Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 13, 2020


Episode 1217 Scott Adams： Today I Explore the Baseless Conspiracy Theory that Humans Drink Beverages Simultaneously


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

141.06335

Word Count

6,265

Sentence Count

402

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

The dopamine hit of the day, the conspiracy theory that s true, but it happens not to have any evidence whatsoever. But, despite that, shall we enjoy it to its maximum extent with a cup or mug, a mug or glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a cantijug or flask of any kind?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, come on in, come on in, it's time.
00:00:09.200 Oh, yeah.
00:00:11.420 Come on in and enjoy the majesty that is Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:18.560 Yeah, a lot of people are saying there's no evidence that there's such a thing as Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:27.140 It's a baseless claim.
00:00:28.560 No evidence whatsoever.
00:00:31.160 But, despite that, shall we enjoy it to its maximum extent with a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a cantijug or flask or a vessel of any kind?
00:00:43.640 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:46.020 I like coffee.
00:00:47.480 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the conspiracy theory that's true.
00:00:56.420 It's called the simultaneous hit, but it happens not to go.
00:01:02.240 Ah.
00:01:02.720 Well, you know, they told us that things might not be as interesting in a Biden administration.
00:01:14.720 And while we do not have yet a Biden administration, I feel as if the boring came early, if you know what I mean.
00:01:23.140 You know, I didn't realize the extent at which our entire entertainment in the United States had turned into just watching Trump say provocative things.
00:01:33.760 We didn't have sports.
00:01:37.080 TV was mostly repeats.
00:01:39.280 You couldn't go to the gym.
00:01:41.580 All we had, the only entertainment we had, was Trump saying provocative things.
00:01:48.200 And if he stopped saying it, or they stopped reporting it, what do we have?
00:01:52.340 What are we left with?
00:01:53.640 What's left?
00:01:54.740 Ah.
00:01:57.500 That's what I say.
00:02:01.160 Well, there's a claim in the AP that is pretty interesting.
00:02:07.860 So, the claim, and they're fact-checking this claim, and they say the claim is that the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, quote, has a miraculous effectiveness that obliterates, unquote, the transmission of COVID-19.
00:02:24.420 And will prevent some people from getting sick.
00:02:26.820 So, that's the claim, that this ivermectin really works well with COVID.
00:02:30.800 But does it?
00:02:32.100 But does it?
00:02:32.820 And here's what the AP assesses.
00:02:36.460 False.
00:02:37.580 False, they say.
00:02:39.060 There's no evidence ivermectin has been proven a safe or effective treatment.
00:02:44.640 No evidence.
00:02:46.840 No evidence, people.
00:02:49.520 This was in an article showing all the evidence.
00:02:55.080 What is wrong with the news?
00:02:58.000 It was literally a story about a group of doctors who came to talk to, was it the Senate, to present the fact that there's a lot of evidence.
00:03:15.160 That was the context.
00:03:16.660 The entire context of the story that the AP was talking about, and characterized as, quote, no evidence, was a story about all the evidence.
00:03:31.080 Except they left out all the evidence.
00:03:33.200 They just said it wasn't there.
00:03:36.100 But the whole reason those doctors were even talking in public is because they were the experts who had compiled a whole bunch of data, sometimes called evidence, that it works.
00:03:50.260 Now, does it work?
00:03:51.720 I'm not saying it works, because I'm not a doctor.
00:03:55.040 And even the doctors who are saying it's worth a look are also saying that it has not reached the perfect standard of proof that you would like with the best kind of large-scale, randomized, controlled studies.
00:04:11.700 So nobody is claiming that that's happened.
00:04:14.120 But they are claiming that there's a mountain of evidence that suggests it probably does work, according to these doctors.
00:04:24.540 And the AP fact-checks the doctors as not having evidence.
00:04:32.160 Now, they could say the evidence is not conclusive.
00:04:34.700 They could say evidence is not proof.
00:04:36.800 They could say the evidence is controversial.
00:04:39.500 They could say people haven't quite studied all the evidence.
00:04:41.860 They could say, we need to learn a lot more.
00:04:45.060 But one thing that is 100% obviously false, based on their own article.
00:04:51.220 I'm not even looking at other sources.
00:04:52.920 I'm looking at the AP's own article.
00:04:55.720 Completely false that there's no evidence.
00:04:58.720 And we've gotten to the point where the media can present lots of evidence as not existing.
00:05:06.540 And they can present non-existent evidence as having plenty of evidence.
00:05:13.500 They actually can't tell the difference between lots of evidence and no evidence.
00:05:21.260 Now, if I were to describe to you a news industry, and you've never heard of anything called the news,
00:05:27.560 and suppose I were pitching this to you, and I said, you know, I've got an idea.
00:05:33.220 We should create an industry called the news.
00:05:38.440 And then you say, what's that?
00:05:39.720 I've never heard of this thing called news.
00:05:42.100 Yeah.
00:05:42.880 This is an industry where various companies would compete with each other
00:05:46.040 to get the best information that's useful and valuable to the public,
00:05:50.600 and then they would report on that, and then people would make decisions based on that.
00:05:58.540 And then you'd say, well, that might be useful.
00:06:02.300 An industry that gives us valuable information about the world that we can act on.
00:06:07.540 Yeah, that's good.
00:06:08.540 And then I say, there's only one problem, and I feel like I have to tell you this in advance.
00:06:13.880 It will be an industry that is supposed to tell people what's happening.
00:06:20.360 But if I'm going to be perfectly honest, they do have a little bit of a blind spot.
00:06:26.260 And you say, well, how bad could it be?
00:06:29.040 How bad is the blind spot?
00:06:31.080 And you say, well, some people are making a big deal about it,
00:06:34.340 but let's just say the news industry that I'm suggesting we create,
00:06:40.260 it wouldn't be able to tell the difference between having no evidence of a thing
00:06:46.520 and having a mountain of evidence for a thing.
00:06:51.400 And then you would say, well, I'm a little confused.
00:06:55.440 What does the news do then if it can't tell the difference between something
00:07:00.260 which has a mountain of evidence for it and something that doesn't have any,
00:07:06.700 just no evidence?
00:07:07.760 It actually can't tell the difference?
00:07:10.220 And you might say, that doesn't even sound like an industry that has any purpose.
00:07:17.740 And I say to you, just give it a try.
00:07:20.620 Yeah, let's give it a try.
00:07:21.660 And I talk you into it.
00:07:23.280 And the next thing you know, this news industry that you funded and I created
00:07:28.540 is reporting that there is a ton of evidence for Russia collusion.
00:07:34.460 I mean, I tell you, there is so much evidence for Russia collusion.
00:07:40.820 It's everywhere.
00:07:43.380 For example, did you know that there was a member of the president's campaign
00:07:49.620 who was convicted of something completely unrelated to Russia collusion?
00:07:54.520 Well, that's proof of Russia collusion, isn't it?
00:07:58.820 If somebody gets convicted of something that has nothing to do with Russia collusion,
00:08:05.700 ipso facto, QED, plenty of Russia collusion.
00:08:09.720 I don't think I need to make my case any stronger than that.
00:08:14.560 Somebody went to jail for unrelated charges.
00:08:17.520 Proof.
00:08:17.800 And then, what about all the proof that Trump's a racist?
00:08:22.660 Well, you've got the fine people hoax.
00:08:25.300 They literally can't tell the difference between lots of evidence and none.
00:08:35.140 Hunter Biden?
00:08:37.040 No evidence.
00:08:38.300 Before the election?
00:08:39.820 No evidence.
00:08:41.340 Baseless.
00:08:43.020 After the election?
00:08:44.000 Well, there's quite a few investigations going on.
00:08:50.720 Seems that, and let me tell you how this was reported by NBC News.
