Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1502 Scott Adams： Lots of Eclectic and Provocative Content Today That Goes Well With Coffee

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00:02:39.740 Well, Joe Biden is doing something I'm liking.

00:02:43.400 Am I allowed?

00:02:45.060 Will you allow that I can compliment Joe Biden

00:02:47.400 when he does things right?

00:02:49.480 I hope that's okay in today's polarized environment.

00:02:52.640 But apparently the U.S., the U.K., and Australia

00:02:56.700 are making some kind of military alliance

00:02:58.740 to just beef up our, I guess, our alliances against China.

00:03:05.960 Now, what do you think of that?

00:03:09.100 Good?

00:03:10.720 Good or bad?

00:03:12.680 Well, I would say good.

00:03:16.180 And if Trump had been doing this, I would say thumbs up.

00:03:20.480 But Biden's doing it, so I'm going to say thumbs up for him too.

00:03:23.740 This looks like exactly what we need to do.

00:03:25.840 The smart people are saying that the only way to contain China 0.98

00:03:29.760 is for the non-China countries to band together

00:03:34.020 as sort of a safety group.

00:03:37.360 And this is just perfect.

00:03:39.820 Everything about this I like.

00:03:41.440 Is there anybody who doesn't like this?

00:03:43.600 Is there anybody who doesn't think it's a good idea

00:03:45.840 for the U.K., Australia, and the U.S.

00:03:48.680 to have an alliance against China?

00:03:52.320 Somebody says bad.

00:03:54.880 I saw one person say bad.

00:03:56.900 I don't know.

00:03:57.280 To me, this just looks like a home run.

00:04:00.240 I mean, it's exactly what we should be doing.

00:04:02.380 So good on Biden for that. 0.96

00:04:05.440 All right, I'm going to make you mad again.

00:04:09.140 So General Milley has finally commented

00:04:12.200 on his talking to China.

00:04:17.240 And sorry about the allergies today.

00:04:21.700 It's bad.

00:04:24.120 And I told you that after reconsidering,

00:04:27.800 I gave General Milley a pass on his call to China.

00:04:31.820 It's not my job to give him a pass,

00:04:33.780 but I suppose as an observer, we all get an opinion.

00:04:37.000 And he said that his call was just normal stuff,

00:04:43.260 perfectly within the duties and responsibilities of the job,

00:04:47.260 and that calling another country

00:04:51.140 to reassure both allies and adversaries

00:04:55.020 that we have strategic stability.

00:04:59.560 To which I say, I don't know.

00:05:03.280 I think that was his job.

00:05:04.300 At the same time, maybe he needs to get fired,

00:05:08.760 and I don't think that's inconsistent,

00:05:11.380 meaning that maybe he did go over Biden's head.

00:05:15.760 If that's the case, he needs to go.

00:05:17.960 But if he was just doing his job,

00:05:20.140 and I think he makes a reasonable case

00:05:21.840 that this was within the realm of just normal work,

00:05:25.060 he's fine.

00:05:26.520 Now, I'm not going to give General Milley a pass in general,

00:05:30.560 no pun intended.

00:05:31.520 You know, I'm not saying that what he did in Afghanistan

00:05:36.700 was an A-plus, obviously.

00:05:39.480 But, God, I've got...

00:05:41.260 Sorry, just the allergies are killing me today.

00:05:43.940 It's going to be embarrassing.

00:05:45.600 More than usual.

00:05:48.200 But, yeah, he still looks dumb.

00:05:51.060 But I think this...

00:05:52.340 I think maybe we got a little ahead of ourselves

00:05:54.320 on this General Milley bashing.

00:05:56.060 And because he's a military guy,

00:06:01.140 would you agree that his military service

00:06:04.940 requires that we give him extra,

00:06:08.740 a little extra consideration?

00:06:11.940 Don't you think?

00:06:13.240 It just seems reasonable.

00:06:14.800 You know, he gave however many decades of service

00:06:17.320 to his country,

00:06:18.040 and I think we owe him in return

00:06:21.900 the highest level of

00:06:24.700 giving him the benefit of a doubt.

00:06:29.000 The highest level.

00:06:32.120 Which doesn't mean he's perfect,

00:06:33.980 but in this case,

00:06:34.980 I'm going to give him that benefit of a doubt.

00:06:38.220 Rasmussen-Powell

00:06:39.440 asks if Biden has humiliated the country

00:06:43.720 with his abandoning of Americans

00:06:46.860 behind Taliban lines.

00:06:50.320 And 70% of people asked by Rasmussen-Powell

00:06:53.420 said that they agree,

00:06:55.320 or somewhat agree,

00:06:56.140 that he's humiliated the country.

00:06:59.520 How many people do you think

00:07:00.840 thought that we had not humiliated the country?

00:07:04.680 About 25%.

00:07:06.260 You know, the standard 25% 0.97

00:07:10.440 who gets every question wrong.

00:07:11.700 Anything that's 70%

00:07:15.480 or more,

00:07:17.740 you should regard as 100%.

00:07:19.700 Because there's always that 25% 1.00

00:07:22.240 who resist all common sense,

00:07:25.660 they resist any kind of data,

00:07:28.000 and they're just going to say

00:07:28.800 the opposite of whatever makes sense,

00:07:30.800 no matter what the question is.

00:07:33.600 So 70% say it's a humiliation,

00:07:35.800 I think you could call that 100%.

00:07:37.520 Here's a weird thing.

00:07:40.740 If I said to you,

00:07:43.040 my favorite music or favorite song

00:07:45.800 or favorite band is X,

00:07:49.400 what would likely be your comments?

00:07:53.900 Well, let's try it.

00:07:54.940 I'm going to try an actual experiment.

00:07:58.460 I enjoy Kanye West's music.

00:08:01.740 In the comments,

00:08:03.600 tell me if you agree or disagree.

00:08:05.080 I enjoy Kanye West's music.

00:08:09.260 I'm not saying every song,

00:08:11.200 but as an artist,

00:08:12.800 tremendous body of work.

00:08:15.040 Seeing lots of yeses,

00:08:16.200 but lots of no's.

00:08:17.520 Lots of no's.

00:08:19.780 Now, isn't that a normal response?

00:08:22.720 Don't you think a normal response

00:08:24.220 to anybody saying they like an artist

00:08:26.820 or like some music

00:08:28.120 is a bunch of people who say yes,

00:08:29.600 and then some other bunch of people

00:08:31.720 would say no.

00:08:33.160 Wouldn't that be the most normal response

00:08:35.240 you'd expect, right?

00:08:37.200 But here's the weird part.

00:08:39.460 So most of you already know

00:08:40.520 that Akira the Don

00:08:41.760 created a new form of music,

00:08:45.500 he calls it Meaning Wave,

00:08:47.620 that involves some podcaster voices

00:08:49.780 such as mine.

00:08:51.240 His newest one has my voice on it

00:08:52.960 and it's modified

00:08:54.240 and it becomes sort of the lyrics

00:08:55.940 to the music

00:08:57.020 and it works way better

00:08:58.900 than the sounds

00:08:59.500 when I describe it.

00:09:01.060 But here's the weird thing.

00:09:03.140 So, you know,

00:09:04.460 I've been part of helping

00:09:05.660 to promote it.

00:09:06.440 By the way,

00:09:06.800 I don't have any financial interest in it.

00:09:09.440 I have zero financial interest.

00:09:11.880 So when I promote it,

00:09:13.820 it's because I think it's fun.

00:09:16.360 That's it.

00:09:16.980 I don't have any interest

00:09:18.120 in it financially.

00:09:20.920 But I haven't heard

00:09:22.780 a single person say

00:09:23.800 they don't like it.

00:09:25.940 I've never seen that before.

00:09:28.140 Can you imagine

00:09:29.240 promoting in public

00:09:31.500 a musical,

00:09:33.740 music-related content

00:09:35.540 and having nobody say

00:09:37.840 they don't like it?

00:09:39.600 Nobody?

00:09:41.080 I'm literally not one person.

00:09:43.940 Now, I've heard people

00:09:44.620 who haven't seen it

00:09:45.500 or haven't heard it,

00:09:46.740 but I haven't heard anybody

00:09:47.680 who doesn't like it.

00:09:51.920 Some people say

00:09:52.760 they won't listen to it.

00:09:53.660 I'm looking at some of the comments.

00:09:55.940 Okay, I got one.

00:09:57.120 I got one here.

00:10:00.600 Okay.

00:10:01.300 So if I force the question,

00:10:02.900 I guess, you know,

00:10:03.620 you can always give somebody

00:10:04.540 who doesn't like anything.

00:10:05.660 Music, like everything else,

00:10:06.940 all other art is subjective.

00:10:09.220 But I was kind of surprised

00:10:10.500 at how positive

00:10:11.340 the response has been.

00:10:12.520 You know, obviously,

00:10:13.500 not everybody likes anything.

00:10:16.580 Anyway, so check that out.

00:10:17.640 If I were to ask you

00:10:21.900 what is the one

00:10:22.760 health-related

00:10:23.960 alpha practice,

00:10:27.560 think of all the things

00:10:28.800 you do for your health.

