Real Coffee with Scott Adams


Episode 966 Scott Adams： I Mock the Kids Table, Talk About Musk, Update You on Stuff


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Summary

On today's show: Mother's Day, Elon Musk talks about a possible cure for Parkinson's, and I talk about a new gadget that could be used to help people with Parkinson's and other degenerative disorders.


Transcript

00:00:00.540 Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum.
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00:00:10.720 Hey, everybody. Come on in.
00:00:13.360 Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers.
00:00:17.760 Have you ever noticed that mothers is one of those words that
00:00:20.900 either sounds really nice or really bad?
00:00:24.540 Hey, it's my mother. Sounds good.
00:00:27.940 Hey, you mothers, get in here.
00:00:30.660 Sounds bad. Same word.
00:00:32.960 What's up with that?
00:00:34.740 Well, it's good to see you all.
00:00:37.760 And I can't think of a better way to start off Mother's Day
00:00:43.300 than with the simultaneous sip.
00:00:46.900 That's right, you're way ahead of me.
00:00:49.960 And all you need for the simultaneous sip on Mother's Day is a mother.
00:00:55.580 It would be good if there's a mother there. Optional.
00:00:58.900 But otherwise, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein,
00:01:02.500 a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:05.140 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:01:08.260 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day.
00:01:12.220 The thing that makes everything better, including the damn pandemic.
00:01:16.300 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
00:01:19.680 Go.
00:01:19.920 Go.
00:01:24.380 Mmm.
00:01:25.580 Ah, yes.
00:01:27.900 It's getting better all the time.
00:01:30.680 All right.
00:01:31.100 For those of you who did not watch,
00:01:35.800 somebody in the comments says,
00:01:37.480 you blew my mind last night.
00:01:39.060 That's what I wanted to bring up.
00:01:40.560 So last night I did,
00:01:42.700 I revealed the user interface for reality.
00:01:47.160 Now, if that sounds like I'm over-claiming,
00:01:51.120 just look at the comments.
00:01:52.680 That'll probably go by in a moment here.
00:01:55.580 So I realized that a lot of things that I've been mentioning in my books, etc.,
00:02:00.080 had finally reached a point where I could put them all in one clean package
00:02:03.920 and boost the value.
00:02:05.980 So in many ways, it's things you've heard from me before,
00:02:09.200 but you've never seen them collected this way.
00:02:12.720 And it's the way they're collected and presented that gives them the new power.
00:02:17.700 So I pinned the tweet that has that video.
00:02:22.880 I would recommend that everybody who finds any value from anything I do,
00:02:28.520 that's the one you want to watch.
00:02:30.600 So if there's just one thing you ever watch from me,
00:02:34.000 that would be the one.
00:02:35.820 So I'll give it that boost.
00:02:37.200 Also, if those of you who have not found me yet on the Locals platform,
00:02:45.440 localswithans.com,
00:02:48.100 I'm moving all the content that you can still see here.
00:02:52.500 Sorry, my cat's causing trouble here.
00:02:56.660 I'll move all the content that you already see here.
00:02:58.900 You'll still be able to see here,
00:03:00.520 but in addition, I'm putting extra stuff on Locals for subscribers.
00:03:05.180 Just an update,
00:03:07.820 my normal business pretty much is,
00:03:11.260 I'm pretty much out of business as a cartoonist.
00:03:14.200 I'm getting the early indications from my syndication.
00:03:17.820 Well, the newspapers,
00:03:19.440 they're trying to negotiate,
00:03:21.660 and they might close down.
00:03:24.280 So my old business model doesn't work.
00:03:27.000 I'm going to see if in the long run it won't work.
00:03:30.240 It's sort of advertiser-based,
00:03:32.080 because newspapers are advertiser-based online.
00:03:35.180 And everything's advertiser-based.
00:03:37.100 So I'm moving at least some of my stuff to a subscriber model
00:03:39.980 to be part of the future.
00:03:42.440 All right, enough about that.
00:03:45.100 Everybody told me to watch Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan show.
00:03:49.520 I didn't get through all of it yet,
00:03:51.680 but I was fascinated by this talk about Neuralink.
00:03:55.020 So one of Elon Musk's companies is Neuralink.
00:03:58.780 And what they're going to do is literally implant
00:04:01.060 little electronics in your skull.
00:04:04.220 They'll actually remove a piece of your skull, the bone,
00:04:07.480 and insert there a little piece of electronics.
00:04:10.780 They'll have wiring that goes into your brain.
00:04:13.640 Where the wiring goes into your brain
00:04:15.420 depends on what problem you're trying to solve.
00:04:18.560 But Elon actually has made the claim
00:04:22.000 that this device could be useful for a broad range
00:04:25.980 of anything that's wrong with your brain.
00:04:28.540 Now, I don't know how big anything is,
00:04:30.360 but the examples he used were, you know,
00:04:32.940 maybe, you know, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's
00:04:35.960 or maybe even people who are quadriplegics,
00:04:41.080 if you can believe it.
00:04:42.520 You might even be able to get people to walk
00:04:45.180 and use their limbs that they couldn't use before.
00:04:47.980 Now, that seems like quite a big, let's see, goal.
00:04:55.480 But, I don't know.
00:04:57.400 It's Elon Musk.
00:04:58.300 I don't think he'd be involved
00:04:59.540 unless there was some science behind it.
00:05:01.460 They might actually see the first one implanted
00:05:04.600 for whatever the first purpose is within a year.
00:05:08.900 So, how weird is that?
00:05:12.100 Will it cure TDS?
00:05:15.180 That's funny.