00:08:59.920 So, Joe Concha tweeted this.
00:09:02.280 And the first time I read it, I had to read it two or three times to make sure it wasn't a parody.
00:09:08.500 But I think this actually happened in the real world, that what I'm going to describe actually happened.
00:09:16.640 The NBC News said that the probe was revealed, talk about the probe into Hunter Biden,
00:09:25.440 the probe was revealed weeks after an election in which Trump and his allies made unfounded and baseless claims of corruption
00:09:34.420 regarding Hunter Biden and his father.
00:09:37.080 So, weeks after these reported unfounded and baseless claims,
00:09:44.300 that they're still calling unfounded and baseless claims right in front of you.
00:09:50.920 I'm not interpreting them.
00:09:52.780 They are saying, in their own words, unfounded and baseless claims,
00:09:57.720 in the same story that they're reporting all the claims that appear to have a pretty strong base.
00:10:04.080 Now, what is happening?
00:10:09.300 What is happening?
00:10:14.140 Are we being gaslighted?
00:10:16.560 It doesn't even feel like gaslighting.
00:10:19.060 Because even gaslighting would have at least some sense to it, right?
00:10:25.020 It would be a plan.
00:10:25.880 At least that would make sense if somebody were gaslighting you.
00:10:32.260 So, they couldn't tell election.
00:10:35.260 How about election fraud?
00:10:37.240 The news can't tell the difference between a thousand affidavits, according to Rudy Giuliani,
00:10:43.960 a thousand individual eyewitness reports.
00:10:48.880 The news calls unfounded, baseless.
00:10:51.320 There's no evidence.
00:10:52.820 Nothing there.
00:10:54.700 Russia collusion?
00:10:55.580 Plenty of evidence.
00:10:56.440 It's all over the place.
00:10:57.340 You're swimming in it.
00:10:58.740 Look at the evidence.
00:10:59.600 There's some evidence on your face.
00:11:01.100 Wash it off.
00:11:02.220 Get that evidence off you.
00:11:03.400 I can't even get away from all the evidence of Russia collusion.
00:11:08.720 But Hunter Biden?
00:11:10.760 I don't even know what you're talking about.
00:11:13.400 Who says there's evidence about Hunter Biden doing anything wrong?
00:11:17.440 Where did that come from?
00:11:19.100 Weird.
00:11:20.920 So, you know, one of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain
00:11:26.920 is that people can't tell the difference between good news and bad news.
00:11:31.440 Now, the first time you hear that Twain quote,
00:11:35.400 that people can't tell the difference between good news and bad news,
00:11:38.800 you say to yourself, well, that might be funny,
00:11:42.220 but obviously we can tell the difference between good news and bad news.
00:11:46.620 Except that we can't.
00:11:49.840 We really can't.
00:11:51.480 Mark Twain wasn't joking.
00:11:53.880 I mean, it's funny, but he wasn't joking.
00:11:56.300 We actually literally 100% can't tell good news from bad news.
00:12:03.900 We don't have that ability.
00:12:05.900 How's that for a punch in the nads?
00:12:09.460 You can't tell good news from bad news.
00:12:11.400 But you also can't tell, apparently if you work for the media,
00:12:15.220 you can't tell the difference between a pile of enormous amount of evidence.
00:12:20.480 It might not all pan out.
00:12:22.120 You know, some of it might not be right, but there's a lot of it versus I haven't seen anything.
00:12:30.540 It's all the same.
00:12:34.540 And now we know that there's a subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden
00:12:39.120 that covers more than two dozen entities.
00:12:41.100 And we're told by people who are smart that the fact that he's being investigated for tax-related things
00:12:50.840 does not mean that his only problems are tax-related.
00:12:56.240 Apparently the way the legal system cleverly works
00:13:02.860 is if they suspect you have problems across a number of entities
00:13:07.040 and maybe you've got some sketchy business going on,
00:13:11.600 if you can also make it a tax case,
00:13:15.000 the tax case allows you to open up all their financial records.
00:13:19.320 Once you've opened up their financial records with the tax case,
00:13:23.380 then any other crimes would become transparent.
00:13:26.000 So it's any other crimes that they might be looking for,
00:13:30.020 but there's a little diversion right now because it looks like a tax case,
00:13:34.160 but it might be just to get to the good stuff.
00:13:37.080 We'll see.
00:13:40.560 But the public isn't any better than the press.
00:13:44.740 All right?
00:13:45.500 If you think that the press has a problem with the truth,
00:13:50.660 the public is telling me that there's this thing called the Great Reset.
00:13:57.060 Now, I don't know how to talk about this without looking like a jerk.
00:14:01.820 I just don't know how to do it.
00:14:03.200 So if I seem like I'm being a jerk in the next few moments,
00:14:07.620 more than usual, right?
00:14:09.400 I suppose it's all relative.
00:14:11.380 But if I seem like slightly more of a jerk than normal,
00:14:15.200 it's because this Great Reset thing is the most ridiculous idea in the news.
00:14:22.360 Now, I don't want to be the one who says,
00:14:24.460 there's no evidence because there are things such as
00:14:28.300 what Justin Trudeau using the word reset.
00:14:33.640 So I will say, yes, there is evidence of people using the word.
00:14:39.420 There's lots of that.
00:14:40.820 If you want to find evidence, there's a lot of evidence
00:14:46.480 that people have used the phrase.
00:14:50.560 And there's a guy named Klaus Schwab who's mentioned it.
00:14:54.940 The fact that there's a few people who think it's a good idea
00:14:58.200 is a long way from it being a global conspiracy.
00:15:03.220 Right?
00:15:03.740 Now, there are certainly people who want certain things.
00:15:06.340 That's true.
00:15:07.000 But the Great Reset, who's in charge of it?
00:15:11.860 Who's in charge of the Great Reset?
00:15:13.980 And somebody said, there's a document.
00:15:16.100 They were going to send it to me.
00:15:17.180 I'm seeing it in the comments.
00:15:18.720 What about the documents, Scott?
00:15:21.400 Somebody should send me the documents
00:15:23.100 because there's plenty of evidence.
00:15:25.760 So just send me the document.
00:15:27.840 I'm sure it's on the internet.
00:15:30.320 Why don't you send me a link to all the documents of the Great Reset?
00:15:33.820 The Great Reset is one of those things
00:15:36.620 that you don't have to wonder if it's fake
00:15:38.540 because it's so obviously fake.
00:15:41.000 Let me tell you why the Great Reset is fake.
00:15:45.900 People from different countries don't coordinate that way.
00:15:51.060 There's no such thing as something that's going to be great for one country
00:15:55.380 and just them and everybody's on board.
00:15:59.720 The idea that people from all different countries,
00:16:04.600 the elites, I guess,
00:16:06.380 are coordinating to do something which is good for them personally
00:16:10.420 but not good for the countries that they live in
00:16:13.280 is so ridiculous
00:16:14.880 and so not understanding how humans work.
00:16:19.640 There are not a whole bunch of people selling out their own country
00:16:23.120 for this Great Reset.
00:16:26.000 That's not a thing.
00:16:26.880 There is, however, or there are,
00:16:36.100 lots of things you don't like
00:16:37.980 and lots of trends that you think are going in the wrong direction.
00:16:41.620 So there's lots of stuff you don't like
00:16:43.460 and lots of it moving the wrong way.
00:16:46.100 But that's really different from a Great Reset
00:16:48.640 than some kind of weird plan.
00:16:50.120 So the Great Reset,
00:16:52.000 I will say with complete confidence,
00:16:54.600 is not real.
00:16:55.240 So the vaccines are ready to ship
00:16:57.660 and I saw a suggestion
00:17:00.320 that Joe Biden should be the first
00:17:03.760 or among the first
00:17:04.920 to take the vaccination in public.