00:10:30.760 Okay?

00:10:32.060 All the things.

00:10:33.220 Every element of things

00:10:34.880 that get to your health.

00:10:36.640 And be expansive about it.

00:10:38.420 You know, don't do just

00:10:39.180 the obvious,

00:10:39.820 eating and exercise.

00:10:40.840 But just think of

00:10:41.980 all the things you do

00:10:43.480 for your health.

00:10:44.860 What's your number one?

00:10:47.180 What's the one

00:10:47.840 you got to get right?

00:10:49.500 In the comments,

00:10:50.260 tell me,

00:10:50.920 what's the one thing

00:10:52.000 you just got to get right?

00:10:55.880 Oh, breathing is a good,

00:10:57.360 that's a good answer.

00:10:58.480 That's not what I was going for.

00:10:59.680 But whoever said

00:11:00.660 deep breathing,

00:11:01.800 you should look into that.

00:11:03.820 So I'm not a big proponent

00:11:06.640 or expert on breathing.

00:11:08.900 But I feel like

00:11:09.880 there's probably something there.

00:11:11.460 So I'd say research that

00:11:12.500 on your own.

00:11:12.960 I can't give you much on that.

00:11:15.100 A lot of people say diet.

00:11:16.400 The answer is sleep.

00:11:18.040 Sleep.

00:11:19.320 Because do you know

00:11:20.100 what sleep influences?

00:11:22.620 Your diet.

00:11:23.320 Do you know

00:11:24.780 what sleep influences?

00:11:26.780 Your exercise.

00:11:28.860 Do you know

00:11:29.180 what sleep influences?

00:11:30.680 Your social life.

00:11:33.040 And all of those things

00:11:34.180 affect your health, right?

00:11:37.100 You have to get to sleep right.

00:11:39.560 And in fact,

00:11:40.640 I'm going to reveal to you

00:11:42.120 an extreme bias I have

00:11:44.260 in judging people.

00:11:46.720 I don't like to judge people.

00:11:49.060 So it's not that I'm judging

00:11:50.320 their value as human beings.

00:11:52.160 That's not what I'm getting at.

00:11:53.500 But I do judge people

00:11:54.600 in terms of whether

00:11:55.280 they would be effective.

00:11:57.580 Effective.

00:11:58.500 Can they do stuff?

00:12:00.480 Can they get stuff done?

00:12:01.900 Can they set a path for themselves

00:12:04.860 and then follow it?

00:12:07.540 Check their sleep patterns.

00:12:09.320 It will tell you everything

00:12:11.700 you need to know

00:12:12.840 about a person.

00:12:15.020 Everything you need to know

00:12:16.260 about a person

00:12:17.020 you can deduce

00:12:18.620 from their sleep patterns.

00:12:20.680 And once you know that,

00:12:21.940 all the rest is obvious to you.

00:12:24.080 Show me somebody

00:12:24.940 who has a bad sleep pattern

00:12:26.240 and I'll show you somebody

00:12:27.020 who doesn't eat right

00:12:27.820 every fucking time. 0.54

00:12:30.160 And part of it's because

00:12:32.680 of the lack of sleep.

00:12:34.900 Did you know that being sleepy

00:12:37.520 makes you hungry?

00:12:39.260 How many of you knew that?

00:12:41.140 In the comments, tell me.

00:12:42.800 Did you know

00:12:43.500 that being sleepy

00:12:45.380 makes you hungry?

00:12:48.840 And not hungry for a good reason.

00:12:51.240 It doesn't make you hungry

00:12:52.160 for the right reason.

00:12:53.180 You just confuse the two feelings.

00:12:55.160 Your brain confuses them.

00:12:56.580 Yeah.

00:12:59.820 So imagine if you got

00:13:00.980 your sleep right.

00:13:02.460 Suddenly your diet is better.

00:13:04.400 Suddenly you've got

00:13:05.240 enough energy to exercise.

00:13:07.680 Suddenly you've got

00:13:08.380 enough little extra energy

00:13:09.460 to go out and socialize.

00:13:10.900 Now your social life is better.

00:13:12.380 People are happier

00:13:13.700 to be around you

00:13:14.540 because you've got

00:13:14.980 the right kind of energy.

00:13:17.100 Everything.

00:13:19.040 So I was on CNN.

00:13:22.940 They've got a very useful article.

00:13:24.580 By the way,

00:13:25.100 as much as I mock CNN

00:13:27.020 and this is good practice

00:13:30.300 by the way.

00:13:30.880 I like to model this.

00:13:32.040 I recommend this all the time.

00:13:34.160 Don't think you're

00:13:35.020 a very credible person

00:13:36.120 if you can't say something good

00:13:37.740 about whoever you're criticizing.

00:13:41.220 Right?

00:13:41.480 If you can't do that

00:13:42.840 you're probably not

00:13:44.420 a credible observer

00:13:46.020 of anything.

00:13:47.060 Right?

00:13:47.640 One of the things

00:13:48.420 that I note about CNN

00:13:49.520 who I mock continuously

00:13:51.760 is that their

00:13:53.180 non-news content

00:13:55.040 is often really good.

00:13:57.380 Like when they do

00:13:58.800 the history stuff

00:13:59.720 history of the United States

00:14:00.940 like the 70s

00:14:01.980 and the 60s

00:14:02.620 it's really good stuff.

00:14:03.860 Very strong content.

00:14:05.820 And a lot of their

00:14:06.280 health related stuff

00:14:07.180 is really strong too.

00:14:08.220 So there's an article

00:14:08.840 on CNN

00:14:09.700 about sleep being

00:14:11.300 the main system

00:14:12.700 you need to get right.

00:14:13.740 Psychologist John Duffy

00:14:15.300 and he says

00:14:17.240 here's a strong statement

00:14:19.100 from somebody

00:14:19.780 who's a psychologist

00:14:20.780 a working psychologist.

00:14:22.980 He says

00:14:23.340 I find that the development

00:14:24.720 of better sleep habits

00:14:26.100 is among the quickest

00:14:27.440 most effective ways

00:14:29.280 to improve mental well-being

00:14:31.660 for an individual

00:14:32.620 or a family.

00:14:35.380 For an individual

00:14:36.800 or a family.

00:14:39.280 That's right.

00:14:39.800 If you're not getting

00:14:40.540 enough sleep

00:14:41.180 you might be messing up

00:14:43.120 with the whole family.

00:14:43.860 Imagine if one of the parents

00:14:46.800 doesn't get enough sleep.

00:14:48.680 What happens to the spouse? 1.00

00:14:50.360 What happens to the kids?

00:14:52.000 Well you know

00:14:52.440 the answer to that right?

00:14:54.400 One member of the family

00:14:55.600 not having good sleep patterns

00:14:57.100 just messes everything up

00:14:58.420 in the family.

00:14:59.440 You've probably seen it

00:15:00.360 yourself I'm sure.

00:15:04.640 So alright.

00:15:05.660 So take this

00:15:06.300 take this as

00:15:08.080 as the base

00:15:10.100 for the next conversation.

00:15:12.880 Let me ask you

00:15:13.820 how many of your kids

00:15:15.140 get to bed

00:15:17.180 somewhat on time

00:15:18.080 during the school week

00:15:19.260 but then stay up

00:15:20.080 way late

00:15:20.580 on the weekends?

00:15:22.160 How many of you

00:15:22.780 have kids

00:15:23.180 that have that pattern?

00:15:24.120 Or yourself.

00:15:25.460 How many of you

00:15:26.280 have that pattern

00:15:27.020 where you sleep

00:15:27.860 completely different

00:15:28.840 schedules on weekends

00:15:30.060 versus weekdays?

00:15:31.760 Alright.

00:15:33.600 If you do that

00:15:34.600 if you have

00:15:35.920 a radically different

00:15:36.980 sleep schedule

00:15:37.720 on the weekends

00:15:38.460 than the weekdays

00:15:39.440 I know you

00:15:40.760 will not be

00:15:41.320 successful in life.

00:15:43.900 I'm sorry.

00:15:45.880 I'm sorry.

00:15:48.660 It's

00:15:49.220 pretty much

00:15:50.440 a direct correlation.

00:15:52.060 If you can't

00:15:52.720 get that one thing

00:15:53.600 right

00:15:53.960 you're probably

00:15:55.720 not going to have

00:15:56.420 the most effective

00:15:57.480 life.

00:15:58.480 Because it's so obvious

00:15:59.920 that you have to

00:16:00.700 get that thing right.

00:16:02.200 Nothing else works.

00:16:03.380 If you don't have

00:16:04.700 the emotional

00:16:06.660 intelligence

00:16:09.960 to make a sacrifice

00:16:12.840 because having

00:16:14.300 the same sleep schedule

00:16:15.280 is definitely

00:16:16.040 a sacrifice.

00:16:17.300 Like every time

00:16:17.840 you go to sleep

00:16:18.380 it's a sacrifice

00:16:19.080 because you want

00:16:19.680 to stay up.

00:16:20.740 You want to stay up

00:16:21.580 another couple hours

00:16:22.420 it'd be fun.

00:16:23.640 So it's a sacrifice.

