Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1242 Scott Adams： Fwee-dom, Election Allegations Debunked, Hypnosis Versus Brainwashing

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00:01:07.460 Well, let me tell you what's going on here.

00:01:09.700 Christine and I decided that, you know, I'd been working hard,

00:01:14.160 been doing two or three jobs here every day since the pandemic locked up.

00:01:19.220 And I thought, damn it, I've got to get something like a little vacation,

00:01:26.700 maybe three days out of town.

00:01:28.480 And so what we decided to do was we would go to the snow country,

00:01:34.440 decided to go to Utah, specifically Park City.

00:01:38.380 Now, Park City is a pretty cool place in the winter.

00:01:41.240 It's just a beautiful place and the restaurants and you can walk around.

00:01:44.680 So we found a place, we found a resort that was in Park City,

00:01:48.840 perfect location for the winter.

00:01:50.980 And we decided that the things we like would be a nice view,

00:01:56.980 you know, big vista view and a summer suite.

00:02:00.560 You know, I don't have a lot of luxury wants in my life,

00:02:04.880 but once or twice a year, I like to go to a place that's way more expensive

00:02:09.880 and nice than I would normally want to go to just because I like the view.

00:02:15.580 Maybe if it's a winter place, I like the fireplace, the snow, the walking.

00:02:20.140 Great idea, right?

00:02:22.480 So things didn't go exactly, exactly as I planned.

00:02:28.980 So we got here yesterday and there's not much snow.

00:02:35.560 So it's a snow destination without all the snow, but that's okay

00:02:40.540 because I still like, you know, sitting by the fireplace with Christina

00:02:44.420 and looking at the view and, you know, and we also,

00:02:48.420 one of the main things we look for is 24-hour room service

00:02:52.960 because I might start work at 4 a.m.

00:02:55.820 Christina likes to eat dinner sometimes at midnight, get a snack.

00:03:00.200 So it's one of our main things, 24-hour.

00:03:02.580 So we found the place that was in Park City.

00:03:05.040 They told us they have 24-hour room service.

00:03:07.920 We got it in writing so we know.

00:03:10.640 And here's what happened.

00:03:13.380 Let me show you my view.

00:03:19.080 So remember, this is a very expensive luxury suite, right?

00:03:24.460 So I'm not going to tell you the name of the resort

00:03:26.860 because I don't think it's important, but here's my view.

00:03:30.100 Can you see that?

00:03:32.780 It's kind of lovely, isn't it?

00:03:34.980 Yeah, that's the view at night

00:03:36.800 because there are no lights or any kind of illumination outside the window.

00:03:42.160 So from 4 p.m. to just about 20 minutes ago,

00:03:47.340 that was the entire view, a little black window.

00:03:52.360 Now, you're saying to yourself,

00:03:56.400 oh, of course, everybody, you know, if it's nighttime,

00:03:59.360 of course there's not going to be a view.

00:04:01.480 So I'll show you the view that I paid an enormous amount of money for.

00:04:07.600 Here it is.

00:04:10.060 It's the view.

00:04:10.800 Can you see it?

00:04:12.780 It's the side of a hellscape winter mountain

00:04:18.420 with nothing else but, like, dead brush.

00:04:23.660 There's my view.

00:04:25.140 So we didn't get the snow we wanted,

00:04:28.360 but, you know, I can put up with some inconveniences, right?

00:04:33.520 We didn't get the view we wanted,

00:04:35.940 and really the main reason I would go to a place like this is for the view.

00:04:38.860 But at least we get, you know, the fireplace.

00:04:42.300 Well, when I say we got a fireplace,

00:04:44.340 I don't mean an actual thing that had fire inside a building.

00:04:49.180 It was more like an ornamental decoration in the side of a wall

00:04:53.940 that if you saw the photos on the website,

00:04:57.800 it looked like a fireplace,

00:04:59.640 but it doesn't produce any fire or warmth or anything like that.

00:05:02.620 It's just sort of a decoration.

00:05:04.240 So instead of watching the beautiful snow

00:05:08.680 out of my wonderful vista while sitting by the fireplace,

00:05:12.260 I'm looking at a postage stamp of a hellscape

00:05:15.180 while sitting next to a thing that looks like a fireplace in the photo but isn't.

00:05:22.000 Now, that's okay,

00:05:23.460 because I'm not the kind of guy who complains,

00:05:26.120 because as long as we've got each other

00:05:29.060 and 24-hour room service,

00:05:31.660 we'll make something out of it, right?

00:05:35.280 Well, they don't have 24-hour room service,

00:05:38.000 turns out.

00:05:39.400 They have room service that ends at 9.30 at night,

00:05:42.720 which is approximately two hours before Christina gets hungry.

00:05:47.800 Not ideal.

00:05:49.580 So we didn't get the food we wanted,

00:05:52.100 the view we wanted, the fireplace,

00:05:54.400 and there's not much in the way of snow in snow country,

00:05:58.700 but at least we're in Park City.

00:06:01.660 And if you know about Park City,

00:06:03.040 it's a pretty cool place.

00:06:04.680 Now, when I say we're in Park City,

00:06:07.380 I mean that the website where we found this resort,

00:06:10.860 and this is a very famous high-end resort,

00:06:13.040 said it's in Park City.

00:06:15.780 So we went there,

00:06:17.160 and what they meant,

00:06:18.560 I guess we should have asked more questions.

00:06:20.820 When they say it's in Park City,

00:06:23.400 what they mean technically is 19 miles from Park City

00:06:27.220 in a town I've never heard of.

00:06:31.440 So my idea of walking outside

00:06:34.140 and walking through the beautiful Park City,

00:06:38.320 it's harder than it would be

00:06:40.160 because I'd have to walk 19 miles

00:06:43.060 to begin my walk in Park City.

00:06:45.020 So we're checking out in a few hours.

00:06:50.840 So my three-day vacation,

00:06:52.940 probably the only time I'll get out of town

00:06:55.440 in, I don't know,

00:06:58.280 maybe in six months or nine months.

00:07:01.920 Basically, my vacation is flying here,

00:07:04.980 wearing a mask all day,

00:07:06.900 not being able to breathe,

00:07:09.060 getting here,

00:07:10.440 looking at a postage stamp of a dark window,

00:07:12.900 and then flying home.

00:07:15.260 So that's my vacation.

00:07:17.520 But on the good side,

00:07:20.520 it's also really expensive.

00:07:23.000 So you got that.

00:07:25.400 All right, enough about me.

00:07:26.440 That's not why you came here.

00:07:27.840 I just wanted you to feel the pain of being me

00:07:32.460 for a moment.

00:07:34.340 Really, I shouldn't complain.

00:07:35.860 I mean, the fact that I could even get out of my house

00:07:38.580 is something I shouldn't complain about.

00:07:40.780 All right, let's talk about Georgia.

00:07:41.800 I guess the vote's happening in Georgia.

00:07:44.600 Here's my prediction.

00:07:46.620 If it's true that the presidential race was stolen,

00:07:51.560 and I would say that's not proven,

00:07:53.640 certainly not proven,

00:07:55.100 but lots of allegations.

00:07:57.040 If the national election was stolen,

00:07:59.020 then certainly the Senate elections will be stolen.

00:08:02.380 So if you see that Democrats win both seats,

00:08:06.660 I feel like I'd have a lot of questions.

00:08:09.660 So I don't think you can make a prediction

00:08:12.400 about the outcome the way you normally would,

00:08:15.860 where you'd say,

00:08:16.640 hmm, who do I think gets the most votes?

00:08:19.620 Because I don't think this one is about votes.

00:08:22.580 If we've learned anything,

00:08:24.440 the will of the people has almost nothing to do

00:08:27.400 with an election.

00:08:28.800 The things that matter are what rule changes happened,

00:08:32.460 what lawyers did what,

00:08:34.220 which courts said what,

00:08:35.900 who got out the vote,

00:08:37.980 whose advertisement was the most cleverly misleading.

00:08:42.040 So it's basically a whole bunch of tricks

00:08:44.280 and legal stuff and lying and manipulation

00:08:47.200 and fake news,

00:08:49.020 and collectively all of that mischief

00:08:51.900 is who determines who's president

00:08:54.080 and who determines who's senator.

00:08:56.860 So the idea that...

00:08:57.900 Somebody said,

00:09:01.100 how's the coffee here?

00:09:03.220 Not good.

00:09:06.420 At least it's consistent.

00:09:09.940 And how would I know?

00:09:10.940 I haven't been able to order it,

00:09:12.240 so I've been using...

00:09:13.060 I've been using the little espresso thing in the room.

00:09:17.860 Anyway, so we'll see what happens in Georgia.

00:09:20.700 If it's two Democrats that win,

00:09:22.860 I got questions.

00:09:24.800 Did you hear about that big healthcare consortium

00:09:28.900 that was a consortium

00:09:31.440 where they were trying to figure out

00:09:33.020 how to make healthcare costs lower,

00:09:35.420 and it was Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway

00:09:38.020 and J.P. Morgan got together?

00:09:40.140 Well, they just disbanded it.

00:09:42.500 So that whole thing,

00:09:43.820 that whole thing that I thought had great potential,

00:09:46.740 it's like, wow.

00:09:47.960 If these three entities,

00:09:51.020 Amazon, Berkshire, and J.P. Morgan,

00:09:53.180 if the three of those companies

00:09:55.660 can't figure out how to penetrate

00:09:57.820 this healthcare cost problem

00:10:00.180 and make us a better system,

00:10:02.120 I mean, if they can't do it,

00:10:04.380 I don't think it can be done.

00:10:07.140 So they disbanded.

00:10:10.080 Turns out it can't be done.

00:10:12.240 Turns out it can't be done.

00:10:13.280 And the reason that they gave

00:10:15.500 is that although they created a consortium

00:10:18.380 in the most perfect Dilbert world,

00:10:22.660 they decided not to work together

00:10:24.600 after they created the consortium.

00:10:26.920 So all three of them just went off

00:10:28.640 and did their own thing,

00:10:30.000 and then they compared,

00:10:31.440 and they said,

00:10:31.800 well, we're doing this,

00:10:32.620 we're doing that.

00:10:34.820 Not really the same things,

00:10:36.260 and so they just said,

00:10:37.340 why are we a consortium?

00:10:39.520 We're not even coordinating.

00:10:41.720 So they just said,

00:10:42.500 ah, screw it.

00:10:43.760 Now, here's the funny part about it.

00:10:46.320 What is the single biggest problem

00:10:49.020 with fixing healthcare?

00:10:51.100 Well, you might say to yourself,

00:10:52.540 it's, you know,

00:10:53.300 money and bad Congress and all that.

00:10:57.020 But I would say that the base problem

00:10:59.100 is it's complicated.

00:11:01.360 That's the biggest problem.

00:11:03.100 As soon as you start digging into it,

00:11:04.940 it's just turtles all the way down

00:11:07.680 and, you know, endless complication.

00:11:10.160 So no matter how well-meaning you are

00:11:12.200 and no matter how qualified you are,

00:11:15.060 it's just impenetrable.

00:11:16.660 It's just too big, too complicated.

00:11:19.540 So even if you could figure out what to do,

00:11:22.600 how would you ever communicate it?

00:11:24.860 Imagine you were the smartest person in the world

00:11:27.040 and you did figure out how to fix healthcare.

00:11:30.500 Could you explain it to anybody?

00:11:32.920 No, because it'd be too complicated.

00:11:35.820 Nobody would be able to understand it,

00:11:38.100 much less vote on it, much less fix it.