00:17:07.660 So the idea is that
00:17:09.420 Biden can help confidence in the vaccinations
00:17:12.740 by showing us that he's taking one right in public
00:17:16.360 and that would be good.
00:17:18.020 There's one problem.
00:17:19.340 Well, I have one problem with the idea of Joe Biden going first.
00:17:24.160 Does anybody...
00:17:25.920 Somebody says I'm scared.
00:17:29.320 Does anybody see a problem with Joe Biden going first to get the shot?
00:17:35.480 Any problem with that?
00:17:36.340 Well, there's a statistical risk involved
00:17:41.500 and it goes like this.
00:17:44.320 If you were going to select anybody in the public eye
00:17:47.980 who has a pretty good chance,
00:17:51.620 I wouldn't say it's not over 10%,
00:17:54.980 but a healthy, non-zero chance
00:17:59.980 of dying for ordinary causes in the next two weeks,
00:18:04.500 somebody who's 78 would be on my list.
00:18:09.380 So, this is unlikely to happen,
00:18:14.580 but it could happen.
00:18:17.400 Obviously, I hope it doesn't.
00:18:19.600 But if you're taking as your standard for health
00:18:22.840 a 78-year-old man,
00:18:26.520 you kind of have to hope
00:18:28.220 that he stays alive on his own for a few weeks
00:18:31.420 after he gets the shot
00:18:33.120 because we have a non-zero chance
00:18:35.800 of the following thing happening.
00:18:37.440 Joe Biden gets the shot on television
00:18:40.480 and within 24 hours,
00:18:42.580 he has a heart attack and dies.
00:18:45.320 Unrelated to the vaccination.
00:18:47.520 Personally, I think the vaccinations will be safe enough.
00:18:50.760 So, I don't want to talk anybody out of any vaccinations.
00:18:53.820 I do expect I'll get one.
00:18:56.560 So, you know, your decision may be different.
00:18:58.920 But, it has to be said,
00:19:01.500 he's 78 years old
00:19:02.980 and there is some chance
00:19:04.700 he's going to die from natural causes
00:19:06.820 having nothing to do with the vaccination
00:19:09.060 within two weeks of getting the shot.
00:19:11.800 What's that going to do to your pandemic?
00:19:15.140 Yeah.
00:19:16.040 If you give it to a 78-year-old
00:19:18.060 and he dies in two weeks,
00:19:19.820 we're in big trouble.
00:19:22.960 Big trouble.
00:19:23.800 Now, the other question is,
00:19:26.320 who gets it first?
00:19:27.660 Kamala Harris or Joe Biden?
00:19:30.520 I have this image in my head
00:19:32.260 of Harris and Biden both going to get the shot
00:19:35.480 and Joe Biden goes first
00:19:38.020 because he's the president
00:19:38.940 and he gets the shot
00:19:40.820 and, you know, they're rubbing it
00:19:42.320 and, you know, he's putting his shirt on
00:19:44.180 and then it's time for Kamala to get her shot.
00:19:46.880 And she's like,
00:19:48.760 oh, one thing.
00:19:52.680 I, mm, I wish I could.
00:19:56.800 But, mm, maybe we could just postpone my shot.
00:20:02.020 I, what time is it?
00:20:04.580 Holy cow.
00:20:06.460 I, I've got a thing.
00:20:09.820 Ah, I'll be back.
00:20:12.140 I'll totally be back
00:20:13.580 and get my vaccination after Joe Biden did.
00:20:17.180 I'm coming back.
00:20:19.100 Not right away.
00:20:20.780 I'm a little bit busy.
00:20:22.460 But I'll be back.
00:20:25.360 So I'd look out for that.
00:20:28.820 It looks like, according to the polls,
00:20:31.600 the election in Georgia
00:20:33.380 is within the margin of stealing.
00:20:36.420 It's within the margin of stealing.
00:20:38.480 So I think we can already know
00:20:40.500 how that's going to go.
00:20:42.440 If something is close enough to steal
00:20:45.400 and it's in Georgia,
00:20:47.760 what do you think will happen?
00:20:51.200 Now, if the election was pretty far apart
00:20:53.580 according to the polls,
00:20:54.980 I would say to you,
00:20:56.240 well, it looks like whoever's way ahead
00:20:58.160 is going to win.
00:20:59.380 But if it's within a few percentage,
00:21:02.340 if it's really close
00:21:03.920 and it's within the margin of stealing,
00:21:07.380 what do you think's going to happen?
00:21:09.100 And why wouldn't it happen, really?
00:21:12.840 What, name anything that would stop
00:21:15.820 the Democrats from stealing the election.
00:21:19.060 What would it be?
00:21:20.720 What would be any kind of a force
00:21:23.480 or counterforce or protective system?
00:21:27.700 What would be the people
00:21:30.340 or the computers or the fences?
00:21:34.180 Describe for me what would prevent
00:21:36.320 Georgia from cheating in this election.
00:21:39.220 I'm not saying they will.
00:21:40.740 Well, I'm asking you to describe
00:21:43.140 anything that would prevent it
00:21:44.780 from happening.
00:21:45.900 Is it all of the good witnessing?
00:21:49.500 Is it because there are witnesses
00:21:51.060 who can see all the parts?
00:21:53.160 Is that what would prevent it?
00:21:55.200 Because don't we know
00:21:57.560 that it won't be witnessed?
00:21:59.580 Is it because somebody has access
00:22:01.500 to the computer code?
00:22:03.680 I think there would be
00:22:05.480 voting computers involved, right?
00:22:08.960 Are we sure that it would be
00:22:10.400 a good election
00:22:11.080 because we have access to the code
00:22:14.260 and we can watch the code
00:22:16.220 and we would know
00:22:16.940 if there was any mischief?
00:22:18.800 I don't think so.
00:22:20.320 So if we don't have access
00:22:21.600 to the systems,
00:22:23.460 the computers,
00:22:24.080 and we don't have visibility
00:22:26.900 in the physical ballot counting area,
00:22:30.060 what would stop fraud?
00:22:34.400 Is it because so many people
00:22:37.620 went to jail in Pennsylvania?
00:22:40.080 I don't remember that happening.
00:22:43.360 So it's not because people
00:22:45.380 would be afraid of being caught
00:22:47.640 if allegedly they believe
00:22:49.500 it happened somewhere else
00:22:50.620 and people got away with it.
00:22:52.180 Because even if it never happened
00:22:53.760 anywhere else,
00:22:55.180 people in Georgia think it did, right?
00:22:57.980 There would be plenty of people
00:22:59.220 in Georgia who believe
00:23:00.600 that other states had massive fraud
00:23:03.560 and completely got away with it,
00:23:05.200 even if they didn't.
00:23:06.400 There are plenty of people
00:23:07.040 who believe it.
00:23:08.180 The polls say that
00:23:09.280 even a lot of Democrats
00:23:11.180 believe the election was stolen.
00:23:13.360 So there are lots of people
00:23:14.680 who believe that fraud works
00:23:16.220 because they think it worked
00:23:18.320 in the presidential election.
00:23:19.520 name any counter force
00:23:22.380 that you could think of
00:23:24.220 that would stop Georgia
00:23:26.160 from stealing the election.
00:23:27.540 I can't think of one.
00:23:29.220 I mean, seriously,
00:23:29.920 I can't think of one.
00:23:31.140 It's not going to be witnessed.
00:23:32.880 We're not going to look at the code.
00:23:34.800 And everybody involved
00:23:36.640 believes that it worked
00:23:38.060 the last time they tried it.
00:23:40.860 There's nothing,
00:23:42.980 absolutely nothing,
00:23:44.420 between somebody wanting
00:23:47.240 to steal the election
00:23:48.280 and succeeding.
