Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 28, 2020


Episode 1234 Scott Adams： Nashville, Psychology, Passion, China


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

152.75932

Word Count

6,743

Sentence Count

378

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, the power goes out in the middle of my live broadcast, and I talk about the Nashville bombing, the Iran hostage situation, and the Uyghurs in the Chinese internment camps.


Transcript

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00:00:10.360 Hey, everybody. Come on in. Come on in. It's time.
00:00:15.420 It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's going to be a little bit of a surprise today
00:00:20.580 if you happen to be watching me on the YouTube live feed.
00:00:24.700 and that surprise is that the power is going to go out
00:00:29.100 sometime in the middle of this broadcast.
00:00:33.020 So if you're on YouTube and the power goes out,
00:00:36.960 skip over to Periscope or catch it on the replay.
00:00:41.260 The reason is that these stupid iPads
00:00:44.780 have one hole that you use the microphone for,
00:00:48.860 which is plugged in.
00:00:50.360 It's the same hole they used to charge it.
00:00:52.720 So if I want to charge it while I'm using it,
00:00:56.840 which would be the most common thing you would do,
00:00:59.640 I can't do that because there's just one hole.
00:01:02.680 So YouTube, you're just going to disappear in a few minutes.
00:01:08.500 But if you'd like to enjoy this while it lasts,
00:01:11.580 all you need is a cup or mug or a glass,
00:01:13.420 a tank or a chalice or a stein,
00:01:14.940 a canteen jug or a glass, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:18.940 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:20.540 I like coffee.
00:01:23.180 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
00:01:25.420 that dopamine to the day,
00:01:26.760 the thing that makes everything better.
00:01:29.140 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.
00:01:30.900 Go.
00:01:34.660 Ah.
00:01:36.080 I see in the comments that somebody says
00:01:38.320 there's an adapter that will help me with this.
00:01:41.420 I will look into that right after this.
00:01:43.880 I really will.
00:01:45.120 I'll look into it.
00:01:45.900 So, are you happy that I moved my books behind me?
00:01:50.780 It was the most frequent recommendation
00:01:52.900 is to move my books so my head wasn't in the way.
00:01:56.800 But it looks like my head's still in the way.
00:01:59.140 So maybe we'll work with that.
00:02:01.840 We'll do a little more A-B testing.
00:02:03.680 All right.
00:02:03.920 Let's talk about that Nashville bomber.
00:02:08.140 When I first heard that the Nashville bombing happened
00:02:12.820 and I heard that there was a camper
00:02:15.080 and it had a speaker on it with a warning to get away
00:02:19.140 and they blew up a phone company,
00:02:21.520 I did not have to be a highly trained FBI profiler
00:02:27.540 to make the following prediction.
00:02:29.560 It was going to be a 63-year-old white guy
00:02:33.580 with an IT background.
00:02:37.980 Was there anybody who didn't see that coming?
00:02:42.460 Everything about this crime screamed
00:02:45.840 63-year-old white guy with an IT background.
00:02:51.220 That was the first thing I thought.
00:02:52.860 The last thing I thought was foreign terrorism.
00:02:55.360 And as soon as you told me it's a camper,
00:03:00.480 it's got like a tricked out cool technology
00:03:05.500 for his explosion.
00:03:08.880 And it was a phone company.
00:03:11.480 The one thing that you knew for sure
00:03:12.980 is that he was a Dilbert fan.
00:03:15.420 And I thought,
00:03:16.180 oh, please don't call this the Dilbert bomber.
00:03:19.680 It's going to happen.
00:03:22.620 Somebody's going to call this guy the Dilbert bomber.
00:03:26.220 You know it's going to happen.
00:03:28.160 All right.
00:03:31.260 So I guess we're still waiting to figure out
00:03:33.840 what that's all about.
00:03:35.020 We don't know his motive.
00:03:36.000 But we certainly could have guessed who he was
00:03:40.440 before we found out.
00:03:43.760 Over in Nazi China,
00:03:47.600 have you ever heard the phrase
00:03:49.860 never again about the Holocaust?
00:03:51.500 That's sort of the slogan,
00:03:54.740 never again,
00:03:55.500 because never again will the world stand by
00:03:58.200 when some ethnic group is rounded up and slaughtered.
00:04:02.780 But indeed,
00:04:03.460 never again is happening right now
00:04:05.300 as China has rounded up the Uyghurs.
00:04:08.760 And although they're not being slaughtered yet,
00:04:12.660 somebody asked me,
00:04:14.360 Scott,
00:04:14.620 what do you think about people
00:04:16.340 who invest in Apple Computer
00:04:18.720 who allegedly their parts are made
00:04:21.280 by Uyghur slave labor?
00:04:24.140 To which I say,
00:04:25.540 what exactly was the alternative?
00:04:29.320 Would it be better
00:04:30.740 if the Uyghurs didn't have work?
00:04:33.900 Because I feel like
00:04:35.640 they would be sort of expendable,
00:04:37.640 if you know what I mean,
00:04:38.480 if they didn't have slave labor.
00:04:42.060 So while I'm not in favor of slave labor,
00:04:45.700 it might be better than the alternative
00:04:48.340 that China has planned for them.
00:04:50.220 If they could get some value out of them,
00:04:52.020 that's probably the only reason they're alive.
00:04:54.100 So both are horrible in the extreme,
00:04:57.240 but being dead is probably a little bit worse.
00:05:01.580 I don't know.
00:05:04.400 And then somebody,
00:05:05.500 when I tweeted this,
00:05:06.200 somebody said,
00:05:07.740 oh yeah,
00:05:08.280 you hypocrite?
00:05:09.060 I don't see you saying anything
00:05:11.120 about Israel
00:05:11.920 and the Palestinians.
00:05:14.560 To which I say,
00:05:15.840 I do not make decisions
00:05:17.140 based on bad analogies.
00:05:19.560 I would say that the Nazi analogy
00:05:21.880 is reasonably good
00:05:23.420 under the limited situation
00:05:25.320 that somebody is rounding up
00:05:27.560 an ethnic group
00:05:28.900 and putting them in concentration camps.
00:05:32.280 Now, if that exact thing is happening,
00:05:34.780 then I think a Nazi analogy
00:05:37.600 is reasonable, right?
00:05:39.740 If somebody invaded Poland,
00:05:42.600 I would say,
00:05:44.000 well, okay,
00:05:44.940 okay,
00:05:45.520 that's where a Nazi analogy,
00:05:48.360 that works pretty well.
00:05:50.540 Hitler invaded Poland.
00:05:52.520 But you can't use a Nazi analogy
00:05:54.580 for everything.
00:05:56.280 I mean,
00:05:57.000 on the internet we do.
00:05:58.760 But I like to keep it
00:06:00.060 for those things
00:06:00.760 that are right on the nose,
00:06:02.280 you know,
00:06:03.100 a concentration camp
00:06:04.480 for one ethnic group.
00:06:05.860 That's right on the nose.
00:06:08.020 I think that's a fair analogy.
00:06:10.360 Comparison,
00:06:10.900 whatever you want to call it.
00:06:12.360 But when you're talking
00:06:13.260 about Israel
00:06:14.020 and the Palestinians,
00:06:15.240 you've got all kinds
00:06:16.260 of other things going on.
00:06:18.260 But the most important difference
00:06:19.820 is that the Palestinians
00:06:21.120 have a clear ability
00:06:23.260 to affect their own fate.
00:06:25.180 The Palestinians,
00:06:27.400 if they wanted to,
00:06:29.240 could build a powerful region,
00:06:31.580 have self-control,
00:06:33.100 have nobody bother them,
00:06:34.580 be good neighbors,
00:06:35.640 make a fortune.
00:06:37.000 But they don't want that.
00:06:38.880 If they wanted it,
00:06:40.040 they could have it.
00:06:40.840 Everybody wants them to have it.
00:06:42.380 There's nobody
00:06:42.900 who doesn't want them
00:06:43.800 to have a good life.
00:06:45.440 So long as they,
00:06:46.780 you know,
00:06:47.460 don't bother other people.
00:06:50.260 So I think those are
00:06:51.400 the worst analogies
00:06:52.540 in the world.
00:06:53.240 And my general take
00:06:54.480 about the Middle East
00:06:56.160 is that the only thing
00:06:57.020 that matters is power.
00:06:58.860 And whoever has the power
00:07:00.340 uses it.
00:07:01.940 And you don't really need
00:07:03.740 to dig down
00:07:04.920 much deeper than that.
00:07:06.820 But it does matter
00:07:07.960 if you have at least
00:07:09.100 some amount of control
00:07:10.240 over your own fate.
00:07:13.520 Yesterday's poorly planned
00:07:16.340 live stream
00:07:17.460 that I did here,
00:07:19.300 I told you I overslept
00:07:21.020 and didn't have any content,
00:07:22.520 so I just put together
00:07:24.360 some stuff
00:07:25.660 that was on the top
00:07:26.340 of my mind
00:07:27.060 right before the live stream.
00:07:29.640 Turned out to be
00:07:30.560 one of my all-time
00:07:31.540 most popular live streams.
00:07:34.260 And so the moral
00:07:35.620 of the story is
00:07:36.600 there's no point
00:07:37.960 in working hard
00:07:38.680 and being prepared
00:07:39.480 because it doesn't seem
00:07:40.500 to have any impact
00:07:41.800 on your outcomes.
00:07:43.340 Well, that's not true.
00:07:44.880 But in this case,
00:07:46.100 weirdly,
00:07:47.020 the less work
00:07:47.820 I put into it,
00:07:48.620 the better result I got.
00:07:49.820 So the thing
00:07:51.260 that people
00:07:51.640 were commenting on
00:07:52.520 is I did a little
00:07:53.680 takedown of psychology.
00:07:56.040 Now, I'm not saying
00:07:56.880 all of psychology
00:07:57.860 is BS.
00:07:59.160 I wouldn't know.
00:08:00.460 I'm not an expert
00:08:01.660 in that field.
00:08:03.000 I'm not saying
00:08:03.840 mental illness
00:08:05.780 isn't real.
00:08:07.020 Some people
00:08:07.460 are interpreting
00:08:08.460 that way.
00:08:09.020 Of course it's real.
00:08:10.300 The symptoms are real.
00:08:12.040 If you actually
00:08:12.820 have symptoms,
00:08:14.460 that's as real
00:08:15.340 as anything could be.
00:08:16.920 What I was commenting on
00:08:18.800 is just the labels
00:08:19.920 that they give
00:08:20.480 something like
00:08:21.080 this is narcissism
00:08:22.520 and this is
00:08:23.380 this other thing.
00:08:24.360 When they all overlap
00:08:25.760 and the symptoms
00:08:26.380 are all over the place,
00:08:27.860 there isn't any reason
00:08:29.240 to label some of them
00:08:30.900 with a name
00:08:31.660 when that happens.
