Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1628 Scott Adams： I'm Ready to Take the L on Vaccinations. I Wasn't Convinced Until Today

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00:01:07.160 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:01:09.540 Well, Rasmussen did a poll to find out how people were thinking of Biden's first year in the office.

00:01:20.140 How do you think that went?

00:01:22.200 Did the public say, whoa, Biden's nailing it.

00:01:27.260 Got to get a lot more of him.

00:01:29.280 Was it something like that?

00:01:30.680 Or did 50% say he was very unsuccessful?

00:01:35.160 10% say he's somewhat unsuccessful for a full 60% believing it was not a successful year.

00:01:46.160 That's not good.

00:01:48.020 That's not good at all.

00:01:51.560 More than that, 57% said we're more divided than before.

00:01:55.580 Well, given that he's the great bringer together, and he ended up being the great divider,

00:02:04.600 I would say that is an unambiguous failure.

00:02:08.820 Unambiguous failure.

00:02:10.500 But let me give you some political advice.

00:02:14.320 Never promise to bring the country together.

00:02:17.940 Because that's sort of a losing battle.

00:02:21.700 Don't promise that you'll beat a pandemic and bring the country together.

00:02:27.380 Nope.

00:02:28.380 There are two things you're not going to do.

00:02:31.120 So I guess Biden learned that.

00:02:34.240 Here's a political slash virus question for you.

00:02:38.120 Ian Martises asked this question.

00:02:41.420 Can we calculate...

00:02:42.700 I'm sort of paraphrasing his question, but...

00:02:45.700 Could we calculate how many people died because the vaccination rollout was delayed

00:02:54.480 from the time that we had all the data we were going to use for the decision?

00:03:00.340 It looks like until maybe after the election or for some other political reason.

00:03:05.300 Do you think that we would be able to determine how many people died

00:03:11.260 because we waited on the vaccines?

00:03:14.700 Some would say for political reasons.

00:03:18.120 Some would say maybe not.

00:03:20.300 And Otoli Lubarsky points out, he says,

00:03:23.920 we did not know the effectiveness nor the safety rates before November.

00:03:28.480 And that it took a while to scale up.

00:03:32.100 And Ian replied to that saying that there was no...

00:03:35.620 His understanding is that there was no new data that was presented after the delay.

00:03:40.560 And I asked the same question.

00:03:44.400 How hard do you have to look at the data to know if it says up or down?

00:03:50.980 I feel like the data, if it is packaged in a way that is meant to be read,

00:03:57.980 would tell you if it works right away.

00:04:01.380 Wouldn't it say, here's the data.

00:04:03.640 On this tab, you can see that the bad side effects were this,

00:04:09.520 but you can see that the effectiveness was this.

00:04:13.940 Or do they just give you raw data,

00:04:17.040 and then every single person who looks at it has to, like,

00:04:19.820 come to their own conclusions?

00:04:21.900 Is that how it works?

00:04:23.480 I would think that the data says, summary.

00:04:26.260 We have this many side effects.

00:04:30.200 We have this many benefits.

00:04:32.580 Am I wrong about that?

00:04:34.080 That would be a pretty basic assumption.

00:04:36.220 So why would it take more than 10 minutes

00:04:39.980 for somebody who's not going to do a deep dive themselves?

00:04:43.040 Why would it take somebody more than 10 minutes to say yes?

00:04:47.460 Now, of course, you'd want somebody who is really good at looking at data

00:04:50.960 to jump in and ask a bunch of questions.

00:04:53.800 But that's adding a week, am I right?

00:04:58.180 Because it's a crisis, it's an emergency.

00:05:00.640 You'd get the best people on the job.

00:05:02.920 You'd fly them in.

00:05:03.940 You'd spare no expense.

00:05:05.760 Why would it take more than a week

00:05:07.140 for the best data spelunker in the world

00:05:11.500 to dig in and just see if there's anything fishy in the data?

00:05:15.180 So I don't know what the reason would be

00:05:18.220 for the delay if it were not political.

00:05:21.140 How many of you think that there was a political delay

00:05:24.900 unrelated to anything functional or any real obstacles?

00:05:32.480 Yeah, there are a lot of people who suspect that.

00:05:35.100 But I think it's something short of definite.

00:05:40.580 So I think somebody's going to end up calculating that.

00:05:49.680 Of course, it'll be highly, highly controversial.

00:05:52.900 Now, did you hear that Ray Epps is going to testify

00:05:56.220 to the January 6th committee?

00:05:59.620 So the famous Ray Epps, the guy that many think is a Fed.

00:06:03.280 And so here's the mystery of, let's see,

00:06:08.280 why did, was it Kippinger or whatever said,

00:06:13.120 Klippinger, what's his name,

00:06:15.780 said that Ray Epps had already talked to the committee?

00:06:20.980 But apparently it was a preliminary talk,

00:06:23.420 and he's going to go, I think, on record and under oath.

00:06:27.340 Kinzinger, yes.

00:06:28.060 So I think Kinzinger had said that he had already talked.

00:06:32.980 But he hadn't talked in detail,

00:06:35.660 and maybe under oath, I don't know.

00:06:37.240 Maybe that's the difference, too.

00:06:38.740 So he will be coming back.

00:06:41.060 Now, do you remember one of the suspicions

00:06:46.220 was that he was no longer on the list of most wanted?

00:06:49.800 Like there was a list of FBI's most wanted from that night,

00:06:53.640 and originally he was on there,

00:06:56.100 but fairly soon after he was put on the list,

00:06:59.320 he dropped off.

00:07:00.600 And did you say to yourself, well, that's suspicious?

00:07:03.640 That's suspicious.

00:07:05.780 Do you know why he dropped off the list of most wanted?

00:07:09.600 He turned himself in right away.

00:07:12.000 He wasn't most wanted.

00:07:13.880 So the only reason he dropped off the list of most wanted

00:07:16.780 is because he called up and said, hey, this is Ray Epps.

00:07:20.700 Here's my address.

00:07:21.480 Here's my name.

00:07:22.820 Here's my phone number.

00:07:24.260 When do you want me to come in?

00:07:25.800 Or something like that.

00:07:27.800 So as soon as somebody is no longer most wanted,

00:07:31.100 because they've literally surrendered,

00:07:33.000 you take him off the list.

00:07:35.020 How many of you thought it meant something

00:07:37.160 that he was taken off the list?

00:07:40.240 How many of you said, that means something?

00:07:43.760 Instead of the most obvious reason

00:07:45.880 you would be taken off a list

00:07:47.320 is that you don't belong on the list.

00:07:49.840 Now, I have to admit, I didn't see that.

00:07:54.040 It's the most obvious thing in the world,

00:07:56.540 and I was actually blinded to it.

00:07:58.260 Probably many of you were, too.

00:08:00.020 I was blinded to the most obvious reason.

00:08:03.280 And let me tell you how stupid I am.

00:08:06.080 All right?

00:08:06.540 Full confession.

00:08:08.880 I've seen video of the press

00:08:11.980 talking to Ray Epps, like after the event.

00:08:16.040 The press knows exactly where he lives.

00:08:19.620 The press found him.

00:08:21.480 He's not...

00:08:22.140 I should have known,

00:08:23.980 as all of you should have known,

00:08:25.760 that he definitely wasn't most wanted,

00:08:28.440 meaning they knew exactly where he was.

00:08:30.300 He may or may not have some involvement

00:08:32.240 that, you know, you want to know about.

00:08:34.640 That's a separate question.

00:08:35.840 But in terms of being most wanted,

00:08:38.060 nope.

00:08:39.100 He was right there,

00:08:40.500 available for anybody who wanted him.

00:08:42.300 Right at his...

00:08:43.500 You know, easily available.

00:08:44.720 So that explained that part.

00:08:47.700 Now, I do think it will be really interesting

00:08:50.480 to see him answer questions under oath.

00:08:53.360 And I hope that the Ted Cruz's, et cetera,

00:08:57.580 that the people who are good at asking questions

00:08:59.620 can really, really stop.

00:09:05.180 So there's a whole new kind of troll

00:09:07.680 that just appeared in the political season.

00:09:09.720 And I would love to know...

00:09:13.480 Let me just change the topic for a moment.

00:09:15.780 I would love to know what kind of training

00:09:17.800 or theory they're working under.

00:09:21.180 Because the new brand of trolls

00:09:22.960 all have the same quality.

00:09:24.740 They don't have any complaint.

00:09:26.520 They just say things like,

00:09:28.160 stop, Scott, stop.

00:09:30.600 Just don't do it anymore.

00:09:32.180 And I'd be like, what?

00:09:34.220 Stop what?

00:09:35.680 I'm not even sure what the topic is.

00:09:38.000 And then the LOL trolls.

00:09:40.460 LOL, Scott.

00:09:41.640 LOL.

00:09:43.080 You're coping.

00:09:45.360 L.

00:09:46.500 And so I thought to myself,

00:09:48.340 I should take these people seriously.

00:09:52.380 There are so many people telling me

00:09:54.340 that I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance.

00:09:56.860 And my first impression was,

00:09:59.040 well, that's obviously projection.

00:10:01.120 You're the one who's experiencing it.

00:10:03.480 You're projecting it on me.

00:10:04.960 But you know what the problem with projection is?

00:10:07.960 You never know who's doing it.

00:10:11.700 Am I projecting on my critics?

00:10:15.040 Or are my critics projecting on me?

00:10:18.840 And how would I know?

00:10:20.960 Well, I decided to go with the crowd.

00:10:25.660 And the crowd has decided

00:10:27.820 that the problem is on my end.

00:10:30.020 So I've decided to take the L

00:10:31.760 and admit that I'm afraid and coping.

00:10:36.640 And I'll explain all of that as we go.

00:10:39.700 So if you wanted to hear me say,

00:10:41.360 you know,

00:10:42.340 it looks like I really just made my decision out of fear.

00:10:48.020 And at this point,

00:10:49.680 I'm doing nothing but coping

00:10:50.940 and flailing around trying to justify it.

00:10:53.620 It's kind of embarrassing.

00:10:54.520 I know some of you would be embarrassed

00:10:56.740 even to be associated with me

00:10:58.980 because of my behavior.

00:11:01.360 But we'll get into the details

00:11:03.900 of why it is that I'm accepting the L,

00:11:07.300 a great shame and embarrassment,

00:11:09.300 which will be a stain on my reputation forever.

00:11:13.480 And we'll get into that in a moment.

00:11:15.500 It turns out that the argument is really strong.

00:11:18.460 And I hadn't seen it before.

00:11:20.100 So we'll get to that.

00:11:20.860 All right.

00:11:24.320 Can you believe,

00:11:25.540 I hope you can,

00:11:26.580 that Boris Johnson announced

00:11:28.400 that the UK is dropping face masks

00:11:30.960 and any remote work requirements?

00:11:33.860 There may be some other mandates

00:11:35.240 they're getting rid of.

00:11:36.420 I'm not sure.

00:11:38.580 And I ask you this.

00:11:41.480 Is the science

00:11:42.580 on the other side of the Atlantic

00:11:44.700 from where I am different?

00:11:45.860 Different?

00:11:48.080 Over in Great Britain,

00:11:49.320 do they do science different?

00:11:51.880 Or should we be doing the same thing right away?

00:11:56.220 Because I don't know

00:11:58.200 if China is looking at the same science

00:12:00.560 as the United States.

00:12:02.400 Maybe they have extra stuff.

00:12:03.960 I don't know.

00:12:04.360 But I am fairly sure

00:12:07.320 that Great Britain,

00:12:08.960 the UK,

00:12:10.120 is looking at the same information

00:12:12.760 as the United States.

00:12:14.920 Same science,

00:12:16.240 same concepts,

00:12:17.440 probably same data.

00:12:19.340 Why do they have a different decision?

00:12:21.960 It's not,

00:12:22.560 I don't think it's because

00:12:23.640 their curves are different, right?

00:12:25.720 Or their vaccination rate.

00:12:27.920 I mean,

00:12:28.240 not that different

00:12:29.220 that that's the reason

00:12:30.220 they would make a different decision.

00:12:31.440 So I think

00:12:34.800 that the February 1 date

00:12:36.440 is actually maybe waiting too long.

00:12:39.340 I've asked directly

00:12:40.720 for my governor,

00:12:43.640 Newsom,

00:12:44.440 and President Biden

00:12:45.500 to get ahead

00:12:46.500 of the February 1 date

00:12:47.760 and,

00:12:48.420 because February 1

00:12:49.100 is the date

00:12:49.520 that the public

00:12:50.140 is just going to say

00:12:50.940 fuck it

00:12:51.340 and take their masks off.

00:12:53.020 And you want your government

00:12:54.760 to get ahead of that

00:12:55.620 to remain credible.

00:12:57.060 Because I want my government

00:12:58.380 to be credible.

00:12:59.900 I feel like that's better.

00:13:01.960 So,

00:13:02.840 I'm telling the government

00:13:04.400 that the parade has started

00:13:05.800 and there's plenty of room

00:13:08.000 in the front.

