Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 27, 2020


Episode 999 Scott Adams： Totally Real Joe Biden Joins me For a Digital Town Hall. In His Mask. Because He is a Role Model


Episode Stats

Length

31 minutes

Words per Minute

144.04506

Word Count

4,475

Sentence Count

345

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Joe Biden is a liar, but he's also a hero, and that's what we all need to know about him. Also, we need to stop washing our hands, because if we don't, we'll end up with dirty hands.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Is this thing working?
00:00:04.000 Is this thing working?
00:00:08.000 How about now? Is that good?
00:00:12.000 What? What? How about now?
00:00:16.000 Is that good?
00:00:20.000 Which way am I supposed to be looking?
00:00:24.000 Is the camera on? Are we good? Did we start?
00:00:28.000 Oh, hi, hi.
00:00:32.000 Is this working? Is this working?
00:00:36.000 Where do you put the phonograph in?
00:00:40.000 Is this taping?
00:00:44.000 Okay, what's the start? We're starting now?
00:00:48.000 Okay.
00:00:52.000 Is this good? Is this good?
00:00:56.000 Back further?
00:00:58.000 Okay.
00:01:00.000 Got it.
00:01:02.000 Okay, I think it's going well so far.
00:01:04.000 I'm totally real Joe Biden.
00:01:08.000 And you can tell that I'm totally real except possibly in the ear area is not so totally real.
00:01:18.000 But 98% of me, especially in the forehead area, a little bit of the bridge of the nose, totally real.
00:01:30.000 Now, I only leave my basement for two reasons.
00:01:34.000 Either to go to, either to go to Memorial Day observations, cemeteries, or to visit a cartoonist studio.
00:01:48.000 What do they have in common?
00:01:50.000 Heroes. Heroes.
00:01:52.000 That's right.
00:01:54.000 I will only leave my basement for heroes.
00:01:56.000 And that's why I'm here today in the Dilbert Guys studio.
00:02:02.000 Now, let me tell you about this guy, this orange guy, this president, this, I don't know.
00:02:10.000 I don't even want to use his name.
00:02:12.000 Who is this guy?
00:02:14.000 Anyway, let me tell you about him.
00:02:16.000 He's a damn liar.
00:02:20.000 He's a damn liar.
00:02:22.000 He needs to tell the truth.
00:02:24.000 Don't take my word for it.
00:02:26.000 Ask the NAACP.
00:02:28.000 They endorsed me 753 times.
00:02:33.000 That's called leadership.
00:02:36.000 Not like that other guy.
00:02:38.000 Now, since you brought it up, I have never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
00:02:51.000 taking the African American vote for granted.
00:02:55.000 And you know that's real because of the number of times I said never.
00:02:59.000 A liar would have stopped at two, maybe three nevers.
00:03:05.000 But if you were paying attention, I shot past three, way past three nevers.
00:03:13.000 I was into, I don't know, man, what, 10, maybe 12 million, something like that.
00:03:23.000 I don't know.
00:03:24.000 Somewhere in that area.
00:03:26.000 So let me tell you this.
00:03:28.000 I'm always going to give it to you straight.
00:03:35.000 Not like that time in the hallway.
00:03:38.000 I sort of snuck up on it.
00:03:39.000 But that's a whole different situation, allegedly.
00:03:43.000 Now, if you don't like Joe Biden, I say, first of all, take a look at Joe Biden.
00:03:49.000 Take a look at Joe Biden.
00:03:51.000 If you don't like what you see, vote for the other guy.
00:03:56.000 But please vote by mail.
00:03:58.000 That's all I'm going to ask.
00:04:00.000 Don't ask me why.
00:04:02.000 Just vote by mail.
00:04:05.000 But it doesn't matter who you vote for, really.
00:04:08.000 Don't ask why.
00:04:11.000 And it's a pretty good system.
00:04:14.000 You better vote by mail.
00:04:15.000 Otherwise, the COVID is going to get you.
00:04:17.000 It's going to get you.
