Episode 1574 Scott Adams - Today's Live Stream Will Be Exceptional

good morning everybody and welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you yeah i know that's a big claim but i'm going to back it up by the end of this live stream you're going to say to yourself wow that might have been the best thing that's ever happened to me and you've had sex so that's how good it is now if you'd like to make it extra extra good what would you do that's right that's right you all got it right you'd have the simultaneous sip and all you'd use a copper mug or glass of tanker jealous to sign a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better except shopping it's called the simultaneous sip happens now go yeah yeah that's good well happy black friday as the racists call it i call it all day friday or all people friday yeah it's it's all people friday because it turns out that you're allowed what was that something bad just happened anyway it turns out that you're allowed to shop today even if you're not black so it's called black friday but it turns out everybody can shop which i feel is very open-minded so happy all people friday um i don't know if i told you my play with rob reiner's tweet and it's a play that i use a lot now you know how that the left and the right are in their own news bubbles and social media bubbles they don't see much from the other side so if you're trying to if you're trying to persuade the other side how do you do it something very loud happening outside my house doesn't sound good i don't know what it is but there's heavy equipment right outside my house i hope nobody called the wrecking crew that is a terrible prank by the way never hire a wrecking crew for your neighbor's house somebody actually did that prank once anyway my play with rob reiner's tweet in which he said he had a bunch of stuff wrong about the written house case he said in november 23rd now remember by november 23rd the entire country should know the actual story of written house well listen how bad his version was and i'll add something to what i've said before about this an underage kid illegally took an assault rifle across state lines nope nope didn't take it across across state lines and it wasn't illegal and that's why there were no charges now there were charges that were dropped but by the time they went to a verdict there were no charges about any gun related thing now how could you not know that well you'd have to be in a pretty deep bubble right now i saw some people saying oh they know it they know the gun wasn't illegal they're just saying that no no they really don't know the the level of um ignorance that let me be fair it's on both sides left and right the level of ignorance that both sides have about each other's news is really shocking and if you don't think that's the whole story here you think that they're just lying and of course they know the real story i don't think so i would place a very large bet that when rob reiner wrote this tweet he did not know the actual story because their news doesn't report it well it does report it but it reports it inaccurately so let me tell you my play here my play is not to embarrass rob reiner because i don't care about him individually and my play is not to convince a whole bunch of people on the right because they already got the correct news so how do i reach the people on the left well here's my hypothesis and i think it's fairly accurate which is that blue check twitter people kind of pay attention to the other blue checks am i right now if you don't have a blue check next to your name you may not have experienced this but i can tell you that i regularly i look at all i try to look at most of my comments but on top of that uh i also try to look at uh there's somebody at my door and i'm gonna have to figure out what's going on here because something big is happening right outside my door right now sorry i better check on this see if it's anything important uh i'll show you what it is it's a it's a bird sitting in front of my security camera so there's a there's that bird there's one bird today that walks i think it's the same bird he just walks in front of my security camera every day all right so i'm not being attacked now i'm a little i'm a little bit extra cautious because my neighborhood's been hit with a crime wave of you know people literally breaking through a window and carrying your stuff away while you're home so it's a dangerous neighborhood at the moment anyway my play with rob reiner is to get him to see my comment because i'm a blue check and to see if i can break through and here's what i want him to to feel i don't need him to be embarrassed i don't need him to tweet something different i want him to look at my tweet and say there's somebody with a blue jack who has different news for me and he's saying it right out loud maybe i should look at this and see which one of us is wrong so that's the play i'm trying only to convince rob reiner that his news is wrong i'm not even trying to change his opinion so there's no no politics in it i'm just trying to convince people that they're watching fake news that i think is doable i think that's doable especially with the written house case it's like the as i said it's like the rosetta stone for unlocking all the fake news on the left all right well the washington post uh as dinesh d'souza points out the washington post is uh quote uh working hard to deny human agency to black criminals this is dinesh's take on it about waukesha and you've seen this right where the news is talking as if the suv driven by a black man which unfortunately matters in 2021 you have to say the ethnicity because we're all talking about it right shouldn't matter but does and uh the this is how the washington post described part of that it said quote the suv then drove down main street well by itself the the suvs have gone rogue now they're they're killing people on their own well i don't think so i think there was a person who drove the car and a person drove down the street in his suv and when you see how much torture they have to give themselves to write a sentence like that you know something's happening right something's at the breaking point you can almost feel it by the way do you feel it you could feel it when uh ahmed arbury's father who you would imagine would be saying something like black lives matter because his son was was killed he said all lives matter and he made a big deal about it in public all lives matter period i don't want anybody's father to have to you know go through what i'm going through and i feel as if you know the longer trump is out of the news that the realization that especially on the left that they've been completely duped by their news and by their own party i feel like people are catching on now so you know the rob reiner tweet i give him a little nudge uh but there are a whole bunch of nudges going on here and it feels like people are starting to see it but the best comment about this suv driving down the street came from twitter user jill who asked this question who invented the suv clearly they're the responsible party here i mean i don't think a minivan would do this hmm good point suvs can be bastards we all know that um sometimes when you're sleeping the suv will just take off party all night come back with less gas than you knew you had and uh the suvs are really well-known bad boys but the minivans well the minivans are sort of the the nerds of the automotive world very efficient very well designed for utility but your minivan is never going to steal the money from your wallet and go on a joyride on its own but an suv no suvs are bastards you know all right i have an suv ever since i heard about this incident uh i have to put blocks on the wheels at night because i don't know what that damn thing's doing when i'm not watching so all right next story um wall street journal editorial board uh just went viciously at biden and i love this attack i usually don't like to call out the hypocrisy stuff because if you do that that's all you're talking about because the political parties don't really try too hard you know to do what they say you should do so it's usually just you know sort of boring and trite to call that out but this is this is a big and unusual case because biden's uh proposition was you can't have a president who has allowed this many people to die on his watch meaning covet but biden's death count has surpassed trump's and that's after the vaccination now am i going to tell you that trump did a better job than biden nope i am not going to tell you that because i told you from the beginning of the pandemic and i'm the only one if anybody would like to fact check this i'm making a a very big claim here that i'm the only one who told you at the beginning of the pandemic that leadership would not be a variable that would be predictive did anybody else tell you that i don't think one person told you that you will not see a leadership variable that that's obvious now there may be some extreme cases of maybe some i don't know third world country that thought it was caused by aids or something so yeah i mean in the extreme case yes but i don't think you're going to tell the difference between great britain and france france and the united states i just don't think you're going to be able to tell the difference leadership wise some will do better than others but we still don't know why we just don't know why so um i would say that biden has no chance if you know even if he imagined he was going to run for office i can't imagine he is but he couldn't possibly get elected having failed at the number one thing he said he'd do number one thing biden said he'd do is get the pandemic under control nothing like that happened 350 000 people died under biden compared to 200 000 220 or so under trump it's not even close and again biden had the vaccinations now does that mean anything no it just you know of course more people die at the peak of the pandemic of course they do had nothing to do with biden and if trump had been president probably the same outcome probably the same you could you could do a mental experiment where you say hey there are lots of uh conservatives not getting the vaccine so maybe maybe trump could have convinced them whereas biden could not i doubt it i doubt it this did seem to be the limit of trump's persuasion you know i think he's tremendous at persuading as you know but i don't think he made a dent in the conservatives who were you know concerned about the vaccination let me let me give some comfort to the vaccine deniers because i'm you know anytime that i'm accused of you know not being fair about each side's perspective i like to correct that when i can here's what i hate about the anti-vaxxers the skeptics about the vaccines i absolutely hate this that their reasons are really good i hate that yeah and and you and of course the anti-vaxxers will give you lots of you know arguments but they have one argument that i can't refute do you know what it is what's what's the anti-vaxx