Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 29, 2022


Episode 1819 Scott Adams： Biden Builds Back Better...Trump's Wall. And Joe Manchin Runs Everything


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

148.07707

Word Count

7,974

Sentence Count

673

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

In this episode, Scott Adams talks about a new name for Monkeypox, Tucker Carlson sets us straight about a controversial gay sex joke, and we debate whether there should be a special category of humor for things you know are wrong but are funny anyway.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best day you've ever had in your entire life,
00:00:07.220 the highlight of civilization, the best part of the morning, the dopamine of the day,
00:00:11.500 the thing that makes your oxytocin rock.
00:00:15.000 Yeah, it's coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:17.260 Same time, same place, every day, and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank
00:00:21.620 with Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug of flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:26.060 And so I don't have sound on the, hold on, hold on, I can fix that, I can fix that.
00:00:50.040 How about if I plug in the microphone, does that help?
00:00:52.520 Is anybody happier with the microphone actually plugged in?
00:01:01.040 Well, here's something that you should learn about setting up your podcast studio.
00:01:06.380 You can never have a podcast studio in which any part of it ever changes.
00:01:11.960 The minute you use your iPad for any other purpose, which is what I did,
00:01:16.100 I used my iPad for something else for a minute, you forget to put it back the way it was.
00:01:20.380 So that is your lesson for the day.
00:01:23.000 But I don't believe we did the simultaneous sip yet.
00:01:26.380 I think we don't want to skip that.
00:01:28.680 And now, back to where we were.
00:01:31.720 Are we back to where we were?
00:01:33.660 Back on track?
00:01:34.420 Okay.
00:01:35.100 Simultaneous sip.
00:01:35.940 Go.
00:01:40.940 Oh.
00:01:43.460 Oh, that's good.
00:01:44.440 I don't know.
00:01:46.560 I think it was the waiting for it that made it extra good.
00:01:50.740 Well, I don't know if you heard, but there's some movement to rename Monkeypox.
00:01:56.120 Monkeypox.
00:01:58.000 I think some people think it's racist sounding or something.
00:02:01.260 I don't know.
00:02:02.220 But we're going to rename it.
00:02:04.200 And some of you may have seen that Tucker Carlson had a suggestion for it.
00:02:08.560 I believe it's based on the fact that there is some suggestion.
00:02:11.840 By the way, is this confirmed?
00:02:14.980 I keep saying on Twitter, but not in the regular news,
00:02:19.520 that it's primarily being spread by gay sex.
00:02:23.460 Is that just a Twitter thing?
00:02:25.280 Or is that actually, is the medical community saying that?
00:02:31.060 Because it seems like Twitter says it a lot,
00:02:33.780 but I don't see it at all in the regular press.
00:02:39.720 Is the press trying to downplay the fact that it's primarily spread that way?
00:02:46.680 Well, thankfully, we have Tucker Carlson to set us straight
00:02:51.660 because his suggestion for renaming Monkeypox was Schlong COVID.
00:02:57.420 Schlong COVID.
00:02:58.400 Now, you may say, Scott, that is somewhat offensive, possibly homophobic.
00:03:07.140 To which I say, well, don't blame me.
00:03:09.960 Blame Tucker Carlson.
00:03:13.220 I will simply point out that it's clever.
00:03:16.900 Now, let me ask you this.
00:03:20.240 Can we not carve out a special category of humor
00:03:25.040 for things which you know are wrong, but they're funny anyway?
00:03:32.480 Is that something we can't do?
00:03:34.560 Can't we say, yeah, I get that.
00:03:36.440 That's insulting to some group or group of people.
00:03:40.100 But what if it's really funny?
00:03:42.560 Isn't that okay still?
00:03:44.480 Because I try to use the same standard for other people
00:03:47.180 that I would use for myself.
00:03:49.280 If somebody walks up to me and says,
00:03:51.500 you're bald,
00:03:52.600 bald, I'll say, well, that's offensive.
00:03:56.200 But if they say you look like a thumb,
00:03:59.120 I say, eh, that's kind of funny.
00:04:01.140 I do look like a thumb with glasses.
00:04:03.180 That's kind of funny.
00:04:04.480 If it's funny, it's funny.
00:04:06.920 Is there no way we can come together on that?
00:04:10.440 No?
00:04:12.200 I feel like we should...
00:04:13.600 Because there was a situation recently,
00:04:17.240 maybe I'll talk about it later,
00:04:18.320 in which I saw a joke that was clearly offensive.
00:04:22.880 It targeted some group that you shouldn't target.
00:04:26.580 But on the other hand,
00:04:28.280 the reason it was funny
00:04:30.600 was because everybody recognizes it as wrong.
00:04:35.520 That's different than just making a racist joke
00:04:37.660 where some people laughing at it
00:04:39.960 are laughing because they think it's true or something.
00:04:43.460 But if you're laughing at it because it's so wrong,
00:04:48.140 I don't know,
00:04:48.600 I feel like that should be okay.
00:04:50.780 Right?
00:04:51.360 I mean, it's hard to distinguish
00:04:52.540 why somebody's laughing at a joke.
00:04:54.440 But if you're laughing at it
00:04:55.640 because you know it's wrong,
00:04:57.480 and like it's the wrongness
00:04:58.620 that's exactly what's making you laugh,
00:05:01.100 I feel like that's got to be an exception.
00:05:05.940 All right.
00:05:06.900 But of course, there's got to be
00:05:08.200 some point where it's too much.
00:05:10.460 I have a suggestion for the spokesperson
00:05:13.980 for the administration,
00:05:15.960 Karine Jean Pierre,
00:05:17.700 whose name I'm starting to love.
00:05:20.540 That's a really good name, isn't it?
00:05:23.280 Karine Jean.
00:05:25.260 So the first two parts rhyme.
00:05:27.980 Karine Jean Pierre.
00:05:29.920 Sort of a perfect name.
00:05:31.360 It really is.
00:05:33.000 But I don't believe she's quite ready for her job.
00:05:37.420 Maybe she'll grow into it a little bit.
00:05:38.820 But here is my suggestion to her
00:05:41.940 for her communications skills.
00:05:46.140 Do not try to tell somebody something is true
00:05:49.420 while your body is saying it's not.
00:05:53.520 You need to get your words
00:05:56.260 and your body compatible.
00:06:00.760 And what I mean is,
00:06:01.880 your words, if you believe that
00:06:03.900 what you're saying is true,
00:06:06.000 you should say it matter-of-factly,
00:06:07.620 because true things can be said matter-of-factly.
00:06:11.740 But things that you know are a lie
00:06:13.880 don't act like you know it's a lie.
00:06:17.840 You should at least pretend
00:06:19.020 that you don't know it's not true.
00:06:23.680 But she actually acts like she knows
00:06:25.280 it's not true when she's saying it.
00:06:26.720 Let me give you an impression.
00:06:29.360 First, I'll start with somebody
00:06:30.840 saying something that's true
00:06:32.400 and they know it.
00:06:35.160 Tomorrow morning,
00:06:36.120 the sun will come up at 521 or whatever.
00:06:40.640 Let's say that's true.
00:06:42.160 Tomorrow, the sun will come up at 221.
00:06:45.520 Whatever is true.
00:06:46.800 Never 221.
00:06:48.240 Let's say 5.
00:06:50.780 Doesn't that sound like I believe it's true?
00:06:52.640 The sun will come up tomorrow.
00:06:56.320 All right.
00:06:56.880 Now let's do Corrine, Jean, Pierre
00:07:00.740 telling you the sun will come up tomorrow
00:07:02.740 like she doesn't believe it.
00:07:05.300 You ready?
00:07:06.700 Well, the sun, the sun, the sun,
00:07:09.420 you see the planet,
00:07:12.200 the planet is rotating.
00:07:13.140 But the sun, the sun,
00:07:16.800 the sun will come up around.
00:07:20.280 But really, but really,
00:07:21.700 it might look like,
00:07:22.760 it might appear to you
00:07:23.780 as if the world, you know,
00:07:26.200 the sun is going around the world.
00:07:27.580 But really, the world is stationary.
00:07:29.780 Well, not really stationary.
00:07:30.860 It's moving through space.
00:07:32.200 But let's not talk about that.
00:07:33.680 But why does she act like
00:07:36.780 she knows she's lying?
00:07:40.160 Am I wrong?
00:07:41.040 Now, pundits make this mistake
00:07:43.880 all the time on TV.
00:07:45.580 I call it the pleading, begging,
00:07:48.540 look to factual statements.
00:07:51.540 If you have a factual statement
00:07:53.560 that's just a fact,
00:07:55.940 say it that way.
00:07:57.540 If you have a factual statement
00:07:59.080 that even you don't believe,
00:08:01.680 say it in that pleading voice.
00:08:03.780 Well, well, you know,
00:08:05.100 the recession's not so bad.
00:08:07.540 It's not so bad.
00:08:08.720 Ah, ah.
00:08:10.360 No, recession's not bad.
00:08:13.880 That's the way you say it.
00:08:14.920 If you believe it,
00:08:16.000 if you believe it,
00:08:17.980 say it that way.
00:08:20.720 All right, that's my advice.
00:08:23.540 Here is the best potential news
00:08:26.480 that probably isn't totally true.
00:08:30.620 But I like telling you things
00:08:31.780 that might be true
00:08:32.540 that are positive.
00:08:33.840 Are you okay with that?
00:08:35.580 So where there's some positivity involved,
00:08:38.320 I might go a little extra,
00:08:40.340 give you a little extra positivity.
00:08:42.260 Yeah, just because it feels good.
00:08:43.900 Might not turn out.
00:08:45.280 Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
00:08:47.200 But you're going to feel good
00:08:48.120 in the meantime.
00:08:49.020 So that's worthwhile, right?
00:08:50.300 So I saw this tweet
00:08:52.500 from Ian Martisus.
00:08:55.120 Now, keep in mind
00:08:55.940 that he has some background
00:08:57.480 and some expertise
00:08:59.180 that allows him
00:09:00.720 to say the following things.
00:09:02.600 I have no expertise
00:09:03.700 or ability to judge it.
00:09:06.240 So this is the part where,
00:09:07.420 well, it might be true.
00:09:09.000 Maybe it's true.
00:09:09.680 Maybe it's not.
00:09:10.560 And it's a hypothesis.
00:09:12.060 So Ian puts it forth as a maybe.
00:09:14.260 It's not a statement of fact.
00:09:16.080 It's a maybe.
00:09:16.700 He says if you have natural immunity
00:09:20.080 but have not received a COVID vaccine,
00:09:23.940 then there is a good chance
00:09:25.240 recovery from a reinfection
00:09:27.000 could provide you
00:09:28.420 with potent antibodies
00:09:29.480 that neutralizes SARS-1 and SARS-2
00:09:31.620 and all variants,
00:09:33.640 MERS and maybe even
00:09:34.700 common cold coronaviruses.