00:04:18.000 So you better vote by mail.
00:04:19.000 It's a good system.
00:04:21.000 Now, the president needs to lead.
00:04:23.000 He needs to listen to the scientists.
00:04:24.000 He needs to tell the truth.
00:04:26.000 I'm not going to stoop to his level.
00:04:28.000 Instead, I'm going to make generic statements.
00:04:31.000 Such as, we have to prepare for the second wave.
00:04:38.000 A lot of people are unemployed, folks.
00:04:44.000 That's leadership.
00:04:46.000 That's the kind of generic statement that will make America very similar to how it was.
00:04:54.000 Not great.
00:04:55.000 Because that would be a little bit racist.
00:04:58.000 But just sort of okay.
00:05:00.000 You know.
00:05:01.000 Not bothering anybody.
00:05:03.000 Well, let me give you some more valuable, valuable policy advice.
00:05:11.000 Wear masks.
00:05:13.000 Wash your hands.
00:05:14.000 See, this is the kind of leadership that we need.
00:05:17.000 Otherwise, the whole country is going to go around with dirty hands.
00:05:21.000 What kind of world is that?
00:05:23.000 My God, man.
00:05:24.000 What else will we stop washing?
00:05:26.000 If we stop washing our hands, what's next?
00:05:30.000 Putin would love that, wouldn't he?
00:05:33.000 Oh, he would.
00:05:34.000 He would.
00:05:35.000 Anyway, let me summarize with a list of all the things that's wrong with that man whose
00:05:42.000 name I will not use, who's occupying, temporarily, temporarily, until I beat him like a drum, the Oval Office.
00:05:54.000 These are all the reasons orange man bad because, number one, the lollygagging.
00:05:59.000 I think you'd agree there was way too much lollygagging.
00:06:03.000 Way too much.
00:06:05.000 There's a lot of tomfoolery.
00:06:07.000 The malarkey.
00:06:08.000 Oh, my God.
00:06:09.000 The malarkey.
00:06:10.000 The malarkey is out of control.
00:06:12.000 The fiddle faddle is through the roof.
00:06:16.000 Number five, oh, you know the thing.
00:06:22.000 And number six, Kamala controls my food, so I have to say whatever she wants.
00:06:28.000 I'm hearing a bell.
00:06:30.000 That means my food is ready.
00:06:32.000 I'd like to stay longer because, you know, I like to stay to the end.
00:06:36.000 I'm usually the last guy who leaves.
00:06:39.000 But if I don't go now, I might not get to eat.
00:06:43.000 So, I'm going to have to excuse myself.
00:06:46.000 Bye for now.
00:06:50.000 Thanks for coming by, Joe.
00:06:51.000 I really appreciate that.
00:06:52.000 Yeah, it's okay.
00:06:53.000 It's all right.
00:06:54.000 Yeah, I hope I did a good job.
00:06:56.000 Sorry, I'll take over now.
00:06:57.000 Yeah.
00:06:58.000 All right.
00:06:59.000 I'll see myself out.
00:07:00.000 Yeah, if you can find the door.
00:07:02.000 Go down the stairs.
00:07:04.000 All right.
00:07:05.000 All right.
00:07:06.000 Is this the door?
00:07:07.000 That's the bathroom.
00:07:08.000 That's the bathroom.
00:07:09.000 The other one?
00:07:10.000 Down the stairs?
00:07:11.000 All right.
00:07:12.000 I got it.
00:07:13.000 All right.
00:07:14.000 That was a nightmare.
00:07:18.000 That guy.
00:07:19.000 That was a nightmare.
00:07:25.000 Let's talk about all the things that are happening.
00:07:35.000 The stock market's up.
00:07:38.000 Right?
00:07:39.000 The stock market's way up.
00:07:42.000 Property values are actually a little bit up, I think.
00:07:47.000 I think we're on track for the biggest recovery ever.
00:07:52.000 If there's one thing that you need to understand about the economy, it's that it's a self-fulfilling
00:08:00.000 wish as long as you don't have any shortages.