00:13:09.320 If they'd like to start now

00:13:10.900 and get in front of the parade,

00:13:12.400 I accept them as my leaders.

00:13:14.460 Please,

00:13:15.220 please take this

00:13:16.380 out of the hands

00:13:17.080 of the public.

00:13:18.540 But if you're not going

00:13:19.440 to do your job,

00:13:20.920 let's be clear.

00:13:23.620 Politicians of the United States,

00:13:26.220 if you're not going

00:13:27.040 to do your job,

00:13:28.140 which is to lead us

00:13:29.020 out of the pandemic,

00:13:29.960 make the obvious decisions

00:13:31.740 of valuing freedom

00:13:33.620 the way the public does,

00:13:35.800 get the fuck

00:13:37.420 out of the way.

00:13:38.920 Those are your only

00:13:39.780 two choices left.

00:13:41.880 Am I right?

00:13:42.460 The public will take over.

00:13:45.860 There's no way

00:13:46.460 it's going to be stopped.

00:13:48.000 The public,

00:13:48.680 in the United States,

00:13:49.540 in other places it's different.

00:13:51.120 But in the United States,

00:13:51.980 the public will determine

00:13:53.200 when the masks are over.

00:13:55.120 February 1 is looking

00:13:56.240 like that date.

00:13:58.420 And government,

00:14:00.020 please lead us.

00:14:02.020 Please get in front of the parade

00:14:03.240 while there's still time.

00:14:04.780 If you don't,

00:14:06.740 it's not going to make

00:14:07.520 much of a difference.

00:14:09.400 But get out of the fucking way. 0.98

00:14:11.660 Right?

00:14:12.060 Because you're not going

00:14:12.640 to stop it once we decide

00:14:14.020 to take the masks off.

00:14:17.800 I've decided that analogy

00:14:19.380 is surrender

00:14:20.120 when it comes to a debate.

00:14:21.980 Here's why.

00:14:23.180 There are two ways

00:14:24.080 to use an analogy.

00:14:25.140 One is to explain

00:14:25.980 a new concept.

00:14:27.000 That's a good way

00:14:27.660 to use it.

00:14:28.780 I like to use my example.

00:14:30.560 If you were trying

00:14:31.280 to explain a zebra

00:14:32.280 to someone who didn't know,

00:14:34.520 had never seen a zebra,

00:14:35.820 you might say,

00:14:36.780 well, you know,

00:14:37.260 imagine a horse

00:14:38.080 and the horse had stripes.

00:14:40.960 It'd look a lot like that.

00:14:42.840 And you say,

00:14:43.280 oh, yeah,

00:14:43.760 your horse analogy

00:14:44.940 really helped me

00:14:45.600 understand a zebra.

00:14:46.840 But that wasn't

00:14:47.520 an argument, right?

00:14:49.140 Nobody was arguing

00:14:50.300 about zebras.

00:14:51.720 Somebody was just

00:14:52.580 explaining a concept.

00:14:54.580 But in the context

00:14:56.000 of an argument,

00:14:56.880 if I say something

00:14:58.720 about the COVID,

00:15:02.280 vaccination,

00:15:03.800 I will often get somebody

00:15:05.320 to say,

00:15:05.740 well, you're wrong

00:15:06.500 because something,

00:15:08.820 something with polio

00:15:09.800 vaccinations.

00:15:11.400 To which I say,

00:15:12.840 if we were talking

00:15:14.900 about polio,

00:15:15.720 I would agree with you.

00:15:17.380 That's just a whole

00:15:18.120 different situation.

00:15:19.960 That was not an analogy

00:15:21.600 to show me a new concept.

00:15:24.500 It was actually an argument.

00:15:25.760 If somebody argues

00:15:28.040 with an analogy,

00:15:29.380 they've completely

00:15:30.340 abandoned the argument.

00:15:31.480 And they've moved it

00:15:32.780 to some new hypothetical

00:15:34.500 imaginary argument.

00:15:36.940 So if you can discern

00:15:39.080 the difference

00:15:39.900 between somebody

00:15:40.640 using an analogy

00:15:41.460 as an argument,

00:15:43.300 which is batshit crazy,

00:15:45.820 versus using it

00:15:47.000 just to make a point

00:15:48.180 about how the world works,

00:15:50.720 you can really decide

00:15:52.020 whether you want

00:15:52.620 to spend any more time

00:15:53.940 with somebody

00:15:54.420 who left the argument.

00:15:55.200 So when people

00:15:57.080 retreat to an analogy,

00:15:58.920 I just say,

00:16:00.420 I accept your defeat.

00:16:03.760 I accept your defeat.

00:16:05.680 And somebody says,

00:16:06.580 wrong again,

00:16:07.380 it's the same situation.

00:16:09.380 No, polio is not

00:16:10.860 the same situation.

00:16:12.840 It's as different

00:16:14.300 a situation

00:16:15.320 as I can think of.

00:16:16.320 For one thing,

00:16:18.880 the vaccinations

00:16:19.600 work

00:16:21.480 to stop

00:16:22.620 the polio spread.

00:16:25.180 I mean,

00:16:25.280 that's a pretty big difference.

00:16:28.180 So,

00:16:28.760 anyway,

00:16:31.660 one of my favorite

00:16:33.560 thought experiments

00:16:35.380 is imagining

00:16:36.840 if Einstein

00:16:37.660 hadn't been alive

00:16:38.560 at the same time

00:16:39.320 as Twitter.

00:16:41.620 Can you imagine

00:16:42.440 Einstein just being

00:16:43.460 like somebody

00:16:44.620 who tweets?

00:16:47.040 And, you know,

00:16:47.600 one day Einstein's

00:16:48.660 fussing around

00:16:50.140 and he figures out

00:16:50.960 that E equals MC squared.

00:16:53.220 And he's thinking,

00:16:54.140 all right,

00:16:54.580 you know,

00:16:55.260 I'm going to publish this.

00:16:57.200 But before I do,

00:16:58.900 I'm going to tweet it.

00:17:00.660 And I can say,

00:17:01.160 I have a preprint.

00:17:02.800 I got this idea.

00:17:03.680 Here's my math.

00:17:04.440 Take a look at it.

00:17:05.200 What would Twitter do

00:17:07.520 as a response

00:17:09.560 to Albert Einstein

00:17:10.780 tweeting

00:17:11.340 that E equals MC squared

00:17:13.300 and then perhaps

00:17:14.500 showing his work

00:17:15.260 and saying,

00:17:16.580 all right,

00:17:16.760 here's my calculations.

00:17:18.000 I've submitted this

00:17:18.800 to peer review.

00:17:20.060 But I wanted to tell you

00:17:21.260 here on Twitter first.

00:17:23.240 Well,

00:17:23.740 I believe he would

00:17:24.520 get the following comments.

00:17:27.940 LOL.

00:17:29.760 LOL.

00:17:31.280 Nothing else.

00:17:32.020 Just LOL.

00:17:33.140 I believe somebody

00:17:35.780 would say,

00:17:36.380 Albert,

00:17:37.440 you're embarrassing yourself.

00:17:39.240 You're embarrassing yourself

00:17:40.260 now, Albert.

00:17:41.580 Just stop.

00:17:43.240 Stop.

00:17:44.800 Please.

00:17:47.680 Please.

00:17:48.540 Please just stop.

00:17:50.440 He would get that.

00:17:52.240 But he would also

00:17:53.320 take the L.

00:17:55.700 Albert,

00:17:56.740 I feel like you're just

00:17:58.280 coping

00:17:58.860 with the fact

00:18:00.700 that gravity

00:18:01.460 is real

00:18:03.620 and Newton

00:18:04.740 had all the answers.

00:18:06.940 Just take the L.

00:18:08.780 Take the L.

00:18:09.420 Now,

00:18:11.460 does anybody doubt

00:18:12.620 that his comments

00:18:14.520 would look like that?

00:18:17.380 Seriously.

00:18:18.900 In all seriousness,

00:18:20.880 if he had said,

00:18:21.960 if he had done that,

00:18:22.780 tweeted E equals MC squared,

00:18:24.660 before you knew

00:18:25.600 it was true,

00:18:27.180 wouldn't he get

00:18:27.920 all of those comments?

00:18:30.060 And here's my question

00:18:31.680 about the trolls.

00:18:32.400 There's a great

00:18:35.300 influx of paid trolls

00:18:36.440 and a huge number

00:18:38.180 of them

00:18:38.440 come after me

00:18:39.060 every day.

00:18:39.980 Are they trying

00:18:40.700 to wear me out?

00:18:42.980 Are they trying

00:18:43.540 to ruin my reputation

00:18:44.920 so people don't

00:18:45.900 listen to me

00:18:46.520 on other topics,

00:18:47.580 I suppose?

00:18:48.480 Are they trying

00:18:49.260 to just,

00:18:51.560 I don't know,

00:18:52.520 divert my energy?

00:18:54.640 Are they trying

00:18:55.480 to trick me

00:18:56.740 into overreacting

00:18:57.860 so that I,

00:18:58.780 you know,

00:18:58.980 destroy myself?

00:18:59.840 Do they,

00:19:02.860 so the question is,

00:19:03.820 do they explicitly

00:19:04.820 have a theory,

00:19:07.780 like a psychiatric theory

00:19:10.220 about how their,

00:19:11.260 how their thing works?

00:19:12.560 Because I actually

00:19:13.380 think it does work.

00:19:15.380 My, you know,

00:19:16.480 being on the,

00:19:17.260 on the victim side

00:19:18.900 of it,

00:19:19.240 if you will,

00:19:20.200 I would say

00:19:21.020 that they do

00:19:21.600 siphon off my energy.

00:19:23.940 And there are

00:19:25.520 lots of people

00:19:26.000 I enjoy going

00:19:28.760 back and forth

00:19:29.360 with on Twitter.

00:19:29.840 but usually

00:19:31.320 it's the people

00:19:31.880 who have something

00:19:32.520 like a good,

00:19:33.700 a good argument

00:19:34.780 and that increases

00:19:36.260 my energy

00:19:36.860 and I enjoy it.

00:19:38.340 But,

00:19:38.580 but the LOL trolls

00:19:40.240 who just say

00:19:41.560 take the L

00:19:42.320 and you're coping,

00:19:44.140 I feel as though

00:19:45.120 they're just there

00:19:45.880 to drain energy

00:19:46.740 or to get you

00:19:48.100 worked up

00:19:48.560 so you embarrass

00:19:49.240 yourself.

00:19:51.400 Does anybody

00:19:52.200 have a better theory

00:19:53.080 for that?

00:19:53.700 Because it's quite

00:19:54.480 clear that they're,

00:19:55.460 they're paid

00:19:56.580 or organized.

00:19:58.200 They might not be paid

00:19:58.960 but they're at least

00:19:59.560 organized.

00:20:03.080 All right.

00:20:04.940 So,

00:20:06.380 Israel has some news 1.00

00:20:08.580 and have I ever

00:20:09.900 told you that

00:20:10.440 we can't tell

00:20:11.040 the difference

00:20:11.520 between good news

00:20:12.560 and bad news?

00:20:13.400 So this tweet

00:20:14.720 was, I believe,

00:20:16.340 tweeted in the context

00:20:17.520 of it being bad news.

00:20:19.940 But I looked at it

00:20:21.000 and I said,

00:20:21.960 this looks like

00:20:23.840 exactly good news.

00:20:25.220 Not just good news,

00:20:26.480 great news.

00:20:27.360 Not just great news,

00:20:28.720 but some of the best

00:20:29.480 news I've ever seen.

00:20:30.440 here's the news.

00:20:33.440 That Israel, 0.95

00:20:34.460 which is the only,

00:20:35.680 this is Dr. Eli David

00:20:37.420 put it this way.

00:20:39.080 I don't know,

00:20:39.440 this isn't, you know,

00:20:40.400 technically true,

00:20:41.340 but he says,

00:20:42.340 the only quadruple

00:20:43.300 vaxed country,

00:20:44.160 it's not technically

00:20:45.000 true because they're

00:20:45.640 not all quadruple

00:20:46.880 vaxed,

00:20:47.660 but lots of more,

00:20:48.440 I guess.

00:20:49.080 The only quadruple 1.00

00:20:50.160 vaxed country

00:20:50.720 in the world,

00:20:51.820 also using mask

00:20:53.160 mandates and COVID

00:20:54.160 passports,

00:20:55.180 just broke the

00:20:56.100 global record

00:20:57.080 for daily COVID

00:20:58.420 cases.

00:20:58.900 So on a per capita

00:21:01.480 basis.

00:21:03.740 So is that bad news

00:21:05.220 or good news?

00:21:06.080 Anybody?

00:21:08.100 Is it good news

00:21:09.300 or bad news

00:21:09.980 that the most

00:21:10.680 vaccinated country

00:21:11.860 by far has the

00:21:13.740 highest rate of

00:21:14.440 infection?

00:21:16.100 Good news or bad

00:21:17.300 news?

