Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1638 Scott Adams： Come Watch a Hypnotist Reframe Reality Right in Front of You. Talk About Headlines...

00:00:00.000 Good morning everybody. Welcome to the most amazing hour you're likely to ever spend

00:00:07.400 in your entire life. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and normally it's tremendous.

00:00:16.220 On an average day it's better than anything you've ever experienced. But today even the normal

00:00:23.040 Coffee with Scott Adams experience is going to go to a new level. It will. Yeah. And if you'd like to

00:00:31.200 get it started off right, and by the way, you might need a little swaddling for your brain.

00:00:39.100 Find a nice warm blanket, unless you're exercising. If you're running on the beach right now

00:00:46.880 and you hear me laughing in your ear as you're running on the beach and you're saying, damn it,

00:00:54.600 he's making me laugh when I'm running on the beach. I think he's talking about me and I am. So keep

00:01:01.480 running on the beach. But the rest of you get a nice warm blanket because you're going to need to

00:01:06.420 swallow your brain. Swaddle it. But first, how about a simultaneous sip and all you need is a

00:01:13.300 cup or a mug or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:17.880 Fill it with your favorite liquid. A beverage, some would say. And join me now for the unparalleled

00:01:25.020 pleasure, the dopamine to the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. And I mean

00:01:30.480 everything in every reality better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go.

00:01:36.380 Well, would you like to see the matrix? You know, some people think that we live in a simulation

00:01:55.860 and if this were a simulation, it would be subject to resource constraints, wouldn't it?

00:02:01.660 If we were any kind of computer simulation, the one thing you could be reasonably sure of

00:02:09.000 is it would have some kind of limits because everything has to have a limit, just logically.

00:02:15.320 And so, could we ever spot the limits of our own simulation as evidence that that's what we're in?

00:02:22.980 And here's the frame that I'm going to give you for today's entire episode. And it goes like this.

00:02:32.720 Did you ever wonder why cognitive dissonance is so common? Or to put it more generally,

00:02:41.460 why people have completely different views of reality? And it doesn't just apply,

00:02:46.760 doesn't just apply, to the news. Don't you know that sometimes you'll be talking to your friends

00:02:54.680 that you've known forever, and you'll have completely different memories of events in which you both were there.

00:03:00.900 What's up with that? Why do we have memory, but our memory is so close to fantasy

00:03:08.740 that sometimes you can't even unentangle them? Why do we so often live in what seems like

00:03:16.620 completely different worlds? And here's the answer. It has to be that way because of resource constraints.

00:03:28.940 Cognitive dissonance isn't a flaw. It's a feature. You couldn't program the simulation

00:03:37.080 without that requirement. Here's why. Imagine creating a simulation, and by the way,

00:03:44.620 if those of you who have programmed, back me up on this.

00:03:50.060 All right. If you were creating a simulation in which every character's actions

00:03:54.320 had to be known to every other object and item in the entire universe,

00:04:01.240 because they might someday interact, and someday you might hear about something that somebody else did,

00:04:08.000 and it has to be consistent.

00:04:09.520 If our memories were perfect, it would have to be consistent.

00:04:14.420 So if you tried to build an artificial world in which everybody's story,

00:04:21.280 their narrative, if you will, or their subjective reality,

00:04:26.120 if they had to be consistent in all ways with all other stories,

00:04:30.900 the resources would be astronomical, to the point where it's unimaginable that it could be programmed.

00:04:39.360 But could you build a world in which people believed they were seeing an accurate view of the reality,

00:04:47.420 but in fact the accuracy was only a trick of the mind?

00:04:51.400 That'd be a lot easier.

00:04:54.700 So, watch, if you will, the predictive power of the simulation hypothesis.

00:05:01.700 Do I tell you that the simulation is the true way to see the world?

00:05:05.640 Never. Nope.

00:05:08.280 The only thing I can tell you is that some ways of looking at things

00:05:12.000 might be more predictive than others.

00:05:14.600 And that's probably the closest you can get to something that's real, if anything is.

00:05:19.460 So my prediction is this.

00:05:22.760 There can never be a major story that has only one interpretation.

00:05:30.160 There could be exceptions, of course.

00:05:33.120 But let's say, in general, that the headlines will always tend toward two interpretations,

00:05:37.780 even when it's not just a Democrat-Republican thing.

00:05:42.500 Because take vaccinations, for example.

00:05:44.860 You saw that a lot of, let's say, the black population and the Republicans

00:05:48.900 were often on the same page.

00:05:52.080 So it wasn't even a left-right thing.

00:05:54.620 But every story has to have multiple interpretations.

00:05:59.560 Because that's the only way you could program the simulation.

00:06:03.200 Let's talk about a few things that are happening now.

00:06:05.700 One is the continuing of what I call the roganization of the news.

00:06:11.380 The roganization of the news is another indication that we live in a simulation.

00:06:18.100 That we're reusing themes because it's just simpler.

00:06:22.220 It uses less resources.

00:06:24.480 So the way we see the news used to be through a Trump filter,

00:06:29.260 and now we see it through a Joe Rogan filter.

00:06:31.140 So if we talk about vaccinations, we talk about Joe Rogan.

00:06:36.060 If it's about ivermectin, Joe Rogan.

00:06:39.400 You know, the government taking away our rights, Joe Rogan.

00:06:43.000 Freedom of speech, Joe Rogan.

00:06:46.160 And now even music and streaming, Joe Rogan.

00:06:51.960 Now, some of it is just you get something in your mind and it sticks,

00:06:55.520 and he's gigantic in terms of his reach.

00:06:58.780 So it makes sense.

00:07:00.540 In the same way, it made sense that we talked about everything through a Trump filter.

00:07:05.320 But think about how that simplifies the programming.

00:07:08.440 We all just think the same way.

00:07:10.180 We just go through the same filter.

00:07:12.600 It's a big simplification if you were going to program a simulation.

00:07:15.820 So here's what else is happening.

00:07:18.640 The story is that the following four people,

00:07:21.220 and before you fact check me, I'm going to fact check myself when I'm done,

00:07:24.820 that the following four people have said

00:07:27.100 they don't want to be on Spotify, the streaming service,

00:07:30.820 if that Joe Rogan is on there with his misinformation about health-related things.

00:07:38.020 So it started with Neil Young.

00:07:39.800 But now, then we heard that Barry Manilow joined,

00:07:45.400 and then we heard that Peter Frampton was on board,

00:07:48.400 and then Joni Mitchell.

00:07:50.020 How much of that story is true?

00:07:53.320 It's like every story, right?

00:07:55.700 There's a true version and a fake version.

00:07:58.520 And so here's the details.

00:08:00.940 Barry Manilow came out and said,

00:08:02.880 I don't know where that started.

00:08:05.000 It didn't come from me.

00:08:06.620 It didn't come from anybody who represents me.

00:08:08.480 So the Barry Manilow part of the story was completely fake.

00:08:12.780 So at least 25% of the story is fake.

00:08:15.380 And then there's a Peter Frampton tweet

00:08:17.200 in which he said he's always been an Apple guy,

00:08:21.540 so he uses Apple streaming.

00:08:24.920 And I said to myself, wait a minute.

00:08:27.480 Is Peter Frampton saying he doesn't want to be on Spotify?

00:08:30.420 Is he saying he's never been on Spotify?

00:08:34.920 Or is he saying that he's not even talking as a creator anymore?

00:08:40.140 Because I don't know the last time he published any music.

00:08:43.180 But is he talking as a consumer?

00:08:45.900 Is he just saying that he didn't use Spotify before

00:08:49.280 to listen to music?

00:08:50.500 I feel like Peter Frampton trended

00:08:54.580 just because he says he listens to music

00:08:57.720 on a different streaming service.

00:08:59.880 I think that's what happened.

00:09:01.700 Now, if that's true, if I'm interpreting it correctly,

00:09:04.640 and again, we're all going to have different stories.

00:09:08.000 It has to be that way.

00:09:09.620 That would be 50% of the story isn't real.

00:09:12.160 So that would leave Joni Mitchell on the side of Neil Young.

00:09:17.820 And if you take Joni Mitchell's music off of Spotify,

00:09:23.000 well, you won't be able to go to Spotify

00:09:25.800 to hear Joni Mitchell's big hit.

00:09:31.640 Joni Mitchell's big hit.

00:09:33.500 She was really big when I was young.

00:09:36.440 Had a lot of hits, actually.

00:09:37.740 She was very famous.

00:09:38.620 And then her big hit was...

00:09:42.960 I don't know, but I'm going to miss it.

00:09:45.900 I'm going to miss it is what I'm saying.

00:09:48.880 I never used Spotify before.

00:09:52.380 I was kind of a different streaming guy,

00:09:56.900 but in case you want to put that in the headlines,

00:10:00.120 I think I should be trending.

00:10:03.200 Wait a minute.

00:10:03.800 I'm on Spotify, aren't I?

00:10:06.500 I'm on Spotify, am I not?

00:10:10.540 Can somebody confirm that?

00:10:13.100 I think I am, right?

00:10:14.820 Yeah, I mean, I just published the podcast wherever,

00:10:18.700 so I think it's on there.

00:10:21.200 Well, why the hell did nobody ask me

00:10:24.740 if I am willing to be on Spotify

00:10:27.100 with my highly valuable podcast,

00:10:30.880 which probably gets roughly as many listens as Neil Young,

00:10:37.000 but I feel that I've been overlooked.

00:10:40.920 Am I wrong?

00:10:43.120 Should I make a public statement now?

00:10:46.520 I think I'm going to have to go on the record.

00:10:49.300 I think everybody who is on Spotify

00:10:52.900 needs to give their Joe Rogan opinion.

00:10:58.460 And I'm embarrassed to be on Spotify, honestly,

00:11:06.980 now that I know that Barry Manilow is still on there.

00:11:10.600 So I refuse.

00:11:12.860 I refuse to be on Spotify.

00:11:15.560 I would like my representation

00:11:16.800 to pull all of my podcasts immediately

00:11:18.880 because I just, ah.

00:11:24.140 It's not really music, is it?

00:11:29.920 It's not music.

00:11:30.960 It's sort of like an earworm

00:11:33.180 that gets in your head and makes you happy,

00:11:36.260 and you can't get it out.

00:11:37.460 Now, I personally have spent many, many hours

00:11:42.000 as a busboy in my early days

00:11:46.100 when I was a busboy,

00:11:48.000 and we would clean the dining room

00:11:49.220 all at the same time

00:11:50.020 after all the guests had left.

00:11:51.220 It was a hotel.

00:11:52.620 And they would play Copacabana

00:11:55.260 over and over again

00:11:56.380 through the ceiling speakers

00:11:58.000 because we only had a few songs

00:11:59.340 for whatever reason.

00:12:00.860 And I've heard more Copacabana

00:12:02.560 than any human has ever heard,

00:12:03.960 and I don't know if I can be on Spotify

00:12:06.800 with that man.

00:12:08.560 Excellent music.

00:12:10.720 Very successful.

00:12:12.600 But you've got to draw the line somewhere.

00:12:15.360 Edward Snowden had a funny tweet.

00:12:18.240 He said,

00:12:18.560 nobody has stronger opinions about Joe Rogan

00:12:23.440 than people who have never listened to Joe Rogan.

00:12:27.220 And I thought,

00:12:28.560 you know, I'll bet that's exactly true.

00:12:31.800 You know, this is one of those tweets

00:12:33.040 where you say to yourself,

00:12:34.000 well, that's not,

00:12:35.240 I'm sure that's not true completely.

00:12:38.000 And then you think about it,

00:12:39.300 and then you think,

00:12:40.160 no, that might be actually true

00:12:41.420 for every single human

00:12:42.480 in the conversation.

00:12:44.640 It might literally be true

00:12:46.080 of everybody

00:12:47.320 who is against him

00:12:49.280 as if you haven't heard the context.

00:12:52.120 Now, I don't know how many of you

00:12:53.540 could say the same,

00:12:55.360 but I feel like I've been following

00:12:57.360 his career

00:12:58.180 since the earliest days,

00:13:00.760 literally on news radio.

00:13:02.180 And do you remember

00:13:05.480 that he had a show,

00:13:06.480 I can't remember the name of the show,

00:13:07.700 you'll probably tell me,

00:13:08.940 in which he looked into stuff

00:13:10.400 like Bigfoot.

00:13:12.580 He actually went looking for Bigfoot.

00:13:15.140 Who remembers that?

00:13:16.200 What was the name of the show?

00:13:18.340 You'll remember.

00:13:19.600 I think you'll remind me.

00:13:21.900 No, it wasn't Fear Factor.

00:13:24.360 What was it?

00:13:26.200 Come on.

00:13:26.920 It wasn't on for a long time.

00:13:31.000 Oh, Joe Rogan questions everything?

00:13:32.980 Was that it?

