Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 611 Scott Adams: Baltimore, Joe Lockhart and Other Disasters
Aired: 2019-07-28
Duration: 32:26


=== Coffee And Politics (04:01) ===

[00:00:00]  Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum Hey everybody!
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[00:01:03]  Shivers. Shivers, I say.
[00:01:07]  Well, normally what I do is I make myself some notes before I do these periscopes, and then I look at my notes, and I say to myself, hey, I think I'll talk about these things on my notes.
[00:01:21]  Today, I have no notes.
[00:01:23]  Well, there's something here, but...
[00:01:25]  No notes that are relevant to this.
[00:01:28]  Because it seems like there's just one topic.
[00:01:32]  One topic. The poor Democrats...
[00:01:35]  Having now experienced the most humiliating defeat in the history of politics, not counting 2016, and here I'm talking about, of course, the Mueller catastrophe.
[00:01:51]  What would be a better word for the Mueller thing?
[00:01:54]  The Mueller disappointment.
[00:01:57]  The greatest disappointment of all time.
[00:02:01]  Um... So, how would they respond?
[00:02:05]  Well, if you are an ex-Clinton communication person, you might say something like, everybody's a racist who votes for President Trump.
[00:02:18]  Joe Lockhart, possibly not the best person in the world, actually tweeted today, let's make it clear, I'm paraphrasing, that anybody who votes for For President Trump is a racist and should wear that badge proudly.
[00:02:36]  And I thought to myself, was there some kind of competition to see who could be the worst human being in the world?
[00:02:43]  And is Joe competing at the highest level for this?
[00:02:47]  What exactly could be worse for the country than declaring that everyone who votes for a candidate is a racist?
[00:02:56]  Everyone. How could that...
[00:02:59]  How could that person who said that in public ever get a job again?
[00:03:07]  How could you expect to go through life operating in society having just branded, I don't know, 35% of us or whatever it is, as racist for a political preference which resulted in the lowest unemployment for African Americans A raging economy, no wars, and pretty much everything going pretty well.
[00:03:38]  What exactly?
[00:03:40]  What do you do with that if you've just suffered the biggest humiliation in political history?
[00:03:47]  Well, you've got to come up with something.
[00:03:49]  It looks like poor Joe Lockhart either flipped out entirely, and he's just lost his mind, Or he's one of the worst people in the whole world.

=== Unite Against Rats (16:20) ===

[00:04:01]  And I'm not even sure that's an exaggeration.
[00:04:04]  I mean, normally I don't, you know, go after a person.
[00:04:08]  I'd rather go after ideas.
[00:04:10]  But if that person is a serial killer, well, then you go after the person that's okay.
[00:04:18]  If someone says something so destructive to the society that you live in and the people you love...
[00:04:27]  So destructive that half of us should be treating the other half as raging racists, I don't know if that person is a good person.
[00:04:36]  I mean, I think that crosses the line from politics to just flat out being a horrible human being whose value in this society is deeply in question, I would say.
[00:04:50]  So one has to question that.
[00:04:55]  So, of course, the big conversation today is Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore.
[00:04:59]  Here's what I saw.
[00:05:01]  So the president, of course, is responding to the fact that he said Baltimore was a struggling place.
[00:05:07]  I won't use his language yet.
[00:05:10]  We'll talk about that in a moment.
[00:05:12]  And he went after Elijah Cummings, who, of course, is a superstar of, what would you call it, civil rights.
[00:05:23]  So, yes, he's a superstar of civil rights.
[00:05:29]  And so when Trump went after Baltimore, saying it was, I guess, rodent-infested, and that was interpreted, how do you think CNN interprets it when you say, hey, this city is rodent-infested?
[00:05:49]  Well, CNN does what it always does.
[00:05:52]  It says, why are you calling the people an infestation?
[00:05:58]  What? That's the opposite.
[00:06:02]  If you're the President of the United States and you're complaining loudly about the living conditions of a certain city, you are supporting the people who live there.
[00:06:15]  That's what that means.
[00:06:17]  If you're anti-rat...
[00:06:21]  About a city that has both rats, unfortunately, too many of them, apparently, and humans trying to make their best in a world which has not been kind to them.
[00:06:33]  You're not anti-people.
[00:06:36]  You're anti-rat.
[00:06:39]  The rats should be on the other side from all of us.
[00:06:43]  We should be unified against rats.