00:23:49.940 There's no friction there.
00:23:52.120 It's a wide open road.
00:23:54.780 Now, if the Republicans win,
00:23:58.560 maybe we found a way
00:24:00.920 collectively to witness it better.
00:24:03.160 I don't know.
00:24:03.440 I'd be surprised.
00:24:04.780 I don't see how it could happen,
00:24:06.180 frankly.
00:24:08.400 So our new national sport,
00:24:11.020 as you know,
00:24:11.600 is the Proud Boys versus Antifa.
00:24:15.500 Have you noticed
00:24:16.440 that Black Lives Matter
00:24:17.520 has gotten a little bit quiet?
00:24:19.880 Black Lives Matter
00:24:20.820 seems to be quiet.
00:24:21.860 It's almost as if
00:24:23.080 whoever was backing
00:24:25.520 Black Lives Matter
00:24:26.600 didn't need to back them
00:24:27.920 after the election was over.
00:24:30.400 So it's down to
00:24:32.560 Proud Boys versus Antifa.
00:24:34.840 And every time
00:24:35.640 the Proud Boys
00:24:36.360 form any kind of an event,
00:24:38.720 as they did in Washington, D.C.,
00:24:40.600 Antifa will show up
00:24:43.420 and then you've got
00:24:44.640 a proper sport.
00:24:46.340 You've got two teams.
00:24:47.540 They've got names.
00:24:48.320 They've got uniforms.
00:24:49.340 They meet in a certain field.
00:24:51.120 They fight it out
00:24:52.020 just like a sport.
00:24:53.800 There are injuries
00:24:54.840 just like sport.
00:24:56.140 So last night, for example,
00:24:58.080 there were four stabbed
00:24:59.780 and 23 arrested.
00:25:01.740 That's the headline.
00:25:02.780 Four were stabbed.
00:25:04.380 Now, let me say this again.
00:25:07.160 This was Proud Boys
00:25:08.580 versus Antifa.
00:25:11.100 And four people were stabbed.
00:25:13.820 Were the stabbers Antifa?
00:25:16.940 Or were the stabbers
00:25:18.440 Proud Boys?
00:25:20.580 Who do you think
00:25:21.660 was doing the stabbing?
00:25:23.480 And who do you think
00:25:24.220 got stabbed?
00:25:25.900 Well, I've seen a lot of footage
00:25:27.900 of the Proud Boys
00:25:28.640 and I've seen a lot of footage
00:25:30.020 of Antifa.
00:25:31.220 Have you ever seen
00:25:32.020 the Proud Boys bring knives?
00:25:33.880 Is there any...
00:25:37.160 Do you have any experience,
00:25:38.720 any report?
00:25:40.260 Have you ever heard
00:25:41.260 of the Proud Boys
00:25:42.340 bringing knives?
00:25:44.980 Because I feel as if
00:25:46.320 that's not really a thing,
00:25:47.760 is it?
00:25:48.660 You know, people tend
00:25:49.920 to be consistent
00:25:50.800 and the Proud Boys
00:25:52.600 seem to be about,
00:25:53.920 you know, clubs and fists.
00:25:57.320 The Proud Boys don't seem
00:25:59.020 to be bringing guns
00:26:00.300 and using them.
00:26:01.140 I'm sure some of them
00:26:01.900 are strapped,
00:26:02.500 but they don't seem
00:26:03.160 to be using guns.
00:26:04.440 I've never seen
00:26:05.260 a Proud Boy
00:26:05.840 holding a knife.
00:26:07.620 Have you?
00:26:09.000 I'm not saying
00:26:09.820 they don't own knives.
00:26:11.100 Of course they do.
00:26:12.060 But I feel as if
00:26:13.780 this headline
00:26:14.680 is again
00:26:16.040 trying to convince you
00:26:17.420 that maybe
00:26:17.900 there were
00:26:18.640 bad people
00:26:20.520 on both sides.
00:26:22.660 Because I feel as if
00:26:24.760 there is some possibility,
00:26:26.860 a non-zero possibility,
00:26:28.500 because the news
00:26:29.140 is a little unspecific,
00:26:30.400 there's a non-specific
00:26:32.200 or the non-zero possibility
00:26:34.340 that all of the stabbing
00:26:36.480 was Antifa stabbing
00:26:38.160 Proud Boys.
00:26:40.160 Maybe.
00:26:41.160 I'm not saying
00:26:42.100 that was the case,
00:26:43.340 but don't you think
00:26:44.520 that the reporting
00:26:45.340 is lacking
00:26:46.440 a little transparency?
00:26:48.680 Because if you had to bet,
00:26:50.660 put your own money on it,
00:26:53.040 if you had to bet
00:26:54.120 who was doing the stabbing,
00:26:55.740 would anybody bet
00:26:56.700 the Proud Boys
00:26:57.420 were the stabbers?
00:26:58.380 because it's just not
00:27:00.900 their game.
00:27:02.940 They're just not stabbers,
00:27:04.880 unless they decided
00:27:05.920 to be last night
00:27:06.780 for the first time.
00:27:07.980 I feel like this
00:27:08.860 is clear disinformation
00:27:10.220 in which they're trying
00:27:11.840 to create a picture
00:27:12.860 like there were
00:27:13.940 bad people
00:27:14.520 on both sides.
00:27:16.080 I'll bet
00:27:16.720 that the Proud Boys
00:27:18.480 probably didn't
00:27:19.860 start the trouble
00:27:20.660 and probably didn't
00:27:22.020 do the stabbing,
00:27:23.040 but I'll bet
00:27:23.460 they responded
00:27:25.000 aggressively,
00:27:25.880 which is,
00:27:26.420 of course,
00:27:26.680 why they were there.
00:27:27.360 But here's what I say.
00:27:31.860 When a bunch of people
00:27:33.140 meet in Washington, D.C.,
00:27:35.300 and four people
00:27:36.120 get stabbed,
00:27:37.180 it's the first thing
00:27:38.400 that happened
00:27:38.820 in Washington, D.C.
00:27:39.960 this week
00:27:40.520 that wasn't
00:27:41.480 pointless.
00:27:44.920 That's it, yeah.
00:27:46.320 If you've got a stabbing,
00:27:47.860 at least it's not
00:27:48.640 pointless.
00:27:49.360 Pointless.
00:27:50.080 Today we heard
00:27:53.480 the tragedy
00:27:54.160 that trailblazing
00:27:55.860 country music star
00:27:57.260 Charlie Pryde
00:27:58.400 died from
00:27:59.980 coronavirus complications
00:28:01.340 who was 86.
00:28:02.620 Now, I told you
00:28:03.440 early on in the pandemic
00:28:04.520 that I wouldn't
00:28:05.220 personally worry
00:28:06.240 until a celebrity
00:28:08.120 under the age of 65
00:28:09.700 died of coronavirus,
00:28:11.580 because that's
00:28:12.120 the category I'm in.
00:28:13.660 This is irrational,
00:28:14.820 by the way.
00:28:15.400 Don't be like me.
00:28:17.600 But irrationally,
00:28:18.660 I was saying,
00:28:19.140 I'm not going to
00:28:19.600 get worried
00:28:20.140 until I hear
00:28:21.320 at least one celebrity,
00:28:24.320 because that would
00:28:25.080 be my category,
00:28:26.400 under 65
00:28:27.220 who died of the
00:28:28.700 coronavirus.
00:28:29.800 Still none.
00:28:31.500 Still none.
00:28:32.700 So he was 86,
00:28:33.980 but he's the first one.
00:28:35.640 I believe Charlie Pryde
00:28:37.160 is the first celebrity
00:28:38.420 that I've heard of.
