Episode 929 Scott Adams： The Green New Deal is Dead. Joe Biden Still Hiding. Carl Stories.
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Summary
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York shares a story about why he should have done something better in the aftermath of the helicopter crash that claimed the life of his teenage daughter and the lives of his other three daughters, and why he didn t do it.
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the stories are sad, sometimes they're fun. Today is more fun than sad. Let's go with
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that. You can watch sad stuff on the other channels. You know, you've got plenty of sad
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called the simultaneous sip. Go. Better every time, just like I promised you. All right,
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we got fun stories, all kinds of fun stories. There was a wonderful little human moment from
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Andrew Cuomo, Governor Cuomo of New York. And he was telling the story. So he's got three
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daughters. I think at least two of them are teenagers. And he was telling the story about
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how they're at home and they're watching the news. And he saw the news of another governor
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of Maryland, Larry Hogan, talking about how Larry Hogan had cleverly acquired a bunch of test
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kids from South Korea. And Governor Cuomo, who's like the talk of the town, and he's really
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got the highest profile of any politician who has a good reputation. He's like the star
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of the show. So it's, you know, Andrew Cuomo. He's really, he's just killing it in the public
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opinion, taking charge. He's a leader. And his daughter turns to him and says, why didn't
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you do that? And then, and then as Andrew Cuomo tells the story, and then his other daughter
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says, yeah, that looked pretty smart. Why didn't you do that? Now, when he tells the story,
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he's practically crying because he feels guilty, because it just diminished him so much. Like,
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you know, you have to know that, you know, even though he's going through a tough time with,
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with all of it, you have to know that he at least felt he was important. At the very least,
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he thought, well, it's a tragedy. And, you know, nothing about this is good. But at least
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I'm killing it. You know, I'm just killing it. And everybody says so. And then his daughters
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Now, as I often say, there's one criticism that just always works, which is if you do
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something that's right, you should have done it sooner. And if somebody else does something
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right, you know, this is sort of the cousin of that. If somebody else does something right,
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well, why didn't you do that? Well, why didn't you think of that last week? So there's,
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there's some criticisms that are just universal. You can apply them to every situation. Like,
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no matter how much you did right, well, why didn't you do it sooner?
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Sure. So I love that story. But it's also, it's, it also, because it was so human,
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it also highlights why Andrew Cuomo was so popular at the moment. Because this is one of those
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occasions in history where you need somebody who's just really, really human. Because the
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people need to know that they're leaders, you know, are sort of understand them, they're human
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too, they feel your pain, etc. So I think Andrew Cuomo might be like a perfect leader in the perfect
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situation. But what's also funny about this is that the, if many of you have watched the interviews
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in which his brother, Chris Cuomo of CNN, was doing with his brother. And one of the dynamics of
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those interviews that made them so interesting, in my opinion, they were great television, you know,
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people complained, blah, blah, blah. But it was great television, just on entertainment alone,
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because it gave you two levels. We were getting the news, important news. And at the same time,
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we were seeing this brother dynamic, which I found fascinating. Fascinating because both of the
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brothers were operating at such a high level, right? Normally, it wouldn't be this interesting.
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But when you've got somebody who's like a, you know, top anchor on CNN, the governor during an
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emergency, and the brothers. I mean, it was just sort of cool. So you could say it was stunt casting,
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but it was still interesting. But here's what I found the most interesting about it. The dynamic that
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they displayed on screen was sort of a competitive sibling thing. So they were always competing.
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And they would mock each other. And, you know, it would be sort of like a sports trash talk,
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which is what made it fun. But here's the best part. So imagine these brothers compete with each
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other to be the, you know, the alpha of whatever the situation is. And Chris Cuomo is in the position
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of being the inferior brother. And when I say the inferior brother, I mean, just in this situation,
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the person who is the governor and the leader and the role model of all governors everywhere is sort
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of the star of this situation. But the person who's simply asking him questions is not the star.
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If you had asked me, you know, two months ago, who is the more famous Cuomo, I might have said Chris
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Cuomo, because everybody sees him on CNN, but not everybody pays attention to the governor of New York.
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But at the moment, that's reversed. So you've got this great dynamic of the children. And I thought to
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myself, well, is there anything that Chris Cuomo could do that would fix this situation, where instead
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of his brother is the most famous person during the coronavirus situation? What is there that Chris
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Cuomo could do that would make him more of the story and less of the person
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asking about the story, which is not so noble? Oh, I've got an idea. How about Chris Cuomo becomes the
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most famous person who has coronavirus? Could that be more perfect? The one and only thing that Chris
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Cuomo could have done to, you know, to level up with his brother who was just killing it is to become the
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most famous person with coronavirus and start filming from his basement. And he becomes the story.
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So he crossed the line from talking about the story to becoming the biggest, one of the biggest
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elements in the whole country. Biggest in the sense of attention, not in the importance. Everybody who has
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the coronavirus is equally important. All right. A leading US model, the one that everybody talks about
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for the coronavirus deaths, it just inched up from 60,000 to 66,000. There's a little clause in the
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sentence here that I had not noticed before. I'm going to plug in my iPad, which sometimes causes me
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to drop off. So if my iPad goes blank for a while, that's technical difficulty. All right.
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So it inched up from 60,000 to 66,000. But here's what I had never known before, that that death toll
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is by August. So by the end of August. And I'm thinking to myself, is that the end of the death?
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Because we've been using this 60,000 number as the number of deaths. Didn't you think that's what
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that meant? Isn't the whole point of predicting the number of deaths, that you're predicting the
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number of deaths? What am I missing when they predict the number of deaths, but it's not the
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number of deaths? Because the number of deaths is all the people who are going to die, not the people
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who are going to die by the end of August. What's that all about? And when we compare the proposed
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or predicted deaths from coronavirus to the annual flu, do we say we'll compare it to the annual
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flu up to the end of August? Is that what we do? Now, with the annual flu, maybe that does make sense
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because the regular flu kind of peters out in the summer, right? So if you were to measure,
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measure, the regular flu, maybe measuring it through the end of August gets you 98% of what you need.