00:09:37.520 So in other words,
00:09:38.320 if you didn't get the vaccine
00:09:39.880 but you did get infected,
00:09:42.140 you might have protection
00:09:43.400 from all kinds of things.
00:09:44.920 But, you know,
00:09:46.800 just sort of throw it in there.
00:09:50.080 Now, and the argument
00:09:51.720 is a technical one
00:09:53.080 that I can't summarize.
00:09:55.820 But the technical one
00:09:57.040 is that the vaccines
00:09:58.860 prevent infection
00:10:01.220 in, say, a narrow way.
00:10:05.180 Whereas if you actually get infected,
00:10:08.020 your infection is more
00:10:09.080 of a broad protection
00:10:11.020 because everything gets activated
00:10:12.840 by that.
00:10:14.400 That's sort of the general
00:10:15.540 idiost explanation.
00:10:17.560 Now, I don't know
00:10:17.940 if this is true.
00:10:19.860 I also don't know
00:10:21.100 if there's any difference
00:10:22.580 between people
00:10:23.260 who got the original vaccine,
00:10:26.120 people like me,
00:10:27.740 versus people who got
00:10:29.060 Omicron vaccinations specifically.
00:10:33.300 I would think,
00:10:35.000 now this would be a question
00:10:36.540 for Ian,
00:10:37.120 I would think
00:10:38.820 that if you got
00:10:40.120 only the original
00:10:41.340 vaccination
00:10:42.520 and the second one
00:10:43.480 and that wore off,
00:10:46.120 because they say
00:10:46.700 it wears off, right?
00:10:47.720 If that completely wore off
00:10:49.360 and wasn't really
00:10:50.080 applicable to Omicron
00:10:51.340 anyway,
00:10:52.800 wouldn't the Omicron
00:10:53.940 infection that I did get
00:10:55.420 give me all this immunity
00:10:57.500 that Ian is speculating
00:10:59.220 might happen?
00:11:00.340 I don't know.
00:11:00.960 Maybe.
00:11:01.860 So what would happen
00:11:02.660 if the next several years
00:11:03.720 we see the incidence
00:11:05.100 of like regular colds
00:11:06.680 and all kinds of viruses
00:11:07.740 go way down?
00:11:09.380 Is it possible
00:11:10.340 that Omicron
00:11:11.920 acts like a vaccination?
00:11:14.940 Like a better vaccination
00:11:16.060 than the actual vaccinations?
00:11:18.440 It might.
00:11:19.300 Now, I don't recommend
00:11:20.560 getting Omicron.
00:11:21.560 It kicked my ass
00:11:22.340 for a month.
00:11:23.620 I mean, it really
00:11:24.260 kicked my ass for a month.
00:11:25.600 It was pretty rough
00:11:26.320 in the exhaustion part.
00:11:29.360 But maybe there's
00:11:31.600 something good
00:11:32.020 that comes out of it.
00:11:33.920 All right,
00:11:34.200 here's the more good news
00:11:35.420 maybe,
00:11:36.560 or weird news.
00:11:38.260 Who actually runs
00:11:39.200 the country?
00:11:40.280 Or the world, I guess.
00:11:42.320 Have you ever figured out,
00:11:44.460 you know,
00:11:44.860 on paper,
00:11:46.280 it's Joe Biden
00:11:47.040 and blah, blah, blah,
00:11:48.020 the Congress.
00:11:48.920 But when you actually
00:11:49.800 look at who actually matters,
00:11:52.580 when it comes to legislation,
00:11:54.260 it's just Joe Manchin, right?
00:11:56.480 Am I wrong?
00:11:57.960 I mean,
00:11:58.220 I said this before
00:11:59.980 any of this became true.
00:12:02.560 But early on,
00:12:04.100 I said,
00:12:04.520 there's only one person
00:12:05.340 running the country.
00:12:06.180 It's the smart one.
00:12:07.940 Joe Manchin's the smart one.
00:12:09.800 Because by being,
00:12:11.480 since things are so close,
00:12:13.920 simply being willing
00:12:15.000 to go either way
00:12:16.020 gives you all the power.
00:12:17.720 All the people
00:12:18.520 who are not willing
00:12:19.460 to even consider
00:12:20.460 being flexible,
00:12:22.340 they gave away
00:12:23.020 all their power.
00:12:24.300 They don't have any.
00:12:25.740 So Manchin just said,
00:12:27.180 wait a minute,
00:12:28.520 are you telling me
00:12:29.280 all I have to do
00:12:29.980 is act reasonable
00:12:30.800 in public
00:12:31.680 and I can have
00:12:32.480 all the power
00:12:33.100 in the country?
00:12:34.560 Yep.
00:12:35.420 Yep.
00:12:36.340 You just have to be
00:12:37.320 a reasonable person
00:12:38.280 who is willing
00:12:39.000 to negotiate
00:12:39.680 and willing to give,
00:12:41.320 you know,
00:12:41.460 the other side
00:12:42.020 a little bit
00:12:42.500 if you get a little bit.
00:12:43.380 Just that.
00:12:44.400 Just a normal,
00:12:45.660 normal person.
00:12:47.520 And you can run
00:12:48.360 the whole country.
00:12:49.760 Just be normal.
00:12:51.420 Because nobody else
00:12:52.280 was trying.
00:12:53.820 Nobody else
00:12:54.300 was trying to be normal.
00:12:56.100 In every other context
00:12:57.560 in life,
00:12:58.160 people negotiate.
00:13:00.080 You know,
00:13:00.300 they're flexible.
00:13:01.080 They have to be.
00:13:02.360 It's only Congress
00:13:03.420 that people
00:13:03.880 are not flexible.
00:13:05.060 So the one guy
00:13:05.860 who said,
00:13:06.360 hey,
00:13:07.360 suppose I get flexible,
00:13:08.740 now he runs the country.
00:13:11.920 Who was in charge
00:13:13.020 of,
00:13:13.420 let's say,
00:13:15.140 climate policy
00:13:16.040 for way too long?
00:13:17.980 It was Greta,
00:13:18.940 wasn't it?
00:13:19.760 Greta Thunberg.
00:13:20.940 Because her personality
00:13:22.080 was so big
00:13:22.820 that she made it hard
00:13:24.420 to, you know,
00:13:25.220 go against her.
00:13:25.960 So the people
00:13:27.540 who were really
00:13:27.920 running the world
00:13:28.820 were Dr. Birx.
00:13:32.180 Am I right?
00:13:33.080 Because,
00:13:33.540 you know,
00:13:34.300 the leaders
00:13:35.060 take their
00:13:35.800 instructions
00:13:37.820 on the pandemic
00:13:38.640 from the experts.
00:13:40.380 So it's Fauci
00:13:41.220 and Birx,
00:13:43.080 Greta Thunberg,
00:13:45.440 Joe Manchin,
00:13:46.540 maybe
00:13:46.840 Kyrsten Sinema
00:13:48.040 a little bit,
00:13:48.900 but mostly Joe Manchin.
00:13:50.800 And then
00:13:51.700 people like me.
00:13:53.520 People who just
00:13:55.760 say stuff in public
00:13:56.680 and some of it
00:13:57.280 sticks.
00:13:58.420 That's it.
00:14:00.560 The people
00:14:01.220 running the country
00:14:01.900 are absolutely
00:14:03.220 not the ones
00:14:03.940 you think
00:14:04.260 are running
00:14:04.620 the country.
00:14:05.820 Yeah,
00:14:06.220 Elon Musk,
00:14:06.940 et cetera.
00:14:07.820 You know,
00:14:08.080 Elon Musk
00:14:08.680 will have more
00:14:09.300 to do with
00:14:10.060 America's
00:14:11.140 space program
00:14:12.220 than the government
00:14:13.980 will.
00:14:14.860 Am I wrong?
00:14:16.900 Elon Musk
00:14:17.580 is basically
00:14:18.300 in charge
00:14:18.960 of the American
00:14:20.760 space policy,
00:14:22.020 in effect.
00:14:23.180 I mean,
00:14:23.380 he didn't
00:14:23.700 sign up for it,
00:14:25.140 but it worked
00:14:25.500 out that way.
00:14:26.480 What about
00:14:26.860 health care?
00:14:28.580 Probably Jeff Bezos.
00:14:30.500 Probably Jeff Bezos
00:14:31.520 is in charge of it,
00:14:32.380 right?
00:14:32.720 I'm being prompted
00:14:33.460 on the locals
00:14:34.320 platform there.
00:14:35.580 Yeah.
00:14:36.020 So it turns out
00:14:36.900 that America
00:14:37.360 is this weird
00:14:38.240 place where
00:14:39.340 any one person
00:14:40.360 can be in charge
00:14:41.160 of an entire
00:14:41.840 topic,
00:14:42.800 or multiple
00:14:43.420 topics.
00:14:44.380 You just have
00:14:45.020 to be smart
00:14:46.160 enough to put
00:14:46.700 yourself in that
00:14:47.300 position.
00:14:48.640 And some of
00:14:49.500 these people did.
00:14:50.160 it's a weird
00:14:52.020 world where
00:14:52.780 you can run
00:14:53.460 the world
00:14:53.920 or run
00:14:54.440 one topic
00:14:55.180 just as an
00:14:56.140 individual.
00:14:57.360 You just have
00:14:58.000 to see the
00:14:58.460 opening and
00:14:59.120 walk into it.
00:15:00.880 So what is
00:15:01.320 this big,
00:15:03.120 big-ish
00:15:04.100 legislation that
00:15:05.540 Joe Manchin
00:15:06.080 finally got
00:15:06.940 behind and
00:15:07.600 caused to
00:15:08.080 happen?
00:15:08.960 He did some
00:15:09.940 good stuff,
00:15:11.280 and I think
00:15:12.020 I have to
00:15:12.380 call that out.
00:15:14.800 And it's,
00:15:15.560 you know,
00:15:15.940 it's not all
00:15:16.500 good.
00:15:17.380 There's stuff
00:15:17.780 you're not
00:15:18.200 going to like,
00:15:18.820 there's stuff
00:15:19.140 other people
00:15:19.740 aren't going
00:15:20.080 to like,
00:15:20.480 but that
00:15:20.740 was the
00:15:21.040 point,
00:15:21.380 right?
00:15:22.140 The fact
00:15:22.760 that you
00:15:23.000 don't like
00:15:23.460 part of
00:15:23.940 it is
00:15:25.540 what makes
00:15:26.020 it work.
00:15:26.580 That's why
00:15:26.900 Joe Manchin
00:15:27.360 was valuable.
00:15:28.200 He got
00:15:28.440 something that
00:15:29.360 not everybody
00:15:30.140 loved,
00:15:30.680 but worked,
00:15:31.660 maybe.
00:15:32.720 And I
00:15:33.400 think it's
00:15:33.780 getting
00:15:34.000 reasonably
00:15:34.520 good reviews,
00:15:36.480 is it not?
