Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 23, 2021


Episode 1384 Scott Adams： Loneliness Epidemic, Fact-Checking as Propaganda, UFO Origins Predicted, and eQUITy


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

145.28734

Word Count

6,767

Sentence Count

541

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the weirdest things he's ever done, including meeting Bill Clinton and meeting a woman who broke the Monica Lewinsky story. Plus, UFOs, and more.


Transcript

00:00:00.520 Well, everybody, you know what time it is?
00:00:03.940 You probably do, yeah.
00:00:05.980 It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:08.800 And can life get any better than this?
00:00:12.220 I doubt it. I doubt it.
00:00:14.740 This is incredible.
00:00:16.880 And if you'd like to make it even a little bit better,
00:00:19.000 all you need is a cup or mug or a glass,
00:00:20.360 a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a glass,
00:00:22.580 a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:25.640 I like coffee.
00:00:26.180 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,
00:00:30.300 the dopamine to the day,
00:00:31.380 the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:34.380 You know it does.
00:00:35.580 It's called the simultaneous sip,
00:00:36.860 and it'll be enjoyed around the world at the same time.
00:00:40.460 That's what the simultaneous part means.
00:00:42.920 Go.
00:00:47.460 Oh.
00:00:50.300 That's good stuff.
00:00:51.840 So if you had some kind of a betting service,
00:00:58.420 and you could place a bet,
00:00:59.900 what are the odds that Scott would ever be
00:01:03.980 in a national news story about Monica Lewinsky?
00:01:09.820 Well, that happened.
00:01:11.380 So it turns out that my tweet,
00:01:14.200 in response to a Monica Lewinsky tweet,
00:01:16.920 put me in the news.
00:01:18.800 Fox News and some other places carried it.
00:01:21.840 What are the odds?
00:01:24.220 I mean, really.
00:01:26.460 Now, I told this story on Locals,
00:01:30.700 the subscription service where I tell all my naughty stories
00:01:34.420 and the stuff that I don't want to put here.
00:01:37.640 But I think I could tell you this story.
00:01:40.760 Think about the following coincidences.
00:01:42.840 Number one,
00:01:45.280 I'm in a national news story
00:01:47.600 about Monica Lewinsky.
00:01:50.020 Number two,
00:01:51.680 I once shook hands with Bill Clinton.
00:01:55.040 So I've actually touched the hand
00:01:56.940 that touched Monica Lewinsky.
00:02:01.220 Now, probably a lot of people shake hands with presidents,
00:02:04.980 but I met him once after a speech.
00:02:08.040 So I gave a warm-up speech for Bill Clinton,
00:02:10.920 and I was just on the dais, do you call it?
00:02:14.480 And he went down and shook everybody's hands,
00:02:17.200 said hi.
00:02:17.600 You might also know that I once visited the Oval Office
00:02:23.440 to chat with President Trump.
00:02:27.100 And when I was there,
00:02:28.120 Ivanka was waiting for the president to come in,
00:02:30.480 and she had shown me into the Oval Office,
00:02:33.140 and she was showing me some of the decoration choices.
00:02:36.520 And I may be misremembering this,
00:02:40.200 but it could be just because it's too perfect.
00:02:44.680 You know, sometimes you remember things
00:02:46.180 that you want to remember,
00:02:47.500 even if they didn't happen.
00:02:49.560 But I would swear that Ivanka told me
00:02:53.160 that the carpet was Bill Clinton's carpet.
00:02:56.960 Because I guess each president gets to choose
00:02:59.880 from a warehouse of stuff
00:03:01.480 which things from prior presidents
00:03:03.700 and prior administrations they want in the Oval Office.
00:03:06.940 So I think Bill Clinton's rug was in there.
00:03:10.940 Now, I couldn't really check.
00:03:12.980 I didn't bring a blacklight or a CSI team
00:03:16.200 to find out if it really was Bill Clinton's rug,
00:03:19.260 but I have a memory of it,
00:03:21.420 either real or false.
00:03:23.820 And so there was that,
00:03:25.880 but an even weirder coincidence.
00:03:28.400 Do you remember the story of Linda Tripp?
00:03:31.060 She was the one who convinced Monica,
00:03:33.820 I think, to go public.
00:03:34.700 But Linda Tripp got her advice
00:03:37.440 from a literary agent named Goldberg.
00:03:42.580 Now, what are the odds
00:03:43.920 that I would know that literary agent?
00:03:47.360 But I did.
00:03:49.020 I believe she's deceased.
00:03:51.020 But she was married to an executive
00:03:52.600 in my cartoon syndication company.
00:03:54.500 So I've actually eaten a meal
00:03:56.440 with the woman who broke
00:03:58.820 the Monica Lewinsky story.
00:04:02.360 I also know Jake Tapper.
00:04:05.940 You may know that Jake
00:04:07.340 is also a very skilled cartoonist.
00:04:10.560 He has a very deep talent stack,
00:04:12.460 it turns out.
00:04:13.400 And he's been a guest cartoonist
00:04:15.380 for the Dilbert comic
00:04:16.320 on two separate weeks
00:04:17.740 and two different years.
00:04:18.680 And Jake Tapper once dated
00:04:22.800 Monica Lewinsky
00:04:24.340 before she was famous.
00:04:27.560 So what are the odds
00:04:29.280 that I would have so many connections
00:04:31.480 to a small cluster
00:04:33.560 of presidential blowjobs?
00:04:37.180 We must be living in a simulation.
00:04:39.900 There couldn't be that many connections.
00:04:42.020 By coincidence, could there?
00:04:46.720 Well, yes, there could.
00:04:48.360 But it's fun to think about it.
00:04:50.780 So here's some more news stories.
00:04:53.200 I have a prediction about the UFOs.
00:04:57.460 Number one, I don't think they're real.
00:05:00.380 So I'm still solidly on the side
00:05:02.760 that says there's nothing up there.
00:05:06.020 Just nothing.
00:05:07.620 Now, I would love to be wrong.
00:05:09.320 If there's anything I would like
00:05:12.240 to be wrong about,
00:05:14.060 it's aliens.
00:05:15.740 I would love to be wrong about that.
00:05:18.420 But I'm going to stick with my belief
00:05:21.360 that it's a psychological phenomenon
00:05:24.640 along with a number of maybe visual
00:05:27.920 or optical oddities.
00:05:29.800 Some of them might be fake.
00:05:31.700 Some of them might be false memories.
00:05:33.460 Who knows?
00:05:34.480 But what if there are real ships?
00:05:40.060 Here's my prediction.
00:05:41.940 If they're real,
00:05:43.320 meaning that there's actually
00:05:44.520 a physical something,
00:05:46.900 they're from the ocean.
00:05:49.640 Here's why.
00:05:51.840 We have not explored the ocean,
00:05:54.280 so something could be hiding there forever.
00:05:57.380 Suppose there were alien,
00:05:59.200 as the conspiracy theorists say,
00:06:03.820 alien astronauts who helped,
00:06:05.580 I don't know, build the pyramids
00:06:07.380 or helped with early civilization,
00:06:10.480 you know, beating off the animals
00:06:12.860 so that humans could be the dominant species.
00:06:17.040 Maybe they've always been here.
00:06:19.120 Or they've been here for a billion years.
00:06:23.080 Maybe they just live underwater
00:06:24.700 because it would be safer.
00:06:27.320 If you live underwater,
00:06:29.120 no hurricanes, no sunburns,
00:06:32.060 no animals trying to eat you.
00:06:34.840 You know, if you had the technology to do it.
00:06:37.120 Now, you played an alien, Scott.
00:06:41.880 How could you not believe?
00:06:42.900 Well, that's true.
00:06:43.640 I have played an alien on television.
00:06:46.100 Now, could it be Atlantis?
00:06:47.820 Or at least could Atlantis be based on something like that?
00:06:51.380 Well, we don't know.
00:06:52.200 We do know that there was a video of a UFO
00:06:55.140 that appeared to be going into the water.
00:06:57.400 We know there are stories of UFOs emerging from the water
00:07:02.040 without leaving much of a ripple.
00:07:04.840 So, now, some people saw my tweet on this topic
00:07:08.420 and said,
00:07:09.440 but Scott, how could they forge any metals without fire?
00:07:15.060 No, I don't mean that they live literally in the water.
00:07:18.120 I said, under the water,
00:07:21.940 meaning in some kind of a contained area
00:07:24.500 that may or may not have oxygen
00:07:26.740 because who knows if they need it.
00:07:29.980 But I'm sure that they can figure out a way to,
00:07:32.820 you know, if they can live under the ocean,
00:07:34.800 undetected for millennia,
00:07:37.100 I feel like they could make metal, right?
00:07:40.980 So, and Mark says, what about propulsion?
00:07:44.720 There seems to be no sign of propulsion.
00:07:46.380 Well, Stixenhammer did a comment on my tweet this morning
00:07:50.480 that says it might be some kind of electromagnetic force,
00:07:56.640 meaning if the rocket ship knows how to interact
00:08:00.420 with the Earth's magnetic force,
00:08:02.760 it might be a maglev situation.
00:08:06.740 Is that possible?
00:08:08.780 I don't know.
00:08:10.760 But if we're talking about stuff we don't understand,
00:08:15.080 well, you can throw in some more stuff
00:08:17.160 we don't understand, the propulsion.
00:08:21.820 In a fitting move,
00:08:24.300 the U.S. Army shut down the comments section,
00:08:27.960 or at least they blocked the comments
00:08:29.520 on their woke YouTube videos
00:08:32.540 trying to get recruitment.
00:08:34.940 Now, you may have seen the video.
00:08:36.380 There's one of them
00:08:37.020 in which a woman talks about her two moms
00:08:40.380 and how she joined the military.
00:08:44.280 And it's all very female-oriented
00:08:47.460 and very woke and very,
00:08:49.800 what would you say,
00:08:52.040 very, I don't know,
00:08:54.820 very open-minded, I guess.
00:08:56.720 And we like all of those things.
00:08:59.820 I like being open-minded.
00:09:01.460 I like not discriminating.
00:09:03.980 I like everybody having equal opportunity.
00:09:08.360 But apparently this doesn't look like
00:09:13.140 it's dangerous enough to scare our enemies
00:09:16.800 because it looks a little soft.
