Episode 1312 Scott Adams： Hypnosis, Partisanship Causes Brain Damage, Evidence of the Simulation, and the Cuomorona
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk about how to get your audience to do something by getting them to think about it and then get them to do it. I also talk about the benefits of hypnosis and how it can be applied in public speaking.
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Ah, did anybody feel a tingle? Was it just me? Goosebumps? Anybody?
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All right. I'll bet at least one of you got goosebumps just then. Do you want to find out
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how, uh, do you want to find out how suggestible you are? We're going to talk about hypnosis in a
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moment. So I'll do a little, uh, little experiment with you. There are many people watching here.
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We're all wired similarly in the big ways, but infinitely differently in all the little ways.
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Some of you who are watching this right now are going to feel something on your arm,
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like a little tingle that I just mentioned. You're going to feel the, uh, the little goosebumps
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just start to come right up. Now this won't affect all of you because you're all wired a little
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differently. But watching the comments, how many of you just got goosebumps? Now that would be a very
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small example of hypnosis. If you can get somebody to feel as though the thing you suggested,
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look at the comments. Yep. I did on my legs. Now there'll be a lot of no's of course, because
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remember, hypnosis is a very personalized thing. If you're doing it one-on-one, you craft your
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technique for the person. So there's no specific suggestion that's going to work for everybody just
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the same way. But I wanted to show you that if you're working with a large group of people,
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you can get reliably, some group of them will, uh, will respond to almost any suggestion.
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This is why stage hypnosis works so well, because you're dealing with a group. You can be pretty sure
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that if their group is big enough, there's somebody in that group who's, who's going to be,
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you know, subject to hypnosis in maybe a deeper way than the other people. All right.
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Um, by the way, that's a, a speaker's technique that I just did.
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Here's a really, really good tip. Here's something you'll, you'll learn that you could
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take with you that you could instantly become more effective just because of what I'm going to tell you
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next. If you're giving a, any kind of a public talk, the very best thing you can do the moment
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you get up there is to get the audience to do something physical. Like I just did. I just got
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you to look at your arm and, you know, think about your body and feel it type of message. So if you can
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start by getting people to do something, then you already have them. When I used to do a lot of public
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speaking, uh, walk in front of the audience and there might be a thousand people in the audience.
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And I would ask the same question first. I would say, uh, how many of you have ever seen a Dilbert
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comic? And people would raise their hands. Now the point of it was to make them do something.
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I walk out on stage, boom, 900 out of the a thousand people just did something because I asked them to do
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it. Immediately you own them in a small way, but, but you're, you're establishing control
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from the first moment. Another thing I used to do is hand down, uh, Tic Tacs, you know, the little,
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uh, breath mints. Back in my corporate days, uh, I would start a meeting that would be about some
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boring, you know, finance thing. I would start it by handing out some Tic Tacs and say, Hey, pass these
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around. And then everybody would do something, which is what I told them to do. Take a Tic Tac and pass
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it around. So even in a corporate setting and they were executives and I was like an underling at the
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time. So even though they were the executives and I was, you know, in, in theory, a lower status,
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I immediately controlled them by making them do something I wanted them to do. The moment I walked
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in, take that tip. You're really going to thank me for this one. When, when you see how, uh, how effective
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this is, um, by the way, somebody was mentioning Trump with this. When I met Trump, uh, when I first met
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him at the oval office, he was in the side conference room. And as soon as you walk in,
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he, uh, he takes over the room. I mean, he already owned the room, but, um, as soon as I walked in,
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he started talking and just sort of controlled me. And you can tell that that's probably just his
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habit all the time, right? Cause he easily could have just sort of finished what he was doing or
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something. But it, but as soon as another entity entered the room, he sees me in the doorway,
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he immediately just sort of like takes over, right? It's, it's good persuasion. Um, so there's a
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story about the, about hypnosis. Yeah, I guess in Texas, the Dallas news is reporting that, uh, Texas
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police, uh, at least until now had regularly hypnotized witnesses in criminal investigations,
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helping send dozens of men and women to prison, some to their deaths. Uh, and then apparently they
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decided to end that program. Now, what do you think of that? What do you think of the fact
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that criminal cases were using hypnosis? Well, uh, the big risk here is that hypnosis can plant
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false memories. And when I say hypnosis can plant false memories, it would be a little more accurate
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to say it does. Meaning that the odds of creating a false memory is really, really high. It's not like,
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well, that could happen. It's more like, that's going to happen. Once you realize, uh, how easily
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a false memory can be implanted, you would realize that this was the worst idea. Now there's an
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exception. There's an exception and, uh, maybe a few exceptions, but I'll give you one. It's similar to,
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uh, how lie detectors are not accepted in court. Have you ever wondered why lie detectors are still
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in use, widespread use, but at the same time, the courts, every court in the United States
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agrees that they cannot be accepted as evidence. Does that make sense to you? How can those two
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things be true? That scientifically they're not valid? The courts have looked at the science and
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said, nope, these are not valid. And no court disagrees with that. As far as I know, I don't believe
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there's any court or any science that would disagree with my statement that they're not reliable.
