Episode 1269 Scott Adams： Masks, Coups, Rick Wilson Clones and More Scary Stuff
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In this episode, Scott Adams explains the difference between a coup and a protest, and gives a handy guide to help journalists who can't tell the difference. Plus, a guide for people who don't know what a coup is and what a protest is.
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today. Do you remember when we used to have, what was the name for it? It was called news? News.
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You've heard of it, right? It would be you'd wake up in the morning and something that President Trump
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had said on Sunday had caused the whole world to be on fire and people's hair was up. And then
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Monday, you'd wake up and you'd say, yeah, let me dig into this news. This is a meaty, juicy,
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good quality news. And then Trump decided to go silent.
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And the news decided to just stop covering news, as far as I know. Or the news all stopped. Or
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the only news that mattered was about Trump. I don't know. So we're going to have to dig
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deeper to get the news. Because there isn't much of it. Of course, the world did not stop
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producing news. But the news business isn't really that interested in the old kind of news. They
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like Trump news. And they should, because that's the good stuff. Let's talk about a few things that
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are going on. Because we live in a simulation with lots of code reuse, we see stories that look like
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other stories. Or they tell us something about those other stories. Or they're just weird
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coincidences. Such as, we just had a protest slash insurrection slash, some say, a coup
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in the United States. Or a coup attempt. Now, the smart people don't say that. But a lot of people
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do say it. At the same time, the country of Myanmar, which Fox News calls Burma, what's up with
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that? Have you noticed that? You go to the Fox News page, and it's a story about Burma. But if you
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go to CNN, it's a story about Myanmar. I feel as if they can't both be right. Are you telling me that
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the news doesn't know the name of a fucking country? Which one of them is wrong?
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Oh, do you know? One of them is wrong, right? Because the country only has one name.
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And the news is reporting it as two different kinds of countries. So I'm going to guess that
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one is politically correct, and that what might be what CNN is using, Myanmar. And I'm guessing that
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one of them is politically incorrect, which is maybe where Fox News is. But that said,
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after seeing the Myanmar or maybe Burma situation in which the military just took over for the
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civilian government, and they say it's going to be martial law for a year, these things often don't
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last just a year, but we'll see. So I decided to put together a guide for people who can't tell the
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difference between a coup and a protest. So here's my little guide. I tweeted this. This is for
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journalists, because sometimes you just can't tell. You'll be looking at a situation, and you'll be
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like, wait a minute, is that a coup attempt? Or is that some kind of a protest with some lawbreaking?
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I can't tell. So I put together a handy guide, and it goes like this. If what you're watching involves
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the military, well, that's a coup. Myanmar or Burma is a good example. The military took over for the
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civilian government, that's a coup. When the military is involved, or somebody's military is involved,
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that's a coup. But if the event you're watching involves a Viking hat, not a coup. In fact,
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I don't know, in the history of humanity, has anybody ever worn a Viking hat to a coup? Well,
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maybe in Viking days. Maybe. Maybe they wore a lot of Viking hats back in Viking days. But no,
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if you see no military involved, but there is a guy in a Viking hat who seems to have done pretty well
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in terms of how far he got in the protest, that's most likely not a coup. That's most likely a protest
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in which things got out of control and some laws were broken. Now, apparently Democrats are really
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bad at coups, at least the military kind, because they believe that you can take over the country
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with zip ties. Now, if that were possible, we could save a lot of money on our military expenditures,
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because we could just say, well, why would we need battleships and F-35s when we've just shown
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that you can take over a country with a handful of zip ties and a Viking hat? If that's all you need
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to conquer a country, I believe we're overspending with our bombs and our bullets and stuff, which have
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no apparent use, because it's totally practical, according to CNN and MSNBC and New York Times,
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and these are credible organizations, it's quite possible to take over a country with zip ties and
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maybe some clubs. Yeah, because if you can, if you can take over an empty room, such as a room in the
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capital, if you can control an empty room, you can control the whole country. Yeah. And if you could
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take a hostage, let's say a politician, and you could keep them hostage, well, we would just surrender.
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We would just surrender. I would say to myself, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're going to hurt Mike Pence?