00:21:18.300 I would trade places

00:21:19.620 with them in a

00:21:20.080 heartbeat.

00:21:21.400 I would totally

00:21:22.340 trade places with

00:21:23.220 them.

00:21:24.200 Except for the

00:21:25.080 booster part.

00:21:25.780 The booster part

00:21:26.520 I'm not a fan of.

00:21:27.720 But if you could

00:21:29.000 give me two

00:21:29.560 vaccinations and

00:21:30.580 the highest rate

00:21:31.500 of current

00:21:32.160 infections,

00:21:32.980 that's the one

00:21:34.220 I want.

00:21:35.900 You know,

00:21:36.300 assuming our

00:21:37.060 healthcare system

00:21:38.900 is still stable.

00:21:40.660 That's a big if.

00:21:41.700 But assuming it's

00:21:42.400 stable, and I

00:21:42.980 think it is in

00:21:43.720 Israel, that's 0.99

00:21:45.100 your best case.

00:21:46.220 Because 95% of

00:21:47.980 the new infections

00:21:49.060 are Omicron.

00:21:50.320 We know that

00:21:50.960 Omicron slices

00:21:52.040 through the

00:21:52.800 vaccinations like

00:21:53.780 they don't exist.

00:21:55.700 Right?

00:21:55.960 So the very best

00:21:57.780 situation is that

00:21:58.820 you have a

00:22:00.100 regular vaccination

00:22:00.980 and then later

00:22:02.420 you get the

00:22:02.980 Omicron.

00:22:04.740 According to

00:22:05.800 the only

00:22:06.760 information I've

00:22:07.520 seen, that's

00:22:08.900 the very best

00:22:09.560 protection with

00:22:11.420 basically really

00:22:12.520 low risk.

00:22:13.600 Because it's

00:22:13.980 Omicron.

00:22:14.920 So what could

00:22:15.700 be better than

00:22:16.580 massive new

00:22:17.420 Omicron infections

00:22:18.500 in a country

00:22:19.820 that's the most

00:22:20.940 vaccinated?

00:22:22.100 That's literally

00:22:22.980 the best case

00:22:23.580 scenario.

00:22:25.700 According to

00:22:26.340 science.

00:22:27.400 Now if the

00:22:28.240 science is

00:22:28.720 wrong, then

00:22:29.300 yeah, of

00:22:29.760 course they'll

00:22:30.160 all drop dead

00:22:30.700 from the

00:22:31.060 vaccinations.

00:22:33.220 Or even if,

00:22:34.340 I won't even

00:22:35.440 say if science

00:22:36.020 is wrong, because

00:22:36.780 science doesn't

00:22:37.380 know the future.

00:22:39.280 So science

00:22:40.060 doesn't have an

00:22:40.680 opinion on 10

00:22:41.520 years from now.

00:22:42.600 So if 10

00:22:43.120 years from now

00:22:43.660 everybody who

00:22:44.260 got a vaccination

00:22:44.920 dies from a

00:22:45.800 blood clot,

00:22:47.040 then science

00:22:47.580 will be wrong.

00:22:48.200 But at the

00:22:48.860 moment, science

00:22:52.300 agrees with

00:22:53.100 Israel that 0.89

00:22:54.120 they are in

00:22:54.620 the very best

00:22:55.260 situation.

00:22:56.180 So it's

00:22:56.420 interesting that

00:22:57.060 Dr. Eli

00:22:57.840 David, I

00:22:59.060 think, now I

00:22:59.940 don't want to

00:23:00.260 be a mind

00:23:00.660 reader, but I

00:23:01.240 believe the

00:23:02.080 context of it

00:23:02.940 as I read it,

00:23:04.920 is that that's

00:23:05.500 bad news for

00:23:06.260 Israel.

00:23:07.260 When in fact

00:23:07.840 it's the best

00:23:08.600 news.

00:23:11.900 All right.

00:23:12.480 I did some

00:23:18.300 highly biased

00:23:19.260 unscientific

00:23:20.220 polls on

00:23:21.180 Twitter, and

00:23:23.860 this was to

00:23:24.780 confirm that

00:23:27.320 I'm coping and

00:23:29.740 taking the L.

00:23:31.560 So some of

00:23:32.360 this, now

00:23:33.080 remember these

00:23:33.620 are not

00:23:33.900 scientific, but

00:23:34.840 these are only

00:23:37.220 my followers for

00:23:38.620 the most part

00:23:39.140 on Twitter.

00:23:40.560 So I asked

00:23:41.000 this question,

00:23:41.480 do vaccinations

00:23:43.000 increase or

00:23:44.160 decrease risk?

00:23:46.360 Now I just

00:23:47.020 said risk,

00:23:48.520 right?

00:23:49.220 So that means

00:23:49.800 you're looking at

00:23:50.580 all risk, the

00:23:52.020 risk of the

00:23:52.480 vaccination itself,

00:23:54.100 the risk of

00:23:54.840 COVID, all the

00:23:56.060 risks.

00:23:58.240 So do

00:23:59.060 vaccinations

00:23:59.620 increase or

00:24:00.400 decrease risk?

00:24:02.460 Of the people

00:24:03.400 who answered my

00:24:04.040 Twitter poll,

00:24:04.760 56% says it

00:24:06.260 decreases.

00:24:07.600 Interesting.

00:24:09.240 But 23%,

00:24:11.460 or 24%-ish,

00:24:14.560 said the

00:24:15.080 vaccination

00:24:15.480 doesn't do

00:24:16.240 anything.

00:24:17.540 It neither

00:24:17.980 increases nor

00:24:18.840 decreases your

00:24:19.580 risk.

00:24:20.620 And 22%

00:24:21.900 said it's

00:24:23.400 more risk.

00:24:25.300 So there's

00:24:26.100 more risk in

00:24:26.680 taking the

00:24:27.080 vaccination than

00:24:27.820 not.

00:24:28.540 Now of course

00:24:29.020 you, you know,

00:24:30.020 if you want to

00:24:30.400 be more

00:24:31.760 tactical, you

00:24:32.640 would divide

00:24:33.440 it by

00:24:33.760 comorbidities

00:24:34.680 and age and

00:24:35.620 risk profiles and

00:24:36.940 all that stuff.

00:24:37.460 But if you

00:24:38.980 were looking at

00:24:39.400 just the

00:24:39.800 total average,

00:24:42.020 56% says it

00:24:43.520 decreases risk.

00:24:44.940 But if you

00:24:46.560 put together the

00:24:47.280 people who say

00:24:47.800 the vax does

00:24:48.500 nothing, which

00:24:49.560 would be a bad

00:24:50.380 idea to take

00:24:51.120 it, right?

00:24:52.640 I think you'd

00:24:53.420 all agree that

00:24:54.060 if you knew

00:24:54.760 the vaccination

00:24:56.240 was not helping,

00:24:58.740 you would

00:24:59.060 definitely not

00:24:59.580 take it,

00:25:00.860 because there

00:25:01.520 might be some

00:25:01.960 risk of the

00:25:02.460 vaccination itself.

00:25:03.720 So if you put

00:25:04.300 together the

00:25:04.800 people who say

00:25:05.460 it does nothing

00:25:06.080 and the

00:25:06.440 people who say

00:25:06.920 it increases

00:25:07.440 risk, you're

00:25:08.800 up to around

00:25:09.600 46% who say

00:25:12.340 the vaccinations

00:25:13.220 make things

00:25:13.960 worse.

00:25:15.280 Okay.

00:25:16.100 Well, 46%,

00:25:18.000 now that's not

00:25:18.600 science, that's

00:25:19.260 just your opinion,

00:25:20.340 but 46% I have

00:25:21.620 to take seriously,

00:25:22.500 right?

00:25:23.400 Would you agree?

00:25:24.460 Would you agree

00:25:25.120 that if 46% of a

00:25:27.960 poll in America

00:25:29.000 have a different

00:25:30.240 opinion than you,

00:25:31.920 at the very

00:25:32.480 least, you should

00:25:34.340 take that

00:25:34.760 seriously?

00:25:36.080 Do I agree?

00:25:37.240 Would everybody

00:25:37.800 agree with that?

00:25:39.120 I'm not saying

00:25:39.820 agree with it or

00:25:40.580 disagree with it,

00:25:41.380 but you should

00:25:41.960 take it deadly

00:25:42.680 serious, because

00:25:44.020 it's a life and

00:25:44.700 death question.

00:25:46.060 On a life and

00:25:46.920 death question,

00:25:47.760 which this

00:25:48.240 literally is,

00:25:49.920 life and

00:25:50.420 death, if 46%

00:25:52.520 are on the

00:25:53.160 other side from

00:25:53.840 me, I'm going

00:25:55.300 to take that

00:25:55.740 really seriously.

00:25:57.440 So we're getting

00:25:58.000 closer to, I'll

00:25:59.540 reveal to you,

00:26:00.860 why I'm going to

00:26:01.840 take the L and

00:26:02.580 admit you're all

00:26:03.200 right, at least

00:26:04.120 the 46% of you.

00:26:06.080 And this is

00:26:09.140 really what

00:26:11.940 pushed me over

00:26:13.120 the edge.

00:26:14.820 I said, because

00:26:16.540 a lot of people

00:26:17.020 were saying,

00:26:17.600 pointing out that

00:26:18.360 the vaccinated

00:26:19.060 people in

00:26:19.940 hospitals, in

00:26:20.740 some cases,

00:26:22.040 were having

00:26:23.800 more bad

00:26:24.540 outcomes than

00:26:25.200 the unvaccinated.

00:26:27.460 And I thought

00:26:28.300 to myself,

00:26:28.740 huh, I've seen

00:26:29.620 exactly the

00:26:30.280 opposite data,

00:26:31.420 but if so many

00:26:32.200 people have seen

00:26:32.820 data that's the

00:26:33.500 opposite of the

00:26:34.140 data I've seen,

00:26:35.080 the data I've

00:26:35.760 seen was that

00:26:36.500 you're eight

00:26:37.600 times more likely

00:26:38.620 to have a good

00:26:39.240 outcome if you're

00:26:40.160 vaccinated.

00:26:41.540 In other words,

00:26:42.300 you're eight times

00:26:43.100 more likely to

00:26:43.800 die if you get

00:26:45.120 hospitalized, if

00:26:46.920 you're unvaccinated.

00:26:48.100 That was the bad

00:26:49.060 data apparently I

00:26:49.900 was looking at.

00:26:50.920 But I realized I

00:26:54.020 was doing the math

00:26:54.700 wrong.

00:26:56.320 So this is going

00:26:58.640 to be my biggest

00:26:59.260 confession.

00:26:59.740 And I did a

00:27:01.220 little poll here

00:27:02.000 and that

00:27:04.000 straightened me

00:27:04.640 out.

00:27:05.300 And I can't

00:27:05.880 believe how dumb

00:27:07.200 I was.

00:27:09.240 Remember I've

00:27:09.820 told you that I

00:27:10.600 rarely get

00:27:11.240 embarrassed?

00:27:12.920 This is

00:27:13.580 embarrassing.

00:27:15.940 You know, I

00:27:16.620 found my limit

00:27:17.340 for embarrassment.

00:27:18.180 I am very

00:27:18.660 embarrassed.

00:27:19.580 So I did a

00:27:20.200 poll and I

00:27:23.700 just asked how

00:27:24.420 many people

00:27:24.860 agreed with

00:27:25.320 this.

00:27:25.540 I said,

00:27:25.960 we're lucky we

00:27:27.120 don't have 100%

00:27:28.440 vaccination rates.

00:27:30.400 Because imagine

00:27:31.080 if everybody

00:27:31.620 were vaccinated.

00:27:32.920 Because in that

00:27:33.440 case, 100% of

00:27:35.700 the future deaths

00:27:36.680 from COVID would

00:27:38.440 be among the

00:27:39.060 vaccinated.

00:27:40.700 And I thought

00:27:41.560 of that as like,

00:27:43.000 oh shit, that's

00:27:43.900 true.

00:27:44.620 The only reason

00:27:45.560 we don't have

00:27:46.160 already 100%

00:27:47.660 deaths among

00:27:49.700 the vaccinated

00:27:50.420 only, the only

00:27:52.760 thing preventing

00:27:53.340 that is that we

00:27:55.340 don't have enough

00:27:55.860 vaccinations.

00:27:57.260 And here I was

00:27:57.820 thinking, oh,

00:27:59.040 wouldn't it be

00:27:59.600 good to have

00:28:00.040 more vaccinations?

00:28:01.020 I mean, I

00:28:01.340 wasn't promoting

00:28:02.000 it, but in my

00:28:03.840 mind I was

00:28:04.380 doing the math

00:28:05.080 and I was

00:28:05.380 thinking, wait,

00:28:06.900 if the

00:28:07.220 vaccinations

00:28:07.720 help, which

00:28:09.220 now I realize

00:28:10.680 I can't trust

00:28:11.280 that data, but

00:28:12.480 if the

00:28:12.800 vaccinations

00:28:13.240 help, I

00:28:15.220 would want

00:28:15.620 everybody to

00:28:16.160 be vaccinated

00:28:16.700 for their

00:28:17.300 own benefit,

00:28:18.340 for their own

00:28:18.940 benefit, not

00:28:19.480 even for mine.