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And yet law enforcement, you know, intelligence agencies, it's in widespread use. How do you
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explain that? Well, I'm going to explain it to you and it will allow you to beat a lie detector test
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should you be in this situation. Lie detector tests don't work, but the people who take the lie detector
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test don't know that. And that's, that's why they can still be used. So let's say you, you've got a
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perpetrator. They're not very, uh, smart and they're not well informed. And you say to the perpetrator who
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you think is probably guilty, probably guilty. It would work if, if they weren't, but let's just say
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they're pro you think they're probably guilty and you're looking for them to confess. So you put them
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on the lie detector, you get them sort of excited, you know, cause they're worried that they're going
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to reveal their criminal activity because they think it works. And then, uh, the questions are
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asked and then the, you know, the person says, um, on this question of, uh, were you at the scene?
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Uh, I'm seeing an indication of a little, uh, you know, dishonesty there. And then the person still
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hooked up to the machine or maybe just afterwards is like, um, um, no, uh, uh, I'm sure I was telling
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the truth. You know, the machine, the machine says you weren't. Now you can see how this process
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could get somebody to confess because they might believe that they already did. They might believe
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that their subconscious or their body had already admitted the crime. So why not just say it?
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So the point is, it makes perfect sense. If you're an intelligence agency, uh, you're trying to find
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out who's the mole or whatever, you can get people to confess and you can get them to act super squirrely.
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So now knowing this, how do you get out of a lie detector test? You've murdered somebody
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and somebody says, will you take the lie detector test? Here's how you answer. Will I take the lie
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detector test? Absolutely. Yes. When can we set that up? Now, should you actually take the lie detector
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test? No, no. Cause you'll be all nervous. And even though, you know, the test doesn't really work,
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you might think that you're giving a false positive and somebody is going to say you failed the test.
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Don't take the test, but agree to take the test and then add this next part. But I certainly want to
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look into, you know, I'll do a little more research about them because I wouldn't want to, you know,
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have a misleading outcome, but if they work, yeah, yeah, I want to take them. You, I'll take 10 of
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them. If they work, let me just do a little research. I'll find out if they're reliable. Let me, I'll get
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back to you. That's it. Cause you go back, you find out the courts don't accept them. They're not
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reliable. You just say, Oh, I thought these were reliable when I agreed to do them. But now that I see
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they're not reliable according to the science, what can I do? The science, science says they don't
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work. I mean, I wanted to, I really wanted to, to show my innocence. Damn. I wish those lie detector
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tests worked, man. I would love to do that. So that's how you get out of a lie detector test
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by agreeing to do it and then researching it. Um, how can you, how do I know that you can plant
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false memories? Because I've done it as a trained hypnotist. I've told this story before. I used to,
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when I was learning to be a hypnotist, I would hypnotize volunteers to have them regress and
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remember previous lives. Now, just the fact that they did describe their previous lives,
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some in great detail, does that mean previous lives and let's say reincarnation are real?
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No. Unfortunately, if you're the actual hypnotist who's implanting these memories, you're, you're kind
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of aware of the fact that these are not real. And that the most obvious tell is that nobody was ever
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Chinese in a prior life. What are the odds of that? Because people were different ethnicities,
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you know, than, than whatever they imagined they were. But I hypnotized a bunch of people
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people. And none of them were Chinese in a prior life. Huh. Statistically, somebody was going to be
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from India, right? Somebody was going to be from China. But nobody was. Instead, they had very
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interesting past lives. Some were princesses. Some were Vikings. Some were Native Americans and not the
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kind that were digging around in the dirt for beetles to eat. But noble kinds. Noble kinds. Warriors,
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if you will. Bows and arrows. Riding on their ponies. Living the good life. Yeah. So everybody's
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Cleopatra or some damn thing that you've seen in a movie. So if you're the hypnotist and you're watching
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somebody recount these memories, and even after they're done with the hypnosis, they can be easily led to
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believe that they were real memories of a past life. Now, not every person. Some skeptical people will
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say, I feel like I made that up. Because they did. But other people, quite easily, you can make them
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believe that that was a real memory. And from that day on, they'll have a memory of a false memory.