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Unless I abandon the Constitution, because I have to save Mike Pence. Is that how it works? Or would
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we say, I'd sure hate to see anything happen to Mike Pence, but what are you going to do? I don't
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think we're going to give up the country. I don't think a hostage would be quite enough to overthrow the
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government of the United States. But suppose you say it wasn't just the Vice President. Suppose they
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had taken the President hostage. No, it still doesn't work that way. We would still let them kill
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the President. We would. We wouldn't like it. We would be very unhappy about it. But we're not going
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to let them conquer the country to save one life. It doesn't really work that way. So for all the dumb
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people who thought there was something like a coup that happened, I would call that the big lie. Now,
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I know that the Democrats are trying to use that phrase, the big lie, in another context. But I think
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the big lie is that there was a coup attempt. When obviously, demonstrably, logically, factually,
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and in every way that you can look at a situation, nothing like that, even remotely like that happened.
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There was nothing in that zip code of being a coup. You really need to kind of bring the military if
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you're going to do the coup thing. You don't bring zip ties and a Viking hat. That's just the rule. I don't
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make the rules. All right, Alan Dershowitz apparently is one of those people who can, by the nature of his
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job, I guess, teaching at Harvard or something, that allows him to nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I didn't know how that worked. But apparently he's a nominator, and he nominated both Jared Kushner and
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Alan Dershowitz did. He nominated Kushner and Avi Berkowitz, who works with Kushner, for their work with
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the, you know, the Israel and the Arab nations and the Abraham Accords. What do you think of that?
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Do you think that the Nobel Peace Prize is appropriate? I would say I've never seen one
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more appropriate. Never seen one more appropriate than this. Now, we don't know how it'll all go,
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blah, blah, blah, right? Anything could go wrong. But can you even think of anybody who did something
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more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize? I can't think of anybody. I can't think of a historical
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example that was more appropriate to the Peace Prize. Now, I'm going to give you a little behind
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the scenes information that I maybe wouldn't have mentioned if Trump were still in office. But most
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of you know I got to visit with the president, President Trump. And I was invited in to talk to
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him in the Oval Office. It was kind of the coolest thing that ever happened to me. But while I was
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there, I was with Avi Berkowitz. And he organized it and just made sure I got introduced to the
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president. And he was with me in the room when we were chatting. And it is so, so cool to just have
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met somebody and spent, you know, spent a little time talking to somebody who just got nominated
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for the Nobel Peace Prize and totally deserves it. Like, no doubt about it. No doubt about it. Deserves,
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you know, he and Jared Kushner. And I met Jared Kushner. Well, I'm going to tell you this story.
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So there's some stories that I wouldn't tell you in public, except that the president's now moved
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on. And, you know, you feel like you can tell some things because they're not terribly important.
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But when I was waiting to meet with President Trump, I was in this outer office, you know,
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that you're sort of waiting to get into the inner office. And Jared Kushner came through. And he was
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with another gentleman. And he apparently recognized me and introduced himself. And I guess a number of
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people in the White House had read my book, Winn Bigley. And so they were kind of generally familiar
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with me there. So Jared Kushner stops and says hi, introduces himself. And then this is the part I
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probably shouldn't tell you, but it's just funny. So I will. He was with, I believe it was the
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Mexican finance minister. It was a high official in the Mexican government. I think it was a finance
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minister. I'm not positive. But somebody at about that level. And Jared introduces me to him as, you
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know, the Mexican, I don't know, finance minister or some job like that. And then he just jokes, he goes,
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he's here to pay for the wall. And he laughs and I laugh. And it's just funny to be in the middle of
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history, you know, just actually standing in the White House, talking to Jared Kushner, and, you know, a high
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representative of the Mexican government, and just having a joke about who's paying for the wall. Now, I
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wouldn't tell you that story if they were still in office. But, you know, it's just a funny story.
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Because to see, to see the, I guess, I guess there's a bigger point here. So having met, you know,
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Jared Kushner, I got to, you know, chat with Ivanka a little bit, as she, you know, brought me into the
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Oval Office, got to talk to the president a little bit. I'll tell you one thing that all of those people
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I mentioned have in common, crazy social skills, like charismatic social skills. When you see it up
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close, like you can really feel it. People who just have another, another gear, they can just sort of
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control a room. And, you know, they've got charisma and stuff. So they all have that. And that was an
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amazing, fun day. Anyway, so congratulations to Jared and to Avi for the nomination. I hope they get it.