00:09:19.180 As Ted Cruz noted in his own tweet,
00:09:22.040 he said that the Army is turning our fighting people
00:09:26.460 into pansies was his word.
00:09:29.000 Now, how did he not get cancelled for that?
00:09:33.160 I'm trying to figure out
00:09:34.460 how does Ted Cruz still have a job
00:09:37.640 after using that word, pansies?
00:09:41.400 Because isn't that...
00:09:43.520 Where's the LGBTQ people saying,
00:09:47.020 hey, you can't say that?
00:09:48.600 Now, in my opinion,
00:09:51.100 he didn't mean anything about being gay.
00:09:55.120 He was just saying,
00:09:56.440 it's just a colloquial word
00:09:57.780 for not being tough and dangerous, I guess.
00:10:01.600 But I'm kind of surprised
00:10:02.720 he didn't get attacked for that.
00:10:04.520 Or maybe he did,
00:10:05.300 and I haven't seen it,
00:10:05.960 but it's not any kind of a national story.
00:10:08.360 Kind of surprising.
00:10:09.380 I don't know why.
00:10:10.940 But apparently that didn't go over
00:10:12.760 so well for the Army,
00:10:14.120 so they're going to stop that.
00:10:15.380 Now, here's a counterpoint.
00:10:17.520 Counterpoint is this.
00:10:19.360 I think it was Balaji Srinivasan
00:10:22.940 who said this on tweet
00:10:24.060 that the future of warfare
00:10:25.980 is probably drones.
00:10:29.400 Do you need to be 200 pounds
00:10:32.860 of fighting muscle
00:10:33.960 to operate a drone?
00:10:36.760 Probably not.
00:10:38.500 So is there any reason
00:10:40.220 to believe that our Army
00:10:41.620 wouldn't be 90% female in the future?
00:10:44.100 If they're operating drones,
00:10:47.320 why not?
00:10:48.720 You don't have to carry heavy things.
00:10:50.540 Because basically,
00:10:51.480 carrying heavy things
00:10:52.400 is what it comes down to, right?
00:10:54.680 Suppose the military comes up
00:10:56.520 with better ways
00:10:57.500 to carry heavy things.
00:10:59.400 They got the robot dog
00:11:00.960 carrying the heavy stuff
00:11:02.280 so you don't have to, whatever.
00:11:03.460 But I would not assume
00:11:05.920 that there would be
00:11:08.380 any degradation of readiness
00:11:10.200 based on women in the military.
00:11:13.320 And if you think so,
00:11:14.880 you might be thinking
00:11:15.660 of the old military
00:11:16.520 where you had to pick up
00:11:17.480 a big old heavy sword.
00:11:19.320 But modern military,
00:11:20.620 it's entirely feasible
00:11:22.260 that we just don't need men
00:11:24.120 for, I don't know,
00:11:25.760 in the future,
00:11:27.020 50% of the jobs,
00:11:28.680 maybe you just don't need men.
00:11:31.900 All right.
00:11:33.460 I heard some bad news
00:11:36.720 and then some good news.
00:11:38.240 I tweeted them both.
00:11:39.860 I'm hoping the good news
00:11:41.040 cancels the bad news.
00:11:42.080 The bad news is that
00:11:42.860 the telehealth executive orders
00:11:45.740 that Trump did during the pandemic
00:11:47.740 that said you could do
00:11:49.040 video doctoring across state lines
00:11:52.040 without any special licenses or fees,
00:11:55.760 apparently they had timers on them,
00:11:58.520 meaning that each state
00:11:59.800 will revert back to the old way
00:12:02.180 when a date is hit,
00:12:04.340 which I believe those dates
00:12:05.580 are being hit.
00:12:07.860 What the hell?
00:12:10.200 What was the point
00:12:11.440 of doing this very smart thing
00:12:13.800 to fix this obvious problem
00:12:15.460 and then have it revert
00:12:17.060 back to the problem?
00:12:17.960 Well, the good news
00:12:19.580 that I found out later,
00:12:21.420 Jonah Shoemate filled me in,
00:12:23.960 that there are two bills,
00:12:25.360 at least two bills,
00:12:26.300 percolating to fix this
00:12:27.900 and then make it permanent
00:12:29.040 to allow telehealth
00:12:30.140 across state lines.
00:12:31.360 The good news is
00:12:32.560 they're bipartisan.
00:12:34.160 So at least one of them
00:12:35.140 that I saw
00:12:35.920 is a bipartisan bill.
00:12:38.020 We've got a Democrat
00:12:38.880 and Republican backing them.
00:12:40.720 So I feel as if
00:12:42.500 the incompetence
00:12:43.620 which I worried about
00:12:44.680 may not have to be a problem.
00:12:47.420 So there might be
00:12:48.640 a couple of politicians
00:12:50.140 who are just fixing a problem.
00:12:52.040 Thank you.
00:12:53.100 So if you do that,
00:12:54.360 thank you.
00:12:55.600 You know what's weird
00:12:56.620 about my job?
00:12:57.560 Lots of things.
00:12:59.700 But one of them is
00:13:00.600 I get quoted a lot.
00:13:04.000 Meaning if you go to
00:13:04.920 one of the famous quote sites,
00:13:07.540 there are lots of them,
00:13:08.840 chances are you will see
00:13:10.260 a bunch of quotes from me.
00:13:12.300 And every now and then
00:13:13.200 I'll see a quote
00:13:14.000 that's attributed to me
00:13:15.420 and I'll say to myself,
00:13:16.660 really?
00:13:17.760 Did I say that?
00:13:19.300 I don't remember saying that.
00:13:21.140 Or in some cases
00:13:22.100 they might be quotes
00:13:23.400 from someone else
00:13:24.380 that got attributed to me.
00:13:26.540 But there is one
00:13:28.580 that I feel is
00:13:29.720 very appropriate
00:13:31.060 to 2021
00:13:32.380 and to a problem
00:13:34.280 that a lot of us
00:13:35.180 are suffering from.
00:13:37.820 And I'm going to develop
00:13:39.340 this as we go.
00:13:40.360 So wait for the big point
00:13:41.700 to be developed.
00:13:43.620 But here's the quote
00:13:44.540 that apparently
00:13:45.440 I said at some point.
00:13:46.860 I don't deny it,
00:13:48.140 but maybe somebody
00:13:49.080 said it before I did.
00:13:50.340 Maybe I copied it.
00:13:51.360 I don't know.
00:13:52.400 But the quote is this.
00:13:53.600 Everybody is somebody
00:13:55.460 else's weirdo.
00:13:58.360 Everybody
00:13:58.960 is someone else's weirdo.
00:14:02.440 Do you ever feel to yourself,
00:14:04.420 man, I am so weird.
00:14:06.220 If anybody found out
00:14:07.600 how weird I am,
00:14:09.400 I'd be in trouble.
00:14:11.740 Because man,
00:14:12.600 I'm so weird.
00:14:14.120 Well, I would like
00:14:14.940 to introduce to you
00:14:16.040 the basket case theory.
00:14:19.460 Something I developed
00:14:20.640 when I was a young man
00:14:21.660 to explain what I was witnessing.
00:14:24.760 And it goes like this.
00:14:26.380 If you meet a stranger,
00:14:28.120 could be somebody
00:14:28.800 you want to date
00:14:29.500 or just somebody
00:14:31.020 you work with.
00:14:32.020 Maybe just a friend.
00:14:33.140 When you meet them,
00:14:34.580 don't they seem
00:14:35.240 pretty complete?
00:14:37.160 Have their act together
00:14:38.060 pretty well?
00:14:39.220 Man, that stranger.
00:14:40.680 I wish I could be
00:14:41.560 like that stranger
00:14:42.360 because that stranger
00:14:43.980 doesn't have anything
00:14:44.740 weird about them.
00:14:46.060 And they've got
00:14:46.560 their act together
00:14:47.340 and on the inside
00:14:48.880 pretty confident
00:14:49.980 and pretty capable.
00:14:51.660 And then time goes by
00:14:55.120 and you learn
00:14:56.720 more about your date
00:14:58.380 or your friend
00:14:59.840 or your co-worker
00:15:00.580 and suddenly
00:15:02.280 there's a flaw.
00:15:04.820 Oh, I didn't see that
00:15:05.920 on day one
00:15:06.440 but there does seem
00:15:07.780 to be a flaw.
00:15:09.880 Maybe a little weirdness.
00:15:12.820 Day ten,
00:15:14.100 well, it looks like
00:15:14.900 there's more than one flaw.
00:15:17.080 Two years later,
00:15:18.800 well, I guess
00:15:19.700 everybody's fucked up.
00:15:20.760 That's the basket case theory.
00:15:24.800 Everybody looks good
00:15:26.100 until you get to know them.
00:15:28.780 Once you get to know
00:15:29.900 a human being,
00:15:31.480 there are always
00:15:32.060 basket cases.
00:15:33.960 Always.
00:15:34.980 Just different kinds
00:15:36.000 of baskets.
00:15:37.220 As soon as you realize
00:15:39.080 that every fucking person
00:15:41.740 is a basket case,
00:15:44.220 you're free.
00:15:45.120 you're free.
00:15:49.440 What is it that bothers you
00:15:50.920 more than anything
00:15:51.800 as long as you're healthy
00:15:53.340 and you have a job?
00:15:55.340 What bothers you
00:15:56.160 more than anything
00:15:57.100 is what people think of you
00:15:59.020 or what you think
00:15:59.880 they think of you
00:16:00.640 or what they might think of you
00:16:02.460 or how they would treat you
00:16:03.920 if you did this embarrassing thing.
00:16:08.200 They're not better than you.
00:16:11.140 Basket case theory.
00:16:12.300 They're not better than you.
00:16:15.040 They're just people
00:16:15.620 you don't know that well.
00:16:17.400 That's it.
00:16:19.140 There's nothing else
00:16:20.200 to the story.
00:16:21.360 You just don't know them
00:16:22.580 that well.
00:16:23.280 If you did,
00:16:24.580 you wouldn't be impressed.
00:16:27.040 I'll tell you,
00:16:27.820 one of the most common things
00:16:30.200 that people say to me
00:16:31.340 as a celebrity type,
00:16:34.460 when they get to know me,
00:16:36.160 they say some version of,
00:16:38.300 gosh,
00:16:38.640 you're just like
00:16:39.340 a regular person.
