Episode 1529 Scott Adams： It's a Weird Day Full of Fake News and Strange Stories. Just the Kind We Like
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss voter ID laws, whether or not they actually work, and the possibility of a human being who wants to vote but can't figure out how because of a lack of voter ID. We also discuss the importance of skepticism, and how to determine what's true and what's not.
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well good morning everybody oh is it my imagination or did you get better looking
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did you lose weight you're working out you look great this morning but you know what would make
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you look even better yeah the knowledge that you're part of something bigger than yourself
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something great something that connects us all over the world yes it's the simultaneous
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it's the most amazing thing that's ever happened really has it's amazing and all you need is a
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cup of mugger glasses tanker chalice stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your
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favorite liquid i like coffee and will you join me now please for the unparalleled pleasure
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the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better yeah it's called the
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simultaneous sip and watch your antibodies increase when you do this you ready ready go
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whoa i don't know if it felt the same on your end but i can feel my antibodies increasing yeah
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it's funny on both uh on both youtube and locals you can't see each other's comments
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but at the same time everybody was people were saying ah antibodies that should be the new uh
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that should be the new sign off after the sip ah antibodies all right well uh andres backhouse
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tweeted a uh there's a study that shows that uh changes in voter id laws uh don't affect anything
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what what apparently it doesn't change the voter registration it doesn't change the turnout
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do you believe that changes in voter uh in voter id laws don't have any effect on anything
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were you expecting that i'm not i'm not i'm not sure i had an expectation either way
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if you were to do the venn diagram and i think i'll do this no i can't i can't make that motion with
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my hands it'll look like a white supremacist hand motion imagine if you will use your imagination
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imagine that this hand is being held up in a fashion which some would say would be the okay
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symbol sort of a circular thing and my other hand would be doing a similar thing forming a circle
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which i can't show you because i'll get canceled but one of the circles would be not overlapping with
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the other circle a venn diagram with fingers if you will and that venn diagram with fingers would show
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that there are zero people who really want to vote and can't figure out how because of
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lack of voter id i feel as though it's been four years since we're looking for one person
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who wants to vote and can't figure out how still waiting for our first one aren't we
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let me tell you something a little trick for determining what's true and what's not i use
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this one a lot now like all of the techniques for determining what's true they don't work all the
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time but what is that if the science or let's say the data you know we'll all say science but i could
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be statistics as well let's say the science doesn't match your observation
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then you should raise a red flag right there should be some skepticism if you're if you're just
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observing the world and what science or statistics tells you is true is just clearly not true
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your observation doesn't match doesn't mean your observation is right i mean the reason we do science
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is statistics is because your observations are crap you think you see patterns you don't you think
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you see a correlation you don't so we're really bad at you know spotting any correlation but don't you
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think we'd be able to spot the existence or non-existence of a human i don't have to be a scientist don't
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have to be a statistician there either is a person who fits into the category of really
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wants to vote but can't figure out how because of voter id problems where's that person you would
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only need to show me one just show me one and i'd say oh i guess i guess that person exists maybe
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there's more of them but you can't find one in four years really in four years not one example of an
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actual human being who just couldn't work it out really wants to vote feels feels strongly about
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politics but not strongly enough to figure out how to get an id no there are no people like that
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they don't exist we would have seen one of them by now right so i'm going to call bs on uh on the fact
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voter id changes anything and i agree with the with the statistics because it matches observation
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right my observation is that none of these people exist and certainly there's a great incentive for
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the news to produce these people right if cnn could produce a panel of people who couldn't figure out how
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to vote you don't think they would have done that by now or even how about man on the street or less