00:16:27.380 But yeah.

00:16:28.180 When you see

00:16:28.760 somebody who does

00:16:29.660 the wildly different

00:16:30.900 sleep patterns

00:16:31.660 depending on the day

00:16:32.960 and the time

00:16:33.540 they're going nowhere.

00:16:37.260 And so if your kids

00:16:38.480 are doing that

00:16:39.100 you should talk to them.

00:16:42.500 Alright.

00:16:43.980 Facebook did a study.

00:16:45.800 I mentioned this

00:16:46.480 but there's more about it.

00:16:48.600 The Instagram

00:16:49.100 might be damaging

00:16:50.360 the mental health

00:16:51.160 of young girls.

00:16:52.540 Especially their

00:16:53.440 self-esteem

00:16:54.460 and how they feel

00:16:55.300 about their bodies.

00:16:57.040 Now

00:16:57.260 I'm going to go

00:17:00.040 a little bit further

00:17:00.720 and say

00:17:01.720 we shouldn't let

00:17:02.680 anybody under 18

00:17:04.160 use social media.

00:17:06.100 Is there anybody

00:17:07.060 left in the world

00:17:07.980 who thinks it's healthy?

00:17:10.320 Anybody?

00:17:11.700 Now I think

00:17:12.440 there are plenty

00:17:12.860 of pluses

00:17:13.340 of social media.

00:17:14.520 I'm using it

00:17:15.280 right now.

00:17:16.840 But for an adult

00:17:18.060 for an adult

00:17:19.960 there's lots of stuff

00:17:21.720 that we don't

00:17:22.100 let kids do.

00:17:23.200 Don't let them drink.

00:17:24.320 Don't let them drive.

00:17:26.420 Right?

00:17:28.060 Why is this different?

00:17:29.020 You know

00:17:30.820 and I heard

00:17:31.360 somebody say

00:17:31.800 hey personal freedom

00:17:32.860 personal freedom

00:17:33.660 not for children.

00:17:35.560 There's no such thing

00:17:36.640 as personal freedom

00:17:38.000 for children.

00:17:39.280 That's not a standard

00:17:40.440 we would ever

00:17:41.080 want to embrace.

00:17:42.980 Adults

00:17:43.380 sure

00:17:43.780 once you're 18

00:17:44.820 go wild

00:17:45.400 get your social media

00:17:46.580 spend all day on it.

00:17:47.900 I don't care.

00:17:49.220 But as a child

00:17:49.920 you're clearly

00:17:51.400 damaging children.

00:17:53.000 Clearly.

00:17:53.240 And so

00:17:54.900 why is that allowed?

00:17:59.000 Why is that allowed?

00:18:01.740 And so

00:18:02.420 it makes me wonder

00:18:03.220 could we have

00:18:04.260 somebody run for president

00:18:05.720 as a

00:18:06.340 save the children

00:18:07.120 candidate

00:18:07.640 who would be

00:18:09.080 promoting school choice

00:18:10.400 because that's

00:18:11.740 the first thing

00:18:12.300 killing kids

00:18:12.920 they're not getting

00:18:13.460 good educations.

00:18:14.600 Gotta have school choice

00:18:15.400 and that means

00:18:15.840 the teachers unions

00:18:16.760 have to be thwarted.

00:18:18.400 Stopping fentanyl

00:18:19.440 from China

00:18:20.020 as a top priority.

00:18:22.660 Banning social

00:18:23.220 media for

00:18:23.940 anybody under 18

00:18:25.000 and maybe you could

00:18:26.520 throw in

00:18:26.880 free health care

00:18:27.860 for children

00:18:28.580 or something.

00:18:29.620 I mean

00:18:29.780 in effect

00:18:30.760 children have

00:18:31.820 some form of

00:18:32.520 free health care

00:18:33.120 because they're

00:18:34.060 not going to get

00:18:34.540 turned away

00:18:35.060 but I think

00:18:36.180 it should be

00:18:36.520 official.

00:18:37.480 I think if you're

00:18:37.980 under 18

00:18:38.480 it should just

00:18:39.120 be free health care.

00:18:41.340 Now

00:18:41.500 would that person 0.72

00:18:46.280 win?

00:18:47.580 Who exactly

00:18:48.180 runs against

00:18:48.920 the pro-child

00:18:49.980 candidate?

00:18:52.260 School choice

00:18:53.160 not as important

00:18:53.840 as you think

00:18:54.560 Scott.

00:18:55.760 It's not the

00:18:56.460 school choice

00:18:57.080 part so much.

00:18:58.760 It's the

00:18:59.360 getting the

00:18:59.940 teachers unions

00:19:00.840 in full control

00:19:02.420 because then you

00:19:03.060 let competition

00:19:04.000 do its thing.

00:19:05.380 So on day one

00:19:06.500 school choice

00:19:07.260 doesn't make

00:19:07.720 much difference.

00:19:08.340 I would say

00:19:11.020 on day one

00:19:12.380 but you know

00:19:15.440 check back in

00:19:16.080 five years

00:19:16.660 and competition

00:19:18.060 should make a

00:19:18.700 difference.

00:19:20.560 All right.

00:19:21.880 The number of

00:19:22.820 states with

00:19:24.040 obesity

00:19:24.800 I forget the

00:19:27.420 exact thing

00:19:27.920 they measured

00:19:28.440 but something

00:19:29.380 like twice as

00:19:30.500 many states

00:19:31.180 have too much

00:19:32.360 obesity since

00:19:33.320 2018.

00:19:33.940 It's like

00:19:34.620 a gigantic

00:19:35.780 increase in

00:19:36.540 obesity in

00:19:37.240 the United

00:19:37.560 States.

00:19:38.720 Now I

00:19:39.140 asked my

00:19:39.780 followers

00:19:40.220 who follow

00:19:41.860 my content

00:19:42.600 in any form

00:19:43.400 if they

00:19:44.880 lost weight

00:19:45.500 or gained

00:19:46.000 weight

00:19:46.340 during the

00:19:47.700 pandemic.

00:19:49.080 And here

00:19:49.640 are the

00:19:50.360 answers.

00:19:51.800 So people

00:19:52.380 who say

00:19:52.660 they follow

00:19:53.140 me

00:19:53.620 their answers

00:19:57.440 were I

00:19:57.780 think 27

00:19:58.800 percent.

00:19:59.360 27 percent

00:20:03.800 of my

00:20:04.560 followers

00:20:04.940 lost weight

00:20:05.640 during the

00:20:06.060 pandemic

00:20:06.460 or 2020

00:20:07.380 anyway.

00:20:09.380 But two

00:20:10.200 thirds either

00:20:10.780 stayed the

00:20:11.260 same or

00:20:12.160 no two

00:20:13.440 thirds actually

00:20:13.980 stayed the

00:20:14.480 same or

00:20:14.880 lost weight.

00:20:16.240 Two thirds

00:20:16.660 that's not

00:20:17.060 bad.

00:20:18.360 One third

00:20:18.940 gained.

00:20:21.820 Now

00:20:22.000 somebody says

00:20:24.680 you played a

00:20:25.180 small role

00:20:25.820 in me losing

00:20:26.900 120

00:20:27.740 128 pounds.

00:20:30.980 My God.

00:20:33.700 Wait a

00:20:34.260 minute.

00:20:34.440 What was

00:20:34.640 the name

00:20:34.960 on that?

00:20:37.760 Kevin

00:20:38.200 Smith?

00:20:39.520 You're not

00:20:40.160 the Kevin

00:20:40.760 Smith are 0.99

00:20:41.300 you who

00:20:41.620 lost a

00:20:42.040 lot of

00:20:42.220 weight?

00:20:43.500 Probably

00:20:43.980 not.

00:20:44.360 Probably a

00:20:44.840 lot of

00:20:45.040 Kevin

00:20:45.240 Smiths.

00:20:48.920 You lost

00:20:49.620 55 pounds.

00:20:50.660 Holy.

00:20:51.560 Lost 25.

00:20:52.560 I'm just

00:20:53.020 reading the

00:20:53.460 comments.

00:20:55.660 Yeah not

00:20:56.080 that Kevin

00:20:56.540 Smith.

00:20:57.100 You've been

00:20:57.620 asked that

00:20:57.940 before.

00:20:58.740 Lost 15.

00:21:00.400 I'm just

00:21:00.660 lost a

00:21:01.680 hundred.

00:21:03.560 Lost 10.

00:21:04.580 Lost 15.

00:21:05.700 Great job.

00:21:07.200 Seven so

00:21:07.860 far.

00:21:09.080 20.

00:21:09.740 35.

00:21:10.500 Lost 20.

00:21:11.600 Oh my

00:21:12.080 God.

00:21:12.500 Lost 45.

00:21:14.640 Lost.

00:21:15.140 Are you

00:21:15.800 seeing these

00:21:16.240 comments?

00:21:16.660 I'm looking at

00:21:17.180 two different

00:21:17.620 platforms so

00:21:18.260 you don't see

00:21:18.640 them all.

00:21:19.660 Lost 40.

00:21:20.900 Lost 35.

00:21:23.280 Lost 35.

00:21:24.520 89.