00:11:40.040 So in order to fix this thing,

00:11:43.560 which had a base problem of complexity,

00:11:47.100 I should have seen this coming.

00:11:50.220 Their solution to all this complexity

00:11:52.520 was to create an entity

00:11:54.800 of three big corporations,

00:11:57.340 which are a little complicated individually,

00:12:01.420 on top of having to work together,

00:12:04.460 which is a little complicated

00:12:06.040 on top of a complication

00:12:07.560 as a way to solve a complicated situation.

00:12:11.520 Can you imagine the meetings?

00:12:14.420 The meetings would have to be eight hours long

00:12:17.100 just to get to the first item on the list

00:12:20.340 because of all the background context,

00:12:23.420 here's what you need to know,

00:12:24.820 who's doing what.

00:12:26.900 It's just impenetrable.

00:12:28.520 So I'm not surprised that using complexity

00:12:30.940 to try to simplify something didn't work.

00:12:35.000 It could be a good Dilbert comic in that.

00:12:37.360 And maybe there will.

00:12:38.540 There might be.

00:12:40.400 All right, here's the most interesting question

00:12:42.160 of a Biden potential presidency.

00:12:45.320 What happens, and I've asked this before,

00:12:47.520 but it's endlessly fascinating to me

00:12:49.880 because there's some things you can predict

00:12:52.180 and some things that just defy prediction.

00:12:54.980 So what's going to happen with a Biden presidency,

00:12:59.300 which has, as it's one of its most core basic components,

00:13:05.380 one of the strongest parts of what a Biden view of the world is,

00:13:11.980 is letting immigrants in

00:13:14.280 and not putting kids in cages

00:13:16.720 and being as open a country as we can to immigration.

00:13:22.460 Now, I think most people agree, you know,

00:13:25.700 with the general concept that immigration is good

00:13:28.220 if you do it the right way.

00:13:29.800 And nothing is good if you do it the wrong way.

00:13:32.560 Are we all on the same page with that?

00:13:34.680 If you do immigration in a good way, it's good.

00:13:38.780 If you do it all wrong, not so good.

00:13:42.260 So it's not immigration is good or bad.

00:13:44.440 It's just how you do it.

00:13:45.180 And so what's going to happen

00:13:49.760 when the caravans,

00:13:52.000 who naturally will see weakness in Biden,

00:13:55.560 and they'll say, he's going to let us in.

00:13:58.300 What happens when all the caravans show up?

00:14:00.560 Now, it's already started, right?

00:14:01.920 And you're seeing lots of them bunching at the border

00:14:04.380 and border security is doing what it can,

00:14:07.400 but it's still a presidency of Trump, right?

00:14:10.760 So today, it's still Trump's people doing Trump stuff

00:14:15.640 to keep the borders secure.

00:14:17.120 But what happens on day one of Biden?

00:14:20.260 What does day one look like?

00:14:22.440 Wouldn't every caravan in the world say,

00:14:25.020 well, I don't think we'll ever have a better time?

00:14:28.340 So we should see massive caravans coming over

00:14:32.280 as soon as the weather and, you know,

00:14:34.580 the inauguration have happened.

00:14:36.980 You know, the weather's got to be good enough, I guess.

00:14:38.720 I would imagine the winter's a good time to do it.

00:14:41.800 So maybe it's a perfect time to do it.

00:14:43.760 I don't know.

00:14:45.800 But how do you see this going?

00:14:49.820 Let's say there are two possibilities that I can see.

00:14:53.400 One is that immigration grows and grows and grows

00:14:56.660 and expands because nothing's stopping it.

00:14:59.660 And it just gets out of control in one year.

00:15:02.680 And millions of people walk across the border.

00:15:05.560 Well, that's one way it could go.

00:15:06.660 And that would be at least consistent with what Biden

00:15:09.420 and the Democrats have been saying,

00:15:11.120 that you can't keep people out just because you're being mean.

00:15:15.080 If they have a reason to want to be here, that's good enough.

00:15:19.320 You know, I'm exaggerating a little bit,

00:15:21.160 but that would be the Democrat compared to the Republican system

00:15:26.240 is, you know, difference in permissibility.

00:15:28.720 So what happens if Biden goes the other way and says,

00:15:33.560 hey, I'm no super progressive.

00:15:35.580 We've got to have some border security because he's said things like that.

00:15:39.320 What happens if he tries to stop it?

00:15:42.380 How can he stop it?

00:15:44.560 Without force or without building a border wall?

00:15:49.180 What in the world is going to happen?

00:15:50.900 Because one of the things that could happen

00:15:53.660 is the complete destruction of the Democratic Party.

00:15:57.260 How many, let me put it into a formula.

00:16:02.420 Is it not true?

00:16:04.080 Wouldn't you say this is true?

00:16:05.900 There is a number of immigrants who might come across the border

00:16:09.480 in a Biden administration.

00:16:13.480 Some number would be okay,

00:16:15.660 meaning that Biden would still be able to explain it away

00:16:19.340 even if it, you know, was big

00:16:21.420 and people didn't like it and they were complaining.

00:16:24.180 That'd still be something he could handle, right?

00:16:27.160 And people are unhappy about lots of things.

00:16:30.300 But there is a theoretical number of immigrants

00:16:33.520 that makes the Democratic Party disappear.

00:16:37.960 Now, not in the sense that the people coming across

00:16:40.420 wouldn't vote Democrat,

00:16:42.000 but what would be the point of the party

00:16:43.920 if they just opened the border?

00:16:45.660 Could they ever get elected again?

00:16:48.840 So, let me put it down to this.

00:16:51.840 There is some number of immigrants,

00:16:54.120 which is not up to us

00:16:56.700 if we're not tightly controlling the border.

00:16:59.100 It's up to the immigrants how many come.

00:17:01.260 There is some number

00:17:02.260 that will make voting Democrat ridiculous.

00:17:07.600 Because at some number, it destroys the country.

00:17:10.420 At some smaller number, it helps the country.

00:17:12.780 Does everybody agree with that, by the way?

00:17:14.420 Is there anybody who would argue with the general statement

00:17:18.360 that there's some amount of immigration done right

00:17:21.760 that's absolutely good for the country?

00:17:23.600 I would say essential.

00:17:25.200 It's beyond good.

00:17:27.120 Immigration is essential.

00:17:29.240 There's no... I don't think you can work around that

00:17:31.360 if you want a good country.

00:17:32.840 But there's some number that would be too much.

00:17:35.940 Does anybody disagree with that?

00:17:38.000 That there's some number that would be too much?

00:17:40.480 Are we going to hit it?

00:17:42.680 The too much?

00:17:43.700 And then what happens?

00:17:45.000 We'll find out.

00:17:45.940 There's a big story that's just sort of a fun story

00:17:54.200 about Kamala Harris.

00:17:56.400 And the story goes that she allegedly plagiarized

00:18:00.720 a story that Martin Luther King told

00:18:02.920 in a Playboy interview in the 60s.

00:18:05.260 And the version that I guess Martin Luther King told

00:18:09.720 was about some toddler kind of kid being asked

00:18:13.560 why, I think it was a she,

00:18:15.860 was marching in a freedom thing

00:18:17.940 when it's just a little kid who doesn't know what they're doing.

00:18:20.320 And the little kid said something like,

00:18:22.200 feed him.

00:18:23.620 Without knowing even how to pronounce the word,

00:18:26.520 the story was that she knew she needed it.

00:18:29.540 The freedom is so basic

00:18:31.040 that even a child knows they need it

00:18:33.340 before they can even pronounce the word.

00:18:35.780 Pretty good story.

00:18:37.300 And then I guess Kamala Harris' version

00:18:39.020 is that she was the girl

00:18:40.320 and she was in a march

00:18:42.420 and she was asked,

00:18:44.380 why are you there?

00:18:45.020 And she said,

00:18:45.640 not feed him,

00:18:47.300 but fweed him.

00:18:50.200 And then she completed the story the same way.

00:18:53.720 She couldn't say the word,

00:18:55.000 but she already knew it was essential.

00:18:58.120 Now, would you say

00:19:00.100 that was plagiarism?

00:19:02.660 Maybe.

00:19:04.560 Here's my best guess,

00:19:06.380 since we'll never know exactly.

00:19:08.380 We'll never know if she read it and said,

00:19:10.080 yeah, I think I'll just use that.

00:19:12.780 Here's my guess.

00:19:15.340 My guess is she read it once

00:19:17.480 and then formed a false memory

00:19:21.340 in which she actually believed she said it.

00:19:24.700 So there may be three different explanations.

00:19:29.920 One is she knew it was plagiarized

00:19:32.180 and just lied.

00:19:33.540 I don't think that's very likely, actually,

00:19:35.800 because it would just,

00:19:37.220 I don't know,

00:19:37.720 there wouldn't be enough benefit for the story

00:19:39.720 if he knew you stole it.

00:19:42.120 It just wouldn't be enough benefit-cost ratio.

00:19:44.700 So it'd be a dumb thing to do.

00:19:47.480 And it could be that it was true.

00:19:50.120 Right?

00:19:50.520 Can you rule out the possibility

00:19:52.780 that it actually happened?

00:19:55.480 No.

00:19:56.220 You actually can't rule out that possibility.

00:19:58.920 But it sounds a little, you know,

00:20:00.300 too on the nose, right?

00:20:01.760 Could happen.

00:20:03.040 So I'd go with false memory.

00:20:05.140 And one of the things that people don't realize,

00:20:07.580 the general public,

00:20:08.860 is what percentage of your memories are false?

00:20:13.060 Let me ask you this.

00:20:14.080 How many of your memories from,

00:20:16.580 let's say,

00:20:17.760 age,

00:20:18.320 I'll give you an age,

00:20:19.800 from age 20 and younger,

00:20:22.740 so however old you are now,

00:20:24.580 if you're over 20,

00:20:25.860 think about every memory you had

00:20:27.500 from age 20 to your first memory.

00:20:31.060 What percentage of those

00:20:33.140 would you say are actual,

00:20:35.700 relatively accurate memories,

00:20:38.280 and what percentage of them

00:20:39.860 or some kind of weird mash-up

00:20:42.860 of fake memories?

00:20:45.640 What's your guess?

00:20:46.920 Would you say 10% fake memories

00:20:48.960 and 90% true?

00:20:52.160 I don't know if anybody knows the answer to that.

00:20:55.080 My personal view is informed

00:20:57.400 by my hypnosis background,

00:21:00.460 which is that it's closer to more than 50%.

00:21:04.140 And when I say that more than 50%

00:21:06.360 are false memories,

00:21:07.600 I don't mean that you didn't have that birthday

00:21:10.560 and you didn't get that pony,

00:21:12.580 you know,

00:21:12.760 some of those things.

00:21:13.940 So the basics might be right,

00:21:16.400 but a whole bunch of the stuff

00:21:18.740 about the context and the timing

00:21:20.700 and who was actually there

00:21:22.640 and what you said

00:21:24.240 or who said what to whom,

00:21:25.620 all of that's fake.

00:21:26.980 So something like 90% of your memories

00:21:29.560 are artificial.

00:21:32.580 Things that literally didn't happen

00:21:34.460 that you remember

00:21:35.560 as if they did happen.

00:21:38.160 Like I said,

00:21:39.160 the big stuff did happen.

00:21:41.100 You know,

00:21:41.360 you really had a little brother,

00:21:44.360 you really had a family,

00:21:45.440 you know,

00:21:45.600 that stuff.

00:21:47.480 So that's what I think.