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But with the coronavirus, we're already talking about the second and third wave and coming back
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next year. If the best estimate is 66,000 by the end of August, isn't it a safe bet that the total
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is going to be over 100,000? Do a fact check on me, please. Am I incorrect that if the model says 66,000
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by the end of August, it almost certainly means over 100,000 overall? I mean, what would this second
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wave be if not that? And why are we even talking about getting a vaccine 18 months from now, unless
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we believe that 18 months from now, this thing will still be killing people? If it's not killing
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people in 18 months, why are we even talking about a vaccine? So obviously, it's going to kill people for
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at least 18 months, and longer, because it would take, you know, not everybody's going to be
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inoculated on day one. So what would happen to how we understand this, if it definitely, absolutely
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is going to be over 100,000 deaths? Doesn't that start to change how people feel? I'd asked Adam,
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Adam Townsend, on Twitter, to give me a number just in his own opinion, because he's on the
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anti-alarmist side of the debate, I guess you'd say. And his view is that, you know, while it might
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be bad, it's not so bad that it matches the amount of pain we're putting on the economy. I don't want
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to characterize his opinion, but let's just say that he's on the opinion that it won't be as bad
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as the bad case. And I asked him, what would change his mind? What death number would convince him
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that this was actually a big deal? So he's in the camp, and it's really, I really hate characterizing
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anybody else's opinion, because it's fairly nuanced. And I don't think it's easy to characterize
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a nuanced opinion, but it is fair to say he's in the anti-alarmist camp. Let's just say that.
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So I said, what would move you from the anti-alarmist into the, oh, I guess the alarmists were right
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after all. How many deaths? And I believe he said 200,000. And I thought, reasonable. That's reasonable.
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You know, I think a reasonable, you could disagree with this, but subjectively, and from a personal
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opinion, if it was under 200,000 deaths, then maybe you could conclude that you shouldn't have
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closed the economy. Except that if it was 200 deaths with the, 200,000 deaths with the economy
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closed for a long time, it really indicates it would have been a million if you hadn't closed it,
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right? Sort of. Maybe half a million, at which point it makes sense that it looks like closing
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the economy made sense. Anyway, keep an eye on that. But that end of August thing threw me because
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Here's a, just change of pace for a moment. So yesterday in my evening periscope, I outlined
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a plan for a digital free college, which would involve making a new major, which would be a sort
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of a life strategy major. It would, it would be comprised of all the subcategories that make
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you more effective. I'll just give you some examples. So learning, say, persuasion, communication,
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economics, business management, design, 20 other things. So the idea was you could create a major
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that's digital and online. If you had a search engine like a Yelp for classes, they can find you
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the class online from all the different platforms that have online teaching. And then you could just
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say, oh, this is my major. Go to the search engine, pick the class that you like based on ratings.
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Oh, this is the good class. They're all the same class, but some of them are just better than
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others. So you pick the good one. And it might only cost you a few bucks. And so therefore you have
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basically free college. And it might only take a year. So it might be a one year college degree.
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And then you get the government to say, give it some accreditation. And you're good to go.
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And I would argue that if you could give me, and I said this last night, so I'll say it
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in case somebody missed it. I'm going to make a provocative claim. If you were to let me design
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that major, I could design a major and then present it to, and I'll just pick for, you know,
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social reasons. It's obvious why I'll do this. If you said, okay, Scott, take your college major
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and you can have a hundred, let's say low income black kids from America, and you can run them
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through this major. And then we'll compare them to people who've got to pick their own major,
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made their way in life a different way. Maybe they went to college. Maybe they didn't go to any
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college because they couldn't afford it. You know, the online one was basically free and so cheap.
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So compare them. Now, subtract from your comparison, anybody went into a STEM field or
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became a doctor or a lawyer. I'm talking about the people who are preparing for a life that could
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be an entrepreneur working in a big company where they train you to be something specific. I'm talking
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about all the generalists. If you were to compare the generalists who go their own way to the generalist
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I would train with this, you know, new proposed college major that would be sort of the standard
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major for the people who don't go into specialized fields. I would propose that if you come back in
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10 years after they've completed their, let's say it's a one year degree, that they would on average be
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earning far more than the control group. So, so this is my, this is my provocative claim that you could
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create this major that would give better performance. Now, here's the new point as of
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today. I don't want to, don't want to just reiterate what I said yesterday. I've often said that the way
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you can tell a good idea from a bad idea is if in its bad form, before it's even, before it's even,
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you know, engineered to be good, if in its bad form it already gets people to do something with their
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bodies. And it's the body test. So, for example, let's say you design a comic strip, and you decide to
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become a, to become a cartoonist, and you show your friends some comics that you've made. If your friends
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look at the comics and say, hey, this is great, you should try to do something with this, you have nothing.
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Because they haven't really done anything, they just, they just talked, and of course they were expected to say
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something nice. But, if you give some, give your friends some comics and say, what do you think?
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You know, do you think I could make a career out of this? And your friend says, oh, these are great.
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Can I make a copy of this? I want to send it to my friend. That passes the body test. Because in order
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to make a copy and send it to your friend, yeah, your body has to be involved. So, if you create a product
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which involves somebody's body spontaneously, you don't have to ask them to do anything, they just
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volunteer to use their body to do something with this product, you've got a product.
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All right, so it's one of the most reliable indicators of something that would be good
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is if bodies are moving in some way. And of course, the Dilbert comic, that was the tell,
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is that people were literally physically cutting them out of the newspaper, and physically putting
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them on the refrigerator, or the cubicle wall. So it was the physicality of it that was the predictor.
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So, after I did my little demonstration about how college could be free, this morning I got
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on Twitter and I saw that Donovan Loomis, who's been on my Periscopes, had taken my whiteboard
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that I just sort of scratched the ideas on and turned it into a proper graphic flowchart. Now,
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in order to take my whiteboard and turn it into a proper graphic that he then tweeted, he had to
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involve his body. He had to, you know, be looking at the one thing and typing physically, probably a lot
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of arranging things to get it just right, playing with the fonts. So, if you can come up with an idea
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that causes somebody on the other side of the planet, and literally, Donovan's in South Korea,
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so he's literally on the other side of the planet, if on the other side of the planet, somebody's body
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is moving, like literally, physically, the body is doing something, that is a really strong indicator
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of something that will grab other people's attention as well. So, it's out there now, and let's see if
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the idea moves any more bodies, and I'll let you know how that goes. Apparently, Trump ordered the
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U.S. Navy to shoot down any Iranian gunboats that harass our fleet. So, I guess the Iranians are
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trying to, you know, take their gunboats too close to our boats, and now that Trump has just said to
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just basically kill them. Just kill them. Now, is that the right decision from our Commander-in-Chief?