00:05:16.680 It's funny how many of you spontaneously said,
00:05:19.220 will it cure Trump derangement syndrome?
00:05:21.760 You know what the funny thing is?
00:05:23.960 It could.
00:05:25.700 It could.
00:05:26.600 You know, I'm sure it will not be used to change opinion,
00:05:30.360 but you can definitely change people's opinions
00:05:33.640 by stimulating their brain
00:05:35.880 or changing the chemical balance,
00:05:38.160 and that's well established, right?
00:05:39.940 If you just took somebody and, you know,
00:05:42.580 said write down all your opinions,
00:05:43.980 and then you started shooting them up
00:05:46.260 with either male or female hormones,
00:05:50.440 and then you just wait a few months
00:05:51.940 and then test them on their opinions again,
00:05:54.520 I think they'd be a little different.
00:05:56.900 So, we know we can change people's opinions
00:05:59.440 by changing their chemical state.
00:06:01.980 All right.
00:06:06.620 So, yeah, I wouldn't call it shock therapy,
00:06:09.200 but it seems like it has a lot of potential.
00:06:12.540 The other Elon Musk story is that,
00:06:15.320 you know, you heard the story about
00:06:16.400 he was getting rid of all of his properties,
00:06:18.820 and he had a bunch of houses,
00:06:20.080 and he was getting rid of them,
00:06:21.540 and I thought to myself,
00:06:23.440 wow, you know, he probably has houses all over the world
00:06:25.640 and doesn't use them enough,
00:06:27.440 so he's going to get rid of them,
00:06:28.420 but it turns out the story is a little different than that.
00:06:31.740 So, he had this one house
00:06:32.920 somewhere in Southern California.
00:06:34.740 Across the street was, I guess, Gene Wilder's house,
00:06:38.480 and that somebody was going to buy it probably
00:06:40.940 and do construction for three years.
00:06:43.060 So, he bought the house across the street
00:06:45.020 just so there wouldn't be construction there,
00:06:47.880 and then he started buying other houses
00:06:50.160 in the neighborhood
00:06:52.000 just so he'd have more privacy and stuff.
00:06:54.820 So, it turns out he was basically
00:06:56.540 just buying up his neighborhood.
00:06:59.160 And so, yeah, I guess he's decided not to do that.
00:07:03.420 So, it wasn't quite exactly the way you thought of it,
00:07:06.320 but he does seem to be serious
00:07:07.840 about getting rid of physical possessions for,
00:07:12.900 we'll see.
00:07:13.720 We'll see if it's all the right reasons.
00:07:16.720 I think it is,
00:07:17.340 because he's more about focusing his energy
00:07:19.900 on his businesses than his house, I guess.
00:07:24.820 Now, he's also threatened
00:07:28.120 to move his headquarters from California to Texas
00:07:31.500 because of the lockdown.
00:07:35.140 And I don't know how California can keep any business.
00:07:41.820 It's hard for me to imagine
00:07:43.180 that there's just any good reason
00:07:44.960 for a business to stay in California.
00:07:47.960 I hate to say that, because it's my state,
00:07:49.780 but I imagine he's going to move to Texas
00:07:55.040 in the long run.
00:07:57.920 So, we're starting to see
00:07:59.280 the worst kind of fake news now.
00:08:01.680 It's probably,
00:08:02.920 when you talk about fake news
00:08:04.260 being the enemy of the people,
00:08:05.980 there are times when it really, really
00:08:08.520 is the enemy of the people.
00:08:10.200 For example,
00:08:11.580 if somebody is trying to overthrow the government
00:08:14.540 with bad information,
00:08:18.680 that's how they're doing it,
00:08:19.700 trying to overthrow the president,
00:08:21.400 you would think that if the media
00:08:23.460 was aiding and abetting the coup,
00:08:27.320 that the media would be certainly
00:08:29.380 the enemy of the people
00:08:30.500 in the most direct way.
00:08:33.400 I mean, you can't be more enemy of the people
00:08:35.780 than supporting a coup
00:08:37.840 against the president elected
00:08:39.840 by at least the electoral college
00:08:42.460 and the system and the people.
00:08:45.460 So, that's pretty dangerous,
00:08:47.260 but here's a new dangerous thing
00:08:48.580 that the media is doing.
00:08:50.960 The press, anyway.
00:08:52.560 We're going to see lots of stories,
00:08:54.220 there's one today,
00:08:55.040 about the Trump administration
00:08:57.180 and anybody who wants us
00:08:58.940 to go back to work sooner
00:09:00.760 having a certain callousness about life.
00:09:04.880 A callousness.
00:09:06.520 Now, here's the thing.
00:09:08.940 In the real world,
00:09:10.240 with the possible exception
00:09:13.000 of a few actual sociopaths
00:09:15.940 and psychopaths,
00:09:17.640 there aren't that many of them,
00:09:19.640 but once you get past
00:09:20.920 that little group of people,
00:09:23.160 everybody cares about human life.
00:09:25.800 To pretend that there's
00:09:27.360 some entire class of people
00:09:29.740 who care about life,
00:09:31.420 let's call them Democrats,
00:09:33.200 and yet there's some other class
00:09:34.500 of people who don't care about life,
00:09:36.620 let's call them Republicans,
00:09:37.840 Republicans is such a childlike view
00:09:40.540 of the world
00:09:41.100 that it should just be dismissed
00:09:44.360 without comment,
00:09:46.100 even though I'm going to comment on it.
00:09:48.000 Because in the real world,
00:09:49.180 these are just tough decisions.
00:09:50.740 Whatever you choose to go,
00:09:52.600 whatever direction you go with,
00:09:54.540 with the coronavirus,
00:09:55.540 people are going to die.
