Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 05, 2022


Episode 1857 Scott Adams: Let's Talk About The Headlines While I Teach you Hypnosis Tips & Tricks


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 23 minutes

Words per Minute

142.915

Word Count

11,999

Sentence Count

975

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

In this episode of the highlight of civilization, we take a look behind the curtain, under the hood, and beneath the rock to find secrets and truths that have never been experienced before, or we'll just spend an hour or so sipping coffee and having a good time.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
00:00:11.860 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I don't think there's been a finer moment in
00:00:15.460 the history of time, space-time, or whatever the hell this is.
00:00:21.240 And you, my lucky viewers, are in for the best time of your entire day so far.
00:00:30.620 And all you need to take it up to amazing levels of happiness is a cup or mug or a glass,
00:00:36.580 a tank or gel, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:40.580 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:43.140 I like coffee.
00:00:45.200 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine here of the day, the thing that
00:00:50.240 makes everything better.
00:00:52.040 It's called the simultaneous sip.
00:00:54.600 And wait until you feel it.
00:00:56.120 It's amazing.
00:00:57.340 Go.
00:01:00.000 Well, today, we're going to peel back the scenery and take a look at the machinery.
00:01:15.380 That's right.
00:01:16.160 We're going to go deep.
00:01:18.700 We're going to look behind the curtain, under the hood, beneath the rock, and then we're
00:01:25.560 going to drill into the core of the planet to find secrets and truths that have never
00:01:31.940 been experienced before.
00:01:34.460 Or we'll just spend an hour or so sipping coffee and having a good time.
00:01:38.160 And both of those are good things.
00:01:39.460 I think you'd agree.
00:01:41.860 Well, in the news, here are the things we know for sure.
00:01:46.140 Long COVID definitely exists.
00:01:49.220 And it's really bad.
00:01:51.440 We also know there's no evidence whatsoever that long COVID exists.
00:01:57.220 So those are both true.
00:01:58.640 We know, for example, that emergency rooms are packed with people complaining of long COVID
00:02:06.860 symptoms.
00:02:08.740 I also know, because I saw a bunch of emergency room doctors this morning say, there's absolutely
00:02:15.160 nothing like that happening.
00:02:17.460 I've seen exactly zero long COVID patients, say the other emergency room doctors.
00:02:23.600 So it is totally true that long COVID is a gigantic problem that exists for millions of people
00:02:29.060 and is one of the biggest variables in the entire pandemic.
00:02:32.480 And also, there's no evidence of it whatsoever.
00:02:36.340 So you can choose your venture.
00:02:38.980 Which one of those do you like?
00:02:41.100 There is just as much evidence of both the situations.
00:02:44.660 Just as much.
00:02:46.620 I don't know which one's true.
00:02:49.040 Honestly, I don't.
00:02:49.780 Also in the news, we have new studies that have proven, and new data proven, that vaccinations
00:02:58.260 are injuring people more than the COVID itself.
00:03:04.020 But, but, hold on, don't cancel me yet.
00:03:06.740 But also information proving the opposite.
00:03:10.220 So we simultaneously have really good, solid information that the vaccinations have saved
00:03:15.660 millions of lives.
00:03:16.720 And at the same time, really solid information that it killed people.
00:03:24.900 Both true.
00:03:26.820 They're both equally true.
00:03:28.740 Meaning that they both have something like data.
00:03:33.840 And there are people who believe each.
00:03:36.220 Now the experts are solidly on one side on most of these questions.
00:03:41.580 But do you believe the experts anymore?
00:03:43.320 Or, well, well, we want to.
00:03:48.660 We'd like to.
00:03:50.340 Wouldn't it be nice if we could?
00:03:53.000 Let's see what else we know.
00:03:55.600 We also know this week that ivermectin definitely works, because there's a new study showing it.
00:04:01.440 And also that ivermectin definitely doesn't work, because there are better studies that show
00:04:06.080 that it doesn't work.
00:04:07.120 And an observational study doesn't mean anything.
00:04:10.760 So, these are the things we know.
00:04:12.700 Long COVID exists and doesn't exist.
00:04:15.300 Vaccinations are good for you and not good for you.
00:04:18.200 And the ivermectin totally works and totally doesn't work.
00:04:22.580 That's the news today.
00:04:24.740 Now, how much of this do you think is because the people who disagree with you didn't do their homework?
00:04:32.120 Do you think that's what's going on?
00:04:34.900 Do you think the people who are on the other side from you, wherever you are on these topics,
00:04:39.800 do you think that it's because they don't have good information?
00:04:44.360 Do you think that's a problem?
00:04:46.820 Well, we're going to get to that.
00:04:49.940 Here's another thing that is true and not true at the same time.
00:04:53.920 Trump's recent speech was super divisive, or the opposite of that, just a lot of fun.
00:05:04.440 So, it's both of those things.
00:05:06.360 It was super divisive, divisive, Nazi-sounding, scary shit, and also just a bunch of laughs.
00:05:15.020 Same time.
00:05:16.280 Both of those.
00:05:17.260 We're all looking at the same stuff.
00:05:19.700 Everybody's looking at the same stuff.
00:05:21.260 We also know that Biden has been simultaneously hugely successful.
00:05:30.660 Lots of major legislation.
00:05:33.140 You know, he's got the unemployment rate is not bad, and things are moving in the right direction.
00:05:39.620 At the same time, everything he's done is a disaster.
00:05:43.420 So, Biden is simultaneously one of the most successful presidents in our history,
00:05:47.160 and also the worst president in our history, same time.
00:05:51.260 Yeah, same time.
00:05:57.280 So, let me ask you this.
00:06:01.260 Today, for the first time, it's sort of not a good sign.
00:06:06.980 Years ago, when I built my house, the one I live in, I put it in an elevator.
00:06:10.440 Because I said to myself, if I stay here long enough, eventually there's going to be a day when I don't want to walk upstairs.
00:06:19.280 And so, I put it in an elevator.
00:06:21.800 I didn't think that day would be today, but it is.
00:06:26.660 This morning, I actually couldn't handle the stairs.
00:06:29.020 It was physically too much for me.
00:06:32.980 Now, here's the weird thing.
00:06:35.040 I'm in really good shape.
00:06:37.480 I'm in great shape.
00:06:40.160 Physically, I can walk for miles, ride my bike for miles, go to the gym on a regular basis.
00:06:46.260 But I can't walk up and down my stairs anymore.
00:06:49.200 Do you know why?
00:06:51.180 Do you know why I can't walk up and down my stairs anymore?
00:06:56.120 I don't know either.
00:06:58.000 I don't know.
00:06:58.700 If I were going to fall for the long COVID story, that's exactly what it feels like.
00:07:06.940 It feels exactly like long COVID.
00:07:09.500 Because here's what the feeling is.
00:07:11.100 All of my muscles hurt like crazy all of the time.
00:07:15.540 And I thought I was just working out too much.
00:07:18.620 So that I took a little time off from my workouts to just see if maybe I just overdid it.
00:07:23.800 No difference.
00:07:25.520 My muscles are sore all the time.
00:07:27.720 I can barely walk up and down stairs.
00:07:31.280 Now, by mid-morning, by mid-morning, I will have loosened up a little bit.
00:07:37.300 And I can walk up and down stairs easily.
00:07:39.520 I can run up and down stairs.
00:07:41.020 So by this afternoon, I'll be fine.
00:07:44.600 Later in the afternoon, I will again be so tired that I will just sit on the couch and stare into space.
00:07:51.260 Now, you're going to say to yourself, it's old age.
00:07:53.980 Except that it happened at the same time I got COVID.
00:07:57.720 Is that a coincidence?
00:07:59.060 Did old age just sneak up on me the same week I got COVID?
00:08:03.040 Did that happen?
00:08:04.680 And were my exact COVID symptoms, is it just a coincidence that the exact symptoms I had during COVID,
00:08:11.520 which is trouble walking up the stairs, are the same symptoms I have now?
00:08:16.120 Trouble walking up and down the stairs.
00:08:17.520 Now, when did I get my vaccination?
00:08:21.420 You're all desperate to find out, aren't you?
00:08:24.160 Well, I only got the original series for the Alpha.
00:08:28.120 So that was over a year ago.
00:08:30.100 I did not get a booster beyond the first two.
00:08:34.360 They were basically one shot, but two parts.
00:08:37.420 So I didn't get anything beyond the first set.
00:08:40.540 A year went by when I didn't really have this problem.
00:08:45.400 As soon as I got COVID, I haven't been able to walk upstairs for two months now.
00:08:51.900 Two months?
00:08:54.420 Now, and then I also had the brain fog for a while, but that's, I have less of the brain fog right now.
00:09:01.200 Now, here's another factoid.
00:09:03.280 See if you can figure this out.
00:09:04.420 All right?
00:09:07.040 When I'm completely wiped out and I can't even move, I can just barely stand up and get to my car.
00:09:14.800 And I mean it's a struggle.
00:09:16.700 I mean just in, I mean at three o'clock in the afternoon, the act of standing up, walking to my garage,
00:09:24.560 and putting the key in the, it's actually pretty hard.
00:09:28.160 It's pretty hard.
00:09:29.120 It's a struggle.
00:09:29.700 Then I go to Starbucks, and I order a venti-sized iced espresso almond milk something.
00:09:39.940 I don't know what it is.
00:09:41.360 I sit there and I drink that espresso, almond milk, iced tea, whatever iced thing it is.
00:09:48.120 And when I'm done, I feel fine.
00:09:52.320 Like, I want to go to the gym.
00:09:55.620 My body's all great.
00:09:57.880 Pain is gone.
00:09:58.560 I want to go to work.
00:10:00.740 I want to work on my book for hours.
00:10:04.520 Now, here's the weird part.
00:10:07.180 If I drink warm coffee at home, it just puts me to sleep.
00:10:12.980 What's the difference?
00:10:14.840 Does anybody know?
00:10:16.440 Is it the sugar?
00:10:17.980 Because I don't have sugar in my coffee when I'm home.
00:10:20.960 I just need to have black coffee.
00:10:22.980 But when I have it at Starbucks, I assume it's got sugar in there of some kind.
00:10:28.560 You think it's the sugar?
00:10:31.080 You think it's the sunlight?
00:10:33.880 No, you know, the other thing I've been doing is going out in the morning and standing in the sun for a few minutes every day.
00:10:40.160 I've been hearing good things about that.
00:10:41.660 Like, just the first thing I do.
00:10:44.080 As soon as I'm done with this, I'll actually go stand in my driveway for 10 minutes and just feel the sun.
00:10:51.200 Yeah.
00:10:51.740 Now, you're also going to say it's because of marijuana, right?
00:10:54.140 Right?
00:10:56.200 Right?
00:10:57.460 Yeah.
00:10:57.980 The obvious things.
00:10:59.680 But my marijuana smoking is identical to how it's been since I was 18 years old.
00:11:07.460 Hasn't changed that much.
00:11:09.120 And it's not like the weed got better this summer.
00:11:12.380 I mean, it's gradually improved, but that's not it.
00:11:15.540 I know exactly what it feels like to be stoned.
00:11:19.180 And this is different.
00:11:20.400 Very different.
00:11:20.900 Now, somebody said, take a nap.
00:11:24.100 I've tried that, of course.
00:11:26.240 And then I wake up from the nap, and my muscles are still sore.
00:11:31.180 So the nap doesn't help the muscles.
00:11:34.140 So, here's the thing.
00:11:35.780 Do I have long COVID?
00:11:37.560 If you were to say, Scott, you've never learned anything about psychology or confirmation bias,
00:11:44.800 tell us, do you think you have long COVID?
00:11:46.760 And I'd say, well, I've never heard of those things you just mentioned.
00:11:49.020 I definitely have long COVID.
00:11:51.880 But then suppose you said, Scott, you've been studying this stuff for a long time.
00:11:55.920 You know what confirmation bias is.
00:11:58.280 You know what it is.
00:11:59.600 You know what cognitive dissonance is.
00:12:01.720 Now, do you think you have long COVID?
00:12:04.740 And then I say, oh, shit, I do know what those things mean.
00:12:07.660 I don't know.
00:12:09.420 Not only do I don't know, I don't even have a good guess.
00:12:12.980 I'm not even sure which would be slightly more likely.
00:12:16.880 No idea.
00:12:17.600 But if you think that you are sure in my exact situation, if you could be in my exact situation
00:12:25.080 and you would say to yourself, I'm sure, I'm sure this is long COVID, then you haven't learned
00:12:31.280 your lesson yet.
00:12:32.100 And you will learn this lesson by the end of this live stream.
00:12:37.140 Oh, there's more to come.
00:12:38.820 Watch me tie it all together in one beautiful souffle.
00:12:43.240 Yeah, you don't see it yet, but it's coming together.
00:12:45.160 All right, I saw a tweet from P.D. Mangan today, who's a good follow.
00:12:54.380 P.D. Mangan, M-A-N-G-A-N, shows that 25% of women in the United States are on an antidepressant.
00:13:04.000 25% of adult women are on an antidepressant in the United States.
00:13:10.800 So, I saw separately another tweet that said the United States' rate of antidepressants
00:13:18.460 is through the roof compared to other countries.
00:13:21.920 Surprised?
00:13:23.320 I'm not surprised.
00:13:25.120 Do you know what is different about the United States compared to all those other countries
00:13:29.900 where they have fewer prescriptions for antidepressants?
00:13:34.500 Well, I don't know this is true, so I'll ask you for a fact check.
00:13:39.860 Is it true that the United States is the only place that those companies can advertise directly to consumers?
00:13:46.580 Because you see advertisements directly to consumers.
00:13:50.680 Don't you think that makes the consumers ask for it?
00:13:53.620 And that's why they do it.
00:13:55.140 The whole point of it is to make consumers ask for it.
00:13:58.440 So, do you think that the United States has a much bigger problem with depression,
00:14:03.540 or do we have a big problem with media manipulation and brainwashing by advertisement?
00:14:10.040 Which problem do we have?
00:14:12.140 Maybe both.
00:14:13.760 Yeah, maybe a little bit of both.
00:14:15.800 It's hard to know how much of each.
00:14:19.160 But does that number sound right to you?
00:14:21.000 Let me just test it commonsensically.
00:14:24.400 So, here's one of your bullshit filters.
00:14:27.300 If the thing that science is telling you doesn't map with what you're observing,
00:14:32.520 that doesn't mean it's not true, because your observations might be biased.
00:14:38.240 But if it doesn't match, you should at least raise a flag and say,
00:14:41.400 OK, there's a little discrepancy here.
00:14:43.880 Why is my observation so wildly different than what I'm seeing?
00:14:49.000 What is your opinion of the 25% of adult women on antidepressants?
00:14:53.980 High or low?
00:14:55.020 Is it high or low?
00:14:55.960 Go.
00:14:56.100 Or just right?
00:14:58.240 High or low?
00:15:01.340 Yeah, it's low.
00:15:04.760 Almost everybody says it's low.
00:15:06.760 There's a few high.
00:15:08.240 A few say high.
00:15:09.360 Most people think it's low.
00:15:11.480 Yeah.
00:15:13.120 Why is that?
00:15:15.680 Why is that?
00:15:16.560 Well, here's my take.
00:15:22.080 I think that society is organized in a way that prevents us from achieving happiness.
00:15:29.220 Now, when I say society, I mean everything from the way we use technology,
00:15:34.660 to the way we get married, to the way we have relationships,
00:15:37.740 to the way we raise kids, to the way our school system works.
00:15:41.020 Just everything.
00:15:41.600 Just all of it is designed, not designed, it sort of evolved that way.
00:15:49.320 But we have created a civilization that couldn't possibly satisfy its people.
00:15:55.180 Am I right?
00:15:56.940 If you took those same people and, you know, just airlifted them and dropped them into another environment,
00:16:02.900 let's say you just put them in another country where people are happier.
00:16:06.080 I don't know where that is.
00:16:08.240 Name a happy country.
00:16:09.820 What's a happy country?
00:16:14.500 South Korea?
00:16:16.620 Poland?
00:16:17.480 Albania?
00:16:18.160 Tahiti?
00:16:18.740 I don't know.
00:16:19.360 Finland?
00:16:20.540 I don't know.
00:16:21.620 Wherever they're happy.
00:16:23.800 Do you think those people would be happier if you dropped them in a happier place with a different civilization?
