Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 992 Scott Adams： I Put on my Angry Pope Hat and Make Rulings About Churches, Pharma, News Business and More

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00:00:13.420 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams. Yeah, yeah.

00:00:22.340 Somebody says they sense cussing today. Well there would be cussing. There would be under normal

00:00:29.160 circumstances. But today I'll be putting on the Pope hat and making some judgments, so

00:00:36.280 today will be a more solemn affair. But first, we must enjoy the simple pleasure of this

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00:00:51.120 a chaliser, a cyan, a canteen, a drinker, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with

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00:01:01.840 dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including the damn pandemic. It's 0.99

00:01:08.040 called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Let me start with a confession. Are

00:01:21.980 you ready? It's a medical confession. Last night on Periscope, people asked me why I

00:01:29.280 kept whistling when I'm talking, and you're probably going to hear it again today. And

00:01:35.980 so many people mentioned it, and they were worried that I had an asthma wheeze, or that

00:01:42.180 my nose was whistling, or something. So let me tell you what it was, just to get it off

00:01:50.000 of your mind, okay? You will probably hear it again today. I was back on prednisone for

00:01:58.020 last week or so because of the sinus problem. So it clears up my sinuses. And what happens

00:02:05.120 is that my speech production changes completely. So the process of producing speech, which actually

00:02:15.080 involves your old cranium situation, is a bit off right now, because at the moment I'm

00:02:21.300 tapering off. So last night people were asking me on Periscope, are you stoned? What's wrong

00:02:26.960 with you? And what was wrong with me is that I'm just on the tapering off part of the prednisone.

00:02:32.680 When you're in the middle of it, it's sort of like a superpower. It just creates a just

00:02:42.580 incredible energy and focus, and you can just do anything. Physically and mentally, you're

00:02:48.900 just operating at about 30% better for about a week. So I used that time when I knew I would

00:02:55.280 be operating at a higher level to get a bunch of stuff done. So whenever I've got a problem,

00:03:00.140 I always say, all right, I've got a problem. I have to stay home for a month or whatever

00:03:05.640 the problem is. How can I make something out of that? And then you figure out what can you

00:03:10.520 do that you wouldn't have done before, staying home for a month. So the prednisone I knew

00:03:15.420 was going to screw me up, it basically turns you into a different person for a while. And

00:03:20.800 it's really freaky, because you are a different person. I mean, your personality changes.

00:03:26.620 You know, I warn Christina, so she knows what's coming. You get more aggressive, definitely

00:03:32.680 more aggressive. I'll tell you the weirdest thing about the prednisone. You lose all fear.

00:03:42.800 And you don't realize it's gone until one day you think to yourself, huh, when was the last

00:03:49.500 time I worried about anything? It's just gone. All of your fear. Now, I'm not saying that you

00:03:55.500 should take it, of course, obviously. You know, this is a doctor-prescribed drug, and

00:04:00.540 it's pretty dangerous stuff. If you take it too long, you get in real trouble. But the

00:04:05.760 experience of taking it for a very short time is really mind-altering forever. It's mind-altering

00:04:14.400 in the sense that you get to experience living in another person's life for a week, because

00:04:19.620 you really do live in another person's life, in which you're more angry, but you're not

00:04:26.480 afraid of anything. So it's pretty dangerous. I mean, it would be really easy to imagine

00:04:31.620 that you could get in a fight. You know, I probably wouldn't get in a fight, but it's

00:04:35.380 easy to imagine somebody could get in a fight like that. So I took advantage of it to do a

00:04:41.340 whole bunch of work that I wouldn't have gotten done otherwise. Man, was I productive. Oh my

00:04:48.340 God. The ability to focus? Incredible. The ability to work out? Incredible. So, you know, you saw

00:04:58.200 my photos in which I was showing my, you know, my muscle growth during the pandemic. And some

00:05:05.680 of that, I think, is because it was easier to work out, you know, just on the prednisone.

00:05:09.740 Anyway, so if you hear that whistle, it's not my asthma. It's just my speech production

00:05:16.700 is temporarily a little weird. Let's talk about the news. FBI Director Ray has launched an

00:05:28.240 internal review of Michael Flynn investigation, to which all of us said, what?

00:05:35.680 What? Are you kidding me? That the FBI Director did not already have an internal review of

00:05:44.820 the Flynn situation? What? It sounds like the news that you think couldn't possibly be news.

00:05:55.880 When I read this, I kept reading it thinking, did I just travel back to the past? Are you

00:06:02.260 telling me that Ray didn't already have an internal review? Doesn't he need to get fired

00:06:08.220 just for that? Do you have any confidence in Director Ray when you find out that he just

00:06:16.000 started a review? And where the hell has he been? Shouldn't that guy be all over the news

00:06:21.780 explaining stuff? I feel like he's got a lot to explain. So he might have perfectly good

00:06:28.440 reasons for why he didn't do it. And one of those perfectly good reasons might be that

00:06:33.480 someone else was doing it for him. So maybe he didn't need to do anything if other people

00:06:39.600 were doing the work, Durham or somebody, the IG. So he might have a good excuse, but wouldn't

00:06:48.160 you like to hear it? Wouldn't you like to know why you waited? So I would say this gives me

00:06:55.160 zero confidence in the FBI. Now, of course, the FBI had a credibility problem because of

00:07:04.300 everything from the fake Russia collusion hoax, etc. But if you assume that the biggest job

00:07:14.280 of the Director of the FBI is to return them to credibility, could you say that the guy who's

00:07:21.720 not showing up on TV is doing that? It feels like he's not. So I would say I would put a

00:07:29.960 question mark on that. So I'm not going to say he's doing a bad job or that he needs to

00:07:35.080 be fired. But I can say that the job he's done so far does not give me confidence. And I would

00:07:41.680 think that would be job one would be to give you confidence. And he, just for myself, don't

00:07:48.020 have it. Here's the most interesting data that I would like to have about the coronavirus

00:07:53.660 that I don't think I'm going to get. But I really, really want this data. So there's

00:07:58.740 a story about a woman who cut hair, I think at Supercuts or someplace, and had cut 81 customer's

00:08:07.260 hairs after she had symptoms. Now, I don't know why she kept cutting hair when she had symptoms. 1.00

00:08:13.860 I assume she needed the money, which is tragic in its own way. But she cut 81 customers'

00:08:22.900 hair. So they're doing the contact tracing, and apparently she had really good records.

00:08:28.420 So this is the interesting part. So her records were so good that people could tell exactly

00:08:34.660 who she spent, however long it takes to give a haircut. 20 minutes? Men's haircuts, probably. 1.00

00:08:41.220 So let's say it would last maybe 15, 20 minutes. And so there are 81 of them. Now, here's the

00:08:48.760 interesting part. Both the customers and the person cutting the hair wore masks. So you

00:08:55.440 had the two things put together, and this is what makes it interesting. The current working

00:09:02.000 presumption, subject to change, of course, from the medical community, is that wearing masks

00:09:08.840 seems to be the number one thing that helps. So they're wearing masks, the number one thing

00:09:15.340 that helps. But at the same time, the activity that they were involved in, which is close, continuous

00:09:22.120 contact of two people, is exactly the worst situation if you're trying to avoid getting the coronavirus.

00:09:29.440 So you have the worst situation, protected by the best protection, and there are 81 examples.

00:09:38.820 Don't you want to know how many of those 81 got it? That would tell you a lot, wouldn't it?

00:09:44.880 Because we're making decisions about opening retail, we're making church decisions, every other kind of decision.

00:09:50.440 wouldn't you really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really want to know how many of those 81 people caught it?

00:10:02.560 I would say that should be a national story that we should follow from beginning to end.

00:10:08.280 You know, to the extent that privacy isn't an issue, maybe it is, but I'd like to track it.

00:10:14.000 You know, two weeks from now? Can we go back two weeks from now and test every one of those 81 people?

00:10:20.160 Now, of course, it gets confused by the fact that they could be getting it from other sources as well,

00:10:25.920 so maybe there's no way to test it. I guess you'd have to test them as soon as possible.

00:10:31.160 And then, yeah, I don't know, maybe there's some way to tease out a useful number from that.

00:10:36.780 All right, so I just want to talk about this again because it's so much fun.

00:10:42.340 But giving credit to Gateway Pundit, who got it from, let's see, P.J. Gladnick at the Citizen's Free Press blog,

00:10:54.520 who found this obscure little audio from a Michael's Merconish program, I don't know what it was,

00:11:03.820 in which Amy Klobuchar had mentioned that she thinks her husband was on hydroxychloroquine

00:11:09.980 and he recovered from the coronavirus.

00:11:12.640 Now, that doesn't mean the hydroxychloroquine saved him or made a difference,

00:11:16.980 but the awkwardness that that puts her in is just sort of wonderful

00:11:22.180 because you know that she's going to be asked about it.

00:11:27.360 Now, let me take a poll here.

00:11:32.340 So, Klobuchar, of course, is in the news, primarily because she's still on the short list

00:11:37.640 for maybe vice presidential pick by Biden.

00:11:40.980 Now, do you think there's anybody except Kamala Harris who's on the short list anymore?

00:11:48.320 How many people now believe that Kamala Harris will be the vice presidential pick for Biden? 0.65

00:11:53.540 In the comments, it'll take a minute for them to catch up to real time,

00:11:58.480 but watch the comments and see how many of you think Kamala Harris is the likely vice presidential choice.

00:12:05.920 In the comments, go.

00:12:08.420 And I'll read them off for those listening to it.

00:12:10.920 Me, yes, me, me, not yet.

00:12:13.800 Harris, yes, me.

00:12:15.680 Somebody says Stacey Abrams might. 0.97

00:12:17.740 No, no, I do, me, yes.

00:12:21.760 Harris, yes, not me, yes.

00:12:24.720 Harris or Klobuchar, there is no question now for Harris.

00:12:28.760 I guess so, yep, of course, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:12:31.900 All right, so you can see now the trend.

00:12:34.420 So at least, I don't know, three quarters of you.

00:12:37.480 Oh, there's a few more no's coming in.

00:12:40.620 Oh, I'm still getting some no's on Kamala.

00:12:42.320 All right, so here's my only point.

00:12:45.640 Closer to maybe half, half or 60%, maybe, say yes for Kamala.

00:12:54.380 Check your opinion today compared to what it was two years ago

00:12:59.500 when I first started saying that Kamala Harris would be the likely presidential candidate,

00:13:07.320 not the vice presidential candidate.

00:13:09.020 But then I updated it when she withdrew.

00:13:12.580 I updated it to the idea that she would be Biden's vice presidential choice,

00:13:17.560 but really the real power behind the throne, so essentially the candidate.

00:13:25.400 Did you not watch that go from the least likely thing you ever thought would happen

00:13:30.560 to about 60% of you think it's a lock?

00:13:34.940 Did you not watch that simulation conformed to what I told you it would do for two years?

00:13:45.980 You watched reality slowly morph into the direction I told you it was going to go?

00:13:52.020 Now, if I miss this, I'm going to be really disappointed.

00:13:56.660 And I think there's at least a 50% chance that it's not Harris.

00:14:02.120 And the 50% chance is just that gigantic wild card

00:14:07.980 that nobody really is good at guessing vice presidential picks.

00:14:12.960 It's just a category of thing that's the hardest thing.

00:14:16.500 In fact, I've never gotten one right in the past.

00:14:18.980 Every time I've ever tried to guess a vice presidential pick, I've gotten it wrong.

00:14:23.980 I think 100% of the time I've been wrong.

00:14:26.720 And it's because their selection looks pretty deeply into governors

00:14:34.120 and people in important states, and then there's the vetting,

00:14:38.020 and you don't know what they found out about any particular candidate.

00:14:42.400 So in some ways, it's the most opaque thing in politics.

00:14:48.020 It's the thing you know the least about before the actual pick happens.

00:14:51.400 So I would say there's a 50% chance I'm wrong,

00:14:55.280 but to get this close and have a 50% chance of being right,

00:15:00.160 I mean, just my opinion is 50%,

00:15:01.960 that's kind of weird, isn't it?

00:15:07.440 It's kind of weird, you have to admit.

00:15:12.220 So CNN has effectively taken out Biden's Me Too accuser.

00:15:18.000 Did you know that?

00:15:20.720 Did you see all the news yesterday about Tara Reid, the accuser of Joe Biden?

00:15:27.960 No, you didn't.

00:15:29.460 You didn't see that because the story just went away.

00:15:33.340 Do you know why the story went away?

00:15:36.360 Because CNN killed it.

00:15:37.620 So not just CNN, but the anti-Trumpers,

00:15:41.900 they managed to look into the accuser, Tara Reid,

00:15:45.540 until they found out there were some discrepancies.

00:15:50.500 There was a little bit of discrepancies in her history.

00:15:54.780 It turns out that, at least this is the claim in the news,

00:15:59.440 I don't have any independent information about it.

00:16:02.500 Apparently she had claimed that she received a Bachelor's of Art degree

00:16:06.300 from Antioch University in Seattle,

00:16:08.840 but the school tells CNN that she never graduated from that university.

00:16:15.220 So the person that we would depend on for her accurate accusation against Biden,

00:16:24.540 the person we depend on to be credible, according to CNN,

00:16:30.500 lied about where she got a degree in college.

00:16:35.060 Now, would you believe anything else she said?

00:16:41.820 Nope.

00:16:42.380 Unfortunately, no.

00:16:46.480 Which doesn't mean it didn't happen.

00:16:49.680 Right?

00:16:50.160 I always have to stop and make this distinction.

00:16:53.760 You can be credible and wrong,

00:16:58.080 and you can be not credible at all in telling the truth.

00:17:02.620 So those are still possible, so I like to make that distinction.

00:17:06.280 So I would say that Tara Reid, in my personal view of things,

00:17:09.680 went from 100% credible when she first made the accusation,

00:17:16.100 because she had some contemporaneous reports where she'd mentioned it,

00:17:21.480 and it was her mom called into the Larry King show,

00:17:25.780 and it didn't look like she had a reason to lie exactly.

00:17:29.780 So on day one, completely credible.

00:17:32.960 But then you tell me that at one point in her past,

00:17:38.520 she lied about where she got her degree.

00:17:41.480 And I say to myself,

00:17:43.140 that's not a normal lie.

00:17:47.000 That's a little extra, isn't it?

00:17:49.620 Now again, I'm depending on CNN to be telling me the truth,

00:17:53.460 because I don't want to throw this poor woman under the bus 1.00

00:17:56.500 if CNN has given me fake news.

00:17:59.320 Now what are the odds that CNN gave me fake news?

00:18:02.520 Pretty good.

00:18:04.020 Right?

00:18:04.360 Pretty good.

00:18:05.600 So let's say that there might be more to this story about this school.

00:18:10.940 It could be that she was, you know,

00:18:12.900 if it turns out that she was one credit short

00:18:15.460 and she claimed she graduated,

00:18:17.840 I'm not really going to care about that.

