.820 off. So, for me, and again, I'm not going to do anything that would risk infecting it if you don't

00:22:46.320 worry. I'm not going to be reckless. I'm just, in small ways, I'll be, you know, loosening things up

00:22:51.000 in my personal life. But at this point, I want to get the virus. Do not take my example. You should

00:23:01.160 not do what I'm doing. Okay? You really shouldn't. I mean that seriously. Do not take my example.

00:23:08.500 But here's the play I'm going to make. I've heard, and again, this does not have scientific backing

00:23:14.920 in terms of, you know, credible. I don't think there's any kind of a controlled test of this

00:23:20.880 scientifically. But there's lots of evidence that suggests anecdotally, very risky to use

00:23:28.140 anecdotal information, anecdotally that the amount of the load you get of the virus initially

00:23:35.120 has a big difference on your outcome. In other words, if you're in a cruise ship and you're just

00:23:41.820 breathing each other's fumes, you're just marinating in virus, you're going to get real

00:23:46.740 sick real fast and maybe too sick too fast. But if you've got a little whiff of the virus

00:23:53.240 and it starts burrowing into your body from wherever you got it, your own immune system

00:24:00.660 has a little bit of warning. It's like, hey, what's that? Oh, let's get ready, guys. And

00:24:05.580 just, you know, start and start recovering. So my strategy will be this. I will still

00:24:16.720 do, you know, enough social distancing in public. I'll still do the obvious stuff. I'll wear a mask.

00:24:24.220 I'll do the basics. But I no longer am afraid of not getting it. I'm now afraid. Let me say this.

00:24:33.000 I'm not afraid. No, I'm not afraid of getting it anymore. That fear for me is gone. Now I'm afraid

00:24:40.220 of not getting it. Do you get the difference? Now I'm afraid of not getting it. So I'm going to go live

00:24:47.320 my life and I'm going to do normal precautions because I think that's good for the benefit of

00:24:53.520 society to keep, you know, keep the hospitals, you know, under capacity. But my mindset about

00:25:01.440 preventing me from getting it just completely reversed. And I don't know if this is just a

00:25:06.840 personality thing. In my life, until I make a decision, I haven't made a decision. But once I

00:25:16.860 decide, well, I'm done. Once I decide, then I'm done. I've told you that difference between wanting

00:25:25.300 and deciding, right? You might want to not get the virus, but it doesn't help. You can want anything

00:25:35.400 you want. But the virus has its own plan as well. I have now decided to get the virus. I'm not going

00:25:45.080 to try to get it. I'm not going to go lick something in public. But I've decided that that's the path that

00:25:51.680 I prefer. And it's more of a sort of a mental health trick. It's not going to change me doing

00:26:00.140 good common sense things and washing my hands and stuff. But I'm no longer taking the mindset into

00:26:05.780 the rest of my life that my goal is to avoid it. My goal is not to avoid it. My goal is to be

00:26:12.720 exposed eventually, whenever it happens, but to get a light viral load. So I'm going to stay out of any

00:26:18.780 kind of environment such as an elevator. I'm going to stay out of any, you know, tight room. I'm not

00:26:25.660 going to go shopping where there's a crowd. Certainly not going to go anywhere where there's a crowd for

00:26:30.400 a long time. But I would like to, I would like to get a little bit exposed. Because if the government

00:26:38.120 doesn't have another plan, and we can't wait, you have to take the best plan you have, right? The best

00:26:46.220 plan you have is just what's available. You don't get, nobody has the magic plan. If the magic plan

00:26:53.580 worked, the one where you work for the, you wait for the magic cure, you know, if that were two months

00:26:59.680 or three months, or even if we knew it was coming, and we didn't know when, but we know it's coming,

00:27:04.260 I'd say maybe wait for that. I'd say maybe wait, but I don't see anything on the horizon

00:27:10.560 that actually would stop us all from getting it eventually. No matter how much you test,

00:27:17.240 the therapeutics don't stop you from spreading it. The vaccine doesn't even work all the time on all

00:27:23.600 the people, and not everybody's going to get it anyway. It's going to be 18 months, a year,

00:27:28.800 whatever. Anyway, let's talk about Bill Gates. And I'll give you some background first.

00:27:34.740 Bill Gates. When I was a young child, I remember thinking, when I was very young, I remember

00:27:43.380 thinking, wait a minute, I don't think this Santa Claus thing holds up. And I forget what age I was,

00:27:52.680 I might have been, I don't know, whatever age kids figure out Santa Claus is not real, five or whatever.

00:27:58.380 And I remember thinking it through and thinking, you know, I don't see how you could fit all those

00:28:05.800 presents on a sled, and given the average speed of a flying sled, and our chimney doesn't even have,

00:28:14.600 you can't even get down our chimney, it's just for exhaust, and the doors are locked, and none of this

00:28:20.080 makes sense. Now, if you came to me and said, Scott, Scott, explain to me why you don't believe

00:28:28.620 Santa Claus? Would I give you my scientific argument, let's say as an adult, let's say an adult came to

00:28:35.920 me and said, Scott, are you serious? You don't believe in Santa Claus? What would be my, what would

00:28:41.020 be my reaction? Should I say, well, adult? Let me look at it this way. Well, let's do the math.

