Episode 1355 Scott Adams： Hilarious CNN and WaPo Propaganda, Arizona Erection Freud, and New Mask Science
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Kamala Harris's tech team has an idea to CGI Joe Biden. Bill Maher is calling BS on Black Lives Matter. And a device that could make people stupid. And CNN might be responsible for brain damage.
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Sublime, as always. So I finally figured out why Biden is
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so big on masks. Because apparently Kamala Harris's tech team, they can save 50% of their
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work and resources because they only have to CGI Biden from the top half of his head. Bottom
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half, you don't even have to animate it. CGI is easy. You can imagine the meanings. How are
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we going to do a CGI version of Biden? We don't quite have the resources to pull this off. And
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then somebody else in the room says, I've got an idea. Just let me spitball this. What if
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we never show the bottom part of Biden's face? And everybody laughs. They go,
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No, seriously. Seriously. Does anybody have any ideas how we're going to be able to CGI Biden?
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No, seriously. If you just make everybody wear a face mask, you won't even have to animate his mouth.
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That's the hard part. And everybody in the room just says, they just look at each other and I think,
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could we do that? We just need a reason. Well, I'm not saying that's what happened. No,
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I'm not starting a conspiracy theory. I'm just saying that coincidentally, it would be easier
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to animate a CGI version of Biden if he only had to do the top half of his head. That's all I'm saying.
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Watching Bill Maher call bullshit on Black Lives Matter and the narrative making properties of the
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news is getting really fun. Because I think Bill Maher probably realizes, can't read his mind, but he
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probably realizes that the Democrats really need some kind of adult supervision. And apparently with
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great power comes great responsibility. And I think people like Bill Maher just think,
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if I don't do it, who the hell is going to do it? And by it, I mean, call bullshit on his own team
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when they've just gone into crazy land. So he's starting to do that, calling bullshit on the,
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let's say, the left's narratives, if you will, especially around police shootings. You know,
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he's being completely fact-based and realistic. And it's fun to watch. If you're not watching his show,
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I recommend it. It's, without Trump being the only story, the distorting effect of Trump on the media
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is sort of reduced a little bit. And now you can see, now you can see Bill Maher as he was meant to
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be, you know, without Trump in the story. Here's a question for you. If you could invent an electronic
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device that would emit some kind of electronic signal that when you pointed it at a person,
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it could make that person dumber, maybe even give them brain damage. You've heard that there's some
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kind of a sonic weapon that is allegedly being used against our diplomats, not quite confirmed.
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But suppose you could invent such a device where just some kind of electronic signal would actually
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make people stupid and literally cause brain damage. What would you call it? Hey, you'd call it CNN.
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CNN. And that's not even a joke. Because if you haven't heard me say this before, science now has
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determined, fairly conclusively, I think, I mean, you always wait for confirmation, but I think it's
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fairly solid that people who watch only one side of the news and don't get the other side have brain
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damage. Actual, literal, that's the word, no hyperbole. Scientists use the word, words, brain damage,
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meaning that you can't think as well, because the bias of the news has actually warped your brain.
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Now, let me ask you this. If we knew all this, let's say science was always where it is now,
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and we always knew that biased news would cause brain damage, would it be legal to start CNN if it
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didn't already exist? Think about it. There are a lot of things that could not be legal if you started
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them today. For example, if we didn't already have lots of guns in the United States, let's say just
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nobody had any. Would it be legal to start having them? Not a chance. Not a chance. If we didn't
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already have them, it wouldn't be legal to start it up tomorrow. Yeah, alcohol, a perfect example. If it
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were not historically embedded in our society, no. No, it wouldn't be legal, right? And, you know,
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I know you're talking, you're going to be thinking about prohibition didn't work, blah, blah, but that's
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because it was already here. If somebody had just invented it and ran it through the FDA, it probably
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wouldn't get approved. So, and I was thinking about this with dogs. I was walking my dog, Snickers,
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and of course, you know, Snickers does their business, and I've got my little bag, and I'm picking it up,
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and I'm thinking to myself, if dogs were not part of our culture for so many years, and somebody came
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up with the idea, hey, let's have a dog. It'll live in my house, and it'll poop on my neighbor's lawn,
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but don't worry. I'll clean it up sometimes. I mean, I'm pretty good at that, but other people,
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maybe not so good. I don't think dogs would be legal. I don't think so. I mean, you can't have just
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any kind of livestock you want. You can't have an elephant, can you? Well, maybe you can. I don't
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know. Could you have an elephant as a pet if you wanted to? Maybe you could, actually. I'm not sure
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you couldn't. I guess I suppose it depends where you are. I grew up with a neighbor who had elephants.
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True story. Where I grew up in Wyndham, New York, upstate New York, my grandfather's farm,
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which was in walking distance from my house, the farm that was just sort of adjacent to his,
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they owned elephants. Apparently, they were trained elephants that they sort of provided
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to circuses and stuff. But one day, my grandfather was working in the hayfield, and he turns around,
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and there's an elephant that walks up to him in upstate New York. True story. All right,
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but that's neither here nor there. I'm just saying that things like boxing, cigarettes, alcohol,
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dog ownership, and CNN all have this weird quality that if they didn't exist and you started them
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today, somebody knows the Catskill Game Farm. Hey, Patty. The Catskill Game Farm, I don't think that
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was part of why my neighbor had elephants. I think it was for circuses, if I recall.
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here's a little interesting fact. I've noticed lately that some of the best,
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and by best, I mean diverse, sources of news is my own community within locals.
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So if I look at the, if I look at Fox News homepage, then I look at CNN homepage, there's a certain set
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of stories that, you know, half of them overlap, and half of them are just, you know, in their
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narrative. But they're all kind of narrow. It's just not a lot of breadth in the coverage, it seems.
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But if I go on locals, where, you know, I'm posting my more provocative content
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subscription service, and other people are in the community are posting as well, I see all kinds of
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stories that I didn't see in the regular media. Now, they're in some kind of media because they're linked,
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but they tend to be in, you know, not the tier that you see the most. Here's an example.
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Chinese Authority is a story I didn't know about until I saw it on locals. I'll link to it.
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Chinese authorities are cracking down on feminist activists online in China, and dozens of social
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media accounts got shut down. And the story said, until very recently, you could see vibrant
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discussions on women's rights online in China, and now they just got rid of it. Now, it's starting
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to look like China's censorship is getting as bad as our censorship in America. And I don't know if
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China's worried about that, but it's heading in that direction. And if China's censorship gets any
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worse, it's going to get up to American level. And that's going to be pretty bad.