00:09:56.960 If you had a choice of nobody dying,
00:10:00.040 we would look at that pretty seriously,
00:10:01.800 but we don't have that choice.
00:10:04.060 And so it's like news
00:10:06.540 from the kids' table.
00:10:08.160 And I like that frame.
00:10:12.020 You saw Greg Gutfeld
00:10:13.120 uses that a lot as well,
00:10:15.920 because I really think
00:10:17.140 it captures it.
00:10:18.620 The adults have to make decisions
00:10:20.440 about who lives and dies,
00:10:21.620 and there's just no way around it.
00:10:23.200 But for the kids' table
00:10:24.860 to claim that the adults
00:10:26.620 are being callous,
00:10:28.480 it's anything but that.
00:10:29.720 And it's way more ridiculous
00:10:33.000 when Democrats accuse Republicans
00:10:37.400 of callousness about life.
00:10:39.820 Do I even need to finish the sentence?
00:10:42.720 I mean, think of the ridiculousness.
00:10:44.700 All right, my cat's really
00:10:45.940 starting to be a problem now.
00:10:48.260 She only wants to stand
00:10:49.280 between me and the iPad.
00:10:51.100 You'll see her little hat in a minute.
00:10:54.140 But as long as the issue of abortion
00:10:57.020 is still a gigantic national issue,
00:11:00.880 it's hard to say
00:11:02.540 that it's the Republicans
00:11:03.620 who are callous about life.
00:11:05.380 Now, I'm not giving you an opinion.
00:11:06.780 I'm not giving you my opinion
00:11:07.880 on an abortion.
00:11:08.660 You already know
00:11:09.280 that my opinion is
00:11:10.580 women should work it out,
00:11:12.040 and they can tell me
00:11:13.140 what they want the law to be,
00:11:14.620 and I will just support
00:11:15.620 whatever women want.
00:11:17.720 I just think women
00:11:18.480 should decide on abortion laws.
00:11:21.980 That's just my personal opinion.
00:11:23.260 You can vote.
00:11:23.960 You can do anything you want.
00:11:24.940 I'm not telling you
00:11:26.400 that you shouldn't.
00:11:28.040 I'm just saying that
00:11:28.860 personally,
00:11:30.040 I don't have anything
00:11:30.800 to add to the conversation.
00:11:32.040 I would rather keep
00:11:32.780 my opinion out of it.
00:11:34.720 And if women collectively
00:11:35.920 want the abortion law
00:11:37.760 to be one way or the other,
00:11:39.160 I don't have anything
00:11:40.500 to add to that.
00:11:41.600 But I'll support their decision.
00:11:44.020 All right.
00:11:46.640 So that's just going to bother me,
00:11:48.980 the whole callousness argument.
00:11:50.360 That's really the enemy
00:11:51.460 of the people situation.
00:11:52.500 Because to the extent
00:11:53.880 that it handicaps
00:11:55.660 the leaders
00:11:56.320 who have to make
00:11:57.160 the adult decision,
00:11:58.640 they don't have an option.
00:12:00.740 It's not like the leaders
00:12:01.600 have an option.
00:12:02.820 They've got to make
00:12:03.520 a tough decision.
00:12:04.740 Lots of them.
00:12:06.000 All right.
00:12:07.920 Some Canadian doctors
00:12:09.380 have did a little write-up
00:12:11.460 in which,
00:12:12.040 in their opinion,
00:12:13.480 the spread of COVID-19
00:12:14.880 is entirely from droplets,
00:12:17.640 meaning it comes out of your mouth
00:12:20.000 and falls on a surface.
00:12:22.220 So in their opinion,
00:12:23.440 there's so little chance,
00:12:25.900 it's just completely unrealistic,
00:12:27.740 that it's going to travel
00:12:28.760 through the air
00:12:29.560 for much of anything.
00:12:31.280 It's not really aerosoled
00:12:33.100 unless you're in
00:12:33.780 a very unique situation,
00:12:36.060 like a medical situation
00:12:37.260 where it actually gets aerosoled.
00:12:39.140 But in the normal life,
00:12:40.560 these Canadian doctors say
00:12:41.900 that you could almost
00:12:43.240 ignore the risk
00:12:44.580 of it traveling
00:12:46.040 through the air.
00:12:47.100 In other words,
00:12:48.360 if you were super,
00:12:49.980 super careful
00:12:50.620 about not touching objects
00:12:52.700 and also careful
00:12:55.900 about disinfecting,
00:12:57.380 and you were super careful
00:12:58.480 about not touching your face,
00:13:01.120 then you'd probably be fine.
00:13:03.260 Which is interesting
00:13:04.440 because what it suggests
00:13:07.520 is that there might be
00:13:09.480 some better thing
00:13:10.460 than a mask.
00:13:12.720 I've actually considered
00:13:13.880 the thought
00:13:14.380 of tying something to my,
00:13:16.360 oh, here's an idea.
00:13:17.840 Have a wristband.
00:13:19.820 Have a little wristband
00:13:21.020 that can tell
00:13:21.940 when your arm
00:13:23.340 is as high as your neck.
00:13:25.860 Because during the day,
00:13:27.120 you've probably seen me
00:13:28.200 touch my face 15 times
00:13:29.660 on Periscope
00:13:31.740 already this morning.
00:13:32.920 It's sort of automatic.
00:13:34.980 But what if
00:13:35.540 every time you raised your hand,
00:13:37.480 your arm buzzed
00:13:39.400 and you'd be like,
00:13:41.140 oh,
00:13:42.920 oh,
00:13:44.740 oh,
00:13:45.060 oh.
