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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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46 minutes
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Word Count
6,522
Sentence Count
591
Misogynist Sentences
4
Hate Speech Sentences
10
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It's like I was talking to myself, but then there you are.
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Well, good morning and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams.
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I'd like to tell you that it's the best thing that's ever happened to you,
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but I think you already knew that.
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Shut up, printer.
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I've got a ghost printer over there that's making noise for no good reason.
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Hey, would you like to enjoy today's show?
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More than you ever have before.
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Well, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chelsea tie,
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and a canteen jug of flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day,
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the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip. Perhaps you've heard of it.
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It's going to make everything better. Watch. Go.
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Can you turn off commercials at the beginning because you missed the simultaneous sip?
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Well, two things.
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You can watch without commercials at the moment.
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I have the video live stream also running on the Locals platform.
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So if you go to scottadams.locals.com, you'll find me there,
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and the live stream happens at the same time but without commercials.
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Now, I won't always have it open on Locals,
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but at the moment it is just to give people a sample.
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Later it'll be closed over there,
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so if you want to watch it without commercials,
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you'd have to pay the subscription fee.
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But at the moment, at the moment, you get no commercials on Locals.
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And if you're on YouTube, by the way, and you're a subscriber,
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you don't get commercials on YouTube.
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And if...
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I hate to do a commercial for YouTube,
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but YouTube is just the best frickin' thing in the world.
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It really is.
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And in terms of content and entertainment,
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that's short enough content for your attention span
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and anything you want in the world is there.
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So if there's just one subscription service you're going to get,
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I would do YouTube to get rid of the commercials.
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And I would do that before I would even tell you
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to sign up for my own subscription, right?
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So of all the subscription things you could get,
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the one that is absolutely the best of value is the YouTube one,
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so you skip the commercials.
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Well, Joe Biden is doing something I'm liking.
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Am I allowed?
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Will you allow that I can compliment Joe Biden
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when he does things right?
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I hope that's okay in today's polarized environment.
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But apparently the U.S., the U.K., and Australia
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are making some kind of military alliance
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to just beef up our, I guess, our alliances against China.
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Now, what do you think of that?
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Good?
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Good or bad?
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Well, I would say good.
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And if Trump had been doing this, I would say thumbs up.
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But Biden's doing it, so I'm going to say thumbs up for him too.
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This looks like exactly what we need to do.
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The smart people are saying that the only way to contain China
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is for the non-China countries to band together
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as sort of a safety group.
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And this is just perfect.
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Everything about this I like.
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Is there anybody who doesn't like this?
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Is there anybody who doesn't think it's a good idea
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for the U.K., Australia, and the U.S.
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to have an alliance against China?
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Somebody says bad.
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I saw one person say bad.
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I don't know.
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To me, this just looks like a home run.
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I mean, it's exactly what we should be doing.
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So good on Biden for that.
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All right, I'm going to make you mad again.
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So General Milley has finally commented
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on his talking to China.
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And sorry about the allergies today.
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It's bad.
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And I told you that after reconsidering,
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I gave General Milley a pass on his call to China.
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It's not my job to give him a pass,
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but I suppose as an observer, we all get an opinion.
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And he said that his call was just normal stuff,
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perfectly within the duties and responsibilities of the job,
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and that calling another country
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to reassure both allies and adversaries
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that we have strategic stability.
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To which I say, I don't know.
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I think that was his job.
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At the same time, maybe he needs to get fired,
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and I don't think that's inconsistent,
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meaning that maybe he did go over Biden's head.
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If that's the case, he needs to go.
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But if he was just doing his job,
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and I think he makes a reasonable case
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that this was within the realm of just normal work,
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he's fine.
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Now, I'm not going to give General Milley a pass in general,
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no pun intended.
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You know, I'm not saying that what he did in Afghanistan
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was an A-plus, obviously.
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But, God, I've got...
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Sorry, just the allergies are killing me today.
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It's going to be embarrassing.