00:08:04.000 And we don't have shortages.
00:08:07.000 So we can actually will ourselves into a better economy.
00:08:11.000 And we have the very best president for that specific task.
00:08:16.000 Sure, the president's done a few things this week that maybe even you wouldn't have done.
00:08:23.000 I think maybe in this political season, he may have found a way to go a little bit too
00:08:29.000 far and a few items, but who would you rather have as your president when you're trying to
00:08:36.000 do a quick recovery?
00:08:38.000 He's sort of the perfect personality for that.
00:08:40.000 And if you look at the stock market, it really looks like the people with money are buying
00:08:46.000 into Trump's vision of a fairly speedy recovery.
00:08:50.000 So that part's looking good.
00:08:54.000 But we have to talk about, do you ever laugh at things you're not supposed to laugh at?
00:09:03.000 And then you feel bad about it as soon as you do?
00:09:06.000 I feel like I should change the subject now so you don't know what I was laughing about
00:09:10.000 because I'll be a bad person.
00:09:12.000 Let's just stipulate I'm a bad person so we can just get to the topic.
00:09:17.000 So I always tell you that Trump has a way of picking the only path that you didn't know
00:09:27.000 was even a path.
00:09:29.000 If it looks like there are two choices, well, he's got to go this way or he's got to go
00:09:34.000 that way.
00:09:35.000 There's only two choices.
00:09:36.000 And then suddenly you'll be like plowing through a wall and there'll be a whole new
00:09:40.000 path that you didn't even know was a path.
00:09:43.000 And I think he did it again.
00:09:45.000 And not necessarily in a way that you should be happy about, but it's so quintessential.
00:09:52.000 So as you know, he's the president accused, is accusing via tweet, Joe Scarborough of murder
00:10:00.000 for the tragic death of somebody who worked in his office, who by all credible accounts
00:10:06.000 had some heart problem, collapsed, hit her head, just an accident.
00:10:10.000 Now it turns out, and I didn't know this until just recently, that she was married.
00:10:15.000 And her widower husband wrote a very well written and passionate letter to the president, saying
00:10:28.000 that he felt it was his duty to protect the memory and sort of the reputation of his late
00:10:34.000 wife as part of his commitment to the marriage, which he considered to last beyond her passing.
00:10:42.000 Now, it was a really good letter in terms of having the emotion and the power and everything.
00:10:48.000 And all he asked, he was asking, I think he was asking, what did he write it to?
00:10:54.000 To Twitter.
00:10:55.000 And he was asking that they just remove those tweets.
00:10:59.000 Pretty reasonable thing to ask, except it's the president.
00:11:04.000 And if the president says anything, it's kind of part of the record.
00:11:13.000 It's really different.
00:11:15.000 And I don't think you can compare a federal or any politician really.
00:11:19.000 I don't think you can compare the politicians to the regular people.
00:11:24.000 I almost feel like the politicians are the only ones who should never be able to delete anything.
00:11:29.000 You know, maybe they can flag it as I didn't mean it or something.
00:11:33.000 But it seems like you should be able to just always go back and see the actual unfiltered record of a politician.
00:11:40.000 So that's independent of the question of whether the president should be using this particular topic as a club as effective as it might be and entertaining in its own way.
00:11:54.000 It is very unkind to the surviving family members.
00:11:59.000 Yeah, there's no way around that.
00:12:01.000 But, so the president is at the, doing his press conference today.
00:12:07.000 And of course he gets that question.
00:12:10.000 And somebody asked, had he seen the letter from the widowed husband?
00:12:18.000 Now I don't know if the president saw that letter.
00:12:22.000 But, the answer he gave was that third path, like through the wall.
00:12:29.000 Because you thought at this point, he sort of had to, I don't know, apologize or say, ah, I didn't mean it.
00:12:36.000 But instead he goes right at it.
00:12:39.000 And he says, well, yeah, I would think that all the family members would have some questions of their own.
00:12:45.000 And he goes, and he just completely commits to it.