00:08:37.680 So YouTube
00:08:38.520 just gave me
00:08:39.160 a low warning
00:08:40.980 so we'll probably lose,
00:08:42.440 I think we've probably
00:08:43.340 got 10 more minutes
00:08:44.420 on YouTube
00:08:45.180 before it goes dark.
00:08:48.800 But here's my take
00:08:50.760 on that.
00:08:51.820 First of all,
00:08:53.440 whenever I go after
00:08:54.820 a field
00:08:55.380 in which I am not
00:08:56.400 an expert,
00:08:57.360 everybody pours in
00:08:58.340 and says,
00:08:59.260 you cartoonist,
00:09:00.320 you're not an expert.
00:09:01.920 Why are you
00:09:02.540 criticizing this field?
00:09:04.320 But I would like
00:09:05.160 to lay claim
00:09:06.000 to the following.
00:09:07.660 I would like to say
00:09:08.720 that my personal expertise
00:09:10.360 and one which I've
00:09:12.240 pursued publicly
00:09:14.220 all my life,
00:09:15.840 the 30 years or so
00:09:17.380 of my public life anyway,
00:09:19.420 that my one expertise
00:09:21.380 is calling bullshit
00:09:24.500 on other people's expertise.
00:09:28.180 That is sort of
00:09:29.380 my expertise.
00:09:31.180 Now,
00:09:31.680 I don't get into
00:09:32.820 the details
00:09:33.580 of other fields
00:09:34.840 that I don't understand,
00:09:36.340 but generally
00:09:37.080 you don't need to.
00:09:38.500 It's pretty easy
00:09:39.480 to call bullshit
00:09:40.280 on things
00:09:41.520 that are just
00:09:42.040 sort of obvious.
00:09:43.260 I don't call bullshit
00:09:45.060 on, say,
00:09:46.540 Einstein's theory
00:09:48.060 of relativity.
00:09:49.980 Do you know why?
00:09:51.440 Well, how would I know
00:09:52.360 if it's right or wrong?
00:09:54.160 How could I possibly know?
00:09:56.320 Right?
00:09:56.780 I couldn't know.
00:09:58.180 So,
00:09:59.540 so instead,
00:10:03.000 I go after
00:10:03.760 the low-hanging fruit.
00:10:05.580 And I want to give you
00:10:06.320 some examples
00:10:07.400 of that
00:10:08.640 so that you can
00:10:09.480 get it in context.
00:10:11.560 I've told you
00:10:12.440 that the Dilbert
00:10:14.020 comic strip
00:10:15.220 basically took out
00:10:16.420 the whole field
00:10:17.220 of management consulting.
00:10:19.260 And I basically
00:10:20.220 called bullshit
00:10:20.920 on the entire field
00:10:22.320 of management consulting,
00:10:23.340 which was not my field.
00:10:25.560 Not exactly.
00:10:26.480 I mean,
00:10:26.680 I didn't do it
00:10:27.220 for a living or anything.
00:10:28.740 So that was my first case
00:10:30.160 where I called BS
00:10:31.160 on a field
00:10:31.940 that I was not part of.
00:10:33.540 Later,
00:10:34.200 when I,
00:10:34.540 and I told you this yesterday,
00:10:36.080 when I took on
00:10:36.980 the personal finance field,
00:10:39.320 again,
00:10:39.740 not an expert,
00:10:41.020 but it took about
00:10:41.720 five minutes of research
00:10:42.940 to find that
00:10:43.900 the personal finance
00:10:46.040 investment advice
00:10:48.580 industry
00:10:49.960 is just bullshit.
00:10:51.240 It's just people
00:10:51.960 making things complicated
00:10:54.280 so that they can tell you
00:10:55.460 they have a purpose
00:10:56.160 so they can take
00:10:56.820 a piece of your money.
00:10:58.820 So,
00:10:59.500 again,
00:11:00.720 two examples
00:11:01.460 of calling bullshit
00:11:02.600 on things
00:11:03.460 that are not
00:11:03.960 in my expertise.
00:11:04.840 do you remember
00:11:08.680 when the experts
00:11:09.960 said that
00:11:10.720 masks
00:11:11.780 don't work?
00:11:13.500 Now,
00:11:13.840 some of you still think
00:11:14.720 masks don't work,
00:11:15.700 but the general consensus
00:11:16.880 is now
00:11:17.800 that they do.
00:11:19.180 What did you see me do?
00:11:21.080 You saw me call bullshit
00:11:22.340 on a field
00:11:23.820 in which I have
00:11:24.500 no experience,
00:11:26.000 the medical field,
00:11:27.500 and,
00:11:28.200 at least at the moment,
00:11:30.220 the current thinking
00:11:31.100 is that they caught up
00:11:32.280 with me,
00:11:33.120 not the other way around.
00:11:34.680 Now,
00:11:35.000 if it turns out later
00:11:35.980 that masks are really bad,
00:11:38.760 you know,
00:11:39.100 we'll all revise
00:11:40.220 our opinion,
00:11:40.860 right?
00:11:41.480 But at the moment,
00:11:42.680 the strong consensus
00:11:44.000 of the experts
00:11:45.000 is that I'm right.
00:11:48.100 Right?
00:11:48.820 So,
00:11:49.440 I have quite a track record,
00:11:51.120 and I could bore you
00:11:52.400 with a bunch of other examples,
00:11:53.980 but I do have a long
00:11:55.140 track record
00:11:55.980 of seeing the low-hanging fruit
00:11:59.760 in other fields,
00:12:00.920 not all the details
00:12:02.880 of the field,
00:12:03.520 I can't tell if that's
00:12:04.360 right or wrong,
00:12:05.100 but just the obvious stuff.
00:12:07.760 And one of the other
00:12:09.000 obvious things
00:12:09.820 that I took on
00:12:10.940 was the idea
00:12:11.740 that you needed
00:12:13.100 passion
00:12:13.620 to be successful.
00:12:16.360 Do you remember that?
00:12:17.780 At first,
00:12:18.400 I first blogged about it,
00:12:19.840 and I don't remember
00:12:20.420 the exact year,
00:12:21.240 2011,
00:12:22.640 2012,
00:12:23.480 something like that,
00:12:24.380 and the blog post,
00:12:26.740 I think it was titled
00:12:27.520 Passion is Bullshit.
00:12:28.640 I can't find it now
00:12:29.660 because I've changed
00:12:30.220 my blog enough
00:12:31.000 that I couldn't find
00:12:32.040 the original post,
00:12:33.200 but it was so popular
00:12:34.400 that it became a chapter
00:12:35.740 in my book
00:12:36.660 published in 2013.
00:12:39.000 Now,
00:12:39.280 if the book is published
00:12:40.460 in 2013,
00:12:41.580 you can work backwards
00:12:42.620 to when it was written,
00:12:44.380 which was 2012-ish,
00:12:47.080 and then you can work
00:12:47.880 backwards from that
00:12:48.820 to when the original blog post
00:12:51.020 was written,
00:12:51.740 so it was either 2012
00:12:52.820 or 2011,
00:12:53.940 something like that.
00:12:54.440 So that's when I was saying
00:12:56.560 stuff such as
00:12:57.920 passion is bullshit,
00:12:59.520 and it's better
00:13:00.780 to do something
00:13:01.400 you're good at,
00:13:02.280 and then you'll get passion
00:13:03.340 if you make money
00:13:04.960 and it works out
00:13:05.740 and your life is good.
00:13:07.000 Now,
00:13:07.300 since then,
00:13:08.180 you've noticed
00:13:08.740 that that idea
00:13:09.540 has made its way
00:13:11.020 into a number
00:13:11.580 of different books,
00:13:13.080 and I was just watching
00:13:14.100 a video of Scott Galloway
00:13:16.700 who was repeating almost,
00:13:19.440 it sounded almost
00:13:20.200 word for word
00:13:20.940 from my book,
00:13:21.600 So in a video,
00:13:22.940 somebody asked him,
00:13:23.760 you know,
00:13:24.240 some secrets of success,
00:13:25.680 and he did the
00:13:26.400 passion is bullshit speech
00:13:28.460 pretty much exactly
00:13:29.560 as I laid it out
00:13:30.520 in my book.
00:13:32.020 Now,
00:13:32.840 he didn't credit me
00:13:34.940 for the idea,
00:13:36.740 which is fine,
00:13:37.960 because I don't think
00:13:38.720 ideas need to be credited.
00:13:41.360 I don't think
00:13:41.840 that's a thing.
00:13:42.880 I think if somebody
00:13:43.560 took your actual content,
00:13:45.440 you know,
00:13:45.640 like a copy
00:13:46.440 of a page of a book
00:13:47.600 or, you know,
00:13:48.480 a photo you took
00:13:49.700 or something like that,
00:13:50.800 that's no fair.
00:13:51.980 Because that's a copyright.
00:13:53.480 So it's not a copyright
00:13:54.560 unless it's the actual
00:13:55.700 material that you created
00:13:57.100 or part of it.
00:13:59.040 But if you just have
00:14:00.200 an idea
00:14:00.720 that is catchy
00:14:02.760 and people like it,
00:14:03.980 that's not copyrightable.
00:14:05.420 You can't copyright an idea.
00:14:06.860 So anybody who uses
00:14:07.940 an idea without
00:14:09.040 attribution,
00:14:10.900 I think that's fair.
00:14:11.940 I don't have a complaint
00:14:12.840 with that.
00:14:13.440 Because I use
00:14:14.340 other people's ideas
00:14:15.440 without attribution
00:14:16.660 all day long.
00:14:18.940 Usually because I don't
00:14:19.940 know where they came from.
00:14:20.660 Now, I'm seeing
00:14:22.060 in the comments
00:14:22.660 that it was
00:14:23.260 Mike Rowe
00:14:24.240 who said it first.
00:14:25.900 I believe Mike Rowe
00:14:27.280 said you should
00:14:28.120 take your passion
00:14:29.000 with you,
00:14:29.760 which is not
00:14:30.460 the same thing.
00:14:31.860 But if you can find
00:14:33.140 something that looks
00:14:34.160 more like what I said,
00:14:36.200 then that would be good.
00:14:38.180 There's also a Cal,
00:14:39.880 what's his name?
00:14:42.200 Cal, somebody,
00:14:43.400 who wrote a book
00:14:43.940 about that in
00:14:44.760 2012-ish.
00:14:49.360 But I think you would
00:14:50.340 find that my blog post
00:14:51.400 was the original
00:14:52.400 statement of that.
00:14:54.360 Not positive,
00:14:55.540 but it also doesn't
00:14:56.460 matter.
00:14:57.400 I know I didn't get it
00:14:58.460 from somebody else,
00:15:00.100 but it's possible
00:15:01.980 that other people
00:15:02.680 were saying the same
00:15:03.380 thing about the same time.
