Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 12, 2022


Episode 1711 Scott Adams： Today I Will Blow Your Mind. Also, Biden Inflation, Mushrooms, Ukraine


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48 minutes

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143.11847

Word Count

6,937

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517

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about the best coffee in the world: the one that makes everything better, the thing that makes it all better, and the one thing that's going to make everything better.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:00:29.980 even know how excited you should be.
00:00:32.360 When we get to the whiteboard, I'm going to blow your frickin' minds.
00:00:39.420 Now, I've said that before, right?
00:00:42.540 In other broadcasts, other live streams, I've said, I'm going to blow your mind, and I actually
00:00:48.300 did it, right?
00:00:49.780 For those of you who have watched, I would say every time I've told you that, it actually
00:00:54.720 did blow your mind, and I'm going to do it again, guaranteed.
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00:01:30.160 It's called the simultaneous sip.
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00:01:34.820 Go.
00:01:34.880 Oh, yeah.
00:01:44.260 I'm laughing at an off-color comment.
00:01:48.320 Well, did everybody see the video of, apparently, Saudi Arabia has a TV station, Saudi TV?
00:01:57.860 It's probably the main station.
00:01:59.220 And it's, they had a skit mocking Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:02:06.760 And it was kind of brutal.
00:02:09.800 Now, I wonder if that would have happened under Trump.
00:02:13.940 Trump, let's see, Trump went easy on Saudi Arabia, even when Khashoggi got accidentally
00:02:23.620 dismembered, or whatever the story was, and that paid dividends.
00:02:29.780 Not only was the Trump administration, you know, well-regarded, but the Abraham Accords
00:02:36.480 happened, and that was pretty good.
00:02:38.960 So that's what Trump did in terms of Saudi Arabia.
00:02:41.720 But Joe Biden did something unprecedented, too.
00:02:45.100 He got them to mock one of their, the leaders of their, what should have been one of their
00:02:51.940 strongest allies.
00:02:54.840 So that's not a good look.
00:02:58.320 Speaking of not a good look, the big news today is consumer prices, inflation, soaring
00:03:04.660 to new records, because we like to say there are new records, soaring 8.5%.
00:03:09.300 And have you seen the grocery shelves lately?
00:03:14.680 All right, I was in the grocery store last night, and it's starting to look pandemic-y.
00:03:21.500 Is anybody having the same?
00:03:23.180 I'm not even talking about price.
00:03:25.220 I'm talking about there's a conspicuous lack of product.
00:03:32.400 Has anybody seen that yet?
00:03:34.080 Now, my town is actually the headquarters of Safeway.
00:03:40.960 So, just by weirdest coincidence, the largest grocery chain where I am, their headquarters
00:03:46.620 is sort of walking distance from my house.
00:03:49.500 So, at the store that's closest to the headquarters of the main chain, there was a lot of stuff
00:03:56.760 missing.
00:03:58.220 You know what I mean?
00:03:59.320 Now, so far, everybody's talking about substitution.
00:04:04.260 It's like, oh, you're not going to get the brand you want, but you'll get what you want, just
00:04:08.440 not the brand.
00:04:10.740 And I'm starting to wonder which things are going to completely disappear.
00:04:16.160 For example, if we are short on rice, no, not rice, if we're short on wheat, which looks
00:04:24.500 likely, because Ukraine is the bread basket, what is the substitute, and where does it
00:04:30.300 come from, and how much do we have?
00:04:33.960 Because, you know, one possibility is people eat less bread, and we all get healthier.
00:04:41.100 Total possibility.
00:04:42.600 Because I'm not sure they're eating a lot of wheat, you know, once it's processed into
00:04:46.180 bread.
00:04:46.860 I'm not sure it's doing us a lot of favors, if you know what I mean.
00:04:49.820 So, one possibility is that.
00:04:52.900 What about this, what's it called, the, you'll tell me the name, is it miracle meat or something
00:04:58.940 that, how do you make that artificial protein that's like meat, what's it called?
00:05:05.080 Super meat, or, oh, impossible meat, right?
00:05:08.080 How do you make impossible meat?
00:05:10.480 And if you had, oh, beyond meat?
00:05:12.340 Beyond meat, all right?
00:05:13.160 And if you had to make a bunch of, of that impossible, oh, is that made of soy?
00:05:22.840 Are you, are you kidding me?
00:05:24.240 The, oh, damn it.
00:05:26.220 Because the only other good kind of protein comes from wheat.
00:05:30.760 Wheat is also used to make protein.
00:05:36.660 Huh.
00:05:38.460 Well, that's, that's not so good.
00:05:39.980 So, here's the question, how quickly, and I mean quickly, as in, wouldn't it be good
00:05:47.020 in a few months, could we produce large amounts of alternative food if we had to?
00:05:52.300 Like seaweed farms, or, I don't know, what is the fastest growing thing that you can eat?
00:06:00.100 Oh, here's a good question for you.
00:06:01.640 What is the fastest growing thing that you could eat that might not be like world's best
00:06:07.700 food, but you wouldn't starve?
00:06:09.980 Bugs, okay.
00:06:14.120 Kale?
00:06:14.800 Really?
00:06:15.480 Eggs?
00:06:16.720 Somebody's saying eggs.
00:06:17.840 I don't know.
00:06:18.640 Really?
00:06:22.220 Potato.
00:06:24.200 Seaweed.
00:06:24.780 Well, we have a lot of ideas there.
00:06:27.380 I feel like we should know that, right?
00:06:29.340 Because it would be easy to imagine, oh, you know, quinoa only grows in some places, right?
00:06:39.340 I don't think you can grow quinoa everywhere, can you?
00:06:42.000 Somebody give me a, give me a fact check on that.
00:06:45.660 I don't think that we could just throw a bunch of quinoa in the backyard, could we?
00:06:49.600 All right, well, I think we're going to find out a lot more about food.
00:06:58.060 Full disclosure, full disclosure, beep, beep, beep, beep.
00:07:01.540 I invested in a small company that does tabletop gardens.
00:07:09.100 And so I've sort of followed that space, you know, indoor gardens.
00:07:18.860 So there are a lot of companies that will do walled gardens, but they all have the same
00:07:22.780 limitation.
00:07:24.480 You can grow lots of cool stuff indoors, but it tends not to be the nutritious stuff.
00:07:29.220 And I'm assuming that there's clearly some correlation.
00:07:34.060 It must be easy to grow low-nutrition things, well, low-protein things.
00:07:39.640 It must be easy to grow low-protein things and hard to grow anything that has protein in it.
00:07:45.440 I'm guessing.
00:07:46.680 Because, you know, you can get a lot of lettuce and herbs.
00:07:51.640 So if you could live on lettuce and herbs, indoor gardens would be amazing.
00:07:56.180 But otherwise, vertical farming, you can't sort of do everything, right?
00:08:02.140 You can't make a potato, can you?
00:08:04.860 All right.
00:08:07.500 So let's watch out for that.
00:08:10.020 So inflation is bad.
00:08:10.980 There's not much to say about it, of course.
00:08:13.720 You know.
00:08:16.640 Let me ask you this.
00:08:20.740 We all know that we're all weird.
00:08:23.260 If you're watching this live stream, you're a little bit weird.
00:08:26.180 Because it means you care about current events and headlines, which is actually very unusual.
00:08:31.100 If you took a hundred random people, in America anyway, and said, hey, you watching those headlines?
00:08:37.740 And by the way, try this.
00:08:40.040 Try talking to somebody that you sort of randomly selected and just bring up any issue that we
00:08:46.860 talk about here in detail.
00:08:49.220 They don't even know the topic.
00:08:50.420 And that's not an insult.