[00:06:47]  President Trump somehow...
[00:06:50]  And I wish I were making this up.
[00:06:52]  It's the craziest thing. Somehow, Trump got the Democrats to side with the rats.
[00:07:00]  I think.
[00:07:01]  Because his tweet was anti-rat.
[00:07:05]  I don't know how much more clearly anti-rat it could be.
[00:07:10]  Anti-rat is pro-people.
[00:07:13]  Because you'd like the people to not experience all the rats.
[00:07:20]  That was, very clearly, the point.
[00:07:25]  The President of the United States doesn't complain about his city and his rats because he's in favor of the rats.
[00:07:33]  What the hell is wrong with you if you think he was pro-rat?
[00:07:37]  No, anti-rat.
[00:07:39]  Very clearly, doesn't like the rats.
[00:07:42]  Rats are here.
[00:07:44]  Here's President Trump not liking them.
[00:07:46]  Not liking the rats.
[00:07:48]  Anti-rat. Could I be any more clear about that?
[00:07:52]  It's rats versus people in Baltimore.
[00:07:55]  The president is rooting for the people.
[00:07:58]  Okay? He's in favor of the people.
[00:08:02]  The Democrats have actually taken sides with the rats.
[00:08:06]  Against the people, I guess.
[00:08:09]  Because I don't know how else to interpret this.
[00:08:12]  So, Victor Blackwell...
[00:08:15]  African-American, which matters to the story, unfortunately.
[00:08:20]  What a messed up world.
[00:08:22]  What a messed up world that when I want to talk about Victor Blackwell, you know, a major host on CNN, how messed up is it that in order to tell my story, I have to tell you he's African-American?
[00:08:38]  Like, the fact that I even have to include that in my story It's just wrong on a thousand levels.
[00:08:46]  Like, it's the thing we should be ignoring as hard as we can to have a better country.
[00:08:51]  And instead, it's the thing we have to talk about.
[00:08:54]  But let's talk about it.
[00:08:55]  So, Victor Blackwell, African-American host, gave a...
[00:09:02]  I don't know if he actually cried, but he was emotional.
[00:09:06]  Semi-almost tearful defense of his beloved, Baltimore.
[00:09:11]  And I respect him for loving his hometown.
[00:09:15]  That's all great.
[00:09:17]  But he presented it, his argument, that Trump refers to black and brown people as infestation.
[00:09:28]  That is exactly the opposite of what happens, both in this case and in the other cases where Trump has used the word infestation in public.
[00:09:37]  When he uses it, he's talking about the crime and the disease because he's in favor of the people.
[00:09:48]  He doesn't talk about the crime and the disease because he's in favor of the crime and the disease and the rats.
[00:09:56]  He's against those things.
[00:09:59]  Duh! Can everybody give me a duh?
[00:10:03]  We're going to do a simultaneous duh.
[00:10:05]  This calls for people all over the country listening to this periscope.
[00:10:11]  At the count of three, I want you to give your best duh so that you can express your amazement that the Democrats are taking sides with the rats.
[00:10:23]  Let's let them know that we understand that when we talk about infestation of the cities, we're against the rats.
[00:10:33]  The rats are the bad people in the story.
[00:10:36]  The people are the good people in the story.
[00:10:39]  Wouldn't you love to help Baltimore?
[00:10:40]  Yes. Yes.
[00:10:43]  Indeed, no joke, I have been in deep conversations in the past two years about how I personally, and some other people who lean Republican, can help Baltimore.
[00:10:55]  I've actually been in those conversations to With people who are talking about large amounts of money and how it could be helpful to Baltimore.
[00:11:04]  Now, those conversations didn't go where to where, in part because we didn't know if we could work with Baltimore, all right?
[00:11:12]  So I don't need to say more about that.
[00:11:14]  But reality is quite different, quite different from whatever they're doing.
[00:11:19]  All right, get ready for your best duh at the count of three.
[00:11:22]  One, two, three.
[00:11:24]  Duh! Duh!
[00:11:28]  Yes, when the president talks about infestation, it's anti-rat.
[00:11:34]  Pro-people. Pro-people.
[00:11:37]  How do we know this?
[00:11:38]  Well, the president clarified, and he said, the facts speak louder than words, this is in his tweet.
[00:11:45]  The Democrats always play the race card, yes they do, duh, duh, when in fact they have done so little for our nation's great African American people.
[00:11:57]  What's the best compliment there?