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If the Iranian gunboats keep doing this, just kill them all. I think so. I think so.
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And I would be disappointed. Well, that's the wrong word. I would expect Iran to keep doing it,
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right? Because they sort of have to test that. So, don't you sort of expect that in the next few
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days, you're going to hear that one of our ships obliterated at least one, might be more than one,
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but don't you think we're going to obliterate at least one Iranian gunboat? Because we sort of have to,
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right? You know, if they keep it up at this point, I mean, it's an order from the Commander-in-Chief,
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The funniest account on Twitter, at least at the moment, is the Joe Biden insult bot. If you have
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not experienced the fake account called the Joe Biden insult bot, you really need to. The way it
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works is, if you tweet at it, it's a real person, not a bot. But if you tweet at the account,
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it will insult you in the form of a Joe Biden insult, which are all just crazy talk. And it's
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the funniest freaking thing you've ever seen in your life. I'm going to read you a few of them.
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Now, these might not come across as so funny when I read them. They'll give you a flavor of them.
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And there's something about reading them all in the list that makes you giggle to the point where
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it hurts. All right. So this is from the Joe Biden insult. These are just various tweets. Here's
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one. Take it to the bank, you cobblestone crunching gravy guzzler. Here's another. That's some real
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potato skin, you yellow snow-eaten corn snake. Here's a go amble in some bramble, you dribble-mouthed
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scuttle flipper. Go on, get, you horse jack-and-tricorner hat thief. Easy on the mustard,
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you gravel-scratching clam fister. Take the slow boat to Tinseltown, you Piccadillon grass gobbler.
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You jello-handed. So I tweeted this yesterday. You should just follow this account. It's pretty,
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pretty darn funny. Now, the thing that makes this funny demonstrates a principle of humor. I was going
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to do a humor lesson around this, but I'll give you the quick version, which is that one of the things
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that makes things funny, and here's like one of the most illuminating rules you'll ever hear. This
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will be really looking behind the curtain of reality a little bit, and then behind the curtain
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is behind the curtain, and it goes like this. The main thing that makes somebody laugh at a joke
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is that there's a logic to it that doesn't make sense, but it still makes sense.
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So the best jokes are there's sort of kind of a joke logic, and you get what the joke logic is,
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and you're trying to reconcile it in your brain with real logic, but you can't get there.
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So it's near logic, but not quite. And your brain, the thing that triggers the laugh reflex
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is that your brain can't fit it into logic. It recognizes it as logic, but can't make it logical.
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So those are the, roughly speaking, those are the requirements. It feels logical emotionally,
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but it's not. And your brain knows it, and then you have this conflict, and then it fights it out
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in your head, and it causes a laugh reflex. Buzz Killington jokes, right? So when you read these,
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what makes them funny, I think, is that the author of these found a format that you could very easily
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fill in new words, and it's the same joke form, and it always works. And what makes it works is that
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all the words in the sentence don't work together, but they feel as if they make sense, but they don't.
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So let me read you a few with that in mind. So the rule is that your brain sort of feels like
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it makes sense, but it doesn't. Here's one. Easy on the mustard, you gravel-scratching-clam-fister.
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So your brain is trying to figure out what mustard and gravel-scratching-clam-fister
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have in common, and the answer is nothing. But your brain can't accept that because it understands
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the sentence. Get it? You understood the sentence, but it also doesn't make any sense at all. So
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that's exactly the, what would you call it, the formula. You understand it, and it doesn't make
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sense at the same time. So that's probably one of the strongest rules of humor. All right.
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All right. I saw this story in the New York Post, and I swear I've never loved my country
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more than this. You know, I'm quite patriotic, you know, down to the DNA level, but there are
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moments, there are moments when you love your country, like more than just a citizen loves
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their country. There are moments when you're not just loving your country, but you're in love
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with your country. Do you know what I mean? Like, it goes that extra level where you say,
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I don't just like the United States and appreciate its system of government. I think I love it.
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And that happened when I read this headline in the New York Post. De Blasio's social distancing
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tip line, that's the one where you can call in and say, I saw somebody who's not socially
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distancing. So de Blasio's social distancing tip line flooded with penis photos and Hitler memes.
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I've never loved my country more. I swear to God, there's just moments like this where I just
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fucking love this country. So that's the most American protest I've ever heard of.
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What could be more American than de Blasio, the mayor of New York, basically asked his
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citizens to rat on each other? And the New Yorkers flood his tip line with penis photos?
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And Hitler memes. Now the Hitler memes being, you know, calling de Blasio Hitler.
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Oh, sorry. That was so funny. I just can't stand it anymore. All right. I have, you know,
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I tell you, nothing gives me more encouragement about the future of the United States than stuff
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like this. Like, as much as I don't think it's a good idea to be protesting the social isolation,
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I love the fact that we are. Like, I can't separate the fact, I can't separate the fact in my head
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that we should not be gathering in groups without masks to protest social distancing. We just shouldn't
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be doing that. At the other hand, I love the fact that we are. I can't, I can't separate those
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thoughts. I can hold them both. Anyway, the canaries in the coal mine for what I would call
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the left-leaning world, and I've said this before, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, maybe Matt Taibbi,
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you can think of a few more. These are people who would be the first to realize that their own side
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was full of crap, if it is. Now, if it's not, of course they won't. But I would call them the people
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who are most likely to be able to call out their own side for being wrong. Now, on the conservative
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side, I would say maybe Tucker Carlson and Greg Duffield would be similar on the, you know,
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more right-leaning news in the sense that they would be among the first who would call out their
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own side for being dumb if they saw something that was dumb. So there are several people that I just
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watch for a leading indicator. Because if Tucker goes hard in a direction, it kind of predicts,
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doesn't it? It kind of predicts where things might go. And likewise, if Bill Maher or Taibbi or
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Michael Moore make a change, it also, I think, signals something. And so that brings us to the
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Michael Moore-backed documentary. So he's the executive producer, not the talent in it, of this
00:28:26.640
Planet of the Humans documentary. Now, I mentioned it, but I had not seen it until last night. I saw
00:28:34.240
it all but the last 10 minutes, and I don't think I missed anything in the last 10 minutes. But here's
00:28:40.580
the basic thrust of it. So it's somebody that Michael Moore decided to back, you know, as executive
00:28:46.560
director. And the essence of it is that the green technologies are all bunk, and that it's just
00:28:54.440
smoke and mirrors, and it's really not real, that it can never replace fossil. It mostly depends on
00:29:00.780
fossil. You still need fossil. You still need your electrical lines. You can't really get off the grid.