00:16:30.120 Maybe.
00:16:30.980 I don't know.
00:16:32.460 Maybe.
00:16:32.860 Maybe.
00:16:32.940 But to me, the 25% seems super low because what's not included is the number of people self-medicating.
00:16:43.620 How many people are taking illegal pills?
00:16:47.100 That's not in here, right?
00:16:48.880 Don't you think there are just a shit done of people who are taking an illegal Xanax or an illegal Adderall or an illegal something?
00:16:57.800 And that they're doing it to feel better.
00:17:01.780 And in other words, it's an antidepressant of sorts.
00:17:06.600 Overeating?
00:17:07.260 You could say overeating is an antidepressant.
00:17:10.560 It's a very bad one.
00:17:13.120 And this date is from 2014.
00:17:14.880 So imagine what the rate of antidepressants is now after the pandemic.
00:17:20.880 Yeah.
00:17:21.260 So you've got to throw in alcohol.
00:17:22.700 You've got to throw in weed, legal weed.
00:17:25.020 You've got to throw all that in there.
00:17:26.240 I think it's closer to 80%.
00:17:27.900 My guess is that 80% of adults, male and female, are actively medicating.
00:17:39.180 80%.
00:17:39.660 And the other 20% wish they had, but that's another story.
00:17:48.260 What do you think, what would be your guess as to the popularity of abortion, having it legalized anyway,
00:17:56.420 what will happen if you make it, well, what do you think was the predictable outcome of the Supreme Court?
00:18:04.200 All right, the Supreme Court said it's up to the states to decide.
00:18:07.680 But what do you think the public, on average, did?
00:18:12.000 Did the public move more pro-abortion or more anti-abortion?
00:18:17.400 What happened?
00:18:18.500 And what was predictable?
00:18:20.700 What was the predictable outcome?
00:18:25.180 See, neither and both.
00:18:27.040 No change, negligible, confusion.
00:18:29.700 All right, let's apply what we've learned from, let's apply everything we've learned from persuasion, okay?
00:18:39.600 What happened when the Supreme Court ruled on Roe?
00:18:43.580 What did it do to the supply of abortions, of legal abortions?
00:18:48.720 What happened to the supply of legal abortions?
00:18:51.540 It went down, right?
00:18:52.280 You could still get them, but you'd have to work harder and go somewhere else in some cases.
00:18:58.500 So if the supply goes down, what does that do to the price?
00:19:04.060 It goes up.
00:19:05.800 It goes up, right?
00:19:07.280 When the supply is down, but the demand stays high, then the price goes up.
00:19:13.420 Now, price is another way to say value, right?
00:19:17.440 Roughly.
00:19:18.280 Roughly, they're proxies.
00:19:20.020 So it's not surprising to me that when you make something harder to get, like a luxury good, that people have a higher opinion of it.
00:19:34.880 It could be that just restricting the supply makes people want it more.
00:19:42.140 And by the way, you would expect that, right?
00:19:44.960 Because everything we know about restricted supply changes the psychology of how valuable it is to say, oh, these are hard to get.
00:19:53.120 If they're hard to get, they must be valuable.
00:19:56.060 Am I wrong?
00:19:57.460 Just the fact that they're hard to get makes it seem more valuable.
00:20:01.780 Like you'd be a little more desperate to get it if it were hard to get.
00:20:04.700 And also, I think the Supreme Court decision made people think about themselves or their loved ones in that situation.
00:20:12.980 If it's not in the headlines, you don't have to think about yourself, oh, what if this happens to me?
00:20:18.680 But as soon as you think, what if it happens to me or my loved ones, suddenly you say to yourself, I think I want options.
00:20:24.960 If you're forced to think about it in terms of your personal experience, you're going to lean toward at least having options.
00:20:35.680 So it doesn't surprise me at all that there's a survey that says that legal abortion went up in popularity.
00:20:44.740 So I don't know if I wouldn't necessarily say that one survey is conclusive, but it wouldn't be surprising.
00:20:51.620 That's actually the way, if you understood persuasion, you would kind of expect it to get more popular because it's restricted.
00:20:59.900 Now, to test my theory, what about cigarette smoking?
00:21:06.900 Cigarette smoking is actually way down compared to what it used to be.
00:21:10.400 It's like 10 or 11 percent of the public smokes now.
00:21:13.940 I think it used to be at least a third or a half or something like that.
00:21:17.200 It was crazy at one point.
00:21:18.340 So here smoking was restricted, in a sense, but popularity went down.
00:21:26.520 But it wasn't really restricted, was it?
00:21:29.000 Because anybody underage could always give cigarettes any time they wanted.
00:21:32.380 So it wasn't really restricted, not in any serious way.
00:21:36.400 And then the vape was more available.
00:21:38.560 So I'm not sure that's a good example.
00:21:43.260 But, all right, have you ever heard of the Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Experiment?
00:21:49.640 Probably not.
00:21:51.040 Let me tell you about it.
00:21:52.580 Here's what to take away from this experiment I'm going to describe.
00:21:57.200 First of all, this is repeatable.
00:21:59.820 So you could do this experiment all day long, and you would get the same result.
00:22:04.080 So that's unusual and wonderful that it's repeatable.
00:22:08.800 And it works like this.
00:22:10.360 You ask a bunch of volunteers to do a boring task.
00:22:15.880 They're just, like, piling up blocks or something.
00:22:19.040 It's just super boring.
00:22:20.800 And then at the end of it, you offer them either $20 or $1.
00:22:27.120 Back when $20 was worth more than it is now.
00:22:31.040 You'd offer them either $20 or $1.
00:22:33.620 And they wouldn't know that people were getting different offers.
00:22:37.040 That would be secret.
00:22:38.660 And you'd say, I want you to tell the people in the other room that this was actually a fun and exciting task.
00:22:46.080 You know, lie to them, in other words.
00:22:47.580 Because everybody believed it was boring.
00:22:49.960 But both groups were asked to lie.
00:22:52.180 So the people who were paid $20 to lie lied, because they were asked to.
00:22:59.980 And then later, when they were asked their opinion about the blocks, it was about the same as it was before.
00:23:06.980 They thought it was boring before.
00:23:08.820 They lied and said it wasn't boring.
00:23:10.720 They got $20.
00:23:12.160 And later, they still thought it was boring.
00:23:14.280 So their opinion was unchanged.
00:23:15.740 The people who were offered $1 also lied, because they were asked to.
00:23:22.540 But when they checked with them later, the $1 people had, by a large percentage, like 30-some percent or so,
00:23:32.380 had decided that it was actually not that boring.
00:23:36.020 They had actually convinced themselves it was interesting.
00:23:39.380 About a third of them.
00:23:41.220 Do you know why?
00:23:41.840 And there's a solid hypothesis behind it that can be reproduced at will.
00:23:48.440 And the thing is that the $20 people thought that the reason that they were lying was they were being paid for it.
00:23:56.260 Oh, you're asking me to lie.
00:23:58.040 I got $20.
00:23:59.080 That's serious money in those days.
00:24:01.680 So I know I'm lying.
00:24:03.980 I'm just getting paid for it.
00:24:05.920 The people who got $1, $1 wasn't enough to lie.
00:24:09.780 Most people will not lie for $1.
00:24:12.620 So when they lied for $1, they had to explain it later to themselves.
00:24:19.100 And the way they explained it was, well, it wasn't really lying.
00:24:22.120 Because it actually was more fun than maybe I first thought.
00:24:25.860 No, it was actually kind of, it was interesting, really.
00:24:28.300 Actually, I enjoyed it a lot.
00:24:29.960 I was alone with my thoughts.
00:24:31.600 And it was a very, it was a good time.
00:24:34.060 Now, here's what you should learn from this.
00:24:35.800 These people's brains were rewired for a dollar instantly.
00:24:45.900 Nearly instantly.
00:24:47.140 You know, we're talking about within hours or days.
00:24:49.300 One dollar rewired a third of the people there instantly.
00:24:57.520 One dollar.
00:24:58.320 All they did was get somebody to say something that was opposite of what they believed.
00:25:04.440 And they would, and a third of them talked themselves into it within a day.
00:25:07.680 Okay.
00:25:09.120 Okay.
00:25:09.760 Now, is that experiment, does it blow your mind that it's so powerful cognitive dissonance
00:25:17.840 and that it's so easy to trigger it?
00:25:20.140 Does it blow your mind?
00:25:23.060 It doesn't blow mine, because this is something I've known for decades, right?
00:25:27.420 These studies have been, you know, replicated for decades.
00:25:32.760 Once you understand how powerful this is, then everything you see in politics and social media
00:25:39.300 starts making sense.
00:25:41.400 So part of the reason that I can withstand social media silliness, and it doesn't make me crazy,
00:25:48.320 relative to other people, everybody gets a little crazy, is because I see it this way.
00:25:55.760 I see it as people literally walking around in a fog and not knowing it.
00:26:01.020 If I saw them as, like, legitimate players who were mad at me or had, like, a real opinion
00:26:06.660 of me that was low, maybe it'd bother me.
00:26:09.160 I don't know.
00:26:10.160 But I don't see the world that way.
00:26:12.460 I see it as people just literally blind and just bumping into stuff.
00:26:16.300 And I'm like, ooh, just stand out of the way.
00:26:18.600 Let you blind people bump into stuff.
00:26:21.200 Just stand back a little bit and let it happen.
00:26:23.840 That's how I see the world.
00:26:25.420 I see social media as blind people bumping into stuff.
00:26:29.400 I don't see them as having even real opinions.
00:26:34.120 I mean, I literally don't think their opinions are even real.
00:26:39.060 It's just something they heard.
00:26:40.720 It was assigned to them by the media.
00:26:42.960 Somebody paid them a dollar, and it reversed.
00:26:44.820 But everything's like that.
00:26:48.020 Everything.
00:26:49.220 As soon as you think, well, those poor, poor bastards.
00:26:54.400 I'm sure glad that doesn't happen to me.
00:26:56.780 Huh?
00:26:56.900 Aren't we happy that that doesn't happen to us?
00:27:00.680 It only happens to other people.
00:27:05.060 No.
00:27:07.300 No.
00:27:07.660 No, it happens to you.
00:27:11.060 And you don't know when it happens to you.
00:27:12.860 That's the nature of it.
00:27:14.020 The nature of it is you can only see it in other people.
00:27:16.940 That's why you have the illusion that it's only happening to other people.
00:27:19.800 But they can see it in you.
00:27:23.120 But it gets worse than that.
00:27:26.660 Most of the time when they see it in you, they're projecting.
00:27:32.220 Well, I don't know if it's most of the time.
00:27:33.760 It would depend on who you are.
00:27:35.480 But you can't tell the difference between when they really see some inconsistency with what you're doing
00:27:42.740 and when are they experiencing just more cognitive dissonance.
00:27:46.380 And so they imagine you're the one who's with the problem.
00:27:50.620 Can't tell.
00:27:52.080 Can't tell.
00:27:52.780 That's what makes it exciting.
00:27:54.640 Now, I have told you there's one, you know, there are a few little signals.
00:28:00.260 You look for the person who's got the trigger.
00:28:03.840 Right?
00:28:04.420 Now, if you've not been triggered, for example, when I heard about this study,
00:28:10.060 I said to myself, oh, that's exactly what I expected.
00:28:13.340 You know, I would have predicted this exact outcome based on what I know.
00:28:18.020 So there's no trigger for cognitive dissonance in my case
00:28:21.380 because what I expected is exactly what happened.
00:28:24.900 But if what you expect, you learn to be completely wrong,
00:28:28.680 that's when cognitive dissonance kicks in.
00:28:30.840 So that's your trigger.
00:28:31.900 Look for somebody who found out that what they believed was totally wrong.
00:28:36.040 Those are the ones who were triggered.
00:28:37.900 But we even disagree about what's right and what's wrong, so even that stuff.
00:28:41.800 All right.
00:28:46.760 David Frum.
00:28:48.400 Do you all know him?
00:28:49.300 Political commentator and writer.
00:28:52.420 And he's a big anti-Trumper.
00:28:56.340 And here's how he describes Trump's, I'm sorry, not Trump's, Biden's speech.
00:29:03.720 The one that people called satanic.
00:29:07.160 All right.
00:29:09.480 So many of you probably said to yourself,
00:29:12.040 that Biden speech was the worst thing that ever happened.
00:29:14.860 There's no way you can spin that good.
00:29:17.860 Well, interestingly, David Frum, writing in The Atlantic,
00:29:23.360 which, if you don't know, The Atlantic is not a serious publication.
00:29:27.260 It's owned by, I believe it's owned by Steve Jobs' widow, right?
00:29:32.980 And it's just a Democrat publication, trying to pretend it's not.
00:29:39.480 But here's what Frum titled his piece.
00:29:44.420 He said,
00:29:44.860 Biden laid the trap, Trump walked into it.
00:29:47.560 So, Frum's take on this is that Biden is so clever
00:29:53.480 that he was laying a trap with this rally
00:29:56.500 to try to provoke the Trumpists into acting crazy
00:30:01.240 and thus prove that they are crazy.
00:30:04.680 So, this was not an old man doddering through
00:30:08.180 a completely failed attempt at communicating.
00:30:11.580 That's what many of you think you saw.
00:30:13.820 No, no.
00:30:14.840 You were mistaken.
00:30:15.760 This was Biden cleverly laying a trap
00:30:18.960 and Trump just walked right into that trap.
00:30:22.380 He did.
00:30:25.100 But here's the way Frum described this in a tweet.
00:30:30.280 So, he tweeted this.
00:30:32.180 He said,
00:30:32.760 Early in Trump's term,
00:30:34.420 an anonymous staffer said something like,
00:30:36.820 quote,
00:30:37.540 Trump's not playing three-dimensional chess.
00:30:40.260 Most of the time,
00:30:41.120 we're just trying to stop him from eating the pieces.
00:30:43.420 And then he says that Biden's speech goaded Trump
00:30:50.520 into swallowing at least a bishop.
00:30:55.460 Now, here's your next hypnosis tip.
00:30:59.420 And I'm not making this up.
00:31:01.400 This is something I specifically learned in hypnosis class.
00:31:05.520 So, my hypnosis instructor taught me this,
00:31:07.840 and it's one of the most useful things I've ever learned.
00:31:09.900 Look, you won't believe this is true.
00:31:13.560 So, you'll have the same experience I did the first time I heard it.
00:31:16.420 Like, I don't think that's true.
00:31:18.200 And then you watch for it.
00:31:20.860 And every year that goes by, you're like,
00:31:22.740 oh, it might be a little bit true.
00:31:25.820 And then eventually you're like,
00:31:27.620 damn it.
00:31:29.100 Damn it.
00:31:30.160 It's true.
00:31:30.840 It goes like this.
00:31:34.140 People tell you their sexual preferences in direct words.
00:31:39.100 You just don't notice.
00:31:41.480 It's just that your sexual instinct is such a strong part of your being
00:31:44.900 that your language just naturally wraps around those preferences,
00:31:49.340 whether you know it or not.
00:31:50.880 You can't turn it off.
00:31:52.060 So, when David Frum, who is a big nemesis of President Trump,
00:31:58.520 writes,
00:31:59.560 Biden's speech goaded Trump into swallowing at least a bishop,
00:32:04.960 my hypnosis instructor would say,
00:32:07.700 that is not a coincidental use of terms.
00:32:11.320 That's a man who has fantasies of blowing President Trump.
00:32:17.840 Now, I'm not going to say that that's true.
00:32:22.060 Because that would require mind reading, right?
00:32:24.540 I'm saying that's what I learned in hypnosis.
00:32:27.480 And that whenever I noticed something like this,
00:32:31.060 and I could follow up and find out if it were true,
00:32:34.080 it was true.
00:32:36.160 So, all of the times when I could confirm
00:32:38.720 whether the thing I was hearing,
00:32:40.880 I think I heard something very sexual,
00:32:43.560 any time I could confirm whether or not it was true,
00:32:46.180 it was always true.
00:32:47.520 It was exactly what it looked like.
00:32:49.000 Now, I have no way to confirm this one.
00:32:54.080 I'm just telling you the pattern I've noticed through my life
00:32:56.560 is that it's not a coincidence.
00:32:59.080 Nobody could write,
00:33:00.220 swallow the bishop
00:33:01.140 without feeling there's some kind of sexual connotation there.
00:33:07.800 Really?
