Episode 1442 Scott Adams： Blue Origin, Pandemic Persuasion, and is Fox News Killing People
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Scott Adams talks about the Blue Origin rocket launch and how to design a rocket to look like a man's penis. Plus, a story about the worst wife in the world, and why you should never have problems with your spouse.
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Hey everybody. Good morning. It's time for coffee with Scott Adams, the best part of your day.
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the simultaneous sip and watch it happen right now. Go. Hello, Northern Colorado. Good to have you in
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the house. Well, as you know, I have sometimes had some issues with my audio on these live streams.
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And somebody was nice enough to send me a sign that I could hold up so that it wouldn't slow down my
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flow. But before I show you the sign, I have to give you a warning. The sign has some offensive
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words on it. And offensive concept too. So if you would be offended by some words that are pretty
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offensive, you don't want to watch this next part. So I'm going to show you the sign, but I'm not going
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to read it out loud. So if you're home, you'll just have to guess. If you're listening and not
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watching, you're going to have to guess what it says. Well, I'll probably tell you. All right, so here's
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a sign, but we're going to, we're going to modify it a little bit. Okay. Do you think
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this is funny? How many think this is funny? All right. It's very offensive, right? So what
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we're going to do is we're going to have to modify it a little bit. So this is very, very bad. So we're
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going to cover it up a little bit. Some of the bad parts so I can use it. And I think we're almost
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going to get rid of that. And if you're at home listening to this, I must be so disappointed
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because visually it's stunning. Well, there you go. So now I've turned it into a Yoda version.
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So it says, Jesus King is, the audio is fine. That's right. Jesus King is. Now, before I
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modified it with the sticky notes, for those of you who are just listening at home, it did
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say something about the Lord and his name being taken in vain. And you know, that's inappropriate.
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So if anybody has problems with the audio, remember, Jesus King is, the audio is fine. Okay.
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Taking care of that little business, let's move on. Have you all seen the launch of Jeff
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Bezos' rocket? The Blue Origin. Now, I don't know if you've seen a picture of the rocket. Have
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you seen a picture of the rocket? Because the picture of the rocket, I don't know this to
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be true, but I think it's a fair assumption, that it was designed based on Stormy Daniels'
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description of Trump's penis. Now, that doesn't sound funny until you see the rocket itself.
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Trust me on this. Stormy Daniels' description of Trump's penis, there's your rocket. There's
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your rocket right there. Now, I tweeted cleverly, I thought, that all it needs is a scrotum, otherwise
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it's on model. But I was one-upped in my witticism when I noted it doesn't have a scrotum, as
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Dr. Sexy on Twitter said, and I quote, that's because the nuts are on the inside. Dr. Sexy,
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not often do I get bested in humor on my own topic. I'm a professional. But this time I've
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got to admit, the nuts are on the inside. Pretty good. Pretty good. All right. Now, here's a
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question for you. If you were trying to race into space, and you were a billionaire, and
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the billionaire who beat you into space was in a rocket called Virgin, how would you design
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your rocket to one-up a Virgin? Well, you could make it shaped like a gigantic penis, because
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maybe the Virgin got there first. But I think the Blue Horizon may have penetrated space a
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little faster, if you know what I mean. And it puts a lot of pressure on Elon Musk to design
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his next rocket to look like a giant baby bottle, really just to keep the theme alive. You
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know, the Virgin, then the giant penis, then maybe the baby bottle. Give the whole space
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thing maybe a narrative. You know, a meta-narrative. Well, here's a story about the worst wife ever.
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Now, you might think to yourself that you have marital problems. Maybe your spouse is not
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perfect. But I'd like to read a story to you about somebody who's got it worse than you do.
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Ex-MLB star Ben Zobrist. He's got a little issue. It's reported in the paper that his wife
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had an affair with their pastor. Now, if you have an affair with your family pastor, pretty
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bad, right? I don't know if that would be the worst wife ever, because, you know, people
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have affairs. But to cap it off, apparently the wife, while she was having the affair with
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the pastor, threw him a retirement party, which cost her husband $30,000. Husband didn't know
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which account it came out of, so he didn't realize how much it cost. And while they were
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giving the retirement party for the pastor, who the wife was having an affair with, she
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danced suggestively with the pastor in front of all the guests. Not an ideal wife, really.