argument that i can't refute which one is it no no natural immunity is part of the part of this story so but that's not what i'm talking about and now not not inflammation not long-term effects nope it's no nothing about your autonomy your personal choice those are all good arguments by the way i'm saying that that's not the bit the good one the fda pfizer you know big pharma you have a lot of reasons don't you i would say those are all worth discussing everything you're mentioning here is absolutely on the list should be part of the conversation but the anti-vaxxers have one argument that i've got nothing for now here it is can't trust the government that's a killer argument can't trust the government what are you going to say you tell me you have an argument against that can't trust the government now you say yourself wait a minute wait a minute it's not really the government because they're getting their data from somebody else they're getting it from big from big pharma who trusts big pharma they are by their nature something you can't trust doesn't mean they're doing bad things all the time i mean they have some history of doing some very bad things but they're not you know it's not a criminal organization or anything they're obviously doing good things as well i have to make an aside here i'm sorry everybody who's calling rob reiner a meathead i don't know who he needs to hear this but it's not additive it's not funny it's not something we hadn't thought of on our own you're just using letters on a screen nothing is accomplished by that statement that rob reiner is a meathead or any version of it that i saw thousands of yesterday well you know he's a meathead he's always been a meathead but have i mentioned that he's a meathead i want to be as clear as this as possible it's not funny it's never been funny and there's nothing you can do to it they'll make that a good comment right now if you were the only one who thought of it i'd say oh that's that's a good point nobody came to this conclusion that he had a character he played famously called the meathead if you were the only one oh okay that might be additive but you do know everybody's saying it right like hundreds and hundreds of people are saying you know he's a meathead i'm just saying please please can you help me stop reading that comment you know you have a right to make it of course i'm just saying that it wears on me like few things do i don't want to hear soil in green i don't want to hear what's like the matrix and i don't want to hear that rob reiner is a meathead because those are the most obvious things that anybody could say about anything all right um so i was saying about uh yeah biden's done a bad job here but uh leadership is not predictive now apparently the united states has warned russia that if they're behind the i'm changing the topic here if russia is behind this so-called havana syndrome sonic weapon that uh that they would pay for that apparently there are a number of havana syndrome cases happening related to russian embassies and others etc so now i think there are hundreds of cases of this what was my prediction on day one you will never find a secret uh sonic weapon that's behind it all now there might be something that's behind it all might be some kind of you know electronics that are common to i don't know embassies that have some sonic problem to them or something but i think i'm also the only person in the country who predicted that am i right i didn't hear anybody else in the country predict that you would never find the sonic weapon haven't found it yet so i like to talk about my uh my predictions that no one has made uh all right uh i have to talk about this again because it came on the slow news thanksgiving day but there is a new study saying that the arctic ocean began warming decades earlier than previously thought now to be clear this new information does not debunk climate change in the sense of its direction and it doesn't debunk it in terms of humans causing it it does however completely debunk the science so the reality might be that the earth is warming people are causing it maybe we need to do something about it right that seems to be the case and my current my current best guess because i'm not a scientist is that probably humans are warming because i think that's something you could study i think you could do it in a lab you could study it a million times and you could find out the co2 has that effect seems reasonable which is different from saying that the science is right right because there's a lot of science but just that one minor thing whether co2 makes warming or not i think they got that right we don't know how fast how much how much has been in the past how much we have to worry about those are all different questions but this new study if it stands and it might not you know maybe it gets debunked tomorrow but if it were to stand would show that all the models are completely wrong sort of a big deal there's no way the models could even be close to correct if this study is is right because it says the warming started way before you know the the largest amount of industrial stuff happened by people um humans put off heat well maybe you mean the human causation part i don't know what you're debunking there but let me let me go on so um it puts the the believers in climate science in it kind of a bind because if this study is right it means that everything that they thought about climate change at least the the modeling part of it just the modeling part was wrong but if it's not true that means climate science is not true because this is also done by science right so if it turns out that this science is wrong what other science is wrong so you can even either doubt the the models or you can doubt climate science itself it's a real problem and i don't hear anybody else talking about it do you have you heard anybody else talking about this study and what it does to the entire body of you know climate science modeling yeah i think it's just going to disappear as a topic all right here's my provocative thought of the day apparently we're hearing the reports especially from the uk but i think it would be true in america that there's just this huge problem of sexual abuse of women in the military now not going to make light of that nobody should but i am very bothered by not just the fact that it's you know a brutal crime so i'm not just bothered by that i'm bothered by the fact that correct me if i'm wrong but the women in the military are are trained to kill are they not they don't they don't separate the women and say oh you you know you can learn to cook isn't everybody in the military trained to kill am i wrong about that is there any exception to that i think they all they all use firearms they're all trained in it i mean at different levels right marines are trained to kill really hard but everybody's trained to kill or at least defend themselves am i right so here's my problem if you put somebody in the military or they join the military you train them to kill people who deserve to be killed i think they should have special dispensation to be able to kill their sexual accusers or abusers not accusers i think a woman in the military should be able to hunt down and murder a sexual abuser even if it's next week or next year now in a practical sense you could never have that law right i'm aware of that but i feel like it would be justice if we're going to train people to kill and we're training to kill people who deserve to be killed and they meet one of these people who deserves to be killed right up close i say they can kill them in their sleep i'm okay with that don't train people to kill and then rape them and don't expect them to kill the person who raped them that's not fair either don't train them to kill or let them kill because some people are worth killing all right um that's not a serious point but um it could be lauren uh bobert is it beau bert or bobert she's got a bert at the end of her name so i'm automatically uh i like her because of you know dilbert dogbert beaubert anyway so she uh she's on film telling an elon omar story that elon omar says never happened but the story as lauren says is that elon omar who as you know would be in traditional islamic garb according to this story which omar says never happened omar was getting in an elevator and lauren wilbur saw the security all worried about a threat and running toward the elevator and didn't get there in time and then bobert allegedly said but we think maybe it didn't really happen that she said don't worry she doesn't have a backpack you know meaning that she's not a not an islamic terrorist bomber and people are saying this is a horrible horrible horrible and i would agree that it was probably dumb for her to tell this joke so i'm not going to defend the joke but i would just put this one little question to it was it was it a joke about elon omar or was it a joke about the security guard i'm not so sure right because the joke was sort of about the security guard being a bigot and imagining that she was a terrorist it wasn't about lauren bober imagining she was a terrorist and her joke you know she didn't have a backpack so you're okay it doesn't sound like she believed that she was a terrorist obviously she doesn't it's kind of one of these weird ones i if somebody says a joke at the expense of the the person like omar well that would feel a little racist depending on the joke of course but if the joke is about is about how someone else was racist against them i'm not sure i'd take that the same just put that scalpel down am i cutting it too too finely well it's my job jokes are my job i do look at them kind of analytically all right i have an algorithm for you and i know this will be helpful a way to determine which graphs you see on twitter about ivermectin solving a country's problem to tell which one of some are true because we've seen the graph um i've seen a graph that said as soon as ivermectin was introduced covent in japan went to nothing and some other places as soon as ivermectin was introduced went to nothing do you know how to tell which of those stories are uh fake and which are not the answer is all of them are fake yeah every one of the country graphs that says ivermectin was introduced doesn't matter if it's india they're all fake they've all been debunked now did you just hear me say that i debunked the effectiveness of ivormectin did i say that did i just tell you that ivermectin doesn't work no now i told you that the graphs that show it cured some country are all fake 100 of them i've seen everyone i've seen everyone debunked i doubt you'll see a real one now does that tell you anything about the effectiveness of vibramectin maybe maybe not there is one view that says that the pharma companies are so strong they could make every single country bow to their will or at the very least get you know the the big countries medical communities just about to their will and then the smaller countries would say oh crap the united states