00:33:08.440 Swallow the bishop?
00:33:10.780 An hypnotist interpretation of this
00:33:12.760 is that David Frum had
00:33:14.480 sexual sadomasochism
00:33:19.000 feeling about Trump.
00:33:22.160 Which, by the way,
00:33:23.380 is probably common.
00:33:25.760 Are there any women watching this
00:33:27.160 who have had sexual dreams about Trump?
00:33:31.220 Go.
00:33:32.420 Any women
00:33:33.160 who have had sexual dreams about Trump?
00:33:37.200 Because for a while,
00:33:38.160 that was a thing.
00:33:38.800 Maybe before his first election.
00:33:44.180 I see one yes.
00:33:46.220 My wife, yes.
00:33:48.520 It's mostly no's.
00:33:51.620 But you see a sprinkling of yes.
00:33:54.540 I assume it was mostly no.
00:33:57.460 I know two that did.
00:33:58.760 Right.
00:33:59.300 So I've heard of people who did as well.
00:34:01.960 So it's not unusual to have sexual fantasies
00:34:04.140 about a president
00:34:05.320 or anybody in power.
00:34:08.660 Anyway,
00:34:09.200 that's what I see in this.
00:34:15.140 What else is going on?
00:34:16.640 What a fun day.
00:34:19.920 All right.
00:34:20.420 What about those top secret folders?
00:34:22.180 So here's a question I asked.
00:34:24.700 And doesn't this amaze you
00:34:26.480 that we don't have an answer to this?
00:34:28.220 I'll say this again.
00:34:31.000 I feel that there's a missing service
00:34:34.280 in the news industry.
00:34:36.300 And the missing service
00:34:37.620 is that the citizens
00:34:39.900 should have a place they can go
00:34:41.700 where they can say,
00:34:43.360 this is the question
00:34:44.040 I'd like to have answered
00:34:45.040 from my government.
00:34:47.200 And then the news people
00:34:48.340 would be able to look at the list
00:34:49.680 and say, okay,
00:34:50.240 this is what people wonder about.
00:34:52.160 So I will ask their questions,
00:34:53.700 plus my own good questions.
00:34:55.240 But it would be nice to know
00:34:56.080 what the public wants to know.
00:34:58.680 And the number of times
00:35:00.140 that the press
00:35:00.700 simply doesn't ask the question
00:35:02.400 that the public wants to know
00:35:04.020 is really astounding, isn't it?
00:35:06.880 And you don't always notice.
00:35:09.160 But really,
00:35:09.900 the reason that the questions
00:35:11.080 they ask are asked is why.
00:35:13.680 Why does anybody,
00:35:15.380 why do the press people
00:35:16.860 ask the specific questions they ask?
00:35:19.680 What is their motivation
00:35:20.860 for the questions they ask?
00:35:23.700 Yeah, it's all gotcha questions, right?
00:35:25.900 It's gotchas,
00:35:26.900 or it's trying to make
00:35:27.880 the person look good.
00:35:29.600 It could go either way.
00:35:31.740 But more importantly,
00:35:32.960 it's for the reporter's career, right?
00:35:35.820 The journalist is trying
00:35:37.080 to make the journalist look good.
00:35:39.380 That's the motivation.
00:35:42.000 All the other motivations
00:35:43.240 are subsidiary to that.
00:35:45.840 The top motivation
00:35:46.740 is for the journalist
00:35:47.620 to look good
00:35:48.300 because it's a, you know,
00:35:49.640 career-defining moment.
00:35:51.360 So that's all that matters.
00:35:53.700 So,
00:35:54.280 under that situation,
00:35:57.860 what do you think
00:36:00.200 of those blank,
00:36:01.200 top-secret folders
00:36:02.240 that were found at Mar-a-Lago?
00:36:04.360 So a bunch of empty,
00:36:05.480 top-secret folders.
00:36:07.560 And here's the question
00:36:08.460 that I have not seen anybody ask.
00:36:10.840 So this is why
00:36:11.680 we need that website
00:36:12.860 to ask these questions.
00:36:14.120 How normal is it
00:36:16.000 for a president's office
00:36:17.020 to have extra
00:36:17.900 top-secret folders
00:36:19.080 in case you need one?
00:36:23.520 I would think
00:36:24.340 that they'd be laying around
00:36:25.640 readily available.
00:36:28.240 Would they not?
00:36:29.640 Because it seems to me
00:36:30.760 there are things
00:36:31.280 that probably enter
00:36:32.240 the Oval Office
00:36:34.060 and probably get
00:36:36.060 re-characterized
00:36:39.180 on the fly,
00:36:39.800 don't they?
00:36:41.500 Don't you think
00:36:42.160 there are some things
00:36:42.880 that come in
00:36:43.460 and they're marked
00:36:44.120 top-secret
00:36:44.800 and then the president
00:36:46.060 looks at it
00:36:46.760 and says,
00:36:47.400 all right,
00:36:47.640 this doesn't really need
00:36:48.500 to be top-secret
00:36:49.300 and just throws away
00:36:50.160 the folder
00:36:51.180 or just tosses it
00:36:52.600 on the desk?
00:36:53.800 Has that ever happened?
00:36:55.260 Probably.
00:36:55.780 I mean,
00:36:56.020 it's probably happened
00:36:56.900 at least once
00:36:57.640 because the president
00:36:58.760 has that power.
00:37:00.400 The president
00:37:00.880 can just say,
00:37:01.460 why is this top-secret?
00:37:02.960 Just toss this folder.
00:37:05.160 Somebody write this down.
00:37:06.540 This one's not
00:37:07.020 top-secret anymore.
00:37:08.120 That's a possibility.
00:37:09.440 The other possibility
00:37:10.300 is that stuff comes in
00:37:11.640 that looks like
00:37:13.060 it's not top-secret
00:37:14.200 but when the people
00:37:15.760 in the Oval Office
00:37:16.480 look at it,
00:37:17.160 they're like,
00:37:17.500 ooh,
00:37:18.440 oh,
00:37:18.800 actually,
00:37:19.360 upon better thinking,
00:37:20.600 we better not let
00:37:21.180 anybody see this.
00:37:23.160 And so they reach
00:37:24.340 into a drawer
00:37:24.860 and slap a folder on it
00:37:26.280 and then they do
00:37:26.880 the paperwork.
00:37:28.300 But I think
00:37:29.020 you'd want to get
00:37:29.520 the folder onto it
00:37:30.800 right away, right?
00:37:33.460 Like,
00:37:33.920 I get that the paperwork
00:37:34.880 has to be done
00:37:36.240 but you're not going
00:37:37.280 to leave it unfolded
00:37:39.300 while you work
00:37:40.660 through the paperwork,
00:37:42.240 right?
00:37:42.860 You're going to reach
00:37:43.440 into your desk,
00:37:44.100 you're going to slap
00:37:44.660 a folder on it,
00:37:45.880 you're going to hand it
00:37:46.480 to the secretary
00:37:47.160 or whoever
00:37:47.980 and say,
00:37:49.120 you know,
00:37:49.280 do the paperwork
00:37:49.880 to make this top-secret.
00:37:52.140 So here's the question.
00:37:53.920 Is it normal
00:37:54.860 to have empty
00:37:57.040 top-secret folders
00:37:58.360 somewhere in the
00:38:00.140 working area
00:38:02.320 of a president?
00:38:05.720 My intuition
00:38:06.820 tells me
00:38:07.520 that that would be
00:38:08.280 common.
00:38:09.860 But I don't know.
00:38:11.720 It seems common.
00:38:14.140 And so if somebody
00:38:14.940 threw a bunch of stuff
00:38:16.040 in the box,
00:38:17.800 what evidence
00:38:18.460 would we have
00:38:19.100 that it was anything
00:38:20.280 but extra ones?
00:38:23.140 I don't know.
00:38:23.460 And then the other
00:38:26.160 question is,
00:38:27.100 can't we tell
00:38:27.760 if something's missing
00:38:28.640 at this point?
00:38:30.260 So at this point,
00:38:31.280 the GSA,
00:38:32.200 whoever,
00:38:32.520 has a list
00:38:33.000 of all the documents.
00:38:34.680 Now we also have
00:38:35.560 a list of the documents
00:38:36.560 that have been recovered.
00:38:38.720 Can't they tell us
00:38:39.560 which ones
00:38:40.080 are top-secret
00:38:40.900 and missing?
00:38:42.760 Because the ones
00:38:43.580 that were top-secret,
00:38:44.620 they must have been
00:38:45.560 recorded as
00:38:46.560 in the president's
00:38:47.700 possession.
00:38:49.680 So again,
00:38:50.300 there's obvious questions
00:38:51.860 that are not being asked.
00:38:53.460 Apparently the president
00:38:58.720 at his rally
00:38:59.860 had a speaker there
00:39:01.600 who's been advocating
00:39:03.860 for the release
00:39:04.720 of some of these
00:39:05.300 January 6th defendants,
00:39:07.080 but one of them
00:39:08.020 is really a sketchy case.
00:39:10.920 So one of them,
00:39:11.840 one of the jailed,
00:39:13.140 still jailed,
00:39:14.560 January 6th protester types
00:39:16.480 is an actual
00:39:21.420 Hitler supporter.
00:39:23.460 like an actual Nazi,
00:39:26.940 like actually
00:39:27.620 has been photographed
00:39:28.320 with a little
00:39:29.080 Hitler mustache,
00:39:30.860 talks about it openly.
00:39:33.600 So there's at least
00:39:34.940 one guy
00:39:35.540 that's being held
00:39:36.600 in jail
00:39:37.040 because he's
00:39:38.660 overtly
00:39:39.500 Nazi sympathizer.
00:39:41.840 now,
00:39:45.320 so here's my point.
00:39:46.740 Oh,
00:39:47.060 you're ahead of me.
00:39:48.780 Hold on,
00:39:49.200 you'll be happy.
00:39:49.960 You'll be happy.
00:39:51.460 I know where you're
00:39:52.040 going in this,
00:39:52.660 but hold on.
00:39:53.600 Hold on.
00:39:55.160 Hold on.
00:39:59.320 That isn't illegal.
00:40:02.220 That isn't illegal.
00:40:04.600 And do you know
00:40:05.260 why the judge
00:40:05.840 is holding him?
00:40:06.720 He has not been
00:40:07.380 accused of violence.
00:40:08.340 He has not been
00:40:10.160 accused of violence.
00:40:11.780 He has not been
00:40:12.600 accused of violence.
00:40:14.680 He has not
00:40:15.820 been accused
00:40:16.720 of violence.
00:40:18.680 Here's why he's
00:40:19.480 being held.
00:40:22.440 The judge
00:40:23.280 in the case
00:40:23.760 said he should
00:40:24.360 be held
00:40:24.620 a waiting trial
00:40:25.840 because he
00:40:26.660 posed a threat
00:40:27.580 to the public
00:40:28.300 and that there
00:40:29.800 was a potential
00:40:30.500 for a, quote,
00:40:31.320 escalation of violence
00:40:32.540 from his alleged
00:40:34.000 long-held
00:40:34.840 neo-Nazi beliefs.
00:40:40.100 He is overtly
00:40:41.520 and publicly
00:40:43.180 and transparently
00:40:45.180 being held
00:40:45.800 in jail
00:40:46.280 for crimes
00:40:47.920 that somebody
00:40:48.620 suspects he might
00:40:49.660 do.
00:40:51.840 Not for crimes
00:40:52.740 he did.
00:40:54.140 Not for crimes
00:40:55.020 he did.
00:40:55.440 Now,
00:40:55.620 the crime he did
00:40:56.200 gives him the cover
00:40:57.060 for holding him,
00:40:57.820 of course.
00:40:58.860 The crime of
00:40:59.560 trespassing,
00:41:00.260 I suppose.
00:41:00.600 but I don't
00:41:05.900 care that he's
00:41:06.540 a Nazi sympathizer.
00:41:08.260 I mean,
00:41:08.940 I care,
00:41:09.740 of course.
00:41:10.640 I care that he's
00:41:11.560 a Nazi sympathizer.
00:41:12.860 But it's not
00:41:13.600 really relevant
00:41:14.220 to this question,
00:41:15.120 is it?
00:41:16.000 Not really relevant.
00:41:18.540 This is very
00:41:19.560 unacceptable.
00:41:21.420 And the trouble
00:41:22.220 is it's a trap.
00:41:23.600 You see the trap?
00:41:25.220 Because, you know,
00:41:26.060 you can see that
00:41:27.100 Trump walked
00:41:28.080 into the trap.
00:41:29.260 The trap is
00:41:30.120 that as long
00:41:31.160 as they keep
00:41:31.740 at least one
00:41:32.380 person who's
00:41:33.020 definitely a
00:41:33.900 neo-Nazi,
00:41:35.460 they've got to
00:41:36.780 keep at least
00:41:37.300 one who's
00:41:37.800 definitely a
00:41:38.500 neo-Nazi.
00:41:39.760 Because then
00:41:40.500 when Trump
00:41:41.040 releases,
00:41:42.000 let's say,
00:41:42.380 all of them
00:41:42.840 or pardons
00:41:43.420 them,
00:41:44.660 then Trump
00:41:45.180 released a
00:41:45.800 neo-Nazi.
00:41:47.980 That's the game.
00:41:49.860 There's no way
00:41:50.840 that this isn't
00:41:51.800 a political
00:41:52.400 imprisonment.
00:41:54.860 There's no way.
00:41:55.760 And, you know,
00:42:03.800 all right,
00:42:04.140 I'm just going
00:42:04.560 to say this.
00:42:06.360 This might be
00:42:07.060 the last time
00:42:07.580 you see me.
00:42:08.200 I always say that,
00:42:08.980 but I never know
00:42:10.140 when it's going
00:42:10.520 to be the last
00:42:11.020 time you ever
00:42:11.500 see me.
00:42:13.240 But one of the
00:42:14.060 biggest issues
00:42:14.720 is the concern,
00:42:16.700 a valid concern,
00:42:17.680 that the public
00:42:18.740 is getting whipped
00:42:19.520 up against the,
00:42:20.840 against judges,
00:42:22.380 against the FBI,
00:42:23.300 against the
00:42:24.880 Department of
00:42:25.460 Justice,
00:42:26.460 and that the
00:42:27.220 public might
00:42:27.860 become dangerous.
00:42:30.100 And we don't
00:42:30.800 want a world
00:42:31.420 where the public
00:42:32.660 is threatening
00:42:34.400 judges.
00:42:35.380 Would you agree?
00:42:36.660 You don't want
00:42:37.420 a world where
00:42:38.040 people are
00:42:38.600 threatening judges.
00:42:43.660 Do you?
00:42:45.480 If your judge
00:42:46.340 puts somebody
00:42:46.900 in jail for
00:42:47.500 obviously just
00:42:48.400 a political
00:42:48.820 reason,
00:42:49.900 you don't want
00:42:51.220 that person
00:42:51.620 to be threatened,
00:42:52.260 do you?
00:42:54.240 No.
00:42:55.360 We don't want
00:42:55.980 anybody to be
00:42:56.500 threatened with
00:42:56.960 violence.
00:42:58.300 But boy,
00:42:58.940 if anybody ever
00:42:59.900 got close to the
00:43:00.880 point where you
00:43:01.480 would change your
00:43:02.080 mind, it would
00:43:03.420 be somebody who
00:43:04.120 put somebody in
00:43:04.940 jail just to
00:43:05.640 fuck you.
00:43:06.900 Just to fuck
00:43:07.760 you.
00:43:08.780 That's why.
00:43:10.180 And I'm not
00:43:10.580 talking about the
00:43:11.160 person who's in
00:43:11.760 jail.
00:43:12.560 He's getting
00:43:13.180 fucked too.
00:43:14.660 But, you know,
00:43:15.720 I don't care that
00:43:16.320 much about a
00:43:16.800 neo-Nazi.
00:43:18.740 Frankly.
00:43:20.000 Frankly, I don't
00:43:20.700 care about him
00:43:21.200 personally.
00:43:21.600 But in terms
00:43:22.780 of the
00:43:23.060 concept, freedom
00:43:24.740 of speech, equal
00:43:26.620 justice, and the
00:43:27.660 fact that this
00:43:28.240 clearly seems to
00:43:29.640 be a trap that's
00:43:30.580 been set for
00:43:31.140 people like me.
00:43:32.980 This is a trap
00:43:34.140 for me.