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And now, she's suing her husband for millions of dollars, so that her contribution to his life
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will be to pastor him because he quit, because he wasn't making enough money, having an affair
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with the pastor, using his $30,000 to throw a party for the pastor that she was having the
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affair with, and dancing suggestively with him in front of all their friends. Then, taking
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millions of his dollars and leaving him a shell of a man. I'm only telling you this story so
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you feel better about your own life. Do you feel better now? You know, your spouse is maybe
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not putting the top on the toothpaste, right? Doesn't seem so big now, does it? Yeah. Your
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spouse gambled, lost some money. Doesn't seem like such a big deal now, does it? Bought a boat
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without asking? Not such a big deal. You're welcome. Well, the Huffington Post has some
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fake news, and it's reporting, fakely, fakely but truly, strangely enough. Sometimes the
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news is true and fake at the same time. How is that possible? Well, it can be true, but
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because the context is manipulated, it could give you a false story. And that's happening
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here. The Huffington Post is reporting that Texas, or at least maybe it's one county or
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something, wants to ban the teaching that the Ku Klux Klan is morally wrong. Does that sound
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like real news? It's in the Huffington Post. So it must be real, right? The Huffington Post
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wouldn't try to fool you and tell you a story like that Texans are trying to not teach that
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the KKK was morally wrong. They wouldn't say that, would they? Yeah, the whole story is
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bullshit. So here's what really happened. What really happened is that there was some changes
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to how history was taught, and a bunch of things were removed, including the way they were teaching
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about slavery and eugenics and Ku Klux Klan and stuff like that. But does that mean that
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they're not going to teach that stuff? Or is there just removing the lesson the way it
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was? Let me ask you this. If your children are old enough to learn about the KKK, because
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you know you're not going to teach a two-year-old about the Klan, but if your kid is old enough
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to learn about the Ku Klux Klan, aren't they already old enough to know it's wrong? Is anybody
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sending their kids to school, and they see a lesson about the Ku Klux Klan, and is that
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kid sitting there and thinking, well, that looks pretty good? Where'd all that go? We
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need some more of that. If your kid is having those thoughts, maybe the problem isn't Texas.
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Maybe it's not the school system. I'm just wondering, when World War II and the Holocaust
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is being taught in schools, do they specifically add the lesson that the Holocaust was morally
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wrong, or do they kind of make the assumption that you'd figure that out on your own? Was
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there a time in American history where you had to tell kids that the KKK was wrong? Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, there was. A horrible time in history where you actually had to explain that that
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was wrong. But today? Today? Do you have to explain to a kid today in 2021 that the KKK is
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not your ideals organization? I don't think so. So I'm going to call this fake news. I don't think
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anybody needs to tell anybody that the KKK is a bad deal. And it was just part of a larger lesson
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that got readjusted, I guess. All right. There's a fascinating compilation clip. No,
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not that kind, you dirtbags. A compilation clip on politics this time. And it shows a bunch
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of Democrats. Jack Posobiec was tweeting this. In 2018, talking about the lack of security in voting,
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specifically with voting machines, electronic ones. Now, is it persuasive to see the same
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people who are saying the elections are fine just a few years ago complaining that they're
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totally not fine? Does hypocrisy persuade anybody? Nope. It's the weirdest thing. You would think
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that pointing out that somebody used to say the opposite of what they're saying today and nothing
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changed. You know, it wasn't because it was new information or something. They just decided to say
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the opposite because it was good for politics. There is no way that pointing out hypocrisy has ever
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changed anybody's mind. I've never seen it happen. Have you ever had an argument where you say,
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well, yeah, your side says X? But last week they were saying Y? So now change your mind. Has it ever
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worked? No. No. In the history of the world, pointing out hypocrisy has never changed anybody's mind. I
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don't think. I mean, I've never seen it. Maybe somewhere. I can't say zero people have changed their mind, but
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I've never seen it. So it's great to look at that, but it doesn't really, it doesn't penetrate. So
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there's your persuasion lesson for the day, is that you are sure hypocrisy would change minds, if you
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can point it out how starkly it is, but it doesn't. It just doesn't change anybody's minds. And the reason
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is that nobody, nobody formed their opinion based on facts. If they had ever made their opinion based
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on facts and reason, maybe they would change their opinion. If you showed them something changed or
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there was hypocrisy. But since it's not a legitimate opinion in the first place, nobody's going to change
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it. Rasmussen reports that they asked this question of likely voters. Are we facing the most significant
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test of our democracy since the Civil War? And 56% agree. That's the most significant test of our
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democracy since the Civil War. What is? What exactly? Which part is the test of the democracy?