00:12:49.000 Now, the thing that makes me laugh, and I don't feel good about it, alright, don't be like me.
00:12:56.000 You know, you're good people.
00:12:58.000 Apparently I have low character.
00:13:01.000 Because I can't stop laughing at how ridiculously audacious and inappropriate it is.
00:13:07.000 Especially coming from the president.
00:13:09.000 You know, it would be terrible coming from anybody.
00:13:12.000 But when it comes from him, it takes on this whole other meaning, of course.
00:13:17.000 And, but part of what makes it irresistible is that you know he doesn't mean it.
00:13:24.000 I mean, you know that, right?
00:13:27.000 You know that Trump doesn't mean a word of it.
00:13:30.000 That he doesn't mean there's anything to the story.
00:13:33.000 And that's, I think, why he can get away with it.
00:13:37.000 Because it's so transparently obvious that he doesn't even believe it.
00:13:40.000 And it's just something to say to make people chase their tails and talk about, and talk about how Joe Scarborough may or may not be a murderer.
00:13:49.000 It's just about the funniest prank I've ever seen anybody play in the history of the world.
00:13:55.000 Except it has a bad effect on the family.
00:13:59.000 Which we're not ignoring.
00:14:02.000 So, apparently I'm just a bad person because it's still kind of funny that he's doing it at all.
00:14:09.000 So, I'm not, you know, I know whenever I try to shave things too fine, and I can say, well, I don't think I would have done it.
00:14:21.000 I wouldn't recommend he do it.
00:14:25.000 It feels like maybe that was too far.
00:14:28.000 And then I tell myself, he's in this, you know, competition for the White House.
00:14:34.000 And literally everything that everybody says is a lie.
00:14:38.000 They've been, you know, the other side has accused him of being every kind of a treasonous, you know, you spy for Russia.
00:14:46.000 And you know all the stories, I don't have to repeat them.
00:14:51.000 But the things that Trump has been accused of, that now we know are not to be true, are insane.
00:14:59.000 So, when I see him recognize that the rules of the game, the accepted rules, the rules that we're all playing by,
00:15:08.000 apparently these are the rules, is that you can say absolutely anything and you don't have to mean it.
00:15:15.000 You don't even have to believe it.
00:15:17.000 You just have to put it out there.
00:15:19.000 And the fact that he's going into a game in which you can just say anything.
00:15:26.000 So why would he say less than the most devastating thing he could possibly say?
00:15:31.000 Why would he possibly hold back?
00:15:34.000 There's no good reason for telling the truth in a presidential election, because the other side isn't doing it.
00:15:41.000 And there's no hope that they would do it.
00:15:43.000 It's not like if you did it, they would start doing it or something.
00:15:45.000 That's not going to happen.
00:15:47.000 That's not even close to what's going to happen.
00:15:49.000 Basically, whoever lies the best is going to win.
00:15:52.000 So, would you want your team to lie in a less effective way?
00:15:59.000 I don't know.
00:16:01.000 There are a lot of moral questions involved in this.
00:16:04.000 And I don't think I'm the one to answer them because I can't stop laughing at the fact that he committed to such an outrageous claim.
00:16:15.000 And he does it by saying, well, there are questions.
00:16:18.000 A lot of people are asking questions.
00:16:20.000 So he doesn't even say that he's asking questions.
00:16:23.000 He just says, people are asking questions.
00:16:26.000 All right.
00:16:28.000 So, again, we can't be happy about it.
00:16:32.000 But as long as he's in a game in which you can say absolutely any lie, I don't know if you can pick one out and say that's the bad one.
00:16:41.000 I mean, that's shaving it pretty fine.
00:16:46.000 All right.
00:16:48.000 So, one of the things that I think Trump is doing exactly right is saying that he'll override the governors if they don't let the churches reopen.
00:17:00.000 Now, of course, every state is going to make its own decisions and it's not like there's one right time for churches to open.
00:17:07.000 And it's not as if there's one right way to do it or anything like that.
00:17:11.000 So it's a very generic statement the president is making, you know, open those churches.