00:08:53.700 I think they're doing fine.
00:08:56.040 I think we're the ones who are suffering from having to have all this knowledge.
00:09:00.800 But, you know, somebody's got to pay attention to keep people alive.
00:09:05.300 So I think we're doing something useful, even in a small way.
00:09:08.160 But anyway, don't you think that the 95% of the world that doesn't follow any politics, but
00:09:15.420 they definitely know how much their food and gas costs, how could the Democrats win anything?
00:09:23.660 And I'm actually starting to get worried that we're going to lose our balance of power.
00:09:28.820 It could be so bad.
00:09:29.720 Does anybody worry that the Republicans could get too much control?
00:09:35.180 Because even if you're on that team, you don't really want your team to have that much power, do you?
00:09:40.920 Do you really?
00:09:42.940 Yeah, I feel like that's a mixed sort of a, you know, be careful what you wish for situation, isn't it?
00:09:51.440 It's very much a be careful what you wish for.
00:09:55.680 So other people say absolutely yes.
00:09:57.900 See, the trouble is, if the Republicans got full control and then got everything they wanted,
00:10:05.220 that would create the counterforce that would create, you know, a Democrat wave that would
00:10:09.820 cause them to take back everything you wanted.
00:10:13.020 So in order to get anything that's lasting, you have to do it the hard way, don't you?
00:10:22.160 Anyway.
00:10:24.040 Did you see Joe Biden talking about so-called ghost guns?
00:10:27.340 So I didn't even know what a ghost gun was, honestly.
00:10:32.520 How many of you even knew what a ghost gun was until maybe yesterday?
00:10:37.260 Or maybe you'll hear us today for the first thing.
00:10:40.500 Now, in this audience, we're probably the highest level of gun ownership of just about any audience.
00:10:47.220 All right, so a few people knew.
00:10:51.080 So what a ghost gun is, apparently you can buy gun parts or something like a kit where you have to do, like, one piece of drilling or something that doesn't take much effort.
00:11:01.020 But you can snap together the pieces and then you haven't bought a gun, you've simply made your own gun.
00:11:08.540 It's a do-it-yourself gun, but it's made so easy to do it yourself that it's kind of really, really similar to buying a gun.
00:11:16.140 Except that you don't have to go through the same gun check, I guess, background check.
00:11:23.600 So it's a ghost gun because it gets into the system without being registered to anybody or having, I don't know, does it have a serial number?
00:11:33.700 A ghost gun wouldn't have a serial number on any of the components, would it?
00:11:37.480 Probably not, right?
00:11:40.480 Yeah.
00:11:41.180 Somebody says no serial number.
00:11:43.560 Okay.
00:11:44.440 So now we know what those are.
00:11:47.860 And Joe Biden actually gave a demonstration when he was talking about how bad they are.
00:11:53.400 He gave a demonstration.
00:11:54.300 He held it up and he showed that the one component is just easily attached to the other.
00:12:01.220 Maybe there were three parts, but it looked like just two.
00:12:03.640 And then he said, and all you have to do is just drill this one thing, and it just takes you a few minutes to turn these parts into a real gun.
00:12:12.840 And I said to myself, I've seen some good infomercials.
00:12:18.940 How many infomercials do you think you've watched in your life?
00:12:21.760 Probably a lot, right?
00:12:23.200 You just flip into the channels and you see an infomercial.
00:12:26.060 But how often does that infomercial actually inspire you to buy the product?
00:12:30.700 You know, you're looking at the Ronco, Dysomatic back in the old days or whatever it is today.
00:12:38.240 I don't know.
00:12:39.020 How often do you say, I've got to get that ShamWow?
00:12:42.120 Yeah, I've got to get that Oxy cleaning, whatever it is.
00:12:48.760 Sometimes.
00:12:49.780 Sometimes.
00:12:50.400 I have to admit they're well made.
00:12:52.360 But I don't think I've seen one as well made as the one that Joe Biden accidentally did when he demonstrated exactly what a ghost gun is.
00:13:01.660 And I was like, well, thank you.
00:13:03.180 That's very clear.
00:13:04.280 For the first time, I understand what a ghost gun is.
00:13:07.000 And Joe Biden did that for me, and I appreciate it.
00:13:10.000 And then he went further, and he showed me how to assemble it and told me it was pretty easy to assemble it.
00:13:16.220 And not only that, pretty easy to find a place to get the parts.
00:13:19.980 It must be so easy that it's subject of a law to stop people from doing the thing that he just taught 100 million people to do,
00:13:28.660 which they didn't even know was a thing until just now.
00:13:31.840 Now, personally, I found that a very effective commercial.
00:13:35.800 And until then, I was not even considering having a gun that had not gone through a background check, or I had,
00:13:45.000 or a gun that didn't have a serial number.
00:13:47.920 But I thought to myself, wouldn't it be handy to have one?
00:13:55.040 I mean, I hadn't put a lot of thought into it before, but I thought, if you're going to have a gun anyway,
00:14:01.400 I mean, you know, the number of uses for a gun would be, you know, you could make a list,
00:14:10.720 a lot of legitimate self-defense uses, target shooting, etc.
00:14:14.380 And for those things, I don't know, it wouldn't matter if you had a serial number or didn't have a serial number.
00:14:21.460 It really doesn't matter.
00:14:22.180 But if you wanted to get, let's say, all of the uses of your tool,
00:14:28.380 you might want one option that had no serial number.
00:14:32.520 That's all I'm saying.
00:14:33.860 That's all I'm saying.
00:14:35.800 And so Joe Biden's infomercial, I have to say it worked.
00:14:39.200 It activated me, and I thought to myself, I've got to get one of these ghost guns.
00:14:43.420 It's because if the country is ever taken over by a fascist anti-gun regime,
00:14:54.520 I would like them not to be aware of my gun.
00:15:00.560 Would you like the next administration to know you have one,
00:15:05.920 and know its serial number, and attach it to your name?
00:15:09.240 Or would you like a gun nobody knew about?
00:15:13.420 Which one is a better gun?
00:15:16.880 Depends what you want, right?
00:15:18.840 Let's see, the one with no serial number, would it defend against, let's say, a home invasion?
00:15:24.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would.
00:15:27.080 So one of the purposes would be home defense, and it would work perfectly for that.
00:15:31.740 Okay, good.
00:15:33.940 How about if the country turned into some kind of a fascist situation
00:15:39.560 where they were trying to confiscate your guns so they could oppress you more?
00:15:44.440 If you had a gun with a serial number, is that good?
00:15:48.540 No, it's not as good.
00:15:49.620 It's not as good.
00:15:51.040 But if you've got a ghost gun, maybe the government thinks twice.
00:15:57.020 Maybe they do.
00:15:57.700 So, thanks, Joe Biden, for the ghost gun infomercial.
00:16:03.320 We keep hearing that Putin has internal issues.
00:16:06.020 I don't know how much of that to believe.
00:16:08.260 But reportedly, the head of his FSB, you know, the Foreign Service Bureau,
00:16:14.840 or whatever it is, like the intel people there,
00:16:16.560 apparently he put in jail the head of his lone FSB,
00:16:22.900 and not just a regular jail like the torture jail.
00:16:26.760 Apparently, one of the jails is famous for a little bit of torturing,
00:16:30.840 and so he's in the torture jail, which doesn't mean he's being tortured.
00:16:34.760 But as one news report said, it sends a strong signal
00:16:38.720 when you take the head of the FSB and put him in the torture prison,
00:16:44.500 even if you're not torturing him.
00:16:45.740 You know, he's there.
00:16:47.200 It's the torture prison.