00:28:49.500 Let's figure out travel speed. Let's do the volume of the sled, the volume of the edge. Would you do

00:28:55.240 that? No. No. If an adult asked you as an adult why you don't believe in Santa Claus, you would not get

00:29:05.740 into the argument, because it's just so freaking obvious that Santa Claus is not real if you're an

00:29:11.920 adult. Let me give you another one. When I was 11, I went to a Methodist Sunday school, and Methodist

00:29:23.800 Sunday school was where you would go, where you'd be taught Bible stories, and my parents were not

00:29:30.940 terribly religious, but they wanted us to be, you know, at least raised in a little bit of that

00:29:35.420 tradition. So we would go to the, the local Methodist school, and I was sitting in Sunday

00:29:39.800 school, age 11, and the instructor, it was some young person, was teaching us about Jonah and the

00:29:47.600 whale, and how the, there was a large fish that swallowed up Jonah, but then, I don't know, several

00:29:54.640 days later after praying, the fish spit him up, and he was fine. And I'm sitting there at 11,

00:30:00.900 years old, in the Sunday school, and I'm thinking, really? Really? You're telling me that a big old 0.95

00:30:11.320 fish, I think they called it a whale, but maybe fish was the right one, big old fish whale, swallowed

00:30:17.860 a human. He lived in that whale stomach without the benefit of air. There was no bad impact from the

00:30:24.880 stomach juices, the digestive tract of the whale. And then he got spit back up by magic, and he was

00:30:33.880 fine. And that same day, I called a meeting with my mother, and I said, Mom, I don't know how to tell

00:30:44.180 you this. This is a true story, by the way. I don't know how to tell you this, but the things we're

00:30:50.580 learning in Sunday school, these aren't real. You don't really believe these things, do you, Mom?

00:30:59.320 And to her credit, and then I said to her, and I will be discontinuing my Sunday school education

00:31:06.120 starting today. I didn't say it quite as adult-wise, but I said it as, I said it as resolutely

00:31:12.540 as I'm saying it now. I remember even at 11 years old, you'd have to understand my parents

00:31:19.960 to know that this is a real thing. This wouldn't work with your parents, and it wouldn't work with

00:31:25.720 you as a parent, but trust me, this worked with me and my parents. And I just said, so I won't be

00:31:32.880 going back to Sunday school because now, you know, I sampled it. I did what you wanted. I gave it a good

00:31:39.200 try, but it's obvious to me that the stories are just made up, and I don't see the points.

00:31:45.240 And my mother said to me, very well. It was never discussed again. That was the last day I had to

00:31:54.060 go to Sunday school. Now, I believe my siblings had to go a few for a little bit longer until they

00:32:02.860 sort of rebelled. I don't remember their exact plans. My brother can remind me. I'll ask him later.

00:32:08.220 But, so at age 11, and I'm not going to talk you out of your religion. I'm just going to say that

00:32:18.200 that specific story about the fish and Jonah seemed clearly unreal. If you were to ask me as an adult

00:32:26.160 to defend my opinion on that, I would say, I'm not going to. Because big fish eats person,

00:32:35.040 spit some metal hole days later, that's not an argument. That's not really a debate. If you can't

00:32:42.640 see that that's not real, without the benefit of the discussion about it, I don't think I'm going to

00:32:48.700 change your mind. Years go by, there's this thing called professional wrestling. And when I was a kid,

00:32:56.180 it wasn't explicit that it's just acting. And I would watch all my peers watching wrestling,

00:33:06.480 and I would say, are you seeing the same thing I'm seeing? Because to me, that wrestling is obviously

00:33:16.100 all acting. And I would look at my peers, the kids, and they would say, no, it isn't. Look,

00:33:22.680 there's blood. You know, look at that. They couldn't possibly be acting. And I would say to

00:33:27.160 myself, you know, I can't really argue the fine points of this. Because this is just Santa Claus

00:33:34.340 all over again. This is just Jonah being eaten by a fish. I don't really need to argue the details.

00:33:41.060 Just look at it. It's obviously acting. And my peers said, no, I don't see it. I don't see it. And of

00:33:48.760 course, now we know it was. I remember watching the Jerry Springer show. Do you remember the Jerry

00:33:55.740 Springer show? And I watched the Jerry Springer show, and every single episode, the guests would

00:34:02.860 get into a fight. But it was a weird kind of fight in which nobody ever got really hurt.