00:21:25.460 100.

00:21:26.020 Is that

00:21:26.340 true?

00:21:26.720 Jason did

00:21:28.380 you really

00:21:28.700 lose a

00:21:29.060 hundred

00:21:29.260 pounds?

00:21:31.800 Oh my

00:21:32.540 God.

00:21:34.380 Lost 50.

00:21:37.100 Lost 73.

00:21:38.100 Are these

00:21:38.700 real?

00:21:40.700 Seriously is

00:21:41.500 this real?

00:21:42.900 I'm a little

00:21:43.380 blown away

00:21:43.860 right now.

00:21:45.380 Lost two.

00:21:46.240 Good job.

00:21:47.300 Lost 30.

00:21:49.300 Heartbreak.

00:21:50.000 Sorry.

00:21:51.720 Lost 15.

00:21:52.920 Lost 30.

00:21:53.580 Lost 15 but

00:21:56.220 it was my

00:21:56.620 dog.

00:21:57.740 You

00:21:58.000 asshole.

00:22:01.240 That was

00:22:01.920 funny but

00:22:02.520 it was

00:22:03.840 terrible.

00:22:04.960 Oh my

00:22:05.420 God.

00:22:05.920 Lost 25.

00:22:06.980 Lost 51.

00:22:10.560 Now I think

00:22:11.320 you're just

00:22:11.580 making stuff

00:22:12.140 up.

00:22:13.360 This

00:22:13.580 couldn't be

00:22:13.960 true,

00:22:14.320 could it?

00:22:14.660 Lost 14,

00:22:15.600 20.

00:22:17.300 My God.

00:22:21.560 Incredible.

00:22:22.080 I lost

00:22:25.540 weight because

00:22:26.120 you stopped

00:22:27.120 eating during

00:22:27.760 the toilet

00:22:28.220 paper shortage.

00:22:29.420 That's funny.

00:22:39.780 Anyway.

00:22:43.760 Congratulations.

00:22:44.800 So the

00:22:45.420 reason I

00:22:45.800 asked and I

00:22:46.340 don't think I

00:22:46.780 could tell from

00:22:47.300 my unscientific

00:22:48.340 Twitter poll is

00:22:49.800 that I had a

00:22:50.780 hunch that

00:22:52.940 people who

00:22:53.480 followed my

00:22:54.120 content would

00:22:54.880 be more

00:22:55.220 likely to

00:22:56.100 lose weight

00:22:56.900 and get in

00:22:57.440 shape during

00:22:58.620 a crisis.

00:22:59.420 because if

00:23:01.220 there's

00:23:01.420 anything I've

00:23:01.980 taught you

00:23:02.400 it's how to

00:23:03.800 use a

00:23:04.140 crisis to

00:23:04.700 your advantage.

00:23:05.880 I mean I

00:23:06.100 talk about it

00:23:06.600 all the time

00:23:07.080 and I talk

00:23:07.820 about health

00:23:08.460 and fitness

00:23:08.860 all the time.

00:23:09.740 So it did

00:23:10.100 seem to me

00:23:11.360 that people

00:23:13.140 who follow

00:23:13.680 me would

00:23:14.420 have greater

00:23:15.280 weight loss

00:23:16.180 or weight

00:23:17.200 maintenance

00:23:17.540 than other

00:23:18.020 people.

00:23:18.280 So Ron

00:23:25.160 DeSantis

00:23:25.540 there in

00:23:26.160 Florida

00:23:26.480 apparently

00:23:27.220 he had

00:23:27.760 a good

00:23:28.100 thing

00:23:28.340 going

00:23:28.560 there

00:23:28.800 with

00:23:29.040 the

00:23:29.200 Regeneron

00:23:29.820 and he

00:23:30.580 was setting

00:23:30.900 up lots

00:23:31.560 of stations

00:23:32.240 to get

00:23:32.580 Regeneron

00:23:33.160 if you

00:23:33.500 had

00:23:33.720 COVID

00:23:34.180 but now

00:23:35.660 the Biden

00:23:36.300 administration

00:23:36.920 and Health

00:23:37.640 and Human

00:23:38.000 Services

00:23:38.440 have decided

00:23:39.080 to ration

00:23:39.660 it to the

00:23:40.180 states.

00:23:41.500 It totally

00:23:42.040 screws up

00:23:42.680 his whole

00:23:43.000 plan that

00:23:43.420 was working

00:23:43.860 great.

00:23:44.880 Now he's

00:23:45.200 got to

00:23:45.420 ration it

00:23:46.820 and it's

00:23:47.140 not going

00:23:47.840 to work

00:23:48.100 as well.

00:23:49.640 Now

00:23:49.880 do you

00:23:52.300 believe any

00:23:52.760 graphs you

00:23:53.320 see on

00:23:53.700 the internet?

00:23:55.660 Because you

00:23:56.280 really shouldn't.

00:23:57.420 You really

00:23:57.940 shouldn't.

00:23:58.840 So this

00:23:59.400 morning alone

00:24:00.120 I saw

00:24:00.680 two graphs.

00:24:02.260 One

00:24:02.740 showing that

00:24:03.480 the death

00:24:03.960 rate in

00:24:04.400 Florida

00:24:04.720 recently

00:24:05.800 in just

00:24:06.200 the last

00:24:06.560 few days

00:24:07.040 has plunged.

00:24:08.520 It's plunged.

00:24:09.340 It was way

00:24:09.820 up there

00:24:10.140 spiking

00:24:10.600 for the

00:24:11.000 summer

00:24:11.200 but now

00:24:11.580 it's

00:24:11.780 plunging.

00:24:13.540 And then

00:24:14.120 I saw

00:24:14.440 another one

00:24:14.940 that says

00:24:15.400 it's

00:24:15.700 worse

00:24:16.240 than ever

00:24:16.580 or it's

00:24:18.520 near the

00:24:18.880 peak.

00:24:20.360 Now both

00:24:20.860 of those

00:24:21.700 pieces of

00:24:22.300 data I

00:24:22.720 saw today.

00:24:23.720 One was

00:24:24.200 official and

00:24:24.900 one was

00:24:25.240 on the

00:24:25.460 internet.

00:24:26.220 Now they're

00:24:26.580 opposites.

00:24:28.220 And it's

00:24:28.580 as opposite

00:24:29.060 as you

00:24:29.420 can get.

00:24:30.780 You

00:24:31.140 couldn't be

00:24:31.540 more opposite

00:24:32.160 than the

00:24:32.680 curve has

00:24:33.080 already crashed

00:24:33.880 to the

00:24:34.800 curve is

00:24:35.120 at the

00:24:35.380 top.

00:24:37.820 Don't

00:24:38.260 believe

00:24:38.840 any graph

00:24:40.400 you see

00:24:40.780 on the

00:24:41.020 internet.

00:24:42.080 I don't

00:24:42.360 know how

00:24:42.800 more forcefully

00:24:43.840 I can tell

00:24:44.400 you that.

00:24:45.440 Don't

00:24:45.920 believe

00:24:46.480 any

00:24:47.380 graph

00:24:47.860 on the

00:24:48.600 internet.

00:24:49.420 I don't

00:24:49.920 know the

00:24:50.240 last time I

00:24:50.740 saw one

00:24:51.100 that was

00:24:51.780 credible.

00:24:54.240 What about

00:24:54.960 three graphs

00:24:55.480 on the

00:24:55.740 internet?

00:24:56.140 Well,

00:24:56.580 good question.

00:24:58.560 Speaking of

00:24:59.420 graphs you

00:24:59.940 should not

00:25:00.340 believe on

00:25:00.920 the internet,

00:25:01.520 today I

00:25:02.020 saw another

00:25:02.460 one.

00:25:06.080 That there

00:25:06.820 were more

00:25:07.220 traffic fatalities

00:25:08.320 in 2020

00:25:09.080 than any

00:25:09.720 year since

00:25:10.220 2007.

00:25:11.140 I think

00:25:13.160 Paul

00:25:13.400 Collider was

00:25:14.100 tweeting

00:25:14.400 this.

00:25:17.380 This would

00:25:18.300 suggest that

00:25:19.100 more people

00:25:19.780 died on

00:25:20.220 the highway

00:25:20.640 during the

00:25:21.340 pandemic

00:25:21.820 than during

00:25:23.600 normal traffic.

00:25:25.760 What do you

00:25:26.120 think?

00:25:28.300 True or

00:25:29.520 false?

00:25:29.880 Now,

00:25:32.360 apparently this

00:25:32.860 is...

00:25:34.880 Okay, I

00:25:36.660 just realized

00:25:37.360 that I was

00:25:37.860 reading a

00:25:38.540 tweet about

00:25:41.100 traffic deaths

00:25:42.000 from somebody

00:25:42.760 whose last

00:25:43.220 name is

00:25:43.680 Collider.

00:25:44.340 Twitter.

00:25:47.280 Okay.

00:25:50.320 So,

00:25:51.460 that was the

00:25:53.380 simulation

00:25:53.780 talking to

00:25:54.380 us.

00:25:55.320 Do you

00:25:55.680 believe that?

