Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 10, 2020


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


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

148.23456

Word Count

4,299

Sentence Count

313

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

13


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.
00:00:03.780 Bum-bum-bum-bum.
00:00:06.960 Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum.
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.