says this doesn't work what are you going to do because we you know we can't test ourselves we don't have a good medical you know industry but the united states says it works and uk says it works and they've got good medical staffs so so there is one that says that ivermectin might be working and yet every single country is afraid to use it is that possible maybe maybe who debunked it everybody you just have to look at the original data in other words you just look at any original data and it disappears there's there's no data that suggests that ivermectin solved any problem you can't find any original data that says that okay so um all right here's my take the longer we go with the the belief that's widespread that ivormectin does or might work the longer we go where no country actually solves its problem with ivermectin it's very much less likely it works because even even if you believe all the medical experts in every country were influenced by let's say the united states or influenced by pharma which seems unlikely to me you'd have to think with all the countries in the world and the desperation somebody would have actually solved their entire country's problem with ivermectin if it worked am i wrong you don't think that one country somewhere would have totally solved their pandemic or how about this if ivermectin worked as well as the anecdotal reports you don't think that a hospital would have noticed by now a hospital a hospital that does nothing but coven patients they wouldn't have obviously noticed that because you know what they do obviously notice regeneron i'll bet you could go to any hospital that does a lot of covet and say have you noticed on your own the regeneron is bringing people back to life who maybe seemed like they'd gone too far i would bet a hundred percent of hospitals would say oh yeah we see it every day we give them a regeneron it totally turns them around they would see the same thing with ivermectin i mean maybe not us because it's sort of a semi-band here but somebody would see it you don't think any hospital any country would have seen the effect yet so go back to my uh hydroxychloroquine predictions uh early on in the pandemic like ivermectin it looked like it was anecdotally and there were studies that suggested it worked i said that every month that goes by where you don't have proof that it works you have to lower your odds that it worked and then you saw every month i would lower the odds of hydroxychloroquine working it was down to 30 percent the last number was 10 percent i think i'd drop it to 2 now we've gone so long that if hydroxychloroquine worked we would know it i don't think there's any chance any chance we wouldn't clearly know it by now ivermectin is the same path can i tell you ivermectin doesn't work absolutely not so you're not hearing me say that but i will say that every day that goes by you have to lower your estimate if you're being wise about this because you would see the signal somewhere or somebody would see it but you don't see anybody in an official role who sees it right you see a rogue doctor but do you see anybody who runs a uh an icu have you seen any icu doctors say oh yeah we're giving people ivermectin it's just taking them right off the ventilator nope nope so does ivermectin work i have no idea but i can tell you that the longer you go the less likely it is cnn has some oh no let's talk about that next so apparently the lincoln project uh they are they're a scrappy bunch of losers the lincoln project so rick wilson especially i guess he's trying to revive this monstrosity that's been completely humiliated in the last year or so and they're trying to make it a thing to get trump to be the nominee so they want trump to be the nominee even though he's the target of all their attacks because uh he once he loses then it will destroy what's left of trumpism and that's their real goal and so this is what rick wilson said about that strategy he says the people who think we want trump back in 2024 for any reason other than killing off his vile repugnant cult and driving it into the dustbin of history display the same failure of imagination they always have do you think that's why rick wilson is reviving the lincoln project which made them all millions of dollars huh is it to make the millions of dollars that they know they'll make or is it to kill off trump's vile repugnant cult and drive it into the dustbin of history which one of those seems slightly more likely have i ever mentioned follow the money you know i tell you it always works even when the people involved are not following the money it still always works yeah the the lincoln project grifters are uh just accusing trump of what they are uh it's just projection they are horrible grifters race grifters really some of the worst people in the world i would say uh but they're funny so i'm glad they're in the news cnn has a wonderful bit of fake news here and i'm gonna see if you can spot it so i'll tell you what they reported and then you tell me what the fake news part is okay so cnn is reporting that the reason we don't have more rapid tests and faster you know why didn't we have this rapid testing you know cheap and fast because we did project warp speed so don't you think we could also get rapid tests quickly if we wanted here's what cnn says to describe why we don't have them it's because we don't have tests because there were too many available and the food and drug administration had more than 3000 emergency use authorization applications and didn't have the resources to get through them so the reason that we only had one abbott labs for i don't know months and months the reason we only had one is that there were 3 000 others who wanted but there was not enough fda resources to test them so we had to live with just that one for a long time that ladies and gentlemen is fake news it's really clever because what do i keep saying about the reason we don't have the uh the rapid tests what do i keep saying loudly and in public corruption it's obviously corruption i would say at this point that the corruption hypothesis i don't know 95 likely because if this is the best this is the best alibi that we have the best alibi from the fda is that there were too many of them and they didn't have enough resources what would you do if you were the fda and you didn't have to enough resources you do have some resources so it's not like you're not testing anything you know you are evaluating things but you can't do three thousand would you uh say hey guys let's evaluate all three thousand things at once with our limited resources is that the way you'd handle it you take your limited resources in the context of a pandemic you say huh we'd better we'd better spread our resources so you got a thousand at first you say let's look at them all at the same time but then it goes to 3 000 and it's too it's too fast to add people so you say to yourself oh i'll just work less on the first thousand so i'll have enough for the uh the extra thousands of them is that the way the fda decided to manage that now hiring help wouldn't be fast enough i i have to admit that staffing up probably would be hard they should do that too but probably that wouldn't be a magic bullet it just feels like it would but it would take a while to staff up um i'm no management expert but here's what i would have done i would look at those 3000 applications and i would say which ones are the biggest companies that are likely to be able to produce this in volume oh there are only three of them and then i would evaluate those three and i would tell all the other thousands sorry you have to wait because it's a pandemic we can't be fair about this we just gotta we just have to hope we pick some winners we'll pick the big companies that say they they can put the resources together to produce they've got a track record of producing do you think these 3 000 applications were all equal do you think that anybody looked at these and said yeah these look all about the same no no there were some that obviously looked better than the others obviously this this cnn report is complete they did not have a problem because too many people wanted to make the rapid tests they didn't do it because they're corrupt we don't know exactly how i mean the details are unknown but this is pure corruption and and the cnn is part of it now when i asked you can you google which pharma companies advertise on cnn i was looking for abbott labs because i don't know if they do but look for it is abbott labs do they ever advertise on cnn i think they do 100 million a year in advertising maybe more lately is any of it on cnn i don't remember seeing an ad from them so maybe not we know pfizer does we know big farmer does all the time right but uh take a look at that and uh tell me if if cnn is just uh in on the corruption and is trying to develop a cover story why why for why abbott labs had a monopoly for so long all right that's all for now on that topic anyway have you listened to uh dark horse podcast uh with uh bret uh brett and heather um so brett weinstein and i guess one of the evidences he showed about uh ivor working is that it um when it was widely available in slovakia there uh they basically crushed the virus so that was one of the evidences for that uh but andres backhouse um he made a sarcastic tweet about that in twitter banned him because i couldn't tell his parody from from his actual opinion his 2021 you got to be careful about your parody because people can't tell i mean they actually legitimately can't tell when you're joking these days because everything is so ridiculous that a joke looks like reality there's no difference anymore so andre's got temporarily locked down for making a joke about it uh but uh slovakia has announced a nationwide coronavirus lockdown so if five vermectin were making a big deal in slovakia well is stop doing that and uh andres tweeted out that uh maybe there was a a variant that has escaped the ivormectin uh maybe it's an ivermectin escape variant which is just a joke but twitter couldn't tell the difference since they locked them out so one of the key evidences that you heard from brett and heather on darkhorse that appears to be debunked and again let me be very careful in my wording i'm not telling you ivermectin doesn't work how would i know i'm just telling you that these country-wide um evidences they're all all right uh uh jay le calm uh helpfully suggested that i i i host a live stream debate with pierre cory um i think on ivermectin and it would be a service to your viewers no matter what happened to which i will tell you for the millionth time gone fall says in in large capital letters you do know it works scott let me say clearly i don't know that it works like legitimately i don't know if i had to put money on it yeah that'd be a good that's a good question if i had to bet money and it wasn't betting my life but let's say it's just a financial bat and i could afford it would i bet the ivor meccan ivermectin works that's a tough one because i think