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What? Oh, you think Chinese censorship is worse than in America? Oh, that's so cute.
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Yeah, a lot of people think that. But let me give you this, just this example.
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In China, they said, you can't say that, and here's why, and we're going to close you down.
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You can't say it because it's bad for China, I guess. That's kind of, it's kind of honest,
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isn't it? Now, I don't like it. I certainly wouldn't want anything like that in America.
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But it's kind of direct. This kind of language is bad for China, so we're not going to let you do
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it. Wait a minute. We do the same thing here, don't we? Isn't there a topic? I'm not even going to
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mention it. Is there a national topic which you would expect even a few years ago you could have
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spoken your opinion on with complete, complete freedom? But now you can't. There are entire
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topics you can't talk about on social media in the United States. You'll get canceled.
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So China is worse? I don't know. It looks kind of similar to me. And if you think it's worse,
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maybe you haven't been paying attention. Because the other thing that's happening is
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the massive propaganda that is disguised as news. So probably twice a week or more,
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I tell you to watch Glenn Greenwald, because he's just ripping the media apart for being a
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propaganda organ. And right now, nobody's doing a better job of just pulling the cover back
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on the ridiculousness of the media. But this is, I guess, on Fox News. Glenn Greenwald was
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appearing. He was talking about how Washington Post apparently did some kind of a fact check on Tim
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Scott, Senator Tim Scott's story of being a young black man who, I don't know, his family picked
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cotton or something. That's the story. And I guess they fact check it to make sure that, you know,
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he's an adult black man now. But they fact check to make sure that he was ever once a younger black
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man. Apparently he was. So he's always been black. So they fact check that. I'm just kidding. They
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didn't fact check that. But they did. They did write a fact check that they found everything he said
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was true. But they wrote it in a debunking tone. So that when you're reading it, you feel like it's
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being debunked. But they confirmed everything. Now you say to yourself, wait a minute, that's not a
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thing, is it? Can you do a fact check in which you fact check something is true, but you write it so
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that somebody thinks maybe you're not? Is that really a thing? Yes. I gave you an example yesterday.
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The USA Today fact check on Trump saying, you know, about the disinfectants. They fact check,
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it's true that Trump was referring to a real known technology for injecting light into the body.
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It was being trialed at the time. But they wrote it like it was false. But they fact check it as true.
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It's a thing. It's a real thing that they fact check things as true while writing it like you
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think it's the other way. It's amazing when you see it. All right, here's another great one like
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this. Perfect example. Today you can see a piece on Matt Gaetz. Now we know from Project Veritas,
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Undercover Video, they talked to a technical director at CNN, Undercover. It was Undercover Video. He
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didn't know he was recorded. And he admitted that they target Matt Gaetz for political reasons. It has
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nothing to do with the news. So we know that they target Matt Gaetz. All right. So start with that
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knowledge that it's not real news. It's a target at a person, right? Now knowing that, that's your
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framework. Listen to what they did to him today. This is just, it just makes your head shake. It's now
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it's now passed into just parody. I mean, it just looks funny at this point.
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So here's from CNN. Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas involving
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Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort
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to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana. People briefed on the matter,
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told CNN. In other words, anonymous sources, they're the good ones, aren't they? If you hear that CNN has
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some anonymous sources, you know you're hearing the truth. No. Anonymous sources means not true.
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Pretty much most of the time. Not every time. So let me read this again, and then I'll give you the
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punchline, right? You have to hear exactly CNN's words, and then I'll tell you the punchline.
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I'll read it again. Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas
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involving Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort
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to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana, people briefed on the matter, told CNN.
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So that's how they introduced the story. What do you think was the evidence in the story
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to support this claim? None. None. There wasn't any. Even the anonymous sources didn't say there was any
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crime. Nobody did. Nobody involved in the story has even made an allegation. Do you get that? There's
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not even an allegation. Not only is there not a crime, nobody's accused him of a crime,
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and there's no evidence whatsoever that anybody ever will, it gets better. Wait, it gets better.
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And the idea here is that he may have been influenced to vote in favor of medical marijuana.
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His track record has always been in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. He has introduced
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legislation repeatedly on that point. So we have this long history where there's nothing to influence
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because he's always been in that camp. You don't need to convince somebody to do something that
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they've been trying really, really hard to do for years. Now, don't you think that was important?
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Don't you think that's sort of an important context? That he's actually famous for years
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trying to get medical marijuana. But at some point, he takes a trip, and then people are suddenly
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investigating whether they're trying to influence him? This is just hilarious propaganda. I mean,
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this is just crazy. All right. I know that you don't like to hear about masks, but I promise you,
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this will be good. You're tired of masks. I get it. I get it, right? We just argue. Do they work? Do they not?
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But this is the most insightful, let's say, credible explanation of why we think they don't work,
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but probably they do in some cases. Are you ready? Because we're trying to reconcile why it is
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that there are a number of trials or tests or whatever that showed that they don't work,
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but those are specific situations. So are there situations where they work? And here's one doctor
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who looked pretty good. Dr. Pierre Coria is a doctor. He's a researcher, etc. And he's broken down
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this way. And I think this has a lot to do with how well you explain it. And he basically says that
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masks can have a value so long as, and hold with me here because this is, it's going to get a little
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detailed, but not too bad. The masks do work for indoor stuff only. So this doctor admits that
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wearing masks outdoors, ridiculous. But we're all on the same page on that, right? Masks outdoors,
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there's no scientific evidence that you can even get it outdoors. Like there's one, there's one case
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verified of two Chinese guys who talk to each other in the face for an hour outdoors. Nobody else.
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So we're all on the same page that masks don't make sense outdoors, right? But indoors. Some of you
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still think indoors doesn't make sense because you've seen, you've seen tests or trials or whatever
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that said they didn't. So this doctor breaks it down and I've never seen it done so well. He mentions the
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four D's that if you, that masks will work indoors, he claims, unless you violate one of these four
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things. And if you violate more than them, then the mask won't work. Number one, density. If you have a
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lot of people in a room, says this doctor, then masks can extend the amount of time before you might get
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it, assuming somebody in there has it, right? So all the mask does, according to this doctor,
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is extend the amount of time you could be in a full room before you get it anyway. Now the argument is
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that the masks make the, what would you call it, the air particles or the water particles or whatever
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go up and down and that basically they, they permeate the room. So it's not so much that you're,
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you're like a cannon talking into somebody's face with your COVID. It's more like it's spreading into
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the room, right? So visualize this. It's the difference between me talking directly in your face
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and it's like a water cannon of COVID versus I'm just releasing it slowly into the room through the
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tops of my mask. And it's just sort of filling the room with virus over time. So here's the thing.