00:28:20.780 But when I

00:28:23.080 looked at the

00:28:23.580 logic of it,

00:28:24.900 I can't really

00:28:25.660 escape it.

00:28:26.920 If we were

00:28:28.040 100%

00:28:28.700 vaccinated, every

00:28:30.360 single person

00:28:31.120 in the hospital

00:28:31.680 who died of

00:28:32.420 anything, if

00:28:33.880 they died of

00:28:34.380 COVID, if

00:28:35.140 they died of

00:28:35.880 a car

00:28:37.920 accident, every

00:28:40.040 one of them

00:28:40.480 would be

00:28:40.800 vaccinated.

00:28:42.380 And that

00:28:43.000 would be proof

00:28:43.720 that vaccinations

00:28:44.420 don't work.

00:28:46.240 Now, if you

00:28:47.620 say to yourself,

00:28:48.260 Scott, I'm not

00:28:48.820 sure if you're

00:28:49.240 doing the math

00:28:49.780 right, oh, I

00:28:50.820 am.

00:28:51.060 Because when

00:28:51.500 I did the

00:28:52.580 tweet, 53%

00:28:55.020 of my followers

00:28:55.980 agreed with my

00:28:56.800 math, that if

00:28:58.800 everybody were

00:28:59.700 vaccinated, then

00:29:02.000 all the deaths

00:29:02.760 would be among

00:29:03.320 the vaccinated,

00:29:04.580 and that would

00:29:05.100 be proof that

00:29:05.740 the vaccinations

00:29:06.340 don't work.

00:29:07.700 And I've got to

00:29:08.500 say that that

00:29:09.120 convinced me.

00:29:11.400 That put me

00:29:12.180 over the edge.

00:29:13.820 So I'm going

00:29:14.640 to take the

00:29:15.040 L based on

00:29:17.240 this solid

00:29:18.760 logic here.

00:29:21.060 But I'll go

00:29:23.300 on.

00:29:25.860 There's also

00:29:26.520 what I'll call

00:29:27.240 the Tim Pool

00:29:28.520 type of

00:29:30.880 thinking, that

00:29:32.020 my first

00:29:32.600 reaction to it

00:29:33.360 was, I feel

00:29:34.060 like you're

00:29:34.400 leaving something

00:29:35.020 out.

00:29:36.300 I get your

00:29:36.820 point, but it

00:29:37.360 feels like

00:29:37.820 something important

00:29:38.820 is being left

00:29:39.400 out.

00:29:40.140 But now I'm

00:29:41.000 convinced that

00:29:42.640 nothing important

00:29:43.260 was left out.

00:29:44.040 So I did

00:29:44.740 another poll.

00:29:47.380 And I said,

00:29:48.820 let's see,

00:29:49.300 what was the

00:29:49.660 exact one?

00:29:51.060 So I asked

00:29:52.940 people if the

00:29:55.640 only benefits

00:29:56.600 of vaccinations,

00:29:59.280 let's say you

00:30:00.000 knew that

00:30:00.320 vaccinations did

00:30:01.240 not stop the

00:30:02.060 spread, which

00:30:03.220 we do know,

00:30:03.840 right?

00:30:04.440 We all know

00:30:05.360 that vaccinations

00:30:06.080 don't stop the

00:30:07.000 spread.

00:30:07.800 And were we

00:30:09.600 not promised

00:30:10.440 that it would?

00:30:13.640 Give me a

00:30:14.480 fact check.

00:30:15.400 Were we not

00:30:16.160 promised very

00:30:17.300 clearly by the

00:30:19.220 authorities, the

00:30:20.120 experts, were we

00:30:22.000 not told that

00:30:22.820 this would stop

00:30:25.080 a spread?

00:30:27.760 Now, I

00:30:30.180 remember the

00:30:30.680 numbers were

00:30:31.200 like it would

00:30:31.820 stop like 90%

00:30:33.660 of the spread.

00:30:35.360 Now, the other

00:30:36.080 thing I didn't

00:30:36.660 realize at the

00:30:37.260 time is that 90%

00:30:39.000 and 100% of the

00:30:39.980 same number.

00:30:41.200 I thought there

00:30:42.020 was like a little

00:30:42.540 difference.

00:30:43.400 So when I read

00:30:44.080 it, and this is how

00:30:44.920 I misinterpreted it,

00:30:45.700 when they said it

00:30:47.420 will stop the

00:30:47.960 spread 90% to 95%

00:30:49.560 of the time,

00:30:50.220 somewhere in that

00:30:50.720 range, I thought

00:30:52.040 to myself that,

00:30:53.080 oh, well, that

00:30:53.500 would leave some

00:30:55.260 like 5% or so,

00:30:57.240 that the

00:30:58.120 vaccination wouldn't 0.97

00:30:58.960 stop the spread. 1.00

00:31:01.340 But apparently,

00:31:02.420 and I've been

00:31:03.080 informed, that 95%

00:31:04.720 and 100% are the

00:31:05.540 same number.

00:31:06.800 I thought they

00:31:07.380 were like different

00:31:07.900 numbers and stuff.

00:31:08.980 But they're the

00:31:09.460 same number.

00:31:10.300 So originally, we

00:31:11.400 can all agree that

00:31:12.160 they said it would

00:31:12.960 stop the spread

00:31:13.740 completely.

00:31:14.280 And that, but

00:31:17.400 what happened

00:31:17.820 instead, especially

00:31:18.760 with Omicron, is

00:31:19.620 apparently the

00:31:20.220 vaccinations have

00:31:21.100 almost no effect.

00:31:23.340 Would you agree?

00:31:24.840 So what we were

00:31:25.640 promised, 100%

00:31:28.200 vaccination

00:31:29.260 effectiveness, like

00:31:30.200 polio, but

00:31:31.960 instead, what we

00:31:33.100 got was something

00:31:34.160 that didn't stop

00:31:34.900 the spread at

00:31:35.880 all.

00:31:37.220 Same page so

00:31:38.160 far.

00:31:39.080 Everybody, we're

00:31:39.800 all on the same

00:31:40.220 page.

00:31:41.060 They promised us

00:31:41.920 to stop the spread. 0.56

00:31:42.880 It didn't do it at

00:31:43.500 all with Omicron.

00:31:44.280 anyway.

00:31:45.840 So that's bad.

00:31:47.600 Now, therefore,

00:31:49.100 they promised us

00:31:50.620 it would do those

00:31:51.220 things.

00:31:51.580 It does not.

00:31:52.920 Therefore,

00:31:53.900 vaccination is

00:31:55.920 pointless.

00:31:58.020 Pointless.

00:31:58.840 Now, the first

00:31:59.500 time I heard that

00:32:00.060 point of view, I

00:32:00.660 thought, wait a

00:32:01.220 minute.

00:32:02.200 Are you leaving

00:32:02.880 out, like, the

00:32:03.700 main thing?

00:32:05.500 Like, isn't the

00:32:06.160 main point to

00:32:07.440 stay alive?

00:32:08.100 And doesn't the

00:32:10.420 data that the

00:32:11.960 so-called experts

00:32:12.860 are saying,

00:32:13.920 doesn't it say

00:32:14.620 that there's an

00:32:15.320 eight-to-one

00:32:16.520 advantage to

00:32:17.460 being vaccinated?

00:32:19.040 And don't they

00:32:20.500 say it also

00:32:21.100 prevents you from

00:32:22.020 being seriously

00:32:22.960 hospitalized?

00:32:23.560 and some new

00:32:25.760 data that, you

00:32:26.660 know, needs to

00:32:27.220 be confirmed.

00:32:28.420 I don't think

00:32:29.020 it's solid.

00:32:30.240 But that it

00:32:30.960 might even

00:32:31.480 reduce your

00:32:32.300 long-haul

00:32:32.680 symptoms.

00:32:33.600 So I thought

00:32:34.160 to myself,

00:32:35.620 isn't the

00:32:36.240 Tim Pool

00:32:37.020 thought that

00:32:37.960 vaccinations are

00:32:38.800 pointless?

00:32:39.180 I get the

00:32:40.800 point about it

00:32:41.360 not stopping

00:32:41.980 the spread.

00:32:42.880 That makes

00:32:43.400 complete sense.

00:32:44.900 That part, it

00:32:45.420 would be

00:32:45.720 pointless.

00:32:47.480 But wasn't

00:32:48.740 there another

00:32:49.140 point of, like,

00:32:50.080 staying alive and

00:32:50.920 stuff?

00:32:51.760 Like, survival

00:32:52.480 and things like

00:32:53.200 that.

00:32:53.740 But I have now

00:32:55.020 decided that I'm

00:32:56.800 just projecting

00:32:57.620 or coping,

00:33:00.260 that my view

00:33:01.700 in this was

00:33:02.160 probably based

00:33:03.140 on my fear

00:33:03.960 of having made

00:33:05.340 the wrong

00:33:05.720 vaccination

00:33:06.280 decision.

00:33:07.900 And not of

00:33:08.780 any kind of

00:33:09.280 logic or

00:33:09.780 anything like

00:33:10.200 that.

00:33:11.420 So my

00:33:11.840 current logic,

00:33:12.520 and I asked

00:33:12.860 other people,

00:33:13.840 if they agreed

00:33:14.480 with the

00:33:14.820 Tim Pool

00:33:15.200 logic, and

00:33:15.740 45% did.

00:33:17.380 They said

00:33:17.860 there would

00:33:18.180 be no point

00:33:19.100 in taking a

00:33:20.140 vaccination that

00:33:21.000 doesn't stop

00:33:21.720 the spread if

00:33:23.400 all it does is

00:33:24.140 keep you alive

00:33:24.920 and prevent you

00:33:26.220 from having

00:33:26.760 bad symptoms.

00:33:29.120 So 45% I'm

00:33:32.520 going to take

00:33:32.840 seriously.

00:33:34.560 And so I

00:33:35.640 think I was

00:33:36.460 overvaluing the

00:33:37.660 whole staying

00:33:38.220 alive part.

00:33:40.180 So this was

00:33:41.720 my error in

00:33:42.400 the long run.

00:33:43.380 My error was

00:33:44.320 I was

00:33:46.200 undervaluing

00:33:47.200 the argument

00:33:48.240 about the

00:33:48.820 spread,

00:33:49.960 and I was

00:33:50.720 putting too

00:33:51.260 much weight

00:33:51.880 on survival.

00:33:55.280 So I think

00:33:56.420 I'm just going

00:33:58.020 to accept

00:33:58.460 my defeat.

00:34:01.580 And let

00:34:02.700 this be a

00:34:03.340 lesson for a

00:34:03.920 lot of you.

00:34:04.240 if you can

00:34:06.020 learn how to

00:34:06.660 lose gracefully,

00:34:09.400 allow me to

00:34:10.880 be your role

00:34:11.400 model.

00:34:12.460 I accept

00:34:13.460 total,

00:34:15.120 complete defeat.

00:34:16.900 I don't think

00:34:18.080 that I can

00:34:18.860 defend my

00:34:21.480 batshit crazy

00:34:22.540 idea that

00:34:23.500 survival should

00:34:24.520 be like a 0.54

00:34:24.960 high priority,

00:34:26.220 and that that

00:34:26.860 would be in the

00:34:27.360 conversation.

00:34:27.940 I think

00:34:29.780 survival is

00:34:30.680 not important.

00:34:32.500 Nor do I

00:34:33.120 think suffering

00:34:33.760 should be part

00:34:35.160 of the equation

00:34:35.940 at all.

00:34:37.360 In fact,

00:34:37.860 I think six

00:34:38.420 months of

00:34:38.940 horrible suffering

00:34:40.400 from long-haul

00:34:41.160 symptoms,

00:34:41.980 you should just

00:34:42.540 take right out

00:34:43.100 of the decision,

00:34:45.520 because the

00:34:46.280 date isn't

00:34:46.760 solid anyway.

00:34:47.360 So, I am

00:34:50.280 now persuaded

00:34:51.040 that I should

00:34:53.000 ignore the

00:34:53.680 risk of

00:34:54.180 death and

00:34:56.500 long, long,

00:34:57.880 horrible,

00:34:58.680 horrible symptoms,

00:34:59.980 and instead

00:35:00.560 just look at

00:35:01.220 this one promise

00:35:01.980 they made that

00:35:02.640 I think they

00:35:03.640 lied about.

00:35:05.240 They lied

00:35:05.960 about that

00:35:06.360 promise.

00:35:07.180 So, if that

00:35:07.660 promise was a

00:35:08.360 lie, then you

00:35:08.960 can't believe

00:35:09.400 anything, and

00:35:10.820 therefore, it

00:35:11.480 would be

00:35:11.840 pointless to

00:35:13.720 get a jab. 0.56

00:35:14.940 Wait a minute,

00:35:15.760 pointless?