00:15:05.100 So the point is
00:15:06.000 that regardless
00:15:08.220 of where it came from,
00:15:09.860 this is part of my
00:15:11.040 history of calling
00:15:12.620 bullshit on things
00:15:13.580 and then the public
00:15:15.100 coming around,
00:15:15.820 Cal Thomas,
00:15:16.420 thank you,
00:15:17.180 Cal Thomas' book,
00:15:18.480 he talked about
00:15:19.140 passion being bullshit
00:15:20.300 in around 2012.
00:15:22.340 So I think it was
00:15:23.100 after my blog post
00:15:24.280 came out.
00:15:25.520 So here's the point.
00:15:29.580 Have I earned
00:15:30.900 the ability
00:15:31.580 to call BS
00:15:33.260 on a field
00:15:33.980 in which I'm not
00:15:34.980 an expert on?
00:15:36.700 I would like to
00:15:37.400 think I have.
00:15:38.680 And I'd like you
00:15:39.300 to do some,
00:15:40.200 I'm going to ask
00:15:40.980 you a favor.
00:15:41.420 I want to win
00:15:42.380 a bet with somebody.
00:15:43.660 It's just a private bet.
00:15:45.220 You know,
00:15:45.440 it's not a public thing.
00:15:47.400 But I made the claim
00:15:49.620 that when the
00:15:50.440 coronavirus pandemic
00:15:51.820 happened,
00:15:53.040 that I might have
00:15:54.060 been the first person
00:15:55.560 to say in public
00:15:57.360 anyway,
00:15:58.560 that the vitamin D
00:16:00.340 pattern
00:16:01.140 might be expressing
00:16:03.080 itself
00:16:03.680 in the different
00:16:05.160 outcomes
00:16:05.740 in different places.
00:16:07.420 Now,
00:16:08.540 before you jump
00:16:09.560 on me,
00:16:10.040 I know what you're
00:16:10.700 thinking,
00:16:11.720 you're saying,
00:16:12.520 uh,
00:16:12.960 Scott,
00:16:13.720 you did not invent
00:16:15.020 the idea that
00:16:15.780 vitamin D is good
00:16:16.840 for you,
00:16:17.560 and especially good
00:16:18.820 if you have,
00:16:19.700 you know,
00:16:19.980 maybe a virus
00:16:20.640 situation.
00:16:21.760 No,
00:16:22.780 I'm not claiming
00:16:23.560 that.
00:16:24.480 So I'm not claiming
00:16:25.980 that I'm the one
00:16:27.960 who told the world
00:16:28.720 that vitamin D
00:16:29.420 is good for you.
00:16:31.320 That's obviously
00:16:32.300 well-known forever.
00:16:33.900 I'm making a very
00:16:36.340 narrow claim
00:16:37.240 that the claim
00:16:39.020 that the different
00:16:40.800 outcomes in different
00:16:41.840 places may have
00:16:43.380 may have had as much
00:16:45.280 to do with the
00:16:45.940 vitamin D levels
00:16:46.920 as it did with
00:16:48.440 leadership or
00:16:49.380 technique or
00:16:50.300 mass or social
00:16:51.240 distancing.
00:16:51.680 And so the question
00:16:53.300 I ask you
00:16:53.960 is,
00:16:55.500 uh,
00:16:56.720 if anybody could
00:16:57.580 find the
00:16:58.260 Periscope,
00:16:59.820 the video and
00:17:00.840 or tweet
00:17:01.400 in March of
00:17:03.100 2020,
00:17:03.700 it has to be
00:17:04.100 March.
00:17:05.020 So here's the,
00:17:05.760 here's the task.
00:17:07.200 See if you can find
00:17:08.360 March only,
00:17:09.680 and it had to be
00:17:11.280 in the context of
00:17:12.220 not just saying
00:17:12.980 take vitamin D
00:17:13.980 because everybody
00:17:15.020 did that.
00:17:15.720 Joe Rogan did that.
00:17:17.560 Um,
00:17:18.400 a number of people
00:17:19.320 were saying that.
00:17:19.960 So that part is just
00:17:21.020 standard medical care.
00:17:23.180 Find me the part
00:17:24.380 where I said,
00:17:26.220 it looks like
00:17:27.420 Tehran has,
00:17:28.420 Tehran has a lot
00:17:29.260 of smog and
00:17:29.920 they also have a
00:17:30.500 problem.
00:17:31.500 Uh,
00:17:31.980 it looks like
00:17:32.680 Wuhan has a lot
00:17:33.580 of smog and
00:17:34.760 they have a problem.
00:17:35.880 And that was the
00:17:36.860 time I was saying,
00:17:37.620 hey,
00:17:38.620 where,
00:17:39.100 why is it a
00:17:39.680 coincidence that
00:17:40.440 wherever you can't
00:17:41.420 get vitamin D
00:17:42.380 easily,
00:17:42.960 they're also having
00:17:44.080 the worst outbreaks.
00:17:45.940 Now that was
00:17:46.840 generalized later
00:17:47.980 when I learned
00:17:49.560 that a lot of
00:17:51.100 diseases such as
00:17:52.500 diabetes,
00:17:53.820 you have low
00:17:54.660 vitamin D.
00:17:55.640 I didn't know that
00:17:56.360 when I was first
00:17:57.100 saying it.
00:17:58.160 But,
00:17:58.660 here's the thing
00:17:59.740 I want you to find.
00:18:01.140 The exact first
00:18:02.580 time I said,
00:18:04.320 this is the key,
00:18:05.660 the first time I said
00:18:06.680 there's a pattern,
00:18:08.060 not just that
00:18:09.200 vitamin D is good,
00:18:10.580 but there's a
00:18:11.200 pattern,
00:18:12.460 and that it
00:18:13.340 included black
00:18:14.400 people having
00:18:15.060 worse outcomes.
00:18:16.060 So if you can
00:18:17.160 find that for me,
00:18:17.980 the first time
00:18:18.740 has to be in
00:18:19.740 March,
00:18:21.480 could have been
00:18:22.080 February,
00:18:22.680 but I think it
00:18:23.080 was March.
00:18:23.840 The first time I
00:18:24.700 said it might be a
00:18:25.460 pattern,
00:18:25.900 especially noting
00:18:27.700 that skin tone
00:18:29.520 might have to do
00:18:30.380 with your vitamin D
00:18:31.380 uptake.
00:18:32.800 So if you find
00:18:33.440 something from
00:18:34.000 May,
00:18:34.580 that's too late,
00:18:35.940 only interested in
00:18:36.980 March.
00:18:37.880 All right,
00:18:38.280 sorry,
00:18:38.580 that was just for
00:18:39.100 me so I could
00:18:39.580 win a bet.
00:18:40.580 Now I know
00:18:40.940 Dr. Shiva was
00:18:41.800 talking about it,
00:18:42.960 but I believe he
00:18:43.660 was talking about it
00:18:44.460 therapeutically,
00:18:45.680 which is a
00:18:46.220 different context.
00:18:47.680 I was talking
00:18:48.280 about it as a
00:18:49.160 way to identify
00:18:49.920 why some
00:18:50.520 countries were
00:18:51.200 doing better
00:18:51.660 than other
00:18:52.040 countries.
00:18:53.380 So see if you
00:18:53.840 can find that
00:18:54.240 for me.
00:18:54.920 All right,
00:18:56.240 speaking of
00:18:57.340 patterns,
00:18:57.800 here's another
00:18:58.240 one.
00:18:59.100 Name,
00:18:59.860 watch this,
00:19:00.860 watch this test,
00:19:02.100 okay?
00:19:02.760 I'm going to
00:19:03.020 give you a
00:19:03.720 little test,
00:19:04.660 and I'm going
00:19:05.080 to see if I
00:19:05.700 can blow your
00:19:06.360 minds.
00:19:07.320 I've never done
00:19:08.020 this,
00:19:09.020 so I don't
00:19:09.580 actually know how
00:19:10.300 it's going to
00:19:10.660 turn out,
00:19:11.320 but I suspect
00:19:12.520 it's going to
00:19:14.020 blow your
00:19:14.420 minds.
00:19:15.320 In the comments,
00:19:16.840 I want you to
00:19:17.420 mention two
00:19:18.200 countries that
00:19:19.540 did unusually
00:19:20.620 well with the
00:19:22.380 coronavirus,
00:19:23.680 and then two
00:19:24.420 countries or
00:19:25.820 places,
00:19:26.420 could even be a
00:19:27.040 state if you
00:19:27.680 want, a state
00:19:28.200 in the United
00:19:28.540 States.
00:19:29.620 Pick two places
00:19:30.460 that had really
00:19:31.200 bad outcomes,
00:19:32.300 right?
00:19:33.120 So tell me,
00:19:33.900 but you have to
00:19:34.340 tell me which
00:19:34.800 one it is,
00:19:35.440 because I don't
00:19:35.800 know all the
00:19:36.120 states.
00:19:36.840 All right,
00:19:37.080 so Taiwan,
00:19:37.960 good outcome.
00:19:39.040 Sweden,
00:19:40.600 Norway,
00:19:41.120 Taiwan,
00:19:41.700 South Korea.
00:19:42.660 Okay,
00:19:43.140 now keep in
00:19:43.980 mind all the
00:19:44.460 ones you said
00:19:45.020 are good.
00:19:46.020 Japan,
00:19:46.760 Taiwan,
00:19:48.380 Sweden,
00:19:49.740 all right,
00:19:50.100 so New
00:19:50.900 Zealand,
00:19:51.500 right,
00:19:51.800 Vietnam.
00:19:52.660 Keep all
00:19:53.080 these in your
00:19:53.480 mind,
00:19:53.760 right?
00:19:54.140 Now do the
00:19:54.620 other one.
00:19:55.240 Now do the
00:19:55.820 countries that
00:19:57.100 had really bad
00:19:57.820 outcomes,
00:19:58.520 go,
00:19:59.140 or states.
00:19:59.940 You could do
00:20:00.280 a state in
00:20:00.800 the United
00:20:01.100 States.
00:20:02.180 Tell me who
00:20:02.680 had bad
00:20:03.120 outcomes.
00:20:04.920 USA,
00:20:05.400 I don't
00:20:09.180 know about
00:20:09.580 Australia exactly,
00:20:10.980 New York,
00:20:11.580 New York City,
00:20:12.580 all right,
00:20:12.900 Italy,
00:20:13.780 Italy.
00:20:14.500 So I'm
00:20:14.960 seeing Italy
00:20:15.500 and New
00:20:15.920 York City.
00:20:16.740 Do you see
00:20:17.100 the pattern?
00:20:18.160 Tell me the
00:20:18.840 pattern.
