Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1847 Scott Adams： Redacted Affidavits, Rogan Talks to Zuckerberg, Student Loan Forgiveness

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00:01:02.840 Well, what's going on with you today? So I had a weird day yesterday. How many of you

00:01:08.520 have had a day like this? I woke up this morning and I realized that I had zero human contact

00:01:14.840 yesterday. I talked to people by phone and talked to people by messaging. I did a live

00:01:21.800 stream. I saw people. I had zero conversations in person with a human being yesterday, the whole

00:01:31.480 day. Now, I had some plans that fell through, which is why. I mean, it wasn't it wasn't a normal

00:01:37.080 situation. But today I have no plans. So today I would expect I'll probably have no human contact.

00:01:47.480 And then this weekend, as far as I know, no human contact. In fact, I only have one thing on my

00:01:56.120 calendar for the rest of my life. Would you like to know what it is? Literally, there's only one thing

00:02:03.320 on my calendar for the rest of my life. It's the Russell Brand interview. So if things go well,

00:02:12.120 I'll be talking to him on Wednesday, August 31st. And you know what? It's all you need.

00:02:19.880 Yeah, it's all you need. You don't really need much human contact. You just need a video of me

00:02:27.400 talking to Russell Brand. And you're going to get that. Now, I assume that's recorded. So I don't know

00:02:32.760 when it actually runs. I'm noticing his production values keep going up. Yeah, I assume it's I believe

00:02:40.840 it is recorded. I'll let you know if it's not. I have fallen for possibly two hoaxes this week alone.

00:02:52.120 Let's see if you fell for these. And by the way, I don't know if these are hoaxes.

00:02:56.200 So there are two things that I thought were true-ish that other people say are hoaxes. Let's see if you

00:03:03.800 can confirm that they're hoaxes. Number one, did you see a video, it's on Twitter, of a young woman who

00:03:11.800 purports to have used AI to have created a deep fake that looks really, really real.

00:03:19.640 And then, but apparently it's a hoax. And the hoax is it's actually just a real person.

00:03:26.680 So it's a real person doing a deep fake of a deep fake, which is pretty clever. Totally fell for it.

00:03:36.440 Now, it's a weird hoax because it's so close to something that could actually be done

00:03:43.160 that, I don't know, I like a hoax when it's something that definitely can't be done.

00:03:48.920 You know, something impossible and somebody believes it. But if it's this close to something

00:03:53.240 that could actually be done in the real world, it's interesting. But it's not quite a hoax.

00:04:00.200 It's more like fake news. All right. So that was fun. The other one that I'm told is a hoax is

00:04:09.480 the news that the Big Bang theory has been debunked. So the article that made all the noise recently

00:04:19.560 was that the scientists are, quote, panicked because the Webb telescope is showing that the

00:04:26.520 Big Bang didn't happen. But if you turn, if you talk to people who are in that field, they say

00:04:35.240 something more along the lines of, nothing like that happened. No, the Big Bang is still fine.

00:04:41.240 There's just some things that the Webb showed that are different than prediction. And, you know,

00:04:46.680 we haven't worked that out. But basically, the Big Bang is confirmed by many other ways. It's just

00:04:53.080 that there's some new information that didn't fit the didn't fit the exact prediction. So, you know,

00:04:59.960 slight. It's just slightly different than the prediction.

00:05:05.320 So doesn't this sort of beg the question, what is a slight difference? Because my understanding is that

00:05:14.600 they discovered entire galaxies at the edge of the universe that couldn't exist because of the age.

00:05:23.720 In other words, it would be impossible for the Big Bang to have happened the way it's predicted to

00:05:28.040 have happened if the oldest things or the oldest looking things are at the edge of the universe.

00:05:35.080 They should look the youngest because by the time the light reaches us, we'd be seeing the past.

00:05:40.520 So I may be describing that wrong. But the point is, there's some galaxies that shouldn't be where they are.

00:05:49.400 I've got a feeling that's not a slight problem. But if a scientist tells you it's a slight problem,

00:05:55.480 what are you going to do? Are you going to disagree with the scientist? I believe I will.

00:06:02.280 I believe I'm going to disagree with the scientists. I don't think there's a slight problem if you've

00:06:07.720 got galaxies that are the wrong age in the wrong place. That feels like a big problem.

00:06:14.440 And does it matter how many things confirm the Big Bang if there's one big thing that says it didn't

00:06:19.880 happen? I'm pretty sure that no matter how many other things confirm it did happen, if you have one

00:06:27.480 really glaring big thing that says it didn't, isn't it more likely that the other things are

00:06:33.080 a confirmation bias or a false positive? The rogue astronomer. That's right. I'm the rogue astronomer.

00:06:41.960 But of course, I think that simulation theory has already debunked it anyway. So in my view,

00:06:48.520 all of history is debunked from evolution through... Oh, by the way, they found a new... I guess there's a new

00:06:55.480 skeleton that adds a new human species to the line. How many times are we going to find a new species

00:07:05.000 that rewrites all of human evolution? I feel like there was a lot of guessing going on there.

00:07:12.120 A lot of rewriting. All right.

00:07:16.200 So I guess I got hoaxed twice, potentially, although I think the Big Bang thing might be a

00:07:22.280 a hoax that it's a hoax. So that's still an open question in my mind. All right. I saw Jared

00:07:29.720 Kushner giving an interview. He's got his book out. I think it's number one. Jared Kushner's book is

00:07:36.760 number one bestseller. And let me ask you this. Many of you are skeptics.

00:07:43.560 And Jeff says I've been hoaxed way more than that. So Jeff, I'm sure you'll have some examples.

00:07:54.520 Do you remember the thing that people say the most about me? What's the biggest criticism you

00:08:00.280 hear about me? There are two of them. Two biggest criticisms you hear about me. Number one, I never

00:08:07.800 admit I'm wrong, which I literally just did. I just told you I got hoaxed. Practically every show,

00:08:17.400 I admit something I got wrong. But yet it's the biggest criticism against me is that I don't admit

00:08:25.000 when I get things wrong, even though I probably do it more than anybody's ever done it.

00:08:29.240 I'll bet that's true. I know that's an absurd claim. But I'll bet for a public figure, I've admitted

00:08:37.880 I'm wrong more than anybody ever has. Possibly. Because I do it almost every show. I say, well,

00:08:45.080 I used to think this, but I was wrong. Now, let me ask you this to see who you think was right.

00:08:54.120 Jared Kushner had an estimate of how many lives were saved because of vaccinations.

00:09:00.920 What number did he put on that? Now, I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying that there was a study

00:09:07.960 that said that X number of lives were saved by the vaccination programs. What do you think the number

00:09:13.000 was? Now, give me a number. 20 million. 20 million. Do you believe it? Do you believe that 20 million

00:09:22.840 people were saved by the vaccinations? Well, if it didn't save 20 million people or something along

00:09:32.360 those lines, then it probably wasn't worth it, was it? I feel like it would have to save at least 20

00:09:38.040 million or it wouldn't look like it was worth it. Because 20 million is a pretty small percentage of

00:09:43.720 seven and a half billion or whatever we are. So now do you believe, do you disbelieve the Trump

00:09:51.720 administration when they say that, and I'm sure Trump will say the same, that 20 million people

00:09:57.640 were saved? Do you think the Trump administration is lying to you? Because many of you are Trump

00:10:05.000 supporters. You think that the person you support is lying to you on such a big question? How can you

00:10:11.240 possibly support Trump if you think the vaccinations were bullshit? Yeah. Isn't that a weird question?

00:10:19.080 There's sort of a weird... Well, I don't really understand it. Because there's so many people

00:10:25.240 who think the pandemic was just sort of the biggest thing that's happened and the vaccinations were the

00:10:29.800 biggest evil that's happened, some would say. How in the world could you support Trump if you were

00:10:37.240 anti-vaccination? That makes no sense at all. Does it?

00:10:48.920 All right. So I don't want to get you all worked up about that. Just to let you know that Jared

00:10:54.840 thinks that 20 million people were saved by it. And the estimate is that the death rate was 63% lower

00:11:03.160 than it would have been if there had not been vaccinations.

00:11:10.440 Now, isn't that a pretty big difference between

00:11:14.600 the vaccinations are killing people versus they saved 20 million people?

00:11:21.160 So 20 million is like more than three times the Holocaust. 0.52

00:11:24.600 So our difference of opinion on the reality... Just hold this in your mind. Our differences of opinion on

00:11:33.080 what's real differ by three times the size of the Holocaust.

00:11:41.080 Holocaust was six million something. But we have a 20 million death difference of opinion.

00:11:48.120 20 million death difference.

00:11:53.080 That's the world we're in. There's nothing we can't disagree with anymore.

00:11:59.560 Now, if I had to guess...

00:12:03.640 I would think that it's very unusual that we could get to this point in history

00:12:07.400 without knowing for sure that the vaccinations made a difference.

00:12:13.400 Do you think we could get to this point in history without knowing?

00:12:18.520 Because the medical community seems pretty unified.

00:12:22.520 And when I say that, I know there are rogues. Yes, there are rogue doctors.