00:13:46.160 I think,
00:13:46.980 I think that very quickly
00:13:48.340 you would train yourself
00:13:49.500 not to do it.
00:13:50.580 Now, my problem,
00:13:51.280 of course,
00:13:51.520 is I get itches,
00:13:52.720 especially when I'm on camera.
00:13:54.460 Whenever I'm on camera,
00:13:55.620 my face itches,
00:13:56.860 especially when I think
00:13:57.780 I'm not supposed
00:13:58.340 to be touching it.
00:13:59.340 So that's why
00:14:00.040 I use my,
00:14:00.620 my back scratcher
00:14:01.960 to take care of that.
00:14:04.100 I'm starting to think
00:14:08.040 that the business model
00:14:11.120 or the nature of news
00:14:12.560 and how you get it
00:14:13.700 is going through
00:14:14.900 an interesting transformation
00:14:17.400 right now.
00:14:18.660 So the old news was
00:14:20.320 you got your news networks,
00:14:21.900 your news organizations,
00:14:23.680 but it seems to be now
00:14:24.980 that we're sort of,
00:14:26.600 especially with this
00:14:27.540 coronavirus stuff,
00:14:29.160 it feels like there are
00:14:30.400 individuals on social media
00:14:32.060 who are becoming
00:14:33.580 news channels themselves.
00:14:36.180 So you've seen this
00:14:37.220 with the coronavirus
00:14:37.920 where people will
00:14:39.080 become sort of
00:14:40.440 a prominent Twitter account
00:14:42.240 for doing a good job
00:14:44.420 of surfacing,
00:14:46.140 you know,
00:14:46.440 information and arguments.
00:14:48.420 And I feel like that
00:14:49.620 in some way
00:14:51.500 I kind of fell into that
00:14:52.620 because it's the topic
00:14:54.140 of the day,
00:14:54.600 so I do a lot of tweeting on it.
00:14:56.040 But I realize that
00:14:56.980 if I do a good job
00:14:58.260 of taking other people's
00:14:59.660 suggestions of,
00:15:01.260 you know,
00:15:01.380 this is a good article
00:15:02.360 or this is a good tweet,
00:15:04.020 and if I do a good job
00:15:05.560 of just curating
00:15:06.600 the information
00:15:07.960 that people are sending
00:15:08.860 to me,
00:15:09.740 that I become like
00:15:10.760 a little news channel.
00:15:12.660 So reading my Twitter feed
00:15:14.560 would give you
00:15:15.220 an angle on the news
00:15:17.540 that I've curated
00:15:18.640 to be reliable
00:15:19.860 or provocative
00:15:20.660 or, you know,
00:15:22.280 just something
00:15:22.720 that I'm looking for
00:15:23.400 some experts
00:15:23.960 to weigh in on.
00:15:24.740 and I think
00:15:26.920 we're heading
00:15:27.280 toward a model
00:15:28.520 where the major
00:15:30.840 news organizations
00:15:31.880 largely just tell you
00:15:33.660 what the topic is.
00:15:35.560 And then once they've said,
00:15:36.660 okay,
00:15:36.860 what we're talking about
00:15:37.760 is this story,
00:15:39.500 I think social media
00:15:40.720 is going to become
00:15:41.560 sort of the detailed
00:15:42.980 news channels
00:15:44.860 where you say,
00:15:45.460 okay,
00:15:46.220 there's a story about that.
00:15:47.300 Who on social media
00:15:48.780 is going to be good
00:15:50.160 at curating that stuff?
00:15:51.880 And then you go find them
00:15:52.820 and say, all right,
00:15:53.400 I'll do a deep dive on this.
00:15:55.300 You know,
00:15:55.480 let's say it's a story
00:15:57.560 about some military thing.
00:16:00.600 There's probably
00:16:01.240 a retired general
00:16:02.160 with a good Twitter account.
00:16:04.280 So you say,
00:16:04.980 oh, it's one of those stories.
00:16:06.160 Go to the Twitter account
00:16:07.040 and then that's your news channel.
00:16:08.560 It's whoever curates that news.
00:16:15.200 So remember I keep telling you
00:16:16.800 that you should forget
00:16:18.400 about testing to save us.
00:16:20.740 Now, it's not that we won't
00:16:21.780 someday have enough testing
00:16:23.380 to do anything we want
00:16:24.660 because it is increasing
00:16:26.320 in ability all the time.
00:16:28.120 But it won't happen fast enough
00:16:30.200 that we can wait for it.
00:16:32.600 So that was the main point
00:16:33.840 is that it's way slower
00:16:35.560 than you think.
00:16:36.800 It's way worse than you think.
00:16:38.980 Testing isn't going to save you.
00:16:40.740 So CNN had some good points
00:16:42.400 on that to reiterate that point.
00:16:45.220 You've heard about
00:16:45.860 the highly touted Abbott system
00:16:48.240 that can rapidly,
00:16:50.700 you know,
00:16:50.980 it's like a laboratory in a box
00:16:52.360 and it can rapidly
00:16:53.100 give you a result
00:16:53.960 in minutes.
00:16:55.500 So when you heard that,
00:16:56.580 you said to yourself,
00:16:57.400 whoa,
00:16:58.720 there are these devices
00:17:00.060 that are already
00:17:00.840 in lots of places
00:17:01.800 so you don't even have
00:17:03.220 to buy them.
00:17:04.300 They're already
00:17:04.860 in lots of places
00:17:05.620 and you can do a test
00:17:07.180 with those existing devices
00:17:08.880 in minutes.