00:16:49.320 But apparently now, reportedly, who knows what to believe,
00:16:53.760 reportedly purged more than 100 agents from the same place.
00:16:58.340 Probably that's just getting rid of anybody who even knew
00:17:01.320 the person who went to jail, don't you think?
00:17:05.140 That's probably really just the one thing.
00:17:07.540 He's just being careful.
00:17:08.940 All right, I'll get rid of anybody he hired,
00:17:11.520 anybody who's a friend,
00:17:12.520 anybody who has his contact and their phone number.
00:17:15.740 Probably something like that.
00:17:18.960 But then he also changed his general.
00:17:21.920 So here's the interesting thing.
00:17:23.340 As of this morning, Fox News,
00:17:27.120 one of the hosts, I forget which one, this morning,
00:17:30.680 actually said the words,
00:17:32.380 Russia is losing this war.
00:17:34.200 As if that can be said as a statement of general knowledge now,
00:17:41.420 and then moved on to the specific point.
00:17:45.580 Now, I don't think anybody else is saying that, right?
00:17:48.800 And I'm not sure that anybody else on Fox News would back that opinion up.
00:17:52.500 It seemed opinion-y.
00:17:54.260 But it's on a news channel,
00:17:56.360 and I didn't see anybody correct it.
00:17:58.300 It was just spoken like it's common sense.
00:18:01.340 Now, the observation would be,
00:18:03.820 since Putin pulled out of the north
00:18:06.420 and gave up on taking the capital for now,
00:18:10.260 for now,
00:18:11.420 that they're losing.
00:18:12.920 But the other view,
00:18:15.940 the other movie that's equally alive,
00:18:19.000 is that what Russia did
00:18:21.380 is control the entire theater
00:18:23.820 by locking down the Ukrainian army in the north
00:18:27.900 and around the port, I guess.
00:18:30.600 And once, you know,
00:18:31.920 two-thirds of the Ukrainian army was locked down,
00:18:34.760 they could concentrate on destroying one-third of the army,
00:18:38.100 where they had the strongest forces.
00:18:39.880 And once one-third of the Ukrainian army is destroyed,
00:18:43.520 well, sometimes that's enough.
00:18:46.980 Is there any military people here who would say,
00:18:50.300 yeah, if you destroyed a third of somebody's army,
00:18:52.680 they'd probably quit,
00:18:54.240 if you did it in a week, right?
00:18:57.860 So that's one view.
00:18:59.440 One view is that Putin completely has this thing under control.
00:19:03.200 They're surviving the sanctions.
00:19:05.900 He'll consolidate power just like he planned.
00:19:11.280 And then he'll move on the capital now or next year
00:19:15.260 or under the next president.
00:19:16.640 But, you know, he'll get it.
00:19:18.260 He'll get it sooner or later.
00:19:21.180 So, which is true.
00:19:23.640 We can't even decide.
00:19:27.100 Yeah, decimated is even less than one-third, right?
00:19:29.580 Decimated means 10%.
00:19:31.140 But even 10% could destroy your war-making capability, right?
00:19:37.300 Am I right about that?
00:19:39.180 And I guess that depends if you're talking about modern warfare
00:19:41.980 or ancient warfare.
00:19:44.620 If it's the right 10%, you know,
00:19:47.160 if you get their fuel and whatever else,
00:19:50.920 you don't have to destroy much of them
00:19:52.720 if you get the right 10%, I guess.
00:19:54.860 So, what do you think?
00:20:01.260 Let me put it to you.
00:20:02.620 Who is winning?
00:20:04.140 Who is winning the war, Ukraine or Russia?
00:20:06.060 As of now, we don't know how the end-end goes.
00:20:09.240 But who is winning now?
00:20:12.180 Go.
00:20:12.620 Somebody says OPEC.
00:20:14.260 Good answer.
00:20:16.300 China is a good answer, too.
00:20:18.160 I say mostly Russia.
00:20:20.520 Russia, Russia.
00:20:21.260 Russia won Ukraine, huh?
00:20:26.660 Ukraine.
00:20:28.280 So, very few of you are saying that Ukraine is winning.
00:20:35.540 Now, is that because you buy into the movie
00:20:39.340 that says that Putin never wanted to take the capital?
00:20:43.200 Yeah, unless it was easy.
00:20:44.180 But it wasn't necessary.
00:20:46.540 The only necessary part was pinning down
00:20:49.040 pinning down the forces around the capital.
00:20:51.900 Because one imagines that the best part
00:20:53.900 of the Ukrainian army would be at the capital, right?
00:20:58.140 I mean, if you imagine that the capital
00:21:00.420 is the thing they most need to defend,
00:21:03.460 then any assault on the capital
00:21:05.140 would make all the best Ukrainian forces be there,
00:21:09.420 and then Russia could take care of the lesser-trained forces,
00:21:14.300 lesser-equipped forces.
00:21:15.740 Maybe.
00:21:16.220 I don't know.
00:21:16.520 No, I would just be guessing.
00:21:18.620 It's entirely possible that it's the reverse.
00:21:21.160 And because the military had more of a conflict,
00:21:23.300 I don't know, maybe they had better stuff in the South.
00:21:25.860 Who knows?
00:21:27.200 I don't think I would know.
00:21:29.840 Yeah, Kiev is on the roof.
00:21:32.060 Exactly.
00:21:33.560 So, I'm not even sure that I would, you know,
00:21:39.620 say that I can tell.
00:21:40.740 Now, I was watching a video by Peter Zeyan,
00:21:44.760 and he says a lot of smart stuff about this stuff.
00:21:49.080 So, I don't know who's right,
00:21:51.160 but when people say stuff that sounds smart,
00:21:54.640 I like to pass it along.
00:21:57.060 And according to him,
00:21:58.880 the Russian military is essentially pathetic,
00:22:02.200 and it might have a lot to do with the fact
00:22:04.620 that they don't coordinate their forces,
00:22:07.300 meaning they don't have, you know,
00:22:08.660 close air support where they need it,
00:22:10.640 and they don't have the artillery supporting the whatever,
00:22:15.160 the infantry, whatever it is.
00:22:16.420 So, do you think that that's true?
00:22:23.600 And the thought is that if Russian forces ever met U.S. forces
00:22:28.480 on the battlefield,
00:22:29.760 they would just be annihilated.
00:22:34.020 Why is it that we think we know anything this week
00:22:38.160 when everybody was wrong about everything last week?
00:22:42.160 Isn't it weird?
00:22:43.580 This is sort of like that Gelman amnesia,
00:22:46.880 where Gelman amnesia,
00:22:48.240 where you read something in your expertise in the news,
00:22:50.760 you know it's wrong, because it's your expertise,
00:22:53.480 but then the very next article is not your expertise,
00:22:56.100 and you accept it as probably true.
00:22:58.720 What are the odds?
00:23:00.240 Every time there's something you know about is wrong,
00:23:02.160 but if it's not within your domain,
00:23:05.120 you realize, oh, this probably sounds right.
00:23:09.520 So, I don't know.
00:23:12.220 It's like that.
00:23:13.140 You can complete the analogy.
00:23:15.340 So, what do you think?
00:23:19.140 Do you think the Russian military is just a basket case?
00:23:26.680 I don't know.
00:23:28.800 I think it's a combination of the Russian military
00:23:31.680 being a basket case in some ways.
00:23:35.180 It looks like poor planning, poor intelligence,
00:23:38.960 poor communication, poor communications,
00:23:42.320 poor coordination.
00:23:43.060 And maybe the equipment's bad, too.
00:23:46.340 It looks like they've got some equipment problems.
00:23:48.120 Basically,
00:23:49.120 basically everything is bad there.
00:23:54.200 All right.