00:21:48.520 Probably false memory.

00:21:49.660 Not much of a story

00:21:50.420 except whedom is a funny word.

00:21:52.060 It makes a good meme.

00:21:53.460 I'm seeing a lot of backwards thinking

00:21:55.280 in the news.

00:21:56.600 Here's what backwards thinking is.

00:21:58.780 Forward thinking goes like this.

00:22:01.180 I've got some data.

00:22:02.180 I use my sense of reason

00:22:04.380 to interpret the data

00:22:05.540 and then I come to a conclusion.

00:22:07.260 That's forward thinking.

00:22:09.120 Backwards thinking is

00:22:10.020 you start with a conclusion

00:22:11.720 and then you figure out

00:22:13.820 what your rationalization was

00:22:15.340 to get there.

00:22:16.240 And then you cherry pick the data

00:22:18.000 to fit your rationalization.

00:22:19.380 So that's backwards thinking.

00:22:22.620 The average person

00:22:24.260 can't tell the difference

00:22:25.680 between forward thinking

00:22:27.740 and backwards thinking.

00:22:29.000 That's what you learn

00:22:29.700 when you learn hypnosis.

00:22:31.140 First thing you learn,

00:22:32.040 basically,

00:22:32.620 is that the average person

00:22:34.080 doesn't know

00:22:34.780 when they're thinking

00:22:35.880 forwards or backwards.

00:22:36.980 Think about how big

00:22:39.740 a problem that is.

00:22:41.320 The average person

00:22:42.000 can't tell.

00:22:42.960 And I'm looking at articles

00:22:44.060 that, you know,

00:22:44.560 there's a George Will article

00:22:46.000 criticizing Ted Cruz

00:22:48.560 and Republicans

00:22:49.380 for challenging the election.

00:22:52.140 Now, the people

00:22:53.220 who are doing this,

00:22:53.840 and I won't pick on

00:22:54.800 George Will in particular,

00:22:56.300 but anybody who's saying

00:22:57.540 that Ted Cruz

00:22:58.320 is violating his oath of office

00:23:01.100 to serve the people

00:23:02.160 or that he's assaulting

00:23:04.520 the Constitution

00:23:05.420 by challenging this

00:23:06.880 et cetera.

00:23:08.280 Keep in mind,

00:23:09.240 the only thing he asks for

00:23:10.580 is a 10-day audit,

00:23:13.080 which is quite reasonable

00:23:14.240 to ask for.

00:23:15.360 No matter what they find,

00:23:17.340 you would agree that

00:23:18.360 we'd like to be more confident

00:23:19.840 in the outcome.

00:23:21.100 So Ted Cruz is asking

00:23:22.420 this completely reasonable thing.

00:23:25.540 Can you look at the data

00:23:26.740 and then look at the data

00:23:27.960 and use the reasoning

00:23:29.040 and come to a conclusion?

00:23:31.300 George Will and others

00:23:32.780 write articles and criticize them

00:23:34.680 with backwards thinking.

00:23:36.880 Now, what Ted Cruz is doing

00:23:38.340 is forward thinking.

00:23:39.720 He says,

00:23:40.360 we don't have enough data.

00:23:41.460 We'd like you to do an audit

00:23:42.600 and then we'll have data.

00:23:43.960 Then we'll assign reason

00:23:45.140 and then we'll have conclusions.

00:23:47.540 His critics say,

00:23:49.360 we already know

00:23:50.320 it was a fair election.

00:23:52.160 They start with a conclusion.

00:23:54.340 We know it was fair.

00:23:56.360 So, therefore,

00:23:58.220 you must be crazy.

00:23:59.440 That's the rationalization.

00:24:00.780 Or you must be attacking

00:24:02.400 the Constitution.

00:24:03.820 Or you must be

00:24:05.000 some kind of a cult member

00:24:06.660 for the president.

00:24:07.840 Or you're dumb.

00:24:08.920 Those are the rationalizations.

00:24:10.620 Thinking backwards.

00:24:11.980 And then you go back

00:24:12.740 to the cherry-picked data.

00:24:14.880 Now, the cherry-picked data is

00:24:16.420 if there are, let's say,

00:24:18.080 12 different accusations

00:24:19.640 of election fraud,

00:24:21.620 you pick six of them

00:24:22.820 that definitely were not real

00:24:24.260 and you just talk about them.

00:24:27.520 So that's backwards thinking,

00:24:29.060 the complete cycle.

00:24:30.220 And you can see the difference, right?

00:24:31.740 Now, how many people

00:24:33.360 would read an article

00:24:34.340 by George Will

00:24:35.160 and realize

00:24:36.580 that it was literally

00:24:38.500 backwards thinking?

00:24:39.760 Started with the conclusion

00:24:40.980 and worked backwards

00:24:42.040 through the rationalization

00:24:43.140 all the way

00:24:44.140 to the cherry-picked data.

00:24:45.960 Not many people.

00:24:47.760 I would bet

00:24:48.360 not more than,

00:24:49.620 I don't know,

00:24:50.900 five out of a hundred

00:24:52.340 would know

00:24:53.260 that they had seen

00:24:54.060 backwards thinking.

00:24:55.300 They would imagine

00:24:56.140 they saw forward thinking.

00:24:57.320 They wouldn't know the difference.

00:24:58.920 And that's scary

00:24:59.900 if you think about it.

00:25:02.500 Speaking of that,

00:25:03.480 we'll get more about that

00:25:04.520 in a moment.

00:25:05.520 So the Wall Street Journal

00:25:06.680 says that

00:25:07.300 the New York Stock Exchange

00:25:08.500 decided,

00:25:09.740 after deciding to delist

00:25:11.480 a number of Chinese

00:25:13.020 telecom companies

00:25:14.020 because they're too associated

00:25:15.260 with the Chinese Communist Party

00:25:17.420 and therefore the military

00:25:19.640 and because the telecom equipment

00:25:21.900 can be used for spying,

00:25:23.260 among other reasons.

00:25:28.040 They want to delist them,

00:25:29.000 but the real reason

00:25:29.600 for delisting

00:25:30.400 is that they don't follow

00:25:31.360 the same reporting requirements

00:25:34.000 as other companies.

00:25:35.980 So,

00:25:36.440 that decision

00:25:38.580 has been reversed

00:25:39.780 according to

00:25:40.480 the Wall Street Journal

00:25:41.260 and that now

00:25:42.880 they're not going

00:25:43.580 to be delisted

00:25:44.360 after they got together

00:25:46.060 and talked about it.

00:25:47.320 Now,

00:25:47.680 I would say

00:25:48.900 the Wall Street Journal

00:25:49.840 may be

00:25:50.780 not reporting

00:25:51.900 the news

00:25:52.560 exactly the way

00:25:54.020 that the facts

00:25:56.500 would suggest

00:25:57.920 because when I read

00:25:59.560 the actual article,

00:26:00.940 it didn't sound to me

00:26:02.700 like the way

00:26:03.320 to describe it

00:26:04.180 was that they had,

00:26:06.220 how'd they say it,

00:26:07.120 basically reversed

00:26:09.220 their decision.

00:26:10.560 It sounds like

00:26:11.560 what they're doing

00:26:12.240 is still thinking about it

00:26:14.860 and they just

00:26:15.420 delayed the decision.

00:26:16.440 So,

00:26:17.320 I think that we don't

00:26:18.240 know what the decision

00:26:19.180 will be.

00:26:19.740 It looked like

00:26:20.220 they just said,

00:26:20.820 wait a minute,

00:26:21.260 we talked to some people,

00:26:22.540 we have to hold off

00:26:23.780 until we know

00:26:24.340 a little bit more.

00:26:25.860 So,

00:26:26.340 I don't know

00:26:26.820 that it was reversed.

00:26:27.960 It might be just

00:26:28.500 thinking about it

00:26:29.240 because I think

00:26:29.740 they probably

00:26:30.160 want to do it.

00:26:31.920 All right,

00:26:32.180 here's everything

00:26:32.740 that's wrong

00:26:33.320 with the news.

00:26:36.020 And this applies

00:26:36.960 to every topic

00:26:37.940 in the news,

00:26:38.660 in politics anyway,

00:26:39.760 probably science as well.

00:26:41.080 And it goes like this.

00:26:43.520 So,

00:26:43.780 the New York Times

00:26:44.360 has a story

00:26:45.060 about a top

00:26:46.680 election official

00:26:47.380 in Georgia

00:26:47.900 who systematically

00:26:50.000 debunked,

00:26:51.620 that's their own phrase.

00:26:53.280 So,

00:26:53.540 from the New York Times,

00:26:54.540 they say

00:26:54.960 that Gabriel Sterling,

00:26:56.800 a top election official

00:26:58.160 in Georgia,

00:26:59.580 systematically debunked

00:27:01.680 President Trump's

00:27:02.620 false claims

00:27:03.860 of voter fraud

00:27:05.220 in a news conference.

00:27:06.620 So,

00:27:07.000 President Trump

00:27:07.580 on that phone call

00:27:08.980 that got leaked,

00:27:09.940 the audio

00:27:10.360 that many of you heard,

00:27:11.860 he was talking

00:27:12.700 to the officials

00:27:15.460 in Georgia

00:27:16.420 and he was telling

00:27:17.620 them all of the

00:27:18.620 allegations

00:27:19.460 that he was aware

00:27:20.700 of,

00:27:21.320 or at least some

00:27:21.820 of them,

00:27:22.760 of election fraud.

00:27:24.160 And he listed

00:27:24.840 some specifics.

00:27:26.720 Now,

00:27:26.980 the New York Times

00:27:27.600 says that this

00:27:28.820 official from Georgia

00:27:30.780 held a news conference

00:27:32.780 and systematically

00:27:35.240 debunked

00:27:36.620 what the president

00:27:37.840 alleged.

00:27:39.560 So,

00:27:40.180 we're done,

00:27:40.580 right?

00:27:40.760 Is there anything

00:27:42.380 else to say?

00:27:43.320 The president

00:27:44.240 made some claims.

00:27:46.420 The official

00:27:47.580 who's closest

00:27:48.380 to the data

00:27:49.120 gave a news conference

00:27:51.200 and he,

00:27:51.980 one by one,

00:27:53.140 he debunked

00:27:53.920 the claims,

00:27:55.060 according to

00:27:55.520 the New York Times.

00:27:57.360 So,

00:27:58.520 so that's the news

00:28:00.500 and now you're informed,

00:28:02.840 right?

00:28:04.580 Well,

00:28:05.260 there's one thing

00:28:05.880 that the New York Times

00:28:07.140 did not include.

00:28:07.920 the response

00:28:10.440 to the debunks

00:28:11.980 because do you think

00:28:14.240 that when the

00:28:15.300 debunking happened

00:28:16.240 that the debunker

00:28:18.360 listed everything

00:28:19.720 that the president

00:28:20.420 said?

00:28:21.480 Or do you think

00:28:22.460 maybe he debunked

00:28:23.940 the ones that are

00:28:24.840 easy to debunk

00:28:25.820 and just maybe

00:28:27.260 didn't mention

00:28:28.980 the others?

00:28:30.500 Do you think

00:28:31.140 that could have

00:28:31.580 happened?

00:28:32.480 Did the New York

00:28:33.540 Times report

00:28:34.340 that when he

00:28:35.920 debunked them

00:28:36.620 he debunked

00:28:37.760 everything that

00:28:38.540 the president said?

00:28:39.460 I don't believe

00:28:40.040 that they said

00:28:40.540 everything.