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If you violate any of these, you're going to get some COVID even with a mask indoors. Density, number
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of people in the room, that's bad. The more people, the more risk. Duration, the longer you're in the
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room, the worse it is. The masks will extend, we don't know how much, extend the amount of time that
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you can be in a, in a room. Dimensions, the size of the room, obviously, the bigger the room, the
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better. And then the draft, the amount of air, the airflow. So if you don't get, if you don't get all of
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these things right, the mask won't work. And when they test masks, they're not really testing it in
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the way that would get to this, right? So this claim, and I'll say it's one doctor, researcher,
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who's making a claim. I won't say this is my opinion, but it matches exactly my opinion.
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All right. The reason that I like this, this breakdown, is it matches exactly the opinion
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I've had for a year, which is there's no way it works in every situation, but it must buy you a
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little time. I've always figured it was a friction thing, that it's not binary, it doesn't stop
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anything. It just gives you a little, little extra time, a little extra cushion. So because I was
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primed to believe it anyway, I do believe this doctor, but I'm probably, yeah. So in the comments
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you're saying, so confirmation bias? Exactly. Yes, I can't tell the difference. You know, the way
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confirmation bias works is that the person experiencing it is the only one who can't tell.
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You might be able to tell by observing me, if you had, you know, enough context to do that. But by
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definition, if I'm suffering from it, I'm the only one who can't tell. So when you say, is that
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confirmation bias? I don't know. It's not possible for me to know. It's only possible maybe for somebody
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else to know. All right. Here's a fun story. There's a Arizona erection Freud. Now, those words are not
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exactly the words that the story requires. It's not really an erection. They use an L in that word
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instead of an R. And it's not really a Sigmund Freud. It's a different word, but I don't want that to
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be picked up and demonetize me. So let's say in Arizona, there's an erection Freud going on. And
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CNN's headline for it is that, and I swear this, they really said this. It's an effort by conspiracy
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theorists to undermine results. That's how CNN reported on the Arizona erection Freud. It's a
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conspiracy theorist attempt to undermine results. And I thought to myself, that's an interesting way
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to put it. For example, I'm going to start adopting this way of talking. When I go to my doctor,
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the purpose of going to my doctor is to undermine my health. That's why I do it. Why else would you
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go to a doctor other than to undermine your health? When I check the tires on my car, what I'm really
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trying to do is undermine their proper inflation. That's why I do it. Why else? Really?
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Um, and, uh, when I go to the gym, it's of course to undermine my fitness. This is why we do these
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things. So if you're going to be checking the votes in Arizona, it's to undermine, undermine the
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credibility of the system. That's why you do it. Everybody knows that. So that's how CNN phrases
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it. Here's the funniest part. Do you know why Democrats are complaining about this, uh, erection
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audit? Do you? Do you know why they're complaining? This is the fun part. Democrats are complaining,
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wait for it, that the audit is not, wait for it, transparent enough. Is that beautiful? That's
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just beautiful. Yes, that's right. Although the election itself, some complained, some on
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the other side of the aisle, some complained that the election itself was not transparent
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enough. And so they propose this, uh, massive audit and Democrats are complaining that the audit
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is not transparent enough. And do you know what? It's not, it's not transparent. Apparently
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the people doing the audit are not going to let people watch, et cetera. Do you, what's, what's
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your take on that? Well, besides the fact that it's fricking hilarious. Now, um, of course we
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all know because we've been told that the audit won't find any irregularity. You know why, right?
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A lot of you are not logical. So let me connect the dots for you the way, um, CNN has done for
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me and, and follow this because a lot of you are not trained, uh, logicians. So this might be a little
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complicated for you and try not to get lost. We know that there won't be anything found in the,
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in the audit and we know everything's good. And you can go back to trace why we know that because
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when the courts were asked to, uh, not look into it or they didn't look into it, they didn't find the
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thing that nobody looked for. And because they didn't find anything that they didn't look for,
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that logically QED means that there isn't anything there. Because one way to know that something
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doesn't exist is to not look for it. And that confirms it's non-existence. You're following this,
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right? Because I, a lot of people will think, wait a minute, that doesn't even make sense.
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But that means you're just not following the logic. If you don't look for it or you use the wrong
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mechanism to look for it and then you don't find it, that's proof it doesn't exist. QED. All right.
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So part of this, uh, erection, uh, fraud audit is they're going to take some ballots and then go
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knock on doors and see if there are any real people corresponding to those ballots.
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What would happen if they find there's a difference? Hypothetically, you know, of course,
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I know that they won't. And the reason I know they won't is that the courts who didn't look into it
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said that it's not there. So I know they're not going to find it, but hypothetically, just do a
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experimental experiment. What if they did? What if they did? But it's not transparent.
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Well, if there's not, if it's not transparent, I guess the Dems will say, but you, you added those
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ballots yourself. Those are not part of the original ballots. You probably added them yourself.
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I suppose there's always some, uh, some way that even an audit could be faked. So the Dems,
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without their transparency, you're going to be claiming that. Um, but I'd be really curious how
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this turns out. And by the way, why don't Democrats want this to happen? Now, part of the pushback is
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that they think that the audit will be done, uh, let's say illegitimately and maybe cause confusion.
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Maybe, but you'd think that Democrats would want an audit because the vote went their way. And they
00:29:46.900
also want you to believe it was a credible vote. I would think they'd be dying for an audit.
00:29:53.080
Do you know, if I knew I were innocent of all charges, do you know what I would want?
00:29:57.480
An audit. I'd want an audit if I were innocent. Now, this assumes that the audit doesn't create
00:30:05.920
some fraudulent claims. And so that is a risk. They do have a legitimate point there. You could
00:30:11.600
easily imagine that it confuses the public and doesn't tell us anything. That would be, you know,
00:30:17.300
not that, uh, unusual, but I would say that's a risk worth taking. Um, apparently, uh, good news
00:30:25.840
coming out of Israel that, uh, that, uh, for the first time, this was yesterday for the first time
00:30:30.920
in 10 months, no Israeli died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Now, today's a new day. So maybe
00:30:38.240
that changed, but there was a day yesterday when Israel had no COVID deaths and they've been
00:30:46.180
vaccinated, vaccinating like crazy. You know, the, I guess the best success story in the vaccinations.