00:35:16.100 Pointless?

00:35:18.320 Do you

00:35:19.000 realize that

00:35:19.620 needles have

00:35:20.100 a point?

00:35:22.200 That's all

00:35:22.860 I'm saying.

00:35:27.380 And so, I

00:35:28.180 asked people,

00:35:28.900 what do you

00:35:29.240 conclude, this

00:35:29.860 is another

00:35:30.220 poll, what

00:35:31.260 do you

00:35:31.580 conclude when

00:35:32.480 hearing that

00:35:33.040 lots of

00:35:33.580 vaccinated people

00:35:34.520 were hospitalized

00:35:35.280 with COVID?

00:35:36.920 And I gave

00:35:37.560 them choices.

00:35:38.240 I said, do

00:35:38.560 you conclude

00:35:39.060 that the

00:35:39.460 vax doesn't

00:35:40.360 protect you,

00:35:41.700 or do you

00:35:42.660 conclude that's

00:35:43.600 how math

00:35:44.220 works, or

00:35:46.060 other?

00:35:46.980 And here

00:35:47.260 were the

00:35:47.460 answers, at

00:35:48.540 least

00:35:48.680 preliminarily.

00:35:49.840 It may have

00:35:50.160 changed a

00:35:50.520 little bit.

00:35:51.720 So, 47%

00:35:53.500 say that the

00:35:54.480 conclusion would

00:35:55.140 be that the

00:35:57.440 vaccination doesn't 0.99

00:35:58.260 help.

00:35:59.760 And 34% said

00:36:01.340 that's how math

00:36:02.180 works.

00:36:03.320 Nerds. 0.62

00:36:04.880 Can we take a

00:36:06.020 moment just to

00:36:07.700 mock these

00:36:08.860 fucking idiots?

00:36:09.560 there are all

00:36:11.820 these nerds

00:36:12.420 coming into the

00:36:13.060 poll.

00:36:14.280 Nerds. 0.62

00:36:15.900 Fucking nerds.

00:36:17.540 And they're

00:36:18.420 trying to win

00:36:19.040 this argument

00:36:19.560 with math.

00:36:21.400 Can you

00:36:21.840 believe that?

00:36:24.480 They're using

00:36:25.220 math.

00:36:26.760 Math!

00:36:29.300 I don't know.

00:36:30.840 I don't know

00:36:31.700 what to say

00:36:32.060 about people who

00:36:32.760 think that math

00:36:33.720 tells you

00:36:34.780 anything.

00:36:35.100 I would go

00:36:38.720 with the

00:36:39.000 people who

00:36:39.580 are pretty

00:36:40.260 sure that

00:36:40.780 they can

00:36:41.100 read my

00:36:41.540 mind.

00:36:42.940 Because you

00:36:43.180 want to be,

00:36:43.860 if you're

00:36:44.340 going to

00:36:44.440 approach

00:36:44.720 something like

00:36:45.220 this, you

00:36:45.540 want to

00:36:45.760 approach it

00:36:46.220 with a

00:36:46.840 rational

00:36:47.320 approach.

00:36:49.120 Now, what

00:36:49.640 would be

00:36:49.940 more rational?

00:36:52.200 Math.

00:36:54.800 Math.

00:36:56.600 Duh.

00:36:57.020 math.

00:36:58.020 Or, reading

00:37:00.360 the minds of

00:37:01.120 a stranger to

00:37:02.160 determine how

00:37:03.600 much fear they

00:37:04.500 have in their

00:37:05.100 hidden thoughts.

00:37:06.720 A fear that

00:37:07.600 would be

00:37:08.020 associated with

00:37:08.780 them believing

00:37:09.380 they made the

00:37:09.960 right choice on

00:37:10.580 everything.

00:37:11.480 But a fear

00:37:12.380 nonetheless.

00:37:14.580 And I don't

00:37:15.360 think it's no

00:37:16.260 contest.

00:37:17.840 Math, I think,

00:37:18.540 has been largely

00:37:19.240 debunked.

00:37:21.220 Am I right?

00:37:23.580 I'm pretty sure

00:37:24.740 I've seen math

00:37:26.020 being debunked

00:37:26.900 on Twitter.

00:37:27.520 There was no

00:37:27.920 source for it.

00:37:29.260 I didn't look

00:37:29.840 into it, do

00:37:30.280 deeply.

00:37:31.040 But I did do

00:37:31.620 my own research.

00:37:32.920 I did my own

00:37:33.500 research, which

00:37:34.800 involved seeing

00:37:36.240 a meme on

00:37:38.140 Twitter.

00:37:39.100 And that said,

00:37:39.700 the math is

00:37:40.220 bullshit.

00:37:40.880 And so, that's

00:37:42.020 good enough for

00:37:42.500 me.

00:37:44.900 But the idea

00:37:46.400 that somebody

00:37:46.920 could read my

00:37:47.720 mind and see

00:37:48.980 my secret hidden

00:37:49.840 thoughts about my

00:37:50.660 fear and then

00:37:52.000 put that together

00:37:53.040 and decide that

00:37:54.620 I'm operating in a

00:37:55.600 fear and not

00:37:56.880 math, I think

00:37:59.420 that's a little

00:37:59.820 more credible and

00:38:00.700 something you

00:38:01.100 should bank on.

00:38:02.820 So, if you

00:38:03.560 have a choice of

00:38:04.540 depending on

00:38:05.360 math and

00:38:07.560 fucking nerds, 0.96

00:38:08.560 am I right?

00:38:09.660 Fucking nerds.

00:38:11.040 Like, who's

00:38:11.460 going to side

00:38:12.180 with them?

00:38:13.720 Don't.

00:38:14.760 Don't.

00:38:15.620 Instead, go with

00:38:16.660 the mind readers

00:38:17.380 because those are

00:38:18.620 the rational people.

00:38:19.780 All right.

00:38:23.160 So, if I may, if

00:38:25.520 you'd all like to

00:38:26.240 dunk on me, I

00:38:28.940 accept my shame

00:38:30.260 and I'm here for

00:38:32.380 you.

00:38:33.140 I was of the

00:38:35.200 opinion that all

00:38:38.200 of the science

00:38:38.920 supports my lucky

00:38:40.240 guess on

00:38:41.000 vaccinations.

00:38:42.080 The lucky guess

00:38:43.060 was that I'd

00:38:44.540 wait as long as

00:38:45.260 possible to get

00:38:46.000 vaccinated in the

00:38:46.760 first place to see

00:38:47.580 if anything was

00:38:48.200 fishy.

00:38:49.540 Then, if I had to

00:38:50.700 make the decision,

00:38:51.560 and then I did

00:38:52.120 because I had to

00:38:52.720 fly, then I

00:38:53.860 would.

00:38:54.880 But then I would

00:38:55.560 also wait as long

00:38:56.640 as possible for

00:38:57.520 the boosters to

00:38:59.000 see if the

00:38:59.480 boosters were

00:39:00.360 sketchy.

00:39:01.980 And sure enough,

00:39:03.060 waiting to get the

00:39:04.000 booster was exactly

00:39:05.000 the right decision

00:39:05.780 because we learned

00:39:07.440 that the Omicron is

00:39:09.560 going to just fly

00:39:10.300 through the booster

00:39:10.980 and you'd probably

00:39:12.140 be just as happy

00:39:12.900 with Omicron as

00:39:14.360 with the

00:39:14.640 vaccination,

00:39:15.320 frankly.

00:39:15.560 So, did I

00:39:18.680 smartly make all

00:39:21.200 the right decisions?

00:39:22.160 Not really, because

00:39:23.400 I don't know the

00:39:24.020 risk of the

00:39:24.660 vaccination itself.

00:39:26.500 Nobody does.

00:39:27.700 And I don't know

00:39:28.720 the long-term risk,

00:39:29.920 to me personally,

00:39:31.620 of COVID.

00:39:33.300 So, I was

00:39:34.160 guessing.

00:39:35.080 I said that from

00:39:35.800 the start.

00:39:36.460 I was just

00:39:36.920 guessing.

00:39:38.020 But, those of

00:39:39.880 you who are not

00:39:40.560 guessing and not

00:39:42.400 making the mistake

00:39:43.140 I made, which is

00:39:44.080 after guessing,

00:39:45.560 to look at the

00:39:46.300 math and see if

00:39:48.200 you could determine

00:39:48.740 anything, because

00:39:49.440 math.

00:39:51.100 Instead, using the

00:39:52.420 mind-reading technique

00:39:54.160 for knowledge.

00:39:56.780 I think you guys

00:39:57.800 got it right this

00:39:59.000 time.

00:39:59.700 So, on paper, it

00:40:01.160 would look like my

00:40:02.260 guesses and my

00:40:04.040 process for getting

00:40:04.900 to where I am.

00:40:05.620 On paper, if you

00:40:07.400 believe the experts,

00:40:09.120 was perfect compared

00:40:11.260 to all the other

00:40:12.000 choices.

00:40:12.400 But, by luck.

00:40:14.160 Remember, I'm

00:40:14.940 telling you that if

00:40:16.560 you think I'm

00:40:17.220 telling you I used

00:40:18.880 my smartitude to

00:40:20.300 make the right

00:40:20.800 decision, nothing

00:40:22.140 like that happened.

00:40:23.660 I was guessing just

00:40:24.720 like you were.

00:40:26.000 But, based on

00:40:27.480 current information,

00:40:29.380 by the experts,

00:40:31.420 all of this is

00:40:32.220 subject to change,

00:40:33.100 of course.

00:40:34.100 Could be changed

00:40:34.760 tomorrow.

00:40:35.080 But, at the

00:40:35.900 moment, I hit, by

00:40:38.120 complete luck, the

00:40:39.680 exact right place to

00:40:40.760 be, according to

00:40:42.040 current data.

00:40:43.220 Two vaccinations of

00:40:44.980 Moderna, followed

00:40:46.980 by no boosters,

00:40:49.080 followed by almost

00:40:50.180 certainly getting

00:40:50.820 Omicron fairly soon.

00:40:53.540 Now, I'm not saying

00:40:54.660 that that is the

00:40:55.360 right decision.

00:40:56.380 Are you hearing me

00:40:57.080 clearly?

00:40:57.780 How would I know?

00:40:58.940 Because I don't know

00:40:59.540 what future risks are.

00:41:00.940 I don't know if I die

00:41:01.780 from a clot tomorrow

00:41:02.760 morning, right?

00:41:03.580 So, I can't know I

00:41:05.040 made the right

00:41:05.460 decision.

00:41:05.940 That's not knowable.

00:41:08.360 But, nobody else

00:41:09.300 can either.

00:41:10.780 So, but am I

00:41:12.540 comfortable with my

00:41:13.540 decision?

00:41:14.880 Of course I am.

00:41:16.620 I mean, I'm

00:41:17.220 comfortable in only

00:41:19.200 the limited sense

00:41:20.200 that it coincidentally

00:41:21.440 agreed with science

00:41:22.540 at this moment.

00:41:24.000 It doesn't mean that

00:41:24.800 the science is right.

00:41:26.420 I mean, that could

00:41:26.840 change.

00:41:28.220 But, yeah, at the

00:41:29.380 moment, I got lucky.

00:41:30.580 So, tomorrow, if it

00:41:31.480 turns out that the

00:41:32.200 only people who

00:41:32.780 survived got the

00:41:33.560 boosters, then I'd

00:41:34.780 say, oh, I guess I

00:41:35.960 got it wrong.

00:41:38.220 But, at the moment,

00:41:39.880 everything is on my

00:41:41.000 side.

00:41:41.960 I believe it'll

00:41:42.720 change.

00:41:43.660 But, at the moment.

00:41:50.920 Let's see.

00:41:51.800 What did you say?

00:41:54.040 I saw an interesting

00:41:55.080 comment here.

00:41:55.800 I want to get back.

00:41:56.360 is he purposely destroying

00:42:01.800 his reputation?

00:42:03.680 You're asking about me.

00:42:04.880 Am I purposely

00:42:05.720 destroying my reputation?

00:42:07.520 That's actually a good

00:42:08.420 question.

00:42:08.820 How many think that?

00:42:10.240 How many of you are

00:42:11.440 wondering if I'm

00:42:12.440 personally destroying my

00:42:14.120 reputation, like

00:42:14.840 intentionally?

00:42:15.800 Am I intentionally

00:42:16.860 destroying my reputation?

00:42:17.960 Yeah, I'm agreeing with you

00:42:27.140 if you said I got lucky.

00:42:30.720 All right, well, I guess it

00:42:31.820 depends who you're looking

00:42:32.560 at.

00:42:33.360 So, what reputation do you

00:42:35.180 think I want?

00:42:36.980 I don't want the reputation

00:42:38.320 of agreeing with a team.

00:42:39.720 So, to me, the greatest

00:42:42.760 insult would be always

00:42:45.240 agreeing with a side.