00:12:26.520 But is it true that the consensus, official opinion of every major industrial country

00:12:34.360 is that vaccinations worked really well?

00:12:37.800 Worked meaning save people's lives, not worked in terms of slowing the spread.

00:12:42.840 Is that wrong?

00:12:44.840 Can anybody give me a government source from a major government that said the vaccinations didn't work?

00:12:51.720 Is there any government source?

00:12:56.440 Bulgaria? Denmark? I don't think so.

00:12:59.480 But if you have something like that, send it to me, okay?

00:13:05.160 Because those who think the vaccinations didn't work,

00:13:08.760 and frankly, I don't know. How would I know?

00:13:11.960 I mean, there's nothing I believe anymore in terms of data.

00:13:16.120 But that's a really big discrepancy.

00:13:18.840 20 million saved versus your opinion that people died because of it.

00:13:26.440 Hard to explain, that difference.

00:13:29.560 It doesn't mean I'm right. It just means it's hard to explain.

00:13:36.280 And there's also a study that said one year after recovering from initial infection,

00:13:41.400 survivors had a 72% higher risk of heart failure.

00:13:44.760 So there is some data that says there's way greater risk if you get COVID to get a heart attack later.

00:13:53.640 Much greater risk than the vaccinations themselves, say this official data.

00:13:58.440 Do you think it's true?

00:14:00.360 Do you believe this study, that the people who got COVID are 72% more likely to get a heart attack later?

00:14:07.640 Or do you believe that it's a fake data, and that really people are dying from the vaccinations themselves?

00:14:17.160 Because it probably should be easy to separate the people who didn't get a vaccination,

00:14:21.960 and compare them to the other people who didn't get a vaccination, but some of them were infected.

00:14:27.560 It feels like an easy thing to test.

00:14:29.300 But I do not believe this data.

00:14:35.460 I do not believe this data, do you?

00:14:37.860 I don't believe it.

00:14:39.080 I mean, it might be true.

00:14:40.080 I'm not saying it's false.

00:14:41.500 I'm just saying it's the sort of thing I don't believe.

00:14:45.300 All right, did you see the...

00:14:47.140 There was an interview, a surprise interview with Joe Rogan and Mark Zuckerberg.

00:14:53.040 And Rogan asked Zuckerberg about the Hunter laptop story, and Zuckerberg said that the FBI did talk to Facebook

00:15:03.880 and told them in advance that they're expecting some Russian disinformation.

00:15:10.420 Now, they did not say specifically that the laptop would be Russian disinformation,

00:15:15.480 but they just said, hey, watch out for some Russian disinformation.

00:15:18.380 And then in the news, they labeled the Hunter laptop disinformation.

00:15:25.560 So now, what would the Facebook fact-checkers do?

00:15:30.020 If 50 Intel people say it's real, it's real that it's disinformation, what is Facebook going to do?

00:15:38.600 They're going to have to go with the official word, right?

00:15:41.600 So apparently, they didn't ban it, talk of the laptop.

00:15:45.700 They just suppressed it, which he says directly.

00:15:49.860 They suppressed it from being spread as widely as it would be.

00:15:55.260 What do you think of that?

00:15:57.500 Is Facebook bad for having done that?

00:16:01.440 Keep in mind, it was the government that told them this was fake information.

00:16:06.560 The government.

00:16:08.020 I feel like if the government tells you something is fake,

00:16:12.780 you have to take that a little bit seriously.

00:16:15.700 It turns out they were lying.

00:16:20.240 So, and then I guess Facebook handled it differently than other platforms.

00:16:25.560 But it's pretty damning.

00:16:27.440 I'm not so sure it's damning about Facebook as it is about the FBI.

00:16:31.380 I mean, it does show you that the FBI is effectively trying to run the country.

00:16:39.240 That's what it seems to me.

00:16:43.120 All right.

00:16:44.680 There's a movie called My Son Hunter.

00:16:48.600 A Hunter Biden biopic.

00:16:51.980 And I guess Gina Carano was in it as a Secret Service agency. 1.00

00:16:57.360 And so it shows, it purports to show the, you know, the sordid life of Hunter Biden.

00:17:06.300 I'm really, I'm really against this movie.

00:17:10.920 Like, this is one of the lowest things I've seen in public.

00:17:14.600 Now, if the election was over, oh, fine.

00:17:19.140 Yeah, that's fine.

00:17:20.500 But here's a guy who has not yet been, not yet gone through the legal system.

00:17:27.100 There might be some investigations about him.

00:17:30.020 And I just think this is messed up.

00:17:34.760 I think it's messed up to have a movie framing you and you don't get a chance to respond to the movie.

00:17:42.040 I feel as though the movie should be legally banned.

00:17:47.220 I feel like Hunter should have some recourse to ban it.

00:17:53.620 And the reason would be justice.

00:17:57.120 Because would you, would you want to go into a situation where you might have some legal risk?

00:18:06.520 And before you go in for your legal risk, there's a movie that's designed just to defame you?

00:18:12.980 And the movie is out in the public?

00:18:17.100 I don't know.

00:18:17.820 I feel like he should have some legal recourse to, you know, at the very least,

00:18:23.360 to have his stuff handled by people who have never seen the movie.

00:18:28.580 But, you know, I get freedom of speech.

00:18:33.520 I get First Amendment.

00:18:35.520 And so maybe there's just nothing to do about it.

00:18:38.360 But as a people, maybe we should use our own free speech to say you shouldn't watch it until after the elections.

00:18:46.480 I mean, obviously, people are going to watch it anyway.

00:18:48.820 But I think that'll be my decision.

00:18:50.740 I think I won't watch it until after the election.

00:18:54.240 And if it's still interesting, I'll watch it.

00:18:56.320 I'll probably see all the clips before then.

00:18:58.880 But the problem is that a movie is visual.

00:19:03.260 And it's very powerful.

00:19:05.600 And this thing is going to move your opinion because it's powerful and because it's a movie.

00:19:11.460 And that's very unfair to Hunter Biden.

00:19:15.560 Now, if it sounds like I'm defending Hunter Biden, I'm not.

00:19:18.980 I'm defending a citizen.

00:19:22.300 If you were the citizen in this situation, if you were in Hunter Biden's situation,

00:19:27.960 and somebody made a whole movie about you,

00:19:32.480 how much do you think the dialogue in the movie is accurate?

00:19:35.640 You know when they make a movie, they make up the dialogue, right?

00:19:40.340 They make up the dialogue because nobody was there that remembers exactly who said what.

00:19:44.740 So it's going to be an entirely fake movie, which they will allege is closer to truth

00:19:50.520 than it possibly could be with what they could possibly know.

00:19:53.560 And, I mean, this seems like the worst offense against justice that I've ever seen.

00:20:05.720 Hyperbole, but you know what I mean.

00:20:07.600 Now, if there's somebody here who says freedom of speech, that's the end of the story,

00:20:12.360 I'd say, okay, it might be the end of the story.

00:20:15.300 I'm not going to push back hard against somebody who says, hey, yeah, it might be repulsive, but free speech.

00:20:24.800 Maybe that has to be the winning argument.

00:20:27.500 I wouldn't push against that.

00:20:29.420 That might have to be the winning argument, just free speech.

00:20:32.720 But you do get that it's horrible what's being done to him.

00:20:37.140 And you wouldn't want this being done to you.

00:20:39.000 And that's independent of what he has or has not done or what he is or is not guilty of.

00:20:44.860 This is just icky.

00:20:46.840 We should not be in favor of this.

00:20:49.140 You should not support that movie.

00:20:51.100 That's my opinion.

00:20:55.000 This student load and forgiveness thing is silly because there isn't, here's my opinion,

00:21:01.940 there isn't the slightest chance this can happen.

00:21:03.880 How many of you think that Joe Biden as president is going to raise our taxes by $300 billion

00:21:13.640 by using an obscure COVID excuse when the pandemic's basically over?

00:21:24.100 You don't think the Supreme Court is going to stop it?

00:21:29.760 Even Nancy Pelosi says the president can't do that.

00:21:33.880 You're sure Biden researched it?

00:21:38.060 Well, they did research it and they have a legal argument.

00:21:41.680 But it's not a legal argument that could possibly stand up in the Supreme Court.

00:21:46.260 Now, isn't the problem that there's nobody who would have standing to bring the, bring it?

00:21:52.360 Don't I have standing?

00:21:55.420 Because according to the news, my personal taxes, because of my income range,

00:22:01.220 my personal taxes would go up roughly the amount of one entire college education for a person.

00:22:08.320 That's just my taxes.

00:22:09.820 So basically, I would be paying for an entire college education for one person, you know, over time.

00:22:16.620 Now, I paid for my entire college education.

00:22:22.860 I had some scholarships, actually, so full disclosure.

00:22:27.540 But I didn't have any loans.

00:22:30.800 You know, my mother worked on an assembly line wiring speakers.

00:22:36.120 Her job was to stand there all day and put a copper wire around a magnet 1.00

00:22:41.700 because she was an assembly line making speakers. 1.00

00:22:45.260 And she did that so that my siblings and I could go to college. 0.57

00:22:51.020 And worked other jobs as well.