00:30:52.000
So that's looking pretty good for the vaccinations, pretty good for the vaccinations. Meanwhile, the,
00:31:00.000
uh, temporarily halted J and J vaccination has been reapproved for use. So apparently the risk
00:31:07.300
is much smaller than the benefit. And that's the single shot one. That's the one I want. Um,
00:31:14.540
I talked to somebody who got vaccinated in, in my area recently. It took five hours
00:31:21.760
it was a five hour wait in their car to get vaccinated five hours. So I'm not vaccinated
00:31:33.920
and it's only because it's just not really practical. So you, you can use all the websites
00:31:38.980
and all the places that you look for where your vaccinations are and you can sign up for things,
00:31:44.240
but none of it works. So in California, I don't know how anybody gets vaccinated unless,
00:31:50.800
unless they take days off. So this is somebody who probably had to dedicate
00:31:56.320
one full day to getting the first shot, one full day to getting the second shot,
00:32:02.300
and then might lose one or two days for the side effects. That's four days of lost work
00:32:09.180
for a fricking shot. I need better than that. You know, I don't mind taking an afternoon off,
00:32:18.540
but I'm not going to give up four days of work for a fucking vaccination, right? California needs to
00:32:24.620
step it up a little bit. Yes, I know in other places it's shorter. And I know that if you can
00:32:31.500
somehow magically get an appointment close, then you don't have to wait forever, but not everybody
00:32:38.040
can just go sign up. You can sign up all day long. And in fact, all the places that look for
00:32:45.120
vaccinations right now will tell you that you can get it. And you're going, you're doing the sign up
00:32:50.860
and you're saying your age and all your comorbidities and you get all the way to the end. He goes,
00:32:56.800
all right, and here are your options and none of them work. So, so you can use a website to find
00:33:02.940
options that don't work, but that's all they do. So right now it's not really practical where I live,
00:33:09.700
but people are still doing it. It takes them five hours.
00:33:16.560
Here's an interesting point on racism. John Blake, it's an opinion piece. I guess it'd be an opinion
00:33:24.140
piece on CNN, um, says that, uh, the, the real problem with the Floyd case and Chauvin's, uh, body
00:33:33.340
language, et cetera, was that it displayed indifference and that there's apparently a, uh, a line of
00:33:40.740
thought that goes all the way back to, and includes Martin Luther King, that the real worst racism is
00:33:49.300
indifference, indifference to somebody's struggle specifically. And, and you've heard this before,
00:33:56.800
right? You've heard, uh, a number of black people who, you know, speak out on this kind of issue to
00:34:03.960
say that they'd rather deal with a direct racist because at least they're paying attention to you.
00:34:09.380
You know, at least you have something to work with there, but the ones that are the, that are the worst
00:34:14.400
in some ways are the ones who are just indifferent. You know, they don't care one way or another
00:34:19.560
whether you live or die. And so that makes sense in terms of Black Lives Matter. They're not saying,
00:34:26.900
well, it's just perfectly on point. That's why, that's why I think there's a lot of genius in the
00:34:32.840
phrase Black Lives Matter. As a slogan, I, I doubt anybody's ever come up with a better one. Even Make America
00:34:39.340
Great Again didn't, didn't work as well as this one, even if you don't like how it turned out,
00:34:45.320
but it certainly worked. And, you know, I was thinking about that. And part of the, uh, story
00:34:52.620
is that there's a presumption here, hard to prove, but a presumption that Chauvin's body language,
00:35:00.620
when he was photographed on top of Floyd, that his look of indifference was the most triggering part
00:35:09.220
about it. In other words, his body language looked like his mind was saying he doesn't care if this
00:35:15.780
guy lives or dies, which might be the case. But did he go to, did Chauvin get convicted because the
00:35:24.800
jurors believed they could read his mind based on his body language? Somebody says only in one photo,
00:35:33.040
but apparently that one photo was, um, it was focused on by the prosecution. So did we just
00:35:40.300
send a man to prison based on the belief that jurors can read body language and determine intention?
00:35:49.120
I feel like we did feel like we did. And of course you can't read minds. So if there was anything that
00:35:57.060
would ever give you reasonable doubt, it should be that you could read somebody's mind. What, what would
00:36:04.060
be more reasonable doubt than thinking you could read somebody's mind by their body language? Have you
00:36:10.620
ever tried that at home? Next time you look at your spouse's body language, see if you can guess what
00:36:17.280
they're thinking. See how well that goes. Sometimes you get it right. Maybe one in three. Two out of three
00:36:24.840
times you're completely off. We're not really good at reading body language. It's not really, I mean,
00:36:32.700
I believe that maybe experts can do it more often than chance. I mean, I believe that's reasonable,
00:36:38.780
but it's not a reliable way to send somebody to prison. I think his body language says he's lying.
00:36:46.060
But we do. It's, it's part of the process. The only way we know people are lying is just by looking at
00:36:51.640
them and judging whether it looks like lying, unfortunately. But I would like to add this
00:36:58.580
provocative thought to the process. That wanting to be, let's see, what's to, wanting to overcome
00:37:07.460
indifference is something that you control. All right. Are you indifferent to people who are nice to
00:37:16.500
you? Are you? If somebody knocks on the door and says, hey, you know, I noticed it snowed last night
00:37:25.940
and I've got a few minutes. I know you're elderly. Do you mind if I shovel your walk for you? I'm here
00:37:33.180
anyway. If that happens, do you think that the person who offered to shovel your sidewalk for nothing,
00:37:40.960
nothing in return? Does that, are you indifferent to that person? No, you're not. You actually care
00:37:48.520
about that person because they did something for you. The way to make people not indifferent is to do
00:37:54.960
something for them. People who don't do anything for you, you can be indifferent to them.
00:38:01.720
Sort of natural. So I feel as if everything comes down to this, that if you have an attitude of,
00:38:12.720
you know, zero-sum attitude that for somebody to get something, somebody has to lose something,
00:38:18.600
that you end up with indifference. Because if the only way you're going to get ahead is by taking my
00:38:24.680
stuff, I don't care about you. I don't care about you at all. I really don't. And I'm not going to
00:38:31.680
change that opinion. If the only way you think you can get ahead is by taking my stuff, I do not care
00:38:38.360
if you live or die. Sorry. Now, if you would like to work with me, find a way we can both benefit,
00:38:46.360
I'm so in. I'm totally in. If you can find a way that even something is just good for me,
00:38:54.660
I'll probably return the favor. It's called reciprocity. It's reciprocity. Yeah, and somebody
00:39:01.000
somebody says, no empathy? No. No, I don't have empathy for people who want to take things from me
00:39:07.420
and give me nothing. You know, unless it's a child or a dog or something like that, right? But an adult
00:39:12.880
human being who wants to benefit by taking something from me, no, I don't care if they live or die,
00:39:18.600
and I never will. If they want to work with me, I'm all in. You know, I'm very generous.