00:34:09.380 And the first several times I thought, well, you know, people are seeing other people fighting, and

00:34:13.460 they've just decided that, you know, they'll do it too, because they got some attention. But I kept

00:34:19.020 watching show after show, and nobody got hurt. And it became increasingly clear that they were being

00:34:26.780 coached to do fake fights. And I would tell people, you know, this isn't real. They're, you know,

00:34:34.240 these are real guests. But they've obviously been coached that they can do this, and there'll be

00:34:40.800 somebody to pull them apart, and nobody's going to get hurt. And am I right? People argued with me,

00:34:47.760 and they say, Scott, you can't just look at it and know it's fake. You can't tell it's fake just by

00:34:52.520 looking at it. To which I said, yeah, you can. Just look at it. Just look at it. If you can't tell

00:35:00.380 that's fake, are you serious? You can look at Jerry Springer and not know those are fake fights.

00:35:05.980 You can look at professional wrestling back in the day, and you can't tell that's fake.

00:35:12.440 You can look at Santa Claus. You don't know that's not real. Easter Bunny? Tooth Fairy? Do you need

00:35:21.240 the argument? You don't really need the argument. They're just obviously not true. Likewise, I went

00:35:28.880 through the phase of Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster, and I told myself, well, maybe. Maybe. But, you know,

00:35:35.920 as time goes by and the evidence all falls apart, it's obvious that Bigfoot's not real. If there's

00:35:42.440 any kind of big fish in the loch, maybe, but it's not a Loch Ness Monster. And that brings us to Bill

00:35:49.380 Gates and the many rumors of his secret goal to reduce the population of Earth through eugenics.

00:36:02.400 And I've been going down the rabbit hole of reading all the accusations about Bill Gates.

00:36:08.060 And they fall into these categories. Number one, mind reading. Why do I say that? Well,

00:36:14.120 let me give you an example from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is a, I believe this is a tweet of his,

00:36:20.280 but it's a quote from him, April 10th. And Robert Kennedy Jr. says, public health advocates around

00:36:26.820 the world accuse Gates. Who are these people? They're not named. Okay. But they're around the

00:36:34.260 world, and they're accusing Gates. Now, that doesn't mean it's true, right? These are just accusations,

00:36:39.800 but I'll keep on going, of steering the World Health Organization's agenda away from projects

00:36:46.000 proven to curb infectious diseases, including clean water, hygiene, nutrition, and economic development

00:36:53.180 that serves Gates' philosophy. Oh, and then Gates is serving his own philosophy, that good health only

00:37:02.080 comes from a syringe. So this is Robert F. Kennedy reading Bill Gates' mind, because Bill Gates never

00:37:09.780 said, wouldn't you say? Bill Gates never said, good health only comes from a syringe. Do you think

00:37:17.620 he ever said that? Do you think he's ever suggested that? Do you think that Bill Gates doesn't think that

00:37:22.500 clean water and hygiene and nutrition are important? Really? Because he's developing toilets for Africa 1.00

00:37:31.120 to fix those problems. One of his biggest projects is fixing exactly the problem, hygiene, clean water,

00:37:41.840 nutrition separate, but I'm sure he's working on that too. So Bill Gates, one of the most famous people

00:37:49.180 in the world, doing the most anybody has ever done that I've even heard of, working on hygiene and clean

00:37:56.140 water, because they're related, because the waste in some African countries and undeveloped countries

00:38:02.000 goes into the water supply. So if you can fix the hygiene with a good toilet, then you also clean

00:38:08.060 the water at the same time. Bill Gates is literally one of the world's most involved, effective people

00:38:15.840 on the very thing, and in public. There's a Netflix special on Bill Gates doing exactly the thing

00:38:23.300 that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he's de-emphasizing. De-emphasizing? There's a Netflix

00:38:30.560 special on it. How do you de-emphasize something that there's a Netflix special on? And then he goes

00:38:38.380 on, and he says that Bill Gates' philosophy is that good health only comes from a syringe. Now let me ask

00:38:47.240 you, is that something you need to do research on? Do you need to research and Google to determine

00:38:55.560 whether it's true or false, this claim from Robert Kennedy, who is apparently a fucking idiot? Let's,

00:39:02.060 let's, you know. By the way, I had this opinion before this. From, from other situations, I had suspected

00:39:10.620 that Robert F. Kennedy was an idiot. Uh, and I, this confirms it in my mind. But you don't need

00:39:18.340 to do research to find out that Bill Gates does not have a philosophy, that good health only comes

00:39:25.000 from a syringe. Really? This is, this is pure Bigfoot material. Robert F. Kennedy says this in

00:39:32.580 public. I mean, this is crazy. This is crazy talk. All right, so let's, let's go to the rest. The other,

00:39:41.640 so the first category is mind reading, and that was my first example. So if your belief about Bill,

00:39:47.860 Bill Gates' evilness comes from what you believe he's thinking about eugenics, or what you believe he's

00:39:56.280 thinking about syringes and health, that's not good thinking. Let's go down to the next one.