00:17:16.000 But it's insanely correct.
00:17:19.000 And his instincts as a politician are just uncanny sometimes because I think the experts are you are unified in saying that Trump doesn't have any such power.
00:17:31.000 Right.
00:17:32.000 In fact, check me on this.
00:17:35.000 Is it not true that the experts are saying that the president does not have the power to order churches open if the states have them temporarily closed for health reasons?
00:17:47.000 Now, I don't know if it's true or not.
00:17:50.000 I don't know if the Supreme Court would get involved.
00:17:53.000 I don't know.
00:17:54.000 But I do know it doesn't matter.
00:17:57.000 If you think it matters that the president has those defined powers, it does not.
00:18:04.000 It does not.
00:18:05.000 Because, first of all, the churches are going to open up the synagogues, the mosques.
00:18:11.000 They will open.
00:18:13.000 So whether it's this week or next week, it's not like it's not going to happen.
00:18:17.000 So the president is clearly on the side of the people.
00:18:20.000 All the people.
00:18:21.000 Because, you know, even people who don't go to church would probably like to see things get back to normal.
00:18:27.000 So it's a very, you know, populist, smart position to take.
00:18:33.000 But he takes the strongest possible position, which is that he would go all dictator, basically.
00:18:39.000 I don't know what it would take to override the states that open up those places of worship.
00:18:47.000 And I thought, I don't know.
00:18:50.000 How exactly would he do that?
00:18:52.000 It wouldn't really happen in the real world.
00:18:55.000 There would just be a conversation, right?
00:18:57.000 In the real world, it would just be a conversation.
00:19:01.000 And they would figure it out.
00:19:03.000 And in the end, the president would say, well, I wish you'd done it sooner.
00:19:06.000 And they'd say, we're doing the best we can.
00:19:08.000 And here's my data, you know.
00:19:10.000 But they'll just work it out.
00:19:13.000 But it's really smart politically for him to make that claim that he's going to make it happen.
00:19:18.000 And he'll make it happen for all the denominations.
00:19:20.000 And he's very clear about, you know, making sure everybody's included.
00:19:25.000 He also announced some kind of insulin drug cost reduction that's kind of a big deal if I'm reading it right.
00:19:36.000 I guess you have to wait for the next day to see if the experts weigh in and tell us anything really changed.
00:19:42.000 Because, you know, you don't really know when you first hear these things.
00:19:46.000 Because somebody could come in and say, well, that went down, but something else went up.
00:19:50.000 So it's not what it looks like.
00:19:52.000 But on the surface, it looks like this is some really good deal that the government has worked out to lower the insulin costs for lots of people.
00:20:01.000 And there's some hope that whatever model they use to do that could be reproduced.
00:20:06.000 So will we be seeing a 2021 in which there are telehealth doctors who are so cheap that it lowers health care costs at the same time that there's some new kind of negotiating process, I don't know what it is, for lowering drug costs, at least for some portion of the public?
00:20:26.000 Maybe.
00:20:27.000 Maybe.
00:20:28.000 Maybe.
00:20:29.000 Maybe the Trump administration is sort of moving toward at least doing something on health care that looks productive.
00:20:39.000 So the big story, of course.
00:20:40.000 Oh, did you hear that?
00:20:42.000 So Biden did this interview with Dana Bash, I guess.
00:20:47.000 And he said all this stuff about Biden's hiding, but it's working pretty well.
00:20:55.000 So to hear Joe Biden use the term Biden hiding made me laugh because I was thinking to myself, how many people had the same idea of Biden hiding?
00:21:07.000 Because I know, you know, I know I tried to be the first to invent it, but I think maybe somebody beat me to the hashtag or something.
00:21:16.000 But I think I was at least one of the people who helped popularize it among others.
00:21:21.000 And so to hear the candidate himself say Biden hiding and to feel like, you know, collectively it felt like we were part of that, if it just made the world seem kind of small for a minute.
00:21:31.000 All right.
00:21:32.000 So the big story, of course, what you want to talk about is the president had his tweet fact checked by Twitter.