00:39:28.260
But you have to come at me with a sense of reciprocity. And if the only thing I get out of
00:39:34.360
it is that I feel good, that works. I'm good with that. If the only thing I get out of it is thank you,
00:39:42.160
works for me. I do a lot of work just for thank yous. I do lots of work just for recognition.
00:39:49.980
So if somebody, you know, pat me on the back and say, good for you. Good for you. But I don't think
00:39:57.120
this can ever change because human nature is sort of hardwired. You know, racism is sort of hardwired
00:40:03.540
into us. We have to work pretty hard to overcome it. But this reciprocity thing is also hardwired.
00:40:09.100
And if you're not coming at me with reciprocity as your, your theme, I don't give a fuck about you.
00:40:16.340
I really don't. I don't care anything about you or your life. I care nothing about you.
00:40:23.040
Clear enough. But if you want help, I'm all about it. I understand, although I did not see this in
00:40:31.840
person, that Floyd's defense lawyer, Nelson, he did use the defense I had suggested would be
00:40:39.060
effective, but it didn't matter. You know, the jury probably didn't use the facts anyway. But
00:40:45.800
part of his defense was that why did Chauvin do everything he did right in front of witnesses
00:40:53.120
with cameras? If Chauvin had had any idea that what he was doing would get Chauvin in trouble,
00:41:01.380
he wouldn't have done it, would he? Do you have to be a mind reader to know that people don't do
00:41:07.180
things that are so bad for themselves that they would end up in a 7 by 10 jail cell 23 hours a day
00:41:14.420
for decades? Because that's what's happening to Chauvin. And he had to know. I mean, if you're a
00:41:21.280
police officer, you know that if you kill somebody in front of witnesses and there wasn't a good reason
00:41:26.800
for it, you know that's not good for you. But apparently that argument that Nelson did use did
00:41:33.500
not, of course, did not sway the jury. But again, they were not really fact-based, I don't think.
00:41:42.000
What do you think about the question of whether you should wear a mask after vaccination?
00:41:45.860
There's Dr. Amesh Adelja. Let me see if I can read his name right. Adelja. Dr. Amesh Adelja.
00:41:56.720
And he's a senior scholar at the Center for Health and Security, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he's
00:42:01.420
got some credentials. And he says that the preponderance of evidence supports the fact
00:42:08.500
that vaccinated individuals are not able to spread the virus. So good news, right? So here's a real
00:42:19.200
doctor who's really looked into it. So you and I don't have to be the doctor and we don't have to
00:42:23.740
look into it. And he says that the preponderance of evidence is that you're not going to spread it if
00:42:29.540
you've got the vaccination. Now, I don't know how that squares with the J&J shot being 77% effective
00:42:38.020
and the other ones being 95% or whatever effective. If something's only 95% effective
00:42:44.560
or 77% effective, how does that prevent you from shedding it? You know, in some cases. But
00:42:54.200
apparently the actual real world cases of it happening must be so small that it's almost
00:43:02.980
not a thing. But here's the bad news. Are you waiting for the bad news? As Dr. Adelja says,
00:43:10.640
vaccinated people probably don't need masks, he says, his opinion. But the cashier doesn't know
00:43:17.280
who is vaccinated. That's the problem, isn't it? The store is going to make you wear a mask anyway,
00:43:23.580
because they don't know who's vaccinated. So whether you have a passport or not, and I think those will
00:43:29.980
be found illegal in most states. Passport or not, the store is going to say, we don't know.
00:43:37.880
Wear your mask. You're only going to be in here for a few minutes anyway. So if I had to predict,
00:43:44.680
I think that there will be sort of a tipping point in which people just won't wear the masks.
00:43:50.280
And if you want to sell stuff, you're going to have to drop the requirement.
00:43:53.480
So I think stores at some point are going to ask you to be vaccinated or masked, but they're not
00:44:00.940
going to enforce it because they just can't. And they don't want to run out of money. You saw what
00:44:05.540
happened to Coca-Cola when they said things that conservatives didn't like. It's not good for
00:44:11.800
business. It's really not good for business. And at the moment, a store can still get away with
00:44:18.240
making you wear a mask, right? You're not going to hold it against the store. But once you're
00:44:23.620
vaccinated and all your friends are vaccinated, and then you go to that store and you still have
00:44:29.500
to wear the mask, you might go to a different store that's not going to ask you to do it.
00:44:34.620
So I think market competition is going to get pushed and pushed and pushed until just something
00:44:40.460
breaks. And the only people that will ask for masks are people who you just don't have an easy
00:44:45.820
option to go somewhere else. So I think market competition will get rid of masks in a few
00:44:51.520
months. A very interesting thing's happening with gun control. And I did not see this coming,
00:44:59.320
which is that even if the federal government puts more restrictions on guns, guns, the states can just
00:45:07.360
refuse to enforce it because they can refuse to put resources in that way. So it doesn't make it
00:45:14.020
legal. They just won't reinforce it. And I guess they have that option. So to that point,
00:45:21.520
we've got, I guess, four different states who are moving in that direction are already there.
00:45:28.560
So Arizona, basically, they're not going to enforce any new gun restrictions or something along those
00:45:35.380
lines. Oklahoma, something like that. Arkansas, something like that. Montana, something like that.
00:45:41.800
So I'll tell you, the one thing that is predictable about the world, it's not predictable. If you told
00:45:50.740
me that the states, yes, basically, it's a sanctuary city for guns. That's exactly what it is. It's a
00:45:58.380
sanctuary city for guns, or state for guns. If you had told me that this was something that might have
00:46:04.280
happened, I wouldn't have seen this coming at all. It's so hard to make a straight line prediction
00:46:11.220
about any kind of slippery slope. This is why I don't believe in the slippery slope.
00:46:18.760
Things do go in a direction until something stops them. That's true. But you can never predict the
00:46:24.960
thing that will pop up to stop it. I wouldn't have predicted this. And it looks like it's pretty solid.
00:46:31.160
I mean, it looks like pretty good play. All right. They did that in Kansas quite a while ago. And people
00:46:38.660
still went to jail, somebody says. Yeah, there must be cases in which, let's say, there's a somebody has
00:46:44.280
a firearm in commission of a crime. I would imagine that that still gets enforced. Wouldn't you?
