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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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1 hour and 23 minutes
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Word Count
11,999
Sentence Count
975
Misogynist Sentences
23
Hate Speech Sentences
20
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I don't think there's been a finer moment in
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the history of time, space-time, or whatever the hell this is.
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And you, my lucky viewers, are in for the best time of your entire day so far.
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And all you need to take it up to amazing levels of happiness is a cup or mug or a glass,
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a tank or gel, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid.
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I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine here of the day, the thing that
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makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip.
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And wait until you feel it.
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It's amazing.
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Go.
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Well, today, we're going to peel back the scenery and take a look at the machinery.
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That's right.
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We're going to go deep.
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We're going to look behind the curtain, under the hood, beneath the rock, and then we're
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going to drill into the core of the planet to find secrets and truths that have never
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been experienced before.
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Or we'll just spend an hour or so sipping coffee and having a good time.
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And both of those are good things.
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I think you'd agree.
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Well, in the news, here are the things we know for sure.
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Long COVID definitely exists.
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And it's really bad.
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We also know there's no evidence whatsoever that long COVID exists.
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So those are both true.
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We know, for example, that emergency rooms are packed with people complaining of long COVID
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symptoms.
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I also know, because I saw a bunch of emergency room doctors this morning say, there's absolutely
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nothing like that happening.
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I've seen exactly zero long COVID patients, say the other emergency room doctors.
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So it is totally true that long COVID is a gigantic problem that exists for millions of people
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and is one of the biggest variables in the entire pandemic.
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And also, there's no evidence of it whatsoever.
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So you can choose your venture.
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Which one of those do you like?
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There is just as much evidence of both the situations.
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Just as much.
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I don't know which one's true.
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Honestly, I don't.
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Also in the news, we have new studies that have proven, and new data proven, that vaccinations
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are injuring people more than the COVID itself.
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But, but, hold on, don't cancel me yet.
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But also information proving the opposite.
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So we simultaneously have really good, solid information that the vaccinations have saved
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millions of lives.
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And at the same time, really solid information that it killed people.
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Both true.
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They're both equally true.
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Meaning that they both have something like data.
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And there are people who believe each.
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Now the experts are solidly on one side on most of these questions.
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But do you believe the experts anymore?
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Or, well, well, we want to.
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We'd like to.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we could?
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Let's see what else we know.
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We also know this week that ivermectin definitely works, because there's a new study showing it.
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And also that ivermectin definitely doesn't work, because there are better studies that show
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that it doesn't work.
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And an observational study doesn't mean anything.
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So, these are the things we know.
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Long COVID exists and doesn't exist.
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Vaccinations are good for you and not good for you.
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And the ivermectin totally works and totally doesn't work.
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That's the news today.
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Now, how much of this do you think is because the people who disagree with you didn't do their homework?
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Do you think that's what's going on?
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Do you think the people who are on the other side from you, wherever you are on these topics,
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do you think that it's because they don't have good information?
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Do you think that's a problem?
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Well, we're going to get to that.
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Here's another thing that is true and not true at the same time.
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Trump's recent speech was super divisive, or the opposite of that, just a lot of fun.
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So, it's both of those things.
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It was super divisive, divisive, Nazi-sounding, scary shit, and also just a bunch of laughs.
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Same time.
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Both of those.
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We're all looking at the same stuff.
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Everybody's looking at the same stuff.
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We also know that Biden has been simultaneously hugely successful.
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Lots of major legislation.
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You know, he's got the unemployment rate is not bad, and things are moving in the right direction.
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At the same time, everything he's done is a disaster.
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So, Biden is simultaneously one of the most successful presidents in our history,
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and also the worst president in our history, same time.
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Yeah, same time.
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So, let me ask you this.
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Today, for the first time, it's sort of not a good sign.
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Years ago, when I built my house, the one I live in, I put it in an elevator.
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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.
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And so, I put it in an elevator.
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I didn't think that day would be today, but it is.
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This morning, I actually couldn't handle the stairs.
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It was physically too much for me.
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Now, here's the weird thing.
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I'm in really good shape.
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I'm in great shape.
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Physically, I can walk for miles, ride my bike for miles, go to the gym on a regular basis.
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But I can't walk up and down my stairs anymore.
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Do you know why?
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Do you know why I can't walk up and down my stairs anymore?
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I don't know either.
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I don't know.
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If I were going to fall for the long COVID story, that's exactly what it feels like.
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It feels exactly like long COVID.
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Because here's what the feeling is.
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All of my muscles hurt like crazy all of the time.
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And I thought I was just working out too much.
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So that I took a little time off from my workouts to just see if maybe I just overdid it.
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No difference.
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My muscles are sore all the time.
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I can barely walk up and down stairs.
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Now, by mid-morning, by mid-morning, I will have loosened up a little bit.
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And I can walk up and down stairs easily.
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I can run up and down stairs.
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So by this afternoon, I'll be fine.
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Later in the afternoon, I will again be so tired that I will just sit on the couch and stare into space.
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Now, you're going to say to yourself, it's old age.
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Except that it happened at the same time I got COVID.
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Is that a coincidence?
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Did old age just sneak up on me the same week I got COVID?
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Did that happen?
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And were my exact COVID symptoms, is it just a coincidence that the exact symptoms I had during COVID,
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which is trouble walking up the stairs, are the same symptoms I have now?
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Trouble walking up and down the stairs.
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Now, when did I get my vaccination?
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You're all desperate to find out, aren't you?
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Well, I only got the original series for the Alpha.
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So that was over a year ago.
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I did not get a booster beyond the first two.
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They were basically one shot, but two parts.
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So I didn't get anything beyond the first set.
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A year went by when I didn't really have this problem.
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As soon as I got COVID, I haven't been able to walk upstairs for two months now.
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Two months?
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Now, and then I also had the brain fog for a while, but that's, I have less of the brain fog right now.
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Now, here's another factoid.
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See if you can figure this out.
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All right?
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When I'm completely wiped out and I can't even move, I can just barely stand up and get to my car.
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And I mean it's a struggle.
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I mean just in, I mean at three o'clock in the afternoon, the act of standing up, walking to my garage,
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and putting the key in the, it's actually pretty hard.
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It's pretty hard.
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It's a struggle.
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Then I go to Starbucks, and I order a venti-sized iced espresso almond milk something.
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I don't know what it is.
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I sit there and I drink that espresso, almond milk, iced tea, whatever iced thing it is.
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And when I'm done, I feel fine.
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Like, I want to go to the gym.
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My body's all great.
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Pain is gone.
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I want to go to work.
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I want to work on my book for hours.
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Now, here's the weird part.
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If I drink warm coffee at home, it just puts me to sleep.
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What's the difference?
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Does anybody know?
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Is it the sugar?
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Because I don't have sugar in my coffee when I'm home.
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I just need to have black coffee.
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But when I have it at Starbucks, I assume it's got sugar in there of some kind.
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You think it's the sugar?
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You think it's the sunlight?
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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.
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I've been hearing good things about that.
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Like, just the first thing I do.
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As soon as I'm done with this, I'll actually go stand in my driveway for 10 minutes and just feel the sun.