00:16:41.140 Well,
00:16:41.420 why wouldn't I be?
00:16:43.380 There's nobody
00:16:44.000 who's not a regular person
00:16:45.220 except maybe
00:16:45.840 Michael Jackson wasn't.
00:16:47.660 You know,
00:16:47.900 if you get famous
00:16:49.120 when you're too young,
00:16:49.960 you can be kind of weird.
00:16:51.940 But,
00:16:52.600 even Michael Jackson,
00:16:53.960 was he weirder than me?
00:16:55.820 Probably not.
00:16:56.980 Just different weirdness.
00:16:58.400 Was he weirder than you?
00:17:01.120 Probably not.
00:17:02.720 Just different weirdness.
00:17:03.800 And so,
00:17:06.920 there's something
00:17:09.040 connecting this weirdness
00:17:10.900 and self-esteem issue
00:17:12.520 with a massive problem
00:17:15.960 we're having in the country
00:17:17.060 right now.
00:17:18.560 Massive problem.
00:17:20.900 Loneliness.
00:17:22.460 The loneliness problem
00:17:24.200 is now the epidemic.
00:17:27.560 You know,
00:17:27.760 the virus is,
00:17:29.040 we're doing a good job on that.
00:17:31.340 So,
00:17:32.120 you know,
00:17:32.260 great job,
00:17:33.280 country.
00:17:33.800 And world,
00:17:35.060 working on that.
00:17:36.240 But,
00:17:36.720 people
00:17:38.260 are so
00:17:40.380 freaking lonely.
00:17:42.860 And it's not entirely
00:17:44.240 because they're not with people.
00:17:46.220 Because they are.
00:17:48.080 They are with people.
00:17:49.960 How many of you
00:17:50.980 in the comments
00:17:51.820 are having a
00:17:53.480 crisis of loneliness
00:17:55.000 right now?
00:17:56.500 In the comments,
00:17:58.200 tell me how many of you
00:17:59.280 are feeling lonely
00:18:00.220 in a way that you've
00:18:01.620 never felt before.
00:18:02.520 like just,
00:18:04.480 you know,
00:18:04.800 a whole new level
00:18:05.640 of loneliness.
00:18:06.860 Look at the comments now.
00:18:08.480 Now,
00:18:08.940 you'll see some no's
00:18:09.880 and that's good.
00:18:11.360 But look how many
00:18:12.320 say yes.
00:18:14.280 Right?
00:18:14.920 I'm thankful
00:18:15.700 that there are
00:18:16.300 any no's there at all.
00:18:17.900 Maybe
00:18:18.140 half of them are no's.
00:18:20.080 Something like that.
00:18:21.420 But,
00:18:22.680 if,
00:18:23.500 and then somebody says,
00:18:24.480 all my life.
00:18:25.220 Yeah.
00:18:25.400 And,
00:18:27.360 because of loneliness,
00:18:29.860 I think you're also
00:18:30.780 seeing more addiction.
00:18:33.320 Right?
00:18:33.860 One way to
00:18:34.680 make the pain
00:18:35.760 go away
00:18:36.280 is some kind
00:18:38.020 of addiction.
00:18:39.780 And,
00:18:40.320 how many of you
00:18:41.660 watch this
00:18:43.020 live stream
00:18:43.780 because it makes you
00:18:45.180 feel less lonely?
00:18:48.140 In the comments,
00:18:49.860 answer that question
00:18:50.820 for me.
00:18:51.320 Do you watch
00:18:51.840 this live stream
00:18:52.860 in large part
00:18:54.760 because it makes
00:18:56.180 you feel less lonely?
00:18:58.000 Now,
00:18:58.500 I'll tell you that,
00:18:59.600 you know,
00:19:00.000 I have people
00:19:00.800 in my house
00:19:01.480 so I'm not,
00:19:03.060 like,
00:19:03.260 physically alone.
00:19:04.920 But,
00:19:05.540 I've started to watch,
00:19:07.000 I guess,
00:19:08.200 what you would call
00:19:08.780 POV or point of view
00:19:10.560 video,
00:19:11.840 mostly on YouTube,
00:19:13.100 in which I want
00:19:14.520 somebody's face
00:19:15.780 looking into the camera
00:19:16.900 like I am right now
00:19:17.940 and talking to you
00:19:19.720 as if I'm talking
00:19:20.520 to one person.
00:19:22.040 And you can find
00:19:22.680 lots of YouTube videos
00:19:23.720 where somebody's
00:19:24.380 explaining something.
00:19:25.920 I can't watch
00:19:26.820 interviews anymore
00:19:27.780 because if I watch
00:19:29.740 an interview,
00:19:30.320 I'm watching two people
00:19:31.220 talk to each other
00:19:32.200 and I'm not part of it.
00:19:34.300 But if I watch
00:19:35.120 one person
00:19:35.820 talking to me,
00:19:37.960 I could probably
00:19:39.320 even watch one
00:19:39.980 of those makeup videos,
00:19:41.640 you know,
00:19:41.860 which are huge
00:19:42.780 because it's just
00:19:43.620 somebody putting on
00:19:44.340 their makeup
00:19:44.760 and just talking to you.
00:19:47.000 I would totally
00:19:47.840 watch that.
00:19:48.620 It has nothing
00:19:49.040 to do with the makeup.
00:19:49.780 And I think
00:19:52.480 there's something
00:19:53.060 happening
00:19:53.600 that's bigger
00:19:55.220 than what we understand
00:19:56.500 because clearly
00:19:58.480 the pandemic
00:19:59.320 made us more lonely,
00:20:01.800 right?
00:20:02.000 So there's an obvious
00:20:03.000 thing going on there.
00:20:03.960 But there's something
00:20:04.920 else going on
00:20:06.060 because there's
00:20:07.340 a second epidemic
00:20:08.440 and I think
00:20:09.320 it's connected.
00:20:11.180 Two epidemics
00:20:12.440 that are interacting
00:20:13.640 with each other
00:20:14.380 and none of them
00:20:15.080 have to do
00:20:15.480 with the virus
00:20:16.100 directly.
00:20:16.840 So one is
00:20:18.120 the loneliness
00:20:18.640 and the other
00:20:20.120 is narcissism.
00:20:22.080 I believe
00:20:22.920 narcissism
00:20:23.960 has gone
00:20:25.180 from something
00:20:26.560 that people had
00:20:27.580 and you could
00:20:28.140 stay away from them
00:20:28.960 to something
00:20:30.420 closer to an epidemic.
00:20:32.380 And I think
00:20:33.060 social media
00:20:33.720 has done that.
00:20:35.360 So what I've learned
00:20:36.900 about this
00:20:38.180 narcissism thing
00:20:39.380 is I used to think
00:20:40.240 it was people
00:20:40.720 who thought
00:20:41.100 they were great.
00:20:42.480 And if that's
00:20:42.980 where you think
00:20:43.620 that that,
00:20:44.160 if that's what
00:20:44.580 you think it means,
00:20:45.300 then you have to
00:20:46.240 catch up
00:20:46.680 just like I did.
00:20:47.900 It's not about
00:20:48.760 people thinking
00:20:49.280 they're great.
00:20:50.760 That's just like
00:20:51.500 a little bit of it.
00:20:53.260 It's about people
00:20:54.260 who have broken
00:20:55.120 self-esteem.
00:20:56.340 Just completely
00:20:57.020 broken.
00:20:58.160 And the way
00:20:58.840 that they deal
00:20:59.380 with their broken
00:21:00.160 self-esteem
00:21:00.900 is by belittling
00:21:02.760 other people,
00:21:04.120 one-upping them,
00:21:05.140 bragging,
00:21:06.200 putting them down,
00:21:07.480 shutting them down,
00:21:08.920 thwarting them
00:21:09.700 in any way you can.
00:21:11.580 Now,
00:21:11.900 I used to
00:21:13.980 look at those
00:21:14.680 people because
00:21:15.240 they're everywhere.
00:21:16.980 But man,
00:21:17.920 are there more
00:21:18.540 of them?
00:21:19.880 There are,
00:21:20.760 right?
00:21:21.360 And I think
00:21:22.060 it's because
00:21:22.580 people who
00:21:23.140 might have been
00:21:23.680 sort of on the
00:21:24.800 border of being
00:21:25.560 that way
00:21:25.980 just got pushed
00:21:27.120 over the edge
00:21:27.720 by social media.
00:21:29.520 Imagine living
00:21:30.220 in a world
00:21:30.640 where everybody
00:21:31.220 is criticizing
00:21:32.240 everybody for
00:21:33.320 everything.
00:21:34.440 That's our world.
00:21:35.820 We live in a world
00:21:36.740 where everybody
00:21:37.340 is criticizing
00:21:38.060 everybody for
00:21:38.940 everything.
00:21:39.660 Imagine that.
00:21:42.180 How would you
00:21:42.740 like to be
00:21:43.140 a teenager
00:21:43.700 and be
00:21:45.120 criticized
00:21:45.540 on everything?
00:21:48.460 The shirt
00:21:49.180 you wore
00:21:49.760 that one day,
00:21:51.440 the embarrassing
00:21:52.420 thing you did
00:21:53.220 just once
00:21:54.020 but somebody
00:21:55.040 saw it,
00:21:56.380 the,
00:21:56.660 you know,
00:21:58.340 you're not as
00:21:58.880 pretty or as
00:21:59.820 handsome or
00:22:00.420 as strong or
00:22:01.180 good at sports
00:22:02.020 as this other
00:22:02.680 person.
00:22:03.640 It's got to be
00:22:04.520 devastating.
00:22:06.180 Devastating.
00:22:07.580 Yeah,
00:22:07.820 and it's,
00:22:08.400 and there's just
00:22:08.860 more of it
00:22:09.480 because it's
00:22:09.940 in your face
00:22:10.580 and you're
00:22:11.360 seeing these
00:22:11.840 impossible images
00:22:13.200 of people
00:22:13.780 who you want
00:22:14.620 to be like
00:22:15.120 but you're
00:22:15.500 not,
00:22:16.600 et cetera.
00:22:17.980 So,
00:22:19.260 there's somebody
00:22:21.280 out here
00:22:21.620 watching this
00:22:22.300 right now.
00:22:23.440 You might be
00:22:23.980 watching it live
00:22:24.800 or somebody
00:22:25.300 might be
00:22:25.620 showing it
00:22:26.020 to you.