00:25:58.840 So,

00:25:59.440 somebody said

00:25:59.940 they were

00:26:00.180 hearing it

00:26:00.620 during 2020.

00:26:03.060 No.

00:26:04.160 No.

00:26:04.800 This can't

00:26:05.420 be true.

00:26:06.140 Now,

00:26:06.440 here's the

00:26:06.800 argument for

00:26:07.360 how it

00:26:07.700 could be

00:26:08.120 true.

00:26:09.020 The

00:26:09.480 argument for

00:26:10.060 how it

00:26:10.360 could be

00:26:10.760 true is

00:26:11.420 that with

00:26:11.720 less traffic,

00:26:13.140 the traffic

00:26:13.680 speeds

00:26:14.320 went up,

00:26:15.600 which might

00:26:16.120 suggest fewer

00:26:17.000 small accidents

00:26:18.100 but more

00:26:18.600 fatalities,

00:26:19.840 right?

00:26:20.980 I don't

00:26:21.700 think so.

00:26:22.840 I'm not

00:26:23.380 buying any

00:26:23.920 of this.

00:26:25.200 And then

00:26:25.500 it also

00:26:25.880 said that

00:26:27.240 the amount

00:26:27.660 of miles

00:26:28.540 driven was

00:26:29.100 down 13%

00:26:30.200 in 2020.

00:26:31.380 Do you

00:26:31.660 buy that?

00:26:33.640 Do you

00:26:34.220 think the

00:26:34.560 miles driven

00:26:35.260 was only

00:26:35.720 down 13%

00:26:37.040 in 2020?

00:26:38.680 That can't

00:26:39.520 be even

00:26:39.880 close,

00:26:40.780 can it?

00:26:42.120 I would

00:26:42.800 have said

00:26:43.160 at least

00:26:43.720 25%.

00:26:44.720 I don't

00:26:46.080 think he's

00:26:46.360 even close.

00:26:47.680 So I'm

00:26:48.060 going to

00:26:48.240 say that

00:26:48.620 this data

00:26:49.220 looks to

00:26:49.680 me so

00:26:50.140 obviously

00:26:51.200 ridiculously

00:26:51.900 wrong.

00:26:53.060 Now,

00:26:54.040 let's be

00:26:54.920 fair.

00:26:56.060 I predicted

00:26:56.760 that net

00:26:58.400 deaths might

00:26:59.120 actually go

00:26:59.700 down.

00:27:00.120 This was

00:27:00.400 before I

00:27:00.880 knew the

00:27:01.220 pandemic was

00:27:02.080 an endemic.

00:27:03.240 But when it

00:27:03.800 looked like it

00:27:04.260 was going to

00:27:04.560 be a temporary

00:27:05.140 pandemic,

00:27:06.320 I suggested

00:27:07.400 that maybe the

00:27:08.060 death rate would

00:27:08.600 go down, 0.52

00:27:09.600 because you'd

00:27:10.040 save so many

00:27:10.600 people in

00:27:11.060 car accidents,

00:27:12.020 it might

00:27:12.460 pay for the

00:27:13.560 rest.

00:27:14.380 Now,

00:27:14.640 it turns out

00:27:15.020 the car

00:27:15.340 accidents is a

00:27:16.060 tiny amount

00:27:16.700 of how many

00:27:17.240 people COVID

00:27:17.860 can kill,

00:27:18.520 so it wouldn't

00:27:19.040 have made that

00:27:19.460 much difference

00:27:19.960 in the end.

00:27:21.700 So that

00:27:22.560 may be the

00:27:23.260 worst prediction

00:27:23.800 I've ever

00:27:24.240 made.

00:27:25.540 So the

00:27:26.180 point is,

00:27:27.380 I had sort

00:27:29.400 of a prediction

00:27:30.020 out there that

00:27:30.720 would make me

00:27:31.260 look wrong if

00:27:32.440 this is right.

00:27:33.600 So am I

00:27:34.100 suffering from

00:27:34.720 cognitive dissonance?

00:27:36.400 Because that's

00:27:36.960 the trigger.

00:27:37.420 The trigger

00:27:38.600 for cognitive

00:27:39.240 dissonance is

00:27:40.020 that you've

00:27:40.460 committed to

00:27:41.600 some belief,

00:27:42.860 and then you're

00:27:43.480 proven that it's

00:27:44.240 wrong, and

00:27:45.600 then instead of

00:27:46.180 changing your

00:27:46.680 mind, you just

00:27:47.460 fantasize some

00:27:48.540 way that you're

00:27:49.020 really right after

00:27:49.800 all.

00:27:50.680 Am I doing

00:27:51.180 that?

00:27:52.880 In your opinion,

00:27:54.100 am I doing

00:27:54.640 that right now?

00:27:56.460 Because it

00:27:57.100 feels like it.

00:27:57.960 It might be.

00:27:59.500 It might be.

00:28:00.500 Because my sense

00:28:01.800 that this data is

00:28:03.280 completely wrong is

00:28:04.980 just sort of a

00:28:05.620 judgment, right?

00:28:07.420 It just feels

00:28:08.460 like it's wrong.

00:28:10.060 It feels like

00:28:10.660 it's way wrong.

00:28:12.080 But that could

00:28:12.540 be cognitive

00:28:13.060 dissonance, right?

00:28:14.260 So I wouldn't

00:28:15.100 take my word for

00:28:16.560 this.

00:28:17.000 This is one of

00:28:17.580 those situations

00:28:18.220 where you have

00:28:18.880 to learn to

00:28:21.440 look for your

00:28:21.900 own triggers.

00:28:23.620 So how much

00:28:24.140 credibility should

00:28:25.120 I put in my

00:28:25.780 own opinion right

00:28:26.700 now?

00:28:28.060 Normally I give

00:28:29.020 my own opinion

00:28:29.600 pretty high

00:28:30.040 credibility.

00:28:31.540 But how much

00:28:32.000 should I give

00:28:32.540 my own opinion

00:28:33.460 that this traffic

00:28:35.340 data is probably

00:28:36.200 wrong?

00:28:36.720 How much

00:28:37.760 weight should I

00:28:38.540 give my own

00:28:39.100 opinion?

00:28:41.640 Not much,

00:28:42.960 unfortunately.

00:28:44.580 Because I have

00:28:46.400 a trigger.

00:28:47.940 There's a

00:28:48.500 trigger.

00:28:49.660 And the trigger

00:28:50.180 is that I

00:28:51.000 publicly said,

00:28:52.000 I think,

00:28:52.500 you know,

00:28:52.740 at one point I

00:28:53.380 said I think

00:28:53.880 that the

00:28:54.280 deaths might

00:28:54.700 actually go

00:28:55.160 down net.

00:28:56.900 But now it

00:28:57.800 looks like not

00:28:58.460 only did they

00:28:58.980 not go down,

00:28:59.800 but they went

00:29:00.980 up.

00:29:01.620 That's a trigger.

00:29:02.260 So in theory I

00:29:04.000 should be

00:29:04.320 triggered into

00:29:04.900 cognitive dissonance.

00:29:06.300 But, as I

00:29:08.080 saw somebody

00:29:08.780 mention on the

00:29:09.420 internet yesterday,

00:29:10.520 if you're aware

00:29:11.480 of the triggers,

00:29:13.440 can you avoid

00:29:14.200 them?

00:29:16.100 The fact that I'm

00:29:17.300 aware that this

00:29:19.080 is a probable

00:29:20.080 cognitive dissonance

00:29:21.440 trigger for me,

00:29:22.700 personally, does

00:29:24.000 that help me get

00:29:25.180 out of it?

00:29:25.680 Nope.

00:29:29.160 It doesn't help

00:29:29.980 at all.

00:29:30.900 You would think

00:29:31.520 it would.

00:29:33.160 You'd think

00:29:33.820 that just knowing

00:29:35.700 you're in a

00:29:36.300 situation that

00:29:37.020 pretty much

00:29:37.900 guarantees you're

00:29:38.780 going to get

00:29:39.060 triggered,

00:29:40.260 you'd think that

00:29:41.120 that would help

00:29:41.600 you not get

00:29:42.160 triggered.

00:29:43.220 Doesn't.

00:29:44.240 Doesn't change

00:29:44.960 my opinion one

00:29:45.700 bit.

00:29:46.560 And I'm aware

00:29:47.140 of it.

00:29:47.980 I'm completely

00:29:48.840 aware of it.

00:29:50.040 That I'm

00:29:50.420 probably not

00:29:50.980 right.

00:29:52.420 Still doesn't

00:29:53.280 change my

00:29:53.740 opinion.

00:29:54.440 That's how it

00:29:54.920 works.

00:29:55.680 That's how

00:29:56.200 cognitive dissonance

00:29:57.140 works.

00:29:57.520 If I could

00:29:57.920 just know

00:29:59.120 what it was

00:29:59.700 and avoid

00:30:00.200 it, I'd

00:30:00.920 do it.

00:30:02.040 But you

00:30:02.600 can't.

00:30:03.520 It doesn't

00:30:04.220 work that way.