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Yeah.
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Now, you're also going to say it's because of marijuana, right?
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Right?
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Right?
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Yeah.
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The obvious things.
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But my marijuana smoking is identical to how it's been since I was 18 years old.
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Hasn't changed that much.
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And it's not like the weed got better this summer.
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I mean, it's gradually improved, but that's not it.
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I know exactly what it feels like to be stoned.
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And this is different.
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Very different.
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Now, somebody said, take a nap.
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I've tried that, of course.
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And then I wake up from the nap, and my muscles are still sore.
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So the nap doesn't help the muscles.
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So, here's the thing.
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Do I have long COVID?
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If you were to say, Scott, you've never learned anything about psychology or confirmation bias,
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tell us, do you think you have long COVID?
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And I'd say, well, I've never heard of those things you just mentioned.
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I definitely have long COVID.
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But then suppose you said, Scott, you've been studying this stuff for a long time.
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You know what confirmation bias is.
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You know what it is.
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You know what cognitive dissonance is.
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Now, do you think you have long COVID?
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And then I say, oh, shit, I do know what those things mean.
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I don't know.
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Not only do I don't know, I don't even have a good guess.
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I'm not even sure which would be slightly more likely.
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No idea.
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But if you think that you are sure in my exact situation, if you could be in my exact situation
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and you would say to yourself, I'm sure, I'm sure this is long COVID, then you haven't learned
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your lesson yet.
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And you will learn this lesson by the end of this live stream.
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Oh, there's more to come.
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Watch me tie it all together in one beautiful souffle.
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Yeah, you don't see it yet, but it's coming together.
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All right, I saw a tweet from P.D. Mangan today, who's a good follow.
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P.D. Mangan, M-A-N-G-A-N, shows that 25% of women in the United States are on an antidepressant.
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25% of adult women are on an antidepressant in the United States.
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So, I saw separately another tweet that said the United States' rate of antidepressants
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is through the roof compared to other countries.
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Surprised?
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I'm not surprised.
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Do you know what is different about the United States compared to all those other countries
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where they have fewer prescriptions for antidepressants?
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Well, I don't know this is true, so I'll ask you for a fact check.
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Is it true that the United States is the only place that those companies can advertise directly to consumers?
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Because you see advertisements directly to consumers.
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Don't you think that makes the consumers ask for it?
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And that's why they do it.
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The whole point of it is to make consumers ask for it.
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So, do you think that the United States has a much bigger problem with depression,
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or do we have a big problem with media manipulation and brainwashing by advertisement?
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Which problem do we have?
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Maybe both.
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Yeah, maybe a little bit of both.
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It's hard to know how much of each.
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But does that number sound right to you?
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Let me just test it commonsensically.
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So, here's one of your bullshit filters.
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If the thing that science is telling you doesn't map with what you're observing,
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that doesn't mean it's not true, because your observations might be biased.
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But if it doesn't match, you should at least raise a flag and say,
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OK, there's a little discrepancy here.
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Why is my observation so wildly different than what I'm seeing?
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What is your opinion of the 25% of adult women on antidepressants?
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High or low?
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Is it high or low?
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Go.
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Or just right?
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High or low?
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Yeah, it's low.
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Almost everybody says it's low.
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There's a few high.
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A few say high.
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Most people think it's low.
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Yeah.
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Why is that?
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Why is that?
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Well, here's my take.
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I think that society is organized in a way that prevents us from achieving happiness.
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Now, when I say society, I mean everything from the way we use technology,
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to the way we get married, to the way we have relationships,
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to the way we raise kids, to the way our school system works.
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Just everything.
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Just all of it is designed, not designed, it sort of evolved that way.
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But we have created a civilization that couldn't possibly satisfy its people.
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Am I right?
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If you took those same people and, you know, just airlifted them and dropped them into another environment,
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let's say you just put them in another country where people are happier.
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I don't know where that is.
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Name a happy country.
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What's a happy country?
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South Korea?
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Poland?
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Albania?
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Tahiti?
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I don't know.
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Finland?
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I don't know.
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Wherever they're happy.
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Do you think those people would be happier if you dropped them in a happier place with a different civilization?
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Maybe.
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I don't know.
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Maybe.
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Maybe.
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But to me, the 25% seems super low because what's not included is the number of people self-medicating.
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How many people are taking illegal pills?
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That's not in here, right?
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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?
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And that they're doing it to feel better.
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And in other words, it's an antidepressant of sorts.
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Overeating?
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You could say overeating is an antidepressant.
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It's a very bad one.
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And this date is from 2014.
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So imagine what the rate of antidepressants is now after the pandemic.
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Yeah.
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So you've got to throw in alcohol.
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You've got to throw in weed, legal weed.
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You've got to throw all that in there.
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I think it's closer to 80%.
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My guess is that 80% of adults, male and female, are actively medicating.
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80%.
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And the other 20% wish they had, but that's another story.
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What do you think, what would be your guess as to the popularity of abortion, having it legalized anyway,
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what will happen if you make it, well, what do you think was the predictable outcome of the Supreme Court?
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All right, the Supreme Court said it's up to the states to decide.
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But what do you think the public, on average, did?
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Did the public move more pro-abortion or more anti-abortion?
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What happened?
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And what was predictable?
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What was the predictable outcome?
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See, neither and both.
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No change, negligible, confusion.
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All right, let's apply what we've learned from, let's apply everything we've learned from persuasion, okay?
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What happened when the Supreme Court ruled on Roe?
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What did it do to the supply of abortions, of legal abortions?
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What happened to the supply of legal abortions?
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It went down, right?
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You could still get them, but you'd have to work harder and go somewhere else in some cases.
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So if the supply goes down, what does that do to the price?
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It goes up.
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It goes up, right?
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When the supply is down, but the demand stays high, then the price goes up.
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Now, price is another way to say value, right?
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Roughly.
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Roughly, they're proxies.
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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.
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It could be that just restricting the supply makes people want it more.
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And by the way, you would expect that, right?
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Because everything we know about restricted supply changes the psychology of how valuable it is to say, oh, these are hard to get.
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If they're hard to get, they must be valuable.
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Am I wrong?
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Just the fact that they're hard to get makes it seem more valuable.
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Like you'd be a little more desperate to get it if it were hard to get.
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And also, I think the Supreme Court decision made people think about themselves or their loved ones in that situation.
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If it's not in the headlines, you don't have to think about yourself, oh, what if this happens to me?
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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.
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If you're forced to think about it in terms of your personal experience, you're going to lean toward at least having options.
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So it doesn't surprise me at all that there's a survey that says that legal abortion went up in popularity.
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So I don't know if I wouldn't necessarily say that one survey is conclusive, but it wouldn't be surprising.
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That's actually the way, if you understood persuasion, you would kind of expect it to get more popular because it's restricted.
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Now, to test my theory, what about cigarette smoking?
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Cigarette smoking is actually way down compared to what it used to be.
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It's like 10 or 11 percent of the public smokes now.
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I think it used to be at least a third or a half or something like that.
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It was crazy at one point.