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Is it that the vote wasn't trusted? Is it the way the social media companies are manipulating
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communication? Is it the news telling us fake news? What exactly is it? Oh, is it the insurrection with the
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guy with the hat? The Viking hat? So how do 56% of the public think that we're having the most
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significant test of our democracy since the Civil War? Based on what? To me, everything looks sort of
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the way it's always looked. Oh, oh, you're thinking that elections used to be fair, and then now they're
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not. I don't think that's the case. Do you think that elections are less fair now than they were
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around the Civil War? Check out some history. Our elections have been pretty sketchy for a long time,
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right? The Kennedy election being a classic one. So I have to say that the number of people who think
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that things are the worst since the Civil War for our democracy are just being persuaded by the press,
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by social media. I just don't think the evidence is suggesting that at all. How many people think election
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reform is needed? 61% agreed. But what do I tell you about the 25%?
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on almost any kind of poll question, 25% will have the dumbest answer you could ever have.
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You could ask people, is oxygen good? 25% will say, no, no, oxygen's bad. We don't want that.
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So 25% strongly disagreed with the idea that election reform is needed. What?
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How could you possibly think that election reform is not needed? Even if you believe the election was
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perfectly fair, can you not at least observe that half of the country isn't so sure? Wouldn't a
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better system be one that you could audit easily and right away? Why is it we can count the votes in
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a day or two? But you can't audit it for months? Don't you think you need a little election reform
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so that you could audit it more easily? At the very least, make it more auditable so people's
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complaints go away. But 25% of the public says, nah, we don't need that. 25%. It's so consistent.
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All right. So we're seeing a new cottage industry by CNN and MSNBC, which is misinterpreting Fox hosts
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to make them look worse than they are. Now, of course, that's the game they all play because
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they're in competition. But the current move is to say that Fox News is killing its viewers by giving
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them misinformation about vaccinations and whatnot. But what exactly is that misinformation? Because
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if you actually look for an example, it's not really there. So you'll see Tucker Carlson asking
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questions. For example, he said, how do we know the vaccines work if a person who's fully vaccinated
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can get it and give it to somebody else who's fully vaccinated? Is that saying the vaccines work?
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Well, it does keep them out of the hospital, so I would say it works. But the question is a
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reasonable question. Now, if somebody asks reasonable questions, but the viewer comes to a wrong
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conclusion about those questions, what they mean and how important they are, is that Fox News?
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Is that on them? Because here's the thing. Is Fox News your doctor? CNN and MSNBC have decided
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they're your fucking doctor. And that you should get your information on medical stuff from them,
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from watching CNN. You should make medical decisions. Literally. That's what CNN's telling
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you. Watch our show and then make a medical decision based on that. Not just what CNN is giving you as
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facts, but also their opinion. That CNN's opinions should form your medical advice. And MSNBC, the same
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thing. Now, Fox News, I would say, is a little bit more transparent about saying we're going to look
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at all the questions, even if that maybe influences you a different way. Because it's up to you to decide
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whether you get vaccinated. It's not up to Fox News. They're not trying to be your doctor. So CNN
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and MSNBC are trying to be your doctor, giving you actual advice on what to do. Fox News isn't doing
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that. Does that mean that Fox News is the bad one? I suppose that's more of an opinion than a fact,
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right? Because I do think you could make the argument that maybe the way Fox News treats these
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topics might influence people to get fewer vaccinations than otherwise. So would that make
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a difference to how many people live and die? It might. It might. But is it Fox News's job to be your
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doctor? Or could they just say, hey, we've got a question about this, a question about that.