00:17:11.060 That's like a big deal, right?
00:17:12.440 But you can have
00:17:15.700 up to a 15% 1.5
00:17:18.280 false negative rate.
00:17:21.140 And one test showed
00:17:22.800 up to a 25%
00:17:24.320 false negative rate.
00:17:26.260 Meaning that you can
00:17:27.440 miss a diagnosis
00:17:29.460 up to one in four times.
00:17:32.520 That's not so good.
00:17:34.460 Secondly,
00:17:36.260 it can take most of the tests,
00:17:38.300 the other kind of tests
00:17:39.440 that are not the ones
00:17:41.080 you do in a few minutes.
00:17:42.340 They might be a little
00:17:43.000 more accurate,
00:17:43.680 but it takes days
00:17:44.340 to get your results back.
00:17:46.580 Days.
00:17:47.780 Meanwhile,
00:17:48.360 you might be wandering around
00:17:49.520 infecting everybody you know.
00:17:51.500 So those are really
00:17:52.900 big problems.
00:17:54.780 And I just wanted
00:17:56.720 to give you that update
00:17:57.480 because I just don't
00:17:58.900 think we should...
00:18:00.400 It's the kids' table
00:18:02.840 who keeps saying,
00:18:04.220 well,
00:18:04.840 why don't we do
00:18:05.440 more testing?
00:18:07.040 And it's the adult table
00:18:08.160 saying,
00:18:09.160 you know,
00:18:09.700 we'd be doing that
00:18:10.640 if we could.
00:18:12.060 It's hard.
00:18:13.460 We don't...
00:18:14.100 We can't instantly
00:18:15.040 scale up.
00:18:16.700 I mean,
00:18:16.880 there are a lot of companies
00:18:17.780 working really hard
00:18:19.120 and a lot of money,
00:18:20.460 a lot of attention.
00:18:21.520 It's probably
00:18:21.820 a top national priority.
00:18:24.060 Everything that can be done
00:18:25.540 probably is being done.
00:18:28.100 I doubt there's anything
00:18:29.160 being left on the table
00:18:30.680 when it comes to
00:18:31.500 getting testing
00:18:32.120 up and running.
00:18:33.180 But the kids' table is,
00:18:34.760 I've got an idea.
00:18:36.420 Has anybody thought
00:18:37.400 of doing more testing?
00:18:38.580 Because I read that
00:18:39.880 somewhere,
00:18:40.260 that's good.
00:18:41.220 So if we're not
00:18:42.320 doing that,
00:18:42.760 we must be all idiots.
00:18:44.720 So that's the news
00:18:45.680 from the kids' tables
00:18:46.500 that nobody thought
00:18:47.260 of testing.
00:18:50.400 Have you wondered,
00:18:51.500 as I have,
00:18:52.540 what was the problem
00:18:53.500 that Obama had
00:18:54.580 with General Flynn?
00:18:57.420 Have you...
00:18:58.580 Somebody says,
00:19:01.400 you are mistaken.
00:19:04.580 You can give a reason.
00:19:05.800 Just don't say
00:19:06.620 you are mistaken.
00:19:08.240 I block people for that.
00:19:10.340 You might be new.
00:19:12.120 So I saw for the first time
00:19:14.800 a little bit of a teaser
00:19:18.240 for what problem
00:19:20.180 Obama had with Flynn.
00:19:21.540 How many of you know
00:19:22.460 why Obama specifically
00:19:24.900 warned Trump
00:19:25.960 not to hire Flynn?
00:19:27.860 I think he was the only person
00:19:29.300 that Obama called out
00:19:30.340 specifically.
00:19:31.540 There's just one person.
00:19:32.540 There's only one person.
00:19:38.340 And somebody says
00:19:40.240 the Iran deal.
00:19:41.840 Maybe that's what
00:19:42.900 Flynn was fired for.
00:19:45.700 So here are the things
00:19:47.120 in the CNN article.
00:19:51.080 There's one reference
00:19:52.180 to crazy ideas.
00:19:54.580 That Flynn had,
00:19:55.620 quote,
00:19:55.720 crazy ideas.
00:19:56.660 I don't know what they were.
00:19:58.100 There's a reference
00:19:58.860 to Flynn having
00:20:00.040 aggressive stance
00:20:01.600 on combating
00:20:02.380 Islamic terrorism.
00:20:04.400 Now,
00:20:04.680 is his aggressive stance
00:20:06.220 on combating
00:20:06.940 Islamic terrorism,
00:20:08.700 is that the category
00:20:09.780 in which he had
00:20:10.500 the, quote,
00:20:11.040 crazy ideas?
00:20:13.360 And what about,
00:20:14.200 and there was also
00:20:14.740 a reference to
00:20:15.460 insubordination
00:20:16.500 in the Obama administration.
00:20:19.860 Was Flynn
00:20:20.480 insubordinate
00:20:21.360 because he disagreed?
00:20:23.520 Was it insubordinate
00:20:24.600 on specifically
00:20:25.540 the Islamic extremism?
00:20:27.840 What does that mean
00:20:30.440 in subordination?
00:20:32.400 And then,
00:20:32.960 I guess he also
00:20:33.840 was criticizing
00:20:34.780 Obama policy.
00:20:36.900 So,
00:20:37.420 obviously,
00:20:38.640 somebody that Trump
00:20:39.600 would say,
00:20:40.540 he's perfect for my team,
00:20:42.560 it seems unlikely
00:20:43.420 that he would also
00:20:44.320 be perfect for Obama's team.
00:20:47.180 Somebody's saying
00:20:47.900 he was against
00:20:48.480 the Iran deal.