00:18:19.780 Right?

00:18:20.080 I mean, do you really care if it turns out she was one credit short

00:18:25.100 or something like that?

00:18:26.860 If it turns out she was almost a graduate or something like that,

00:18:31.460 you know, would you care too much?

00:18:32.640 Not really.

00:18:33.600 You know, I would say that would be close enough.

00:18:35.680 If you're trying to get a job

00:18:36.880 and you're one credit short from your degree

00:18:39.540 and you claim you got a degree,

00:18:41.820 does anybody care?

00:18:43.700 Yeah, it's a little white lie.

00:18:46.860 So we haven't heard her side.

00:18:48.560 If it turns out that this is sort of a harmless white lie, 0.76

00:18:52.700 the sort of thing that people do on their resume,

00:18:55.080 then I would judge it differently.

00:18:57.960 But if it turned out that she just made up a college 0.98

00:19:03.240 and said she got a degree there,

00:19:05.560 then I don't think you can believe anything else she says.

00:19:10.340 Are you with me?

00:19:11.320 If it's true that she just made up a college degree,

00:19:15.900 there's nothing else she could ever say

00:19:18.120 that you would ever find credible.

00:19:20.700 Again, even if it's true.

00:19:23.220 It might be true.

00:19:25.300 So I'm going to give the play of the week to CNN

00:19:28.380 because they actually took her out.

00:19:31.940 They actually looked into her until they took her out. 1.00

00:19:34.580 And they did.

00:19:35.140 It looks like they took this story right out of the news.

00:19:39.340 So political play of the week, CNN.

00:19:46.800 So we're still talking about Biden

00:19:50.620 and his comment about...

00:19:53.140 I just have to read his quote again

00:19:56.480 because it's so funny.

00:19:58.160 Biden said,

00:19:59.120 If you have a problem figuring out

00:20:00.500 whether you're for me or Trump, 0.95

00:20:02.140 then you ain't black. 0.71

00:20:03.780 Now, of course, he's getting criticized for everything. 0.50

00:20:07.820 The people on the right

00:20:09.180 are entirely illegitimately claiming

00:20:11.900 that what he meant,

00:20:14.140 as if we can read his mind,

00:20:16.280 we can't,

00:20:17.380 that what he really meant

00:20:18.520 is that basically

00:20:20.800 it's just assumed

00:20:22.100 that black people will vote for Democrats 0.88

00:20:24.000 no matter what they do.

00:20:25.400 They're just taking it for granted.

00:20:27.200 Now, of course,

00:20:28.400 nothing like that happened.

00:20:30.160 But that's how it's being reported on the right.

00:20:32.420 And if you buy into that interpretation,

00:20:34.800 you really have to ask yourself.

00:20:36.720 You have to ask yourself,

00:20:38.520 are you letting your own team brainwash you?

00:20:41.860 Now, if you're doing it for fun

00:20:43.480 or for politics

00:20:45.680 because you just know it works,

00:20:48.160 like it is pretty effective.

00:20:49.420 So if you're just doing it because it works,

00:20:52.560 as long as you're self-aware

00:20:53.860 that this is not a real story,

00:20:56.260 this is a completely manufactured story.

00:20:58.920 This is manufactured news.

00:21:01.740 Usually it's manufactured in CNN.

00:21:04.540 But sometimes,

00:21:06.180 sometimes Fox News will manufacture a little news.

00:21:09.640 And this is clearly manufactured news

00:21:11.880 in the sense that

00:21:12.860 there's certainly no evidence

00:21:14.880 that what Biden meant,

00:21:18.160 meaning his personal feelings,

00:21:20.440 his internal unstated thoughts,

00:21:23.400 were that blacks sort of 0.75

00:21:25.320 were automatically going to vote Democrat

00:21:27.260 just because it was assumed

00:21:29.280 and it's automatic

00:21:30.040 and they don't have to do anything to earn it.

00:21:32.460 Nothing like that is in evidence.

00:21:34.480 What is in evidence,

00:21:35.920 of course,

00:21:36.420 is that Biden thinks

00:21:37.400 that he's a better choice

00:21:38.920 for the black community

00:21:39.840 and he was telling him that.

00:21:41.600 That's it.

00:21:42.540 He just said,

00:21:43.020 I don't have a better choice.

00:21:44.620 There's no story here whatsoever.

00:21:46.960 But of course,

00:21:47.560 we're going to look

00:21:48.480 into every word choice.

00:21:50.760 And now people are saying,

00:21:51.780 hey,

00:21:52.800 are you pandering

00:21:53.640 because you said ain't?

00:21:56.060 Did Lunchbucket Joe

00:21:58.620 say ain't

00:22:00.000 because he was talking 0.96

00:22:00.940 to a black audience

00:22:03.260 and so he was talking down? 0.77

00:22:05.360 He wasn't using

00:22:05.920 his regular vocabulary?

00:22:10.200 Well,

00:22:10.680 how did he answer

00:22:11.540 the complaint

00:22:12.240 when he was challenged

00:22:14.540 about it

00:22:15.160 and asked to apologize?

00:22:17.060 He did.

00:22:18.300 You know,

00:22:18.560 as a good Democrat,

00:22:19.740 he apologized.

00:22:20.960 And then he said

00:22:21.960 he shouldn't have been

00:22:22.740 cavalier about it.

00:22:25.120 So the people

00:22:26.040 who were saying

00:22:28.040 that Joe Biden

00:22:28.800 was talking down

00:22:30.000 and reducing

00:22:30.900 his vocabulary

00:22:31.780 in an insulting way

00:22:33.860 as if he's being

00:22:35.080 condescending

00:22:35.800 to the black community

00:22:37.260 when he talks about it, 0.98

00:22:38.940 he pulls out cavalier.

00:22:41.860 About half of the people

00:22:43.500 in this country

00:22:44.060 don't even know

00:22:44.620 what that word means.

00:22:46.420 So can you say

00:22:47.360 that when Joe Biden

00:22:48.320 is talking

00:22:49.480 and obviously

00:22:50.300 when he was apologizing

00:22:51.900 he was talking

00:22:52.440 to the black community

00:22:53.520 as well as everybody else.

00:22:55.180 But do you think

00:22:55.700 you would use a word

00:22:56.300 like cavalier?

00:22:59.420 I think the thing

00:23:00.660 that you could

00:23:01.260 conclude

00:23:02.240 is that he just

00:23:02.820 uses lots of

00:23:03.560 different words

00:23:04.060 in different contexts

00:23:05.000 and it doesn't

00:23:05.420 mean anything.

00:23:06.800 I think that

00:23:07.760 he definitely

00:23:09.100 was trying to be

00:23:09.920 casual

00:23:10.420 and funny

00:23:11.660 when he said

00:23:12.220 ain't.

00:23:13.460 I don't think

00:23:14.220 it has anything

00:23:14.640 to do with

00:23:15.240 who he was

00:23:15.840 talking to.

00:23:17.000 I think he would

00:23:17.820 have said that

00:23:18.380 to anybody

00:23:19.360 he felt comfortable

00:23:20.920 with

00:23:21.300 because it's

00:23:21.740 just a thing.

00:23:22.960 It's a thing

00:23:23.640 people say.

00:23:24.320 They say ain't

00:23:25.060 when they're

00:23:25.400 trying to emphasize

00:23:26.220 the thing.

00:23:26.800 It's just

00:23:27.080 an emphasis word.

00:23:27.840 All right.

00:23:30.280 So that story

00:23:30.860 is you think

00:23:33.040 it would have

00:23:33.440 no legs

00:23:34.100 but then it

00:23:35.560 does have legs

00:23:36.380 because part of

00:23:38.020 what Biden

00:23:38.460 claimed was

00:23:39.660 that the

00:23:40.180 NAACP

00:23:41.940 had endorsed

00:23:43.320 him.

00:23:45.420 It turns out

00:23:46.440 that the NAACP

00:23:47.640 doesn't endorse

00:23:48.300 anybody.

00:23:49.520 So it's like

00:23:50.460 not what they

00:23:51.000 do.

00:23:51.260 So they had

00:23:53.160 to put out

00:23:53.540 a statement

00:23:53.960 that says

00:23:54.440 not only

00:23:56.480 did we not

00:23:57.240 endorse Biden

00:23:58.060 but we

00:23:59.360 don't do

00:23:59.940 that.

00:24:03.080 So that's

00:24:03.860 funny.

00:24:04.340 You'd think

00:24:04.720 this story

00:24:05.180 would just

00:24:05.520 go away

00:24:05.900 but it

00:24:06.180 doesn't.

00:24:08.480 All right.

00:24:09.120 Let's talk

00:24:09.500 about churches.

00:24:13.560 I'm going

00:24:14.080 to put on

00:24:14.420 my Pope

00:24:14.840 hat here

00:24:15.220 for a moment

00:24:15.700 because

00:24:17.180 the President's

00:24:18.240 weighed in

00:24:18.660 on the

00:24:19.180 question of

00:24:20.120 whether churches

00:24:20.800 are essential.

00:24:22.620 For those of

00:24:23.340 you who are

00:24:23.680 new to

00:24:24.040 my periscopes

00:24:24.740 I will give

00:24:25.400 you this

00:24:25.700 context.

00:24:26.860 I'm very

00:24:27.280 pro-religion.

00:24:29.040 Very very

00:24:29.840 pro-religion.

00:24:31.300 But I'm not

00:24:32.060 a believer

00:24:32.480 myself.

00:24:33.640 I'm pro-religion

00:24:34.260 for other

00:24:36.640 people.

00:24:37.560 Meaning that

00:24:38.120 I observe

00:24:38.820 that other

00:24:39.940 people find

00:24:40.680 tremendous

00:24:41.240 benefit

00:24:41.660 from living

00:24:43.120 a religious

00:24:44.380 inspired

00:24:45.880 life.

00:24:46.880 Why would

00:24:47.320 I want

00:24:47.680 them not

00:24:48.040 to have

00:24:48.640 that?

00:24:49.240 Now of

00:24:49.620 course you

00:24:50.120 can make

00:24:50.460 your case

00:24:50.960 for people

00:24:52.080 misusing

00:24:52.700 anything

00:24:53.100 whether it's

00:24:54.200 a religion

00:24:54.660 or it's

00:24:55.120 a gun.

00:24:56.160 People can

00:24:56.660 misuse

00:24:57.280 anything.

00:24:58.440 But a tool

00:24:58.840 is a tool

00:24:59.280 and people

00:25:00.540 use it

00:25:01.040 to great

00:25:01.980 effect

00:25:02.520 in my

00:25:03.220 opinion.

00:25:03.880 Good for

00:25:04.200 civilization.

00:25:05.240 Good for

00:25:05.640 families.

00:25:06.700 Good for

00:25:07.060 people.

00:25:07.480 So I'm

00:25:07.720 all pro-religion.

00:25:08.900 I want you

00:25:09.360 to have as

00:25:09.700 much as

00:25:10.060 possible.

00:25:10.700 Secondly,

00:25:11.580 I'm pro-

00:25:12.140 constitution.

00:25:13.480 The constitution

00:25:14.040 is very

00:25:14.820 clear about

00:25:16.220 your religious

00:25:16.980 rights.

00:25:18.200 Your federal

00:25:18.740 government,

00:25:19.320 your state

00:25:19.660 government,

00:25:20.420 nay,

00:25:20.860 none of

00:25:21.260 your

00:25:21.400 governments,

00:25:22.320 can take

00:25:22.800 away your

00:25:24.100 religious

00:25:24.540 right.

00:25:25.500 That's

00:25:25.740 pretty

00:25:26.180 prominently

00:25:26.780 written in

00:25:27.560 your constitution.

00:25:29.400 So is

00:25:29.920 the president

00:25:30.420 of the

00:25:30.780 United States

00:25:31.460 right when

00:25:33.200 he says

00:25:33.900 your religious

00:25:35.900 institutions are

00:25:37.360 essential

00:25:38.380 services?

00:25:39.820 Let me

00:25:40.520 check my

00:25:40.940 constitution.

00:25:42.280 Checking,

00:25:42.860 checking,

00:25:43.280 checking,

00:25:43.620 constitution.

00:25:44.780 Looking for

00:25:45.640 the exception,

00:25:46.780 the virus

00:25:47.320 exception to

00:25:48.200 the

00:25:48.340 constitution,

00:25:49.760 the part

00:25:50.440 where the

00:25:50.800 constitution

00:25:51.280 says you

00:25:52.560 have freedom

00:25:53.000 of religion

00:25:53.560 unless there's

00:25:54.720 a virus,

00:25:55.940 looking,

00:25:56.640 looking,

00:25:57.580 doesn't seem

00:25:58.180 to be here.

00:25:59.580 Doesn't seem

00:26:00.120 to be here.

00:26:01.180 President,

00:26:01.860 I judge him

00:26:02.600 to be 100%

00:26:04.840 accurate.

00:26:07.520 100%

00:26:08.580 accurate.

00:26:10.840 You have a

00:26:12.120 constitutional

00:26:12.820 right to

00:26:14.480 your religious

00:26:15.200 expression

00:26:18.780 and your

00:26:19.920 federal

00:26:20.280 government.

00:26:21.600 If they

00:26:22.260 try to

00:26:22.680 stop you,

00:26:23.520 I will

00:26:23.840 join you

00:26:24.480 in fighting

00:26:25.720 them.

00:26:27.500 Oh,

00:26:28.100 people are

00:26:28.460 saying,

00:26:28.840 is that a

00:26:29.120 different opinion

00:26:29.660 than I had

00:26:30.180 yesterday?

00:26:31.280 No.

00:26:32.680 No,

00:26:33.200 I'm not

00:26:33.600 done.

00:26:34.760 Did you

00:26:35.100 think I was

00:26:35.540 done?

00:26:36.780 No.

00:26:37.440 So far,

00:26:37.960 I have on

00:26:38.400 my constitutional

00:26:39.620 hat.

00:26:40.760 While wearing

00:26:41.600 my constitutional

00:26:42.560 hat,

00:26:43.040 I agree

00:26:44.360 with the

00:26:44.660 president

00:26:45.000 and I

00:26:45.400 agree with

00:26:45.900 I think

00:26:46.380 every single

00:26:47.100 one of

00:26:47.420 you.

00:26:48.060 I'll bet

00:26:48.420 there's not

00:26:48.860 one other

00:26:49.380 person on

00:26:49.880 here who

00:26:50.240 disagrees with

00:26:50.920 what I

00:26:51.240 just said.

00:26:52.340 But that's

00:26:53.120 my constitutional

00:26:53.960 hat.

00:26:55.380 If we were

00:26:56.160 only constitutional

00:26:57.820 people,

00:26:58.700 we'd be

00:26:59.100 done.