00:13:34.380 Joe Rogan's questions everything?

00:13:35.980 Right.

00:13:36.800 So, now, I'm not going to characterize

00:13:39.300 Joe Rogan's opinion about Bigfoot.

00:13:42.220 You know, who knows what he was thinking,

00:13:44.080 when, or what.

00:13:45.120 But,

00:13:46.480 if you know

00:13:47.960 that part of his arc,

00:13:50.820 you know,

00:13:51.000 include literally being an actor,

00:13:52.720 literally being a,

00:13:53.760 you know,

00:13:54.200 huge stand-up comic,

00:13:56.560 and literally,

00:13:58.380 at one point,

00:13:59.220 searching for Bigfoot,

00:14:00.760 all in the name of entertainment,

00:14:02.300 right?

00:14:03.460 If you understand that,

00:14:05.560 then don't you have

00:14:06.240 a better appreciation

00:14:07.180 of any other content

00:14:08.600 that he presents?

00:14:10.060 Which is that

00:14:10.940 the larger context is,

00:14:12.560 if it's interesting,

00:14:14.640 I'm going to put it on.

00:14:17.120 I don't think there's any other,

00:14:18.840 is there another criteria?

00:14:22.020 Does he claim,

00:14:22.940 does he claim any other,

00:14:24.600 any other criteria

00:14:26.240 for putting on entertainment?

00:14:28.760 It just has to be good,

00:14:30.300 right?

00:14:31.020 It has to be funny,

00:14:33.240 it has to be interesting,

00:14:35.540 provocative,

00:14:36.680 something.

00:14:37.380 It just has to be good.

00:14:38.240 So, if you understand

00:14:40.280 that the context is

00:14:41.540 things that are interesting,

00:14:44.160 then you listen

00:14:44.860 to the rogue doctor,

00:14:46.160 and you make your own decision.

00:14:48.300 You know,

00:14:48.600 you're not,

00:14:48.860 you're not watching it

00:14:49.620 like the news.

00:14:50.660 But what if you've only

00:14:51.640 seen clips of his show?

00:14:53.500 You don't know anything

00:14:54.240 about his history,

00:14:55.160 his other work.

00:14:56.340 Maybe you don't even know

00:14:57.420 he's a stand-up comic.

00:14:59.320 Don't you think a lot of people

00:15:00.320 were his critics?

00:15:01.680 Maybe, you know,

00:15:02.860 vaguely know

00:15:03.840 he's done that kind of work,

00:15:05.200 but don't know

00:15:06.400 he would be one of

00:15:07.540 the biggest in the country

00:15:08.500 at the moment?

00:15:10.020 So,

00:15:10.920 you know,

00:15:12.680 I think the context

00:15:13.540 makes a big difference.

00:15:14.480 Not only the context

00:15:15.500 within the show,

00:15:17.440 but the larger context

00:15:19.300 that if it's interesting,

00:15:20.940 he's going to let us see it.

00:15:23.180 And who,

00:15:23.920 how do you complain

00:15:24.800 about that,

00:15:26.280 right?

00:15:26.560 If you know

00:15:26.960 the larger context.

00:15:28.080 If it's interesting,

00:15:29.440 I think I'll show it to you.

00:15:31.460 What the hell?

00:15:32.860 How do you get mad at that?

00:15:34.900 Form your own,

00:15:35.540 you know,

00:15:35.720 make your own opinion.

00:15:36.480 He's not telling you

00:15:37.080 what to think.

00:15:38.240 If he told you

00:15:39.020 what to think,

00:15:40.240 that'd be a whole

00:15:40.760 different conversation,

00:15:41.800 wouldn't it?

00:15:42.960 But nowhere,

00:15:44.640 nowhere are you going

00:15:45.660 to find anything

00:15:46.380 in his record

00:15:47.200 that tells you

00:15:48.500 what to think.

00:15:50.960 Fact check me on that,

00:15:52.740 right?

00:15:53.700 I'm pretty sure

00:15:54.620 if you scour his record,

00:15:56.620 you're not going to find

00:15:57.520 him telling you

00:15:58.120 how to think.

00:15:58.760 He's just going to

00:15:59.260 show you interesting shit

00:16:00.300 and you make up

00:16:01.380 your own mind.

00:16:02.740 It's a good model.

00:16:03.640 Well,

00:16:07.460 those of you

00:16:08.560 who have

00:16:08.920 experienced

00:16:09.880 doing mushrooms,

00:16:10.760 you know that

00:16:11.320 you have a much

00:16:13.140 better understanding

00:16:13.940 of our reality

00:16:14.740 as being a subjective

00:16:15.980 reality.

00:16:17.100 So even if you

00:16:17.980 discard this

00:16:18.800 simulation hypothesis,

00:16:21.420 you probably would agree

00:16:22.760 that we are living

00:16:23.700 in our own

00:16:24.860 subjective reality

00:16:26.280 in lots of

00:16:27.760 different ways.

00:16:28.680 And we'll talk

00:16:29.160 about some of those

00:16:29.800 ways.

00:16:30.120 number one

00:16:32.180 is

00:16:32.680 many people

00:16:34.560 have lived

00:16:35.160 for the last

00:16:35.620 two years

00:16:36.280 in a subjective

00:16:38.240 reality in which

00:16:39.360 the elites

00:16:40.060 are using COVID

00:16:41.780 as a plot

00:16:42.500 to take control

00:16:43.580 for the Great Reset

00:16:45.320 and it was never

00:16:46.680 a problem,

00:16:48.480 et cetera.

00:16:49.880 Others,

00:16:50.720 and again,

00:16:51.200 I don't have an

00:16:51.860 opinion on that

00:16:52.680 right now.

00:16:54.260 I mean,

00:16:54.480 I have opinions,

00:16:55.320 but not right now.

00:16:57.520 My larger point

00:16:58.460 is that

00:16:58.960 didn't we live

00:17:00.080 in different worlds?

00:17:01.900 There are some

00:17:02.340 people who just said,

00:17:03.180 hey,

00:17:03.300 there's a deadly

00:17:03.840 virus,

00:17:04.860 people doing

00:17:05.420 the best they can,

00:17:06.320 but people are

00:17:06.900 weasels and liars

00:17:07.860 and so this is

00:17:08.780 what you get.

00:17:10.040 So that was

00:17:10.440 my reality.

00:17:11.700 My reality is

00:17:12.660 just a whole bunch

00:17:13.300 of weasels and liars

00:17:14.420 doing the best

00:17:17.060 they could,

00:17:17.740 usually for themselves,

00:17:19.680 and this is

00:17:20.400 what you get

00:17:21.420 when you have

00:17:22.800 weasels and liars

00:17:23.780 and a crisis,

00:17:25.600 along with lots

00:17:26.520 of people trying

00:17:27.340 to do the right

00:17:27.960 thing.

00:17:28.220 It wasn't like

00:17:29.420 everybody was

00:17:30.020 lying,

00:17:31.280 but it's not like

00:17:32.080 everybody was

00:17:32.620 telling the truth.

00:17:34.140 It's not like

00:17:34.700 everybody was

00:17:35.360 trying to get

00:17:36.080 an advantage

00:17:36.600 on other people.

00:17:38.040 Some people

00:17:38.620 were literally

00:17:39.200 just trying to

00:17:39.960 help and

00:17:41.020 nothing else,

00:17:42.540 and a lot of

00:17:43.080 people,

00:17:43.660 right?

00:17:45.160 That's the best

00:17:45.940 thing that came

00:17:46.380 out of the

00:17:46.660 pandemic by far

00:17:47.880 is the kindness

00:17:49.320 that was expressed

00:17:51.180 pretty much

00:17:51.680 universally,

00:17:53.080 at least by

00:17:53.760 the citizens.

00:17:55.580 So those

00:17:57.320 are different

00:17:57.700 worlds.

00:17:58.220 that we've

00:17:58.820 been living

00:17:59.100 in for the

00:17:59.460 last two

00:17:59.780 years.

00:18:00.620 How about

00:18:01.060 what happens

00:18:07.160 if we are

00:18:08.460 a simulation

00:18:09.120 and the way

00:18:09.920 we think

00:18:10.520 affects it?

00:18:13.300 Here's something

00:18:14.080 that worries me

00:18:15.040 because I worry

00:18:15.760 about weird

00:18:16.240 things.

00:18:17.760 What if we

00:18:18.600 wish a new

00:18:19.520 variant into

00:18:20.300 existence?

00:18:20.820 What happens

00:18:22.940 if everyone

00:18:23.580 in the world

00:18:24.220 expects a new

00:18:26.080 deadly variant

00:18:26.960 just because

00:18:27.480 we've been

00:18:27.860 primed that

00:18:28.480 way?

00:18:30.360 Can we

00:18:30.880 actually make

00:18:31.420 that happen?

00:18:32.440 Can we

00:18:32.700 just will it

00:18:33.320 into existence?

00:18:35.100 You know,

00:18:35.360 I worry about

00:18:35.920 that.

00:18:36.700 Like,

00:18:37.020 actually,

00:18:37.620 literally,

00:18:38.340 because I think

00:18:39.300 our understanding

00:18:40.640 of the reality

00:18:41.620 we live in,

00:18:42.520 such as it is,

00:18:43.620 is so weak,

00:18:45.160 you know,

00:18:45.340 what we actually

00:18:45.860 understand about

00:18:46.620 reality is so

00:18:47.240 weak,

00:18:47.580 that I wouldn't

00:18:49.040 discount seven

00:18:50.560 billion people

00:18:51.360 expecting exactly

00:18:52.460 the same thing

00:18:53.160 to happen,

00:18:54.600 having no

00:18:55.320 causal effect.

00:18:58.260 Like,

00:18:58.820 it might not

00:18:59.280 have enough

00:18:59.800 causal effect,

00:19:01.000 that I could

00:19:01.780 believe,

00:19:02.540 but it's hard

00:19:03.180 to believe it

00:19:03.600 would have none,

00:19:04.880 even if the

00:19:05.800 only thing it

00:19:06.280 did is affect

00:19:06.920 somehow the

00:19:07.600 way we acted.

00:19:09.520 Because you

00:19:09.960 know that you're

00:19:10.460 drawn toward

00:19:11.020 things you think

00:19:11.700 about a lot.

00:19:13.140 Your behavior

00:19:13.740 is attracted

00:19:15.040 to just

00:19:16.000 whatever you're

00:19:16.820 thinking about

00:19:17.320 the most,

00:19:18.400 just somewhat

00:19:19.240 automatically

00:19:19.960 and subconsciously.

00:19:21.520 So could we

00:19:22.180 just think our

00:19:23.040 way into problems?

00:19:24.520 I don't know.

00:19:25.700 But I'd like to

00:19:26.820 at least give a

00:19:28.240 consideration

00:19:30.420 to thinking our

00:19:32.200 way out of it

00:19:32.840 instead.

00:19:34.140 And maybe focus

00:19:35.480 a little more

00:19:36.000 on February 1

00:19:36.900 being over.

00:19:38.500 Now you see

00:19:39.200 the real power

00:19:41.260 of that?

00:19:42.360 What happens

00:19:43.220 when everybody

00:19:43.780 says February 1

00:19:45.000 is the day

00:19:45.340 we stop,

00:19:46.200 or at least

00:19:46.580 with mandates

00:19:47.200 in the United

00:19:47.660 States?

00:19:48.900 Could it have

00:19:49.340 the opposite

00:19:49.840 effect?

00:19:50.980 Could it have

00:19:51.560 an effect

00:19:52.080 that doesn't

00:19:52.780 seem to be

00:19:53.480 directly related

00:19:54.420 to the public

00:19:55.840 rising up?

00:19:57.120 In other words,

00:19:58.300 could the virus

00:19:59.000 just burn out

00:19:59.920 as if by magic

00:20:01.680 because everybody

00:20:02.940 was focusing

00:20:03.660 on the same

00:20:04.200 time to make

00:20:04.780 it burn out?

00:20:06.100 I don't know.

00:20:07.860 But I'll tell

00:20:08.680 you that I have

00:20:09.200 this one observation

00:20:10.200 that has no

00:20:11.180 scientific backing,

00:20:12.280 right?

00:20:12.620 So this is not

00:20:13.700 a science.

00:20:14.200 But maybe

00:20:14.900 you could

00:20:15.300 compare it

00:20:17.240 to your own

00:20:17.600 situation.

00:20:19.000 I find

00:20:19.600 that the more

00:20:20.500 clearly I can

00:20:22.840 visualize something

00:20:24.320 potentially happening,

00:20:26.120 the more likely

00:20:27.700 it'll happen

00:20:28.520 in my actual

00:20:29.900 life.

00:20:31.620 If I can see

00:20:32.640 it as clear

00:20:33.480 as I can see

00:20:34.240 a photograph

00:20:34.820 in front of me,

00:20:35.720 and sometimes

00:20:36.360 I can,

00:20:38.380 then it just

00:20:39.400 always happens,

00:20:40.200 even if it's

00:20:40.740 unlikely.

