Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1618 Scott Adams： It's Time To Tell You The Real Story About Hypnosis and The News

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00:01:07.900 Well, I would like to start with a story that I have titled,

00:01:15.760 Worst Husband in the World.

00:01:18.540 Now, if you've seen this tweet, I have to tell you that I was cry laughing

00:01:24.220 to the point where I was choking on my own spittle,

00:01:28.680 and I had about 15 minutes of lost productivity after I saw this tweet.

00:01:34.680 Now, I'm going to show it to you on my phone.

00:01:36.320 You won't be able to see it well, but I'll walk you through it.

00:01:40.240 So I'll tell you first the text.

00:01:43.440 So the tweeter is John Reyes, seems to be a husband.

00:01:48.280 And he tweets this.

00:01:49.560 He says,

00:01:50.080 Even after a 12-hour night shift at the hospital last night,

00:01:54.320 my wife still has the energy to shovel the driveway.

00:01:58.340 God bless her and all our frontliners.

00:02:01.080 Time to make her some breakfast.

00:02:02.320 And then he shows the picture of his wife shoveling the driveway,

00:02:10.200 which apparently he has taken from the warmth of his home.

00:02:14.140 Now, do I need to add any commentary to this story?

00:02:28.060 Is there anything that I could add to this that could possibly make this better?

00:02:34.680 Yeah, sure.

00:02:35.440 At least he made her breakfast.

00:02:36.920 But can I give you a little bit of marital advice?

00:02:43.920 Anybody?

00:02:47.040 If you see your wife come home from a 12-hour shift during the pandemic,

00:02:54.660 and then you see, and then you look out the window,

00:02:59.580 and you see her shoveling the driveway,

00:03:01.060 this thing I have in my hand, the phone,

00:03:05.560 that's not what you should be reaching for.

00:03:08.860 Don't be reaching for the phone with the camera.

00:03:13.020 If you see your wife, after a 12-hour shift,

00:03:16.500 shoveling your driveway.

00:03:20.960 This should be maybe third or fourth on the list of things to go for.

00:03:26.020 Number one on the list would be galoshes.

00:03:31.300 Because if you're not putting on your fucking boots,

00:03:34.360 you've got some explaining to do in a few minutes.

00:03:38.780 And I'd like to take you to the level further,

00:03:41.840 for those of you who have been married for a while.

00:03:44.480 This is expert-level advice.

00:03:47.020 If you didn't have your shoes on,

00:03:49.220 you were completely barefooted,

00:03:51.180 it was zero degrees outside,

00:03:53.260 and you looked out and you saw your wife start to shovel the driveway

00:03:57.280 after a 12-hour shift at the hospital.

00:03:59.860 What's the right move?

00:04:01.920 Anybody?

00:04:02.880 You're barefooted.

00:04:04.380 What's the right move?

00:04:06.660 Get the fuck out there in your bare feet,

00:04:09.480 grab the shovel out of her hand,

00:04:11.740 and keep shoveling.

00:04:14.620 Push her inside.

00:04:16.660 All right.

00:04:17.100 If you're not out there barefoot,

00:04:19.600 shoveling,

00:04:20.080 and taking it out of her hand,

00:04:21.560 don't expect the rest of the night to go well.

00:04:26.220 That's all I'm saying.

00:04:28.220 All right.

00:04:29.120 That story made me laugh so hard.

00:04:31.040 You have to read the comments,

00:04:32.260 so I tweeted it.

00:04:33.540 The funny part of the story is the comments,

00:04:35.680 because people are just all over the story.

00:04:38.020 It's a great one.

00:04:39.580 All right.

00:04:40.380 We know that our Supreme Court has been saying some dumb things,

00:04:43.340 but the dumb things that we heard of were from Democrats.

00:04:49.100 Am I right?

00:04:50.460 No, I guess, what is Breyer?

00:04:53.540 Is Breyer right or left?

00:04:55.660 Which way does he lead?

00:04:59.080 Breyer's also left.

00:05:00.880 And so Sotomayor and Kagan and Breyer,

00:05:05.540 they all had some really bad statements about the pandemic,

00:05:09.440 as if they had never been informed correctly about anything.

00:05:13.720 But apparently Gorsuch has at least a questionable statement

00:05:17.640 that Aaron Rupar pointed out.

00:05:21.740 And I, being the jerk that I am,

00:05:23.860 because it came from Aaron Rupar,

00:05:25.480 who's famous for out-of-context reporting,

00:05:28.860 I cheekily tweeted,

00:05:31.460 I wonder if any context is missing.

00:05:33.120 And Aaron Rupar saw that very quickly

00:05:36.140 and pointed me to the rest of the thread,

00:05:40.640 which I had not noticed was a thread.

00:05:42.980 Big problem I have on social media

00:05:45.100 when I don't notice things with threads.

00:05:47.320 And you don't know the answer to your questions right there.

00:05:50.000 And he showed me the transcript,

00:05:53.440 so you can see the context,

00:05:54.920 and also the audio itself.

00:05:57.580 So, is Aaron Rupar clear of his reputation

00:06:05.400 of showing things out of context?

00:06:08.240 Or, did he do a good job,

00:06:10.300 because he showed you the whole transcript

00:06:12.060 and also the audio?

00:06:15.920 Well, maybe.

00:06:17.080 I'm going to add some context

00:06:19.000 that Aaron Rupar did not add,

00:06:21.620 and then you can judge

00:06:22.780 whether there was context missing,

00:06:24.920 or if I'm adding something that you don't need.

00:06:28.120 Okay?

00:06:29.760 So, here's what Gorsuch said, or didn't.

00:06:32.720 So, the question is whether he said

00:06:34.380 hundreds, comma, thousands,

00:06:37.840 and I'll give you the further context in a minute,

00:06:40.100 or did he say hundreds of thousands?

00:06:44.740 So, something that's in the range of a hundred or a thousand

00:06:47.440 is way different than something

00:06:49.420 that is multiple hundreds of thousands.

00:06:51.200 And what he asked was about the regular flu.

00:06:56.040 And he said, how many people are,

00:06:58.180 I'm paraphrasing, but he said,

00:06:59.880 how many people die of the regular seasonal flu?

00:07:02.440 And then, here's the ambiguous part.

00:07:04.400 He goes, hundreds, thousands?

00:07:07.580 And you can hear it both ways.

00:07:09.560 It's sort of a Yanni-Laurel thing.

00:07:11.520 If you listen to it, you could imagine,

00:07:13.240 he says, hundreds, comma, thousands.

00:07:16.160 Now, if he thought that the regular flu

00:07:19.400 was only killing hundreds of people, maybe,

00:07:23.460 or maybe in the low thousands,

00:07:25.500 wouldn't he be as dumb as the other,

00:07:27.920 the Democrat members of the Supreme Court?

00:07:32.940 Can we agree on that?

00:07:34.620 That if he thought the regular flu

00:07:36.580 was killing only hundreds,

00:07:39.760 maybe a few thousand,

00:07:40.780 that that would be deeply, deeply misinformed.

00:07:45.200 Can we agree?

00:07:47.100 But also, also,

00:07:49.300 if he said it was killing hundreds of thousands,

00:07:52.860 wouldn't that be deeply uninformed?

00:07:54.560 Because the real number is like 30,000 to 50,000.

00:07:57.460 So if he thought it was hundreds of thousands,

00:07:59.560 he would be way off.

00:08:01.180 And if he thought it was only maybe hundreds of people,

00:08:04.480 he'd be way off, right?

00:08:05.600 So Aaron Rupar pointed that out.

00:08:10.680 And whatever it is, he's wrong, right?

00:08:14.000 How many agree with me?

00:08:16.160 That either way you interpret it,

00:08:18.120 he's way off, right?

00:08:21.780 Nope.

00:08:22.940 There's some context missing.

00:08:25.580 Now, we don't know if Gorsuch was thinking this, right?

00:08:29.560 Because we can't get it in his head.

00:08:30.560 My guess is that he thought it was hundreds of thousands.

00:08:35.600 I feel like, but I don't know,

00:08:39.260 because it's ambiguous.

00:08:40.700 My guess is it was an actual mistake.

00:08:43.640 But here's some context for you.

00:08:46.240 Were they talking about the whole world,

00:08:48.180 or were they talking about the workforce?

00:08:50.700 What was the context?

00:08:52.660 It was about OSHA, right?

00:08:54.540 It was about mandatory vaccines in the workplace.

00:08:58.340 Am I right?

00:08:59.460 Can we agree that was the context?

00:09:02.280 Right?

00:09:02.700 It was a workplace context.

00:09:04.080 How many people of workplace age

00:09:08.160 die each year from regular flu?

00:09:11.920 They're workplace age.

00:09:13.160 They're not very young, like children,

00:09:16.020 and they're not over 80.

00:09:19.240 How many people of workplace age

00:09:22.160 die of the flu every year?

00:09:24.740 I don't know the number,

00:09:26.280 but I'm going to give you a guess.

00:09:27.560 Hundreds?

00:09:30.780 Comma?

00:09:32.620 Thousands?

00:09:36.540 That was exactly the right answer.

00:09:39.460 It could be that Gorsuch was the smartest person in the room,

00:09:43.360 and the smartest person on the internet.

00:09:45.720 Because there aren't many people who know what I just told you.

00:09:48.900 That the regular flu numbers are based on estimates,

00:09:52.520 first of all.

00:09:53.540 They're based on excess death estimates.

00:09:55.660 Did you know that?

00:09:57.540 Nobody counts regular flu deaths.

00:10:00.300 That's never been counted.

00:10:02.800 What experts do is they look at how many people died in August,

00:10:08.180 and they compare it to how many people died in December.

00:10:11.300 And they say,

00:10:11.820 oh, there's more people who die in the winter.

00:10:14.420 So those excess deaths,

00:10:15.880 probably a lot of that is flu.

00:10:17.520 Now, don't you think there are other reasons people die in the winter?

00:10:22.580 I mean, it seems to me

00:10:24.040 that it would be pretty hard to sort out

00:10:25.980 how much of the excess winter death

00:10:28.540 is based on the flu

00:10:30.240 versus anything else that could kill you in the winter.

00:10:35.520 Right?

00:10:36.240 I mean, even suicide is higher in the winter.

00:10:39.500 But,

00:10:40.100 so here's the question.

00:10:42.240 Is Gorsuch as dumb as the Democrats

00:10:45.500 and thought that the regular flu

00:10:47.480 was killing hundreds of thousands of people?

00:10:50.360 Let me ask you this as a multiple choice, okay?

00:10:53.420 This will be a multiple choice,

00:10:54.840 and I'm going to give you A, B, or C

00:10:56.640 so that it'll be easy when you answer just A, B, or C, okay?

00:11:00.260 So here's your test.

00:11:01.620 Which do you believe,

00:11:02.600 we don't know,

00:11:03.540 but which do you believe Gorsuch was thinking?

00:11:05.780 Was he thinking that really,

00:11:07.680 this will be A,

00:11:08.840 hundreds of thousands of people

00:11:10.240 do die of the regular flu?

00:11:11.820 That's A.

00:11:13.320 Did he think, B,

00:11:15.800 only hundreds or maybe a few thousand people die

00:11:20.320 in the whole world,

00:11:22.700 or in the whole country, not the world,

00:11:24.460 in the whole country,

00:11:25.540 not just the workplace?

00:11:27.400 So B is that he wasn't talking about

00:11:29.240 the workplace specifically,

00:11:30.940 but really thought that

00:11:32.440 only hundreds of people or so

00:11:36.060 were dying of the regular flu,

00:11:37.660 and that he would be totally wrong.

00:11:41.360 Or C,

00:11:43.360 he is the smartest person in the room,

00:11:45.300 he knew that workplace was the context,

00:11:47.960 and he knew accurately

00:11:49.220 that very few people of workplace age

00:11:52.260 ever die of a flu,

00:11:53.940 because you have to be pretty weak,

00:11:55.720 either really young or really old,

00:11:57.260 to die of a flu, right?