00:27:00.180 But the

00:27:00.580 entire context

00:27:01.420 of the

00:27:01.700 conversation

00:27:02.220 is your

00:27:02.820 soul,

00:27:05.060 your entire

00:27:06.980 spiritual

00:27:08.540 self,

00:27:10.580 your spiritual

00:27:11.180 life.

00:27:11.540 so there's

00:27:13.060 at least

00:27:13.460 one more

00:27:14.140 hat I

00:27:14.480 have to

00:27:14.780 put on.

00:27:16.120 Wouldn't

00:27:16.380 you say?

00:27:17.600 I mean,

00:27:17.960 we're done

00:27:18.320 with the

00:27:18.580 constitutional

00:27:19.120 part.

00:27:19.560 That's

00:27:20.160 unambiguous.

00:27:21.680 In my

00:27:22.480 opinion,

00:27:22.900 there is

00:27:23.200 no wiggle

00:27:24.180 room

00:27:24.480 whatsoever

00:27:25.000 constitutionally.

00:27:28.680 But we

00:27:30.440 want to be

00:27:30.840 thorough.

00:27:33.220 And so

00:27:34.040 we're going

00:27:35.680 to put on

00:27:36.060 the Pope

00:27:36.580 hat and

00:27:39.620 give this

00:27:39.980 a second

00:27:40.360 look.

00:27:41.540 And now

00:27:44.860 from the

00:27:45.420 perspective

00:27:45.820 of my

00:27:46.460 I'm not

00:27:48.540 sure I'm

00:27:48.800 wearing this

00:27:49.200 right.

00:27:49.640 Maybe it

00:27:49.900 goes like

00:27:50.220 this.

00:27:51.620 Does anybody

00:27:52.020 know how a

00:27:52.520 Pope hat

00:27:52.840 goes on?

00:27:53.660 Is it more

00:27:54.120 like this?

00:27:55.720 Or is it

00:27:56.060 more like

00:27:56.460 this?

00:27:58.100 Given the

00:27:58.700 straps, I'd

00:27:59.300 say it's

00:27:59.540 more like

00:27:59.980 now this

00:28:01.160 looks like

00:28:01.480 dog ears.

00:28:02.340 If I wear

00:28:02.540 it like this

00:28:02.980 like.

00:28:03.200 Well,

00:28:03.440 anyway,

00:28:04.020 you get

00:28:04.320 the idea.

00:28:05.740 So let

00:28:07.960 me take

00:28:08.700 the Pope

00:28:09.820 perspective.

00:28:11.540 And I

00:28:12.440 will take

00:28:13.900 the advice

00:28:15.080 to imagine

00:28:16.320 what would

00:28:17.120 Jesus do?

00:28:19.340 Would you

00:28:19.980 agree that

00:28:20.380 that's a

00:28:20.760 fair standard?

00:28:22.720 Because

00:28:23.440 whether you're

00:28:24.400 Christian or 0.69

00:28:25.040 whether you're

00:28:25.660 Muslim,

00:28:27.560 you would

00:28:28.360 recognize Jesus

00:28:29.480 as a wise

00:28:30.420 figure.

00:28:30.920 And let's

00:28:31.220 say you

00:28:32.700 might view

00:28:33.700 his role in

00:28:34.940 the universe

00:28:35.340 differently,

00:28:36.660 whether you're

00:28:37.420 Jewish or

00:28:38.640 Muslim or 0.84

00:28:39.700 Christian or 0.69

00:28:40.460 anything else.

00:28:41.500 But most

00:28:41.980 people would

00:28:42.440 agree that

00:28:43.100 there was

00:28:44.260 probably an

00:28:45.240 historical figure

00:28:46.180 at least,

00:28:47.400 and that

00:28:47.940 he had some

00:28:49.060 good things

00:28:49.480 to say.

00:28:50.520 So let's

00:28:51.200 take that

00:28:51.600 approach and

00:28:52.300 say to

00:28:52.560 yourself,

00:28:53.360 what would

00:28:54.020 Jesus do?

00:28:57.160 If Jesus

00:28:58.120 knew that

00:28:58.920 churches were

00:29:00.720 essential services,

00:29:02.460 would Jesus

00:29:03.420 say to you,

00:29:04.640 take off your

00:29:05.320 masks,

00:29:06.640 go to church,

00:29:07.440 sing as

00:29:08.660 loudly as

00:29:09.280 you want?

00:29:10.640 Would

00:29:11.020 Jesus say

00:29:11.960 that?

00:29:14.020 No.

00:29:15.040 No.

00:29:15.540 My judgment

00:29:16.100 is that

00:29:17.400 Jesus would 0.81

00:29:18.140 not say,

00:29:19.500 take off your

00:29:20.480 masks,

00:29:21.620 go to church,

00:29:22.560 pack in

00:29:22.980 tightly,

00:29:23.520 and sing as

00:29:24.140 loudly as

00:29:24.640 you want.

00:29:25.860 I rule that

00:29:26.940 he would not

00:29:27.380 say that.

00:29:28.540 Would Jesus

00:29:29.260 say,

00:29:30.620 put on your

00:29:31.140 masks,

00:29:32.680 observe social

00:29:33.480 distancing,

00:29:35.160 be smart?

00:29:35.840 I think

00:29:39.900 he might.

00:29:41.260 I think

00:29:41.620 he might.

00:29:42.420 Would

00:29:42.700 Jesus say

00:29:43.400 you can

00:29:45.160 get in

00:29:45.960 your car

00:29:46.660 and stay

00:29:47.760 in your

00:29:48.100 car and

00:29:49.540 have an

00:29:49.960 outdoor

00:29:50.420 service in

00:29:51.760 which your

00:29:52.440 religious leader

00:29:54.300 is standing

00:29:55.720 up there

00:29:56.200 away from

00:29:57.140 you,

00:29:57.640 and your

00:29:58.480 family that

00:29:59.080 you've been

00:29:59.500 quarantining

00:30:00.240 with and

00:30:00.780 locked down

00:30:01.260 with,

00:30:01.940 they're in

00:30:02.460 your car,

00:30:03.060 and nobody

00:30:03.360 else is in

00:30:03.820 your car,

00:30:04.360 and nobody

00:30:04.680 else comes

00:30:05.160 up to your

00:30:05.560 car,

00:30:05.920 and you

00:30:06.080 don't even

00:30:06.440 open your

00:30:06.800 window as

00:30:07.180 somebody does?

00:30:09.220 Would

00:30:09.500 Jesus allow 0.96

00:30:10.680 you to stay

00:30:11.400 in your

00:30:11.700 car and

00:30:12.820 go to

00:30:13.100 church?

00:30:15.580 Praying a

00:30:16.220 little bit,

00:30:16.820 trying to get

00:30:17.360 a reading on

00:30:17.960 this,

00:30:19.080 something's

00:30:19.880 coming in,

00:30:20.600 getting

00:30:20.900 something now?

00:30:22.860 Yes.

00:30:23.840 Yes,

00:30:24.360 he would.

00:30:25.640 Yes,

00:30:26.060 Jesus,

00:30:27.160 as it turns

00:30:27.860 out,

00:30:28.580 from best we

00:30:29.320 know,

00:30:30.320 was not 0.98

00:30:31.180 an idiot. 1.00

00:30:32.860 Because the 1.00

00:30:33.540 people who

00:30:33.960 say that you

00:30:34.460 can't stay

00:30:35.380 in your

00:30:35.820 own car

00:30:36.480 with your

00:30:36.880 family and

00:30:38.580 worship your

00:30:39.340 God are 1.00

00:30:41.540 idiots. 1.00

00:30:43.480 They're not 1.00

00:30:44.260 your leaders,

00:30:45.960 they're not

00:30:46.660 your religious

00:30:47.280 leaders,

00:30:47.860 they're not

00:30:48.120 your role

00:30:48.560 models, 1.00

00:30:49.500 they're idiots. 1.00

00:30:50.860 They're idiots. 1.00

00:30:52.900 Jesus was not 1.00

00:30:53.760 an idiot, 0.99

00:30:54.620 as best we 1.00

00:30:55.480 understand.

00:30:57.340 So my ruling

00:30:58.340 is that Jesus'

00:30:59.420 ruling would be

00:31:00.420 be, maybe

00:31:02.660 stay in your

00:31:03.220 car, be

00:31:04.960 smart, but

00:31:06.820 absolutely, go

00:31:08.300 back to

00:31:08.700 church.

00:31:09.560 So, would

00:31:11.260 Jesus agree 0.98

00:31:13.120 with President

00:31:13.780 Trump?

00:31:14.980 Well, certainly

00:31:16.000 would agree on

00:31:16.680 the going back

00:31:17.140 to church, but

00:31:18.420 be smart.

00:31:19.820 Be smart,

00:31:21.080 people.

00:31:22.320 Now, let

00:31:23.680 me adjust

00:31:26.600 and conform

00:31:29.280 yesterday's

00:31:30.900 opinion that

00:31:31.520 sounded different

00:31:32.300 from this one.

00:31:33.200 So if you

00:31:33.580 heard me talk

00:31:34.160 about it

00:31:34.440 yesterday,

00:31:35.180 here's the

00:31:35.780 difference.

00:31:36.520 When I was

00:31:37.100 talking about it

00:31:37.740 yesterday, I was

00:31:38.620 making a bad

00:31:39.260 assumption.

00:31:40.060 The assumption

00:31:40.520 being that people

00:31:41.860 would just sort of

00:31:42.860 go back to church 0.90

00:31:43.680 in the normal way,

00:31:45.080 which of course

00:31:45.740 seems like a bad

00:31:46.540 idea.

00:31:47.580 So if you're

00:31:48.280 going to try to

00:31:48.880 take care of your

00:31:49.620 fellow humans,

00:31:51.760 going back to

00:31:53.060 business as usual

00:31:54.020 at the moment is a

00:31:55.220 terrible, terrible

00:31:55.820 idea.

00:31:56.780 But I don't

00:31:57.420 think anybody's

00:31:57.960 going to do

00:31:58.300 that.

00:31:59.440 The reality is

00:32:00.620 smart people are

00:32:02.040 not going to do

00:32:02.620 what I just

00:32:03.100 said.

00:32:04.080 Go sit next to

00:32:05.080 each other without

00:32:05.740 masks and sing

00:32:07.560 out loud is

00:32:08.820 literally the very

00:32:09.660 worst thing you

00:32:10.360 could do.

00:32:12.160 So, church is

00:32:14.220 open?

00:32:14.720 Yes. 1.00

00:32:16.200 Being dumb 0.99

00:32:17.020 about it? 0.99

00:32:18.360 No.

00:32:20.080 So don't be 0.99

00:32:20.960 dumb about it. 0.99

00:32:22.660 All right. 0.99

00:32:22.980 Brett Stevens

00:32:25.460 wrote, or is it

00:32:26.440 Steffens?

00:32:27.160 I think it's

00:32:27.600 Stevens, in New

00:32:28.300 York Times, had

00:32:29.760 an interesting

00:32:30.280 article about

00:32:31.460 Flynn.

00:32:33.780 And it was

00:32:34.480 interesting to

00:32:35.140 see somebody

00:32:36.020 writing in the

00:32:36.640 New York Times

00:32:37.380 very much being

00:32:39.300 against the

00:32:41.780 way Flynn was

00:32:43.320 handled.

00:32:44.400 So to have

00:32:45.020 somebody come

00:32:45.600 down unambiguously

00:32:46.880 in the New York

00:32:47.660 Times against the

00:32:49.780 way the government

00:32:50.440 handled the Flynn

00:32:51.940 thing was

00:32:52.660 interesting.

00:32:53.740 Now, of course,

00:32:54.320 he had to soften

00:32:54.980 that because it's

00:32:55.660 the New York

00:32:56.020 Times.

00:32:57.120 So he had to

00:32:57.640 put in there

00:32:58.240 the, well,

00:32:59.400 Trump did the

00:32:59.960 same thing, and

00:33:01.440 it was also bad,

00:33:02.820 and it's a good

00:33:03.320 thing he got

00:33:04.060 impeached, because

00:33:07.040 what he tried to

00:33:07.900 do with Biden

00:33:08.540 and Ukraine was

00:33:09.580 basically the same

00:33:10.580 thing, which is

00:33:11.280 use the organs of

00:33:12.360 government against

00:33:13.860 a political

00:33:14.880 opponent.

00:33:16.760 To which I said,

00:33:18.060 my first thought

00:33:18.980 was, okay,

00:33:19.680 I can see how

00:33:21.340 you'd make that

00:33:21.920 analogy, because

00:33:23.360 in both cases

00:33:24.200 it appears to

00:33:25.160 be the

00:33:26.200 government using

00:33:27.080 the organs of

00:33:27.880 government, the

00:33:28.440 power of

00:33:28.900 government, and

00:33:30.500 using that

00:33:31.600 power against a

00:33:32.580 political opponent.

00:33:33.620 And I thought,

00:33:34.180 yeah, that does

00:33:34.840 describe both

00:33:35.600 situations.

00:33:36.900 That does

00:33:37.360 describe both

00:33:38.000 situations.

00:33:39.580 But there

00:33:41.680 might be one

00:33:42.260 difference.

00:33:44.220 I'm just going

00:33:45.160 to put this out

00:33:45.860 there.

00:33:46.020 There's one

00:33:46.980 slight difference

00:33:47.860 between the

00:33:48.980 Flynn situation

00:33:50.160 and the Biden

00:33:51.800 Ukraine situation.

00:33:53.160 Maybe you know

00:33:53.940 what it is.

00:33:55.360 Does it stand

00:33:56.240 out for you,

00:33:56.720 that one

00:33:57.080 difference?

00:33:59.320 Flynn was

00:34:00.020 innocent?

00:34:03.240 That's a pretty

00:34:04.040 big difference.

00:34:05.400 Flynn didn't do

00:34:05.980 anything.

00:34:06.820 He was literally

00:34:07.420 just showed up

00:34:08.040 for work and

00:34:08.560 did his job.

00:34:10.140 That's it.

00:34:11.940 Flynn not only

00:34:13.540 just showed up

00:34:14.380 for work and

00:34:15.080 did his job, but

00:34:16.880 he showed up

00:34:17.460 early for work.

00:34:18.680 He showed up

00:34:19.640 early for work

00:34:20.600 and did his

00:34:22.200 job.

00:34:23.200 And the organs

00:34:23.920 of government

00:34:24.460 were turned

00:34:24.940 against him.

00:34:26.620 Is that

00:34:27.160 exactly

00:34:27.880 analogous to

00:34:30.620 Hunter Biden

00:34:31.380 working for

00:34:32.220 Burisma? 0.99

00:34:33.960 And whatever

00:34:35.420 problems that

00:34:37.020 might cause for

00:34:37.900 the person who

00:34:39.320 might be the

00:34:39.780 next president

00:34:40.340 of the United

00:34:40.760 States, Joe

00:34:41.360 Biden, his

00:34:41.920 father?