00:20:41.140 I use my

00:20:43.300 example all

00:20:44.240 the time of

00:20:44.820 becoming a

00:20:45.840 best-selling

00:20:46.280 author or

00:20:47.280 becoming a

00:20:48.480 cartoonist,

00:20:49.520 a famous

00:20:50.000 cartoonist,

00:20:50.840 or visiting

00:20:52.080 the White

00:20:53.460 House and

00:20:54.400 talking to a

00:20:54.980 president.

00:20:55.920 These are

00:20:56.260 things which I

00:20:57.080 visualized really

00:20:58.360 specifically.

00:21:00.180 And there are

00:21:00.720 other things that

00:21:01.340 I just sort of

00:21:01.880 want, but I

00:21:03.180 don't really

00:21:03.460 visualize them,

00:21:04.240 and they don't

00:21:04.580 happen.

00:21:05.560 But the things

00:21:06.220 that I think

00:21:06.700 about specifically,

00:21:08.640 oh my God,

00:21:09.400 do they happen

00:21:09.900 on a regular

00:21:10.480 basis, in a

00:21:11.400 weird way.

00:21:12.740 So I just

00:21:13.580 want to put it

00:21:14.060 out there that

00:21:14.840 if you all

00:21:16.480 focus on

00:21:17.140 hashtag February

00:21:18.660 1 for dropping

00:21:19.600 mandates, which

00:21:21.360 is similar to

00:21:22.600 saying that the

00:21:23.360 pandemic itself,

00:21:25.140 the crisis,

00:21:25.780 has abated,

00:21:28.500 I'm not going

00:21:29.420 to tell you

00:21:29.820 it'll make it

00:21:30.700 happen, but

00:21:32.900 if you want

00:21:34.420 to play it

00:21:34.880 safe,

00:21:35.320 if you want

00:21:37.860 to play it

00:21:38.280 safe, I'd

00:21:39.800 rather think

00:21:40.320 about stopping

00:21:41.000 it than

00:21:41.440 having it

00:21:41.900 forever.

00:21:43.460 All right.

00:21:46.900 Here's a

00:21:47.500 bombshell that's

00:21:48.300 going to

00:21:48.480 scramble your

00:21:49.040 brain.

00:21:49.820 I saw this

00:21:51.080 on a tweet

00:21:51.600 by a Twitter

00:21:52.800 user called

00:21:53.480 Logic.

00:21:55.180 Bombshell

00:21:55.580 reports from

00:21:56.280 Australia.

00:21:57.400 Australia media

00:21:58.180 places the

00:21:58.940 blame for the

00:21:59.560 pandemic on

00:22:01.680 Fauci.

00:22:02.120 In other

00:22:04.260 words, the

00:22:05.780 United States.

00:22:08.220 So there's

00:22:08.760 at least one

00:22:10.200 person in, I

00:22:11.380 don't know how

00:22:11.800 many more

00:22:12.160 believe this,

00:22:13.320 but talk about

00:22:14.200 a reframe that

00:22:15.120 made my brain

00:22:15.840 hurt.

00:22:16.840 As soon as I

00:22:17.760 heard it from

00:22:18.260 somebody else's

00:22:19.380 point of view,

00:22:21.620 we just spent

00:22:23.820 two years

00:22:24.300 blaming China.

00:22:27.220 We just spent

00:22:28.120 two years

00:22:28.720 blaming China,

00:22:30.060 which, you

00:22:30.700 know, I'm all

00:22:31.220 on board with

00:22:31.780 that because

00:22:32.100 I'm no lover

00:22:34.880 of the Chinese

00:22:35.700 government, but

00:22:37.260 at the same

00:22:39.700 time we were

00:22:40.320 slowly learning,

00:22:41.620 you know,

00:22:42.580 Fauci's

00:22:43.240 involvement, and

00:22:44.440 somehow it

00:22:45.180 never occurred

00:22:45.880 to me, and

00:22:47.400 I would wonder

00:22:48.240 if this is

00:22:48.760 blowing your

00:22:49.280 mind as well,

00:22:50.840 why had it

00:22:51.540 never occurred

00:22:52.220 to me that

00:22:55.140 it's the

00:22:55.420 United States

00:22:56.040 that's responsible

00:22:57.960 for the

00:22:58.480 fucking pandemic?

00:23:00.080 I'm not saying

00:23:01.060 we are,

00:23:01.580 I'm not

00:23:02.840 saying we

00:23:03.260 are, I'm

00:23:04.760 saying, here's

00:23:05.820 the part I'm

00:23:06.580 only saying,

00:23:07.600 why didn't it

00:23:08.480 occur to me

00:23:09.000 until now?

00:23:10.980 Why did that

00:23:11.820 literally not

00:23:12.480 occur to me?

00:23:13.680 I had only

00:23:14.480 thought of it

00:23:15.000 as a Fauci

00:23:15.780 problem.

00:23:17.800 Did the same

00:23:18.580 thing happen

00:23:19.000 to you?

00:23:20.520 Did you think,

00:23:21.620 oh, there's a

00:23:22.100 Fauci problem?

00:23:22.780 I never

00:23:23.740 once said to

00:23:24.840 myself, this

00:23:26.000 is the

00:23:26.360 fucking

00:23:26.640 United States.

00:23:27.960 We

00:23:28.400 unleashed

00:23:29.020 this

00:23:30.380 pandemic by

00:23:31.540 our actions.

00:23:32.980 Now, does

00:23:33.300 China have

00:23:33.880 some culpability?

00:23:35.360 Probably.

00:23:36.720 Probably.

00:23:37.360 I'm not going to

00:23:38.180 let China off the

00:23:38.880 hook.

00:23:39.780 But why did I

00:23:40.500 never once

00:23:41.120 think of it

00:23:41.740 this way?

00:23:44.660 And I'm

00:23:45.300 going to

00:23:46.000 introduce a

00:23:46.880 new phrase

00:23:47.920 for you.

00:23:48.360 And this

00:23:49.920 new phrase

00:23:50.700 is going to

00:23:51.700 act like

00:23:52.260 an antivirus.

00:23:55.920 So it's a

00:23:56.700 phrase that

00:23:58.100 if it catches

00:23:58.580 on, would

00:23:59.160 act like an

00:23:59.680 antivirus, so

00:24:01.180 that the

00:24:01.480 problem I

00:24:01.860 just described,

00:24:02.900 which is my

00:24:03.300 own cognitive

00:24:04.020 blindness, which

00:24:05.380 some of you

00:24:05.860 shared, so I

00:24:07.660 was cognitively

00:24:08.680 blind to

00:24:09.380 America's

00:24:10.180 culpability, or

00:24:11.240 potential

00:24:11.660 culpability,

00:24:12.740 because nothing's

00:24:13.640 proven, proven

00:24:14.260 in this world.

00:24:16.460 And it's

00:24:16.820 because of what

00:24:17.380 I'm going to

00:24:17.700 call a

00:24:18.040 diversion

00:24:18.600 narrative.

00:24:20.520 A diversion

00:24:21.540 narrative.

00:24:23.100 Watch what

00:24:23.800 happens when

00:24:24.400 you start

00:24:24.780 looking for

00:24:25.280 them.

00:24:26.300 And you

00:24:26.700 see how many

00:24:27.200 times there's

00:24:28.240 a narrative

00:24:28.720 about what's

00:24:29.400 true that's

00:24:31.160 really designed

00:24:31.940 primarily as a

00:24:32.940 diversion.

00:24:34.540 What would

00:24:35.580 do to your

00:24:37.760 brain if you

00:24:38.440 found out that

00:24:39.220 the China is

00:24:40.140 to blame

00:24:40.620 narrative was

00:24:41.880 always a

00:24:42.460 diversion

00:24:42.860 narrative?

00:24:44.520 What if

00:24:45.220 someone in

00:24:45.780 the government,

00:24:46.580 or someones,

00:24:48.040 always knew

00:24:48.660 that this

00:24:49.060 could come

00:24:49.500 around and

00:24:50.120 become a

00:24:50.780 blame-America

00:24:51.640 problem, because

00:24:52.940 they knew that

00:24:53.480 chain of events

00:24:54.220 from Fauci to

00:24:55.080 funding to

00:24:56.300 Wuhan to

00:24:57.020 maybe a

00:24:58.540 mistake, we

00:24:59.080 don't know for

00:24:59.480 sure.

00:25:01.520 What if

00:25:02.180 somebody cooked

00:25:02.780 up the

00:25:03.200 diversion

00:25:03.660 narrative to

00:25:04.520 say it was

00:25:04.980 China so that

00:25:06.120 we would, in

00:25:06.820 America, be

00:25:07.560 cognitively blind

00:25:08.860 to our own

00:25:10.000 culpability?

00:25:10.700 have you ever

00:25:14.260 seen anybody

00:25:15.040 cook up a

00:25:15.840 diversion

00:25:16.760 narrative before?

00:25:18.980 How about

00:25:19.920 Trump-Russia

00:25:21.620 collusion?

00:25:22.800 That's a

00:25:23.540 diversion

00:25:23.940 narrative for

00:25:25.840 the fact that

00:25:26.540 Hillary was

00:25:27.160 literally colluding

00:25:28.940 with Russia,

00:25:29.800 apparently.

00:25:31.120 I'll say

00:25:31.840 allegedly or

00:25:32.680 apparently.

00:25:33.000 how often are

00:25:36.260 diversion

00:25:36.900 narratives really

00:25:38.020 all we're

00:25:38.560 seeing?

00:25:40.000 And how

00:25:40.740 often are we

00:25:41.320 just wrong?

00:25:42.800 Because my

00:25:43.980 usual interpretation

00:25:45.000 of these things is

00:25:46.020 that there are two

00:25:46.620 worlds because

00:25:47.760 there's a

00:25:48.200 Democrat side and

00:25:49.140 a Republican side,

00:25:50.020 so we all

00:25:50.440 understand that

00:25:51.040 part.

00:25:52.000 But some of

00:25:52.820 these go beyond

00:25:53.560 that.

00:25:54.780 It seems like

00:25:55.400 there's something

00:25:55.900 else going on

00:25:56.640 besides just the

00:25:57.520 teams.

00:25:57.880 These diversion

00:25:59.180 narratives seem

00:25:59.980 to be almost the

00:26:01.440 operating system of

00:26:02.660 civilization at

00:26:03.480 this point.

00:26:04.600 It's just

00:26:05.040 diversion

00:26:05.420 narratives.

00:26:06.980 Let's talk

00:26:07.660 about some

00:26:08.760 more as we

00:26:09.320 go.

00:26:11.840 But here's

00:26:12.980 something that

00:26:13.480 I've said a

00:26:14.340 number of times

00:26:14.860 and I just

00:26:15.280 want to explain

00:26:15.800 my thinking

00:26:16.460 on it better.

00:26:17.660 Because often

00:26:18.900 I'm talking

00:26:19.420 about a topic

00:26:20.060 in the news

00:26:20.760 and we all

00:26:22.020 get diverted

00:26:22.600 about the

00:26:23.100 topic, but

00:26:24.080 really I'm

00:26:24.680 trying to say

00:26:25.200 something about

00:26:25.760 the way we

00:26:26.300 think about

00:26:26.800 things.

00:26:27.800 So if you'll

00:26:28.340 allow me to

00:26:29.760 divorce myself

00:26:30.540 from the topic

00:26:31.280 of something,

00:26:31.860 whether it's

00:26:32.740 true or

00:26:33.100 false.

00:26:34.220 Forget about

00:26:34.800 what's true.

00:26:35.900 I don't care

00:26:36.340 about that at

00:26:36.860 the moment.

00:26:38.140 It has to do

00:26:39.060 with a tweet

00:26:39.620 I saw this

00:26:40.060 morning from

00:26:40.700 a Twitter

00:26:42.160 user who

00:26:42.800 calls himself

00:26:43.420 still unvaccinated

00:26:44.740 PhD.

00:26:46.800 And he's

00:26:47.960 responding to

00:26:49.140 my thought

00:26:50.120 that the

00:26:50.760 category of

00:26:51.640 rogue experts

00:26:52.800 are generally

00:26:54.300 wrong.

00:26:56.240 And he

00:26:56.560 says,

00:26:57.220 rogue doctors

00:26:57.940 and scientists,

00:26:59.300 as Scott

00:26:59.840 M.

00:27:00.060 says,

00:27:00.520 likes to

00:27:00.980 call them,

00:27:01.680 are often

00:27:02.260 the ones

00:27:02.600 who discover

00:27:03.180 huge breakthroughs

00:27:04.400 in different

00:27:04.920 industries.

00:27:06.500 Now, I

00:27:07.180 agree with

00:27:07.620 that.