00:30:05.220 Logically, it

00:30:05.820 doesn't work

00:30:06.200 that way,

00:30:06.820 because cognitive

00:30:07.540 dissonance is

00:30:08.260 the thing you

00:30:08.720 can't tell you

00:30:09.280 have.

00:30:12.180 Well, Laura

00:30:13.000 Loomer, how

00:30:13.740 many of you

00:30:14.120 know Laura

00:30:14.680 Loomer?

00:30:15.420 She's often

00:30:17.340 described as a

00:30:18.540 far-right

00:30:19.820 activist who

00:30:21.540 they say

00:30:22.220 Carpe

00:30:28.380 was saying

00:30:29.760 what about

00:30:30.120 the majority

00:30:30.620 of people

00:30:30.980 on the road

00:30:31.380 being people

00:30:31.880 who can't

00:30:32.280 afford not

00:30:33.820 to work

00:30:34.340 and they

00:30:35.440 are statistically

00:30:36.280 worse drivers.

00:30:37.300 The people

00:30:37.600 who can't

00:30:38.160 afford not

00:30:38.740 to work.

00:30:39.580 So in

00:30:39.780 other words,

00:30:40.220 low-income

00:30:40.680 people would

00:30:41.580 be worse

00:30:42.020 drivers?

00:30:42.460 I don't

00:30:44.800 know that

00:30:45.140 there's any

00:30:45.680 statistical

00:30:47.760 backing for

00:30:48.740 that.

00:30:51.220 I don't

00:30:51.760 know.

00:30:52.320 It seems

00:30:52.640 to me that

00:30:53.100 a lot of

00:30:53.700 blue-collar

00:30:54.460 drivers have

00:30:56.060 trucks.

00:30:58.940 And when

00:31:00.080 was the last

00:31:00.500 time you

00:31:00.920 saw, let

00:31:01.640 me ask you

00:31:01.940 this, when

00:31:02.400 was the last

00:31:02.840 time you

00:31:03.140 saw an

00:31:03.760 automobile

00:31:04.300 accident that

00:31:05.760 involved a

00:31:06.320 pickup truck?

00:31:08.440 Think how

00:31:09.040 many pickup

00:31:09.500 trucks there

00:31:10.020 are on the

00:31:10.460 road.

00:31:12.460 I've never

00:31:13.100 seen one.

00:31:15.080 Have you?

00:31:16.820 I mean, I

00:31:17.520 know they

00:31:17.840 happen, but

00:31:19.040 I've never

00:31:19.340 seen one.

00:31:21.240 Think of

00:31:21.800 all the

00:31:22.040 pickup trucks.

00:31:23.960 I would

00:31:24.600 argue,

00:31:25.120 Carpe, that

00:31:26.640 the people

00:31:27.160 driving pickup

00:31:27.900 trucks are

00:31:28.400 not high

00:31:28.840 income,

00:31:29.380 probably had

00:31:29.900 to go to

00:31:30.220 work.

00:31:31.500 And it

00:31:33.040 took two

00:31:34.940 seconds for

00:31:35.440 somebody to

00:31:35.880 post a

00:31:36.220 picture on

00:31:37.200 locals of a

00:31:37.920 pickup truck

00:31:38.460 in an

00:31:38.740 accident.

00:31:39.560 I'm just

00:31:40.180 saying I

00:31:40.540 don't see

00:31:40.860 them.

00:31:41.760 I feel

00:31:42.260 like low

00:31:42.700 income, or

00:31:43.440 let's say

00:31:43.780 blue-collar.

00:31:44.400 I think

00:31:45.400 blue-collar

00:31:45.920 drivers are

00:31:46.580 probably pretty

00:31:47.120 good, is

00:31:48.220 my guess.

00:31:49.460 And I'll

00:31:50.140 even add to

00:31:50.700 this, Carpe,

00:31:51.780 how many

00:31:52.540 blue-collar

00:31:53.320 workers are

00:31:54.000 drivers for

00:31:54.720 a living?

00:31:56.320 I mean, you

00:31:56.880 got your

00:31:57.180 Uber drivers,

00:31:57.940 your truck

00:31:58.220 drivers, your

00:31:58.960 cab drivers.

00:32:00.620 There's a lot

00:32:01.300 of people in

00:32:01.780 that economic

00:32:03.680 group that

00:32:05.520 drive for a

00:32:06.040 living.

00:32:07.880 Anyway, but

00:32:08.680 I get the

00:32:10.980 comment that

00:32:11.660 was provocative.

00:32:13.400 So Laura

00:32:13.840 Loomer, far

00:32:14.580 right, as

00:32:15.560 she is often

00:32:16.000 described, she's

00:32:16.840 sometimes described

00:32:17.780 as anti-Muslim.

00:32:20.120 I don't know if

00:32:20.700 that's an

00:32:21.220 accurate description.

00:32:24.220 And she's been

00:32:25.180 anti-vaccination.

00:32:27.220 And of course,

00:32:28.780 what do you think

00:32:29.380 happened to a

00:32:31.000 notable far-right

00:32:32.060 person who was

00:32:32.860 anti-vaccination?

00:32:34.760 That's right.

00:32:35.740 She got a bad

00:32:36.640 case of the

00:32:37.220 coronavirus, and

00:32:38.720 apparently it's just

00:32:39.560 kicking her ass, and 1.00

00:32:40.580 that hurts like

00:32:41.140 crazy.

00:32:42.300 She's doing

00:32:42.740 Regeneron and

00:32:44.020 hydroxychloroquine and

00:32:45.580 some other stuff.

00:32:48.260 But here's my

00:32:49.680 take on this.

00:32:52.260 You know, this was

00:32:52.940 reported in the

00:32:53.880 Daily Beast, and a

00:32:55.040 lot of other

00:32:55.560 outlets picked it

00:32:56.800 up.

00:32:57.800 But is there

00:32:59.720 some kind of

00:33:00.380 creepy level of

00:33:01.800 implied delight in

00:33:04.520 these stories?

00:33:05.100 Are you picking

00:33:06.420 that up?

00:33:06.880 I feel as if

00:33:09.320 these are

00:33:10.760 presented to the

00:33:11.960 audience of these

00:33:13.020 various publications

00:33:13.940 as like a

00:33:15.560 candy.

00:33:17.360 It's like, oh, this

00:33:18.280 is going to make you

00:33:18.800 feel good.

00:33:19.980 Let me tell you about

00:33:20.860 somebody who had a

00:33:21.660 really bad experience

00:33:23.000 on the other team.

00:33:25.060 It's going to make you

00:33:25.880 feel great.

00:33:27.560 I feel like it's

00:33:29.200 creepy, isn't it?

00:33:30.920 Now, I get why it's

00:33:32.980 newsworthy.

00:33:33.920 We all understand why

00:33:35.040 it's newsworthy.

00:33:36.220 And I even think that

00:33:37.320 if they're trying to

00:33:39.500 persuade people to get

00:33:40.520 vaccinated, that they

00:33:43.620 probably really believe

00:33:44.520 that that's a good

00:33:45.140 thing.

00:33:46.660 That it's, excuse

00:33:48.240 me.

00:33:49.740 And I think probably,

00:33:53.740 you know, they think

00:33:54.680 they're helping.

00:33:55.200 But it feels like

00:33:58.800 just the worst of

00:34:00.460 humanity, doesn't

00:34:01.360 it?

00:34:02.160 Now, I'm not going

00:34:03.000 to, you know, defend

00:34:03.880 anything that Laura

00:34:04.940 Loomer does, right?

00:34:07.160 That's for her.

00:34:08.160 Laura Loomer can

00:34:08.840 defend herself.

00:34:10.200 So she has to

00:34:11.180 defend her views.

00:34:11.840 That's not me.

00:34:12.700 But when we say

00:34:14.180 that because of her

00:34:15.200 views on other

00:34:16.940 topics, well, also

00:34:19.580 the vaccination

00:34:20.220 views, that

00:34:21.140 therefore she's

00:34:21.920 maybe an

00:34:25.020 object of

00:34:25.620 entertainment.

00:34:28.820 Entertainment.

00:34:30.060 How do you feel

00:34:30.560 about that?

00:34:31.840 That somebody's

00:34:32.640 sick and they

00:34:33.200 might die and

00:34:35.040 you're like laughing

00:34:35.860 at it.

00:34:36.680 Because, oh,

00:34:37.460 irony.

00:34:38.660 Yeah, I guess

00:34:39.220 they were right.

00:34:40.300 Or no, I guess

00:34:40.860 they were wrong.

00:34:42.480 It just feels

00:34:43.140 creepy and awful,

00:34:44.820 really.

00:34:45.520 But I get why

00:34:46.160 it's in the news.

00:34:47.840 I mean, we all

00:34:49.240 understand that.

00:34:51.700 All right.

00:34:53.960 I believe,

00:34:55.020 that is just

00:34:57.660 about everything

00:34:58.280 I wanted to

00:34:58.880 say.

00:35:02.380 Yeah, thoughts

00:35:03.280 and players.

00:35:03.920 Yeah, the

00:35:04.360 Herman Cain

00:35:05.000 thing, same

00:35:05.700 thing.