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So implanting memories is easy. I've done it. Now, in a tweet, I was talking about this, and I said that
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reincarnation isn't real. But I was just trying to fit everything into a tweet. There is a scenario in
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which you could say reincarnation is probably real. Like overwhelmingly probably real. Which is if we're a
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simulation? Because if we're a simulation, it's probably written like a game, where you can die
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and come back. Or maybe, you know, you experience a life, and then you go back and you get another
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character. You just, you know, live the same, maybe the same plot, but you do a different character this
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time. So just put that out there. The reincarnation could exist. The other thing that could exist that's
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compatible with the simulation hypothesis, that we're a software simulation is the idea, is intelligent
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design. Because that would require an intelligent designer, but in this case, a computer programmer
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kind of a designer, and not so much a deity in the classic sense. So the beauty of the simulation is
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that it can incorporate everything, basically every religion, because the simulation allows everybody
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to live their subjective experience, to be born again, if that's what the gameplay recommends, and
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to have an intelligent designer, and everything just makes sense. I tweeted also that if the only way you
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could make a simulation, if you had limited resources, and of course, we assume all computing has some kind of
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limit. The only way you could build the complexity of what you experience as this reality, is to make
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all of the characters have really bad memories, like really bad memories, and even worse perceptions.
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Because if everybody saw, remembered everything perfectly, then everybody's history would have to be
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compatible. And it would be too complicated. But instead, you can have your subjective experience
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and a memory of history, I can have one. And then let's say we were in the same room, at least we thought
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we were. And I remember a different thing than you remember. Most of the time, it never comes up.
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It just doesn't come up. You and I don't know that we have different memories. When it does come up,
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you argue about it. Both of you think the other one just forgot or has a false memory. But you don't
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need accurate memories. You can just explain them away by having people say, I forgot. I got a false
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memory. Same with perceptions. You're seeing a tiny bit of your actual reality, but your brain is building
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a full picture of it. So that's the way you would write the simulation to conserve resources.
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So you would have very bad perceptions that you would think are good, just like you observe,
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right? Look at the people around you talking politics, the ones who disagree with you. It looks
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like they have really bad perceptions, doesn't it? But they think they have good ones. That's how you
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would write a simulation. It's the only way you could write it. And they think they remember things
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correctly. But you know they don't. Now, the problem is that they think your perceptions are
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bad and they think your memory is bad. So that's how you'd write the simulation. I told you that
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Trump would keep looking better every day after every day he's out of office, so long as he's not
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saying anything that isn't just sort of fun. Like when he attacks another Republican, it's just sort
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of fun. But as long as he stays on the sidelines, events will just make him look better. Here's
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another one. The Portland mayor is deciding that defund the police was a really bad idea. Do you know
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why? When you defund the police, you get more crime, a lot more crime. So they've decided that
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Trump and people who agreed with him that you did need strong law enforcement, and there really
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wasn't a second option, or at least one that somebody's come up with yet. I'd be happy if
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somebody did. So Trump looks smart again, because he was proven right unambiguously, right? When the
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guy who says defund the police goes back to fund the police, there's no longer a discussion about
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And of course, Trump looks more right every day on immigration. Ignore my snoring dog. That's going
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to be annoying. And then today's news that the Biden administration is having their first meeting
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with Chinese, I guess, high level Chinese people. And they're not going to talk about tariffs and
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trade. They're not going to talk about that. So here are the things they're going to talk about.
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The coronavirus. But nothing's going to come out of that, right? What are they going to do? Hey,
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we think you didn't tell us everything we could have about the coronavirus. And China will
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say, sure, we did. Yeah, we did. No, you didn't. Yeah, yeah, we did. But you didn't. But we did.
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What's even the point of that meeting? Here's the other thing that they're going to talk about.
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Climate change. Hey, China, you should really do a lot more on climate change. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're
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we're the leader in the world on solar panels. Who do you think makes them? Oh, well, you also are
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putting in all those coal plants. You're the worst polluter. We have a lot of people. Solar won't get
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us there. Why should we live in poverty? Because you don't like the pollution. But where's that going
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to go? What was China supposed to say? Whoa, I wish we'd known this before. Are you telling me that
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we're the biggest polluters and contributors to climate change? Did not even know that. Whoa,
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my bad. My bad. That's on us. That's on us. Hey, can you can you turn down the coal plants?
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Not down, off. Just shut them down. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people will die. But I'm hearing
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about this climate change thing. We didn't know about this. So now we're just going to turn
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down those coal plants. What good is that meeting going to do? And then the third thing is China's
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behavior in Hong Kong. Okay. And we're going to talk about it. The only thing that has any
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bite or meaning is the tariffs and the trade. It's basically the thing that we could actually
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do something and maybe make a deal and whatever. So they decided that all their topics will be the
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ones that couldn't possibly have any use. I've seen reports, you know, that some polls are saying
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that Biden has high approval levels. And that's being interpreted as, thank goodness, we finally
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have stable adult leadership. And that's the reason, the stable adult leadership and all of his
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successes. That's the reason he has high approval. Is that the reason? Well, I don't know. I would say
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that maybe a bigger reason is the way he's being treated by the media, which is really, really nice.