00:27:08.360 Don't you

00:27:08.800 all?

00:27:09.220 Wouldn't you

00:27:09.620 say that the

00:27:10.240 rogues,

00:27:11.080 the ones

00:27:11.600 bucking the

00:27:12.440 standard,

00:27:13.760 pretty much

00:27:14.500 create everything

00:27:15.640 good?

00:27:17.180 Wouldn't you

00:27:17.580 agree?

00:27:18.940 I mean,

00:27:19.940 they're all

00:27:20.480 rogues.

00:27:21.220 All the ones

00:27:22.100 that really make

00:27:22.720 a difference,

00:27:23.160 they're all

00:27:23.420 rogues.

00:27:23.780 have I

00:27:26.160 ever said

00:27:26.600 anything that

00:27:28.200 would be

00:27:28.720 conflicting with

00:27:29.640 that?

00:27:30.780 I've never

00:27:31.240 said anything

00:27:31.700 that conflicts

00:27:32.260 with the

00:27:32.600 fact that

00:27:32.940 pretty much

00:27:33.380 all progress

00:27:33.980 seems to

00:27:34.420 come from

00:27:35.160 rogues and

00:27:36.160 sometimes

00:27:36.980 whistleblowers.

00:27:38.860 But is

00:27:40.140 there any

00:27:40.480 conflict with

00:27:41.480 that with

00:27:42.960 the fact that

00:27:43.520 I say that

00:27:44.000 90% of the

00:27:44.760 time the

00:27:45.080 rogues are

00:27:45.540 wrong?

00:27:47.460 You shouldn't

00:27:48.220 think there's

00:27:48.600 any conflict

00:27:49.120 with that.

00:27:49.600 And here's

00:27:50.420 an analogy

00:27:51.040 that's just

00:27:52.400 used to

00:27:53.000 help you

00:27:53.540 see the

00:27:54.500 math better,

00:27:55.120 I guess.

00:27:55.860 And it goes

00:27:56.360 like this.

00:27:59.020 You know

00:27:59.780 about Google

00:28:00.420 and you know

00:28:00.900 about Amazon.com

00:28:02.240 and you know

00:28:02.840 about Microsoft

00:28:03.980 and you know

00:28:05.060 about all these

00:28:05.740 gigantic companies

00:28:07.240 that at one

00:28:07.900 point were

00:28:08.640 just startups.

00:28:10.700 If you saw

00:28:11.580 them when they

00:28:12.060 were startups,

00:28:13.340 you would have

00:28:13.920 said, well,

00:28:14.540 the odds are

00:28:15.280 at best

00:28:16.340 1 in 10.

00:28:17.740 That's optimistic.

00:28:18.800 It's probably

00:28:19.040 1 in 20.

00:28:20.460 But let's

00:28:21.240 say 1 in 10.

00:28:24.080 So if you

00:28:24.840 were looking

00:28:25.100 at all startups

00:28:26.020 as 90% of

00:28:27.220 them are going

00:28:27.540 to fail and

00:28:28.140 you can be

00:28:28.660 pretty sure

00:28:29.200 that's true.

00:28:30.180 But the

00:28:31.020 ones that

00:28:31.360 become famous

00:28:32.100 are so

00:28:32.600 famous that

00:28:33.920 the narrative

00:28:34.540 of the famous

00:28:35.440 ones makes

00:28:36.720 you cognitively

00:28:38.040 blind to the

00:28:39.500 fact that most

00:28:40.380 things that are

00:28:41.260 like that,

00:28:42.620 most things

00:28:43.120 that are in

00:28:43.540 their category,

00:28:44.920 the category

00:28:45.440 of rogues

00:28:47.000 taking on the

00:28:47.640 world and

00:28:48.120 winning,

00:28:48.420 Jeff Bezos

00:28:50.320 is a great

00:28:50.780 example,

00:28:51.460 taking on the

00:28:51.980 world and

00:28:52.400 winning.

00:28:55.320 So just

00:28:56.060 know that

00:28:56.980 everything important

00:28:58.180 comes from the

00:28:59.020 rogues,

00:29:00.160 but mostly

00:29:00.820 they fail.

00:29:02.220 So I use it

00:29:03.580 as a prediction

00:29:04.360 shortcut.

00:29:06.200 So whenever

00:29:06.660 there's a rogue,

00:29:08.140 I just say,

00:29:08.820 well, I'm going

00:29:09.780 to go with

00:29:10.600 the 90%.

00:29:11.420 I'll vote

00:29:12.140 against it.

00:29:13.560 I'll vote

00:29:14.120 against it.

00:29:14.640 So when

00:29:15.720 I tell you

00:29:16.740 that I've

00:29:17.420 got suspicions

00:29:18.340 about, let's

00:29:18.940 say, a

00:29:19.200 Dr. Malone

00:29:20.020 or McAuliffe,

00:29:21.680 Dr. Corey,

00:29:23.040 any of the

00:29:23.540 names you've

00:29:24.020 seen that are

00:29:24.480 the rogue

00:29:25.020 doctors, as I

00:29:26.540 like to call

00:29:26.960 them, I'm

00:29:27.780 not necessarily

00:29:28.440 disagreeing with

00:29:29.140 anything about

00:29:29.720 their science.

00:29:31.480 How would I

00:29:32.140 know?

00:29:32.920 I'm just saying

00:29:33.640 they're in the

00:29:34.020 category that if

00:29:35.300 you and I are

00:29:35.800 going to take

00:29:36.220 a bet, I'll

00:29:37.640 bet with the

00:29:38.100 90%.

00:29:38.740 It's just a

00:29:39.940 category-related

00:29:42.540 prediction.

00:29:43.020 That's all.

00:29:44.780 I obviously

00:29:45.760 can't counteract

00:29:49.140 their science.

00:29:52.180 All right.

00:29:55.380 Jack Posobiec

00:29:56.640 has another

00:29:57.520 tweet and

00:29:59.400 maybe a

00:30:01.440 scoop, I

00:30:02.500 don't know.

00:30:03.480 But he

00:30:04.300 tweets that

00:30:04.820 Biden Chief

00:30:05.600 of Staff

00:30:06.060 Ron Klain

00:30:06.960 is planning to

00:30:08.200 start leaking

00:30:08.840 and pushing a

00:30:09.620 narrative, a

00:30:10.840 narrative, you

00:30:11.380 say.

00:30:11.620 What kind

00:30:13.180 of a

00:30:13.360 narrative?

00:30:14.380 That President

00:30:15.180 Zelensky of

00:30:16.920 Ukraine is

00:30:18.180 a Kremlin

00:30:18.760 compromised.

00:30:20.120 This is

00:30:20.540 according to a

00:30:21.160 White House

00:30:21.540 staffer.

00:30:22.900 And again,

00:30:23.680 Jack's got

00:30:24.220 good sources.

00:30:25.840 So here's

00:30:29.100 the two worlds.

00:30:30.700 Do you see

00:30:31.120 reality just

00:30:31.900 splitting?

00:30:32.220 So I have

00:30:35.120 to admit that

00:30:35.920 when you see

00:30:36.400 Zelensky being

00:30:37.500 less worried

00:30:40.520 about his

00:30:40.980 country being

00:30:41.600 invaded than

00:30:42.460 the United

00:30:42.940 States, it's

00:30:44.460 a perfectly

00:30:45.220 reasonable

00:30:45.880 question.

00:30:48.120 Why is

00:30:48.960 Zelensky less

00:30:49.960 worried than

00:30:50.480 we are?

00:30:52.140 Right?

00:30:52.900 But there's

00:30:53.680 not just one

00:30:54.360 way to explain

00:30:55.120 that.

00:30:56.260 One explanation

00:30:57.160 is that he is

00:30:58.320 just as worried,

00:30:59.300 but he wants to

00:31:00.260 play it differently.

00:31:01.220 He doesn't want

00:31:01.700 to cause panic.

00:31:02.660 So we don't

00:31:03.320 know he's less

00:31:04.180 worried.

00:31:05.020 He's talking

00:31:05.660 about how we

00:31:06.700 talk about it.

00:31:07.540 so he doesn't

00:31:09.200 want the

00:31:09.740 rhetoric to be

00:31:10.500 as high as

00:31:11.060 it is.

00:31:12.240 But this

00:31:13.820 might create an

00:31:14.540 opening for

00:31:15.120 this second

00:31:15.800 narrative that

00:31:16.680 Zelensky is a

00:31:17.760 puppet of the

00:31:18.360 Kremlin and he's

00:31:19.120 practically inviting

00:31:20.180 them in, and

00:31:21.920 then the other

00:31:22.740 narrative that

00:31:23.480 nothing like that

00:31:24.240 is happening.

00:31:25.520 So once again,

00:31:27.300 two worlds.

00:31:29.000 Does the

00:31:29.580 simulation require

00:31:30.840 that in every

00:31:32.400 case, and I'm

00:31:35.040 not even sure

00:31:35.540 this is a

00:31:36.040 Democrat or

00:31:36.640 Republican

00:31:37.080 question, is

00:31:37.780 it?

00:31:38.600 Because I

00:31:38.960 think you

00:31:39.360 could find

00:31:39.800 people on

00:31:40.380 both sides

00:31:40.960 of what we

00:31:42.060 should do

00:31:42.480 on Ukraine.

00:31:44.960 But everything

00:31:46.700 has to be at

00:31:47.500 least two

00:31:47.900 stories or

00:31:48.720 more, because

00:31:50.300 the simulation

00:31:51.300 can't handle

00:31:52.140 complexity with

00:31:55.000 one story.

00:31:56.780 If you're

00:31:57.460 coming in late,

00:31:58.660 if we live in

00:31:59.300 a simulation,

00:32:00.080 there's got to

00:32:00.420 be a resource

00:32:00.940 constraint like

00:32:01.820 any computer.

00:32:03.760 And so there's

00:32:04.460 a reason that we

00:32:05.180 all have a

00:32:05.640 different reality.

00:32:06.640 because you

00:32:07.660 couldn't have

00:32:08.020 one reality and

00:32:09.120 make every part

00:32:09.820 of every reality

00:32:10.520 consistent with

00:32:11.320 every other.

00:32:12.220 Too much

00:32:12.700 resources.

00:32:14.140 Too many

00:32:14.460 resources.

00:32:16.700 So the

00:32:17.820 prediction of

00:32:18.660 the simulation

00:32:19.220 is that every

00:32:20.960 major story will

00:32:22.620 branch into

00:32:23.340 multiple realities,

00:32:25.520 and that it

00:32:25.920 has to happen.

00:32:27.180 You can't

00:32:27.740 program the

00:32:28.580 simulation unless

00:32:29.320 you do that.

00:32:29.780 here is my

00:32:33.340 mind-breaking

00:32:35.940 whiteboard for

00:32:36.840 today, the

00:32:38.160 thing you've

00:32:38.580 all been waiting

00:32:39.140 for, but you

00:32:40.280 didn't even know

00:32:40.840 it.

00:32:41.800 I call it the

00:32:42.960 military financial

00:32:44.260 reframe, and it

00:32:46.140 goes like this.

00:32:49.260 That if you look

00:32:50.840 at the arc of

00:32:51.620 time, that power

00:32:53.580 used to be really

00:32:54.680 a military thing,

00:32:55.600 which of course

00:32:56.140 was highly

00:32:56.640 correlated with

00:32:57.920 wealth, you

00:32:59.120 know, wealth

00:32:59.500 could get you a

00:33:00.080 better military,

00:33:00.680 but not

00:33:01.320 necessarily.

00:33:02.920 So if you had a

00:33:03.720 great military, you

00:33:04.620 had a lot of

00:33:05.020 power.

00:33:06.120 If you had money,

00:33:07.120 that was great.

00:33:08.180 Money was great.

00:33:09.380 But if all you had

00:33:10.200 was money, and you

00:33:11.700 didn't have a good

00:33:12.300 military, the

00:33:13.860 military next door

00:33:14.960 would come and

00:33:15.560 take your money.

00:33:16.100 money, but thanks

00:33:18.460 primarily to the

00:33:19.320 internet, and our

00:33:22.000 financial markets

00:33:22.940 becoming global and

00:33:24.880 intertangled, and

00:33:26.820 the fact that money

00:33:27.820 has to go through

00:33:28.900 basically wires to

00:33:30.380 get anywhere, it

00:33:31.680 doesn't get on a

00:33:32.340 boat, it's not

00:33:33.440 hidden somewhere,

00:33:34.540 it has to go

00:33:34.980 across a wire.

00:33:36.840 So we became so

00:33:38.840 connected with each

00:33:39.780 other because of the

00:33:40.560 internet that finance

00:33:42.440 as a weapon gets

00:33:45.020 more and more

00:33:45.540 powerful, the more

00:33:46.380 connected we are, and

00:33:47.900 the more trade we

00:33:49.060 do.