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Here's a skeptic who has an opposite view of this. And then you talk to your doctor and make up your
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own mind. It's an interesting ethical and moral question. I don't think we would ever ask this
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question, except in the context of a pandemic where the stakes are so high. But, you know, just ask
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yourself, is your news source trying to substitute for your doctor? Now, one of the things I find most
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interesting about this whole pandemic is that the two worlds interpretation is going to survive
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long after the pandemic. And what I mean by that is that some people are living through a non-pandemic,
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meaning that as far as they are concerned, there was never a real pandemic. Over 600,000 people
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reportedly died in the United States alone. But there are going to be a lot of people who lived
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through all of that and said, no, it was basically just the flu. It was a bad flu. It was basically
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the flu. And other people will say it was a pandemic. And then, of course, there will be people
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who say masks worked. People will say it didn't. People will say vaccinations worked. People will say
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it didn't. And there's no data, no facts, no news that will come out of this that will change the fact
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that we're all going to live through this thing, or most of us will live through this thing.
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And we won't even agree on what it was we lived through. It's not like a war where at least you
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agree you all went through the same war. Some people are going to say there wasn't even a pandemic. It
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was just a pretend pandemic. And it's amazing to me that I can predict this so far in advance
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and be entirely confident that that's what's going to happen. So how many of you
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have checked your predictions since the beginning of COVID? I'm going to run through some of mine just
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so you can see how well I'm doing. And if I forgot some, you'll remind me because I was just running
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from memory. I'm sure I predicted a lot more things than this and probably forgetting the ones I got
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wrong, which would be normal. So I remember people saying that it wasn't going to be worse
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than the regular flu, but now we have 600,000 or more Americans who died from it, allegedly.
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Now, even if you took off 25% for miscounting, let's say you were super conservative and said,
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I think 25% of these are BS. You still got a lot, right? So I would say I was right that it was a
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real pandemic, as opposed to the flu. I've always been on the side that says it was at least possibly
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engineered. So I would say I was right on that. Because at the moment, the experts still say,
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well, it's possible, but we don't know for sure. I told you early on, and notably, that we would not
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run out of food and that the economy would not completely crash, and that we'd be fine. And we are.
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I would guess that that maybe was my best prediction, that we wouldn't run out of food,
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because it was the most important one. It's the one that would contribute the most to reducing the
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panic. I predicted very early on that our medical health science people would not only rise to the
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challenge, but would impress you at how quickly they did it. In other words, I predict that therapeutics
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would come on fast. I was less sure that vaccinations would eradicate the problem,
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but I thought they too would come on faster than normal. So my prediction that we would be surprised
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on the upside, that our science would do so well with the therapeutics, etc., I would say that was
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right, wouldn't you say? I said early on that genetics would matter. We know that now. I said vitamin D is
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probably a big variable. We know that to be true. I said that when the experts said masks don't work,
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I said they do. You still think they don't, and that will never change. We will never settle
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whether masks work or don't. I'm very comfortable knowing that it's almost certain that they do.
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But there are no guarantees in this world. Hydroxychloroquine, I was open to it working,
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and as if you watched, you saw that I dropped my percentage of likelihood that it worked every day
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that we didn't have confirmation of it working, and now it's basically zero, or close to zero.
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And so far, I have not been proven wrong about that, but I could be.
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I said that America would surprise the world by performing better by the end, but not until the
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end where we'd see it than it did at the start, because you could say we had a bad start,
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but I think you could say that we're doing well now, because the vaccinations are going well
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compared to other countries. And I was never for full lockdowns as long as they lasted. You know,
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I thought it was worth a try for a few weeks, but that didn't work. And I think I was most wrong
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about how long anything would last. I didn't think it would last two years, so I was wrong on that.