00:22:53.340 So she basically had one rule for us. 0.60

00:22:55.100 You're going to college.

00:22:57.140 That was my mother's one rule. 1.00

00:22:59.320 You're going to college.

00:23:00.660 That's it.

00:23:01.240 Basically, there was only one rule.

00:23:04.240 Two rules.

00:23:05.440 You had to be home at 5 o'clock for dinner.

00:23:08.260 And you're going to college.

00:23:10.120 That's it.

00:23:12.560 Now, I was not getting all worked up about this tax

00:23:16.080 because it just seemed like another unfair thing that is the tax code.

00:23:21.860 Because the tax code is completely unfair.

00:23:24.320 Every part of it is unfair to somebody.

00:23:26.820 Somebody likes it and it's unfair to somebody.

00:23:29.000 Everything.

00:23:29.280 So I wasn't too interested in it until I saw that I would be paying

00:23:33.320 for somebody's entire college education.

00:23:37.240 I had no idea it was going to be that high a tax.

00:23:40.720 It's really pretty rugged.

00:23:42.720 And even in the middle class, you might be paying a few thousand extra dollars

00:23:45.900 for somebody else's college.

00:23:50.120 So, first of all, it's offensive.

00:23:54.920 We all know that.

00:23:56.620 That's the obvious thing.

00:23:57.500 But how in the world is the Supreme Court going to let a president raise your taxes?

00:24:03.560 If it were still an emergency, I'd say, sure.

00:24:08.080 But it's obviously not.

00:24:10.260 It's still an emergency.

00:24:18.840 So, I don't know.

00:24:21.180 Here's my take.

00:24:22.880 There's no way it's going to happen.

00:24:24.640 How many agree with me?

00:24:26.300 My take is there's no way it's going to happen.

00:24:30.900 Agree?

00:24:31.300 Agree?

00:24:32.400 Yeah.

00:24:33.040 And here's what I think.

00:24:34.380 I think that the news is treating it like it might happen so they can generate news.

00:24:39.720 I think the news knows this isn't going to happen.

00:24:45.280 Now, if it does happen, and the next president is Trump, look how much power they just gave the next president, whoever it is.

00:24:56.700 Because if you could just make up a tax and tie it to some obscure law or obscure emergency that obviously isn't appropriate right now, if you could do that, then the president can just ignore the Congress and do whatever the fuck he wants.

00:25:11.360 So, there's no way this is going to work.

00:25:15.720 To me, this looks like fake news top to bottom.

00:25:20.140 It looks like the real play is to get the Republicans to say no or to get the Republican-appointed Supreme Court to say no.

00:25:29.000 I think this is all about getting somebody to get on record as saying no.

00:25:32.940 Well, that's what it looks like.

00:25:36.120 So, it looks like a completely illegitimate play.

00:25:42.400 All right.

00:25:42.980 So, what do you think that redacted affidavit is going to look like?

00:25:50.120 So, I guess any moment now, we'll see the redacted affidavit.

00:25:54.120 Is there any doubt what that is going to produce?

00:25:58.360 Don't we all know exactly what's going to happen?

00:26:02.200 It's going to be something that the left says, here it is, the smoking gun, and the right is going to say, we don't know what's behind those redacted things.

00:26:11.160 There's nothing here.

00:26:12.980 Yeah.

00:26:13.500 Some of you are going to see the worst thing in the world, and some of you will see nothing.

00:26:19.660 If we know that that's going to happen, why even bother?

00:26:25.100 I suppose it's better than having Adam Schiff tell us what he saw in the skiff.

00:26:30.460 So, this is a way to beat the Schiff and the skiff play.

00:26:34.120 But basically, it's just going to be a national Rorschach test.

00:26:37.500 Literally, it's going to be a bunch of inkblots in which we'll all have our own interpretations.

00:26:42.980 Redacted affidavit is your next band name.

00:26:51.040 That is a good band name.

00:26:52.440 Redacted affidavit.

00:26:53.520 Did you see there were some apologies because somebody accidentally let Ben Shapiro attend a public event?

00:27:07.680 So, somebody named the podcast movement.

00:27:12.240 I guess it was some kind of podcaster's big convention.

00:27:16.280 Ben Shapiro showed up and took some selfies with people and stuff.

00:27:22.440 And the podcast movement Twitter said,

00:27:26.740 Hi folks, we owe you an apology before sessions kick off for the day.

00:27:32.540 Yesterday afternoon, Ben Shapiro briefly visited the PM22 Expo area near the Daily Wire booth.

00:27:41.040 Though he was not registered or expected, we take full responsibility for the harm done by his presence.

00:27:46.880 What?

00:27:50.700 What harm was done by his presence?

00:27:54.720 And, you know, I think Ben Shapiro tweeted it around with some video of him at the event.

00:27:59.960 And you see the video.

00:28:01.160 It's all these people who love him, who are coming up and asking if they could have their picture taken with him.

00:28:06.380 That's it.

00:28:08.040 That's it.

00:28:08.680 He went to a place where people loved him and they took their picture with him and then he left.

00:28:15.420 The horrors.

00:28:17.440 How can we allow this man to be free in public?

00:28:21.660 All right.

00:28:22.400 I would like to give the joke of the day award to Lisa Booth, who tweeted this.

00:28:28.800 I want you to listen carefully.

00:28:31.360 It's the best joke of the month. 0.98

00:28:33.720 You ready?

00:28:34.060 Anyway, Lisa Booth tweets, what if corn pop was just trying to protect the children?

00:28:44.640 Pretty good.

00:28:46.560 That's pretty good.

00:28:48.220 What if corn pop was just trying to protect the children?

00:28:52.020 So the story of Joe Biden taking a shower with his daughter is still in the news.

00:28:58.240 Yuck.

00:29:00.160 I don't know what to think about that, frankly.

00:29:04.060 Do you know what is the most common way I am described in the year 2022?

00:29:10.360 Here's the most common way people describe me.

00:29:14.460 Even if you don't like the many, many ways that Adams has been completely wrong about so many things and never apologizes and never admits it,

00:29:24.700 this one time, probably by luck, he got one right.

00:29:27.260 That's the common way people are explaining me.

00:29:32.800 Amazingly, although he's wrong and crazy so many times, this one thing is weirdly makes sense.

00:29:41.000 And so here's the question I ask you.

00:29:42.840 Why are you so sure I was wrong about the other stuff?

00:29:51.720 Stop it.

00:29:52.300 You're embarrassing me.

00:29:53.900 Over on Locals, they're talking about my IQ.

00:29:56.800 It's just embarrassing me.

00:29:59.000 You're embarrassing me.

00:30:02.500 Some people say it's 186.

00:30:04.360 Some people say it's 185.

00:30:05.820 But I don't think you could believe either one of them.

00:30:09.360 Just rumors.

00:30:10.580 It's just rumors.

00:30:13.260 All right.

00:30:16.380 But here's something I would ask you to do, and it's something I do.

00:30:21.820 If I have a strong opinion and I see that, let's say it's about the law,

00:30:25.860 and then Alan Dershowitz disagrees with me, I don't know how often that's happened,

00:30:32.220 but if I saw that happen, I would immediately say to myself,

00:30:36.940 oh, I changed my opinion.

00:30:38.860 I'll change my opinion to whatever Dershowitz says,

00:30:41.300 because he's almost always right on the legal stuff.

00:30:45.620 Is there anybody who would do that for me?

00:30:49.360 Is there anybody who would say, you know, my opinion was solidly X, 0.98

00:30:53.320 but then Adam said opposite of that.

00:30:57.520 So now I'm going to rethink my opinion.

00:31:03.940 Mostly no.

00:31:06.120 Some yeses.

00:31:07.760 Mostly noes.

00:31:11.500 Not once, says Tom.

00:31:14.200 Not once.

00:31:15.780 Well, let me ask you this.

00:31:17.940 How many of you have ever heard me say something

00:31:20.720 that was surprisingly insightful?

00:31:26.040 Now, you can still allow that I'm wrong 99% of the time.

00:31:29.940 So that's still available to you.

00:31:33.140 But how many of you have ever heard me say something,

00:31:35.400 and you say, huh, that was strangely insightful?

00:31:39.260 Anybody?

00:31:40.880 Well, there are, you know, 2,800 people watching,

00:31:43.500 so it must be something you're watching for.

00:31:45.400 So here's a question you should ask yourself.

00:31:49.760 Are you really so sure I'm wrong about the other stuff,

00:31:53.020 whatever the other stuff is?

00:31:55.680 I would submit to you that my personal experience

00:31:59.340 is that 95% of the people who think I'm wrong about any topic

00:32:04.420 don't understand what I said about it.

00:32:07.940 Would you accept that estimate?

00:32:09.540 My personal estimate is that 95% of the people

00:32:13.760 who think they disagree with me

00:32:15.840 are actually dealing with some out-of-context statement.

00:32:19.700 It's not what I think.

00:32:21.540 Now, if you know that 95% of the people who disagree with me

00:32:25.140 are actually working on the wrong information,

00:32:28.060 why would you think that doesn't apply to you?