00:15:37.840 You know,
00:15:38.020 the,
00:15:39.500 and it's
00:15:40.340 not passed
00:15:40.880 yet.
00:15:41.260 This
00:15:41.400 hasn't
00:15:41.600 tossed
00:15:41.900 the
00:15:42.120 ass.
00:15:44.880 Anyway,
00:15:45.600 but here's
00:15:46.020 what it
00:15:46.260 does.
00:15:46.640 It slashes
00:15:47.440 the renewable
00:15:48.280 energy tax
00:15:49.300 credit by
00:15:49.760 80%.
00:15:50.420 So renewables
00:15:52.040 will be
00:15:52.780 relatively
00:15:54.340 de-emphasized
00:15:55.420 from where
00:15:55.860 they were.
00:15:56.260 They'll still
00:15:56.560 be emphasized,
00:15:57.420 but not
00:15:58.440 as much.
00:15:58.880 And it
00:15:59.740 extends
00:16:00.280 those tax
00:16:01.580 credits to
00:16:02.320 existing
00:16:03.020 nuclear plants.
00:16:05.040 And it
00:16:05.640 prohibits wind
00:16:06.340 and solar
00:16:06.740 development on
00:16:07.440 federal land
00:16:08.160 or in
00:16:08.500 federal waters
00:16:09.200 unless oil
00:16:11.000 and gas
00:16:11.520 leases have
00:16:12.260 also been
00:16:12.760 issued.
00:16:13.400 So in other
00:16:13.960 words,
00:16:14.140 what Manchin
00:16:14.780 said was
00:16:16.500 let's
00:16:16.820 make it
00:16:17.400 an all
00:16:18.200 energy
00:16:18.660 program,
00:16:19.680 not a
00:16:20.060 some energy
00:16:20.780 we love
00:16:21.320 and some
00:16:21.680 energy we
00:16:22.180 don't.
00:16:23.420 Now,
00:16:23.760 how smart
00:16:24.220 is that?
00:16:25.140 Very,
00:16:26.100 right?
00:16:26.760 In fact,
00:16:28.300 isn't that
00:16:28.800 actually the,
00:16:30.840 that used
00:16:31.320 to be the
00:16:31.820 Republican
00:16:32.400 point of
00:16:33.840 view,
00:16:34.060 right?
00:16:34.380 Do all
00:16:34.880 the energy
00:16:35.340 as much
00:16:35.740 as you
00:16:36.000 can because
00:16:36.960 the problem
00:16:37.440 is running
00:16:37.840 out.
00:16:39.300 The big
00:16:39.860 problem is
00:16:40.220 running out.
00:16:41.720 The big
00:16:42.420 problem is
00:16:42.800 not the
00:16:43.160 climate.
00:16:44.000 That's
00:16:44.280 the second
00:16:44.660 problem.
00:16:46.400 So do
00:16:46.700 the first
00:16:47.100 problem.
00:16:47.700 But do
00:16:48.140 it smart
00:16:48.660 and make
00:16:49.340 sure that
00:16:49.720 nuclear
00:16:50.080 becomes a
00:16:50.800 bigger part
00:16:51.220 of the
00:16:51.440 pie,
00:16:52.300 which is
00:16:52.880 what Manchin
00:16:53.360 is trying
00:16:53.740 to make
00:16:54.100 happen.
00:16:54.980 Every part
00:16:55.480 of this
00:16:55.860 seems
00:16:56.780 directionally
00:16:57.480 correct.
00:16:57.960 You could
00:16:58.200 argue about
00:16:58.620 the specifics.
00:16:59.640 But directionally
00:17:00.300 this looks
00:17:00.680 right,
00:17:00.980 right?
00:17:02.260 Do I see
00:17:02.900 any disagreement?
00:17:04.060 Moving
00:17:04.420 money from
00:17:05.040 green,
00:17:06.200 well not
00:17:06.600 green,
00:17:07.040 but let's
00:17:07.360 call it
00:17:07.920 wind and
00:17:08.440 solar to
00:17:10.080 make sure
00:17:10.460 that nuclear
00:17:11.040 is equally
00:17:11.760 supported
00:17:12.420 that just
00:17:13.820 makes sense.
00:17:15.740 So good
00:17:16.160 on Manchin
00:17:16.640 for that.
00:17:19.400 They call it
00:17:20.240 leveling the
00:17:20.760 playing field
00:17:21.320 for the
00:17:21.680 energy choices.
00:17:22.700 That's good
00:17:23.340 enough.
00:17:23.960 He also
00:17:24.460 got something
00:17:25.620 in that,
00:17:26.220 the bill,
00:17:27.620 that would
00:17:27.980 quote,
00:17:28.880 encourage
00:17:29.440 reshoring of
00:17:30.460 solar panel
00:17:31.080 manufacturing.
00:17:32.740 So getting
00:17:33.360 the manufacturing
00:17:34.500 maybe for
00:17:35.220 windmills too,
00:17:35.880 I'm not sure,
00:17:36.760 but getting
00:17:37.460 some of the
00:17:37.860 manufacturing for
00:17:38.680 this green
00:17:39.100 technology back
00:17:40.240 from China
00:17:40.800 and into
00:17:41.300 the United
00:17:41.640 States.
00:17:43.200 How good
00:17:43.880 an idea
00:17:44.240 is that?
00:17:45.700 Really good.
00:17:47.440 Really good.
00:17:48.180 Yeah,
00:17:48.640 Solyndra,
00:17:49.140 okay.
00:17:50.180 You can do
00:17:50.700 it wrong,
00:17:52.380 right?
00:17:52.700 There's a way
00:17:53.140 to do
00:17:53.400 anything wrong,
00:17:54.260 but we
00:17:55.960 can't let
00:17:56.500 China control
00:17:57.640 our manufacturing.
00:17:59.180 We know
00:17:59.780 we can't
00:18:00.140 do that.
00:18:01.280 So I'm
00:18:01.660 in favor
00:18:02.040 of this.
00:18:02.980 You know,
00:18:03.220 there might
00:18:03.460 be some
00:18:03.800 bumps in
00:18:04.240 the road
00:18:04.520 with this,
00:18:05.000 but that's
00:18:07.120 good.
00:18:07.320 But in
00:18:10.320 terms of
00:18:10.880 fighting
00:18:11.400 against
00:18:11.880 inflation,
00:18:12.800 which is
00:18:13.120 the name
00:18:13.440 of the
00:18:13.680 bill,
00:18:14.440 apparently
00:18:14.800 the experts
00:18:15.400 are saying,
00:18:16.120 yeah,
00:18:16.260 it might
00:18:16.440 help a
00:18:16.760 little,
00:18:17.620 a little
00:18:18.020 bit,
00:18:19.040 but it's
00:18:19.440 not that
00:18:19.900 big a
00:18:20.260 deal for
00:18:21.120 the economy.
00:18:22.140 It's
00:18:22.380 actually not
00:18:22.860 a big
00:18:23.120 bill.
00:18:23.760 Apparently
00:18:24.160 in the
00:18:25.280 grand scheme
00:18:26.040 of things
00:18:26.420 it isn't
00:18:26.800 even that
00:18:27.100 big.
00:18:28.220 But
00:18:28.580 maybe
00:18:30.580 something
00:18:30.880 good will
00:18:31.300 come out
00:18:31.560 of it.
00:18:32.640 So I'm
00:18:33.200 going to
00:18:33.400 say I
00:18:34.020 feel a
00:18:34.480 little bit
00:18:34.860 optimistic
00:18:35.420 about
00:18:36.940 that.
00:18:37.780 Do you?
00:18:39.000 Now,
00:18:39.260 it's still
00:18:39.460 not passed.
00:18:40.140 Anything
00:18:40.360 could happen.
00:18:41.620 But do
00:18:41.940 you feel
00:18:42.200 optimistic
00:18:42.660 about the
00:18:43.440 fact that
00:18:43.840 this got
00:18:44.300 negotiated?
00:18:45.940 A little
00:18:46.560 bit.
00:18:48.880 Those of
00:18:49.540 you saying
00:18:49.860 no,
00:18:50.460 why is it
00:18:51.300 too expensive?
00:18:53.620 Because the
00:18:54.540 experts say
00:18:55.240 it might
00:18:55.500 actually bring
00:18:56.160 down the
00:18:56.760 deficit
00:18:57.260 because there's
00:18:58.340 a tax
00:18:58.720 increase part
00:18:59.300 of it,
00:18:59.540 I guess.
00:19:01.100 So it
00:19:01.700 actually is
00:19:02.100 supposed to
00:19:02.500 reduce
00:19:03.040 inflation a
00:19:04.820 little bit.
00:19:05.420 because we
00:19:07.480 need to
00:19:07.800 stop spending
00:19:08.400 money.
00:19:08.820 I think
00:19:09.040 that's a
00:19:09.360 perfectly
00:19:09.660 good point
00:19:10.160 of view.
00:19:10.880 But I
00:19:11.400 would remind
00:19:12.000 you that
00:19:12.400 nobody knows
00:19:13.000 how much
00:19:13.380 debt we
00:19:13.820 can handle.
00:19:14.920 I don't
00:19:15.180 know why.
00:19:16.380 It feels
00:19:16.800 like something
00:19:17.220 we should
00:19:17.660 be able to
00:19:18.020 figure out,
00:19:18.460 but nobody
00:19:18.740 seems to
00:19:19.180 know.
00:19:20.280 So I
00:19:21.560 share your
00:19:22.380 concern that
00:19:23.620 too much
00:19:24.160 debt is
00:19:26.080 dangerous.
00:19:27.220 I just
00:19:27.560 don't know
00:19:27.960 what is too
00:19:28.420 much.
00:19:29.760 And this
00:19:30.340 seems to
00:19:30.940 be part of
00:19:32.340 reducing that
00:19:33.060 debt, so
00:19:33.640 I don't
00:19:34.320 know.
00:19:35.420 Nobody
00:19:36.020 likes raising
00:19:36.780 taxes, but
00:19:37.540 on the other
00:19:37.900 hand, it
00:19:38.400 did work.
00:19:39.880 Didn't it
00:19:40.200 work for
00:19:40.560 Clinton?
00:19:42.840 Remind me,
00:19:43.980 during the
00:19:44.460 Clinton
00:19:44.760 administration,
00:19:45.780 Bill Clinton,
00:19:47.120 did he not
00:19:47.840 raise taxes
00:19:48.840 and the
00:19:49.700 economy did
00:19:50.280 well?
00:19:52.480 Can
00:19:52.840 somebody,
00:19:53.560 give me a
00:19:53.960 history lesson
00:19:54.760 on that.
00:19:55.220 That's true,
00:19:55.660 right?
00:19:56.360 He raised
00:19:57.080 taxes and
00:19:58.240 still the
00:19:58.920 economy did
00:19:59.480 well?