00:20:20.000 Bad outcomes,
00:20:20.980 now I'm just,
00:20:21.560 I'm not going to
00:20:22.020 do all the
00:20:22.640 countries in the
00:20:23.240 world,
00:20:23.560 I'm just going
00:20:23.980 to make the
00:20:24.920 case on the
00:20:25.580 ones that you
00:20:26.020 suggested,
00:20:26.760 right?
00:20:27.260 So you suggested
00:20:28.360 New York and
00:20:29.220 Italy,
00:20:30.420 New Jersey too,
00:20:31.280 I think.
00:20:32.040 So New York,
00:20:32.840 New Jersey,
00:20:33.360 and Italy on
00:20:34.160 bad outcomes.
00:20:35.400 There are lots
00:20:36.020 of other
00:20:36.340 ones,
00:20:36.580 but let's
00:20:36.900 use those
00:20:37.300 as examples.
00:20:38.520 What do
00:20:39.080 they have
00:20:39.640 in common?
00:20:41.160 And now
00:20:41.680 what do
00:20:42.360 the ones
00:20:42.940 that have
00:20:43.280 good outcomes
00:20:44.140 have in
00:20:44.600 common?
00:20:45.320 Now remember,
00:20:45.840 the good
00:20:46.100 outcomes are
00:20:46.620 not all
00:20:47.000 Asian,
00:20:47.440 because you
00:20:47.780 got your
00:20:48.120 Swedes in
00:20:48.720 there,
00:20:49.440 et cetera.
00:20:49.900 Some say,
00:20:50.500 some would
00:20:50.960 say they
00:20:51.260 don't have
00:20:51.600 good outcomes.
00:20:52.860 What do
00:20:54.000 you notice
00:20:54.460 about them?
00:20:55.440 Now let
00:20:55.800 me give
00:20:56.060 you a little
00:20:56.400 more hints.
00:20:58.040 All right,
00:20:58.440 here's some
00:20:58.900 extra hints.
00:21:00.300 We have
00:21:00.640 learned that
00:21:01.160 the coronavirus
00:21:01.680 doesn't seem
00:21:02.960 to spread
00:21:03.820 on surfaces
00:21:04.820 very easily.
00:21:06.640 Right?
00:21:07.140 We didn't
00:21:07.600 know that
00:21:07.920 before,
00:21:08.440 but now
00:21:08.720 we know
00:21:09.060 that.
00:21:09.340 It doesn't
00:21:09.580 spread on
00:21:10.020 surfaces.
00:21:10.980 So we
00:21:11.280 know it's
00:21:11.560 airborne.
00:21:12.820 Here's the
00:21:13.220 other thing
00:21:13.640 we know
00:21:14.460 about it.
00:21:15.260 if you
00:21:17.140 were in
00:21:17.540 a chorus
00:21:19.440 and people
00:21:20.600 were singing,
00:21:22.340 they would
00:21:22.560 be exhaling
00:21:23.300 more stuff
00:21:24.960 out of
00:21:25.360 their bodies
00:21:26.480 and that
00:21:27.640 stuff coming
00:21:28.240 out of
00:21:28.440 their bodies,
00:21:28.940 the air,
00:21:29.920 would be
00:21:30.520 more likely
00:21:31.220 infected because
00:21:32.080 they're exhaling
00:21:33.400 when they
00:21:34.400 sing.
00:21:35.640 Do you
00:21:36.160 see it
00:21:36.420 yet?
00:21:39.240 I'm
00:21:39.760 surprised you
00:21:40.200 haven't seen
00:21:40.560 it yet.
00:21:40.880 I'm giving
00:21:41.200 you every
00:21:41.620 hint in the
00:21:42.140 world.
00:21:42.380 Oh, you
00:21:44.820 haven't seen
00:21:45.320 it yet.
00:21:45.580 I'm really
00:21:46.340 surprised.
00:21:48.280 What do
00:21:48.640 New Yorkers
00:21:49.580 and Italians
00:21:50.520 have in
00:21:51.160 common that
00:21:52.900 Japanese do
00:21:54.180 not?
00:21:56.840 It has
00:21:57.680 nothing to do
00:21:58.220 with age.
00:21:58.980 Now, I think
00:21:59.380 density and
00:22:00.140 age and all
00:22:01.460 those things
00:22:01.960 do have
00:22:02.560 got it.
00:22:05.560 Somebody got
00:22:06.120 it.
00:22:06.920 Loud talkers.
00:22:07.840 Where are
00:22:09.220 the loudest
00:22:10.020 talkers in
00:22:12.280 the world?
00:22:13.560 New York?
00:22:15.340 New Jersey?
00:22:17.540 Italy?
00:22:18.600 Where are
00:22:19.680 the softest
00:22:20.680 talkers in
00:22:22.800 the world?
00:22:25.000 Japan?
00:22:27.200 Taiwan?
00:22:28.580 Do you
00:22:29.520 see it?
00:22:30.580 It's really
00:22:31.500 kind of clear,
00:22:32.300 isn't it?
00:22:32.640 Now, you'd
00:22:33.420 also have to
00:22:33.960 factor in age
00:22:35.140 and probably
00:22:36.900 something about
00:22:37.640 what they
00:22:38.000 did and
00:22:38.460 how they
00:22:38.760 treated.
00:22:39.500 It's not
00:22:40.040 the only
00:22:41.900 factor.
00:22:44.120 Now, I
00:22:44.780 would also
00:22:45.100 say that
00:22:45.580 when you're
00:22:45.940 looking at
00:22:46.280 the island
00:22:46.840 countries,
00:22:48.080 you probably
00:22:48.680 have to take
00:22:49.220 them out of
00:22:49.720 the mix.
00:22:51.000 So, I
00:22:51.460 would take
00:22:51.800 Taiwan out.
00:22:52.800 I would
00:22:52.960 take
00:22:53.120 New Zealand
00:22:58.700 out.
00:22:59.080 South Korea
00:23:01.060 out, because
00:23:02.620 it's
00:23:02.860 effectively an
00:23:03.720 island because
00:23:04.380 of the
00:23:05.300 DMC.
00:23:06.780 So, here's
00:23:08.420 my question.
00:23:10.060 Number one,
00:23:10.780 what is the
00:23:11.260 average weight
00:23:12.240 of an
00:23:13.180 Asian man?
00:23:15.160 The average
00:23:15.700 weight of
00:23:17.000 an Asian
00:23:17.380 man?
00:23:18.040 Now, I'm
00:23:18.340 not talking
00:23:18.780 about your
00:23:20.600 high body
00:23:21.360 fat makes
00:23:22.100 you die.
00:23:23.060 I'm talking
00:23:23.500 about how
00:23:23.820 much air
00:23:24.420 you put
00:23:24.860 out when
00:23:25.360 you talk.
00:23:25.920 do you
00:23:26.880 think that
00:23:27.260 the average
00:23:27.940 110-pound
00:23:29.420 Vietnamese
00:23:30.820 man puts
00:23:32.700 out as
00:23:33.160 much air
00:23:33.920 as a
00:23:35.120 250-pound
00:23:36.640 Texan
00:23:37.680 man?
00:23:39.400 Probably
00:23:40.040 not even
00:23:40.500 close, right?
00:23:42.000 If you
00:23:42.520 could measure
00:23:43.520 just the
00:23:44.100 amount of
00:23:44.460 air coming
00:23:45.160 out of
00:23:45.400 the lungs
00:23:45.920 of a
00:23:46.880 sumo
00:23:47.360 wrestler
00:23:47.780 versus
00:23:48.300 a 110-pound
00:23:49.640 office worker,
00:23:51.240 I don't think
00:23:51.680 it would be
00:23:51.900 even close,
00:23:53.000 would it?
00:23:54.100 So,
00:23:54.680 maybe
00:23:56.200 that's one
00:23:57.560 of the
00:23:57.760 biggest
00:23:58.020 patterns.
00:23:59.040 Maybe the
00:23:59.480 biggest
00:23:59.900 pattern is
00:24:01.040 how much
00:24:01.400 air comes
00:24:02.040 out of
00:24:02.380 your lungs
00:24:02.920 and it's
00:24:03.420 a factor
00:24:03.880 of are
00:24:04.660 you loud
00:24:05.200 talkers and
00:24:05.920 just how
00:24:06.220 big are
00:24:06.560 you?
00:24:07.380 Are you
00:24:07.660 a big
00:24:07.960 person or
00:24:08.520 not a
00:24:08.780 big person?
00:24:10.620 And then
00:24:11.180 how close
00:24:11.740 are you
00:24:12.320 when you
00:24:12.600 talk to
00:24:12.980 people and
00:24:13.540 density and
00:24:14.120 all that?
00:24:14.480 That matters
00:24:14.900 too.
00:24:15.880 All right,
00:24:16.320 here's the
00:24:18.800 worst
00:24:20.060 take of
00:24:22.620 2020 on
00:24:23.700 the virus.
00:24:25.380 This was
00:24:25.780 a tweet
00:24:26.180 today.
00:24:27.200 Somebody
00:24:27.400 said,
00:24:27.780 yet the
00:24:28.080 survival
00:24:28.540 rate for
00:24:29.040 COVID is
00:24:29.620 99.9
00:24:30.800 and we
00:24:31.500 are told
00:24:31.820 to stay
00:24:32.160 home and
00:24:32.520 wear masks.
00:24:33.780 How about
00:24:34.100 they all
00:24:34.500 F off and
00:24:35.120 let people
00:24:35.520 make their
00:24:35.940 own decisions?
00:24:37.520 I would
00:24:38.060 call that
00:24:38.400 the worst
00:24:39.160 take on
00:24:41.560 the pandemic.
00:24:43.000 It's the
00:24:43.540 worst opinion.
00:24:44.800 And here's
00:24:45.280 why.
00:24:46.200 First of all,
00:24:47.000 it's not
00:24:47.320 99.9.
00:24:48.500 It depends
00:24:49.160 on your
00:24:49.700 age and
00:24:50.160 your comorbidity.
00:24:51.060 If there
00:24:51.800 were a
00:24:52.820 4%
00:24:53.460 chance of
00:24:54.420 dying,
00:24:54.860 let's say
00:24:55.160 you were
00:24:55.360 older and
00:24:55.800 you had
00:24:55.960 a comorbidity,
00:24:57.540 would you
00:24:57.960 take a
00:24:58.320 4% chance
00:24:59.280 of dying
00:24:59.760 versus
00:25:01.140 YouTube's
00:25:04.860 going to
00:25:05.100 crap out
00:25:05.520 in a minute
00:25:05.840 here?
00:25:06.200 Would you
00:25:06.520 take a
00:25:06.820 4% chance
00:25:07.880 of dying?
00:25:08.700 That's
00:25:08.960 pretty high.
00:25:09.700 But here's
00:25:10.100 the thing
00:25:10.440 that's wrong
00:25:10.980 with that.