00:23:55.820 And so,
00:23:56.940 Zayn is also saying that
00:23:58.160 the only thing the Russians can do,
00:24:00.140 probably, is just rubble the cities,
00:24:02.260 because they don't have a plan B.
00:24:03.820 If Ukraine didn't just sort of roll over,
00:24:09.540 all they had,
00:24:10.700 because they don't have a strong enough military
00:24:12.440 to do any precision stuff,
00:24:14.420 they just got to take it out.
00:24:16.820 So, it looks like that's where things are heading.
00:24:20.040 Glenn Greenwald had a interesting point of view
00:24:24.520 that I don't know if I'm completely agreeing.
00:24:28.640 Let's see if you agree with this.
00:24:29.800 Do you agree or disagree or not completely agree?
00:24:35.320 Like me.
00:24:36.480 So, he says,
00:24:38.000 the widely reported pervasive fear
00:24:40.160 among the Twitter workforce
00:24:41.700 that Elon Musk may endanger
00:24:43.920 or even end their systemic censorship regime
00:24:47.000 illustrates how central of a tactic
00:24:49.580 Internet censorship has become
00:24:51.580 for U.S. liberalism.
00:24:53.620 Information control is vital to their worldview.
00:24:56.980 So, his point is that
00:24:58.080 if the liberals did not control us
00:25:02.960 through essentially brainwashing,
00:25:06.100 that the only way you can keep
00:25:07.740 the liberal agenda alive
00:25:10.200 is literally a form of brainwashing
00:25:12.760 via the press.
00:25:15.720 Agree?
00:25:17.360 Sort of agree?
00:25:18.800 Or disagree?
00:25:20.960 All right, here's my problem with that.
00:25:24.220 Do you really think it's just the liberals?
00:25:26.300 Do you think that the Republican worldview
00:25:33.180 or the conservative worldview,
00:25:35.180 do you think it wouldn't fall apart
00:25:36.620 if there were not a well-organized,
00:25:41.420 right-leaning machine
00:25:43.780 that keeps the narrative intact,
00:25:46.120 that these are the good things
00:25:47.460 and these are the bad things?
00:25:49.240 A lot of you are saying no.
00:25:52.780 So, the people saying no,
00:25:54.520 they're actually,
00:25:55.540 this is weird,
00:25:56.820 but I'm going to agree with you
00:25:57.700 in a weird way.
00:25:59.120 The thing that I consistently know
00:26:01.740 about the Republicans
00:26:02.740 is they favor practical solutions.
00:26:08.660 They might be difficult solutions
00:26:11.180 in terms of it's not fair to everybody,
00:26:13.760 but sometimes that's the only solution
00:26:16.760 is one that works a little bit
00:26:18.760 most of the time
00:26:19.620 and that's the best you can do.
00:26:20.700 So, the Republicans,
00:26:24.240 arguably,
00:26:25.980 arguably,
00:26:27.020 I think you could actually
00:26:27.980 legitimately make this argument,
00:26:30.120 the Republicans
00:26:30.800 don't need to create
00:26:33.520 an artificial worldview for anybody
00:26:36.860 because the real worldview
00:26:38.840 is just based on practicality.
00:26:41.360 So, you don't have to hide it.
00:26:45.020 And maybe some transparency, too.
00:26:47.480 So, if your worldview
00:26:49.580 is based on transparency
00:26:50.820 and practicality
00:26:52.260 and using things
00:26:53.800 that have worked before
00:26:54.920 and if it doesn't work,
00:26:57.180 what would a Republican do
00:26:58.300 if they try something
00:26:59.100 and it doesn't work?
00:27:02.880 I mean, just,
00:27:04.520 right?
00:27:05.540 They would do something different.
00:27:07.940 What do the people on the left do
00:27:11.020 if they try something
00:27:11.900 and it doesn't work?
00:27:13.180 Because we can see that right now, right?
00:27:15.400 See it with immigration,
00:27:16.460 see it with inflation,
00:27:18.440 you can see it with taxation,
00:27:20.500 you can see it with
00:27:21.460 with the drug use,
00:27:25.920 the crime,
00:27:27.440 the way they,
00:27:28.400 everything.
00:27:29.500 So far,
00:27:31.200 so far,
00:27:33.080 the liberal worldview
00:27:35.260 requires you to be blind
00:27:37.560 to how it's going.
00:27:41.400 You have to literally be blind
00:27:43.660 to how it's going
00:27:44.600 to want a little more of it.
00:27:47.100 Whereas the Republican view,
00:27:48.840 I think,
00:27:50.120 correct me if I'm wrong,
00:27:51.180 I'm not a Republican, right?
00:27:52.600 So, if you're new to me,
00:27:54.160 I'm not a Republican.
00:27:55.460 So, I'm not defending my team
00:27:57.380 when I say this.
00:27:59.060 But,
00:27:59.660 if a Republican tries something
00:28:01.700 and it doesn't work,
00:28:03.880 don't they want to know about it?
00:28:06.840 I mean, seriously.
00:28:08.340 Don't they kind of want to know
00:28:09.360 about it right away?
00:28:10.800 Oh, this isn't working.
00:28:12.480 And don't they want to change it?
00:28:14.560 Like, right away?
00:28:16.740 It's like small differences,
00:28:18.060 isn't it?
00:28:18.720 So, when I first read this,
00:28:20.680 the Greenwald's view,
00:28:23.500 where he seemed to be suggesting
00:28:25.140 that maybe it was the U.S. liberals
00:28:27.980 who have this requirement
00:28:30.440 to hide how things are going.
00:28:33.880 And my first view was,
00:28:34.900 well, I think both sides.
00:28:37.080 Both sides.
00:28:37.980 And then I thought about it.
00:28:38.900 I was like,
00:28:39.120 I don't know.
00:28:40.040 I don't know.
00:28:41.340 There actually might be a difference.
00:28:43.360 Maybe it isn't both sides
00:28:44.380 in this one case.
00:28:45.620 All right.
00:28:47.900 Here's the biggest story
00:28:49.420 in the world.
00:28:50.700 Biggest story in the world.
00:28:53.880 Jeff Pilkington has been noting
00:28:56.360 that the press
00:28:57.440 has been talking about mushrooms a lot.
00:29:00.140 New York Times,
00:29:00.860 Washington Post,
00:29:01.520 New York Post,
00:29:02.260 USA Today,
00:29:04.120 BuzzFeed.
00:29:05.580 And I think this is because
00:29:06.540 there's a new study out.
00:29:07.780 Maybe they're all just talking
00:29:08.700 about the new study.
00:29:09.960 But it's interesting
00:29:10.800 that the popular press,
00:29:13.240 left and right,
00:29:14.740 seems to be unified
00:29:16.260 that there's something going on.
00:29:19.580 And that mushrooms
00:29:20.720 seem to be able to have some,
00:29:24.380 like,
00:29:25.420 maybe almost magically
00:29:28.000 powerful ability
00:29:30.100 to end addiction
00:29:31.880 and a variety of mental illness.
00:29:35.360 Like, almost instantly.
00:29:38.440 Now,
00:29:39.400 how is that possible?
00:29:42.140 Well, here's the part
00:29:43.340 where I'm going to blow your mind.
00:29:45.660 Because if you look
00:29:47.140 at the new research
00:29:48.140 about what mushrooms do,
00:29:50.180 the way it's explained
00:29:51.440 that they help you
00:29:52.400 with the mental problems
00:29:54.040 is that it keeps you
00:29:57.460 from being locked
00:29:58.140 into a destructive thought loop.
00:30:02.180 And rather,
00:30:03.060 it just makes your mind
00:30:04.220 more fluid
00:30:04.960 while you're on mushrooms.