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sexist person on the street interviews they would have done at least a person on the street interview
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to say how much do you want to vote why aren't you doing it right it's all missing dog not barking
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hear it do you hear that dog not barking that's all those people who couldn't figure out how to vote
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talking to you at the same time complete silence
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well coincidentally we also have a report i think the federalist was part of this molly hemingway has
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a new book out uh whose title i forget but somebody will tell me in the comments let me just say this
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i have not read the book i can't remember its name but somebody will tell me rigged the book's name is
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rigged if you're not familiar with molly hemingway you should become familiar with her in my opinion
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maybe the best political observer and commentator i won't even call her a pundit because she's better
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than pundit pundit is almost a sort of an insult but i would say in the top rung of dependable
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people who have a good take can frame things right analyze a complicated situation and know
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enough about it to say something new very few people can do that she's one of them so i haven't i don't
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know anything about the book but if she wrote it and you read books um i think you ought to look into
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that i'll probably look into it myself i only heard about it today so that's that's your helpful tip for
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today you should be at least following molly hemingway on twitter one of your strongest
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most reliable voices i think anyway there's uh some information that zuckerberg
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uh basically bought the 2020 election for biden and the way he did it was putting he and his wife
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putting over 400 million dollars into non-profits that were supposed to be you know non-partisan but
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basically funneled their money to likely you know to boost the uh turnout of likely democrat voters
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now was any of that illegal was any of it illegal i don't think so i think i think it was all legal
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right should it be i'm not sure that our system uh anticipated anybody that rich
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because you would have to be like crazy rich to have so much money that it changed the outcome of
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an election you know in that way um so keep in mind that we have credible knowledge that zuckerberg
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basically bought the election because he funneled it into the places where it would matter the most and
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those are the places that swung just the way he hoped his his spending would would make a difference i
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assume i mean we can't read his mind but one assumes that was the point and so now we know this that
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there was something fishy about at least the fairness of the election if not the legality of it i don't i
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don't have any reason to think it was illegal i'm just saying that it's a fishy process because of
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money now listen to trump's statement which uh when i saw it on social media i didn't believe it
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like i i thought it was fake news i didn't think he really made this statement so keep in mind that
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my first impression was this are you sure he said that like i had to actually see it from some other
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sources before i believed it but he actually said this uh yesterday i guess if we don't solve the
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presidential election fraud of 2020 parenthetically which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented
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this is trump not me republicans will not be voting in 22 to or 24 it is the single most important
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thing for republicans to do um what do you think of that good move good persuasion
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because it seems to me that uh trump is taking republicans out of contention it looks like he is
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he's telling them not to vote which would guarantee another sweep by democrats which would make it even
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less likely that any election reform would happen does this look like a mistake to you
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you know of course people sent it to me immediately and said all right explain why this is brilliant
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persuasion well i suppose it depends what you're trying to accomplish so here's what it did accomplish
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it got attention definitely got your attention it allowed him because it got your attention it allowed
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him to promote his view that the election was stolen and that he's got conclusive documented
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proof which i'm not aware of are you i'm not aware of any conclusive documented proof of that
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um but he gets to you know send that message on on the signal that you know his provocative statement
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carries that signal so he wins that way so he gets attention and he promotes his message to mostly the
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base and but what do you think about this part republicans will not be voting in 22 or 24
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now interesting the way he worded it he didn't say i'm going to try to make republicans not vote
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right because people took this as a threat but read the words carefully he did not say if you don't do