00:11:59.020 If you're so sick that you can't go to work,

00:12:02.600 well, you're not in the workplace,

00:12:03.880 so they're the ones who die of it.

00:12:05.440 So, A, B, or C?

00:12:08.100 A was hundreds of thousands,

00:12:10.960 B was hundreds, maybe thousands,

00:12:14.000 and then C was he's the smartest guy in the room,

00:12:17.160 and he knew that the workplace,

00:12:18.820 almost nobody dies of the flu.

00:12:21.520 Well, here's the problem.

00:12:24.440 The context was that there are a lot of people

00:12:26.780 who die of the regular flu.

00:12:27.840 So, if you add the other context,

00:12:33.100 I think the point he was making

00:12:34.800 was that a lot of people die of regular flu.

00:12:38.140 So, that means that he actually was an idiot.

00:12:42.060 So, unfortunately, we cannot save Justice Gorsuch.

00:12:46.560 He does seem to be as misinformed

00:12:48.760 as the rest of them.

00:12:51.500 Do you buy that?

00:12:52.420 Because, remember, the point of it was

00:12:53.820 lots of people die of the regular flu.

00:12:55.980 So, that means he was not talking

00:12:57.880 about hundreds of people.

00:12:59.460 He was talking about hundreds of thousands.

00:13:03.380 Yeah, I think we'll never agree on that.

00:13:05.740 But, you have to at least be open

00:13:08.020 to the possibility that he was

00:13:09.320 the smartest person in the room.

00:13:11.720 But, that wouldn't make sense

00:13:13.120 with the point he was making.

00:13:15.080 So, I think you have to assume

00:13:16.520 he doesn't know how many people

00:13:17.740 die of regular flu.

00:13:20.020 All right.

00:13:22.920 So, I'm going to give Aaron Rupar the win.

00:13:25.980 I'll bet you never thought you'd hear that.

00:13:29.080 I think Rupar actually got the story right

00:13:34.080 and showed you the full context.

00:13:37.180 I don't think he took the context

00:13:39.620 as far as I took it.

00:13:44.100 But, go look yourself.

00:13:45.680 See if you agree.

00:13:47.620 All right.

00:13:48.120 Here's the funnest story of the day.

00:13:50.340 The AP and Reuters and other fact-checkers

00:13:53.560 are fact-checking Dr. Malone

00:13:55.100 and also the rest of you, I guess,

00:13:57.740 on whether there's this concept

00:13:59.220 of a mass formation psychosis.

00:14:03.660 So, the fact-checkers are saying

00:14:05.560 there's no such thing

00:14:06.660 as a mass formation psychosis

00:14:08.600 and none of that is happening.

00:14:11.700 And that Dr. Malone

00:14:12.740 is just talking about something

00:14:15.040 that's unscientific.

00:14:16.320 What do you think?

00:14:19.680 The fact-checkers are quite unified.

00:14:22.660 There doesn't seem to be any difference

00:14:23.940 of the fact-checkers,

00:14:24.820 which doesn't mean anything, right?

00:14:26.300 But the fact-checkers are quite certain

00:14:28.360 that the experts say,

00:14:30.820 no, we've never heard of this thing.

00:14:32.540 It's in one book,

00:14:33.580 but it's not part of the field of psychology.

00:14:37.300 So, it is definitely in one book.

00:14:39.780 So, there is an author who came up with it.

00:14:41.860 But the people in the field say,

00:14:43.280 no, this is not something we recognize as real.

00:14:47.380 What do you think?

00:14:50.380 Well, part of the problem is definitions

00:14:52.640 of like what does hypnosis mean

00:14:54.940 and what does it mean to be in a mass formation psychosis

00:14:57.480 and all that stuff.

00:14:59.320 But who would you trust on this question

00:15:03.140 of whether the public is hypnotized?

00:15:07.120 Would you trust a clinical psychologist?

00:15:12.740 A clinical psychologist with lots of experience.

00:15:15.420 Let's say a Harvard, Harvard clinical psychologist.

00:15:19.800 Would you trust them to give you the right answer on this

00:15:22.520 compared to, let's say me,

00:15:26.100 a practicing hypnotist for 40 years.

00:15:29.940 So, I have 40 years experience with hypnosis and persuasion,

00:15:33.200 but I'm going to be competing, I guess,

00:15:37.080 against a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist.

00:15:40.940 Well, let's take one little point of disagreement

00:15:43.560 and see who is the smarter one.

00:15:45.960 Me or the smart people.

00:15:51.260 Here's one.

00:15:52.280 Let's see.

00:15:52.640 This is from, the AP reports this.

00:15:54.920 Stephen J. Lynn, a psychology professor.

00:15:58.140 Psychology professor at Binghamton University in New York.

00:16:00.720 All right.

00:16:00.880 So, here's somebody you should know about psychology.

00:16:03.240 Psychology professor said Malone's argument

00:16:06.320 that a group can, quote,

00:16:07.960 literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere

00:16:11.180 is premised on a myth about hypnosis.

00:16:15.420 So, the myth is that you can just make anybody do anything.

00:16:20.600 So, that's what a clinical psychologist says,

00:16:23.300 that it's a myth that hypnosis can make you just do anything.

00:16:28.660 What do you think?

00:16:29.180 Somebody mentioned that there was a stage show,

00:16:34.520 I guess, Darren Brown, hypnotist,

00:16:36.900 hypnotized somebody and handed them a gun.

00:16:39.140 It wasn't a real gun,

00:16:40.360 but told them to shoot somebody in the head.

00:16:43.340 And they actually pulled the trigger.

00:16:44.780 So, if you could hypnotize somebody to put a gun to somebody's head

00:16:51.060 and pull the trigger,

00:16:53.680 does that prove that you can make somebody do anything?

00:16:57.880 Whereas this psychologist says,

00:17:00.960 psychology professor,

00:17:02.800 says that's a myth.

00:17:05.340 But Darren Brown did it right in front of you.

00:17:08.240 He did it right in front of you.

00:17:10.320 Gave somebody a gun.

00:17:11.180 It wasn't a real gun.

00:17:11.900 Or it didn't have real bullets, one or the other.

00:17:14.200 I assume it wasn't a real gun.

00:17:15.560 I hope it wasn't a real gun with no bullets in it.

00:17:18.920 Let's hope that wasn't the case.

00:17:21.660 But, so, it's proven, right?

00:17:24.040 You can hypnotize somebody and they will pull the trigger.

00:17:27.480 No.

00:17:28.400 No, it's a trick.

00:17:29.320 Don't learn anything from stage hypnosis.

00:17:33.260 Because stage hypnosis is part hypnosis and part magic trick.

00:17:37.700 So, just keep in mind that they're putting on a show.

00:17:40.660 It's not based on reality.

00:17:42.420 It's supposed to make you go, wow.

00:17:44.220 It's not supposed to teach you something.

00:17:46.160 All right?

00:17:48.120 Here's the trick with the gun.

00:17:50.020 When I was learning hypnosis,

00:17:52.800 that example would come up all the time.

00:17:54.660 Well, before Darren Brown actually did it,

00:17:58.060 the example was a famous example.

00:18:00.140 And, in fact, people had tested it.

00:18:02.000 There had been clinical, I guess clinical,

00:18:05.280 tests to see if you could do that,

00:18:07.660 to see if you could get somebody to pull the trigger

00:18:09.560 if they believed it was a real gun.

00:18:12.080 And the answer is you can.

00:18:14.000 You can get people to pull the trigger.

00:18:17.940 Here's the trick.

00:18:20.960 They know it's not real.

00:18:22.220 Well, that's the trick.

00:18:24.980 If I handed you a gun

00:18:27.420 and said, shoot your, I don't know,

00:18:31.140 your family member in the head,

00:18:33.380 would you think that was a real gun?

00:18:36.220 I mean, it depends on the situation, right?

00:18:38.220 But if you're on a stage show,

00:18:42.600 you're on the stage in front of a crowd,

00:18:45.640 and the hypnotist hands you a gun,

00:18:48.360 number one, can't you tell it's not a real gun?

00:18:52.220 Because I assume it's not a real gun without bullets.

00:18:55.500 It's got to be a fake gun.

00:18:57.020 You could tell a fake gun, number one.

00:18:59.860 Number two, you know that nobody's going to have you

00:19:03.220 murder somebody in front of a crowd.

00:19:06.180 That's not going to happen.

00:19:08.080 So people know it's not a real gun.

00:19:11.660 So here's the thing.

00:19:12.560 Nobody has ever tested whether somebody would shoot a real gun.

00:19:17.000 And when a real, like, weapon is introduced,

00:19:22.200 I don't think you'd get that outcome,

00:19:24.200 except by complete mistake.

00:19:26.980 In other words, it wouldn't be the hypnosis

00:19:28.600 that caused somebody to pull the trigger.

00:19:30.820 It would be the magic trick,

00:19:32.900 which is you put them in a situation

00:19:34.320 where, of course, the gun can't be real,

00:19:37.000 but then it is.

00:19:38.040 So that would be a magic trick,

00:19:39.620 or really just a trick,

00:19:41.440 that would have nothing to do with being hypnotized.

00:19:43.960 You get that?

00:19:44.500 So I just told you that you can't make somebody

00:19:48.280 do something that they wouldn't do

00:19:50.720 in their normal frame of mind.

00:19:52.440 So now do you believe that?

00:19:54.360 So which one do you believe?

00:19:55.640 Do you believe you can make somebody

00:19:56.740 do something they wouldn't do,

00:19:58.580 or do you believe you can't?

00:20:02.360 Well, it gets more complicated from here.

00:20:05.700 In the short run,

00:20:07.240 you can't make people do anything

00:20:08.740 that they don't want to do.

00:20:10.920 Can you agree with that?

00:20:12.360 In the short run, meaning, like,

00:20:13.960 if I put you under hypnosis right now,

00:20:17.220 and even if you were a good subject,

00:20:19.120 I couldn't get you to shoot somebody.

00:20:23.700 But give me six months to work on you.

00:20:29.880 Maybe a year.

00:20:30.740 Could I get you to shoot somebody then?

00:20:35.560 Yup.

00:20:37.140 Yup.

00:20:38.920 Have you ever heard of Patty Hearst?

00:20:42.520 Stockholm Syndrome?

00:20:43.960 If you work on somebody long enough,

00:20:46.340 you can literally get them to believe anything.

00:20:49.040 Anything.

00:20:50.420 Patty Hearst was literally kidnapped by armed people,

00:20:53.740 and they held her long enough

00:20:55.180 until she became a member of the group.

00:20:57.840 She became an armed bank robber,

00:21:00.220 which was not her normal character.

00:21:03.460 Nothing she would have done

00:21:04.520 in her normal state of mind.

00:21:05.720 So,

00:21:06.940 when the top psychologists in the world

00:21:11.040 tell you,

00:21:12.240 no, you silly,

00:21:14.060 you can't use hypnosis

00:21:16.260 to make somebody do something

00:21:18.980 they don't want to do.

00:21:22.100 No, that is not true.

00:21:24.200 You can totally make people do things

00:21:26.340 they don't want to do.

00:21:27.660 Have you heard of Hitler's Germany?

00:21:30.500 No, I hate to bring that up,

00:21:35.300 because as soon as you bring up anything Hitler,

00:21:38.000 it makes your argument look stupid.

00:21:39.900 But in this case,

00:21:41.880 it's exactly what we're talking about.

00:21:43.720 It's not an analogy, right?

00:21:45.800 It's an actual real thing that happened.

00:21:48.460 I'm not comparing it to anything.

00:21:50.440 I'm saying it happened.

00:21:51.520 So, the fact that it happened

00:21:53.500 means it can happen.

00:21:56.220 It can happen.

00:21:58.040 Almost anything you can convince people of

00:22:00.420 if you wait long enough,

00:22:01.740 you do it long enough,

00:22:02.900 if you work on them long enough.