00:40:02.980 Next one is guilt by association. There are many photographs of, uh, I don't know how many,

00:40:09.060 but there are photographs of Bill Gates with Jeffrey Epstein. It is, uh, well documented that they have

00:40:15.760 been in the same place, been photographed together, knew each other, and indeed, Bill Gates, I believe he's

00:40:21.960 even flown on Epstein's plane. So therefore guilty, right? Not only that, but apparently Bill Gates has

00:40:30.520 also been associated with this Abramovich woman who's been accused of satanic things. So there,

00:40:38.340 there you have it, right? Guilty. He's guilty. What could be more obvious than he has spent time

00:40:45.380 with people who have done things that, in one case, we know Epstein did bad things? Abramovich,

00:40:52.660 that's more of a murky situation, but you're convinced, right? They spent time together.

00:40:59.300 Did I not just open up this, uh, this periscope by telling you that I personally know two or three

00:41:08.160 people on this economic reopening committee? Now, what are the odds of that? The odds, as somebody

00:41:16.480 said earlier in the comments, the odds were pretty good because I'm a public figure. If you're a public

00:41:22.960 figure, have you ever been photographed with or spent significant time with people who, um, you found

00:41:31.700 out later were serious criminals or even were criminals at the time? I have, I have spent time

00:41:40.020 with some of the worst people on the planet earth. In fact, I've had a serial pedophile in my home

00:41:49.700 as a friend numerous times. A serial convicted pedophile in my home. Personal, personal friend.

00:42:04.920 Sounds bad, right? Except I didn't know it at the time. Do you think I knew it? No, I didn't know it.

00:42:13.440 I think he went to jail for 15 years soon after. I didn't know he was a pedophile. I didn't know he

00:42:19.400 was a serial pedophile, right? I wouldn't have him in my home if he was a serial pedophile.

00:42:26.460 But, um, if you look at, you know, the world of, of rich and famous people, here's the context that

00:42:34.300 you need to know. Jeffrey Epstein was one of these people who was a social, um, connector.

00:42:41.940 So Jeffrey Epstein knew everybody famous. If you took all the pictures of famous people who have

00:42:52.560 been on his plane, stood next to him, he met, he knows, is in his phone book, it would be, you know,

00:42:59.180 like half the people you've heard of. He was a connector. When people connect with you at, say,

00:43:06.080 this high level, you often say to yourself, well, I don't know much about this person,

00:43:11.760 but this person is the connection to this other person. So it is quite common among, you know,

00:43:17.920 the higher levels of rich people, of which I do get a, you know, a glimpse of that world fairly often.

00:43:25.360 It is very common that people connect independent of what they think of each other. Independent of

00:43:33.840 whether they think you're a crook, independent of whether they think you'll go to jail someday,

00:43:39.040 independent of whether you're a Democrat or Republican or socialist or a capitalist,

00:43:43.580 at the highest levels, you would find dogs and cats sleeping with each other all over the place,

00:43:51.080 right? The thing you don't think is true is that people with opposite feelings who should hate each

00:43:57.480 other, you think that they don't, they don't associate, but you're completely wrong.

00:44:02.860 At the highest, you know, sort of the rich level of people, they all associate. They all associate.

00:44:10.240 And there isn't that much distinction between the worst of them and the best of them in terms of

00:44:15.900 whether they're connected, whether they've ever been to each other's houses, whether they've been

00:44:20.020 on each other's planes. So if you see on a context, a picture of a famous pedophile, and he's standing

00:44:27.180 next to somebody else you know, of course it should raise a red flag. I agree with that. Of course it

00:44:34.160 should raise a flag. You're like, what are these two doing in that picture together? You don't think I

00:44:39.780 have pictures of me standing with horrible people? Seriously. Do you know how many pictures there must

00:44:45.240 be? I can't think of anybody in particular offhand. But don't you think there are plenty of public

00:44:51.340 pictures of me standing with murderers and God knows what? Of course. I've taken my picture with

00:44:57.720 thousands of people. And some of them are bad. I know that. Have I ever intentionally spent time

00:45:06.780 with people that I knew to have horrible, horrible things in their background? The answer is yes.

00:45:13.720 And I will continue to do so. I exert my right without restriction to associate with anyone.

00:45:21.540 And if you're blaming people by association, that's not rational. It's not rational. And it might be that

00:45:29.140 you just don't understand how normal it is for the worst people in the world to associate with people

00:45:35.600 who are not. It's so common that it doesn't mean anything. Now remember that Epstein and Bill Gates

00:45:43.120 were both in sort of a money finding world where they were sort of working on these high levels where

00:45:51.460 people were giving money and getting money and donating money and moving money. And so it shouldn't

00:45:58.340 be a big surprise that their paths crossed, but it doesn't mean much more than that. All right.

00:46:03.280 Here's the other thing that people miss. If you only hear one side of a story, it's always convincing.