00:42:47.240 To me, that would be

00:42:48.340 shameful.

00:42:49.900 I don't think I would ever

00:42:52.300 say my opinions in public.

00:42:55.700 But, the only reputation I

00:42:57.700 want is that I didn't agree

00:43:00.140 with teams.

00:43:01.400 Didn't agree with all the

00:43:02.440 left, didn't agree with all

00:43:03.360 the right.

00:43:03.720 That's all I want.

00:43:05.460 I don't really need right or

00:43:07.080 wrong, because nobody will

00:43:08.100 ever agree on that.

00:43:08.920 But, I do need to not be

00:43:11.280 associated only with one

00:43:12.620 side.

00:43:13.540 That's all I ask.

00:43:15.140 So, reputationally, that's

00:43:16.340 all I ask.

00:43:20.600 On the cold survey, I did a

00:43:24.340 survey of if people normally

00:43:27.000 got colds, just regular

00:43:28.740 colds, would they be more

00:43:31.100 likely to get COVID?

00:43:32.280 Now, of course, it was a

00:43:33.480 Twitter poll, so there's no

00:43:34.800 science here.

00:43:35.720 But, interestingly, it ended

00:43:37.260 up being kind of similar.

00:43:38.920 The people who often got

00:43:40.480 colds got COVID as likely as

00:43:45.240 people who didn't get

00:43:46.180 colds.

00:43:47.240 So, COVID does not seem to, if

00:43:49.520 you were to believe, a

00:43:50.540 Twitter poll, which you

00:43:51.380 shouldn't.

00:43:52.280 But, if it were correct, it

00:43:54.840 would indicate that your

00:43:56.340 prior immunity wasn't that

00:43:58.120 important.

00:43:58.860 But, wouldn't you like to see

00:43:59.820 a real, an actual scientific

00:44:02.140 study?

00:44:03.200 You know, you can't believe it's

00:44:04.800 a Twitter poll, of course.

00:44:06.320 But, a scientific study would

00:44:07.480 be real interesting.

00:44:08.180 I'd love to know how much

00:44:09.580 prior exposure makes a

00:44:10.860 difference.

00:44:15.320 745.

00:44:16.340 Today, I don't have a hard

00:44:17.660 stop.

00:44:18.380 But, thank you, Paul, for, I

00:44:20.800 like that you do that every

00:44:22.040 weekday.

00:44:23.040 But, today, I don't have to

00:44:25.160 drive.

00:44:27.580 Christine is driving today.

00:44:28.740 Boris is dropping mandates as

00:44:31.180 he's facing leadership

00:44:32.200 challenge, because he has

00:44:34.220 parties at 10 down and needs

00:44:35.420 to lift his popularity with

00:44:36.700 voters.

00:44:38.060 Good comment that Boris

00:44:40.920 Johnson is responding to the

00:44:42.960 public.

00:44:44.860 Who, did I tell you, runs the

00:44:47.040 country?

00:44:48.240 Now, I wasn't talking about,

00:44:49.680 you know, Boris Johnson's

00:44:51.140 situation.

00:44:52.300 But, if Boris Johnson is

00:44:54.500 getting ahead of the parade,

00:44:56.720 it's because the parade

00:44:57.740 started.

00:44:59.600 It's not because, probably

00:45:02.480 not because of some other

00:45:03.520 reasons.

00:45:03.940 I don't think it's because of

00:45:04.800 science.

00:45:07.720 So, yes, that's what we want

00:45:09.480 in this country.

00:45:10.580 We want our leaders to go

00:45:12.620 Boris Johnson's way and say,

00:45:14.340 oh, shoot, I better get in

00:45:16.120 front of this thing, because

00:45:17.080 the train's already moving.

00:45:21.840 Yeah, February 1 is

00:45:23.100 approaching.

00:45:23.680 It almost seems too far away

00:45:25.440 now.

00:45:26.000 Because, when you see the

00:45:27.080 UK make this decision today,

00:45:31.200 their science can't be that

00:45:32.680 different.

00:45:34.240 February 1 is way too long

00:45:36.440 now, now that somebody

00:45:37.860 made the first move.

00:45:39.020 There should be a first-mover 1.00

00:45:40.680 kind of effect.

00:45:44.160 Scott fears death, in all

00:45:46.500 capitals.

00:45:47.280 Let me tell you something.

00:45:48.240 How many of you fear death?

00:45:51.980 I'm kind of curious about this.

00:45:54.020 How many of you fear death?

00:45:59.600 All right.

00:46:00.560 I'm seeing some yeses and noes.

00:46:01.980 I had a realization

00:46:04.260 recently that I've never

00:46:06.760 feared death.

00:46:08.640 Like, ever.

00:46:11.040 I've definitely feared

00:46:12.260 injury.

00:46:14.320 I have a

00:46:15.700 substantial fear

00:46:16.880 of injury.

00:46:20.220 But I've never

00:46:20.900 once,

00:46:22.740 honestly, my life isn't that

00:46:24.160 good,

00:46:25.920 that I need an unlimited

00:46:27.500 amount of it.

00:46:28.200 You know, and especially

00:46:30.600 now,

00:46:31.760 I'm at a really

00:46:33.140 unique place in my life

00:46:35.240 where I've done what I

00:46:36.760 needed.

00:46:37.920 Like, if I stop now,

00:46:40.020 like if I just died

00:46:41.040 tomorrow,

00:46:42.840 my last thought would be,

00:46:45.340 all right, I got it done.

00:46:47.140 I did what I needed to do.

00:46:48.880 You know, I left things a

00:46:50.460 little better.

00:46:51.780 So, I am so ready to be

00:46:53.700 dead.

00:46:55.300 I mean, I hate to say it

00:46:56.440 as starkly as that.

00:46:58.200 But quite honestly,

00:46:59.900 I'm ready.

00:47:01.380 I mean, I had a good run.

00:47:02.420 I'm completely ready.

00:47:04.300 So,

00:47:04.820 I can promise you

00:47:07.100 that

00:47:08.980 of all of my fears,

00:47:11.620 death might be,

00:47:13.520 I don't even know if it's

00:47:14.400 on the list.

00:47:15.660 Because my concept of death

00:47:17.240 is that

00:47:17.760 that's when you don't have

00:47:18.940 any pain and any problems.

00:47:20.120 And I'm not even sure

00:47:23.660 I don't look forward

00:47:24.920 to it

00:47:25.400 in a way.

00:47:27.180 You know,

00:47:27.380 because life is,

00:47:28.060 life is, you know,

00:47:29.100 good,

00:47:29.880 but it's not great.

00:47:32.820 If I may say so.

00:47:34.860 You know,

00:47:35.100 life,

00:47:35.920 being alive,

00:47:36.600 has advantages.

00:47:38.640 You know,

00:47:38.880 and I'm sure that

00:47:40.220 I would be,

00:47:41.340 I don't know,

00:47:41.720 happy that I

00:47:42.600 had them.

00:47:43.520 But when I'm dead,

00:47:44.500 none of it's going to

00:47:45.160 matter

00:47:45.520 to me.

00:47:47.480 I mean,

00:47:47.760 it won't matter to

00:47:48.460 who's left behind.

00:47:49.340 But it won't matter to me.

00:47:50.680 So I don't even

00:47:51.500 really understand

00:47:52.580 the concept

00:47:53.140 of being afraid of death.

00:47:54.780 Like,

00:47:55.100 I don't have,

00:47:55.800 I don't have any hook

00:47:57.140 that my mind

00:47:58.740 can connect to

00:47:59.580 to say,

00:48:00.060 oh,

00:48:00.400 that makes sense

00:48:01.100 to be afraid of death.

00:48:02.880 My life has never

00:48:03.920 been so good

00:48:04.600 that I preferred it

00:48:05.520 over death.

00:48:07.380 I'll be honest with you

00:48:08.580 that for most

00:48:09.880 of my childhood,

00:48:10.520 I planned to end my life

00:48:12.700 you know,

00:48:14.980 when I turned 18.

00:48:17.240 So,

00:48:17.460 literally.

00:48:17.840 So most of my

00:48:19.400 childhood

00:48:19.940 was waiting

00:48:21.160 to kill myself

00:48:21.960 because I didn't

00:48:22.800 think my quality

00:48:23.600 of life

00:48:24.140 was sufficient

00:48:25.360 to make it

00:48:25.940 worth the effort.

00:48:26.880 I would say

00:48:27.520 that my entire

00:48:28.180 20s

00:48:29.500 were well below

00:48:31.360 the level

00:48:31.960 of being worth

00:48:34.040 being alive.

00:48:36.460 You know,

00:48:36.720 if I had to look

00:48:37.300 at it in retrospect,

00:48:38.000 I would say

00:48:39.300 the first

00:48:39.860 30,

00:48:43.560 the first half

00:48:44.260 of my life

00:48:44.840 was below

00:48:45.780 the level

00:48:47.040 of being worth

00:48:47.580 it.

00:48:49.660 You know,

00:48:50.280 there were

00:48:50.460 great moments

00:48:51.200 there,

00:48:51.560 right?

00:48:51.820 There were

00:48:52.040 great times

00:48:52.940 within that time.

00:48:53.940 But I'd say

00:48:54.340 the first half,

00:48:55.260 definitely not worth it.

00:48:57.080 Then I'd say

00:48:57.580 maybe the next

00:48:58.260 20 years,

00:48:59.860 while there were

00:49:00.400 like tremendous

00:49:01.140 successes

00:49:02.080 and monetary

00:49:03.140 advantage

00:49:03.660 and,

00:49:04.640 you know,

00:49:04.920 great relationships

00:49:05.980 and bad relationships

00:49:07.180 and everything else,

00:49:08.580 I would say

00:49:08.940 there were definitely

00:49:09.360 some high points,

00:49:10.280 but I'd say

00:49:11.480 the next

00:49:12.160 20 years,

00:49:15.220 break even.

00:49:17.600 You know,

00:49:17.900 I don't,

00:49:18.620 if you asked me

00:49:19.380 would you want

00:49:20.440 to do it over again

00:49:21.440 or would you

00:49:22.180 just rather be dead,

00:49:23.320 I'd say,

00:49:23.680 I don't know,

00:49:24.400 it's a coin flip.

00:49:25.920 I don't know,

00:49:26.500 give me dead. 0.91

00:49:28.020 I don't know,

00:49:28.300 it wasn't really worth it.

00:49:31.180 But,

00:49:31.820 if you fast forward

00:49:33.240 to the moment,

00:49:34.040 at the moment,

00:49:37.700 there are really

00:49:38.820 high highs

00:49:39.560 and there are

00:49:39.960 really low lows.

00:49:42.060 At the moment,

00:49:45.580 let's see,

00:49:45.900 if I were to assess

00:49:46.740 whether it's worth

00:49:47.540 being alive

00:49:48.360 to me personally,

00:49:49.780 like right now,

00:49:55.860 yeah,

00:49:59.880 I don't know,

00:50:01.540 it's a close call,

00:50:03.400 close call.

00:50:05.000 So,

00:50:05.340 anybody who thinks

00:50:06.580 that,

00:50:06.960 anybody who thinks

00:50:11.580 that,

00:50:12.680 like I'm worried

00:50:14.800 about death,

00:50:15.880 you really couldn't

00:50:16.660 be further

00:50:17.100 from the truth.

00:50:18.580 If you said

00:50:19.140 I was worried

00:50:20.140 about injury,

00:50:21.280 you'd be right on.

00:50:23.900 Scott is begging

00:50:24.860 for help.

00:50:25.480 No,

00:50:25.700 I'm giving you

00:50:26.260 a cold assessment

00:50:27.380 of life.

00:50:28.940 I'll bet it's not

00:50:29.780 that different

00:50:30.260 from yours.

00:50:31.560 Actually,

00:50:31.920 let's test that.

00:50:33.180 About less

00:50:33.900 about me

00:50:34.300 and more

00:50:34.580 about you.

00:50:36.220 More about you.

00:50:37.920 How many of you

00:50:38.780 right now

00:50:39.980 think that being

00:50:40.840 alive is a better

00:50:41.740 deal than not

00:50:42.560 being alive?

00:50:43.320 Right now.

00:50:44.440 Your current life,

00:50:46.440 is it better

00:50:47.020 to be alive?

00:50:47.520 I'm seeing lots

00:50:53.320 of yeses,

00:50:54.080 but some 50-50s.

00:50:56.640 I'm seeing

00:50:57.060 some no's.

00:50:57.740 now I do think

00:51:01.580 that the way

00:51:02.060 life works

00:51:02.840 is if you are

00:51:04.260 alive,

00:51:04.760 you talk

00:51:05.080 yourself into

00:51:05.680 it being

00:51:06.020 a good idea.

00:51:10.140 How would I

00:51:13.620 know?

00:51:14.260 Yeah,

00:51:14.560 how would you

00:51:14.940 know?

00:51:17.440 Oh,

00:51:17.820 if you ever

00:51:18.140 had children,

00:51:18.840 it makes you

00:51:19.400 want to be alive.