00:43:37.180 Right?
00:43:37.540 The moment I
00:43:38.400 found out about
00:43:39.100 this story, I
00:43:40.480 said to myself,
00:43:41.440 A, I can't
00:43:42.200 resist it, and B,
00:43:45.000 I'm going to be
00:43:45.540 flying really close
00:43:46.420 to the sun here
00:43:47.140 when I talk about
00:43:47.860 this.
00:43:48.420 Because even
00:43:49.020 what I've said
00:43:49.600 so far, it's
00:43:51.500 enough to be
00:43:51.940 taken out of
00:43:52.440 context, isn't
00:43:53.160 it?
00:43:54.360 I've already
00:43:55.300 said enough that
00:43:56.420 I could be, you
00:43:57.600 know, Rupar
00:43:58.840 edited into
00:43:59.760 complete oblivion.
00:44:02.120 But I had to
00:44:03.020 say it.
00:44:04.160 I had to say
00:44:04.840 it.
00:44:05.840 And that's the
00:44:06.600 trap.
00:44:07.920 Because you
00:44:08.600 can't be a
00:44:09.680 good citizen and
00:44:10.900 let this go
00:44:12.380 unmentioned.
00:44:13.100 So here I
00:44:14.580 have a choice
00:44:15.140 of being a
00:44:15.660 patriot, like
00:44:17.240 being a
00:44:17.620 citizen, trying
00:44:18.820 to be useful,
00:44:20.200 definitely at
00:44:21.440 the risk of
00:44:21.920 my entire
00:44:22.420 career.
00:44:23.920 My entire
00:44:24.740 career is
00:44:25.400 risked just
00:44:26.360 to say
00:44:26.700 something that
00:44:27.280 is right and
00:44:27.900 true and
00:44:29.140 good for the
00:44:29.660 country.
00:44:32.220 It's just
00:44:32.860 amazing.
00:44:33.540 Amazing times
00:44:34.300 win.
00:44:35.780 But this
00:44:39.180 is the sort
00:44:39.700 of thing
00:44:40.100 where a
00:44:43.820 Trump
00:44:44.460 presidency
00:44:45.180 sort of
00:44:46.220 would clean
00:44:47.840 some of the
00:44:48.820 cobwebs out
00:44:49.820 of the
00:44:50.020 system.
00:44:51.520 And there
00:44:51.880 are definitely
00:44:52.160 some cobwebs
00:44:52.940 there.
00:44:54.400 You know,
00:44:54.780 what I suspect
00:44:55.880 was Trump's
00:44:56.680 biggest mistake
00:44:57.560 politically?
00:44:59.240 I think it
00:45:00.160 was during
00:45:00.640 his debate
00:45:03.140 with Hillary
00:45:03.700 Clinton in
00:45:04.820 which he
00:45:05.180 said directly
00:45:06.020 if he were
00:45:07.000 president she
00:45:07.640 would be in
00:45:08.140 jail.
00:45:08.420 I believe
00:45:10.760 that Hillary
00:45:11.280 was actually
00:45:12.100 worried about
00:45:12.720 going to
00:45:13.220 jail, like
00:45:14.080 actual jail.
00:45:16.140 I think she
00:45:16.580 actually was
00:45:17.000 worried about
00:45:17.420 that.
00:45:18.120 And I
00:45:18.400 believe that
00:45:18.940 the response
00:45:20.080 of the
00:45:21.580 Democrats who
00:45:22.660 sort of did
00:45:24.080 things I
00:45:24.480 wouldn't have
00:45:24.820 expected to
00:45:25.440 see, the
00:45:26.680 intelligence
00:45:27.140 agencies, the
00:45:28.160 FBI, etc.,
00:45:29.000 they acted as
00:45:30.400 though they
00:45:30.680 were protecting
00:45:31.260 Hillary and
00:45:32.040 the only way
00:45:32.480 to do that
00:45:32.960 is to take
00:45:33.500 Trump down.
00:45:34.960 So I think
00:45:35.780 that what you
00:45:36.400 and I are
00:45:37.660 watching is
00:45:39.620 Hillary trying
00:45:40.420 to stay
00:45:40.800 out of jail
00:45:41.340 by putting
00:45:42.740 Trump in
00:45:43.240 jail.
00:45:45.260 And maybe
00:45:46.140 not just
00:45:46.780 Hillary but
00:45:47.340 people associated
00:45:48.260 with her,
00:45:49.320 you know what
00:45:49.620 I mean?
00:45:50.200 So to me
00:45:50.760 this looks
00:45:51.180 like Hillary
00:45:52.100 and Democrats
00:45:52.920 trying to
00:45:53.380 stay out of
00:45:53.840 jail.
00:45:55.020 And the
00:45:55.420 way they
00:45:55.780 can do
00:45:56.080 that is to
00:45:56.620 take down
00:45:57.240 Trump and
00:45:58.420 all of his
00:45:58.940 supporters.
00:46:00.080 And it's
00:46:00.580 working.
00:46:01.500 It's working
00:46:02.240 so far.
00:46:03.160 If Trump
00:46:03.860 gets back
00:46:04.420 in office
00:46:04.980 and he
00:46:07.860 doesn't need
00:46:08.320 to get
00:46:08.580 re-elected
00:46:09.140 because it's
00:46:09.560 a second
00:46:09.920 term,
00:46:12.320 I've got a
00:46:13.780 feeling some
00:46:14.220 people might
00:46:14.680 go to jail.
00:46:16.080 I don't know
00:46:16.700 if the system
00:46:17.220 can convict a
00:46:18.100 Democrat,
00:46:18.820 frankly.
00:46:20.000 You know,
00:46:20.280 a high-ranking
00:46:20.960 Democrat,
00:46:21.420 I don't even
00:46:21.800 know if the
00:46:22.180 system could
00:46:22.660 do it.
00:46:23.600 The system
00:46:24.080 is so corrupt
00:46:24.680 at this point
00:46:25.180 I wouldn't
00:46:25.500 even trust it
00:46:26.140 to be able
00:46:26.480 to put
00:46:27.280 somebody in
00:46:27.720 jail no
00:46:28.060 matter how
00:46:28.380 good the
00:46:28.620 evidence is.
00:46:30.860 But that's
00:46:31.540 what I see.
00:46:31.940 And I think
00:46:32.360 it's just
00:46:32.860 Hillary trying
00:46:33.920 to stay
00:46:34.280 out of jail
00:46:34.780 and everything
00:46:35.720 else is about
00:46:36.500 that.
00:46:38.880 So the
00:46:39.680 chief financial
00:46:40.600 officer of
00:46:41.260 Bed Bath &
00:46:41.880 Beyond
00:46:42.260 jumped out
00:46:45.000 of a hotel
00:46:46.020 window.
00:46:47.660 No, it was
00:46:48.000 in his high-rise
00:46:48.580 apartment.
00:46:49.200 Jumped out
00:46:49.700 of a high-rise
00:46:50.420 apartment window
00:46:51.080 to his death.
00:46:53.260 Now, he had
00:46:53.620 been accused
00:46:54.240 of pumping
00:46:55.080 up the stock
00:46:56.060 and selling
00:46:57.100 his shares
00:46:57.660 before people
00:46:58.420 knew that
00:46:58.900 there was
00:46:59.220 problems there.
00:47:00.340 So he was
00:47:00.940 involved in a
00:47:01.500 financial scandal.
00:47:05.260 But what
00:47:05.940 caught my eye
00:47:06.600 is that it
00:47:07.060 was at his
00:47:07.480 apartment
00:47:07.880 where he has
00:47:10.120 both a bed
00:47:10.900 and a bathroom.
00:47:12.920 And now he's
00:47:14.120 gone to the
00:47:15.160 great beyond.
00:47:16.860 So,
00:47:18.860 code reuse.
00:47:22.380 Question.
00:47:23.860 Did CNN
00:47:24.500 always label
00:47:25.440 its opinion
00:47:26.080 opinion?
00:47:29.760 Did they?
00:47:32.360 No, fuck
00:47:33.060 him.
00:47:33.220 It's not too
00:47:33.680 soon.
00:47:34.560 He was a
00:47:34.960 crook.
00:47:35.880 If he wasn't
00:47:36.580 a crook,
00:47:37.240 it was too
00:47:37.940 soon.
00:47:39.320 But,
00:47:39.840 allegedly,
00:47:41.320 he was a
00:47:41.680 crook.
00:47:42.520 So,
00:47:42.900 fuck him.
00:47:43.180 I can't
00:47:48.780 remember,
00:47:49.280 because I
00:47:49.540 saw that
00:47:49.900 they did
00:47:50.260 label Dean
00:47:51.240 Obadiah's
00:47:51.960 opinion.
00:47:52.360 Now,
00:47:52.540 Dean Obadiah
00:47:53.180 is famous
00:47:54.200 for having
00:47:54.920 the most
00:47:55.720 anti-Trump
00:47:56.520 opinions,
00:47:58.040 or among
00:47:59.220 the most
00:47:59.600 anti-Trump.
00:48:02.320 And,
00:48:02.940 he's talking
00:48:04.040 about how
00:48:04.600 Trump's remarks
00:48:05.600 are alarming,
00:48:06.960 giving the,
00:48:08.180 you know,
00:48:09.580 the unprecedented
00:48:10.680 spike of threats
00:48:11.980 against the
00:48:12.500 FBI.
00:48:13.820 Now,
00:48:14.300 what do you
00:48:14.540 think of
00:48:14.780 that?
00:48:15.060 Do you
00:48:15.260 think that
00:48:15.620 Trump is
00:48:16.420 the cause
00:48:17.180 of the
00:48:18.160 unprecedented
00:48:18.820 threats
00:48:19.600 against the
00:48:20.100 FBI?
00:48:21.100 Is it
00:48:21.360 Trump's,
00:48:22.060 is he the
00:48:22.560 one that
00:48:22.820 caused that?
00:48:23.940 Is it
00:48:24.540 his rhetoric
00:48:25.200 that's causing
00:48:26.040 the increase
00:48:26.860 in threats
00:48:27.760 against the
00:48:28.260 FBI?
00:48:29.400 Or,
00:48:30.460 or,
00:48:31.480 I'm just
00:48:31.900 going to put
00:48:32.260 this out
00:48:32.660 there as
00:48:33.040 an alternative,
00:48:34.660 could it
00:48:35.040 be the
00:48:35.420 behavior of
00:48:36.100 the FBI?
00:48:37.840 Could it
00:48:38.400 be that the
00:48:39.000 behavior of
00:48:39.720 the FBI
00:48:40.180 itself is
00:48:41.800 bringing
00:48:42.240 problems to
00:48:43.480 the FBI?
00:48:45.060 To imagine
00:48:45.940 that the
00:48:46.640 problem with
00:48:47.160 the FBI
00:48:47.620 is its
00:48:48.280 critics
00:48:48.800 is a
00:48:51.080 pretty fucked
00:48:51.600 up opinion.
00:48:54.960 I'm pretty
00:48:55.700 sure that
00:48:56.200 you can't,
00:48:57.340 you didn't
00:48:57.720 create this
00:48:58.220 situation by
00:48:58.920 criticizing them.
00:49:00.820 My God.
00:49:02.780 Now,
00:49:03.700 so the
00:49:04.180 question is,
00:49:04.760 since this
00:49:05.140 opinion is,
00:49:06.040 in my opinion,
00:49:06.720 it's just
00:49:06.960 ridiculous,
00:49:07.740 it's a
00:49:08.020 ridiculous
00:49:08.400 opinion,
00:49:09.180 and I
00:49:09.520 don't even
00:49:09.840 know if
00:49:10.100 it's a
00:49:10.340 real opinion.
00:49:10.840 It's the
00:49:11.340 kind you
00:49:11.680 read,
00:49:11.940 you go,
00:49:12.220 does he
00:49:12.480 even think
00:49:12.940 that?
00:49:13.840 Well,
00:49:14.000 is that
00:49:14.220 a real
00:49:14.600 opinion?
00:49:16.960 But I
00:49:17.580 wonder if
00:49:18.160 the new
00:49:18.760 head of
00:49:19.160 CNN is
00:49:20.020 making the
00:49:20.580 crazy opinion
00:49:21.340 people at
00:49:22.000 least label
00:49:22.560 it as
00:49:23.140 opinion.
00:49:25.040 I think
00:49:25.700 maybe it
00:49:26.160 used to
00:49:26.520 say opinion,
00:49:27.280 but I
00:49:27.800 don't
00:49:27.900 remember.
00:49:29.580 All
00:49:29.760 right.
00:49:33.020 Here's
00:49:33.500 another
00:49:33.780 note,
00:49:34.420 another
00:49:36.000 indication that
00:49:36.720 CNN is
00:49:37.220 moving toward
00:49:37.880 the middle.
00:49:38.300 So they
00:49:39.640 had a
00:49:39.900 story
00:49:40.160 prominently
00:49:40.780 on the
00:49:41.100 front page
00:49:42.060 of CNN
00:49:42.540 that an
00:49:43.800 executive of
00:49:44.500 Black Lives
00:49:45.040 Matter Global
00:49:45.840 Network
00:49:46.260 Foundation is
00:49:47.720 accused of
00:49:48.480 siphoning off
00:49:49.060 $10 million
00:49:49.560 from donors.
00:49:52.960 And the
00:49:53.800 suit is
00:49:54.100 against
00:49:54.360 executive
00:49:55.020 Chalamet
00:49:55.940 Bowers,
00:49:57.480 the
00:49:57.720 foundation
00:49:58.200 itself,
00:49:59.620 interconsulting
00:50:00.420 firm,
00:50:00.800 blah,
00:50:00.980 blah,
00:50:01.000 blah.
00:50:01.760 So that's
00:50:04.560 on CNN.
00:50:05.000 I don't
00:50:06.780 believe Fox
00:50:07.660 News covered
00:50:08.320 it.
00:50:09.540 At least I
00:50:10.060 didn't see
00:50:10.420 it on the
00:50:10.720 front page.
00:50:14.500 So this
00:50:15.420 is CNN.
00:50:17.540 There was
00:50:17.900 nothing about
00:50:20.280 this story
00:50:20.820 that softened
00:50:21.500 it.
00:50:22.760 This was
00:50:23.220 just CNN
00:50:23.760 saying,
00:50:24.640 boom,
00:50:25.280 Black Lives
00:50:25.760 Matter
00:50:26.060 executive,
00:50:27.000 big thief.
00:50:30.060 It didn't
00:50:30.660 throw in
00:50:31.100 any,
00:50:31.880 but it
00:50:32.340 saved the
00:50:32.760 world.
00:50:33.100 The large
00:50:34.920 organization
00:50:35.580 is good.
00:50:37.780 Nothing like
00:50:38.240 that.
00:50:38.560 Just
00:50:38.720 straight news.
00:50:41.300 Top
00:50:41.780 person was
00:50:42.540 a crook.
00:50:43.080 That's the
00:50:43.380 news.
00:50:43.960 Do with
00:50:44.360 it what
00:50:44.580 you want.
00:50:45.400 I like
00:50:45.920 this.
00:50:47.120 I'm
00:50:47.400 liking
00:50:47.660 this.
00:50:49.480 Every time
00:50:50.200 CNN does
00:50:50.920 something that
00:50:51.640 clearly is
00:50:52.840 unbiased,
00:50:54.340 I'm going to
00:50:54.640 call it out
00:50:55.140 because I
00:50:56.300 think they
00:50:56.580 need a
00:50:56.860 little bit
00:50:57.120 of encouragement.
00:50:59.820 How many
00:51:00.480 of you
00:51:00.820 think that
00:51:01.660 if we
00:51:03.120 had more
00:51:05.100 explanations
00:51:05.720 of why
00:51:06.120 people were
00:51:06.580 going to
00:51:07.000 Epstein's
00:51:07.580 Island so
00:51:08.120 much,
00:51:09.040 we'd know
00:51:09.480 something
00:51:09.760 useful.
00:51:12.120 Are you
00:51:12.720 aware that
00:51:13.400 many of
00:51:14.220 the visitors
00:51:15.320 to Epstein
00:51:15.880 Island were
00:51:16.640 adult women,
00:51:17.860 just famous,
00:51:19.120 famous,
00:51:19.680 prominent adult
00:51:20.780 women?