00:33:50.480 And so I would

00:33:51.900 submit to you that

00:33:52.620 Ukraine is our

00:33:53.700 crossover point.

00:33:55.680 The crossover point

00:33:56.740 at which a

00:33:57.860 financial weapon is

00:33:59.140 more useful than a

00:34:00.840 military weapon,

00:34:01.880 because a military

00:34:02.780 weapon would

00:34:03.420 guarantee Russia's

00:34:04.560 destruction.

00:34:05.800 Am I right?

00:34:07.460 So it pretty much

00:34:08.340 guarantees they're not

00:34:09.260 going to go nuclear.

00:34:11.020 So the value of

00:34:12.120 their arsenal is not

00:34:14.440 really that good.

00:34:15.540 So here they are in

00:34:17.480 nuclear power, they

00:34:19.300 can't really use their

00:34:20.100 nukes.

00:34:21.720 So that brings them

00:34:23.680 down to what weapons

00:34:25.260 can you use in these

00:34:26.940 smaller conflicts.

00:34:28.700 And so finance is

00:34:29.600 everything.

00:34:30.140 And so when Biden

00:34:30.800 says you can line up

00:34:32.620 your military on the

00:34:33.620 border if you want,

00:34:36.000 but at your own peril,

00:34:37.420 it's time for the

00:34:41.680 military-financial

00:34:43.180 crossover point.

00:34:45.160 Boom.

00:34:47.000 Now, I submit to you

00:34:49.060 that I do not know

00:34:50.100 if Ukraine is the

00:34:52.360 point in history at

00:34:53.380 which the experts will

00:34:54.360 say, yep, that's when

00:34:55.980 it happened.

00:34:56.800 From that day on,

00:34:58.600 the larger powers

00:35:00.080 just resolve things

00:35:02.180 through negotiating,

00:35:03.720 because you had to

00:35:05.960 use your financial

00:35:06.720 tools.

00:35:08.400 Still, there will be

00:35:09.460 plenty of wars with

00:35:10.680 these smaller countries

00:35:11.740 with neighboring

00:35:12.700 conflicts and stuff.

00:35:14.260 But anybody who's a

00:35:15.800 big enough country to

00:35:16.640 have a submarine,

00:35:18.080 I'll just use that as

00:35:18.960 my standard.

00:35:20.060 If your country is

00:35:20.980 big enough to have a

00:35:21.900 submarine in your

00:35:23.360 military, probably

00:35:25.720 you're going to work it

00:35:26.500 out financially because

00:35:28.000 you can be taken down

00:35:29.080 by the rest of the

00:35:29.900 world.

00:35:30.160 Now, like I say, I

00:35:32.780 don't know if Ukraine

00:35:33.540 is going to be the

00:35:34.440 test case that proves

00:35:36.300 the rule forever, but

00:35:38.780 the day will come.

00:35:41.100 You know, if it's not

00:35:41.820 Ukraine, it's Taiwan,

00:35:43.900 or, you know, it's

00:35:45.520 something.

00:35:46.320 But something is going

00:35:48.000 to prove this rule.

00:35:49.500 I think China and

00:35:50.760 Taiwan is a different

00:35:51.520 situation because of

00:35:52.400 the history there.

00:35:53.440 But I don't see the

00:35:58.080 Russia-Ukraine situation

00:35:59.460 becoming a major

00:36:01.220 shooting war.

00:36:02.540 So, test my

00:36:03.300 prediction.

00:36:05.540 My prediction is

00:36:06.840 that Ukraine probably

00:36:08.640 is the point where

00:36:10.120 the shooting war just

00:36:11.040 stopped making sense.

00:36:12.520 Now, I will not rule

00:36:13.680 out, will not rule

00:36:15.580 out minor incursion.

00:36:18.380 Minor incursion.

00:36:19.940 And continued pressure

00:36:21.380 and, you know, cyber

00:36:22.660 and everything else.

00:36:23.740 That stuff, probably.

00:36:25.420 But I don't see the

00:36:27.180 Russian military moving

00:36:28.440 in force for, like, a

00:36:30.480 major campaign.

00:36:32.180 And the reason is, too

00:36:33.720 expensive.

00:36:35.140 Can't afford it.

00:36:36.620 And Putin is not

00:36:38.020 irrational.

00:36:39.080 So, he would do a

00:36:40.080 slow but steady

00:36:41.020 pressure, probably get

00:36:42.680 what he wants in the

00:36:43.380 end.

00:36:44.920 Yeah.

00:36:45.640 That's what I think

00:36:46.200 a lot of.

00:36:47.040 So, test that.

00:36:48.500 I think that all the

00:36:52.360 talk about NATO

00:36:53.480 and the U.S.

00:36:54.300 and sending some of

00:36:55.460 our forces over there

00:36:57.400 and trainers and

00:36:58.540 sending military and

00:36:59.640 all that.

00:37:00.200 I think a lot of that

00:37:01.000 is just theater.

00:37:03.780 And I felt like our

00:37:05.240 own military

00:37:05.940 was saying that.

00:37:09.080 You know, they were

00:37:09.500 saying that we're not

00:37:10.280 doing it so much to

00:37:12.900 fight Russia.

00:37:14.380 We're doing it to

00:37:15.940 show our allies

00:37:17.540 that we back them.

00:37:19.300 So, it was really

00:37:20.180 theater.

00:37:21.360 And I think we said

00:37:22.360 it directly.

00:37:23.000 Well, it's sort of

00:37:23.660 theater.

00:37:24.460 We're just showing the

00:37:25.400 allies that we back

00:37:26.340 them.

00:37:27.080 We're not really putting

00:37:28.060 a fighting force there.

00:37:29.540 Because what would a

00:37:30.360 fighting force look

00:37:31.220 like?

00:37:32.280 A fighting force would

00:37:33.480 look like a real

00:37:34.140 fighting force.

00:37:34.840 I don't think we have

00:37:35.380 anything like that in

00:37:36.900 the neighborhood, right?

00:37:38.500 So, it's really just

00:37:39.680 for show.

00:37:40.740 And I think that our

00:37:41.580 military leaders, to

00:37:42.760 their credit, to their

00:37:44.660 credit, I think they

00:37:46.200 said so directly.

00:37:47.900 And they said it

00:37:48.780 multiple times.

00:37:49.700 This is to show our

00:37:51.740 allies that we have

00:37:53.220 their back.

00:37:53.840 It's a show.

00:37:55.880 Okay.

00:37:56.860 So, I don't know that

00:37:57.760 that show is something

00:37:58.600 we have to worry about

00:37:59.360 militarily.

00:38:01.860 All right.

00:38:02.400 Here's my next

00:38:02.900 provocative question.

00:38:07.480 And I'll start with

00:38:08.680 this priming of your

00:38:09.920 brain.

00:38:10.220 Are all of you aware

00:38:12.440 there's a generally

00:38:13.800 accepted parenting

00:38:15.480 practice that if you're

00:38:17.700 a step-parent, you

00:38:19.220 don't do the

00:38:19.840 discipline?

00:38:21.840 Are you all familiar

00:38:22.640 with that rule?

00:38:24.280 It's generally a

00:38:26.120 universally acknowledged

00:38:27.380 rule.

00:38:28.160 Now, the thinking

00:38:28.980 behind it is fairly

00:38:30.620 solid.

00:38:31.760 The thinking behind

00:38:32.680 it is that there is

00:38:33.740 a biological connection

00:38:35.240 for a biological

00:38:36.700 parent that is a

00:38:38.440 sort of unbreakable

00:38:39.960 bond and that you

00:38:42.240 have this unrestricted

00:38:45.260 love that won't be

00:38:46.140 changed by some

00:38:47.260 punishment.

00:38:48.980 But it is assumed

00:38:51.120 that the non-biological

00:38:53.300 parent doesn't have

00:38:54.260 that.

00:38:55.140 And so if punishment

00:38:56.140 comes from a non-biological

00:38:57.660 parent, that could

00:38:59.240 become a rift that

00:39:00.480 lasts forever and

00:39:01.520 becomes a problem.

00:39:03.220 Now, I'm not saying

00:39:05.440 every family is the

00:39:06.220 same.

00:39:06.420 You know, I think

00:39:08.540 there's a world of

00:39:09.420 difference between a

00:39:11.360 step-kid that you get

00:39:12.340 as a baby and the

00:39:13.380 original parent was

00:39:14.460 never in the picture.

00:39:15.920 That's effectively just

00:39:17.380 a biological parent for

00:39:18.780 all practical purposes,

00:39:20.620 right?

00:39:21.100 But I'm talking about

00:39:22.060 like a step-kid comes

00:39:23.040 in at age 12.

00:39:25.580 Okay, that's a

00:39:26.360 different situation.

00:39:27.920 And the real father,

00:39:29.400 let's say, is still in

00:39:30.160 the picture and

00:39:31.160 involved.

00:39:32.340 In that case, the

00:39:34.660 step-dad, you just

00:39:35.820 have to step away.

00:39:37.180 You report, observe

00:39:39.200 and report.

00:39:40.080 That's it.

00:39:40.980 Observe and report.

00:39:41.860 Unless it's, you

00:39:42.700 know, an immediate

00:39:43.160 danger.

00:39:44.280 If it's an immediate

00:39:45.000 danger, then you step

00:39:45.980 in immediately.

00:39:47.300 But I'm going to

00:39:49.460 take that analogy to

00:39:52.220 a weird place.

00:39:54.180 Our Constitution has

00:39:55.820 a rule in it that you

00:39:57.020 have to be born in

00:39:57.820 America to be

00:39:58.540 president.

00:39:59.780 You have to be born

00:40:00.920 in America to be

00:40:01.820 president.

00:40:02.580 Not for other jobs.

00:40:04.660 But to be president.

00:40:07.260 What do you think of

00:40:07.960 that rule?

00:40:09.440 Does that rule feel

00:40:11.560 appropriate?

00:40:13.220 Or does it feel

00:40:13.980 racist?

00:40:16.540 Because it is racist.

00:40:18.660 I mean, in outcome.

00:40:20.540 Right?

00:40:21.040 It's racist.

00:40:23.620 Let me give you an

00:40:24.580 example.

00:40:26.140 Do you think that

00:40:26.980 Arnold Schwarzenegger

00:40:28.080 would be a risky

00:40:29.380 president in the sense

00:40:30.560 that he would have

00:40:31.240 too much loyalty to his

00:40:33.320 native-born Austria?

00:40:34.660 Well, actually, if we

00:40:37.700 ever got in a conflict

00:40:38.620 with Austria, I would

00:40:39.600 be worried about that.

00:40:40.920 I definitely would be

00:40:41.820 worried about that.

00:40:43.000 But, you know, we'll

00:40:43.640 never get in a conflict

00:40:44.480 with Austria.

00:40:45.460 Not realistically.

00:40:47.160 So, why is there a

00:40:49.760 constitutional thing that

00:40:51.680 prevents Arnold from

00:40:52.660 running for president?

00:40:54.240 There's no real reason.

00:40:55.880 I mean, it just ends up

00:40:56.660 looking racist in his

00:40:58.580 case.

00:40:58.980 But, do you agree with

00:41:02.800 the general statement

00:41:03.680 that people, they

00:41:06.520 develop a love for the

00:41:08.900 place they were born?

00:41:11.400 Just ordinarily.

00:41:12.620 It's just the most

00:41:13.280 natural, I don't know,

00:41:15.380 it must be biological.

00:41:17.720 I guess some of it is,

00:41:19.140 or a lot of it is,

00:41:20.240 cultural.

00:41:21.360 But people are very

00:41:22.900 bonded to where they're

00:41:23.920 born.

00:41:24.140 So, would most of

00:41:26.260 you, having now given

00:41:27.380 the background, would

00:41:28.720 you all agree that the

00:41:29.740 country is safer?

00:41:31.540 And I'm not even

00:41:32.360 talking about America

00:41:33.280 specifically.

00:41:34.980 Would you agree that

00:41:35.760 any country probably is

00:41:37.940 a little safer if they

00:41:39.560 restrict their

00:41:40.220 presidents to people

00:41:41.240 born on the soil?

00:41:42.600 Of any, you know,

00:41:44.280 cultural background,

00:41:45.220 of course.

00:41:46.900 Yeah.

00:41:47.760 Most of you would

00:41:48.640 agree with that as a

00:41:49.560 reasonable, but a

00:41:51.460 little bit racist.

00:41:52.180 But it's national

00:41:54.020 defense, and that's

00:41:55.300 where we bend things a

00:41:56.340 little bit when we

00:41:57.500 have to.

00:41:59.060 Right, Elon Musk,

00:42:00.800 perfect example.

00:42:02.300 Would you be worried if

00:42:04.280 Elon Musk were

00:42:05.160 president, if he were

00:42:06.460 not born in American

00:42:07.420 soil?