00:20:49.700 Now,
00:20:49.860 isn't that interesting
00:20:50.600 that you think,
00:20:52.560 I'm not saying you're wrong
00:20:53.540 because that sounds
00:20:54.240 quite reasonable.
00:20:55.460 Isn't it interesting
00:20:56.160 that those of you
00:20:57.260 who follow the news,
00:20:58.940 probably more conservatives
00:21:00.180 on this audience
00:21:01.880 than other,
00:21:03.520 that you knew that.
00:21:05.980 And I think you're
00:21:06.620 probably right.
00:21:07.400 I'd have to fact check that.
00:21:08.800 But you knew that
00:21:09.720 it was about the Iran deal.
00:21:11.820 But yet,
00:21:12.300 when I read CNN
00:21:13.080 and I was looking
00:21:13.780 for details,
00:21:15.600 I didn't see Iran mentioned.
00:21:17.740 It was just
00:21:18.300 Islamic extremism.
00:21:22.340 All right.
00:21:22.640 So,
00:21:24.920 I'm still curious
00:21:26.340 what the exact
00:21:27.440 point of concern was.
00:21:34.260 Obama could not count
00:21:35.680 on Flynn's loyalty.
00:21:37.800 But that wouldn't be
00:21:38.620 a reason for him
00:21:39.460 to warn Trump
00:21:41.520 not to use Flynn.
00:21:43.980 Yeah,
00:21:44.620 then there's also
00:21:45.640 the theory,
00:21:46.300 I think this is just
00:21:47.180 unconservative news,
00:21:49.200 the theory that
00:21:50.020 Flynn
00:21:50.640 Flynn would have
00:21:52.440 seen all the secrets.
00:21:53.840 So if Flynn had
00:21:54.500 gotten the top job,
00:21:56.000 he would have access
00:21:57.020 to all the
00:21:57.820 top secret information
00:21:59.280 and he would uncover
00:22:00.640 all this bad stuff.
00:22:02.080 Here's what's wrong
00:22:02.880 with that theory.
00:22:05.120 Whoever got the job
00:22:06.300 would have been able
00:22:07.200 to do that.
00:22:09.060 How does that make sense?
00:22:10.580 Do we think that
00:22:11.440 Flynn would be
00:22:12.100 the one person
00:22:12.980 who would look
00:22:14.140 into it deeply
00:22:14.840 once he had
00:22:15.620 all that access?
00:22:17.320 I don't think so.
00:22:18.360 wouldn't literally
00:22:19.960 anybody who got
00:22:20.880 that job
00:22:21.400 look into everything?
00:22:23.780 It seems to me
00:22:24.440 that whoever had
00:22:25.060 the job was going
00:22:25.760 to look into
00:22:26.220 the whole
00:22:26.640 Russia collusion
00:22:28.160 origin.
00:22:29.980 It was going to
00:22:30.420 happen no matter
00:22:30.940 what.
00:22:31.080 In fact,
00:22:31.460 it did.
00:22:32.500 So we didn't
00:22:33.780 have Flynn there
00:22:34.720 and the exact thing
00:22:36.820 that some of you
00:22:37.480 think they were
00:22:38.060 worried about
00:22:38.720 was that Flynn
00:22:39.900 would research
00:22:40.620 what was happening.
00:22:42.080 That's exactly
00:22:42.720 what happened.
00:22:43.400 There was no Flynn
00:22:44.120 but you get
00:22:45.620 your Attorney
00:22:46.080 General Barr
00:22:46.900 and you get
00:22:47.400 basically it
00:22:48.960 happened anyway.
00:22:50.060 So I'm not
00:22:50.640 really buying
00:22:51.580 the argument
00:22:53.040 that the Obama
00:22:54.680 administration
00:22:55.280 wanted to get
00:22:55.900 rid of Flynn
00:22:56.540 just for that
00:22:59.460 reason.
00:23:00.140 All right.
00:23:02.120 Because that
00:23:02.780 doesn't make sense.
00:23:03.660 All right.
00:23:06.980 That's about
00:23:07.820 all I had to
00:23:09.240 talk about today
00:23:10.040 because I didn't
00:23:11.400 have much going
00:23:11.980 on.
00:23:12.280 Just making
00:23:14.480 sure.
00:23:16.580 Yes, that's
00:23:17.180 true.
00:23:19.960 Flynn knew
00:23:20.580 everything.
00:23:21.280 Wasn't Flynn
00:23:21.880 undercover?
00:23:22.760 I don't know
00:23:23.120 if he was
00:23:23.440 undercover.
00:23:26.080 Talking point.
00:23:27.100 Flynn was an
00:23:27.820 agent of Turkey.
00:23:29.420 Yeah, what's
00:23:29.960 up with that?
00:23:30.560 That feels like
00:23:31.360 another case of
00:23:32.740 fake news,
00:23:33.440 right?
00:23:34.100 Because the
00:23:34.540 Turkey situation,
00:23:36.440 I believe we
00:23:37.540 know that Flynn
00:23:38.400 was getting paid
00:23:39.200 by somebody in
00:23:40.200 Turkey to do
00:23:40.940 some kind of
00:23:41.520 advising.
00:23:42.280 But if you
00:23:43.720 don't know the
00:23:44.260 real details of
00:23:45.220 that, do you
00:23:45.820 know anything?
00:23:47.060 Because that's
00:23:47.500 not the sort of
00:23:49.600 story that if
00:23:51.140 you know most
00:23:51.820 of it, that you
00:23:52.780 know anything.
00:23:54.300 Because first of
00:23:55.140 all, Turkey is a
00:23:56.860 NATO ally.