00:28:41.540 I believe they

00:28:42.260 listed the things

00:28:43.120 he debunked.

00:28:44.720 But wouldn't

00:28:45.780 you want the

00:28:46.360 story to say

00:28:47.120 and that is

00:28:48.200 everything that

00:28:48.980 the president

00:28:49.440 alleged?

00:28:50.760 Because I don't

00:28:51.500 know if it was.

00:28:52.860 I feel like

00:28:53.460 they might have

00:28:54.020 cherry picked.

00:28:56.340 See the pattern

00:28:57.240 yet?

00:28:58.260 Start with

00:28:58.880 the conclusion.

00:29:01.440 Work backwards

00:29:02.420 to the rationalization

00:29:03.640 and then the

00:29:04.740 last step of

00:29:05.480 backwards thinking

00:29:06.300 you cherry pick

00:29:07.520 the data.

00:29:08.140 So you pick the

00:29:08.620 ones that you

00:29:09.020 can debunk.

00:29:10.260 Now I told you

00:29:10.900 before this that

00:29:12.280 I heard the

00:29:12.760 president's

00:29:13.240 allegations and

00:29:14.340 even I knew

00:29:14.920 that the ones

00:29:15.960 I heard were

00:29:17.560 either mostly

00:29:18.260 or all already

00:29:19.520 falsified.

00:29:21.760 So I didn't

00:29:22.660 think they were

00:29:23.100 necessarily real

00:29:23.880 but I also think

00:29:24.940 that there are

00:29:25.420 some strong

00:29:26.280 claims still out

00:29:27.760 there and this

00:29:29.140 is where I think

00:29:29.700 the president is

00:29:30.620 underserved by

00:29:31.620 his advisors.

00:29:32.420 I feel like

00:29:33.460 people are just

00:29:34.040 afraid to tell

00:29:34.760 them the truth.

00:29:36.180 So if you're

00:29:36.940 listening Mr.

00:29:38.020 President would

00:29:39.780 you just insist

00:29:40.560 that your

00:29:40.860 advisors tell

00:29:42.500 you what these

00:29:43.440 allegations you

00:29:45.180 know tell you

00:29:46.080 that they've been

00:29:46.640 debunked or at

00:29:47.900 least tell you

00:29:48.480 that they've been

00:29:48.980 addressed so you

00:29:50.200 know what the

00:29:50.580 other argument is.

00:29:51.500 That doesn't

00:29:51.840 mean debunked.

00:29:52.900 And that's

00:29:53.160 actually my next

00:29:53.980 point.

00:29:55.300 What do you

00:29:56.020 know in any

00:29:57.280 topic if the

00:29:58.320 following things

00:29:59.120 happen?

00:29:59.920 Somebody makes a

00:30:00.920 claim and

00:30:02.160 somebody else

00:30:02.860 says this is

00:30:03.920 my debunk of

00:30:04.940 your claim and

00:30:06.640 that's it.

00:30:07.820 You're done.

00:30:08.820 And the two

00:30:09.260 people never talk

00:30:10.140 or interact.

00:30:11.440 There's a claim

00:30:12.220 and then there's

00:30:12.820 the debunking

00:30:13.680 claim.

00:30:14.960 What have you

00:30:15.620 learned?

00:30:17.280 Exactly nothing.

00:30:19.540 No information

00:30:20.600 you have there.

00:30:21.780 Because if all

00:30:22.600 you have is the

00:30:23.080 claim and the

00:30:23.660 counterclaim you

00:30:25.240 don't have

00:30:25.680 anything.

00:30:26.960 You really have

00:30:27.900 literally nothing.

00:30:29.220 But your brain

00:30:29.920 doesn't think so.

00:30:31.400 Your brain says

00:30:32.160 well that's a

00:30:32.660 lot.

00:30:33.480 Because you

00:30:33.800 know what your

00:30:34.080 brain does?

00:30:34.960 Your brain says

00:30:35.680 if you like the

00:30:36.440 claim the

00:30:37.640 debunking is

00:30:38.360 crazy.

00:30:39.380 If you didn't

00:30:39.980 like the claim

00:30:40.620 that debunking

00:30:41.460 sounds pretty

00:30:42.340 pretty solid

00:30:43.180 doesn't it?

00:30:44.060 Pretty good.

00:30:45.500 So when you

00:30:47.040 hear somebody

00:30:47.820 debunk and

00:30:49.520 then that's it

00:30:50.160 there's no

00:30:51.060 interplay and

00:30:52.080 you know

00:30:52.720 checking on

00:30:53.380 people's

00:30:53.780 assumptions and

00:30:54.600 making sure

00:30:55.040 you're talking

00:30:55.460 about the same

00:30:55.960 thing.

00:30:56.180 You are

00:30:57.440 seeing fake

00:30:58.100 news.

00:30:59.460 So when the

00:30:59.860 New York

00:31:00.200 Times your

00:31:00.900 paper of

00:31:01.620 record tells

00:31:03.100 you that the

00:31:05.040 claims have

00:31:05.780 been quote

00:31:06.360 their actual

00:31:07.040 language

00:31:07.600 systematically

00:31:08.780 debunked

00:31:09.860 that is not

00:31:10.860 news.

00:31:12.080 Here's what

00:31:12.860 news would

00:31:13.640 have looked

00:31:13.980 like.

00:31:16.140 Systematically

00:31:16.820 addressed.

00:31:19.300 Systematically

00:31:20.020 responded to.

00:31:22.440 Right?

00:31:23.260 Now wouldn't

00:31:23.920 you say that

00:31:24.480 would be news?

00:31:25.160 It's news

00:31:26.560 that the

00:31:26.960 president made

00:31:27.440 a claim

00:31:27.840 and here

00:31:28.180 are the

00:31:28.400 claims.

00:31:29.420 And it

00:31:29.600 would be

00:31:29.920 news that

00:31:30.780 somebody who

00:31:31.960 is close

00:31:32.560 to the

00:31:32.920 data

00:31:33.200 addressed

00:31:34.260 some of

00:31:35.980 them.

00:31:37.000 I don't

00:31:37.480 know if it

00:31:37.940 was all

00:31:38.300 of them.

00:31:39.280 Was it

00:31:39.720 all of them?

00:31:40.500 I don't

00:31:40.980 think so.

00:31:42.020 And some

00:31:42.500 of them were

00:31:42.920 addressed by

00:31:43.460 just saying

00:31:43.940 that didn't

00:31:44.900 happen.

00:31:46.380 Would you

00:31:46.760 call that a

00:31:47.300 debunk?

00:31:48.360 Let me

00:31:48.980 debunk

00:31:49.520 the claim

00:31:51.440 that

00:31:52.000 Joe Biden

00:31:54.280 was elected

00:31:54.960 president.

00:31:55.960 Watch me

00:31:56.500 do it.

00:31:58.060 I'm going

00:31:58.520 to do it

00:31:58.880 with the

00:31:59.200 same

00:31:59.580 journalistic

00:32:00.780 integrity

00:32:01.300 as the

00:32:01.780 New York

00:32:02.060 Times and

00:32:03.100 the same

00:32:03.580 authority as

00:32:04.820 the officials

00:32:05.400 in Georgia.

00:32:06.560 Here's my

00:32:07.020 debunk.

00:32:08.040 Didn't

00:32:08.340 happen.

00:32:10.280 Didn't

00:32:10.540 happen.

00:32:13.080 Are we

00:32:13.840 good now?

00:32:15.380 Didn't

00:32:15.820 happen.

00:32:17.220 That's it.

00:32:18.340 Now that's

00:32:18.940 not news

00:32:20.720 that somebody

00:32:22.960 just says

00:32:23.480 something

00:32:23.820 didn't

00:32:24.140 happen.

00:32:25.960 News

00:32:26.400 would be

00:32:26.980 I made

00:32:28.040 a claim.

00:32:28.800 Somebody

00:32:29.040 said it

00:32:29.400 didn't

00:32:29.620 happen.

00:32:30.140 The person

00:32:30.480 who made

00:32:30.840 the claim

00:32:31.300 says here's

00:32:32.440 why I said

00:32:33.000 it happened.

00:32:33.700 Then they

00:32:34.040 talk about

00:32:34.560 the evidence.

00:32:35.340 It's good

00:32:35.720 or it's bad.

00:32:36.680 You talk

00:32:37.020 about the

00:32:37.360 context.

00:32:38.000 You make

00:32:38.220 sure you're

00:32:38.580 on the

00:32:38.820 same page.

00:32:39.780 Are you

00:32:40.000 really talking

00:32:40.540 about the

00:32:40.860 same thing?

00:32:41.960 Well then

00:32:42.320 that would

00:32:42.660 be news.

00:32:43.800 And I

00:32:44.080 would like

00:32:44.400 to hear

00:32:44.640 that.

00:32:45.760 But here's

00:32:46.720 a claim

00:32:47.100 and here's

00:32:47.480 the debunk.

00:32:48.940 That's

00:32:49.240 propaganda.

00:32:50.960 Let me

00:32:51.280 say that

00:32:51.600 again.

00:32:52.480 Anytime

00:32:52.880 you see

00:32:53.320 in the

00:32:53.540 news,

00:32:53.900 and it

00:32:54.060 doesn't

00:32:54.260 matter

00:32:54.460 if it's

00:32:54.820 left-leading

00:32:55.520 news or

00:32:56.740 right-leading

00:32:57.240 news,

00:32:58.320 if you

00:32:59.940 see it's

00:33:00.380 just a

00:33:00.740 claim and

00:33:01.460 a debunk,

00:33:02.280 that's

00:33:02.620 propaganda.

00:33:03.880 Every time.

00:33:04.960 It's just

00:33:05.240 propaganda.

00:33:07.000 News

00:33:07.520 would be

00:33:08.160 more of a

00:33:08.660 conversation.

00:33:10.240 All right.

00:33:10.920 So here are

00:33:11.780 some of the

00:33:12.680 debunks they

00:33:13.260 offered and

00:33:13.920 the ones

00:33:14.220 that I'll

00:33:14.580 agree with.

00:33:15.500 You remember

00:33:15.840 the famous

00:33:16.460 video of

00:33:17.460 the

00:33:18.580 worker in

00:33:19.880 Georgia,

00:33:20.560 I forget

00:33:20.780 which county,

00:33:21.880 and the

00:33:22.180 video seemed

00:33:22.920 to show that

00:33:23.700 they were

00:33:23.980 sending people

00:33:24.740 away,

00:33:25.700 and then they

00:33:26.280 took out the

00:33:27.080 secret hidden

00:33:28.140 ballots from

00:33:28.680 under the

00:33:29.060 table that

00:33:30.020 were in

00:33:30.360 regular

00:33:30.740 suitcases.

00:33:31.720 Pretty

00:33:31.960 sketchy,

00:33:32.500 huh?

00:33:32.720 Regular

00:33:33.080 suitcases.

00:33:33.880 Why would

00:33:34.280 you put a

00:33:34.640 ballot in a

00:33:35.640 regular

00:33:35.940 suitcase?

00:33:37.380 But of

00:33:37.920 course,

00:33:38.600 nothing like

00:33:39.200 that happened.

00:33:40.540 So when I

00:33:41.500 watched the

00:33:42.920 video, and it's

00:33:43.880 the same video

00:33:44.640 you all

00:33:45.180 watched, we

00:33:46.800 watched the

00:33:47.320 same video,

00:33:48.780 most of you

00:33:49.740 said, there

00:33:50.480 it is, it's

00:33:51.420 right there,

00:33:52.060 there's the

00:33:52.500 fraud.