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this for me which is fix 2020 somehow like you can fix the past if you don't do this for me i will
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somehow cause people not to vote does he have that power i suppose he does by influence but if you
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are a republican would you listen to that advice are there any republicans who would not vote
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because trump wasn't happy with 2020 anybody is there anybody here who would be in any way
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influenced by trump's opinion that maybe people won't vote he's not saying you shouldn't he's he's
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acting like it's a prediction that's not a threat prediction is not a threat yeah it's all oh i say yes
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paul paul paul collider says yes i'm not sure you mean that exactly you're you're a you're a provocateur
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paul so i'm not you might have some uh so i say another yes now it wouldn't take many yeses to
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change the election right suppose trump is right but it's only five percent
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five percent would change the result of every election right so i'm not sure he's wrong
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there there might be some impact on um but it would be irrational you know the rational thing
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to do would be to you know make sure you vote and at least nail that down and then also work on
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election integrity here's some advice for trump if he wants to win if trump wants to win
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let go of 2020 and make it about fixing election integrity for the next president the one after him
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make it about the president after you and you can be our president again
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right i mean i i think many of you probably have the same feeling i do which is i'm not so sure we
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want somebody of this age trump's age uh and somebody who's as provocative and you know could be as
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divisive as he could be i'm not sure you all want that if it turns out he's the best option i could
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probably support it again but i don't know that he will be i don't know that the the primaries will
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necessarily produce him as the candidate he certainly has the you know the front position and
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it's his to lose but you know he'd just have to say something a little extra provocative maybe and
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maybe it's over so um i'm not sure this is his best move his best move would be to say you elect me
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and i will make it a top priority to make sure that the next election you don't have any questions
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about just elect me overwhelmingly get the republicans in there and our top priority will be to fix the
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election system do you know why that probably won't happen because the republicans don't want
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to fix it there are probably too many states where the republicans have some kind of weird advantage
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and they just want to keep it so as long as there are some states that like the broken system the way
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it is i don't know if you can get anything done but i would certainly be more likely to support
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trump or any anybody who ran on this platform to say we can't fix it that you know it's too soon to
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fix it right away but it's got to be a national priority we will figure out how to make and here's
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the specific way to do it don't just say make elections fair because that's just too subjective who
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knows what that means be very specific that by year 2028 we'll have a system in which we can
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instantly audit and you will know if your if your vote was counted how about that just a very specific
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goal to have an instant audit so everybody can find out if their vote got counted by 2028 i would
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elect that guy or that woman whoever whoever comes up with that view in fact i'll even go further
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you want you want something really provocative that'll lose half of my audience right now
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if a democrat runs on that platform i'm gonna i'm gonna support him
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sorry top priority top priority if a democrat runs on the platform of making our voting
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instantly auditable to get rid of all this uncertainty i will support that democrat and i don't care what
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the other policies are is that is that clear enough i don't care what the party is i don't know who
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care who the candidate is if they look like they could deliver that fix the elections i will i will
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wipe from my mind all the other stuff because i don't think they can necessarily push through you
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know socialism i don't think that's gonna happen i think there will be enough pushback that you know
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there won't be massive problems even the infrastructure bill couldn't get passed so i'm not
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too worried about things getting out of control no matter who's who's president but if you give me this
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one thing just give me the one thing fix the elections make them and i'm good because everything
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else depends on that right if you can't be sure that you elected the person you elected everything
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else falls falls apart give me one thing make it good and you've got my support it's not going to
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happen don't worry about it nobody's going to run on that i guarantee nobody's going to run on that
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platform all right um i ran through my what i call my fake news filter um i probably need to retweet