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I said, show me the under-70-year-old celebrity death rate. Yes, that's right.
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And so far, none, right? There's nobody who died of COVID who's a celebrity. I think I used
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different years. I might have said under 65. But I don't think there's been one. Has there?
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So there's fake news that says that Fox News is now requiring vaccine passports when their hosts
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rail against them. Is that real news or fake news? That Fox News is requiring vaccine passports for
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their own employees at the same time that their hosts are talking against having vaccine passports.
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And the answer is fake news, because it's just an option. So now if people are vaccinated at Fox News,
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then they don't have to go through the other protocols. But if they're unvaccinated, they go
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through the other protocols. So basically just fake news.
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So let's see what else we got. Question. Can a vaccinated person
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give the virus to another fully vaccinated person? Now, the technical answer is yes,
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because vaccinated people can get it and vaccinated people can spread it.
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But how often has it ever happened? Because you've got two factors here. One is that if you're
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vaccinated, it's hard to get it. But the other is it's really hard to give it. Those are two hard
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things. And if you put them together, how often does one give it to the other? Now, I saw an
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anecdote in which there was a wedding in which a bunch of vaccinated people still got infected,
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which would suggest that the vaccinations are not as effective as maybe you hoped. But when you read
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in the article, there was a guest who came from India, had been vaccinated with one of the Indian,
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whatever they were using in India, maybe not as effective as the Moderna and Pfizer, for example.
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So do we have any example? I'd like one example of a Moderna vaccinated person giving it to another
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Moderna vaccinated person. Now, probably we can't really know. Just be hard to know for sure if it
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was that's where somebody got it from. But you could maybe have some good guesses. Because if you
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notice that whenever we talk about the weakness and the vaccination or we need a booster or whatever,
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it feels like it's never the Moderna shot. Am I right about that? That every time we hear about
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the Moderna shot, it's a positive? Have I missed any stories? Because we've heard about the Pfizer
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shot and some questions. We've heard about J&J and having some questions on that. As far as I know,
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I've not seen a negative Moderna story. Yeah. So I wonder about that. And just keep an eye on that.
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Now, let me give you some vaccination persuasion. If I were the news business, let's say I were CNN or
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MSNBC. And it was, I thought it was my job to convince people to get vaccinated. Now, you could
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argue whether they should do that or not. But let's say you thought you should. How would you modify
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your news reporting to get the best vaccination result? Well, here's what I wouldn't do.
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258 people on average in the United States are dying from COVID every day.
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So that's what's reported in the news. 258 people dying of coronavirus every day. Therefore,
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you should go get a vaccination. Is that persuasive? 258 people every day in the United States of
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370 million people, whatever. Does that make you want to get a vaccination?
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Probably not, right? Not by itself. Because that's actually not very many people compared to 370
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million. And then, of course, in your mind, you're saying, yes, but they're 100 years old and they're
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obese and that's not me. Right? So I would say that when they report it this way, they're not really
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encouraging people to get vaccinated at all. Now, here's an alternative way to report the news.
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Two statistics. Number of unvaccinated people who died today and number of vaccinated people who
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died. Because the number of vaccinated people who died is close to zero. At least the number of
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vaccinated people who are even in hospitals in LA and San Francisco, at least the other day,
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was zero. There weren't any. Now, imagine those two numbers being reported every time by every
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entity. Now, keep in mind, I would also say you should report any vaccination side effects.
00:30:51.020
Because that's part of the story, right? You can't leave it out. Now, you might not know your
00:30:55.920
number about side effects is accurate, but you could put a range on it, you know, maybe modify the
00:31:00.720
reporting a little bit and say, well, we don't know what it looks like. Here's some questions.
00:31:05.340
Because you don't want to leave out the side effects. You don't want to leave out the risk
00:31:09.440
of the vaccinations. But if I were trying to persuade, I would not report the total number
00:31:15.440
of people dying per day ever again. Let me say that again. If I wanted people to get vaccinated,
00:31:23.420
I would never again report the number of people dying from COVID. I would only report the number
00:31:31.740
of vaccinated people dying per day and the number of unvaccinated people dying per day. Don't do the
00:31:38.120
whole year. Doesn't make sense. Just per day. Correct. Just those two numbers and just leave and just let
00:31:45.160
it go. Because if you see the news every day, it's like 300 unvaccinated people and one vaccinated
00:31:51.380
person died. It's going to wear you down. It's going to wear you down. But it wouldn't be fair
00:31:59.040
persuasion unless you also showed the risks, right? As best you could.