00:22:27.320 But,
00:22:28.060 I'm kind of
00:22:28.560 talking to you,
00:22:29.720 talking to you
00:22:30.360 directly.
00:22:31.440 You're feeling
00:22:32.220 super lonely,
00:22:33.900 you might be
00:22:34.680 addicted,
00:22:35.740 and you're
00:22:36.380 trying to figure
00:22:36.860 a way out.
00:22:38.600 And you're
00:22:39.260 thinking,
00:22:39.800 what the hell
00:22:40.780 do I do?
00:22:41.940 I'm trapped,
00:22:42.720 I'm lonely,
00:22:43.980 and maybe
00:22:44.920 addicted.
00:22:45.940 And I have
00:22:46.320 low self-esteem.
00:22:47.700 And all these
00:22:48.480 people who are
00:22:49.240 doing better
00:22:49.680 than me
00:22:50.140 are beating
00:22:51.060 up on me
00:22:51.700 and they're
00:22:52.360 controlling me
00:22:53.120 with their,
00:22:53.880 with their,
00:22:54.780 their opinions
00:22:56.580 are actually
00:22:57.420 just breaking
00:22:58.140 my brain.
00:22:58.800 I can't stop
00:22:59.320 thinking about
00:22:59.860 what they said
00:23:00.360 about me.
00:23:01.480 Is that you?
00:23:02.280 Yeah,
00:23:04.380 that is you.
00:23:06.020 And,
00:23:06.640 I'm going to
00:23:07.020 give you
00:23:07.560 at least
00:23:08.660 a few tricks.
00:23:10.160 This will
00:23:10.520 just be a start.
00:23:11.520 It's not going
00:23:11.880 to fix anybody
00:23:12.580 instantly.
00:23:13.860 But I'll give you
00:23:14.420 a few tricks
00:23:15.100 for escaping
00:23:16.180 that.
00:23:17.220 Okay?
00:23:18.020 Some brain
00:23:18.740 hacks,
00:23:19.320 some life
00:23:19.840 hacks.
00:23:20.900 And it goes
00:23:21.600 like this.
00:23:22.940 Number one,
00:23:25.080 always remember
00:23:26.060 the basket
00:23:26.920 case theory.
00:23:28.920 The person
00:23:29.800 who's talking
00:23:30.480 to you
00:23:30.920 and is
00:23:32.100 insulting
00:23:32.460 you,
00:23:33.420 they're
00:23:33.780 broken.
00:23:36.240 Did you
00:23:36.880 say to
00:23:37.180 yourself,
00:23:37.700 oh my
00:23:38.020 goodness,
00:23:38.520 somebody
00:23:38.940 who's
00:23:39.300 normal
00:23:39.760 is
00:23:40.900 criticizing
00:23:41.500 me?
00:23:42.360 Do you
00:23:42.680 know how
00:23:42.880 many times
00:23:43.240 that's
00:23:43.540 happened?
00:23:44.460 How many
00:23:44.980 times has
00:23:45.420 a person
00:23:45.820 who's got
00:23:46.600 it together
00:23:47.080 and they're
00:23:48.020 normal and
00:23:49.260 they're
00:23:49.500 criticizing you?
00:23:50.360 How many
00:23:50.600 times has
00:23:51.000 that ever
00:23:51.400 happened?
00:23:52.780 Do you
00:23:53.100 think a lot?
00:23:54.300 Because the
00:23:54.660 answer is
00:23:55.060 zero.
00:23:56.260 It's never
00:23:56.700 happened.
00:23:58.020 Nobody who
00:23:59.080 has their
00:23:59.500 act together
00:24:00.340 is
00:24:01.200 criticizing
00:24:01.840 you in
00:24:02.440 cruel
00:24:02.940 ways.
00:24:03.800 But you
00:24:04.260 are getting
00:24:04.640 criticized
00:24:05.040 in cruel
00:24:05.620 ways.
00:24:06.160 You're
00:24:06.300 being judged
00:24:06.900 not by
00:24:08.400 good people.
00:24:10.240 You're
00:24:10.420 being judged
00:24:11.240 by thoroughly
00:24:12.300 broken people
00:24:13.420 who are
00:24:14.260 acting out.
00:24:15.380 They're
00:24:15.800 taking out
00:24:16.360 their pain
00:24:17.080 on you.
00:24:19.000 If you
00:24:19.720 imagine that
00:24:20.460 they're
00:24:20.680 complete
00:24:21.220 somehow
00:24:21.820 good people,
00:24:23.260 well that
00:24:23.620 feels pretty
00:24:24.160 bad.
00:24:24.900 Because you
00:24:25.260 don't want
00:24:25.620 somebody that
00:24:26.160 you respect
00:24:26.780 or at least
00:24:27.260 think is
00:24:27.660 normal to
00:24:28.860 be judging
00:24:29.340 you, that
00:24:29.900 feels
00:24:30.160 terrible.
00:24:31.720 They don't
00:24:32.560 exist.
00:24:34.380 They don't
00:24:34.840 exist.
00:24:36.260 That thing
00:24:37.000 that somebody
00:24:37.480 said, well
00:24:38.800 it was
00:24:39.460 said, the
00:24:40.920 words exist,
00:24:42.120 but there's
00:24:42.760 no such
00:24:43.320 thing as
00:24:44.500 an unbroken
00:24:45.500 person saying
00:24:46.380 that kind
00:24:46.920 of stuff.
00:24:47.720 They are
00:24:48.300 just completely
00:24:49.340 broken.
00:24:51.000 And you
00:24:51.680 should have
00:24:52.320 pity on
00:24:53.560 them, and
00:24:54.800 your first
00:24:55.340 thought should
00:24:55.920 be empathy,
00:24:57.220 not feeling
00:24:58.420 bad.
00:25:00.480 So that's
00:25:01.100 your first
00:25:01.460 trick.
00:25:01.980 Remember the
00:25:02.440 basket case
00:25:03.120 theory?
00:25:03.940 Nobody's
00:25:04.380 good.
00:25:06.800 It just
00:25:07.340 doesn't exist.
00:25:08.440 And trust
00:25:08.840 me, the
00:25:09.160 older you
00:25:09.620 get, the
00:25:10.620 more people
00:25:11.100 you meet,
00:25:11.680 the more
00:25:11.960 you'll know
00:25:12.320 this is
00:25:12.680 true.
00:25:13.440 There are
00:25:13.800 no complete
00:25:14.540 people, just
00:25:15.280 broken people.
00:25:16.360 And they're
00:25:16.640 the ones, the
00:25:17.780 more broken
00:25:18.360 they are, the
00:25:18.940 more they're
00:25:19.280 going to come
00:25:19.600 after you,
00:25:20.520 because they
00:25:20.960 need that.
00:25:21.580 They need to
00:25:21.960 push you down
00:25:22.580 so that they
00:25:23.040 can feel
00:25:23.400 good for
00:25:23.800 today.
00:25:25.840 So that's
00:25:26.560 trick one.
00:25:27.260 Everybody's
00:25:27.720 broken.
00:25:29.100 Number two,
00:25:30.480 low self-esteem
00:25:31.420 is like a
00:25:32.560 virus.
00:25:33.920 You catch
00:25:34.640 it from
00:25:35.280 other people.
00:25:37.940 You didn't
00:25:38.720 get your low
00:25:39.380 self-esteem
00:25:40.080 necessarily,
00:25:41.780 because you
00:25:42.680 were born
00:25:43.120 with it.
00:25:43.880 I mean,
00:25:44.200 there's got
00:25:44.600 to be a
00:25:44.900 genetic
00:25:45.200 component
00:25:45.820 here.
00:25:46.500 But mostly
00:25:47.380 it comes
00:25:47.800 from narcissists
00:25:48.900 who have
00:25:49.860 their own
00:25:50.300 broken
00:25:50.700 self-esteem,
00:25:51.520 and they
00:25:52.360 want you
00:25:52.740 to have
00:25:53.020 a broken
00:25:53.420 self-esteem,
00:25:54.300 and if you
00:25:54.620 don't have
00:25:54.960 it, they're
00:25:55.200 going to
00:25:55.380 give it
00:25:55.620 to you.
00:25:56.340 You catch
00:25:57.140 it from
00:25:57.540 other people,
00:25:58.620 and you
00:25:59.580 can get
00:25:59.940 rid of it,
00:26:00.440 just like
00:26:00.780 you can
00:26:01.080 get rid
00:26:01.420 of the
00:26:01.640 freaking
00:26:01.900 coronavirus.
00:26:03.140 You do
00:26:04.340 have a
00:26:04.800 constitution,
00:26:06.380 you do
00:26:06.800 have immunity,
00:26:08.520 but it
00:26:09.060 takes a
00:26:09.400 little while,
00:26:10.020 just like
00:26:10.380 any cold.
00:26:11.500 The cold
00:26:12.060 wins for a
00:26:12.700 while, and
00:26:13.000 then your
00:26:13.260 natural
00:26:13.580 immunity
00:26:13.960 takes over.
00:26:15.760 Your
00:26:16.200 natural
00:26:16.620 immunity
00:26:17.060 can get
00:26:18.620 you away
00:26:19.080 from this
00:26:19.700 low self-esteem
00:26:21.000 that you
00:26:21.300 caught from
00:26:21.880 other people.
00:26:23.480 It's not
00:26:24.180 in you,
00:26:25.220 it's something
00:26:25.780 you caught,
00:26:26.920 and you're
00:26:27.600 going to
00:26:27.720 beat the
00:26:28.040 shit out
00:26:28.420 of it.
00:26:30.160 Just like
00:26:30.900 your immune
00:26:32.120 system will
00:26:32.840 beat the
00:26:33.260 shit out
00:26:33.600 of the
00:26:33.820 coronavirus,
00:26:34.900 for 99%
00:26:35.820 of you,
00:26:36.380 plus.
00:26:38.080 Number two,
00:26:40.080 be good at
00:26:40.760 a few things
00:26:41.400 that you can
00:26:41.880 control.
00:26:43.800 There's nothing
00:26:44.560 better for your
00:26:45.320 self-esteem than
00:26:47.120 knowing that if
00:26:48.060 you work hard on
00:26:48.980 something,
00:26:50.140 whatever it is,
00:26:51.540 that you can
00:26:52.060 become one of
00:26:52.740 the good ones.