00:22:04.540 Now, here's the other part

00:22:05.520 where the experts are wrong

00:22:08.300 in their use of the word hypnosis,

00:22:12.100 because it's used two ways.

00:22:16.260 Now, I use hypnosis two different ways,

00:22:18.640 and I always have to explain

00:22:19.940 that I've done that,

00:22:20.800 because it is confusing.

00:22:22.700 The first way is an actual hypnotist

00:22:25.360 working with one person

00:22:26.640 in which you're doing the whole,

00:22:29.320 you know, your eyelids are getting heavy

00:22:31.760 and you feel relaxed.

00:22:33.480 So, you're doing the whole,

00:22:34.740 it's called the induction.

00:22:36.860 You're actually putting them under

00:22:38.400 as the phrase goes.

00:22:42.780 Now, that's one definition of hypnosis.

00:22:46.680 But, what would you call it

00:22:49.400 if I walked up to you in a bar

00:22:51.220 and whispered in your ear

00:22:53.400 and made you have an actual physical orgasm?

00:22:57.180 But I wasn't saying anything about

00:23:00.560 you're getting sleepy or nothing like that.

00:23:04.020 I just walked up and talked to you

00:23:06.620 like a person talks,

00:23:08.740 and I caused you to have a,

00:23:11.060 just a breathtaking orgasm.

00:23:15.440 What would you call that?

00:23:17.700 Now, first of all,

00:23:18.420 do you believe that a hypnotist can do that?

00:23:20.500 Could I walk up to someone in a bar

00:23:24.060 and without hypnotizing them

00:23:26.300 in any formal way,

00:23:27.920 just using regular words,

00:23:30.000 could I talk in their ear

00:23:31.460 and cause them to have a full orgasm?

00:23:38.140 Any hypnotist can do that.

00:23:42.080 I know you don't believe it.

00:23:45.680 Any hypnotist can do that.

00:23:47.180 Have I ever done it?

00:23:49.460 Yes.

00:23:50.820 Yes, a number of times.

00:23:51.900 A number of times

00:23:52.860 so that I know that I can do it.

00:23:55.080 So, if you're wondering,

00:23:56.980 is it real?

00:23:58.280 Totally.

00:23:59.540 It's completely real.

00:24:00.920 I could give you lots of examples.

00:24:02.720 And, I've talked to other people

00:24:04.340 who have experienced it

00:24:06.980 and also people who have practiced it.

00:24:10.040 And it doesn't require any,

00:24:11.460 you know,

00:24:12.160 you're getting sleepy or anything.

00:24:13.680 It turns out

00:24:15.320 that you can talk people

00:24:16.880 into doing things

00:24:17.600 they want to do pretty easily.

00:24:19.740 And everybody wants to be happy

00:24:21.260 and feel good.

00:24:22.380 You know,

00:24:22.960 if there's no downside to it.

00:24:25.720 So,

00:24:26.420 so I call that hypnosis.

00:24:29.880 Would you?

00:24:31.040 Would you call

00:24:31.900 what I just described hypnosis?

00:24:36.460 Well, I would.

00:24:37.860 I would.

00:24:38.740 But only if I'm speaking casually,

00:24:40.560 right?

00:24:40.820 So, the first part

00:24:42.760 is when these experts say,

00:24:44.140 you know,

00:24:44.360 this hypnosis

00:24:45.160 can't make you do these things.

00:24:47.220 They're using the word differently.

00:24:49.200 It's not hypnosis, hypnosis.

00:24:51.340 But you can talk people

00:24:53.100 into stuff

00:24:53.720 that they want to do

00:24:54.560 pretty easily.

00:24:55.680 It's harder to talk people

00:24:56.900 into things

00:24:57.320 they don't want to do.

00:24:58.200 But you can do that too.

00:24:59.220 It just takes longer.

00:25:01.320 All right.

00:25:01.740 So, is mass formation

00:25:02.960 a, quote,

00:25:03.820 an unfounded theory

00:25:04.980 spreading online

00:25:05.960 suggesting that millions

00:25:07.820 of people

00:25:08.240 have been hypnotized

00:25:09.420 into believing

00:25:10.540 mainstream ideas

00:25:11.700 to combat blah, blah, blah.

00:25:14.040 And psychology experts

00:25:15.180 say the concept

00:25:15.880 is now supported

00:25:16.740 by evidence.

00:25:18.680 Really?

00:25:19.880 I don't think

00:25:20.780 you could have

00:25:21.240 more evidence

00:25:21.880 for anything.

00:25:24.180 Do we not observe,

00:25:25.980 every single one of us,

00:25:27.820 that people are believing

00:25:28.900 things that are

00:25:29.640 clearly not true?

00:25:30.520 Am I right?

00:25:33.900 Do we not all observe

00:25:35.460 that millions and millions

00:25:37.540 of people

00:25:38.100 believe things

00:25:39.580 that are clearly

00:25:40.140 not true?

00:25:41.380 I mean,

00:25:41.640 clearly not true.

00:25:44.440 Well, I would say

00:25:45.220 that's true.

00:25:46.460 So, is it an unfounded

00:25:47.620 theory that suggests

00:25:49.420 that people have been,

00:25:50.380 and it's put in quotes,

00:25:51.440 hypnotized

00:25:52.060 into believing

00:25:53.200 mainstream ideas?

00:25:54.460 Well, if you don't

00:25:55.220 get hung up

00:25:55.780 on the word hypnotized,

00:25:57.320 and you just replace it

00:25:58.480 with persuasion,

00:25:59.440 do you think

00:26:00.620 the mainstream media

00:26:01.700 has persuaded,

00:26:03.000 take away hypnotized,

00:26:04.620 do you think

00:26:05.000 they've persuaded people

00:26:06.480 into believing things

00:26:07.880 that are dangerously wrong?

00:26:10.120 Of course they have.

00:26:11.800 Of course they have.

00:26:14.040 That is the most obvious

00:26:15.300 thing you could ever say.

00:26:17.040 Because the people

00:26:17.720 who are watching Fox News

00:26:19.060 have been persuaded

00:26:20.600 that that version

00:26:21.420 of the world is correct.

00:26:23.200 The people watching CNN

00:26:24.320 have been persuaded

00:26:25.160 that that version

00:26:25.900 of the world is correct.

00:26:27.480 Now, for our purposes,

00:26:29.440 I do not need to tell you

00:26:30.620 which one is more correct.

00:26:32.620 So it doesn't matter

00:26:33.540 if you believe

00:26:34.440 that one of them

00:26:35.020 is really actually true

00:26:36.220 and the other one isn't.

00:26:37.840 We have proven

00:26:38.760 beyond a doubt

00:26:39.600 that at least half

00:26:40.780 of the country

00:26:41.240 is hypnotized.

00:26:42.660 I say 100%.

00:26:43.960 You're all hypnotized,

00:26:45.600 including me.

00:26:47.540 So to imagine

00:26:48.380 that somebody is hypnotized

00:26:49.900 and somebody isn't,

00:26:51.420 no, that doesn't,

00:26:53.280 that doesn't make

00:26:54.520 any sense in our world.

00:26:56.800 So, but we all believe

00:26:58.080 that we're the ones

00:26:58.740 who are not hypnotized.

00:26:59.700 That's how it works.

00:27:04.100 How about this?

00:27:05.540 Richard McNally

00:27:06.500 is a professor

00:27:07.940 of clinical psychology

00:27:09.420 at Harvard.

00:27:10.180 Wow.

00:27:11.340 Now, there's some

00:27:11.980 serious credentials.

00:27:13.300 Imagine being

00:27:13.900 a Harvard professor,

00:27:15.340 first of all.

00:27:16.860 I mean, that's pretty amazing.

00:27:18.300 A Harvard professor.

00:27:20.080 So that's somebody

00:27:20.720 pretty credible.

00:27:22.320 And a professor

00:27:23.280 of clinical psychology.

00:27:24.680 So that's right on target

00:27:26.200 for this conversation.

00:27:27.100 So this person,

00:27:28.400 Robert McNally,

00:27:29.080 who's totally qualified,

00:27:31.700 wrote in an email

00:27:32.560 that people who support

00:27:33.740 COVID-19 vaccines,

00:27:35.400 now he's talking

00:27:36.320 about the word psychosis,

00:27:37.620 so he's arguing

00:27:38.380 about the psychosis part.

00:27:40.140 He wrote in an email

00:27:40.940 that people who support

00:27:44.080 COVID-19 vaccines

00:27:45.320 and public health guidelines

00:27:46.520 are not delusional.

00:27:48.400 Rather, they are,

00:27:51.300 quote,

00:27:51.320 fully responsive

00:27:52.320 to the arguments

00:27:53.100 and evidence

00:27:53.840 adduced by the relevant

00:27:55.560 scientific experts.

00:27:57.680 So there's a person

00:27:58.740 who's a Harvard

00:28:00.080 clinical psychologist

00:28:01.420 who believes that

00:28:02.980 humans are looking

00:28:04.220 at evidence

00:28:04.960 and arguments

00:28:05.780 and making

00:28:06.700 rational decisions.

00:28:10.080 What?

00:28:10.720 How in the world

00:28:13.740 could you be

00:28:14.420 a professor

00:28:15.460 of clinical psychology

00:28:16.880 and think that people

00:28:18.420 are making

00:28:18.860 rational decisions

00:28:20.000 using arguments

00:28:22.520 and evidence?

00:28:24.960 Come on!

00:28:27.200 There could be

00:28:28.060 nothing more obvious

00:28:28.980 than that's not happening.

00:28:31.400 Now,

00:28:32.480 is it true

00:28:33.300 that some people

00:28:34.460 look at the arguments

00:28:36.000 and the evidence

00:28:36.700 and come to the same

00:28:38.140 conclusion as

00:28:38.920 Richard McNally?

00:28:39.760 Probably.

00:28:41.080 Probably.

00:28:42.160 There are probably

00:28:42.700 people who like him,

00:28:44.220 look at the evidence,

00:28:45.080 and come to the same

00:28:45.720 conclusion.

00:28:46.900 And so the clinical

00:28:47.700 psychologist has decided

00:28:49.080 that people who agree

00:28:50.060 with him

00:28:50.580 are not deluded.

00:28:53.720 But the people

00:28:54.560 who don't agree

00:28:55.340 with him

00:28:55.800 maybe just got

00:28:57.320 the wrong answer.

00:28:58.760 But they're not

00:28:59.280 delusional.

00:29:00.420 You could just show

00:29:01.240 them good evidence

00:29:02.060 and they would

00:29:02.540 change their mind.

00:29:03.940 They'd be responsive

00:29:04.740 to it.

00:29:07.220 Is that anything

00:29:08.120 you've seen?

00:29:09.760 Have you seen

00:29:10.920 people changing

00:29:11.600 their mind

00:29:12.140 with all the new

00:29:12.820 data?

00:29:14.040 In what world

00:29:15.020 do people change

00:29:15.780 their mind

00:29:16.200 when you give

00:29:16.600 them new data?

00:29:19.320 Can we say

00:29:20.400 that Richard McNally,

00:29:23.080 I won't call him

00:29:24.900 Dick,

00:29:25.760 because I don't know

00:29:26.420 if that's his nickname

00:29:27.180 or not,

00:29:27.980 but Richard McNally,

00:29:29.080 could you say

00:29:30.020 that he is

00:29:30.620 clearly hypnotized?

00:29:31.680 I would say yes.

00:29:35.660 In my 40 years

00:29:38.320 of experience

00:29:38.920 as a hypnotist

00:29:39.920 and studying

00:29:42.060 persuasion,

00:29:43.400 in my best

00:29:44.840 legitimate opinion,

00:29:47.460 there's no joke here,

00:29:48.940 there's no hyperbole here,

00:29:50.420 I'm going to try

00:29:51.040 to give it to you

00:29:51.660 as straight as I can.