00:23:58.980 So is there
00:23:59.960 necessarily
00:24:00.980 anything wrong
00:24:02.040 with a retired
00:24:03.700 general working
00:24:06.220 for or advising
00:24:07.480 or even lobbying
00:24:09.240 for a NATO
00:24:10.680 ally?
00:24:11.080 Well, as long
00:24:12.160 as we know
00:24:12.580 it's happening,
00:24:13.140 I suppose it's
00:24:13.660 okay.
00:24:14.140 So if there's
00:24:14.580 some issue
00:24:14.960 there, that
00:24:15.960 would be
00:24:16.340 separate, I
00:24:17.080 guess.
00:24:20.240 Lots of
00:24:20.840 evidence coming
00:24:21.460 out on
00:24:22.140 Obama now,
00:24:23.260 somebody says.
00:24:26.020 So he
00:24:26.580 says, Scott,
00:24:27.040 it was because
00:24:27.520 he knew the
00:24:28.000 DOG and
00:24:28.700 IC were
00:24:29.260 corrupted.
00:24:30.140 But my
00:24:30.560 point is,
00:24:31.320 no matter who
00:24:32.060 went into that
00:24:32.680 job, would
00:24:33.420 have looked
00:24:33.740 into it.
00:24:34.180 It just, it
00:24:35.820 doesn't seem
00:24:36.760 like the
00:24:38.000 FBI could
00:24:39.580 have reasonably
00:24:40.120 thought that
00:24:41.600 Flynn was the
00:24:42.300 only risk and
00:24:43.860 that you have
00:24:44.320 to take him
00:24:44.800 out.
00:24:44.960 It seemed
00:24:45.180 like a big
00:24:45.680 play to
00:24:47.000 take on a
00:24:47.560 guy who
00:24:48.100 would probably
00:24:48.420 just be
00:24:48.780 replaced by
00:24:49.480 somebody else
00:24:50.140 who would
00:24:50.340 do the
00:24:50.580 same thing.
00:24:55.320 Clapper's
00:24:55.840 sworn testimony
00:24:56.660 and transcripts
00:24:57.660 contradicts his
00:24:58.720 sworn live
00:24:59.580 congressional
00:25:00.140 testimony,
00:25:00.860 somebody says.
00:25:02.220 I'll bet
00:25:02.520 not.
00:25:03.840 I'll bet
00:25:04.460 not.
00:25:05.360 I'll bet
00:25:05.820 if you
00:25:06.140 looked at
00:25:06.720 what Clapper
00:25:08.500 said in
00:25:08.980 public and
00:25:10.360 then compared
00:25:10.900 it really
00:25:11.500 word for
00:25:12.040 word closely
00:25:12.780 with what
00:25:13.900 he said
00:25:14.300 under oath,
00:25:15.440 I don't
00:25:16.400 think you're
00:25:16.900 going to
00:25:17.020 find the
00:25:17.380 difference
00:25:17.760 that you
00:25:18.120 hope.
00:25:19.660 Because when
00:25:20.760 he's talking
00:25:21.220 on TV,
00:25:23.020 he can say
00:25:23.680 things such
00:25:24.340 as, well,
00:25:25.100 you know,
00:25:25.720 Don Jr.
00:25:26.360 went to a
00:25:26.800 meeting and
00:25:28.200 Trump did
00:25:29.380 say in
00:25:29.800 public,
00:25:30.360 hey,
00:25:30.580 Russia,
00:25:31.020 help us
00:25:31.400 out.
00:25:32.240 So he
00:25:32.840 can say,
00:25:33.440 I was
00:25:33.760 talking about
00:25:34.260 those things.
00:25:35.420 And you
00:25:35.760 know those
00:25:36.160 things happened.
00:25:36.900 You're
00:25:37.140 watching the
00:25:37.560 same news
00:25:37.960 I am.
00:25:38.720 So yeah,
00:25:39.400 I thought
00:25:40.120 there was
00:25:40.360 some evidence.
00:25:41.140 I saw it.
00:25:42.020 You saw
00:25:42.400 the same
00:25:42.740 thing.
00:25:43.660 So I
00:25:44.300 think all
00:25:44.820 he has
00:25:45.060 to do
00:25:45.260 is say
00:25:45.500 that.
00:25:46.560 And I
00:25:46.920 doubt
00:25:47.400 there's
00:25:48.820 much there
00:25:49.680 that would
00:25:50.700 really,
00:25:51.220 he probably
00:25:51.620 hedged
00:25:52.060 himself just
00:25:53.200 about right,
00:25:53.860 is my
00:25:54.180 guess.
00:25:55.240 So I'd
00:25:55.900 be surprised
00:25:56.420 if he's
00:25:56.840 in legal
00:25:57.240 trouble.
00:25:57.560 if you
00:26:00.300 take out
00:26:00.660 the
00:26:00.860 Logan Act,
00:26:01.620 you have
00:26:01.840 nothing.
00:26:02.300 Yeah,
00:26:02.500 that whole
00:26:02.840 Logan Act
00:26:03.420 thing was
00:26:04.660 so lame.
00:26:07.060 The thought
00:26:07.560 that the
00:26:08.000 incoming
00:26:08.560 administration
00:26:09.500 couldn't have
00:26:10.800 a brief
00:26:11.220 conversation
00:26:11.880 with the
00:26:12.280 people
00:26:12.500 they'll
00:26:12.720 be
00:26:12.900 negotiating
00:26:13.460 with
00:26:13.800 in a
00:26:14.020 few
00:26:14.140 months.