00:51:23.620 If you
00:51:24.340 knew that
00:51:24.780 there were
00:51:25.040 a lot of
00:51:25.380 famous,
00:51:26.380 prominent adult
00:51:27.660 women who
00:51:29.120 presumably were
00:51:29.980 not involved
00:51:30.560 with any
00:51:31.040 weird sex
00:51:31.780 stuff,
00:51:32.940 right?
00:51:33.180 Because they
00:51:33.580 were older
00:51:34.000 than 15,
00:51:35.080 so probably
00:51:36.060 not.
00:51:38.020 Doesn't that
00:51:38.660 tell you that
00:51:39.300 whatever was
00:51:39.980 happening at
00:51:40.480 Epstein Island
00:51:41.160 was at least
00:51:42.100 sometimes
00:51:42.780 innocent?
00:51:44.300 Am I
00:51:44.900 wrong?
00:51:45.920 The fact that
00:51:46.540 a lot of the
00:51:47.120 travelers were
00:51:47.860 prominent adult
00:51:48.940 women who
00:51:49.440 were not
00:51:49.700 accused of
00:51:50.160 anything and
00:51:51.420 didn't say
00:51:51.820 they saw
00:51:52.160 anything,
00:51:53.700 doesn't that
00:51:54.240 tell you that
00:51:54.740 some of those
00:51:55.520 trips, I
00:51:56.260 don't know
00:51:56.520 what percentage,
00:51:58.120 but some of
00:51:58.720 those trips
00:51:59.220 were completely
00:52:00.220 innocent, or
00:52:02.260 at least for
00:52:02.700 some of the
00:52:03.160 people who
00:52:03.560 visited.
00:52:04.200 That doesn't
00:52:04.800 mean the
00:52:05.060 other people
00:52:05.460 on the
00:52:05.680 plane didn't
00:52:06.080 have fun,
00:52:06.580 I don't
00:52:06.760 know, who
00:52:07.480 knows.
00:52:11.340 Right, now
00:52:11.940 I'm not
00:52:12.160 talking about
00:52:12.580 Ghislaine.
00:52:15.540 But I'm
00:52:17.000 not sure we
00:52:17.440 should make
00:52:17.800 anything of
00:52:18.380 the fact that
00:52:18.920 famous people
00:52:19.680 went there.
00:52:21.360 I would think
00:52:22.200 that his
00:52:22.700 business model
00:52:23.480 was to get
00:52:24.000 as many famous
00:52:24.780 people involved
00:52:25.520 as he could,
00:52:26.940 but it's not
00:52:27.480 like he
00:52:27.780 blackmailed all
00:52:28.580 of them.
00:52:29.980 I think he
00:52:30.600 just wanted
00:52:30.940 as many famous
00:52:31.620 people in
00:52:33.240 his field of
00:52:36.080 influence as he
00:52:36.780 could get.
00:52:39.840 All right.
00:52:43.860 So, it's a
00:52:45.460 holiday.
00:52:47.220 Is anybody
00:52:47.820 laboring?
00:52:49.200 I know a lot
00:52:49.840 of you are.
00:52:51.140 Stanley Kubrick's
00:52:52.400 death.
00:52:53.500 He wasn't
00:52:53.960 already dead?
00:53:04.360 Going to
00:53:04.920 work in an
00:53:05.360 hour?
00:53:05.720 Okay.
00:53:07.820 You're at the
00:53:08.460 office right
00:53:08.940 now?
00:53:09.460 All right.
00:53:11.260 You're working
00:53:11.940 and watching?
00:53:12.540 That's what I
00:53:12.960 like.
00:53:14.040 It's a holiday,
00:53:14.960 so you should be
00:53:15.420 listening to me
00:53:16.120 and working
00:53:16.720 less.
00:53:17.120 Yes.
00:53:17.240 Yes.
00:53:17.300 Yes.
00:53:17.320 Yes.
00:53:17.360 Yes.
00:53:17.400 Yes.
00:53:17.420 Yes.
00:53:17.500 Yes.
00:53:17.900 Yes.
00:53:17.920 Yes.
00:53:18.420 Yes.
00:53:19.420 Yes.
00:53:19.500 Yes.
00:53:20.420 Yes.
00:53:21.420 Yes.
00:53:21.500 Yes.
00:53:22.420 Yes.
00:53:23.420 Yes.
00:53:26.880 Adult women
00:53:27.920 don't engage
00:53:28.860 in kinky sex.
00:53:31.140 Well, there's
00:53:31.640 no allegations
00:53:32.320 that Epstein
00:53:33.640 was involved
00:53:34.380 with anything
00:53:35.000 with adult
00:53:35.620 women.
00:53:39.660 All right.
00:53:44.840 Yeah.
00:53:45.900 How many
00:53:46.460 of you saw
00:53:46.940 me wash
00:53:47.360 my dog
00:53:47.840 on live
00:53:48.300 stream?
00:53:49.820 That was
00:53:50.660 the strangest
00:53:51.220 content because
00:53:52.100 half of the
00:53:52.600 people were
00:53:52.980 like,
00:53:53.160 yeah,
00:53:53.440 more of
00:53:53.820 this and
00:53:54.940 half of
00:53:55.240 the people
00:53:55.540 were like,
00:53:56.400 we don't
00:53:57.100 want to
00:53:57.320 see you
00:53:57.860 wash a
00:53:58.180 dog.
00:53:59.660 Oh,
00:54:00.060 well,
00:54:00.420 over in
00:54:00.760 Locals,
00:54:01.160 people liked
00:54:01.620 it.
00:54:03.640 All right,
00:54:04.120 good.
00:54:05.780 Well,
00:54:07.140 if I
00:54:07.660 wash her
00:54:08.060 again,
00:54:10.620 I'll
00:54:10.940 televise
00:54:11.940 it again.
00:54:15.380 Catering
00:54:15.820 to a
00:54:16.080 dog?
00:54:16.240 No.
00:54:19.000 All right.
00:54:19.920 Well,
00:54:20.180 are any of my
00:54:20.700 opinions actually
00:54:21.740 leaks?
00:54:22.260 That's a
00:54:28.540 very insightful
00:54:29.260 question.
00:54:30.280 Somebody asked
00:54:30.860 if any of
00:54:31.360 my opinions
00:54:32.100 are leaks.
00:54:33.380 But I
00:54:33.740 think you
00:54:34.040 mean my
00:54:34.380 predictions,
00:54:35.060 don't you?
00:54:36.320 That would
00:54:36.920 be the
00:54:37.140 better question.
00:54:38.200 Are any of
00:54:38.720 my predictions
00:54:39.760 fake because
00:54:42.260 I already know
00:54:42.820 what's going to
00:54:43.160 happen?
00:54:43.640 Well,
00:54:43.880 I've told you
00:54:44.300 that the
00:54:44.580 best predictions
00:54:45.200 are the ones
00:54:45.700 that are already
00:54:46.060 happening.
00:54:46.400 but I
00:54:48.580 usually stick
00:54:49.140 to the
00:54:49.380 ones where
00:54:49.880 I can
00:54:50.540 just tell
00:54:50.920 it's already
00:54:51.300 happening.
00:54:51.980 I don't need
00:54:52.680 any inside
00:54:53.200 information.
00:54:56.700 And the
00:54:57.340 answer is
00:54:57.860 yes,
00:54:58.520 I have
00:54:59.040 done that
00:54:59.580 more than
00:55:00.800 once.
00:55:02.060 More than
00:55:02.720 once I've
00:55:03.240 made predictions
00:55:03.860 that were
00:55:04.220 based on
00:55:04.620 inside
00:55:05.040 information.
00:55:06.480 And you
00:55:06.800 know what?
00:55:08.180 They are
00:55:08.840 no more
00:55:09.400 or less
00:55:09.880 accurate than
00:55:10.560 the ones
00:55:10.900 that are
00:55:11.100 not based
00:55:11.540 on inside
00:55:12.020 information.
00:55:12.560 Let me
00:55:14.540 tell you
00:55:14.800 something
00:55:15.060 about
00:55:15.320 inside
00:55:15.700 information.
00:55:16.880 It's not
00:55:17.640 that accurate.
00:55:19.040 It's not
00:55:19.440 that accurate.
00:55:22.440 I almost
00:55:23.260 placed a
00:55:23.940 very large
00:55:24.500 bet on
00:55:25.980 some inside
00:55:26.540 information.
00:55:28.140 Now,
00:55:28.460 the person
00:55:28.760 who told
00:55:29.120 it to me
00:55:29.500 had a
00:55:30.140 good source
00:55:30.800 and it
00:55:32.320 was solid.
00:55:34.040 It didn't
00:55:34.780 turn out to
00:55:35.300 be true.
00:55:35.820 Nothing
00:55:36.160 about the
00:55:36.620 election,
00:55:37.100 nothing about
00:55:37.500 the Kraken,
00:55:38.520 something
00:55:38.820 completely
00:55:39.280 different.
00:55:40.160 And for
00:55:40.580 a moment,
00:55:41.280 I thought,
00:55:41.700 oh,
00:55:41.980 shit,
00:55:42.240 it was
00:55:42.480 something
00:55:42.700 you could
00:55:43.040 bet on.
00:55:44.080 So the
00:55:44.380 betting
00:55:44.580 market had
00:55:45.080 a specific
00:55:45.560 question on
00:55:46.100 it.
00:55:46.580 I thought,
00:55:47.000 oh,
00:55:47.340 man,
00:55:48.880 I'm going
00:55:49.540 to place
00:55:50.320 a big
00:55:50.660 bet.
00:55:51.820 And then
00:55:52.100 I thought
00:55:52.400 to myself,
00:55:53.400 I don't
00:55:53.740 know,
00:55:53.920 there's
00:55:54.080 something
00:55:54.420 about this
00:55:55.000 that doesn't
00:55:55.280 feel right.
00:55:57.140 And so I
00:55:57.560 didn't.
00:55:58.780 And it
00:55:59.060 turned out
00:55:59.400 to be
00:55:59.760 wrong.
00:56:01.140 Now,
00:56:01.540 my understanding
00:56:02.240 is that it
00:56:02.780 was right
00:56:03.380 when I was
00:56:04.200 told,
00:56:04.900 but that a
00:56:05.440 decision
00:56:05.760 actually changed
00:56:06.560 after the
00:56:07.020 fact.
00:56:07.660 So the
00:56:08.000 point is that
00:56:08.640 even insider
00:56:09.260 information is
00:56:09.960 not reliable.
00:56:10.880 It really
00:56:11.180 isn't.
00:56:11.520 you know,
00:56:13.560 it might be
00:56:14.060 slightly better
00:56:15.180 than the
00:56:15.880 public stuff,
00:56:16.740 but it's
00:56:19.200 also unreliable.
00:56:26.200 Like
00:56:26.800 NVIDIA.
00:56:27.300 innocent people
00:56:33.380 all knew
00:56:33.880 they were
00:56:34.140 compromised
00:56:34.540 just by
00:56:35.080 being there.
00:56:35.920 Yeah,
00:56:36.120 I suppose.
00:56:37.440 That's true.
00:56:40.660 Do
00:56:40.960 ADHD.
00:56:44.360 All right.
00:56:45.760 So I
00:56:47.060 saw an article
00:56:49.320 that I tweeted.
00:56:50.420 Jeff Pilkington
00:56:51.400 spotted this.
00:56:52.660 And there
00:56:53.640 was an expert
00:56:54.820 who was
00:56:55.260 describing
00:56:55.860 ADHD
00:56:56.600 as not
00:56:58.440 somebody who
00:56:59.040 is easily
00:56:59.680 distracted.
00:57:01.560 Rather,
00:57:02.480 it was
00:57:03.040 future
00:57:04.820 blindness.
00:57:07.040 In other
00:57:07.440 words,
00:57:07.860 it looks
00:57:08.340 to everybody,
00:57:09.600 even the
00:57:10.200 person with
00:57:10.720 ADHD,
00:57:11.460 it looks
00:57:11.800 to everybody
00:57:12.300 who's
00:57:12.520 observing
00:57:12.900 like they
00:57:14.040 keep getting
00:57:14.540 distracted
00:57:15.120 with what's
00:57:15.720 in front of
00:57:16.140 them,
00:57:16.340 and therefore
00:57:16.900 they're late.
00:57:18.300 So they
00:57:18.640 don't get
00:57:19.000 places on
00:57:19.600 time because
00:57:20.260 they're just
00:57:20.660 keeping it
00:57:21.640 distracted.
00:57:22.540 That's what
00:57:23.020 it looks
00:57:23.260 like to
00:57:23.560 everybody.
00:57:24.620 And the
00:57:24.840 expert says
00:57:25.480 total illusion.
00:57:27.460 It's a
00:57:27.700 total illusion.
00:57:29.160 What it
00:57:29.540 is is that
00:57:30.220 the ADHD
00:57:31.280 people have
00:57:32.320 future
00:57:33.340 blindness,
00:57:35.120 meaning they
00:57:35.640 care about
00:57:38.180 what's happening
00:57:38.640 right now,
00:57:40.040 so that's why
00:57:40.600 they're chasing
00:57:41.080 the shiniest
00:57:41.740 object in
00:57:42.320 their environment,
00:57:43.100 because it's
00:57:43.680 happening right
00:57:44.160 now.
00:57:45.920 And once
00:57:47.180 you...
00:57:47.980 I don't know
00:57:48.600 if this is
00:57:49.020 true yet,
00:57:50.400 so I'm
00:57:50.780 going to
00:57:51.020 present this
00:57:51.620 as not
00:57:52.060 necessarily
00:57:52.460 true,
00:57:53.420 but as a
00:57:54.320 filter or
00:57:55.240 an alternate
00:57:55.700 way of
00:57:56.320 understanding
00:57:56.840 what you're
00:57:57.320 seeing.
00:57:58.340 And here's
00:57:58.960 what I liked
00:57:59.360 about it.
00:57:59.660 If you've
00:58:00.020 known anybody
00:58:00.480 who had
00:58:01.420 this behavior,
00:58:02.340 and I've
00:58:02.740 known three
00:58:03.920 people who
00:58:05.560 consistently would
00:58:06.620 be two hours
00:58:07.460 late for stuff.
00:58:08.700 Do you know
00:58:09.020 anybody like
00:58:09.480 that?
00:58:10.320 Somebody who's
00:58:10.940 consistently
00:58:12.060 two hours
00:58:13.860 late.
00:58:15.700 Most people
00:58:16.520 know at least
00:58:16.980 one person
00:58:17.380 like that.
00:58:17.740 And do
00:58:18.800 those people
00:58:19.440 exhibit any
00:58:21.120 ADHD
00:58:21.620 personality
00:58:23.320 characteristics?
00:58:26.840 Probably.
00:58:28.020 Yeah, I just
00:58:28.560 blew your
00:58:28.980 ADHD mind,
00:58:29.980 didn't I?
00:58:30.520 I'm blowing a
00:58:31.380 lot of minds
00:58:31.800 right now.
00:58:32.660 Now, apparently
00:58:33.020 this idea's been
00:58:34.020 around a little
00:58:34.540 while, but it's
00:58:35.260 the first time I
00:58:35.860 heard it.
00:58:37.300 And so I'm
00:58:39.900 going to offer
00:58:40.340 you this
00:58:41.280 experiment.
00:58:41.900 I want you
00:58:44.640 to experiment
00:58:45.200 if you have
00:58:45.880 ADHD, or you
00:58:47.440 know somebody
00:58:47.860 does and you
00:58:48.420 can talk to
00:58:49.180 them.
00:58:49.860 Experiment with
00:58:50.660 this blindness
00:58:51.220 thing, and
00:58:52.960 have them do
00:58:53.500 this.
00:58:54.400 The next time
00:58:55.020 they're preparing
00:58:55.800 to go someplace
00:58:56.840 that you know
00:58:57.780 they're going to
00:58:58.140 be late to,
00:58:59.520 just see if you
00:59:00.180 can get them
00:59:00.740 to do this
00:59:01.500 exercise.
00:59:02.820 Before they
00:59:03.480 go to get
00:59:03.860 ready, just
00:59:05.200 spend some
00:59:05.700 time visualizing
00:59:06.920 the entire
00:59:07.600 path from
00:59:08.860 the moment
00:59:09.300 you're getting
00:59:09.740 ready to
00:59:11.160 putting on
00:59:11.940 your clothes
00:59:12.520 to getting
00:59:13.100 in the car
00:59:13.800 to getting
00:59:14.320 to the
00:59:14.660 place to
00:59:15.420 what time
00:59:16.080 it is.