00:32:05.720
49% of people in the U.S. are fully vaccinated. At least two shots for the two shotters. And
00:32:13.500
I don't know. Is that good? 49%? It isn't bad. It's not as good as it could be.
00:32:22.680
The YouGov Economist poll, and I think the press secretary, Psaki, mentioned this.
00:32:31.600
Apparently 20% of the voting public, or not the voting public, but 20% of whoever they talk to
00:32:38.000
in the United States, 20% think it's definitely or probably true that there's really a microchip
00:32:45.340
in the shots, and that the government is trying to chip you, put a microchip in you via the shots.
00:32:54.360
20% almost, yeah, there's the 25% rule, right? So I've told you before that somewhere in the
00:33:02.520
neighborhood of 25%, you know, ranging from, say, 20 to 30%, somewhere in that range will have the
00:33:09.780
dumbest opinion on every question. It's just, it's very consistent. Makes me wonder if it's the
00:33:15.840
same 25%. Like, are there, is it true that a quarter of the country gets every question wrong?
00:33:23.360
Or is it just no matter what the question is, you always have a quarter of the people who are on the
00:33:27.360
wrong answer? Isn't it weird how often that 25%-ish thing comes up for dumb people? Well,
00:33:37.060
I don't know for sure whether there's a chip in the vaccinations or not. But if I had to make a
00:33:47.160
guess and bet my life on it, bet not. I think the safe money says no microchip in the vaccination.
00:33:58.020
And if you're not convinced because of me saying it, ask yourself this. Do you think you could get
00:34:04.780
exactly one chip into each vaccination? And what happens if you get two shots? Do you get two
00:34:11.580
chips? Somebody says that's just the chip talking, Scott. Yes, the chip is running my voice. I can't
00:34:20.960
make my own decisions anymore because the microchip is in my body. Two of them. How do you know you
00:34:27.840
don't get hundreds of microchips? How many of them do they put in each shot? There are no
00:34:32.560
microchips in your vaccine. If there's anybody listening to this who thinks there's a microchip
00:34:37.240
in their vaccination, maybe you need to watch something else. Because there are no microchips
00:34:45.980
in your vaccination. Really not. All right, I'm going to change the topic here. Well, actually,
00:34:53.820
before I do that, it's reported that the people who watch the most conservative news also have the
00:35:02.560
lowest rate of vaccinations. So does that mean that watching conservative news causes you to be less
00:35:10.500
likely to be vaccinated? It might. But it also probably means that people who are the most conservative
00:35:17.980
are the least likely to trust the government putting a chemical in their body. So I'm not sure
00:35:25.420
that watching the news makes you less likely to get the vaccination or that it's just people who are
00:35:31.400
less likely to get the vaccination are watching the most right-leaning news. So you trust the news,
00:35:39.440
somebody says? Well, I don't. All right, another topic. Who can tell me what an atom is made out of?
00:35:49.780
A-T-O-M, not Scott Adams. You already know I made it. I'm full of shit. So that was an easy question.
00:35:56.360
But what is an atom made of? Well, it's made of neutrons and protons and electrons. What's an electron
00:36:06.220
made of? Well, I believe it's a fundamental element, which means it's not made of anything except itself.