00:25:12.400 If the
00:25:13.720 hospitals were
00:25:14.660 not impacted,
00:25:16.480 if the
00:25:17.240 hospitals were
00:25:17.820 not impacted,
00:25:18.600 I'd say,
00:25:19.000 good point.
00:25:19.700 Doesn't seem
00:25:20.960 to have
00:25:21.220 much impact.
00:25:22.100 We have
00:25:22.540 other things
00:25:23.120 that kill
00:25:23.520 us.
00:25:24.460 Not much
00:25:24.880 point.
00:25:25.740 But the
00:25:26.200 hospitals are
00:25:26.780 impacted.
00:25:27.860 So that
00:25:28.240 matters.
00:25:29.260 The other
00:25:29.600 thing is that
00:25:30.280 it's temporary
00:25:30.900 by its
00:25:33.700 nature.
00:25:34.860 People are
00:25:35.340 saying,
00:25:35.780 but this
00:25:36.700 many people
00:25:37.260 die of
00:25:37.740 cancer every
00:25:38.360 year,
00:25:38.840 or this
00:25:39.140 many die
00:25:39.560 of tuberculosis.
00:25:40.980 But here's
00:25:41.440 the thing.
00:25:42.660 If we
00:25:43.640 knew that
00:25:44.200 2 billion
00:25:45.280 people might
00:25:45.940 die of
00:25:46.440 cancer in
00:25:47.860 the coming
00:25:48.260 year,
00:25:48.660 who would
00:25:49.480 not have
00:25:50.000 died
00:25:50.260 otherwise,
00:25:51.140 they wouldn't
00:25:51.560 have died
00:25:51.860 of cancer,
00:25:52.420 but let's
00:25:53.140 say there's
00:25:53.480 some
00:25:53.660 environmental
00:25:54.120 problem,
00:25:55.480 and you
00:25:55.920 could avoid
00:25:57.260 2 million
00:25:58.780 cancer deaths
00:25:59.900 if you
00:26:01.160 shut down
00:26:01.760 for 6
00:26:02.240 months to
00:26:02.760 take care
00:26:03.140 of the
00:26:03.380 environmental
00:26:03.820 problem that's
00:26:04.660 causing it.
00:26:06.020 We might
00:26:06.600 do that.
00:26:07.720 So everybody
00:26:08.240 was saying
00:26:08.660 we don't
00:26:09.040 do it for
00:26:09.460 other diseases,
00:26:11.000 it's because
00:26:11.420 the other
00:26:11.780 diseases have
00:26:12.440 a different
00:26:12.780 character.
00:26:14.620 If you
00:26:15.300 gave it the
00:26:16.160 same character,
00:26:17.000 we probably
00:26:17.560 would treat it
00:26:18.220 similarly.
00:26:19.040 If you
00:26:19.620 said,
00:26:20.280 yeah,
00:26:20.720 we just
00:26:21.100 have to
00:26:21.520 lock down
00:26:22.500 for a few
00:26:23.020 months,
00:26:23.840 we don't
00:26:24.140 know how
00:26:24.440 long,
00:26:24.800 but you
00:26:25.020 could save
00:26:25.360 maybe 2
00:26:25.940 million people
00:26:26.480 from cancer,
00:26:28.200 we might do
00:26:28.780 that if it
00:26:29.360 were temporary,
00:26:30.280 and there was
00:26:30.900 a specific
00:26:31.500 thing to be
00:26:32.100 solved in
00:26:32.660 that year.
00:26:33.880 And the
00:26:34.140 other thing
00:26:34.520 is statistics.
00:26:36.120 It's like
00:26:36.480 saying there's
00:26:37.540 only 10
00:26:38.880 people who
00:26:39.340 have AIDS,
00:26:40.780 so I guess
00:26:41.660 we don't need
00:26:42.080 to worry about
00:26:42.560 AIDS.
00:26:43.240 Only 10
00:26:43.680 people have
00:26:44.220 it.
00:26:45.500 Why would
00:26:45.940 you worry
00:26:46.280 about something
00:26:46.760 that only 10
00:26:47.400 people have?
00:26:48.740 Well,
00:26:49.300 you worry
00:26:49.840 about it
00:26:50.240 because more
00:26:50.940 people are
00:26:51.420 going to have
00:26:51.820 it, right?
00:26:52.580 That's how
00:26:53.140 it works.
00:26:55.100 And also
00:26:55.800 because vaccinations
00:26:56.800 are on the
00:26:57.460 way,
00:26:58.400 there's a time
00:26:59.540 limit,
00:26:59.940 obviously.
00:27:00.760 And then
00:27:01.160 also there
00:27:01.760 are lots of
00:27:02.220 long-term
00:27:02.700 illnesses,
00:27:03.820 it appears.
00:27:04.320 years.
00:27:04.800 So even
00:27:05.420 if you do
00:27:06.220 survive,
00:27:06.920 you're 99.9,
00:27:08.440 you might
00:27:09.100 have something
00:27:09.660 like a 20%
00:27:10.720 chance of a
00:27:11.720 permanent
00:27:12.140 long-term
00:27:12.940 problem.
00:27:14.540 Does that
00:27:15.180 feel like a
00:27:15.700 good odds
00:27:16.140 to you?
00:27:16.880 20% chance
00:27:18.060 that if you
00:27:18.420 go outside
00:27:19.160 and you
00:27:20.020 ignore social
00:27:20.760 distancing,
00:27:22.120 20% chance
00:27:23.040 you'll have a
00:27:23.440 long-term
00:27:23.980 permanent
00:27:24.380 health problem?
00:27:25.620 Are you okay
00:27:26.040 with that?
00:27:27.280 Well,
00:27:27.660 how about the
00:27:28.100 fact that if
00:27:29.000 the young
00:27:29.460 went out,
00:27:29.940 the people
00:27:30.360 who really
00:27:30.740 do have
00:27:31.400 not much
00:27:31.920 of a risk,
00:27:33.040 that if they
00:27:34.600 got infected
00:27:35.140 they could
00:27:35.600 bring it
00:27:35.960 back?
00:27:37.020 Now,
00:27:37.540 the news
00:27:38.280 is saying
00:27:38.740 that there's
00:27:39.200 very little
00:27:39.660 chance if
00:27:40.240 you're
00:27:40.880 asymptomatic
00:27:42.120 that you're
00:27:42.820 a carrier,
00:27:43.780 but I'm not
00:27:44.540 sure that
00:27:44.920 means as
00:27:45.380 much as
00:27:45.760 you think
00:27:46.140 it does.
00:27:47.320 Because I
00:27:47.780 think the
00:27:48.160 reason that
00:27:48.700 we make
00:27:49.420 people who
00:27:49.980 are asymptomatic
00:27:51.080 wear masks
00:27:51.980 is,
00:27:53.200 tell me the
00:27:54.080 reason we
00:27:54.600 make asymptomatic
00:27:55.880 people wear
00:27:56.620 masks if the
00:27:58.040 whole idea is
00:27:58.760 that you're
00:27:59.380 trying to
00:27:59.720 stop the
00:28:00.120 germs coming
00:28:00.640 out of
00:28:01.200 their mouth.
00:28:02.220 The mask
00:28:02.640 is not
00:28:03.040 trying to
00:28:03.460 stop the
00:28:03.840 virus from
00:28:06.340 coming in.
00:28:07.520 So what
00:28:07.820 would be the
00:28:08.320 purpose of
00:28:09.040 wearing masks
00:28:10.020 if we could
00:28:11.600 prove that
00:28:13.180 asymptomatic
00:28:14.040 people are
00:28:14.560 at zero
00:28:15.020 risk?
00:28:16.200 And it
00:28:16.400 looks like
00:28:17.540 that might
00:28:17.960 be actually
00:28:18.620 kind of
00:28:19.620 close to
00:28:20.100 reality.
00:28:21.440 But let's
00:28:22.060 say something
00:28:23.540 like that
00:28:24.100 happens.
00:28:24.820 I don't
00:28:25.340 think it's
00:28:25.720 quite confirmed,
00:28:26.780 but we're
00:28:27.040 heading in
00:28:27.360 that direction.
00:28:28.380 Let's say
00:28:28.760 that asymptomatic
00:28:29.700 spreading just
00:28:31.700 doesn't exist.
00:28:33.640 Would you
00:28:34.400 tell people
00:28:35.400 who are
00:28:35.660 asymptomatic
00:28:36.460 to wear
00:28:36.980 masks?
00:28:38.620 Some people
00:28:39.420 are saying
00:28:39.780 it's virtue
00:28:40.320 signaling.
00:28:42.500 Nope.
00:28:43.620 It's not
00:28:44.440 virtue signaling.
00:28:46.700 If you
00:28:47.540 did not
00:28:49.700 make the
00:28:50.180 asymptomatic
00:28:51.200 people wear
00:28:51.900 masks,
00:28:53.320 nobody would
00:28:54.160 wear a
00:28:54.580 mask.
00:28:54.940 mask.
00:28:55.620 Now,
00:28:56.020 when I
00:28:56.240 say nobody,
00:28:57.060 I don't
00:28:57.320 mean literally
00:28:58.080 nobody.
00:28:58.880 Somebody would.
00:29:00.220 But the
00:29:00.600 only reason
00:29:01.580 that symptomatic
00:29:03.440 people wear
00:29:04.120 masks is
00:29:05.680 that they
00:29:06.020 would stand
00:29:06.580 out if
00:29:07.140 they didn't.
00:29:08.540 That's it.
00:29:09.640 The other
00:29:10.300 masks,
00:29:11.020 if it turns
00:29:11.600 out that they
00:29:12.220 don't make
00:29:12.580 any difference
00:29:13.060 if you're
00:29:13.400 asymptomatic,
00:29:14.360 the other
00:29:14.860 masks are
00:29:15.580 purely to
00:29:16.500 identify
00:29:17.120 anybody who's
00:29:18.640 not wearing
00:29:19.100 a mask.
00:29:20.420 So,
00:29:21.020 I don't
00:29:21.240 think it
00:29:21.420 has anything
00:29:21.800 to do with
00:29:22.240 the virtue
00:29:22.620 signaling.
00:29:23.420 I mean,
00:29:23.640 that may
00:29:23.940 be part
00:29:24.620 of why
00:29:25.000 people do
00:29:25.500 it in
00:29:25.720 their own
00:29:26.000 minds,
00:29:26.560 but I
00:29:26.860 don't think
00:29:27.100 that has
00:29:27.340 anything to
00:29:27.780 do with
00:29:28.060 why it's
00:29:28.620 a guideline.
00:29:31.600 It's a
00:29:32.200 guideline because
00:29:33.840 it's the only
00:29:34.540 one that would
00:29:35.100 work.