00:29:53.620 Now keep in mind

00:29:54.640 this is my opinion,

00:29:55.640 right?

00:29:56.140 We're not talking

00:29:56.780 about a fact.

00:29:57.440 But as best

00:29:59.220 as I can tell,

00:30:00.800 Richard McNally

00:30:02.500 is hypnotized

00:30:03.520 by my definition.

00:30:06.520 The expert

00:30:07.440 is hypnotized

00:30:08.240 because he believes

00:30:09.640 that other people

00:30:10.460 are responsive

00:30:11.580 to arguments

00:30:12.240 and evidence.

00:30:13.660 That's clearly

00:30:14.320 not true.

00:30:15.980 You don't have to do a,

00:30:17.140 I don't think

00:30:17.820 you have to do

00:30:18.360 a study,

00:30:20.400 a randomized

00:30:20.800 controlled trial

00:30:21.980 to find out

00:30:23.080 that people

00:30:23.460 don't respond

00:30:24.260 to new evidence.

00:30:25.720 In fact,

00:30:26.540 there's an

00:30:27.160 entire branch

00:30:28.280 of psychology

00:30:29.520 which explains

00:30:31.620 exactly why

00:30:32.680 they don't respond

00:30:33.580 to evidence.

00:30:35.180 Am I wrong?

00:30:37.460 And how would

00:30:38.300 a clinical psychologist

00:30:39.560 not be aware

00:30:41.040 there's an entire

00:30:41.860 branch of his own

00:30:42.860 field,

00:30:43.660 and a big one,

00:30:44.980 like it's not

00:30:45.520 a small thing,

00:30:46.620 it's like a major,

00:30:47.600 major part

00:30:48.160 of the field,

00:30:50.500 is that people

00:30:51.360 believe things

00:30:52.140 that aren't true

00:30:52.800 and you can't

00:30:54.000 change their mind

00:30:54.720 with evidence.

00:30:57.980 Now,

00:30:58.860 am I going

00:31:00.060 too far?

00:31:00.720 Is it not

00:31:01.260 obvious to you

00:31:02.060 that this expert

00:31:02.780 is hypnotized?

00:31:05.120 Would you agree?

00:31:07.960 Because,

00:31:08.900 and would you say

00:31:09.600 that this is

00:31:11.640 a form of psychosis?

00:31:14.240 Because in psychosis

00:31:15.500 you can't really

00:31:16.520 deal with logic

00:31:18.940 and argument.

00:31:20.100 You know,

00:31:20.260 you're free

00:31:20.940 of any,

00:31:21.900 you're just

00:31:22.380 operating on your own

00:31:23.520 and logic

00:31:24.020 and facts

00:31:25.160 are unrelevant.

00:31:26.400 It seems to me

00:31:27.160 that this professor

00:31:27.960 is operating

00:31:28.660 in a state

00:31:30.360 of psychosis.

00:31:32.580 Roughly speaking,

00:31:33.520 that's probably

00:31:33.820 the wrong word.

00:31:34.720 But certainly

00:31:35.160 this is somebody

00:31:35.880 who is not

00:31:36.840 seeing facts

00:31:37.900 and evidence

00:31:38.420 that are clearly

00:31:39.300 in front of all

00:31:40.000 of us.

00:31:42.640 So,

00:31:43.520 and I would also

00:31:44.580 like to say

00:31:45.140 that psychologists

00:31:45.800 are not experts

00:31:46.740 in hypnosis.

00:31:47.760 I don't think

00:31:48.320 you could be

00:31:48.720 an expert in hypnosis

00:31:49.620 unless you practice it.

00:31:50.800 it's really,

00:31:53.020 it's really hard

00:31:54.420 to see from the outside.

00:31:56.400 I don't know

00:31:57.100 what else

00:31:57.460 would be a good

00:31:57.960 example of that.

00:31:59.580 But,

00:31:59.900 I don't know.

00:32:00.760 Let me say this.

00:32:03.200 Could you be

00:32:03.920 a military expert

00:32:05.040 who had never

00:32:05.880 been in the military?

00:32:08.880 It would be hard,

00:32:09.840 right?

00:32:10.780 I mean,

00:32:11.320 maybe you could

00:32:12.040 come close.

00:32:13.520 But there's some

00:32:14.260 things you just

00:32:14.780 have to see

00:32:15.440 from the inside.

00:32:16.760 Like,

00:32:17.040 I've got a feeling

00:32:17.680 that being in the military

00:32:18.980 gives you an insight

00:32:20.520 that you can't get

00:32:21.340 from any other way.

00:32:23.320 And I would say

00:32:24.000 the same about hypnosis.

00:32:25.440 So,

00:32:25.720 if they had,

00:32:26.060 if any of the experts

00:32:27.980 had been hypnotists,

00:32:29.860 I'd probably listen to them.

00:32:32.140 But they picked

00:32:32.940 a bunch of people

00:32:33.680 who are not hypnotists

00:32:34.900 to judge hypnosis.

00:32:37.820 And,

00:32:38.260 do you know

00:32:38.660 who sold this to you?

00:32:40.520 Who sold you

00:32:41.480 the idea

00:32:42.160 that someone

00:32:43.220 who's not a hypnotist

00:32:44.520 is an expert

00:32:45.820 on hypnosis?

00:32:48.600 Could it be

00:32:49.400 the mainstream media?

00:32:52.280 Reuters,

00:32:53.040 AP,

00:32:54.560 a number of others?

00:32:55.880 They're all coming out

00:32:56.820 with this.

00:32:57.140 It's a trending story

00:32:58.040 about this.

00:32:58.800 There's no such thing

00:32:59.720 as mass formation psychosis.

00:33:03.200 Now,

00:33:03.720 here's the one way

00:33:04.480 in which I agree

00:33:05.200 with the fact

00:33:05.920 there's no such thing

00:33:06.780 as mass formation psychosis.

00:33:09.000 Do you remember

00:33:09.440 the first thing

00:33:10.560 I said about it?

00:33:12.400 Because,

00:33:12.760 I'm going to need

00:33:13.520 somebody to fact check me

00:33:14.900 because you're going to think

00:33:15.580 I'm lying in a minute.

00:33:16.880 If you don't fact check me,

00:33:18.000 some of you will think

00:33:18.580 I'm just lying.

00:33:19.880 What was my first impression

00:33:21.980 when I heard about

00:33:22.840 mass formation psychology

00:33:24.920 or psychosis?

00:33:30.160 It's the default condition.

00:33:31.820 Right.

00:33:32.240 So,

00:33:32.540 I said it's bullshit

00:33:33.320 not because it's not true.

00:33:37.080 I said it's bullshit

00:33:37.940 because it's new words

00:33:39.240 to describe

00:33:39.920 the ordinary

00:33:41.120 that we're all being

00:33:41.980 hypnotized by fake news.

00:33:44.320 Fake news

00:33:45.080 is hypnotizing

00:33:45.960 all of us

00:33:46.480 as are our social

00:33:47.780 media algorithms.

00:33:49.620 So,

00:33:50.140 you didn't need

00:33:50.560 any new words for that.

00:33:51.820 You don't need

00:33:52.220 to invoke Hitler.

00:33:53.580 You don't need to,

00:33:54.920 you just don't need anything.

00:33:56.100 It's just right

00:33:57.020 in front of us.

00:33:58.260 The news is fake.

00:34:00.080 It's intentionally fake.

00:34:01.960 It's designed

00:34:02.700 to hypnotize you.

00:34:04.340 It works.

00:34:06.000 There's actually

00:34:06.720 no mystery here

00:34:07.580 at all.

00:34:09.300 We're seeing it

00:34:10.200 right in front of us.

00:34:11.900 Fake news

00:34:12.620 is intentional.

00:34:13.680 In many cases,

00:34:14.360 sometimes it's not.

00:34:15.560 But you can tell

00:34:16.180 a lot of cases

00:34:16.780 like the fine people hoax

00:34:18.480 and the bleach hoax

00:34:19.420 and all that.

00:34:20.160 Those are all intentional.

00:34:23.100 And it works.

00:34:24.540 It hypnotizes

00:34:25.220 the people who watch it.

00:34:27.860 The one problem,

00:34:28.960 other problem I had

00:34:29.840 with this mass formation

00:34:30.880 psychosis idea

00:34:32.460 is that there's

00:34:33.180 an assumption

00:34:33.640 of an authoritarian.

00:34:35.620 So,

00:34:35.920 it assumes

00:34:36.360 that an authoritarian

00:34:37.080 is doing this to us

00:34:38.280 or an authoritarian

00:34:39.300 will rise

00:34:40.380 because of this situation.

00:34:42.960 But I don't see that.

00:34:44.680 Like,

00:34:44.940 I don't see

00:34:45.300 that authoritarian.

00:34:47.020 I see a bunch

00:34:47.660 of people

00:34:48.100 acting in unison,

00:34:49.720 but we don't know

00:34:50.520 who that authoritarian is.

00:34:52.160 So,

00:34:52.460 that part didn't work

00:34:53.300 for me as an explanation.

00:34:55.000 It wasn't predictive,

00:34:56.280 if you know what I mean.

00:34:58.160 All right.

00:34:59.160 So,

00:34:59.700 I tweeted this

00:35:00.500 just to make people

00:35:01.500 watch this show.

00:35:02.280 I said,

00:35:02.560 a hypnotist

00:35:03.100 cannot make you do...

00:35:04.040 These are three facts

00:35:04.920 about hypnosis.

00:35:06.200 A hypnotist

00:35:07.240 cannot make you do

00:35:08.160 something you would find

00:35:09.000 deeply objectionable

00:35:10.020 in your normal state of mind.

00:35:11.560 That's the first fact.

00:35:12.540 The second fact

00:35:14.220 is that the first fact

00:35:15.160 is a lie.

00:35:16.560 And then the third fact

00:35:17.560 is that the second fact

00:35:18.520 is a lie, too.

00:35:20.760 Meaning,

00:35:21.280 it is true

00:35:21.740 you can't make somebody

00:35:22.680 do something

00:35:23.340 but only in the short run.

00:35:25.700 In the long run,

00:35:26.460 you can make them

00:35:26.920 do anything.

00:35:30.080 All right.

00:35:33.000 Another favorite story.

00:35:34.200 I swear to God

00:35:36.260 I'm not making this up.

00:35:38.220 The following story

00:35:39.360 is actually in the news.

00:35:41.520 There is a social media star

00:35:43.280 named

00:35:45.160 Matto

00:35:47.200 and claims she made

00:35:49.520 $200,000

00:35:50.340 by selling her farts

00:35:52.020 in a mason jar.

00:35:54.020 Well,

00:35:54.380 in mason jars.

00:35:55.880 So,

00:35:56.140 there was one fart per jar,

00:35:57.820 I assume.

00:35:58.420 Could have been two farts.

00:35:59.980 So,

00:36:00.540 she was actually

00:36:01.300 farting into mason jars

00:36:03.340 and people were buying this

00:36:04.460 to the point

00:36:05.280 where she made

00:36:05.900 a good living on it.

00:36:07.560 She's 31 years old.

00:36:08.720 But,

00:36:09.000 then things went bad.

00:36:11.480 So far,

00:36:12.280 it's a good story

00:36:13.000 but things went bad.

00:36:14.020 Apparently,

00:36:15.180 she said she was

00:36:16.620 hospitalized

00:36:17.220 while trying to keep up

00:36:18.580 with the skyrocketing demand.

00:36:20.120 So,

00:36:24.320 she actually

00:36:25.000 injured herself

00:36:25.880 by over farting

00:36:27.100 which I assume

00:36:28.900 she probably had to

00:36:29.900 maybe eat foods

00:36:31.120 that

00:36:31.460 caused her to be

00:36:33.080 extra gassy

00:36:33.800 to keep her income stream up.