00:34:42.920 Do we not

00:34:44.080 think that that's

00:34:44.800 at least a

00:34:45.800 little worth

00:34:46.280 looking into?

00:34:48.000 Right?

00:34:48.580 And secondly,

00:34:50.660 Flynn was

00:34:51.160 actually convicted.

00:34:53.160 Flynn was

00:34:53.660 convicted.

00:34:55.240 There's not

00:34:55.920 even any kind

00:34:56.520 of a court

00:34:56.960 case or

00:34:57.400 anything against

00:34:58.060 Hunter Biden

00:34:58.720 or Joe

00:34:59.080 Biden.

00:34:59.820 There's no

00:35:00.340 kind of wheels

00:35:01.480 of government

00:35:02.080 working against

00:35:02.980 them.

00:35:03.520 It was simply

00:35:04.100 an investigation.

00:35:06.020 Here's the

00:35:06.640 better analogy.

00:35:08.020 If you want

00:35:08.760 to compare the

00:35:09.400 Flynn situation

00:35:10.260 to the Ukraine

00:35:11.520 Biden situation,

00:35:12.520 here's the

00:35:13.720 right analogy.

00:35:14.800 If they had

00:35:15.620 looked into

00:35:16.180 Flynn and

00:35:17.560 said, well,

00:35:18.220 it looks like

00:35:18.560 we didn't

00:35:18.820 find anything

00:35:19.460 and walked

00:35:20.800 away, that

00:35:22.260 would be the

00:35:22.700 same.

00:35:24.120 Because looking

00:35:25.560 into them is

00:35:27.440 actually pretty

00:35:28.080 legitimate.

00:35:29.320 Even if you

00:35:30.100 tell me that

00:35:30.760 they didn't

00:35:31.140 have enough

00:35:31.680 reason to

00:35:32.220 look into

00:35:32.620 Flynn, I

00:35:34.020 would say to

00:35:34.400 myself, well,

00:35:35.620 it's not a

00:35:36.420 perfect world.

00:35:37.120 If they

00:35:37.580 legitimately

00:35:38.220 thought there

00:35:38.880 was something

00:35:39.320 there, and

00:35:40.960 they legitimately

00:35:41.780 looked into

00:35:42.640 it, and

00:35:43.800 they legitimately

00:35:44.700 found out

00:35:45.460 fairly soon

00:35:46.120 that there

00:35:46.460 was nothing

00:35:46.920 there, and

00:35:48.120 they had

00:35:48.480 legitimately

00:35:49.160 walked away,

00:35:50.920 I don't know

00:35:52.000 that I would

00:35:52.380 have much of

00:35:52.900 a problem

00:35:53.280 with it at

00:35:53.800 all.

00:35:54.520 If in that

00:35:55.400 case, it

00:35:56.400 would look

00:35:56.720 like a

00:35:57.140 simple mistake

00:35:59.180 that was

00:36:00.320 okay.

00:36:01.420 Meaning that

00:36:02.200 somebody thought,

00:36:02.940 oh, I think

00:36:03.500 I see some

00:36:04.080 signs that

00:36:05.420 this is worth

00:36:05.960 looking into.

00:36:07.360 That's okay.

00:36:08.100 seeing some

00:36:09.860 signs to

00:36:10.420 look into

00:36:10.800 something,

00:36:11.720 looking into

00:36:12.440 it, and

00:36:12.720 then finding

00:36:13.140 out that

00:36:13.500 the signs

00:36:14.020 were misleading,

00:36:15.260 well, it's

00:36:15.600 a mistake.

00:36:16.580 It's the

00:36:16.980 smallest one

00:36:17.580 in the world.

00:36:18.080 It's what

00:36:18.340 you expect

00:36:18.840 people to

00:36:19.280 be doing.

00:36:21.760 So I

00:36:22.740 thought it

00:36:23.020 was clever

00:36:23.640 for Brad

00:36:24.700 Stevens to

00:36:25.540 make that

00:36:26.360 analogy, because

00:36:27.540 if you weren't

00:36:28.260 very critical

00:36:28.900 about it, you

00:36:29.520 would fall

00:36:29.880 into thinking,

00:36:30.520 yeah, those

00:36:30.840 are kind of

00:36:31.200 the same.

00:36:32.340 But there's

00:36:32.940 a pretty big

00:36:33.460 difference between

00:36:34.100 somebody who

00:36:34.600 didn't do

00:36:34.920 anything and

00:36:36.820 somebody who

00:36:37.380 was taking

00:36:37.720 money for

00:36:38.100 burisma for

00:36:39.000 doing not

00:36:39.800 much of a

00:36:40.240 job.

00:36:40.900 I just

00:36:41.460 don't see

00:36:41.860 those as

00:36:42.300 the same.

00:36:44.720 All right.

00:36:48.520 So here's

00:36:49.480 the story

00:36:51.460 about China

00:36:52.140 increasing its

00:36:53.860 pressure on

00:36:55.960 Hong Kong.

00:36:57.160 I have two

00:36:57.920 feelings about

00:36:58.540 it.

00:36:58.720 One is, of

00:36:59.240 course, I

00:37:01.220 don't like the

00:37:01.740 Chinese government

00:37:02.500 and what they're

00:37:03.440 doing, of

00:37:03.860 course, is a

00:37:04.500 human tragedy

00:37:05.980 and I feel

00:37:07.660 great empathy

00:37:08.280 for the

00:37:08.740 people in

00:37:09.140 Hong Kong

00:37:09.640 who didn't

00:37:11.360 deserve this

00:37:12.060 and it's

00:37:12.500 not going to

00:37:12.880 be good for

00:37:13.300 them.

00:37:13.580 So it's

00:37:13.800 all bad.

00:37:15.020 On the

00:37:15.540 other hand,

00:37:16.880 it also

00:37:17.440 can't be

00:37:17.960 stopped.

00:37:19.360 There isn't

00:37:20.020 any future

00:37:21.080 in which

00:37:21.760 China doesn't 1.00

00:37:23.000 have full

00:37:23.500 control over

00:37:24.140 Hong Kong.

00:37:25.620 That's really

00:37:26.120 not, there's

00:37:26.840 no world in

00:37:28.280 which that

00:37:28.600 doesn't happen.

00:37:30.000 So I have a

00:37:31.140 different opinion

00:37:31.640 about things that

00:37:32.320 can't be

00:37:32.760 stopped, which

00:37:34.160 is I try

00:37:35.200 not to worry

00:37:36.040 about them

00:37:36.500 too much.

00:37:38.120 We're going to

00:37:38.420 talk about the

00:37:38.900 whiteboard in

00:37:39.480 a moment.

00:37:40.180 I see you

00:37:40.940 asking about it.

00:37:42.080 We'll get to

00:37:42.540 that.

00:37:43.520 All right.

00:37:45.580 Bill Maher's

00:37:46.420 doing some

00:37:46.780 more mind

00:37:47.180 reading.

00:37:49.140 And, you

00:37:50.840 know, I always

00:37:51.320 talk about the

00:37:52.140 sign for

00:37:53.020 cognitive

00:37:53.580 dissonance.

00:37:55.340 So cognitive

00:37:56.360 dissonance is

00:37:57.980 when people's

00:37:58.840 world doesn't

00:37:59.500 make sense,

00:38:00.800 but they

00:38:01.480 need it to.

00:38:02.200 So they

00:38:02.640 paper it over

00:38:03.600 with some

00:38:04.060 weird thinking

00:38:05.940 that makes

00:38:07.320 things that

00:38:07.840 don't make

00:38:08.260 sense make

00:38:08.800 sense.

00:38:09.840 And so that's

00:38:10.420 how you spot

00:38:11.120 cognitive dissonance.

00:38:12.400 It's not just

00:38:13.020 a difference of

00:38:13.660 opinion, because

00:38:15.120 differences of

00:38:15.860 opinion, usually

00:38:17.240 you can trace

00:38:17.940 back to, oh, you

00:38:18.720 have a different

00:38:19.240 assumption than

00:38:20.740 I do, that's

00:38:21.320 why your opinion

00:38:21.880 is different, or

00:38:22.840 you have different

00:38:23.340 facts, or you

00:38:25.040 have different

00:38:25.840 priorities.

00:38:27.460 So usually, if

00:38:28.240 it's just a

00:38:28.680 different opinion,

00:38:29.440 you can spot

00:38:30.460 why, but

00:38:32.060 sometimes there

00:38:32.800 are just words

00:38:33.680 that don't

00:38:34.320 even make

00:38:34.780 any sense,

00:38:36.220 and that's

00:38:36.700 cognitive

00:38:37.140 dissonance.

00:38:38.000 See if you

00:38:38.500 can decide

00:38:39.800 which one

00:38:40.440 this is,

00:38:41.720 from Bill

00:38:42.380 Maher.

00:38:43.900 He said,

00:38:45.260 I think he

00:38:46.660 was talking

00:38:47.000 to Michael

00:38:49.080 Moore on

00:38:50.100 his show

00:38:50.440 last night,

00:38:51.000 and he

00:38:51.140 said,

00:38:51.520 just the

00:38:52.260 impeachment,

00:38:52.960 you know,

00:38:53.640 I mean,

00:38:54.600 if I could

00:38:55.080 do it over

00:38:55.500 again, I

00:38:56.020 wouldn't,

00:38:56.960 because it

00:38:57.480 just emboldened

00:38:58.480 him.

00:38:59.760 Maher

00:39:00.000 continued,

00:39:01.020 he's talking

00:39:01.420 about Trump,

00:39:02.000 he just

00:39:02.280 emboldened

00:39:02.800 him.

00:39:03.600 Now he

00:39:04.140 can conduct

00:39:04.700 this war

00:39:05.220 on accountability

00:39:05.980 and nobody

00:39:06.560 even, it

00:39:07.340 barely made

00:39:07.840 the papers.

00:39:09.080 I bet you

00:39:09.560 people are

00:39:09.940 watching this

00:39:10.460 and going,

00:39:10.900 wow, I've

00:39:11.520 never heard

00:39:11.900 that because

00:39:12.340 the news

00:39:12.760 is all

00:39:13.060 about COVID.

00:39:14.140 Now, it's

00:39:15.000 obviously

00:39:15.380 correct that

00:39:16.400 the news

00:39:16.800 is focusing

00:39:17.420 on the

00:39:18.060 COVID stuff,

00:39:19.760 but I have

00:39:20.880 seen a lot,

00:39:21.780 it seems like

00:39:22.320 there's been a

00:39:22.800 lot of coverage

00:39:23.520 about the

00:39:24.400 firing of

00:39:24.900 the IGs,

00:39:26.560 etc.

00:39:26.760 and, but

00:39:28.680 here's the

00:39:29.500 part that I

00:39:29.960 question.

00:39:31.580 So Bill

00:39:31.980 Barr is

00:39:32.300 saying that

00:39:32.740 the impeachment

00:39:33.500 emboldened

00:39:34.660 Trump.

00:39:36.620 What is

00:39:37.700 the logical

00:39:39.420 connecting

00:39:40.160 tissue between

00:39:42.040 the impeachment

00:39:42.880 and an

00:39:45.080 emboldened

00:39:45.960 Trump?

00:39:46.860 What is it

00:39:47.640 about the

00:39:48.040 impeachment

00:39:48.500 that logically

00:39:50.300 would embolden

00:39:51.360 someone?

00:39:51.840 Does anybody

00:39:55.500 understand what

00:39:56.200 that even

00:39:56.660 means?

00:39:57.900 Because doesn't

00:39:58.780 it sound like

00:39:59.320 just two words

00:40:00.140 were put

00:40:00.480 together?

00:40:02.260 Right?

00:40:02.580 So that's

00:40:02.940 your sign for

00:40:03.940 cognitive

00:40:04.460 dissonance.

00:40:06.140 Cognitive

00:40:06.660 dissonance

00:40:07.300 would have

00:40:07.920 looked, if

00:40:08.840 it had been

00:40:09.180 an actual

00:40:09.680 reason, like

00:40:11.560 a real

00:40:12.120 reasonable

00:40:12.620 reason, it

00:40:13.720 would have

00:40:14.020 looked more

00:40:14.600 like this.

00:40:17.060 And this

00:40:17.820 is not real,

00:40:18.880 this is just

00:40:19.340 an example,

00:40:19.860 it would have

00:40:20.080 looked more

00:40:20.520 like this.

00:40:20.900 Now that

00:40:21.680 he's been

00:40:22.040 impeached, he

00:40:23.460 knows that

00:40:24.020 the Democrats

00:40:24.640 wouldn't want

00:40:25.360 to go through

00:40:25.780 that again

00:40:26.440 and fail

00:40:26.980 again, because

00:40:28.160 it makes

00:40:28.440 him look

00:40:28.740 bad, so

00:40:29.860 he's got a

00:40:30.320 little freedom

00:40:30.960 because it's

00:40:31.540 less likely

00:40:32.120 he'll be

00:40:32.480 impeached a

00:40:33.040 second time

00:40:33.760 because he

00:40:34.100 can't be

00:40:34.500 any more

00:40:35.040 impeached

00:40:35.460 than he

00:40:35.780 is.

00:40:36.880 So if

00:40:37.240 he'd said

00:40:37.580 something like

00:40:38.120 that, I

00:40:38.560 would have

00:40:38.740 said, okay,

00:40:39.960 maybe I

00:40:40.500 agree or I

00:40:41.060 don't agree,

00:40:41.500 but at least

00:40:41.860 I see the

00:40:42.320 connecting

00:40:42.780 tissue.

00:40:44.560 But to

00:40:45.160 simply put it

00:40:45.800 out there like

00:40:46.420 you can see

00:40:47.040 it too,

00:40:48.080 well, you

00:40:48.360 can see it,

00:40:48.920 right?

00:40:49.800 The impeachment

00:40:50.660 in which he

00:40:51.400 got impeached

00:40:52.460 emboldened

00:40:53.840 him.

00:40:54.560 Do you

00:40:55.100 know what

00:40:55.360 would embolden

00:40:56.060 me?

00:40:57.680 Not being

00:40:58.420 impeached.

00:41:00.120 You could

00:41:00.760 replace that

00:41:01.520 impeached

00:41:02.240 with not

00:41:03.120 impeached

00:41:03.640 and you

00:41:04.200 could say

00:41:04.500 the same

00:41:04.880 sentence.

00:41:05.740 You know

00:41:05.960 what emboldened

00:41:06.620 the president?

00:41:08.400 Not being

00:41:09.120 impeached.

00:41:10.400 It emboldened

00:41:11.300 him.

00:41:12.300 Do you know

00:41:12.660 what emboldened

00:41:13.220 the president?

00:41:14.420 Getting

00:41:14.900 impeached.