00:33:53.180 You can see

00:33:53.740 it with your

00:33:54.080 own eyes.

00:33:55.320 And I

00:33:55.660 watched the

00:33:56.120 same video

00:33:56.700 and said,

00:33:57.980 nope, I

00:33:59.000 don't see

00:33:59.260 any of it.

00:34:00.460 Absolutely

00:34:00.940 none of it.

00:34:02.580 I see

00:34:03.080 nothing there

00:34:03.800 that even

00:34:04.380 makes me a

00:34:04.900 little suspicious.

00:34:07.160 Here was the

00:34:08.060 explanation, the

00:34:08.800 official explanation,

00:34:10.420 that the

00:34:11.320 workers decided

00:34:12.500 to quit

00:34:13.040 counting for

00:34:13.580 the night, and

00:34:14.920 they had all

00:34:15.520 decided to

00:34:16.140 quit.

00:34:17.380 But when the

00:34:18.580 news came down

00:34:19.360 to the state

00:34:20.040 that they were

00:34:20.920 going to quit

00:34:21.460 counting, the

00:34:23.000 state said, you

00:34:23.740 can't quit

00:34:24.260 counting, go

00:34:25.200 back to work,

00:34:26.200 because these

00:34:26.740 need to be

00:34:27.200 counted, don't

00:34:27.740 go home.

00:34:29.360 So the people

00:34:30.200 who thought they

00:34:30.960 were quitting

00:34:31.460 counting had

00:34:32.740 already sent

00:34:33.560 home the people

00:34:34.260 who didn't need

00:34:34.740 to do anything

00:34:35.340 while the rest

00:34:35.940 of them were

00:34:36.340 cleaning up.

00:34:37.840 And then when

00:34:38.300 everybody else was

00:34:39.020 gone, the news

00:34:39.920 comes in, oh,

00:34:40.700 you've got to

00:34:40.980 keep counting.

00:34:41.500 I know there

00:34:43.420 were no

00:34:43.760 observers.

00:34:44.580 I'm telling you

00:34:45.400 how there were

00:34:46.640 no observers,

00:34:47.700 that all of the

00:34:48.780 people thought

00:34:49.360 that they were

00:34:49.800 going to all

00:34:50.300 go home, but

00:34:51.700 before they all

00:34:52.520 went home, the

00:34:54.100 call came in to

00:34:54.860 keep counting.

00:34:55.920 So the observers

00:34:56.940 had gone home,

00:34:58.240 the rest of them

00:34:59.100 said, oh, crap,

00:35:00.080 we thought we

00:35:00.580 were going home,

00:35:01.620 but now we're

00:35:02.340 going to have to

00:35:02.680 take out those

00:35:03.300 ballots that we

00:35:03.960 had stored safely

00:35:04.980 in official ballot

00:35:06.660 boxes with the

00:35:07.960 tape over it, so

00:35:08.760 you know whether

00:35:09.220 it's been opened,

00:35:09.820 and they put

00:35:10.820 them under the

00:35:11.320 tables, so

00:35:12.240 you know, probably

00:35:13.960 part of the

00:35:14.340 process, and they

00:35:15.720 took them out, and

00:35:16.580 they were not

00:35:17.080 regular suitcases,

00:35:18.320 they were official

00:35:19.060 ballot things that

00:35:19.900 just happened to be

00:35:20.500 on wheelies for

00:35:21.800 that very thing.

00:35:25.120 Hold on, you're

00:35:26.400 lying, so he

00:35:27.160 says, you claimed

00:35:27.900 you said, hold

00:35:28.980 on, the official

00:35:30.700 story you believed

00:35:31.820 was that the

00:35:32.400 shredders left and

00:35:34.100 the media followed,

00:35:36.460 that the shredders

00:35:37.700 left and the media

00:35:38.740 followed.

00:35:39.020 I'm saying the

00:35:39.560 same thing, I'm

00:35:40.740 saying that a

00:35:42.360 whole bunch of

00:35:42.940 people left because

00:35:44.040 they thought that

00:35:44.900 their role there

00:35:45.680 was done.

00:35:48.080 Is that different?

00:35:49.680 That the people

00:35:50.500 were told to leave

00:35:51.400 and then they

00:35:51.860 did?

00:35:53.260 That news people

00:35:54.300 thought that they

00:35:54.980 were done, so

00:35:55.620 they left.

00:35:56.340 I think that's the

00:35:57.080 same as what I

00:35:57.640 said.

00:35:58.280 Somebody's accusing

00:35:58.920 me of lying.

00:36:00.180 There was something

00:36:00.740 about a busted

00:36:01.360 pipe that was just

00:36:03.180 maybe a toilet

00:36:03.840 overflowed, that

00:36:05.360 really happened, but

00:36:06.620 it didn't have much

00:36:07.360 of an impact on the

00:36:08.300 counting.

00:36:08.760 They just delayed

00:36:09.360 for a little

00:36:09.720 while.

00:36:10.580 So here's the

00:36:11.080 thing.

00:36:11.940 The state has an

00:36:13.420 explanation and

00:36:14.800 they say that they

00:36:15.620 reviewed the tape

00:36:16.500 from beginning to

00:36:17.240 end and there

00:36:17.840 wasn't anything on

00:36:18.660 there that wasn't

00:36:19.260 exactly what they

00:36:20.140 know is legitimate.

00:36:22.940 Except that, by

00:36:25.000 accident, when they

00:36:27.040 thought they were

00:36:27.600 all going to go

00:36:28.320 home, the observers

00:36:29.900 and the press left

00:36:30.880 and they didn't

00:36:31.600 call them back.

00:36:32.820 They'd already

00:36:33.320 gone home.

00:36:33.760 So, should those

00:36:36.460 votes be counted

00:36:37.420 if they were not

00:36:38.680 observed?

00:36:39.200 I think you could

00:36:39.660 make that argument.

00:36:42.060 I think that would

00:36:42.780 be a strong argument

00:36:43.580 actually.

00:36:44.660 But, that was the

00:36:45.740 explanation given.

00:36:46.800 And what I saw on

00:36:47.640 the video didn't

00:36:48.940 look like anything

00:36:51.100 except people just

00:36:52.160 working.

00:36:53.780 Here's what else

00:36:54.540 they said.

00:36:54.960 There was no

00:36:55.320 triple counting by

00:36:56.440 the reprocessing.

00:36:57.840 If there had been,

00:36:58.700 they would have

00:36:59.060 picked it up in the

00:37:00.140 recount.

00:37:03.060 And no problem

00:37:03.920 with these so-called

00:37:05.080 pristine ballots.

00:37:06.740 You know, the

00:37:07.100 ballots are usually

00:37:07.960 folded when they're

00:37:08.860 mailed.

00:37:09.660 But apparently,

00:37:10.460 somebody cited a

00:37:11.620 lot of ballots that

00:37:12.340 didn't have any

00:37:12.820 fold in them, which

00:37:14.280 would suggest they

00:37:15.020 were fake.

00:37:15.940 But apparently,

00:37:16.800 there are legitimate

00:37:17.740 reasons why there

00:37:18.660 are unfolded ballots.

00:37:19.980 You don't need to

00:37:20.540 know the details.

00:37:21.940 But the official

00:37:22.620 people say, no,

00:37:23.660 there are both

00:37:24.300 folded ones and

00:37:25.980 unfolded ones.

00:37:27.060 The unfolded ones

00:37:27.980 are because military

00:37:29.660 blah, blah,

00:37:30.120 blah is the

00:37:30.660 wrong size.

00:37:31.480 They have to

00:37:31.800 transfer it onto

00:37:32.680 something else.

00:37:33.560 It doesn't matter

00:37:34.020 the details, but

00:37:34.820 there are unfolded

00:37:36.180 ballots that are

00:37:36.800 normal.

00:37:38.100 How about the

00:37:41.440 shredders?

00:37:42.300 So there's a

00:37:42.880 report that ballots

00:37:44.360 were being shredded,

00:37:45.480 but that was just

00:37:46.780 not true.

00:37:47.600 There was shredding,

00:37:48.460 but it was, I

00:37:49.280 guess, just the

00:37:49.860 envelopes or

00:37:50.640 something that

00:37:51.080 doesn't matter.

00:37:52.540 So they claim

00:37:53.560 that wasn't false.

00:37:54.840 There's claims about

00:37:55.860 lots of people using

00:37:56.700 the same address.

00:37:57.740 address, why is

00:37:59.720 that a problem?

00:38:01.180 I'm not even sure

00:38:02.000 why that's a

00:38:02.480 problem.

00:38:03.200 Now, the implication

00:38:04.360 is that lots of

00:38:05.700 people at the same

00:38:06.400 address is a

00:38:07.820 smoking gun for

00:38:08.900 fake voters.

00:38:10.540 But apparently,

00:38:11.360 most of them are,

00:38:12.320 let's say, there's a

00:38:12.920 big apartment

00:38:14.100 building, and so

00:38:16.340 they just have the

00:38:17.140 same address as

00:38:18.000 just the apartments.

00:38:18.720 or there are

00:38:21.220 cases where I

00:38:21.880 think homeless

00:38:22.360 people would use

00:38:24.360 some homeless

00:38:25.420 facility or some

00:38:26.360 kind of place as

00:38:28.380 a common address

00:38:29.520 because they're

00:38:30.460 homeless.

00:38:31.740 Now, I don't

00:38:32.640 have a problem

00:38:33.220 with a homeless

00:38:34.280 person using a

00:38:35.980 fake address for

00:38:37.760 their address, even

00:38:39.080 if the law says

00:38:39.940 they can't.

00:38:41.420 In my opinion,

00:38:42.220 that would be one

00:38:42.860 thing I wouldn't

00:38:43.460 want the court to

00:38:44.140 even look at.

00:38:45.040 Why can't a

00:38:45.620 homeless person vote?

00:38:46.480 Why do you need

00:38:48.220 an address?

00:38:49.720 Like, how is that

00:38:50.540 fair to a homeless

00:38:51.260 person?

00:38:52.360 They should be able

00:38:53.300 to just use any

00:38:54.780 address and vote,

00:38:56.980 as long as they're

00:38:57.660 real people, real

00:38:58.480 citizens, why not?

00:38:59.960 So, here's my

00:39:01.700 point.

00:39:02.120 So, I'm not saying

00:39:03.140 that the explanations

00:39:04.740 I'm giving you are

00:39:06.040 accurate.

00:39:07.240 I'm saying that we

00:39:08.240 have a situation

00:39:08.860 there were claims,

00:39:10.200 there were

00:39:10.480 counterclaims.

00:39:11.540 I don't know if

00:39:12.160 they addressed all

00:39:13.180 the claims.

00:39:13.960 That's not the

00:39:14.460 problem.

00:39:14.720 But we can't

00:39:16.980 tell which one

00:39:17.900 is true.

00:39:18.780 I would say in

00:39:19.540 these cases the

00:39:20.720 debunks or

00:39:22.500 alleged debunks

00:39:23.580 sound stronger,

00:39:24.920 but there are

00:39:25.780 some strong

00:39:26.340 claims out there.

00:39:27.180 The statistical

00:39:27.940 claims are very

00:39:28.940 strong.

00:39:30.000 So, the

00:39:30.480 statistical claims

00:39:31.560 that say the

00:39:32.620 odds of this or

00:39:33.520 that happening

00:39:34.120 are so remote

00:39:34.960 that fraud had

00:39:36.700 to have happened.