00:20:00.580 That was
00:20:01.000 because of
00:20:01.380 the dot-com
00:20:01.940 era, more
00:20:02.820 than because of
00:20:03.360 what he
00:20:03.580 did, right?
00:20:06.320 Anyway, so
00:20:07.520 we're not
00:20:07.840 good at
00:20:08.140 predicting the
00:20:08.660 future about
00:20:09.360 economics.
00:20:11.700 Well, the
00:20:12.120 Matt Gaetz
00:20:12.740 effect continues
00:20:14.340 to spread, and
00:20:15.660 I call that
00:20:16.200 the be
00:20:17.000 offended,
00:20:17.640 hashtag be
00:20:18.260 offended.
00:20:20.240 So, hashtag
00:20:21.360 be offended is
00:20:22.220 trending on
00:20:22.780 Twitter still.
00:20:24.500 So, the
00:20:24.960 background is
00:20:25.580 that Matt
00:20:25.960 Gaetz said
00:20:27.240 some things
00:20:28.020 about the
00:20:28.660 protesters who
00:20:30.540 were liberals
00:20:31.780 and he said
00:20:32.660 basically that
00:20:33.760 they were
00:20:34.040 overweight and
00:20:34.680 ugly.
00:20:35.740 And when
00:20:36.240 challenged with
00:20:37.080 that, he
00:20:37.420 said, yeah,
00:20:37.900 be offended.
00:20:39.480 Anyway, a
00:20:41.540 Twitter user
00:20:42.080 named Cornpop
00:20:43.300 gives me this
00:20:44.420 context.
00:20:45.540 Cornpop says,
00:20:47.000 they call us,
00:20:47.780 I guess he
00:20:48.260 means Republicans,
00:20:49.520 they call us
00:20:50.200 Nazis,
00:20:51.020 homophobic,
00:20:51.760 Islamophobic,
00:20:52.560 xenophobic,
00:20:53.280 Bible thumpers,
00:20:54.040 murderers,
00:20:54.520 misogynists,
00:20:55.600 genocidal,
00:20:56.220 racists who
00:20:57.560 aren't equal,
00:20:58.180 blah, blah.
00:20:58.880 And then he
00:20:59.500 goes on and
00:20:59.920 says, however,
00:21:01.380 when we say
00:21:02.320 they're fat,
00:21:02.980 it's the end
00:21:03.360 of the world.
00:21:06.420 Now, to me
00:21:09.960 that's funny,
00:21:10.860 but also
00:21:11.820 offensive.
00:21:13.140 Would you
00:21:13.720 agree?
00:21:14.740 Now, I'm
00:21:16.040 opposed, I'm
00:21:17.800 opposed to
00:21:18.420 fat shaming,
00:21:19.900 right?
00:21:20.620 So, we
00:21:21.320 don't do that
00:21:21.800 here.
00:21:24.280 I don't do
00:21:25.060 fat shaming,
00:21:25.640 and the
00:21:25.840 reason is I
00:21:26.440 don't believe
00:21:27.180 in free
00:21:27.720 will.
00:21:28.820 I don't
00:21:29.140 believe that
00:21:29.560 there are
00:21:29.720 people saying,
00:21:30.400 I think I'd
00:21:30.860 like to be
00:21:31.260 400 pounds.
00:21:33.360 I don't know.
00:21:33.840 I think everybody
00:21:34.480 wants to look
00:21:35.040 beautiful and
00:21:35.760 sexy, it's
00:21:36.640 just not the
00:21:37.280 same challenge
00:21:37.880 for everybody.
00:21:39.000 So, I'm a
00:21:39.920 little bit more
00:21:40.500 forgiving than
00:21:41.100 you are about
00:21:41.720 that.
00:21:42.180 I do think
00:21:42.720 that people
00:21:44.180 should be
00:21:44.560 encouraged to
00:21:45.140 be healthy,
00:21:46.440 but there's
00:21:46.940 some line that
00:21:47.620 you don't want
00:21:48.000 to cross.
00:21:49.020 However,
00:21:50.300 this is another
00:21:51.320 example where I
00:21:52.040 think it's just
00:21:52.460 funny.
00:21:52.800 that if
00:21:54.300 you're being
00:21:55.420 called a
00:21:55.920 Nazi,
00:21:56.440 homophobic,
00:21:57.300 genocidal,
00:21:58.000 racist, and
00:21:59.160 your only
00:21:59.520 response is
00:22:00.180 calling the
00:22:00.540 other side
00:22:00.940 fat, I
00:22:02.280 think that's
00:22:02.840 okay.
00:22:04.520 In context,
00:22:06.480 if somebody's
00:22:07.140 calling you
00:22:07.620 names, that's
00:22:08.640 okay.
00:22:10.580 Did any of you
00:22:11.440 see my little
00:22:12.000 dust-up on
00:22:13.140 Twitter this
00:22:13.960 morning with a
00:22:14.560 user named
00:22:15.000 Kyle?
00:22:15.400 Kyle decided to
00:22:17.800 tweet at me and
00:22:19.060 mention me in a
00:22:19.680 tweet in a rather
00:22:21.360 insulting way, rather
00:22:23.680 aggressively
00:22:24.200 insulting.
00:22:26.140 Kyle was
00:22:26.980 surprised that I
00:22:28.260 would read it and
00:22:29.240 respond aggressively.
00:22:31.580 Kyle did not
00:22:32.180 like to be
00:22:32.860 insulted, and he
00:22:34.460 called me out for
00:22:35.140 insulting him, to
00:22:36.900 which I said,
00:22:37.700 Kyle, you
00:22:39.160 ignorant piece of
00:22:40.060 shit.
00:22:41.360 What did you
00:22:42.080 think would
00:22:42.460 happen when you
00:22:43.080 insulted me first?
00:22:44.740 Did you think I
00:22:45.560 would just mute
00:22:47.020 you or block
00:22:47.660 you?
00:22:47.960 Sometimes I do
00:22:48.620 that.
00:22:49.540 But you're a
00:22:51.120 free punch,
00:22:51.680 buddy.
00:22:52.600 You're a free
00:22:53.220 punch.
00:22:54.660 If you insult
00:22:55.480 me in public, I'm
00:22:56.480 going to come at
00:22:56.940 you as hard as I
00:22:57.700 want to, just
00:22:58.840 for fun.
00:23:00.220 Just for fun.
00:23:01.460 People watching
00:23:02.220 say, oh, Scott's
00:23:03.160 mad.
00:23:03.700 Sometimes.
00:23:04.920 Not today.
00:23:05.820 Today was just
00:23:06.660 for fun.
00:23:07.640 You insult me
00:23:08.340 first, you're my
00:23:09.060 fucking entertainment
00:23:09.900 for the rest of
00:23:10.700 the day.
00:23:12.620 Those are the
00:23:13.260 rules.
00:23:14.040 You insult me
00:23:14.800 first in public,
00:23:16.500 you're my fucking
00:23:17.520 bitch for the rest
00:23:18.300 of the day.
00:23:19.340 For free.
00:23:20.120 free entertainment
00:23:21.340 and everybody
00:23:22.160 else gets to
00:23:22.780 watch.
00:23:24.020 So, I don't
00:23:25.640 make the rules.
00:23:27.140 I don't make
00:23:27.640 the rules.
00:23:29.160 And I generally
00:23:30.160 don't, I
00:23:31.900 generally, well,
00:23:32.640 do I?
00:23:33.380 Maybe I insult
00:23:34.840 people first.
00:23:36.340 It's Twitter
00:23:37.080 after all.
00:23:37.740 I'm sure I've
00:23:38.180 done that.
00:23:41.360 He has no
00:23:42.180 free will, Kyle.
00:23:43.360 Well, neither do
00:23:44.020 I.
00:23:44.280 I can't help
00:23:44.840 going after him.
00:23:45.520 Well, the race
00:23:49.220 for Congress
00:23:49.840 is tightening
00:23:50.660 up.
00:23:51.840 You know, that
00:23:52.180 big lead that a
00:23:53.260 generic Republican
00:23:54.320 had over a
00:23:55.100 generic Democrat
00:23:55.960 starting to close
00:23:57.000 according to
00:23:57.540 Rasmussen polling.
00:23:59.120 So, it's getting
00:23:59.860 down to a five-point
00:24:00.780 difference.
00:24:01.580 So, I think it
00:24:02.040 had been up to a
00:24:02.620 nine-point difference.
00:24:04.440 People preferring a
00:24:05.440 generic Republican
00:24:06.360 in the midterms.
00:24:07.940 But, a little
00:24:10.060 history lesson.
00:24:10.860 It's not unusual
00:24:11.920 for those gaps
00:24:13.000 to completely
00:24:14.740 close by
00:24:15.600 election day.
00:24:17.000 So, no matter
00:24:17.920 how big that
00:24:18.600 gap is now,
00:24:19.680 nine or five
00:24:20.860 points, by
00:24:22.380 election day,
00:24:23.460 it could be
00:24:24.020 zero.
00:24:25.120 It could be
00:24:25.520 zero.
00:24:26.340 So, don't get
00:24:27.080 too cocky about
00:24:29.000 your big Republican
00:24:30.080 lead if you think
00:24:31.020 that's a good
00:24:31.500 thing.
00:24:32.580 Probably it's
00:24:33.300 just going to go
00:24:33.880 away toward the
00:24:34.520 end.
00:24:35.340 Now, it doesn't
00:24:35.840 mean the Republicans
00:24:36.500 won't sweep, but
00:24:38.180 it'll probably be a
00:24:38.720 lot closer than
00:24:39.480 you think.
00:24:40.860 So, we'll see
00:24:41.600 what happens.
00:24:44.140 And, it is a lot
00:24:45.080 of different
00:24:45.420 polling organizations,
00:24:46.500 so I wouldn't
00:24:46.900 worry that the
00:24:48.400 pollsters are all
00:24:49.340 in on some kind
00:24:50.300 of a plot or
00:24:51.040 anything like that.
00:24:51.680 There are enough
00:24:52.280 pollsters to
00:24:53.040 guarantee that
00:24:54.180 doesn't happen.
00:24:55.120 Well, are you
00:24:55.500 waiting for the
00:24:56.080 funniest story of
00:24:56.820 the day?
00:24:57.960 I know you are.
00:24:58.760 NBC News reports
00:25:00.000 that the Biden
00:25:01.780 administration has
00:25:02.640 authorized completion
00:25:03.720 of the Trump-funded
00:25:05.180 U.S.-Mexico
00:25:06.180 border wall in an
00:25:08.140 open area of
00:25:08.940 southern Arizona
00:25:09.720 near Yuma.
00:25:10.860 Where four
00:25:11.800 wide gaps make
00:25:13.280 it among the
00:25:13.820 busiest corridors
00:25:14.720 for illegal
00:25:15.420 crossings.