[00:11:59]  Our nations, great African-American people.
[00:12:03]  Well, you probably say great, because he's calling them great people.
[00:12:07]  So that would be a compliment by any measure.
[00:12:10]  But you know what's the bigger compliment?
[00:12:12]  Our nations.
[00:12:15]  Our nations.
[00:12:18]  Our nations, great African-American people.
[00:12:21]  If you're a nationalist, what is your best compliment to a person?
[00:12:28]  You're a part of our nation.
[00:12:30]  It's the greatest endearment in the political sense.
[00:12:34]  In the political sense, our nation's great African-American people is probably the ultimate sign of endearment.
[00:12:45]  Our nations.
[00:12:48]  And he says, now lowest unemployment in US history and only getting better.
[00:12:53]  Elijah Cummings has failed badly.
[00:12:56]  What is the best thing that President Trump could do for Baltimore?
[00:13:01]  Go after his leaders.
[00:13:04]  You want to help the people in Baltimore?
[00:13:07]  Go after his leaders.
[00:13:09]  Do you think the people in Baltimore can help themselves?
[00:13:13]  Well, some of them can, certainly.
[00:13:17]  But they're in a deep, deep hole.
[00:13:19]  And the biggest lever, the best way to help Baltimore...
[00:13:23]  Is to go after their leaders with no mercy.
[00:13:28]  No mercy.
[00:13:30]  President Trump is finally going after their leaders with no mercy.
[00:13:37]  Finally. Who is trying to stop him from doing this?
[00:13:42]  The Democrats.
[00:13:44]  Nancy Pelosi. Oh, he's a racist.
[00:13:47]  Joe Lockhart. Oh, he's a racist.
[00:13:50]  Don't make him go after the leaders who have just dug this gigantic hole and threw their population into it.
[00:13:57]  Don't go after them, huh?
[00:13:58]  No. Anyway.
[00:14:03]  So, CNN, of course, because they only have one business model, which is, hey, have you ever seen the...
[00:14:14]  I wonder what it's like at an executive producer level as CNN. I have a feeling it goes like this.
[00:14:22]  Okay, so what are we going to do for a story?
[00:14:26]  Has anybody got any ideas for how to turn ordinary words into obvious signs of racism?
[00:14:33]  How about we use the word infestation?
[00:14:37]  Perfect, perfect. Perfect.
[00:14:38]  We've already used all the other words and called them racist.
[00:14:42]  Now, Make America Great is racist.
[00:14:44]  And if we're talking about rodents, infestation is racist now.
[00:14:49]  Okay, let's just make all words racist.
[00:14:52]  And scene.
[00:14:58]  So, CNN has become a ridiculous joke of itself.
[00:15:03]  Okay, maybe that happened earlier.
[00:15:05]  This Baltimore thing...
[00:15:07]  Is why the Democrats should not be allowed to have power.
[00:15:13]  And I hate saying that because I'm not really the team player guy.
[00:15:18]  I don't really care if Republicans or Democrats have power.
[00:15:23]  I really don't. I'm not a registered anything.
[00:15:25]  I've told you I'm left of Bernie in terms of I would like people to have, you know, health care and be able to Have a good life.
[00:15:35]  I don't know how to get there. Neither does Bernie.
[00:15:38]  But I certainly don't have some natural automatic preference for party.
[00:15:44]  If the Democrats were killing it, I'd say, yay, Democrats.
[00:15:47]  I wouldn't care. But, oh my God, the Democrats have gone from ruining cities to try to take their game to the national level and try to ruin the whole country.
[00:16:00]  And I've got a feeling That they have lit the wrong match here.
[00:16:07]  Because what's going to happen...
[00:16:09]  Tell me what has happened for the last two days.
[00:16:12]  So for the last two days, what have we talked about?
[00:16:17]  Trump is a racist and everybody who supports him is a racist because we're opposed to rats.
[00:16:26]  That's the story on CNN. Republicans are anti-rat and pro this nation's great African-American people.
[00:16:36]  Very clear distinction.
[00:16:39]  One, great.
[00:16:40]  The other, rats.
[00:16:44]  Republicans are very clear about what team they're on.
[00:16:48]  Team America, not Team Rats.
[00:16:51]  Democrats. I just realized that you can't spell Democrat without rat in it.
[00:16:56]  Democrat? Yeah.
[00:16:59]  If you combine democracy with rats, what do you get?