that you might have a situation where it works in some special cases i i wouldn't rule that out because i don't think we have enough evidence of that one way or the other but um i feel like if i had to take the bet i'd bet against it i i would think in in my opinion the body of uh unreliable information because it's all unreliable right to me the body of information suggests that it doesn't work but i would say i have more like a 60 40 on this so i bet the 60 percent that it doesn't work but i'm completely open to a full forty percent possibility that it works for some people in some situations it might i can't rule it out so anyway uh let me say that me talking to one expert will never be a good business model it will only make things worse every time and there can be no exceptions to this what would work is have two experts or more one on each side of the topic and be hosting it that would work pretty well as long as they had some time and they could you know maybe do a little research on the questions each give each other so you'd have to figure out how they could do a you know a proper counter response to stuff yeah maybe do it over one to three days you don't do it in one day that would work but please don't ask me to interview one rogue doctor there's no way that can give you good information because i won't know what to ask here's how that would go me hey do you have any proof that your opinion works or your opinion is correct rogue doctor uh yes there was the the eastern european indian subcontinent study that was just completed and then what do i say oh that's the end of the conversation i can't fact check them in real time have you seen a credible comparison with the other proteus protease inhibitors now being brought to market with incredible purported outcomes a critical comparison so i don't understand the question chad but maybe somebody else does are you talking about in the con as as a treatment for covet or are you comparing two different uh fields i don't know the nature of that question all right um of doctors seeing the successes no they're seeing the anecdotes they're seeing the anecdotes so i saw somebody sent me the anecdote of the man who was on the ventilator and the judge allowed him to have ivermectin and he came back to life and so therefore ivermectin must work because there was a guy in the ventilator and he came back to life and here's what's missing in the story is there anywhere in the united states where there's somebody who's so so bad off with kova that they're on a ventilator and have not been given regeneron anywhere because i'm sure these stories about the guy who got ivermectin also got regeneron and we know that works right so how could you possibly tell what was the one that was working i wouldn't trust any of those stories so there's a new variant right on time did you think things were going to open up or did you think there'd be a new variant right on time well here it comes and it's been given a racist name which is weird it's called the south african variant now that's what the racists call it i would call it the covid some greek symbol variant because i'm not a racist but as steve cortes points out the bbc is calling it the south africa variant and you know you certainly couldn't call the covet a chinese virus or a china virus which would be less about the people and more about the country but why is this okay do you notice that the rules just go away when they're not convenient that's right today is not black friday today today is all people friday all people friday all right well it looks like we're going to be served up a uh infinite number of variants but the big ones will come on schedule because what is the schedule right now this is this is when we should be afraid of the variance so we're shutting down our economies again get your tenth booster shot scott there's somebody in all caps who's very concerned for me thank you uh would you just shout at me in all caps again i liked it um all right looking at your comments for a moment uh all right oh you love me well thank you get that flag up i don't know what that means uh here in europe we're calling it the botswana variant okay does hypnosis help chronic pain i'm being asked um i think he can i think he can but it also depends on the person and the hypnotist and given the pain is part real and part you know how you process it i think you can i'm not 100 sure that by the way because i've never tried it but i've heard acupuncture can work in some cases depending on the pain by the way i'm a big acupuncture skeptic but i've been getting it lately for just relaxation and it is crazy how much it relaxes you like i um the first first time i thought okay that's you know anecdotal i got real relaxed afterwards that can't be anything real but i've repeated it a number of times and how you feel after you get acupuncture if you're doing it for relaxation specifically it's it's kind of freaky it's kind of freaky you wouldn't expect it to have anything now you might say to me scott scott scott it's it's all the placebo effect but if it works every time why would i not do it i mean it doesn't matter what it is if it works every time i'm going to keep doing it college of uh john devock and pick his brain about fovid and about therapies used on the analysis that you're unwilling to do all right uh john devorak if you're watching that now i don't know if you know but i i know i've known johns vorak for a hundred years and uh every once in a while we'll you know we'll chat and get together or whatever but um that would be the same the same thing as if i talk to one expert so i will grant you that john has probably researched it more than i have but you know it would have no value right that me talking to him because it would be exactly the same as if i talk to the expert so why do you believe x john and then john says well i researched it and i found such and such a study and then what do i say that's it right what do i say you found a study do i say uh some sometimes studies aren't reliable i think he knows that do i say you know if it's only one randomized controlled study i i'd like to see two i think john knows that all right what could i possibly say to john devorak that he doesn't already know about this topic how in the world could that conversation help you it couldn't it couldn't how does inflation ever stop well it has stopped everywhere that it's happened where the country hasn't gone under right there are plenty of countries is israel one um give me give me a history lesson those of you who are smarter than i am about history which would be most of you didn't israel at one point have just horrible inflation and now they don't do me a fact check on that and i don't i think there are a number of other places that have had horrible inflation and survived so somehow they got past it yeah and then there would be other places where they didn't is that correct so if there are places that had massive inflation and then got past it then there is a way to get past it but i'm not sure if i'm not sure anybody understands it now it could be you have to have massive productivity gains right or no maybe not stop spending stop printing money well we can't do that with our current government situation but um do you think the current real estate market will correct of course yeah easiest question in the world i'm being asked do i think the real estate market will correct yeah yeah of course it will i don't know when and i don't know how much but i will also confidently predict that it will recover in time eventually it will recover all right wesley says is it possible to ever stop seeing it oh when people start seeing the the fake news can they learn to unsee it yeah i think so ask yourself you know was there a time when you were more believing in the news and now you're not i would say that certainly the case for me i would say that in my youth i would generally have thought the news was right i don't know 99 of the time today if it's political news i assume it's wrong i just assume it's wrong and that's a pretty big change from almost certainly right to i just assume that's not true right and i think a lot of us went through that same journey so yes i believe that people can understand that they're that they're you know being bamboozled um prediction on the brandon thing lasting past 2022 i don't know that that has legs but maybe you know i didn't think maggot was the greatest the greatest thing i like make america my great again i don't like the abbreviation mega because it's too obviously like a maggot you know and of course all the critics picked up on that in about a half a second so you should always run your slogans past a cartoonist this is good advice you come up with a good acronym or a good slogan run it past a cartoonist because you know what we're good at uh mocking things with words if i can mock it better think when wells fargo um yours was was actually crocker back before wells fargo bought him but when i worked for a back years ago they came up with a slogan good enough isn't and the idea was that you'd never be satisfied with the quality good enough isn't now that was a slogan they should have run past me before they implemented it what did the employees do instantly with their own slogan good enough isn't pretty much every time they slap something together they looked at it they looked at whoever's standing next to them they laughed and said ah good enough is it just immediately became the opposite i would have told you that i could have told you that before you did that slogan i could have told you that right off the bat uh you know people are gonna say good enough is and that's that's gonna be you're gonna hear that more than your slogan you know that right well i could have told them build back better build back better is actually about too bad uh at least they didn't do you know build back carefully i'll let that one just sit there for a while at least they didn't do build back carefully anybody anybody thank you all right some got my joke um you hated it initially build back better oh i don't think that build back better uh is like changing the world what i think is that it's unmockable it's hard it's hard to mock it my cat yelling at me do you mind if i pause to get my cat do you mind one moment bring her right back so as you can see she still has her feeding tube in her bandaging is getting a little ragged i i have to redo the the wrapping every day so she's got a few more days of the feeding tube we don't use it for food she eats she can eat okay i just use it for the medicine because she won't take medicine without spitting it out so we just left it in for a little while and in a few days she'll get this off and she'll be all good she doesn't like this as much as you think oh there she is she's relaxed now all right that's all for now uh that was your black friday special cat episode and a friday friday of caller yes people of color friday let's go with that all right i got nothing else so i'm gonna go i'll talk to you later