00:59:16.600 And sort
00:59:16.920 of imagine
00:59:17.400 it as a
00:59:17.920 timeline, and
00:59:19.200 it's all
00:59:19.460 connected.
00:59:20.780 So what
00:59:21.080 you're trying
00:59:21.400 to do is
00:59:22.100 imagine what
00:59:24.000 you're doing
00:59:24.400 now as on
00:59:25.480 a timeline
00:59:26.120 bar that
00:59:27.700 is connected
00:59:28.520 totally to
00:59:29.680 the output,
00:59:30.600 the end
00:59:31.040 point.
00:59:32.180 And just
00:59:32.580 spend a
00:59:33.120 little time
00:59:33.620 doing a
00:59:35.100 picture in
00:59:35.680 your head,
00:59:37.420 picture it,
00:59:38.100 so it's like
00:59:38.460 a little movie
00:59:39.020 in your head,
00:59:39.440 and you're
00:59:39.520 like, okay,
00:59:40.120 now I'm
00:59:40.340 putting it on
00:59:40.660 my shirt,
00:59:41.160 getting on
00:59:42.140 my clothes,
00:59:43.000 I see
00:59:43.220 I'm walking
00:59:43.540 to the
00:59:43.880 door,
00:59:44.700 I see
00:59:44.920 the other
00:59:45.240 people
00:59:45.560 gathering up
00:59:46.300 or getting
00:59:46.620 in the
00:59:46.860 car.
00:59:47.320 And just
00:59:47.700 talk through
00:59:49.000 it as
00:59:49.780 visually as
00:59:50.500 you can.
00:59:52.380 And then
00:59:52.980 just see
00:59:53.580 if connecting
00:59:56.120 the output
00:59:58.960 with the
00:59:59.740 moment, see
01:00:00.760 if you can
01:00:01.200 keep that
01:00:01.660 alive while
01:00:02.160 you're doing
01:00:02.580 it as well.
01:00:03.720 Now what
01:00:04.060 will probably
01:00:04.560 happen is
01:00:05.340 that the
01:00:05.620 moment you
01:00:06.040 start getting
01:00:06.500 busy with
01:00:07.120 what's in
01:00:07.480 front of
01:00:07.820 you, you
01:00:08.980 will become
01:00:09.620 future blind.
01:00:11.160 so there's
01:00:13.220 a pretty
01:00:13.840 high chance
01:00:14.600 that you
01:00:14.920 can't even
01:00:15.440 do this
01:00:15.840 exercise.
01:00:17.060 Am I
01:00:17.340 right?
01:00:18.000 I think
01:00:18.600 if a lot
01:00:19.220 of you
01:00:19.480 tried, you
01:00:21.420 would end
01:00:21.740 up saying,
01:00:22.140 oh, I
01:00:22.540 forgot to
01:00:23.160 do it, or
01:00:23.900 you'd have
01:00:24.640 some excuse,
01:00:26.540 but it just
01:00:27.520 wouldn't happen.
01:00:28.440 happen.
01:00:29.680 I think that's
01:00:30.460 what would
01:00:30.740 happen.
01:00:31.200 Because I
01:00:31.580 think the
01:00:31.880 blindness
01:00:32.180 sets in, and
01:00:33.200 there's nothing
01:00:33.560 you can do
01:00:34.020 about it.
01:00:35.020 Once you're
01:00:35.440 blind, you're
01:00:35.840 blind.
01:00:37.160 You can't
01:00:37.780 talk yourself
01:00:38.420 out of the
01:00:38.800 blindness.
01:00:39.880 You just
01:00:40.280 can't see it.
01:00:42.180 So the
01:00:42.960 question would
01:00:43.460 be whether
01:00:43.960 if you
01:00:44.400 practiced
01:00:45.100 seeing it
01:00:45.780 before you
01:00:46.340 get in the
01:00:47.100 putting on
01:00:48.000 your makeup,
01:00:48.580 getting ready
01:00:48.980 mode, if
01:00:49.940 any of that
01:00:50.500 can cross
01:00:51.820 over into
01:00:52.320 the bubble.
01:00:53.440 Now my
01:00:53.840 thinking is it
01:00:54.480 might not
01:00:54.800 work the first
01:00:55.380 time.
01:00:55.740 It might
01:00:57.360 not work
01:00:57.760 the first
01:00:58.120 time.
01:00:59.280 You might
01:00:59.580 have to try
01:01:00.140 it a bunch
01:01:00.520 of times,
01:01:01.660 and maybe
01:01:02.140 try some
01:01:03.100 variations that
01:01:03.920 you feel like
01:01:04.480 would work
01:01:04.840 for you.
01:01:05.900 Just see if
01:01:06.560 you get
01:01:06.780 lucky.
01:01:07.980 And if any
01:01:08.520 of you get
01:01:08.940 lucky, and
01:01:10.480 it makes a
01:01:10.920 difference, let
01:01:12.460 me know.
01:01:14.240 Because I do
01:01:15.200 think that,
01:01:16.960 well, let me
01:01:17.380 tell you something
01:01:17.900 that hypnotists
01:01:18.980 believe.
01:01:21.160 When hypnotists
01:01:22.180 look at
01:01:22.700 therapists, let's
01:01:24.220 say the people
01:01:24.720 who are trained
01:01:25.380 to deal with
01:01:26.320 the problems
01:01:27.020 I'm talking
01:01:27.800 about.
01:01:28.560 ADHD, being
01:01:29.880 late.
01:01:30.640 So the people
01:01:31.060 are experts
01:01:31.840 on that.
01:01:33.580 The experts
01:01:34.300 will tell you,
01:01:35.120 well, it's
01:01:35.420 going to take
01:01:35.800 lots of
01:01:36.260 sessions, and
01:01:37.060 we'll work
01:01:38.380 on it over
01:01:38.800 time.
01:01:39.460 But they
01:01:39.980 also get
01:01:40.480 paid by
01:01:41.040 the hour.
01:01:42.620 So the
01:01:42.960 people who
01:01:43.340 get paid
01:01:43.700 by the
01:01:44.060 hour will
01:01:45.660 tell you it's
01:01:46.200 going to
01:01:46.320 take lots
01:01:46.780 of sessions.
01:01:48.380 The hypnotist
01:01:49.360 who might
01:01:49.860 be, let's
01:01:51.100 say,
01:01:51.300 volunteering to
01:01:51.960 do it for
01:01:52.340 free, will
01:01:54.020 tell you it's
01:01:54.860 either going to
01:01:55.260 be fast or
01:01:55.880 it doesn't
01:01:56.220 work.
01:01:58.200 Do you
01:01:58.660 know why?
01:02:00.880 Well, some
01:02:01.560 hypnotists also
01:02:02.280 charge by the
01:02:02.920 hour, so those
01:02:04.260 hypnotists will
01:02:04.820 tell you, well,
01:02:05.400 it's going to
01:02:05.660 take many
01:02:06.040 sessions.
01:02:07.020 But let's
01:02:07.580 say you've
01:02:08.080 got somebody
01:02:08.500 to do it
01:02:08.920 for free.
01:02:10.200 The person
01:02:10.860 who's going to
01:02:11.260 do it for
01:02:11.640 free is not
01:02:13.220 going to tell
01:02:13.640 you that it
01:02:14.000 takes many
01:02:14.460 sessions, because
01:02:16.120 I don't think
01:02:16.620 any hypnotist
01:02:17.180 believes that.
01:02:18.420 The one who
01:02:19.040 does it for
01:02:19.580 free is going
01:02:20.820 to say one
01:02:21.380 to three
01:02:21.700 sessions.
01:02:23.700 One to
01:02:24.240 three.
01:02:25.420 Because after
01:02:25.860 the third
01:02:26.600 one, if it
01:02:27.040 doesn't work,
01:02:27.740 it's not
01:02:28.100 going to
01:02:28.300 work.
01:02:29.560 It's just
01:02:29.960 not going
01:02:30.260 to work.
01:02:30.980 But if you
01:02:31.540 saw some
01:02:31.940 progress in
01:02:32.560 the first
01:02:32.880 three, then
01:02:34.000 you say, oh,
01:02:34.460 let's keep
01:02:35.300 pushing this.
01:02:35.900 This might
01:02:36.200 work for you.
01:02:37.080 Not work for
01:02:37.640 everybody.
01:02:38.540 Everybody's
01:02:38.920 different.
01:02:39.660 But you can
01:02:40.400 find something
01:02:40.980 that works for
01:02:41.440 everybody.
01:02:42.540 So that's my
01:02:43.740 hypothesis.
01:02:45.080 And a
01:02:45.580 hypnotist would
01:02:46.300 say that this
01:02:48.000 type of problem
01:02:48.820 is almost
01:02:49.400 instantly
01:02:49.960 solvable.
01:02:51.240 Not for
01:02:51.660 everybody.
01:02:52.800 I have to
01:02:53.260 throw in the
01:02:53.720 not for
01:02:54.080 everybody anytime
01:02:54.860 I'm talking
01:02:55.400 about persuasion.
01:02:57.080 You should
01:02:57.420 hear that
01:02:57.840 automatically.
01:02:58.880 Not for
01:02:59.300 everybody.
01:03:00.420 Not all
01:03:00.840 the time.
01:03:01.940 Not quickly.
01:03:03.360 Those are
01:03:04.120 the universals.
01:03:05.640 Not for
01:03:06.100 everybody.
01:03:06.660 Not all
01:03:06.980 the time.
01:03:07.560 Not quickly.
01:03:09.360 But this
01:03:10.060 is one of
01:03:10.520 those that
01:03:11.160 it could
01:03:11.840 work for
01:03:13.280 some people
01:03:14.080 quickly.
01:03:16.440 It could.
01:03:17.440 There are
01:03:17.720 some people
01:03:18.260 who might
01:03:18.700 be able to
01:03:19.080 do an
01:03:19.360 exercise.
01:03:19.900 Maybe not
01:03:20.240 that exercise.
01:03:21.240 But something
01:03:21.760 in a similar
01:03:22.640 vein.
01:03:24.240 That would
01:03:24.840 actually cure
01:03:25.360 you instantly.
01:03:26.860 That's a
01:03:27.420 distinct
01:03:27.980 possibility
01:03:28.680 within the
01:03:29.780 hypnosis
01:03:30.200 world view.
01:03:32.480 So we'll
01:03:32.800 see.
01:03:33.420 But it's
01:03:33.760 something you
01:03:34.140 could test
01:03:34.640 and I
01:03:35.360 guarantee it
01:03:35.860 won't hurt
01:03:36.200 you.
01:03:37.660 Imagining
01:03:38.100 the path to
01:03:39.680 your destination
01:03:40.420 is not going
01:03:41.300 to hurt you.
01:03:42.520 There's no
01:03:43.000 downside to
01:03:43.680 this.
01:03:44.540 It'll either
01:03:44.960 work and
01:03:45.900 then you'll
01:03:46.220 tell me about
01:03:46.860 it and we
01:03:47.360 will solve
01:03:48.240 the problems
01:03:48.820 for the
01:03:49.100 world or
01:03:50.700 I won't.
01:03:52.820 By the
01:03:53.380 way, I was
01:03:53.740 adding up
01:03:54.160 the number
01:03:54.520 of cures,
01:03:55.780 things I've
01:03:56.420 cured, and
01:03:58.340 I'll tell you
01:04:00.560 it's a really
01:04:01.200 long list of
01:04:02.880 medical problems
01:04:03.980 I've cured
01:04:04.860 in people.
01:04:06.960 And some
01:04:08.660 of it is
01:04:09.000 because I
01:04:09.300 reframed
01:04:09.960 something,
01:04:10.620 they stopped
01:04:11.180 drinking,
01:04:11.700 they lost
01:04:12.040 weight.
01:04:13.400 Sometimes it's
01:04:14.200 because I
01:04:14.620 told somebody
01:04:15.180 a fix
01:04:16.460 was available
01:04:17.120 so I
01:04:18.520 just told
01:04:18.920 them of
01:04:19.220 a medical
01:04:19.640 solution that
01:04:20.680 they didn't
01:04:21.000 know about
01:04:21.500 and so
01:04:23.080 then they
01:04:23.600 got fixed.
01:04:24.420 But if you
01:04:24.920 count the
01:04:25.260 number of
01:04:25.620 people I've
01:04:26.100 advised
01:04:26.840 correctly,
01:04:28.820 who got the
01:04:29.320 right treatment
01:04:29.800 and they got
01:04:30.240 fixed,
01:04:31.060 it's hundreds,
01:04:32.440 if not
01:04:33.340 thousands.
01:04:34.560 I mean,
01:04:34.780 I have no way
01:04:35.160 to count it,
01:04:35.820 but it's at
01:04:36.220 least hundreds
01:04:36.860 of people I've
01:04:38.440 cured,
01:04:38.980 not me
01:04:40.820 alone,
01:04:41.380 but I've
01:04:42.020 put them
01:04:42.340 on the
01:04:42.600 path to
01:04:43.020 a cure.
01:04:45.340 So when
01:04:45.920 I tell
01:04:46.580 you,
01:04:46.980 hey,
01:04:47.180 I think
01:04:47.540 maybe
01:04:48.400 collectively,
01:04:50.000 I call
01:04:50.540 this the
01:04:50.920 collaborative
01:04:51.360 IQ,
01:04:52.760 so it's
01:04:53.140 not my
01:04:53.640 intelligence
01:04:54.140 that's
01:04:54.580 driving this
01:04:55.120 process.
01:04:56.300 I'm just
01:04:57.000 sort of an
01:04:57.440 organizer,
01:04:58.420 but the
01:04:59.380 intelligence is
01:05:00.220 the collective
01:05:00.720 intelligence.
01:05:02.820 And that's
01:05:03.560 always true,
01:05:04.100 because if I
01:05:04.500 got outside
01:05:05.160 of what
01:05:06.540 all of you
01:05:07.080 thought was
01:05:07.560 reasonable,
01:05:08.000 you'd stop
01:05:08.800 watching.
01:05:10.020 So basically,
01:05:11.240 you constrain
01:05:11.960 me,
01:05:14.040 and then I
01:05:14.640 boost what
01:05:15.300 you're thinking,
01:05:16.040 and it's like
01:05:16.560 this collaborative
01:05:17.780 intelligence.
01:05:18.940 So,
01:05:19.780 could a
01:05:20.160 collaborative
01:05:20.660 intelligence
01:05:21.340 that does
01:05:21.940 A-B
01:05:22.280 testing
01:05:22.780 cure
01:05:24.680 ADHD?
01:05:26.180 For some
01:05:27.060 people,
01:05:27.940 some of the
01:05:28.460 time,
01:05:29.220 not necessarily
01:05:30.000 quickly.
01:05:32.440 All right,
01:05:33.060 we got an
01:05:33.460 NPC alert,
01:05:34.900 in all capital
01:05:35.780 letters from
01:05:36.480 Philip,
01:05:36.860 your arrogance
01:05:38.020 is strong
01:05:38.660 today.
01:05:39.860 Let us
01:05:40.200 analyze
01:05:40.640 Philip for
01:05:41.320 what is
01:05:41.620 wrong with
01:05:41.980 his
01:05:42.160 personality.
01:05:43.640 Philip,
01:05:44.380 you're very
01:05:45.060 insecure.
01:05:46.960 Very
01:05:47.400 insecure.
01:05:49.980 Here's the
01:05:50.540 thing.
01:05:52.400 Are you
01:05:53.100 threatened by
01:05:54.820 the fact that
01:05:55.500 I've cured
01:05:56.040 people?
01:05:57.340 And I can
01:05:57.940 demonstrate it.
01:05:59.040 I mean,
01:05:59.320 all I'd have
01:05:59.760 to do is ask
01:06:00.520 people here,
01:06:01.160 have I cured
01:06:01.640 you of any
01:06:02.060 health problems?
01:06:02.660 And you
01:06:02.880 would see a
01:06:03.320 stream of
01:06:04.320 confirmation.
01:06:04.900 It would
01:06:05.280 be easy,
01:06:05.780 and I've
01:06:06.120 done it
01:06:06.380 lots of
01:06:06.660 times.
01:06:07.440 And people
01:06:07.920 write to me
01:06:08.440 all the
01:06:08.660 time.