00:29:06.760
It doesn't work when it's rainy. It's hard to dispose of them. The solar panels only work for 10 years.
00:29:14.260
They're big, you know, big solar plants that were built with great fanfare that are being taken down,
00:29:19.460
a different kind of solar. So basically, the documentary essentially completely eviscerates
00:29:29.780
the economic argument, or even the moral argument, for green energy. And one of the biggest things
00:29:39.000
that I learned, and I didn't know this, was that we have a huge green, so-called green energy in biomass.
00:29:48.420
I didn't know anything about this. Did you know that there are, I don't know, hundreds or hundreds of
00:29:53.720
biomass electrical generators around the country? And the reason that they use biomass is that it's
00:30:01.720
sort of right on the border of being, is this renewable? It's renewable because it's trees,
00:30:08.100
but it uses so many trees that I don't think you could renew them. So it's sort of an anti-renewable
00:30:15.360
thing that people call renewable, because you can argue that you can grow a new tree, but I don't know
00:30:20.600
if you could argue that you can grow them fast enough. So that part was missing.
00:30:26.040
And so here's some of my overall comments on this. Number one, I think this ends any chance of the
00:30:37.620
Green New Deal. I think it's over. And I think it's the second biggest story of the year, because
00:30:43.100
it's not coronavirus. But the second biggest story of the year is that when Michael Moore turns
00:30:48.180
in a fairly full-throated way against standard green energies, solar and biomass and windmills,
00:31:00.340
when Michael Moore goes, that's the end of it, isn't it? Because AOC can argue all day long that
00:31:10.060
it's a good idea, and the whole argument is going to turn into this. Did you see Michael Moore's
00:31:16.300
documentary, you know, the one he backed? That's the whole argument. The Green New Deal is actually
00:31:22.360
dead. It's completely dead. Now, you could have argued that maybe it was dead anyway, because of
00:31:27.800
the coronavirus, because we spent all our money, so we couldn't do much about it. And, you know,
00:31:34.560
maybe we stopped trusting long-term prediction models because of the coronavirus, which would make
00:31:41.180
people more skeptical of climate change models. So I was thinking that Green New Deal might have
00:31:47.780
been dead anyway, and then the Michael Moore documentary comes along, and by itself it would
00:31:53.240
have killed the Green New Deal. But if you add it all together, this is the biggest story that's not
00:31:59.400
being covered. The Green New Deal is just totally dead. Now, how credible is the documentary?
00:32:07.560
And now, here's the bad news. The bad news is it's not very credible at all. So if you're looking at
00:32:14.820
the quality and credibility of the documentary itself, I would say it's very low. Very low. And
00:32:20.940
I'll give you some specific reasons for that. But nonetheless, because it exists, and because the
00:32:28.040
general thrust of it, I think, is probably accurate, the general thrust of it is that the green energies
00:32:33.660
are not as promising as the people promoting them would like you to believe. And the general thrust
00:32:40.640
is that a lot of the people pushing green technologies are in there for the money. It makes the case that
00:32:45.480
Al Gore is the bad guy. Can you believe that? A Michael Moore film, backed film, makes the case that
00:32:54.980
Al Gore only did it for the money. That's all bullshit. I mean, that's, I'm paraphrasing, but that's the
00:33:02.120
sense I got from it. You know, I watched it, and I thought the movie was telling me that Al Gore was a
00:33:08.500
fraud. He did it for the money, and that the technologies that are being pushed just can't
00:33:13.560
work, and he made lots of money off pushing them. That's what, that's not my allegation. I think
00:33:18.520
that's what the film is saying. But here's why the film lacks credibility. I'll just give you some
00:33:25.280
examples. Imagine, if you will, somebody makes an entire documentary about green energy, and not once
00:33:32.960
mentions nuclear power. I mean, seriously. There is a comparison of fossil fuels to these traditional
00:33:43.120
green energies, an entire movie about energy, and they don't mention nuclear power. Do you know why
00:33:52.140
they don't mention nuclear power? It's because they know it's the answer, and they can't go that
00:33:58.600
far, I think. Now, I can't read minds, so when somebody says something like I just said, your
00:34:05.840
first thought should be, well, you're not reading their mind. You don't know they think that, and of
00:34:10.640
course I don't. But what would be your other explanation for why people who are, let's say, getting
00:34:17.340
red-pilled on their own, people who thought these green technologies were the bomb, and now they're
00:34:23.120
saying, okay, we were fooled, maybe they're not the answer. How would those people do an entire
00:34:28.460
documentary on energy production, and not even mention nuclear? What's the other reason they
00:34:37.720
would not mention it? I can't think of one. The only reason I can think of, and again, it's speculation,
00:34:42.800
because I can't read their minds. My speculation is that they're either convinced or leaning toward
00:34:50.800
it being the answer, and they can't say that. Because if you're Michael Moore, it's a big stretch
00:34:58.720
to say, did you know solar power isn't what you thought it was? That's a big movement. Now, he's been
00:35:05.180
pacing his side, doing things they agree with for years and years and years, so maybe he can lead them.
00:35:11.420
Maybe he's exactly the right, maybe this is Nixon can go to China sort of thing. Maybe Michael Moore is
00:35:18.140
the only person who could convince him solar and wind are not the answer. But could even Michael Moore
00:35:25.300
take them all the way past that to nuclear? I don't think he could. And maybe one can speculate
00:35:34.140
that he would be smart enough to know that, and may have just said, you know, that's a fight for another
00:35:39.840
day. So it's so conspicuous by its absence, you know that it had to be a conversation that the
00:35:47.040
filmmaker had, probably with Michael Moore at some point, where they said, you know, the only way I'm
00:35:54.140
going to be able to do this is to just not mention nuclear energy like it doesn't exist, because then
00:35:59.260
at least I can make a clean argument without that getting in the way. So it could have been just a
00:36:07.060
filmmaker decision. But it's so obviously missing that it destroys the credibility of the entire
00:36:13.360
operation. The other thing that it's missing is any kind of an economic comparison that would be
00:36:20.400
credible. So while it is true to say, hey, these solar powers only last 10 years,
00:36:26.520
they're hard in terms of waste, etc. I'd still like to see the comparison. Just because the solar
00:36:34.000
has downsides, that's true of every option. Just simply pointing out that there are downsides to
00:36:41.040
green energy doesn't get me all the way to, and therefore it's not a good deal. I can't get there.