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More than usual.
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But, yeah, he still looks dumb.
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But I think this...
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I think maybe we got a little ahead of ourselves
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on this General Milley bashing.
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And because he's a military guy,
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would you agree that his military service
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requires that we give him extra,
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a little extra consideration?
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Don't you think?
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It just seems reasonable.
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You know, he gave however many decades of service
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to his country,
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and I think we owe him in return
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the highest level of
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giving him the benefit of a doubt.
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The highest level.
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Which doesn't mean he's perfect,
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but in this case,
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I'm going to give him that benefit of a doubt.
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Rasmussen-Powell
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asks if Biden has humiliated the country
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with his abandoning of Americans
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behind Taliban lines.
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And 70% of people asked by Rasmussen-Powell
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said that they agree,
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or somewhat agree,
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that he's humiliated the country.
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How many people do you think
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thought that we had not humiliated the country?
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About 25%.
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You know, the standard 25%
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who gets every question wrong.
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Anything that's 70%
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or more,
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you should regard as 100%.
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Because there's always that 25%
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who resist all common sense,
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they resist any kind of data,
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and they're just going to say
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the opposite of whatever makes sense,
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no matter what the question is.
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So 70% say it's a humiliation,
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I think you could call that 100%.
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Here's a weird thing.
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If I said to you,
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my favorite music or favorite song
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or favorite band is X,
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what would likely be your comments?
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Well, let's try it.
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I'm going to try an actual experiment.
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I enjoy Kanye West's music.
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In the comments,
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tell me if you agree or disagree.
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I enjoy Kanye West's music.
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I'm not saying every song,
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but as an artist,
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tremendous body of work.
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Seeing lots of yeses,
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but lots of no's.
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Lots of no's.
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Now, isn't that a normal response?
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Don't you think a normal response
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to anybody saying they like an artist
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or like some music
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is a bunch of people who say yes,
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and then some other bunch of people
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would say no.
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Wouldn't that be the most normal response
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you'd expect, right?
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But here's the weird part.
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So most of you already know
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that Akira the Don
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created a new form of music,
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he calls it Meaning Wave,
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that involves some podcaster voices
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such as mine.
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His newest one has my voice on it
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and it's modified
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and it becomes sort of the lyrics
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to the music
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and it works way better
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than the sounds
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when I describe it.
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But here's the weird thing.
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So, you know,
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I've been part of helping
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to promote it.
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By the way,
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I don't have any financial interest in it.
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I have zero financial interest.
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So when I promote it,
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it's because I think it's fun.
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That's it.
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I don't have any interest
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in it financially.
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But I haven't heard
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a single person say
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they don't like it.
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I've never seen that before.
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Can you imagine
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promoting in public
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a musical,
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music-related content
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and having nobody say
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they don't like it?
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Nobody?
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I'm literally not one person.
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Now, I've heard people
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who haven't seen it
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or haven't heard it,
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but I haven't heard anybody
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who doesn't like it.
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Some people say
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they won't listen to it.
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I'm looking at some of the comments.
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Okay, I got one.
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I got one here.
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Okay.
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So if I force the question,
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I guess, you know,
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you can always give somebody
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who doesn't like anything.
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Music, like everything else,
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all other art is subjective.
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But I was kind of surprised
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at how positive
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the response has been.
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You know, obviously,
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not everybody likes anything.
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Anyway, so check that out.
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If I were to ask you
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what is the one
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health-related
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alpha practice,
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think of all the things
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you do for your health.
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Okay?
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All the things.
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Every element of things
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that get to your health.
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And be expansive about it.
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You know, don't do just
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the obvious,
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eating and exercise.
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But just think of
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all the things you do
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for your health.
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What's your number one?
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What's the one
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you got to get right?
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In the comments,
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tell me,
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what's the one thing
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you just got to get right?
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Oh, breathing is a good,
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that's a good answer.
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That's not what I was going for.
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But whoever said
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deep breathing,
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you should look into that.