00:25:18.180 Okay.
00:25:19.540 Now, was there
00:25:20.800 anybody you know
00:25:22.340 who predicted that
00:25:23.480 Biden would have
00:25:24.260 to adopt Trump's
00:25:26.500 policies that were
00:25:27.400 working?
00:25:30.000 This guy?
00:25:31.300 This guy?
00:25:32.260 Yeah.
00:25:32.800 From the very
00:25:33.480 beginning, I said,
00:25:34.480 you know, he's
00:25:35.020 going to have to
00:25:35.420 just do what Trump
00:25:36.580 did.
00:25:36.920 He's just going to
00:25:37.420 be forced into it
00:25:38.300 in the end.
00:25:39.220 So here's more
00:25:40.120 in that direction.
00:25:42.220 But, given that
00:25:43.460 the Democrats do
00:25:45.300 not like to use
00:25:47.180 the same names for
00:25:48.040 things that other
00:25:48.700 people do, we can't
00:25:50.560 really call it
00:25:51.280 Trump's wall, can we?
00:25:52.660 If Biden is
00:25:53.400 building it, the
00:25:54.080 Democrats are not
00:25:54.780 going to want to
00:25:56.180 say, we decided to
00:25:57.800 keep building Trump's
00:25:59.300 wall.
00:26:00.620 So he's going to
00:26:01.660 need some kind of
00:26:02.360 name for it.
00:26:03.040 So I was thinking,
00:26:04.340 what could you
00:26:04.760 call the wall
00:26:05.900 besides Trump's
00:26:08.140 wall?
00:26:09.920 And luckily, there
00:26:11.800 are a whole bunch
00:26:12.220 of words that
00:26:12.740 don't have any
00:26:13.340 meaning that can
00:26:14.720 be repurposed.
00:26:16.020 So find a word
00:26:17.200 that used to mean
00:26:18.080 something but no
00:26:18.980 longer has any
00:26:19.700 meaning whatsoever,
00:26:20.800 and then you
00:26:21.240 maybe repurpose
00:26:22.000 that for Trump's
00:26:22.760 wall.
00:26:23.220 For example,
00:26:23.820 recession.
00:26:25.300 You'd say that
00:26:26.260 Biden is building
00:26:27.420 a recession on
00:26:28.420 the southern border
00:26:29.120 because recession
00:26:30.820 used to mean
00:26:31.380 something, but now
00:26:32.080 it doesn't mean
00:26:32.460 anything.
00:26:33.040 How about
00:26:33.560 woman?
00:26:35.460 We'll call it a
00:26:36.460 woman.
00:26:37.540 Again, it doesn't
00:26:38.300 have any specific
00:26:39.040 definition, so it's
00:26:40.620 available.
00:26:41.900 It's available.
00:26:44.420 Well, to make
00:26:45.300 things funnier,
00:26:46.280 Mayor Bowser in
00:26:48.140 Washington, D.C.,
00:26:49.480 seems to be
00:26:50.520 concerned that her
00:26:53.280 idea of becoming
00:26:54.400 a sanctuary city
00:26:55.580 was taken a
00:26:56.980 little bit too
00:26:57.460 seriously.
00:26:58.720 It turns out that
00:26:59.780 when she said D.C.
00:27:01.800 would be a
00:27:02.260 sanctuary city and
00:27:03.720 immigrants would be
00:27:04.520 welcome there with
00:27:05.440 open arms, she was
00:27:07.440 not counting on the
00:27:08.580 Texas governor busing
00:27:09.980 her as many
00:27:10.600 immigrants as she
00:27:11.240 wanted, which is
00:27:13.520 one of the funniest
00:27:14.220 political plays of
00:27:15.580 the time.
00:27:16.920 That is funny.
00:27:18.860 Now, when it first
00:27:19.640 happened, it just
00:27:20.480 felt like a political
00:27:21.840 grandstanding kind of
00:27:23.140 thing.
00:27:24.300 But I didn't realize
00:27:25.140 she would actually do
00:27:25.940 it.
00:27:26.160 did you think that
00:27:29.560 Texas would actually
00:27:30.660 just say, all right,
00:27:31.840 I don't care how many
00:27:32.580 buses it takes, that
00:27:33.620 you're all going to
00:27:34.320 Washington, D.C.
00:27:37.220 It's fucking
00:27:38.000 brilliant.
00:27:39.260 It's brilliant.
00:27:40.900 The other border
00:27:41.900 states, you know,
00:27:43.120 maybe Arizona should do
00:27:44.200 it, should start
00:27:45.400 shipping all the extra
00:27:46.780 immigrants to
00:27:47.600 Washington, D.C.
00:27:48.540 and give them a phone.
00:27:50.300 Like, give them some
00:27:50.920 incentive to go to
00:27:51.740 Washington, D.C.
00:27:53.220 Because I think it's
00:27:54.300 Greg Gutfeld who says
00:27:55.420 this the most.
00:27:57.760 I don't remember
00:27:58.580 seeing anybody else
00:27:59.600 say it as clearly.
00:28:01.720 Nobody's going to
00:28:02.280 change anything until
00:28:03.220 it comes to their
00:28:03.860 doorstep.
00:28:05.720 When it comes to
00:28:06.620 their doorstep, well,
00:28:08.060 they'll get serious.
00:28:09.740 So Texas said, well,
00:28:11.100 they're on our
00:28:11.700 doorstep.
00:28:12.260 Let's see how you
00:28:12.800 feel.
00:28:13.140 We'll put them on
00:28:13.580 your doorstep.
00:28:14.380 And then they
00:28:14.760 actually did it.
00:28:15.820 So they've only got
00:28:16.460 4,000, but Bowser's
00:28:17.960 already calling up the
00:28:18.800 National Guard to help
00:28:20.520 out.
00:28:20.960 Now, she's not saying,
00:28:21.780 she's not crying
00:28:22.620 uncle, and she's not
00:28:24.260 saying, oh, we're not
00:28:25.140 a sanctuary city anymore.
00:28:26.300 She's got to kind of
00:28:27.160 go with that.
00:28:28.020 But she's going to
00:28:28.760 have to eat it.
00:28:30.500 I mean, she's got to
00:28:31.240 eat every challenge that
00:28:33.100 comes with this because
00:28:34.060 she signed up for it.
00:28:35.540 So there you go.
00:28:37.460 All right, I have a
00:28:38.220 question for you.
00:28:42.800 If you're a public
00:28:43.900 figure and you talk
00:28:44.760 about politics, so
00:28:46.200 people like me are in
00:28:47.120 that category, what
00:28:49.400 should you do if you
00:28:50.460 suspect a foreign
00:28:52.720 intelligence agency is
00:28:55.000 trying to connect
00:28:56.860 with you?
00:28:58.440 Should I do anything
00:28:59.360 about that?
00:29:01.200 Because every now and
00:29:02.120 then I'll get a contact
00:29:03.260 from somebody who's
00:29:04.320 obviously not an
00:29:05.300 American citizen and
00:29:07.360 is trying a little too
00:29:08.360 hard to be my friend.
00:29:10.060 You know what I mean?
00:29:10.660 And I'm not, it's
00:29:15.740 nothing you've heard
00:29:16.480 of, right?
00:29:17.740 But am I supposed to
00:29:21.020 do something with
00:29:21.640 that?
00:29:23.040 No, I'm not talking
00:29:23.720 about, you know, on
00:29:25.320 Twitter.
00:29:25.820 On Twitter, everything's
00:29:26.680 public.
00:29:27.960 Well, everything on that
00:29:29.620 category is public.
00:29:31.440 So, but just generally
00:29:33.220 speaking, should I, but
00:29:36.520 should you contact the
00:29:37.480 FBI just because you
00:29:38.320 have a vague suspicion?
00:29:45.260 If somebody says, is
00:29:46.320 she hot?
00:29:47.640 That makes a
00:29:48.400 difference.
00:29:49.700 No, and by the way,
00:29:51.440 if you're thinking to
00:29:52.260 yourself, if you're
00:29:54.180 thinking to yourself
00:29:54.900 watching this, that you
00:29:57.540 might be the one I'm
00:29:58.300 talking about, it's not
00:29:59.240 you.
00:30:01.780 If you've contacted me
00:30:03.200 recently on social media,
00:30:04.860 don't worry, I'm not
00:30:05.640 talking about you.
00:30:06.260 I don't think you're a
00:30:07.140 foreign agent.
00:30:08.500 It's just something
00:30:09.300 happened, you know, not
00:30:10.380 too long ago that I
00:30:11.940 looked at and I said,
00:30:12.660 you know, this doesn't
00:30:14.880 smell right.
00:30:16.100 Now, if you're a man, can
00:30:18.280 the men confirm this?
00:30:19.340 Do you get a lot of
00:30:19.940 social media traffic?
00:30:22.800 There's obviously somebody
00:30:24.020 pretending to be a
00:30:24.980 woman and it's going to
00:30:26.280 be some scam.
00:30:27.420 You get a lot of those,
00:30:28.320 right?
00:30:29.060 But they have a, they
00:30:29.920 have a specific look to
00:30:31.160 them.
00:30:32.000 You can identify those
00:30:33.360 immediately.
00:30:33.800 But sometimes you get
00:30:35.880 one that's going a
00:30:37.000 little extra, like
00:30:38.480 throwing in some
00:30:39.180 politics and stuff.
00:30:41.000 Hmm?
00:30:41.840 I got, I got
00:30:42.560 questions.
00:30:43.600 I don't know.
00:30:46.040 Fang Fang is a
00:30:47.040 baldy chaser?
00:30:48.860 Maybe.
00:30:51.080 But that's a serious
00:30:52.240 question.
00:30:53.720 At what point should I
00:30:55.540 actually get somebody
00:30:56.480 else involved?
00:30:57.900 Now, I don't think
00:30:58.620 there's any risk because
00:31:00.380 I'm not, you know,
00:31:01.620 there's nobody contacting
00:31:02.740 me that would influence
00:31:03.620 me in any way.
00:31:05.040 I don't think.
00:31:07.600 Can you screenshot and
00:31:08.780 post on locals?
00:31:09.600 No, because, no, I
00:31:10.940 can't do that.
00:31:11.580 Because it might be just
00:31:12.580 somebody who's being
00:31:13.220 nice.
00:31:14.740 Right?
00:31:16.360 That's the problem.
00:31:17.360 It could be a
00:31:18.160 completely friendly
00:31:19.560 person who's being
00:31:20.340 nice or has some
00:31:21.100 other ulterior motive,
00:31:22.480 but it's not.
00:31:23.720 So I'm not going to end
00:31:24.680 with somebody just for
00:31:25.380 that.
00:31:26.180 But it's definitely a
00:31:27.560 suspicious contact
00:31:28.800 from Russia.
00:31:31.140 I'll give you a name.