00:21:38.000 So Jack Dorsey must be having the world's strangest day because, you know, first of all, there's that whole story about the Scarborough situation.
00:21:51.000 And, you know, that that ends up being a Twitter problem because it's all about the tweet, take it down or not.
00:21:57.000 So suddenly, you know, Jack Dorsey wakes up and he's in the middle of, you know, the biggest story in the country.
00:22:04.000 And then and but it turns out his day wasn't over.
00:22:10.000 So and then Twitter fact checks the president on a couple of tweets he did recently about what he thought was the opportunity for fraud with mail in ballots.
00:22:22.000 Now, I don't know if everything he said about it was what they were fact checking or there were some parts or parts, part or parts that were especially grievous, you know, but the but the rest of it might have been semi OK.
00:22:36.000 I don't know exactly what was wrong with it, but they put a tag on it to say, go look at the truth, basically.
00:22:44.000 And you could go look at news articles from those CNN and other places.
00:22:49.000 So you can imagine how Twitter, let's say, conservative and Republican Twitter took this news that the Twitter corporate was putting fact checking tags on the president.
00:23:06.000 And when I think everybody who supports the president, probably probably close to 100 percent of the people who support the president also believe that mail in ballots have a little extra exposure to risk.
00:23:23.000 Now, none of us are experts on that.
00:23:25.000 And that's got to be different for different states.
00:23:28.000 And I know we've been using it forever.
00:23:30.000 And there are probably ways to make sure it doesn't happen and blah, blah, blah.
00:23:34.000 But in your in your your, let's say, your experienced mind, when you just think about the world and all the things you've seen in the world and all the ways that people can find to cheat, even when you don't think they can.
00:23:51.000 So whenever you've got this situation where you have a really big upside gain, have you ever heard me say this before?
00:23:58.000 You have a really big upside gain and almost no chance of getting in trouble.
00:24:04.000 And a lot of people are involved.
00:24:07.000 So it's not up to just one person to have a good, you know, to be a good person and not do the crime.
00:24:13.000 If a lot of people are involved, somebody is going to do the crime.
00:24:17.000 So the mail in ballots sort of, you know, add an extra exposure to something that is almost guaranteed to produce fraud.
00:24:30.000 I would say guaranteed when you it is closer to guaranteed than it is to zero.
00:24:37.000 Now, the question is how much?
00:24:40.000 Yeah.
00:24:41.000 And now some of the techniques are actually legal.
00:24:44.000 I think ballot harvesting is legal in some states, right?
00:24:47.000 So it could certainly have an effect on the election.
00:24:52.000 So we don't know yet how deep this Twitter fact checking situation is going to go.
00:25:00.000 Will they do this for all of the president's tweets?
00:25:04.000 Will they do it for other blue-check people and non-blue-check people?
00:25:09.000 How much of this are we going to see?
00:25:11.000 Was this sort of a trial balloon?
00:25:13.000 So again, the two biggest stories in the country, they both came back to Jack Dorsey's doorstep.
00:25:22.000 His world must have shrunk to the size of a marble.
00:25:31.000 Suddenly, everything in the world just is connected to him personally.
00:25:35.000 That's got to be the weirdest feeling.
00:25:38.000 All right.
00:25:43.000 Let me give you the most optimistic thing I've heard today.
00:25:48.000 Are you ready?
00:25:50.000 I want to make sure that you go to bed on a positive thought.
00:25:56.000 So this is going to be a really positive thought.
00:25:59.000 Seriously.
00:26:00.000 I think you'll like it.
00:26:02.000 Just a really good, feel-good, positive thought.
00:26:07.000 So, you know, as you know, the story was Amy Cooper and no relationship to Christian Cooper.
00:26:16.000 They had their altercation in the park, Central Park.
00:26:19.000 She had a dog.
00:26:21.000 She called the police and told the police, quote,
00:26:25.000 there's an African-American man threatening me, which sounded kind of racist to anybody who saw it.
00:26:33.000 We don't know what happened before that, what was going on, but certainly the African-American part seemed gratuitous.