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that link every now and then so it's a right now it's just a google sheets page with a essentially
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a checklist of things to ask yourself to know whether your news is fake news i ran through it a
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few stories that we don't yet have the conclusive evidence for whether it's true or not but the one i ran
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through was the story about the uh transgender sexual assault in lewdown county now the part i'm
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not questioning is that a sexual assault occurred everybody hear that everybody hear that clearly
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i'm not i'm not skeptical that a sexual assault occurred i don't know that it did it's just that's
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not the topic i'm questioning the topic i'm questioning is the nature of the assailant
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was the assailant wearing a skirt or a dress i guess some some like let's say skirt was the
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assailant wearing a skirt to quote gain access to the women's room as part of the raping plot
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sexual let's say sexual assault and um i think it's fake news i think it's fake news and so today
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now that a little time has gone by i thought i'll i'll google and i'll ask people do we have any
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confirmation that the assailant was wearing um a skirt do you know there isn't any right do you know
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there's no confirmation in anything that would be credible of the student who is the assailant the
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alleged assailant wearing a skirt somebody says goalpost no no i'm i have never questioned
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whether an assault took place because i'm very much on the point of view that if a if a woman or a man
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reports an assault that i wasn't there so i take that seriously which doesn't mean it happened
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i'm just not doubting it okay so it's different to say that it's credible than it is to say that
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it's true so i would say that any any initial report of a sexual assault is credible at first
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right so i would treat it most seriously at first
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the part that i question because and and let me say this as clearly as possible i'm never going to
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question an initial claim of a sexual assault on this or anything else so that's not the topic
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the topic is is it really about somebody who was wearing a skirt to get raping privileges not
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privileges but raping access so here's the closest thing we can find to that alleged assailant
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wearing a skirt it's a boy who was sometimes known to wear a skirt
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not a trans so here's the first part of the story did you believe that it was about a uh a trans
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person the reporting is not that it's a trans person the reporting is that it's a boy this is what
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the news says now do you think that the news is insulting the trans community by calling
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a trans person a boy in a girl's dress do you think that the news the woke news is referring to
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it as a boy in a dress knowing that if it's really a trans kid that is not the way you're going to refer
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to it i said it let me apologize for that that's not why you're going to uh not how you're going to
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refer to the situation it being the situation not the person um we do not have confirmation
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that this student was wearing a skirt during the assault it is somebody who is known to wear
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a skirt how often do you think this person wore a skirt
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um that was the veterinarian for my cat i'll have to get back on that
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all right the assault is what matters not the skirt yes and no so somebody's saying what matters is the
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assault not the skirt yes and no what matters to the victim is the assault and what you know
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certainly society cares about the assault more than anything but the skirt part is what made it a
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national story it's not a national story because somebody got assaulted that's unfortunately every
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day it's the skirt that made it a story i'm only doubting that part of the story because it was
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too on the nose right so keep in mind and and let me see if this is true give you another fact check
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on this am i the only sort of you know national figure you know somebody who's got some kind of a
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platform am i the only person who's questioning the story the skirt part of the story i haven't seen
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anybody else do it yeah i might be the only person in the world who's questioning it
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um was a permitted to be in the bathroom no no don't you think that the school would have already told
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you let me ask you this if it had been an actual trans student who had actual access to the girls
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bathroom i feel like we would have heard that by now don't you and by the way was there a lock on
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the girls bathroom i feel like anybody could open the door and walk in i don't know if the skirt part
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was important all right enough about that so i'm still doubting that one i could be wrong so i asked
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this question on twitter um why is it so we've got all this uh truck shortage in la so the ports are