00:26:53.780 Not the best in
00:26:54.640 the world, but
00:26:55.320 better than other
00:26:55.940 people.
00:26:57.200 And the things
00:26:57.880 that you can
00:26:58.320 control the
00:26:58.960 most are
00:26:59.780 diet,
00:27:02.680 fashion
00:27:03.280 choices,
00:27:05.280 haircut,
00:27:08.700 fitness.
00:27:10.900 You can
00:27:11.680 control the
00:27:12.440 fuck out of
00:27:13.060 those things.
00:27:14.280 If you're not
00:27:14.920 good at fashion,
00:27:15.740 find somebody who
00:27:16.440 is, get some
00:27:17.160 advice.
00:27:17.540 Don't know
00:27:18.340 how to
00:27:18.580 exercise?
00:27:19.480 Find somebody
00:27:20.180 who can,
00:27:21.200 have them
00:27:21.680 tell you how.
00:27:22.760 Don't know
00:27:23.140 how to eat
00:27:23.520 right?
00:27:24.160 Find somebody
00:27:24.880 who knows,
00:27:25.800 have them
00:27:26.160 tell you how.
00:27:27.120 My book,
00:27:27.640 Catafield Almost
00:27:28.280 Everything and
00:27:28.820 Still Went Big,
00:27:29.980 would give you
00:27:30.720 a leg up on
00:27:31.580 developing your
00:27:32.360 own system to
00:27:33.240 do those
00:27:33.660 things.
00:27:34.600 Find some
00:27:35.340 things that you
00:27:36.080 can completely
00:27:36.920 control, and
00:27:38.600 control the
00:27:39.180 fuck out of
00:27:39.740 them.
00:27:40.660 Just control
00:27:41.540 the fuck out
00:27:42.260 of them.
00:27:43.560 Because that's
00:27:44.400 where you get
00:27:44.940 your self-esteem.
00:27:45.980 because if
00:27:48.080 you look at
00:27:48.700 I'm actually
00:27:51.720 a really good
00:27:52.360 example for
00:27:53.000 this, and
00:27:53.980 I'm going
00:27:54.200 to say
00:27:54.440 something
00:27:54.860 astonishingly
00:27:57.040 lacking
00:27:58.660 humility, but
00:28:00.320 the point is
00:28:01.620 to help you
00:28:02.040 here for a
00:28:02.520 moment.
00:28:04.100 I'm a person
00:28:05.180 who's good at
00:28:05.820 a lot of
00:28:06.220 things.
00:28:07.720 A lot of
00:28:08.400 things.
00:28:09.420 It was a
00:28:09.960 pretty long
00:28:10.420 list.
00:28:10.740 I actually
00:28:10.980 made a list
00:28:11.460 the other
00:28:11.740 day because
00:28:12.600 I was
00:28:12.820 wondering what
00:28:13.860 would be on
00:28:14.240 the list.
00:28:14.620 So, if
00:28:16.220 you made a
00:28:16.560 list of
00:28:16.860 things that
00:28:17.360 the press
00:28:18.180 has called
00:28:19.140 me and
00:28:19.620 asked for
00:28:20.000 my expert
00:28:20.620 opinion on,
00:28:22.220 you'd be
00:28:22.620 kind of
00:28:22.940 surprised.
00:28:23.540 It's across
00:28:24.060 economics,
00:28:25.380 business,
00:28:26.700 humor,
00:28:27.500 politics,
00:28:28.240 persuasion.
00:28:29.880 But, how
00:28:31.200 many things
00:28:31.800 are there
00:28:32.260 that you
00:28:33.620 could be
00:28:34.180 good at?
00:28:34.860 Like, what
00:28:35.400 are all of
00:28:36.920 the things
00:28:37.280 that humans
00:28:37.840 can do?
00:28:39.180 It's gigantic,
00:28:40.660 right?
00:28:41.260 It's like
00:28:41.680 millions of
00:28:42.900 things that
00:28:44.080 people can
00:28:44.600 do, and
00:28:45.820 I'm good
00:28:46.220 at almost
00:28:47.480 zero.
00:28:48.840 Like, if
00:28:49.280 you took
00:28:49.560 all of my
00:28:50.300 skills and
00:28:51.500 compared it
00:28:51.980 to all the
00:28:52.420 skills that
00:28:53.060 anybody could
00:28:53.620 have in the
00:28:54.140 world, it
00:28:55.240 rounds to
00:28:55.860 zero.
00:28:56.960 It doesn't
00:28:57.520 round even
00:28:57.980 to one
00:28:58.360 percent.
00:28:59.580 It's just
00:29:00.580 zero.
00:29:02.080 And I'm
00:29:03.200 an example
00:29:03.640 of somebody
00:29:03.980 who has
00:29:04.200 pretty high
00:29:04.660 skills in
00:29:05.440 a variety
00:29:06.120 of fields,
00:29:07.400 and it
00:29:07.680 still rounds
00:29:08.080 to zero.
00:29:09.440 But it
00:29:09.960 still makes
00:29:10.320 me feel
00:29:10.680 good that
00:29:11.700 there are a
00:29:11.980 few things
00:29:12.400 I could
00:29:12.660 do well.
00:29:13.340 And that's
00:29:13.580 why I
00:29:13.920 concentrate on
00:29:14.620 fitness and
00:29:15.720 diet, and
00:29:16.700 you know, in
00:29:17.940 the case of
00:29:18.360 a guy, if
00:29:19.040 you get your
00:29:19.580 fitness and
00:29:20.240 diet right and
00:29:20.900 keep your
00:29:21.320 hair short,
00:29:21.920 you're probably
00:29:22.260 pretty good
00:29:22.800 fashion-wise.
00:29:25.540 So control
00:29:26.980 the things you
00:29:27.680 can control,
00:29:28.740 get good at
00:29:29.340 them, and
00:29:30.200 remember that
00:29:30.940 nobody's good
00:29:31.640 at much.
00:29:33.560 Nobody,
00:29:34.680 nobody,
00:29:35.720 zero people,
00:29:37.240 are good at
00:29:37.960 much.
00:29:39.360 Take Tiger
00:29:39.940 Woods.
00:29:40.280 Is he
00:29:41.800 good at
00:29:42.080 driving?
00:29:44.180 Right?
00:29:45.580 Tiger Woods,
00:29:47.080 most skilled
00:29:47.940 golfer of
00:29:48.880 all time.
00:29:49.920 Can't drive a
00:29:50.600 fucking car.
00:29:52.180 Can't keep
00:29:52.720 his wife.
00:29:53.880 Can't keep
00:29:54.360 his dick in
00:29:54.820 his pants.
00:29:55.660 Right?
00:29:56.060 There's no
00:29:56.560 such thing as
00:29:58.060 complete good
00:29:58.940 people.
00:29:59.800 They just
00:30:00.140 don't exist.
00:30:01.660 Right?
00:30:02.120 You could
00:30:02.620 become president
00:30:03.440 and have all
00:30:04.280 the flaws in
00:30:04.900 the world.
00:30:05.300 Have you
00:30:05.440 ever heard
00:30:05.720 of any
00:30:06.100 presidents who
00:30:07.940 had any
00:30:08.380 character flaws?
00:30:09.300 Have you
00:30:10.040 heard of
00:30:10.300 that?
00:30:11.880 All of
00:30:12.580 them.
00:30:13.080 All of
00:30:13.540 them.
00:30:13.720 Every one
00:30:14.080 of them.
00:30:14.580 No
00:30:14.820 exceptions.
00:30:15.960 All right.
00:30:16.780 Here's some
00:30:17.440 more.
00:30:19.040 Use your
00:30:19.620 despair to
00:30:22.320 find freedom.
00:30:24.760 Use your
00:30:25.780 sadness,
00:30:28.160 loneliness,
00:30:30.460 depression,
00:30:32.020 and despair
00:30:33.540 to buy your
00:30:35.640 freedom.
00:30:35.940 Do you know
00:30:37.740 how to do
00:30:38.060 that?
00:30:38.340 And by the
00:30:40.060 way, freedom
00:30:40.500 feels really
00:30:41.080 good.
00:30:42.200 Here's how.
00:30:43.500 Do you
00:30:43.720 remember that
00:30:44.220 day you were
00:30:44.900 lonely and
00:30:45.960 sad and
00:30:46.940 neurotic and
00:30:47.640 anxious and
00:30:48.320 depressed and
00:30:49.380 every other bad
00:30:50.060 feeling in the
00:30:50.580 world and if
00:30:51.740 only you could
00:30:52.440 talk to that
00:30:53.360 guy or that
00:30:55.000 girl, the
00:30:55.720 person of your
00:30:56.620 affection?
00:30:58.180 If you feel
00:30:59.080 like you're
00:30:59.480 going to die
00:31:00.100 anyway, just
00:31:01.960 do it.
00:31:03.320 You're free.
00:31:04.080 go up to
00:31:06.740 that person
00:31:07.320 that you
00:31:08.080 think is
00:31:08.480 going to
00:31:08.740 turn you
00:31:09.160 down and
00:31:10.460 guess what?
00:31:10.920 They probably
00:31:11.300 will.
00:31:12.540 Doesn't matter.
00:31:13.800 Doesn't matter.
00:31:15.400 Everybody's
00:31:15.920 failing all over
00:31:16.580 the world all
00:31:17.060 the time.
00:31:18.140 Go up to
00:31:18.640 that person and
00:31:19.400 say to yourself
00:31:19.980 before you walk
00:31:21.240 up, my whole
00:31:22.700 life is garbage
00:31:24.280 right now.
00:31:25.340 I'm sad.
00:31:26.820 I'm lonely.
00:31:27.940 I'm neurotic.
00:31:29.780 Let's mix it
00:31:30.660 up a little
00:31:31.000 bit.
00:31:31.560 Let's shake
00:31:31.900 the box.
00:31:33.620 Let's just
00:31:34.240 see what
00:31:35.680 happens.
00:31:37.460 Leave your
00:31:38.120 box.
00:31:39.380 Walk directly
00:31:40.120 up to that
00:31:40.600 person that
00:31:41.280 is way better
00:31:42.080 than you in
00:31:42.760 your broken
00:31:43.880 mind.
00:31:44.800 They're not
00:31:45.240 way better
00:31:45.660 than you, but
00:31:46.140 you think they
00:31:46.620 are.