00:26:39.000 And why did you throw that in there?
00:26:41.000 So she, of course, the Internet blew up on her.
00:26:47.000 She apologized.
00:26:48.000 She lost her dog.
00:26:50.000 Anybody who saw the video probably thinks maybe that was okay because she wasn't quite handling that dog right.
00:26:57.000 And then she got fired.
00:27:00.000 She actually lost her job.
00:27:03.000 So she lost her dog, her reputation, and her job in 24 hours, basically.
00:27:09.000 Now, the guy that she had the interaction with, this Christian Cooper,
00:27:14.000 apparently he was a bird watcher and he would often go to that place, the Brambles or whatever it was called.
00:27:21.000 And when he found out that she had, you know, lost her job and basically her whole life was torn apart, this is what he said.
00:27:31.000 So here's his quote.
00:27:33.000 He said, if our goal is to change the underlying factors, I'm not sure that this young woman having her life completely torn apart serves that goal.
00:27:43.000 There you go.
00:27:47.000 So here was a guy who, you know, he was part of this big story.
00:27:52.000 He had, by all the rules of the game, you know, the rules of social media, the rules of how we identify and treat each other and, you know, try to tear each other apart.
00:28:05.000 By all the rules, this fellow Christian Cooper had a right to be angry and he had a right to be a little bit vindictive.
00:28:17.000 And it turns out, I think he was a Harvard graduate.
00:28:20.000 So he's somebody who's, you know, at least some parts of his life are going pretty well.
00:28:26.000 If you went to Harvard and you can spend some time bird watching in Central Park, things must be a little bit okay.
00:28:33.000 So Christian Cooper had every reason to be a jerk after the fact, right?
00:28:39.000 I'm not even going to make an opinion about the interaction.
00:28:42.000 The interaction itself, you saw it, you be the judge.
00:28:47.000 I'm not going to help you make a decision about who was right or wrong.
00:28:51.000 But after the fact, separate from the interaction that you can judge separately,
00:28:56.000 Christian Cooper took it to the high ground.
00:29:01.000 He took it to the high ground.
00:29:03.000 So, thank you.
00:29:06.000 I would just say thank you.
00:29:08.000 Now, if you wanted to really take it to the high ground,
00:29:12.000 if you really wanted to take it home,
00:29:15.000 really just make something better.
00:29:17.000 Turn a bad into a good.
00:29:22.000 He should call her employer and ask them personally to rehire her.
00:29:30.000 Now, how much would you love that?
00:29:33.000 Because we know that this Christian Cooper guy,
00:29:36.000 you know, he was a little particular about what was happening in the park
00:29:40.000 and maybe you wouldn't have handled things that way.
00:29:43.000 And that would be a legitimate opinion if he disagreed with the way he handled it.
00:29:49.000 But I don't think you can disagree with the fact that he's not comfortable with the fact
00:29:54.000 that this interaction blew up her life.
00:29:57.000 And I would say that this should be rewarded in terms of like a role model.
00:30:03.000 So, it turns out that, you know, there was at least one person here
00:30:07.000 who had a very reasonable opinion about this.
00:30:10.000 And while he's under no obligation to do it,
00:30:13.000 the coolest way this story could end is if he called her employer and said,
00:30:18.000 you know, I'm not excusing anything she did.
00:30:23.000 I'm just saying punishment didn't fit the crime.
00:30:27.000 How about we just learn something and move on?
00:30:30.000 It would be so awesome that it would be just a wonderful thing.
00:30:34.000 So, I want to leave you on that thought,
00:30:37.000 that there was this one reasonable person doing a reasonable thing,
00:30:41.000 at least at this point in time.
00:30:46.000 Yeah, I hear what you're saying.
00:30:48.000 The dog stuff was disturbing.
00:30:50.000 But I also, she clearly was not a dog owner.
00:30:54.000 So, there is more to this going on.
00:30:57.000 Anyway, that's all I've got for today.
00:31:01.000 And I will talk to you in the morning.