00:32:31.640 Shouldn't your most logical first thought be,

00:32:35.020 oh, if he had some insightful thoughts

00:32:38.180 about this other stuff that I agreed with,

00:32:40.920 but this other one looks like a wacky opinion,

00:32:43.800 shouldn't your first thought be,

00:32:46.200 I don't fully understand the opinion or it's out of context?

00:32:50.220 It should be.

00:32:51.840 Now, if I had never said anything

00:32:53.860 that you thought was insightful,

00:32:56.780 and then you heard me say something that was whack,

00:33:00.260 the most reasonable explanation would be,

00:33:02.720 well, he never said anything that's smart,

00:33:05.040 here's another one.

00:33:07.160 But if you've ever heard me say anything insightful,

00:33:11.180 and then you hear something

00:33:12.620 that's just totally batshit crazy,

00:33:15.760 is it the most likely explanation

00:33:17.960 that you heard it wrong?

00:33:20.920 Or that you're interpreting it

00:33:22.600 not quite the way I meant it?

00:33:23.920 It might be my fault, right?

00:33:25.580 I'm not saying it's your fault.

00:33:27.280 It could be something I didn't say clearly.

00:33:29.680 But shouldn't that be your first impression

00:33:31.940 that probably you heard it wrong?

00:33:35.780 And if not, why not?

00:33:37.640 Because people don't suddenly get smart.

00:33:42.300 Let me put it this way.

00:33:44.880 If somebody...

00:33:47.400 There's a guy I used to work with.

00:33:50.280 He might be the exception to the rule.

00:33:51.780 And what we used to say about him

00:33:54.880 is that he would say, like, three brilliant things

00:33:58.040 and then one thing that was so dumb

00:33:59.440 you couldn't believe it.

00:34:01.140 And we always tried to understand,

00:34:02.760 how in the world could he say three brilliant things

00:34:05.240 and then one dumb thing?

00:34:07.080 But then, years later, I asked myself,

00:34:09.980 how do I know that one thing was dumb?

00:34:12.900 Maybe it was me.

00:34:14.980 How could somebody say...

00:34:16.780 and the fourth one's just dumb?

00:34:20.660 And...

00:34:21.780 agree with

00:34:23.480 and then one smart and sound

00:34:25.540 agree with.

00:34:27.240 But it's not really that common

00:34:29.080 that people will do

00:34:30.860 some really smart things

00:34:33.100 and then a really dumb thing.

00:34:35.220 Almost always,

00:34:36.480 it means you don't understand what they meant.

00:34:39.700 So,

00:34:41.020 I'll just put that then down.

00:34:42.840 Now, somebody's saying Sam Harris

00:34:44.340 as a counterexample.

00:34:46.520 Sam Harris, I think,

00:34:47.520 deserves a try to clarify his opinion.

00:34:52.780 So, I guess he's got a new podcast out

00:34:54.380 in which he is clarifying his Trump opinions.

00:34:57.360 I haven't heard it,

00:34:59.040 but don't you think that if you hear his opinions

00:35:01.180 you'll have a different sense

00:35:03.200 than maybe you have right now?

00:35:05.520 He's a perfect example of somebody,

00:35:07.820 if you hear Sam Harris say something

00:35:09.780 that doesn't make any sense at all,

00:35:12.080 you have to ask yourself

00:35:13.120 if maybe the problem's on your end.

00:35:14.760 Now, when it comes to Trump,

00:35:17.460 there really is a Trump derangement syndrome.

00:35:20.180 In fact, Bill Barr said this

00:35:21.500 in an interview just recently.

00:35:23.080 He said,

00:35:23.580 Trump derangement syndrome is real.

00:35:26.340 And I loved hearing Bill Barr say that

00:35:28.340 because he's not exactly a fan

00:35:30.180 of the president,

00:35:31.000 or President Trump.

00:35:32.360 He's not a fan.

00:35:34.160 So, when he says TDS is real,

00:35:36.980 that sounds pretty credible.

00:35:38.140 Well, I see some people

00:35:44.920 who are quite angry

00:35:45.820 at the possibility

00:35:46.860 the problem could be at their end.

00:35:49.380 Does it make you angry

00:35:50.640 to think that the possibility

00:35:52.060 that the problem could be at your end?

00:35:56.480 Because if it makes you angry

00:35:57.840 to think that that's possible,

00:35:59.980 then you have no hope

00:36:01.680 of being independently intelligent.

00:36:04.760 because you're dealing

00:36:06.600 on emotion,

00:36:07.260 not intelligence.

00:36:08.860 If you have any emotion

00:36:10.200 over the thought

00:36:11.160 that you might be wrong,

00:36:13.100 sort of in concept,

00:36:15.360 not even a specific wrong,

00:36:17.000 but you just might be wrong

00:36:18.240 in general.

00:36:19.100 If that makes you mad,

00:36:20.860 you're probably not equipped

00:36:21.940 for intellectual conversations.

00:36:23.840 Do you admire my work ethic?

00:36:35.880 I'm not sure you should.

00:36:38.920 So, I spent probably,

00:36:41.060 I don't know,

00:36:42.280 I spent close to eight hours yesterday

00:36:44.420 trying to sit in my chair

00:36:46.260 for 30 minutes.

00:36:47.520 And that's about all I could manage.

00:36:50.900 And the reason is

00:36:51.860 I can't sit in my chair.

00:36:53.840 And it's because the house is empty

00:36:56.560 at the moment.

00:36:58.920 So, I don't know

00:36:59.920 if it's just a personal thing.

00:37:01.840 Does anybody have that problem?

00:37:03.160 That if your house

00:37:04.060 is completely empty,

00:37:06.140 that you can't sit still?

00:37:09.880 You have to leave

00:37:11.000 because there might be people

00:37:12.980 outside the house.

00:37:15.700 It's really hard to,

00:37:16.740 I'm an introvert,

00:37:17.680 so I can spend a lot of time alone.

00:37:19.700 I can spend a lot of time alone.

00:37:20.940 But I can only do it

00:37:22.180 if I know that

00:37:22.920 I don't have to.

00:37:25.840 If it happens accidentally

00:37:27.220 that I'm alone,

00:37:28.020 I don't like it at all.

00:37:30.960 Yeah.

00:37:35.080 Try a standing desk.

00:37:36.420 I've tried that.

00:37:37.220 It doesn't work for me.

00:37:38.220 I don't like it at all.

00:37:39.220 I don't like it at all.

00:37:40.220 I don't like it at all.

00:37:41.220 I don't like it at all.

00:37:41.620 I don't like it at all.

00:37:42.220 I don't like it at all.

00:37:42.660 Yeah.

00:37:44.900 Buy another hottie? 0.65

00:37:47.440 You know,

00:37:48.600 that's not a bad idea.

00:37:56.720 Please go see other people.

00:37:59.500 Has anybody become

00:38:00.860 less social

00:38:02.540 since the pandemic?

00:38:03.520 Because it's not that I,

00:38:07.700 it's not like,

00:38:09.580 yeah,

00:38:10.040 I feel like I lost

00:38:11.280 something important

00:38:12.200 in the pandemic.

00:38:15.560 Because I find myself

00:38:17.000 not wanting to socialize.

00:38:19.500 And that's sort of different.

00:38:21.880 Because even,

00:38:22.780 even,

00:38:23.380 you know,

00:38:24.980 even though I liked

00:38:25.900 being alone,

00:38:26.600 I've always liked

00:38:27.380 to socialize.

00:38:29.100 And I have to admit,

00:38:31.080 this week I've been

00:38:31.800 thinking about myself,

00:38:32.940 I'm not even sure

00:38:34.140 I want to have

00:38:34.520 a conversation

00:38:35.140 with a person

00:38:35.880 in person.

00:38:46.980 Writing websites?

00:38:50.700 Oh,

00:38:51.200 you're writing a website

00:38:52.000 that plays cafe

00:38:52.940 background noise.

00:38:53.980 So I've tried doing that.

00:38:55.100 I've tried playing

00:38:55.840 like restaurant

00:38:56.940 cafe sounds.

00:38:58.780 And it doesn't work

00:39:00.020 at all.

00:39:00.660 I don't know why.

00:39:01.500 I have to turn it

00:39:03.520 off right away.

00:39:04.740 But if you're

00:39:05.520 in an actual

00:39:06.200 cafe or restaurant,

00:39:08.260 it's actually

00:39:08.660 easy to concentrate.

00:39:11.440 I wrote an entire book

00:39:12.880 sitting in a booth

00:39:14.040 of a restaurant.

00:39:15.760 I owned the restaurant

00:39:16.680 so I could stay there

00:39:17.520 as long as I wanted.

00:39:19.180 But it was so easy

00:39:20.440 to write

00:39:20.960 during lunch.

00:39:22.720 So as soon as

00:39:23.360 the lunch noise started,

00:39:24.840 I could write

00:39:25.400 like crazy.

00:39:26.000 And as soon as

00:39:27.260 the lunch died down

00:39:28.580 and it was just

00:39:29.060 sort of the

00:39:29.600 ordinary noise,

00:39:31.740 hard to write.

00:39:40.720 Well,

00:39:41.160 during marriage,

00:39:41.820 we didn't have

00:39:42.420 common friends

00:39:43.220 too much.