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So here smoking was restricted, in a sense, but popularity went down.
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But it wasn't really restricted, was it?
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Because anybody underage could always give cigarettes any time they wanted.
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So it wasn't really restricted, not in any serious way.
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And then the vape was more available.
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So I'm not sure that's a good example.
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But, all right, have you ever heard of the Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Experiment?
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Probably not.
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Let me tell you about it.
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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.
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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.
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They're just, like, piling up blocks or something.
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It's just super boring.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They lied and said it wasn't boring.
00:23:10.720
They got $20.
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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.
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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.
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About a third of them.
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Do you know why?
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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.
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I got $20.
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That's serious money in those days.
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So I know I'm lying.
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I'm just getting paid for it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Okay.
00:25:09.120
Okay.
00:25:09.760
Now, is that experiment, does it blow your mind that it's so powerful cognitive dissonance
00:25:17.840
and that it's so easy to trigger it?
00:25:20.140
Does it blow your mind?
00:25:23.060
It doesn't blow mine, because this is something I've known for decades, right?
00:25:27.420
These studies have been, you know, replicated for decades.
00:25:32.760
Once you understand how powerful this is, then everything you see in politics and social media
00:25:39.300
starts making sense.
00:25:41.400
So part of the reason that I can withstand social media silliness, and it doesn't make me crazy,
00:25:48.320
relative to other people, everybody gets a little crazy, is because I see it this way.
00:25:55.760
I see it as people literally walking around in a fog and not knowing it.
00:26:01.020
If I saw them as, like, legitimate players who were mad at me or had, like, a real opinion
00:26:06.660
of me that was low, maybe it'd bother me.
00:26:09.160
I don't know.
00:26:10.160
But I don't see the world that way.
00:26:12.460
I see it as people just literally blind and just bumping into stuff.
00:26:16.300
And I'm like, ooh, just stand out of the way.
00:26:18.600
Let you blind people bump into stuff.
00:26:21.200
Just stand back a little bit and let it happen.
00:26:23.840
That's how I see the world.
00:26:25.420
I see social media as blind people bumping into stuff.
00:26:29.400
I don't see them as having even real opinions.
00:26:34.120
I mean, I literally don't think their opinions are even real.
00:26:39.060
It's just something they heard.
00:26:40.720
It was assigned to them by the media.
00:26:42.960
Somebody paid them a dollar, and it reversed.
00:26:44.820
But everything's like that.
00:26:48.020
Everything.
00:26:49.220
As soon as you think, well, those poor, poor bastards.
00:26:54.400
I'm sure glad that doesn't happen to me.
00:26:56.780
Huh?
00:26:56.900
Aren't we happy that that doesn't happen to us?
00:27:00.680
It only happens to other people.
00:27:05.060
No.
00:27:07.300
No.
00:27:07.660
No, it happens to you.
00:27:11.060
And you don't know when it happens to you.
00:27:12.860
That's the nature of it.
00:27:14.020
The nature of it is you can only see it in other people.
00:27:16.940
That's why you have the illusion that it's only happening to other people.
00:27:19.800
But they can see it in you.
00:27:23.120
But it gets worse than that.
00:27:26.660
Most of the time when they see it in you, they're projecting.
00:27:32.220
Well, I don't know if it's most of the time.
00:27:33.760
It would depend on who you are.
00:27:35.480
But you can't tell the difference between when they really see some inconsistency with what you're doing
00:27:42.740
and when are they experiencing just more cognitive dissonance.
00:27:46.380
And so they imagine you're the one who's with the problem.
00:27:50.620
Can't tell.
00:27:52.080
Can't tell.
00:27:52.780
That's what makes it exciting.
00:27:54.640
Now, I have told you there's one, you know, there are a few little signals.
00:28:00.260
You look for the person who's got the trigger.
00:28:03.840
Right?
00:28:04.420
Now, if you've not been triggered, for example, when I heard about this study,
00:28:10.060
I said to myself, oh, that's exactly what I expected.
00:28:13.340
You know, I would have predicted this exact outcome based on what I know.
00:28:18.020
So there's no trigger for cognitive dissonance in my case
00:28:21.380
because what I expected is exactly what happened.
00:28:24.900
But if what you expect, you learn to be completely wrong,
00:28:28.680
that's when cognitive dissonance kicks in.
00:28:30.840
So that's your trigger.
00:28:31.900
Look for somebody who found out that what they believed was totally wrong.
00:28:36.040
Those are the ones who were triggered.
00:28:37.900
But we even disagree about what's right and what's wrong, so even that stuff.
00:28:41.800
All right.
00:28:46.760
David Frum.
00:28:48.400
Do you all know him?
00:28:49.300
Political commentator and writer.
00:28:52.420
And he's a big anti-Trumper.
00:28:56.340
And here's how he describes Trump's, I'm sorry, not Trump's, Biden's speech.
00:29:03.720
The one that people called satanic.
00:29:07.160
All right.
00:29:09.480
So many of you probably said to yourself,
00:29:12.040
that Biden speech was the worst thing that ever happened.
00:29:14.860
There's no way you can spin that good.
00:29:17.860
Well, interestingly, David Frum, writing in The Atlantic,
00:29:23.360
which, if you don't know, The Atlantic is not a serious publication.
00:29:27.260
It's owned by, I believe it's owned by Steve Jobs' widow, right?
00:29:32.980
And it's just a Democrat publication, trying to pretend it's not.
00:29:39.480
But here's what Frum titled his piece.
00:29:44.420
He said,
00:29:44.860
Biden laid the trap, Trump walked into it.
00:29:47.560
So, Frum's take on this is that Biden is so clever
00:29:53.480
that he was laying a trap with this rally
00:29:56.500
to try to provoke the Trumpists into acting crazy
00:30:01.240
and thus prove that they are crazy.
00:30:04.680
So, this was not an old man doddering through
00:30:08.180
a completely failed attempt at communicating.
00:30:11.580
That's what many of you think you saw.
00:30:13.820
No, no.
00:30:14.840
You were mistaken.
00:30:15.760
This was Biden cleverly laying a trap
00:30:18.960
and Trump just walked right into that trap.
00:30:22.380
He did.
00:30:25.100
But here's the way Frum described this in a tweet.
00:30:30.280
So, he tweeted this.
00:30:32.180
He said,
00:30:32.760
Early in Trump's term,
00:30:34.420
an anonymous staffer said something like,
00:30:36.820
quote,
00:30:37.540
Trump's not playing three-dimensional chess.
00:30:40.260
Most of the time,
00:30:41.120
we're just trying to stop him from eating the pieces.
00:30:43.420
And then he says that Biden's speech goaded Trump
00:30:50.520
into swallowing at least a bishop.
00:30:55.460
Now, here's your next hypnosis tip.
00:30:59.420
And I'm not making this up.
00:31:01.400
This is something I specifically learned in hypnosis class.
00:31:05.520
So, my hypnosis instructor taught me this,
00:31:07.840
and it's one of the most useful things I've ever learned.
00:31:09.900
Look, you won't believe this is true.
00:31:13.560
So, you'll have the same experience I did the first time I heard it.