00:30:06.500 And you basically
00:30:08.020 just think about
00:30:08.840 other things for a while.
00:30:09.960 And that's it.
00:30:12.840 That might be
00:30:13.720 the entire magic.
00:30:15.740 It just makes you,
00:30:16.540 it just allows you
00:30:17.500 to get out of a loop.
00:30:20.120 Remember what I told you?
00:30:21.660 That you don't think
00:30:23.180 about what's important.
00:30:25.360 What you think about
00:30:26.700 seems important.
00:30:28.700 If you're thinking
00:30:29.620 about something
00:30:30.220 that's very trivial,
00:30:31.660 but you can't think
00:30:32.580 about anything else,
00:30:33.540 it is the most important
00:30:34.700 thing in your life.
00:30:35.900 Because it's what you
00:30:36.740 can't stop thinking about.
00:30:37.660 So as soon as you
00:30:39.720 understand that
00:30:40.560 the things are
00:30:43.540 maybe opposite
00:30:44.260 of how you imagine them,
00:30:46.100 you're not drawn
00:30:47.160 to important things
00:30:48.120 and that's why
00:30:48.640 you're thinking about them.
00:30:50.580 Sometimes you're
00:30:51.320 just thinking about them
00:30:52.260 and then you imagine
00:30:53.520 they're important things.
00:30:54.800 That's it.
00:30:55.860 Now watch me
00:30:56.760 tie together
00:30:58.080 in a sweeping demonstration
00:31:00.600 of awesomeness
00:31:02.880 that you have never seen
00:31:04.220 in all of your life.
00:31:05.520 This will change
00:31:06.220 some of your lives.
00:31:08.520 Seriously.
00:31:10.500 This is actually
00:31:11.760 going to blow your mind
00:31:12.580 so much
00:31:13.020 some of your lives
00:31:14.380 will be changed now.
00:31:15.720 Now like I always say,
00:31:17.000 not most of you.
00:31:18.900 Not most of you.
00:31:20.160 Most of you
00:31:20.780 will just get to watch
00:31:21.660 other people's lives
00:31:22.480 be changed.
00:31:23.420 But I'm going to
00:31:24.220 reframe something
00:31:25.300 so powerfully
00:31:26.980 that some of you
00:31:28.360 are just going to have
00:31:29.180 the whole course
00:31:29.800 of your life
00:31:30.240 changed right now
00:31:31.100 in a good way.
00:31:32.720 Here it goes.
00:31:33.440 What do the ideas
00:31:36.160 of shelf space,
00:31:37.120 diversification,
00:31:37.900 mushrooms,
00:31:38.400 and mental illness
00:31:39.280 have in common?
00:31:41.560 What do all those
00:31:42.500 things have in common?
00:31:44.420 Let's say you were
00:31:45.340 investing in the stock market
00:31:46.740 and you wanted
00:31:48.020 to avoid a mistake
00:31:49.380 such as buying a stock
00:31:50.980 that loses all your money.
00:31:53.280 How can you avoid
00:31:54.320 that mistake?
00:31:55.340 How can you
00:31:55.760 fix the problem
00:31:57.720 that you don't know
00:31:59.380 what stock to buy?
00:32:00.580 Well, you don't.
00:32:02.920 You don't.
00:32:04.300 You don't fix that problem
00:32:05.840 because you'll never know
00:32:07.720 what stock to buy.
00:32:09.100 So instead,
00:32:10.460 you cheat.
00:32:11.760 You use something
00:32:12.440 called diversification.
00:32:14.440 You buy a little bit
00:32:16.140 of a number of different stocks
00:32:17.560 in different areas
00:32:18.440 so that none of them
00:32:20.060 are likely to go down
00:32:21.400 at the same time
00:32:22.640 enough that you lose
00:32:23.980 all your money.
00:32:25.120 And experts have shown
00:32:26.860 that buying and holding
00:32:28.780 a well-diversified portfolio
00:32:31.260 gets you the best
00:32:32.880 long-term return.
00:32:34.780 So keep this pattern in mind.
00:32:37.560 This is just a pattern
00:32:38.600 I'm putting in your head.
00:32:40.040 The pattern is
00:32:40.940 you had a problem.
00:32:42.620 You don't know
00:32:43.240 how to pick a good stock
00:32:44.540 and nobody does.
00:32:45.740 One good stock.
00:32:47.500 That's a problem.
00:32:49.200 But did you fix it?
00:32:50.960 No.
00:32:51.820 No, you didn't fix it.
00:32:52.840 You worked around it
00:32:55.180 by diversifying.
00:32:57.040 So keep in mind
00:32:57.780 you don't have to fix problems.
00:32:59.940 You can work around them
00:33:01.160 by diversifying.
00:33:03.040 Keep the pattern in mind.
00:33:04.900 It's not about finance.
00:33:06.160 Just the pattern.
00:33:07.700 All right?
00:33:09.060 When I talk about shelf space,
00:33:11.060 I've talked about
00:33:11.680 how to get yourself
00:33:13.240 out of a bad frame of mind.
00:33:15.660 And I say,
00:33:16.640 you can't unthink something.
00:33:19.520 If I told you
00:33:20.540 stop thinking about
00:33:21.580 my whiteboard,
00:33:23.160 could you do it?
00:33:24.600 No, no.
00:33:25.400 Not the moment I tell you.
00:33:26.880 Because when I say
00:33:27.600 don't think of my whiteboard,
00:33:28.860 no, really, stop.
00:33:29.880 Put that out of your mind.
00:33:31.380 Do not think about
00:33:32.160 the whiteboard behind me.
00:33:33.640 You can't do it.
00:33:34.900 Brains are not designed
00:33:35.900 to stop thinking.
00:33:39.540 They can't do it.
00:33:41.300 So instead,
00:33:42.020 what do I tell you?
00:33:43.460 And you've heard me
00:33:44.300 give this advice before.
00:33:45.880 I tell you to add things.
00:33:48.060 Don't subtract,
00:33:49.240 because you can never
00:33:49.860 subtract a thought.
00:33:50.800 You can only add things
00:33:52.520 until you've diversified.
00:33:55.980 There it is again.
00:33:57.840 You don't solve your problem
00:33:59.200 that you've got
00:33:59.940 a negative thought.
00:34:01.340 You can't make it go away.
00:34:03.060 Nobody can.
00:34:04.480 You just can't make it go away.
00:34:06.080 But you can add
00:34:06.780 enough other thoughts
00:34:07.840 that it becomes
00:34:09.920 one slide in the carousel,
00:34:12.580 and then you still have to see it
00:34:14.120 when the carousel comes around,
00:34:15.820 but it's a little bit
00:34:16.860 less of an impact,
00:34:18.240 because it's one slide,
00:34:19.220 and then you're right back
00:34:19.820 to the beach.
00:34:21.020 Oh, pictures of my dog.
00:34:23.220 Oh, people I love.
00:34:24.700 Oh, family members.
00:34:26.360 Oh, beach.
00:34:27.200 Oops, oops, oops, oops.
00:34:28.060 Get rid of that one.
00:34:29.800 Oh, back to the beach.
00:34:31.760 Shelf space.
00:34:32.740 If you fill your shelf
00:34:34.080 with good thoughts,
00:34:36.920 and you diversify
00:34:38.000 the things you're thinking about,
00:34:39.800 the bad thought
00:34:40.660 will just have less power.
00:34:41.720 Now,
00:34:46.040 diversification works
00:34:47.600 with finance.
00:34:50.840 It works with finance.
00:34:52.600 It doesn't solve the problem
00:34:54.140 of knowing what stock to buy.