00:46:14.260 So yesterday, somebody said, here's this anti-Bill Gates video showing that he's somehow tied in a

00:46:22.900 straight line from Adolf Hitler through the eugenics and the, you know, the eugenics movement and Planned 0.85

00:46:29.860 Parrot Hood and there's Bill Gates and it's all, it's all connected. And therefore he's basically

00:46:36.020 Hitler. And I look at this video and I say, totally, totally convincing. So the person who said it would 0.99

00:46:44.920 like to know whether the video was convincing. Absolutely. Totally convincing. You know what else is

00:46:51.840 convincing? Every video that doesn't show you the other side. If you think that watching the video

00:46:59.540 is convincing, well, you're an idiot. You're an idiot. Well, I think that too. So that part,

00:47:05.960 I'm an idiot too. So we're both idiots because we both watch the video and we say, yeah, that looks

00:47:13.160 totally persuasive, but you haven't seen his side. What happens when you see the other side? Well,

00:47:21.100 most of the time, the first story just falls apart. So if you're making a decision on Bill

00:47:25.200 Gates because you saw this video on the internet that made a really solid argument, you're not very

00:47:32.540 smart because the internet is full of videos that aren't real, that make just as good arguments because

00:47:42.000 they all have the same quality. You're not seeing the other side. The moment you see the other side,

00:47:47.500 it's going to fall apart. So that's the other. So you got your mind readers who are just literally

00:47:53.380 making up stuff and assigning it to Bill Gates. Ridiculous stuff. As if he has a philosophy that

00:47:59.500 good health only comes from a syringe. I mean, that's ridiculous on the surface, right? You don't

00:48:04.100 have to dig into that. Quotes and a context. That's the next one. So there are a bunch of quotes where

00:48:13.060 Bill Gates is talking about population control. There's one where he's predicting that there'll

00:48:17.680 be a coronavirus. What does any of that mean? Nothing. Nothing. It doesn't mean anything.

00:48:25.820 None of that means anything. Quotes taken out of context are only that. They should not convince

00:48:33.340 you of anything. If you see a quote from Bill Gates or anyone else, and it's out of context,

00:48:40.460 and it looks really evil, it's almost certainly not true. Almost certainly. And if it's true,

00:48:47.340 meaning that the quote actually happened, it's just out of context. So today, in fact, Steve

00:48:54.700 Cortez was tweeting around reminding us that Joe Biden's campaign was launched on the find people

00:49:02.160 hoax. Do you know how many people believe and believed that President Trump stood in front of the

00:49:09.140 public and said that the Nazis in Charlottesville were fine people? A lot of people believe that

00:49:16.140 because if you take one part of his quote out of context, which is what they did, it looks exactly

00:49:21.420 like that. And all the people who saw that out of context, did they say to themselves, well, I better

00:49:27.420 wait because this might be out of context? No. They said it's obvious. They said, I'm looking at it with my

00:49:33.500 own eyes. Scott, he said it. He said it. Look at it. Listen to it. Open your ears, Scott. Use your

00:49:41.440 eyes. Read the context. Read the transcript. Trump said those Nazis were fine people. How can you doubt

00:49:49.140 it? It's all here. Unless you actually look at the transcript and find out it's just taken out of

00:49:54.720 context. And it says literally the opposite of that. So quotes out of context should give you,

00:50:03.320 you should count them as zero usefulness. Exactly zero. Right? Not, it might be. If you see a quote

00:50:12.880 from a famous person that just looks really evil, the wrong way to think of it is, well, it might not be

00:50:18.700 true, but they wouldn't probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't, you know, probably true. No, it's the

00:50:24.980 opposite. A quote out of context by a famous person is almost always wrong. It's almost always just

00:50:33.980 propaganda. You should assume that that's true. All right. So you got your mind reading. You've got

00:50:39.420 the one side of the story videos that are always useless. You've got the quotes out of context, which

00:50:45.440 are always of zero value, zero, not even a little bit. And then you've got guilt by association,

00:50:53.120 because you knew he knows people that you don't like and have, in some cases have been demonstrated

00:50:59.340 to have done horrible things. These are, this is sort of it. This is the argument. Now, people have

00:51:08.320 asked me, Scott, can you prove that none of this is true? And of course, you can't prove that things are

00:51:13.160 not true. So I'm going to take this back all the way back to Santa Claus. If you're tweeting this

00:51:19.220 sort of conspiracy crap about Bill Gates, this is Santa Claus, well, it's Jonah, professional

00:51:31.520 wrestling, Jerry Springer, fine people hoax bullshit. This is the bullshittiest bullshit. Do not insult

00:51:42.740 me by asking me to detail my argument of why Santa Claus is not real. I'm not going to detail my

00:51:50.080 argument about why people can't live in a fish's belly for three days. I'm not going to detail my

00:51:55.860 argument about why wrestling is acting. I'm not going to give you my argument about why all the

00:52:04.640 reality shows on TV are at least a little bit scripted. You know, maybe the producers give them

00:52:10.500 a little nudge, if you know what I mean. I'm not going to give you an argument for that.