00:36:35.560 So,

00:36:35.780 sort of a business model decision

00:36:37.180 and

00:36:38.380 she ate so much

00:36:39.720 I'm guessing

00:36:40.400 I'm reading between the lines

00:36:41.340 she must have eaten

00:36:41.940 so much gassy food

00:36:43.380 that it hospitalized her.

00:36:45.560 So,

00:36:46.180 if you were thinking

00:36:46.820 it's a good business model

00:36:47.980 I know a lot of you

00:36:48.980 are already shopping

00:36:49.800 for mason jars

00:36:50.700 and you're thinking

00:36:51.920 I could do this job.

00:36:53.860 This is work

00:36:54.480 I'm qualified to do.

00:36:57.440 But,

00:36:59.060 keep in mind

00:37:02.020 that you don't want

00:37:02.980 to be drawn

00:37:03.500 into hospitalization

00:37:04.960 because you over farted.

00:37:07.560 Now,

00:37:07.780 this might have been

00:37:08.380 hard to describe

00:37:09.320 to her

00:37:09.920 healthcare providers

00:37:11.920 without them

00:37:13.980 laughing themselves

00:37:15.060 into hospitalization

00:37:16.380 themselves.

00:37:18.060 But,

00:37:18.660 I have a few questions.

00:37:19.800 about the fart jar.

00:37:21.860 Number one,

00:37:23.580 how can you verify

00:37:24.780 that you got

00:37:25.480 an actual fart

00:37:26.540 from this woman?

00:37:28.720 Because if you get

00:37:29.500 the mason jar

00:37:30.260 if you opened it up

00:37:32.680 you would lose your fart

00:37:34.880 that you paid so much for.

00:37:36.480 So,

00:37:36.800 you can't really

00:37:37.160 check it directly.

00:37:38.280 And then,

00:37:38.600 how would you know

00:37:39.060 it wasn't like a dog fart

00:37:40.300 or a roommate fart?

00:37:42.180 Just a friend.

00:37:43.700 Like,

00:37:43.960 how would you know

00:37:44.480 you got the real thing?

00:37:46.460 And,

00:37:47.080 so,

00:37:48.600 I thought to myself

00:37:49.680 this fart jar

00:37:51.860 has become

00:37:53.020 sort of a

00:37:53.800 metaphor

00:37:54.760 for everything else

00:37:56.020 in the news,

00:37:56.660 hasn't it?

00:37:57.720 If you don't know

00:37:58.740 what's in the fart jar

00:37:59.840 and there's no way

00:38:00.580 to verify it,

00:38:01.760 should you assume

00:38:02.560 it's a genuine fart?

00:38:04.440 Anybody?

00:38:05.500 If you can't verify it,

00:38:07.180 in other words,

00:38:07.820 audit it,

00:38:08.860 if you can't audit

00:38:09.940 the fart jar,

00:38:11.820 should you assume

00:38:12.740 there's a real fart

00:38:13.640 in there?

00:38:14.760 Now remember,

00:38:15.600 follow the money.

00:38:17.280 Follow the money.

00:38:19.780 On what,

00:38:20.900 if you could sell

00:38:21.960 your farts in a jar,

00:38:23.760 do you feel

00:38:24.380 that you would be

00:38:25.000 limited by how many

00:38:26.340 farts you actually

00:38:27.200 could produce?

00:38:29.200 Well,

00:38:29.940 apparently,

00:38:30.980 Ms. Mato

00:38:32.280 did feel limited,

00:38:33.800 so much so

00:38:34.360 that she farted

00:38:35.460 herself into the

00:38:36.220 hospital by trying

00:38:37.660 to genuinely

00:38:38.420 provide a

00:38:39.880 quality product.

00:38:42.820 A lot of people

00:38:43.400 will give you

00:38:43.980 low-quality

00:38:45.220 farts,

00:38:45.940 but apparently

00:38:46.540 this woman

00:38:47.020 really cared

00:38:48.880 about her customers,

00:38:50.420 and so she

00:38:50.900 worked so hard

00:38:51.540 she was hospitalized.

00:38:52.880 But I have to

00:38:53.380 ask this question.

00:38:55.440 Suppose you knew

00:38:56.280 you could sell

00:38:56.940 an empty

00:38:58.280 mason jar

00:38:59.100 for $1,000.

00:39:01.860 I don't know

00:39:02.600 how much her

00:39:03.060 farts were going

00:39:03.640 for,

00:39:03.920 but let's say

00:39:04.420 she knew

00:39:05.960 she could sell

00:39:06.560 a real fart

00:39:07.300 for $1,000

00:39:07.980 in a mason jar,

00:39:09.360 but she could

00:39:10.100 also sell

00:39:10.920 an empty

00:39:11.760 mason jar

00:39:12.420 that she claimed

00:39:13.660 had a fart

00:39:14.220 in it

00:39:14.620 for $1,000.

00:39:16.440 Do you think

00:39:17.220 if this were

00:39:18.480 you,

00:39:19.520 would you

00:39:20.000 be tempted

00:39:20.660 to sell

00:39:22.000 at least,

00:39:22.700 I don't know,

00:39:24.140 one or two

00:39:24.940 empty mason jars

00:39:26.140 with no fart

00:39:27.260 whatsoever?

00:39:28.440 I think you

00:39:29.220 would.

00:39:30.120 So if you

00:39:30.680 follow the money,

00:39:31.440 it's hard to

00:39:31.860 trust this model,

00:39:32.700 but I'm going

00:39:33.200 to take the

00:39:34.040 fart jar metaphor

00:39:35.040 into my

00:39:36.820 discussion of

00:39:37.620 the elections.

00:39:39.200 Because much

00:39:39.980 like the fart

00:39:40.780 jar,

00:39:41.060 we cannot

00:39:41.700 fully audit

00:39:42.440 our elections,

00:39:43.580 should we

00:39:44.040 therefore assume

00:39:44.900 that they are

00:39:45.480 the fart

00:39:47.160 that we

00:39:47.620 thought we

00:39:48.200 were buying?

00:39:49.040 Or is it

00:39:49.900 possible that

00:39:51.140 our elections

00:39:51.720 are an

00:39:52.820 empty mason jar

00:39:53.860 with no

00:39:54.580 fart whatsoever?

00:39:56.140 Well,

00:39:56.660 there's no way

00:39:57.140 to know.

00:39:57.980 No way to

00:39:58.380 know.

00:39:59.420 David Boxenhorn

00:40:00.560 extended my

00:40:02.620 analogy and

00:40:03.240 points out that

00:40:04.700 from an

00:40:05.280 engineering

00:40:05.740 perspective,

00:40:06.560 I believe this

00:40:07.120 is his field,

00:40:08.700 whenever you

00:40:09.360 build something,

00:40:09.840 you presume it

00:40:10.580 doesn't work.

00:40:11.800 In other words,

00:40:13.100 you're just

00:40:13.500 assuming everything

00:40:14.240 is broken until

00:40:15.160 you've tested,

00:40:15.960 tested,

00:40:16.380 tested,

00:40:16.760 tested to know

00:40:17.940 that it isn't.

00:40:19.620 Which is a good

00:40:20.340 point of view.

00:40:21.280 Because if you

00:40:21.740 assume it works,

00:40:22.620 well,

00:40:22.840 then you don't

00:40:23.220 check everything

00:40:23.900 and you're in

00:40:24.440 trouble.

00:40:25.680 And he goes on

00:40:26.440 to extend that

00:40:27.060 about the

00:40:27.500 elections,

00:40:28.240 that the

00:40:28.500 elections are

00:40:29.040 more like an

00:40:30.240 engineering decision

00:40:31.260 where you should

00:40:32.460 assume that they're

00:40:33.380 broken until you

00:40:35.220 really have proof

00:40:36.100 that they're not.

00:40:36.860 And we don't have

00:40:37.480 a system that can

00:40:38.220 prove it's not.

00:40:38.940 We can only take

00:40:40.480 some things to

00:40:41.080 court and then

00:40:42.240 the court says

00:40:42.800 we don't have

00:40:43.220 jurisdiction or

00:40:44.160 standing or you

00:40:45.580 don't have standing

00:40:46.260 or whatever it's

00:40:46.960 done.

00:40:48.200 So,

00:40:49.080 I believe that

00:40:51.580 this is going to

00:40:53.000 change how we

00:40:54.200 look at the

00:40:54.740 election.

00:40:55.960 And when I

00:40:56.820 look at the

00:40:57.960 country and I

00:40:58.560 see that there

00:41:00.000 is no serious

00:41:00.820 effort to make

00:41:01.760 our next or

00:41:03.180 future elections

00:41:04.120 transparent and

00:41:05.620 auditable,

00:41:06.400 fully auditable,

00:41:07.620 there's no effort

00:41:08.280 to do that.

00:41:09.760 Not by the

00:41:10.540 Republicans and

00:41:11.240 not by the

00:41:11.680 Democrats,

00:41:12.480 which is amazing.

00:41:16.160 The biggest

00:41:16.800 problem in the

00:41:17.260 country,

00:41:19.420 nobody's even

00:41:20.740 working on it.

00:41:22.220 I'm still coughing

00:41:23.120 because that snow

00:41:23.960 shoveling joke.

00:41:28.560 So,

00:41:29.140 let's put the

00:41:29.680 full presumption

00:41:31.060 of fraud on the

00:41:32.540 election.

00:41:33.360 And I think we

00:41:34.040 should always talk

00:41:34.900 about it that way.

00:41:35.540 So our coming

00:41:37.020 elections are

00:41:37.700 presumed fraudulent

00:41:39.020 because they're

00:41:39.780 designed to not be

00:41:41.000 auditable, fully

00:41:42.040 auditable.

00:41:43.520 So I think you

00:41:44.380 can say that and

00:41:45.400 I'm not going to

00:41:46.220 stop saying it.

00:41:47.340 I guess Putin has

00:41:48.360 decided to meet with

00:41:49.380 NATO, I guess it is.

00:41:51.240 And that's a big

00:41:52.060 deal because they

00:41:52.720 haven't met in a

00:41:53.280 long time.

00:41:54.380 And I saw an

00:41:55.200 editorial on CNN

00:41:56.860 that Putin might be

00:41:59.100 in a weak position

00:41:59.960 and the U.S.

00:42:00.560 or NATO is in a

00:42:02.740 strong position

00:42:03.440 because apparently

00:42:04.880 there are a whole

00:42:05.320 bunch of economic

00:42:06.240 things we can do

00:42:07.360 to punish Russia

00:42:09.120 that we have not

00:42:09.760 yet tried.

00:42:11.420 So I guess the

00:42:12.580 next level of

00:42:13.440 economic punishment

00:42:14.380 should Russia,

00:42:17.500 let's say, move

00:42:18.240 into Ukraine or

00:42:19.420 something, would be

00:42:21.080 devastating.

00:42:22.960 But we also have

00:42:25.540 Putin being really

00:42:27.920 good at managing

00:42:28.740 opinion.

00:42:29.240 And apparently

00:42:30.020 the economy of

00:42:31.460 Russia is about

00:42:32.920 the size of New

00:42:33.680 York State.

00:42:34.900 It's not really a

00:42:36.460 superpower except for

00:42:37.660 the nukes, but they

00:42:39.340 do punch way above

00:42:40.740 their weight.

00:42:42.340 And so a lot of

00:42:43.440 Putin is a bluff.

00:42:45.600 You know, he

00:42:45.920 poisons his

00:42:46.800 adversaries and does

00:42:48.020 things that makes

00:42:48.560 them look tough,

00:42:49.480 takes over, you

00:42:50.700 know, Crimea.

00:42:51.700 So he has a very

00:42:52.860 tough reputation,

00:42:54.040 but apparently he's

00:42:54.660 in a very weakened

00:42:55.780 condition.

00:42:59.240 very weakened

00:42:59.820 condition.

00:43:00.900 And I would argue

00:43:02.160 yet again that the

00:43:03.500 inevitable arc of

00:43:05.020 history is bending

00:43:06.060 toward the U.S.