00:31:16.420
Like, I don't think that's true.
00:31:18.200
And then you watch for it.
00:31:20.860
And every year that goes by, you're like,
00:31:22.740
oh, it might be a little bit true.
00:31:25.820
And then eventually you're like,
00:31:27.620
damn it.
00:31:29.100
Damn it.
00:31:30.160
It's true.
00:31:30.840
It goes like this.
00:31:34.140
People tell you their sexual preferences in direct words.
00:31:39.100
You just don't notice.
00:31:41.480
It's just that your sexual instinct is such a strong part of your being
00:31:44.900
that your language just naturally wraps around those preferences,
00:31:49.340
whether you know it or not.
00:31:50.880
You can't turn it off.
00:31:52.060
So, when David Frum, who is a big nemesis of President Trump,
00:31:58.520
writes,
00:31:59.560
Biden's speech goaded Trump into swallowing at least a bishop,
00:32:04.960
my hypnosis instructor would say,
00:32:07.700
that is not a coincidental use of terms.
00:32:11.320
That's a man who has fantasies of blowing President Trump.
00:32:17.840
Now, I'm not going to say that that's true.
00:32:22.060
Because that would require mind reading, right?
00:32:24.540
I'm saying that's what I learned in hypnosis.
00:32:27.480
And that whenever I noticed something like this,
00:32:31.060
and I could follow up and find out if it were true,
00:32:34.080
it was true.
00:32:36.160
So, all of the times when I could confirm
00:32:38.720
whether the thing I was hearing,
00:32:40.880
I think I heard something very sexual,
00:32:43.560
any time I could confirm whether or not it was true,
00:32:46.180
it was always true.
00:32:47.520
It was exactly what it looked like.
00:32:49.000
Now, I have no way to confirm this one.
00:32:54.080
I'm just telling you the pattern I've noticed through my life
00:32:56.560
is that it's not a coincidence.
00:32:59.080
Nobody could write,
00:33:00.220
swallow the bishop
00:33:01.140
without feeling there's some kind of sexual connotation there.
00:33:07.800
Really?
00:33:08.440
Swallow the bishop?
00:33:10.780
An hypnotist interpretation of this
00:33:12.760
is that David Frum had
00:33:14.480
sexual sadomasochism
00:33:19.000
feeling about Trump.
00:33:22.160
Which, by the way,
00:33:23.380
is probably common.
00:33:25.760
Are there any women watching this
00:33:27.160
who have had sexual dreams about Trump?
00:33:31.220
Go.
00:33:32.420
Any women
00:33:33.160
who have had sexual dreams about Trump?
00:33:37.200
Because for a while,
00:33:38.160
that was a thing.
00:33:38.800
Maybe before his first election.
00:33:44.180
I see one yes.
00:33:46.220
My wife, yes.
00:33:48.520
It's mostly no's.
00:33:51.620
But you see a sprinkling of yes.
00:33:54.540
I assume it was mostly no.
00:33:57.460
I know two that did.
00:33:58.760
Right.
00:33:59.300
So I've heard of people who did as well.
00:34:01.960
So it's not unusual to have sexual fantasies
00:34:04.140
about a president
00:34:05.320
or anybody in power.
00:34:08.660
Anyway,
00:34:09.200
that's what I see in this.
00:34:15.140
What else is going on?
00:34:16.640
What a fun day.
00:34:19.920
All right.
00:34:20.420
What about those top secret folders?
00:34:22.180
So here's a question I asked.
00:34:24.700
And doesn't this amaze you
00:34:26.480
that we don't have an answer to this?
00:34:28.220
I'll say this again.
00:34:31.000
I feel that there's a missing service
00:34:34.280
in the news industry.
00:34:36.300
And the missing service
00:34:37.620
is that the citizens
00:34:39.900
should have a place they can go
00:34:41.700
where they can say,
00:34:43.360
this is the question
00:34:44.040
I'd like to have answered
00:34:45.040
from my government.
00:34:47.200
And then the news people
00:34:48.340
would be able to look at the list
00:34:49.680
and say, okay,
00:34:50.240
this is what people wonder about.
00:34:52.160
So I will ask their questions,
00:34:53.700
plus my own good questions.
00:34:55.240
But it would be nice to know
00:34:56.080
what the public wants to know.
00:34:58.680
And the number of times
00:35:00.140
that the press
00:35:00.700
simply doesn't ask the question
00:35:02.400
that the public wants to know
00:35:04.020
is really astounding, isn't it?
00:35:06.880
And you don't always notice.
00:35:09.160
But really,
00:35:09.900
the reason that the questions
00:35:11.080
they ask are asked is why.
00:35:13.680
Why does anybody,
00:35:15.380
why do the press people
00:35:16.860
ask the specific questions they ask?
00:35:19.680
What is their motivation
00:35:20.860
for the questions they ask?
00:35:23.700
Yeah, it's all gotcha questions, right?
00:35:25.900
It's gotchas,
00:35:26.900
or it's trying to make
00:35:27.880
the person look good.
00:35:29.600
It could go either way.
00:35:31.740
But more importantly,
00:35:32.960
it's for the reporter's career, right?
00:35:35.820
The journalist is trying
00:35:37.080
to make the journalist look good.
00:35:39.380
That's the motivation.
00:35:42.000
All the other motivations
00:35:43.240
are subsidiary to that.
00:35:45.840
The top motivation
00:35:46.740
is for the journalist
00:35:47.620
to look good
00:35:48.300
because it's a, you know,
00:35:49.640
career-defining moment.
00:35:51.360
So that's all that matters.
00:35:53.700
So,
00:35:54.280
under that situation,
00:35:57.860
what do you think
00:36:00.200
of those blank,
00:36:01.200
top-secret folders
00:36:02.240
that were found at Mar-a-Lago?
00:36:04.360
So a bunch of empty,
00:36:05.480
top-secret folders.
00:36:07.560
And here's the question
00:36:08.460
that I have not seen anybody ask.
00:36:10.840
So this is why
00:36:11.680
we need that website
00:36:12.860
to ask these questions.
00:36:14.120
How normal is it
00:36:16.000
for a president's office
00:36:17.020
to have extra
00:36:17.900
top-secret folders
00:36:19.080
in case you need one?
00:36:23.520
I would think
00:36:24.340
that they'd be laying around
00:36:25.640
readily available.
00:36:28.240
Would they not?
00:36:29.640
Because it seems to me
00:36:30.760
there are things
00:36:31.280
that probably enter
00:36:32.240
the Oval Office
00:36:34.060
and probably get
00:36:36.060
re-characterized
00:36:39.180
on the fly,
00:36:39.800
don't they?
00:36:41.500
Don't you think
00:36:42.160
there are some things
00:36:42.880
that come in
00:36:43.460
and they're marked
00:36:44.120
top-secret
00:36:44.800
and then the president
00:36:46.060
looks at it
00:36:46.760
and says,
00:36:47.400
all right,
00:36:47.640
this doesn't really need
00:36:48.500
to be top-secret
00:36:49.300
and just throws away
00:36:50.160
the folder
00:36:51.180
or just tosses it
00:36:52.600
on the desk?