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So I'm not a big proponent
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or expert on breathing.
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But I feel like
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there's probably something there.
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So I'd say research that
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on your own.
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I can't give you much on that.
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A lot of people say diet.
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The answer is sleep.
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Sleep.
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Because do you know
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what sleep influences?
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Your diet.
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Do you know
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what sleep influences?
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Your exercise.
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Do you know
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what sleep influences?
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Your social life.
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And all of those things
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affect your health, right?
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You have to get to sleep right.
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And in fact,
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I'm going to reveal to you
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an extreme bias I have
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in judging people.
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I don't like to judge people.
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So it's not that I'm judging
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their value as human beings.
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That's not what I'm getting at.
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But I do judge people
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in terms of whether
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they would be effective.
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Effective.
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Can they do stuff?
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Can they get stuff done?
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Can they set a path for themselves
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and then follow it?
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Check their sleep patterns.
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It will tell you everything
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you need to know
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about a person.
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Everything you need to know
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about a person
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you can deduce
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from their sleep patterns.
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And once you know that,
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all the rest is obvious to you.
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Show me somebody
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who has a bad sleep pattern
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and I'll show you somebody
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who doesn't eat right
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every fucking time.
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And part of it's because
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of the lack of sleep.
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Did you know that being sleepy
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makes you hungry?
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How many of you knew that?
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In the comments, tell me.
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Did you know
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that being sleepy
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makes you hungry?
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And not hungry for a good reason.
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It doesn't make you hungry
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for the right reason.
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You just confuse the two feelings.
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Your brain confuses them.
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Yeah.
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So imagine if you got
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your sleep right.
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Suddenly your diet is better.
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Suddenly you've got
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enough energy to exercise.
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Suddenly you've got
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enough little extra energy
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to go out and socialize.
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Now your social life is better.
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People are happier
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to be around you
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because you've got
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the right kind of energy.
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Everything.
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So I was on CNN.
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They've got a very useful article.
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By the way,
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as much as I mock CNN
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and this is good practice
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by the way.
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I like to model this.
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I recommend this all the time.
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Don't think you're
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a very credible person
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if you can't say something good
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about whoever you're criticizing.
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Right?
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If you can't do that
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you're probably not
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a credible observer
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of anything.
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Right?
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One of the things
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that I note about CNN
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who I mock continuously
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is that their
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non-news content
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is often really good.
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Like when they do
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the history stuff
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history of the United States
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like the 70s
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and the 60s
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it's really good stuff.
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Very strong content.
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And a lot of their
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health related stuff
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is really strong too.
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So there's an article
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on CNN
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about sleep being
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the main system
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you need to get right.
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Psychologist John Duffy
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and he says
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here's a strong statement
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from somebody
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who's a psychologist
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a working psychologist.
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He says
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I find that the development
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of better sleep habits
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is among the quickest
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most effective ways
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to improve mental well-being
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for an individual
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or a family.
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For an individual
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or a family.
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That's right.
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If you're not getting
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enough sleep
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you might be messing up
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with the whole family.
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Imagine if one of the parents
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doesn't get enough sleep.
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What happens to the spouse?
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What happens to the kids?
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Well you know
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the answer to that right?
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One member of the family
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not having good sleep patterns
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just messes everything up
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in the family.
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You've probably seen it
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yourself I'm sure.
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So alright.
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So take this
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take this as
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as the base
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for the next conversation.
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Let me ask you
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how many of your kids
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get to bed
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somewhat on time
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during the school week
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but then stay up
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way late
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on the weekends?
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How many of you
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have kids
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that have that pattern?
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Or yourself.
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How many of you
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have that pattern
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where you sleep
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completely different
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schedules on weekends
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versus weekdays?
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Alright.
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If you do that
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if you have
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a radically different
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sleep schedule
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on the weekends
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than the weekdays
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I know you
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will not be
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successful in life.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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It's
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pretty much
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a direct correlation.
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If you can't
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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.
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