00:36:48.380
All I know is that it has some downsides. So no credibility for the economics of it. Simply it's
00:36:56.020
saying that it has problems, and we already knew that. Here's another problem. It used, as some of
00:37:02.340
its examples, it went to some green energy promoted concerts. And the concerts were billed as being
00:37:10.460
sort of off the grid and using solar power to power the concert. But when the documentary maker went
00:37:17.500
behind the scenes, he learned that they had backup generators, and they needed them because it wasn't
00:37:23.740
sunny all the time. So the backup generators were to fill in for the times it wasn't sunny.
00:37:29.660
And so the filmmaker is sort of concluding that maybe a lot of these green energy things are frauds,
00:37:35.060
because behind the stage, literally behind the stage, was a backup generator using, in that case,
00:37:42.260
biomass, but it wasn't enough. I think they had to use fossil fuels or something.
00:37:45.700
And I would say that is totally illegitimate. So using those examples as examples of why green
00:37:53.780
energy is maybe a fraud, completely illegitimate. Because nobody makes the claim that you could
00:38:00.280
do a concert on solar panels. Nobody makes that claim. So to debunk a claim that nobody's making
00:38:07.300
and to throw it in the mix, I don't think that's honest. That really detracts from your credibility.
00:38:14.900
So I would say that whether or not you can put on a concert with solar panels doesn't really tell you
00:38:22.740
whether a permanent installation in which solar is part of the answer could ever be economical.
00:38:29.800
So he doesn't really close the gap to finish the economic arguments. That's a big problem.
00:38:35.220
Here's one that's really big, in my opinion. He shows Elon Musk claiming that his Ginga factory
00:38:44.960
would be 100% green energy self-sufficient. And then to debunk that claim from Elon, who said
00:38:54.180
they had accomplished 100% green energy, he shows that the Ginga factory is actually connected
00:39:02.180
by wires to the regular grid. And so his conclusion is, well, you must not be 100% green energy,
00:39:09.920
you know, using your solar or whatever locally, if you have to be connected to the grid.
00:39:17.100
And somebody's saying batteries, etc. Right? So here's what's missing. If you were completely
00:39:25.240
self-sufficient with 100% green energy, you would still be connected to the grid, that
00:39:31.260
one does not preclude the other. Why would you be connected to the regular grid if you
00:39:36.940
were making 100% of your own energy? Well, if you'd looked into it even this much, you would
00:39:43.480
know that there are several reasons that potentially that's true. Number one, if you say that you
00:39:49.240
can produce 100% of your energy, what do you do with the extra? Right? Did Elon Musk ever
00:39:57.920
make the claim that they were producing exactly 100% of their energy, as in they don't need
00:40:04.060
any extra from the outside ever, but they also don't make any extra? Did he make that claim?
00:40:10.580
Did he make the claim that every day, no matter what's happening with the sun, the exact amount
00:40:15.000
of energy they're making is just the amount they need? No, he never made that claim. And
00:40:20.360
if you can't make exactly the amount you need every day, what do you do? Well, if you're
00:40:26.220
making too much every day, you connect to the grid and sell it back to them. That's how
00:40:32.420
it works. The panels on my house are not off the grid. The panels on my house go directly
00:40:38.320
into the grid. I sell them electricity, essentially, by just giving them electricity. And then they
00:40:44.760
measure how much I give them. And then I use their electricity off the grid for my household
00:40:51.020
appliances. But they say, oh, we won't charge you the full price because you gave us some
00:40:56.320
free solar panel energy, you know, separately. That's how it works. So if the Gigafactory is
00:41:04.280
like anybody else who uses solar panels, they have to be connected to the grid. That's how
00:41:10.140
it works. You give your energy to the grid. And that helps balance out the load at the
00:41:15.900
grid. And then the grid gives you a consistent amount back, including at night. Here's another
00:41:23.900
reason that they could be attached to the grid, even if they had their own power. How do you
00:41:29.080
build the plant in the first place? This plant is out in the middle of nothing. How did they
00:41:34.920
construct it if they didn't have power? Well, I would think the very first thing you would
00:41:40.900
do is you say, well, I'm going to build this giant facility in the middle of nowhere. I'd
00:41:45.680
better get me some electricity. First thing you do is run a connection from the power grid
00:41:50.940
to, you know, build your solar plants in your factory, right? So it could be just left over
00:41:56.420
from when they did construction. And why would you take it away? Once you built it, you can
00:42:01.980
just leave it there in case you need it. Could be built there as just a backup. What
00:42:06.200
if, even if they're getting 100% of their energy from solar panels, what if they said
00:42:11.460
to themselves, you know, it might break someday. Someday it might stop working. So why don't
00:42:17.520
we have a backup to the grid, which we needed to build anyway during the construction phase?
00:42:22.840
So my point is, we don't know why Tesla is connected to the grid, but we do know there's
00:42:28.720
a whole bunch of explanations that are far more likely than it's all a fraud, right?
00:42:37.080
Here's, so given that nuclear wasn't mentioned and these other comparisons were just really
00:42:44.520
sketchy, I'd have to say it's not credible, but it's still going to be very persuasive in
00:42:49.680
the larger argument. I saw a very clever, presumably fake campaign ad for Joe Biden. Now the really
00:43:02.120
good fakes, the ones that the trolls are putting together, are the ones that are so close to
00:43:08.800
reality. Somebody says, you debunked nothing? Who says I debunked nothing? Now are you telling
00:43:19.980
me that a energy documentary, a documentary about energy that doesn't mention nuclear, you're
00:43:26.640
saying that I haven't debunked it? That alone debunks it. You know, all the rest is just gravy.
00:43:32.300
So I don't know what you're watching if you think that wasn't debunked. That's pretty debunked.