00:39:37.780 But the problem

00:39:38.560 is if you're the

00:39:39.540 state and you're

00:39:41.140 in charge of the

00:39:41.800 election and

00:39:42.960 somebody comes to

00:39:43.760 you with a

00:39:44.220 statistical

00:39:44.820 argument, what

00:39:46.740 do you do

00:39:47.020 about it?

00:39:48.200 You're in charge

00:39:49.040 of the election

00:39:49.660 and somebody

00:39:50.840 says these

00:39:51.460 statistics show

00:39:52.480 that there was

00:39:53.100 mischief.

00:39:54.780 Well, you can

00:39:55.320 do a recount,

00:39:56.480 but what if the

00:39:57.460 recount matches

00:39:58.920 the original

00:39:59.560 count?

00:40:00.140 Because I think

00:40:00.600 that actually

00:40:01.140 happened, right?

00:40:02.460 At least the

00:40:02.940 recount in some

00:40:03.600 places.

00:40:04.480 So if it

00:40:04.940 matches and

00:40:06.500 you're in charge

00:40:07.120 of the election,

00:40:08.060 what the hell

00:40:08.760 else are you

00:40:09.160 going to do?

00:40:10.180 So I think the

00:40:11.220 problem with

00:40:11.780 these statistical

00:40:12.720 arguments are

00:40:13.940 that it might

00:40:14.780 be very

00:40:15.200 persuasive to

00:40:16.060 you and it

00:40:16.600 might be

00:40:17.160 persuasive to

00:40:18.000 me, but what

00:40:19.180 can the people

00:40:19.680 in charge of

00:40:20.260 the election

00:40:20.660 do about that?

00:40:22.280 You can't

00:40:22.800 really throw

00:40:23.380 out the

00:40:23.780 election because

00:40:25.120 a statistician

00:40:26.740 said it looked

00:40:27.300 unlikely.

00:40:31.740 Then you have

00:40:32.520 the claim from

00:40:33.320 Jovan Hutton

00:40:35.600 Pulitzer.

00:40:36.720 He's the

00:40:37.400 technical guy

00:40:38.980 that I talked

00:40:39.560 about and

00:40:40.140 people couldn't

00:40:40.840 find the

00:40:41.300 link to it.

00:40:42.320 So I've

00:40:42.620 tweeted him

00:40:43.140 again today.

00:40:43.920 You'll find

00:40:44.240 him in my

00:40:44.720 Twitter feed if

00:40:45.700 you want to

00:40:46.020 find the

00:40:46.460 technical person

00:40:48.080 who says that

00:40:48.640 you can get

00:40:49.440 into the

00:40:49.920 voting systems.

00:40:52.180 There are a

00:40:52.740 number of

00:40:53.080 different devices

00:40:53.820 for, I guess,

00:40:55.380 counting and

00:40:56.460 voting and

00:40:57.040 stuff.

00:40:58.100 So it's not

00:40:59.400 like there's

00:40:59.760 one machine.

00:41:00.820 It's like

00:41:01.120 connected machines.

00:41:03.960 And he said

00:41:04.680 that he can

00:41:05.460 get into them

00:41:06.140 and the Wi-Fi

00:41:06.840 is open.

00:41:07.360 And the

00:41:08.060 official state

00:41:08.980 response is

00:41:09.720 that it's not.

00:41:11.300 So what do

00:41:11.880 you know?

00:41:12.400 So what is

00:41:12.840 the news?

00:41:13.980 So there's a

00:41:14.480 claim by a

00:41:15.100 technical person

00:41:15.860 that you can

00:41:16.480 get into them

00:41:17.180 and that he

00:41:18.120 did.

00:41:19.300 That he did.

00:41:20.500 And he actually

00:41:21.180 showed you a

00:41:21.740 screen print where

00:41:23.140 he can show the

00:41:24.140 address, the

00:41:24.800 Wi-Fi, I don't

00:41:26.920 know what you

00:41:27.440 call it, the

00:41:28.000 Wi-Fi long

00:41:28.940 code that shows

00:41:30.180 he had access

00:41:30.780 to it.

00:41:31.440 I mean, I'm

00:41:32.100 not technical

00:41:33.200 enough that I

00:41:34.720 would know if

00:41:35.200 that proved

00:41:35.600 anything.

00:41:35.960 But certainly

00:41:37.340 he has something

00:41:37.920 he's willing to

00:41:38.600 show everybody.

00:41:39.760 None of it's

00:41:40.200 secret.

00:41:41.280 So he's made a

00:41:42.320 claim and he

00:41:42.880 says, I can

00:41:43.700 show you that

00:41:44.320 you can get

00:41:44.920 into those

00:41:45.420 systems and

00:41:46.580 change votes.

00:41:47.960 Here's my

00:41:48.580 question.

00:41:49.880 Would that

00:41:50.320 show up in a

00:41:50.940 recount?

00:41:52.380 I guess I have

00:41:53.340 a general

00:41:53.780 question, which

00:41:54.560 is how many

00:41:56.100 claims of

00:41:57.000 fraud of the

00:41:58.040 various flavors

00:41:58.900 of claims,

00:42:00.200 how many of

00:42:00.860 them would be

00:42:01.420 detected by a

00:42:02.340 recount versus

00:42:04.780 would they

00:42:05.480 just be

00:42:05.920 counting ballots

00:42:07.100 that weren't

00:42:08.320 legitimate and

00:42:09.160 just counting it

00:42:09.800 a second time?

00:42:11.180 Does a

00:42:11.780 recount capture

00:42:12.840 only some

00:42:13.660 kinds of

00:42:14.080 fraud or

00:42:15.100 does it

00:42:15.400 capture everything

00:42:16.120 that could be

00:42:16.640 captured?

00:42:18.360 I don't know.

00:42:19.280 I would think it

00:42:20.020 wouldn't capture

00:42:20.640 all of them,

00:42:21.940 would it?

00:42:23.840 Because if you

00:42:25.120 read the news,

00:42:25.800 it's almost as

00:42:26.440 if when you

00:42:27.840 have a

00:42:28.260 recount, we're

00:42:29.840 supposed to

00:42:30.380 believe that all

00:42:31.220 fraud has been

00:42:32.020 eliminated as a

00:42:33.060 possibility.

00:42:33.640 does that not

00:42:35.180 feel like what

00:42:35.920 the news is

00:42:36.760 telling you?

00:42:37.960 That if a

00:42:39.060 recount that

00:42:40.600 is good, that

00:42:41.920 matches or

00:42:42.680 close enough to

00:42:43.340 the original

00:42:43.760 vote, that you

00:42:44.720 could say, oh,

00:42:45.160 we did a

00:42:45.500 recount, so

00:42:46.580 there you go.

00:42:48.020 But a

00:42:48.600 recount is not

00:42:49.260 exactly an

00:42:49.900 audit, is it?

00:42:51.560 I'm seeing that

00:42:52.220 in the comments,

00:42:52.860 right?

00:42:53.320 An audit would

00:42:54.100 be more

00:42:54.440 comprehensive.

00:42:55.640 I would think

00:42:56.180 an audit would

00:42:57.380 get all the way

00:42:58.240 into the code of

00:42:59.160 the voting

00:43:00.260 machines and

00:43:01.320 how they're

00:43:02.140 networked and

00:43:02.680 all that stuff.

00:43:04.600 But let's

00:43:05.580 say, here's

00:43:06.960 the part, I've

00:43:07.680 got this, you

00:43:08.440 know, black

00:43:10.000 hole of lack

00:43:10.680 of knowledge.

00:43:11.900 Suppose somebody

00:43:13.300 hacked into the

00:43:14.060 voting machines

00:43:14.720 and changed the

00:43:15.540 vote.

00:43:16.780 Would a

00:43:17.340 recount discover

00:43:19.360 that?

00:43:20.460 Because does,

00:43:21.380 and here's my

00:43:21.980 question, when

00:43:22.980 you vote on a

00:43:23.720 voting machine,

00:43:25.080 does it create a

00:43:26.760 paper ballot?

00:43:28.320 Or does it just

00:43:29.360 go digitally all

00:43:30.720 the way to the

00:43:31.460 final database?

00:43:32.800 Because if it

00:43:34.420 goes digitally to

00:43:35.500 the final database,

00:43:37.340 then what good

00:43:38.080 is counting

00:43:38.620 ballots?

00:43:39.640 That's just the

00:43:40.480 mail-ins, right?

00:43:42.360 So I feel like

00:43:44.120 when anybody says

00:43:45.720 that things have

00:43:46.820 been debunked,

00:43:48.480 I don't know that

00:43:49.440 they've even looked

00:43:50.180 into it.

00:43:51.540 So the first

00:43:52.540 trick of the

00:43:53.460 fake news is

00:43:54.800 if there are

00:43:55.320 12 claims,

00:43:56.960 the claimants

00:43:57.860 have made a

00:43:58.420 gigantic mistake.

00:43:59.820 because if you

00:44:01.020 know, you know

00:44:01.580 if they make

00:44:02.020 12 claims,

00:44:03.220 you're going to

00:44:04.360 have at least

00:44:04.900 six that aren't

00:44:05.580 true.

00:44:06.520 So what are the

00:44:07.320 people on the

00:44:07.800 other side going

00:44:08.420 to say?

00:44:09.360 Well, they're not

00:44:09.980 going to address

00:44:10.500 the six strong

00:44:11.480 claims.

00:44:12.440 They don't have

00:44:13.100 to.

00:44:13.700 Because they get

00:44:14.400 to say what they

00:44:15.020 say and then

00:44:15.540 walk away.

00:44:16.400 It's a press

00:44:16.940 conference.

00:44:18.140 There's no other

00:44:18.940 expert at the

00:44:19.620 press conference.

00:44:20.760 So they just get

00:44:21.360 to say what they

00:44:22.060 say and walk

00:44:22.580 away.

00:44:23.380 Debunk six out

00:44:24.220 of the 12 and

00:44:24.800 we're done.

00:44:25.160 So if you come

00:44:26.400 with 12 claims

00:44:27.720 and six of them

00:44:29.160 are weak, you've

00:44:30.600 done a really

00:44:31.260 bad job.

00:44:32.860 The president

00:44:33.480 has done a

00:44:34.880 really bad job

00:44:36.100 of persuasion,

00:44:37.160 really bad,

00:44:38.280 on the election

00:44:39.480 fraud stuff

00:44:40.380 because he's

00:44:41.840 going with a

00:44:42.480 laundry list

00:44:43.340 filled with

00:44:44.920 known, pretty

00:44:46.160 much debunked

00:44:47.220 stuff, even

00:44:47.940 that I would

00:44:48.720 say is

00:44:49.140 reasonably

00:44:50.340 certainly

00:44:50.980 debunked.

00:44:52.280 Now, does it

00:44:54.120 matter how many

00:44:55.120 things on the

00:44:55.800 list are

00:44:56.180 debunked, would

00:44:57.900 that tell you

00:44:58.560 that the 12th

00:44:59.340 thing is not

00:44:59.920 true?

00:45:01.080 Nope.

00:45:02.300 No correlation.

00:45:03.940 There could be

00:45:04.480 100 things

00:45:05.280 debunked.

00:45:06.240 It doesn't mean

00:45:06.760 101 is also

00:45:07.880 not true.

00:45:09.020 There's no

00:45:09.420 correlation.

00:45:11.240 I suppose it

00:45:12.140 could be, but

00:45:12.740 hypothetically there

00:45:13.800 could not be.