00:28:39.600 There have been a few
00:28:40.180 that have, you know,
00:28:41.460 done some work
00:28:42.260 that I haven't heard of,
00:28:43.240 but he's the first one
00:28:43.880 I've heard of.
00:28:44.340 So it's coming at me.
00:28:48.980 Apparently Trump
00:28:49.840 would not say
00:28:50.780 if he would attend
00:28:52.360 Biden's inauguration.
00:28:54.620 I would recommend
00:28:55.700 that he do not.
00:28:57.440 On behalf of
00:28:58.580 someone who supported him,
00:29:01.700 and does support him still,
00:29:03.900 on behalf of myself,
00:29:06.200 and if anybody wants
00:29:07.140 to join me in this,
00:29:08.120 I would say,
00:29:08.700 please don't.
00:29:09.440 I would feel
00:29:11.200 it would be more respectful
00:29:14.220 to not go.
00:29:15.880 Now,
00:29:16.820 the exception would be
00:29:19.000 Herman Cain
00:29:21.040 wasn't under 65.
00:29:22.440 Somebody's saying
00:29:22.960 Herman Cain.
00:29:25.000 And I don't consider him
00:29:26.880 a celebrity per se.
00:29:28.220 He was a business person
00:29:29.320 who happened to be famous.
00:29:30.720 I guess that's a celebrity.
00:29:32.680 So,
00:29:33.300 I think that Trump
00:29:35.120 should not attend
00:29:35.820 the Biden inauguration
00:29:36.980 unless Biden
00:29:38.120 apologizes
00:29:39.140 for the
00:29:40.100 fine people
00:29:40.940 hoax.
00:29:42.440 Because on behalf
00:29:43.600 of the president's
00:29:45.020 supporters,
00:29:45.940 I would not want him
00:29:47.100 to be anywhere near
00:29:48.120 somebody who had
00:29:49.160 done something
00:29:49.860 that bad
00:29:50.740 to his supporters.
00:29:52.900 I don't think
00:29:53.900 Trump should be
00:29:54.540 anywhere near
00:29:55.080 Joe Biden.
00:29:55.780 Joe Biden is a
00:29:56.780 very, very bad man,
00:29:58.160 or he has dementia
00:29:59.380 because of the
00:30:00.660 fine people hoax.
00:30:02.360 All right.
00:30:06.140 I'm also recommending,
00:30:08.120 and I tweeted this,
00:30:09.200 that there should be
00:30:10.160 a pardon for
00:30:10.900 Lil Wayne.
00:30:12.180 So,
00:30:12.560 Lil Wayne,
00:30:13.140 the famous rapper,
00:30:14.600 looks like he could
00:30:15.500 go to jail
00:30:16.080 for up to 10 years
00:30:17.200 for weapons possession
00:30:19.000 because he had
00:30:19.960 a prior felony
00:30:21.380 conviction.
00:30:22.500 Now,
00:30:22.720 here's the thing
00:30:23.260 you have to know.
00:30:24.820 There was no victim
00:30:26.000 in at least
00:30:27.480 the case
00:30:28.520 of Lil Wayne
00:30:29.580 having a gun
00:30:30.380 in his possession
00:30:31.140 and tried to get
00:30:31.760 on an airplane,
00:30:32.480 I think.
00:30:33.640 And the crime
00:30:35.220 is simply that
00:30:36.180 he can't own a gun
00:30:37.220 because he has
00:30:37.680 a prior felony
00:30:38.980 conviction.
00:30:39.860 So there was
00:30:40.340 no altercation,
00:30:41.780 nobody was threatened,
00:30:43.060 there was no victim,
00:30:44.120 it is simply a crime.
00:30:46.280 Now,
00:30:46.600 how many of you
00:30:47.220 think that
00:30:47.780 Lil Wayne
00:30:48.340 was likely
00:30:49.780 to use his weapon
00:30:50.920 to commit a crime?
00:30:51.980 I feel as if
00:30:54.640 the only reason
00:30:55.340 somebody like
00:30:56.100 Lil Wayne
00:30:56.520 would have
00:30:57.040 a weapon
00:30:57.440 is because
00:30:58.600 he felt
00:30:59.660 he needed it
00:31:00.240 for self-defense.
00:31:01.980 Have you ever
00:31:02.640 seen a cleaner
00:31:03.820 case for
00:31:04.760 a presidential
00:31:05.400 pardon?
00:31:06.960 Now,
00:31:07.380 on top of the fact
00:31:08.360 that there was
00:31:08.960 no victim,
00:31:10.520 and it's sort
00:31:11.420 of absurd
00:31:11.980 to think that
00:31:12.740 he even had
00:31:13.240 the gun
00:31:13.620 for bad
00:31:14.380 intention,
00:31:15.880 almost certainly,
00:31:17.520 almost certainly,
00:31:19.120 I would bet,
00:31:19.860 without even
00:31:20.320 knowing anything
00:31:20.880 about the case,
00:31:22.100 I would bet
00:31:22.840 the reason
00:31:23.440 he owned it
00:31:24.120 was for
00:31:25.160 self-defense.
00:31:26.580 And he probably
00:31:27.180 had a legitimate
00:31:28.040 reason for
00:31:28.740 self-defense.
00:31:30.380 I'll bet
00:31:30.880 that was real.
00:31:32.340 Now,
00:31:32.920 he also had
00:31:33.740 said some
00:31:34.340 either good
00:31:35.460 things,
00:31:35.920 or at least
00:31:36.320 he would not
00:31:37.600 say bad
00:31:38.080 things about
00:31:38.660 Trump.
00:31:39.580 So Lil Wayne
00:31:40.300 was one of
00:31:40.740 these people
00:31:41.120 who got pulled
00:31:41.640 into sort of
00:31:42.280 the Kanye
00:31:43.040 conversation of,
00:31:44.560 hey,
00:31:44.940 why are you
00:31:45.440 not saying
00:31:46.000 bad things
00:31:46.500 about Trump
00:31:47.100 when everybody
00:31:47.800 else is?
00:31:48.980 And Lil Wayne,
00:31:49.840 to his credit,
00:31:52.100 decided that
00:31:53.020 he would
00:31:53.440 side with
00:31:54.060 his customers.
00:31:56.480 And as he
00:31:56.920 pointed out,
00:31:57.860 when he looks
00:31:58.440 into his audience,
00:31:59.320 he sees a bunch
00:32:00.020 of customers,
00:32:02.140 many of whom
00:32:03.120 could be
00:32:03.480 Trump supporters.
00:32:05.000 And so he
00:32:05.460 wasn't going to
00:32:05.920 be anti-Trump.
00:32:07.980 Now,
00:32:08.440 I believe that
00:32:09.380 in the United
00:32:10.020 States,
00:32:10.700 once you become
00:32:11.620 identified as
00:32:12.760 a Trump supporter,
00:32:14.240 you can't get
00:32:15.060 a fair trial.
00:32:16.880 What do you say?
00:32:17.940 Do you think
00:32:18.500 in our current
00:32:19.220 environment,
00:32:20.180 you could get
00:32:20.820 a fair trial
00:32:21.760 for any crime
00:32:23.300 if you had
00:32:24.900 already been
00:32:25.420 identified as
00:32:26.340 a Trump supporter?
00:32:28.320 I don't think
00:32:29.180 so.
00:32:30.180 I think that
00:32:31.000 that level
00:32:31.580 of prejudice,
00:32:33.280 at least in
00:32:33.720 2020,
00:32:34.520 is so extreme
00:32:35.820 that you could
00:32:37.220 not guarantee
00:32:38.040 that Lil Wayne
00:32:38.860 got a fair
00:32:39.500 hearing.
00:32:41.740 Right?