00:41:16.240 If you

00:41:16.760 can put the

00:41:17.800 opposite in

00:41:18.520 the sentence

00:41:19.140 and it

00:41:19.800 doesn't

00:41:20.000 really

00:41:20.200 change

00:41:20.560 it

00:41:20.700 because

00:41:20.840 it

00:41:20.940 didn't

00:41:21.100 make

00:41:21.280 any

00:41:21.460 sense

00:41:21.680 in

00:41:21.800 the

00:41:21.900 first

00:41:22.100 place,

00:41:22.420 it's a

00:41:23.340 nonsense

00:41:23.680 thought.

00:41:26.820 So it

00:41:27.380 looks to

00:41:27.740 me like

00:41:29.000 cognitive

00:41:30.140 distance.

00:41:31.640 So of

00:41:32.280 course we

00:41:32.660 cannot know

00:41:33.360 the internal

00:41:34.000 thoughts of

00:41:34.640 strangers,

00:41:35.280 so we

00:41:35.900 can't know

00:41:36.300 that's

00:41:36.600 true,

00:41:36.940 we just

00:41:37.420 know that

00:41:37.840 it has

00:41:38.260 all of

00:41:38.720 the signs

00:41:39.340 of it.

00:41:40.000 So that's

00:41:40.280 the only

00:41:40.520 part we

00:41:40.900 can know.

00:41:41.960 Here's a

00:41:42.380 question for

00:41:42.860 you.

00:41:43.100 can you

00:41:44.920 trust the

00:41:46.120 news about

00:41:47.260 coronavirus and

00:41:48.640 vaccines and

00:41:49.360 therapeutics when

00:41:50.260 the news

00:41:50.860 business is

00:41:51.580 primarily funded

00:41:52.560 by pharmaceutical

00:41:53.400 companies?

00:41:54.920 That would

00:41:55.720 be not a

00:41:57.280 real question,

00:41:58.120 sort of a

00:41:58.900 rhetorical

00:41:59.380 question.

00:42:00.440 We have a

00:42:01.360 weird situation

00:42:02.260 where the

00:42:02.780 biggest problem

00:42:03.720 in the

00:42:04.140 world is

00:42:06.800 in the

00:42:07.120 topic of

00:42:07.920 a virus

00:42:09.100 and

00:42:10.180 therapeutics

00:42:11.280 and vaccines

00:42:12.380 and nothing

00:42:13.760 is more

00:42:14.180 important than

00:42:14.760 getting accurate

00:42:15.480 information

00:42:16.120 because it's

00:42:18.040 such a big

00:42:18.520 deal if you

00:42:19.220 get the

00:42:19.500 wrong

00:42:19.760 information

00:42:20.300 millions of

00:42:22.500 people die

00:42:23.140 if you get

00:42:23.720 the wrong

00:42:24.060 information.

00:42:25.360 And our

00:42:25.580 source of

00:42:26.160 information is

00:42:27.700 the one

00:42:28.220 source that's

00:42:29.900 not credible

00:42:30.640 because the

00:42:32.300 news business

00:42:32.940 is not

00:42:33.600 credible under

00:42:35.680 the specific

00:42:37.000 situation that

00:42:37.940 they're funded

00:42:38.460 by the people

00:42:39.160 who have

00:42:40.080 enormous

00:42:41.240 financial

00:42:42.200 gain by

00:42:45.120 things going

00:42:45.740 their way.

00:42:47.200 So I would

00:42:48.340 say that the

00:42:48.920 news, again,

00:42:50.380 separating what

00:42:51.140 is credible

00:42:51.780 from what is

00:42:52.560 true, I

00:42:53.880 would say that

00:42:54.400 the news

00:42:54.980 business is no

00:42:55.960 longer credible

00:42:57.000 on the

00:42:58.240 specific question

00:42:59.180 of what

00:42:59.680 vaccines or

00:43:00.780 medicines or

00:43:01.640 therapeutics

00:43:02.980 work.

00:43:04.200 So let me

00:43:04.840 state that as

00:43:06.160 a fact I'll

00:43:08.420 die on.

00:43:08.980 So this is

00:43:10.560 beyond an

00:43:12.380 opinion.

00:43:13.080 I think this

00:43:13.540 gets into

00:43:14.060 just reasonable

00:43:16.780 observation.

00:43:18.500 That if

00:43:19.160 somebody makes

00:43:19.820 a ton of

00:43:20.420 money from

00:43:22.160 pharmaceuticals,

00:43:23.500 they're not a

00:43:24.640 credible source

00:43:25.640 for your

00:43:26.760 information about

00:43:27.620 those

00:43:27.920 pharmaceuticals.

00:43:29.000 Would we all

00:43:29.680 agree on that?

00:43:30.700 That feels like

00:43:31.940 just a statement

00:43:33.220 of fact.

00:43:34.520 Now, again,

00:43:35.280 that doesn't

00:43:36.220 mean the

00:43:36.520 news is

00:43:36.880 wrong.

00:43:37.800 It doesn't

00:43:38.540 mean they're

00:43:38.920 intentionally

00:43:39.460 lying.

00:43:40.200 It doesn't

00:43:40.520 mean they've

00:43:40.840 done anything.

00:43:41.860 It just

00:43:42.460 means you

00:43:42.800 can't trust

00:43:43.300 them.

00:43:44.640 So not

00:43:45.180 trusting them

00:43:45.960 is different

00:43:46.560 from saying

00:43:47.020 they've done

00:43:47.420 something wrong.

00:43:48.740 They could

00:43:49.100 have done

00:43:49.360 everything right.

00:43:51.180 But can

00:43:51.720 you trust

00:43:52.360 them on

00:43:53.020 this narrow

00:43:53.660 question of

00:43:55.420 any kind

00:43:55.980 of medication

00:43:56.780 vaccine?

00:43:57.600 You can't.

00:43:58.680 You can't.

00:43:59.560 Now, I don't

00:44:00.140 think I'm

00:44:00.520 talking about

00:44:01.120 the moon

00:44:02.760 landing conspiracy,

00:44:03.920 who shot

00:44:04.820 JFK.

00:44:05.940 I'm not

00:44:06.540 talking crazy

00:44:07.240 talk.

00:44:08.100 I'm talking

00:44:08.640 about the

00:44:09.140 most basic

00:44:10.860 thing any

00:44:12.060 business person

00:44:12.940 would say is

00:44:13.640 true.

00:44:14.760 If you have

00:44:15.720 a ton of

00:44:16.760 money riding

00:44:17.420 on it,

00:44:17.860 not a little

00:44:18.320 bit of money,

00:44:19.400 we're not

00:44:19.960 talking about

00:44:20.420 a few pennies.

00:44:21.640 We're talking

00:44:22.420 about billions.

00:44:24.500 Possibly,

00:44:25.420 possibly,

00:44:27.420 trillions.

00:44:29.200 The size of

00:44:30.400 this is actually

00:44:31.100 in the trillions.

00:44:33.180 Do you think

00:44:33.820 that you can

00:44:34.420 trust news

00:44:36.200 that's funded

00:44:37.000 by the people

00:44:37.700 who could

00:44:38.120 make trillions?

00:44:42.780 No.

00:44:43.360 No business

00:44:43.860 person with

00:44:44.880 any experience

00:44:45.960 would trust

00:44:47.120 anything they

00:44:47.780 say.

00:44:49.300 But unfortunately,

00:44:51.480 we're going

00:44:52.860 to anyway,

00:44:53.440 because we're

00:44:53.920 so used to

00:44:54.560 trusting the

00:44:55.260 news.

00:44:56.060 The people

00:44:56.580 on the right

00:44:57.100 are going to

00:44:57.460 trust Fox

00:44:57.980 News.

00:44:58.360 The people

00:44:58.600 on the left

00:44:59.020 are going to

00:44:59.320 trust MSNBC

00:45:00.720 and CNN,

00:45:02.000 even though we

00:45:02.640 know we

00:45:02.960 shouldn't.

00:45:03.820 We really,

00:45:04.940 really shouldn't.

00:45:06.380 Can I give you

00:45:07.020 an example

00:45:07.520 to make my

00:45:09.020 case?

00:45:10.640 All right,

00:45:11.200 here is what

00:45:11.940 you should expect

00:45:12.900 if the

00:45:13.900 pharmaceutical

00:45:14.400 companies have

00:45:15.400 corrupted the

00:45:16.280 news.

00:45:17.040 Are you ready

00:45:17.620 for this?

00:45:18.560 Are you ready

00:45:18.960 to have your

00:45:19.340 mind blown?

00:45:21.280 Here it

00:45:21.860 comes.

00:45:23.240 One way you

00:45:24.160 could tell,

00:45:25.280 not 100%,

00:45:26.540 but this would

00:45:27.380 be a strong

00:45:27.860 indicator,

00:45:28.300 that your

00:45:29.460 news has

00:45:30.140 been corrupted

00:45:30.820 by the

00:45:32.000 pharmaceutical

00:45:33.080 industry,

00:45:34.260 would be if

00:45:35.240 Fox News

00:45:37.620 and CNN

00:45:38.820 agreed.

00:45:41.180 Right?

00:45:42.280 If I could

00:45:42.940 give you an

00:45:43.360 example in

00:45:44.760 which Fox

00:45:45.440 News and

00:45:46.160 CNN agreed

00:45:47.360 on a pretty

00:45:48.520 important story,

00:45:49.860 and let's

00:45:50.500 say that that

00:45:51.020 story was

00:45:51.580 about Trump,

00:45:53.420 right?

00:45:54.220 Let's say,

00:45:55.800 how often do

00:45:57.560 CNN and Fox

00:45:58.600 News agree on

00:46:00.120 how to frame

00:46:00.720 a story about

00:46:02.260 Trump?

00:46:03.200 If they both

00:46:04.100 framed it the

00:46:04.740 same way,

00:46:06.100 would you say,

00:46:07.140 I think there's

00:46:08.080 something external

00:46:09.000 happening here?

00:46:10.800 Well, let's

00:46:11.600 take a look.

00:46:12.540 Let's look at

00:46:13.240 the news today.

00:46:14.860 As you know,

00:46:15.860 CNN has been

00:46:16.620 reporting that

00:46:18.140 the hydroxychloroquine

00:46:19.540 studies are

00:46:20.820 actually showing

00:46:21.940 that the

00:46:22.340 hydroxychloroquine,

00:46:23.360 the so-called

00:46:24.500 Trump pills,

00:46:25.720 if you could

00:46:26.100 call them

00:46:26.440 that, are

00:46:27.320 actually deadly.

00:46:29.380 Actually deadly.

00:46:30.900 And indeed,

00:46:33.680 there's been

00:46:34.100 yet another

00:46:34.920 study.

00:46:36.240 Yet another

00:46:37.120 study showing

00:46:37.780 that if you

00:46:38.280 give the

00:46:38.980 hydroxychloroquine

00:46:40.220 to people who

00:46:41.560 are at death's

00:46:42.700 door, more

00:46:44.280 of them will

00:46:44.780 die than if 0.91

00:46:45.900 you hadn't

00:46:46.180 given it to

00:46:46.620 them.

00:46:47.780 Right?

00:46:47.960 So CNN is

00:46:48.600 reporting that,

00:46:49.340 that more of

00:46:49.900 them will 0.99

00:46:50.180 die. 1.00

00:46:51.640 And

00:46:52.000 what they

00:46:54.100 don't do

00:46:54.620 on CNN

00:46:55.200 is mention

00:46:55.980 that if

00:46:56.740 you don't

00:46:57.140 test it

00:46:57.600 with the

00:46:58.040 zinc,

00:46:59.240 I'm not

00:46:59.680 sure you've

00:47:00.200 really tested

00:47:00.760 the thing

00:47:01.460 that has

00:47:01.840 the most

00:47:02.220 promise.

00:47:03.940 Because this

00:47:04.940 is CNN's

00:47:06.560 trick.

00:47:08.640 And their

00:47:09.260 viewers are

00:47:09.960 not wise to

00:47:10.720 this trick,

00:47:12.140 but a lot

00:47:12.700 of my

00:47:13.940 followers are.

00:47:15.760 Which is,

00:47:16.520 there are

00:47:16.700 really four

00:47:17.340 things that you

00:47:18.000 could test in

00:47:18.720 this world.

00:47:19.200 Now I'm

00:47:19.680 throwing out,

00:47:20.380 I'm going to

00:47:20.880 ignore the

00:47:21.380 azithromycin from

00:47:22.440 now, just to

00:47:23.760 simplify, because

00:47:24.680 there are really

00:47:25.180 three things you

00:47:25.960 could think

00:47:26.300 about, but

00:47:26.740 just to keep

00:47:27.220 it simple.

00:47:29.020 The hydroxychloroquine

00:47:30.460 alone, which if

00:47:32.100 you give it to

00:47:32.740 people who are

00:47:33.380 near death, and

00:47:34.340 those are the

00:47:34.800 studies that we

00:47:35.420 keep seeing on

00:47:36.120 CNN, it's

00:47:37.500 bad.

00:47:38.400 It doesn't

00:47:38.820 seem to work.

00:47:40.120 Now is this a

00:47:40.900 surprise, given

00:47:42.200 that we know that

00:47:42.880 the hydroxychloroquine

00:47:44.060 can have some

00:47:45.400 heart issues with

00:47:46.360 people who already

00:47:47.460 have heart

00:47:48.000 issues.

00:47:49.020 Are the elderly 0.99

00:47:50.120 people who are

00:47:50.940 dying from

00:47:51.620 coronavirus, do

00:47:54.800 they have strong

00:47:55.600 hearts?

00:47:56.580 Probably not.

00:47:57.900 So I'm not even

00:47:58.960 a doctor, but if

00:48:01.340 you said to me,

00:48:02.020 Scott, do you

00:48:03.100 think this is a

00:48:03.780 good idea, a

00:48:05.360 drug that you

00:48:05.980 know, it's really

00:48:07.080 only risk factor

00:48:08.140 seems to be if

00:48:09.140 you've got some

00:48:09.620 heart issues,

00:48:10.720 should we give

00:48:11.460 it to a group of

00:48:12.180 people who are

00:48:12.760 at death's door

00:48:13.580 and have weak

00:48:14.280 hearts?

00:48:14.660 I would say,

00:48:16.420 you know, if

00:48:17.940 they're going to

00:48:18.260 die anyway, maybe

00:48:19.060 you should test 0.97

00:48:19.720 it.

00:48:20.460 You never know.

00:48:21.300 It might work.

00:48:22.420 They did test it,

00:48:23.500 and it didn't

00:48:24.040 work.

00:48:24.420 Are we surprised?

00:48:25.940 Well, not

00:48:26.760 really.

00:48:27.880 I mean, it was

00:48:28.240 worth testing,

00:48:29.440 probably worth

00:48:30.020 testing, but not

00:48:31.780 surprised that it

00:48:32.860 didn't work.

00:48:34.820 But where are

00:48:35.640 our tests for the

00:48:36.760 other categories?