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all backed up for weeks or whatever because there aren't enough trucks to unload the goods and then
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distribute them to which i ask why is the cost of all the every other good that they're carrying
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in other words all the things they're shipping the price will go up because of shortage why is it
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uh you're blowing off the vet oh no i'm not blowing off the vet i'll get back to the vet uh in a minute
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um i thought you meant veteran but it was the vet veterinarian you were talking about
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and so why is it that uh supply and demand doesn't work for truck drivers
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supply and demand works for all the things on the truck
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but not the driver so we have a shortage of drivers but the price we're willing to pay them
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is not going up fast enough to get more drivers and how long does it take to train a truck driver
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yeah i see you say training seriously how long does it take to train a truck driver
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i'm just asking i would think two weeks i would think two weeks and we didn't see the problem
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developing in time to train some truck drivers now i've also heard that it's a combination of things
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that uh i guess california had some restrictions about green stuff etc that made uh fewer people be
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able to have a truck you have to have a newer truck you gotta have a lot of insurance the pay is low
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i guess the pay for a truck driver hasn't increased in forever but maybe it is a little bit now
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so i just have questions why we have such poor visibility on what the hell is going on
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now i get that it's a complex system and it doesn't take much to to bunch it up maybe it's just a shortage
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of trucks but i feel like there's something else going on so the biden administration um somehow was
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instrumental in getting the port to open up for more hours so they could just work overnight as
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well as during the day to which i said what are you telling me the the docks were not already 24 hours
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what what did you know that the docks didn't already work around the clock
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they're they're lined up for weeks and only and only today somebody said you know
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really we're just figuring that out seems pretty massively incompetent i'm sure the unions were part
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of it i'm sure there were god knows what regulations but uh i feel like trump could have
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fixed that faster do you run into problems all the time where you say to yourself i think trump could
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have done that no matter what criticisms you want to level at trump and um oops you cannot plan for this
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amount of volume all right i'm looking at this so we have a logistics professional
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who says you can't you can't plan for the increase in volume well what caused that increase
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the the increase is not um so i i see the comment but i understand the comment
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but you can i think you can can't you what is it that caused the gigantic increase in imports
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backlog from the pandemic so basically all it is is that the pandemic is over and there's suddenly more
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demand for stuff um but to the logistics uh expert here i'm you know i certainly hear what you're
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saying and i understand the basic point it's a complex system if you get a shock it just takes a
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while for the system to adjust but only today they figured out to work more hours right we're not
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talking about the hardest solutions in the world get some more temporary trucks do you think that
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the state and the federal government can't say temporarily hey we'd like you to have these very
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green trucks that are new we'd like you to have a certain amount of insurance or whatever but it's
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an emergency so if you've got something with four wheels bring it over here we'll we'll fill it up
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you don't you don't think that we could have figured out some way to get some extra trucks going
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i feel like trump would have made that happen don't you i know i somebody had some kind of
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regulatory complication there that was holding it up national guard i don't know about the national
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guard but i don't think they could ship enough to make a difference well there was a man in norway
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who killed five people with a bow and arrow in a mass what would you call it mass arrowing
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is it a mass shooting if he uses a bow and arrow i'm going to call it a mass arrowing
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um and i have mixed feelings about this and i'm not proud of it
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um number one this is a horrible tragedy and we of course have to think first of all of the victims
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horrible horrible tragedy you imagine this imagine i mean i can't even imagine being
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part of this so on one hand it's the worst it's just a horrible tragedy and our thoughts go with the
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on the other hand i'm always impressed by good work no matter where i see it
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and here's a guy who managed to actually kill five people how fast and how accurate do you have to be
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with a bow and arrow to get five people before the crowd can get to him