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Now, are we to believe that our opinions come from ourselves? Do our opinions come from us meditating
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and spontaneously coming up with ideas just sort of out of nowhere? It really just comes out of our
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own minds, really. Is that what's happening? Well, let me tell you about something interesting I saw
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today. By the way, in related news, apparently CNN's ratings for Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, and Chris
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Cuomo just went down by about a third after December. So they need a new enemy. That's dangerous.
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Who is the new enemy? White supremacy? Maybe? I don't know. But there's an article I tweeted. And
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if you're on my locals platform, you can see I just posted the link to it on there. But you can see
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it on Twitter as well. Article by David D'Amato. He's a lawyer, but he wrote a great article. It's
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really well written. If you only read it to see what really good writing looks like, it's worth it just
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for that. Because it's kind of rare. And he was talking about how there's been research using MRIs. So
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they'll do, you know, imaging of the brain. And here's what they found. Being partisan gives you brain
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damage. Let me say that again, because a lot of you apparently have brain damage. According to this,
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I'm not saying you do. I'm just saying according to this article and a lot of research, that the more
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partisan you are, the less effective your brain works. And they can now prove it with magnetic imaging.
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And I shouldn't laugh, since we're all getting brain damage. And it says that if you, and that that
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brain damage is caused by consuming, you know, one type of media. So in other words, science,
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science, I say, which we all love. Could you take a minute to hug some science? Oh, science.
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I love you. All right. I like to take my love of science up a level. It's still platonic,
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but I feel it's on the edge. I think it might. I think I've got a shot. So yeah, now the science
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proves that if you watch CNN exclusively, you'll get brain damage. I'm not making that up.
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actual magnetic, you know, imaging of the brain proves that the grooves in your brain will be
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basically hardened, speaking figuratively, of course, that you will become a partisan by consuming
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partisan media. Yes, I know it's the same thing if you only watch Fox News. Just play with me,
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right? Yeah, it's the same. It's the same no matter which way you go. So if you're only
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consuming it in one place, turns you into a partisan, assigns you your opinions, and gives you
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brain damage. And guess who's the only one who doesn't know that you have brain damage?
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You. You. You're the only one. Everybody else can see it. Have you ever noticed that people who join
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any of the organizations you seem to be seeing in the news seem to have brain damage? Like when you
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watch the actual white supremacists, do you say to yourself, well, there's a reasonable bunch of
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people, they, they probably looked at the data and the science came to a good, no, no. You look at
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them and you say, what's wrong with them? Right? Do they have some kind of little brain damage sort of
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thing going on there? And the answer is, according to science, yes. Because if they just hang around
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with like-minded people and become more and more partisan, they actually have the inability to look
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at things objectively, brain damage. And, and it's actually physical. Because that's, that's how your
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brain works. It physically changes when you learn things or build habits and stuff. So how many times
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have I told you since the beginning of talking about politics, in my case, that I said I was left of
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Bernie, but better at math, meaning I don't support his policies because the math doesn't work. And if
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you ever, and I've told you why I do that, but some of you maybe have not heard the explanation.
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The reason I do that, the reason I haven't voted in decades, and I don't know if I've ever said this
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explicitly, but I didn't vote this time either. And the reason I didn't is this. Because as soon as you vote,
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it kind of took a side. I want to be able to say that Trump did these things well, these things not well.
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Biden did these things well, these things not well. And I want to be able to see them as clearly as possible.
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And the way that I avoid brain damage, actual literal brain damage, is by sampling the, you know,
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the news on all sides, so I don't get locked in, not joining a team, so I don't identify as Republican
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or Democrat. And when I'm asked, I give a philosophy that doesn't even exist. Left to Bernie, but better at
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math. It doesn't mean anything. That's why I say it. It literally doesn't mean anything.
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I mean, what I hope people think is, I would like to solve problems of the largest type in the
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kindest way that actually works. Right? But, you know, that's a little conceptual. What I hope people
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hear is, I don't even know what that is, to be left to Bernie, but better at math. I don't even know
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what that is. Is he left? Is he right? Why is he saying stuff about Trump? So, and some of you have
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heard me say that I do this intentionally to avoid bias. But I've been using the word bias,
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but now that we have the science, we know it's more than bias. It's brain damage. And it actually
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makes you dumber. And they can now measure it, and they can reproduce it, apparently. So that's
00:30:45.220
interesting. Speaking of brain damage, let's talk about all the things that I got right,
00:30:52.480
according to me. Tucker Carlson was reporting last night that there is some group of experts who are
00:31:03.120
now saying that the Syrian chemical attack in Douma, the one that triggered Trump to launch a bunch of
00:31:11.720
missiles at the airport in Syria, wasn't real. It wasn't real. Now, take yourself back to 2018, I think,
00:31:24.640
and ask yourself, when the news reported there was a Syrian gas attack, and that the only thing that
00:31:33.560
could be done is attacking Syria with, you know, some kind of weaponry, did you say to yourself,
00:31:40.240
that's bullshit? That's bullshit. That didn't happen. And did you say to yourself that the reason
00:31:48.940
that's bullshit and it didn't happen is it would be the dumbest thing that Assad could ever do?
