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

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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. 0.81

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. 0.89

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. 0.99

00:05:06.360 It was super divisive, divisive, Nazi-sounding, scary shit, and also just a bunch of laughs. 0.99

00:05:15.020 Same time. 0.99

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? 0.99

00:12:04.740 And then I say, oh, shit, I do know what those things mean. 0.99

00:12:07.660 I don't know. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:14:24.400 So, here's one of your bullshit filters. 0.99

00:14:27.300 If the thing that science is telling you doesn't map with what you're observing, 0.99

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? 0.80

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? 0.98

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? 0.97

00:16:57.800 And that they're doing it to feel better. 0.98

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? 0.97

00:18:48.720 What happened to the supply of legal abortions? 1.00

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. 1.00

00:26:49.220 As soon as you think, well, those poor, poor bastards. 1.00

00:26:54.400 I'm sure glad that doesn't happen to me. 1.00

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 0.76

00:29:56.500 to try to provoke the Trumpists into acting crazy 1.00

00:30:01.240 and thus prove that they are crazy. 0.98

00:30:04.680 So, this was not an old man doddering through 0.96

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, 0.99

00:31:27.620 damn it. 1.00

00:31:29.100 Damn it. 1.00

00:31:30.160 It's true. 1.00

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 0.79

00:33:01.140 without feeling there's some kind of sexual connotation there. 0.80

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 0.50

00:33:14.480 sexual sadomasochism 0.98

00:33:19.000 feeling about Trump. 0.98

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 1.00

00:33:27.160 who have had sexual dreams about Trump? 0.96

00:33:31.220 Go.

00:33:32.420 Any women 0.99

00:33:33.160 who have had sexual dreams about Trump?

00:33:37.200 Because for a while, 0.52

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. 0.99

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 0.79

00:34:04.140 about a president 0.83

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, 0.98

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, 0.99

00:37:44.100 you're going to slap 0.97

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 0.95

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 1.00

00:43:05.640 fuck you. 1.00

00:43:06.900 Just to fuck 1.00

00:43:07.760 you. 1.00

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 1.00

00:43:13.180 fucked too. 1.00

00:43:14.660 But, you know, 0.99

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 0.59

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 1.00

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 0.60

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 1.00

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 0.86

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 1.00

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 1.00

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? 1.00

00:47:32.360 No, fuck 1.00

00:47:33.060 him. 1.00

00:47:33.220 It's not too

00:47:33.680 soon.

00:47:34.560 He was a 1.00

00:47:34.960 crook. 1.00

00:47:35.880 If he wasn't 0.99

00:47:36.580 a crook, 0.94

00:47:37.240 it was too 0.98

00:47:37.940 soon.

00:47:39.320 But,

00:47:39.840 allegedly,

00:47:41.320 he was a 0.99

00:47:41.680 crook. 0.99

00:47:42.520 So, 1.00

00:47:42.900 fuck him. 1.00

00:47:43.180 I can't 1.00

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 0.76

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 0.97

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 0.99

00:48:51.080 pretty fucked 1.00

00:48:51.600 up opinion. 0.99

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 0.98

00:49:06.960 ridiculous, 0.97

00:49:07.740 it's a 1.00

00:49:08.020 ridiculous 0.99

00:49:08.400 opinion, 0.99

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, 1.00

00:50:27.000 big thief. 0.97

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 0.99

00:50:42.540 a crook. 0.99

00:50:43.080 That's the 0.86

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? 1.00

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 0.99

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, 0.81

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.87

00:53:28.860 in kinky sex. 0.90

00:53:31.140 Well, there's 0.92

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. 0.81

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 1.00

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, 1.00

00:55:41.980 shit, 1.00

00:55:42.240 it was 1.00

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, 0.94

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 0.99

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, 0.84

01:05:36.860 your arrogance 0.97

01:05:38.020 is strong 0.94

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 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.98

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 0.99

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 0.68

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 0.98

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 0.99

01:10:55.800 shit on that, 0.99

01:10:57.980 there's something 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

01:11:53.520 arrogant, oh, 1.00

01:11:54.540 you're so arrogant, 1.00

01:11:56.080 that doesn't feel 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

01:15:41.740 she was a crappy 1.00

01:15:42.400 parent. 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.93

01:22:52.560 get a gay 1.00

01:22:53.220 houseboy. 0.99

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.

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

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