00:29:36.060 The moment
00:29:36.620 you said,
00:29:37.320 no,
00:29:37.920 if you think
00:29:38.760 you're coughing,
00:29:40.160 if you think
00:29:40.940 you're coughing
00:29:41.480 is from a
00:29:42.200 cold,
00:29:43.460 well,
00:29:43.780 that's not
00:29:44.160 really asymptomatic,
00:29:45.100 is it?
00:29:45.740 So,
00:29:46.160 why don't
00:29:46.380 you use
00:29:46.920 your judgment
00:29:47.700 about whether
00:29:48.720 to use a
00:29:49.280 mask?
00:29:50.300 And then
00:29:50.620 old
00:29:50.980 coughing
00:29:51.460 coronavirus
00:29:52.600 goes out
00:29:53.380 in public,
00:29:54.500 coughs up
00:29:55.040 the entire
00:29:55.700 subway,
00:29:57.200 and says,
00:29:58.340 I didn't
00:29:58.760 know I
00:29:59.060 had a,
00:29:59.460 I thought
00:30:00.240 I had a
00:30:00.600 cold.
00:30:02.140 I thought
00:30:02.600 it was,
00:30:03.020 I thought
00:30:03.600 it was,
00:30:04.120 pretty sure
00:30:05.520 I just
00:30:05.880 had an
00:30:06.840 allergy.
00:30:08.020 I had a
00:30:08.440 little dryness,
00:30:09.400 a little dryness
00:30:10.980 in my throat,
00:30:11.920 but definitely
00:30:12.560 I didn't have
00:30:13.040 any symptoms.
00:30:15.160 Yeah,
00:30:15.680 I'm a little
00:30:16.020 hot,
00:30:16.880 a little bit
00:30:17.600 of fever,
00:30:18.720 sure,
00:30:19.400 yeah,
00:30:19.720 I can't
00:30:20.160 smell things,
00:30:21.380 but I
00:30:21.920 feel like
00:30:22.340 that's
00:30:22.580 from my
00:30:22.980 allergies.
00:30:24.200 Sure,
00:30:24.500 I can't
00:30:24.980 smell
00:30:25.360 anything,
00:30:26.340 but sometimes
00:30:27.040 that happens
00:30:27.580 when I
00:30:27.900 get a
00:30:28.200 cold.
00:30:28.940 You see
00:30:29.160 where I'm
00:30:29.400 going?
00:30:30.060 There's
00:30:30.420 no practical
00:30:31.280 way you
00:30:32.720 could have
00:30:33.240 any kind
00:30:33.940 of an
00:30:34.500 effect
00:30:34.880 telling only
00:30:36.220 people with
00:30:36.740 symptoms to
00:30:37.280 wear masks.
00:30:37.820 It just
00:30:38.100 couldn't work.
00:30:39.260 So I would
00:30:39.660 say it's a
00:30:40.060 persuasion
00:30:40.520 thing.
00:30:42.800 Jake Tapper
00:30:43.280 says you
00:30:43.740 won't have
00:30:44.120 Kaylee
00:30:44.460 McEnany on
00:30:45.660 his show
00:30:46.200 because she's
00:30:47.180 a liar.
00:30:48.720 To which
00:30:49.600 they say,
00:30:50.360 is there
00:30:50.900 anybody on
00:30:51.540 CNN who's
00:30:52.400 not a
00:30:52.780 liar?
00:30:53.660 I didn't
00:30:54.240 even know
00:30:54.600 they booked
00:30:54.960 people who
00:30:55.480 weren't
00:30:55.640 liars.
00:30:57.080 Really?
00:30:58.400 I mean,
00:30:59.120 the whole
00:31:00.140 show is
00:31:00.600 lies.
00:31:02.160 So it's
00:31:02.600 just funny.
00:31:03.820 There's a
00:31:04.420 writer named
00:31:05.440 Arwa
00:31:05.940 Mardawi,
00:31:07.060 I think for
00:31:07.620 The Guardian
00:31:08.080 or something,
00:31:09.100 and somebody
00:31:09.780 called her out
00:31:10.760 for two of
00:31:11.500 her statements,
00:31:12.600 both of them
00:31:13.080 in writing.
00:31:13.560 one of
00:31:14.480 them,
00:31:14.940 she said,
00:31:15.780 men are
00:31:16.140 less likely
00:31:16.740 to wear
00:31:17.120 masks,
00:31:18.140 another sign
00:31:18.860 that toxic
00:31:19.520 masculinity
00:31:20.160 kills.
00:31:22.400 But not
00:31:23.140 long after
00:31:23.640 that,
00:31:23.920 she said,
00:31:24.480 if women
00:31:24.980 are hesitant
00:31:25.500 about the
00:31:26.080 vaccine,
00:31:26.980 it's because
00:31:27.480 the health
00:31:27.880 industry hasn't
00:31:28.620 earned their
00:31:29.020 trust.
00:31:30.120 That's right.
00:31:31.400 If men
00:31:32.160 ignore science,
00:31:34.080 there's something
00:31:34.840 wrong with
00:31:35.420 men.
00:31:36.340 But if
00:31:37.040 women ignore
00:31:38.180 science,
00:31:39.480 there's something
00:31:40.080 wrong with
00:31:40.560 science.
00:31:41.020 this is an
00:31:43.160 actual opinion
00:31:44.180 of a real
00:31:45.440 living human.
00:31:47.600 Now,
00:31:47.980 do you see
00:31:48.380 the observer
00:31:49.040 problem?
00:31:50.520 It's a phrase
00:31:51.180 you're going
00:31:51.440 to hear a lot.
00:31:52.660 The observer
00:31:53.280 problem is,
00:31:54.660 maybe it's
00:31:55.340 the observer
00:31:55.980 who's the
00:31:56.580 problem,
00:31:57.380 if you know
00:31:57.900 what I mean.
00:32:00.240 And,
00:32:01.540 so,
00:32:04.200 let me ask
00:32:04.660 you this.
00:32:05.520 If narcissism
00:32:07.300 is a mental
00:32:08.340 illness,
00:32:08.960 as we've
00:32:09.520 all been told,
00:32:10.140 why is
00:32:11.220 wokeness
00:32:12.100 not?
00:32:13.500 Because,
00:32:14.480 if you have,
00:32:15.280 let's say,
00:32:15.860 there are two
00:32:16.240 kinds of
00:32:16.940 narcissism I've
00:32:18.300 learned recently.
00:32:19.680 The grandiose
00:32:20.740 narcissism is the
00:32:21.720 one we always
00:32:22.220 talk about,
00:32:22.840 where you think
00:32:23.320 you're better
00:32:24.060 than other
00:32:24.440 people,
00:32:24.900 etc.
00:32:25.340 Now,
00:32:25.840 I don't think
00:32:26.160 it exists,
00:32:26.740 it's not a
00:32:27.180 real thing,
00:32:27.760 in my opinion,
00:32:28.560 there's a
00:32:28.860 longer description
00:32:29.600 of that,
00:32:30.740 but,
00:32:31.500 here's the
00:32:32.520 thing,
00:32:33.160 I learned
00:32:33.760 yesterday also
00:32:34.600 that the
00:32:35.000 people who
00:32:35.320 have that
00:32:35.700 narcissism
00:32:36.380 are more
00:32:37.260 successful and
00:32:38.220 happier than
00:32:38.860 other people.
00:32:40.140 Is it really
00:32:41.020 a mental
00:32:41.520 illness if
00:32:42.500 you're more
00:32:42.900 successful and
00:32:43.640 happier?
00:32:44.580 Because I
00:32:45.220 thought the
00:32:46.260 whole mental
00:32:46.740 illness idea
00:32:47.500 was that you're
00:32:48.220 less happy and
00:32:49.820 or less
00:32:50.280 successful.
00:32:51.480 Isn't that
00:32:52.200 kind of built
00:32:52.840 into mental
00:32:53.480 illness?
00:32:54.440 So you see
00:32:55.080 the observer
00:32:55.760 problem.
00:32:56.900 Let me give it
00:32:57.460 to you this
00:32:57.940 way.
00:32:58.620 Let's say
00:32:59.320 you're chewing
00:33:00.420 your food and
00:33:01.560 you're near
00:33:01.960 somebody who
00:33:02.620 doesn't mind
00:33:03.240 hearing you
00:33:03.820 chew food,
00:33:04.500 because you
00:33:04.800 can always hear
00:33:05.300 it a little
00:33:05.640 bit,
00:33:05.860 but other
00:33:06.940 people are
00:33:08.020 really,
00:33:08.620 really bothered
00:33:09.260 by you
00:33:09.740 chewing food.
00:33:11.680 Who has
00:33:12.160 the mental
00:33:12.620 illness?
00:33:14.040 The person
00:33:15.100 who is
00:33:15.440 chewing,
00:33:16.260 just eating,
00:33:17.260 normally,
00:33:17.840 they're not
00:33:18.220 chewing loudly,
00:33:19.080 they're just
00:33:19.360 eating,
00:33:19.940 do they have
00:33:20.500 a mental
00:33:20.880 illness?
00:33:22.160 Or does
00:33:22.740 the person
00:33:23.160 who's bothered
00:33:23.960 by it to
00:33:24.500 the point where
00:33:24.980 they can't
00:33:25.340 even be in
00:33:25.720 the room
00:33:26.120 have the
00:33:27.000 mental illness?
00:33:27.680 Well,
00:33:27.860 you'd say
00:33:28.200 it's the
00:33:28.540 person who's
00:33:28.960 bothered by it,
00:33:29.560 right?
00:33:30.360 But why is
00:33:31.080 it with
00:33:31.380 narcissism
00:33:32.240 that the
00:33:33.920 person who's
00:33:34.520 perfectly happy,
00:33:35.540 just like the
00:33:36.020 person who's
00:33:36.460 eating and
00:33:36.900 chewing,
00:33:37.860 minding nobody's
00:33:38.880 business,
00:33:39.740 perfectly happy,
00:33:41.160 why do they
00:33:41.880 have the
00:33:43.220 mental problem,
00:33:44.640 but the
00:33:44.900 person whose
00:33:45.460 life is being
00:33:46.240 ruined by it,
00:33:47.580 because they
00:33:48.180 can't stand
00:33:48.700 this person,
00:33:49.320 they can't
00:33:49.680 work with
00:33:50.040 them,
00:33:50.440 they can't
00:33:50.900 be around
00:33:51.340 it,
00:33:51.600 just like
00:33:51.960 the chewing?
00:33:52.980 Why is
00:33:53.660 it that the
00:33:54.140 person observing
00:33:55.000 it isn't
00:33:55.680 the one with
00:33:56.240 the mental
00:33:56.600 illness?
00:33:57.260 Because they
00:33:57.860 have all
00:33:58.240 the problems.
00:33:59.880 See where
00:34:00.280 I'm going
00:34:00.600 on this?
00:34:01.280 You can't
00:34:01.920 separate the
00:34:02.860 observer from
00:34:04.860 the observed.