00:42:08.040 I wouldn't.

00:42:09.340 I wouldn't be worried

00:42:10.900 about that at all.

00:42:12.160 It just seems kind of

00:42:13.000 racist.

00:42:14.980 But we still accept,

00:42:17.160 I think, that a

00:42:19.040 president should be

00:42:20.280 born on the soil of

00:42:22.040 which that president

00:42:22.840 is the president.

00:42:23.920 It just gives you that

00:42:24.640 little extra, little

00:42:26.440 extra protection.

00:42:29.360 This brings us to

00:42:30.420 George Soros, who

00:42:32.780 was Hungarian-born,

00:42:35.920 but American citizen.

00:42:36.920 Now, he can't run for

00:42:39.460 president.

00:42:41.160 Are you happy about

00:42:42.160 that?

00:42:43.500 Are you happy that

00:42:44.880 George Soros, with all

00:42:46.120 of his money, can't run

00:42:47.080 for president?

00:42:47.880 It's just, it's not even

00:42:48.800 an option.

00:42:49.200 I'm seeing most people

00:42:51.840 say yes.

00:42:52.580 They're glad that, in

00:42:54.220 this case, they're glad

00:42:55.380 that rule exists, because

00:42:57.780 he did have enough

00:42:59.060 money, if you think

00:43:01.040 about it, he did have

00:43:02.540 enough money that if it

00:43:04.220 were constitutionally

00:43:05.440 allowed, he probably

00:43:07.040 could have made the

00:43:07.880 grade, probably could

00:43:09.460 have gotten over the

00:43:10.100 hump.

00:43:11.080 Because money, I mean,

00:43:12.440 you can buy anything.

00:43:13.360 So, we're happy about

00:43:16.380 it there, but here's

00:43:17.380 the provocative

00:43:18.120 question.

00:43:19.820 Why do we allow that

00:43:20.880 same person that we

00:43:22.300 would not trust as a

00:43:23.380 president to donate so

00:43:26.060 much money to activist

00:43:27.420 organizations that they

00:43:29.540 effectively control our

00:43:30.940 government on those

00:43:32.580 issues?

00:43:34.820 Why is that okay?

00:43:37.360 And am I being racist

00:43:38.800 to even ask the

00:43:39.560 question?

00:43:39.880 Because I don't

00:43:41.480 think it's more

00:43:42.260 racist than our

00:43:44.300 current constitutional

00:43:45.560 situation.

00:43:46.780 It's probably equal.

00:43:48.700 They're both racist.

00:43:50.300 I'm just asking the

00:43:51.400 question.

00:43:52.640 That's the podcaster's

00:43:54.020 dodge.

00:43:55.020 I'm just asking the

00:43:55.900 question.

00:43:56.740 But in this case, I

00:43:57.580 think that's fair to

00:43:58.260 say.

00:43:59.060 I actually wonder, why

00:44:01.740 do we allow that?

00:44:03.300 Why is it legal?

00:44:05.060 Now, I get that it's

00:44:06.160 constitutional, so it's

00:44:07.240 not a constitutional

00:44:07.940 question right now.

00:44:09.480 Why do we allow that?

00:44:11.640 We have all kinds of

00:44:12.740 campaign finance

00:44:13.760 restrictions, but why

00:44:15.760 do we not restrict

00:44:17.500 something that is so

00:44:19.160 important to us it's in

00:44:20.140 the Constitution?

00:44:21.600 It's built right into

00:44:22.500 the Constitution.

00:44:23.380 It's so fundamental.

00:44:24.800 That you want somebody

00:44:25.740 whose, let's say,

00:44:29.080 biological connection to

00:44:30.920 the soil is

00:44:31.780 unquestionable.

00:44:32.500 somebody says it's not

00:44:35.940 racist, it's

00:44:36.680 nationalistic.

00:44:38.000 That's a fair

00:44:38.760 characterization.

00:44:40.320 But I would say that

00:44:41.260 almost everything we do

00:44:42.960 has a racist outcome,

00:44:45.000 even if you don't intend

00:44:46.140 it for that purpose.

00:44:47.460 It just always does.

00:44:49.280 So I don't think it's,

00:44:50.700 you know, I just like

00:44:51.840 mentioning it because it

00:44:52.820 gets this one less thing

00:44:54.180 for people to complain

00:44:55.780 about.

00:44:56.080 So I think maybe a

00:45:01.140 Republican should run

00:45:03.820 on that if there's a

00:45:05.620 way to do it.

00:45:06.480 Now, it might be

00:45:07.200 impossible to stop

00:45:08.240 money because Soros

00:45:10.180 could give money to an

00:45:11.200 entity and say, I'm

00:45:12.480 done with it.

00:45:13.380 And then the entity

00:45:14.100 could say, well, now

00:45:15.060 that we have this money,

00:45:15.900 it's ours and we'll give

00:45:17.380 it to this cause.

00:45:18.840 So I'm guessing he

00:45:20.540 could probably still

00:45:21.340 launder it somehow and

00:45:22.760 there's no way to stop

00:45:23.680 it.

00:45:23.920 I don't know.

00:45:24.740 Must be a way to do

00:45:25.720 it.

00:45:26.500 But don't we even try?

00:45:29.880 You know, if we're

00:45:30.900 concerned about foreign

00:45:33.140 influence so much that

00:45:34.140 we can't have a foreign

00:45:35.280 born president, you

00:45:37.300 know, we're so

00:45:38.300 concerned that Arnold

00:45:39.460 Schwarzenegger can't be

00:45:41.720 our president.

00:45:42.280 Who's worried about him

00:45:43.160 being not pro-American

00:45:45.160 enough?

00:45:46.260 Or even Elon Musk.

00:45:48.360 I mean, I don't, you

00:45:49.060 know, who knows what

00:45:50.000 Elon Musk is thinking.

00:45:51.240 That would be impossible

00:45:52.140 to imagine.

00:45:53.700 But I wouldn't be

00:45:54.600 worried.

00:45:54.940 All right.

00:46:03.040 Here's the answer to

00:46:04.020 the question why I stay

00:46:05.040 in California, because

00:46:06.140 people always ask.

00:46:07.860 I'm going to read, I'm

00:46:09.200 just going to read this

00:46:09.940 headline from Twitter.

00:46:11.480 The nor'easter storm will

00:46:13.840 bring a major snowstorm

00:46:15.060 and potential blizzard

00:46:16.180 stretching from South

00:46:17.940 Carolina to New England.

00:46:20.140 The storm is predicted to

00:46:21.760 form off the coast of the

00:46:23.760 Carolinas on Friday and move

00:46:25.540 north up the east coast

00:46:26.800 across the weekend.

00:46:28.000 A storm has brought the east coast

00:46:29.680 into its first blizzard warning

00:46:31.520 in four years, according to

00:46:33.000 blah, blah.

00:46:34.220 Airlines have canceled

00:46:35.240 thousands of flights,

00:46:36.680 high winds, heavy snows,

00:46:38.360 between six and twelve

00:46:39.420 inches of snow, one to two

00:46:41.720 feet of snow in some places,

00:46:43.840 and maybe major power

00:46:45.680 outages at the same time.

00:46:47.080 People will be freezing to

00:46:48.120 death in their own homes.

00:46:49.120 So that's what the people

00:46:53.900 in those states are doing.

00:46:56.020 Yesterday, I took a walk

00:46:59.260 in the sun, had some legal

00:47:01.740 cannabis before I went.

00:47:04.580 It was t-shirt weather.

00:47:07.040 Beautiful day.

00:47:09.760 So if you don't mind, if you

00:47:12.480 don't mind the, you know, the

00:47:14.600 high taxes and the crime and

00:47:15.920 the drought and the forest fires

00:47:17.260 that are blotting out the sun,

00:47:19.120 if you don't mind that stuff,

00:47:22.000 it's a pretty good place to be.

00:47:24.220 And if you can stay away from

00:47:25.560 the tsunamis and the earthquakes.

00:47:30.520 But, you know, I know where

00:47:31.540 all the faults are.

00:47:33.100 I just stay away from the faults.

00:47:38.340 Did you know there's a

00:47:39.540 depopulation time bomb

00:47:40.960 facing the west?

00:47:42.900 And one wonders, is there a

00:47:44.680 reason we're talking about a

00:47:45.800 depopulation time bomb that

00:47:47.900 we've known about for a long

00:47:49.000 time?

00:47:49.280 Now, some of it may be it's

00:47:51.060 just reaching that, you know,

00:47:52.180 critical point where everybody

00:47:53.520 notices.

00:47:54.400 Might be because Elon Musk has

00:47:56.000 brought it up.

00:47:57.940 But the west is hitting this

00:48:01.880 problem.

00:48:02.660 China's going to get it first

00:48:03.880 because of that one baby

00:48:06.280 problem or policy they had for

00:48:08.520 over 35 years or something.

00:48:10.080 So, deaths are going to

00:48:15.180 outstrip births and pretty soon

00:48:17.340 we'll have all these old

00:48:18.280 people that require all this

00:48:20.540 care and we won't have enough

00:48:21.740 young people to work and take

00:48:23.100 care of them.

00:48:24.520 I think that maybe technology and

00:48:27.300 civilization will adjust.

00:48:30.580 I think we'll adjust.

00:48:32.820 I think that a lot of those old

00:48:34.180 people live in houses and they'll

00:48:35.960 just say, hey, and this is

00:48:37.580 something already happening.

00:48:38.480 They'll say, hey, young person,

00:48:40.320 come live rent-free in my house

00:48:42.100 and you do some of the work and

00:48:43.560 we both win.

00:48:45.540 So, I think that the first thing

00:48:47.820 that'll happen is civilization will

00:48:49.360 just immediately adjust because

00:48:51.560 we're real good at that.

00:48:52.820 We adjust.

00:48:54.720 Probably the single thing that

00:48:56.140 makes humans the dominant species

00:48:59.060 over the planet, although fungi are

00:49:04.240 doing pretty well.

00:49:05.500 But, you know, humans, we're

00:49:07.080 having a good run, is because we

00:49:09.360 adjust so well.

00:49:10.380 You know, other...

00:49:11.540 Is it Brett Weinstein who says

00:49:13.520 this?

00:49:14.740 It's our ability to adjust that

00:49:16.640 makes us special.

00:49:18.200 I think his new book says that.

00:49:22.020 So, I think we'll adjust.

00:49:23.860 But it's important.

00:49:25.040 We'll watch it.

00:49:26.160 And what is behind this

00:49:28.340 depopulation time bomb?

00:49:30.220 Well, it's a number of factors.

00:49:32.480 Economic, social.

00:49:35.940 But CNN is also reporting that

00:49:38.060 we're too fat to fuck.

00:49:41.940 That wasn't the exact headline.

00:49:44.920 But I think once I read this to you,

00:49:46.560 you'll think that the headline

00:49:48.540 too fat to fuck kind of fits.

00:49:50.620 So, CNN says that 43% of women

00:49:53.380 and 31% of men

00:49:54.980 have some form of

00:49:56.460 sexual dysfunction

00:49:57.840 with obesity and lack of exercise

00:50:00.760 often being factors.

00:50:02.540 Now, I do not do fat shaming

00:50:04.540 because I don't think anybody

00:50:07.600 chooses bad health.

00:50:09.700 I just don't think anybody does that.

00:50:11.760 And I don't think people

00:50:12.920 choose to be addicts.

00:50:14.360 I don't think we choose

00:50:15.560 to be a lot of things.

00:50:17.060 It looks like we choose,

00:50:18.300 but we really don't.

00:50:19.000 So, I don't make fun of people

00:50:20.820 who are in whatever situation

00:50:22.080 they're in because, you know,

00:50:23.660 if I don't have this one problem,

00:50:25.180 well, I got my own shit, right?

00:50:28.120 So, I tend not to...

00:50:30.860 And I used to be

00:50:32.020 far more judgmental, I would say.

00:50:34.620 This is more of a recent evolution

00:50:36.500 in my case.

00:50:37.660 So, I feel not judgmental

00:50:39.260 about other people's issues

00:50:41.060 because I don't see my own

00:50:44.000 as being all solved.

00:50:46.100 If I could solve all of my issues,

00:50:48.460 like everything that could be solved,

00:50:50.580 well, then I'll talk about yours

00:50:52.020 and how, why don't you be like me

00:50:53.840 and solve all your problems?

00:50:55.120 I solved all of mine.

00:50:56.780 But as long as my problems

00:50:58.080 aren't all solved,

00:50:59.780 like, your problems are fine.

00:51:01.340 You know, we'll talk about them,

00:51:03.540 but it's not about you, okay?

00:51:05.580 So, we'll talk about the problem,

00:51:06.880 but it's not about you personally.

00:51:09.260 This is a big deal.

00:51:10.440 And, again,

00:51:13.360 this is this gigantic path

00:51:15.940 for somebody like a DeSantis

00:51:17.500 to walk right through.