00:52:15.360 It's obviously not true. Right? Somebody says, what about Gates supporting the World Health

00:52:22.020 Organization? That's, now that's a good question. Right? So I'm going to give credit where credit

00:52:28.880 is due. So somebody in the comments says that Bill Gates, and this part's true and demonstrated,

00:52:34.280 you can all see it for yourself. Bill Gates, even today, is saying that the World Health

00:52:40.820 Organization is important and should be maintained. So what about that? What about it? What about

00:52:51.720 that? What's your point? Because do you know who else thinks the World Health Organization should

00:52:58.120 remain in business? Everybody. Everybody. So Bill Gates has the same opinion as everybody,

00:53:08.600 that the World Health Organization would be good to maintain. What does President Trump think about

00:53:15.880 the World Organization? Same thing. Same thing. If you were to talk privately to President Trump,

00:53:28.120 of course, I can't read his mind, but just do a sanity check. Do you think the President,

00:53:36.040 as his first choice, is that the World Health Organization disappear completely? Does anybody

00:53:42.900 think that's President Trump's first choice? Do you? No, you don't think that. You know,

00:53:50.840 because you've been watching President Trump for enough years, that he's a negotiator,

00:53:55.580 and his opening offer is the whole World Health Organization is going to go away because I

00:54:01.780 pulled off my funding. That's the risk. Remember, he didn't even say he's pulling away the funding.

00:54:07.440 He said he's holding the funding until they do the research into what happened. Don't you think

00:54:14.060 President Trump would be happier with replacing the leadership and having more influence over the

00:54:20.160 World Health Organization? Don't you think that President Trump would be happier with just the

00:54:25.180 leadership change? Because the World Health Organization does actual real things. Bill Gates

00:54:30.220 knows it. Everybody knows it, right? So if you think that Bill Gates and Trump disagree on the World

00:54:39.280 Health Organization, you haven't been paying attention. They are on exactly the same page. Did you see Bill

00:54:45.060 Gates say, I have complete and total confidence in the leadership of the World Health Organization?

00:54:49.640 No, no. And by the way, if you do see that, then I would like to change everything I just said.

00:54:57.940 And I will agree with you that Bill Gates is a malign influence on the world and must be stopped.

00:55:04.580 Let's just let's make it easy. If ever you see Bill Gates, and by the way, I haven't even looked. So I'm

00:55:11.740 going to make this. I'm going to make this assumption without even looking without even checking

00:55:16.580 first. If you see Bill Gates say that he has complete confidence in the head of the World

00:55:22.660 Health Organization, and that they did a good job recently on this coronavirus. If he says that,

00:55:29.960 well, I'll take your opinion. And I will just say, yeah, God, I guess you're right. I didn't realize

00:55:34.680 Bill Gates is just evil. But but it's got to be that. If the only thing you hear is Bill Gates saying

00:55:41.360 that the organization is important, especially in a time of pandemic, then that's the same opinion as

00:55:47.500 Trump. Don't try to don't try to pretend those are different opinions. One is negotiating. And the

00:55:53.720 other is just describing. Bill Gates is just describing World Health Organization, they do a lot of good

00:56:01.200 things. If he talks about the leadership being excellent, well, then fuck him, right? Can we agree on

00:56:08.180 that? If you see Bill Gates agreeing with the leadership of who? Well, we're dead, we're done

00:56:14.980 with them. Can we all agree with that? If he does that, we will collectively and I will be on your

00:56:20.800 side. We will never listen to him again. And we will try to shun him from all future public activities.

00:56:28.320 If he does that, he's not going to do that. He's not. All right.

00:56:33.720 So on Twitter, I'll be blocking all the people who still think who still believe the Santa Claus

00:56:43.160 stories about Bill Gates. Now, I'm not going to tell you that Bill Gates has never made mistakes.

00:56:49.100 There's there's at least one story in which some vaccines he was involved with probably hurt some

00:56:56.640 people. If you heard his side of the story, I believe you would probably understand it in a

00:57:02.840 different light. But it may also be true that people who test new medical solutions,

00:57:10.160 they probably hurt people. Some of them probably die. But of course, the whole point of it is that

00:57:16.240 you hope to save more people in the long run than died. You know, you're blaming Bill Gates for

00:57:22.200 eugenics as he works every day and dedicates his fortune to helping more people in Africa live.

00:57:29.260 And he is literally working every day to keep people alive in Africa. And you frickin idiots 1.00

00:57:36.580 want to tear him down. And I got to say, I take it a little bit personally. Because what the stuff

00:57:43.700 that Bill Gates is at least attempting to do, and I think has done, are of such monumental, at least

00:57:50.580 potential importance, that when I watch people try to stop him, because they believe in Santa Claus

00:57:57.900 and Bigfoot, I get a little bit angry about it. Because I would like the people in Africa 1.00

00:58:06.020 to have a better life. And I think stopping Bill Gates from making that happen, or at least attempting

00:58:11.380 to make that happen, is one of the biggest mistakes in the history of mistakes.

00:58:17.220 Oh, somebody says you light my soul today. You know, I needed that. Thank you. Thank you.