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All right. One thing you don't know about this Myanmar or Burma situation is that the reason
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that the military took over is there were some complaints that the election might not have been
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quite fair and fraud free. Yeah, there was some concern that the election was rigged.
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But I don't want to be canceled from social media. So I'd just like to say in public now, just say it once
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and get it over with. In my opinion, the winner of the presidential election in Myanmar was Joe Biden.
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And there is no court that has ruled otherwise. I don't believe any American court has said that
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Joe Biden did not win the election in Myanmar. So I think we have to be open minded about that.
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But there you go. The funniest story this week, maybe, although we got some funny ones. The funniest
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story this week is about the Lincoln Project. Now, there's an accusation, an allegation about one of
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the founding members. And the allegation has to do with grooming underage men for sex. That's the
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allegation. I don't know anything about what did or did not happen there. That's just the allegation
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that's out there. But the members of the Lincoln Project are not so popular among the people who may
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have been pro-Trump in the past. And watching them deal with this is kind of fun. I have to admit,
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you know, it's kind of fun. And the best part is I saw a picture of the four founders. And they all
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look like Rick Wilson clones that went wrong. They're all these middle-aged sort of, you know,
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don't go to the gym kinds of bodies, you know, dad bodies, bald head, I think three out of four of
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them have facial hair. They kind of look like Rick Wilson was the prototype. And then they did some
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cloning experiments. And they're like, let's call this one Steve Schmidt. It's a little too big,
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a little too tall. And then they got another one. It's like, he's pretty good. But we don't like the
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message he's sending to young men. Let's try again. Try another clone. And it's just that other guy
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whose name I don't know. And I thought to myself, how would you like to be in a group
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in which you were being called a clone of Rick Wilson? I don't know. I would quit that club.
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The minute I found out I was Rick Wilson's clone, I'd say, get me out of this club. I don't want to
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be Rick Wilson's clone. So there are these four clones in the Lincoln Project that are trying to
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explain why one of the clones went bad, allegedly. But while it is certainly true, and it is 100%
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true, that there are four individuals, and any allegations true or not true about one of the four
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should not have any impact on the other three, who did not, were not involved in this activity,
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alleged activity. And there's no evidence that they were even aware of it, at least at an operating
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level. Maybe they heard rumors or something. So we can't say anything about the other three.
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But we do live in a world where those Lincoln Project people, they did try to say that the Republican
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Party, the Trump supporters, were sort of all the same as the worst among them. That's sort of a
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precedent, isn't it? That all the Trump supporters are kind of just as bad as whoever the worst Trump
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supporters are, be they racist or idiots or whatever. And I think that's the standard that we should
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embrace. Rather than fight against it, just say, you know, you got a good point. If you're a group of
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four people and one of you has been accused of heinous activity, well, I think we can apply that to the
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other three. I don't make the rules. I don't make the rules. I just apply them the way they've been
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presented to me. If the rule is that everybody in the group is as bad as the worst member, well,
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then you're all Rick Wilson. See what I did there? You thought I was going to say you're all that
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bad one who got accused of stuff? I was going to go there, but it was funnier when I said you're all
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Rick Wilson. Because it's hard to imagine anything worse than being Rick Wilson.
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Anyway, the fact that they all look like the same guy is just hilarious to me. All right.
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Let me talk about masks. And I think I'll watch my Twitter followers decline as I'm talking about
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this. Let's see how low it gets. You can open up. All right. I got 604.1 thousand followers.
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We'll see what it looks like at the end of the day. All right. Let's talk about masks and whether
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they work. First thing you need to know is, how would I know? How would I know? Am I a doctor? No.
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Have I studied masks used exactly the way they're being used for the pandemic? No, I have not.
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Have I done a deep dive on all the research? No, I've not. But watch me have an opinion anyway.
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Here is the dumbest opinion. All right. The following opinion, if you hold this, is just stupid.
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I'll tell you why. But first, I'll tell you it's stupid. Number one, stupid opinion. Masks do not work.
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That's just stupid. Number two, stupid opinion. Masks definitely work. Stupid. That's a stupid opinion.