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and after the first person got hit with an arrow
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weren't people saying hey hey where'd that arrow come from it's over there hey he's loading up another
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arrow i can see why he would get a second person but how did the fifth person not figure out how to
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get out of arrow range and how quickly can you shoot five arrows i mean it must have been like you know
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who is who's that superhero on uh the avengers hawkeye yeah it looks like hawkeye you know
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i mean you can't even do it on tv without fast forwarding it with cgi
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now it could be that um people were falling over dead
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and nobody could figure out where it was coming from for a while
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is that what a oh high capacity quiver is that a thing
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is there a high capacity quiver well you're joking right
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yeah it maybe the fact that it was silent and the old people were just probably crumbling
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yeah it probably took the full 30 seconds for people to figure out even what was going on
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if you'd heard a shot you would have immediately known what was happening and people would have
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dispersed that probably is right so i think and there was some report that
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this person was recently radicalized to islam um but uh that's a weird one well the funniest and
00:32:27.340
best entertainment of the week is joe rogan had sanjay gupta on have you seen the clips
00:32:32.340
uh so sanjay gupta is the the medical uh professional on cnn and uh i'll tell you
00:32:43.380
based on the clips i saw this is some good stuff so let me give you some highlights from this
00:32:47.640
so as you know famously uh joe rogan got covid and he took uh ivermectin among other things
00:32:55.380
so uh all prescribed by doctors and cnn and others decided to say that uh joe rogan was taking horse
00:33:03.620
dewormer now you i don't have to explain to you that the drug ivermectin was designed for people
00:33:11.060
and it won a nobel prize and it works great for people but there's also an animal version
00:33:16.020
so cnn saying that joe rogan was taking you know horse dewormer is fake news and there's no other
00:33:25.760
way to say it it's just fake news and so he challenges sanjay gupta you know during the interview
00:33:33.360
he says uh this is a quote from rogan talking to sanjay gupta he says does it bother you that the
00:33:40.060
network you work for uh out and out lied just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer
00:33:47.040
and i think uh sanjay was not quite you know ready to defend everything that other people had said
00:33:55.280
on the network because it's not something he said so there's no indication that sanjay gupta
00:34:00.340
ever referred to it that way and and you know he's more credible than most people there
00:34:05.400
uh and then joe said uh why would they lie and say that's horse dewormer rogan asked
00:34:12.240
and then i love this rogan asked he says i can afford people medicine motherfucker
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i don't know why that's so funny i can i can afford people medicine
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but it is i guess that's why he's he's a professional
00:34:45.260
um he says it's ridiculous it's just a lie don't you think that a lie like that is dangerous
00:34:52.360
on a news network when you know that they know they're lying you know that they know they're lying
00:34:58.320
this is what rogan says uh he says do you think that's a problem that your news network lies
00:35:05.820
that's freaking brutal the the best part about this is that there's no question on facts
00:35:12.920
there's nothing that cnn can say that's like well you know we were sort of right no you weren't
00:35:20.280
sort of right it was an intentional lie every time they said it was an intentional lie
00:35:25.660
it wasn't sort of right it wasn't a horse dewormer so and then he goes on he says this is joe rogan
00:35:35.400
still he goes my point is you're working for a news organization if they're lying about a comedian
00:35:40.700
taking horse medication what are they telling us about russia
00:35:49.840
do you understand that that's why people get concerned about the veracity of the news
00:35:57.400
oh my god that's about as perfect as as an attack can be um i always feel sorry
00:36:06.120
when somebody who's in one profession let's say the medical profession sanjay gupta
00:36:12.260
comes up against somebody who's in uh who's one of the most famous capable people in the world
00:36:20.100
as saying short clear uh jabbingly insightful things and that's the sort of what made joe rogan joe rogan
00:36:32.520
that he can talk better than other people can talk you know he just communicates in a
00:36:38.120
in a nuclear powered way that just ordinary people just don't do and so this was sort of like not a
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here is something that surprised me so given joe rogan's the size of his uh audience uh i believe
00:36:57.860
he said when he was talking to sanjay that you know he was questioning the purpose of the vaccination
00:37:02.880
if you can get and transmit the virus just as easily if you're vaccinated which turns out not
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to be anywhere near true so it turns out that joe rogan was under the impression that the
00:37:15.900
vaccination would not vastly reduce the odds of getting the virus or and also the odds of transmitting
00:37:22.680
it so that is a really really big piece of information to not be aware of if you have a if you have a
00:37:30.860
platform right now this is a criticism this is a criticism of uh joe who i love by the way big fan
00:37:38.700
and i don't think that we should expect the non-medical people to be right on all the medical stuff
00:37:45.000
that's not a thing but here he was here here was joe with with gigantic platform and he was corrected
00:37:53.520
on a really really fundamentally important fact that that the vaccination vastly reduces the odds of getting
00:38:02.460
infected and and also reduces by a large amount the odds of giving it to somebody else and of course reduces the
00:38:10.260
odds of having a bad outcome i feel it would be interesting to see if rogan takes this new information
00:38:17.520
and does what only somebody like him could do there there are some people who just have powers that
00:38:24.580
other people don't have and he hasn't an ordinary person would have to bury that and just act like
00:38:31.900