00:43:35.960
Anyway, there's a campaign ad that I think is put together by trolls and it said, it just
00:43:43.500
shows Joe Biden and there's like this glow coming from his chest where his heart would
00:43:47.800
be. And the words of the poster say, his brains? No, his heart. And people thought it might
00:43:56.360
have been a real campaign ad and that they were giving up on Joe Biden's brain being a selling
00:44:02.100
point. And they were just going with, he's a nice guy. He's got a good heart. But that
00:44:07.160
again, fits the category of a little bit too on the nose. This campaign ad looks a little
00:44:14.960
bit too close to what his critics would say, that his brain doesn't work. So I rated this
00:44:21.120
as probably a troll thing. And then people said that if you click on it, it goes to a broken
00:44:26.220
link. So I still think it was a, yeah, it had to be a parody. But look for the parodies that
00:44:31.960
are so close to what you think would be true, that that's what makes them clever.
00:44:38.920
I guess there's a whole bunch of new rumors about Bill Gates and the World Health Organization
00:44:45.000
and the Wuhan lab and, you know, the virus having gained a function and stuff. I would
00:44:50.640
say none of that's likely to be true. So you can ignore all that. But Bill Gates sure is
00:44:56.880
the subject of a lot of conspiracy theories. CNN is reporting, quote, the quiet abandonment
00:45:05.520
of hydroxychloroquine on Fox Network because the studies are not giving it enough support.
00:45:13.460
So CNN is sort of mocking Fox News for making a big deal about the hydroxychloroquine, but
00:45:19.220
getting really quiet about it as the new studies come out, if you know what I mean.
00:45:23.060
But this latest study, or at least one of them, I don't think they're testing it necessarily
00:45:32.220
with the zinc. There may be one test where they did. But I don't know if they're giving
00:45:37.160
it to people early on, and they're also giving it with them azithromycin and the zinc. So
00:45:42.960
be careful when you're looking at the hydroxychloroquine tests, because they're not apples to apples.
00:45:49.220
The ones that work have the three drugs, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc. I should say the
00:45:58.620
ones that are reported anecdotally, not confirmed, but seem to be effective. The ones that seem
00:46:05.720
not to work at all, and maybe it's even bad for people, tend to be the hydroxychloroquine alone
00:46:11.020
or with azithromycin. But because the zinc is presumed to be the magic ingredient, the
00:46:17.580
thing that works with the hydroxychloroquine, that if you tested one without the other, you
00:46:22.780
wouldn't actually be testing what you need to test. It's good to test everything, but presumably
00:46:28.760
you would get a bad result if you didn't include it with the zinc, and that's what we saw. But
00:46:33.980
there might be at least one where the zinc was there, and they still didn't get a good result.
00:46:37.800
So I'm a little unclear about where we are on that. I'm going to keep my 60-40 odds. Based
00:46:46.740
on early, undependable reporting, I'm going to say there's probably a 60% chance it's not
00:46:54.200
effective, and a 40% chance it is. Just my read of how it feels without solid information
00:47:03.980
at this point. Apparently Kim Jong-un is not dead, or if he is, North Korea is not aware of it,
00:47:10.860
because they seem to be just doing business as usual. So there's no sign in North Korea that
00:47:16.020
there's anything like Kim Jong-un died, or even break dead. That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
00:47:22.860
We haven't seen him in a while, but it's actually not that uncommon to have wild rumors that just are
00:47:28.880
crazy. It turned out to be false. As is, you could expect this to happen. So the Israelis
00:47:39.600
were shipping various aid, medical aid and food and stuff to some of the Palestinian authority,
00:47:47.900
and they were trying to help out. And what of course happened? Immediately, immediately the rumor
00:47:55.200
spread that the Israelis were not really trying to help, that they were putting virus on the stuff
00:48:01.460
that they were shipping to the Palestinians, because they really wanted to infect the Palestinians.
00:48:07.760
Now, it just doesn't help to, it just doesn't pay to try to help the world, does it?
00:48:14.660
Bill Gates wakes up every day and just tries to help the world. And then he's accused of being
00:48:20.920
basically the devil. Israel is just trying to help the Palestinian authority, and they get accused of
00:48:30.240
trying to kill them. I feel like doing good deeds just doesn't pay too much. All right, let's talk
00:48:39.960
about the president's temporary ban on immigration. Apparently 79% of the American adults are in favor
00:48:48.200
of it. And why wouldn't they be? Makes sense. So I think the president not only is doing at least
00:48:54.880
something right-ish, I'm not sure who's getting banned and who's not, it's a little unclear at this
00:49:00.160
point. But certainly we should be looking at tightening that up during the coronavirus. But here's the clever
00:49:05.720
part. It baits Joe Biden into giving an opinion. What exactly will Joe Biden say to the Trump plan of
00:49:19.780
temporarily halting immigration because it might be dangerous and we need the jobs in this country?
00:49:25.620
It kind of puts Joe Biden in a trap, right? Because you can make a case, you can make a case for it,
00:49:32.400
but I don't know if Joe Biden can. You'd have to work pretty hard to make an elegant argument for
00:49:38.520
why you would want to do the opposite of what the president is doing, because Joe Biden has to
00:49:43.380
take the opposite. He has to pick the opposite. Oh, yeah, maybe he'll just call him racist. Go back to
00:49:48.660
the oldies. Let's see. Apparently there's an idea floating around that the Democrats need to
00:50:01.280
counter President Trump's coronavirus briefings because they're too much like a campaign. And so the thought
00:50:10.300
was that Biden could create a shadow cabinet and then they would take turns, each of them debunking
00:50:17.260
whatever the president says during his briefing. I've ranked that as possibly the worst idea I've ever heard.
00:50:23.760
There's so many bad things about that idea that I'm really hoping they do it because, first of all,
00:50:32.940
they're going to disappear compared to the president. The president brings the show. The best they could
00:50:39.320
do is have some talking head in front of a camera saying, are you lying about everything like they do
00:50:44.260
after the State of the Union? Well, nobody's going to care. Nobody's going to care. And if you,
00:50:52.440
and if they're this shadow cabinet, everybody's going to be talking about the cabinet choices.