00:39:43.740 So,

00:39:45.380 start playing pickleball.

00:39:49.860 Yeah,

00:39:50.280 I don't know.

00:39:51.320 I feel like

00:39:52.140 nothing seems

00:39:52.740 interesting anymore.

00:39:53.620 Have you noticed

00:39:57.000 that things

00:39:57.440 are less interesting?

00:40:00.000 Has anybody

00:40:00.660 noticed that?

00:40:02.580 No?

00:40:04.980 I don't think

00:40:05.900 it's the news.

00:40:08.700 It's like

00:40:09.420 TV's not interesting,

00:40:10.880 movies are not

00:40:11.540 interesting.

00:40:13.520 Right?

00:40:16.040 Well,

00:40:16.540 this is still

00:40:17.020 interesting,

00:40:17.480 of course.

00:40:18.060 This is the best

00:40:18.660 thing that ever

00:40:19.080 happened to you.

00:40:20.780 Is it depression?

00:40:21.900 I don't know.

00:40:22.320 It might be.

00:40:22.680 I do worry

00:40:24.800 that there's

00:40:26.340 some mild

00:40:27.120 depression thing

00:40:27.920 going on.

00:40:28.560 Like,

00:40:28.760 I don't feel

00:40:29.400 it's not

00:40:29.840 weighing on me

00:40:30.440 or anything.

00:40:32.000 But I suppose

00:40:32.560 there's lots

00:40:34.920 of variation

00:40:36.780 there.

00:40:42.460 This is

00:40:43.060 saving your

00:40:43.560 day.

00:40:44.800 Let's go

00:40:45.160 back to this.

00:40:48.160 How is it

00:40:48.820 saving your

00:40:49.300 day?

00:40:49.520 Okay.

00:40:52.680 you've

00:40:53.960 talked

00:40:54.160 yourself

00:40:54.560 out of

00:40:54.980 falling

00:40:55.240 in love.

00:40:56.640 That's

00:40:57.120 true.

00:40:58.920 Yeah,

00:40:59.280 you know,

00:41:00.760 let me

00:41:02.440 tell you

00:41:02.740 where I'm

00:41:03.040 at.

00:41:05.160 When you

00:41:05.880 come out

00:41:06.720 of a

00:41:06.960 relationship,

00:41:08.380 have you

00:41:08.720 ever had

00:41:09.040 this happen,

00:41:10.380 where for a

00:41:11.120 while you

00:41:11.600 can see

00:41:12.220 the machinery

00:41:12.800 too clearly,

00:41:13.840 and that

00:41:15.760 in order to

00:41:16.340 get into

00:41:16.720 another

00:41:17.100 relationship,

00:41:18.060 you need

00:41:18.420 to

00:41:19.000 essentially

00:41:20.120 fool

00:41:20.580 yourself

00:41:21.000 again.

00:41:22.360 You need

00:41:22.940 to enter

00:41:24.040 the hypnosis

00:41:24.760 again.

00:41:25.660 Because if you

00:41:26.580 were thinking

00:41:27.060 clearly,

00:41:27.560 you wouldn't

00:41:28.100 do any

00:41:28.440 of the

00:41:28.600 things that

00:41:29.060 people do

00:41:29.700 when they

00:41:30.600 form

00:41:30.860 relationships.

00:41:31.480 relationships.

00:41:33.220 And so

00:41:34.660 you have

00:41:34.940 to talk

00:41:35.300 yourself

00:41:35.660 out of

00:41:35.960 thinking

00:41:36.220 clearly to

00:41:36.900 even have

00:41:38.980 those

00:41:39.240 experiences.

00:41:40.600 But when

00:41:41.180 you just

00:41:41.500 get out

00:41:41.860 of a

00:41:42.060 relationship,

00:41:42.560 you can

00:41:42.820 see clearly,

00:41:44.700 and it's

00:41:45.900 very,

00:41:46.600 let's say,

00:41:50.360 impactful on

00:41:51.280 your choices.

00:41:51.800 I don't

00:42:01.020 know.

00:42:02.080 So somebody

00:42:02.580 said,

00:42:02.880 why can't

00:42:03.220 I just

00:42:03.560 make friends?

00:42:05.060 And I

00:42:05.480 like people.

00:42:07.040 I like

00:42:07.640 friends.

00:42:09.960 But there's

00:42:10.680 something I

00:42:11.460 just don't

00:42:11.940 feel like it

00:42:12.600 right now.

00:42:13.120 And I

00:42:13.300 don't know

00:42:13.580 why.

00:42:14.840 Like today,

00:42:15.840 I could

00:42:16.980 easily find

00:42:17.920 some people

00:42:18.400 to be with.

00:42:18.980 Actually,

00:42:19.580 I have an

00:42:19.940 invitation that

00:42:20.860 I said

00:42:21.660 no to.

00:42:24.140 It has

00:42:24.780 nothing to

00:42:25.220 do with

00:42:25.440 the people

00:42:25.840 or the

00:42:26.240 event or

00:42:27.040 anything.

00:42:28.040 I just

00:42:28.440 can't wrap

00:42:28.900 my head

00:42:29.260 around spending

00:42:30.300 time with

00:42:30.740 people at

00:42:31.320 the moment.

00:42:33.100 Somebody says

00:42:33.800 there's

00:42:33.980 depression,

00:42:34.560 but I don't

00:42:34.920 feel depressed.

00:42:36.680 I know

00:42:36.980 what depression

00:42:37.480 feels like.

00:42:39.060 I mean,

00:42:39.520 you know,

00:42:39.720 it's that

00:42:39.960 you just

00:42:41.040 don't want

00:42:42.140 to walk

00:42:42.420 up the

00:42:42.720 stairs kind

00:42:43.260 of feeling.

00:42:44.060 I don't

00:42:44.360 have that.

00:42:44.940 I've got

00:42:45.160 plenty of

00:42:45.540 energy.

00:42:46.800 If I had

00:42:47.900 low energy,

00:42:49.280 then I

00:42:50.960 would think

00:42:51.440 maybe it's

00:42:52.240 depression,

00:42:52.720 but I

00:42:52.940 don't.

00:42:53.320 My

00:42:53.480 energy is

00:42:53.860 fine.

00:42:58.500 But I'm

00:42:59.100 getting a lot

00:42:59.580 of work done

00:43:00.420 in my book,

00:43:00.980 so it's

00:43:01.480 all good.

00:43:02.780 By the

00:43:03.300 way,

00:43:03.600 the book

00:43:03.960 I'm

00:43:04.160 working on,

00:43:05.720 I'm almost

00:43:07.480 worried how

00:43:08.260 much impact

00:43:08.900 it's going

00:43:09.260 to have.

00:43:10.400 Like I'm

00:43:10.880 worried it

00:43:11.260 will have

00:43:11.480 too much

00:43:11.980 impact.

00:43:13.640 And here's

00:43:14.080 why.

00:43:14.380 I boiled,

00:43:18.200 in the

00:43:18.560 book I'm

00:43:19.040 doing a

00:43:19.840 bunch of

00:43:20.160 reframes,

00:43:21.140 how to

00:43:21.920 look at

00:43:22.220 something

00:43:22.460 differently,

00:43:23.380 but a

00:43:23.880 reframe

00:43:24.280 that will

00:43:24.580 give you

00:43:24.940 an advantage.

00:43:26.960 And some

00:43:27.460 of the

00:43:27.680 reframes

00:43:28.100 are so

00:43:28.480 powerful

00:43:28.960 that it's

00:43:30.120 almost like

00:43:30.560 a book

00:43:30.860 of spells

00:43:31.520 because they're

00:43:33.580 all one

00:43:33.980 sentence

00:43:34.340 reframes.

00:43:34.900 So it's

00:43:35.880 literally,

00:43:37.680 let me

00:43:39.440 take

00:43:40.260 literally

00:43:40.680 back.

00:43:41.820 I'm

00:43:42.080 overusing

00:43:42.600 literally.

00:43:43.640 It's like

00:43:44.700 a book

00:43:45.580 of magic.

00:43:46.440 Like literally

00:43:47.060 a sentence

00:43:47.600 you could

00:43:48.040 say that

00:43:48.460 could change

00:43:48.900 your life

00:43:49.860 or somebody

00:43:50.540 else's.

00:43:54.020 And I'll

00:43:54.960 give you an

00:43:55.260 example.

00:43:57.200 One of the

00:43:57.860 examples is,

00:43:59.300 you've heard

00:43:59.680 me talk

00:44:00.020 about it,

00:44:02.180 a reframe

00:44:02.840 for drinking

00:44:03.360 is that

00:44:03.760 alcohol is

00:44:04.280 poison.

00:44:05.740 So just

00:44:06.220 instead of

00:44:06.740 thinking of

00:44:07.200 it as

00:44:07.520 an entertainment,

00:44:08.300 you just

00:44:08.600 say alcohol

00:44:09.540 is poison.

00:44:10.580 And a

00:44:11.040 number of

00:44:11.400 people who

00:44:11.960 heard me

00:44:12.440 repeat that,

00:44:13.260 saw it in

00:44:13.580 the book,

00:44:14.760 stopped

00:44:15.300 drinking.