00:35:06.600 How many

00:35:07.020 people on the

00:35:08.520 left were

00:35:09.760 celebrating the

00:35:10.680 death of

00:35:11.220 Herman Cain?

00:35:12.620 I mean, that's

00:35:13.040 just creepy and

00:35:14.220 awful.

00:35:14.440 people.

00:35:19.540 Somebody says

00:35:20.300 they unfriended

00:35:21.040 people who

00:35:21.860 were happy

00:35:24.560 when Trump

00:35:25.020 got coronavirus.

00:35:26.880 Yeah, that...

00:35:28.100 Oh, sleep

00:35:28.580 advice.

00:35:29.260 Somebody's asking

00:35:29.900 for some sleep

00:35:30.580 advice.

00:35:30.980 Well, since I

00:35:31.460 talked about it,

00:35:32.180 let me give you

00:35:32.620 some sleep

00:35:33.280 advice.

00:35:34.680 All right.

00:35:34.900 Now, this is

00:35:35.360 pretty basic

00:35:35.860 stuff.

00:35:36.600 You could

00:35:37.020 Google this

00:35:37.640 and you'd

00:35:38.160 see the same

00:35:38.600 advice.

00:35:39.580 Number one,

00:35:40.840 have the same

00:35:41.440 schedule, as I

00:35:42.540 mentioned.

00:35:43.280 Go to bed around

00:35:44.200 the same time,

00:35:45.180 you know, within

00:35:45.600 an hour or so,

00:35:46.560 and get up about

00:35:47.440 the same time

00:35:48.060 within an hour or

00:35:48.980 so.

00:35:49.700 Makes a huge

00:35:50.520 difference, even

00:35:51.380 on weekends.

00:35:52.880 Now, and when I

00:35:54.720 go to bed too

00:35:55.340 late, I still get

00:35:56.260 up early to try to

00:35:57.800 reset myself at

00:35:58.700 least for the day

00:35:59.480 after.

00:36:00.240 You might have to

00:36:00.820 burn a day,

00:36:02.140 because sometimes

00:36:02.680 you just have to

00:36:03.280 stay up late.

00:36:03.860 You don't have a

00:36:04.280 choice.

00:36:04.520 But I'll burn

00:36:07.580 that day and

00:36:08.620 readjust for the

00:36:10.520 next day.

00:36:11.040 You don't want to

00:36:11.440 be in a permanent

00:36:12.040 bad sleep situation.

00:36:14.080 Next thing is,

00:36:14.960 don't look at too

00:36:15.660 many screens after

00:36:16.900 you go to sleep.

00:36:18.720 Screens keep you

00:36:19.640 awake.

00:36:20.980 Next, make sure

00:36:22.280 that you have

00:36:22.840 exercised that

00:36:24.480 day.

00:36:25.860 I don't know how

00:36:26.780 universal this is,

00:36:27.840 but I suspect it's

00:36:28.840 probably just a

00:36:29.880 normal physiological

00:36:30.740 thing.

00:36:31.760 On days that I

00:36:32.600 exercise, I sleep

00:36:33.800 like a baby.

00:36:34.520 Pretty much every

00:36:36.560 time.

00:36:37.660 And days that I

00:36:38.420 did not get enough

00:36:39.200 exercise, I do

00:36:40.180 not.

00:36:41.420 Now, that might

00:36:42.460 not apply to you.

00:36:43.340 I don't know how

00:36:43.860 much that's

00:36:44.620 individual.

00:36:45.680 But the general

00:36:46.860 advice is to

00:36:49.160 track what

00:36:51.140 things you did

00:36:51.840 during the day and

00:36:52.600 how that affected

00:36:53.300 your sleep.

00:36:54.660 I've tracked this,

00:36:55.960 and I can tell you

00:36:56.800 it's one-to-one.

00:36:58.720 If I exercise, I

00:37:00.120 sleep well.

00:37:00.740 If I don't, I

00:37:01.520 don't.

00:37:03.700 Short of any

00:37:04.420 kind of

00:37:04.720 emergency that

00:37:05.520 happens at

00:37:06.000 night, it's

00:37:06.780 just one-to-one.

00:37:07.600 It just works

00:37:08.060 every time.

00:37:10.560 I would not,

00:37:11.700 if you're doing

00:37:12.340 sleep stuff,

00:37:16.200 sorry, if you're

00:37:18.600 doing Ambien or

00:37:21.140 some kind of

00:37:21.540 sleeping pill or

00:37:22.180 something like

00:37:22.520 that, the total

00:37:25.240 number of times I've

00:37:26.180 taken Ambien in my

00:37:27.320 life is zero.

00:37:28.280 zero, the total

00:37:29.880 number of times I

00:37:30.780 plan to take

00:37:31.760 Ambien in my

00:37:32.580 life is zero.

00:37:34.560 I mean, I just,

00:37:35.420 that's a pretty

00:37:36.300 heavy drug to put

00:37:37.240 in your body just

00:37:38.000 to get to sleep.

00:37:39.320 Now, I get that

00:37:40.060 sometimes maybe

00:37:40.800 people just need

00:37:41.560 it.

00:37:42.240 But you're doing

00:37:44.400 everything wrong if

00:37:46.580 you need that.

00:37:47.740 Now, I do admit

00:37:49.200 that marijuana is a

00:37:51.060 big part of my

00:37:51.780 sleeping schedule.

00:37:54.380 Indica,

00:37:55.080 specifically.

00:37:55.980 Don't do

00:37:56.580 sativa, that

00:37:57.420 wakes you up.

00:37:58.600 There are two

00:37:58.860 kinds of, two

00:37:59.940 general kinds of

00:38:00.860 marijuana and then

00:38:01.700 lots of subtypes

00:38:02.640 within them.

00:38:03.440 But if you do the

00:38:04.160 one subtype, it

00:38:05.100 wakes you up and

00:38:05.900 it's good for

00:38:06.400 working.

00:38:07.240 And the other

00:38:07.760 type makes you

00:38:09.160 relaxed and it's

00:38:10.060 good for sleeping.

00:38:11.080 So Indica is the 0.99

00:38:11.960 one that's good for

00:38:12.600 sleeping.

00:38:13.220 If you don't use

00:38:13.960 it any other time

00:38:14.720 during the day,

00:38:16.100 because, you know,

00:38:16.660 you don't want to

00:38:17.200 lose your edge or

00:38:18.000 whatever it is you

00:38:18.560 don't want to do,

00:38:19.800 if you do it

00:38:20.620 before bedtime,

00:38:21.340 it's probably

00:38:24.640 going to be fine.

00:38:25.320 And you wake up

00:38:25.880 actually feeling

00:38:26.480 refreshed.

00:38:27.160 You don't wake up

00:38:27.740 feeling stoned.

00:38:30.100 I'm seeing some

00:38:30.860 people suggest

00:38:31.940 melatonin.

00:38:32.700 I have no

00:38:33.080 experience with it

00:38:33.980 and I'm not a

00:38:34.660 doctor, so I

00:38:35.900 neither recommend

00:38:36.720 it nor non-recommend

00:38:38.100 it.

00:38:38.580 But it would be on

00:38:39.380 the list of things

00:38:39.940 to look into.

00:38:41.500 I'd look into it

00:38:42.420 if I were you.

00:38:43.300 And I've seen some

00:38:44.140 other things that

00:38:45.560 people suggest that

00:38:46.440 I don't have any

00:38:46.980 experience with.

00:38:48.240 So I would say,

00:38:49.420 and by the way,

00:38:50.140 I'm going to give

00:38:50.540 you a philosophy.

00:38:52.080 You ready?

00:38:53.440 This is a winner's

00:38:55.680 philosophy.

00:38:57.220 And it's one that

00:38:58.280 I try to instill in

00:38:59.660 myself just by

00:39:00.680 repetition.

00:39:01.740 It's not something

00:39:02.640 that I naturally

00:39:03.500 came by.

00:39:04.540 It's something I

00:39:05.040 developed.

00:39:05.980 It goes like this.

00:39:07.620 If you can't sleep,

00:39:10.060 you didn't work

00:39:11.300 hard enough.

00:39:14.840 Do you feel

00:39:15.620 that?

00:39:16.620 If you can't get

00:39:17.560 to sleep,

00:39:18.660 it's not because

00:39:20.120 you're bad at

00:39:20.580 sleeping.

00:39:21.340 It's because you

00:39:23.480 didn't work hard

00:39:24.060 enough.

00:39:24.900 If you work hard

00:39:25.880 enough, you'll

00:39:26.340 sleep.

00:39:28.660 Period.

00:39:29.660 If you work hard

00:39:30.720 enough, you will

00:39:32.140 sleep.

00:39:32.920 In fact, you won't

00:39:33.680 even be able to

00:39:34.180 avoid it.

00:39:35.360 Sleep will be

00:39:35.940 guaranteed.

00:39:36.400 So, now, of

00:39:40.260 course, that's not

00:39:42.400 perfectly true

00:39:43.960 correlation, right?

00:39:45.320 But I find it good

00:39:48.460 as a philosophy.

00:39:50.140 Because it tells me

00:39:51.420 that I've left

00:39:53.120 something on the

00:39:53.720 table.