00:48:38.580 And where is

00:48:39.600 our test for the

00:48:40.980 one that has the

00:48:41.600 most promise?

00:48:42.420 Because the

00:48:43.320 whole point of

00:48:44.680 the hydroxychloroquine,

00:48:46.000 we're told, is

00:48:47.580 that it's a

00:48:48.040 delivery system for

00:48:49.300 the zinc.

00:48:50.860 Where's that?

00:48:52.140 Have you seen

00:48:52.720 this test?

00:48:54.060 Because CNN will

00:48:55.580 tell you this has

00:48:57.060 been tested, and

00:48:58.820 therefore the

00:48:59.600 president is not

00:49:00.900 doing something

00:49:01.640 that's safe.

00:49:03.380 That's what CNN

00:49:04.440 says, right?

00:49:06.520 Go to

00:49:07.340 foxnews.com

00:49:08.500 today and see

00:49:09.440 what they say

00:49:10.300 about this.

00:49:13.680 Same thing.

00:49:15.040 They say

00:49:15.620 hydroxychloroquine

00:49:17.700 in yet another

00:49:18.900 study shows it

00:49:19.880 to be dangerous

00:49:20.540 for people who

00:49:21.380 are desperately

00:49:22.700 ill.

00:49:24.680 But then they

00:49:25.660 say, and at

00:49:26.480 least Fox News

00:49:27.360 mentions that the

00:49:28.640 president is taking

00:49:29.600 hydroxychloroquine

00:49:30.680 with zinc.

00:49:31.940 So let me ask

00:49:32.900 you this.

00:49:33.840 Are these two

00:49:35.020 different drugs?

00:49:36.880 Is hydroxychloroquine

00:49:38.120 a different drug

00:49:39.800 than zinc?

00:49:41.420 And the answer

00:49:42.300 is, for marketing

00:49:43.440 purposes, and the

00:49:44.500 way our brain

00:49:45.740 considers them,

00:49:47.680 they are two

00:49:48.140 separate drugs.

00:49:50.860 If you take

00:49:51.760 these at the

00:49:52.320 same time, does

00:49:54.100 your body know

00:49:54.920 that you have

00:49:55.420 two drugs, or

00:49:56.720 does your body

00:49:57.400 just know that

00:49:58.240 there's some new

00:49:59.640 chemicals in it?

00:50:00.700 Your body doesn't

00:50:01.780 know that's two

00:50:02.460 drugs.

00:50:04.020 Your body says

00:50:05.080 that's one drug.

00:50:05.920 It doesn't

00:50:08.280 know you

00:50:08.640 combined two

00:50:09.320 drugs.

00:50:09.900 That's marketing.

00:50:11.420 That's packaging.

00:50:12.440 That's manufacturing.

00:50:13.880 That's the way

00:50:14.380 your brain holds

00:50:15.200 things.

00:50:15.560 It holds them

00:50:15.980 as two different

00:50:16.600 drugs.

00:50:18.540 But your body

00:50:19.420 doesn't know the

00:50:20.000 difference.

00:50:20.540 Your body only

00:50:21.140 got one drug.

00:50:22.020 It was a

00:50:22.340 combination of

00:50:22.940 these two

00:50:23.280 things.

00:50:24.560 So when they

00:50:25.740 say the

00:50:26.680 president's taking

00:50:27.480 this drug that's

00:50:28.220 killing people, 0.96

00:50:28.900 is that true?

00:50:29.840 It is not true.

00:50:31.840 It is basically

00:50:32.560 a lie.

00:50:33.660 It is a lie

00:50:34.780 if you leave

00:50:35.660 your readers

00:50:36.180 the idea that

00:50:38.040 the president

00:50:38.600 who's taking

00:50:39.360 this drug,

00:50:40.400 which is a

00:50:40.920 combination of

00:50:41.540 two things,

00:50:42.420 is the same

00:50:43.200 as this drug,

00:50:43.920 which is just

00:50:44.380 one of those

00:50:44.920 things.

00:50:45.720 When you

00:50:46.100 know,

00:50:47.400 anecdotally,

00:50:48.800 anecdotally,

00:50:49.540 we don't know,

00:50:50.060 that's why you

00:50:50.480 want to test it,

00:50:51.520 that it's the

00:50:52.080 combination that

00:50:52.860 might be the

00:50:53.280 powerful part.

00:50:55.780 Now,

00:50:57.060 so,

00:50:59.460 the point

00:51:01.100 is Fox

00:51:02.120 News is

00:51:03.440 misleading its

00:51:04.700 readers the

00:51:05.320 same way

00:51:05.820 that CNN

00:51:06.280 is,

00:51:06.920 and they're

00:51:07.520 both misleading

00:51:08.320 them in the

00:51:08.860 same direction,

00:51:10.100 which is to

00:51:10.720 think that the

00:51:11.340 hydroxychloroquine

00:51:12.620 with zinc

00:51:13.780 is a bad

00:51:15.840 idea because

00:51:17.180 something completely

00:51:18.140 different has

00:51:18.780 been tested.

00:51:19.920 And not only

00:51:20.440 was it something

00:51:21.180 different,

00:51:22.140 but the whole

00:51:22.980 presumption was

00:51:23.920 it's a first

00:51:24.640 symptom drug to

00:51:25.500 begin with,

00:51:26.500 and we haven't

00:51:27.080 seen this tested.

00:51:27.880 who's testing

00:51:29.260 this?

00:51:30.600 So,

00:51:31.180 we get the

00:51:31.620 ones that fail

00:51:32.360 first?

00:51:33.260 Isn't that a

00:51:33.860 coincidence?

00:51:34.680 All the ones

00:51:35.180 that fail are

00:51:36.520 the ones that

00:51:36.980 are coming in

00:51:37.480 first.

00:51:38.360 Huh.

00:51:38.960 Is that because

00:51:39.640 the ones that

00:51:40.300 were the least

00:51:41.140 likely to work

00:51:42.120 were also fully

00:51:43.320 funded?

00:51:44.420 Maybe.

00:51:45.300 Who knows?

00:51:47.220 So,

00:51:48.220 today there's

00:51:49.380 news.

00:51:51.780 All right,

00:51:52.040 so that's your

00:51:52.520 first signal that

00:51:54.200 the news is not

00:51:55.200 giving you real

00:51:56.580 news on

00:51:57.080 pharmaceuticals

00:51:57.980 because both

00:51:58.740 Fox News and

00:51:59.480 CNN are doing

00:52:00.940 something that's

00:52:01.600 completely illegitimate,

00:52:03.460 in my opinion,

00:52:04.680 treating the one

00:52:05.740 drug like it's the

00:52:06.640 same as the

00:52:07.100 combination of the

00:52:07.840 two drugs.

00:52:09.060 And I don't know

00:52:10.480 any reason you

00:52:11.100 would do that

00:52:11.600 other than to

00:52:12.220 mislead.

00:52:14.280 Intentionally or

00:52:15.060 unintentionally,

00:52:15.960 it's clearly

00:52:17.060 putting the

00:52:18.260 readers off the

00:52:19.200 track and

00:52:20.480 moving them

00:52:20.980 off the scent

00:52:21.840 instead of

00:52:22.560 helping them

00:52:23.020 understand what's

00:52:23.780 going on.

00:52:24.260 so I would

00:52:26.500 say that's a

00:52:26.980 pretty strong

00:52:27.580 indication that

00:52:29.620 the news is no

00:52:30.420 longer credible

00:52:31.440 when it comes to

00:52:32.720 any kind of

00:52:33.200 pharmaceutical,

00:52:34.000 medical thing.

00:52:36.160 Just to make it

00:52:37.060 fun, just to

00:52:39.040 put a bow on

00:52:39.680 this, do you

00:52:41.540 think this could

00:52:42.060 get any better?

00:52:43.320 Oh, it's getting

00:52:44.300 better right now

00:52:45.180 because I'll bet

00:52:46.200 you haven't heard

00:52:46.900 this news.

00:52:48.920 This news is

00:52:49.940 hot off the

00:52:50.460 press.

00:52:50.700 I just tweeted

00:52:51.360 it like just

00:52:52.300 before I got

00:52:52.920 on.

00:52:54.360 And let me

00:52:55.080 read it to

00:52:55.440 you.

00:52:56.520 It turns out

00:52:57.120 that in India,

00:52:59.060 which is,

00:53:00.280 what is India

00:53:01.640 famous for

00:53:02.440 making,

00:53:03.740 they're the

00:53:04.320 biggest

00:53:04.700 manufacturer of

00:53:06.400 a drug.

00:53:07.220 What's that

00:53:07.600 drug?

00:53:08.540 Oh yeah,

00:53:09.680 hydroxychloroquine.

00:53:11.940 Okay, so in the

00:53:12.740 United States,

00:53:13.580 the two big news

00:53:14.440 organizations,

00:53:15.300 left and right,

00:53:16.460 have weirdly

00:53:17.200 and uncharacteristically

00:53:19.400 taken the same

00:53:20.280 side,

00:53:22.000 huh, it's

00:53:23.260 almost as if

00:53:23.900 the pharmaceuticals

00:53:24.940 are influencing

00:53:26.640 that.

00:53:27.060 But let's look

00:53:28.060 at India.

00:53:29.100 Now, India,

00:53:29.920 if you imagine

00:53:30.640 that the

00:53:31.060 pharmaceuticals

00:53:31.900 influence their

00:53:32.740 news,

00:53:34.080 wouldn't you

00:53:34.600 kind of expect

00:53:35.660 that the

00:53:36.660 country that

00:53:37.260 is the

00:53:37.640 number one

00:53:38.400 producer of,

00:53:39.380 even though

00:53:39.680 it's very

00:53:40.000 cheap,

00:53:41.200 they produce

00:53:41.980 a lot of

00:53:42.380 it, so it

00:53:42.720 must be a

00:53:43.080 lot of

00:53:43.280 money,

00:53:44.320 hydroxychloroquine,

00:53:45.320 the main

00:53:45.740 producer of

00:53:46.320 hydroxychloroquine.

00:53:47.540 If they were

00:53:48.420 to test

00:53:48.940 hydroxychloroquine,

00:53:50.620 do you think

00:53:51.520 that they would

00:53:51.980 get a good

00:53:52.500 result or

00:53:54.320 a bad result

00:53:55.120 without even

00:53:56.800 knowing anything

00:53:57.360 about science,

00:53:58.980 without knowing

00:53:59.560 anything about

00:54:00.280 medicine?

00:54:01.700 Would the

00:54:02.420 people who

00:54:02.900 make a fortune

00:54:03.840 producing this

00:54:04.720 chemical more

00:54:06.140 likely tell you

00:54:07.060 it works?

00:54:09.220 Let's read

00:54:10.000 today's news.

00:54:13.360 According to,

00:54:14.340 this is news

00:54:15.700 from India,

00:54:16.180 India, the

00:54:17.500 premier health

00:54:18.220 body, so

00:54:18.860 their big

00:54:19.280 health body,

00:54:20.500 looked at

00:54:21.040 three different

00:54:21.980 studies.

00:54:23.720 Now, when I

00:54:24.240 say studies, I

00:54:25.480 don't mean they

00:54:25.940 were drug

00:54:26.340 trials.

00:54:27.500 They were

00:54:27.780 studies of

00:54:28.580 looking at

00:54:29.200 what happened

00:54:30.500 when different

00:54:31.880 groups were

00:54:32.420 given hydroxychloroquine

00:54:33.820 for a

00:54:34.440 prophylactics,

00:54:35.780 meaning

00:54:37.580 preventative.

00:54:39.560 According to

00:54:40.080 India, there

00:54:40.660 are three

00:54:41.080 separate studies

00:54:41.920 that show

00:54:42.400 very strongly

00:54:43.340 that the,

00:54:45.100 and again,

00:54:45.620 it's a

00:54:46.100 retrospective

00:54:46.880 study, it's

00:54:47.480 not as

00:54:47.960 reliable as

00:54:48.820 like a

00:54:49.220 controlled

00:54:50.060 study.

00:54:51.200 So the

00:54:51.480 first thing

00:54:51.820 you need to

00:54:52.160 know is

00:54:52.500 this is not

00:54:53.100 a confirmed

00:54:53.880 clinical

00:54:55.280 gold standard

00:54:56.520 Fauci level

00:54:59.020 clinical

00:55:00.340 style,

00:55:01.060 clinical trial.

00:55:02.460 But,

00:55:03.320 it's three

00:55:03.960 different sets

00:55:04.560 of data

00:55:05.020 in which they

00:55:06.160 have a lot

00:55:06.620 of data.

00:55:07.700 The data

00:55:08.160 seems reliable,

00:55:09.900 as far as we

00:55:10.660 can tell,

00:55:11.220 we don't know,

00:55:12.400 but it seems

00:55:12.760 reliable,

00:55:13.760 and it all

00:55:14.580 goes in the

00:55:15.020 same direction.

00:55:16.380 And apparently

00:55:16.780 the people

00:55:17.480 who took

00:55:18.040 hydroxychloroquine,

00:55:20.380 I guess it was

00:55:21.160 mostly front-line

00:55:21.960 workers,

00:55:23.120 had way

00:55:24.360 fewer infections

00:55:25.400 than the

00:55:26.000 people who

00:55:26.340 didn't.

00:55:28.540 So in

00:55:29.360 India,

00:55:30.280 the news

00:55:30.880 is opposite

00:55:31.740 of the

00:55:32.260 United States,

00:55:33.820 and coincidentally,

00:55:35.680 coincidentally,

00:55:38.100 their

00:55:38.400 pharmaceutical

00:55:39.180 financial

00:55:41.320 incentive

00:55:41.840 is also

00:55:43.060 opposite

00:55:43.640 of the

00:55:43.960 United

00:55:44.200 States.

00:55:45.520 Huh.

00:55:46.800 Huh.

00:55:48.240 Is that

00:55:48.960 a coincidence?

00:55:50.240 Is it a

00:55:50.860 coincidence

00:55:51.240 that wherever

00:55:52.500 the money

00:55:53.000 leads you

00:55:53.600 is where

00:55:54.100 the science

00:55:54.660 ends up?

00:55:55.720 Huh.

00:55:58.060 Now,

00:55:58.820 that could be

00:55:59.340 a coincidence.

00:56:00.460 You actually

00:56:01.300 can't rule

00:56:01.920 out a coincidence.

00:56:03.300 Can you?

00:56:04.220 You can't

00:56:04.660 rule out

00:56:04.960 a coincidence.

00:56:06.300 We live

00:56:06.980 in a world

00:56:07.340 where coincidences

00:56:08.220 are just

00:56:09.200 rampant.

00:56:10.680 So it

00:56:11.000 could be

00:56:11.600 that the

00:56:12.800 Indians are

00:56:13.460 all wrong. 0.98

00:56:14.300 Three separate

00:56:14.920 studies,

00:56:15.860 and all

00:56:16.580 three of

00:56:16.980 them were

00:56:17.260 wrong.