00:46:50.860
All right. Because the news is a little bit light today, I thought I would take some questions, because
00:47:01.960
I know you have some. Is there anything that you were wondering about that you said to yourself,
00:47:08.640
you know, I can't sleep until I hear what Scott says about this? Would you like to accuse me of
00:47:13.960
anything or challenge me on anything? Here's one. So the right lane bandit says, the 60s sexual
00:47:27.120
revolution turned into full-fledged transsexual rights. And progress is something that does go on
00:47:41.060
forever. So if my progress is your slippery slope, is it a slippery slope? Because I'd like to see
00:47:49.980
full equal rights for everybody who's an individual, as long as you're not bothering me or breaking the
00:47:56.300
law. Why should I care what your sexual preferences are? Why is it my business what your genitalia is,
00:48:04.060
or your genetic makeup? Why is any of that my business? So yes, when something is a good idea,
00:48:13.540
it does keep going. If you're going to call that a slippery slope, that's more about your impression
00:48:19.540
of where it should go, as nothing to do with the quality of the thing.
00:48:26.140
And yeah, I think that there'll be enough pushback on the issue of children, that that's probably where
00:48:32.240
things will stop, I would imagine. When does Kamala take over? You know, I, if I'm, if I'm being
00:48:41.280
objective, Biden's doing a strangely good job. You know, maybe better than I expected. Stock market's up.
00:48:54.220
He's, he's starting to tighten up on immigration because he had no choice.
00:48:58.060
Um, the Middle East doesn't look like it's going to blow up, especially anytime soon. He's getting
00:49:04.820
out of Afghanistan. Now he's doing some really scary stuff. Tax increases, not a fan, like really not a
00:49:13.680
fan. Um, the climate change stuff, uh, you know, I'm not sure he's, he's going the right way on that,
00:49:24.420
but, uh, he's pro-nuclear as far as we know. Pro-nuclear is good. Everybody's happy about that,
00:49:31.780
who looks into it anyway. All right. Um, tax increases equals stock market down. Oddly enough,
00:49:41.500
the day Biden said he wanted to, uh, increase taxes on capital gains, the market dropped as it
00:49:48.320
should. And then it went up to a new high the very next day. Yeah. The markets, weirdly,
00:49:54.600
the markets don't seem to be as tax obsessed as you'd think. They, they seem profits obsessed.
00:50:05.240
Bella says you're old, old people selfishly don't care about climate change. I do. Well,
00:50:11.800
Bella, let me tell you what's different about old people. Old people have seen more scams than you
00:50:18.540
have. And when you reach my age, there are things which you see in the news that will make your hair
00:50:25.100
catch on fire at your age that you will have seen dozens and dozens and dozens of times turned out
00:50:32.140
not to be the problem you thought it was. All right. Until you've been through that cycle, Bella,
00:50:37.160
probably you have to go through that cycle 10, 20 times until you see the pattern. The stuff you see
00:50:44.660
in the news is not real. And if you don't know that you're going to be very, very worried all of
00:50:50.880
your life. The news is not real. It's, uh, it's a narrative. It's a, it's the result of industry forces,
00:51:00.400
economics, personal interest, bias. It's this weird mix. Now, Bella, here's why I believe you
00:51:09.620
shouldn't worry. I'm not telling you that climate change is not real. And I'm not telling you that
00:51:16.680
you shouldn't, that somebody shouldn't worry about it. But humans are really, really good at this.
00:51:24.540
We are really good at getting ourselves so scared that we think we can't possibly solve this problem.
00:51:31.700
And then we solve it. You had the energy shortage where we were going to run out of oil. We didn't.
00:51:38.080
For a hundred years, we thought that humans would run out of food because the population would grow
00:51:44.360
too fast. Didn't happen. We thought Japan was going to eat our lunch economically because they were
00:51:50.100
growing so fast and whatever the eighties didn't happen. We thought that it was going to be, when I
00:51:55.400
was a kid, there was a certainty that there would be nuclear war with probably Soviet union didn't
00:52:01.900
happen. I could go on, but there's so many of them. Yeah. AIDS was going to cross over and wipe out
00:52:11.160
heterosexuals as well. Now it does pay to panic about these things. It does pay.
00:52:20.100
Because it's the panic that makes you work hard enough to make sure that they don't become a
00:52:24.540
problem, right? Now, sometimes things are pretty bad. I would say the pandemic was pretty darn bad,
00:52:31.840
but was the pandemic as bad as you thought it would be? I don't know. It depends how bad you thought
00:52:38.280
it would be. I'm going to tell you something that I haven't said publicly before. All right.
00:52:44.320
Early on in the pandemic, I got a phone call from somebody, many of you would perhaps recognize his
00:52:53.860
name, but not everybody, but somebody who really, really knows what they're talking about.
00:53:00.860
As in, you would replace your own opinion with this person's opinion because they have so much
00:53:06.420
credibility and they're so smart. And that person told me that the virus was going to be a total
00:53:15.340
meltdown of society and that we would have military rule, complete breakdown of order, supply chains
00:53:23.140
and the virus. And I've never been more scared about the world than that night. Let's just say I didn't
00:53:42.620
sleep well. Yeah. You can stop guessing who it is. You're not going to guess. But no, it wasn't,
00:53:50.520
it wasn't, it wasn't Cernovich, but that's a good guess. I'm just saying there was somebody who
00:53:54.880
understands the, let's say the math of pandemics. So somebody who's, you know, way, way more in the,
00:54:02.820
in the, the sweet spot of this. And I've never been more scared about a news story, period. All right.
00:54:11.480
Now I've told you before, I don't really have physical fear of really much of anything, but
00:54:18.020
that was just chilling. Now I had a alternate opinion. My opinion was, I see somebody saying
00:54:28.280
Weinstein. That's a good guess in the sense that that would be a voice that would be as credible as
00:54:37.340
somebody who would understand the math of it. But it wasn't him. Stop guessing. You're not going to
00:54:41.700
guess. It doesn't matter. So here's the point. I had a competing opinion, which is that we would
00:54:49.900
figure a way out and that we would, we would figure out how to do it. And we did. So who was right?
00:54:59.400
Was my, my friend who really knew what he's talking about and scared the hell out of me.
00:55:05.140
I would say his, his vision of where it could have gone didn't happen. My version was that we would
00:55:12.920
not run out of food and that it would not be martial law. We did not run out of food. Economy did not
00:55:21.980
collapse. That took a big hit, didn't collapse. And here we are. And I think we're on the other side of
00:55:29.220
it. And part of what I predicted is that we would, we would do way better than people imagined in
00:55:36.360
therapeutics and vaccines. That was part of my prediction. So you remember, those of you who
00:55:44.440
watched me since last year, you remember that I was more optimistic about the pandemic than most people.