00:44:17.300 Now,

00:44:17.640 could you

00:44:17.880 imagine one

00:44:18.620 sentence that

00:44:19.300 would stop

00:44:19.720 people from

00:44:20.220 drinking?

00:44:21.380 But that's

00:44:21.800 real.

00:44:22.240 That actually

00:44:22.700 happened.

00:44:23.080 One sentence,

00:44:24.220 alcohol is

00:44:24.780 poison,

00:44:25.700 just a

00:44:26.100 simple

00:44:26.340 reframe.

00:44:27.680 And I

00:44:28.320 don't know

00:44:28.560 how many

00:44:28.840 people,

00:44:29.380 but I'm

00:44:29.880 guessing

00:44:30.160 dozens,

00:44:31.660 based on

00:44:32.120 my feedback,

00:44:32.780 I don't have

00:44:33.140 an actual

00:44:33.480 count.

00:44:33.760 But lots

00:44:34.760 of people,

00:44:35.980 at least

00:44:36.360 dozens,

00:44:37.480 have told me

00:44:38.080 that they

00:44:38.860 stopped drinking

00:44:39.540 almost immediately

00:44:40.440 with one

00:44:41.180 sentence.

00:44:42.200 Now,

00:44:42.480 I'm not

00:44:42.660 talking about

00:44:43.080 alcoholics,

00:44:44.220 because addiction

00:44:45.320 is a different

00:44:45.800 problem.

00:44:46.600 I'm just

00:44:47.000 talking about

00:44:47.420 people who

00:44:47.780 wanted to

00:44:48.100 modify their

00:44:48.940 lifestyle in

00:44:49.580 some way,

00:44:50.000 but didn't

00:44:50.960 have an

00:44:51.280 addiction.

00:44:57.820 Yeah,

00:44:58.420 okay,

00:44:58.700 here's the

00:44:59.040 thing about

00:44:59.400 reframes,

00:45:00.220 which I'll

00:45:01.420 go over in

00:45:01.760 the book.

00:45:02.300 If you

00:45:02.780 think that

00:45:03.240 a reframe

00:45:03.780 has to

00:45:04.200 be true,

00:45:05.740 then you're

00:45:06.440 going to

00:45:06.640 miss all

00:45:07.000 the magic.

00:45:08.400 Reframes 0.93

00:45:08.740 don't need

00:45:09.200 to be

00:45:09.440 true.

00:45:09.740 In fact,

00:45:10.060 they're

00:45:10.180 usually not.

00:45:11.640 They're

00:45:11.920 more often

00:45:12.520 not true.

00:45:14.120 They just

00:45:14.640 have to

00:45:14.940 work.

00:45:15.960 And the

00:45:16.360 reason that

00:45:16.760 a reframe

00:45:17.260 works is

00:45:17.720 that words

00:45:18.240 carry their

00:45:18.800 own power.

00:45:20.540 So if

00:45:21.320 you put

00:45:21.760 some words

00:45:22.320 into people's

00:45:22.960 heads,

00:45:23.920 you're

00:45:24.260 reprogramming

00:45:24.940 them.

00:45:25.700 And you

00:45:26.100 can do

00:45:26.380 it to

00:45:26.580 yourself.

00:45:27.160 You can

00:45:27.400 put words

00:45:27.880 into your

00:45:28.220 own head

00:45:28.640 consciously.

00:45:30.420 So words

00:45:31.060 have their

00:45:31.480 own power,

00:45:32.240 like a

00:45:32.620 little

00:45:32.780 programming

00:45:33.360 unit.

00:45:34.020 If you

00:45:34.340 put enough

00:45:34.720 programming

00:45:35.400 units in

00:45:36.020 in the

00:45:36.280 right order,

00:45:37.380 you reprogram

00:45:38.140 yourself.

00:45:39.820 That's it.

00:45:48.800 Do you

00:45:49.460 think Democrats

00:45:50.200 or Republicans

00:45:51.500 are better

00:45:52.020 at reframing?

00:45:53.660 You'd have

00:45:54.280 to give

00:45:54.500 me some

00:45:54.760 examples.

00:45:56.600 Are

00:45:57.100 Democrats

00:45:57.540 or Republicans

00:45:58.440 better at

00:45:59.000 reframing?

00:46:01.980 Because they

00:46:02.620 both do it

00:46:03.220 all the

00:46:03.560 time.

00:46:08.640 Somebody's

00:46:09.120 saying the

00:46:09.400 Democrats

00:46:09.800 are better

00:46:10.280 at it.

00:46:13.000 Yeah.

00:46:14.600 But I

00:46:15.220 think it's

00:46:15.560 closer to a

00:46:16.340 fair fight

00:46:16.880 now.

00:46:17.460 You know

00:46:17.740 why?

00:46:19.620 Do you

00:46:20.180 know why

00:46:20.480 the

00:46:20.740 Republicans

00:46:21.240 are better

00:46:21.740 at framing

00:46:22.300 now than

00:46:22.860 they used

00:46:23.180 to be?

00:46:26.200 Yeah.

00:46:27.720 Me.

00:46:30.080 It's the

00:46:30.700 obvious.

00:46:33.920 And

00:46:34.180 there are,

00:46:37.100 at this

00:46:37.580 point,

00:46:37.920 there are so

00:46:38.360 many people

00:46:38.880 who have

00:46:39.200 read my

00:46:39.640 books,

00:46:40.620 or read

00:46:41.240 my book

00:46:41.580 on the

00:46:44.020 election and

00:46:44.700 persuasion,

00:46:45.440 and have

00:46:45.740 watched the

00:46:46.380 live streams.

00:46:47.180 I've

00:46:49.440 taught so

00:46:49.940 many

00:46:50.280 right-leaning

00:46:51.240 people how

00:46:51.860 to handle

00:46:52.940 reframing.

00:46:54.300 I'd be

00:46:54.940 surprised if

00:46:55.740 Republicans

00:46:56.520 aren't better

00:46:57.080 at it.

00:46:57.500 what's the

00:47:08.440 difference between

00:47:09.080 a reframe

00:47:09.880 and a

00:47:10.280 narrative?

00:47:11.320 Well, a

00:47:11.940 narrative is

00:47:12.780 more like a

00:47:14.380 story,

00:47:15.720 and a

00:47:16.300 reframe is

00:47:17.260 usually the

00:47:18.320 fast summary.

00:47:20.200 So they

00:47:20.640 could be

00:47:21.220 overlaid,

00:47:22.380 they could be

00:47:23.120 overlapping.

00:47:23.620 But the

00:47:25.220 thing with

00:47:25.580 a narrative

00:47:26.000 is,

00:47:26.880 unless you're

00:47:29.040 just lying,

00:47:30.760 which a lot

00:47:31.280 of them are,

00:47:31.840 they're just

00:47:32.160 lies,

00:47:36.420 so, I'm

00:47:41.540 sorry, I saw

00:47:41.980 a question that

00:47:42.620 diverted me

00:47:43.140 there for a

00:47:43.580 moment.

00:47:44.260 So a

00:47:44.720 narrative is

00:47:45.320 more of the

00:47:45.740 long form,

00:47:46.740 and the

00:47:47.220 reframe

00:47:48.760 doesn't need

00:47:49.220 to be true.

00:47:50.580 A narrative

00:47:51.120 tries to be

00:47:51.980 true, but a

00:47:53.060 lot of them

00:47:53.400 are lies.

00:47:54.200 But with

00:47:54.600 a reframe,

00:47:55.360 you're not

00:47:55.780 lying, if

00:47:57.980 you're doing

00:47:58.320 it in a

00:47:58.680 productive way.

00:47:59.240 You're not

00:47:59.480 necessarily lying,

00:48:00.320 but it doesn't

00:48:00.720 have to be

00:48:01.120 true.

00:48:01.940 It just

00:48:02.480 works.

00:48:04.280 Now,

00:48:04.780 unfortunately,

00:48:05.320 in politics,

00:48:06.060 that's the

00:48:06.580 same thing.

00:48:07.440 They use

00:48:08.040 reframes that

00:48:08.820 aren't true,

00:48:10.320 but they

00:48:11.060 work.

00:48:12.580 They work.

00:48:14.060 You know,

00:48:14.360 the fine

00:48:16.820 people hoax

00:48:17.500 is a

00:48:17.840 reframe.

00:48:19.400 So instead

00:48:20.060 of saying

00:48:20.480 that he was

00:48:20.940 talking about

00:48:21.740 any people

00:48:22.920 who were

00:48:23.220 there who

00:48:23.640 were not

00:48:23.940 racist, 0.77

00:48:24.660 they just

00:48:25.220 said,

00:48:25.480 oh, he's

00:48:25.840 definitely

00:48:26.120 talking about

00:48:26.700 racist.

00:48:27.720 And then

00:48:28.080 you say,

00:48:28.980 no, no,

00:48:29.980 there are

00:48:30.280 people there

00:48:30.760 who are

00:48:30.980 not racist,

00:48:31.680 and then

00:48:32.040 they say,

00:48:32.800 well, but

00:48:33.280 they were

00:48:33.520 marching with

00:48:34.060 racists,

00:48:34.720 so.