00:51:19.960 Yeah.

00:51:20.640 No,

00:51:20.900 when you say

00:51:21.540 wanting to be

00:51:22.100 alive,

00:51:22.780 there are

00:51:23.040 reasons for

00:51:24.140 the benefit

00:51:24.620 of other

00:51:25.040 people.

00:51:26.240 I would say

00:51:27.080 I mostly

00:51:27.800 stay alive

00:51:28.520 for the benefit

00:51:29.160 of other

00:51:29.580 people,

00:51:30.480 I would say

00:51:30.940 at this point.

00:51:31.780 I'm not really

00:51:32.340 in it for my

00:51:33.340 own pleasure,

00:51:34.660 because that's

00:51:35.000 sort of fleeting.

00:51:36.560 I'm not that

00:51:37.500 much of a

00:51:38.160 pleasure seeker.

00:51:39.560 Yeah,

00:51:39.740 if I were,

00:51:40.280 I would have

00:51:40.700 retired a long

00:51:41.980 time ago.

00:51:42.780 If I were a

00:51:43.460 pleasure seeker,

00:51:44.120 I wouldn't be

00:51:44.480 doing this.

00:51:45.600 I mean,

00:51:46.380 I do enjoy

00:51:47.000 this,

00:51:47.320 but I'm just

00:51:47.700 saying that I

00:51:48.380 would just go

00:51:49.000 sit on a beach

00:51:49.840 somewhere and not

00:51:50.620 work,

00:51:51.700 because I have

00:51:52.420 the option.

00:51:54.620 I would say

00:51:56.840 that my

00:51:57.840 reason for

00:52:00.720 staying around,

00:52:02.340 being alive,

00:52:03.460 is whatever I

00:52:04.220 can do for

00:52:04.700 other people.

00:52:06.040 And pretty

00:52:06.700 much that's

00:52:07.280 the whole deal

00:52:08.780 right now.

00:52:09.460 I'm a little

00:52:09.840 bit curious,

00:52:11.920 because,

00:52:12.620 by the way,

00:52:13.780 one of the

00:52:14.160 best motivators

00:52:15.120 I found,

00:52:16.820 here's a little

00:52:18.180 reframe for you.

00:52:20.040 I find that

00:52:21.020 curiosity can

00:52:23.000 solve a lot

00:52:23.840 of problems.

00:52:24.620 meaning just

00:52:26.740 focusing on

00:52:27.540 your curiosity

00:52:28.380 instead of

00:52:29.060 focusing on

00:52:29.720 your problem.

00:52:31.120 So here's the

00:52:31.740 reframe.

00:52:32.340 This is one of

00:52:32.820 the best ones

00:52:33.420 I've ever used.

00:52:34.460 I don't know

00:52:34.860 if it'll work

00:52:35.260 for others.

00:52:36.060 Maybe there's

00:52:36.840 something personalized

00:52:38.160 about this.

00:52:39.360 But now and

00:52:40.040 then I'll be

00:52:40.600 saying to

00:52:40.960 myself,

00:52:42.280 I just don't,

00:52:43.640 did you ever

00:52:44.200 have those days

00:52:44.800 where you're

00:52:45.880 just going to

00:52:46.240 wake up and

00:52:46.820 today's like

00:52:47.400 yesterday?

00:52:48.640 And you think

00:52:49.400 to yourself,

00:52:49.960 this isn't even

00:52:50.700 worth it.

00:52:52.140 You just wake

00:52:52.760 up and you're

00:52:53.140 like,

00:52:53.300 am I just

00:52:54.440 going to put

00:52:54.960 on my socks

00:52:55.860 and have my

00:52:57.660 breakfast and

00:52:58.600 go to work

00:52:59.600 and come

00:53:00.100 back?

00:53:01.260 Is it just

00:53:02.160 going to be

00:53:02.480 like yesterday?

00:53:04.220 And also if

00:53:05.440 you have a big

00:53:05.920 problem,

00:53:07.220 you're like,

00:53:07.720 oh God,

00:53:08.600 this big problem,

00:53:09.680 I don't know

00:53:10.100 what's going to

00:53:10.540 happen with it,

00:53:11.340 could go bad,

00:53:12.600 could go good.

00:53:13.640 And here's the

00:53:14.360 reframe.

00:53:14.820 turn it into

00:53:17.500 curiosity instead

00:53:20.180 of pain and

00:53:22.680 ennui and all

00:53:23.940 those other bad

00:53:24.460 feelings.

00:53:25.220 Because if you

00:53:26.260 watch it like a

00:53:26.920 movie or a

00:53:27.720 book, you say

00:53:28.680 to yourself,

00:53:29.200 I wonder how

00:53:29.700 this is going

00:53:30.160 to turn out.

00:53:31.620 Now, you

00:53:32.900 would be

00:53:33.160 surprised that

00:53:33.880 this works,

00:53:34.520 right?

00:53:34.820 When you first

00:53:35.360 hear it,

00:53:35.800 wait a minute,

00:53:36.160 I'm not just

00:53:36.660 going to change

00:53:37.800 my frame to

00:53:38.520 curiosity about

00:53:39.580 how it works,

00:53:40.640 but it does

00:53:41.740 work for me.

00:53:42.640 So I'm not

00:53:43.860 sure it would

00:53:44.440 work for others,

00:53:45.220 it might be

00:53:45.620 just something

00:53:46.160 about how I'm

00:53:47.300 wired, but it

00:53:48.720 reliably works.

00:53:49.780 I just say,

00:53:50.260 you know, I'll

00:53:51.260 just watch this

00:53:51.840 like a movie and

00:53:52.480 see how it

00:53:52.860 turns out.

00:53:54.460 And here's the

00:53:55.820 thing, curiosity

00:53:56.720 is really baked

00:53:58.400 into you as an

00:53:59.340 essential element

00:54:01.040 of who you are.

00:54:02.860 Would you agree

00:54:03.440 with that?

00:54:04.340 That without

00:54:04.800 curiosity, humans

00:54:07.460 would just fall

00:54:08.060 apart, civilization

00:54:08.880 would fall

00:54:09.520 apart.

00:54:10.420 So curiosity

00:54:11.140 isn't just a

00:54:12.560 thought, it's

00:54:14.480 baked into who

00:54:15.440 you are.

00:54:15.860 It's one of

00:54:16.240 your most basic

00:54:16.820 things.

00:54:17.720 So the point

00:54:18.480 is to get

00:54:19.300 away from

00:54:19.700 your intellectual,

00:54:21.780 the intellectual

00:54:22.580 part of you,

00:54:23.300 which is saying,

00:54:24.400 how will this

00:54:24.920 turn out?

00:54:25.520 It's making me

00:54:26.180 stressed.

00:54:26.940 Could go this

00:54:27.620 way, could go

00:54:28.280 that way.

00:54:29.100 I want it to

00:54:29.720 go this way,

00:54:30.360 but I've got an

00:54:30.920 obstacle.

00:54:31.700 I'm trying this,

00:54:32.580 but it won't

00:54:32.900 work.

00:54:33.500 So that's the

00:54:34.060 intellectual way

00:54:35.080 to frame it.

00:54:36.680 Are you, are

00:54:38.220 you naturally

00:54:39.000 intellectual?

00:54:41.140 A little bit.

00:54:42.560 But not the

00:54:44.040 way you're

00:54:44.360 naturally curious.

00:54:47.080 See what I

00:54:47.700 mean?

00:54:48.420 Your curiosity

00:54:49.300 is really

00:54:50.320 baked in.

00:54:51.020 That's like a,

00:54:51.680 that's a basic

00:54:52.740 biological function.

00:54:54.880 But your higher

00:54:55.800 intellectual thoughts

00:54:57.240 of how things

00:54:58.560 will work out,

00:54:59.540 blah, blah, blah,

00:54:59.960 blah, blah, blah.

00:55:00.860 That's, that's a

00:55:02.260 little bit more

00:55:02.800 of a modern,

00:55:04.700 I don't know,

00:55:05.360 emergent property

00:55:06.480 or something.

00:55:07.300 I'm using all the

00:55:07.940 wrong science-y

00:55:08.860 words.

00:55:09.140 But the idea

00:55:10.300 is that curiosity

00:55:11.140 is just stronger

00:55:12.500 and more basic

00:55:13.380 than your

00:55:14.500 intellectual thoughts

00:55:15.520 about what

00:55:15.920 might go wrong.

00:55:17.360 So just move

00:55:18.040 your, move

00:55:18.660 your focus,

00:55:19.740 not entirely,

00:55:21.340 because you can

00:55:21.740 never leave the

00:55:22.320 intellectual,

00:55:23.280 but move your

00:55:23.880 focus to,

00:55:25.320 oh, I just

00:55:25.760 wonder how this

00:55:26.280 is going to

00:55:26.620 turn out.

00:55:27.680 I'm just super

00:55:28.600 curious if this

00:55:30.040 is going to be

00:55:30.480 a disaster tomorrow.

00:55:33.380 It works.

00:55:34.820 I swear, it

00:55:35.900 works.

00:55:36.260 All right.

00:55:43.080 So, I do

00:55:46.560 think that we

00:55:48.460 are beyond the

00:55:50.160 mask vaccination

00:55:51.720 questions.

00:55:52.740 Would you agree?

00:55:54.240 Aren't we beyond

00:55:54.960 them?

00:55:55.640 The question of

00:55:56.360 whether you should

00:55:57.000 or should not do

00:55:57.920 anything mandated,

00:55:59.980 we're beyond

00:56:00.820 that.

00:56:01.620 So I'm not going

00:56:02.180 to talk you into

00:56:03.140 anything.

00:56:04.400 That would be

00:56:04.880 stupid at this

00:56:05.900 point.

00:56:06.260 And also

00:56:07.100 immoral.

00:56:08.160 You know, I said

00:56:08.680 from the beginning

00:56:09.260 that trying to

00:56:09.980 persuade you to

00:56:10.880 get a vaccination

00:56:11.600 would be deeply

00:56:12.960 immoral.

00:56:14.680 For those on

00:56:15.580 YouTube,

00:56:17.020 especially,

00:56:18.000 can the rest of

00:56:18.940 you confirm that

00:56:19.760 from the beginning,

00:56:21.120 the very first

00:56:21.980 words out of my

00:56:22.700 mouth were that

00:56:24.000 trying to persuade

00:56:25.100 you in one way

00:56:26.380 or the other

00:56:26.920 would be deeply

00:56:28.240 immoral, in my

00:56:29.280 case especially.

00:56:31.000 In my case

00:56:31.580 especially,

00:56:32.540 because I'm

00:56:33.500 trained to

00:56:34.000 persuade.

00:56:34.380 like a prize

00:56:36.860 fighter,

00:56:37.380 now that's

00:56:37.980 an old term

00:56:38.480 I guess,

00:56:39.300 a professional

00:56:39.980 boxer,

00:56:41.920 you know,

00:56:43.060 can't get into

00:56:43.900 a street fight

00:56:44.720 because that

00:56:46.020 would be

00:56:46.320 considered unfair.

00:56:47.720 In the same

00:56:48.560 way, if you're

00:56:49.520 making a life

00:56:50.380 and death

00:56:50.740 medical decision

00:56:51.640 and I'm not

00:56:52.660 your doctor,

00:56:53.800 you do not

00:56:54.620 want me trying

00:56:55.580 to persuade you.

00:56:56.860 You do not

00:56:57.520 want that because 0.73

00:56:58.280 I'm trained.

00:56:58.760 I'd be too

00:56:59.820 good at it.

00:57:00.920 And then I

00:57:01.160 would take,

00:57:02.180 in a way,

00:57:03.140 it would reduce

00:57:04.720 your agency,

00:57:06.220 you know,

00:57:06.400 your own

00:57:06.740 ability to

00:57:07.320 control yourself.

00:57:09.040 And so,

00:57:11.060 for everyone

00:57:11.660 who thinks I

00:57:12.260 have been

00:57:12.660 secretly trying

00:57:13.620 to support

00:57:14.940 the vaccinations,

00:57:15.740 I don't say

00:57:16.960 things that

00:57:17.560 directly if I

00:57:18.380 don't mean

00:57:18.720 them.

00:57:20.080 Right?

00:57:20.520 If there's one

00:57:21.100 thing you can

00:57:21.920 know about me

00:57:22.600 for sure,

00:57:24.200 if I say

00:57:24.800 something clearly

00:57:25.600 and directly

00:57:26.320 and without

00:57:27.000 being prompted

00:57:27.720 and I say

00:57:28.600 it over and

00:57:29.060 over again,

00:57:29.740 it's fucking 0.91

00:57:30.420 true.

00:57:32.000 Right?

00:57:33.260 You'll never

00:57:33.920 find an exception

00:57:34.680 to that.

00:57:35.880 If nobody

00:57:36.480 asks me to

00:57:37.060 say it,

00:57:37.940 I say it

00:57:38.520 clearly and

00:57:39.300 directly and

00:57:40.080 over and

00:57:40.540 over again,

00:57:41.280 it's fucking 0.91

00:57:42.260 true.