00:50:58.280
So it's just going to give the president new targets. There's a new study, provocative it is,
00:51:05.440
provocative I say. I'm not sure I believe it and other people are questioning it too. So the new study
00:51:10.880
disputes the finding of a new study that suggests, oh, Fox News disputes this. All right. So there's
00:51:20.540
a study, but Fox News disputes it and says it's a weak study, not real. And the study alleges that
00:51:27.760
regular viewers of the Hannity show were more likely to die from coronavirus than those who preferred
00:51:34.260
Tucker Carlson's tonight. And their reasoning was that Tucker was early in warning that it was a
00:51:40.640
real problem. And allegedly Hannity was less early in being as serious as Tucker was, and that it
00:51:48.860
actually killed, and that some of Hannity's people died because they got bad advice from watching his
00:51:57.620
show. Now, when Fox News says they dispute the findings, I think you could really dispute those
00:52:04.040
findings. People are saying in the comments, as I was going to say myself, that you have to be careful
00:52:12.000
there might be a demographic difference. You know, the Tucker viewers might be younger. You know, so you
00:52:18.320
can imagine there would be lots of reasons why there'd be difference. But I also think a lot of people
00:52:24.440
watch both. A lot of people, you know, I just don't think you could, you can pick out that difference.
00:52:38.000
Even Scott was hooked by hydroxy. Yeah, this will be the part where everybody redefines what I said so
00:52:43.760
that I could be wrong. And watch the evolution of this. Watch people claim with their false memories
00:52:51.840
that I said hydroxychloroquine was the answer. I never said that. Now, you won't be able to find it
00:52:58.420
anywhere. But you will remember that I did. It just didn't happen. Every time that I talked about
00:53:03.520
it, I was always clear to say, you know, we're optimistic, we're hopeful, but we don't have
00:53:08.860
studies. Where am I right now? Pretty much the same. I'm optimistic, I'm hopeful, we don't have
00:53:16.160
studies. But I'm putting a percentage on it now because we have more negative anecdotal. So I think
00:53:21.680
it's like a 60-40. 40% chance of it working. If you're an optimist, pretty good. Pretty good.
00:53:29.180
So if you're already telling me that I'm wrong or that I've changed my mind, you are misinformed.
00:53:35.640
It is true that I've probably shifted the percentage of my optimism, but it's not like it was ever 100
00:53:42.520
or anywhere near it. I mean, it was never, I would say I probably moved from 80 to 60%. Or no, 80. I probably
00:53:49.760
moved from 60 to 40. My own assessment. But that was well within the, you know, the uncertainty range.
00:54:00.700
All right. What else we got going on here? Well, if it's true, let's say it was true. Let's say that
00:54:11.560
studies support the fact that people who were warned early about the seriousness of the coronavirus
00:54:18.140
were more likely to survive. Would that not, would that not indicate that I had saved a number of lives?
00:54:26.540
Would it? Wouldn't you say that I was the first one who said, close those flights from China? And I probably
00:54:33.780
was the first earliest pundit, except for Jack Posobiec, who said close travel from China because
00:54:41.660
it's serious. Or until we find out how serious it is, but it looks serious. And if people who watched
00:54:49.220
my Periscope took that seriously, is it possible that I saved lives? Well, according to the study,
00:54:57.900
which doesn't sound too credible, maybe, you know, if, if a hundred thousand people watched
00:55:03.700
my Periscope and got a, uh, a more, a bigger scare about it and therefore acted more, more
00:55:10.520
social, social, isolatingly, maybe, maybe I saved some of your lives, but I'm not sure these
00:55:16.780
studies will hold up. All right. Um, apparently, uh, Russia has got an interesting situation going
00:55:26.360
down there because I guess Russia is not doing the greatest job of informing its people or taking
00:55:31.940
care of the coronavirus and, uh, Putin's popularity, which is usually sky high has fallen to 63%.
00:55:40.320
So it's normally in the higher sixties or seventies. And so, uh, given that, um, you wonder if, uh,
00:55:52.280
Putin's actually vulnerable, probably not, but I'll bet you this coronavirus does change some regimes.
00:55:59.820
I would guess that the coronavirus situation will change who runs some countries. Eventually, we don't
00:56:06.480
know which one. So, um, we're starting to see what I call the Carl stories. So a few days ago, I tweeted
00:56:15.200
this. I said, in about a week, prepare for nonstop stories of the press like this quote, Carl protested the
00:56:21.860
economic shutdown. He did not wear a mask. Now, Carl is dead. And so is his grandma. Don't be Carl
00:56:26.960
because you know, they're coming. Well, headline today, John McDaniel, age 60 of Marion County,
00:56:33.780
died April 15th at a hospital, blah, blah, blah. He has, he had made several posts about the
00:56:39.400
coronavirus on Facebook last month before testing positive. This is from this guy's, uh, Facebook
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posts quote, does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy asking for a friend
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prove me wrong? And then he got it. And then he died. So that's your first Carl story. You are going
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to see so many Carl stories in the next week. You're going to be tired of them. Here's a question I
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have. Uh, the reason for closing immigration is because we have so many people at work. And the theory
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is that Americans could do those jobs of the immigrants. I've never seen any evidence of
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that. I would say that the statement that Americans can take the jobs that the immigrants would not be
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doing if they're not allowed to come into work. I would say there's no evidence of that. I've seen
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evidence against it, but I've never seen evidence is true. And here's what I mean. If you take the
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skilled technical workers, um, the reason that skilled technical workers are hired from overseas
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is not because they're cheaper. I mean, they might be, I don't know if they are or not, but that's not
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why you do it. You do it because you can't find enough. In Silicon Valley, finding somebody with
00:57:57.360
technical skills is getting really hard, or at least it was during the, during the, uh, uh, better
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times. Now, uh, so this might be the only time when we don't need any more skilled workers for a few
00:58:11.060
months, assuming that some of the skilled workers got laid off. But in general, the reason that we have
00:58:18.320
skilled workers come in is that they add to the economy. So if you bring in a skilled worker,
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a technical worker, I would say they add more to the economy for everybody than they subtract.
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But what about the ones who are, you know, working on the farms and doing dishwashers and stuff like
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that? Well, here's my, here's my experience. Somebody says they are paid less. Uh, um, but that's not
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the reason you do it. The reason you do it is because you can't, you can't find enough technical
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workers. Uh, that's a bonus. If you, if you can find a way to pay them less, that would be a bonus.