00:32:42.840 So I would say
00:32:43.860 that President
00:32:45.180 Trump should
00:32:46.260 pardon Lil Wayne,
00:32:47.640 and this
00:32:48.380 would be
00:32:48.640 just the
00:32:49.020 easiest,
00:32:49.640 cleanest,
00:32:50.320 smartest
00:32:50.680 pardon.
00:32:51.600 Because,
00:32:52.040 you know,
00:32:52.200 the President
00:32:52.640 still is always
00:32:53.440 suffering under
00:32:54.080 the allegations
00:32:55.060 of racism.
00:32:57.240 And there is
00:32:57.760 some number
00:32:58.640 of black
00:32:59.660 rappers
00:33:01.100 you could
00:33:01.740 pardon,
00:33:02.980 because I
00:33:03.340 don't think
00:33:03.720 he's the
00:33:04.100 only rapper
00:33:05.100 who's in
00:33:05.680 prison
00:33:06.040 at the moment,
00:33:08.380 right?
00:33:09.820 It seems to me
00:33:11.120 that every few
00:33:12.080 weeks you hear
00:33:12.640 about some
00:33:13.200 rapper going to
00:33:13.960 prison for
00:33:14.920 one thing or
00:33:15.480 another.
00:33:15.720 I think
00:33:16.520 Trump should
00:33:17.080 just release
00:33:17.640 all the
00:33:17.960 rappers
00:33:18.300 before he
00:33:19.840 goes,
00:33:20.600 which would
00:33:20.980 be hilarious.
00:33:22.180 But it
00:33:23.120 would be
00:33:23.380 hard to
00:33:23.820 explain his
00:33:25.440 legacy.
00:33:27.020 Just think
00:33:27.600 what it would
00:33:28.060 do to his
00:33:28.480 legacy.
00:33:29.680 Yes,
00:33:29.980 yes,
00:33:30.240 he was accused
00:33:31.140 of being this
00:33:31.740 major racist
00:33:33.360 for four years,
00:33:34.580 and then he
00:33:35.800 released all
00:33:36.520 the rappers,
00:33:37.980 the black
00:33:38.480 rappers,
00:33:39.000 before he
00:33:39.440 left.
00:33:39.860 I don't think
00:33:40.380 he's going
00:33:40.700 to do that.
00:33:41.820 But it
00:33:42.540 would so mess
00:33:43.420 with the
00:33:43.920 legacy,
00:33:45.300 and he
00:33:45.660 could just
00:33:46.020 do it by
00:33:46.500 saying,
00:33:46.860 look,
00:33:47.120 I think
00:33:47.400 they were
00:33:47.700 unfairly
00:33:48.240 treated,
00:33:48.660 that's the
00:33:48.940 end of the
00:33:49.240 story,
00:33:49.520 I'm just
00:33:49.820 parting them
00:33:50.280 all.
00:33:51.400 It would
00:33:51.720 be kind
00:33:53.060 of awesome,
00:33:53.780 actually.
00:33:54.500 But at the
00:33:54.900 very least,
00:33:55.540 I think the
00:33:56.000 Lil Wayne
00:33:56.500 pardon is an
00:33:57.820 easy one.
00:33:58.620 I think that
00:33:58.960 one's easy.
00:34:00.100 Even if he's
00:34:00.920 just doing it
00:34:01.500 to make a
00:34:01.940 point that
00:34:03.460 the discrimination
00:34:04.380 against Trump's
00:34:05.400 borders is so
00:34:06.080 extreme,
00:34:07.200 it doesn't
00:34:07.740 really mean that
00:34:08.700 Lil Wayne was
00:34:09.380 necessarily
00:34:09.940 disadvantaged by
00:34:10.880 that.
00:34:11.180 but it
00:34:11.800 would be
00:34:11.980 a fun
00:34:12.800 pardon,
00:34:14.520 if you
00:34:14.760 will.
00:34:15.580 And there
00:34:15.920 was no
00:34:16.200 victim,
00:34:16.600 so I
00:34:16.800 don't have
00:34:17.020 a problem
00:34:17.300 with it.
00:34:20.960 Sky News
00:34:21.840 is reporting
00:34:22.520 some kind
00:34:23.520 of major
00:34:23.960 leak,
00:34:24.820 some kind
00:34:25.220 of hack,
00:34:26.520 in which
00:34:27.080 nearly two
00:34:28.040 million members
00:34:29.800 of Chinese
00:34:30.500 Communist Party
00:34:31.460 were identified
00:34:33.340 as being
00:34:34.320 essentially
00:34:35.680 placed around
00:34:36.680 the world
00:34:37.200 in important
00:34:37.860 positions.
00:34:39.240 So allegedly
00:34:39.860 there are two
00:34:40.640 million,
00:34:41.180 or so,
00:34:42.660 Chinese,
00:34:43.700 I wouldn't
00:34:44.280 call them
00:34:44.820 spies,
00:34:46.620 but they're
00:34:48.140 part of the
00:34:48.980 Chinese Communist
00:34:50.780 Party,
00:34:51.500 and they
00:34:52.160 appear to be
00:34:52.920 part of a
00:34:53.460 major program
00:34:54.560 to get enough
00:34:55.960 Chinese Communist
00:34:57.020 Party people
00:34:57.760 placed in big
00:34:59.080 corporations and
00:35:00.200 governments around,
00:35:01.140 not governments,
00:35:01.840 but around the
00:35:02.300 world,
00:35:02.960 to influence
00:35:05.360 things.
00:35:07.060 And now we
00:35:07.720 know who they
00:35:08.180 are, and we
00:35:08.820 know the extent
00:35:09.500 of it,
00:35:09.920 almost two
00:35:10.560 million.
00:35:11.180 how many
00:35:14.400 spies does
00:35:16.260 China have?
00:35:17.160 And I
00:35:17.780 thought, this
00:35:18.500 is really
00:35:18.880 kind of a
00:35:19.420 brilliant strategy
00:35:20.760 in the long
00:35:21.380 run, right?
00:35:22.160 If you have
00:35:23.540 the most
00:35:24.020 people,
00:35:25.220 you know,
00:35:25.520 China has the
00:35:26.440 biggest population,
00:35:27.740 and you have
00:35:28.240 enough money,
00:35:29.700 why wouldn't
00:35:30.540 you embark on
00:35:31.440 a hundred-year
00:35:32.120 plan,
00:35:33.200 because it
00:35:33.780 might take a
00:35:34.240 long time,
00:35:34.860 but a hundred-year
00:35:35.480 plan to get
00:35:36.240 your people
00:35:36.860 in important
00:35:37.920 positions all
00:35:38.700 around the
00:35:39.140 world,
00:35:40.160 until China
00:35:41.920 just runs the
00:35:42.640 world,
00:35:43.560 through just
00:35:45.060 having more
00:35:45.620 people and
00:35:46.260 putting them
00:35:46.640 in the right
00:35:47.040 places and
00:35:47.980 just waiting.
00:35:49.880 Two million
00:35:50.600 people is a
00:35:51.320 pretty serious
00:35:51.960 program.
00:35:52.400 I think we
00:35:54.100 should probably
00:35:54.860 look to get
00:35:55.640 rid of,
00:35:56.380 to eject
00:35:58.220 from this
00:35:58.920 country,
00:35:59.980 anybody who
00:36:00.600 has any
00:36:00.960 connection to
00:36:01.580 the Chinese
00:36:02.480 Communist Party.
00:36:03.760 So now that we
00:36:04.340 have the names,
00:36:04.920 we should
00:36:05.220 certainly
00:36:05.680 immediately get
00:36:07.580 rid of anybody
00:36:08.260 on that list.
00:36:08.940 So I did a
00:36:14.880 lesson on
00:36:16.260 reframing on
00:36:17.640 the Locals
00:36:18.560 platform.