00:56:18.520 Could be.

00:56:19.860 Now,

00:56:20.120 if somebody

00:56:20.340 says,

00:56:20.680 was it

00:56:20.960 with zinc?

00:56:21.560 And the

00:56:21.820 answer is,

00:56:22.860 doesn't say.

00:56:24.320 So the

00:56:24.840 article doesn't

00:56:25.680 mention it

00:56:26.120 one way or

00:56:26.540 the other.

00:56:27.500 But if you

00:56:28.480 were taking

00:56:28.980 hydroxychloroquine

00:56:30.220 preventatively,

00:56:31.680 and you were

00:56:32.540 a frontline

00:56:33.380 healthcare worker,

00:56:34.400 would you

00:56:35.920 not be

00:56:37.020 taking zinc?

00:56:38.720 Right?

00:56:39.720 Because zinc

00:56:40.520 is sort of

00:56:42.080 suggested that

00:56:43.980 it might be

00:56:44.480 helpful no

00:56:46.160 matter what.

00:56:47.220 It could be

00:56:47.760 that the zinc

00:56:48.320 is the only

00:56:48.800 thing that

00:56:49.160 matters.

00:56:50.240 Right?

00:56:50.440 You could

00:56:50.920 find that out

00:56:51.840 in the future

00:56:52.260 too.

00:56:53.260 So do you

00:56:53.780 think that

00:56:54.120 the healthcare

00:56:54.520 professionals who

00:56:55.780 have also

00:56:56.220 heard what

00:56:56.700 you've heard,

00:56:58.000 that it's the

00:56:58.580 combination of

00:56:59.220 the two that's

00:56:59.740 good, do you

00:57:00.160 think they

00:57:00.460 weren't also

00:57:01.220 taking a zinc

00:57:01.980 supplement?

00:57:04.400 Probably they

00:57:04.960 were.

00:57:05.900 Probably they

00:57:06.440 were.

00:57:07.800 It's also

00:57:08.540 possible that

00:57:09.440 maybe they

00:57:10.000 had enough

00:57:10.500 zinc in

00:57:11.020 them because

00:57:11.480 they were

00:57:11.720 younger people

00:57:12.380 and they

00:57:12.700 weren't unhealthy

00:57:13.780 to begin

00:57:14.220 with.

00:57:15.000 But here's

00:57:15.620 where I

00:57:16.100 would be

00:57:16.820 cautious.

00:57:18.620 Alright?

00:57:18.980 Here's some

00:57:19.440 caution for

00:57:20.040 you.

00:57:20.920 What would

00:57:21.360 be different

00:57:21.940 about the

00:57:22.500 people who

00:57:23.020 voluntarily

00:57:23.720 took

00:57:24.200 hydroxychloroquine

00:57:25.380 from the

00:57:26.540 people in

00:57:27.480 India who

00:57:28.040 had the

00:57:28.400 same

00:57:28.640 opportunity

00:57:29.260 and decided

00:57:30.440 not to?

00:57:31.680 Is there

00:57:32.220 anything that

00:57:32.760 you could

00:57:33.060 determine about

00:57:33.820 those two

00:57:34.420 groups that

00:57:35.760 would skew

00:57:36.540 your results?

00:57:38.840 And the

00:57:39.100 answer is

00:57:39.600 yeah,

00:57:40.660 yeah,

00:57:41.340 there is.

00:57:42.960 Right?

00:57:43.480 The people

00:57:44.180 who would

00:57:44.560 say I'm

00:57:45.180 going to do

00:57:46.340 everything I

00:57:47.000 can to

00:57:47.340 avoid

00:57:47.640 coronavirus

00:57:48.260 are the

00:57:49.700 people who

00:57:50.060 are going

00:57:50.220 to take

00:57:50.480 a chance

00:57:50.940 on this

00:57:51.460 drug.

00:57:52.500 Is there

00:57:53.160 anything about

00:57:53.780 that personality

00:57:54.880 type that

00:57:55.460 might protect

00:57:56.100 them?

00:57:57.140 Yeah.

00:57:58.020 They're the

00:57:58.460 ones who

00:57:58.760 are extra,

00:58:00.000 extra concerned.

00:58:01.180 the people

00:58:02.580 who are

00:58:02.840 most

00:58:03.300 concerned

00:58:04.020 probably do

00:58:05.900 a whole

00:58:06.260 host of

00:58:06.840 things from

00:58:07.500 washing their

00:58:08.120 hands more,

00:58:09.440 not touching

00:58:10.300 their face.

00:58:11.300 There are

00:58:11.660 probably a

00:58:12.020 whole bunch

00:58:12.440 of things

00:58:12.800 that you

00:58:13.060 do if

00:58:14.100 you're in

00:58:14.940 the more

00:58:15.320 concerned

00:58:15.960 group.

00:58:17.420 So,

00:58:18.300 if what you

00:58:18.980 heard from

00:58:19.460 this is

00:58:20.040 hydroxychloroquine

00:58:21.240 works,

00:58:22.400 because India

00:58:23.180 did three

00:58:23.880 separate

00:58:24.340 retrospective

00:58:25.240 tests and

00:58:26.240 it looked like

00:58:26.720 there was a

00:58:27.120 strong effect,

00:58:28.200 you didn't

00:58:28.620 hear me.

00:58:29.120 If that's

00:58:31.320 what you

00:58:31.580 got out of

00:58:31.960 this,

00:58:32.160 you didn't

00:58:32.400 hear me.

00:58:34.140 India has 0.96

00:58:34.900 a gigantic

00:58:35.720 financial

00:58:36.460 incentive in

00:58:37.320 saying this

00:58:37.800 stuff works.

00:58:39.760 The United

00:58:40.480 States,

00:58:41.600 the news

00:58:42.440 industry anyway,

00:58:43.240 has a gigantic

00:58:44.040 financial incentive

00:58:45.140 probably to

00:58:47.440 say that it

00:58:47.940 doesn't.

00:58:48.900 Because there

00:58:49.460 are so many

00:58:50.160 vaccines being

00:58:51.380 worked on,

00:58:52.020 I would

00:58:52.260 imagine that

00:58:52.860 just about

00:58:53.380 all of the

00:58:54.680 people who

00:58:55.020 have some

00:58:55.340 connection to

00:58:56.240 advertising on

00:58:57.980 the news,

00:58:58.440 they probably

00:58:58.820 all have at

00:58:59.320 least one

00:58:59.840 division that's

00:59:01.120 working on a

00:59:01.660 vaccine or a

00:59:02.620 therapeutic and

00:59:03.420 there's a lot of

00:59:03.920 money involved.

00:59:05.260 So I wouldn't

00:59:06.280 trust anybody on

00:59:07.480 the question of

00:59:08.260 hydroxychloroquine.

00:59:11.840 All right.

00:59:14.640 Somebody says

00:59:15.440 it's basically

00:59:16.040 free, why not

00:59:17.600 have it on the

00:59:18.580 ready?

00:59:19.260 And the answer

00:59:19.800 is, apparently

00:59:21.320 we don't have

00:59:21.860 enough of it.

00:59:22.920 So there's

00:59:23.380 actually a

00:59:23.880 shortage of it.

00:59:25.560 You can't say

00:59:26.580 something is

00:59:27.180 free at the

00:59:28.560 same time

00:59:29.020 you said

00:59:29.380 there's a

00:59:29.840 shortage of

00:59:30.480 it.

00:59:31.320 Because in

00:59:32.060 a capitalist

00:59:32.500 system, the

00:59:34.200 price of it

00:59:35.460 in the

00:59:36.680 context of a

00:59:37.520 shortage should

00:59:38.860 be going up

00:59:40.400 on the black

00:59:40.860 market pretty

00:59:41.420 high.

00:59:42.860 All right.

00:59:47.140 I'm looking

00:59:47.800 at your

00:59:48.240 comments here.

00:59:50.580 So there's a

00:59:51.260 Peter Salk

00:59:52.020 article somebody

00:59:53.000 sent to me.

00:59:54.100 Can you still

00:59:54.780 hear my whistle?

00:59:55.520 By the way,

00:59:56.680 the whistle is

00:59:57.660 being produced

00:59:58.280 in my teeth

00:59:59.440 and mouth 0.90

00:59:59.940 area, so

01:00:01.600 don't worry

01:00:02.100 about me

01:00:02.600 having any

01:00:03.360 kind of

01:00:03.760 medical

01:00:04.220 problems.

01:00:06.280 Shouldn't

01:00:06.920 we all be

01:00:07.680 required to

01:00:08.560 wear goggles?

01:00:10.200 The answer

01:00:10.840 is no.

01:00:13.260 So people

01:00:14.540 are asking

01:00:15.060 if you

01:00:16.120 should wear

01:00:16.680 a face

01:00:18.540 mask, why

01:00:19.660 shouldn't you

01:00:20.160 also wear

01:00:20.760 goggles?

01:00:21.180 because the

01:00:22.200 medical experts

01:00:22.860 are telling

01:00:23.300 us that your

01:00:23.820 eyes and

01:00:24.580 your mouth 0.72

01:00:25.060 are places 0.99

01:00:26.020 where viruses

01:00:26.780 can get in.

01:00:28.160 And the

01:00:28.640 answer is

01:00:29.260 that you

01:00:29.940 don't wear

01:00:30.420 a mask

01:00:30.980 to keep

01:00:32.080 viruses from

01:00:32.900 getting in.

01:00:33.780 You wear

01:00:34.420 a mask

01:00:34.960 because you

01:00:35.560 might be

01:00:35.940 asymptomatic

01:00:36.780 and to

01:00:37.540 keep them

01:00:37.900 from getting

01:00:38.320 out.

01:00:39.080 Your mouth

01:00:40.100 produces

01:00:41.220 droplets.

01:00:43.420 You're 0.99

01:00:43.640 shooting them 0.98

01:00:44.020 out of your 0.99

01:00:44.340 mouth. 0.98

01:00:45.120 Your eyeballs

01:00:45.980 do not

01:00:46.740 produce tears

01:00:48.300 that are

01:00:48.680 shooting out

01:00:49.140 of your

01:00:49.400 eyes.

01:00:49.900 If you 0.99

01:00:50.900 could shoot

01:00:51.400 tears out

01:00:52.100 of your

01:00:52.340 eyes just

01:00:53.000 walking around,

01:00:54.140 then you

01:00:54.720 would have

01:00:55.060 to wear

01:00:55.380 goggles too.

01:00:57.060 But as

01:00:57.420 long as

01:00:57.740 you're

01:00:57.900 shooting

01:00:58.140 things out 0.98

01:00:58.580 of your

01:00:58.780 mouth but

01:00:59.300 not out

01:00:59.660 of your

01:00:59.920 eyes,

01:01:01.560 you 0.96

01:01:01.660 asymptomatic 0.91

01:01:02.720 people are

01:01:03.860 fine.

01:01:05.440 All right.

01:01:10.060 So last

01:01:11.020 night I had

01:01:11.620 more of a

01:01:11.980 whistle.

01:01:12.620 I'm

01:01:13.100 consciously

01:01:13.700 trying to

01:01:14.420 avoid doing

01:01:15.100 it, so

01:01:15.940 I probably

01:01:17.660 got it under

01:01:18.340 a little bit

01:01:18.780 of control.

01:01:19.900 there should

01:01:23.180 be no

01:01:23.520 requirements,

01:01:24.360 only

01:01:24.720 suggestions.

01:01:26.760 Yeah.

01:01:27.800 Yeah.

01:01:28.900 I don't

01:01:29.560 know.

01:01:30.020 You know,

01:01:30.660 I'm on the

01:01:31.480 side that

01:01:31.940 says anything

01:01:32.720 you do

01:01:33.260 temporarily

01:01:33.860 for the

01:01:34.760 purpose of

01:01:35.620 medical

01:01:36.580 should not

01:01:37.900 be viewed

01:01:38.540 in the

01:01:39.100 context of

01:01:40.000 the

01:01:40.320 Constitution

01:01:40.960 because

01:01:42.220 everything we

01:01:43.260 do medically

01:01:43.820 is an

01:01:44.700 exception to

01:01:45.320 the Constitution.

01:01:46.480 You know,

01:01:46.700 not everything,

01:01:47.300 but we do

01:01:49.080 lots of

01:01:49.700 medical things

01:01:50.680 that if you

01:01:52.020 were really

01:01:52.520 going to look

01:01:52.940 at them

01:01:53.220 compared to

01:01:53.780 the Constitution,

01:01:54.760 you'd have

01:01:55.120 some problems.

01:01:56.540 For example,

01:01:57.320 people who

01:01:57.800 are considered

01:01:58.340 not capable.

01:01:59.860 If you

01:02:00.460 were judged

01:02:01.400 to be not

01:02:02.000 mentally

01:02:02.380 competent,

01:02:03.520 you basically

01:02:04.140 lose all

01:02:04.700 your constitutional

01:02:05.600 rights.

01:02:06.900 Show me in

01:02:07.640 the Constitution

01:02:08.460 the place

01:02:09.820 where it says

01:02:10.420 being mentally 0.66

01:02:11.100 incapable is 0.99

01:02:12.540 where you

01:02:12.880 lose all of

01:02:13.460 your rights

01:02:13.860 as a citizen.

01:02:14.500 It's not

01:02:14.980 there.

01:02:15.920 So we

01:02:16.320 fairly

01:02:17.300 routinely

01:02:18.000 make

01:02:19.700 non-constitutional

01:02:21.040 decisions

01:02:21.660 for the

01:02:23.080 benefit of

01:02:23.820 medical

01:02:24.660 necessity

01:02:25.560 and trying

01:02:26.720 to do

01:02:27.000 the right

01:02:27.300 thing.

01:02:28.380 I mean,

01:02:28.700 nobody's

01:02:29.180 being a 0.99

01:02:29.560 dick 1.00

01:02:29.860 for just 0.99

01:02:31.020 trying to

01:02:31.440 do the

01:02:31.720 right thing,

01:02:32.400 trying to

01:02:32.740 keep people

01:02:33.160 alive,

01:02:33.860 right?

01:02:34.140 Nobody's

01:02:34.480 trying to

01:02:35.240 violate your

01:02:35.900 Constitution.

01:02:36.880 Which brings

01:02:37.620 me to my

01:02:38.180 final point.

01:02:40.660 You will

01:02:41.300 see,

01:02:41.660 especially on

01:02:42.220 the right-leaning

01:02:43.220 media,

01:02:44.500 that the

01:02:44.980 real purpose

01:02:46.060 of this

01:02:46.740 shutdown is

01:02:48.020 to train

01:02:48.700 the citizens

01:02:49.340 to put up

01:02:50.040 with anything

01:02:50.600 and it's

01:02:51.540 to exercise

01:02:52.660 control and

01:02:54.380 it's all

01:02:54.680 about people's

01:02:55.660 internal need

01:02:56.440 for control.