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So the two stupid opinions, which you should not hold. Masks definitely work. And masks definitely
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don't work. Those two are stupid. All right. If you hold either of those opinions, I'm hoping that you
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will improve on those opinions. I mean, it's okay to have a preliminary opinion, but maybe you can
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shade it a little bit. All right. If you hear somebody saying, as this, there's a video of a doctor
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saying that masks don't work and he only wears his mask to make people feel good, but that masks don't
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work. That's a stupid opinion. It comes from a doctor, but it's not less stupid because it's stupid
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on the surface. Here's, and one of the examples that he used in his stupid opinion is that if you took
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a bunch of dirt and you threw it against a chain link fence, sure, some of the dirt wouldn't get
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through because it hit the chain part. But that so much of the dirt would go through the chain link
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fence, it would be as if the fence were not there for all practical purposes. What do you think of
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that opinion? Is that a wise opinion that maybe you agree with or you don't, but is it a rational,
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good thinking? No, it's not. It's not because the virus doesn't travel on its own, which is what
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the analogy of throwing dirt against the fence would imply. The analogy that should work is that the flea is
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on the dog and the dog is trying to get through the fence. In this case, the dog is the water particle.
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Can your water particles get through your mask? Well, why don't you test it? Hold your mask up to
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your face and sneeze. How much of the water got through the mask? Now sneeze without the mask. Does the
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same amount of water get through? No. Now take your mask and go up to a window and go
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and breathe on the window. Does the window get as fogged up as it would if you didn't have the mask
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on? No, right? It's very, you don't have to be a scientist to know that the mask is stopping
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water particles. You can test it yourself. Literally, just walk up to a window and breathe
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on it with a mask and then without. Tell me if there's a difference. I think there will be, right?
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So if the water particles are clearly being limited by the mask, not stopped, but limited.
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If we know that the virus travels on the water particles and we know the water particles are
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mostly getting stopped by the mask. You can test it yourself at home. What are the odds that the mask
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stops the water particles, but then the virus just flies off at the end and goes freelancing through
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the atmosphere? It's not a thing. As far as we know, it's not a thing. So here's how to know who to
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believe about masks. If somebody says, masks don't work, boom, stop listening to them. They're stupid.
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If they say, no tests show you that masks work, stop listening to them and anything they ever say
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for the rest of their life. That's stupid. Now, it may be true that we do not have high quality,
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randomized, controlled tests of masks specifically in this coronavirus context. That could be true.
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And probably is true. But that's not telling you anything about masks not working. It just means
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that we haven't studied it in this context. And it would be hard to study it because of ethical
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concerns, right? You couldn't put somebody without a mask around the virus because you'd be putting
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them in harm's way and that's not cool for a test. Or at least you assume you might be putting them in
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harm's way. So here's how to know who is telling you something to believe about masks and who to
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ignore. Ignore everybody who says they definitely don't work. Ignore everybody who says they definitely
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do work. And pay attention to anybody who uses the following words. Risk management. Friction. Water
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droplets. Viral load. If you hear any of those words when somebody is saying pro or con masks,
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listen to them. Listen to them. Because they know what they're talking about. Now, they could be wrong
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and they could be right. In fact, two people could disagree and still be talking about all those
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things. Water molecules, viral load, friction, risk management. All right? So that's what you should
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listen for. People who talk in terms of risk management and viral loads and stuff know what they're
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talking about in terms of a rational way to look at the question. Doesn't mean they're right, but at
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least they're thinking right, even if they get the wrong answer. Now, the other thing I get is, what
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about Dr. Fauci, who once said masks are not perfect protection? Somebody sent this to me just moments
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ago before I got on here, saying, look, Fauci himself, here he is, his own words. Prior to saying the masks
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masks were important, he said it would be an illusion to think that masks are perfect protection.
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So was Fauci lying when he said masks are not perfect protection? Or is he lying now when he says
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masks are recommended? So which is it? Is one of those not true and the other is true? That masks are not
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perfect protection. That's what he said originally. And now he says you should wear them. Those are the
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same fucking thing. There's no difference. They're not perfect protection, but you should wear them. Do
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you know what else is not perfect protection? Your seat belt, but you should wear it. Do you know what
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is not perfect protection? The lock on your door, but you should still lock it. Somebody might try to
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get in through the window, but you should still lock the door. All right. So when Fauci said they're not
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perfect protection, he admitted later that it was in the context of hoping that people did not hoard
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the necessary limited stuff that the healthcare workers needed. Once he admitted that that was really
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what was behind it, then he took his earlier statement that they're not perfect protection
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and he kind of put that in a different context, which is viral load better than nothing probably
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makes a difference. All right. What about the people who say, but Scott, Scott, Scott, how many times do I
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need to show you this graph of this certain state or this certain country? And here's the point where
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they introduced the masks and look, infection still went up. So there's your proof that masks don't work
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because the places that use them, they did not get better outcomes than the people who didn't.