00:45:15.020 So, yeah,

00:45:17.760 recount is not

00:45:18.480 an audit.

00:45:19.400 So the fake

00:45:20.280 news, I believe,

00:45:21.160 is creating a

00:45:22.100 situation in which

00:45:22.980 the under-informed

00:45:24.640 consumer, which

00:45:25.480 is most

00:45:25.820 consumers, will

00:45:27.140 believe that the

00:45:28.080 vote was

00:45:28.860 audited slash

00:45:30.240 recounted, which

00:45:32.540 I don't believe

00:45:33.540 would be a true

00:45:34.260 statement.

00:45:35.120 There have been

00:45:35.620 some recounts in

00:45:36.480 some places,

00:45:37.380 certainly not

00:45:38.040 audited, and

00:45:39.540 that all of the

00:45:40.280 claims of fraud

00:45:41.200 have been

00:45:41.600 debunked, and

00:45:42.640 that's just not

00:45:44.200 true.

00:45:45.260 Here's a specific

00:45:46.300 claim from this

00:45:47.280 Joe Van

00:45:49.260 Hutton

00:45:49.860 Pulitzer, and I

00:45:51.600 haven't seen any

00:45:52.240 debunk of that,

00:45:52.900 of you.

00:45:53.740 The Georgia guy

00:45:55.240 who talked about

00:45:55.960 it, he didn't

00:45:56.380 mention it.

00:45:59.180 So, President

00:46:00.500 Trump was saying

00:46:01.460 on his recorded

00:46:02.840 phone call that he

00:46:03.600 wasn't even talking

00:46:04.400 about the Dominion

00:46:05.460 and software stuff

00:46:06.500 because he thought

00:46:07.480 the ballot stuff

00:46:08.280 was strong enough,

00:46:09.840 but maybe not.

00:46:12.380 So we'll see.

00:46:13.360 All right.

00:46:17.660 Here's a micro

00:46:18.640 lesson.

00:46:20.900 So I'm going to

00:46:21.760 start a micro

00:46:22.340 lesson, and I'll

00:46:23.880 probably ask my

00:46:24.980 assistant to cut

00:46:26.380 this piece out and

00:46:27.660 put it on the

00:46:29.160 Locals platform.

00:46:30.440 So if you'd like to

00:46:31.400 see my micro

00:46:32.800 lessons on everything

00:46:33.720 from persuasion to

00:46:34.940 improving your life

00:46:36.700 to understanding

00:46:37.980 reality better and

00:46:39.020 all that, that's on

00:46:40.380 the Locals.com

00:46:41.780 subscription platform.

00:46:43.940 So sometimes when I

00:46:44.860 do a longer

00:46:45.300 periscope, but there's

00:46:46.300 a lesson embedded

00:46:47.760 in it, I'll just

00:46:48.400 pick out the lesson

00:46:49.500 so that you can just

00:46:50.860 see those separately

00:46:51.520 on Locals.

00:46:54.280 Here's a micro

00:46:55.120 lesson on hypnosis.

00:46:56.700 Not how to do

00:46:57.440 hypnosis, but a

00:46:58.300 specific question that

00:46:59.280 people have been

00:46:59.720 asking me.

00:47:00.740 And the question is

00:47:01.520 this.

00:47:02.600 Can you use hypnosis

00:47:03.740 to get somebody to do

00:47:05.120 something that they

00:47:06.160 don't want to do?

00:47:07.540 Now, when I

00:47:08.120 interviewed Nikki

00:47:09.220 Klein, who was

00:47:10.260 involved with the

00:47:11.040 NXIVM organization

00:47:13.740 which the news

00:47:15.080 calls a cult,

00:47:16.020 but that's an

00:47:16.820 opinion, not an

00:47:18.680 objective statement.

00:47:21.480 When I was

00:47:22.160 talking to her, I

00:47:22.960 said during the

00:47:24.420 interview that in

00:47:25.180 my opinion, you

00:47:26.960 cannot hypnotize

00:47:29.020 people to do

00:47:29.760 things that they

00:47:30.600 don't want to do,

00:47:31.860 meaning that are

00:47:32.640 deeply against their

00:47:33.640 ethical or moral

00:47:34.880 or self-interest.

00:47:36.620 And a lot of

00:47:38.240 people disagreed.

00:47:39.540 And there was a

00:47:40.440 gentleman, Eric

00:47:41.540 Hundley, H-U-N-L-E-Y.

00:47:44.300 If you want to

00:47:44.780 Google him, he's

00:47:45.360 got a YouTube

00:47:45.800 channel, in which

00:47:47.380 he brings up this

00:47:49.120 point, and he

00:47:50.140 talks about the

00:47:52.500 different opinions

00:47:53.180 from a couple of

00:47:54.100 other professional

00:47:54.880 hypnotists who say

00:47:57.400 the opposite.

00:47:58.520 They say, yeah,

00:48:00.160 you know, under the

00:48:01.140 right circumstances,

00:48:02.520 you can hypnotize

00:48:03.780 people to do

00:48:04.740 pretty much

00:48:05.800 anything.

00:48:06.120 Now, why is it

00:48:08.540 that I say you

00:48:09.260 can't, and two

00:48:11.080 other professional

00:48:12.120 hypnotists, you

00:48:13.440 know, even more

00:48:14.060 qualified than me,

00:48:15.120 because they do it

00:48:15.840 professionally, why

00:48:17.660 would they say you

00:48:18.580 can, but I say

00:48:20.460 you can't?

00:48:21.660 Well, the difference

00:48:22.960 has more to do with

00:48:24.360 definitions than with

00:48:26.340 disagreeing about the

00:48:27.700 facts.

00:48:28.400 If you dug into

00:48:29.360 each of the

00:48:29.840 individual facts that

00:48:31.680 the other two

00:48:32.220 hypnotists claim to

00:48:33.300 be true, I will

00:48:34.600 also agree they're

00:48:35.500 true, but we're

00:48:36.940 only differing on

00:48:38.220 definition, and

00:48:38.980 here's the problem.

00:48:40.200 When you tell me,

00:48:41.800 can you make

00:48:42.520 somebody do

00:48:43.020 something they

00:48:43.720 don't want to do

00:48:44.300 with hypnosis, I

00:48:46.280 have limited my

00:48:47.220 definition of

00:48:48.020 hypnosis to a

00:48:49.660 subject and a

00:48:51.040 hypnotist who are

00:48:53.120 trying to do the

00:48:54.220 same thing.

00:48:55.320 In other words,

00:48:56.020 the subject wants

00:48:56.880 to, let's say,

00:48:57.600 conquer a fear, and

00:48:59.440 the hypnotist wants

00:49:00.460 to help them do

00:49:01.240 that.

00:49:02.160 That's your normal

00:49:03.040 subject-hypnotist

00:49:04.800 situation.

00:49:06.200 Now, under that

00:49:06.920 situation, by

00:49:08.120 definition, the

00:49:09.800 hypnotist is only

00:49:10.840 doing things that

00:49:12.260 the person wants.

00:49:13.340 They want to get

00:49:13.880 over their fear.

00:49:15.420 So, when I call it

00:49:16.940 hypnosis, I mean a

00:49:19.600 willing situation in

00:49:21.620 which the subject and

00:49:22.440 the hypnotist are going

00:49:23.340 for the same

00:49:23.820 objective.

00:49:24.840 So, it's more of a

00:49:25.960 definition thing.

00:49:27.520 Now, could the

00:49:29.160 hypnotist plant

00:49:30.880 unwanted suggestions

00:49:32.220 and get somebody to do

00:49:33.600 something that they

00:49:34.320 didn't want to do?

00:49:36.680 Yes, they could.

00:49:39.200 Could somebody who's

00:49:40.720 not a hypnotist use

00:49:42.400 the same tools of

00:49:43.900 persuasion and

00:49:46.080 guess somebody to do

00:49:47.080 something that they

00:49:48.080 really didn't want to

00:49:49.460 do?

00:49:50.380 And the answer is

00:49:51.520 yes.

00:49:53.220 In fact, you see that

00:49:54.420 happen every single

00:49:55.600 day.

00:49:56.300 That would be called,

00:49:57.680 let's say,

00:49:58.800 persuasion.

00:50:00.060 persuasion, like you

00:50:01.220 prime somebody and

00:50:02.320 then they think they

00:50:03.140 made up their own

00:50:03.840 mind but they don't

00:50:04.740 know they were

00:50:05.200 primed.

00:50:05.980 That's a thing.

00:50:06.740 It's a book.

00:50:07.620 Persuasion.

00:50:09.900 How about the

00:50:10.640 written by

00:50:11.940 Cialdini?

00:50:14.220 Cialdini also wrote

00:50:15.340 Influence before he

00:50:17.200 wrote Persuasion.

00:50:18.960 Influence is exactly a

00:50:20.940 book about how people

00:50:21.920 are influenced and

00:50:23.600 don't know that they

00:50:24.900 didn't make up their

00:50:25.700 own mind.

00:50:26.700 So, you can show that

00:50:27.600 people think they're

00:50:28.400 making up their own

00:50:29.140 mind but they're

00:50:29.720 actually just

00:50:30.220 influenced.

00:50:31.480 So, is that

00:50:32.860 somebody making

00:50:33.820 somebody do something

00:50:34.760 they didn't want to

00:50:35.500 do?

00:50:36.100 How about advertising?

00:50:37.980 How about propaganda?

00:50:39.000 How about the fake

00:50:39.640 news?

00:50:40.140 How about selling?

00:50:41.400 How about marketing?

00:50:42.320 How about negotiating?

00:50:43.500 Every one of those

00:50:44.340 things gets you to do

00:50:46.520 something you didn't

00:50:47.640 want to do.

00:50:49.240 So, if you ask me,

00:50:50.780 can you make somebody

00:50:51.640 do something that they

00:50:52.980 didn't want to do with

00:50:55.240 hypnosis, I say, how

00:50:57.420 about just get rid of

00:50:58.220 the word hypnosis?

00:50:59.700 Can you get people to

00:51:00.860 do things they didn't

00:51:01.760 want to do by talking

00:51:03.460 to them or exposing

00:51:06.220 them to stimulation?

00:51:08.800 The answer is, yeah.

00:51:10.160 All of these things do

00:51:11.240 it.

00:51:11.600 Advertising does it,

00:51:12.500 marketing, negotiating,

00:51:14.360 all of them.

00:51:15.100 Let me make it even

00:51:16.000 simpler.

00:51:17.860 Let's say you planned to

00:51:19.300 get some work done

00:51:20.300 today and you were

00:51:21.080 going to work hard and

00:51:21.900 today was going to be

00:51:22.600 a real good work day.

00:51:23.880 And your best friend

00:51:24.800 calls you and says,

00:51:25.760 hey, it's a great day,

00:51:26.620 do you want to golf?

00:51:27.360 And you say, no, I

00:51:31.120 had today, today was

00:51:32.360 going to be work, I'm

00:51:33.400 not going to golf, I'm

00:51:34.260 going to work.

00:51:35.040 And then your friend is

00:51:36.320 like, it's not going to

00:51:37.600 be this good every day,

00:51:39.000 you know, and you could

00:51:39.760 work tomorrow and that

00:51:42.340 work will still be there

00:51:43.740 and by the way you

00:51:44.920 promised me that you

00:51:45.940 would golf with me the

00:51:46.860 next time it was a good

00:51:47.840 day.

00:51:48.300 And then finally you

00:51:49.940 say, all right, let's

00:51:53.720 just go golf.