00:31:54.760
Because it would be detectable. It would cause major repercussions. He was already winning the war.
00:32:01.660
It looked like there wasn't anything that was going to stop him from, you know, retaking larger control of
00:32:06.920
the country. It would have been sort of just the dumbest thing he could do. And it's exactly the
00:32:13.520
kind of thing that gets faked. And we live in a world where most of our news is fake. Why would
00:32:19.740
most of our news be fake, but this thing, oh, this one's real, when it's the very thing that gets faked?
00:32:28.260
It's a little bit. If you hear there's a gas attack in Syria, if you don't think Nigerian
00:32:35.260
prints email immediately, maybe you don't have enough context. So I don't have a perfect memory,
00:32:45.000
speaking of false memories, I don't have a perfect memory of what I said about it at the time,
00:32:50.140
other than I know I questioned whether it was real a number of times. If you didn't question that,
00:32:55.980
ask yourself why? Ask yourself why? Now, at the same time, just to be complete, I did say that
00:33:05.720
Trump's attack of that airport, to the extent that there were minimal or no casualties,
00:33:13.800
was a really good persuasion, because it made it look like he was a little trigger happy,
00:33:19.400
which is a real good warning to everybody. It's like, hey, it's not going to take much.
00:33:24.360
Do we need confirmation? I guess we don't even need that. So I do think from a first day as the
00:33:33.360
CEO kind of perspective, where you're establishing who you are, because your first impression is the
00:33:38.960
one that sticks, Trump did that really well, I think. I don't know if he thought that attack was
00:33:45.220
real, and we could find out that the experts who said it wasn't real, maybe they're the hoax,
00:33:50.800
and maybe it was, so anything's possible. Yeah. But I'm going to put that on my at least partial
00:33:59.240
success prediction list, because I was skeptical and never changed my skepticism on that.
00:34:09.420
Look at all the stories that have to do with racism or sexism. So you got the George Floyd trial,
00:34:16.300
race is a big part of that. Defund the police, race. Anything with Black Lives Matter, race.
00:34:24.180
Transgender sports is sex, gender stuff. Chris Harrison won't be back to do the Bachelorette for
00:34:33.740
at least one season. That's over. Race comments. The Harry and Meghan story is race. White supremacists
00:34:41.340
are everywhere, including rioting at the Capitol. That's race. There's, oh, there's a trial of
00:34:48.200
reparations. There's some Evanston, I think. So there's one town where they're going to try
00:34:55.420
reparations, 25,000 per, I guess, black person who can establish that they've been there a while or
00:35:02.680
whatever. Whether or not you like the idea of reparations, I like the idea of testing anything
00:35:10.480
you can test. So if they tested in this town and only good things happen, maybe it's even good for
00:35:18.580
the economy. Who knows? So there's that happening. So you got the Dr. Seuss thing that's about race.
00:35:27.180
Even the COVID is affecting, you know, racial groups differently. You've got the vaccinations
00:35:34.160
and the stories are about white people getting all the shots that were meant for, you know, some
00:35:39.400
inner city area. You've got the hate crimes against Asian Americans, which is race in it. You've got
00:35:46.820
the teachers unions, which are really the cause of systemic racism. And you've got even climate change.
00:35:57.180
You know, it was presumed to affect people differently based on their ethnicity, on average,
00:36:05.740
right? And so I ask you this, why is it that everything looks like race now? I mean, these are
00:36:14.780
not all the stories in the world, but doesn't it seem as if we're hyper-tuned to it in, you know,
00:36:20.960
obviously the wokeness stuff and et cetera are driving this. But we do have a choice of how we
00:36:30.460
filter our subjective reality. And I would suggest that this filter is good for some people who are
00:36:39.240
in the business of promoting this kind of concern. But I'm not sure it's good for the people who are
00:36:46.040
the alleged victims. I feel as if the better filter would have been. Oh, and by the way,
00:36:55.500
the fact that you see race in all the stories and that they're the ones that emerge anyway,
00:37:02.680
that is brain damage. Remember the prior story about how partisanship, you know, watching a steady
00:37:10.380
stream of one side causes brain damage. The continuous drumpy of everything's race and racism,
00:37:18.480
everything's sexism would do the same. It's exactly the same. Your brain will physically change
00:37:26.600
based on whatever stimulation. So if you're continually reminded of race, that's the filter
00:37:33.740
that you get. Your brain becomes hard-coded for it. And then that's how you approach life. So you're
00:37:40.720
going to, your subjective feeling of reality will be races on everything. And it's the big thing.