00:34:06.200 The observer
00:34:06.820 is the sick
00:34:07.420 one,
00:34:08.380 all right?
00:34:09.480 So that's
00:34:12.140 my main
00:34:12.980 thing about
00:34:13.720 narcissism.
00:34:15.060 Apparently
00:34:15.340 there's another
00:34:15.860 kind of
00:34:16.220 narcissism where
00:34:17.000 you don't
00:34:17.300 think you're
00:34:17.720 wonderful,
00:34:18.900 that you
00:34:20.040 have more
00:34:22.360 of a victim
00:34:22.940 mentality,
00:34:24.140 but that's
00:34:24.460 a different
00:34:24.820 kind that
00:34:25.740 surely exists,
00:34:27.320 at least in
00:34:27.760 terms of the
00:34:28.320 symptoms are
00:34:29.420 real.
00:34:30.420 All right,
00:34:30.820 there's part
00:34:32.160 of me that's
00:34:32.640 wondering if
00:34:33.400 all mental
00:34:34.760 illness,
00:34:35.420 and here's
00:34:35.880 where I'll
00:34:36.160 really get
00:34:36.560 in trouble,
00:34:37.460 there's part
00:34:37.840 of me that
00:34:38.120 wonders if
00:34:38.620 all mental
00:34:39.560 illness is
00:34:41.120 about whether
00:34:41.760 you think
00:34:42.260 you can
00:34:42.640 control your
00:34:43.400 reality or
00:34:44.260 not.
00:34:46.040 Whether you
00:34:46.780 think you
00:34:47.280 can control
00:34:47.880 your reality
00:34:48.540 or not.
00:34:49.800 Now,
00:34:50.520 I've only
00:34:51.440 thought about
00:34:51.960 this for a
00:34:52.480 few minutes,
00:34:53.100 so I'm
00:34:53.620 not trying
00:34:54.040 to debunk
00:34:54.820 any mental
00:34:56.360 health people,
00:34:57.540 so I'm not
00:34:57.980 disagreeing
00:34:59.820 with anybody,
00:35:00.340 I'm just
00:35:00.600 sort of
00:35:00.860 putting it
00:35:01.220 out there.
00:35:02.260 I notice
00:35:02.720 a commonality
00:35:03.940 among,
00:35:06.040 and I'm not
00:35:06.600 going to say
00:35:06.900 all mental
00:35:07.420 illness,
00:35:07.840 that would
00:35:08.020 be crazy,
00:35:08.740 but I'm
00:35:09.060 wondering if
00:35:09.500 a lot of
00:35:10.060 it, a lot
00:35:11.900 of mental
00:35:12.300 illness,
00:35:12.640 comes down
00:35:13.060 to whether
00:35:13.420 you think
00:35:13.880 the world
00:35:14.920 is controlling
00:35:16.060 you or
00:35:17.740 you control
00:35:18.420 the world.
00:35:19.420 Now, I'm
00:35:19.720 not saying
00:35:20.100 that either
00:35:20.440 one of them
00:35:20.840 is true.
00:35:22.060 It is not
00:35:22.600 true that the
00:35:23.140 world controls
00:35:23.840 you and it's
00:35:24.440 not true that
00:35:25.200 you control
00:35:25.780 the world,
00:35:26.280 that there's
00:35:26.760 an interplay
00:35:27.320 there, but
00:35:28.720 I wake up
00:35:29.520 every day
00:35:29.960 believing I
00:35:30.580 control the
00:35:31.140 world, and
00:35:32.880 I feel as
00:35:33.440 though I
00:35:33.820 have tremendous
00:35:34.520 mental health,
00:35:36.660 because every
00:35:37.400 day I wake
00:35:38.020 up and say,
00:35:38.640 well, if
00:35:38.920 that's a
00:35:39.300 problem, I
00:35:39.900 can change
00:35:40.400 that, if
00:35:40.980 I made
00:35:41.940 that mistake,
00:35:42.660 I can change
00:35:43.280 that, if
00:35:43.820 I'm not good
00:35:44.420 enough, I
00:35:44.900 can get
00:35:45.260 better.
00:35:45.920 I have a
00:35:46.600 complete sense
00:35:47.560 that I can
00:35:49.020 control the
00:35:49.620 world.
00:35:50.580 Now, imagine
00:35:51.260 if you thought
00:35:52.260 that people
00:35:53.620 were after
00:35:54.160 you and
00:35:54.820 they could
00:35:55.480 hurt you
00:35:56.100 and people
00:35:57.220 have said
00:35:57.540 bad things
00:35:58.160 about you
00:35:58.800 and you
00:35:59.700 can't handle
00:36:00.520 your...
00:36:01.680 I feel like
00:36:02.680 obviously there's
00:36:03.820 an organic
00:36:04.660 part to
00:36:05.540 mental illness,
00:36:06.500 you're not
00:36:07.920 just thinking
00:36:08.540 your way into
00:36:09.180 it, but I
00:36:10.800 got a feeling
00:36:12.620 that a lot
00:36:13.200 of it would
00:36:13.560 go into
00:36:13.920 that category
00:36:15.000 of whether
00:36:15.640 or not you
00:36:16.020 can control,
00:36:17.400 you feel you
00:36:18.320 can control
00:36:18.840 your life,
00:36:19.340 whether it's
00:36:19.680 true or
00:36:19.980 not.
00:36:20.180 people of
00:36:24.420 faith believe
00:36:25.040 God is
00:36:25.620 the
00:36:25.860 controller.
00:36:26.560 That is
00:36:27.040 an excellent
00:36:27.560 point.
00:36:28.120 Thank you,
00:36:28.780 commenter
00:36:29.300 Carol.
00:36:31.940 I do
00:36:32.660 think that
00:36:33.120 it's useful
00:36:33.680 to put
00:36:34.720 your sense
00:36:36.000 of control
00:36:36.640 in a third
00:36:37.360 party, and
00:36:38.420 I think that
00:36:38.860 that's one of
00:36:39.360 the things
00:36:39.580 that religion
00:36:40.120 does really
00:36:40.780 well.
00:36:41.540 Independent
00:36:41.940 of what's
00:36:42.660 real and
00:36:43.120 what's not
00:36:43.520 real in
00:36:43.960 your religious
00:36:44.500 belief,
00:36:45.240 it's just
00:36:45.820 a good
00:36:46.140 technique to
00:36:47.940 imagine that
00:36:48.800 control is
00:36:49.780 with this
00:36:50.220 friendly character
00:36:51.160 who's got
00:36:51.680 your best
00:36:52.120 interest in
00:36:53.120 mind.
00:36:54.020 I think
00:36:54.380 that's good
00:36:54.780 for good
00:36:55.540 mental health
00:36:56.060 too.
00:36:56.980 I think
00:36:57.280 religion is
00:36:57.920 an excellent
00:36:58.640 technique,
00:37:00.120 no matter
00:37:00.540 what you
00:37:00.800 think about
00:37:01.180 the reality
00:37:01.820 of it.
00:37:07.120 Anyway,
00:37:07.800 let's talk
00:37:08.260 about wokeness
00:37:08.880 again.
00:37:09.180 Here's the
00:37:09.580 definition of
00:37:10.320 mental illness.
00:37:12.040 Significant
00:37:12.480 changes in
00:37:13.200 your thinking,
00:37:13.880 emotion,
00:37:14.380 and or
00:37:14.600 behavior.
00:37:15.540 Would you
00:37:15.880 say that the
00:37:16.360 people who
00:37:16.780 became woke
00:37:17.540 had significant
00:37:18.380 changes in
00:37:19.140 their thinking
00:37:19.580 and emotions?
00:37:20.640 I think
00:37:21.000 so.
00:37:21.840 Would you
00:37:22.260 say that
00:37:22.840 the wokeness
00:37:23.940 people are
00:37:24.980 distressed or
00:37:25.940 they have a
00:37:26.340 problem functioning
00:37:27.320 in society
00:37:28.280 because of
00:37:29.580 their wokeness
00:37:30.640 philosophy?
00:37:31.860 I would say
00:37:32.720 so.
00:37:33.880 So,
00:37:35.060 if wokeness
00:37:36.120 has all the
00:37:37.200 characteristics of
00:37:38.180 mental health,
00:37:38.840 meaning it's
00:37:39.300 bad for you,
00:37:40.940 why is that
00:37:41.600 not a mental
00:37:42.380 illness?
00:37:43.300 But narcissism,
00:37:44.520 the grandiose
00:37:45.120 type,
00:37:45.920 is literally
00:37:46.660 good for you
00:37:47.520 and makes
00:37:48.300 you happy
00:37:48.780 and more
00:37:49.160 successful,
00:37:50.360 and that's
00:37:50.960 considered a
00:37:51.460 mental illness.
00:37:52.980 Now you can
00:37:53.540 see it,
00:37:53.920 right?
00:37:54.400 It's the
00:37:55.040 observer problem.
00:37:56.320 It's the
00:37:56.740 observer who
00:37:57.500 has the
00:37:57.940 problem,
00:37:59.080 not the
00:37:59.560 observed.
00:38:01.620 All right.
00:38:02.820 That is what
00:38:03.800 I wanted to
00:38:04.260 say today,
00:38:05.040 and I think
00:38:05.420 I'll end it
00:38:05.800 early so that
00:38:06.440 YouTube does
00:38:07.020 not crap out
00:38:07.680 on me,
00:38:08.220 which is going
00:38:08.720 to be probably
00:38:09.640 in the next
00:38:10.080 minute,
00:38:10.780 I think.
00:38:11.460 So I'm going
00:38:11.920 to shut you
00:38:12.340 down on YouTube
00:38:12.960 and say thanks
00:38:14.500 for watching
00:38:14.900 and we'll
00:38:15.500 do more
00:38:15.860 tomorrow.
00:38:17.740 And you
00:38:18.220 periscopers
00:38:18.880 still here
00:38:19.620 because you
00:38:20.040 still have
00:38:20.480 some
00:38:21.440 electricity.
00:38:25.280 Who defines
00:38:26.440 wokeness?
00:38:27.840 Well, I would
00:38:28.460 say that
00:38:28.820 wokeness is a
00:38:30.240 victim mindset,
00:38:32.280 right?
00:38:32.820 So as I
00:38:34.420 understand it,
00:38:35.240 the one form
00:38:36.660 of narcissism
00:38:37.520 where you
00:38:37.880 have a victim
00:38:38.500 mindset sounds
00:38:39.420 a lot like
00:38:39.900 that.
00:38:40.580 So I'm not
00:38:41.140 sure that
00:38:41.600 wokeness would
00:38:43.960 be considered
00:38:45.640 much different
00:38:47.240 from what is
00:38:49.960 the other
00:38:50.200 kind of
00:38:50.520 narcissism?
00:38:52.080 There's another
00:38:52.880 vulnerable
00:38:53.500 narcissism,
00:38:54.360 I think.