00:48:35.720 And then

00:48:35.980 you say,

00:48:36.300 no, they

00:48:36.560 weren't

00:48:36.880 marching with

00:48:37.820 them.

00:48:38.220 Well, but

00:48:38.520 they were

00:48:38.760 with racists.

00:48:40.060 And they

00:48:40.260 say, no,

00:48:40.860 they weren't

00:48:41.180 with them.

00:48:41.820 They were

00:48:42.020 physically

00:48:42.460 quite far

00:48:43.360 away from

00:48:43.860 them.

00:48:44.460 Well, but

00:48:44.860 they came

00:48:45.260 to an

00:48:45.600 event organized

00:48:46.580 by racists.

00:48:47.860 And then

00:48:48.140 you say,

00:48:48.640 hmm, but

00:48:49.860 there were

00:48:50.120 also religious

00:48:50.800 people there

00:48:51.460 and Antifa

00:48:52.040 and police

00:48:52.840 and medical

00:48:53.320 people,

00:48:53.880 and they

00:48:54.480 all came

00:48:54.860 to a racist

00:48:55.380 thing for

00:48:55.900 their own

00:48:56.220 reasons.

00:48:57.540 And so

00:48:58.100 some people

00:48:58.580 who like

00:48:58.980 statues also

00:48:59.720 came for

00:49:00.260 their own

00:49:00.560 reasons.

00:49:02.160 And then

00:49:02.920 they get

00:49:03.520 mad at you

00:49:04.040 because you've

00:49:04.700 taken away

00:49:05.400 all the

00:49:05.660 reasons.

00:49:06.760 Yeah.

00:49:10.940 Well, no,

00:49:12.000 that is the

00:49:12.500 wrongest thing

00:49:13.060 anybody ever

00:49:13.640 said, none

00:49:14.280 your business.

00:49:15.480 Somebody said

00:49:16.040 that a reframe

00:49:16.880 is self-sophistry.

00:49:18.500 Sophistry, by

00:49:21.480 my way of

00:49:22.020 thinking, is

00:49:22.460 something useless.

00:49:24.620 A reframe

00:49:25.280 will change

00:49:25.860 your life.

00:49:28.960 Sophistry is 0.99

00:49:29.680 literally the

00:49:30.460 opposite of a

00:49:31.280 reframe.

00:49:32.080 So when you

00:49:32.480 said reframe

00:49:33.160 equals self-sophistry,

00:49:35.000 that was exactly

00:49:36.120 the opposite of

00:49:37.080 smart.

00:49:42.860 Do I believe

00:49:43.860 in elves?

00:49:48.500 So what

00:49:50.720 makes reframes

00:49:51.460 good or bad

00:49:52.140 is the

00:49:52.480 intent and

00:49:53.220 the character

00:49:53.720 of the

00:49:54.040 person using

00:49:54.640 it.

00:49:55.440 That is

00:49:56.000 correct.

00:49:57.160 A reframe

00:49:57.760 is a tool.

00:49:58.980 It can be

00:49:59.640 used for

00:50:00.080 good or

00:50:00.640 evil.

00:50:01.400 That is

00:50:01.840 correct.

00:50:04.640 A book

00:50:05.300 will not be

00:50:05.840 out for

00:50:06.140 Christmas.

00:50:06.580 It might

00:50:06.780 be written

00:50:07.140 by Christmas.

00:50:11.500 Is a

00:50:12.180 reframe

00:50:12.660 self-hypnosis?

00:50:14.380 In a way,

00:50:15.520 yes.

00:50:15.880 So the

00:50:17.840 trouble is I

00:50:18.300 use hypnosis

00:50:18.980 in a wider

00:50:20.780 sense than

00:50:22.120 other people

00:50:22.600 do.

00:50:23.820 So for me,

00:50:24.680 hypnosis is

00:50:25.400 anything you're

00:50:25.920 saying that's

00:50:26.480 persuasive and

00:50:27.320 uses some of

00:50:27.980 the tools of

00:50:28.620 persuasion.

00:50:29.740 It doesn't

00:50:30.180 mean you're

00:50:30.540 going to a

00:50:31.020 trance.

00:50:41.460 Affirmations

00:50:41.940 are a form

00:50:42.520 of reframe.

00:50:43.220 you could

00:50:45.900 stretch the

00:50:46.460 definition for

00:50:47.080 that, I

00:50:47.400 guess.

00:50:57.020 Who's this

00:50:57.760 bald,

00:50:58.300 vexed,

00:50:58.820 and childless

00:50:59.360 guy?

00:51:02.320 Let me

00:51:02.920 ask you

00:51:03.220 this.

00:51:06.380 A lot

00:51:07.080 of people,

00:51:07.600 especially on

00:51:08.020 the right,

00:51:09.560 believe that

00:51:10.300 reproducing

00:51:11.180 is the

00:51:12.860 ultimate win.

00:51:14.480 That if

00:51:15.080 your genes

00:51:16.160 have been

00:51:16.600 reproduced,

00:51:17.500 if you've

00:51:17.840 had biological

00:51:18.500 children,

00:51:19.640 that that's

00:51:20.100 sort of the

00:51:20.460 ultimate win.

00:51:21.640 And I

00:51:22.160 wouldn't

00:51:22.420 disagree with

00:51:23.080 that,

00:51:24.040 because that

00:51:25.320 would be one

00:51:25.860 way to keep

00:51:26.360 score.

00:51:28.340 Right?

00:51:29.100 And if

00:51:29.560 somebody says,

00:51:30.260 I'm way more

00:51:30.800 successful because

00:51:31.680 I had a

00:51:32.080 child, and

00:51:33.300 you did not

00:51:33.840 have a

00:51:34.120 child, I

00:51:34.620 would say,

00:51:34.920 well, if

00:51:35.180 that's the

00:51:35.480 way you're

00:51:35.760 keeping score,

00:51:37.440 okay.

00:51:38.400 But why

00:51:39.080 would you keep

00:51:39.620 score?

00:51:40.900 Why?

00:51:41.920 What is the

00:51:43.020 logic or

00:51:43.920 the reason

00:51:44.520 behind passing

00:51:45.780 your genes

00:51:46.340 along?

00:51:47.600 Why?

00:51:49.220 I understand

00:51:50.120 that people

00:51:50.540 want to do

00:51:51.060 it, and I

00:51:52.040 understand it's

00:51:52.620 a biological

00:51:53.180 impulse.

00:51:54.520 But have you

00:51:55.580 taken it to

00:51:56.120 another level

00:51:56.740 where there's

00:51:57.360 a why?

00:51:58.360 Because I've

00:51:58.900 never seen

00:51:59.300 the sense

00:51:59.720 to it.

00:52:02.140 Expand

00:52:02.620 your mind.

00:52:03.520 Well, that's

00:52:03.920 so selfish.

00:52:05.100 Okay.

00:52:06.080 If you have

00:52:06.780 good genes,

00:52:07.360 you should pass

00:52:07.920 them along.

00:52:08.600 Why?

00:52:09.920 Why?

00:52:10.700 You're going

00:52:10.920 to be

00:52:11.080 dead.

00:52:13.800 Scott is

00:52:14.680 an emotional

00:52:15.260 wreck.

00:52:16.600 Compared

00:52:17.160 to what?

00:52:19.300 If I'm

00:52:20.220 an emotional

00:52:20.740 wreck,

00:52:22.880 compared to

00:52:23.760 what?

00:52:28.220 All right?

00:52:29.900 Is it

00:52:30.400 ego?

00:52:31.020 So, in

00:52:31.800 my view,

00:52:32.960 reproduction is

00:52:34.120 something that

00:52:35.780 you do if

00:52:36.560 your ego

00:52:37.060 requires it.

00:52:38.940 And mine

00:52:39.640 never did.

00:52:41.960 And that's

00:52:42.600 it.

00:52:43.520 Now,

00:52:43.760 obviously,

00:52:45.280 you need to

00:52:45.640 reproduce to

00:52:46.460 keep the

00:52:46.780 economy healthy,

00:52:47.820 to keep

00:52:48.180 civilization

00:52:48.840 moving forward.

00:52:50.200 But the

00:52:50.540 fact is,

00:52:53.900 it seems to

00:52:57.480 me that if

00:52:57.960 you're helping

00:52:58.400 the people

00:52:58.860 who are here,

00:52:59.940 you're doing

00:53:00.760 just as much

00:53:01.400 for civilization

00:53:02.300 as if you

00:53:02.900 created a

00:53:03.480 new one.

00:53:05.000 Yeah, and

00:53:05.480 some would

00:53:05.840 say that

00:53:06.240 having a

00:53:06.580 child is

00:53:07.040 the ultimate

00:53:07.460 narcissistic

00:53:08.440 thing.

00:53:09.480 You have

00:53:09.840 to create

00:53:10.220 yourself because

00:53:10.960 you can't

00:53:11.540 imagine not

00:53:12.200 having more

00:53:12.660 of you,

00:53:13.760 to which I've

00:53:14.640 always said,

00:53:15.180 you know,

00:53:15.520 less of me

00:53:16.080 would be fine.