00:36:19.500 So on Locals,
00:36:20.320 I'm going to
00:36:20.820 be doing more
00:36:21.420 on persuasion
00:36:22.400 and success
00:36:24.640 strategies.
00:36:25.920 So that's a
00:36:26.400 subscription
00:36:26.960 platform, so
00:36:27.920 for those who
00:36:29.120 are on there,
00:36:30.140 I did a lesson
00:36:30.740 on reframing.
00:36:32.180 I'll give you
00:36:32.540 another example
00:36:33.220 right now.
00:36:36.520 When it
00:36:37.960 started to
00:36:38.560 look like
00:36:39.020 Trump was
00:36:39.620 not going
00:36:40.140 to have
00:36:40.800 a second
00:36:41.160 term, I
00:36:42.760 found myself
00:36:43.620 feeling sad
00:36:44.860 because I
00:36:46.340 thought, oh,
00:36:47.180 all of my
00:36:47.820 fun is
00:36:49.500 talking about
00:36:50.480 Trump stuff.
00:36:52.420 You know,
00:36:52.720 80% of all
00:36:53.620 my entertainment
00:36:54.380 was in this
00:36:55.180 one category,
00:36:56.300 and I
00:36:57.720 thought to
00:36:58.120 myself, I'm
00:36:58.680 going to lose
00:36:59.160 my main
00:37:00.160 entertainment.
00:37:01.000 What am I
00:37:01.300 going to do?
00:37:02.060 So that was
00:37:02.800 my first
00:37:03.480 frame.
00:37:05.220 So the
00:37:05.640 first frame
00:37:06.420 was I had
00:37:06.960 lost something.
00:37:07.800 It was
00:37:08.660 something
00:37:08.960 important to
00:37:09.680 me, it
00:37:10.260 was built
00:37:10.700 into my
00:37:11.180 lifestyle, and
00:37:12.040 I was going
00:37:12.760 to lose it.
00:37:14.020 That was my
00:37:14.600 first thought.
00:37:15.660 But I found
00:37:16.340 that with
00:37:16.900 practice, you
00:37:17.980 can reframe
00:37:18.940 your subjective
00:37:20.140 experience of
00:37:21.280 life fairly
00:37:22.660 easily.
00:37:23.700 Now, I'm a
00:37:24.660 trained hypnotist,
00:37:26.060 and I can tell
00:37:27.680 you that I
00:37:28.500 don't just
00:37:29.100 program other
00:37:30.120 people.
00:37:30.900 I've spent my
00:37:32.220 whole life,
00:37:33.260 since I learned
00:37:33.860 these skills,
00:37:34.480 working on
00:37:35.800 my own
00:37:36.180 brain, and
00:37:37.000 reprogramming
00:37:37.840 it using
00:37:38.260 the tools
00:37:38.840 that you
00:37:39.260 learn to
00:37:39.660 program other
00:37:40.320 people.
00:37:40.760 You can just
00:37:41.160 use them
00:37:41.460 on yourself.
00:37:42.580 And so
00:37:42.900 over decades,
00:37:44.880 I've sort
00:37:46.280 of programmed
00:37:47.220 and reprogrammed
00:37:48.260 my head so
00:37:49.520 that I can
00:37:50.020 change my
00:37:51.040 frame of
00:37:52.140 life, or
00:37:52.660 my subjective
00:37:53.580 impression of
00:37:55.960 life, almost
00:37:57.260 like a light
00:37:57.880 switch at this
00:37:58.780 point, because
00:37:59.980 I've done it so
00:38:00.660 many times.
00:38:01.200 And so
00:38:01.900 what I did
00:38:02.320 in this case
00:38:02.880 is, instead
00:38:03.620 of being sad
00:38:04.400 that I
00:38:04.860 wouldn't have
00:38:05.240 as many
00:38:05.660 Trump stories
00:38:06.640 to talk about
00:38:07.380 that are always
00:38:07.940 interesting, I
00:38:09.600 redefined myself
00:38:10.740 as a critic
00:38:11.660 of Biden.
00:38:14.920 And it
00:38:15.540 turns out
00:38:16.120 that if you
00:38:17.080 spend a week
00:38:17.660 or two as
00:38:18.540 defining yourself
00:38:20.160 or framing
00:38:20.860 yourself as a
00:38:21.720 critic, it's
00:38:23.320 way easier.
00:38:25.260 And all of
00:38:26.020 the stress
00:38:26.880 that I would
00:38:28.120 have every
00:38:28.620 morning, I
00:38:29.140 would wake
00:38:29.460 up every
00:38:29.900 morning,
00:38:30.260 and I
00:38:31.860 look at
00:38:32.160 the news,
00:38:33.000 and it
00:38:33.500 would be
00:38:33.720 another story
00:38:34.460 about something
00:38:35.040 that Trump
00:38:35.660 allegedly did,
00:38:36.740 but probably
00:38:37.180 didn't, or
00:38:38.200 allegedly said,
00:38:39.360 but probably
00:38:40.020 didn't.
00:38:41.160 There would
00:38:41.440 be some
00:38:41.840 fake news
00:38:42.460 story about
00:38:43.020 Trump that
00:38:44.460 I had to
00:38:45.080 address.
00:38:46.160 Now, I
00:38:46.680 got to tell
00:38:47.140 you, if
00:38:47.680 you're going
00:38:47.940 to spend a
00:38:48.520 few minutes
00:38:49.040 trying to
00:38:50.160 debunk
00:38:50.680 something that
00:38:51.620 the world
00:38:52.060 believes,
00:38:52.680 that's hard.
00:38:54.160 It's a lot
00:38:54.660 of work
00:38:55.020 debunking
00:38:55.840 stuff.
00:38:56.800 But simply
00:38:57.560 criticizing
00:38:58.600 Biden,
00:38:59.140 is easy.
00:39:02.000 It's simple.
00:39:03.400 You know, what
00:39:03.840 would be
00:39:04.140 easier?
00:39:05.120 Making a
00:39:05.800 movie like
00:39:07.200 Steven Spielberg.
00:39:09.020 Is it,
00:39:10.220 okay, Finn,
00:39:11.580 wow, you're
00:39:13.060 nice.
00:39:13.400 Thank you for
00:39:13.960 that gift.
00:39:18.440 That was
00:39:18.720 very generous.
00:39:20.740 So,
00:39:22.420 anyway, my
00:39:23.480 point is that
00:39:24.160 I've reframed
00:39:24.840 my situation
00:39:25.520 as a critic,
00:39:26.240 and I
00:39:27.060 have to
00:39:27.400 say, in
00:39:27.800 all seriousness,
00:39:29.180 my tension,
00:39:31.080 my, a lot
00:39:33.700 of things that
00:39:34.420 were always
00:39:35.500 at, let's
00:39:36.600 say, predator,
00:39:37.760 prey level,
00:39:38.720 you know, what
00:39:40.580 do you call it,
00:39:41.020 fight or flight,
00:39:42.200 I went from
00:39:43.040 continuously being
00:39:44.380 in fight or
00:39:45.060 flight mode to
00:39:47.120 happily sitting
00:39:48.920 on the
00:39:49.360 bleachers,
00:39:50.520 mocking the
00:39:51.440 athletes who
00:39:52.120 were in the
00:39:52.500 game because I
00:39:53.520 don't have to
00:39:54.040 be in the
00:39:54.360 game.
00:39:54.620 I can just
00:39:55.220 be on the
00:39:55.560 sidelines and
00:39:56.740 make fun of
00:39:57.460 people.
00:39:58.340 And I
00:39:58.580 thought, that's
00:40:00.500 not bad, I
00:40:01.860 could get used
00:40:02.400 to this.
00:40:03.380 So my point
00:40:04.040 is this, if you
00:40:04.740 practice, you
00:40:05.320 can learn to
00:40:05.880 reframe your
00:40:06.680 experience.