00:31:32.840 It's a Russian person
00:31:36.280 who clearly looks like,
00:31:37.920 I don't know that you
00:31:39.960 would be contacting me
00:31:41.300 the way you're
00:31:42.140 contacting me
00:31:43.200 without that.
00:31:47.580 But let me ask you
00:31:49.320 more generally.
00:31:51.280 If you were Russia,
00:31:53.640 would you not be
00:31:54.740 trying to influence
00:31:55.700 American influencers?
00:31:57.460 You would, wouldn't
00:31:59.980 you?
00:32:00.900 Wouldn't that be the
00:32:01.620 most basic thing you
00:32:02.840 would do?
00:32:03.820 Is try to influence the
00:32:05.240 influencers?
00:32:05.800 Because there are not
00:32:06.520 that many of them.
00:32:07.740 There might be, well,
00:32:09.700 give me a number.
00:32:10.620 How many public
00:32:13.000 influencers are there
00:32:14.200 that matter to Russia?
00:32:17.580 Like, the top, you
00:32:19.540 know, the ones that
00:32:20.080 make a difference.
00:32:20.680 It's sort of a 20-80,
00:32:21.880 80-20 rule here.
00:32:23.140 It can't, it's not
00:32:23.880 everybody who talks
00:32:24.760 about it makes a
00:32:25.520 difference.
00:32:26.500 There are only a
00:32:27.020 small percentage of
00:32:27.860 the people who talk
00:32:28.580 about politics who
00:32:29.460 can move the needle,
00:32:31.120 and I'm one of them.
00:32:34.700 Right.
00:32:35.960 The FBI is not your
00:32:37.160 friend.
00:32:38.000 That's a good point.
00:32:40.120 Yeah, because I was
00:32:40.940 thinking, you know,
00:32:41.480 should I contact the
00:32:42.440 FBI or something,
00:32:43.720 if I think I've been
00:32:44.580 contacted by a foreign
00:32:45.620 agent?
00:32:46.820 And somebody said,
00:32:48.440 the FBI is not your
00:32:49.400 friend.
00:32:49.800 You're actually,
00:32:50.240 you're absolutely right.
00:32:51.740 You're absolutely right.
00:32:52.660 And so that's the
00:32:53.700 answer to my question.
00:32:55.940 Yeah.
00:32:56.560 Unfortunately, that's
00:32:57.260 the answer to my
00:32:57.840 question.
00:32:58.520 I would not contact
00:32:59.480 the FBI because I
00:33:00.360 don't trust them.
00:33:02.600 Think about that.
00:33:04.080 How fucked up is
00:33:04.980 that?
00:33:05.940 Like, that's an
00:33:06.520 actual decision.
00:33:07.240 I just made a
00:33:07.780 decision.
00:33:08.880 That even if I
00:33:09.940 suspected, I wouldn't
00:33:10.940 contact the FBI because
00:33:12.060 I don't trust them.
00:33:13.340 With anything.
00:33:14.660 I don't trust them
00:33:15.340 with anything.
00:33:16.420 I don't trust them
00:33:17.200 to have my name.
00:33:18.540 I don't trust them
00:33:19.420 to be looking into
00:33:20.200 something on my
00:33:20.880 behalf.
00:33:21.360 Nothing.
00:33:22.240 I don't trust them
00:33:22.800 with anything.
00:33:23.160 But I will say
00:33:26.300 that the contact
00:33:27.120 was a very casual
00:33:28.040 one, and I'm not
00:33:28.940 going to follow up
00:33:29.560 on it.
00:33:30.060 So there's nothing
00:33:31.140 to worry about if
00:33:31.880 you're the FBI.
00:33:33.480 It was a casual
00:33:34.240 contact, and I'm not
00:33:35.340 going to be, I won't
00:33:36.340 be following up on
00:33:37.480 it.
00:33:40.180 All right.
00:33:43.900 I saw a study that
00:33:45.900 says Republicans are
00:33:47.780 more likely to be
00:33:48.780 married than Democrats
00:33:50.160 by a fairly large
00:33:52.180 percentage.
00:33:55.160 Fairly large
00:33:55.940 percentage.
00:33:57.400 That makes sense,
00:33:58.460 doesn't it?
00:34:00.160 Now, but I wondered
00:34:02.660 if this is really
00:34:03.500 telling me what I
00:34:04.180 think it is.
00:34:05.360 Because it's
00:34:06.040 suggesting there's
00:34:06.840 something about being
00:34:07.600 married that's
00:34:09.080 correlated with being
00:34:10.120 Republican, which is
00:34:11.740 probably true.
00:34:13.360 But, does anybody,
00:34:15.740 I haven't looked at
00:34:16.380 that, but Republicans
00:34:17.180 are older, right?
00:34:17.920 Am I right?
00:34:21.520 Everybody between,
00:34:22.620 you know, seems like
00:34:23.740 between 18 and 25,
00:34:26.560 it's probably at least
00:34:27.560 60% Democrat.
00:34:32.040 Yeah.
00:34:33.260 So, I don't know if
00:34:35.140 that's telling me
00:34:35.980 something, but I don't
00:34:37.400 think we can ignore
00:34:38.180 the fact that the
00:34:39.360 single versus married
00:34:40.460 and younger versus
00:34:41.920 older are pretty
00:34:43.460 important elements.
00:34:45.080 More important than
00:34:46.160 the Democrat versus
00:34:47.000 Republican, probably.
00:34:47.920 the way.
00:34:49.240 Somehow we lose sight
00:34:50.480 of that stuff.
00:34:54.240 So, how many of you
00:34:56.000 know what a
00:34:56.860 Schrodinger's cat is?
00:34:59.120 I have an unusual
00:35:00.120 audience, which is
00:35:01.340 true, by the way.
00:35:01.940 This is probably the
00:35:02.500 most educated audience.
00:35:04.920 Maybe anywhere.
00:35:06.720 It's possible.
00:35:08.800 So, most of you know
00:35:09.740 what it is.
00:35:10.300 But for the, is there
00:35:11.580 anybody who doesn't
00:35:12.180 know what it is?
00:35:12.940 You all say yes.
00:35:15.080 Do you know in the, in the
00:35:16.100 general public doesn't know
00:35:17.100 what a Schrodinger's cat is?
00:35:18.200 You know that, right?
00:35:19.800 My God.
00:35:20.600 How do you all know
00:35:21.320 about it?
00:35:22.700 I, I, I'm just seeing a
00:35:24.180 few no's and all the rest
00:35:25.280 of it.
00:35:25.380 Yes.
00:35:25.840 You are a really educated
00:35:27.100 group.
00:35:30.040 This is, I'm blown away.
00:35:32.320 I'm blown away.
00:35:33.160 If you use that as a marker
00:35:35.360 for how well informed
00:35:37.060 somebody is, that's like a
00:35:39.320 really good one for finding
00:35:40.740 out if somebody's, you know,
00:35:43.020 wrestled with some of the
00:35:44.300 more interesting questions in
00:35:46.140 science, for example.
00:35:47.020 So, Schrodinger's cat is
00:35:49.900 based on the, you know,
00:35:51.840 quantum physics theories
00:35:53.360 that something doesn't
00:35:55.340 exist until it's observed
00:35:56.600 or measured.
00:35:58.760 And Schrodinger said,
00:35:59.760 that couldn't possibly be
00:36:00.920 true.
00:36:01.400 I think I'm mischaracterizing
00:36:02.560 Schrodinger, but this is
00:36:03.560 the basic idea.
00:36:05.300 That can't be true.
00:36:06.380 If those equations are
00:36:07.320 true, it would mean the
00:36:09.040 following, and the following
00:36:10.200 can't be true.
00:36:11.540 And the following was that
00:36:13.260 you could take a cat, a
00:36:14.560 living cat, put it in a
00:36:15.500 box, seal the box, and
00:36:17.000 put it in a box so that
00:36:17.640 nobody can hear it or see
00:36:19.160 it, and nobody knows
00:36:20.040 what's happening with the
00:36:20.800 cat.
00:36:21.460 Put it in the box, some
00:36:22.720 kind of radioactive
00:36:23.680 decaying thing that is
00:36:25.580 unpredictable, totally
00:36:28.000 random.
00:36:29.140 And then that thing, under
00:36:30.420 some conditions, would
00:36:31.480 trigger poison that kills
00:36:33.180 the cat, and under other
00:36:34.900 conditions would not.
00:36:36.280 But if you're outside the
00:36:37.520 box, you can never predict
00:36:38.980 and never know what's
00:36:40.860 happening inside the box.
00:36:42.700 And Schrodinger says the
00:36:43.720 equations tell us that under
00:36:46.120 those conditions, the
00:36:47.000 cat is both alive and
00:36:49.800 dead at the same time.
00:36:53.140 And so he said the
00:36:54.240 equations must be wrong
00:36:55.580 because that's not
00:36:57.600 possible.
00:36:59.840 Was it Einstein who said
00:37:01.080 it?
00:37:01.640 Yeah.
00:37:02.020 So I got, let me confess,
00:37:05.720 I got everything about
00:37:06.560 that story wrong.
00:37:08.880 Can you confirm that?
00:37:10.560 Confirm in the comments.
00:37:11.640 I got most of that story
00:37:13.160 wrong, but it's close.
00:37:14.800 It's like in the ballpark,
00:37:16.220 right?
00:37:16.640 Maybe Einstein said it.
00:37:18.260 I think there's also some
00:37:19.340 dispute about what
00:37:21.160 Schrodinger really believed
00:37:22.760 and what he meant by the
00:37:24.380 experiment.
00:37:26.600 So there's a popular
00:37:27.840 interpretation of what he
00:37:29.100 meant, but I think the
00:37:30.100 actual interpretation is
00:37:31.140 more subtle.
00:37:32.700 However, that doesn't matter
00:37:34.980 to my point.
00:37:36.820 What matters to my point is
00:37:38.400 that Schrodinger was proven
00:37:39.780 correct.
00:37:41.880 Simulation theory allows
00:37:44.720 that cat to be both alive
00:37:46.120 and dead at the same time.
00:37:47.900 So we actually do now have
00:37:49.440 a theory that is the theory
00:37:51.740 of everything.
00:37:53.480 You know how Einstein and
00:37:54.960 the most important
00:37:55.960 scientists have been
00:37:56.700 looking forever for a
00:37:58.180 theory that would tie
00:37:59.100 together all the forces and
00:38:00.720 it would explain why
00:38:01.780 everything is everything and
00:38:03.140 how it all fits together?
00:38:05.480 That's done.
00:38:07.260 It's done.
00:38:08.800 It's called the simulation
00:38:09.940 theory.
00:38:10.980 Here are some of the things
00:38:13.080 that quantum physics
00:38:14.620 couldn't figure out and was
00:38:16.120 trying to reconcile.
00:38:18.120 How could it be that the cat
00:38:19.480 could be both alive and dead
00:38:20.920 at the same time in the box?