00:39:01.000 Why is it
00:39:01.740 crapping out?
00:39:02.340 Oh, I just
00:39:03.100 forgot to
00:39:03.600 charge my
00:39:04.060 other iPad,
00:39:04.920 so my
00:39:05.460 YouTube
00:39:05.920 electricity
00:39:07.080 will run
00:39:07.900 out in a
00:39:08.240 minute.
00:39:09.500 Somebody says
00:39:10.260 depression is
00:39:11.100 inability to
00:39:11.940 take action.
00:39:13.860 You know,
00:39:14.060 one of the
00:39:14.760 questions I
00:39:15.820 have about
00:39:16.340 depression is,
00:39:18.780 again,
00:39:19.560 there are all
00:39:20.000 types of
00:39:20.900 it and
00:39:21.320 there's the
00:39:21.800 real kind
00:39:23.100 that is
00:39:23.460 different from
00:39:24.180 just having
00:39:24.720 a bad day.
00:39:26.000 But I
00:39:26.920 wonder to
00:39:27.680 what extent
00:39:28.260 depression
00:39:28.820 could be
00:39:29.780 fixed by
00:39:31.620 having more
00:39:32.160 energy.
00:39:33.420 Because if
00:39:33.960 you've ever
00:39:34.220 been in a
00:39:34.840 bad mood
00:39:36.040 when your
00:39:36.440 energy was
00:39:36.980 high,
00:39:38.500 I feel like
00:39:39.340 if you could
00:39:39.840 fix everybody's
00:39:40.740 energy level,
00:39:42.640 that it
00:39:43.120 wouldn't fix
00:39:43.600 all mental
00:39:44.100 illness,
00:39:44.580 obviously.
00:39:45.240 But I think
00:39:45.740 everybody would
00:39:46.280 be better,
00:39:47.200 you know,
00:39:47.700 better off.
00:39:48.280 all right.
00:39:54.120 Now, the
00:39:54.860 other thing
00:39:55.240 is, I
00:39:55.960 get called
00:39:56.440 a narcissist
00:39:57.320 literally every
00:39:58.700 day, which
00:39:59.620 is a weird
00:40:00.200 part of my
00:40:00.660 life.
00:40:01.440 And I'm
00:40:02.320 always confused
00:40:02.980 by it,
00:40:03.760 because if
00:40:05.480 you said to
00:40:06.100 describe yourself,
00:40:07.240 I would say,
00:40:07.760 well, I'm a
00:40:08.280 person who is
00:40:09.420 really good at
00:40:10.220 this small set
00:40:11.080 of things,
00:40:11.960 and I can
00:40:12.620 demonstrate that
00:40:13.440 I'm really good
00:40:14.000 at them with
00:40:15.400 numbers, such
00:40:16.820 as, you
00:40:17.640 know, I'm
00:40:18.400 good at
00:40:18.700 writing a
00:40:19.140 book, because
00:40:19.780 I have
00:40:20.100 best-selling
00:40:20.640 books.
00:40:21.440 Is that
00:40:22.000 narcissistic?
00:40:23.280 Or is that
00:40:23.920 just the data
00:40:25.020 says, I must
00:40:26.060 be good at
00:40:26.460 this, because
00:40:26.860 I sell a
00:40:27.300 lot of
00:40:27.460 books?
00:40:28.260 So there's
00:40:28.960 a small set
00:40:29.540 of things
00:40:29.900 that I know
00:40:30.540 I am good
00:40:31.140 at, and I
00:40:31.900 can objectively
00:40:32.700 observe it,
00:40:33.580 you know, with
00:40:34.040 objective data.
00:40:35.600 And then
00:40:36.100 there's this
00:40:36.520 gigantic list
00:40:37.780 of things I'm
00:40:39.040 terrible at,
00:40:39.780 even simple
00:40:40.420 things, putting
00:40:41.480 things on
00:40:42.000 calendars,
00:40:42.980 remembering my
00:40:43.760 schedule,
00:40:44.960 directions,
00:40:45.740 I'm terrible
00:40:47.280 with geography,
00:40:48.260 even in the
00:40:48.800 town I live
00:40:49.360 in, just
00:40:50.060 finding my
00:40:51.060 way across
00:40:51.580 town, terrible
00:40:52.160 at it.
00:40:53.000 And I can
00:40:53.620 make a really
00:40:54.300 long list of
00:40:55.220 the things that
00:40:55.880 I'm not good
00:40:56.640 at, and even
00:40:57.740 if I tried
00:40:58.460 hard, probably
00:40:59.860 still wouldn't
00:41:00.420 be good at
00:41:00.980 it, right?
00:41:02.080 You know, a lot
00:41:02.740 of sports that I
00:41:03.800 wouldn't be good
00:41:04.300 at, no matter
00:41:04.800 what I did.
00:41:05.760 So, what does
00:41:07.380 it mean to be a
00:41:08.160 narcissist?
00:41:09.420 If you believe
00:41:10.360 you're good at
00:41:11.000 some things which
00:41:11.780 you can objectively
00:41:12.580 prove you're good
00:41:13.480 at, and you're
00:41:14.480 bad at a far
00:41:15.440 larger list of
00:41:16.360 things, even
00:41:17.460 with important
00:41:18.180 things on that
00:41:18.880 list, how is
00:41:20.400 that narcissistic?
00:41:22.100 Do you see that
00:41:22.740 this is the
00:41:23.280 observer problem
00:41:24.160 again?
00:41:25.320 It's the
00:41:25.780 observer who
00:41:26.660 doesn't hear me
00:41:27.580 say I'm bad at
00:41:28.400 this long list
00:41:29.240 of things, who
00:41:30.820 only hears me
00:41:31.600 talk about one
00:41:32.380 thing.
00:41:33.940 And yesterday
00:41:34.980 there was
00:41:35.780 somebody who
00:41:36.240 was quite angry
00:41:37.040 because I
00:41:38.020 referred to
00:41:38.640 myself in
00:41:39.280 video yesterday
00:41:40.360 as a famous
00:41:41.740 cartoonist, I
00:41:42.620 think more than
00:41:43.080 once.
00:41:43.420 Now, in
00:41:45.060 the context
00:41:45.600 of what I
00:41:45.980 was talking
00:41:46.340 about yesterday
00:41:46.940 it was
00:41:47.760 necessary for
00:41:49.160 context, if
00:41:50.700 anybody didn't
00:41:51.340 know my day
00:41:51.960 job, that I'm
00:41:52.900 a famous
00:41:53.300 cartoonist.
00:41:54.060 It was just
00:41:54.440 part of the
00:41:54.800 story.
00:41:55.680 And somebody
00:41:56.380 was really,
00:41:57.120 really turned
00:41:58.360 off by that,
00:41:59.700 like really had
00:42:00.200 a bad reaction
00:42:01.200 to that.
00:42:02.520 But, is
00:42:04.240 there anybody
00:42:04.600 who doubts
00:42:05.240 the objective
00:42:06.700 fact that I'm
00:42:08.420 a famous
00:42:09.000 cartoonist?
00:42:09.700 How is
00:42:11.720 that my
00:42:13.360 problem?
00:42:14.540 Because she
00:42:15.200 thought I was
00:42:15.700 a narcissist
00:42:16.180 specifically.
00:42:17.680 Why is it my
00:42:18.520 problem that I
00:42:19.460 simply told you
00:42:20.340 what my job
00:42:21.160 is and you
00:42:22.480 can observe
00:42:23.160 that I'm
00:42:23.720 famous?
00:42:25.260 You could
00:42:26.000 Google it.
00:42:27.540 You would
00:42:28.100 find quite a
00:42:28.700 bit about me.
00:42:30.020 But, so this
00:42:31.240 woman was having
00:42:32.000 a mental
00:42:33.220 distress because
00:42:35.340 my actions of
00:42:37.080 just saying what
00:42:37.720 my job was,
00:42:39.240 caused her
00:42:39.800 mental distress
00:42:40.540 to the point
00:42:41.000 where she
00:42:41.320 needed to
00:42:41.740 leave me a
00:42:42.260 comment and
00:42:43.640 then tell me
00:42:44.300 she didn't
00:42:44.780 want to watch
00:42:45.400 me anymore
00:42:46.100 or whatever
00:42:46.440 she said.
00:42:47.520 Wasn't that a
00:42:48.240 mental problem
00:42:48.800 on her part?
00:42:50.220 And she was
00:42:50.960 pretty sure the
00:42:51.660 mental problem
00:42:52.240 was on my
00:42:52.860 part.
00:42:53.760 Again, it's
00:42:55.360 the observer
00:42:55.880 problem.
00:42:57.020 The observer
00:42:57.740 is the one
00:42:58.760 with the
00:42:59.100 mental illness.
00:43:00.320 I was sitting
00:43:00.920 here quite
00:43:01.380 happy.
00:43:02.580 While she
00:43:03.260 was criticizing
00:43:04.000 me, having
00:43:05.760 a good day.
00:43:06.360 How is it
00:43:07.760 my mental
00:43:08.340 problem that
00:43:08.960 I'm having
00:43:09.380 a good
00:43:09.780 day, gaining
00:43:12.080 an audience,
00:43:13.060 making money?
00:43:15.560 See what I
00:43:16.020 mean?
00:43:16.760 All right.
00:43:17.580 So ask
00:43:18.340 yourself, is it
00:43:19.160 really the other
00:43:19.860 person who is
00:43:20.800 the problem?
00:43:22.080 That, that is
00:43:25.200 your lesson for
00:43:26.280 the day.
00:43:27.340 And you
00:43:28.220 should also
00:43:28.680 know that
00:43:29.340 narcissism can
00:43:30.400 be a tool in
00:43:31.820 the sense that
00:43:32.540 overconfidence can
00:43:34.660 be useful.
00:43:35.200 I intentionally
00:43:37.560 try to be
00:43:38.240 overconfident on
00:43:39.900 things that I
00:43:40.560 know I can do
00:43:41.300 pretty well at,
00:43:42.840 but I'd like to
00:43:43.580 do really well,
00:43:44.740 like I'd like to
00:43:45.380 perform well.
00:43:46.740 So building up my
00:43:47.700 confidence, even
00:43:49.400 artificially, beyond
00:43:50.740 what makes sense,
00:43:52.780 is just technique.
00:43:54.440 It's just technique.
00:43:55.860 And if somebody
00:43:56.480 witnesses me using
00:43:58.160 my technique, and
00:44:00.420 they think I'm a
00:44:01.120 narcissist, again,
00:44:02.900 it's the observer
00:44:03.620 problem.
00:44:04.060 That's all.
00:44:05.480 And that's all for
00:44:06.200 today.
00:44:06.620 I'll talk to you
00:44:07.140 tomorrow.
00:44:07.380 I'll talk to you
00:44:08.200 tomorrow.