01:06:08.940 So I
01:06:09.160 know it's
01:06:09.440 true.
01:06:10.020 I don't
01:06:10.300 know how
01:06:10.580 many.
01:06:11.620 That would
01:06:11.920 be different.
01:06:13.460 But if
01:06:15.100 you think
01:06:16.680 that telling
01:06:17.280 you that I
01:06:19.140 can cure
01:06:19.720 you of
01:06:20.340 sometimes
01:06:21.260 incurable
01:06:21.820 diseases,
01:06:22.700 if you think
01:06:23.380 that what
01:06:23.680 you're seeing
01:06:24.020 there is my
01:06:24.580 arrogance,
01:06:26.640 you're kind
01:06:27.820 of throwing
01:06:28.220 out the
01:06:28.560 baby with
01:06:29.020 the bath
01:06:29.340 water,
01:06:29.680 aren't
01:06:29.800 you?
01:06:29.960 you don't
01:06:31.760 think you
01:06:32.160 could handle
01:06:32.740 a little
01:06:33.180 bit of
01:06:33.520 the feeling
01:06:34.860 that I'm
01:06:35.520 being arrogant?
01:06:36.400 You don't
01:06:36.700 think that
01:06:37.080 that would
01:06:37.340 be sort
01:06:37.780 of a
01:06:38.000 small price
01:06:39.540 to pay
01:06:40.020 for the
01:06:41.160 fact that
01:06:41.520 people are
01:06:42.000 actually solving
01:06:43.020 lifetime
01:06:43.600 problems,
01:06:44.300 health problems?
01:06:45.760 Why would
01:06:46.260 you want to
01:06:46.700 discourage me
01:06:47.620 from doing
01:06:48.080 that?
01:06:49.580 Philip.
01:06:50.720 I have a
01:06:51.640 hypothesis that
01:06:52.580 I learned
01:06:53.000 when I was
01:06:53.800 developing
01:06:54.640 Dilbert in
01:06:55.320 my cubicle.
01:06:57.220 Here's sort
01:06:57.620 of a deep
01:06:58.040 psychological
01:06:58.640 hypothesis for
01:06:59.700 you.
01:07:00.960 That men,
01:07:02.900 unless you're
01:07:04.480 truly a
01:07:05.280 best friend
01:07:05.940 or a
01:07:07.640 family member,
01:07:08.920 they don't
01:07:09.400 really like
01:07:09.960 your success.
01:07:11.840 Men,
01:07:12.480 can you
01:07:12.760 confirm this
01:07:13.380 for me?
01:07:14.240 Unless you're
01:07:14.860 truly a
01:07:15.560 best friend,
01:07:16.820 you don't
01:07:17.160 really like
01:07:17.820 other men's
01:07:18.360 success.
01:07:19.560 You don't
01:07:19.920 really like
01:07:20.460 it.
01:07:21.380 It's
01:07:21.640 threatening.
01:07:22.520 We're just
01:07:22.900 built that
01:07:23.300 way.
01:07:23.700 There's nothing
01:07:24.080 you can do
01:07:24.500 about it.
01:07:25.640 Now, if
01:07:26.180 it's a
01:07:26.460 family member,
01:07:27.900 like a
01:07:28.280 true friend,
01:07:29.120 yes.
01:07:30.100 In those
01:07:30.460 cases, you
01:07:31.020 are genuinely
01:07:31.660 happy.
01:07:32.980 But if it's
01:07:33.460 just somebody
01:07:33.960 you heard
01:07:34.320 about, maybe
01:07:37.300 you're not so
01:07:37.740 happy.
01:07:38.520 Right?
01:07:40.040 Here's how I
01:07:40.780 discovered this.
01:07:42.040 When I was
01:07:43.440 developing Dilbert
01:07:44.420 in my cubicle,
01:07:45.960 I would often
01:07:46.860 do a comic
01:07:47.980 that I would
01:07:48.640 draw on my
01:07:49.120 whiteboard that
01:07:50.320 was just about
01:07:50.820 the office and
01:07:51.560 something that
01:07:52.120 happened.
01:07:53.380 And people
01:07:54.240 liked it.
01:07:54.700 they liked
01:07:55.380 it enough
01:07:55.760 that they
01:07:56.200 encouraged me
01:07:56.860 to become
01:07:57.260 a professional.
01:07:59.020 Now, what
01:07:59.460 did women
01:08:00.640 do when
01:08:01.340 they walked
01:08:01.780 into my
01:08:02.620 cubicle?
01:08:04.620 Here's what
01:08:05.140 women would
01:08:05.680 do.
01:08:06.860 Sometimes
01:08:07.320 they'd read
01:08:07.800 the comic
01:08:08.220 and they
01:08:08.980 would laugh
01:08:09.580 or not
01:08:09.940 laugh.
01:08:11.300 Do you
01:08:11.820 know what
01:08:12.040 men would
01:08:12.420 do?
01:08:13.800 Here is
01:08:14.400 what three
01:08:15.000 quarters of
01:08:15.720 all the
01:08:16.080 men would
01:08:16.480 do.
01:08:18.040 They would
01:08:18.680 accidentally
01:08:19.520 lean on the
01:08:20.340 board and
01:08:22.080 erase part of
01:08:22.740 it with
01:08:23.480 their back.
01:08:26.620 A lot.
01:08:28.420 A lot.
01:08:29.420 In other
01:08:29.720 words, they
01:08:30.040 were accidentally
01:08:30.980 destroying the
01:08:32.060 thing that
01:08:33.080 allowed me to
01:08:33.660 show off.
01:08:35.260 Because women
01:08:36.040 were walking
01:08:36.540 into my
01:08:36.920 office and
01:08:37.340 being, oh,
01:08:37.780 you can do
01:08:38.300 that.
01:08:38.880 You can draw
01:08:39.320 a comic.
01:08:39.960 Oh, that's
01:08:40.660 cool.
01:08:41.700 You have a
01:08:42.100 skill.
01:08:43.040 And men
01:08:43.520 were making
01:08:43.960 sure that
01:08:44.420 that got
01:08:44.780 hidden or
01:08:45.560 destroyed.
01:08:51.060 Who would
01:08:51.700 be texting
01:08:52.240 me?
01:08:52.740 At this
01:08:52.920 time of
01:08:53.260 the day.
01:08:57.020 All right.
01:08:58.360 So, have
01:08:59.260 you ever
01:08:59.500 noticed that?
01:09:00.940 Have you
01:09:01.280 ever noticed
01:09:01.820 that men
01:09:02.380 will
01:09:02.680 accidentally
01:09:03.500 destroy
01:09:05.200 something that
01:09:06.040 allows you to
01:09:06.740 show off?
01:09:08.360 Right?
01:09:09.060 Now, that's
01:09:09.760 what, that's
01:09:10.740 a little bit
01:09:11.360 what you were
01:09:11.840 seeing there.
01:09:12.960 So, there
01:09:13.360 was somebody
01:09:14.000 in the comments
01:09:14.700 who was
01:09:15.020 listening to
01:09:15.600 me, literally
01:09:16.360 curing people
01:09:17.620 of health
01:09:18.140 problems.
01:09:19.920 Curing people
01:09:20.720 of health
01:09:21.220 problems.
01:09:21.780 And he
01:09:22.900 had a
01:09:23.080 problem
01:09:23.320 with it.
01:09:23.740 Do you
01:09:23.940 know what
01:09:24.120 his problem
01:09:24.520 was?
01:09:25.560 Was it
01:09:25.940 my arrogance?
01:09:28.300 Now, I'm
01:09:28.860 not saying I'm
01:09:29.760 not arrogant.
01:09:30.780 That's not
01:09:31.220 even the
01:09:31.540 question.
01:09:32.560 So, we're
01:09:33.100 not doing
01:09:33.440 yes, no,
01:09:34.040 whether he's
01:09:34.520 accurate.
01:09:35.800 I'm just
01:09:36.120 saying, what
01:09:36.440 was his
01:09:36.800 motivation?
01:09:38.480 Let's say he
01:09:39.020 was accurate.
01:09:39.580 even if he
01:09:41.020 was accurate
01:09:41.500 that I was
01:09:41.980 acting arrogant.
01:09:43.080 Was that
01:09:43.460 worth a
01:09:43.860 comment?
01:09:45.260 Is that
01:09:45.580 why he
01:09:45.880 did it?
01:09:46.980 No, my
01:09:47.720 worldview is
01:09:48.480 this, that
01:09:50.060 men can't
01:09:51.240 allow me to
01:09:52.080 show a
01:09:52.920 quality that
01:09:53.740 anybody would
01:09:54.640 respect.
01:09:56.540 There's some
01:09:56.980 men are really
01:09:57.720 uncomfortable with
01:09:58.500 that, and it
01:09:59.420 usually has to
01:10:00.000 do with their
01:10:00.320 own life, and
01:10:01.960 they need to
01:10:02.620 suppress other
01:10:03.520 men in every
01:10:04.480 way that they
01:10:05.000 can so that
01:10:06.240 they feel better
01:10:06.820 about whatever
01:10:07.380 they're not
01:10:07.880 getting done
01:10:08.340 themselves.
01:10:09.920 So, that's
01:10:10.800 all I see.
01:10:12.180 So, here's
01:10:12.860 another answer
01:10:13.480 to the
01:10:13.740 question, Scott,
01:10:15.920 how can you
01:10:16.740 go into this
01:10:17.420 sewer of
01:10:18.740 social media
01:10:19.380 and watch
01:10:20.580 streams of
01:10:22.480 insults about
01:10:23.540 your character,
01:10:24.660 your looks,
01:10:25.500 your intentions,
01:10:27.020 everything?
01:10:28.380 How can you
01:10:29.000 do that and
01:10:29.500 survive?
01:10:31.000 And part of
01:10:31.520 it is reframing,
01:10:33.140 like just that.
01:10:34.360 When I see
01:10:34.940 that comment,
01:10:35.620 that doesn't
01:10:36.220 look like it's
01:10:36.840 about me.
01:10:38.820 Am I wrong?
01:10:40.360 The person who
01:10:41.160 called me arrogant
01:10:41.860 in this context,
01:10:43.140 specifically the
01:10:43.920 context of
01:10:45.220 healing people
01:10:46.180 from health
01:10:46.640 problems,
01:10:47.680 mostly just by
01:10:48.460 telling them that
01:10:49.060 there's a solution
01:10:49.720 that they can
01:10:50.260 go get.
01:10:51.840 Right?
01:10:53.980 I mean, if
01:10:55.080 you're going to
01:10:55.800 shit on that,
01:10:57.980 there's something
01:10:58.520 going on with
01:10:59.180 you.
01:11:00.480 Right?
01:11:01.060 So, this is a
01:11:02.120 good model,
01:11:03.560 and by the way,
01:11:04.300 it's not like I
01:11:04.920 invented or anything.
01:11:06.080 A lot of smart
01:11:06.880 people use this
01:11:07.540 model.
01:11:08.240 When somebody
01:11:08.820 comes at you
01:11:09.480 like that in a
01:11:10.420 personal way,
01:11:11.500 they're not
01:11:11.820 attacking the
01:11:12.400 argument,
01:11:12.840 they're attacking
01:11:13.240 the person,
01:11:14.860 they have a
01:11:15.860 personal problem
01:11:16.660 that's just being
01:11:18.180 expressed through
01:11:19.140 their bad
01:11:20.180 attitude.
01:11:20.520 And if you can
01:11:21.940 learn to see
01:11:22.780 them as damaged,
01:11:24.720 you don't see
01:11:25.800 them as your
01:11:26.300 critic.
01:11:27.640 I see them as
01:11:28.620 just damaged.
01:11:29.980 I go, oh,
01:11:31.200 there's some
01:11:31.700 debris laying
01:11:32.520 by the road.
01:11:33.640 I don't think
01:11:34.380 the debris
01:11:34.920 laying by the
01:11:35.620 road is a
01:11:37.860 threat to me.
01:11:39.160 If I see
01:11:39.920 roadkill, you
01:11:42.200 know what I
01:11:42.560 don't think?
01:11:43.920 Oh, what's it
01:11:44.580 think of me?
01:11:46.380 No, I try not
01:11:47.580 to hit it with my
01:11:48.240 car.
01:11:49.120 I try to avoid
01:11:49.740 it, right?
01:11:51.160 So when I see
01:11:51.880 comments like that,
01:11:52.740 like, oh, you're
01:11:53.520 arrogant, oh,
01:11:54.540 you're so arrogant,
01:11:56.080 that doesn't feel
01:11:56.780 personal.
01:11:58.140 It feels like
01:11:58.960 somebody's damaged
01:11:59.880 and they're acting
01:12:01.480 out.
01:12:03.000 So it makes it a
01:12:03.820 lot easier,
01:12:04.600 right?
01:12:05.420 So that's why I
01:12:06.720 don't have to go
01:12:07.440 after this is done.
01:12:09.200 I will not have to
01:12:10.440 go cry myself to
01:12:12.040 sleep because
01:12:13.280 somebody had a bad
01:12:14.200 opinion of me
01:12:14.880 because I don't
01:12:15.660 think that happened.
01:12:17.580 I don't think there
01:12:18.380 was any opinion of
01:12:19.080 me.
01:12:19.740 I think there
01:12:20.580 was somebody had a
01:12:21.320 personal problem
01:12:22.080 and then they
01:12:23.560 acted out in
01:12:24.240 public and then I
01:12:25.620 observed it.
01:12:26.940 That's all I
01:12:27.720 experienced.
01:12:28.800 I didn't experience
01:12:29.900 an insult.
01:12:31.840 Now, is my
01:12:34.080 interpretation of
01:12:34.980 it accurate?
01:12:37.160 Well, some of you
01:12:37.840 would say, no, he
01:12:38.760 actually insulted
01:12:39.600 you, Scott.
01:12:40.680 But I say, if you
01:12:42.020 can reframe your
01:12:43.540 experience in one
01:12:44.620 that doesn't hurt,
01:12:46.720 go ahead and do
01:12:47.380 it.
01:12:47.580 So I just
01:12:49.080 reframe my
01:12:49.680 experience in a
01:12:50.580 way that doesn't
01:12:51.120 bother me and
01:12:51.720 so it's legal,
01:12:53.820 it's available to
01:12:54.680 me, so I just
01:12:56.380 do it.
01:12:57.660 And it works.
01:13:01.640 That's a reframe.
01:13:02.960 Exactly.
01:13:04.080 That is a
01:13:04.660 reframe.
01:13:07.420 Well, I don't
01:13:08.120 think I cured him
01:13:08.800 of his problem,
01:13:09.400 but he might
01:13:12.960 have some
01:13:13.580 insight.
01:13:18.260 Is it in the
01:13:19.040 book yet?
01:13:20.880 Not exactly, but
01:13:22.580 I might revisit
01:13:23.240 that.
01:13:24.480 I'm still adding
01:13:25.180 reframes.
01:13:27.740 Let me ask you
01:13:28.240 this.
01:13:29.000 Is there a
01:13:29.720 reframe that I
01:13:31.160 haven't already
01:13:31.540 talked about that
01:13:32.920 I've ever mentioned
01:13:33.700 that ever helped
01:13:34.360 you?
01:13:35.120 Now, I know
01:13:36.140 that alcohol is
01:13:37.100 poison to help
01:13:37.660 people, but
01:13:40.340 are there other
01:13:41.020 reframes that
01:13:42.780 you sort of
01:13:43.740 picked up just
01:13:45.020 along the way
01:13:45.740 and you said,
01:13:46.240 oh, I'm
01:13:46.760 thinking about it
01:13:47.400 that way from
01:13:47.900 now on?
01:13:49.140 Anything that
01:13:49.700 helped you?
01:13:51.380 Because those are
01:13:52.120 the ones I want
01:13:52.560 to include in the
01:13:53.100 book.
01:13:53.340 If there's one
01:13:53.820 that I didn't
01:13:54.240 even think of as
01:13:55.280 a reframe, but
01:13:57.140 you took it that
01:13:57.820 way, if you
01:14:02.080 can't sleep, oh,
01:14:03.240 if you can't
01:14:03.740 sleep, you didn't
01:14:04.280 put in enough
01:14:04.880 work, okay.
01:14:08.080 Oh, hearing
01:14:08.580 cha-ching for
01:14:09.280 criticism of my
01:14:10.300 writing, that's a
01:14:10.920 good one.