00:43:07.940 and Russia being

00:43:08.720 allies.

00:43:11.100 Allies.

00:43:12.420 I don't think it can

00:43:13.640 go any other way.

00:43:14.880 And I think that

00:43:15.400 everything between now

00:43:16.640 and the time we've

00:43:17.360 become allies,

00:43:19.080 military allies,

00:43:20.240 is just wasted time.

00:43:22.160 Because we're going to

00:43:23.060 get there.

00:43:23.860 We're not going to

00:43:24.340 have a nuclear

00:43:24.960 confrontation or

00:43:26.360 actually nuclear war

00:43:27.620 with Russia.

00:43:30.400 Nobody wants that.

00:43:31.840 Exactly zero people

00:43:33.000 want that.

00:43:33.940 And I don't even think

00:43:34.700 we would accidentally

00:43:35.600 get into one.

00:43:36.400 I mean, well,

00:43:36.960 anything's possible.

00:43:38.180 But, I mean, we

00:43:38.760 would have pretty

00:43:39.320 strong safeguards

00:43:40.420 against it because

00:43:41.560 nobody wants it and

00:43:42.440 nobody thinks he

00:43:43.060 wants it.

00:43:44.200 So we would assume

00:43:45.220 anything would be a

00:43:46.060 mistake.

00:43:47.360 You know, even if you

00:43:48.020 saw a missile being

00:43:48.860 launched from Russia,

00:43:49.800 Russia, your first

00:43:51.240 assumption would be

00:43:52.060 a mistake, right?

00:43:54.040 So I think we're in

00:43:55.040 a real good position

00:43:55.940 to work something out,

00:43:58.640 especially for space.

00:43:59.960 And I believe that is

00:44:01.360 how you do it.

00:44:02.620 If you said to Putin,

00:44:04.440 hey, let's be friends

00:44:05.460 here on Earth, he

00:44:07.080 might say, well,

00:44:08.420 maybe if I say I'll be

00:44:10.540 friends but cheat a

00:44:11.520 little bit, that's good

00:44:12.260 for me.

00:44:12.940 But if you say to

00:44:13.820 Russia, here's the deal.

00:44:15.240 If we don't join

00:44:16.160 together now, China is

00:44:17.520 going to own space.

00:44:18.780 And whoever owns

00:44:20.460 space owns Earth.

00:44:23.320 And then you're done.

00:44:25.340 Here's the deal,

00:44:26.160 Putin.

00:44:27.100 We need to start

00:44:28.280 being friends right

00:44:29.440 away because we have

00:44:31.580 to be allies in space.

00:44:33.380 You can't let China

00:44:35.020 dominate space.

00:44:36.760 You know that, right?

00:44:38.080 Do you think Putin

00:44:38.900 would believe that

00:44:39.760 argument?

00:44:40.820 I think so.

00:44:42.280 Because he's strategic,

00:44:43.760 he's smart, he has,

00:44:45.320 you know, a national

00:44:46.040 security point of view,

00:44:47.280 of course.

00:44:48.640 Of course.

00:44:50.280 Yeah.

00:44:51.720 And I think that

00:44:52.640 argument just changes

00:44:54.700 the frame.

00:44:56.620 I told you, I'm

00:44:58.060 thinking about writing

00:44:59.000 a book on changing

00:45:00.060 frames.

00:45:01.320 The frame is what we

00:45:02.800 do here on Earth,

00:45:03.860 here and now.

00:45:04.640 As long as you stay

00:45:05.480 in the frame of what

00:45:06.860 do you do here on

00:45:07.720 Earth right now,

00:45:09.360 probably you can't make

00:45:10.520 peace with Russia.

00:45:11.800 So you change the

00:45:12.820 frame to, hey, hey,

00:45:14.640 hey, here and now is

00:45:16.160 not a problem.

00:45:17.980 I mean, you know,

00:45:18.960 obstacles, yes.

00:45:20.200 But the real problem

00:45:21.220 is space.

00:45:22.880 And you do know if

00:45:24.120 we're not friends in

00:45:25.000 space, everything's

00:45:27.200 going to be lost.

00:45:29.260 You've got to be able

00:45:30.420 to match China in

00:45:32.700 space for military

00:45:34.000 power.

00:45:35.180 I believe you could

00:45:36.660 sell Russia on that

00:45:37.900 by changing the frame.

00:45:39.780 And none of this is

00:45:40.920 disingenuous, by the

00:45:42.020 way.

00:45:42.160 This is all absolutely

00:45:44.760 straight down the

00:45:45.560 middle, pure self-interest

00:45:47.980 with nothing hidden.

00:45:50.000 That's completely

00:45:50.840 transparent.

00:45:52.400 China is the threat.

00:45:54.380 We have to be on the

00:45:55.280 same team.

00:45:56.240 Period.

00:45:58.640 I can sell that.

00:46:01.560 Well, the country has

00:46:02.460 gone full racist in its

00:46:03.960 COVID treatment policy.

00:46:06.200 Apparently, guidance that

00:46:07.760 was issued under the

00:46:08.780 Biden administration

00:46:09.600 states that, quote,

00:46:12.000 certain individuals may

00:46:13.500 be considered a high

00:46:14.440 risk and more quickly

00:46:16.160 qualify for these

00:46:17.300 limited supplies of

00:46:19.580 monoclonal antibodies

00:46:20.620 and oral antivirals

00:46:22.760 based on their, quote,

00:46:24.760 race or ethnicity.

00:46:26.040 So the official policy of

00:46:31.960 the United States is

00:46:34.180 racism.

00:46:37.460 Directly.

00:46:38.400 It's not an

00:46:39.320 interpretation.

00:46:41.000 I'm reading it.

00:46:42.840 In the Biden

00:46:44.640 administration's own

00:46:45.660 words, they will use

00:46:47.360 race or ethnicity to

00:46:49.060 decide if you live or

00:46:50.040 die.

00:46:52.160 This is actually

00:46:53.280 happening.

00:46:53.720 Now, here's the

00:46:57.020 explanation that they

00:46:58.020 give for it.

00:46:59.120 Do you think that the

00:46:59.860 explanation is based on

00:47:01.280 the genetic

00:47:03.240 susceptibility of

00:47:05.540 different races?

00:47:07.280 Because how could the

00:47:08.740 woke people say

00:47:09.920 that there would be a

00:47:12.600 genetic difference in

00:47:13.940 outcome based on your

00:47:15.160 race?

00:47:16.440 Can woke people say

00:47:17.640 that?

00:47:18.800 They can't, right?

00:47:20.380 If you're woke, you

00:47:22.000 can't say that some

00:47:23.240 people are built

00:47:24.280 differently.

00:47:26.460 So if you can't say

00:47:28.040 that, but I believe

00:47:30.960 that is the actual

00:47:31.920 medical reason, how do

00:47:34.020 you explain it?

00:47:34.720 Well, here's how it

00:47:35.520 was explained.

00:47:36.960 Quote, non-white race or

00:47:38.640 Hispanic Latino

00:47:39.540 ethnicity should be

00:47:41.260 considered a risk

00:47:42.260 factor.

00:47:43.380 So now here you

00:47:44.160 expect they're going to

00:47:44.820 say because there's a

00:47:46.600 genetic susceptibility,

00:47:47.960 right?

00:47:48.120 So I'll read it

00:47:49.600 again.

00:47:49.840 Non-white race or

00:47:50.800 Hispanic Latino

00:47:51.640 ethnicities should be

00:47:53.320 considered a risk factor.

00:47:55.620 And now here comes the

00:47:56.380 reason.

00:47:57.840 As longstanding systemic

00:47:59.440 health and social

00:48:00.440 inequities have

00:48:01.920 contributed to an

00:48:03.360 increased risk of

00:48:04.520 severe illness and

00:48:05.600 death from COVID-19,

00:48:07.660 the memo reads.

00:48:08.540 What the actual fuck?

00:48:13.900 They're actually saying

00:48:15.280 that the only reason

00:48:16.480 that some ethnic groups

00:48:19.020 will get priority is

00:48:20.500 because of past

00:48:21.580 mistreatment.

00:48:22.520 So they're actually

00:48:27.340 going to let a white

00:48:28.920 person die to atone

00:48:34.840 for past injustice.

00:48:38.120 That's actually

00:48:38.920 happening.

00:48:40.300 Like, this doesn't

00:48:41.260 even feel real, does

00:48:42.260 it?

00:48:43.340 Does this feel real?

00:48:45.520 Now, do you believe

00:48:46.580 that you can be

00:48:47.220 hypnotized to believe

00:48:48.320 anything?

00:48:48.900 Not you personally.

00:48:51.140 But the public has

00:48:52.500 been hypnotized to

00:48:53.460 believe that race-based

00:48:56.480 medicine is completely

00:48:59.440 normal.

00:49:01.040 This is hypnosis.

00:49:03.520 Because you would

00:49:04.740 have to be hypnotized

00:49:05.840 into accepting

00:49:06.960 something that you

00:49:07.900 don't believe in your

00:49:10.540 normal state of mind.

00:49:12.820 Back up 20 years.

00:49:15.460 Is the normal state of

00:49:17.160 mind that you should

00:49:18.620 discriminate by race?

00:49:20.640 No.

00:49:21.160 The normal state of

00:49:22.720 mind of, I would say,

00:49:23.880 100% of the public

00:49:25.800 or something like it

00:49:27.700 would be, wait a

00:49:29.180 minute, no, of course

00:49:30.000 you don't discriminate

00:49:30.900 by race, of all

00:49:32.800 things.

00:49:33.860 That's the one thing

00:49:34.800 everybody agrees on.

00:49:36.500 And yet, one of the

00:49:38.060 most central bedrock

00:49:40.020 beliefs of an American

00:49:42.180 that you should not

00:49:43.320 discriminate by race,

00:49:45.180 we're doing it and

00:49:47.700 people aren't even

00:49:48.760 complaining enough to

00:49:49.720 change it.

00:49:51.400 So, do you believe

00:49:53.120 that you can make

00:49:53.680 somebody do something

00:49:54.700 under hypnosis that

00:49:56.580 they would not do

00:49:57.660 under their normal

00:49:58.800 state of mind?

00:50:00.760 Here it is.

00:50:02.180 Concrete example.

00:50:04.000 Concrete example.

00:50:05.500 Something like, I don't

00:50:06.540 know, a third of the

00:50:07.500 country has been

00:50:08.620 talked down of their

00:50:10.320 basic belief that we

00:50:12.460 should not have

00:50:13.320 outcomes based on race.

00:50:15.760 It's right here.

00:50:19.000 I'm not making up the

00:50:20.320 example.

00:50:21.520 Look at it yourself.

00:50:23.280 There's nothing hidden,

00:50:24.360 doesn't require any

00:50:25.140 research whatsoever.

00:50:26.440 It's right here.

00:50:27.140 It's written in a memo.

00:50:29.040 The memo says the

00:50:30.340 very thing that we

00:50:31.180 would have all said

00:50:31.980 absolutely we will not

00:50:33.500 do in our normal

00:50:34.680 state of mind.

00:50:35.800 In my normal state of

00:50:36.840 mind, there's nothing

00:50:37.800 you could do to me to

00:50:39.220 make me think that I

00:50:40.260 would choose that race

00:50:42.120 would determine your

00:50:42.920 medical treatment.

00:50:45.160 Nothing.

00:50:45.760 And yet, here it is.

00:50:48.760 Here it is.

00:50:50.600 Scott's displaying

00:50:51.540 white rage, somebody

00:50:52.440 says.

00:50:53.720 Can't I have just

00:50:55.720 rage?

00:50:56.560 Remember, I identify

00:50:57.920 as black for practical

00:51:00.980 reasons, but also for

00:51:03.820 affinity reasons.

00:51:05.160 I have lots in common.