00:51:55.360 So, is that an example

00:51:57.060 of you being hypnotized

00:51:59.580 to go golf instead of

00:52:02.700 work?

00:52:04.120 And the answer is yes.

00:52:05.840 Yes it is.

00:52:06.680 That is an example of

00:52:08.100 you being hypnotized, but

00:52:09.800 you wouldn't call it

00:52:10.660 that.

00:52:11.420 You simply used a tool

00:52:12.860 of hypnosis, which is

00:52:14.920 directly asking for

00:52:16.080 something, maybe, you

00:52:17.940 know, comparing it to

00:52:19.420 something else, using

00:52:21.120 the concept of

00:52:22.480 shortage.

00:52:23.140 It's like, ah, there

00:52:23.800 won't be many great

00:52:24.620 days, reciprocity, I

00:52:27.620 did this favor for you,

00:52:28.940 why don't you golf with

00:52:29.760 me?

00:52:30.500 You know, you can

00:52:31.020 imagine a whole bunch

00:52:31.800 of techniques of

00:52:32.700 hypnosis, but they're

00:52:34.280 just a conversation.

00:52:35.740 It's just you and your

00:52:36.480 friend talking.

00:52:37.900 Would you ever say

00:52:39.020 that your friend

00:52:39.780 forced you to do

00:52:41.700 something you didn't

00:52:43.180 want to do, or would

00:52:45.060 you say, you're

00:52:46.060 no, I did what I

00:52:47.020 want to do, I

00:52:48.560 simply changed my

00:52:49.700 mind about what it

00:52:51.460 was I wanted to do.

00:52:53.120 That's probably how

00:52:54.020 you would filter it.

00:52:55.240 You'd say, no, I

00:52:56.040 just, I did what I

00:52:57.600 want to do, I just

00:52:58.280 changed my mind about

00:52:59.120 what I wanted to do.

00:53:00.360 Or did you?

00:53:02.300 Because you wouldn't

00:53:03.240 have changed your

00:53:04.020 mind without that

00:53:04.900 friend saying and

00:53:05.900 doing the right

00:53:06.480 things.

00:53:07.480 That friend

00:53:08.480 hypnotized you

00:53:10.400 against your will.

00:53:12.840 because your will

00:53:14.640 was not to go

00:53:16.080 golfing, and you

00:53:17.780 did.

00:53:19.200 So, this opens up

00:53:20.500 an interesting

00:53:20.980 question about

00:53:21.640 free will.

00:53:23.000 I would say that

00:53:24.300 as a person who

00:53:25.260 does not believe

00:53:25.940 that free will is

00:53:26.780 a real thing,

00:53:27.700 it's just, you

00:53:29.000 know, an

00:53:29.280 imaginary concept,

00:53:31.400 and that we are

00:53:32.880 all just subject to

00:53:34.600 physics, and

00:53:35.660 whatever inputs are

00:53:36.960 happening in the

00:53:37.660 chemistry of my

00:53:38.420 brain, it's only

00:53:40.280 going to go one

00:53:40.920 way, because

00:53:41.960 physics doesn't

00:53:42.820 have options, I

00:53:44.340 mean, in the sense

00:53:45.600 that matters to

00:53:46.220 this conversation.

00:53:47.580 So, if my brain is

00:53:49.320 going to do what my

00:53:50.000 brain does, and it

00:53:50.980 gets one set of

00:53:51.900 inputs that change

00:53:52.840 what I want, would

00:53:54.360 you say that I've

00:53:55.060 done what I didn't

00:53:55.700 want?

00:53:56.820 Or would you just

00:53:57.740 say I changed what

00:53:58.620 I wanted?

00:54:00.080 So, when it looks

00:54:01.880 as if I am

00:54:02.800 disagreeing with

00:54:03.620 those other

00:54:04.100 cartoonists, sorry,

00:54:05.920 other hypnotists,

00:54:07.660 not really.

00:54:09.520 And here's one

00:54:11.060 difference.

00:54:12.740 If you ask me,

00:54:15.020 could you get

00:54:15.700 people to do

00:54:16.540 something that they

00:54:17.360 don't want to do,

00:54:19.080 I might shade my

00:54:21.480 answer so that you

00:54:22.620 don't think you

00:54:23.480 can.

00:54:24.780 And a little of

00:54:25.520 that is being

00:54:27.400 ethical.

00:54:28.380 Because I don't

00:54:29.260 want to tell you

00:54:30.120 what you really

00:54:31.000 could do.

00:54:32.800 Because you might

00:54:33.760 go do it.

00:54:35.040 And it might not

00:54:35.940 be for the

00:54:36.980 betterment of the

00:54:40.320 world.

00:54:41.020 So I'm not sure

00:54:42.040 that it would be

00:54:42.700 healthy for the

00:54:43.480 world, for a

00:54:44.580 hypnotist, to say,

00:54:45.460 oh yeah, you

00:54:45.820 could get people to

00:54:46.480 do things they

00:54:47.700 don't want to do.

00:54:48.980 It's true, but you

00:54:50.460 don't need any

00:54:51.020 hypnosis to do

00:54:52.380 that.

00:54:53.500 You just need

00:54:54.360 persuasion.

00:54:55.660 And that doesn't

00:54:56.240 require a trance or

00:54:57.420 you're getting sleepy

00:54:59.000 or any of that.

00:55:01.080 So, there's my

00:55:01.940 answer.

00:55:02.320 If you don't

00:55:02.680 believe in free

00:55:03.280 will, the question

00:55:04.000 is useless anyway.

00:55:05.560 And if you

00:55:06.540 believe that all

00:55:07.260 forms of persuasion

00:55:08.900 can get people to

00:55:10.100 change their mind

00:55:10.780 about what they

00:55:11.360 want.

00:55:13.700 So, Dennis

00:55:15.020 asked this

00:55:15.620 question.

00:55:16.520 So, you're

00:55:17.160 okay with

00:55:17.620 lying.

00:55:20.440 Did something

00:55:21.320 like that come

00:55:22.560 out of my

00:55:23.000 mouth?

00:55:24.080 That I was

00:55:24.440 okay with

00:55:24.980 lying?

00:55:26.160 I don't

00:55:26.700 believe I said

00:55:27.260 that.

00:55:28.300 So, there's

00:55:31.620 your micro

00:55:32.520 lesson on

00:55:33.820 hypnosis.

00:55:34.240 Yes, somebody

00:55:38.280 is saying in

00:55:38.700 the comments

00:55:39.120 right here,

00:55:40.160 Tim says,

00:55:41.220 have I been

00:55:41.720 hypnotized to

00:55:42.660 listen every

00:55:43.240 morning?

00:55:43.640 And the

00:55:43.820 answer is

00:55:44.160 yes.

00:55:46.040 Unambiguously

00:55:46.400 yes.

00:55:47.660 And the

00:55:48.020 simultaneous

00:55:48.520 SIP is

00:55:49.760 overt.

00:55:50.640 I'm not

00:55:50.860 hiding anything.

00:55:51.500 This is

00:55:51.820 completely

00:55:52.260 transparent.

00:55:53.420 I tell you

00:55:54.040 why I'm

00:55:54.380 doing it.

00:55:55.300 I do it

00:55:55.800 because it

00:55:56.180 makes you

00:55:56.480 addicted.

00:55:57.460 It gives

00:55:57.800 you a

00:55:58.180 visual and

00:55:59.080 sensory

00:56:01.260 trigger so

00:56:03.440 you remember

00:56:03.940 if you

00:56:04.280 liked it

00:56:04.640 last time,

00:56:05.360 it primes

00:56:06.100 you to

00:56:06.340 like it

00:56:06.640 this time.

00:56:07.600 If you

00:56:07.960 like the

00:56:08.560 beverage,

00:56:09.540 I'm making

00:56:09.900 you a

00:56:10.240 pair of

00:56:10.560 beverage you

00:56:11.020 like with

00:56:11.760 some content.

00:56:13.080 The brands

00:56:14.320 eventually

00:56:14.760 merge.

00:56:15.860 So, am I

00:56:16.420 hypnotizing you

00:56:17.320 to enjoy the

00:56:18.140 simultaneous

00:56:18.620 SIP?

00:56:18.980 Yes.

00:56:19.880 Yes.

00:56:20.680 But do you

00:56:21.320 feel manipulated?

00:56:23.180 Or do you

00:56:23.940 feel as if I'm

00:56:24.900 making you do

00:56:25.460 something you

00:56:25.920 don't want to

00:56:26.380 do?

00:56:28.100 Because if I

00:56:29.560 change your

00:56:30.120 mind and

00:56:31.480 then you do

00:56:32.060 want to do

00:56:32.560 it, what

00:56:33.840 is that?

00:56:35.020 Well, since I

00:56:35.700 don't believe in

00:56:36.220 free will, it's

00:56:36.940 just what it

00:56:37.480 is.

00:56:38.000 It just is a

00:56:39.080 thing that

00:56:39.500 happened.

00:56:40.000 That's all it

00:56:40.480 is.

00:56:41.600 All right.

00:56:42.740 I believe I

00:56:43.920 didn't have

00:56:44.280 anything else to

00:56:44.940 say, so we're

00:56:45.480 going to end

00:56:45.740 here.

00:56:46.500 And thank you

00:56:47.180 for listening,

00:56:48.300 and I will

00:56:48.800 talk to you

00:56:49.500 tomorrow.

00:56:50.600 All right.

00:56:56.440 Periscope's

00:56:56.880 off.

00:56:57.860 It's just you

00:56:58.640 and me here

00:56:59.980 on YouTube

00:57:00.840 for a moment.

00:57:04.080 We constantly

00:57:05.000 re-evaluated

00:57:05.820 our decisions.

00:57:06.660 That's right.

00:57:07.620 So what

00:57:08.140 happens if you

00:57:08.660 just change

00:57:09.120 your mind?

00:57:10.680 How do you

00:57:11.080 know why?

00:57:15.760 Most

00:57:16.200 important thing

00:57:16.960 that you've

00:57:17.940 seen in the

00:57:18.660 last four years

00:57:19.380 is to treat

00:57:20.100 journalists as

00:57:21.100 politicians.

00:57:21.940 That's right.

00:57:22.980 Yeah, there's

00:57:23.280 no, there's not

00:57:24.900 much real

00:57:25.680 journalism anymore.

00:57:27.340 You know,

00:57:27.560 Glenn Greenwald,

00:57:28.640 does it, but

00:57:30.500 there's not a

00:57:31.000 lot of people

00:57:32.160 doing the

00:57:32.640 real stuff.

00:57:37.380 Is body

00:57:38.280 language the

00:57:39.020 same as

00:57:39.460 mind reading?

00:57:41.660 Not if it

00:57:43.300 has a

00:57:43.580 scientific basis,

00:57:44.580 and I think

00:57:44.940 it does.

00:57:48.420 Comment on

00:57:49.120 the crossfire

00:57:49.840 about Lauren

00:57:50.960 Southern.

00:57:51.540 I haven't

00:57:51.800 watched that

00:57:52.280 yet.

00:57:53.840 All right.

00:57:54.280 That's all I

00:57:54.660 got for now.

00:57:55.300 I'll talk to

00:57:56.000 you tomorrow.

00:57:56.940 I got to

00:57:57.180 travel.

00:57:58.060 See you

00:57:58.320 later.

00:57:59.280 I got to

00:58:00.540 get rid of

00:58:00.640 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 05, 2021

Episode 1242 Scott Adams： Fwee-dom, Election Allegations Debunked, Hypnosis Versus Brainwashing

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