00:40:07.520 It doesn't
00:40:07.840 change the
00:40:08.500 objective reality
00:40:10.100 if there is
00:40:10.620 one, but
00:40:11.760 it might be
00:40:13.060 fun.
00:40:13.820 All right, I'm
00:40:14.180 going to close
00:40:14.720 on one little
00:40:15.820 interesting story
00:40:16.720 that has nothing
00:40:17.340 to do with
00:40:17.840 anything, okay?
00:40:18.680 No politics
00:40:19.360 here.
00:40:21.020 Some years
00:40:21.760 ago, a friend
00:40:22.480 of mine gave
00:40:23.180 me this cool
00:40:23.920 little gift.
00:40:25.200 It's a, I
00:40:26.600 guess you'd
00:40:26.980 call it an
00:40:27.480 antique.
00:40:28.360 It's a very
00:40:29.060 old ping-pong
00:40:30.880 manual, and it
00:40:32.060 is so cool
00:40:33.280 looking.
00:40:33.780 You can see it
00:40:34.180 like really
00:40:34.520 old-timey, and
00:40:35.520 the cover is
00:40:36.580 falling off.
00:40:37.600 And I found
00:40:38.260 it the other
00:40:38.700 day when I was
00:40:39.460 cleaning up, and
00:40:40.140 I opened it
00:40:40.580 up, and it's
00:40:41.820 really like old-timey
00:40:43.300 writing, and it's
00:40:44.600 just really fun.
00:40:46.680 And in the, let's
00:40:48.700 see, in the front
00:40:50.260 of it, my friend
00:40:50.960 who gave it to
00:40:51.520 me, John, you
00:40:52.840 know, he
00:40:53.140 signed it, and
00:40:54.180 wrote a little
00:40:56.000 note in it, so
00:40:57.080 it was signed.
00:40:58.000 So I did not, when
00:40:59.760 he gave it to me
00:41:00.460 years ago, I had
00:41:01.520 not looked at
00:41:02.100 every page of
00:41:02.900 it, because it
00:41:03.720 wasn't really that
00:41:04.420 kind of a gift.
00:41:05.180 It's not something
00:41:05.740 you read.
00:41:06.920 It's more like a
00:41:07.900 cool thing to have
00:41:08.620 sitting on a
00:41:09.180 table.
00:41:10.160 And just the
00:41:10.900 other day, I
00:41:11.820 picked it up, and
00:41:12.400 I was flipping
00:41:12.920 through it to see
00:41:14.360 if there was just
00:41:14.860 anything interesting.
00:41:16.620 And several
00:41:17.660 pages in, I
00:41:20.160 found this.
00:41:23.980 It's an original
00:41:25.020 autograph by Bill
00:41:26.860 Tilden.
00:41:28.200 Now, if you don't
00:41:29.160 play tennis, and
00:41:30.040 you're not a, if
00:41:31.280 you're not a
00:41:32.060 historian, you
00:41:33.520 don't know who
00:41:34.140 Bill Tilden is.
00:41:35.600 But not only was
00:41:36.660 he, he wrote the
00:41:37.660 introduction to the
00:41:38.620 book, but he was
00:41:39.820 the superstar tennis
00:41:42.000 player of his time
00:41:43.140 in 1928.
00:41:44.940 So the autograph
00:41:45.860 has 1928 in it.
00:41:47.260 So it turns out
00:41:48.340 that I have an
00:41:49.180 original autograph
00:41:50.080 from Bill Tilden
00:41:51.740 from 1928, who
00:41:53.280 would have been
00:41:53.800 basically the
00:41:55.320 Michael Jordan
00:41:56.020 of tennis when
00:41:57.420 tennis was new,
00:41:58.340 and it was sort
00:41:59.040 of a big deal
00:41:59.980 back then.
00:42:01.060 So that was
00:42:01.840 like a, that
00:42:02.420 was the coolest
00:42:03.000 little discovery,
00:42:04.920 an actual Bill
00:42:05.840 Tilden autograph
00:42:06.720 from 1928.
00:42:09.760 Now, only those,
00:42:10.980 those of you who
00:42:11.800 have ever heard of
00:42:12.500 him would be
00:42:12.920 impressed by this,
00:42:14.080 but this is
00:42:15.200 really cool,
00:42:16.300 really cool.
00:42:16.960 And I didn't
00:42:17.300 know that was
00:42:17.780 there until I
00:42:18.240 just saw it.
00:42:20.400 So, I don't
00:42:21.140 know that it
00:42:21.520 has any financial
00:42:22.920 value, but in
00:42:24.240 terms of its
00:42:24.980 coolness factor,
00:42:26.660 it just went
00:42:27.060 through the roof.
00:42:28.980 All right, that's
00:42:29.520 all I have for
00:42:30.000 now.
00:42:31.300 And, yeah, you
00:42:33.140 can't tell a book
00:42:33.820 from, by its
00:42:34.580 cover.
00:42:35.300 It's literally,
00:42:36.100 I've got scotch
00:42:37.280 tape holding it
00:42:37.980 together.
00:42:38.940 All right, that's
00:42:39.520 all for now, and
00:42:40.140 I'll talk to you
00:42:40.800 tomorrow.
00:42:45.400 All right,
00:42:45.940 YouTubers,
00:42:46.960 the golden age
00:42:50.360 of sport didn't
00:42:51.500 end well for
00:42:52.220 Tilden.
00:42:52.700 I don't know
00:42:53.120 how Tilden
00:42:53.900 ended.
00:42:56.520 Did Tilden
00:42:57.120 have a bad
00:42:57.740 end?
00:42:58.280 He's not
00:42:58.740 around anymore.
00:43:00.980 Are you aware
00:43:01.880 that YouTube is
00:43:02.660 over-monetizing
00:43:03.780 you?
00:43:04.120 What does that
00:43:04.500 mean?
00:43:05.120 Over-monetizing
00:43:06.120 me?
00:43:08.680 I'm not aware
00:43:09.680 that YouTube is
00:43:10.560 over-monetizing
00:43:11.660 me.
00:43:11.900 Does that mean
00:43:12.300 they're putting
00:43:13.260 too many commercials
00:43:14.320 on there or
00:43:14.840 something?
00:43:15.040 I don't know
00:43:16.420 what that
00:43:16.660 means.
00:43:21.020 Or you have
00:43:21.760 a fake?
00:43:22.460 It could be a
00:43:23.140 fake autograph.
00:43:24.080 Anything's
00:43:24.480 possible.
00:43:27.560 All right, go
00:43:28.300 watch Snark
00:43:29.480 Warts.
00:43:30.040 I don't know
00:43:30.260 what that is.
00:43:31.820 Tons of
00:43:32.420 commercials.
00:43:33.600 Let me check
00:43:34.140 the settings.
00:43:34.900 You know, I've
00:43:35.600 had the problem
00:43:36.180 before that
00:43:37.980 YouTube, it
00:43:40.020 feels like it
00:43:40.800 changes its
00:43:41.720 monetization
00:43:43.040 settings, or
00:43:44.800 somehow I
00:43:46.540 change it
00:43:47.040 without knowing
00:43:47.640 that I even
00:43:48.200 was messing
00:43:48.800 with them.
00:43:49.380 So I've
00:43:49.700 seen it change
00:43:50.320 a few times
00:43:50.820 without me
00:43:51.280 doing anything.
00:43:51.860 I'll go check
00:43:52.500 that.
00:43:53.120 But if what
00:43:53.640 you're talking
00:43:54.000 about is the
00:43:55.240 number of
00:43:55.620 commercials, I
00:43:56.880 might have some
00:43:57.480 control over that.
00:43:58.900 And I will
00:44:00.020 talk to you
00:44:00.860 tomorrow.
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