00:51:09.880 Dr. Johnson, my

00:51:12.120 mascot, I'm going to

00:51:12.960 make you go away today

00:51:13.960 because your trolling

00:51:15.780 isn't very good.

00:51:17.740 So, it doesn't matter

00:51:18.440 what you said.

00:51:18.960 Your trolling was

00:51:20.680 inadequate.

00:51:22.920 You have to troll

00:51:23.740 better than that, just

00:51:25.000 to stay on here.

00:51:26.920 All right.

00:51:28.240 So, here's the thing.

00:51:30.660 I believe, almost

00:51:31.740 certainly, that there is

00:51:34.120 a genetic difference in

00:51:35.420 how likely you will be

00:51:37.460 affected by it.

00:51:38.460 And I think the

00:51:39.580 genetic difference is

00:51:41.220 in the ACE

00:51:42.120 inhibitors, and

00:51:44.280 that explains

00:51:45.120 also why young

00:51:46.220 people are not

00:51:46.980 affected, because

00:51:48.240 they have better or

00:51:49.460 different ACE

00:51:50.100 inhibitors, I guess.

00:51:51.280 And some

00:51:52.060 ethnicities do.

00:51:53.620 So, are they,

00:51:55.460 does it seem to you

00:51:56.340 that they're avoiding

00:51:57.200 science to make it

00:52:00.000 seem like it's a

00:52:00.740 social thing?

00:52:02.340 That's exactly what's

00:52:03.380 happening, right?

00:52:04.400 Are they not avoiding

00:52:05.380 the obvious science?

00:52:09.040 Yeah, and vitamin D

00:52:10.260 absorption, it's obvious.

00:52:13.240 And the vitamin D

00:52:14.020 absorption is obviously

00:52:15.180 genetic, because if your

00:52:17.620 skin is darker, you

00:52:18.900 don't absorb as much.

00:52:19.980 Am I right about that?

00:52:20.840 I don't want to be

00:52:21.480 unscientific.

00:52:22.840 But I don't think it

00:52:23.600 has anything to do with

00:52:24.780 your quality as a human

00:52:26.300 being, obviously.

00:52:27.240 But sunlight reacts

00:52:29.380 different to darker

00:52:30.820 surfaces than lighter

00:52:31.940 surfaces.

00:52:33.320 So, I mean, it's just

00:52:34.780 completely objectively

00:52:35.900 true.

00:52:39.780 So when you see

00:52:40.820 yourself getting

00:52:41.400 gaslighted to this

00:52:42.640 extent, and you

00:52:44.540 doubt that the public

00:52:46.060 is being hypnotized,

00:52:47.580 you can't get a better

00:52:48.380 example than this.

00:52:49.620 This is pure

00:52:50.400 hypnosis.

00:52:51.340 Pure hypnosis.

00:52:52.720 In the sense of

00:52:53.980 persuasion being the

00:52:55.660 same as hypnosis in

00:52:56.640 this context.

00:52:57.860 The most predictable

00:52:59.060 story in the world is

00:53:00.340 that now the Omicron

00:53:02.700 variant has merged with

00:53:04.840 the Delta to form,

00:53:07.360 what do they call it,

00:53:09.440 the Deltacron or

00:53:10.740 something.

00:53:11.780 And apparently it

00:53:13.420 doesn't have the worst

00:53:14.360 of both of those.

00:53:15.480 You know, the worst

00:53:15.940 case would be it spreads

00:53:17.140 as fast as Omicron and

00:53:18.560 it's deadly as Delta.

00:53:20.040 But the experts are

00:53:20.920 saying that doesn't seem

00:53:21.740 to be the case.

00:53:22.700 It does seem to be a

00:53:23.600 mix, but it didn't take

00:53:25.280 the worst part of both

00:53:26.220 of them.

00:53:26.500 I'm not even sure if

00:53:29.520 that's possible.

00:53:30.820 But on top of that,

00:53:33.840 I saw a, some people who

00:53:37.720 look smart on the

00:53:38.720 internet, but you can't

00:53:39.520 tell, giving good reasons

00:53:41.920 why the Omicron does not

00:53:43.680 look like a natural

00:53:44.680 variant.

00:53:45.440 Have you seen that?

00:53:46.140 So there's some very

00:53:47.640 smart people who are

00:53:51.800 saying that if you look

00:53:52.720 at the Omicron, there

00:53:53.600 isn't any way that this

00:53:54.800 is a naturally, a

00:53:56.860 naturally occurring

00:53:57.740 thing.

00:53:58.660 There's even a

00:53:59.540 hypothesis that it came

00:54:02.460 from a vaccine test,

00:54:05.420 that it might have

00:54:06.060 actually been a vaccine

00:54:08.780 candidate that went wrong

00:54:10.740 or something.

00:54:11.200 And then there's also

00:54:13.760 speculation with no

00:54:14.940 evidence of this, no

00:54:15.960 evidence whatsoever, that

00:54:17.580 maybe somebody released

00:54:19.040 it as a vaccine because

00:54:21.080 you can't get the actual

00:54:22.100 vaccines to other

00:54:23.180 people.

00:54:24.900 I think it's way too

00:54:26.400 big a coincidence that it

00:54:28.160 acts like a vaccine

00:54:29.400 exactly when we needed

00:54:31.080 it.

00:54:32.620 It could be a

00:54:33.640 coincidence, but my

00:54:35.620 skeptical part of my

00:54:37.000 brain says, I just don't

00:54:38.620 see that as a coincidence.

00:54:39.720 And then when you add

00:54:41.160 on top of it, it

00:54:42.060 doesn't look natural.

00:54:43.560 So it doesn't look

00:54:44.560 natural, and it was

00:54:48.340 released at exactly the

00:54:49.580 right time.

00:54:52.640 Maybe accidental?

00:54:54.840 Now, if it was

00:54:56.020 released at the right

00:54:57.940 time and only recently

00:54:59.200 came into its own, then

00:55:02.400 where was it hiding?

00:55:03.660 Because the alternative

00:55:04.560 hypothesis is that it was

00:55:07.000 hiding somewhere and

00:55:08.160 wasn't spreading much.

00:55:09.940 But it's Omicron.

00:55:12.420 Omicron can't hide in one

00:55:13.960 location by its nature.

00:55:16.160 It's going to go

00:55:16.740 everywhere fast.

00:55:18.100 So the alternative

00:55:18.980 explanations that it's

00:55:20.380 just been around a while,

00:55:21.740 but, you know, we didn't

00:55:22.700 notice it, doesn't hold up

00:55:24.680 to, I guess, its genetic

00:55:26.840 nature.

00:55:29.560 So I think you can look at

00:55:30.860 it and you know that it's

00:55:31.740 been around a while.

00:55:33.580 I think I'm explaining this

00:55:35.500 right, but I could take a

00:55:36.500 fact check on this.

00:55:37.300 I think when you look at

00:55:38.780 it, you can tell it has

00:55:39.860 evolved enough that it's

00:55:42.080 been around a while.

00:55:44.180 Okay?

00:55:44.560 So check that.

00:55:45.940 That you can tell by

00:55:46.900 looking at it that it's

00:55:48.300 been around a while.

00:55:51.460 If that's true, where was

00:55:54.260 it?

00:55:55.380 Because if it was around a

00:55:57.040 while, anywhere on Earth

00:55:58.560 outside of a lab, we would

00:56:01.420 have known it a lot sooner.

00:56:02.800 Right?

00:56:04.640 And apparently it also

00:56:05.740 evolved through mice.

00:56:07.280 So there might have been

00:56:08.000 some iteration through

00:56:08.900 mice.

00:56:09.800 Huh, where do you see

00:56:10.740 mice?

00:56:11.700 In a laboratory.

00:56:13.140 Well, you see it in the

00:56:13.880 world, too, but obviously.

00:56:16.140 But in a laboratory.

00:56:17.120 If you see something that

00:56:18.120 went through multiple

00:56:19.400 mouse evolutions, maybe.

00:56:22.360 Even that's not confirmed.

00:56:26.060 You think lab.

00:56:27.760 But obviously the world is

00:56:29.340 full of real mice, too.

00:56:30.540 So it could have been

00:56:31.160 that.

00:56:32.200 So I'm going to say the

00:56:33.660 odds of Omicron being a

00:56:35.560 natural variant are low.

00:56:39.080 How many would disagree

00:56:40.300 with that?

00:56:43.320 We don't know where it

00:56:44.480 came from or what the

00:56:45.460 origin story would be.

00:56:46.700 That would just be

00:56:47.240 speculation.

00:56:48.260 But I don't believe it.

00:56:50.060 I just don't believe it at

00:56:50.980 all.

00:56:53.280 Okay.

00:56:55.780 There's a group called

00:56:56.680 the Patriot Front.

00:56:57.800 You've all seen them.

00:56:58.620 They are very healthy

00:56:59.820 looking adult males all

00:57:01.960 over six feet tall who

00:57:03.740 look exactly like military

00:57:05.420 and or feds.

00:57:06.820 But we have no evidence

00:57:08.220 of that.

00:57:08.800 We only know that they

00:57:09.700 wear masks.

00:57:10.920 And they showed up in

00:57:11.600 Chicago and they were

00:57:13.240 yelled at by the actual

00:57:14.920 conservatives there.

00:57:17.060 I think it was maybe an

00:57:18.220 abortion related thing.

00:57:21.580 And is there anybody

00:57:23.960 watching this?

00:57:24.800 If you're familiar with

00:57:25.900 who they are, because

00:57:27.180 they've marched before,

00:57:29.660 is there anybody

00:57:30.560 watching this who thinks

00:57:31.660 that they're actually

00:57:32.640 conservatives?

00:57:33.880 Anybody?

00:57:35.080 Is there even one person

00:57:36.320 watching this on either

00:57:37.520 platform who thinks that

00:57:39.160 that's a real group?

00:57:42.680 See, all no's on locals.

00:57:45.680 100% no's.

00:57:47.580 About YouTube.

00:57:51.000 I say one yes.

00:57:52.360 I say one yes.

00:57:53.080 Do they have tiki

00:57:55.720 torches?

00:57:56.280 Yeah, exactly.

00:57:58.840 So almost all no.

00:58:00.660 Now, I don't know if it's

00:58:01.620 the Lincoln Project.

00:58:02.780 We don't know that.

00:58:03.860 But here are some of the

00:58:04.940 hilarious ways in which

00:58:07.320 it's obvious that they're

00:58:08.320 not.

00:58:09.440 Number one, they wore

00:58:11.200 masks.

00:58:13.440 Now, how many

00:58:15.260 conservatives can you put

00:58:16.420 in one place and all of

00:58:17.820 them are wearing masks?

00:58:18.860 Could you even call

00:58:21.020 somebody who is outdoors

00:58:23.680 wearing masks?

00:58:26.140 Could you even say they're

00:58:27.580 conservatives if they're

00:58:29.040 outdoors wearing masks?

00:58:30.660 Now, you might say to yourself,

00:58:31.760 well, Scott, that's not why

00:58:32.920 they wear the masks.

00:58:34.420 The masks are to hide their

00:58:35.500 face.

00:58:37.120 Okay.

00:58:39.180 Tell me what group of

00:58:40.640 conservatives meets in

00:58:43.700 large numbers and none of

00:58:45.820 them will show their face.

00:58:46.760 I've never even heard of

00:58:48.600 that.

00:58:49.840 Now, you're going to say

00:58:50.700 the KKK, right?

00:58:52.180 But we even know who the

00:58:53.260 KKK is, right?

00:58:56.100 Correct me if I'm wrong, but

00:58:57.420 don't we know the leaders

00:58:58.500 of the KKK?

00:58:59.860 Because they don't hide

00:59:01.120 their face?

00:59:02.060 At least not all the time.

00:59:04.360 Right?

00:59:04.860 So what are the odds that

00:59:07.220 we don't know even one of

00:59:08.460 the people in this group,

00:59:09.720 the Patriot Front?