00:34:55.560 It works around it
00:34:56.720 by diversification.
00:34:58.640 Shelf space,
00:34:59.420 this idea,
00:35:00.040 doesn't solve the problem
00:35:01.080 of the bad thought.
00:35:02.440 It works around it
00:35:03.760 by adding diversification.
00:35:05.120 Do you know
00:35:07.520 what mushrooms do?
00:35:10.980 It turns out
00:35:11.760 that what mushrooms do
00:35:12.680 is they make your mind
00:35:13.940 fluid.
00:35:15.980 And they can,
00:35:16.640 they know this now
00:35:17.880 because they can
00:35:18.440 hook you up to sensors,
00:35:20.100 and they find
00:35:20.600 that people who have,
00:35:21.600 let's say,
00:35:22.140 depression
00:35:22.680 or obsessive thoughts,
00:35:25.820 you know,
00:35:26.220 that thought you can't
00:35:26.980 get out of your head
00:35:27.560 and it's bumming you out.
00:35:28.820 As soon as you take mushrooms,
00:35:31.280 your brain flattens,
00:35:32.820 as they call it.
00:35:34.540 And suddenly,
00:35:35.380 you can easily go
00:35:36.700 from the negative thought
00:35:37.800 to anything.
00:35:41.360 You can just leave your thought.
00:35:43.740 Now,
00:35:44.100 did the negative thought
00:35:45.080 go away?
00:35:47.040 Nope.
00:35:48.000 When you're done
00:35:48.800 with the mushrooms,
00:35:50.100 have you forgotten
00:35:51.840 the negative thing?
00:35:53.460 No.
00:35:54.360 You've forgotten nothing.
00:35:56.400 You have added things.
00:35:57.820 You took a long journey
00:36:00.200 in which you diversified.
00:36:03.960 And here's the amazing thing.
00:36:06.200 Apparently,
00:36:07.440 after you've had this journey,
00:36:09.780 the ability to diversify
00:36:11.740 stays with you.
00:36:14.440 So the next time
00:36:15.660 that thought comes up,
00:36:17.740 you don't have to be
00:36:18.640 on mushrooms
00:36:19.220 because you already
00:36:21.480 figured out
00:36:22.240 how to get out
00:36:23.240 of your bubble once
00:36:24.180 and you learned it.
00:36:26.120 You actually learned
00:36:27.720 how to leave the bubble.
00:36:30.420 And for some people,
00:36:31.600 once they learn it,
00:36:32.940 they only have to see it once.
00:36:36.140 And then they can treat
00:36:37.260 everything
00:36:37.860 like it's
00:36:39.480 just a dot
00:36:40.720 in a big universe.
00:36:42.100 It's not the biggest problem
00:36:43.940 in the world
00:36:44.500 unless you think of it
00:36:46.120 all the time.
00:36:47.300 So don't think of it.
00:36:49.480 That's the trick.
00:36:51.940 All mushrooms do
00:36:53.140 is they don't solve
00:36:54.980 any problems.
00:36:56.980 So you have exactly
00:36:58.660 the same amount
00:36:59.360 of problems
00:36:59.820 after you're done
00:37:00.820 with the mushrooms.
00:37:01.840 It's just that you spent
00:37:03.020 more time
00:37:03.580 with the other thoughts
00:37:04.560 and they weren't negative.
00:37:05.840 It's all the same.
00:37:10.780 So here's the reframe.
00:37:13.640 Don't fix your problems.
00:37:16.440 Diversify.
00:37:18.060 And when you find out
00:37:19.260 how many times
00:37:19.980 that will work
00:37:20.660 in your life,
00:37:22.120 you'll realize
00:37:23.360 that I just changed
00:37:24.080 your life.
00:37:25.080 Let me give you
00:37:25.600 an example.
00:37:26.680 Do you have a problem
00:37:27.620 that the one person
00:37:30.020 you're trying to date
00:37:31.000 isn't responding?
00:37:32.360 It's not working out
00:37:33.340 with that one person?
00:37:34.140 Ever have that problem?
00:37:36.420 Do you know
00:37:36.700 what the solution is?
00:37:38.460 Date more people.
00:37:40.560 Diversify.
00:37:41.580 You can't solve
00:37:42.380 the problem
00:37:42.780 with that one person
00:37:43.620 and just add
00:37:45.260 more social life.
00:37:47.000 You're lonely
00:37:47.820 and your one friend
00:37:49.480 is busy.
00:37:51.080 How do you solve that?
00:37:52.400 Well, there's nothing
00:37:53.040 you can do.
00:37:54.340 That one friend
00:37:54.940 is busy and you're lonely.
00:37:56.440 Don't solve it.
00:37:58.080 Diversify.
00:37:59.180 Add some friends.
00:38:02.200 Your exercise routine
00:38:04.060 isn't getting you
00:38:05.420 the results you want.
00:38:07.060 Have you ever...
00:38:07.900 Do you know somebody
00:38:08.460 who does ab exercises
00:38:09.680 every day
00:38:10.320 and then they've been
00:38:11.840 doing it for years
00:38:12.580 and they don't have
00:38:13.080 good abs?
00:38:14.140 Have you ever seen that?
00:38:15.800 Do you know
00:38:16.140 what the solution is?
00:38:18.820 Diversify.
00:38:19.760 Yeah.
00:38:20.300 The only way
00:38:20.920 you can make your abs
00:38:21.860 really get defined
00:38:23.600 is if you add
00:38:24.920 a bunch of different
00:38:25.800 exercises to get at them
00:38:27.600 at different angles.
00:38:29.080 Don't solve it.
00:38:31.140 Diversify.
00:38:31.540 Diversify.
00:38:33.280 Let's say you want
00:38:34.340 to eat.
00:38:35.060 Eat well.
00:38:36.900 But you're not so good
00:38:38.140 at it and you don't
00:38:39.040 know what tastes good
00:38:39.980 and how to find
00:38:41.020 good food.
00:38:42.300 How do you solve that?
00:38:44.980 Don't.
00:38:46.260 Just diversify.
00:38:47.680 Just start eating
00:38:48.520 a whole bunch
00:38:49.000 of different stuff
00:38:49.720 and you'll just
00:38:50.280 discover stuff you like
00:38:51.400 and you'll look
00:38:51.880 at the label
00:38:52.380 and you'll say,
00:38:52.820 yeah, it looks
00:38:53.120 pretty good.
00:38:54.180 There's a whole bunch
00:38:55.160 of problems
00:38:55.580 you don't have to solve.
00:38:58.600 That's the reframe.
00:38:59.580 Don't look for solutions.
00:39:02.500 Look for diversification.
00:39:04.400 It works
00:39:05.040 almost everywhere.
00:39:08.360 And once you learn
00:39:09.440 that diversification
00:39:10.340 is the path,
00:39:12.340 not the solution
00:39:13.080 to the problem,
00:39:14.080 that also allows you
00:39:15.860 to get out
00:39:16.300 of your mental loop.
00:39:19.620 Now,
00:39:20.780 did I deliver?
00:39:24.760 You tell me.
00:39:26.500 See,
00:39:26.820 I made a big promise
00:39:28.160 but I wouldn't do it
00:39:28.880 unless I thought
00:39:29.420 I could deliver.
00:39:30.640 Did I deliver?
00:39:32.400 So what I'm suggesting
00:39:33.560 to you is if you
00:39:34.900 don't want to do mushrooms,
00:39:36.580 and that would be
00:39:37.160 a perfectly reasonable
00:39:38.180 point of view.
00:39:39.600 Yeah,
00:39:39.840 I'm not your doctor.
00:39:40.820 I don't recommend them
00:39:41.780 because I'm not going
00:39:43.180 to recommend a drug.