00:31:47.400 Say, you
00:31:48.480 know, I
00:31:49.620 just wondered
00:31:50.000 if you'd like
00:31:50.480 to go out to
00:31:50.900 dinner with
00:31:51.300 me.
00:31:51.640 I think
00:31:51.900 it'd be
00:31:52.140 fun.
00:31:54.180 What
00:31:54.620 happens?
00:31:55.560 Well, let
00:31:56.760 me tell you
00:31:57.120 a story.
00:31:58.780 That happened
00:31:59.280 just like
00:31:59.760 that.
00:32:00.360 I'm going
00:32:01.160 to divert
00:32:02.280 a little
00:32:02.560 bit.
00:32:04.060 Years ago
00:32:04.720 when I was
00:32:05.060 single, I
00:32:05.520 lived in
00:32:05.940 San Francisco,
00:32:07.200 had no
00:32:07.820 social life
00:32:08.560 whatsoever,
00:32:09.620 no game.
00:32:10.720 It was before
00:32:12.220 online dating.
00:32:13.840 I mean,
00:32:14.180 meeting somebody
00:32:14.980 was really,
00:32:16.000 really hard
00:32:16.560 pre-internet.
00:32:18.460 And I
00:32:19.420 joined a group
00:32:20.180 called the
00:32:20.720 Spinsters.
00:32:22.360 Well, I
00:32:22.740 didn't join
00:32:23.160 them.
00:32:23.480 I went to
00:32:24.080 an event
00:32:24.460 that they
00:32:24.760 had.
00:32:25.280 Spinsters
00:32:25.660 were young
00:32:26.440 women who
00:32:27.300 were single,
00:32:28.080 and they
00:32:28.480 had an
00:32:28.840 ironic name,
00:32:29.820 the Spinsters.
00:32:30.840 And they
00:32:31.120 would have
00:32:31.340 these big
00:32:31.700 parties in
00:32:32.260 San Francisco
00:32:32.840 and other
00:32:33.320 places, I
00:32:33.840 think.
00:32:34.320 And they
00:32:34.580 would invite
00:32:35.340 men, and
00:32:36.340 it was just
00:32:36.760 basically a way
00:32:37.740 to meet
00:32:37.980 people.
00:32:38.860 So I
00:32:39.200 went to
00:32:39.460 one of
00:32:39.640 these events
00:32:40.360 with my
00:32:40.920 friend,
00:32:41.740 Josh, and
00:32:42.960 we walked
00:32:43.360 in, and
00:32:43.680 we looked
00:32:44.040 around, and
00:32:44.500 we said
00:32:44.780 to ourselves,
00:32:46.320 hmm, not
00:32:47.120 exactly the
00:32:49.360 most attractive
00:32:50.060 room.
00:32:51.760 I don't want
00:32:52.460 to be unkind,
00:32:53.280 but it
00:32:53.620 wasn't exactly
00:32:54.640 what we were
00:32:55.160 hoping for,
00:32:56.360 with one
00:32:57.500 exception.
00:32:59.240 Across the
00:32:59.860 room, there
00:33:00.300 was one
00:33:00.860 unusually
00:33:01.820 attractive
00:33:02.280 woman, and
00:33:04.960 she sort
00:33:05.520 of stood
00:33:06.160 out as
00:33:06.980 the most
00:33:07.720 attractive
00:33:08.160 woman in
00:33:08.940 the entire
00:33:09.460 place.
00:33:10.860 And so I
00:33:11.420 said to my
00:33:11.880 friend, well,
00:33:12.700 this is a
00:33:13.180 disaster.
00:33:14.800 I mean,
00:33:15.000 basically, I'm
00:33:16.440 paraphrasing, but
00:33:17.300 we wasted our
00:33:18.820 night.
00:33:19.240 I'm just going
00:33:19.740 to go over to
00:33:20.340 the most
00:33:20.740 attractive woman
00:33:21.520 in the room,
00:33:22.100 and I'll
00:33:24.480 flame out in
00:33:25.280 about a
00:33:25.620 second and a
00:33:26.200 half, and
00:33:27.220 then we'll be
00:33:27.600 done.
00:33:28.440 We just go
00:33:28.980 home.
00:33:30.220 So I walked
00:33:30.760 directly up to
00:33:31.940 the most
00:33:32.280 attractive woman
00:33:33.080 in the room,
00:33:34.300 and she was my
00:33:35.760 girlfriend for
00:33:36.340 11 months.
00:33:38.940 Now, if you
00:33:41.140 had asked me
00:33:41.640 what were my
00:33:42.160 odds, I would
00:33:43.260 have said pretty
00:33:43.640 close to zero,
00:33:45.120 pretty close to
00:33:45.880 zero.
00:33:46.940 And it turns out
00:33:47.920 that other people
00:33:48.760 were intimidated
00:33:49.700 and didn't
00:33:50.360 talk to her.
00:33:52.440 I heard this
00:33:53.180 problem that
00:33:53.660 Cher had a
00:33:54.380 problem that
00:33:54.900 men were
00:33:55.300 intimidated, you
00:33:56.380 know, years
00:33:57.000 ago, and so
00:33:58.240 she had trouble
00:33:58.920 getting a date.
00:33:59.840 They were just
00:34:00.180 intimidated.
00:34:01.200 Now, why was
00:34:02.480 I able to
00:34:03.060 walk up to
00:34:03.860 someone that I
00:34:04.640 could normally
00:34:05.140 not walk up
00:34:05.800 to?
00:34:06.440 It's because I'd
00:34:07.100 given up.
00:34:08.240 I had absolutely
00:34:09.300 given up.
00:34:10.600 There was
00:34:11.000 nothing for me
00:34:11.900 here.
00:34:12.740 I just said,
00:34:13.620 well, doesn't
00:34:14.440 matter.
00:34:15.460 I don't know
00:34:16.160 her.
00:34:16.820 If she turns
00:34:17.400 me down, nothing
00:34:19.040 lost.
00:34:19.700 The moment
00:34:20.780 you realize
00:34:21.640 that your
00:34:22.280 despair is
00:34:24.240 your freedom,
00:34:26.140 you're free.
00:34:28.820 Have you
00:34:29.360 heard the
00:34:29.680 phrase, freedom
00:34:30.580 is just another
00:34:31.300 word for nothing
00:34:32.300 left to lose?
00:34:34.520 You've heard
00:34:35.120 that, right?
00:34:35.700 It's a famous
00:34:36.340 song.
00:34:36.960 Freedom is just
00:34:37.640 another word for
00:34:38.960 nothing left to
00:34:39.720 lose.
00:34:41.480 How about that
00:34:42.440 college class you
00:34:43.480 were going to
00:34:43.800 sign up for?
00:34:44.740 How about that
00:34:45.380 sport you wanted
00:34:46.100 to get involved
00:34:46.720 in?
00:34:47.000 How about that
00:34:47.380 motorcycle you
00:34:48.080 wanted?
00:34:48.560 Too dangerous,
00:34:49.240 right?
00:34:49.700 You're free.
00:34:52.460 Every one of
00:34:53.420 you who is
00:34:54.000 depressed and
00:34:55.120 anxious, you're
00:34:57.480 free.
00:34:58.340 Because nothing
00:34:59.260 you do will be
00:35:00.560 worse than the
00:35:01.100 way you feel
00:35:01.560 right now.
00:35:02.580 Nothing.
00:35:03.760 Do something.
00:35:04.780 Do something
00:35:05.440 dangerous.
00:35:07.020 Not dangerous
00:35:07.660 physically.
00:35:08.440 The motorcycle
00:35:09.000 might be a bad
00:35:09.840 recommendation.
00:35:11.500 Do something
00:35:12.200 psychologically
00:35:13.380 dangerous.
00:35:14.540 Take a chance.
00:35:15.280 Put yourself
00:35:15.920 out there.
00:35:16.500 Flame out.
00:35:17.040 Get killed.
00:35:18.620 Just get
00:35:19.760 smashed.
00:35:22.040 Just go do
00:35:22.960 it.
00:35:23.700 You're free.
00:35:25.020 You're free.
00:35:26.980 All right.
00:35:28.020 If you want to
00:35:28.840 meet people,
00:35:29.420 here's the best
00:35:29.920 way to do it.
00:35:30.440 You have to
00:35:30.760 join activities.
00:35:32.840 There is no
00:35:33.880 other way to
00:35:35.420 meet people and
00:35:37.020 form lasting
00:35:38.320 friendships.
00:35:39.400 Hear this
00:35:40.020 clearly.
00:35:41.140 There's no
00:35:41.980 other way to
00:35:42.680 do it.
00:35:43.080 You have to
00:35:44.040 join an
00:35:44.720 activity, a
00:35:46.160 club, a
00:35:47.080 sport, a
00:35:48.240 gym, an
00:35:49.840 organization, a
00:35:50.920 political
00:35:51.260 movement, nothing
00:35:53.540 else.
00:35:54.800 Right?
00:35:55.140 You can't just
00:35:56.020 make a friend.
00:35:58.160 Like, good
00:35:58.580 luck.
00:35:59.920 You could
00:36:00.300 try.
00:36:01.300 But I don't
00:36:01.680 think I've
00:36:02.040 ever seen it
00:36:02.520 work.
00:36:03.400 Hi, Bob.
00:36:05.840 Hearing good
00:36:06.680 things about you.
00:36:07.280 I think we
00:36:07.740 could be
00:36:08.040 friends.
00:36:09.200 It doesn't
00:36:09.540 work.
00:36:10.660 Do something.
00:36:12.220 Join a
00:36:12.740 thing.
00:36:13.780 Make a
00:36:14.180 sport.
00:36:15.200 Form a
00:36:15.560 club of
00:36:15.980 your own.
00:36:17.860 Why would
00:36:18.480 you not
00:36:18.840 form a
00:36:19.260 club of
00:36:19.660 your own?
00:36:20.040 Because you're
00:36:20.400 afraid nobody
00:36:20.940 would come,
00:36:21.420 right?
00:36:22.200 What's the
00:36:22.640 difference?
00:36:23.600 You're as
00:36:23.980 good as
00:36:24.380 dead.
00:36:25.580 You're
00:36:25.860 depressed.
00:36:26.480 You're
00:36:26.620 anxious.
00:36:27.080 You hate
00:36:27.320 your life.