00:26:15.480 That is
00:26:17.140 as big
00:26:18.100 a flag
00:26:18.680 as you
00:26:19.060 could have
00:26:19.640 for,
00:26:21.640 it's as
00:26:22.760 big a
00:26:23.020 flag as
00:26:23.340 you could
00:26:23.540 have
00:26:23.720 for
00:26:23.860 somebody.
00:26:26.320 Anyway.
00:26:31.120 But nobody
00:26:31.920 did until
00:26:32.420 Barr.
00:26:33.560 Trump was
00:26:34.120 almost taken
00:26:34.740 down.
00:26:35.680 Yeah,
00:26:35.940 I suppose
00:26:36.260 you could
00:26:36.600 argue that
00:26:37.260 Trump was
00:26:39.220 almost taken
00:26:39.940 down.
00:26:41.880 Ah,
00:26:43.040 so somebody
00:26:43.620 says no,
00:26:44.220 he was
00:26:44.460 replaced by
00:26:45.180 McMaster,
00:26:46.560 who someone
00:26:47.080 says is a
00:26:47.760 deep stater.
00:26:48.440 All right,
00:26:48.920 good point.
00:26:50.240 But how
00:26:51.560 did that
00:26:51.880 happen?
00:26:53.240 How did
00:26:53.660 that happen
00:26:54.580 that somebody
00:26:55.160 who was
00:26:55.720 not going
00:26:57.640 to be
00:26:57.940 helpful
00:26:58.280 got that
00:26:59.060 job?
00:27:00.300 I guess
00:27:00.660 Trump had
00:27:01.320 a lot of
00:27:01.740 jobs to
00:27:03.000 fill about
00:27:03.420 that time.
00:27:07.440 Scott is
00:27:08.200 woefully
00:27:08.620 behind on
00:27:09.380 Obamagate.
00:27:11.880 Well,
00:27:12.940 I don't
00:27:13.260 know if
00:27:13.520 I'm
00:27:13.680 behind or
00:27:14.820 if I'm
00:27:15.400 not making
00:27:16.220 the same
00:27:16.820 leaps of
00:27:17.500 assumption
00:27:17.900 that other
00:27:18.520 people were
00:27:18.940 making.
00:27:19.720 I mean,
00:27:19.980 I know
00:27:20.180 what the
00:27:20.440 transcript
00:27:20.840 says.
00:27:21.440 I know
00:27:21.660 Obama was
00:27:24.080 aware of
00:27:25.160 the Flynn
00:27:25.880 wiretapping,
00:27:27.800 but that's
00:27:28.700 all we
00:27:28.980 know.
00:27:31.160 What was
00:27:31.840 the name
00:27:32.140 of the
00:27:32.340 book you
00:27:32.700 suggested
00:27:33.180 about
00:27:33.560 colonial
00:27:34.120 America?
00:27:36.540 I can't
00:27:37.720 remember the
00:27:38.260 name of it
00:27:38.740 right now,
00:27:39.540 and I can't
00:27:40.000 see my
00:27:40.340 bookshelf.
00:27:41.880 It wasn't
00:27:45.480 under oath
00:27:45.940 in public,
00:27:46.520 so it
00:27:46.760 doesn't
00:27:47.000 matter.
00:27:47.380 That is
00:27:47.660 correct.
00:27:48.120 It doesn't
00:27:48.440 matter what
00:27:48.800 he said
00:27:49.060 in public
00:27:49.520 if you're
00:27:51.400 not under
00:27:51.820 oath.
00:27:55.260 All right.
00:27:56.920 Oh, they
00:27:57.420 were all
00:27:57.700 claiming access
00:27:58.360 to secret
00:27:58.960 evidence on
00:27:59.640 TV.
00:28:00.400 Well, that's
00:28:00.740 the point,
00:28:01.140 though.
00:28:01.260 It doesn't
00:28:01.560 matter what
00:28:01.900 he said
00:28:02.160 on TV.
00:28:02.620 I would
00:28:07.420 like to
00:28:07.720 see a
00:28:08.060 clip of
00:28:09.840 the things
00:28:10.320 that
00:28:10.540 Clapper
00:28:10.900 said on
00:28:11.400 TV that
00:28:13.260 we know
00:28:14.260 to be
00:28:14.640 false now.
00:28:15.500 I haven't
00:28:15.920 seen that.
00:28:16.680 Have you?
00:28:17.860 It seems
00:28:18.500 like somebody
00:28:19.000 is probably
00:28:19.280 working on
00:28:19.720 a compilation.
00:28:24.320 Did I
00:28:26.840 post a
00:28:27.280 picture of
00:28:27.760 the white
00:28:28.080 board from
00:28:28.500 last night?
00:28:29.060 I did,
00:28:29.540 yes.
00:28:29.860 you can
00:28:31.440 see that
00:28:31.820 on YouTube.
00:28:33.700 So, if
00:28:34.220 you go to
00:28:34.500 YouTube, or
00:28:35.140 I think, I'm
00:28:36.860 not sure if
00:28:37.300 the podcast
00:28:37.780 has that, it
00:28:38.980 might, but
00:28:39.920 if you go to
00:28:40.260 YouTube, you
00:28:40.700 should be
00:28:40.960 able to see
00:28:41.740 the photos.
00:28:49.440 All right.
00:28:50.340 I don't have
00:28:50.920 much else.
00:28:52.420 And I
00:28:52.780 will talk
00:28:53.840 to you
00:28:54.260 tonight.
00:28:57.160 Tonight.
00:28:58.180 I'll talk
00:28:58.540 to you
00:28:58.720 tonight.
00:28:59.040 See you
00:28:59.940 there.