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or all people friday yeah

it's it's all people friday

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um

i don't know if i told you

my play

with rob reiner's tweet

and it's a play that i use a lot now you

know how

that the left and the right are in their

own news bubbles

and social media bubbles they don't see

much from the other side

so if you're trying to

if you're trying to persuade the other

side

how do you do it

something very loud happening outside my

house

doesn't sound good

i don't know what it is but there's

heavy equipment right outside my house i

hope nobody called the wrecking crew

that is a terrible prank by the way

never hire a wrecking crew for your

neighbor's house

somebody actually did that prank once

anyway

my play with rob reiner's tweet in which

he said

he had a bunch of stuff wrong about the

written house case he said in november

23rd now remember by november 23rd

the entire country should know the

actual story

of written house

well listen how bad his version was and

i'll add something to what i've said

before about this

an underage kid illegally took an

assault rifle across state lines

nope

nope

didn't take it across

across state lines and it wasn't illegal

and that's why there were no charges

now there were charges that were dropped

but by the time they went to a verdict

there were no charges about any gun

related thing now how could you not know

that

well you'd have to be in a pretty deep

bubble right

now i saw some people saying oh they

know it

they know the gun wasn't illegal they're

just saying that

no

no they really don't know

the the level of um

ignorance

that let me be fair it's on both sides

left and right the level of ignorance

that both sides have about each other's

news

is really shocking

and if you don't think that's the whole

story here

you think that they're just lying and of

course they know the real story i don't

think so

i would place a very large bet

that when rob reiner wrote this tweet he

did not know the actual story

because their news doesn't report it

well it does report it but it reports it

inaccurately

so let me tell you my play here my play

is not to embarrass rob reiner because i

don't care about him individually

and my play is not to convince a whole

bunch of

people on the right because they already

got the correct news

so how do i reach the people on the left

well here's my hypothesis and i think

it's

fairly accurate

which is that blue check twitter people

kind of pay attention to the other blue

checks

am i right

now if you don't have a blue check next

to your name you may not have

experienced this

but i can tell you that i regularly

i look at all i try to look at most of

my comments

but on top of that

uh i also try to look at

uh

there's somebody at my door and i'm

gonna have to figure out what's going on

here because something big is happening

right outside my door right now

sorry i better check on this see if it's

anything important

uh

i'll show you what it is

it's a it's a bird sitting in front of

my security camera

so there's a

there's that bird

there's one bird today that walks i

think it's the same bird he just walks

in front of my security camera every day

all right so i'm not being attacked

now i'm a little i'm a little bit extra

cautious

because my neighborhood's been hit with

a crime wave of you know people

literally breaking through a window and

carrying your stuff away while you're

home

so it's a dangerous neighborhood at the

moment

anyway my play with rob reiner is to get

him to see my comment because i'm a blue

check and to see if i can break through

and

here's what i want him to to feel

i don't need him to be embarrassed i

don't need him to

tweet something different

i want him to look at my tweet and say

there's somebody with a blue jack

who has different news for me and he's

saying it right out loud

maybe i should look at this

and see which one of us is wrong

so that's the play

i'm trying only to convince rob reiner

that his news is wrong i'm not even

trying to change his opinion

so there's no no politics in it i'm just

trying to convince people that they're

watching fake news

that i think is doable

i think that's doable especially with

the written house case it's like the

as i said it's like the rosetta stone

for unlocking all the fake news on the

left

all right well the washington post

uh

as dinesh d'souza points out the

washington post is uh

quote uh working hard to deny human

agency to black criminals this is

dinesh's take on it about waukesha and

you've seen this right

where the news is talking as if the suv

driven by a black man

which unfortunately matters in 2021 you

have to say the ethnicity because we're

all talking about it right

shouldn't matter but does

and

uh the this is how the washington post

described part of that it said quote the

suv then drove down main street

well by itself

the the suvs have gone rogue now they're

they're killing people on their own

well i don't think so i think there was

a person who drove the car

and a person drove down the street in

his suv

and when you see how much torture they

have to give themselves to write a

sentence like that

you know something's happening right

something's at the breaking point

you can almost feel it

by the way do you feel it

you could feel it when uh ahmed arbury's

father

who you would imagine would be saying

something like black lives matter

because his son was was killed

he said all lives matter and he made a

big deal about it in public all lives

matter period i don't want anybody's

father to have to

you know go through what i'm going

through

and

i feel as if

you know the longer trump is out of the

news

that the realization that

especially on the left that they've been

completely duped by their news and by

their own party

i feel like people are catching on now

so you know the rob reiner tweet i give

him a little nudge

uh but there are a whole bunch of nudges

going on here and it feels like people

are starting to see it but the best

comment about this suv driving down the

street

came from

twitter user jill

who asked this question

who invented the suv

clearly they're the responsible party

here i mean

i don't think a minivan would do this

hmm good point

suvs can be bastards we all know that

um sometimes when you're sleeping the

suv will just take off

party all night come back with less gas

than you knew you had

and uh the suvs are really well-known

bad boys

but the minivans

well the minivans are sort of the

the nerds of the automotive world

very efficient

very well designed for utility but your

minivan is never going to

steal the money from your wallet and go

on a joyride on its own but an suv no

suvs are bastards

you know

all right i have an suv

ever since i heard about this

incident

uh

i have to put blocks on the wheels at

night

because i don't know what that damn

thing's doing when i'm not watching

so all right next story um

wall street journal editorial board

uh just went viciously at biden

and i love this attack i usually don't

like to call out the hypocrisy stuff

because if you do that that's all you're

talking about

because the political parties don't

really try too hard

you know to do what they say you should

do

so it's usually just you know sort of

boring and trite to call that out but

this is this is a big and unusual case

because

biden's uh

proposition was you can't have a

president who has allowed this many

people to die on his watch meaning covet

but biden's death count has surpassed

trump's

and that's after the vaccination

now

am i going to tell you that trump did a

better job

than biden

nope

i am not going to tell you that because

i told you from the beginning of the

pandemic

and i'm the only one

if anybody would like to fact check this

i'm making a a very big claim here

that i'm the only one who told you at

the beginning of the pandemic

that leadership would not be a variable

that

would be predictive

did anybody else tell you that

i don't think one person told you

that you will not see a leadership

variable that that's obvious

now there may be some extreme cases of

maybe some i don't know

third world country that

thought it was caused by aids or

something so yeah i mean in the extreme

case yes but i don't think you're going

to tell the difference between great

britain and france

france and the united states

i just don't think you're going to be

able to tell the difference leadership

wise some will do better than others but

we still don't know why

we just don't know why

so

um i would say that biden has no chance

if you know even if he imagined he was

going to run for office i can't imagine

he is

but he couldn't possibly get elected

having failed at the number one thing he

said he'd do

number one thing biden said he'd do

is get the pandemic under control

nothing like that happened

350 000 people died under biden compared

to 200 000 220 or so under trump it's

not even close

and again

biden had the vaccinations

now does that mean anything no it just

you know of course more people die

at the peak of the pandemic

of course they do had nothing to do with

biden

and if trump had been president probably

the same outcome

probably the same

you could you could do a mental

experiment where you say hey

there are lots of uh conservatives not

getting the vaccine

so maybe maybe trump could have

convinced them

whereas biden could not

i doubt it

i doubt it

this did seem to be the limit of

trump's

persuasion you know i think he's

tremendous at persuading as you know

but i don't think he made a dent

in the conservatives who were

you know concerned about the vaccination

let me let me give some comfort to the

vaccine deniers

because i'm you know anytime that i'm

accused of you know not

being fair about each side's perspective

i like to correct that when i can

here's what i hate

about the anti-vaxxers the skeptics

about the vaccines

i absolutely hate this

that their reasons

are really good

i hate that

yeah and and you and of course the

anti-vaxxers will give you lots of you

know arguments but they have one

argument

that i can't refute

do you know what it is what's what's the

anti-vaxx argument that i can't refute

which one is it no no natural immunity

is part of the part of this story so but

that's not what i'm talking about

and now not not inflammation not

long-term effects nope

it's no nothing about your autonomy your

personal choice those are all good

arguments by the way i'm saying that

that's not the bit the good one

the fda

pfizer

you know big pharma

you have a lot of reasons don't you

i would say those are all worth

discussing

everything you're mentioning here is

absolutely on the list

should be part of the conversation

but the anti-vaxxers have one argument

that i've got nothing for now here it is

can't trust the government

that's a killer argument

can't trust the government

what are you going to