[00:17:04]  Demo-c-rats?
[00:17:06]  I guess I'm not the first person to come up with that pun, but I don't think it's a coincidence.
[00:17:14]  But what has happened is I'm seeing stories about Baltimore and what a terrible place it is.
[00:17:20]  You're seeing some really...
[00:17:24]  You're going to see stories about San Francisco streets and about Baltimore streets and maybe Chicago streets and murder rates and infestation.
[00:17:36]  You're going to see nothing but.
[00:17:38]  You're going to see nothing but that stuff.
[00:17:41]  And I don't think this is good for Democrats.
[00:17:47]  Let me put it this way.
[00:17:49]  Thanks to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats and CNN, what will most of the conversation be for this week?
[00:17:59]  Well, there will be two versions of it.
[00:18:01]  One version will be, look at that big old racist Donald Trump.
[00:18:06]  And they will give you more evidence that makes you shake your head and say, I don't see that.
[00:18:13]  In other words, they'll say he's anti-rat and therefore he's a racist.
[00:18:17]  And people all over America will say, Okay, are other people seeing this?
[00:18:23]  Because I'm not sure I'm seeing it.
[00:18:27]  And that conversation is going to make you focus on the problems in the cities just because that's where the conversation went.
[00:18:37]  It's going to make you think about those rats and it's going to remind you that every one of the cities that we're talking about have Democrats as leadership.
[00:18:48]  That Is the matchup that Trump wants.
[00:18:54]  Talk about walking into a trap.
[00:18:56]  You know, I've often said that one of Trump's superpowers is that since he can take the heat, he can do what nobody else can do.
[00:19:05]  He can say what people, you know, other people just can't say.
[00:19:10]  He can raise topics that other people would be afraid of.
[00:19:14]  So just think about the fact that he just wouldn't directly And hard at Elijah Cummings, one of the most famous leaders of the African-American community, a hero to civil rights.
[00:19:31]  But that hero to civil rights was standing between progress and doing something for Baltimore.
[00:19:42]  He's the problem.
[00:19:44]  Not him specifically, but anybody who's in charge of that area, you know, the mayors, etc., they've got some explaining to do.
[00:19:52]  And instead of going soft on them because he doesn't want to be called a racist, this president says, no, I'm going to go hard at it.
[00:20:02]  I'm going to go as hard as you can go at something, and I'm going to put all the energy there.
[00:20:07]  And when it's done, they will not have called me a racist more than they already were.
[00:20:13]  In other words, it won't make any difference, because they've already exhausted that play so badly that they're running on fumes.

=== Why He's Different (07:19) ===

[00:20:22]  There's no... You know, Joe Lockhart tried to figure out a way to make this a bigger claim.
[00:20:29]  You know, it was big enough they said, your president is racist.
[00:20:32]  And now he said, okay, that didn't work.
[00:20:35]  What if I say everyone who votes for him is a racist?
[00:20:39]  Let's try that.
[00:20:41]  Now that we've exhausted the racist claim about the candidate, let's see if we can extend it to a third of the country.
[00:20:48]  Oh, Joe Lockhart, no wonder you can't get a job.
[00:20:52]  With politics anyway, that's the worst idea anybody ever had.
[00:20:57]  Not only will it not work, but man, that's going to get people out to the polls.
[00:21:04]  That should turn out the vote for Trump.
[00:21:09]  So Trump goes into this situation where things can't get any worse for him, meaning the heat can't go any hotter.
[00:21:16]  He's already operating at maximum heat.
[00:21:19]  There's nothing left.
[00:21:21]  They don't have anything that's worse than racist.
[00:21:24]  And it didn't work.
[00:21:25]  It's completely bankrupt, and it's just ridiculous.
[00:21:29]  It's jumped the shark by so many jumps, you can't even see the shark anymore.
[00:21:34]  Worst analogy ever.
[00:21:37]  But he's putting super heat on Baltimore.
[00:21:41]  He's putting super heat on their leaders, and he's calling them out for failing the, quote, Nation's great African-American people, to quote the President.
[00:21:53]  Who else could have done that?
[00:21:55]  Think about it. Think about, say you're a citizen of Baltimore.
[00:22:02]  Let's say you're an African-American citizen of Baltimore.
[00:22:05]  You know that your mayor has failed you.
[00:22:09]  You know that, right?
[00:22:11]  Because you just look around and you know that there's some leadership failure going on.