00:55:52.120
And so far, I would say that at least that level of optimism was appropriate. So Bella, if you're
00:56:01.980
still watching, it is a crime what the news is doing to you, because they're selling you on some
00:56:09.200
level of certainty that never exists, never has, never will. We cannot predict things 20 years in the
00:56:17.600
future. Nobody can. And we will have developed so much technology and understanding and better ways to do
00:56:25.400
things in 20 years that you can't even imagine, right? So when the news is trying to scare you, just
00:56:34.240
remember there's an agenda. The CNN said directly that they need scary content and they're going to try to
00:56:42.580
scare you with, with climate change. They don't, they don't say it that way. So I'm interpreting for
00:56:49.360
them. And here you are, there, there is a reason that you're afraid, but it's not because of the facts.
00:56:56.860
You're afraid because the way the facts are presented to you. If I had to tell you what you
00:57:01.680
should worry about the most, climate change wouldn't even be in the top 20. And it's not because it isn't
00:57:08.780
real. It's because we know how to do this stuff. We're really, really good at it. And if you give
00:57:14.500
us 20 years, us meaning, you know, humanity, give us 20 years, we can fix almost anything if we're,
00:57:21.520
you know, dedicated to it. All right, any more questions? Yeah, look at just nuclear energy.
00:57:30.560
You look at the, let's say that the mood about nuclear energy just from last five years
00:57:37.880
is, it might be my imagination, but I'm pretty sure that the, the public's understanding of the
00:57:45.380
risk of nuclear is that the risk is way less. I mean, way, way less than people imagined. Way,
00:57:52.320
way less. I mean, it's minuscule. It's, it's less risk than almost anything else we can do.
00:57:58.160
You know, historically speaking, and we should get better in the future, not worse.
00:58:02.000
But I think, you know, even, you could even hear somebody like an AOC say, she's open to the
00:58:08.720
argument. That's a big deal, right? AOC is basically open to the argument on nuclear, which I feel
00:58:17.700
she probably means she, she's ready to be persuaded, just isn't making that an issue at the moment.
00:58:32.660
Thank you, Hollywood, for nuclear fear. Yeah, that's, I'll bet that's true. Hollywood's a big part of that.
00:58:41.620
Uh, let's talk about Bill Gates' idea to spray crap in the atmosphere to block the sun
00:58:47.400
is dangerous. Well, here's the thing. Think about any technology that works.
00:58:56.200
Uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna invent this big metal thing that's gonna fly through the air.
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And it'll be flying at hundreds of miles per hour. But don't worry, we'll figure out how they can land
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safely. That didn't sound like a good idea, did it? Would you be one of the first ones to get in that
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airplane? I don't think so. How about a nuclear power plant? Let's take this stuff that, uh, killed,
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you know, what, hundreds of thousands of people in Japan, and make it into a power source, and put it
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in your backyard. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Well, for the most part, with the exceptions of
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the poorly designed ones like Chernobyl, we've been fine, right? It's actually been the safest
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technology. So, um, there, there are no examples of, you know, these big intrusive, uh, kinds of
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technologies that affect your, you know, your body that didn't look like a bad idea at one point.
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Um, so here's what an engineer would know, and I'm guessing if you're afraid of it, maybe you're not
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one. Uh, back me up, engineers. I know I have a lot of engineers watching this. Back me up. That the way
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you would approach this, and the idea is that you, you put, I forget what the, what the material is,
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but something you would put in the air that would block the sun just enough to compensate. If you were
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an engineer, how would you approach it? Would you do everything all at once, and then just find out
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if it worked? Or would you put a little bit up there and see what happened? Now, my guess is that
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it's exactly the kind of thing you could test small, and it probably dissipates after some point,
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whatever it is. So could you put some up there, do a lot of human testing to make sure that people
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weren't dying? Keep this option in your back pocket, and don't use it unless the hurricanes
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start destroying the world. All right, so here are the, here are the things which, if your immediate
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thought is it's the worst thing in the world, here's what you're missing. If you can't test it small,
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in a way that you really know that, that you could expand it safely, if you couldn't successfully know
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on a small-scale test, you wouldn't do a big, big test, all right? So when you're saying to yourself
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they want to block out the sun, what you should have said is they want to run a small-scale test,
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and then we'll know if that's dangerous. If it's not, we might run a slightly bigger test and sort of
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inch into it. Or we might do the test and then just keep the option in our back pocket, knowing that
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we've not tested as the best you could ever test, but we've tested. In case there's a global emergency
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and everything's just falling apart, it's 30 years from now, and we just need to do something.
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As a last-ditch effort, maybe, right? Because even, let's take the vaccination. If I said to you,
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there's no risk at all of getting the coronavirus, but we'd like you to get a vaccination, would you do it?
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No, no. If I told you there's no risk of you getting the coronavirus, you're not going to take
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the risk of the vaccination, as small as that is. It's just extra risk for nothing. So people don't
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take risks until the risk-reward is so bad that the risk is worth it. So what is the risk of putting
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some junk in the air and it blots out the sun and destroys the earth? Pretty big risk, unless you've
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tested it small, and then you've got a good idea what's going to happen. And unless things are so bad
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that you're a little desperate, right? But if you imagine that it's implemented in the worst
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possible way, then everything's a bad idea. Nothing annoys me more than somebody will come up with an
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idea and the critic will say, well, assume it's implemented in the dumbest possible way.
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You know, if it's a government program, maybe that's fair. But if it's Elon Musk, I'll just pick a
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name, right? Or Bill Gates. Do you think they're going to implement it in the dumbest possible way?
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I don't think so. Somebody says that's playing God. It's all playing God. It doesn't matter whether
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you're blocking the sun or putting on sunscreen. Yeah. Do you wear clothes? It's, that's not a real
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argument. Am I describing the COVID response? In a sense. Yeah. The, the COVID, um, warp speed
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vaccinations is something you wouldn't do unless the alternative was so horrible that it was worth
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the risk. So that's exactly where we're at. Do I ever persuade for pay? I can't think of a time I've
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done that. Maybe I have, but not actively. All right. Other questions? Um, have I heard of that
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person? Um, probably not. You have almost zero risk. All right. Let me see. I thought I saw a good
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question going by there. Um, saying that oil is limited has been the way oil companies have been
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scamming us. No, oil was limited, but we developed new technologies, especially, um, you know,
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fracking. So oil was limited. That was real. Um, right. Am I getting asked to do speaking engagements?
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Well, I have been asked to do some virtual ones, but I'm not interested in those. So I'm not,
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Fourth stimulus check. Oh, I don't know. I don't have an opinion on that.