say you tell me you have an argument

against that

can't trust the government

now you say yourself wait a minute wait

a minute it's not really the government

because they're getting their data from

somebody else they're getting it from

big from big pharma

who trusts big pharma

they are by their nature something you

can't trust doesn't mean they're doing

bad things all the time i mean they have

some history of doing some very bad

things

but they're not you know it's not a

criminal organization or anything

they're obviously doing good things as

well

i have to make an aside here i'm sorry

everybody who's calling rob reiner a

meathead

i don't know who he needs to hear this

but it's not additive

it's not funny

it's not something we hadn't thought of

on our own

you're just using

letters on a screen

nothing is accomplished by that

statement that rob reiner is a meathead

or any version of it that i saw

thousands of yesterday well you know

he's a meathead he's always been a

meathead

but have i mentioned that he's a

meathead

i want to be as clear as this as

possible

it's not funny

it's never been funny and there's

nothing you can do to it they'll make

that a good comment

right

now if you were the only one who thought

of it

i'd say oh that's that's a good point

nobody came to this conclusion that he

had a character he played famously

called the meathead if you were the only

one

oh okay that might be additive

but you do know everybody's saying it

right

like hundreds and hundreds of people are

saying you know he's a meathead

i'm just saying

please

please can you help me stop reading that

comment

you know you have a right to make it of

course

i'm just saying that it wears on me like

few things do

i don't want to hear soil in green i

don't want to hear what's like the

matrix

and i don't want to hear that rob reiner

is a meathead because those are the most

obvious things that anybody could say

about anything

all right

um so i was saying about uh yeah biden's

done a bad job here

but uh leadership is not predictive now

apparently the united states has warned

russia

that if they're behind the i'm changing

the topic here if russia is behind this

so-called

havana syndrome sonic weapon

that

uh that they would pay for that

apparently there are a number of havana

syndrome cases

happening

related to russian embassies and others

etc so now i think there are hundreds of

cases of this

what was my prediction on day one

you will never find a secret

uh sonic weapon

that's behind it all now there might be

something that's behind it all might be

some kind of

you know electronics that are common to

i don't know

embassies that have some sonic problem

to them or something but i think i'm

also the only person in the country who

predicted that am i right

i didn't hear anybody else in the

country predict

that you would never find the sonic

weapon

haven't found it yet

so i like to talk about my uh my

predictions that no one has made

uh all right

uh i have to talk about this again

because it came on the slow news

thanksgiving day but there is a new

study saying that the arctic ocean began

warming decades earlier than previously

thought

now to be clear

this new information does not debunk

climate change in the sense of its

direction

and it doesn't debunk it in terms of

humans causing it

it does however completely debunk

the science

so the reality might be that the earth

is warming people are causing it

maybe we need to do something about it

right that seems to be the case and my

current

my current best guess

because i'm not a scientist

is that probably humans are warming

because i think that's something you

could study

i think you could do it in a lab you

could study it a million times and you

could find out

the co2 has that effect

seems reasonable

which is different from saying that the

science is right

right because there's a lot of science

but just that one minor thing whether

co2 makes warming or not i think they

got that right

we don't know how fast how much how much

has been in the past how much we have to

worry about those are all different

questions but this new study if it

stands

and it might not you know maybe it gets

debunked tomorrow but if it were to

stand

would show that all the models are

completely wrong

sort of a big deal

there's no way the models could even be

close to correct if this study is is

right because it says the warming

started way before

you know the the largest amount of

industrial stuff happened by people

um

humans put off heat well maybe

you mean the human causation part

i don't know what you're debunking there

but let me let me go on

so

um

it puts the

the believers in climate science in it

kind of a bind

because if this study is right it means

that everything that they thought about

climate change

at least the the modeling part of it

just the modeling part was wrong

but

if it's not true

that means climate science is not true

because

this is also done by science right

so if it turns out that this science is

wrong what other science is wrong

so you can even either doubt the the

models or you can doubt

climate science itself it's a real

problem and i don't hear anybody else

talking about it do you

have you heard anybody else talking

about this study and what it does to the

entire body of

you know climate science modeling yeah i

think it's just going to disappear as a

topic

all right here's my provocative thought

of the day apparently

we're hearing the reports especially

from the uk but i think it would be true

in america

that there's just this huge problem of

sexual abuse of women in the military

now

not going to make light of that nobody

should

but

i am very bothered

by not just the fact that it's you know

a brutal crime

so i'm not just bothered by that

i'm bothered by the fact that correct me

if i'm wrong but the women in the

military are are trained to kill are

they not

they don't they don't separate the women

and say oh you you know you can learn to

cook

isn't everybody in the military trained

to kill

am i wrong about that

is there any exception to that

i think they all they all use firearms

they're all trained in it

i mean at different levels right marines

are trained to kill really hard

but everybody's trained to kill

or at least defend themselves am i right

so here's my problem if you put somebody

in the military or they join the

military you train them to kill people

who deserve to be killed

i think they should have special

dispensation to be able to kill their

sexual accusers

or abusers not accusers

i think a woman in the military should

be able to hunt down

and murder

a sexual abuser even if it's next week

or next year

now in a practical sense you could never

have that law right i'm aware of that

but

i feel like it would be justice

if we're going to train people to kill

and we're training to kill people who

deserve to be killed

and they meet one of these people who

deserves to be killed right up close

i say they can kill them in their sleep

i'm okay with that

don't train people to kill and then rape

them and don't expect them to kill the

person who raped them

that's not fair

either don't train them to kill

or let them kill

because some people are worth killing

all right

um that's not a serious point but um

it could be

lauren uh bobert

is it beau bert or bobert she's got a

bert at the end of her name so i'm

automatically uh i like her because of

you know dilbert dogbert beaubert

anyway

so she uh she's on film telling an elon

omar story that elon omar says never

happened but the story as lauren says is

that elon omar who as you know would be

in traditional islamic garb

according to this story which omar says

never happened omar was getting in an

elevator and lauren wilbur saw

the security

all worried about a threat and running

toward the elevator

and didn't get there in time

and then bobert allegedly said but we

think maybe it didn't really happen that

she said don't worry

she doesn't have a backpack

you know meaning that she's not a

not an islamic terrorist bomber

and people are saying this is a horrible

horrible horrible

and

i would agree that it was probably dumb

for her to tell this joke so i'm not

going to defend the joke but i would

just put this one little

question to it

was it

was it a joke

about elon omar

or was it a joke about the security

guard

i'm not so sure

right because

the joke

was sort of about the security guard

being a bigot and imagining that she was

a terrorist

it wasn't about lauren bober imagining

she was a terrorist and her joke you

know she didn't have a backpack so

you're okay

it doesn't sound like she believed that

she was a terrorist obviously she

doesn't

it's kind of one of these weird ones i

if somebody says a joke at the expense

of the the person

like

omar well that would feel a little

racist depending on the joke of course

but if the joke is about

is about how someone else was racist

against them

i'm not sure i'd take that the same

just put that scalpel down am i cutting

it too too finely

well it's my job jokes are my job

i do look at them

kind of analytically

all right i have an algorithm for you

and i know this will be helpful a way to

determine which

graphs you see on twitter

about ivermectin

solving

a country's problem

to tell which one of some are true

because we've seen the graph

um i've seen a graph that said as soon

as ivermectin was introduced

covent in japan went to nothing

and some other places as soon as

ivermectin was introduced

went to nothing

do you know how to tell which of those

stories are uh fake and which are not

the answer is all of them are fake yeah

every one of the country graphs that

says ivermectin was introduced doesn't

matter if it's india

they're all fake they've all been

debunked

now

did you just hear me say that i debunked

the effectiveness of ivormectin

did i say that

did i just tell you that ivermectin

doesn't work

no

now i told you that the graphs

that show it cured some country are all

fake 100 of them

i've seen everyone i've seen everyone

debunked i doubt you'll see a real one

now

does that tell you anything

about the effectiveness of vibramectin

maybe

maybe not there is one view that says

that the pharma companies are so strong

they could make every single country bow

to their will

or at the very least

get you know the the big countries

medical communities just about to their

will and then the smaller countries

would say oh crap the united states says

this doesn't work

what are you going to do

because we you know we can't test

ourselves we don't have a good medical

you know industry but the united states

says it works and uk says it works and

they've got good medical staffs

so

so there is one that says that

ivermectin might be working

and yet every single country is afraid

to use it is that possible

maybe

maybe

who debunked it everybody you just have

to look at the original data

in other words you just look at any

original data and it disappears there's