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Scott, that's obvious. Mask here, mask there, same outcome. Ah, proof. Right?
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No, that doesn't make any sense. The fact that you compared two places, one had masks and one didn't,
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and they got equal outcomes proves nothing. Absolutely nothing. And if you think it did,
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why did you think that? Because there's so many things that are different about those any two areas
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that you don't know if it was the masks that made a difference or not.
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Now, where would be a place that you would have guaranteed required masks? What kind of a situation
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would have mask requirements? Well, I think it would be a place where they knew there would be a lot of
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virus problems. And so if they had a hotspot, they would, of course, say you better wear masks
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because it would be even worse if you don't. So what would a hotspot look like if it was only,
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let's say, 90% as bad as it could have been because they did wear masks? Well, it would look
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like not so good because it's 90% as bad as it could have been. Maybe the masks made 10% difference.
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Would you know the difference? Because you don't know what it would have been. You only know what
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happened. You don't know what it would have been without the masks. And if you don't know that,
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you don't know anything. So to compare a place that had a hotspot, so of course they had masks,
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the correlation is hotspot causes masks. Right? That's the correlation. It's a hotspot,
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so that causes a mask requirement. Another place is not a hotspot so much, no mask requirement,
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but they also have infections maybe because they don't wear masks. So if you had two places with the
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same outcomes, could you then declare that masks work or they don't? Nope. No. And if you think you can,
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then you don't know enough about how to analyze things and how to compare things properly. You just
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can't do that because you don't know what would have happened for the same situation with no masks.
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You only know what did happen with masks. The reason that we rely on randomized controlled tests
00:30:40.760
is because every other kind of test is misleading. You get that, right? The reason that there is a gold
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standard scientific test with randomized components and controlled and you've got the base case you're
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comparing to, the reason you have to do all of that and then you still have to repeat it and you still
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have to have it peer reviewed before you know anything is because all of the other ways of looking at stuff
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are illusions. You think you're looking at something that means something, but you're not. Until you do the
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randomized controlled study, it's the only way you can know you're not being fooled by what you think
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is obvious, but you know, the math doesn't support it. So that's my thing on masks. If you're convinced they
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work, definitely totally 100% work, that's stupid. If you're convinced they do not work, that's stupid.
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But if you think that there's a good risk management argument for them based on viral load
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and water vapor not going through masks entirely, I'd say that's a reasonable position even if you're wrong.
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Right? Could you have a completely reasonable position that masks cause some friction and they
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they should work, but then it turns out, you know, someday we do some kind of randomized controlled
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study and we find out they didn't work? Would I, would I be the dumb one in this argument? No.
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I would still be the smartest person in the argument, even wrong. Because that's how science works,
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right? You can be a very smart scientist and then your experiment doesn't prove what you wanted it
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to and then you're wrong. You could be the smartest person and also wrong, but you could be the dumbest
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person and accidentally get it right because masks either work or they don't. So whichever side you're
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on, there are going to be a lot of dumb people agreeing with you because there are only two sides.
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All right. That was way more on that topic than I needed to say, but I feel like this mask thing
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uh, it embarrasses me a little bit. It embarrasses me, uh, cause the thinking about it is just so poor.
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Whatever the truth is, I just embarrassed at the thinking about it. Um,
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now I saw that, uh, I think Rand Paul was suggesting that people who were immune to the virus should not
00:33:16.320
have to wear masks. Uh, so let's say somebody got the two vaccinations and waited enough weeks for them
00:33:23.280
to kick in or somebody who already had the virus confirmed and they're recovered. What would be the
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problem with that? What would be the obvious problem of making everybody wear masks except those few people
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who know they're immune? What would be the problem? There's a big problem. The big problem is that people
00:33:46.800
who do not have immunity would just say they did. They would just say they did. They just walk into the
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grocery store without a mask and the manager would say, we require masks. And the person who just didn't
00:33:59.200
want to wear a mask would say, oh yeah, I'm immune. I got my shots. Uh, I, I had COVID, you know,
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three weeks ago. I'm all good. As long as you can know with certainty that human beings are shitty
00:34:13.600
people and we will lie and we will cheat to get out of wearing a mask. I mean, half of the conversation
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about wearing masks is people telling you how they get out of it, right? How they cheated the process or,
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or how they, you know, put a little hole in their mask or something. So you know, people are going to
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cheat. So probably you just can't have a situation where some people get to not wear masks, even if
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scientifically it makes perfect sense. Scientifically makes perfect sense, but socially you just can't do
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it because too many people would cheat. All right. Um, there's pretty much no real news happening.