it didn't happen you know because it would be embarrassing to be that wrong on something that
00:38:37.200
important i mean vital to the health and well-being of the country i mean it's really
00:38:40.860
really super important so will joe reagan take this new information that sanjay gupta um gave him
00:38:50.620
and incorporate that in his future conversations about the topic
00:38:55.880
now people are asking if it's true it's true that the medical community um feels it's confirmed
00:39:05.760
i guess that's different than being true it's true that the experts are pretty sure of that based on
00:39:11.700
the data they're they're very confident of that that's doesn't seem to be one of the things that
00:39:16.680
there's a lot of question about so i would love oh and then then uh rogan asked a perfectly good
00:39:25.420
question which is why do people with natural immunity have to get vaccinated it's a good question right
00:39:31.140
don't you wonder that that too what's wrong with my natural immunity so here's another thing that
00:39:37.520
sanjay gupta knew that joe rogan didn't know and i didn't know it either that uh natural immunity
00:39:43.200
doesn't work uh 30 to 40 percent of the time what did you know that did you know that 30 to 40 percent
00:39:52.280
of the time people who actually get the virus can actually just get it again how many of you knew that
00:39:59.580
how many knew that you can get the virus and then just get it again because you didn't get enough
00:40:04.680
immunity the first time now in the same way that you can get the vaccination and also get the virus
00:40:12.400
but you're far more likely to get the virus a second time according to sanjay gupta far more likely to get
00:40:19.900
it a second time if you um are only have natural immunity is that a good reason now let's take for
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take for a moment if the information is correct is would it be a good reason now i can't confirm the
00:40:35.260
data but i'd say sanjay gupta is pretty close to the real data nobody's let me say this as far as i
00:40:42.760
know nobody has ever accused sanjay gupta of lying about data right they all agree on that sanjay gupta
00:40:50.720
despite the fact he's on cnn is a credible credible person you might not like it but he's credible
00:40:58.900
and i don't think he has any background that would suggest he would do anything but you know report what
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he what he believed he he knew based on the facts so that's actually a i see actually a really good answer
00:41:12.000
the really good answer is that natural immunity is great when it works but you can't depend on it
00:41:17.940
it's not nearly as good as being natural immunity plus a vaccination now i do think that that might
00:41:24.900
be the sort of thing that gets revised later it might be the sort of thing where people say oh well
00:41:30.160
we're wrong about this we have to revise that maybe i think it's in the category of things that might
00:41:34.640
be revised someday but it's a good it's a good answer all right here's another one joe rogan brought
00:41:41.840
up the myocarditis in kids from getting the shot now you're all aware that especially young boys i
00:41:49.520
think are more likely to get myocarditis which is some kind of enlargement of the heart it's treatable
00:41:56.740
they're pretty much all released you know within i think a day or something so almost nobody dies
00:42:03.940
so even the kids who get this it doesn't seem to be a death sentence it's just something that
00:42:09.020
is inconvenient for a day or so um but did you know that the risk of getting that myocarditis is
00:42:16.580
far higher if you get the virus there's a risk of getting it with the vaccination that that's a known
00:42:24.280
risk sanjay gupta you know acknowledges but the risk of getting it if you don't get the shot
00:42:30.780
is higher because basically we're all going to get the virus eventually how many of you knew that
00:42:35.820
john says it's a lie somebody says no bad assumption so you're you're skeptical of the the fact then
00:42:46.220
right right said who so here's here's what i would challenge you with and you can you can uh you can
00:42:57.500
challenge me right back so so search for this do a do a google search yourself see and again i'm only
00:43:06.400
saying what what the expert opinion would be i'm not telling you this is my opinion i'm not telling
00:43:11.140
you it won't change i'm not telling you it's right i'm just telling you it's the expert opinion at the
00:43:16.120
moment is that the data says you're a much much higher chance of the myocarditis if you're not
00:43:21.640
vaccinated and you're a kid now those are three really really important facts wouldn't you say
00:43:30.940
now again i say facts but maybe some of them will will be revised at some point maybe we'll learn more
00:43:37.520
i think that joe rogan was short three really really important facts am i right so the way this
00:43:47.840
is being reported is that you know rogan dunked on um cnn more than sanjay gupta uh and that's true
00:43:56.380
he he did dunk on cnn and he did it really well and it was fun to watch but um i think the discussion
00:44:06.360
with sanjay gupta was really really good because you know people watching joe rogan probably are
00:44:13.860
leaning you know anti-vax is that true check your facts somebody says i'm asking you to check them
00:44:21.500
i've got a good source sanjay gupta so argue with him don't argue with me because remember i'm not
00:44:29.460
saying it's true you don't need to argue with me i'm saying that a person who surveys what the
00:44:35.420
experts say says the experts say it i can't confirm it so don't get mad at the messenger i feel like
00:44:41.640
some of you are getting mad at me are you getting mad at me because i'm not making any claims i'm
00:44:48.000
just telling you what other people are claiming don't get mad at me i'm just telling you what the
00:44:53.040
landscape is um so i would like to say again that uh joe rogan show it's like a you know national
00:45:02.980
treasure because it is at least it's one place where people are not trying to lie
00:45:07.600
the one thing you could be sure about with uh rogan is he's not trying to lie i'd be serious he's
00:45:15.260
definitely not trying to mislead anybody about anything you you agree with that right like you
00:45:21.440
watch cnn and you're you're like i think they're trying to lie it looks intentional doesn't it but if
00:45:27.380
rogan is wrong about something he's just he's just us because we're wrong about stuff too but he's
00:45:34.020
not lying to you at least you know that now look at look how valuable this is i i always see the
00:45:41.480
the glass half full look how valuable this conversation was this is the first time that
00:45:49.600
there was something like a polite detailed conversation between somebody who's a little
00:45:54.600
you know i'll say a little bit skeptical about the vaccines or at least the mandate part of the vaccines
00:45:59.080
and somebody who had a little bit more information doesn't mean it was right but it was more
00:46:05.700
information and this was really valuable i feel i learned i feel like i learned a lot of this so i would