there's no data that suggests that

ivermectin solved any problem

you can't find any original data that

says that okay

so

um

all right

here's my take

the longer we go

with the

the belief that's widespread that

ivormectin does or might work the longer

we go

where no country actually solves its

problem with ivermectin

it's very much less likely it works

because even even if you believe all the

medical experts in every country were

influenced by let's say the united

states or influenced by pharma which

seems unlikely to me

you'd have to think with all the

countries in the world and the

desperation

somebody would have actually solved

their entire country's problem with

ivermectin if it worked

am i wrong

you don't think that one country

somewhere would have totally solved

their pandemic

or how about this

if ivermectin worked as well as the

anecdotal reports

you don't think that a hospital would

have noticed by now

a hospital a hospital that does nothing

but coven patients they wouldn't have

obviously noticed that

because you know what they do obviously

notice

regeneron

i'll bet you could go to any hospital

that does a lot of covet and say have

you noticed on your own

the regeneron is bringing people back to

life who maybe seemed like they'd gone

too far

i would bet a hundred percent of

hospitals would say oh yeah we see it

every day we give them a regeneron it

totally turns them around

they would see the same thing with

ivermectin

i mean maybe not us because it's sort of

a semi-band here but somebody would see

it

you don't think any hospital

any country would have seen the effect

yet

so go back to my uh hydroxychloroquine

predictions uh early on in the pandemic

like ivermectin it looked like it was

anecdotally and there were studies that

suggested it worked

i said

that every month that goes by

where you don't have proof that it works

you have to lower your odds that it

worked

and then you saw every month i would

lower the odds of hydroxychloroquine

working it was down to 30 percent the

last number was 10 percent i think i'd

drop it to

2

now

we've gone so long

that if hydroxychloroquine worked

we would know it

i don't think there's any chance

any chance we wouldn't clearly know it

by now

ivermectin is the same path

can i tell you

ivermectin doesn't work absolutely not

so you're not hearing me say that

but i will say that every day that goes

by you have to lower your estimate

if you're being wise about this

because you would see the signal

somewhere or somebody would see it but

you don't see anybody in an official

role

who sees it

right you see a rogue doctor but do you

see anybody who runs a uh

an icu

have you seen any icu doctors say oh

yeah

we're giving people ivermectin it's just

taking them right off the ventilator

nope

nope

so does ivermectin work i have no idea

but

i can tell you that the longer you go

the less likely it is

cnn has some oh no let's talk about that

next

so apparently the lincoln project uh

they are they're a scrappy bunch of

losers the lincoln project so rick

wilson especially i guess

he's trying to revive this monstrosity

that's been completely

humiliated in the last year or so

and

they're trying to make it a thing to get

trump to be the nominee

so they want trump to be the nominee

even though he's the target of all their

attacks

because uh he once he loses

then it will destroy what's left of

trumpism and that's their real goal

and so this is what rick wilson said

about that strategy he says the people

who think we want trump back in 2024 for

any reason other than killing off his

vile repugnant cult and driving it into

the dustbin of history display the same

failure of imagination they always have

do you think that's why rick wilson is

reviving

the lincoln project which made them all

millions of dollars

huh

is it to make the millions of dollars

that they know they'll make

or

is it to

kill off trump's vile repugnant cult and

drive it into the dustbin of history

which one of those seems

slightly more

likely have i ever mentioned

follow the money

you know i tell you it always works even

when the people involved are not

following the money it still always

works

yeah the the lincoln project grifters

are uh just accusing trump of what they

are uh it's just projection

they are horrible grifters race grifters

really some of the worst people in the

world i would say

uh but they're funny so i'm glad they're

in the news

cnn has a wonderful bit of

fake news here and i'm gonna see if you

can spot it

so i'll tell you what they reported

and then you tell me

what the fake news part is okay

so cnn is reporting that the reason we

don't have more

rapid tests and faster you know why

didn't we have this rapid testing you

know cheap and fast because we did

project warp speed

so don't you think we could also get

rapid tests quickly if we wanted

here's what cnn

says to describe

why

we don't have them

it's because we don't have tests because

there were too many available

and the food and drug administration had

more than 3000 emergency use

authorization applications and didn't

have the resources to get through them

so the reason that we only had one

abbott labs for i don't know months and

months the reason we only had one

is that there were

3 000 others who wanted

but there was not enough fda

resources to test them

so we had to live with just that one for

a long time

that

ladies and gentlemen

is fake news

it's really clever

because what do i keep saying about the

reason we don't have the uh

the rapid tests

what do i keep saying loudly and in

public

corruption

it's obviously corruption i would say at

this point that the corruption

hypothesis

i don't know 95

likely

because if this is the best this is the

best

alibi

that we have

the best alibi from the fda is that

there were too many of them and they

didn't have enough resources

what would you do

if you were the fda

and you didn't have to enough resources

you do have some resources so it's not

like you're not testing anything

you know you are evaluating things but

you can't do three thousand would you uh

say

hey guys let's evaluate all three

thousand things at once with our limited

resources is that the way you'd handle

it

you take your limited resources in the

context of a pandemic

you say huh we'd better we'd better

spread our resources so you got a

thousand at first you say let's look at

them all at the same time

but then it goes to 3 000

and it's too it's too fast to add people

so you say to yourself oh i'll just work

less on the first thousand so i'll have

enough for the uh the extra thousands of

them

is that the way the fda decided to

manage that

now hiring help wouldn't be fast enough

i i have to admit

that staffing up probably would be hard

they should do that too

but probably that wouldn't be a magic

bullet it just feels like it would but

it would take a while to staff up

um

i'm no management expert

but here's what i would have done

i would look at those 3000 applications

and i would say

which ones are the biggest companies

that are likely to be able to produce

this in volume

oh

there are only three of them

and then i would evaluate those three

and i would tell all the other thousands

sorry you have to wait

because it's a pandemic we can't be fair

about this we just gotta

we just have to hope we pick some

winners we'll pick the big companies

that say they they can put the resources

together to produce they've got a track

record of producing

do you think these 3 000

applications were all equal

do you think that anybody looked at

these and said yeah these look all about

the same

no

no

there were some that obviously looked

better than the others

obviously

this this cnn report

is complete

they did not have a problem because too

many people wanted to make the

rapid tests

they didn't do it because they're

corrupt we don't know exactly how i mean

the details are unknown but this is pure

corruption and and the cnn is part of it

now

when i asked you

can you google which pharma companies

advertise on cnn

i was looking for abbott labs

because i don't know if they do

but look for it

is abbott labs do they ever advertise on

cnn i think they do 100 million a year

in advertising maybe more lately

is any of it on cnn i don't remember

seeing an ad from them so maybe not

we know pfizer does we know big farmer

does all the time right

but uh take a look at that

and uh tell me if if cnn is just uh in

on the corruption

and is trying to

develop a cover story why why for why

abbott labs had a monopoly for so long

all right that's all for now

on that topic anyway

have you listened to uh dark horse

podcast uh with uh bret

uh brett and heather um so brett

weinstein

and i guess one of the evidences he

showed about uh

ivor working is that it um

when it was widely available in slovakia

there uh they basically crushed the

virus

so that was one of the evidences for

that

uh but andres backhouse um

he made a sarcastic tweet about that in

twitter banned him because i couldn't

tell his parody from from his actual

opinion

his 2021

you got to be careful about your parody

because people can't tell

i mean they actually legitimately can't

tell when you're joking these days

because everything is so ridiculous

that a joke looks like reality

there's no difference anymore

so andre's got

temporarily locked down for making a

joke about it

uh but

uh slovakia has announced a nationwide

coronavirus lockdown

so if five vermectin were making a big

deal in slovakia well is stop doing that

and uh

andres

tweeted out that uh maybe there was a a

variant that has escaped the ivormectin

uh maybe it's an ivermectin escape

variant which is just a joke

but twitter couldn't tell the difference

since they locked them out

so

one of the

key evidences that you heard from

brett and heather on darkhorse

that appears to be debunked

and again let me be very careful in my

wording

i'm not telling you ivermectin doesn't

work

how would i know

i'm just telling you that these

country-wide um evidences they're all

all right uh

uh jay le calm uh helpfully suggested

that i i

i host a live stream debate with pierre

cory

um i think on ivermectin

and it would be a service to your

viewers no matter what happened

to which i will tell you for the

millionth time

gone fall says in in large capital

letters

you do know it works scott let me say

clearly

i don't know that it works

like legitimately i don't know

if i had to put money on it

yeah that'd be a good that's a good

question

if i had to bet money

and it wasn't betting my life but let's

say it's just a financial bat and i

could afford it

would i bet the ivor meccan ivermectin

works

that's a tough one because i think that

you might have a situation where it

works in some special cases

i i wouldn't rule that out

because i don't think we have enough

evidence of that one way or the other

but um i feel like if i had to take the

bet

i'd bet against it