00:36:53.800
Has that ever happened?
00:36:55.260
Probably.
00:36:55.780
I mean,
00:36:56.020
it's probably happened
00:36:56.900
at least once
00:36:57.640
because the president
00:36:58.760
has that power.
00:37:00.400
The president
00:37:00.880
can just say,
00:37:01.460
why is this top-secret?
00:37:02.960
Just toss this folder.
00:37:05.160
Somebody write this down.
00:37:06.540
This one's not
00:37:07.020
top-secret anymore.
00:37:08.120
That's a possibility.
00:37:09.440
The other possibility
00:37:10.300
is that stuff comes in
00:37:11.640
that looks like
00:37:13.060
it's not top-secret
00:37:14.200
but when the people
00:37:15.760
in the Oval Office
00:37:16.480
look at it,
00:37:17.160
they're like,
00:37:17.500
ooh,
00:37:18.440
oh,
00:37:18.800
actually,
00:37:19.360
upon better thinking,
00:37:20.600
we better not let
00:37:21.180
anybody see this.
00:37:23.160
And so they reach
00:37:24.340
into a drawer
00:37:24.860
and slap a folder on it
00:37:26.280
and then they do
00:37:26.880
the paperwork.
00:37:28.300
But I think
00:37:29.020
you'd want to get
00:37:29.520
the folder onto it
00:37:30.800
right away, right?
00:37:33.460
Like,
00:37:33.920
I get that the paperwork
00:37:34.880
has to be done
00:37:36.240
but you're not going
00:37:37.280
to leave it unfolded
00:37:39.300
while you work
00:37:40.660
through the paperwork,
00:37:42.240
right?
00:37:42.860
You're going to reach
00:37:43.440
into your desk,
00:37:44.100
you're going to slap
00:37:44.660
a folder on it,
00:37:45.880
you're going to hand it
00:37:46.480
to the secretary
00:37:47.160
or whoever
00:37:47.980
and say,
00:37:49.120
you know,
00:37:49.280
do the paperwork
00:37:49.880
to make this top-secret.
00:37:52.140
So here's the question.
00:37:53.920
Is it normal
00:37:54.860
to have empty
00:37:57.040
top-secret folders
00:37:58.360
somewhere in the
00:38:00.140
working area
00:38:02.320
of a president?
00:38:05.720
My intuition
00:38:06.820
tells me
00:38:07.520
that that would be
00:38:08.280
common.
00:38:09.860
But I don't know.
00:38:11.720
It seems common.
00:38:14.140
And so if somebody
00:38:14.940
threw a bunch of stuff
00:38:16.040
in the box,
00:38:17.800
what evidence
00:38:18.460
would we have
00:38:19.100
that it was anything
00:38:20.280
but extra ones?
00:38:23.140
I don't know.
00:38:23.460
And then the other
00:38:26.160
question is,
00:38:27.100
can't we tell
00:38:27.760
if something's missing
00:38:28.640
at this point?
00:38:30.260
So at this point,
00:38:31.280
the GSA,
00:38:32.200
whoever,
00:38:32.520
has a list
00:38:33.000
of all the documents.
00:38:34.680
Now we also have
00:38:35.560
a list of the documents
00:38:36.560
that have been recovered.
00:38:38.720
Can't they tell us
00:38:39.560
which ones
00:38:40.080
are top-secret
00:38:40.900
and missing?
00:38:42.760
Because the ones
00:38:43.580
that were top-secret,
00:38:44.620
they must have been
00:38:45.560
recorded as
00:38:46.560
in the president's
00:38:47.700
possession.
00:38:49.680
So again,
00:38:50.300
there's obvious questions
00:38:51.860
that are not being asked.
00:38:53.460
Apparently the president
00:38:58.720
at his rally
00:38:59.860
had a speaker there
00:39:01.600
who's been advocating
00:39:03.860
for the release
00:39:04.720
of some of these
00:39:05.300
January 6th defendants,
00:39:07.080
but one of them
00:39:08.020
is really a sketchy case.
00:39:10.920
So one of them,
00:39:11.840
one of the jailed,
00:39:13.140
still jailed,
00:39:14.560
January 6th protester types
00:39:16.480
is an actual
00:39:21.420
Hitler supporter.
00:39:23.460
like an actual Nazi,
00:39:26.940
like actually
00:39:27.620
has been photographed
00:39:28.320
with a little
00:39:29.080
Hitler mustache,
00:39:30.860
talks about it openly.
00:39:33.600
So there's at least
00:39:34.940
one guy
00:39:35.540
that's being held
00:39:36.600
in jail
00:39:37.040
because he's
00:39:38.660
overtly
00:39:39.500
Nazi sympathizer.
00:39:41.840
now,
00:39:45.320
so here's my point.
00:39:46.740
Oh,
00:39:47.060
you're ahead of me.
00:39:48.780
Hold on,
00:39:49.200
you'll be happy.
00:39:49.960
You'll be happy.
00:39:51.460
I know where you're
00:39:52.040
going in this,
00:39:52.660
but hold on.
00:39:53.600
Hold on.
00:39:55.160
Hold on.
00:39:59.320
That isn't illegal.
00:40:02.220
That isn't illegal.
00:40:04.600
And do you know
00:40:05.260
why the judge
00:40:05.840
is holding him?
00:40:06.720
He has not been
00:40:07.380
accused of violence.
00:40:08.340
He has not been
00:40:10.160
accused of violence.
00:40:11.780
He has not been
00:40:12.600
accused of violence.
00:40:14.680
He has not
00:40:15.820
been accused
00:40:16.720
of violence.
00:40:18.680
Here's why he's
00:40:19.480
being held.
00:40:22.440
The judge
00:40:23.280
in the case
00:40:23.760
said he should
00:40:24.360
be held
00:40:24.620
a waiting trial
00:40:25.840
because he
00:40:26.660
posed a threat
00:40:27.580
to the public
00:40:28.300
and that there
00:40:29.800
was a potential
00:40:30.500
for a, quote,
00:40:31.320
escalation of violence
00:40:32.540
from his alleged
00:40:34.000
long-held
00:40:34.840
neo-Nazi beliefs.
00:40:40.100
He is overtly
00:40:41.520
and publicly
00:40:43.180
and transparently
00:40:45.180
being held
00:40:45.800
in jail
00:40:46.280
for crimes
00:40:47.920
that somebody
00:40:48.620
suspects he might
00:40:49.660
do.
00:40:51.840
Not for crimes
00:40:52.740
he did.
00:40:54.140
Not for crimes
00:40:55.020
he did.
00:40:55.440
Now,
00:40:55.620
the crime he did
00:40:56.200
gives him the cover
00:40:57.060
for holding him,
00:40:57.820
of course.
00:40:58.860
The crime of
00:40:59.560
trespassing,
00:41:00.260
I suppose.
00:41:00.600
but I don't
00:41:05.900
care that he's
00:41:06.540
a Nazi sympathizer.
00:41:08.260
I mean,
00:41:08.940
I care,
00:41:09.740
of course.