00:39:44.460 That's not my line
00:39:45.300 of business, right?
00:39:46.380 You shouldn't take
00:39:47.060 my word for it.
00:39:48.280 I'm just telling you
00:39:49.060 that there's now
00:39:49.720 a very clear reason
00:39:51.120 why mushrooms
00:39:52.420 are giving the outcomes
00:39:54.120 that seem magical.
00:39:55.520 And I'm also suggesting,
00:39:57.880 and this is the important part,
00:39:59.280 so if your takeaway
00:40:00.500 from this is do mushrooms,
00:40:01.820 that's not where I'm going.
00:40:04.260 The takeaway should be this.
00:40:06.440 In all things,
00:40:08.480 look for the diversification path.
00:40:12.080 And one of those ways
00:40:14.000 is the shelf space idea.
00:40:16.320 And without ever doing mushrooms,
00:40:18.200 if you can simply teach yourself
00:40:19.700 to think of more things,
00:40:21.600 add things,
00:40:22.460 add things,
00:40:23.120 don't subtract.
00:40:23.660 Just do that.
00:40:25.980 And you'll find
00:40:26.640 that you'll spend more time
00:40:27.660 on dopamine-producing things
00:40:29.580 and less time
00:40:30.760 on dopamine-sucking things,
00:40:33.220 and you'll probably
00:40:34.640 notice a difference.
00:40:36.640 All right.
00:40:37.140 Now,
00:40:39.400 minds are blown,
00:40:42.460 yes or no?
00:40:44.540 And do you believe
00:40:47.260 that at least some
00:40:48.460 of the people watching this
00:40:49.580 will,
00:40:50.640 their lives have just
00:40:51.460 been transformed?
00:40:53.660 There's a few no's,
00:40:58.300 but mostly yes's.
00:40:59.160 So if you're listening
00:40:59.780 on audio,
00:41:01.040 mostly people are agreeing.
00:41:03.500 Now,
00:41:04.040 certainly the skeptics
00:41:05.700 I respect.
00:41:08.640 If you're skeptical here
00:41:10.680 because, you know,
00:41:12.120 I haven't shown you
00:41:13.400 science and data,
00:41:14.640 that's a good place to be.
00:41:15.760 So I would completely
00:41:17.540 respect a disagreement
00:41:19.480 on this point.
00:41:22.440 But,
00:41:22.920 take it forward
00:41:25.060 and use this,
00:41:26.400 let's say,
00:41:27.060 this pattern
00:41:27.580 or this
00:41:28.500 reframe
00:41:30.700 and see how many times
00:41:32.360 it's useful
00:41:32.900 in other domains.
00:41:34.520 And if the only thing
00:41:35.500 you took away from this
00:41:36.460 is to think in terms
00:41:37.900 of diversification
00:41:38.860 instead of problem-fixing,
00:41:40.740 it is life-changing.
00:41:42.440 You just don't know it yet.
00:41:43.500 All right.
00:41:48.940 New York Post
00:41:50.180 reported that
00:41:51.020 mushrooms can talk
00:41:52.420 and they have
00:41:53.260 maybe a
00:41:54.860 50-word vocabulary.
00:41:59.660 What?
00:42:01.840 Mushrooms can talk
00:42:03.420 and they have
00:42:04.820 50-word vocabulary.
00:42:06.200 Now,
00:42:08.780 there are different
00:42:09.280 kinds of mushrooms.
00:42:10.740 There was no word
00:42:11.880 if they have
00:42:12.320 different accents
00:42:13.200 or different languages.
00:42:15.440 Like, for example,
00:42:16.360 can a shiitake
00:42:17.860 talk to a,
00:42:19.360 you know,
00:42:19.640 whatever?
00:42:20.660 No word on that.
00:42:22.120 But the New York Post
00:42:23.440 reported this,
00:42:24.620 that mushrooms
00:42:25.300 have a 50-word vocabulary
00:42:27.340 so they can
00:42:27.880 communicate things
00:42:29.340 like, you know,
00:42:30.260 danger
00:42:30.660 or there's some weather.
00:42:33.160 So this is totally true.
00:42:34.420 This is totally true.
00:42:37.900 Isn't it?
00:42:40.440 Everything about this
00:42:41.460 sounds really,
00:42:42.380 really true.
00:42:43.120 Well, until you read
00:42:43.920 to the end of the article
00:42:44.840 because it turns out
00:42:46.160 there's a second
00:42:47.360 possible interpretation
00:42:48.660 of the same data.
00:42:50.940 So, remember,
00:42:51.860 the one
00:42:52.480 is that all the mushrooms
00:42:53.800 can talk to each other
00:42:55.680 even across
00:42:56.760 different mushroom types.
00:42:58.260 So translation
00:42:59.020 doesn't seem to be
00:42:59.920 a problem for a mushroom.
00:43:00.780 And they've got 50 words
00:43:02.920 and they can really
00:43:03.700 communicate.
00:43:04.780 So they say
00:43:05.380 that's one possibility.
00:43:07.040 And these so-called words
00:43:08.620 are in the form
00:43:09.700 of a different
00:43:10.420 electrical signal.
00:43:14.280 Right?
00:43:14.560 So there are 50 or so
00:43:15.940 distinct electrical signals
00:43:18.180 that one mushroom
00:43:19.440 can send
00:43:19.900 another mushroom.
00:43:21.300 So that's their 50 words.
00:43:23.140 So another scientist
00:43:24.280 was asked for his opinion
00:43:25.520 and his opinion was,
00:43:26.980 yeah, you know,
00:43:27.440 the other possibility
00:43:28.240 is that mushrooms
00:43:29.860 just give off
00:43:30.680 electrical signals.
00:43:33.280 Aww.
00:43:34.880 Aww.
00:43:36.920 And it turns out
00:43:38.720 they do give off
00:43:39.460 electrical signals.
00:43:41.320 Aww.
00:43:42.520 Well, that ruins
00:43:43.180 the whole thing.
00:43:44.460 Apparently,
00:43:45.300 nobody has identified
00:43:46.200 the words.
00:43:47.920 It's just
00:43:48.560 electrical signals.
00:43:50.940 Aww.
00:43:51.340 I really wanted
00:43:53.780 my mushrooms
00:43:54.300 to be an alien species
00:43:55.880 who had come to Earth
00:43:57.680 to cure our mental illness
00:43:59.280 and addictions.
00:44:00.600 And they were giving
00:44:01.300 of themselves
00:44:01.900 their actual bodies
00:44:02.920 and a lot of their
00:44:03.960 communication.
00:44:04.700 I was hoping.
00:44:06.300 Weren't you?
00:44:07.360 I was hoping
00:44:07.960 that the mushrooms
00:44:08.580 were sort of a
00:44:09.400 natural giving species
00:44:11.880 who would just come
00:44:12.640 to Earth
00:44:12.920 and say,
00:44:13.360 you know,
00:44:14.300 please just eat me.
00:44:16.600 And here's my brother.
00:44:18.180 He's a fun guy.
00:44:22.020 I'll do this again.
00:44:23.340 Some of you
00:44:23.960 didn't catch that
00:44:24.480 the first time.
00:44:25.040 So this is
00:44:26.660 the mushroom talking.
00:44:27.860 Please eat us.
00:44:29.020 You can eat me
00:44:29.560 and you can eat
00:44:30.120 my brother.
00:44:30.960 He's also a fun guy.
00:44:33.660 Okay,
00:44:33.860 if you didn't get it
00:44:34.460 the second time,
00:44:35.700 there's nothing
00:44:36.760 I can do.
00:44:41.000 So mushrooms
00:44:42.040 probably don't talk.