[00:22:18]  The President of the United States, on your behalf, just took them on directly at great risk to himself.
[00:22:26]  It looks like a risk from the outside, but obviously he can take the heat.
[00:22:30]  So it doesn't feel like a risk internally, evidently.
[00:22:34]  And so somebody is fighting for them against the wrath and the ineffective leadership of their city.
[00:22:47]  And he's taking incredible fire to do it.
[00:22:50]  In order for the president to do that, he, of course, needs his supporters to take the fire with him.
[00:22:59]  I am not a Republican, as you know.
[00:23:01]  I don't vote, as most of you know, partly to keep myself independent in thought, and largely that, actually.
[00:23:10]  And I would say, at this point, if I'm forced to take sides, I would take sides with the productive side.
[00:23:21]  The productive side is whoever is telling the black people in Baltimore, your leaders are failing you.
[00:23:29]  That's productive.
[00:23:31]  Because that seems objectively true.
[00:23:33]  It seems productive to take sides with the people and take sides against the rats, the actual rats.
[00:23:42]  The president has done that.
[00:23:46]  He has caused the Democrats to literally have to defend the rats and to defend their running of the situation.
[00:23:55]  If you don't appreciate this, I don't think you're seeing it clearly.
[00:24:00]  You should really appreciate this.
[00:24:03]  Honestly, this is the reason that people voted for him.
[00:24:10]  I don't think there's a better example of why people voted for Trump.
[00:24:17]  You know, I don't think people were thinking in terms of this issue.
[00:24:20]  People were not thinking, oh, if Trump is elected, he'll go after Baltimore's leadership.
[00:24:25]  They weren't thinking that, not specifically that.
[00:24:28]  But here's what I thought he would bring to the country.
[00:24:33]  I thought Trump...
[00:24:36]  Would approach problems the way nobody else ever approached them.
[00:24:41]  And that that alone Would be healthy.
[00:24:45]  Because if he approaches the problem in a different way and it's just not a way that can work, well, you know, the system will adjust.
[00:24:53]  The system will correct.
[00:24:55]  He'll try something else.
[00:24:56]  He does a lot of A-B testing, right?
[00:24:58]  He tosses things out to see what the reaction is before he knows what the next step is, which is smart.
[00:25:04]  Smartest thing you've ever seen from any politician.
[00:25:09]  And he's clearly approaching this Baltimore thing differently.
[00:25:13]  Now, I don't know if his intention was to help Baltimore, or he was doing it as a political attack, which was expedient, but here we are.
[00:25:23]  And I think it probably, if I had to guess, will probably bring attention to Baltimore.
[00:25:31]  And if it does bring attention to Baltimore, maybe some kind of relief or help.
[00:25:36]  Maybe it gets some better leadership.
[00:25:39]  Maybe it does something good, but it's certainly different, and it's something that only he could do, because who else would go after Elijah Cummings?
[00:25:49]  Who else would do it?
[00:25:51]  Elijah Cummings, for all of the good which he has done, and my understanding is it's a great deal.
[00:25:57]  So, you know, I have full respect, full respect for his, you know, his history of accomplishment.
[00:26:06]  But at the moment, There's no question that Baltimore is a mess, and there's no question that he's a leader in that area.
[00:26:15]  Those are just facts.
[00:26:17]  Does Cummings get a pass because of his admittedly great work on social rights?
[00:26:29]  Well, I think we can respect that and still say This other part isn't working.
[00:26:34]  I think we can be adults.
[00:26:36]  I think we can be adults and say, we can handle more than one variable.
[00:26:40]  Why can't Elijah Cummings be a superstar in one field, civil rights?
[00:26:48]  Why can't he be a superstar at that, but not so good about helping the crime situation or the employment situation in Baltimore?
[00:26:56]  Why can't those both be true?
[00:26:58]  There's no conflict there.
[00:27:00]  So, the president does what nobody else would have done.
[00:27:04]  Goes after Elijah Cummings.
[00:27:08]  Now, to me, that's why you elected him, those of you who voted for him.
[00:27:14]  That's what you wanted.
[00:27:16]  You wanted the person who would look at that situation and say, huh, it looks like if I enter this situation, maybe I can, you know, shake the box, get something going here.
[00:27:26]  But, of course, you know, I'll have a hundred arrows in my back.
[00:27:31]  Let's give it a try. So he walks in, shakes the box, all the arrows hit him in the back.