00:38:23.000 Simulation theory.
00:38:24.480 If we're software, that's easy.
00:38:27.060 The software doesn't create
00:38:28.480 your history until you need it.
00:38:31.760 So in simulation theory,
00:38:33.440 you don't need a history of
00:38:34.720 what the cat had done until
00:38:36.140 somebody looks at it or
00:38:37.520 measures it.
00:38:39.000 And then, at that point,
00:38:40.220 you consolidate it into
00:38:41.540 reality or the perceived
00:38:43.540 reality.
00:38:44.320 And then, it can build a
00:38:46.200 history.
00:38:47.420 But in simulation theory,
00:38:49.340 what you do today creates
00:38:53.060 the past.
00:38:54.440 So the past doesn't always
00:38:55.700 exist except the past that
00:38:57.260 was observed and measured.
00:38:58.960 That past does exist.
00:39:00.520 But anything that wasn't
00:39:01.620 already observed and
00:39:02.580 measured, what happens in the
00:39:04.760 present creates that past.
00:39:07.440 So not only does the past
00:39:09.140 create the future, that's
00:39:11.440 confirmed, but in simulation
00:39:14.240 theory, the present can also
00:39:17.240 create the past.
00:39:18.820 Now, give me a little fact
00:39:22.220 check on this because science
00:39:23.320 isn't my strongest category.
00:39:25.580 is it not true that the
00:39:28.860 formulas about time and the
00:39:31.020 arrow of time work in both
00:39:32.920 directions, and that science is
00:39:35.020 a little puzzled by that?
00:39:36.800 How can the equations for
00:39:38.980 time, I guess space-time, they
00:39:41.720 seem to work in both
00:39:42.680 directions?
00:39:48.520 Now, there's an argument that
00:39:50.420 that's not true, that the
00:39:52.240 arrow of time works in one
00:39:53.380 direction, but I'm pretty sure
00:39:54.860 that the equations have been
00:39:56.260 said to work in both
00:39:58.180 directions, but that in a
00:39:59.640 practical sense, that didn't
00:40:01.820 matter, that time only goes
00:40:03.960 forward.
00:40:05.260 But simulation theory allows
00:40:07.200 you to actually have it both
00:40:08.400 ways.
00:40:09.460 Simulation theory would say,
00:40:10.900 yeah, it makes total sense
00:40:12.080 that the present can create the
00:40:14.620 past and that the past can
00:40:17.040 create the future.
00:40:17.900 Both of them would be true.
00:40:18.880 So, how about the speed of
00:40:23.600 light?
00:40:24.260 Doesn't make any sense, does
00:40:25.560 it?
00:40:26.740 How does it make sense there's a
00:40:28.160 maximum speed?
00:40:30.460 How does that make sense?
00:40:32.320 Well, for software, it makes
00:40:33.720 sense, because you have to put
00:40:35.400 limits on, you know, what the
00:40:36.780 artificial world can do, so you
00:40:38.140 just put that limit on it.
00:40:39.120 Eh, speed of light.
00:40:40.880 How does something have a
00:40:42.240 beginning?
00:40:43.480 That doesn't make any sense.
00:40:45.200 Like, everything is explained,
00:40:46.440 everything by the simulation.
00:40:49.140 So, everybody who's looking for
00:40:50.840 the grand, you know, formula that
00:40:53.940 ties everything together, stop
00:40:56.080 looking.
00:40:57.420 It's just software.
00:40:58.820 The reason you can't find it is
00:41:00.860 that it exists in a different
00:41:01.920 domain.
00:41:03.240 It exists in the domain of
00:41:04.760 software.
00:41:05.500 It can make anything look
00:41:06.400 possible.
00:41:07.540 Here's another one.
00:41:09.960 Bell's theorem.
00:41:11.640 So, give me a fact check on this
00:41:12.940 too.
00:41:13.740 Bell's theorem, I don't have the
00:41:15.700 exact language for this, so fix
00:41:17.720 my language as I go in the
00:41:19.240 comments.
00:41:20.620 You take a, is it a particle with
00:41:22.700 a certain spin, and you break it
00:41:24.380 in half and separate the two
00:41:26.340 particles by any amount of
00:41:28.100 distance?
00:41:31.140 No, if you haven't measured the
00:41:33.120 spin of a, if you haven't
00:41:37.680 measured the spin, and then you
00:41:39.280 separate them, measuring one of
00:41:41.860 them makes you know what the
00:41:44.100 other one is, no matter where it
00:41:45.520 is.
00:41:46.300 So, in other words, quantum
00:41:47.340 intangible, yeah.
00:41:48.400 So, it's spooky action at a
00:41:50.060 distance.
00:41:51.560 So, within, within science, we
00:41:56.240 know that nothing can move
00:41:57.420 faster than the speed of light,
00:41:59.520 except that the spooky action at a
00:42:01.320 distance does.
00:42:02.120 So, you have two things that can't
00:42:05.100 both be true.
00:42:06.420 You can't have something affecting
00:42:07.780 something across great distances
00:42:09.640 instantly, because that means the
00:42:11.560 signal from one to the other would
00:42:12.880 travel faster than the speed of
00:42:14.300 light, but you can't.
00:42:16.740 So, physics can't explain that.
00:42:19.220 You know it can?
00:42:20.800 Simulation theory.
00:42:22.220 Because in simulation theory,
00:42:23.480 there's no distance.
00:42:24.380 It's just software.
00:42:25.700 So, anything can happen at the same
00:42:27.080 time, but you might also have some
00:42:29.540 rules to keep people in your
00:42:31.540 universe, and maybe you add the
00:42:33.300 speed of light as a distance.
00:42:34.900 So, any kind of conflict that
00:42:37.560 physics can't figure out, like, how
00:42:39.560 could this be true all the time,
00:42:40.980 where the opposite's true also all
00:42:43.060 the time?
00:42:44.400 Software.
00:42:45.600 Software can make opposites work.
00:42:47.600 It can do anything.
00:42:48.800 So, all those little imperfections that
00:42:52.860 we haven't figured out in science,
00:42:56.500 probably just because we're a
00:42:58.620 simulation.
00:43:02.040 All right.
00:43:04.380 Bell's experiment proved Einstein
00:43:06.400 right about non-locality, right?
00:43:08.040 So, in my view, every mystery in
00:43:14.660 science is solved by the simulation
00:43:16.340 and perfectly solved.
00:43:18.780 It doesn't leave anything left.
00:43:20.560 There's nothing left to explain.
00:43:21.880 It's all done.
00:43:24.840 So, that doesn't mean simulation
00:43:26.540 theory is true.
00:43:29.100 You're conflating software with
00:43:30.560 theory.
00:43:31.160 Now, I'm using software more as an
00:43:32.880 analogy.
00:43:33.280 So, when I say software and that
00:43:37.080 we're a simulation, it doesn't mean
00:43:38.900 we're necessarily bits, because we
00:43:40.360 don't know what some advanced
00:43:41.580 civilization would use to program
00:43:44.200 something.
00:43:45.880 But, sort of, conceptually, we're
00:43:48.560 software.
00:43:49.320 Not, maybe, maybe not literally.
00:43:56.700 It's all solved by God, somebody
00:43:59.160 says.
00:43:59.440 Language easily generates paradoxes.
00:44:04.080 You are correct.
00:44:05.520 A lot of things that look like
00:44:06.820 paradoxes are probably the
00:44:08.100 limitations of language.
00:44:09.840 That's exactly correct.
00:44:11.940 Physics can't be explained to
00:44:13.500 people, because when physicists
00:44:15.680 try to explain their formulas,
00:44:18.260 they try to turn it into words,
00:44:20.760 because that's what people
00:44:21.640 understand.
00:44:22.680 But once you change the math into
00:44:24.220 words, it actually becomes
00:44:25.260 nonsense.
00:44:27.900 Bell's theorem.
00:44:28.660 It's just nonsense, in words.
00:44:32.740 All right.
00:44:35.720 Software runs on hardware?
00:44:37.540 Well, in our universe, it does.
00:44:41.480 I don't know what hardware means
00:44:42.900 in some other reality.
00:44:44.560 But, anyway, that was all a long,
00:44:47.100 long way to get to this joke.
00:44:49.080 How did we end up with
00:44:50.220 Schrodinger's president,
00:44:51.920 simultaneously alive and dead at
00:44:53.640 the same time?
00:44:54.660 You know what I mean.
00:44:56.540 You know what I mean.
00:44:57.400 Biden is technically alive.
00:45:01.480 We'd all agree on that.
00:45:03.360 But have you ever seen any
00:45:04.960 human being who seemed more
00:45:07.060 technically dead and alive at the
00:45:08.880 same time?
00:45:10.280 At the same time.
00:45:11.920 You have not.
00:45:13.500 No.
00:45:14.360 No, nobody's ever been as dead and
00:45:16.460 alive at the same time.
00:45:17.680 And that, ladies and gentlemen,
00:45:22.440 concludes some of the best live streaming
00:45:25.100 you've ever seen in your young life.
00:45:28.240 And may I mention how good you look today.
00:45:31.820 Have you been exercising?
00:45:33.400 I think you have.
00:45:34.300 Here's a question for you.
00:45:38.260 What happens when I've assembled
00:45:41.980 the smartest audience in politics?
00:45:45.500 Could get interesting.
00:45:47.300 We might already be there.
00:45:49.960 Name an audience that's smarter than this one.
00:45:53.400 I think Lex Friedman gets pretty smart people.
00:45:55.700 Tim Ferriss gets pretty smart people.
00:45:57.260 But I feel like this is among the smartest.
00:46:01.040 And the other things that you don't get
00:46:02.580 on other content
00:46:03.720 is that we collectively work on our
00:46:07.280 thinking and knowledge as we go.
00:46:10.260 You see that, right?
00:46:11.420 You feel it?
00:46:12.680 Don't you feel like we're sort of
00:46:14.380 working through things together?
00:46:16.180 You see me change my opinions based on
00:46:18.660 your feedback, etc.
00:46:20.340 So I feel like we're like
00:46:23.660 almost a collective mind
00:46:26.100 that's involved in some kind of
00:46:28.380 intentional self-improvement.
00:46:31.740 That's a good way to put it.
00:46:33.380 We are like a metamind.
00:46:35.480 You know, the sum of us collectively
00:46:37.460 working together are like a mind.
00:46:39.460 And we do seem to be intentionally,
00:46:41.640 and that's an important word here,
00:46:43.540 intentionally involved in self-improvement.
00:46:47.840 You know, if you look at the people
00:46:49.220 on the Locals platform,
00:46:50.660 they've got over 200 micro lessons
00:46:52.760 that I put there,
00:46:53.620 two-minute lessons to give you
00:46:55.040 like a permanent life skill.
00:46:57.660 There are people on YouTube,
00:46:59.000 on the Locals,
00:47:00.620 who have consumed over 200 lessons.