i i would think in in my opinion the

body of

uh unreliable information because it's

all unreliable right to me the body of

information suggests that it doesn't

work

but i would say i have more like a 60 40

on this

so i bet the 60 percent that it doesn't

work

but i'm completely open to a full forty

percent possibility that it works for

some people in some situations it might

i can't rule it out

so

anyway uh let me say that me talking to

one expert will never be a good business

model

it will only make things worse every

time and there can be no exceptions to

this

what would work is have

two experts or more

one on each side of the topic and be

hosting it

that would work pretty well

as long as they had some time and they

could you know

maybe do a little research on the

questions each give each other so you'd

have to figure out how they could do a

you know a proper counter response to

stuff yeah maybe do it over one to three

days you don't do it in one day

that would work but please don't ask me

to interview one rogue doctor there's no

way that can give you good information

because i won't know what to ask here's

how that would go

me

hey do you have any proof that your

opinion works or your opinion is correct

rogue doctor

uh yes there was the

the eastern european indian subcontinent

study that was just completed and then

what do i say

oh

that's the end of the conversation i

can't fact check them in real time

have you seen a credible comparison with

the other proteus protease inhibitors

now being brought to market with

incredible

purported outcomes

a critical comparison

so i don't understand the question chad

but maybe somebody else does are you

talking about in the con

as as a treatment for covet or are you

comparing two different

uh fields i don't know the nature of

that question

all right um

of doctors seeing the successes no

they're seeing the anecdotes they're

seeing the anecdotes

so i saw somebody sent me the anecdote

of the man who was on the ventilator

and the

judge allowed him to have ivermectin and

he came back to life and so therefore

ivermectin must work because there was a

guy in the ventilator and he came back

to life

and here's what's missing in the story

is there anywhere in the united states

where there's somebody who's so

so bad off with kova that they're on a

ventilator

and have not been given regeneron

anywhere

because i'm sure these stories about the

guy who got ivermectin

also got regeneron and we know that

works right

so how could you possibly tell what was

the one that was working

i wouldn't trust any of those stories

so there's a new variant right on time

did you think things were going to open

up or did you think there'd be a new

variant right on time well here it comes

and it's been given a racist name which

is weird it's called the south african

variant

now that's what the racists call it

i would call it the

covid

some greek symbol variant

because i'm not a racist but as steve

cortes points out

the bbc is calling it the south africa

variant and

you know you certainly couldn't call the

covet a chinese virus

or a china virus

which would be less about the people and

more about the country

but

why is this okay

do you notice that the rules just go

away when they're not convenient

that's right

today is not black friday today today is

all people friday all people friday

all right well it looks like we're going

to be served up a uh infinite number of

variants but the big ones will come on

schedule

because what is the schedule

right now this is this is when we should

be afraid of the variance so we're

shutting down our economies again

get your tenth booster shot scott

there's somebody in all caps who's very

concerned for me thank you

uh would you just shout at me in all

caps again i liked it

um

all right looking at your comments for a

moment

uh

all right

oh you love me

well thank you

get that flag up i don't know what that

means

uh here in europe we're calling it the

botswana variant

okay

does hypnosis help chronic pain i'm

being asked

um

i think he can

i think he can

but it also depends on the person and

the hypnotist

and

given the pain is part real and part

you know how you process it i think you

can i'm not 100 sure that by the way

because i've never tried it

but i've heard acupuncture can work in

some cases depending on the pain

by the way

i'm a big acupuncture skeptic

but i've been getting it lately

for just relaxation

and it is crazy how much it relaxes you

like i

um

the first first time i thought okay

that's you know anecdotal i got real

relaxed afterwards that can't be

anything real

but i've repeated it a number of times

and how you feel after you get

acupuncture if you're doing it for

relaxation specifically it's it's kind

of freaky it's kind of freaky you

wouldn't expect it to have anything now

you might say to me

scott scott scott

it's it's all the

placebo effect

but if it works every time

why would i not do it

i mean it doesn't matter what it is if

it works every time i'm going to keep

doing it

college of

uh john devock and pick his brain about

fovid and about therapies

used on the analysis that you're

unwilling to do

all right uh john devorak if you're

watching

that now i don't know if you know but i

i know i've known johns vorak for a

hundred years

and

uh every once in a while we'll you know

we'll chat

and get together or whatever but

um

that would be the same the same thing as

if i talk to one expert

so

i will grant you that john has probably

researched it more than i have

but you know it would have no value

right

that me talking to him because it would

be exactly the same as if i talk to the

expert

so why do you believe x john

and then john says well i researched it

and i found such and such a study

and then what do i say

that's it right

what do i say you found a study

do i say uh some sometimes studies

aren't reliable i think he knows that

do i say

you know if it's only one randomized

controlled study i i'd like to see two

i think john knows that all right

what could i possibly say

to john devorak that he doesn't already

know about this topic

how in the world

could that conversation help you

it couldn't

it couldn't

how does inflation ever stop

well it has stopped everywhere that it's

happened

where the country hasn't gone under

right

there are plenty of countries is israel

one

um give me give me a history lesson

those of you who are smarter than i am

about history which would be most of you

didn't

israel at one point have just horrible

inflation

and now they don't

do me a fact check on that

and i don't i think there are a number

of other places that have had horrible

inflation

and survived so somehow they got past it

yeah and then there would be other

places where they didn't is that correct

so

if there are places that had massive

inflation and then got past it then

there is a way to get past it

but i'm not sure if

i'm not sure anybody understands it now

it could be you have to have massive

productivity gains right

or no maybe not

stop spending stop printing money

well we can't do that with our current

government situation but

um

do you think the current real estate

market will correct of course

yeah easiest question in the world i'm

being asked do i think the real estate

market

will correct

yeah

yeah of course it will i don't know when

and i don't know how much

but i will also confidently predict that

it will recover in time

eventually it will recover

all right wesley says

is it possible to ever stop seeing it

oh when people start seeing the the fake

news can they learn to unsee it yeah i

think so

ask yourself

you know was there a time when you were

more believing in the news and now

you're not i would say that

certainly the case for me

i would say that in my youth i would

generally have thought the news was

right i don't know 99 of the time

today if it's political news i assume

it's wrong

i just assume it's wrong and that's a

pretty big change from almost certainly

right to i just assume that's not true

right

and i think a lot of us went through

that same journey so yes

i believe that people can understand

that they're

that they're

you know

being bamboozled

um

prediction on the brandon thing lasting

past 2022 i don't know that that has

legs but maybe

you know i didn't think maggot was the

greatest

the greatest thing

i like make america my great again

i don't like the abbreviation mega

because it's too obviously like a maggot

you know and of course all the critics

picked up on that in about a half a

second

so you should always run your slogans

past a cartoonist

this is good advice

you come up with a good acronym or a

good slogan

run it past a cartoonist

because you know what we're good at

uh mocking things with words

if i can mock it

better think

when wells fargo um

yours was was actually crocker back

before wells fargo bought him but when i

worked for a back years ago they came up

with a slogan

good enough isn't

and the idea was that you'd never be

satisfied with the quality

good enough isn't

now that was a slogan they should have

run past me before they implemented it

what did the employees do instantly with

their own slogan good enough isn't

pretty much every time they slap

something together they looked at it

they looked at whoever's standing next

to them they laughed and said ah good

enough is

it just immediately became the opposite

i would have told you that

i could have told you that before you

did that slogan i could have told you

that right off the bat uh you know

people are gonna say good enough is and

that's that's gonna be you're gonna hear

that more than your slogan you know that

right

well i could have told them

build back better

build back better is actually about too

bad uh

at least they didn't do you know build

back carefully

i'll let that one just sit there for a

while

at least they didn't do

build back

carefully anybody

anybody

thank you all right some got my joke

um

you hated it initially build back better

oh i don't think that build back better

uh

is like changing the world what i think

is that it's unmockable

it's hard it's hard to mock it

my cat yelling at me

do you mind if i pause to get my cat

do you mind one moment

bring her right back

so as you can see she still has her

feeding tube in

her bandaging is getting a little ragged

i i have to redo the

the wrapping every day

so she's got a few more days

of the feeding tube we don't use it for

food she eats she can eat okay i just

use it for the medicine because she

won't take medicine without spitting it

out so we just left it in for

a little while and in a

few days

she'll get this off

and she'll be all good

she doesn't like this

as much as you think

oh there she is she's relaxed now

all right

that's all for now uh that was your

black friday special cat episode

and

a friday friday of caller

yes people of color friday let's go with

that

all right i got nothing else so i'm

gonna go i'll talk to you later