00:59:10.760 Okay, pretty low.

00:59:11.880 Then the other thing is

00:59:12.860 they're all marching with

00:59:14.040 flags, right?

00:59:14.700 American flags.

00:59:15.440 And there's a scene on

00:59:18.120 video where they're very

00:59:19.480 organized putting these

00:59:20.580 flags back in the bed of a

00:59:22.720 pickup truck.

00:59:23.820 And they're just loading

00:59:24.840 these flags on like it's

00:59:26.260 garbage.

00:59:28.540 You know, just throwing

00:59:29.100 them on the back of a

00:59:29.800 pickup truck.

00:59:31.120 Now, let me ask you this.

00:59:34.920 Every 4th of July, I think

00:59:36.920 it's the local realtor who

00:59:38.540 puts these little plastic,

00:59:40.480 very small, little American

00:59:42.560 flags and sticks them next to

00:59:45.020 the driveway in the ground.

00:59:46.700 And it's just a little

00:59:47.560 plastic flag, probably made

00:59:49.120 in China.

00:59:49.780 I don't know.

00:59:50.820 And when 4th of July

00:59:54.120 passes, I have to do

00:59:57.080 something with it.

00:59:58.180 Because now it's a little

00:59:58.960 faded and it's worth, you

01:00:00.700 know, nothing.

01:00:02.080 And it's an American flag.

01:00:04.600 What do you do with it?

01:00:05.640 And I know it's plastic.

01:00:08.880 But I end up throwing it

01:00:10.660 away.

01:00:12.020 But do you know how much

01:00:12.980 trouble I have putting an

01:00:14.180 American flag in the

01:00:15.180 garbage?

01:00:16.260 Does anybody have the same

01:00:17.380 problem?

01:00:18.500 Because it is garbage.

01:00:20.600 But, like, I stand there in

01:00:22.400 front of the garbage and I

01:00:23.460 open it and I'm like...

01:00:27.980 And, like, my hand won't

01:00:31.580 release it.

01:00:32.900 It's like I can't make my

01:00:33.900 hand, release it.

01:00:36.340 Because there's probably

01:00:38.200 nothing more fundamental to

01:00:41.660 our cultural upbringing than

01:00:44.880 you don't put the flag in the

01:00:46.420 garbage, right?

01:00:48.300 Am I right?

01:00:49.740 And so seeing all these

01:00:53.100 alleged super patriots just

01:00:55.860 toss a bunch of flags in the

01:00:57.260 back of a pickup truck, I

01:00:59.580 don't know, it just didn't

01:01:00.300 read as genuine to me.

01:01:02.440 It looked like people who

01:01:03.440 didn't care that much about

01:01:04.360 the American flag.

01:01:05.680 It just looked like you were

01:01:06.660 too casual about it.

01:01:08.080 Something about that.

01:01:10.020 Yeah.

01:01:10.400 Now, Tom is saying if it's

01:01:11.600 plastic, you can throw it

01:01:12.900 away.

01:01:13.320 And if it's cloth, you burn

01:01:14.820 it.

01:01:15.360 I get that.

01:01:16.300 I get that.

01:01:17.000 I'm just saying that

01:01:17.800 psychologically, even a

01:01:20.180 plastic flag is hard to

01:01:21.400 throw away.

01:01:21.800 It just is.

01:01:23.720 And the next was, I think

01:01:26.920 Mark Schneider pointed this

01:01:28.260 out, he had military

01:01:29.380 experience.

01:01:29.960 And you see how organized

01:01:31.980 these Patriot Front people

01:01:33.700 were?

01:01:34.460 They sure look like they

01:01:36.100 have military training,

01:01:37.700 because they're just a

01:01:38.640 little bit too organized, if

01:01:40.100 you know what I mean.

01:01:41.380 Now, take any group of

01:01:43.120 conservatives and look at

01:01:45.120 their waistlines.

01:01:48.300 Does it look like any of

01:01:49.680 these Patriot Front people?

01:01:51.020 They all look like they're

01:01:52.500 models.

01:01:53.140 They're all six feet tall and

01:01:54.480 male and white and really

01:01:57.180 healthy and in shape.

01:02:01.520 I don't know.

01:02:02.920 It doesn't look like a

01:02:04.080 MAGA crowd to me, that's

01:02:05.460 for sure.

01:02:07.140 And what are the odds that

01:02:08.320 we wouldn't know at least

01:02:09.240 one member of the group?

01:02:12.280 Can you think of any group

01:02:13.700 where they don't at least

01:02:15.340 have a leader or a

01:02:16.440 spokesperson?

01:02:17.360 I mean, for God's sakes,

01:02:19.020 the Taliban had a

01:02:20.260 spokesperson.

01:02:21.960 Am I right?

01:02:23.900 Right?

01:02:24.300 We even knew the head of

01:02:26.400 Al-Qaeda.

01:02:28.600 We always know the leader.

01:02:31.040 So if you don't know the

01:02:31.860 leader, there's something

01:02:32.660 going on, right?

01:02:35.860 So, much like the fart jar

01:02:37.980 and much like our election

01:02:39.480 systems, which are

01:02:40.920 impossible to audit, you

01:02:43.420 don't know what's in the

01:02:44.300 fart jar, you don't know if

01:02:45.640 your elections are fair,

01:02:46.700 because you can't audit the

01:02:47.640 electronic parts, and you

01:02:49.300 absolutely should not trust

01:02:51.100 that the Patriot Front are

01:02:54.040 actually conservatives, because

01:02:56.540 it's opaque.

01:02:58.300 Let me give you the final

01:02:59.980 rule on this.

01:03:02.420 If it's opaque, it's fake.

01:03:05.440 If it's opaque, it's fake.

01:03:08.480 If you can't see on the inside,

01:03:10.700 it's always a fraud.

01:03:12.540 If it's opaque, it's fake.

01:03:15.200 The election, we can't see the

01:03:16.920 electronic part.

01:03:17.920 It's opaque.

01:03:19.140 It's fake.

01:03:20.240 Now, let me be clear.

01:03:22.020 It doesn't mean you know it's

01:03:23.800 fake.

01:03:24.600 It means that a rational

01:03:26.180 person should assume it is.

01:03:28.280 You should act as though it

01:03:29.820 is.

01:03:30.900 All of your actions should be

01:03:32.340 based on the assumption

01:03:33.360 that it's fake.

01:03:35.360 So my assumption about the

01:03:37.060 Patriot Front is I don't know

01:03:39.540 if it's real, but if it's

01:03:42.240 opaque, it's fake.

01:03:44.240 And how about all of those

01:03:45.600 anonymous sources that tell

01:03:47.780 you what happened behind

01:03:49.240 closed doors?

01:03:50.560 Should you believe an

01:03:51.720 anonymous source?

01:03:53.520 Well, if you don't know who

01:03:54.740 they are, that's opaque.

01:03:57.060 And if it's opaque, it's

01:03:59.000 fake.

01:04:00.500 If opaque, it's fake.

01:04:03.740 And again, it doesn't mean

01:04:06.560 it's fake.

01:04:07.520 It means you have to act like

01:04:08.960 that.

01:04:09.780 Otherwise, you're just a

01:04:11.740 clueless citizen.

01:04:12.900 And part of it, part of

01:04:15.440 acting it, though it's fake,

01:04:16.740 is to force people to be

01:04:18.080 transparent.

01:04:20.020 If there's any, anybody

01:04:21.840 watching who is not a native

01:04:23.400 English speaker, is there

01:04:25.360 anybody who's not a native

01:04:26.560 English speaker who doesn't

01:04:28.760 know what opaque means?

01:04:30.520 Because it's not that common

01:04:31.860 a word.

01:04:34.960 Opaque means you can't see on

01:04:36.420 the inside.

01:04:38.760 Transparent means you can see on

01:04:40.180 the inside.

01:04:40.860 Opaque means it's just a

01:04:42.480 black box.

01:04:45.700 All right.

01:04:46.560 If it's opaque, it's fake.

01:04:50.120 Remember that and apply it to

01:04:52.280 everything.

01:04:53.540 If it's opaque, it's fake.

01:04:55.900 And some of you are even

01:04:57.920 repeating that in your minds

01:04:59.340 right now because it sounds

01:05:00.640 so darn clever.

01:05:02.340 So darn clever.

01:05:03.900 Yeah, same as frosted glass.

01:05:05.720 There's a reason that you can't

01:05:07.060 have, I guess it depends on

01:05:08.840 your state, but you can't

01:05:10.120 have, what do you call it,

01:05:12.100 when the glass is frosted or

01:05:13.860 darkened.

01:05:15.660 So the police officer needs to

01:05:17.200 be tinted.

01:05:18.120 So the police officer needs to

01:05:19.540 be able to see into your

01:05:20.800 vehicle.

01:05:21.900 Do you know why?

01:05:23.620 Because if it's opaque, you

01:05:25.760 don't know what's in there and

01:05:27.680 you don't trust it.

01:05:28.920 When a police officer walks up

01:05:30.540 to a vehicle that has tinted

01:05:32.180 glass all around, does the

01:05:34.100 police officer have one hand on

01:05:35.800 his weapon or her weapon or

01:05:38.200 their weapon?

01:05:39.620 I think so.

01:05:41.660 Would you, would you, I

01:05:43.720 would, right, right.

01:05:45.000 If I were approaching a car

01:05:47.060 with tinted windows that I

01:05:48.340 just pulled over, I would have

01:05:50.060 my hand on my service

01:05:51.920 revolver.

01:05:53.560 Why?

01:05:54.580 Because if it's opaque, you

01:05:57.380 don't know what's in there.

01:05:59.640 Yeah, that would be dangerous,

01:06:00.920 not fake.

01:06:01.300 But the fake in that case would

01:06:03.080 be that it's just a, uh, a

01:06:05.560 harmless citizen.

01:06:07.320 So, definitely you're faking

01:06:10.040 being a harmless citizen.

01:06:13.960 It's already illegal, yeah.

01:06:15.420 I think it's illegal in most

01:06:17.040 states, if not all.

01:06:17.900 All right.

01:06:21.120 Um, I'm pretty sure this is the

01:06:23.020 best live stream I've ever

01:06:25.100 done.

01:06:25.480 I don't know.

01:06:26.660 But, uh, I'm going to make a

01:06:28.040 claim.

01:06:28.960 Here's my claim.

01:06:29.920 That the people who watch me

01:06:32.040 have a better understanding of

01:06:34.000 mass formation psychosis than

01:06:36.440 the people watching any other

01:06:38.200 platform.

01:06:41.580 I believe that's true.

01:06:43.320 I don't think anybody can

01:06:44.400 explain this as well as I can.

01:06:45.980 And, again, it's 40 years of

01:06:47.360 experience.

01:06:47.960 It's not magic.

01:06:50.480 Yeah.

01:06:52.080 Uh, the mass of you agree.

01:06:53.640 Well, I've hypnotized you into

01:06:54.760 agreeing.

01:06:55.540 All right.

01:06:56.420 That is all I've got to say

01:06:58.380 today, one of the best live

01:07:00.540 streams of all time.

01:07:01.640 No.

01:07:02.680 No, it was the best.

01:07:03.800 It was the best.

01:07:04.900 And it's not all because of me,

01:07:07.840 as Trump likes to say.

01:07:09.340 It's not just me.

01:07:10.920 It's us.

01:07:12.300 Because if you were not so damn

01:07:14.160 smart and sexy, none of this

01:07:15.940 would work.

01:07:17.120 And so, give yourselves a pat on

01:07:18.900 the back.

01:07:19.980 And, uh, don't buy a fart jar.

01:07:21.860 Don't trust your elections.

01:07:22.880 And don't join the Patriot Front.

01:07:24.700 And that's all I've got for

01:07:26.140 today.

01:07:27.340 I'll see you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 09, 2022

Episode 1618 Scott Adams： It's Time To Tell You The Real Story About Hypnosis and The News

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