00:36:15.860
Neutrons and protons are made of what? Quarks. Right. So the atom is made of these three things, and two of
00:36:24.800
these three things are made of quarks. What are quarks made of? So if the atoms are made up of quarks, what the hell is
00:36:35.440
a quark? Somebody says the quark is made of God. Yeah. Well, strings. Good answer. Whoever said
00:36:45.080
strings, you've been following your news. Well, even if it's made of strings, what are the strings
00:36:51.100
made of? So my point is, if you keep going down and down, what is everything made of? And I've got a
00:37:00.620
feeling that the answer, it's got to be ones and zeros. Yeah. As Sour Patch Rash is saying in the
00:37:07.040
comments here, it's got to be ones and zeros. Because what if you drilled all the way down to
00:37:12.960
the lowest level of reality and found out it was all the same? What if it's all the same? And how can
00:37:21.140
there be, let's say, different kinds of quarks? Because you've got your charms and your up quarks and
00:37:28.880
your down quarks. But what are they made of? What's a quark made of? And if they're fundamental, how could
00:37:35.800
there be more than one kind? If a quark, if whatever a quark is made of is itself, you can't have multiple
00:37:43.340
different quarks. Could you? Well, now, of course, I'm way into territory that I don't understand.
00:37:50.360
But my point is that you reach a point in physics where they replace understanding with just words.
00:37:57.640
And the words are just placeholders because we have no idea what's happening down there.
00:38:02.560
I'm seeing a comment about vaccinations and Pfizer. Israel used Pfizer exclusively and it isn't keeping
00:38:15.720
vax people in the hospital. Well, but I think it's eliminated their deaths, right? I think the death
00:38:25.340
rate is basically close to zero. So anyway, my point is, how can anything move or
00:38:32.540
how could there be any energy in the world if you went down to the lowest level of material
00:38:38.440
and it was all the same? It wouldn't do anything. It would just sit there. The only way that things
00:38:46.560
happen is if things that aren't the same are near each other, right? Now, let me ask you,
00:38:52.620
is that simplification too much? I'll say it again. The only way anything moves in this world
00:39:01.600
is if different things are near each other, such as wind and a sail, right? If you got down
00:39:09.580
to the lowest level, it would just be things that are exactly the same sitting next to each
00:39:14.620
other. It wouldn't have any effect, would they? Except, I don't know, gravitational pull.
00:39:20.740
So my point is that the more we know about the nature of reality, the more likely we are going
00:39:28.820
to get close to the idea that we are a simulation. There's now a big project going on to map the
00:39:35.100
entire universe. So to get these big telescopes that can look at stars so far away, you can find out
00:39:42.000
what the universe looked like 11 billion years ago. And apparently they'll be able to actually create a
00:39:47.640
three-dimensional map of the actual universe. Not only where it is now, but apparently how it
00:39:53.500
started. What do you think is going to happen when we can map the whole universe?
00:39:59.640
I think we're going to find out we're a simulation. I think all of this ends in the same place.
00:40:05.100
I think every mystery in physics, every mystery in the cosmos just ends in the same place,
00:40:11.420
that we're obviously a simulation. But somebody says the universe is currently collapsing.
00:40:17.300
Untrue. Not only is the universe expanding, but the rate of expansion is increasing.
00:40:24.940
Do you know why the rate of expansion is increasing? Because that's how you program gravity.
00:40:32.820
I said this years ago, probably nothing has gotten me more trouble. So here's a little mental
00:40:39.400
thing for you. Imagine there are only two things in the universe. Let's say,
00:40:46.080
let's say this yellow sticky pad and this stylus. And they're touching. And then let's say the
00:40:55.720
stylus jumps, jumps up, but everything in the universe is getting bigger at the same time.
00:41:01.920
What would be the impression of the stylus that it jumped up off of this yellow sticky pad
00:41:07.520
if both the stylus and the thing got bigger at the same time? They would touch again. Because the two
00:41:14.740
objects would grow in size until the distance that it jumped had closed. And it would look a lot like
00:41:20.000
gravity. Wouldn't it? So one way to create gravity that nobody can identify, like you can't get a handful of
00:41:31.220
gravity. You can't block gravity. Did you know that? There's nothing you can put between the earth
00:41:36.980
and an object that would make the gravity lessened. So what the hell is gravity if you can't block it?
00:41:45.880
It's probably just an impression. It could be that everything is just getting larger programmatically.
00:41:51.480
And that's what causes you to have the impression of gravity.