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Uh, now you're trying to guess what story I said disappeared, but it wasn't that one.
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What's your economic view of petrodollars? I haven't really looked into that.
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Any clubhouse updates? Um, I haven't been using clubhouse. I've been avoiding the,
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Thoughts on Tesla energy. Uh, what is Tesla energy? Just the batteries you mean? I think that's the
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future. You know, the future will be, uh, having your own battery at your house. I don't see any way
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that won't be the future. Plans for a new book. Well, I'm thinking about it. Thinking about a new
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book. Will I go on Gutfeld? I'll get, you know, if, if I get out of my, uh, media hard hibernation,
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I will, um, I would enjoy that. By the way, if you're not watching, uh, the new Gutfeld show,
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that's on at 11, 11 p.m. weekdays on the East coast, 8 p.m. on the West coast, it's the best
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thing on at that time. Literally, it's the best thing on at that time. Um, what's this? Uh, what would
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you ask Donald Trump if you had the opportunity to talk with him? Well, Mustafa, I did have the
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opportunity to talk with him. Um, I was invited to the, uh, Oval Office in 2018 and I actually got
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to chat with him. Now, I can't tell you everything we talked about. It wasn't like, you know, national
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secrets, but, um, uh, I don't know if I asked, oh, I did ask him a question. Yeah, I did ask him a
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question, but I can't tell you what it was because that would have been a part of a private conversation.
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Um, do you like my thinking about you tweets? I don't know if I've seen them.
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Oh, here's an interesting question. Uh, Will Larson says Christianity as a system. What do you think
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about confession? I'm a fan. Um, I'm a fan of anything that religion has been doing long enough
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to know that it works. And it does appear to me that this process of Catholic confession,
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it feels like, it feels like a useful thing. It feels like that is a way to relieve some burden.
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So I think it's time tested. Um, I'm very much in favor of religion, although I don't have one. I'm
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not, I'm not a believer, but objectively speaking, it's just obviously good for a lot of people in a lot
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of different ways. It gives them structure, it gives them something to live for. It's, you know,
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90% good. And then 10%, you know, nothing's perfect. Do you still ride your motorized bike? You mean my
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e-bike? Um, I, I, I do just, um, waiting for the weather to get a little bit better.
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Your thoughts on Freud? Well, I think Freud has been debunked, right? As there, I don't think there
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are any modern people, modern psychologists who believe that Freud was anything but a fraud. I
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don't think anybody believes him still. Uh, Frank TV. Is, is Frank TV the Lindell TV? Uh, I've only seen
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that word in the news and I didn't know what it referred to, but I think it's Mike Lindell's,
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right? Oh, somebody bought two of them and you love them. Nobody doesn't like them. I'll bet there's
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no such thing as anyone who's ever bought an e-bike, you know, electronic assist bike. I'll bet
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no one's ever bought one who regretted it. It is just one of the coolest products of all time. You
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really, you can't really just look at somebody riding one and understand. You have to be on
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it. Like, otherwise you just don't get it and then you get it immediately. Yeah, it's a totally
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different experience. It's not like, it's not really a bicycle. It's not a motorcycle.
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It makes you feel like you have superpowers. So it's, it's cool. Uh, what do you think of dreams?
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You know, that's, that's an interesting question because one of my hypotheses is, isn't it weird
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that we dream? It doesn't make sense, does it? It doesn't feel like dreaming should be necessary.
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It feels like we would have evolved out of it or something. But, uh, here's my simulation theory
01:10:09.440
that if we are, uh, a game, in other words, if this thing we think is our reality is actually
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a video game and that some of us, maybe not all of us, uh, have a human player or some alien or
01:10:23.080
something who is basically inhabiting us for the purpose of the game, sometimes they take time off
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in their world. What if when you're dreaming, that's the time that your real world operator of
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you as an avatar is simply doing something else and they're not playing the game. And when they're
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not playing the game, you just go unconscious and, and random, you know, firings of your brain.
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So it could be that the only time you're awake is when you're, you know, your character player is
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inhabiting you. Or, or you just need sleep. All right. You just lost the game. Yeah. If you die,
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I think you lose the game. So why do dogs dream? Do they? Well, a good question. That would be a
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flaw in the plan, wouldn't it? Unless people, uh, unless dogs are inhabited by players. I guess
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you couldn't rule that out. Do you believe in manifesting talents? Don't know what you mean
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in that context. I believe in collecting talents that stack up well. Um, there's a Biden crypto
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attack. I don't know what you're talking about. Is Biden trying to limit cryptocurrency somehow?
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Have I tried DMT? No, I don't think I need it. Um, let me explain. When you, when you talk to
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somebody who's tried DMT, they'll tell you how it changed their worldview, but it usually changes it
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to what my worldview already is. So, uh, while I'm sure I would enjoy the experience, I don't know
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that, uh, I don't know that I need to change my worldview to what it already is. Read the book
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Why We Sleep. Yeah, I realize there's a, you know, biological necessity. Um,
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uh, what, what is the result if we eliminate the narratives? What, what's that question?
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What end result do Dems and the MSN want after eliminating conservatives? Well, the power,
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you know, everybody wants power and ratings and all the usual stuff, power, money, ratings, influence.
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Oh, the SEC is going after crypto. Well, that's no surprise. They have to. I don't know that you
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can have a country if it doesn't have a control of its currency. Maybe you can.
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Uh, I'm saying asteroid is greater than the earth. Somebody keeps writing here. Is there an
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asteroid heading for the earth? I'm not aware of that. Uh, Taiwan, Taiwan try to get nuclear weapons.
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I'm surprised they haven't. Maybe they have them. Do we know for sure that Taiwan doesn't have
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nuclear capability? What do we know? I don't know. It seems like exactly the kind of place you'd want
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to put it. Yeah, Biden's capital gains tax increased to 40%. I, I like to think that the Republicans are
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never going to let that happen. It might be just a big first, big first offer. Did I watch the launch?
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I did not. Will China invade Taiwan? I don't know if they need to. That's the bad part. I think that
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China can just keep surrounding Taiwan and putting pressure on in a thousand different ways until
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some opportunity comes up where they can make their move. I don't know that they'll do it militarily
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or that they'll need to, but I would say it's inevitable. I don't, I don't think there's
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any, I don't see any future in which Taiwan remains independent. If you look a hundred years in the
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future. Um, Governor Jenner. Yeah, I guess Caitlyn Jenner is thinking about running for governor.
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Uh, that would be interesting. All right. That's all I got for now. And I will talk to you tomorrow.