00:53:18.160 I think a

00:53:18.580 little less of

00:53:19.020 me would be

00:53:19.400 just what the

00:53:20.380 world needs.

00:53:20.840 I need a

00:53:25.560 woman to 0.98

00:53:26.020 help me keep

00:53:26.540 perspective.

00:53:28.800 How many

00:53:29.380 people think

00:53:30.020 that's true?

00:53:36.840 How many

00:53:37.460 people think

00:53:38.000 I need a

00:53:38.440 woman to 0.98

00:53:39.040 help me keep

00:53:39.680 perspective?

00:53:44.480 All right.

00:53:48.120 Why not

00:53:48.800 continue

00:53:49.280 but why?

00:53:52.280 So somebody's

00:53:53.420 asking me,

00:53:54.100 why wouldn't

00:53:54.540 I have

00:53:54.900 kids?

00:53:55.700 That's not

00:53:56.340 the right

00:53:56.640 question.

00:53:57.660 The question

00:53:58.060 is why?

00:54:00.260 So it's

00:54:00.660 not why

00:54:01.040 not,

00:54:02.880 because you

00:54:03.560 could why

00:54:04.140 not everything

00:54:04.820 that you

00:54:05.120 don't do.

00:54:06.540 You need

00:54:07.120 a why.

00:54:08.700 Now, I do

00:54:09.400 believe that

00:54:10.060 people have

00:54:10.880 great satisfaction

00:54:12.040 from it and

00:54:12.760 all that.

00:54:19.280 please don't

00:54:23.740 have kids.

00:54:26.940 Yeah, you

00:54:27.560 don't want my

00:54:28.120 kids running

00:54:28.580 around.

00:54:34.280 But it is

00:54:35.200 true that one

00:54:35.640 of my

00:54:35.900 relatives had

00:54:36.600 the highest

00:54:37.220 IQ of all

00:54:38.060 presidents,

00:54:38.860 John Quincy

00:54:39.440 Adams.

00:54:40.740 True story.

00:54:41.300 True story.

00:54:41.340 Lost on

00:54:45.420 one of

00:54:45.740 divorces.

00:54:50.820 So somebody,

00:54:52.300 so how many

00:54:53.220 of you had

00:54:53.620 divorces during

00:54:54.420 the pandemic

00:54:55.000 or breakups?

00:54:57.340 Breakups or

00:54:58.300 divorces during

00:54:59.120 the pandemic?

00:55:00.120 Go.

00:55:04.240 All right.

00:55:05.560 A number of

00:55:06.140 you did.

00:55:06.560 No, no, no.

00:55:10.600 Yes, no.

00:55:13.500 All right.

00:55:14.900 And I know

00:55:18.960 but I'm

00:55:19.240 willing to

00:55:19.640 learn.

00:55:23.120 Oh, somebody

00:55:24.020 broke up right

00:55:24.760 before the

00:55:25.280 pandemic.

00:55:32.000 Wow.

00:55:34.580 Some of you

00:55:35.300 got closer.

00:55:40.600 Well, now

00:55:45.100 let me ask

00:55:45.620 you this.

00:55:46.780 Would the

00:55:47.220 world be

00:55:47.660 better off if

00:55:48.860 I had had

00:55:49.360 children and

00:55:50.020 never wrote

00:55:50.620 any books?

00:55:51.920 Because I

00:55:52.480 probably wouldn't

00:55:52.980 be doing this

00:55:53.820 if I had

00:55:54.420 children.

00:55:59.900 Mixed

00:56:00.420 opinion there,

00:56:01.020 huh?

00:56:02.160 I guess it

00:56:02.900 depends how

00:56:03.360 much you

00:56:03.640 like the

00:56:03.980 books.

00:56:06.980 Somebody

00:56:07.440 says I

00:56:07.860 have a

00:56:08.160 poor self

00:56:08.780 image.

00:56:10.200 Really?

00:56:10.600 Or is

00:56:12.920 it just

00:56:13.180 accurate?

00:56:19.020 You'd be

00:56:19.560 better off at

00:56:20.220 the expense

00:56:20.660 of the

00:56:20.900 world.

00:56:26.000 Yeah, I

00:56:26.580 can tell you

00:56:27.140 that I

00:56:28.400 would not

00:56:29.020 be exterior

00:56:30.680 focused if

00:56:31.520 I had kids.

00:56:33.320 You agree?

00:56:34.880 If I had

00:56:35.560 kids, I

00:56:35.940 would not

00:56:36.220 be exterior

00:56:36.900 focused.

00:56:37.560 But I'm

00:56:37.800 very exterior

00:56:38.520 focused.

00:56:39.140 see what

00:56:40.400 I can do

00:56:41.200 for other

00:56:41.520 people.

00:56:42.500 Well, here's

00:56:42.960 the most

00:56:43.380 interesting

00:56:43.920 comment I

00:56:44.840 saw the

00:56:45.180 day.

00:56:46.680 Machiavelli's

00:56:47.140 underbelly

00:56:47.640 said this.

00:56:48.900 Have you

00:56:49.220 ever heard

00:56:49.540 the saying

00:56:50.620 that the

00:56:51.300 two most

00:56:52.260 certain things

00:56:54.520 in life are

00:56:55.040 death and

00:56:55.460 taxes?

00:56:57.500 The two

00:56:58.020 things you

00:56:58.460 can always

00:56:58.820 depend on,

00:56:59.440 death and

00:56:59.820 taxes.

00:57:01.180 Machiavelli's

00:57:01.720 underbelly

00:57:02.240 wonders if

00:57:03.040 that's

00:57:03.340 true.

00:57:05.840 The

00:57:06.280 death and

00:57:06.780 taxes might 0.57

00:57:08.100 be something

00:57:08.560 that both

00:57:09.000 end.

00:57:10.720 And I

00:57:11.060 think that's

00:57:11.400 actually

00:57:11.640 possible.

00:57:13.520 I can

00:57:14.240 see people

00:57:14.780 being immortal

00:57:15.740 and I

00:57:16.900 can see

00:57:17.240 taxation

00:57:17.960 ending.

00:57:19.060 Both of

00:57:19.540 those seem

00:57:19.960 entirely

00:57:20.360 possible.

00:57:21.260 In fact,

00:57:22.140 if you

00:57:22.500 went far

00:57:23.520 enough into

00:57:23.940 the future,

00:57:24.480 it's guaranteed,

00:57:25.140 I think.

00:57:25.460 Thank you.

00:57:25.520 Thank you.

00:57:27.520 Thank you.

00:57:27.580 Thank you.

00:57:29.580 Thank you.

00:57:31.580 Thank you.

00:57:33.040 Quasi-immortal.

00:57:37.220 Yeah.

00:57:37.560 Maybe

00:57:37.780 quasi-immortal.

00:57:39.960 Well,

00:57:40.540 that is all

00:57:41.040 I have for

00:57:41.480 you today.

00:57:42.420 I think it

00:57:43.220 was a

00:57:43.540 highlight of

00:57:44.000 your day.

00:57:44.980 Hard to

00:57:45.500 imagine it

00:57:45.980 could get

00:57:46.280 better from

00:57:46.700 here,

00:57:47.640 but it

00:57:48.860 might.

00:57:52.940 And I

00:57:53.540 gotta tell

00:57:53.880 you that

00:57:54.140 the Dilbert

00:57:54.600 comic is

00:57:55.260 getting

00:57:55.540 edgier.

00:57:57.720 So there

00:57:58.400 was one

00:57:58.880 that I

00:58:00.860 had just

00:58:01.540 flat turned

00:58:02.460 down the

00:58:02.860 other

00:58:03.020 day.

00:58:05.300 But

00:58:05.700 you can

00:58:06.740 see the

00:58:07.060 original,

00:58:07.540 the one

00:58:07.760 that got

00:58:08.000 turned down

00:58:08.540 on the

00:58:09.040 Locals

00:58:09.440 platform.

00:58:11.180 So the

00:58:11.740 only place

00:58:12.140 you can

00:58:12.360 see the

00:58:12.660 ones that

00:58:12.960 were too

00:58:13.480 naughty

00:58:13.820 for the

00:58:14.900 newspapers

00:58:15.320 will be

00:58:15.740 on Locals.

00:58:19.060 That's

00:58:19.460 right.

00:58:19.640 My books

00:58:20.020 are my

00:58:20.360 children.

00:58:20.680 kids are

00:58:30.920 not for

00:58:31.220 everyone

00:58:31.520 right.

00:58:38.240 All right.

00:58:41.120 All right,

00:58:41.700 that's all

00:58:42.020 for now.

00:58:42.440 I'll talk to

00:58:42.800 you later,

00:58:43.360 YouTube.

00:58:43.900 Your comments

00:58:44.400 were interesting

00:58:44.920 today,

00:58:45.440 so thank

00:58:46.100 you for

00:58:46.340 that.

00:58:46.580 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 26, 2022

Episode 1847 Scott Adams： Redacted Affidavits, Rogan Talks to Zuckerberg, Student Loan Forgiveness

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