00:41:10.640
I care that he's
00:41:11.560
a Nazi sympathizer.
00:41:12.860
But it's not
00:41:13.600
really relevant
00:41:14.220
to this question,
00:41:15.120
is it?
00:41:16.000
Not really relevant.
00:41:18.540
This is very
00:41:19.560
unacceptable.
00:41:21.420
And the trouble
00:41:22.220
is it's a trap.
00:41:23.600
You see the trap?
00:41:25.220
Because, you know,
00:41:26.060
you can see that
00:41:27.100
Trump walked
00:41:28.080
into the trap.
00:41:29.260
The trap is
00:41:30.120
that as long
00:41:31.160
as they keep
00:41:31.740
at least one
00:41:32.380
person who's
00:41:33.020
definitely a
00:41:33.900
neo-Nazi,
00:41:35.460
they've got to
00:41:36.780
keep at least
00:41:37.300
one who's
00:41:37.800
definitely a
00:41:38.500
neo-Nazi.
00:41:39.760
Because then
00:41:40.500
when Trump
00:41:41.040
releases,
00:41:42.000
let's say,
00:41:42.380
all of them
00:41:42.840
or pardons
00:41:43.420
them,
00:41:44.660
then Trump
00:41:45.180
released a
00:41:45.800
neo-Nazi.
00:41:47.980
That's the game.
00:41:49.860
There's no way
00:41:50.840
that this isn't
00:41:51.800
a political
00:41:52.400
imprisonment.
00:41:54.860
There's no way.
00:41:55.760
And, you know,
00:42:03.800
all right,
00:42:04.140
I'm just going
00:42:04.560
to say this.
00:42:06.360
This might be
00:42:07.060
the last time
00:42:07.580
you see me.
00:42:08.200
I always say that,
00:42:08.980
but I never know
00:42:10.140
when it's going
00:42:10.520
to be the last
00:42:11.020
time you ever
00:42:11.500
see me.
00:42:13.240
But one of the
00:42:14.060
biggest issues
00:42:14.720
is the concern,
00:42:16.700
a valid concern,
00:42:17.680
that the public
00:42:18.740
is getting whipped
00:42:19.520
up against the,
00:42:20.840
against judges,
00:42:22.380
against the FBI,
00:42:23.300
against the
00:42:24.880
Department of
00:42:25.460
Justice,
00:42:26.460
and that the
00:42:27.220
public might
00:42:27.860
become dangerous.
00:42:30.100
And we don't
00:42:30.800
want a world
00:42:31.420
where the public
00:42:32.660
is threatening
00:42:34.400
judges.
00:42:35.380
Would you agree?
00:42:36.660
You don't want
00:42:37.420
a world where
00:42:38.040
people are
00:42:38.600
threatening judges.
00:42:43.660
Do you?
00:42:45.480
If your judge
00:42:46.340
puts somebody
00:42:46.900
in jail for
00:42:47.500
obviously just
00:42:48.400
a political
00:42:48.820
reason,
00:42:49.900
you don't want
00:42:51.220
that person
00:42:51.620
to be threatened,
00:42:52.260
do you?
00:42:54.240
No.
00:42:55.360
We don't want
00:42:55.980
anybody to be
00:42:56.500
threatened with
00:42:56.960
violence.
00:42:58.300
But boy,
00:42:58.940
if anybody ever
00:42:59.900
got close to the
00:43:00.880
point where you
00:43:01.480
would change your
00:43:02.080
mind, it would
00:43:03.420
be somebody who
00:43:04.120
put somebody in
00:43:04.940
jail just to
00:43:05.640
fuck you.
00:43:06.900
Just to fuck
00:43:07.760
you.
00:43:08.780
That's why.
00:43:10.180
And I'm not
00:43:10.580
talking about the
00:43:11.160
person who's in
00:43:11.760
jail.
00:43:12.560
He's getting
00:43:13.180
fucked too.
00:43:14.660
But, you know,
00:43:15.720
I don't care that
00:43:16.320
much about a
00:43:16.800
neo-Nazi.
00:43:18.740
Frankly.
00:43:20.000
Frankly, I don't
00:43:20.700
care about him
00:43:21.200
personally.
00:43:21.600
But in terms
00:43:22.780
of the
00:43:23.060
concept, freedom
00:43:24.740
of speech, equal
00:43:26.620
justice, and the
00:43:27.660
fact that this
00:43:28.240
clearly seems to
00:43:29.640
be a trap that's
00:43:30.580
been set for
00:43:31.140
people like me.
00:43:32.980
This is a trap
00:43:34.140
for me.
00:43:37.180
Right?
00:43:37.540
The moment I
00:43:38.400
found out about
00:43:39.100
this story, I
00:43:40.480
said to myself,
00:43:41.440
A, I can't
00:43:42.200
resist it, and B,
00:43:45.000
I'm going to be
00:43:45.540
flying really close
00:43:46.420
to the sun here
00:43:47.140
when I talk about
00:43:47.860
this.
00:43:48.420
Because even
00:43:49.020
what I've said
00:43:49.600
so far, it's
00:43:51.500
enough to be
00:43:51.940
taken out of
00:43:52.440
context, isn't
00:43:53.160
it?
00:43:54.360
I've already
00:43:55.300
said enough that
00:43:56.420
I could be, you
00:43:57.600
know, Rupar
00:43:58.840
edited into
00:43:59.760
complete oblivion.
00:44:02.120
But I had to
00:44:03.020
say it.
00:44:04.160
I had to say
00:44:04.840
it.
00:44:05.840
And that's the
00:44:06.600
trap.
00:44:07.920
Because you
00:44:08.600
can't be a
00:44:09.680
good citizen and
00:44:10.900
let this go
00:44:12.380
unmentioned.
00:44:13.100
So here I
00:44:14.580
have a choice
00:44:15.140
of being a
00:44:15.660
patriot, like
00:44:17.240
being a
00:44:17.620
citizen, trying
00:44:18.820
to be useful,
00:44:20.200
definitely at
00:44:21.440
the risk of
00:44:21.920
my entire
00:44:22.420
career.
00:44:23.920
My entire
00:44:24.740
career is
00:44:25.400
risked just
00:44:26.360
to say
00:44:26.700
something that
00:44:27.280
is right and
00:44:27.900
true and
00:44:29.140
good for the
00:44:29.660
country.
00:44:32.220
It's just
00:44:32.860
amazing.
00:44:33.540
Amazing times
00:44:34.300
win.
00:44:35.780
But this
00:44:39.180
is the sort
00:44:39.700
of thing
00:44:40.100
where a
00:44:43.820
Trump
00:44:44.460
presidency
00:44:45.180
sort of
00:44:46.220
would clean
00:44:47.840
some of the
00:44:48.820
cobwebs out
00:44:49.820
of the
00:44:50.020
system.
00:44:51.520
And there
00:44:51.880
are definitely
00:44:52.160
some cobwebs
00:44:52.940
there.
00:44:54.400
You know,
00:44:54.780
what I suspect
00:44:55.880
was Trump's
00:44:56.680
biggest mistake
00:44:57.560
politically?