00:36:28.200 You're
00:36:28.400 thinking about
00:36:28.860 putting a
00:36:29.300 I can't
00:36:30.100 say that
00:36:30.440 here, but
00:36:30.920 you're
00:36:31.380 thinking about
00:36:31.960 maybe life
00:36:33.480 isn't worth
00:36:33.940 it.
00:36:34.200 I won't
00:36:34.440 say more
00:36:34.820 than that.
00:36:35.900 You're
00:36:36.220 free.
00:36:37.520 You're
00:36:37.960 absolutely
00:36:38.640 free.
00:36:39.620 Go have
00:36:40.000 some fun.
00:36:41.480 Now, I
00:36:41.920 got to tell
00:36:42.280 you, I've
00:36:42.620 used this
00:36:43.020 technique a
00:36:43.880 number of
00:36:44.300 times, and
00:36:45.760 man, does
00:36:46.220 it work.
00:36:47.040 It really
00:36:47.660 works.
00:36:48.600 You're
00:36:48.880 free.
00:36:49.740 Just remember
00:36:50.340 that people
00:36:50.820 criticizing you
00:36:51.640 are narcissists.
00:36:52.700 They are
00:36:52.980 broken.
00:36:54.080 Get yourself
00:36:54.700 some friends.
00:36:55.460 It will
00:36:55.680 help most of
00:36:56.300 your problems.
00:36:57.480 Most of
00:36:57.800 your problems
00:36:58.360 are you
00:36:59.700 don't have
00:36:59.960 good friends.
00:37:00.960 Most of
00:37:01.400 your problems.
00:37:02.380 Go get
00:37:02.700 some activities.
00:37:03.440 Get some
00:37:03.700 friends.
00:37:04.020 All right.
00:37:05.280 In this
00:37:05.600 same vein, and
00:37:10.460 I've got a
00:37:10.980 few more
00:37:11.260 minutes here,
00:37:12.920 I saw a
00:37:14.460 tweet on
00:37:14.860 this, and
00:37:15.240 I'd just
00:37:15.640 like to
00:37:15.940 amplify it.
00:37:16.720 We're going
00:37:17.100 to spend a
00:37:17.520 lot of
00:37:17.700 time criticizing
00:37:18.440 our leaders
00:37:19.180 for the
00:37:22.000 pandemic
00:37:22.360 response.
00:37:23.320 I just
00:37:23.860 feel like we
00:37:24.360 need some
00:37:24.740 humility about
00:37:25.600 that, because
00:37:26.640 I just don't
00:37:27.500 think it was
00:37:28.180 reasonable to
00:37:28.960 imagine all
00:37:29.700 of our leaders
00:37:30.340 were going to
00:37:30.900 guess right,
00:37:32.080 because they
00:37:32.580 didn't have
00:37:32.980 data.
00:37:33.900 There was a
00:37:34.200 lot of
00:37:34.460 guessing.
00:37:35.780 So let's
00:37:37.300 give them a
00:37:37.940 break.
00:37:39.800 We do have
00:37:40.820 to be rough
00:37:43.340 about looking
00:37:44.240 at what went
00:37:44.780 wrong.
00:37:45.320 You just
00:37:45.620 have to do
00:37:46.060 that.
00:37:47.000 But I
00:37:47.900 think in
00:37:48.400 terms of
00:37:48.780 the people,
00:37:50.220 you can still
00:37:50.760 say they
00:37:51.120 made a
00:37:51.460 mistake, but
00:37:52.780 I think the
00:37:53.200 people were
00:37:53.760 good.
00:37:55.480 I was just
00:37:57.460 going to say
00:37:57.820 Cuomo.
00:37:59.820 Say what
00:38:00.500 you will about
00:38:01.360 Governor
00:38:01.740 Cuomo.
00:38:02.980 he didn't
00:38:04.860 want anybody
00:38:05.480 to die.
00:38:07.200 He worked
00:38:08.080 really hard.
00:38:09.960 He's smart.
00:38:11.000 He's well-meaning.
00:38:13.060 Did he make
00:38:13.900 a mistake?
00:38:14.500 Well, he
00:38:15.400 argues no.
00:38:17.200 There are
00:38:17.880 extenuated
00:38:18.580 circumstances, he
00:38:19.860 would say.
00:38:21.080 But I don't
00:38:22.320 feel like we
00:38:22.960 need to have
00:38:24.560 an answer to
00:38:25.180 that.
00:38:26.320 Because the
00:38:26.880 answer I
00:38:27.340 want is, did
00:38:28.220 the leader
00:38:28.640 take it
00:38:29.100 seriously?
00:38:29.560 Did he
00:38:30.100 work all
00:38:31.400 day and
00:38:31.780 all night?
00:38:32.880 Was he
00:38:33.820 capable or
00:38:34.660 she?
00:38:35.640 Yes.
00:38:36.620 Did he
00:38:37.140 care?
00:38:37.900 Yes.
00:38:39.980 Did he
00:38:40.620 make a
00:38:41.320 horrible
00:38:41.680 mistake?
00:38:42.320 Maybe.
00:38:43.500 Maybe.
00:38:45.020 But I
00:38:45.980 don't think
00:38:46.300 you can
00:38:46.540 hate him
00:38:46.820 for that.
00:38:48.280 You
00:38:48.500 could
00:38:48.640 hate the
00:38:48.920 outcome.
00:38:50.340 There's a
00:38:51.100 funny movement
00:38:51.700 going on to
00:38:52.540 make Democrats
00:38:53.880 accept their
00:38:54.740 own thinking.
00:38:56.220 And it
00:38:56.520 goes like
00:38:56.920 this.
00:38:57.600 That if
00:38:59.040 you're a
00:38:59.480 company or
00:39:00.160 a college
00:39:00.720 that doesn't
00:39:01.520 have enough
00:39:01.980 diversity, and
00:39:03.540 you're a
00:39:04.180 white member
00:39:05.840 of that
00:39:06.460 group, let's
00:39:08.140 say you're a
00:39:08.540 white person
00:39:09.140 who's a
00:39:10.060 professor at
00:39:10.740 Harvard.
00:39:11.800 I'll just
00:39:12.140 pick that.
00:39:13.000 Now let's
00:39:13.320 say you
00:39:13.600 thought that
00:39:14.020 Harvard did
00:39:14.580 not have
00:39:14.900 enough
00:39:15.100 diversity in
00:39:16.200 the teachers.
00:39:17.800 You should
00:39:18.540 quit.
00:39:19.620 If you
00:39:20.160 take it
00:39:20.520 seriously,
00:39:22.340 then equity
00:39:23.740 is the
00:39:28.400 important
00:39:28.700 part.
00:39:29.460 If you
00:39:30.020 don't take
00:39:30.560 it seriously
00:39:31.120 and you're
00:39:31.740 going to
00:39:31.960 keep your
00:39:32.600 nice white
00:39:33.720 person job
00:39:34.480 at the top
00:39:35.080 of the heap
00:39:35.560 and you're
00:39:36.460 complaining about
00:39:37.200 other people
00:39:37.880 who should do
00:39:39.100 more at the
00:39:39.680 bottom to
00:39:40.380 make things
00:39:40.800 more equal,
00:39:41.720 well, fuck
00:39:42.120 you.
00:39:43.160 Fuck you.
00:39:44.740 Right?
00:39:45.200 If you've
00:39:45.560 got a nice
00:39:46.060 job and
00:39:46.760 you're
00:39:46.960 complaining
00:39:47.340 about the
00:39:47.900 lack of
00:39:48.300 diversity,
00:39:49.140 quit your
00:39:49.480 job and
00:39:51.000 help a
00:39:51.860 black or
00:39:52.900 brown person
00:39:53.440 get your
00:39:53.820 job.
00:39:54.780 If you're
00:39:55.240 serious about
00:39:55.900 it, if
00:39:56.740 you're not
00:39:57.020 serious about
00:39:57.600 it, shut
00:39:57.900 the fuck
00:39:58.220 up.
00:39:59.020 We don't
00:39:59.360 care.
00:40:00.700 All right?
00:40:01.500 So put
00:40:02.640 the quit
00:40:03.100 inequity and
00:40:04.140 let's hold
00:40:04.600 the rich
00:40:06.300 white people
00:40:07.020 to their
00:40:07.960 own philosophy.
00:40:11.280 We're not
00:40:11.700 asking them to
00:40:12.460 do anything
00:40:13.060 that isn't
00:40:13.680 consistent with
00:40:14.920 their own
00:40:15.380 beliefs.
00:40:15.880 That's all
00:40:16.240 we ask.
00:40:17.140 Just follow
00:40:18.120 your own
00:40:18.540 beliefs and
00:40:19.220 we will
00:40:19.640 respect you
00:40:20.760 for that.
00:40:22.160 Glenn
00:40:22.440 Greenwald had
00:40:23.080 a...
00:40:24.100 I feel
00:40:24.800 like I
00:40:25.100 mention Glenn
00:40:25.680 Greenwald
00:40:26.140 every day
00:40:27.400 and it's
00:40:28.740 worth it
00:40:29.300 every day.
00:40:31.100 If you
00:40:31.760 want to
00:40:32.880 follow one
00:40:33.860 really good
00:40:34.800 Twitter account,
00:40:36.540 follow Glenn
00:40:38.100 Greenwald.
00:40:39.140 It's just like
00:40:40.080 a global
00:40:41.580 treasure at
00:40:42.320 this point.
00:40:43.380 So he was
00:40:43.960 talking about
00:40:44.380 fact-checking.
00:40:45.460 PolitiFact, I
00:40:46.240 guess, had
00:40:46.820 fact-checked the
00:40:48.400 idea that the
00:40:49.800 virus could have
00:40:50.920 escaped from the
00:40:51.640 lab, they
00:40:52.620 called it a
00:40:53.180 debunked
00:40:53.800 conspiracy
00:40:54.240 theory.
00:40:55.560 So they
00:40:56.100 used to
00:40:56.460 call it a
00:40:56.920 debunked
00:40:57.560 conspiracy
00:40:58.100 theory, but
00:40:59.960 now they
00:41:00.480 say that
00:41:01.520 qualified people
00:41:03.080 say it's at
00:41:03.780 least something
00:41:04.740 we need to
00:41:05.200 look into.