00:37:47.580
Now, when I talk about reframing your experience, here's a perfect example. And by the way, I'm going
00:37:54.980
to do a much bigger lesson on reframing with a whole bunch of different kinds of reframes on locals
00:38:00.980
real soon, which will be one of the most important things I do that you'll ever see, probably.
00:38:08.100
But I would reframe from it's true that racism is affecting everything. Because I think that's true,
00:38:18.300
right? The Dr. Seuss images, they did look racist to me by modern standards, of course. So it's not
00:38:26.520
that this stuff isn't true. It's just that if you treat it as your dominant filter, do you get a good
00:38:33.940
result or a bad one? And again, some people will get a good result if they're in the business of, let's
00:38:40.980
say, teaching anti-racism courses or, you know, they're getting some payoff. But for people who are just
00:38:47.900
trying to live and get a good outcome, right, have a good life, improve their family and their
00:38:54.380
situation, it's probably a bad filter. And a better filter or a way to frame your existence is strategy.
00:39:05.120
So instead of seeing everything as race, just say to yourself, I'll just change my frame,
00:39:12.340
see everything as strategy. Because as soon as you change it to strategy, everybody has a good path.
00:39:20.920
Everybody. Because I use this example too much. But let's say you're black, and you live in a world
00:39:26.820
that you see racial discrimination everywhere. Let's say it's true. It's true enough, right? So you
00:39:33.440
could argue about how bad it is, but it's true enough for this example. But suppose you also saw
00:39:39.660
that Fortune 500 companies, and indeed startups, pretty much everybody, would be desperate to have
00:39:47.600
you on the team. Because they really would like to get serious about diversity. People are watching,
00:39:53.500
right? So their brand, their stock price, their success, their ability to be leaders in the world,
00:39:59.880
it depends on them having some adequate amount of diversity. They know they're going to pay for it
00:40:05.720
if they don't get it. If you're black in the United States, you just need a good education.
00:40:13.000
Now that's hard to do, because of the teachers' unions blocking competition with schools, etc. But if
00:40:18.780
you took that mindset that everything is a strategy, and you just look for strategy everywhere, you would
00:40:25.860
find all these opportunities where you would have a superior position, and you should just focus on those
00:40:33.180
places, even though there might be all these other places that suck a little bit or a lot because
00:40:40.720
you're black. But these other strategies are really, really good. I mean, these are open roads.
00:40:48.180
There's not even a bump in the road if you take the right strategy. Now that requires staying in a jail,
00:40:54.200
staying off drugs, getting a good education. But if you get the basics down, it's like a four-lane
00:41:02.100
highway to whatever you want. Or you can see it as there's racism everywhere, and what can you do?
00:41:09.980
One of those is better. All right, the city of Minneapolis announced a $27 million settlement
00:41:18.040
with the family of George Floyd. Now, independent of the question of whether that amount of money
00:41:25.960
makes sense, because some of these settlements are more about changing the system and making sure the
00:41:32.320
penalty is big enough. So it's not about necessarily what the family... I don't want to use the word
00:41:38.440
deserves, because I don't feel like deserving is even part of the question, right? Everybody deserves.
00:41:47.680
They deserve to be alive, for the most part. So I won't say anything about the amount.
00:41:55.280
The system produced that amount, and it was a negotiated thing. But how in the world does
00:42:03.540
Derek Chauvin get a fair trial when some other entity that people will imagine is somehow connected
00:42:12.000
to him, because he had worked for the city as a police officer? It looks like they just admitted
00:42:17.740
that it was a murder, doesn't it? Now, that's not what happened. If you look at the details,
00:42:26.240
it's a negotiated settlement. I think they took some responsibility for allowing this chokehold with
00:42:34.040
the knee. So technically, the city did nothing wrong. They just did their own business. They negotiated.
00:42:41.800
They took responsibility. It's going to be pretty expensive. Maybe it leads to an improvement.
00:42:47.560
Maybe they come up with a better way to police. But how in the world does that guy get a fair trial?
00:42:55.240
Because in your mind, it just looks like the trial's already over, and that smart people elsewhere
00:43:01.720
just decided, oh yeah, this is definitely a murder here. I don't know. Here's something that's
00:43:11.320
fun. I don't know if they're a startup, but a company called EmitBio. They've got a new device
00:43:19.120
that uses proprietary light technology to kill the coronavirus. Guess where it kills that coronavirus.
00:43:30.560
Is it on a table? No. No. Is it in the air? No. No. Is it on your hands? No.