00:34:58.240
Uh, Biden's got his, uh, dozens and dozens of executive orders that the news doesn't really
00:35:04.560
report on except the headline. It's like he undid this or he did this. Are any of them bad? I don't know.
00:35:12.960
Here's a good example of how bad the reporting has been for the last four years.
00:35:16.720
So Trump did a whole bunch of executive actions and a lot of them were environmental
00:35:23.280
actions. So Trump presumably was loosening regulations on right on environmental stuff.
00:35:35.760
about, um, all the problems that happened because of Trump really reducing those standards in various
00:35:43.440
places? I didn't see any. Did you? Because you would think that if those standards were important,
00:35:51.440
it would be real easy to do a story, you know, a month, a few months later, uh, measure the water
00:35:57.360
quality or whatever you're going to do and find out if anything's different. See if it made a difference.
00:36:03.600
I never saw any reporting like that. And it seems like the obvious thing. If he changed something
00:36:09.840
that they would report on what that change, you know, caused, but I didn't see it.
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So we don't really have that kind of a news business anymore. So Biden can just sign,
00:36:23.600
you know, dozens and dozens of executive orders. I don't know if there'll ever be any news coverage on
00:36:29.360
the ins and outs of whether there were good ideas. Because there's just sort of no real news anymore.
00:36:47.760
So how long do you think Biden will get away with not answering questions from an unfriendly press?
00:36:54.800
Do you think he can get through his entire term without ever really being available to talk to
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the press? Because his, uh, his, uh, spokesperson, Jen Psaki, I said this the other day, she's very,
00:37:10.320
she's very capable, obviously smart and, you know, uh, knows how to talk in public and stuff.
00:37:17.920
But I think people are going to get tired of hearing from her and not from the, uh, the president.
00:37:25.840
Until he hands it off to Kamala. What's the betting on when he makes his move? I'd say after the
00:37:31.760
midterm would be the best bet. I would think that they want to keep Biden in there through the midterm.
00:37:37.840
Uh, but that after that, there won't be a good reason to keep him. There would be a good reason for
00:37:42.480
Kamala Harris to get a little, uh, experience in the job so that she's the one who could run for
00:37:47.600
re-election. Uh, or election, I guess, if you're just, if you didn't get elected in the first place.
00:37:56.880
Uh, when will he meet other world leaders? Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, Biden hasn't met any other
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world leaders. But I don't, I don't expect that will be any kind of a story. Because, you know,
00:38:08.000
Biden can put on a suit and shake hands with people. So he can handle that. Uh,
00:38:14.080
Biden delayed the moon landing, seeding it to the Chinese, somebody says. Well,
00:38:19.360
I'll tell you one thing. If Biden is not super serious about space force and especially nuclear
00:38:25.120
energy to drive, uh, space rocket ships, if he's not real serious about that stuff, we have
00:38:32.960
essentially given the future to China. And you might as well join the Chinese Communist Party now.
00:38:44.480
didn't look so capable last conference, somebody says.
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Uh, Jen is imitating Dr. Book's condescension look. All right. I'm just looking at your comments
00:38:57.200
now. Um, I don't have much else to say. Maybe there will be some interesting news today. I don't
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know. We'll see. Uh, on Locals, the subscription platform, Locals.com. I put yesterday a, uh,
00:39:12.560
a micro lesson on using your physical environment to reprogram your brain. So if you're, if you're on
00:39:19.040
that platform, you can see that there, there are now dozens and dozens of my micro lessons on the
00:39:25.120
Locals platform. And they seem to be the most popular thing I'm doing there. So I'll do more of
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those. Uh, how was Christina? She's great. Thanks for asking. And that's all I've got to say for
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now. And I'll talk to you later. All right. Bye for now.