00:51:19.320 How many people would like to see

00:51:21.000 an American president,

00:51:22.940 and the reason I say DeSantis

00:51:24.360 is he makes every right move.

00:51:26.960 Like, he reads the room

00:51:28.060 better than anybody's ever read the room,

00:51:30.100 and, well, Trump read the room

00:51:32.220 pretty well, too.

00:51:33.340 But the other thing DeSantis does

00:51:35.700 is he responds to it,

00:51:36.800 but he also takes free money.

00:51:39.740 Free money is the thing

00:51:40.840 that anybody could have said,

00:51:42.860 but he says it.

00:51:44.540 You know, Trump used to do that

00:51:45.880 all the time.

00:51:46.620 If there's a thing you can say,

00:51:48.720 and it's just sort of obvious,

00:51:49.880 anybody can say it,

00:51:50.800 but only one person does.

00:51:52.580 It's like, why did everybody

00:51:53.480 leave this free money laying there?

00:51:55.700 So the free money, this gigantic,

00:51:58.720 is you've got this enormous health

00:52:00.680 and obesity problem in this country.

00:52:03.300 How about a president?

00:52:05.000 How about a DeSantis?

00:52:06.820 Says, look, let's not kid ourselves.

00:52:09.660 You know, I can do everything

00:52:10.800 in the world to help this country,

00:52:12.260 but if you're overeating

00:52:13.420 and not taking care of yourself,

00:52:15.400 it's not going to mean anything to you.

00:52:17.800 So please, let's figure out

00:52:19.700 how to, like, get in shape.

00:52:21.820 Let's figure out a system.

00:52:23.520 Let's get some help.

00:52:25.020 Let's put some money on it.

00:52:26.140 Let's put some attention on it.

00:52:27.280 Let's talk about it.

00:52:28.820 Right?

00:52:29.180 Let's not judge each other.

00:52:31.280 Let's stay out of the judging business.

00:52:33.220 Let's just treat it as a health problem,

00:52:34.600 because it is.

00:52:36.000 And just go from there.

00:52:38.220 Gigantic, gigantic opportunity

00:52:40.220 with no disagreement.

00:52:43.680 If you do it right,

00:52:45.540 you would always get the people

00:52:47.180 who are advocates for, you know,

00:52:49.640 people who are larger.

00:52:51.460 And, you know, they don't want to be mocked

00:52:53.220 for their, I guess, lifestyle choice

00:52:55.380 in some cases.

00:52:56.740 And that's fine.

00:52:57.540 But it's really not about them.

00:52:59.920 Nobody's saying you have to do anything.

00:53:01.600 It's not, you know,

00:53:02.260 there wouldn't be mandatory gym.

00:53:04.760 You know, I'm talking about helping people,

00:53:07.340 not forcing people.

00:53:09.220 Right?

00:53:09.780 The government could certainly help people.

00:53:11.880 Doesn't have to force anybody to do anything.

00:53:14.760 Yes.

00:53:15.220 So if you have a low T

00:53:18.620 and you've got sexual dysfunction,

00:53:22.040 that can't be helping the population.

00:53:24.360 It just can't be.

00:53:25.600 Although I suspect these days

00:53:27.300 having a kid is more choice than not.

00:53:30.280 Sean Penn got in trouble

00:53:34.380 for saying that men in America

00:53:37.460 are becoming, quote,

00:53:38.740 quite feminized.

00:53:42.760 And he said, quote,

00:53:45.980 there are a lot of, I think,

00:53:47.720 cowardly genes that lead to people

00:53:49.900 surrendering their genes,

00:53:52.240 meaning the genes that they're wearing,

00:53:53.940 and putting on a skirt.

00:53:55.600 Now he's talking about

00:53:56.500 some famous celebrities, I guess.

00:53:59.120 More than the public.

00:54:01.140 But what do you think about that?

00:54:03.400 Do you think that's an old man

00:54:05.040 that yells at the clouds?

00:54:06.860 Ah, these kids today.

00:54:09.080 Back in my day,

00:54:11.140 men wore pants.

00:54:13.000 Or is he onto something?

00:54:15.340 Because remember,

00:54:16.720 Sean is not right-wing

00:54:18.580 by any stretch of the imagination.

00:54:21.880 But he's saying something

00:54:23.220 that you would more associate

00:54:24.440 with somebody who is on the right,

00:54:26.160 the political right.

00:54:28.860 Yeah, can we at least

00:54:30.160 come together on that.

00:54:33.620 Now, I, unlike many

00:54:35.660 in my audience right now,

00:54:37.720 I am very supportive

00:54:39.160 of anybody who doesn't want

00:54:40.620 to be like the mainstream

00:54:41.920 in any social way whatsoever.

00:54:45.120 So LGBTQ, love you.

00:54:48.500 Just be whatever makes you happy.

00:54:50.820 If society can't allow you

00:54:53.180 to do that,

00:54:54.440 then society sucks.

00:54:56.020 You should let people

00:54:56.700 live whatever life

00:54:58.420 they want to live.

00:54:59.220 So I'm in favor

00:55:00.300 of the freedom

00:55:01.040 for people to be who they are.

00:55:04.360 That said,

00:55:06.580 let me ask a question

00:55:08.020 just for the women.

00:55:10.560 Can I?

00:55:11.640 If I could,

00:55:12.560 and I know this is going

00:55:13.240 to be tough for you guys

00:55:14.240 because I have more men

00:55:16.020 than women watching,

00:55:17.200 typically.

00:55:17.480 For the men,

00:55:19.340 just if you could hold off

00:55:21.300 for a moment.

00:55:22.660 I want to ask a question

00:55:23.640 just for the women

00:55:24.600 watching this.

00:55:25.860 So women,

00:55:26.320 if you don't normally comment,

00:55:27.680 this would be a good one

00:55:28.360 to jump in.

00:55:30.060 Do you think

00:55:30.980 that there is a shortage

00:55:32.460 of masculine men?

00:55:35.120 Now,

00:55:35.380 I don't want to use

00:55:36.020 alpha and beta.

00:55:37.180 You know,

00:55:37.860 you could translate

00:55:38.600 that in your own mind.

00:55:42.420 Okay.

00:55:43.280 On locals,

00:55:44.140 I get faster responses

00:55:45.260 and I'm getting

00:55:46.040 90% yes,

00:55:48.160 it looks like.

00:55:49.980 On YouTube,

00:55:50.760 I'm seeing

00:55:51.640 so far only yeses.

00:56:00.560 Well,

00:56:01.180 okay.

00:56:01.840 Now,

00:56:02.160 this may be a reflection

00:56:03.260 of my audience

00:56:04.080 more than a reflection

00:56:05.060 of the world,

00:56:07.080 but at least we agree.

00:56:11.120 Now,

00:56:11.680 don't you think

00:56:12.340 that literally

00:56:13.420 the low testosterone

00:56:14.560 is part of it?

00:56:18.640 I mean,

00:56:19.180 it has to be,

00:56:19.780 right?

00:56:21.040 Is that,

00:56:21.860 am I being anti-science?

00:56:23.520 Did I go too far?

00:56:25.380 Wouldn't we see

00:56:26.220 exactly what we see

00:56:27.600 with no other change

00:56:29.080 than lower testosterone?

00:56:30.760 Now,

00:56:31.240 what causes

00:56:31.740 the lower testosterone?

00:56:33.580 It's not one thing,

00:56:34.760 right?

00:56:36.200 Some of it is diet.

00:56:38.660 Some of it may be

00:56:39.880 getting poor sleep

00:56:41.180 because of screen time.

00:56:43.220 Some of it may be

00:56:44.220 the comparison problem.

00:56:45.400 If you compare yourself

00:56:47.780 to the people

00:56:48.540 on Instagram,

00:56:50.080 what's that do

00:56:50.760 to your testosterone?

00:56:53.160 It doesn't help,

00:56:54.900 right?

00:56:55.160 If you're comparing yourself

00:56:56.480 to the best

00:56:57.100 whatever's in the world

00:56:58.640 instead of just

00:56:59.800 your neighbor,

00:57:00.900 like in the old days,

00:57:02.400 I mean,

00:57:02.780 I could only compare myself

00:57:03.900 to people I knew personally

00:57:04.960 because, you know,

00:57:06.440 there were some people

00:57:07.000 on TV,

00:57:07.660 but it wasn't

00:57:08.320 that big a deal.

00:57:10.920 But today,

00:57:12.160 you know,

00:57:12.340 you're being compared

00:57:13.020 to the best

00:57:14.120 of the best

00:57:14.600 in the whole world.

00:57:15.400 In theory,

00:57:18.420 if you're being compared

00:57:19.860 to something

00:57:20.320 that's better than you,

00:57:21.600 it should drop

00:57:22.320 your testosterone.

00:57:23.540 Is that true?

00:57:24.720 Give me a fact check

00:57:25.720 on that.

00:57:26.860 I never know

00:57:27.500 what things

00:57:27.960 I believe forever

00:57:29.240 are bullshit

00:57:30.120 because, you know,

00:57:31.360 you can always find out,

00:57:32.400 oh, I believe that forever

00:57:33.300 and that was just

00:57:33.900 never true.

00:57:34.940 But I think that

00:57:36.740 losing a competition

00:57:37.960 has at least

00:57:39.660 a temporary drop

00:57:40.600 in testosterone.

00:57:41.580 That's been proven, right?

00:57:43.660 Being embarrassed

00:57:44.760 as opposed to

00:57:45.520 being victorious,

00:57:47.420 I'm pretty sure

00:57:48.200 you can measure

00:57:49.100 a difference

00:57:49.560 in testosterone.

00:57:51.140 Now, imagine you

00:57:52.060 live in a society

00:57:53.240 where boys

00:57:54.820 are mostly the winners.

00:57:56.840 Let's say 50s,

00:57:57.900 60s, 70s,

00:57:59.160 and you could extend that

00:58:00.640 to wherever your politics

00:58:02.280 want you to extend it.

00:58:03.560 If you grew up

00:58:04.880 in a world

00:58:05.240 where you just felt

00:58:05.960 like you were

00:58:06.400 the king of the universe

00:58:08.640 because you happened

00:58:09.780 to be the right gender

00:58:12.560 at the right time

00:58:13.740 in history,

00:58:14.640 that probably would raise

00:58:15.820 your testosterone,

00:58:16.780 wouldn't it?

00:58:17.880 Because you would just

00:58:18.700 walk around feeling like,

00:58:19.980 oh, yeah,

00:58:20.640 I'm in charge.

00:58:22.520 Now, what would happen

00:58:23.680 if instead

00:58:24.600 you were born

00:58:25.820 in the more current era

00:58:27.680 and you were told

00:58:29.200 that boys are the cause

00:58:30.660 of all problems?

00:58:31.380 Which isn't too far off

00:58:35.280 from what's happening

00:58:35.980 right now, right?

00:58:37.440 Now, I'm not going to say

00:58:38.360 that men don't cause

00:58:39.420 a lot of problems.

00:58:41.260 Oh, we do.

00:58:42.320 We do our share of crime

00:58:43.720 and whatnot.

00:58:45.260 But we're also

00:58:46.260 most of the police force,

00:58:47.760 most of the emergency stuff,

00:58:50.260 you know.

00:58:50.760 So, I mean,

00:58:51.320 we contribute as well.

00:58:53.220 So, some say divorce.

00:58:56.980 Some say divorce.

00:58:58.360 Yeah, that might be a factor.

00:58:59.660 I'm not sure it's one factor.

00:59:00.840 I think it's everything from,

00:59:03.340 and I'm going to say

00:59:04.080 allegedly on this one

00:59:05.280 so I don't get sued,

00:59:06.900 allegedly our soy intake.

00:59:09.920 Have you seen how much

00:59:11.040 the soy is in

00:59:11.900 every freaking product?

00:59:13.920 Like, the only thing

00:59:14.700 that doesn't have soy in it

00:59:15.980 is like a stalk of broccoli.

00:59:18.860 I swear to God,

00:59:19.720 they're going to figure out

00:59:20.420 how to make soy broccoli

00:59:22.020 just so you can't

00:59:23.420 get away with it.

00:59:24.580 Every packaged food

00:59:25.880 seems to have soy in it

00:59:26.980 as some kind of filler

00:59:27.920 or maybe the source

00:59:29.540 of protein or something.

00:59:30.820 I don't know.

00:59:31.760 But why does soy

00:59:32.640 have to be in everything?

00:59:34.600 Everything.

00:59:37.060 All right.

00:59:39.160 So, I do think

00:59:40.200 that this testosterone thing

00:59:41.960 is real.

00:59:44.960 All right.

00:59:45.520 Now I've got a question

00:59:46.240 just for the men.

00:59:49.320 Just for the men.

00:59:51.880 All right.

