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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.

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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? 0.95

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. 0.99

00:13:57.060 Now, I don't know how to talk about this without looking like a jerk. 0.98

00:14:01.820 I just don't know how to do it. 0.97

00:14:03.200 So if I seem like I'm being a jerk in the next few moments, 0.95

00:14:07.620 more than usual, right? 0.97

00:14:09.400 I suppose it's all relative. 0.99

00:14:11.380 But if I seem like slightly more of a jerk than normal, 0.98

00:14:15.200 it's because this Great Reset thing is the most ridiculous idea in the news. 0.98

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 0.99

00:16:13.280 is so ridiculous 0.99

00:16:14.880 and so not understanding how humans work. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 0.89

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, 0.97

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 0.99

00:29:56.780 very, very bad man, 1.00

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, 0.91

00:33:34.580 and then he

00:33:35.800 released all

00:33:36.520 the rappers, 0.93

00:33:37.980 the black 0.54

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 0.72

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 0.72

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? 0.87

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 0.74

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 0.86

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 0.67

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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