00:39:55.140 It told me that I

00:39:56.160 left something on the

00:39:57.100 table that day.

00:39:58.280 I either didn't

00:39:58.860 exercise enough,

00:40:00.480 didn't put enough

00:40:01.220 work in, you know,

00:40:02.400 creatively or a number

00:40:04.040 of hours.

00:40:05.340 There's something I

00:40:06.120 did wrong that

00:40:08.220 day.

00:40:09.100 And so the thing

00:40:11.240 is to fix it.

00:40:11.940 All right, now,

00:40:12.800 suppose you're in

00:40:13.880 bed.

00:40:15.140 It's two in the

00:40:16.300 morning and you

00:40:16.840 can't sleep.

00:40:17.440 What do you do?

00:40:17.900 Because this is

00:40:19.820 technique as well.

00:40:21.000 Well, here's what the

00:40:21.700 experts say.

00:40:22.880 If you stay in bed

00:40:24.060 and can't sleep,

00:40:25.540 you will be training

00:40:26.440 yourself that bed is a

00:40:27.760 place you can't sleep.

00:40:29.640 Did you get that?

00:40:30.440 This is a hypnotist

00:40:32.260 trick.

00:40:33.800 We associate things

00:40:35.060 automatically.

00:40:35.840 So anytime two things

00:40:36.900 happen at the same

00:40:37.620 time, we start

00:40:38.900 associating them.

00:40:40.380 So if you lay in bed

00:40:41.420 at 2 a.m.

00:40:42.280 and you're in bed,

00:40:44.020 like actually under

00:40:44.920 the covers, and you

00:40:46.360 can't sleep, what do

00:40:48.380 you do?

00:40:51.140 Because you don't want

00:40:52.080 to stay in bed not

00:40:53.260 sleeping.

00:40:54.280 Because that will

00:40:55.040 train you that bed is

00:40:56.120 where you don't sleep.

00:40:57.800 You get up.

00:41:00.440 Over on the

00:41:02.980 Locals platform, I

00:41:04.680 won't name your name,

00:41:05.960 but we have the

00:41:06.540 helpful suggestion to

00:41:07.680 masturbate.

00:41:09.560 Now, I didn't bring

00:41:11.200 it up, but if you

00:41:13.900 can't get to sleep

00:41:14.680 after masturbating, 0.54

00:41:17.880 well, it certainly

00:41:21.140 makes things easier if

00:41:22.700 you can pull that off,

00:41:23.760 so to speak, if you

00:41:24.860 can pull it off, you

00:41:25.720 know what I mean?

00:41:26.360 Wink, wink.

00:41:26.700 So let me finish my

00:41:31.640 point.

00:41:32.100 If you can't sleep,

00:41:34.360 try masturbating. 0.81

00:41:36.500 Very good sleep

00:41:37.320 technique.

00:41:38.020 Quite serious about

00:41:38.840 that.

00:41:39.780 And secondly, if you

00:41:42.180 can't sleep, get up.

00:41:44.280 Get up.

00:41:46.140 So being awake and

00:41:48.760 walking around when you

00:41:49.900 can't sleep is how you

00:41:52.360 want to train yourself.

00:41:53.240 What happens if you get

00:41:55.520 up and stay up for

00:41:56.220 like, let's say, 20

00:41:57.340 minutes, half an hour?

00:41:59.180 You'll want to go back

00:41:59.940 to sleep.

00:42:01.040 Because it turns out that

00:42:02.200 if you get up at 2 in the

00:42:03.180 morning, what happens to

00:42:04.900 you?

00:42:05.620 You get really tired.

00:42:08.420 Just try walking around

00:42:09.580 at 2 in the morning.

00:42:10.900 If you're still wide

00:42:12.120 awake at 2 in the morning,

00:42:13.900 just stay up.

00:42:14.900 Maybe you just didn't

00:42:16.060 need enough sleep.

00:42:17.240 You'll be tired the next

00:42:18.560 day.

00:42:18.820 So the next day, you'll

00:42:20.240 probably catch up.

00:42:22.120 Just keep your time to bed

00:42:24.060 the same.

00:42:25.520 Now, I've told you that

00:42:27.540 there are a number of

00:42:28.560 times that I wake up at

00:42:30.420 3 a.m. when I'm not

00:42:31.740 planning to.

00:42:33.120 I set my alarm for 5.

00:42:35.400 That's like the latest I

00:42:37.140 would like to ever sleep.

00:42:38.400 But I don't like to get up

00:42:39.520 to the alarm.

00:42:41.060 Somewhere between 3 and

00:42:42.460 4.30 is my sweet spot.

00:42:44.880 And if I'm awake at 3 a.m.,

00:42:47.100 I just get up.

00:42:49.240 And I've never really felt

00:42:50.860 any bad impact from it.

00:42:53.380 And yes, and sleeping

00:42:56.500 during the day is bad.

00:42:58.380 If you need to take a nap,

00:42:59.900 here's another hint.

00:43:01.740 If you need to take a nap,

00:43:03.760 30 minutes maximum.

00:43:06.900 If you sleep for 2 hours

00:43:08.360 during the day, you're in

00:43:09.640 trouble.

00:43:11.060 Your whole sleep pattern

00:43:12.260 will be messed up.

00:43:13.100 But 30 minutes, you can

00:43:15.660 just take the edge off of

00:43:17.860 your exhaustion and maybe

00:43:19.840 get to bedtime on time.

00:43:23.000 Yeah, 21 minutes.

00:43:24.320 Somebody says, my naps are

00:43:25.480 21 minutes.

00:43:26.240 That's a strangely specific

00:43:27.500 number, but that's about

00:43:29.260 right.

00:43:30.120 Yeah, 20, 30 minutes.

00:43:35.700 All right.

00:43:36.640 Just see if you have any

00:43:37.580 other tips.

00:43:39.100 Somebody says, smoke a

00:43:40.300 cigarette.

00:43:40.560 I'm not going to

00:43:41.540 recommend that.

00:43:46.760 Yeah.

00:43:47.620 Now, have you tried ASMR?

00:43:50.220 If you don't know what ASMR

00:43:51.960 is, Google it.

00:43:53.540 Give it a try.

00:43:54.700 It'll either work or not.

00:43:56.300 ASMR, I don't know what the

00:43:58.680 letters stand for, but it's

00:44:00.480 weird little YouTube videos,

00:44:03.660 and other places, I assume,

00:44:05.240 where you hear people doing

00:44:07.200 things that make subtle

00:44:09.720 background noises, or they're

00:44:12.260 talking, and it's relaxing.

00:44:16.620 So apparently, it's just

00:44:17.620 relaxing for a lot of people

00:44:18.840 to hear people fussing around

00:44:21.260 in their environment.

00:44:24.180 Now, have you ever had the

00:44:25.380 experience of taking a nap on

00:44:26.960 the couch when other members of

00:44:29.380 your family are doing something

00:44:31.360 around the house?

00:44:32.140 It's actually better, isn't

00:44:35.000 it?

00:44:36.280 You know, you'd think to

00:44:37.440 yourself, no, the family is

00:44:38.980 noisy, so how can I take my

00:44:41.160 nap?

00:44:41.660 Well, if you're ready for a

00:44:42.800 nap, you can sleep through

00:44:43.780 anything, right?

00:44:44.980 If it's not a recreational

00:44:46.280 nap.

00:44:46.700 If you actually need a nap, you

00:44:48.700 can sleep through anything.

00:44:49.940 And I find it very relaxing to

00:44:53.340 feel the just low-level, you

00:44:56.300 know, footsteps and, you know,

00:44:58.960 just casual noises of people

00:45:00.660 living their life.

00:45:02.840 Very relaxing.

00:45:05.020 So ASMR is sort of a version of

00:45:06.700 that, where you hear some

00:45:07.520 background noise, and it just

00:45:08.860 makes you feel there's some

00:45:09.720 people around, and those people

00:45:10.980 are happy and doing stuff, and

00:45:12.360 makes you fall asleep.

00:45:15.980 Yes, I'm seeing a comment here

00:45:17.580 that alcohol sleep is not

00:45:19.260 sleep.

00:45:19.760 That is correct.

00:45:20.800 If you drink alcohol and pass

00:45:22.820 out, you're not sleeping in the

00:45:26.360 good way that you want to sleep.

00:45:27.860 Meditation and breathing, also

00:45:30.640 good.

00:45:32.100 I'm not an expert on breathing

00:45:34.140 exercises, but look it up.

00:45:35.880 I do think there's something

00:45:36.700 there that would help a lot.

00:45:40.900 All right, those are some tips,

00:45:42.720 and booze seems a little bit

00:45:45.000 better.

00:45:45.300 Thanks for asking.

00:45:46.400 And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:45:47.580 Go.

00:45:47.760 Go.

00:45:49.620 Go.

00:45:50.180 Go.

00:45:50.440 Go.

00:45:50.900 Go.

00:45:51.620 Go.

00:45:51.660 Go.

00:46:07.660 Go.

00:46:08.300 Go.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 17, 2021

Episode 1502 Scott Adams： Lots of Eclectic and Provocative Content Today That Goes Well With Coffee

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