00:58:26.220 Because I, you know, I didn't feel like, I certainly didn't feel like I was lighting anybody's soul

00:58:30.740 today. I felt like I was just being angry and critical. So the fact that you were getting

00:58:37.960 something positive out of this actually makes me really happy. Because I didn't feel like I

00:58:43.460 was rising to the challenge today, frankly. So I'll block the people who are the Santa Claus

00:58:55.240 believers. How many people died? I don't have a real number on that, but it's too many. You

00:59:11.320 can see I take it personally. I do take it personally. I do take it personally. If somebody's

00:59:16.080 tried to stop somebody from saving millions of souls in Africa, I take it personally. Yeah.

00:59:24.480 Yeah. If you're, if you're doing something that will, could kill millions. Yeah. I take

00:59:28.780 that personally as a citizen of earth.

00:59:30.600 Donate your money and get out of the way. Okay. I will block you for that opinion. This

00:59:50.100 is helpful. Oh, so some of you appreciated this and I appreciate that you're telling me because

00:59:54.960 I actually didn't know. Gates has been a cutthroat opportunist his whole career. Gates has been

01:00:04.200 a, yeah, I would say a cutthroat capitalist, but his plan always had been, and he's executing

01:00:11.780 it, is to move from cutthroat capitalist to most effective philanthropist. So I wouldn't

01:00:19.640 say his whole career. Sad. Can't ask questions about important people. Who told you you can't

01:00:27.660 ask questions about important people? How many lived? Oh, in terms of the vaccinations? Well,

01:00:36.880 I think it was a vaccination trial. So I don't know if it saved anybody's life, but at least

01:00:41.820 allegedly there was some damage there. Trump also wants the World Health Organization to stay. Of

01:00:50.400 course he does. Of course he does. Who, who actually doubted that? That's crazy. Gates already

01:00:58.500 controls. Well, Gates is, puts in a little over a billion and the United States put in a lot more

01:01:05.320 than that. Or did we, did we put in millions or billions? Did Gates put in more money than we did

01:01:14.900 to the World Health Organization? I actually don't know the answer to that. Scott wants the world

01:01:21.380 vaccinated so his weak immune system can persist. Mind readers get blocked. You're always going to get

01:01:31.080 blocked if you say, Scott thinks, you know, any sentence that comes after that, Scott thinks that

01:01:36.520 X, probably going to get blocked. Do you think Texas, Florida, California should open up? Yes, I do.

01:01:49.100 Yes, I do. You know, yesterday I told myself, you know, if any stores are open, aside from grocery

01:01:55.940 stores, I, I'm, I've decided that I will frequent them. In other words, if I could walk to Starbucks

01:02:03.700 today, I can't because it's closed, but if I could, I would start today. So my personal decision is that

01:02:12.140 I'm coming out of isolation carefully, carefully, but if any local businesses want to open up, I will

01:02:19.060 give you some business. I can only speak for myself and I don't even recommend what you do. I'm only

01:02:23.940 speaking for myself. Um, what about Bigfoot? The Michigan governor thoughts? Well, yes. So here's

01:02:35.600 my thoughts about the Michigan governor. And I will generalize this to what I think should be done.

01:02:40.700 You saw me put together a checklist the other day. I tweeted around and it was sort of a, uh, a framework

01:02:47.360 or a format of how to think about going back to work. And the way I think that it can work in really

01:02:52.960 the only way is for the government to let the, the individuals make their own individual decisions,

01:02:59.760 but informed. So for example, uh, we should have a website that has a checklist and any citizen can

01:03:07.180 go on there and say, okay, um, over 60, uh, male, I have these conditions. I, I can socially isolate at

01:03:16.000 work. I have to commute in a group, uh, you know, and all those things. So we, we probably have 15

01:03:23.520 different factors from what zip code are you in, you know, which will tell you if your hospitals are

01:03:29.720 impacted, et cetera. So the government could fairly easily build a checklist and then you fill in your

01:03:36.620 checklist and say, okay, all these apply to me. And then it spits down a score. Now let's say your

01:03:42.300 score says you can safely go back to work as long as you're careful, you know, still do the mask and

01:03:49.680 distancing or whatever. And then let's say you get a score that's too low and your score is like below

01:03:55.740 the limit and it's too risky. Should the government be able to tell you not to go to work because some

01:04:03.440 number plopped out of this thing that said it's too risky for you. And the answer is no, because

01:04:11.260 America, right? The government can tell me what my risk is. The government can't tell me not to take a

01:04:18.180 risk. It doesn't have that right. And, you know, while we all, I think we all respect with or without the

01:04:26.140 benefit of constitutional support, I think we all respect the basic concept that in an emergency,

01:04:33.760 as long as your government seems to be acting, let's say, respectfully and rationally, you do want

01:04:41.640 to let them make decisions and sort of take the lead in an emergency. It just makes sense.