00:41:06.380 So PolitiFact
00:41:07.060 changed their
00:41:07.760 fact from
00:41:08.380 total debunked
00:41:09.360 conspiracy
00:41:09.820 theory to,
00:41:10.980 oh yeah, all
00:41:11.380 the smart
00:41:11.720 people are
00:41:12.080 saying this,
00:41:13.360 that it
00:41:13.640 might be
00:41:13.940 true, that
00:41:14.720 it escaped
00:41:15.060 from the
00:41:15.420 lab.
00:41:17.180 And Glenn
00:41:17.900 points out
00:41:18.720 accurately,
00:41:19.860 that fact-checking,
00:41:21.120 I'll just read
00:41:21.820 his words because
00:41:22.540 he says it so
00:41:23.200 well, he
00:41:24.180 goes, fact-checking
00:41:24.940 like virtually
00:41:25.640 everything the
00:41:26.500 corporate media
00:41:27.320 does to
00:41:28.280 feign superiority
00:41:29.580 is a total
00:41:30.820 scam, just
00:41:32.060 another way for
00:41:32.740 them to
00:41:33.140 smuggle their
00:41:34.420 own ideologically
00:41:35.540 driven
00:41:36.100 disinformation and
00:41:37.800 conspiracy theories
00:41:38.960 under a more
00:41:40.040 elevated facade.
00:41:42.260 I love that
00:41:43.420 turn of words,
00:41:44.920 an elevated
00:41:45.620 facade.
00:41:46.260 Like, that's
00:41:48.200 some good
00:41:49.020 writing right
00:41:49.540 there.
00:41:50.780 Like, you
00:41:51.700 can write for
00:41:52.640 a long time
00:41:53.480 without coming
00:41:55.040 up with a
00:41:55.620 phrase under
00:41:56.420 a more
00:41:56.840 elevated facade.
00:41:58.440 That's just
00:41:59.000 good writing.
00:42:00.220 Anyway, you
00:42:03.660 see this all
00:42:04.340 the time.
00:42:05.240 So the way
00:42:05.680 to make your
00:42:06.280 fake news look
00:42:07.140 legitimate is to
00:42:08.060 have a fake
00:42:08.560 fact-checking
00:42:09.240 organization telling
00:42:10.220 people it's
00:42:11.220 legitimate.
00:42:12.380 It's like the
00:42:13.140 greatest scam.
00:42:14.780 You know, if
00:42:15.140 people are not
00:42:15.740 trusting you,
00:42:16.840 form an
00:42:17.200 organization of
00:42:18.100 people who
00:42:18.580 say you're
00:42:18.960 good.
00:42:21.560 Now, Rasmussen
00:42:22.800 weighed in on
00:42:24.500 social media to
00:42:26.140 point out that
00:42:26.920 it's very similar.
00:42:28.460 Rasmussen tweets,
00:42:29.900 this sounds
00:42:30.440 eerily like the
00:42:31.620 digital pollsters
00:42:32.620 rating and
00:42:33.260 grading schemes.
00:42:34.800 Fame, superiority,
00:42:36.040 and prowess,
00:42:36.620 coupled with
00:42:37.140 smug and
00:42:37.640 atrocious in-house
00:42:38.600 election forecasting.
00:42:40.460 So Rasmussen
00:42:41.560 points out that
00:42:43.200 while Rasmussen is
00:42:44.380 unusually accurate
00:42:45.780 compared to most
00:42:46.880 pollsters, they
00:42:48.220 get the most
00:42:49.440 abuse from
00:42:50.540 other pollsters
00:42:51.640 because the
00:42:54.560 other pollsters
00:42:55.060 don't want you to
00:42:55.700 think that they're
00:42:56.220 bad and Rasmussen
00:42:57.160 is more accurate.
00:42:58.740 So watch out for
00:42:59.740 your fake polls and
00:43:01.120 your fake fact
00:43:01.900 chicken.
00:43:02.720 It's going to be a
00:43:03.240 lot of it.
00:43:04.280 Have you noticed
00:43:04.900 on Amazon, if
00:43:07.160 you're a book
00:43:07.660 author or if you've
00:43:08.540 read reviews, have
00:43:10.020 you noticed that
00:43:10.640 there will always be
00:43:11.560 this kind of
00:43:12.360 review?
00:43:13.300 It goes like
00:43:14.600 this.
00:43:15.600 I really like the
00:43:17.480 author of this
00:43:18.100 book for some
00:43:19.180 other thing, but
00:43:20.680 this book, everything
00:43:22.520 is wrong about it
00:43:23.640 because he gets all
00:43:24.860 the wrong answers and
00:43:25.880 he's not the one
00:43:26.620 who's qualified to
00:43:27.620 talk about this
00:43:28.340 thing.
00:43:29.220 But I sure am.
00:43:31.080 And so I, as the
00:43:32.280 reviewer, will tell
00:43:33.620 you how much better I
00:43:35.060 could have written
00:43:35.600 this book and how
00:43:37.420 the sections I
00:43:38.380 didn't like really
00:43:39.220 should have been
00:43:39.760 edited out and if
00:43:41.260 only it could have
00:43:42.100 been written more
00:43:43.440 along the great
00:43:44.960 thinking that is
00:43:45.780 common to people
00:43:46.560 like me and less
00:43:48.180 like the bad
00:43:48.860 thinking from this
00:43:49.700 author.
00:43:50.800 Have you seen
00:43:51.280 those?
00:43:53.180 Every book review.
00:43:55.240 You know, or
00:43:55.600 every book gets
00:43:57.360 some of those.
00:43:58.860 And those are
00:43:59.940 narcissists.
00:44:01.300 Those are people
00:44:02.180 who are broken and
00:44:04.100 they're finding every
00:44:05.260 avenue they can to
00:44:06.960 assert some
00:44:07.620 superiority.
00:44:08.200 So they write a
00:44:09.580 review, give you a
00:44:10.400 one star, that
00:44:11.680 tells you, you
00:44:12.420 know, if I had
00:44:13.680 written this book I
00:44:14.400 would have done a
00:44:14.880 better job.
00:44:16.240 It has nothing to
00:44:17.280 do with reviewing
00:44:17.900 the book.
00:44:18.780 It's about a
00:44:19.620 narcissist who is
00:44:20.840 broken, flailing
00:44:22.860 out and trying to
00:44:23.880 fix the pain
00:44:24.660 they're in because
00:44:25.800 they can't
00:44:26.240 understand why
00:44:27.000 this author is
00:44:27.740 getting money and
00:44:28.500 fame when they're
00:44:29.960 getting none of
00:44:30.540 that and they're
00:44:31.040 so much smarter,
00:44:32.140 so much smarter
00:44:32.820 than all these
00:44:33.320 authors with
00:44:33.860 their best-selling
00:44:34.460 books.
00:44:34.780 So, I used to
00:44:38.040 be bothered by
00:44:38.800 it, but only
00:44:40.620 recently have I
00:44:41.500 come to understand
00:44:42.300 that these are
00:44:43.080 just broken
00:44:43.640 people.
00:44:44.900 No more
00:44:45.560 different than a
00:44:46.400 street person who
00:44:47.560 throws a rock at
00:44:50.740 you.
00:44:51.200 I mean, you don't
00:44:51.660 like the rock, but
00:44:53.500 you look at the
00:44:54.000 street person and
00:44:54.760 you should have
00:44:55.360 more empathy or
00:44:56.300 pity than
00:44:57.500 anger.
00:45:02.600 Haters gonna hate.
00:45:03.500 Yes, but I
00:45:04.980 think the hate
00:45:05.440 comes from a
00:45:06.120 specific place.
00:45:07.220 It comes from a
00:45:07.980 broken self-esteem
00:45:09.140 and it is my
00:45:10.660 hypothesis that
00:45:12.360 there are more
00:45:12.920 people with
00:45:13.640 broken self-esteems
00:45:15.220 because of social
00:45:16.120 media than at
00:45:17.660 any time in
00:45:18.240 history and that
00:45:19.880 all of these
00:45:20.460 broken people are
00:45:21.760 flailing out at
00:45:23.300 everybody else until
00:45:24.260 we're all broken.
00:45:25.440 It's basically
00:45:26.260 self-esteem as a
00:45:27.720 virus.
00:45:28.840 It's a
00:45:29.560 freaking virus.
00:45:31.120 The broken
00:45:31.620 people are breaking
00:45:32.520 as many people as
00:45:33.360 they can touch
00:45:34.040 because it makes
00:45:35.040 them feel better.
00:45:36.900 So, there's your
00:45:38.920 advice.
00:45:43.160 Criticism is just
00:45:45.000 a flag that says
00:45:46.000 I'm broken.
00:45:48.020 Right?
00:45:48.420 Now, there's such a
00:45:49.160 thing as valid
00:45:49.800 criticism, but you
00:45:50.780 know when you see
00:45:51.580 it, right?
00:45:52.740 Somebody says,
00:45:53.600 you know, here's
00:45:54.720 another way you
00:45:55.260 could have done
00:45:55.680 this.
00:45:56.060 It would have been
00:45:56.420 faster.
00:45:57.440 Well, that's okay.
00:45:59.580 Or, you know,
00:46:00.700 oh, that's not the
00:46:02.040 hat I would have
00:46:02.640 worn.
00:46:03.180 This other one
00:46:03.680 would go with
00:46:04.160 your outfit.
00:46:05.520 Maybe that's
00:46:06.220 being helpful.
00:46:07.540 But you can tell
00:46:08.380 the narcissist
00:46:09.000 they're just
00:46:09.900 broken.
00:46:11.280 Don't let it
00:46:11.920 break you.
00:46:13.120 You've got some
00:46:13.920 techniques now.
00:46:15.560 And I think
00:46:16.480 you're going to be
00:46:17.700 a lot better
00:46:18.280 when it's over.
00:46:19.700 Go get yourself
00:46:20.280 some friends and
00:46:21.040 you'll find your
00:46:21.560 mental health
00:46:22.260 problems feel a
00:46:24.100 lot better.
00:46:25.160 Go get involved
00:46:25.800 in something.
00:46:26.700 Join a group.
00:46:27.300 form a group.
00:46:28.720 Be the boss.
00:46:29.880 Make your own
00:46:30.340 group.
00:46:31.280 That is your
00:46:32.300 advice for the
00:46:32.880 day, and I
00:46:33.940 will talk to
00:46:34.400 you.