00:44:44.000 Over in Shanghai,
00:44:45.100 25 million people
00:44:46.160 still locked up
00:44:47.060 horrific stories.
00:44:49.120 But also,
00:44:50.220 when CNN covered it,
00:44:51.940 it looked
00:44:52.500 less horrific.
00:44:53.960 But it's got to be
00:44:54.760 pockets are worse
00:44:55.820 than other pockets,
00:44:56.700 right?
00:44:57.340 So are people
00:44:58.260 killing themselves
00:44:59.020 and screaming
00:44:59.800 into the night
00:45:00.440 that they're starving
00:45:01.300 or not?
00:45:04.060 Because when the
00:45:04.800 CNN person
00:45:05.620 did his little package,
00:45:08.520 I guess,
00:45:09.120 you know,
00:45:09.640 where he is,
00:45:10.380 they got to leave
00:45:11.260 once a day
00:45:12.160 or twice a day
00:45:12.800 to go to the
00:45:14.300 approved places
00:45:15.020 to get supplies,
00:45:16.380 which included food.
00:45:18.220 I mean,
00:45:18.820 nothing you'd want
00:45:19.620 to eat but food.
00:45:20.560 Do you think
00:45:23.120 that's more typical?
00:45:24.620 That everybody's
00:45:25.340 getting out
00:45:25.720 once a day
00:45:26.180 to go buy food?
00:45:27.680 And that he had
00:45:28.180 to be,
00:45:28.640 you know,
00:45:28.980 tested several times
00:45:30.180 and blah, blah, blah.
00:45:31.620 I don't know.
00:45:32.360 I don't know
00:45:32.920 what to believe.
00:45:33.820 But I think
00:45:34.320 there are over
00:45:35.220 100 million people
00:45:36.140 in different places
00:45:37.560 in China
00:45:38.120 locked down
00:45:38.820 with,
00:45:40.080 I think,
00:45:41.180 no hope whatsoever
00:45:42.720 that this can work.
00:45:44.740 I don't think
00:45:45.420 the story is
00:45:46.040 that over 100 million
00:45:48.040 people are locked down.
00:45:49.160 the story is
00:45:50.600 it can't work.
00:45:52.240 Right?
00:45:53.540 Unless you're just
00:45:54.640 locked down forever
00:45:55.600 and that's not
00:45:56.280 going to work either.
00:45:57.540 So,
00:45:58.280 it looks like
00:45:59.180 a plan
00:45:59.640 without a plan.
00:46:03.280 And,
00:46:04.220 I regret
00:46:07.020 to tell you
00:46:07.680 that as of today
00:46:09.340 I'm going to
00:46:10.740 cancel all of
00:46:11.540 my summer travel
00:46:12.460 plans.
00:46:14.580 Because
00:46:15.220 Philadelphia
00:46:16.840 is going to
00:46:17.520 reinstate
00:46:18.040 indoor mask
00:46:19.160 mandates
00:46:19.820 Monday.
00:46:23.720 So,
00:46:24.720 I'm just
00:46:26.200 going to
00:46:26.420 cancel all
00:46:26.840 my summer
00:46:27.200 plans.
00:46:28.280 Because
00:46:28.720 I think
00:46:30.140 the masks
00:46:30.680 are coming
00:46:31.140 back.
00:46:31.600 At least for
00:46:32.080 airplanes.
00:46:33.060 I don't think
00:46:33.740 airplanes are
00:46:34.740 going to lose
00:46:35.060 masks.
00:46:35.760 I think
00:46:36.020 they're just
00:46:36.400 going to
00:46:36.660 extend it.
00:46:37.560 Or at least
00:46:38.160 the risk
00:46:38.600 is too high.
00:46:40.080 So,
00:46:41.120 there's nothing
00:46:43.720 I want
00:46:44.160 more than
00:46:44.760 to get
00:46:45.020 out of
00:46:45.220 this house.
00:46:46.640 I mean,
00:46:46.940 I really,
00:46:47.660 really would
00:46:48.340 like to
00:46:48.740 go somewhere.
00:46:49.740 But I'm
00:46:50.020 not going
00:46:50.280 to travel
00:46:50.560 with a
00:46:50.880 mask.
00:46:51.480 I'm just
00:46:51.740 not going
00:46:52.340 to get
00:46:52.520 on a
00:46:52.740 plane
00:46:52.940 with a
00:46:53.220 mask.
00:46:53.500 It's not
00:46:53.880 going to
00:46:54.060 happen.
00:46:55.020 So,
00:46:55.340 I just
00:46:55.540 won't
00:46:55.720 travel.
00:46:56.040 why do
00:47:02.900 you say
00:47:03.120 I lost?
00:47:05.420 That feels
00:47:07.660 like a
00:47:07.960 judgment
00:47:08.220 call.
00:47:08.700 All right,
00:47:08.980 that's
00:47:09.200 another issue.
00:47:12.520 So,
00:47:13.600 let's hope
00:47:14.360 that that
00:47:14.940 coronavirus
00:47:15.940 business
00:47:16.800 doesn't
00:47:17.620 catch up
00:47:18.420 to us
00:47:18.680 again.
00:47:19.600 Ladies and
00:47:20.200 gentlemen,
00:47:21.200 this
00:47:21.480 concludes
00:47:22.780 what I
00:47:23.900 think you
00:47:24.220 would agree
00:47:24.620 is the
00:47:25.580 best
00:47:25.780 live stream
00:47:26.360 you've
00:47:26.680 ever seen.
00:47:27.600 Rarely
00:47:28.000 does a
00:47:28.320 live stream
00:47:28.820 cure people
00:47:29.660 of serious
00:47:30.580 problems
00:47:31.100 every single
00:47:32.500 time it
00:47:32.900 comes on.
00:47:34.000 But,
00:47:34.320 you know,
00:47:35.460 Jesus did
00:47:36.780 well too.
00:47:38.780 And I
00:47:39.640 don't mean
00:47:39.960 to take
00:47:40.420 anything away
00:47:40.940 from the
00:47:41.660 people that
00:47:42.200 Jesus cured.
00:47:44.020 There were
00:47:44.700 several of
00:47:45.260 them,
00:47:46.080 according to
00:47:46.540 reports,
00:47:47.280 maybe
00:47:47.560 dozens.
00:47:50.420 My numbers
00:47:51.220 are bigger,
00:47:52.060 but that
00:47:52.640 doesn't mean
00:47:52.980 I'm better
00:47:53.440 in any way.
00:47:54.260 I just,
00:47:54.480 if you were
00:47:55.640 just counting,
00:47:56.480 my numbers
00:47:56.900 are bigger.
00:47:57.840 But,
00:47:58.200 um,
00:47:59.100 no,
00:48:03.600 no,
00:48:03.960 I'm just
00:48:04.320 teasing.
00:48:04.960 Don't take
00:48:05.380 anything I
00:48:05.840 say
00:48:06.140 seriously.
00:48:08.580 We'll all
00:48:09.220 take a joke
00:48:09.840 and tomorrow
00:48:11.640 we'll come
00:48:13.400 back.
00:48:14.180 Because there
00:48:14.680 are a few
00:48:15.000 of you I
00:48:15.380 haven't
00:48:15.800 completely
00:48:16.800 fixed yet.
00:48:18.120 And I
00:48:18.460 think I'm
00:48:18.920 going to get
00:48:19.240 to you next.
00:48:20.600 You might be
00:48:21.160 next.
00:48:22.980 And so
00:48:23.340 for now,
00:48:25.080 bye to you
00:48:25.820 at YouTube.
00:48:27.360 We'll talk
00:48:27.800 to you tomorrow.