00:41:57.160
Now you say to yourself, but wait a minute, Scott. Here are all my exceptions where your model doesn't
00:42:02.840
work. To which I say, just like a software program. You catch the exceptions and then you just deal with
00:42:10.040
them programmatically. So yeah, you could have some exceptions where it wouldn't work that just making
00:42:15.840
everything bigger gives you the same result as gravity. By the way, there are real people,
00:42:21.240
physicists, who have done the math and found out that if you model the universe as everything
00:42:27.160
expanding, you get a very similar output to if you imagine there's gravity. Now, yeah, the exceptions
00:42:36.760
are now bugs. Exactly. Eventually it will stop expanding and collapse. Will it? I'm going to say it'll
00:42:44.260
never stop expanding. Because if it never stopped expanding, the illusion of gravity might disappear.
00:42:52.820
All right. So all that's just for fun. Don't take any of it too seriously. If you haven't noticed,
00:42:58.720
my grasp of science is less than complete. And is there anything that I missed today?
00:43:05.200
That would make volume more important than mass. That is exactly the correct thing to note. However,
00:43:16.760
you could correct for that programmatically. And most things do have... Most things, the mass
00:43:25.780
and the volume at least have some correlation. All right. Would I do a simulation live stream
00:43:35.820
for locals only? Well, I've done a few topics on the simulation. Oh, the audit? Well, every day that
00:43:43.980
we go without hearing some real audit issues, as opposed to issues that apparently can be explained
00:43:53.120
away pretty easily, the less I would think that you're going to find anything. So I'm still
00:44:00.500
open-minded. But every day that goes by, the odds of that we find something goes down.
00:44:04.680
So... Comment on the rise of de-economics in the National Review. Don't know what that
00:44:16.220
means exactly. Why do you mind if others are vaccinated? Well, you know, I'm not the one
00:44:27.140
who minds that. All right. Stock market. Stock market always goes up and always goes down.
00:44:34.680
If you have cash on the sidelines, a good time to buy, and this is not investment advice. Don't
00:44:44.460
get your investment advice from me. But as a general statement, if you can identify times
00:44:49.980
when the market is going down irrationally, with emphasis on irrationally, that's a good
00:44:56.800
time to buy. Now, so the question is, is the market going down irrationally because of the
00:45:03.120
delta variants? To which I say, good chance. Don't know for sure, because maybe the delta
00:45:11.840
variant is the thing that recrashes the economies. But I don't think so. I feel as if our learning
00:45:18.940
curve and our vaccinations and everything are going to head that off. It'll be a big problem,
00:45:24.180
but I don't know that it would change your investment decisions. So I feel as if this
00:45:30.620
is a buying opportunity, but don't take your, don't get any investment advice from cartoonists.
00:45:37.380
You talk about it as if you do care. Oh, let me explain that. So people saying, if it feels
00:45:44.620
as if I'm persuading anybody about vaccinations, let me clarify. When I talk about what is good
00:45:53.140
persuasion versus bad, that's to teach you. That doesn't mean anybody has to use it, right? So the
00:45:59.560
government need not use any of my suggestions. I'm just teaching you how to persuade, and I'm using the
00:46:04.780
headline topics to do it. The other thing is, I think everybody should have the best thinking
00:46:09.980
and data to go into their decision about vaccinations. So, you know, whenever I can help
00:46:16.780
clarify the thinking, I'll do that. But whether you get a vaccination, I'm vaccinated. I don't care.
00:46:24.000
You know, if you're not affecting my economy, and I can still use my hospital if I need it,
00:46:31.520
All right. What is the simulation use of COVID? It feels like a reboot. It feels like almost a
00:46:44.440
system upgrade, the whole COVID thing. Because the COVID changed so many things in our reality.
00:46:51.060
It just feels like a, like a major software upgrade with lots of feature changes. So maybe
00:46:57.740
it's just that. All right. How did the simulation get made? By somebody who lived before. Now,
00:47:07.120
that still, still begs the question, how did the first person get here? But that's a different
00:47:11.580
question. All right. That's all I got for now. And I will talk to you tomorrow.