00:59:52.320 Women, you have to

00:59:53.040 ride this one out, okay?

00:59:55.140 Just for the men.

00:59:55.960 And I'm going to

00:59:57.460 further segment it, okay?

01:00:00.660 Just for the men watching

01:00:02.020 who would consider themselves

01:00:04.840 masculine compared to the average.

01:00:08.460 I know you're all going to say

01:00:09.480 that's you, right?

01:00:10.900 You're all going to say

01:00:11.720 that's you.

01:00:12.600 But just the ones

01:00:14.260 who consider themselves masculine,

01:00:16.840 have you seen that

01:00:17.840 the demand for what you're selling

01:00:19.600 is the highest it's ever been?

01:00:21.540 Go.

01:00:21.700 Just because you just

01:00:24.460 happen to be masculine.

01:00:26.740 Look at the answers.

01:00:30.620 You should,

01:00:31.720 on YouTube,

01:00:32.580 you should see the answers

01:00:33.460 on locals.

01:00:34.900 The comments go by,

01:00:37.520 the quickness of the comments

01:00:39.220 is based on how many there are.

01:00:41.420 So the faster they answer,

01:00:44.700 the faster they zip by.

01:00:46.280 It was just like this wall of yes.

01:00:48.800 It just went,

01:00:49.800 yes.

01:00:50.820 All right.

01:00:54.700 So I'm not imagining it, right?

01:00:57.400 I'm not imagining it.

01:01:01.000 All right.

01:01:01.700 Here's my next question.

01:01:03.960 And maybe my last for today.

01:01:08.540 Do you remember Black Lives Matter?

01:01:10.780 And do you remember Antifa?

01:01:12.560 And do you remember

01:01:13.220 Occupy Wall Street?

01:01:16.740 And one thing they all had in common

01:01:18.280 is that they were really, really big

01:01:19.860 and then they just sort of went away?

01:01:23.020 Were any of them natural?

01:01:25.180 Were they all scams?

01:01:26.940 They were just funded by somebody, right?

01:01:29.540 I think they were all scams.

01:01:32.600 Based on today's look backwards,

01:01:35.300 just the fact that they made such a big impact

01:01:38.180 and then went away just as suddenly,

01:01:39.940 that does suggest that it was never real.

01:01:44.000 Now what's going to happen when the next one pops up?

01:01:47.360 Are you going to do,

01:01:49.080 are you going to have a gel man amnesia?

01:01:52.260 Do you know what that would be?

01:01:54.100 So gel man amnesia,

01:01:55.580 I won't give you the whole background of what that means.

01:01:57.600 What it means is,

01:01:59.200 when there's another totally bullshit group

01:02:02.160 that starts protesting,

01:02:04.160 are you going to say,

01:02:04.820 oh, this one's real?

01:02:07.020 Are you going to believe

01:02:07.960 the next fucking bullshit group

01:02:09.880 after three in a row

01:02:11.940 that are obviously,

01:02:13.160 just my opinion,

01:02:15.800 in my opinion,

01:02:16.720 they're obviously bullshit.

01:02:18.300 And I thought they were bullshit at the time.

01:02:19.880 I wasn't really following Occupy Wall Street,

01:02:21.820 but I didn't really understand that one.

01:02:24.040 I mean, when it was happening,

01:02:25.260 I kept looking at it thinking,

01:02:27.040 well, that's kind of weird

01:02:28.040 that this suddenly pops up

01:02:29.720 when nothing is much that different.

01:02:31.820 But now I would say

01:02:34.660 it's somewhat clear

01:02:36.560 that these were scams of some sort.

01:02:40.080 Now, when I say they were scams,

01:02:41.200 I don't mean that the people

01:02:42.420 who were individually protesting

01:02:44.260 were insincere.

01:02:46.460 I do think that most of the people

01:02:47.800 on the street were sincere,

01:02:49.480 in whatever that means for Antifa.

01:02:51.780 I'm not sure what it means

01:02:52.680 to be a sincere Antifa person.

01:02:55.140 But I'm talking about the leadership

01:02:57.000 and the funding and the organization.

01:02:59.540 Apparently, that was all a scam.

01:03:01.820 Now, here's some news

01:03:02.860 from the Washington Examiner, I think, report.

01:03:06.180 Yeah, the Washington Examiner.

01:03:07.960 So they were looking into

01:03:09.080 who's in charge of Black Lives Matter

01:03:10.800 at the moment.

01:03:13.080 This is just the best story.

01:03:15.400 Now, I don't know if it's because

01:03:16.600 I'm the author of the Dilbert comic

01:03:18.620 that I love this story so much.

01:03:22.100 Because if you could come up

01:03:23.220 with a more Dilbert scenario

01:03:24.840 than what I'm going to just describe.

01:03:27.660 Now, again, this is

01:03:28.500 the Washington Examiner's reporting.

01:03:31.820 So they were looking into

01:03:32.880 who's in charge

01:03:33.640 now that the person

01:03:34.700 who was in charge,

01:03:36.240 the co-founder, Patrice Cullors.

01:03:38.780 So she moved on.

01:03:40.480 And she said that she appointed

01:03:42.080 two of the activists

01:03:43.080 to serve as the group's

01:03:44.340 senior directors.

01:03:46.180 So far, so good.

01:03:47.500 So we knew who was in charge.

01:03:49.660 She was a co-founder.

01:03:50.760 And I guess when she left,

01:03:51.880 she was the last of the co-founders.

01:03:53.320 And she appointed two activists.

01:03:55.880 And we know their names, so good.

01:03:57.900 So the Washington Examiner went

01:03:59.540 and talked to the two people

01:04:00.780 who were appointed.

01:04:02.780 And they said,

01:04:03.480 we didn't accept the appointment.

01:04:06.200 What?

01:04:07.440 They said, yeah,

01:04:08.440 we were appointed,

01:04:10.020 but we didn't accept the appointment.

01:04:12.300 Wait, what?

01:04:14.040 Well, who's got the $60 million,

01:04:17.260 allegedly, that they have?

01:04:19.400 I don't know.

01:04:23.140 What?

01:04:24.560 What?

01:04:25.740 Like, this is one of those stories

01:04:27.160 that you can't even read to the end

01:04:29.880 because you just keep going,

01:04:30.840 what?

01:04:31.660 What?

01:04:32.560 Now, typically,

01:04:35.080 let me give you a warning here.

01:04:37.340 Typically, a story like this

01:04:38.920 is so on the nose.

01:04:41.080 It's probably wrong.

01:04:43.100 It's probably not true.

01:04:44.960 Right?

01:04:45.560 When you see something

01:04:46.440 that's just too perfectly

01:04:48.280 stereotypically

01:04:50.740 the worst thing

01:04:51.640 that could possibly happen.

01:04:53.580 Right?

01:04:53.860 What would be the most

01:04:54.820 stereotypically racist?

01:04:58.580 Let's put that out there.

01:05:00.160 What would be the most

01:05:00.880 stereotypically racist thing

01:05:03.060 you could imagine

01:05:03.820 would be that,

01:05:06.680 you know,

01:05:07.060 a black organization

01:05:08.740 stole a bunch of money, right?

01:05:10.180 That's,

01:05:10.900 the racist brain

01:05:12.180 would go there immediately.

01:05:14.040 And then a story comes out

01:05:15.420 that looks,

01:05:17.700 looks,

01:05:18.980 like that's exactly

01:05:19.940 what happened.

01:05:21.720 Your,

01:05:22.240 your first instinct

01:05:23.200 shouldn't be,

01:05:24.240 well,

01:05:24.480 I told you so.

01:05:26.220 If your first thing,

01:05:27.700 if your first instinct

01:05:28.760 was,

01:05:29.160 I told you so,

01:05:30.440 well,

01:05:30.880 you might be a racist.

01:05:33.080 Your first instinct

01:05:34.480 should be,

01:05:35.800 could be true.

01:05:37.040 But your first instinct

01:05:38.320 could be,

01:05:38.800 should be,

01:05:39.480 that's a little too close.

01:05:41.600 A little too on the nose.

01:05:42.900 So just be warned

01:05:44.340 about this one,

01:05:45.080 okay?

01:05:46.240 I don't know

01:05:46.840 that it's fact

01:05:47.540 or fiction

01:05:48.680 and I'm not going

01:05:49.300 to predict either way.

01:05:50.560 So I don't have

01:05:51.240 an opinion

01:05:51.620 whether it's real

01:05:52.380 or not.

01:05:53.240 I'm just saying

01:05:54.000 that whenever

01:05:55.040 you see one

01:05:56.180 that's this close

01:05:57.520 to exactly

01:05:58.940 a racist

01:05:59.800 trope,

01:06:01.800 is that the right word?

01:06:03.600 You gotta ask yourself,

01:06:05.360 is it real?

01:06:07.040 You just have

01:06:07.660 to ask yourself.

01:06:08.260 All right.

01:06:12.520 But allegedly,

01:06:13.800 we don't know

01:06:14.780 who's in charge

01:06:15.620 and money's missing

01:06:17.080 and the two remaining

01:06:20.500 BLM board members.

01:06:22.200 So there are two board members

01:06:23.480 who are different

01:06:25.620 from the two directors

01:06:26.700 who were appointed,

01:06:27.560 right?

01:06:28.180 So there's still

01:06:28.920 two board members.

01:06:29.820 We know who they are.

01:06:32.240 And they were asked

01:06:34.140 for a comment

01:06:34.680 and they did not

01:06:37.860 return numerous...

01:06:38.940 They did not return

01:06:42.520 numerous requests

01:06:43.420 for a comment.

01:06:48.580 All right.

01:06:49.300 I give up.

01:06:50.820 This story might be

01:06:51.860 exactly what it looks like.

01:06:54.460 It might be.

01:06:58.060 All right.

01:06:58.860 So I asked this poll

01:07:00.020 on Twitter.

01:07:01.360 I said on Twitter today,

01:07:03.000 a little poll,

01:07:03.440 I said,

01:07:04.260 were Antifa,

01:07:05.120 BLM,

01:07:05.780 and Occupy Wall Streets

01:07:07.140 real movements

01:07:08.400 that suddenly evaporated

01:07:09.660 or were they

01:07:10.700 always Democrat scams?

01:07:13.840 When at last I checked,

01:07:15.000 77% said

01:07:16.340 they were always

01:07:17.160 Democrat scams

01:07:18.280 and 23%

01:07:20.720 said that they were

01:07:21.960 actually real organizations

01:07:23.200 or that they weren't sure.

01:07:26.720 23%.

01:07:27.320 23%.

01:07:29.440 23%.

01:07:30.040 Rounding off

01:07:33.540 23%,

01:07:34.740 25%.

01:07:36.740 25%.

01:07:37.740 This will come

01:07:40.260 as no surprise.

01:07:40.960 They were fucking idiots.

01:07:43.300 And it's a very

01:07:44.180 consistent result.

01:07:46.080 Now,

01:07:46.520 I believe I have

01:07:47.440 delivered

01:07:47.840 on my claim

01:07:49.320 that I would show you

01:07:51.060 that every major topic

01:07:52.600 of any complexity

01:07:53.640 has to branch

01:07:55.120 into different stories.

01:07:57.000 Once you see this,

01:07:58.540 you will say to yourself,

01:07:59.440 wait a minute,

01:08:00.080 maybe the problem

01:08:00.800 isn't cognitive dissonance.

01:08:03.040 Maybe cognitive dissonance

01:08:04.460 is a necessity.

01:08:06.560 It's the only way

01:08:07.480 the simulation

01:08:08.420 that runs our reality

01:08:09.720 can handle the complexity.

01:08:12.080 My story and yours

01:08:13.280 don't have to match anymore

01:08:14.800 because I'm in my own

01:08:16.560 subjective reality.

01:08:18.280 And it'll never make

01:08:19.400 any difference

01:08:20.000 if your story and mine

01:08:21.100 never match.

01:08:22.300 So every future story,

01:08:24.980 even if it doesn't line up

01:08:26.400 perfectly with Democrat

01:08:27.500 and Republican,

01:08:28.860 should branch

01:08:29.600 into multiple versions

01:08:30.920 because it has to.

01:08:34.120 And that,

01:08:34.800 ladies and gentlemen,

01:08:35.480 is the reframe

01:08:37.540 of the day.

01:08:39.060 I believe I have

01:08:40.240 delivered on my promise

01:08:41.600 that this is the best

01:08:43.480 live stream

01:08:44.100 of all time.

01:08:47.820 Bar none.

01:08:48.480 And I will talk to you

01:08:57.680 tomorrow.

01:08:58.360 tomorrow.

01:08:58.860 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 29, 2022

Episode 1638 Scott Adams： Come Watch a Hypnotist Reframe Reality Right in Front of You. Talk About Headlines...

Episode Stats

Length

Words per Minute

Word Count

Sentence Count

Summary

Transcript