00:47:05.100 Each one individually could change your life.
00:47:08.280 I got a feeling that people are starting
00:47:09.940 to develop superpowers over there.
00:47:13.840 For the benefit of the YouTube viewers,
00:47:16.380 I'm going to read off some comments.
00:47:17.980 But on the Locals platform,
00:47:21.000 how many of you have gotten a raise,
00:47:23.220 a promotion, found love,
00:47:26.380 got healthier,
00:47:27.500 because of following this content?
00:47:31.780 If you can see the comments,
00:47:34.180 it's just like a complete string
00:47:36.560 of people.
00:47:38.800 Oh, Lacey.
00:47:40.360 You guys, talk among yourselves.
00:47:42.100 But look at the comments.
00:47:47.820 I don't know if you can see them.
00:47:50.620 Maybe they're backwards or something
00:47:51.940 on your screen.
00:47:52.580 They're backwards than mine.
00:47:54.040 I think the screen reverses them on yours.
00:47:57.340 But look at all the people who,
00:47:59.840 their lives were substantially changed
00:48:02.600 without too much effort.
00:48:04.800 I mean, not too much effort
00:48:07.240 to learn how to do it.
00:48:09.720 And in many cases,
00:48:10.860 it doesn't take much effort to do it.
00:48:13.100 So I'm working on a book on reframing.
00:48:15.380 I'm going to be off-site for a few days.
00:48:20.060 I'm doing some serious writing.
00:48:21.820 And the reframing book,
00:48:25.160 I think, will...
00:48:26.920 Here's how I'm thinking of it.
00:48:32.160 I'm thinking of my next book
00:48:34.000 to be almost like Harry Potter spells.
00:48:38.120 Actually, simple sentences
00:48:39.980 that are so powerful
00:48:41.880 that they reprogram your mind.
00:48:45.280 And I'll give you my one example
00:48:46.980 of a reframe
00:48:47.780 and see if this works for you.
00:48:49.840 The thing about a reframe
00:48:52.300 is it doesn't need to be true.
00:48:54.540 And once you accept
00:48:55.400 that important part,
00:48:56.720 then you can use them all.
00:48:58.880 If you think the reframe
00:49:00.200 has to be true,
00:49:02.040 you'll be limited.
00:49:03.900 A reframe is just a way
00:49:05.080 to reprogram your brain
00:49:06.480 to work better.
00:49:07.440 It doesn't have to be true.
00:49:09.080 And you can even know
00:49:09.960 it's not true when you use it.
00:49:11.460 Let me give you an example.
00:49:13.340 Have you ever heard
00:49:14.140 the customer is always right?
00:49:17.100 That's a reframe.
00:49:18.460 The reframe is,
00:49:19.600 well, let's figure out
00:49:21.480 who's right.
00:49:22.540 Are you right
00:49:23.260 or am I right?
00:49:23.980 The normal way.
00:49:25.060 The reframe is,
00:49:26.020 the customer's always right.
00:49:27.220 Now, here's the question.
00:49:28.520 Is that true?
00:49:30.360 No.
00:49:32.000 It's not even close to true.
00:49:34.060 It's a million miles
00:49:35.160 from being true.
00:49:36.640 Is it useful?
00:49:38.260 Oh, yeah.
00:49:39.340 It's super useful.
00:49:41.040 Super useful.
00:49:41.860 Because that one sentence
00:49:44.260 almost changed
00:49:45.280 the way business is done.
00:49:49.180 I mean,
00:49:49.380 I think that one sentence
00:49:50.440 changed business
00:49:51.480 forever.
00:49:53.320 The whole world.
00:49:54.380 Because if you act
00:49:55.440 as though the customer
00:49:56.360 is always right,
00:49:57.200 you just get a better outcome.
00:49:59.560 Right?
00:50:00.240 That's pretty well demonstrated.
00:50:02.060 If you argue with the customer,
00:50:03.800 you're going to get
00:50:04.220 an angry customer.
00:50:05.320 If you just treat them
00:50:06.120 like they're right,
00:50:07.320 you get a better outcome.
00:50:08.960 And you'll get repeat business
00:50:10.320 and everything else.
00:50:11.480 So,
00:50:12.420 imagine if you had
00:50:13.560 more of those.
00:50:15.440 More of those
00:50:16.240 very simple statements
00:50:17.320 like the customer's
00:50:18.360 always right
00:50:18.860 that you simultaneously
00:50:20.300 know is wrong,
00:50:22.060 but it gives you
00:50:22.660 like a little guideline
00:50:23.640 of how to act
00:50:24.540 that really works.
00:50:27.180 How would you like
00:50:27.720 to have a hundred of those?
00:50:29.620 Right?
00:50:29.840 You're not in sales,
00:50:30.780 so that one doesn't
00:50:31.400 matter to you.
00:50:32.560 But suppose they were
00:50:33.320 about your health.
00:50:35.060 Suppose that,
00:50:35.800 here's another one.
00:50:38.060 Alcohol is poised.
00:50:38.960 Poison.
00:50:40.460 Now,
00:50:40.980 when you first hear it,
00:50:41.800 you say,
00:50:42.100 well,
00:50:42.540 that's sort of facile,
00:50:44.260 and you're not really
00:50:45.460 saying anything,
00:50:46.540 blah, blah, blah.
00:50:47.460 But I can tell you
00:50:48.540 from experience,
00:50:50.140 I don't know how many people
00:50:51.180 have quit alcohol
00:50:52.060 because of that sentence.
00:50:53.940 The people on the
00:50:54.720 Locals platform
00:50:55.380 tell me all the time
00:50:56.420 that that one sentence,
00:50:58.920 alcohol is poison,
00:51:00.440 because we think of it
00:51:01.640 as entertainment, right?
00:51:02.880 You think of alcohol
00:51:04.060 as a beverage,
00:51:05.220 and you think of it
00:51:06.380 as entertainment.
00:51:07.780 And it is.
00:51:08.960 It's also a beverage.
00:51:10.520 It's also entertainment.
00:51:12.660 But,
00:51:13.620 is it true
00:51:14.780 that alcohol is poison?
00:51:16.340 Well,
00:51:16.580 not technically,
00:51:17.580 right?
00:51:18.400 But it doesn't matter.
00:51:19.780 It doesn't matter
00:51:20.260 if it's true.
00:51:21.500 You just run
00:51:22.200 that little loop
00:51:22.820 in your head,
00:51:23.260 and it's easier
00:51:23.740 to avoid it.
00:51:24.820 That's it.
00:51:25.940 Just run the loop,
00:51:27.720 true or not,
00:51:29.000 and it's easier
00:51:29.620 to avoid it,
00:51:30.260 because avoiding poison
00:51:31.280 is easy.
00:51:31.680 So you just,
00:51:33.200 all you're doing
00:51:33.700 is connecting
00:51:34.400 two concepts
00:51:36.120 in a useful way.
00:51:37.500 Oh, poison
00:51:38.100 and alcohol.
00:51:39.860 Oh, that would be
00:51:40.480 useful to connect,
00:51:41.360 though,
00:51:41.480 so I don't get
00:51:42.720 tempted by alcohol.
00:51:44.080 That's all it is.
00:51:45.440 Now, again,
00:51:47.120 so there's one
00:51:47.820 that, you know,
00:51:49.000 the customer
00:51:49.580 is always right,
00:51:50.420 completely changes
00:51:51.520 your odds
00:51:53.680 of success
00:51:54.260 in business.
00:51:55.640 Right?
00:51:55.960 Most of you
00:51:56.500 would agree
00:51:56.900 with that statement.
00:51:57.440 It completely
00:51:57.900 changes your
00:51:58.500 odds of success.
00:52:00.440 Alcohol as poison
00:52:01.520 completely changes
00:52:03.220 your odds
00:52:03.820 of reducing
00:52:04.640 your drinking.
00:52:05.880 It doesn't help
00:52:06.540 for an alcoholic,
00:52:07.340 by the way.
00:52:08.360 If you're an alcoholic,
00:52:09.300 you already know
00:52:09.900 it's poison.
00:52:11.480 There's nothing
00:52:12.160 you can do
00:52:12.660 about that
00:52:13.180 in terms of reframes.
00:52:16.240 There might be
00:52:16.920 a reframe
00:52:17.960 that does help you
00:52:18.740 with alcoholism,
00:52:19.700 but it's not that one.
00:52:21.300 Right?
00:52:21.400 That's not the one.
00:52:24.000 Somebody said
00:52:24.620 it is helpful.
00:52:25.580 Right?
00:52:26.140 You know,
00:52:26.580 there's a lot
00:52:26.980 of individual
00:52:27.440 difference,
00:52:28.100 but I wouldn't,
00:52:29.040 let me put it
00:52:29.580 this way,
00:52:29.920 I wouldn't sell
00:52:30.700 that reframe
00:52:31.400 to you
00:52:31.800 as helping
00:52:32.320 with alcoholism,
00:52:33.160 because I think
00:52:33.520 that's an oversell.
00:52:35.240 I feel that would
00:52:36.120 reduce my credibility
00:52:37.400 if I made that claim.
00:52:39.180 I'm just going to say
00:52:39.940 that people who like
00:52:40.680 to have too many
00:52:41.320 drinks on the weekend
00:52:42.080 because it's fun,
00:52:43.200 it really does help
00:52:44.420 them cut back.
00:52:45.860 That's what they tell me.
00:52:47.920 Now again,
00:52:48.900 imagine having
00:52:49.580 a hundred of those.
00:52:52.020 Right?
00:52:53.540 A hundred reframes
00:52:54.920 that aren't true
00:52:56.040 exactly,
00:52:57.460 but they completely
00:52:58.720 change how effective
00:52:59.580 you are.
00:53:00.300 So that's what
00:53:00.760 the book will be.
00:53:02.060 I'll have as many
00:53:02.900 of those as I can.
00:53:06.000 All right.
00:53:08.820 Light does not
00:53:09.640 have a speed.
00:53:10.360 It is a perturbation
00:53:11.900 of the ether.
00:53:14.060 All right.
00:53:15.240 Well,
00:53:15.680 if you'd like to go
00:53:16.460 back to perturbating
00:53:17.820 your ether,
00:53:18.860 this would be
00:53:19.560 the time to do it.
00:53:20.380 I've got some things
00:53:21.080 to do today.
00:53:21.680 And the best
00:53:24.260 reframe is
00:53:24.780 don't be yourself.
00:53:26.560 That is a good one.
00:53:28.080 All right.
00:53:28.480 And that's all
00:53:29.680 for today.
00:53:31.620 Read Mind Shift
00:53:32.600 by Barbara Oakley.
00:53:34.420 Okay.
00:53:39.000 And that's all
00:53:39.760 for today.
00:53:40.700 I'll talk to you
00:53:41.320 tomorrow,
00:53:41.820 YouTube and Spotify.
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