01:02:58.260 None of

01:02:58.760 that's real.

01:03:00.400 You should

01:03:01.080 discount

01:03:02.080 everybody who

01:03:03.160 tells you

01:03:03.720 that they're

01:03:04.780 looking into

01:03:05.400 the minds

01:03:06.040 of strangers,

01:03:08.060 be those

01:03:08.720 strangers

01:03:09.220 governors or

01:03:10.880 pundits,

01:03:11.840 and they can

01:03:12.380 see that on

01:03:13.200 the inside,

01:03:14.500 even though

01:03:15.040 they're not

01:03:15.400 saying it,

01:03:16.780 and there's

01:03:17.420 nothing in

01:03:17.820 their philosophy

01:03:18.480 that would

01:03:18.900 suggest it,

01:03:21.080 that internally

01:03:22.280 you can tell

01:03:23.100 that their

01:03:24.120 real plan

01:03:25.340 is their

01:03:25.820 globalist

01:03:26.540 plan to

01:03:27.740 squash the

01:03:28.580 human rights

01:03:29.180 of people

01:03:29.660 and exert

01:03:30.780 their control

01:03:31.540 over them

01:03:32.120 before they

01:03:32.680 take them

01:03:33.120 to the

01:03:33.440 gulags.

01:03:35.240 All right.

01:03:35.600 in my

01:03:38.200 opinion,

01:03:39.080 there's not

01:03:39.620 one person

01:03:40.520 on the

01:03:41.020 planet Earth

01:03:41.680 who is

01:03:42.160 thinking along

01:03:43.140 those lines.

01:03:44.420 None.

01:03:45.700 Yeah.

01:03:46.560 I know

01:03:47.240 the news

01:03:48.440 on the

01:03:48.760 right likes

01:03:49.500 to paint

01:03:49.980 Whitmer as

01:03:51.340 somebody whose

01:03:51.860 real goal,

01:03:53.420 her real

01:03:54.100 goal is

01:03:54.660 power.

01:03:56.020 It's about

01:03:56.640 something in

01:03:57.300 her personality.

01:03:59.700 Can you see

01:04:00.700 her personality? 0.54

01:04:02.360 Is that

01:04:02.960 in evidence?

01:04:04.200 All we see

01:04:05.140 is people

01:04:05.700 making different

01:04:06.400 decisions.

01:04:07.160 That's all we

01:04:07.620 know.

01:04:08.420 All we know

01:04:09.260 is that 50

01:04:10.380 governors made

01:04:11.280 50 slightly

01:04:12.200 different decisions

01:04:13.060 as people

01:04:14.880 do.

01:04:17.300 So,

01:04:18.140 yeah,

01:04:18.560 and,

01:04:18.740 you know,

01:04:19.680 Lightfoot in

01:04:20.440 Chicago arresting

01:04:21.680 people.

01:04:22.520 Do you think

01:04:23.000 that mayors

01:04:25.260 are arresting

01:04:26.200 people to

01:04:27.480 satisfy their

01:04:28.500 internal need

01:04:29.320 for control?

01:04:31.420 nothing like

01:04:33.100 that's happening.

01:04:34.580 In my

01:04:35.240 opinion,

01:04:35.880 I hate to be

01:04:36.400 the bearer

01:04:38.820 of good

01:04:39.220 news,

01:04:40.360 but allow me

01:04:41.000 to be the

01:04:41.460 bearer of

01:04:41.920 good news.

01:04:43.320 We are

01:04:44.000 experiencing

01:04:44.620 a one-in-a-lifetime

01:04:46.380 situation.

01:04:48.080 This is

01:04:48.520 once-ever.

01:04:50.060 I don't know

01:04:50.860 if you'll ever

01:04:51.460 see this again,

01:04:53.140 and the part

01:04:53.840 that's the

01:04:54.240 once-ever,

01:04:54.860 not just the

01:04:55.440 fact that it's

01:04:55.920 a virus,

01:04:57.060 the once-ever

01:04:57.840 part is that

01:04:59.960 we're all on

01:05:00.320 the same side.

01:05:01.420 once-ever.

01:05:04.340 We're all

01:05:05.320 on the same

01:05:05.860 side.

01:05:07.120 Those mayors

01:05:08.020 who are making

01:05:08.540 decisions,

01:05:09.700 it's not because

01:05:10.460 they're working

01:05:11.520 out some kind

01:05:12.260 of inner

01:05:13.100 turmoil with

01:05:14.060 their emotional

01:05:15.760 state.

01:05:16.460 It's not some

01:05:16.980 big global

01:05:18.280 conspiracy.

01:05:19.920 Every mayor

01:05:20.740 is just trying

01:05:21.660 to make this

01:05:22.260 work.

01:05:23.220 They're just

01:05:23.800 trying to get

01:05:24.380 to the other

01:05:24.860 side of it

01:05:25.340 with a good

01:05:25.800 result.

01:05:26.920 There's nobody

01:05:27.600 in this story 0.99

01:05:29.120 who's a dick. 0.99

01:05:29.720 there's nobody 0.99

01:05:31.040 in here who's

01:05:31.720 just trying to

01:05:32.500 get one over

01:05:34.020 on people.

01:05:35.340 I refuse to

01:05:36.780 believe there's

01:05:37.640 anybody that

01:05:38.320 bad.

01:05:39.300 I do.

01:05:39.840 I just refuse

01:05:40.320 to believe it.

01:05:41.660 Now, you

01:05:42.440 could say I'm

01:05:42.960 being naive,

01:05:44.240 but in order

01:05:45.460 to make your

01:05:46.040 point, you'd

01:05:46.500 have to find

01:05:47.000 at least one

01:05:47.640 person ever

01:05:48.420 who is willing

01:05:49.520 to say it out

01:05:50.160 loud.

01:05:50.500 It's like,

01:05:50.720 yeah, you

01:05:51.100 know, I don't

01:05:52.140 mind all these 0.98

01:05:52.700 people dying. 0.62

01:05:53.520 I don't mind

01:05:53.920 the economy

01:05:54.380 being destroyed.

01:05:55.160 I just want

01:05:56.240 a little more

01:05:56.640 control.

01:05:57.640 I need to

01:05:58.240 control people.

01:06:00.140 I don't think

01:06:00.960 it's a thing.

01:06:02.120 I really don't.

01:06:03.420 So I think

01:06:04.320 you should

01:06:04.680 release on it,

01:06:05.640 and also I

01:06:06.340 think that

01:06:07.160 anybody who's

01:06:08.740 telling you

01:06:09.240 that they can

01:06:09.880 see it,

01:06:11.860 it's one thing

01:06:12.880 to say,

01:06:13.820 I speculate

01:06:14.640 it might exist,

01:06:15.680 but I have no

01:06:16.280 information that

01:06:17.400 would confirm it

01:06:18.420 or even suggest

01:06:19.440 it.

01:06:20.300 That would be

01:06:21.060 fair.

01:06:23.080 I'd accept

01:06:23.820 that, yeah.

01:06:24.480 I believe

01:06:25.280 it might

01:06:25.600 exist, but

01:06:26.140 there's no

01:06:26.460 evidence of

01:06:27.060 it.

01:06:27.480 That'd be

01:06:27.800 fair.

01:06:29.000 But if

01:06:29.340 somebody says

01:06:29.900 it's obvious,

01:06:30.580 it's clear,

01:06:31.120 I can see

01:06:31.600 it, I can

01:06:32.220 see their

01:06:32.660 thoughts, I

01:06:33.720 know what

01:06:34.060 they're thinking,

01:06:34.700 it's part of

01:06:35.120 their massive

01:06:35.580 plan for

01:06:36.260 global domination,

01:06:38.000 you should

01:06:39.160 discount that

01:06:39.960 person's opinion

01:06:40.740 on everything

01:06:41.500 else they

01:06:41.940 ever say for

01:06:42.500 the rest of

01:06:42.900 your life.

01:06:43.860 That's it.

01:06:44.900 That is

01:06:45.860 someone who's

01:06:46.380 not really

01:06:46.820 dealing in

01:06:47.580 the observable

01:06:49.480 world that

01:06:50.080 you're living

01:06:50.440 in.

01:06:52.920 Somebody

01:06:53.400 says it's

01:06:53.960 about

01:06:54.220 corruption.

01:06:55.540 I don't

01:06:55.900 know what

01:06:56.120 that means.

01:06:57.000 What's that

01:06:57.380 mean?

01:06:58.320 It's about

01:06:58.860 corruption?

01:07:00.320 Exactly who

01:07:01.080 is doing what

01:07:02.440 to get rich

01:07:03.100 on this?

01:07:05.380 I mean,

01:07:05.700 there's lots

01:07:06.140 of profiteering

01:07:07.600 on supplies

01:07:08.380 and stuff,

01:07:09.040 but if you're

01:07:09.380 talking about

01:07:09.740 the mayors

01:07:10.360 and the

01:07:10.660 governors,

01:07:11.680 are the

01:07:12.300 mayors and

01:07:12.780 the governors

01:07:13.260 taking bribes

01:07:14.340 to keep us

01:07:14.880 closed longer?

01:07:16.540 I don't think

01:07:17.240 so.

01:07:17.960 They might

01:07:18.440 take bribes

01:07:19.080 to open us

01:07:19.940 sooner,

01:07:20.260 but nobody

01:07:21.380 is taking

01:07:21.740 a bribe

01:07:22.240 to stay

01:07:22.660 closed.

01:07:23.480 Are they?

01:07:24.180 I doubt it.

01:07:26.240 So,

01:07:27.180 I've said

01:07:28.080 this about

01:07:28.500 the presidency

01:07:29.120 as well.

01:07:30.620 I don't

01:07:31.060 think that

01:07:31.600 somebody says

01:07:32.400 the Rothschild.

01:07:35.220 There's,

01:07:36.160 I don't know,

01:07:38.100 it just seems

01:07:38.560 funny that the

01:07:39.920 Rothschilds

01:07:40.560 somehow would

01:07:41.160 have something

01:07:41.580 to gain by

01:07:42.980 keeping the

01:07:43.740 economy closed.

01:07:45.420 I don't

01:07:46.240 think anybody

01:07:46.680 has anything

01:07:47.160 to gain.

01:07:48.140 The unique

01:07:48.980 characteristic

01:07:51.680 of this

01:07:52.420 is that

01:07:52.840 nobody can

01:07:54.220 gain by

01:07:55.680 doing it

01:07:56.080 wrong.

01:07:57.220 So,

01:07:57.580 we may have

01:07:58.460 a different

01:07:58.840 opinion of

01:07:59.440 what's the

01:07:59.860 right way

01:08:00.300 to do it

01:08:00.860 and how

01:08:01.200 soon and

01:08:01.980 the specific

01:08:03.240 technique,

01:08:04.300 but there's

01:08:04.780 nobody,

01:08:06.120 nobody,

01:08:07.540 even in the

01:08:08.660 wildest stretch

01:08:09.980 of your

01:08:10.340 imagination,

01:08:11.540 there's nobody

01:08:12.160 in any

01:08:12.580 elected

01:08:13.140 office

01:08:14.360 who's

01:08:15.500 going to

01:08:15.740 come out

01:08:16.100 better by

01:08:16.700 doing a

01:08:17.020 worse job.

01:08:19.080 Nobody

01:08:19.600 comes out

01:08:20.140 ahead by

01:08:21.440 doing a

01:08:21.900 worse job.

01:08:22.860 It's just

01:08:23.160 not a

01:08:24.000 thing.

01:08:25.820 All right.

01:08:29.280 If a

01:08:29.980 thousand wise

01:08:30.740 men say a

01:08:31.440 foolish thing, 0.98

01:08:32.400 it is still a 1.00

01:08:33.000 foolish thing, 0.91

01:08:33.680 somebody says. 0.99

01:08:34.620 I suppose

01:08:35.340 that's true.

01:08:39.260 Somebody

01:08:39.780 says the

01:08:40.320 China deal

01:08:41.160 led to

01:08:42.000 the

01:08:42.240 pandemic.

01:08:42.840 pandemic.

01:08:44.220 So,

01:08:44.880 somebody

01:08:45.300 thinks that

01:08:45.860 there was

01:08:46.140 a plan

01:08:46.740 to stop

01:08:47.280 the

01:08:47.600 China

01:08:48.780 trade

01:08:49.340 deal

01:08:49.620 by a

01:08:50.580 pandemic.

01:08:52.100 Eh.

01:08:54.500 Somebody

01:08:55.020 says,

01:08:55.520 you are 0.59

01:08:55.920 naive. 0.97

01:08:57.420 That's what

01:08:58.060 people say

01:08:58.680 right before

01:09:01.100 they get

01:09:01.420 blocked.

01:09:05.160 Block.

01:09:06.360 There,

01:09:06.920 you don't

01:09:07.100 have to

01:09:07.360 worry about

01:09:07.720 my naivety

01:09:08.420 anymore.

01:09:09.720 Problem

01:09:10.060 solved.

01:09:10.460 All right.

01:09:12.580 So,

01:09:12.880 that's my

01:09:13.260 show for

01:09:14.800 today.

01:09:15.900 And I

01:09:16.140 hope you

01:09:16.400 check me

01:09:16.720 out on

01:09:17.120 Locals,

01:09:18.200 where

01:09:18.580 robots read

01:09:19.360 news.

01:09:20.540 It has a

01:09:21.260 comic quite

01:09:22.000 often.

01:09:23.000 And a lot

01:09:23.660 of other

01:09:23.940 material over

01:09:24.640 there that

01:09:24.960 you don't

01:09:25.200 see anywhere

01:09:25.860 else.

01:09:27.340 And that's

01:09:28.020 all for

01:09:28.260 today.

01:09:28.980 And I'll

01:09:29.380 talk to

01:09:29.760 you tomorrow.

01:09:32.400 Or no,

01:09:32.800 actually,

01:09:33.120 tonight.

01:09:33.340 Tonight.

01:09:33.400 Dallas.

01:09:34.360 I

01:09:35.300 know.

01:09:36.360 I

01:09:37.080 know.

01:09:38.540 I

01:09:39.080 know.

01:09:40.160 I

01:09:41.000 know.

01:09:41.100 I

01:09:42.180 know.

01:09:43.380 I

01:09:45.140 know.

01:09:47.460 I

01:09:49.740 know.

01:09:50.240 Everybody

01:09:50.680 can

01:09:51.200 go

01:09:51.220 go.

01:09:52.260 Let's

01:09:53.460 see you

01:09:54.220 it's

01:09:54.520 funny.

01:09:55.720 I

01:09:56.780 know.

01:09:57.900 If

01:09:58.380 you

01:09:58.920 know really

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 23, 2020

Episode 992 Scott Adams： I Put on my Angry Pope Hat and Make Rulings About Churches, Pharma, News Business and More

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