00:46:16.300
like to say um my highest compliments to both joe rogan and to uh sanjay gupta dr gupta for in my
00:46:28.380
opinion the most useful information exchange in the entire pandemic would you agree with that i think
00:46:36.900
this was the most productive most honest most useful conversation on this topic that i've seen so far
00:46:46.360
so compliments to both people they did great uh apple's uh looking into making their airpods
00:46:53.220
into a health device so i guess they can turn their airpods into a hearing aid without you know too much
00:47:00.460
work it could read body temperature monitor your posture and of course there are other other things
00:47:07.080
that you could do with your phone and other sensors so apple's apple's pretty serious about this health
00:47:12.780
stuff um somebody's asking me does rogan have an egg on his face let me go back to the importance of
00:47:25.460
being free of embarrassment now i can't speak for him because i can't get inside his head but does it
00:47:32.640
look like joe rogan is somebody who gets embarrassed easily i mean everybody can be embarrassed but does he
00:47:39.000
look like the guy who's going to crawl under a rock if he said something was wrong no no so when you say
00:47:48.360
stuff like you know you know does joe rogan have egg on his face or is he embarrassed or anything like
00:47:52.780
that i'll bet no i'll bet no because it's an unproductive emotion and i would imagine he's beyond it
00:48:00.320
i would imagine he's more like what do you do about it what works you know think about tomorrow night
00:48:06.720
yesterday kind of thing that's that's just my guess i can't can't get inside his head of course
00:48:11.020
you know what's interesting about this apple thing is there's a an app called translate that
00:48:19.300
translates from english into any other language and or into the major ones and vice versa and it works
00:48:25.540
really fast it works really fast let me show it to you uh well i don't need to show it to you
00:48:33.180
just imagine it's fast now imagine also that you've got your app up and you've got your air
00:48:39.060
your airpods in how hard is it to have your phone just translate in real time just hold it up to the
00:48:46.660
speaker and have it just translate like a like a star trek universal translator it'd be a delay
00:48:52.480
but with 5g you know if you put uh let's say you put uh amazon's you know cloud computing on it or google
00:49:02.240
and you you give me 5g speed so it's essentially instant and i just hold it up to a native speaker
00:49:09.840
of spanish i think it could translate i think it could translate in real time couldn't it could get
00:49:16.760
really close real time maybe a two or three second delay something like that uh been doing that
00:49:25.440
since 2017 yeah i you it's it's it's been doable for several years but not really well it hasn't
00:49:33.560
reached that you know good good level yet but it's almost there 5g will be a big part of that
00:49:38.160
but here's a provocative thought that i put out there in the beginning all these little uh health
00:49:43.660
apps are going to be useful you know something will say uh hey you better take a drink of water
00:49:50.240
because you're dehydrated now the first time your phone tells you to take a drink of water because
00:49:55.240
you're dehydrated you might say to yourself i'm busy yeah i'll get to it but sometimes you might take
00:50:02.580
the drink of water and then you say to yourself oh wow i do feel better that perked me up a little
00:50:08.480
bit i guess this this app was right i needed to get some water eventually the app will be so useful
00:50:16.240
that it will feel you just like you can't say no there will very quickly become a point where your
00:50:25.100
your health apps train you to do what they tell you it's going to tell you to take a walk it's going
00:50:31.620
to tell you to go to sleep it's going to tell you what to eat it's going to tell you to eat less of
00:50:35.460
it's going to tell you to sit up it's going to tell you to hydrate it's going to tell you when to
00:50:39.780
take your pills and at first it's just going to be convenient it's just going to be convenient
00:50:47.220
uh but eventually it will just control you because it will train you like a dog
00:50:54.140
to do whatever it tells you because if you follow the directions of the ai long enough
00:51:00.060
it will train you to do the next thing it tells you because you get in the boat it's like oh my ai
00:51:06.600
told me to take a drink take a drink it works every time it's good for me i'm not doing it because the
00:51:12.280
ai told me i'm doing it because it's good for me we are going to be trained like dogs to respond to ai
00:51:20.780
and we'll do it to ourselves because we don't think it's that important you just think you're doing
00:51:26.920
what makes sense yeah i'm dehydrated it told me i took a drink eventually you'll do anything it
00:51:34.740
all right uh texas versus uh the federal government and joe biden so texas governor has uh banned uh
00:51:48.460
any vaccine mandates in in texas but of course the federal government says
00:51:53.400
um says the opposite so southwest and americans are both going to follow the uh the federal
00:52:00.400
guideline not the state guideline an interesting fight an interesting fight so not much to say
00:52:09.400
about that except uh we'll watch that develop and i feel like i don't know i feel like the market
00:52:17.840
should be taking care of this um hopefully it'll go to the supreme court yeah maybe federal mandate
00:52:28.440
has not been issued just stated but i think the companies probably want to get ahead of it
00:52:33.720
the companies would probably comply just on the statement before it's before it's official i would
00:52:39.640
think now does anybody know what percentage of pilots are uh walking out or or pretending they're
00:52:50.020
sick or whatever i don't know what percentage it is it's not a big percentage right somebody says 40
00:52:57.500
percent i don't think so 30 percent i think the number that would actually walk out would be less
00:53:04.860
than 10 percent and and if it's two percent that's not going to surprise me i don't feel like it's
00:53:13.540
30 or 40 i think it's going to be under 10 and closer to two all right here's a um sean says here's the
00:53:19.840
study group decided they say right in the study that the data is garbage and also that it doesn't show
00:53:25.900
causation see if i can open that up uh it doesn't show causation causation of of uh which topic
00:53:34.760
was that i can't open that right now but was the gupta study about the reinfection or about the
00:53:43.220
speed shooting is a regular part of archery makes sense
00:53:49.700
pilots are turning down overtime work it's not it's not a sickness or time off
00:54:02.500
uh many are close to retirement and maybe just using their sick leave before retiring i've heard
00:54:11.960
uh gupta lied somebody says well did he lie or did he just refer to his studies and maybe the studies are
00:54:23.140
wrong um boo update i'll have that later all right that's all for now i've got to go do some other