01:14:14.340 Do the
01:14:14.900 alcohol one
01:14:15.800 again?
01:14:16.420 It's just
01:14:16.800 alcohol is
01:14:17.360 poison.
01:14:18.180 That's it.
01:14:18.600 That's the whole
01:14:19.000 thing.
01:14:20.180 Systems, not
01:14:20.840 habits, yeah.
01:14:22.440 The suicide
01:14:22.980 reframe, what
01:14:23.660 was that?
01:14:25.020 Oh, the
01:14:25.400 suicide reframe
01:14:26.320 was to
01:14:27.140 curiosity, right?
01:14:29.640 Right?
01:14:31.840 So let me say
01:14:32.840 that again.
01:14:33.260 Okay.
01:14:34.880 If you have a
01:14:36.300 really bad day
01:14:37.140 where you're in
01:14:38.160 a bad mood, if
01:14:39.920 you waste that,
01:14:41.420 don't waste that.
01:14:43.720 Don't waste that.
01:14:44.740 I had a bad day
01:14:46.080 the other day, so
01:14:46.840 I had to fire
01:14:47.480 somebody.
01:14:48.520 So I just used
01:14:49.420 it to fire
01:14:49.880 somebody.
01:14:52.600 And then I
01:14:53.780 felt good, because
01:14:56.000 it was something I
01:14:56.700 needed to do, and
01:14:57.500 it got off my
01:14:58.340 list.
01:14:59.520 So if you're
01:15:02.000 wasting a bad
01:15:02.780 attitude, you're
01:15:04.500 really missing
01:15:05.040 that one.
01:15:06.000 Because when I
01:15:06.740 have a bad
01:15:07.180 day, do you
01:15:08.640 ever have a bad
01:15:09.180 day when there's
01:15:09.800 nothing that could
01:15:10.440 bother you, it's
01:15:11.020 so bad?
01:15:12.620 Like, you know
01:15:13.180 nothing could
01:15:13.780 bother me today,
01:15:14.640 because I'm
01:15:15.080 already in such a
01:15:15.880 bad mood, it's
01:15:16.380 not going to make
01:15:16.820 any difference at
01:15:17.400 all.
01:15:18.300 And then you
01:15:18.740 can just do all
01:15:19.500 those things that
01:15:20.240 would have bothered
01:15:20.760 you otherwise.
01:15:22.440 Yeah, all those
01:15:23.120 things.
01:15:23.380 things.
01:15:28.240 Any manager can
01:15:29.560 take criticism,
01:15:30.540 nobody can take
01:15:31.180 humiliation.
01:15:31.920 Did I say that?
01:15:33.540 Sounds like
01:15:34.140 something I might
01:15:34.740 have said.
01:15:38.060 Oh, saying it
01:15:38.940 was your honor to
01:15:39.760 take care of your
01:15:40.380 mother before she
01:15:41.100 died, even though
01:15:41.740 she was a crappy
01:15:42.400 parent.
01:15:45.080 That's one of my
01:15:45.860 favorites.
01:15:47.060 Yeah.
01:15:47.780 Well, my favorite
01:15:48.560 for dealing with
01:15:49.660 tragedy, which is
01:15:50.820 usually the death of
01:15:51.780 a loved one, is
01:15:54.260 that it's not a
01:15:55.200 tragedy, it's an
01:15:56.460 honor.
01:15:57.700 It's an honor.
01:15:59.320 If you can be one
01:16:01.220 of the last ones in
01:16:02.160 the room, that's an
01:16:03.780 honor.
01:16:04.880 And I certainly feel
01:16:05.900 that way for my
01:16:06.620 animals.
01:16:09.500 There's no way I
01:16:10.520 wouldn't be in the
01:16:11.080 room for my cat's
01:16:12.480 passing.
01:16:14.240 That's an honor.
01:16:18.860 View on pardon
01:16:19.840 dangling, it's a
01:16:20.720 good strategy.
01:16:22.440 Pardon dangling is
01:16:23.560 good political
01:16:24.120 strategy.
01:16:25.100 People will vote on
01:16:26.040 that basis.
01:16:34.700 That's what you
01:16:35.380 tell your patients'
01:16:36.260 families as a
01:16:37.020 hospice nurse.
01:16:37.820 Well, good.
01:16:38.460 So a hospice nurse is
01:16:39.760 confirming that
01:16:41.700 reframe.
01:16:42.600 That's good to
01:16:43.160 hear.
01:16:45.300 Oh, I'm sorry
01:16:46.320 about your dog,
01:16:47.020 Jack.
01:16:47.300 Oh, yeah,
01:16:51.580 somebody likes my
01:16:52.440 everyone is
01:16:53.060 addicted to
01:16:53.660 something.
01:16:54.780 I don't think I
01:16:55.700 have that in the
01:16:56.220 book yet.
01:16:57.900 Oh, remind me to
01:16:58.760 put that in the
01:16:59.160 book.
01:16:59.720 Yeah, everyone's
01:17:00.420 addicted to
01:17:00.960 something.
01:17:02.640 You just have to
01:17:03.620 pick one, an
01:17:04.480 addiction that's
01:17:05.360 good for you.
01:17:06.300 You know, exercise,
01:17:07.600 that's a good
01:17:08.560 addiction.
01:17:08.900 And if you had to
01:17:14.720 pick a mind-altering
01:17:15.780 one, there are
01:17:17.640 definitely some that
01:17:18.400 are better than
01:17:18.860 others.
01:17:19.880 Now, I don't
01:17:20.400 recommend to
01:17:21.100 anybody smoke
01:17:21.780 marijuana, because
01:17:22.440 I'm not a doctor, and
01:17:23.560 it is a drug.
01:17:24.780 legal or not, it's
01:17:27.240 a drug, so I
01:17:27.820 don't recommend a
01:17:28.720 drug to anybody.
01:17:30.820 Talk to your
01:17:31.520 doctor.
01:17:32.420 But, of all the
01:17:34.220 drugs that I
01:17:34.820 personally could do,
01:17:36.120 given that I don't
01:17:37.200 metabolize alcohol
01:17:38.460 very well, etc.,
01:17:40.040 it's the best
01:17:41.400 addiction for me.
01:17:44.560 Now, it has its
01:17:45.460 downsides, as
01:17:47.940 everything does,
01:17:49.780 but of all the
01:17:50.660 addictions I could
01:17:51.460 choose, it's the
01:17:53.080 best one.
01:17:54.780 for me, but
01:17:56.360 yours would be
01:17:56.820 different.
01:18:01.440 Your wife, Mindy,
01:18:02.540 is listening.
01:18:03.160 She says hello, and
01:18:04.120 won't stop commenting
01:18:05.120 during this week.
01:18:05.780 Mindy?
01:18:07.360 Mindy?
01:18:09.140 I think, Mindy, we
01:18:11.720 have to give her the
01:18:12.740 listener award.
01:18:15.240 Mindy, you are
01:18:15.840 listener of the
01:18:16.480 week.
01:18:17.040 I'm going to give
01:18:17.540 you an award for
01:18:18.220 this, because you're
01:18:19.940 the most engaged
01:18:20.820 listener that I've
01:18:22.540 heard of all
01:18:23.180 morning.
01:18:23.460 So, everybody
01:18:25.300 give Mindy some
01:18:28.000 respect, because
01:18:30.300 Mindy's engaged.
01:18:33.000 She's involved.
01:18:36.640 A post-divorce
01:18:37.980 reframe.
01:18:39.960 I offer you
01:18:41.040 mine.
01:18:42.300 You got married
01:18:43.220 because you both
01:18:43.940 wanted to get
01:18:44.480 married, and you
01:18:46.040 probably got divorced
01:18:47.160 because you both
01:18:47.860 wanted to get
01:18:48.380 divorced.
01:18:48.800 That's usually the
01:18:49.620 way it works.
01:18:50.080 So, you got what
01:18:51.800 you wanted twice.
01:18:53.400 That's how it
01:18:54.140 works.
01:18:55.080 That's your best
01:18:55.960 case scenario.
01:18:57.480 Things go wrong
01:18:58.720 all the time.
01:19:00.840 Do you know what
01:19:01.220 would be far worse?
01:19:02.660 Not getting a
01:19:03.540 divorce.
01:19:04.820 It sounds like that
01:19:05.480 would have been
01:19:05.820 worse.
01:19:07.440 Now, I also like
01:19:08.340 the, and I'm in
01:19:10.840 this situation right
01:19:11.640 now.
01:19:12.840 So, this weekend,
01:19:13.940 I'll have basically,
01:19:15.420 you know, close to
01:19:16.300 no human contact for
01:19:18.520 like three days.
01:19:20.060 It's not exactly
01:19:20.820 true, but, you
01:19:21.500 know, I would
01:19:22.740 say 23 out of
01:19:25.420 24 hours, I'll
01:19:27.340 have no human
01:19:27.960 contact for the
01:19:29.000 three days.
01:19:31.220 Could you handle
01:19:32.100 that?
01:19:33.500 Could you handle
01:19:34.420 that little human
01:19:35.600 contact for three
01:19:37.740 days in a row?
01:19:40.540 A lot of you
01:19:41.340 say yes.
01:19:41.820 Yeah, you'd
01:19:47.940 prefer it.
01:19:48.900 You know, I love
01:19:49.800 my privacy when I
01:19:52.020 don't have to have
01:19:52.860 it.
01:19:55.060 I like privacy
01:19:56.640 if it's optional.
01:19:59.960 I don't like it if
01:20:01.120 it's forced on me.
01:20:03.240 Yeah.
01:20:04.200 So, I'm in a
01:20:05.720 situation now where
01:20:06.540 I have to rebuild
01:20:07.500 who I am.
01:20:08.740 After my first
01:20:10.940 divorce and after
01:20:12.260 the first, you
01:20:13.340 know, this
01:20:13.560 relationship before
01:20:14.380 that, each time I
01:20:15.500 have to start from
01:20:16.280 scratch and just
01:20:17.340 figure out who I
01:20:18.040 am.
01:20:18.740 There's a Imagine
01:20:21.260 Dragon song that
01:20:23.440 got me through my
01:20:24.220 first divorce.
01:20:26.240 And it was, you'll
01:20:28.260 probably help me,
01:20:28.900 you'll have to help
01:20:29.400 me with the title of
01:20:30.140 it.
01:20:30.380 It's about starting
01:20:32.020 from the bottom and
01:20:33.040 building back.
01:20:35.200 What's the name
01:20:37.220 of it?
01:20:38.260 It's Imagine
01:20:38.780 Dragons.
01:20:40.940 And you're
01:20:41.600 starting at the
01:20:42.460 bottom and you're
01:20:43.300 working yourself
01:20:43.880 back.
01:20:44.340 It was sort of an
01:20:44.940 inspirational story.
01:20:47.420 What's the title of
01:20:48.120 it?
01:20:49.300 Anyway.
01:20:50.580 But the essence of
01:20:52.620 it was there was
01:20:53.580 somebody who, if I
01:20:55.700 understood the lyrics
01:20:56.600 right, it was
01:20:57.260 somebody who was
01:20:57.800 dropping out of
01:20:58.780 music, some kind
01:21:00.900 of performing arts
01:21:01.820 school.
01:21:02.580 And I assume this
01:21:03.280 is the actual
01:21:03.780 biographical story
01:21:05.140 of the singer.
01:21:06.620 And he dropped
01:21:08.160 out with not
01:21:09.540 knowing what was
01:21:10.620 next.
01:21:11.920 And he called it
01:21:13.180 starting from the
01:21:14.180 bottom and building
01:21:15.120 back up.
01:21:16.080 Is it radioactive?
01:21:18.540 Or is it called
01:21:19.420 start over?
01:21:21.620 I don't know.
01:21:22.500 Whichever one.
01:21:25.980 No, it's not
01:21:26.920 called start over,
01:21:27.760 is it?
01:21:29.340 That's the actual
01:21:30.140 name of the song?
01:21:31.860 I don't think so.
01:21:32.940 But the point is
01:21:35.460 this.
01:21:38.300 This is very much
01:21:39.360 the freedoms,
01:21:40.880 just another word
01:21:41.600 for nothing left
01:21:42.300 to lose.
01:21:43.420 So if you're
01:21:44.060 focused on the
01:21:44.920 stuff you lost,
01:21:46.300 you're going to
01:21:46.760 miss the fact that
01:21:47.480 you just opened up
01:21:48.200 all of your
01:21:48.900 options.
01:21:50.340 And you finally
01:21:51.120 are experiencing
01:21:51.780 freedom.
01:21:52.420 And it's really
01:21:52.860 scary.
01:21:54.340 So last night
01:21:55.300 at, I don't know,
01:21:57.680 8 o'clock or so,
01:21:58.540 it was still
01:22:00.420 really hot.
01:22:01.760 And I decided
01:22:02.380 to go swimming
01:22:03.380 and just use
01:22:05.800 my hot tub.
01:22:07.100 And I was
01:22:08.900 all alone,
01:22:10.820 except for the
01:22:11.680 dog.
01:22:13.200 And as much
01:22:14.220 as I love
01:22:14.980 swimming at
01:22:16.140 night by
01:22:17.280 myself,
01:22:17.820 normally a
01:22:18.440 terrific thing,
01:22:19.340 the fact that
01:22:20.020 I didn't have
01:22:20.880 the option,
01:22:22.020 like I just
01:22:22.820 didn't have
01:22:23.420 anybody to be
01:22:24.000 with at that
01:22:24.480 time,
01:22:25.300 that it was
01:22:26.720 really disturbing.
01:22:29.100 It was
01:22:29.380 disturbing.
01:22:30.700 And I tried
01:22:31.760 to see if I
01:22:32.240 could reframe
01:22:32.880 it as a
01:22:33.620 plus,
01:22:35.120 to just
01:22:35.460 see if I
01:22:36.340 could enjoy
01:22:36.880 the quiet.
01:22:38.840 And so I
01:22:39.220 put my phone
01:22:40.100 aside and
01:22:41.540 just tried to
01:22:42.320 look at the
01:22:42.780 sky and
01:22:44.020 tried to
01:22:44.340 remember what
01:22:45.080 it ever felt
01:22:45.700 like before I
01:22:46.440 had a phone.
01:22:48.440 And I
01:22:50.920 have some
01:22:51.220 good advice on
01:22:52.000 YouTube to
01:22:52.560 get a gay
01:22:53.220 houseboy.
01:22:54.540 Thank you.
01:22:55.540 Now I had
01:22:56.100 not considered
01:22:56.680 that option,
01:22:57.500 but I'll
01:22:58.100 put that
01:22:58.420 on the
01:22:58.680 list.
01:23:00.380 And it
01:23:02.360 worked.
01:23:03.100 And it
01:23:03.360 worked.
01:23:03.840 I would
01:23:04.200 say that I
01:23:04.860 did manage
01:23:06.100 to calm
01:23:08.540 my restless
01:23:09.300 social media
01:23:10.960 driven mind
01:23:11.800 and I
01:23:13.080 could simply
01:23:14.080 enjoy being
01:23:14.960 alone just
01:23:16.580 for what it
01:23:17.020 was.
01:23:18.360 It wasn't
01:23:19.100 easy.
01:23:20.140 It wasn't
01:23:20.680 easy at all.
01:23:23.000 But it
01:23:23.720 worked.
01:23:24.740 did you
01:23:30.600 call an
01:23:31.000 escort?
01:23:33.560 Here's a
01:23:34.080 pro tip.
01:23:36.160 If you're
01:23:36.780 calling an
01:23:37.340 escort on
01:23:38.900 a holiday,
01:23:40.220 you're not
01:23:41.760 going to get
01:23:42.100 the A-team.
01:23:44.840 And there's
01:23:45.440 a story I'm
01:23:46.020 going to tell
01:23:46.360 to the
01:23:46.700 locals,
01:23:47.160 people,
01:23:47.640 but I'm
01:23:47.880 going to
01:23:48.040 turn off
01:23:48.420 YouTube
01:23:49.560 first.
01:23:50.100 All right.
01:23:52.320 Stay tuned.
01:23:53.160 You've got a
01:23:53.520 good story
01:23:53.920 coming.
01:23:54.980 And that's
01:23:55.460 it for
01:23:55.760 YouTube.
01:23:56.660 I'll talk
01:23:56.960 to you
01:23:57.120 tomorrow.
01:23:57.380 Bye.
01:23:57.480 Bye.