00:44:59.240
I think it
00:45:00.160
was during
00:45:00.640
his debate
00:45:03.140
with Hillary
00:45:03.700
Clinton in
00:45:04.820
which he
00:45:05.180
said directly
00:45:06.020
if he were
00:45:07.000
president she
00:45:07.640
would be in
00:45:08.140
jail.
00:45:08.420
I believe
00:45:10.760
that Hillary
00:45:11.280
was actually
00:45:12.100
worried about
00:45:12.720
going to
00:45:13.220
jail, like
00:45:14.080
actual jail.
00:45:16.140
I think she
00:45:16.580
actually was
00:45:17.000
worried about
00:45:17.420
that.
00:45:18.120
And I
00:45:18.400
believe that
00:45:18.940
the response
00:45:20.080
of the
00:45:21.580
Democrats who
00:45:22.660
sort of did
00:45:24.080
things I
00:45:24.480
wouldn't have
00:45:24.820
expected to
00:45:25.440
see, the
00:45:26.680
intelligence
00:45:27.140
agencies, the
00:45:28.160
FBI, etc.,
00:45:29.000
they acted as
00:45:30.400
though they
00:45:30.680
were protecting
00:45:31.260
Hillary and
00:45:32.040
the only way
00:45:32.480
to do that
00:45:32.960
is to take
00:45:33.500
Trump down.
00:45:34.960
So I think
00:45:35.780
that what you
00:45:36.400
and I are
00:45:37.660
watching is
00:45:39.620
Hillary trying
00:45:40.420
to stay
00:45:40.800
out of jail
00:45:41.340
by putting
00:45:42.740
Trump in
00:45:43.240
jail.
00:45:45.260
And maybe
00:45:46.140
not just
00:45:46.780
Hillary but
00:45:47.340
people associated
00:45:48.260
with her,
00:45:49.320
you know what
00:45:49.620
I mean?
00:45:50.200
So to me
00:45:50.760
this looks
00:45:51.180
like Hillary
00:45:52.100
and Democrats
00:45:52.920
trying to
00:45:53.380
stay out of
00:45:53.840
jail.
00:45:55.020
And the
00:45:55.420
way they
00:45:55.780
can do
00:45:56.080
that is to
00:45:56.620
take down
00:45:57.240
Trump and
00:45:58.420
all of his
00:45:58.940
supporters.
00:46:00.080
And it's
00:46:00.580
working.
00:46:01.500
It's working
00:46:02.240
so far.
00:46:03.160
If Trump
00:46:03.860
gets back
00:46:04.420
in office
00:46:04.980
and he
00:46:07.860
doesn't need
00:46:08.320
to get
00:46:08.580
re-elected
00:46:09.140
because it's
00:46:09.560
a second
00:46:09.920
term,
00:46:12.320
I've got a
00:46:13.780
feeling some
00:46:14.220
people might
00:46:14.680
go to jail.
00:46:16.080
I don't know
00:46:16.700
if the system
00:46:17.220
can convict a
00:46:18.100
Democrat,
00:46:18.820
frankly.
00:46:20.000
You know,
00:46:20.280
a high-ranking
00:46:20.960
Democrat,
00:46:21.420
I don't even
00:46:21.800
know if the
00:46:22.180
system could
00:46:22.660
do it.
00:46:23.600
The system
00:46:24.080
is so corrupt
00:46:24.680
at this point
00:46:25.180
I wouldn't
00:46:25.500
even trust it
00:46:26.140
to be able
00:46:26.480
to put
00:46:27.280
somebody in
00:46:27.720
jail no
00:46:28.060
matter how
00:46:28.380
good the
00:46:28.620
evidence is.
00:46:30.860
But that's
00:46:31.540
what I see.
00:46:31.940
And I think
00:46:32.360
it's just
00:46:32.860
Hillary trying
00:46:33.920
to stay
00:46:34.280
out of jail
00:46:34.780
and everything
00:46:35.720
else is about
00:46:36.500
that.
00:46:38.880
So the
00:46:39.680
chief financial
00:46:40.600
officer of
00:46:41.260
Bed Bath &
00:46:41.880
Beyond
00:46:42.260
jumped out
00:46:45.000
of a hotel
00:46:46.020
window.
00:46:47.660
No, it was
00:46:48.000
in his high-rise
00:46:48.580
apartment.
00:46:49.200
Jumped out
00:46:49.700
of a high-rise
00:46:50.420
apartment window
00:46:51.080
to his death.
00:46:53.260
Now, he had
00:46:53.620
been accused
00:46:54.240
of pumping
00:46:55.080
up the stock
00:46:56.060
and selling
00:46:57.100
his shares
00:46:57.660
before people
00:46:58.420
knew that
00:46:58.900
there was
00:46:59.220
problems there.
00:47:00.340
So he was
00:47:00.940
involved in a
00:47:01.500
financial scandal.
00:47:05.260
But what
00:47:05.940
caught my eye
00:47:06.600
is that it
00:47:07.060
was at his
00:47:07.480
apartment
00:47:07.880
where he has
00:47:10.120
both a bed
00:47:10.900
and a bathroom.
00:47:12.920
And now he's
00:47:14.120
gone to the
00:47:15.160
great beyond.
00:47:16.860
So,
00:47:18.860
code reuse.
00:47:22.380
Question.
00:47:23.860
Did CNN
00:47:24.500
always label
00:47:25.440
its opinion
00:47:26.080
opinion?
00:47:29.760
Did they?
00:47:32.360
No, fuck
00:47:33.060
him.
00:47:33.220
It's not too
00:47:33.680
soon.
00:47:34.560
He was a
00:47:34.960
crook.
00:47:35.880
If he wasn't
00:47:36.580
a crook,
00:47:37.240
it was too
00:47:37.940
soon.
00:47:39.320
But,
00:47:39.840
allegedly,
00:47:41.320
he was a
00:47:41.680
crook.
00:47:42.520
So,
00:47:42.900
fuck him.
00:47:43.180
I can't
00:47:48.780
remember,
00:47:49.280
because I
00:47:49.540
saw that
00:47:49.900
they did
00:47:50.260
label Dean
00:47:51.240
Obadiah's
00:47:51.960
opinion.
00:47:52.360
Now,
00:47:52.540
Dean Obadiah
00:47:53.180
is famous
00:47:54.200
for having
00:47:54.920
the most
00:47:55.720
anti-Trump
00:47:56.520
opinions,
00:47:58.040
or among
00:47:59.220
the most
00:47:59.600
anti-Trump.
00:48:02.320
And,
00:48:02.940
he's talking
00:48:04.040
about how
00:48:04.600
Trump's remarks
00:48:05.600
are alarming,
00:48:06.960
giving the,
00:48:08.180
you know,
00:48:09.580
the unprecedented
00:48:10.680
spike of threats
00:48:11.980
against the
00:48:12.500
FBI.
00:48:13.820
Now,
00:48:14.300
what do you
00:48:14.540
think of
00:48:14.780
that?
00:48:15.060
Do you
00:48:15.260
think that
00:48:15.620
Trump is
00:48:16.420
the cause
00:48:17.180
of the
00:48:18.160
unprecedented
00:48:18.820
threats
00:48:19.600
against the
00:48:20.100
FBI?