00:57:43.660 And you can

00:57:44.080 take that to

00:57:44.620 the bank.

00:57:45.900 You know,

00:57:46.100 if I'm vague

00:57:47.180 about something,

00:57:48.040 then, you know,

00:57:48.520 maybe I've got

00:57:49.060 some hidden

00:57:50.640 agenda or

00:57:51.260 something.

00:57:51.600 But if I'm

00:57:52.020 direct and

00:57:53.320 consistent,

00:57:55.640 you can bank

00:57:56.440 on that.

00:57:56.900 that's really,

00:57:58.160 really what I

00:57:58.780 think.

00:58:02.440 Biden said

00:58:03.180 something about

00:58:03.720 facts and

00:58:04.300 truth recently.

00:58:10.260 Why are the

00:58:11.020 trolls hard to

00:58:11.740 persuade?

00:58:12.380 Because they're

00:58:13.060 not there to be

00:58:13.680 persuaded.

00:58:14.080 Do you know

00:58:15.300 how many of my

00:58:15.940 trolls actually

00:58:16.620 have troll in

00:58:17.580 their bio?

00:58:19.340 A lot.

00:58:21.000 I would say

00:58:21.860 something like,

00:58:23.180 I don't know,

00:58:23.960 30% of all my

00:58:25.320 critics actually

00:58:26.200 have in their

00:58:27.160 bio Twitter

00:58:28.860 troll.

00:58:31.600 Look for

00:58:32.180 yourself.

00:58:32.860 Yeah, they're

00:58:33.140 not there to be

00:58:33.700 convinced.

00:58:37.980 All right.

00:58:41.480 Good times.

00:58:44.160 All right,

00:58:44.780 that's all I

00:58:45.320 got for now.

00:58:46.200 And I will

00:58:47.260 back off from

00:58:49.700 some of this

00:58:50.320 vaccination and

00:58:51.760 mass talk for

00:58:52.660 now.

00:58:52.860 I'm going to

00:58:53.820 hit really,

00:58:54.620 really hard

00:58:55.140 the dropping

00:58:56.680 the mask

00:58:57.240 mandate by

00:58:58.720 February 1.

00:59:00.600 How many of

00:59:01.800 you are on

00:59:02.240 board with

00:59:02.600 that?

00:59:03.580 February 1 as

00:59:05.080 our public

00:59:06.340 deadline to

00:59:07.540 our government

00:59:08.200 as to when

00:59:09.960 the public is

00:59:10.640 done with

00:59:11.200 the mandates.

00:59:14.020 Yeah.

00:59:14.560 So if you're

00:59:16.180 on board,

00:59:16.820 tweet it.

00:59:17.360 And I added

00:59:18.080 the following

00:59:18.600 twist that I

00:59:19.240 think helps.

00:59:19.720 I've asked

00:59:20.300 small businesses,

00:59:21.540 well,

00:59:21.720 businesses,

00:59:22.540 I've asked

00:59:23.020 businesses to

00:59:23.980 put a hashtag

00:59:25.800 Feb1 sign on

00:59:27.260 their window or

00:59:28.620 door.

00:59:29.700 Because if I see

00:59:30.920 that sign, I'm

00:59:31.800 going to go

00:59:32.060 right in.

00:59:33.220 So it's free

00:59:34.040 marketing.

00:59:35.720 Just put up the

00:59:36.540 sign, you don't

00:59:37.080 need an

00:59:37.420 explanation.

00:59:38.560 It doesn't

00:59:38.880 have to, you

00:59:39.780 don't have to be

00:59:40.220 a rebel or

00:59:41.040 anything else.

00:59:41.920 Just hashtag

00:59:42.920 Feb1, put a

00:59:44.460 little sign on

00:59:45.060 your door.

00:59:46.480 I will buy

00:59:47.200 your shit even

00:59:48.160 if I don't want

00:59:48.960 it.

00:59:49.720 I will walk

00:59:50.620 directly into

00:59:51.540 your store, take

00:59:52.980 out my wallet, and

00:59:54.320 buy some of your

00:59:55.180 shit just because

00:59:56.920 you have the

00:59:57.380 hashtag on.

00:59:58.260 Now that's free

00:59:58.860 marketing.

01:00:00.240 How many of you

01:00:01.160 would join me, you

01:00:02.500 don't have to buy

01:00:03.020 things you don't

01:00:03.540 want, but how

01:00:05.060 many of you would

01:00:05.880 join me in showing

01:00:07.620 a strong preference

01:00:08.760 for somebody who

01:00:10.300 had a hashtag

01:00:11.120 Feb1 sign on

01:00:12.200 their building?

01:00:13.620 Yeah, look at

01:00:14.020 the comments.

01:00:15.300 Yeah, strong

01:00:15.980 preference.

01:00:17.140 We don't love

01:00:18.080 boycotting.

01:00:18.760 I'm big on not

01:00:20.720 boycotting.

01:00:22.360 There are some

01:00:23.460 exceptions when

01:00:24.180 they're beyond the

01:00:25.100 line.

01:00:26.060 But I'm really

01:00:27.080 big on marketing.

01:00:30.500 Right?

01:00:31.180 Marketing works.

01:00:32.460 So why not get

01:00:33.060 some free marketing?

01:00:34.780 We're offering it

01:00:35.720 to you.

01:00:36.220 If you just put

01:00:36.900 a hashtag in your

01:00:38.420 window, get some

01:00:39.660 extra business your

01:00:41.040 neighbor won't get. 0.78

01:00:41.940 That's it.

01:00:42.340 So I don't know

01:00:44.480 how big this can

01:00:45.160 get, but it

01:00:46.060 needs to get big

01:00:46.780 enough to make

01:00:48.220 your governors and

01:00:49.360 your president say

01:00:50.680 to themselves, oh

01:00:51.720 shoot, the parade's

01:00:52.820 already moving, we

01:00:54.160 better get in front

01:00:54.900 of it.

01:00:56.080 And there's no

01:00:57.380 fight to be had

01:00:58.120 here.

01:00:58.940 I don't want to

01:00:59.580 fight with the

01:01:00.080 government, I want

01:01:01.220 to assist it.

01:01:02.520 And that's very,

01:01:03.400 very important.

01:01:04.600 The framing here

01:01:05.480 should be assisting

01:01:06.580 our government,

01:01:07.620 because they

01:01:08.140 legitimately are the

01:01:09.100 wrong tool for

01:01:10.760 getting us out of

01:01:11.680 a pandemic, because

01:01:12.760 they have too much

01:01:13.360 risk aversion.

01:01:14.760 We don't have the

01:01:15.420 same risk aversion,

01:01:16.360 we're the public.

01:01:17.480 So the public needs

01:01:18.280 to guide them, help

01:01:19.860 them, push them. 1.00

01:01:22.060 But it's not a

01:01:22.880 fight.

01:01:23.960 It's not a fight.

01:01:25.340 We're not on the

01:01:26.020 other side from the

01:01:26.880 government.

01:01:27.740 Don't get that wrong.

01:01:29.380 You are here to

01:01:30.260 help.

01:01:32.100 You're here to

01:01:32.940 help.

01:01:33.840 Push your

01:01:34.420 government in the

01:01:35.220 right direction.

01:01:36.600 They need it.

01:01:37.500 They want to be

01:01:38.120 pushed.

01:01:39.100 There's nothing that

01:01:39.900 would make Biden

01:01:40.520 happier than 75% of

01:01:42.680 the public saying,

01:01:43.560 let's get rid of

01:01:44.060 mandates.

01:01:45.560 Because that's good

01:01:46.800 for him, too.

01:01:47.360 He wants that shit

01:01:48.280 done before the

01:01:49.020 midterms, right?

01:01:50.440 So everybody wants

01:01:52.920 this to happen.

01:01:54.640 This is activating

01:01:56.000 the fake because.

01:01:57.940 The public's

01:01:58.780 activity is creating

01:02:01.300 the fake because.

01:02:02.300 It's a real one,

01:02:02.940 I guess.

01:02:03.200 But it operates

01:02:04.800 as the reason that

01:02:07.540 Biden and the

01:02:08.860 governors can say,

01:02:09.620 OK.

01:02:10.940 Now, now that

01:02:12.340 Boris Johnson

01:02:14.280 has made that

01:02:15.020 move, don't you

01:02:17.020 think every

01:02:17.720 governor is

01:02:18.280 talking about it?

01:02:19.920 I don't know how

01:02:20.820 you can see that

01:02:21.700 the science is

01:02:23.460 different on the

01:02:24.000 other side of the

01:02:24.560 Atlantic and not 0.96

01:02:25.880 at least ask

01:02:26.640 yourself, is it

01:02:27.600 time over here?

01:02:29.100 Because the

01:02:29.820 situation is the

01:02:30.520 same.

01:02:31.200 So I feel as

01:02:32.220 though if you get

01:02:33.720 one more entity

01:02:35.440 to go maskless,

01:02:37.880 it could be one

01:02:38.680 big state, you

01:02:40.260 know, blue state,

01:02:40.980 that would be

01:02:41.340 impressive, or one

01:02:44.480 other country, maybe

01:02:45.560 another European 0.78

01:02:46.280 country to follow

01:02:47.200 the lead.

01:02:48.620 One more and two

01:02:50.260 points to draw a

01:02:51.040 line and then it's

01:02:52.420 over.

01:02:53.400 So that's how close

01:02:54.580 we are to being

01:02:55.200 done with this, at

01:02:56.220 least the mask part.

01:02:57.400 We're that close.

01:02:58.660 One more entity,

01:03:00.200 boom, domino time.

01:03:02.320 Let's go Spain. 0.84

01:03:04.300 Germany.

01:03:05.280 Come on, Germany. 0.97

01:03:07.140 France?

01:03:09.580 Psst.

01:03:10.760 France.

01:03:12.520 France.

01:03:16.540 You know, France,

01:03:18.320 you've been kind of

01:03:19.500 an inspiration to us

01:03:20.620 on this whole

01:03:21.160 freedom thing

01:03:22.580 for hundreds of

01:03:23.960 years.

01:03:25.460 And we don't

01:03:26.800 want you to get

01:03:27.360 behind on the

01:03:28.600 whole freedom

01:03:29.640 thing.

01:03:29.980 So if you

01:03:32.340 wouldn't mind

01:03:33.080 setting a little

01:03:34.800 example, because we

01:03:36.680 like it when you do

01:03:37.460 that over here, if

01:03:39.380 France can find

01:03:40.480 freedom, you

01:03:43.120 would do a big

01:03:44.240 favor to us in the

01:03:45.200 United States.

01:03:47.080 Now, I'm not going

01:03:47.940 to say this is, you

01:03:48.800 know, Statue of

01:03:49.540 Liberty size or, you

01:03:51.940 know, or Lafayette

01:03:54.260 We Are Here

01:03:54.800 sized.

01:03:55.440 It's not that big.

01:03:56.240 But, remember

01:03:58.660 France, you

01:04:01.280 and America, we

01:04:02.240 have like a

01:04:03.300 long-standing

01:04:04.140 agreement, don't

01:04:05.040 we?

01:04:06.080 Sort of an

01:04:06.780 unwritten thing

01:04:07.500 that if you get

01:04:09.340 in trouble, we

01:04:09.940 help you.

01:04:10.560 If you get in

01:04:11.000 trouble, you

01:04:12.500 help us.

01:04:13.620 We're in trouble

01:04:14.540 over here, France.

01:04:17.040 If you go

01:04:17.880 first, that would

01:04:19.820 really help us.

01:04:21.160 Really help us.

01:04:22.140 We'd appreciate it

01:04:22.980 a lot.

01:04:23.320 And, I know

01:04:25.360 there's a lot of

01:04:25.860 activity over there,

01:04:26.640 a lot of people in

01:04:27.200 the streets.

01:04:28.100 It doesn't look like

01:04:29.060 you're close to

01:04:29.880 pushing your

01:04:30.380 government, but I'll

01:04:32.500 bet you can do it.

01:04:33.920 I'll bet you can get

01:04:34.800 there.

01:04:35.840 And I think Boris

01:04:36.900 Johnson just made

01:04:37.760 your job a little

01:04:38.500 bit easier.

01:04:39.680 So, France, be

01:04:41.380 next.

01:04:42.560 Count on you.

01:04:43.660 I think you can do

01:04:44.380 it.

01:04:45.360 Be true to your

01:04:46.180 history.

01:04:47.360 Be true to what

01:04:47.940 made you great in

01:04:48.840 the first place.

01:04:50.060 All right?

01:04:50.860 That is all I have

01:04:53.060 to say today.

01:04:54.440 Looks like my

01:04:55.040 phone is blowing

01:04:55.620 up, and I'll

01:04:56.360 talk to you all

01:04:57.080 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 19, 2022

Episode 1628 Scott Adams： I'm Ready to Take the L on Vaccinations. I Wasn't Convinced Until Today

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