00:43:46.160
Turns out you have to sort of, let's say, I'll choose my words carefully, insert it into the mouthful
00:43:57.440
area. Don't mind my medical terms. I know you can get lost when I get too technical. But they insert
00:44:04.720
it in the mouthful area and shoot the proprietary technology, a type of light. The light, I've heard
00:44:15.640
that light works as a, what's that word? Starts with a D, a disinfectant. A disinfectant. So the light
00:44:24.280
that works as a disinfectant will kill the coronavirus. Apparently it kills all kinds of different
00:44:28.760
varieties too. And a big source of these is on the back of the throat called the, what do they call it?
00:44:37.360
The pharynx. P-H-A-R-Y-N-X. Which you could pronounce any way you'd like. I think I'll call
00:44:48.000
it the pharynx. You pronounce it at home. And apparently there's enough virus there if you're
00:44:57.480
infected that shooting this light on it and kill it will decrease your overall viral load. And that
00:45:03.680
could be a good thing. And they're applying for some kind of emergency stuff. So in summary,
00:45:11.360
there's a disinfectant that's inserted inside the body through the mouthful area.
00:45:23.440
Some would say injected into the mouth. But I would say inserted. But you could say if you were not
00:45:29.640
speaking as technically as I am. You know, I like to use the actual medical terms, like the,
00:45:35.000
the mouthful area and the pharynx, pharynx. So just putting that out there because I like to be
00:45:44.200
right. Kevin McCarthy is introducing some, some, was he planning a resolution to get rid of Eric
00:45:56.120
Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee. Now, I think it's more insulting if the thing you're
00:46:05.000
being removed from is called the House Intelligence Committee. Well, sorry, Eric. But we here in the
00:46:15.180
committee, we're the House Intelligence Committee. And we've decided that you're no longer qualified for
00:46:23.260
intelligence, if you know what we're saying. But I feel as if they're just gaslighting him.
00:46:33.320
Yeah, you see what I did there? You can explain it to somebody at home if they didn't get that.
00:46:41.200
And the argument here is that because Fart Fart once slept with Fang Fang, who is apparently
00:46:50.180
a Chinese smi, that... Now, if you, if you didn't believe before that your opinions are assigned to
00:47:02.420
you and that the news decides what you think, just think, think of all the trouble. Now, this will not
00:47:09.980
be an original thought. But every now and then, you have to remind yourself that we're putting up with
00:47:15.160
this. Like, this is what we've accepted. We've accepted the following thing is, oh, this is okay.
00:47:21.800
That, how long did we put up with the Russia collusion thing under the idea that if, if Trump
00:47:28.580
had any contact with Russia, that it would be, you know, grounds for impeachment, et cetera. And that
00:47:34.900
was like the biggest story, and it's all we cared about. But here we've got the guy who was pushing
00:47:39.720
that. Like, one of the main guys who was pushing that hoax was actually sleeping with a Chinese spy
00:47:47.740
at about the same time. And, and what's our, what is our collective social approach to that?
00:47:58.220
Let's talk about some racism or something. Like somehow, somehow he's, he gets to keep his job
00:48:05.220
out of all places, the intelligence committee. It's like the last place you'd want to put somebody
00:48:10.900
who had a legitimate contact with a Chinese spy recently. Now, I have no reason to believe that
00:48:17.600
Eric Swalwell is any kind of an intelligence threat to the country. I'm not really worried about it too
00:48:23.100
much. But, uh, it is amazing that, that, that we're, we're trained to treat his situation as,
00:48:32.280
eh, it's an interesting story, but no big deal. Whereas the, the Trump story was the biggest thing
00:48:38.360
in the world. Uh, are you worried about returning to normal life after the pandemic? I have to confess
00:48:50.860
I am. And apparently it's a thing. I hadn't, hadn't talked about it too much. So as much as I'm looking
00:48:59.500
forward to it, of course, you know, I would choose it. There's a lot about these social interactions
00:49:06.440
that I'm not looking forward to. And I'll get used to it. But one of the things that some smart folks
00:49:16.860
are talking about, I think CNN had this article, is that using zoom might be rewiring our brains too.
00:49:23.120
So the same kind of brain damage I was talking about before, we might be getting from zoom.
00:49:29.860
Although the examples I didn't find that compelling. One of them is that if you look at a screen with a
00:49:35.440
bunch of faces that are all looking directly at you, or so it seems that it will trigger your fight
00:49:41.420
or flight instinct because it'll look like you're maybe being attacked by a bunch of faces. To which
00:49:48.360
I say, yeah, maybe, maybe. I'm not so convinced that that's so scientific. Maybe. I would think
00:49:59.940
that all the zooming is rewiring us some way. Do you remember when I said that when you got to
00:50:06.860
seven Cuomo accusers, that the real number's got to be 20 or 30? Well, there were 30 women who got
00:50:15.500
together to say bad things about working with him. Now, they don't have sexual complaints per se,
00:50:22.580
but he was a bully or whatever. Now, 50 lawmakers have called for him to resign. AOC has, Nadler,
00:50:30.860
Schumer, pretty much everybody now has to call for him to resign. But you know who hasn't?