01:04:46.140 But as time goes by, if the government is not performing in a way that you need as a citizen,

01:04:52.640 you do get to take your power back. All right. And we're at that point. So I'm taking my power back

01:05:01.320 as of today. Now, I don't have any option about going and shopping at my local stores because they're

01:05:07.800 not open, but I can make my own decisions today. And I've decided that the isolation in terms of staying

01:05:16.720 home is over for me today. So today will be my last day of being as careful as I have been. I'll still

01:05:24.940 be careful. I'm not going to be crazy, right? Don't be crazy. You know, stay safe. But it's time to get

01:05:33.040 back to work. So I think we need to have some kind of a checklist from the government. And then people need

01:05:43.440 to make their own decisions. So tying this back to the question about the Michigan governor,

01:05:47.580 here's what she did wrong. She micromanaged. That's it. So the Michigan governor did not say,

01:05:56.840 these things are risky and these things are not. Use your judgment. She said, you can't go in the

01:06:02.800 part of the store that has the vegetable seeds, you know, the garden seeds. And the people said,

01:06:09.240 you know, I might need to grow some vegetables. And if you, the government, are preventing me from

01:06:17.600 growing my own food in my backyard during what, you know, some people might be worried about a food

01:06:23.260 shortage, then I think the government has lost credibility. Because there's a level of micromanaging

01:06:31.580 that everybody recognizes as too much. And she found it. So she found that level that was just too much.

01:06:39.240 Because people should be able to buy farming equipment if we're turning into an agrarian society,

01:06:46.640 you know, whether we like it or not. Now, I heard the most interesting thing on Tucker last night.

01:06:53.200 I love it when I hear something that I'm positive I understand the situation. And then you hear

01:07:00.000 something that just blows your freaking mind. And you go, all right, all right, I guess I can be that

01:07:05.900 wrong. And here it is. You heard that in some states, liquor stores were considered essential

01:07:13.640 services. And what was your first reaction to that? Are you freaking kidding me? Are you kidding

01:07:20.260 me? A liquor store is an essential service? That's craziness. Did somebody get bribed? What?

01:07:30.400 Right? Didn't you all have that feeling? And then you heard that, you know, you could go to the liquor

01:07:36.400 store, but you couldn't go to church, even if you were in your car. You didn't even get out of your

01:07:43.040 car. You can't go to church. You said to yourself, well, this is insanity. Well, I think the church thing

01:07:48.660 was overdone, but not the liquor store decision. And I heard, so Tucker had, I guess, was a governor on,

01:07:57.520 and he explained why the liquor stores were essential business. And if you haven't already

01:08:02.100 figured this out, it's going to blow your mind. Here's why. Because there are so many alcoholics.

01:08:10.880 You see it? If you're an alcoholic, and you're not in actually, you know, a recovery program,

01:08:17.660 and maybe you've got some medical assistance, maybe you're tapering off, whatever you're doing,

01:08:22.800 if you're not, well, tapering probably doesn't work. But if you're not in some kind of a controlled

01:08:27.200 detox situation, it's deadly. It's medically deadly. So the worst thing in the world would be

01:08:35.980 that 10% of our population are alcoholics, but they're functional, most of them. So most people

01:08:42.740 are just functional alcoholics. What would happen if they couldn't get alcohol? They would steal,

01:08:49.940 right? They would rob a freaking store. I mean, not all of them, but you don't want 10% 1.00

01:08:57.060 of your public on the ground shaking and incapable of, you know, of functioning. So isn't that a

01:09:04.660 complete, like, mind spinner? That the first time you heard liquor stores are essential, you said,

01:09:10.840 well, that's just, that's just crazy. But then you hear, oh, yeah, 10% of our public are alcoholics.

01:09:17.820 And for them, it's actually medically required in the short run. In the long run, it would be better,

01:09:24.100 of course, to find some way to get off it. But in the short run, it's actually medically required.

01:09:30.260 And the governor, to his credit, I forget which governor it was, New Jersey, I think. The governor,

01:09:36.600 to his credit, explained it and said, we went to the experts. And we said, experts,

01:09:40.700 can we close all the liquor stores? And the experts, the experts said, whoa, you don't do that.

01:09:50.000 It'll be, it'll be a disaster that you don't see coming. Because they're experts. And I think

01:09:54.380 they're right on that one. So I don't always disagree with the experts. But when the experts

01:09:59.460 say something that is so plainly, obviously true, well, then I do. Then I do. So here's a perfect

01:10:09.620 example. Remember when I said you can't believe anything about Bill Gates, if all you saw was

01:10:14.920 one side? How long did you only see the one side of the liquor store story? And were you not

01:10:22.900 totally convinced that there was nothing else to know? How could there be another side? Right?

01:10:30.960 How could there be another side to the story that liquor stores are essential? Like you didn't,

01:10:38.360 you didn't see that coming, did you? But, but keep that one in your mind. Remember the liquor store

01:10:43.800 example as your way of reminding yourself in the future that if you've only seen one side,

01:10:49.920 you don't know anything. It's a real good discipline to have. All right. I've talked too long.

01:10:56.580 I'm going to go now and do something else. And I will talk to you tonight. You know when.

01:11:00.760 How can I call it?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 16, 2020

Episode 916 Scott Adams： Come Learn About Bigfoot and Bill Gates and Their Plot to Destroy the Galaxy

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