[00:27:38]  That's the sound of the arrows hitting him in the back.

=== 100,000 Views and Counting (04:44) ===

[00:27:42]  Pretty good sound effects, don't you think?
[00:27:47]  And then he says, huh, looks like I got a lot of arrows in my back.
[00:27:51]  And then he just pulls it out, goes on to the next topic, tweets about something else, hair sets on fire.
[00:28:00]  Alright. I don't think anything else happened in the last 24 hours.
[00:28:07]  Did it? I don't think anything else happened.
[00:28:14]  Somebody says, stick with cartoons.
[00:28:17]  Yeah, my sound effects aren't that good.
[00:28:18]  Come on.
[00:28:19]  They're great.
[00:28:23]  Baltimore is only number two on the murder list.
[00:28:29]  You know, I've never talked more about Baltimore than this week.
[00:28:35]  Oh, is somebody saying that Tulsi Gabbard sued Google?
[00:28:38]  Yeah, we don't know too much about that, or I don't know too much about that.
[00:28:42]  I'm sure Tulsi knows all about that.
[00:28:47]  Here's what I'm going to do. I think I mentioned this before.
[00:28:51]  I'm planning to do an interview series that's on top of these periscopes.
[00:28:56]  So in other words, in addition to the periscopes, I would do a slightly higher quality recorded interviews with some special people.
[00:29:04]  And I would love to do some presidential candidates.
[00:29:10]  Now, here's my pitch.
[00:29:12]  Roughly 100,000 people will see any of my Periscopes or YouTubes.
[00:29:18]  And if I had a big-name guest, it would be at least 100,000.
[00:29:22]  If you can get 100,000 Americans to look at you talking...
[00:29:31]  In a forum that would be a friendly forum, because I'm not the one who's going to try to embarrass somebody on an interview.
[00:29:38]  But I would ask interesting questions.
[00:29:40]  I guarantee that you would see some questions you hadn't seen before, some ways of thinking, some casualness to it that was unusual, and I think you'd enjoy it.
[00:29:51]  Give you a real sense of the candidate.
[00:29:53]  But I'm looking for someone to go first.
[00:29:56]  I did hear, I had heard a positive response from Andrew Yang, but that communication sort of dropped, so I haven't heard from his team.
[00:30:06]  But if there's anybody else, whether it's Tulsi Gabbard or anybody else, you could just contact me on Twitter or there's lots of ways to contact me.
[00:30:14]  If you get on LinkedIn and send me a message, I read all of those.
[00:30:21]  So you can guarantee that I would see your message within a day if you go to LinkedIn.
[00:30:25]  I don't respond to all the messages I get on all the platforms, but because...
[00:30:31]  Here's a little secret.
[00:30:33]  A little secret for you.
[00:30:35]  My smallest social media platform is LinkedIn, like 6,000 people or something, and I don't get that many messages.
[00:30:44]  So if it's a business type of thing, like it's somebody who wants to be in an interview or something, that's the way to contact me.
[00:30:50]  I always see those. All right.
[00:30:54]  But I see most of what's on Twitter too.
[00:30:57]  I just can't guarantee I'll see all of it because I've got over 300,000 followers here.
[00:31:02]  Get more messages. Or at least try for Donald Trump Jr.
[00:31:08]  I don't know. Do you think I would be more suited for talking to someone who's closer to my philosophies or more distant from them?
[00:31:21]  I think it could be more interesting talking to somebody who's got some space.
[00:31:28]  I would love to talk to Don Jr., but I don't know that we could produce any news from that.
[00:31:38]  All right. Tim Pool.
[00:31:42]  Tim Pool would be great.
[00:31:44]  But I'm thinking of some politicians.
[00:31:46]  I'd love to see...
[00:31:48]  Tulsi or one of the people who's a little bit down in the pack would be great.
[00:31:53]  At least one of the ones whose names you know.
[00:31:55]  Once you get past the bottom six or so of Democrats, you start getting into the names that even I don't know.
[00:32:03]  You know, the one who was the governor and the one who was in Congress and, I don't know, Hickenlooper and Whatever.
[00:32:12]  I don't think there'd be too much interest in those guys, but the top six, I'd love to talk to them.
[00:32:17]  All right. That's all I got.
[00:32:19]  I don't have anything else.
[00:32:20]  There's just one story in the world that the Democrats have sided with the rats and nothing else to talk about.