00:50:38.440
Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris. She's getting a pass. Can you believe she's getting a pass on this?
00:50:48.380
The media is just sort of letting this go. Now, they don't have the access that they want. She's
00:50:53.180
not answering questions. But it feels like a bigger question than it is. The Babylon Bee had a great
00:51:00.860
headline today. Their satirical site, if you didn't know that, it said,
00:51:04.740
Cuomo invites all accusers to come forward and gather in New York nursing home.
00:51:17.620
All right. And that is all I wanted to talk about. Now, what do you think about Cuomo resigning?
00:51:26.520
I have real mixed feelings about this Cuomo thing. On one hand, the allegations sound
00:51:33.740
certainly serious enough that it would be hard to imagine that they're all false. And they seem
00:51:40.500
substantially different than Kavanaugh, because the Kavanaugh stuff look completely made up,
00:51:46.820
like people he may not even know. Whereas the Cuomo ones, we know that they were around him,
00:51:53.900
and there are enough of them, and they're specific. There's something there, right?
00:51:58.200
But he hasn't been the subject of any kind of trial or investigation yet. And on one hand,
00:52:08.820
I'm thinking he's crazy to hold on. It's done. He needs to resign. And then he apparently isn't.
00:52:17.780
Maybe he still will by the time I'm done here. But I kind of like the fact he's not resigning.
00:52:23.320
Now, if the investigation shows all these accusations to be, or any of them, to be real,
00:52:34.800
then, you know, that's a different calculation. But the fact that he's holding tight on a principle
00:52:40.860
that he hasn't been investigated, and, you know, he gets to have his day in court,
00:52:46.420
I kind of like that. Now, if the entire problem was how he handled the nursing homes,
00:52:51.960
that's a different issue. Because we sort of know the facts enough there. So if that's the reason
00:52:58.100
he has to leave, then, you know, that's a different question. But I do think he gets to
00:53:05.780
fight if he wants to. And I like that our system allows him to do that. And while I would be somewhat
00:53:13.860
shocked and amazed if some kind of investigation didn't somehow kick up something that's worthy of
00:53:21.540
quitting, something, I'd be amazed. I like the fact that he's sort of sticking up for the system,
00:53:29.560
if you will. Like, every time somebody says you're going to have to, you know, show some evidence,
00:53:35.700
I think we're all better off for it. Because you don't want to be the one who loses your job
00:53:41.020
on accusations alone. Now, just because his accusations seem a little more credible than most,
00:53:48.620
both by quantity and type. And you know, he knew these people, you know, he had close contact with
00:53:54.260
them and all that stuff. What happens with the next one? What if the next one isn't quite as clear?
00:54:01.640
How less clear does it need to be before you say, whoa, whoa, whoa, people don't lose their jobs over
00:54:08.700
this? You're going to have to have some evidence. So that's a little dangerous. All right. Somebody's
00:54:17.360
asking in the comments, why did the Democrats want him out? What's the real reason? I would say the real
00:54:22.120
reason is that he's a liability now. He's bad for the brand. And they want to look consistent on this
00:54:29.040
stuff or else they have no purpose. You know, if the Democrats can't address the Cuomo stuff
00:54:35.700
according to their own code of conduct, if they can't pull that off,
00:54:41.040
whatever credibility they have is really going to take a hit. So I think they kind of have to
00:54:47.080
play by their own rules. And I think it's, it's interesting, let's just say, that the
00:54:54.800
right is forcing the left to play by their own rules. And it's costing. It's going to cost them.
00:55:01.000
So we'll see where that ends up. And by the way, I invented the word Cuomo-rona virus. Because I feel
00:55:10.780
like the Cuomo story and the coronavirus, they're both evergreens now. It's like every day we're
00:55:16.280
talking about them and they, they kind of merge because of the nursing home thing. And then in our
00:55:20.540
minds, it's all just one story. It's like Brad and Angelina, you know, Brangelina. It's just
00:55:27.340
Cuomo-rona. Cuomo-rona. Cuomo-rona. Nah, it's too hard to say. Forget about that one. It's a terrible
00:55:36.120
hashtag. All right, that's all for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow. All right, YouTubers, I'm almost done.
00:55:46.340
I think you would agree. This was the best coffee with Scott Adams. Better than all the rest.
00:55:53.260
All right. I will talk to you tomorrow as well.