Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 17, 2021


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


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

141.30443

Word Count

6,522

Sentence Count

591

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott talks about a ghost printer that's making noise for no good reason, Joe Biden's call to China, and why he should get a pass on calling out General Milley.


Transcript

00:00:00.740 It's like I was talking to myself, but then there you are.
00:00:04.140 Well, good morning and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:08.480 I'd like to tell you that it's the best thing that's ever happened to you,
00:00:12.020 but I think you already knew that.
00:00:15.160 Shut up, printer.
00:00:17.320 I've got a ghost printer over there that's making noise for no good reason.
00:00:21.420 Hey, would you like to enjoy today's show?
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00:00:30.480 Well, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chelsea tie,
00:00:34.440 and a canteen jug of flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:37.480 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:40.220 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day,
00:00:44.380 the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:46.880 It's called the Simultaneous Sip. Perhaps you've heard of it.
00:00:49.860 It's going to make everything better. Watch. Go.
00:00:54.920 Can you turn off commercials at the beginning because you missed the simultaneous sip?
00:01:05.440 Well, two things.
00:01:07.720 You can watch without commercials at the moment.
00:01:11.320 I have the video live stream also running on the Locals platform.
00:01:16.020 So if you go to scottadams.locals.com, you'll find me there,
00:01:23.360 and the live stream happens at the same time but without commercials.
00:01:28.300 Now, I won't always have it open on Locals,
00:01:32.640 but at the moment it is just to give people a sample.
00:01:35.960 Later it'll be closed over there,
00:01:37.620 so if you want to watch it without commercials,
00:01:39.340 you'd have to pay the subscription fee.
00:01:41.000 But at the moment, at the moment, you get no commercials on Locals.
00:01:48.620 And if you're on YouTube, by the way, and you're a subscriber,
00:01:53.000 you don't get commercials on YouTube.
00:01:55.480 And if...
00:01:56.960 I hate to do a commercial for YouTube,
00:01:59.720 but YouTube is just the best frickin' thing in the world.
00:02:03.980 It really is.
00:02:04.720 And in terms of content and entertainment,
00:02:07.740 that's short enough content for your attention span
00:02:11.420 and anything you want in the world is there.
00:02:14.080 So if there's just one subscription service you're going to get,
00:02:20.020 I would do YouTube to get rid of the commercials.
00:02:23.740 And I would do that before I would even tell you
00:02:25.560 to sign up for my own subscription, right?
00:02:29.200 So of all the subscription things you could get,
00:02:31.720 the one that is absolutely the best of value is the YouTube one,
00:02:36.480 so you skip the commercials.
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
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.
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%
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%
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.
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?
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
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.
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.