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Um, in my experience, running a restaurant, you can't find non-Mexican workers. You can't find
00:59:02.180
American citizens to do a lot of jobs. They would rather just not have a job. So if you said to the
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Mexican immigrants, well, your choice is to have no job or you can have this backbreaking labor,
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the Mexican immigrant will say, yeah, backbreaking labor. That's exactly why I came here. I came here
00:59:18.880
to do backbreaking labor. Of course I'll take that job. And then they'll take that job.
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If you say to an American, and this is my experience, right? So this is just anecdotal,
00:59:28.320
but I would be looking for anybody to give me a counterfactual. If you say to the typical American,
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um, Hey, I got this, you know, this job for you, it's backbreaking labor, you know, but maybe it
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could turn into something better. The average American who is unemployed and is only qualified
00:59:44.620
for that job will say some version of this. Nah, I think I'll wait and see if I can get something
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better. So if you think you can get Americans to take those jobs, well, good luck. I think what
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you'll find is that Americans will prefer unemployment to working those jobs. That's my
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experience. My experience is that they will prefer unemployment. Now somebody says, pay them!
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Exclamation mark. Thank you. So, so somebody who has an understanding of economics says, yeah,
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the reason Americans don't take those jobs is they don't pay well. Now the reason they don't
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pay well, of course, is that if they did, then the cost of your food would, you know, be far
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higher. Maybe that's the better solution. But in any case, uh, you're just trading one problem
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for another, but we should be aware of that. Uh, in the short run, while the, because the
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wages would not be going up that much in the short run, I just think farms and other places
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who require backbreaking labor are not going to be able to find Americans to do it. Americans
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don't do backbreaking labor if they have an option of, of, you know, staying on their mother's
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couch and eating their mother's cooking. We just don't do it. That's been my experience.
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experience. Um, there's a, a so-called, uh, uh, the White House bureau chief for the
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Washington Post, Philip, Philip Rucker. He's claimed, even yesterday, he claimed that Trump
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showed solidarity with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. Literally the opposite of what happened. This
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is a bureau chief for the Washington Post and is somehow not aware of the most debunked fake
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news of all time. It is the most thoroughly, completely debunked. All you have to do is
01:01:43.000
look at the record. You just have to look at the transcript. That's it. There's no judgment.
01:01:48.300
There's no opinion. You just have to look at it. There it is debunked. And the white, and
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the, the White House bureau chief for the Washington Post was not aware of that or decided to act
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like he didn't know. So, uh, uh, Joel Pollack in Breitbart, uh, pointed that out and corrected
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the record yet again. How many times do we have to correct that record? All right. Well,
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I think I've talked about all the amazing things I want to talk about. Uh, and we're still trying
01:02:20.180
to figure out if, uh, so there's a new report that says maybe the first person who had coronavirus
01:02:26.180
was much earlier than we thought, which would indicate maybe there's more widespread
01:02:31.020
infection than we thought. Maybe it started back in January, which would have given it enough time
01:02:36.340
to be more widespread than we think it is. I don't believe anything at this point. You know,
01:02:42.180
maybe, maybe it's true, but I also can't distinguish between that and, uh, you know, just, there's
01:02:52.940
a handful of people who have it and it just took a while to catch on. I can't tell the difference.
01:02:57.340
So I don't know if this story means anything or not. Anyway, Trump uses the word plague. Yeah,
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I like it. Uh, outed his source. Who outed his source? All right. Just looking at your comments
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before I sign off. Don't forget our welfare state. Okay. Thank you. I won't. Some think
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that Philip Rucker is aware about lying. I don't think so. If I had to bet on it, and neither
01:03:27.700
of us know because we don't know what he's thinking. If I had to bet, I would bet that Philip
01:03:32.720
Rucker does not know that he was promoting the biggest debunked hoax in politics. I'll
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bet he does not know. And it's based on this, the silos of information. How much do you think
01:03:46.900
Philip Rucker has listened to this periscope? I would say zero times. How many times has Phil
01:03:53.680
Rucker read Breitbart? At least before, before today, because he's probably reading it today
01:04:00.380
because there's an article about him. But before today, how much time did he spend reading
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Breitbart? Zero. Now, if you didn't follow me, you didn't follow Breitbart. Steve Cortez
01:04:10.960
was talking about it until CNN kicked him off the air. They unhired him for talking about
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debunking the songs. So even if Philip Rucker watched CNN, where there was like a full-time
01:04:24.120
debunker, they removed the full-time debunker quickly, just so he didn't actually give anybody
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any information. So if you were a conservative, I'll give you this concrete example. If you
01:04:36.240
were a conservative and you watched the new Michael Morbeck movie about green energy being
01:04:41.960
largely BS, did you already know that? And the answer is, if you're a conservative, probably
01:04:50.240
yes. Because when I watched it, I was surprised at how many biomass plants there were, that part
01:04:55.200
I didn't know about. But I wasn't surprised at all to hear that the economics of solar and
01:05:01.720
wind, et cetera, are not promising. I knew that because I've been exposed to news on the
01:05:09.260
left. I've been exposed to news on the right. But suppose you'd been only exposed to news
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news on the left. What would you have ever seen that would have ever told you that this
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green energy is maybe overrated? Nothing. Because there are no reports like that on the
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left. So I would say that people like Phil Rucker, I think, actually are just not informed
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of everything that the people on the right think is common sense because they've seen it so many
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times. I mean, how many times have you, because most of you are Trump supporters watching this,
01:05:46.120
how many times have you seen an article that says basically what the Michael Moore documentary
01:05:53.400
said, that the green energy is not such a great deal? Most of you, right? Probably almost every
01:05:59.380
one of you. How many people on the left have ever seen that, have ever seen any article that
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suggested that green energy is not real? Probably not. So if you ask me, does Philip Rucker know
01:06:14.100
that he is promoting the most debunked, most easily debunked non-fact in the world? My answer is
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probably not. He probably has never been exposed to that fact. Very easily you could easily imagine
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that. So that's my opinion. All right. That's all I got for now. And tonight, I'll talk to you
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tonight. Oh, I went overtime tonight. I went longer than I want. So I'll let you know when my interview
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with Dan Crenshaw is live. I don't have time for that, but as soon as it is, I'll tweet it. So I did
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get, I was on Dan Crenshaw's podcast. I think it went well. We had a good conversation and I think
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you might like it. All right. I'll talk to you later.