00:48:21.100
Is it
00:48:21.360
Trump's,
00:48:22.060
is he the
00:48:22.560
one that
00:48:22.820
caused that?
00:48:23.940
Is it
00:48:24.540
his rhetoric
00:48:25.200
that's causing
00:48:26.040
the increase
00:48:26.860
in threats
00:48:27.760
against the
00:48:28.260
FBI?
00:48:29.400
Or,
00:48:30.460
or,
00:48:31.480
I'm just
00:48:31.900
going to put
00:48:32.260
this out
00:48:32.660
there as
00:48:33.040
an alternative,
00:48:34.660
could it
00:48:35.040
be the
00:48:35.420
behavior of
00:48:36.100
the FBI?
00:48:37.840
Could it
00:48:38.400
be that the
00:48:39.000
behavior of
00:48:39.720
the FBI
00:48:40.180
itself is
00:48:41.800
bringing
00:48:42.240
problems to
00:48:43.480
the FBI?
00:48:45.060
To imagine
00:48:45.940
that the
00:48:46.640
problem with
00:48:47.160
the FBI
00:48:47.620
is its
00:48:48.280
critics
00:48:48.800
is a
00:48:51.080
pretty fucked
00:48:51.600
up opinion.
00:48:54.960
I'm pretty
00:48:55.700
sure that
00:48:56.200
you can't,
00:48:57.340
you didn't
00:48:57.720
create this
00:48:58.220
situation by
00:48:58.920
criticizing them.
00:49:00.820
My God.
00:49:02.780
Now,
00:49:03.700
so the
00:49:04.180
question is,
00:49:04.760
since this
00:49:05.140
opinion is,
00:49:06.040
in my opinion,
00:49:06.720
it's just
00:49:06.960
ridiculous,
00:49:07.740
it's a
00:49:08.020
ridiculous
00:49:08.400
opinion,
00:49:09.180
and I
00:49:09.520
don't even
00:49:09.840
know if
00:49:10.100
it's a
00:49:10.340
real opinion.
00:49:10.840
It's the
00:49:11.340
kind you
00:49:11.680
read,
00:49:11.940
you go,
00:49:12.220
does he
00:49:12.480
even think
00:49:12.940
that?
00:49:13.840
Well,
00:49:14.000
is that
00:49:14.220
a real
00:49:14.600
opinion?
00:49:16.960
But I
00:49:17.580
wonder if
00:49:18.160
the new
00:49:18.760
head of
00:49:19.160
CNN is
00:49:20.020
making the
00:49:20.580
crazy opinion
00:49:21.340
people at
00:49:22.000
least label
00:49:22.560
it as
00:49:23.140
opinion.
00:49:25.040
I think
00:49:25.700
maybe it
00:49:26.160
used to
00:49:26.520
say opinion,
00:49:27.280
but I
00:49:27.800
don't
00:49:27.900
remember.
00:49:29.580
All
00:49:29.760
right.
00:49:33.020
Here's
00:49:33.500
another
00:49:33.780
note,
00:49:34.420
another
00:49:36.000
indication that
00:49:36.720
CNN is
00:49:37.220
moving toward
00:49:37.880
the middle.
00:49:38.300
So they
00:49:39.640
had a
00:49:39.900
story
00:49:40.160
prominently
00:49:40.780
on the
00:49:41.100
front page
00:49:42.060
of CNN
00:49:42.540
that an
00:49:43.800
executive of
00:49:44.500
Black Lives
00:49:45.040
Matter Global
00:49:45.840
Network
00:49:46.260
Foundation is
00:49:47.720
accused of
00:49:48.480
siphoning off
00:49:49.060
$10 million
00:49:49.560
from donors.
00:49:52.960
And the
00:49:53.800
suit is
00:49:54.100
against
00:49:54.360
executive
00:49:55.020
Chalamet
00:49:55.940
Bowers,
00:49:57.480
the
00:49:57.720
foundation
00:49:58.200
itself,
00:49:59.620
interconsulting
00:50:00.420
firm,
00:50:00.800
blah,
00:50:00.980
blah,
00:50:01.000
blah.
00:50:01.760
So that's
00:50:04.560
on CNN.
00:50:05.000
I don't
00:50:06.780
believe Fox
00:50:07.660
News covered
00:50:08.320
it.
00:50:09.540
At least I
00:50:10.060
didn't see
00:50:10.420
it on the
00:50:10.720
front page.
00:50:14.500
So this
00:50:15.420
is CNN.
00:50:17.540
There was
00:50:17.900
nothing about
00:50:20.280
this story
00:50:20.820
that softened
00:50:21.500
it.
00:50:22.760
This was
00:50:23.220
just CNN
00:50:23.760
saying,
00:50:24.640
boom,
00:50:25.280
Black Lives
00:50:25.760
Matter
00:50:26.060
executive,
00:50:27.000
big thief.
00:50:30.060
It didn't
00:50:30.660
throw in
00:50:31.100
any,
00:50:31.880
but it
00:50:32.340
saved the
00:50:32.760
world.
00:50:33.100
The large
00:50:34.920
organization
00:50:35.580
is good.
00:50:37.780
Nothing like
00:50:38.240
that.
00:50:38.560
Just
00:50:38.720
straight news.
00:50:41.300
Top
00:50:41.780
person was
00:50:42.540
a crook.
00:50:43.080
That's the
00:50:43.380
news.
00:50:43.960
Do with
00:50:44.360
it what
00:50:44.580
you want.
00:50:45.400
I like
00:50:45.920
this.
00:50:47.120
I'm
00:50:47.400
liking
00:50:47.660
this.
00:50:49.480
Every time
00:50:50.200
CNN does
00:50:50.920
something that
00:50:51.640
clearly is
00:50:52.840
unbiased,
00:50:54.340
I'm going to
00:50:54.640
call it out
00:50:55.140
because I
00:50:56.300
think they
00:50:56.580
need a
00:50:56.860
little bit
00:50:57.120
of encouragement.
00:50:59.820
How many
00:51:00.480
of you
00:51:00.820
think that
00:51:01.660
if we
00:51:03.120
had more
00:51:05.100
explanations
00:51:05.720
of why
00:51:06.120
people were
00:51:06.580
going to
00:51:07.000
Epstein's
00:51:07.580
Island so
00:51:08.120
much,
00:51:09.040
we'd know
00:51:09.480
something
00:51:09.760
useful.
00:51:12.120
Are you
00:51:12.720
aware that
00:51:13.400
many of
00:51:14.220
the visitors
00:51:15.320
to Epstein
00:51:15.880
Island were
00:51:16.640
adult women,
00:51:17.860
just famous,
00:51:19.120
famous,
00:51:19.680
prominent adult
00:51:20.780
women?
00:51:23.620
If you
00:51:24.340
knew that
00:51:24.780
there were
00:51:25.040
a lot of
00:51:25.380
famous,
00:51:26.380
prominent adult
00:51:27.660
women who
00:51:29.120
presumably were
00:51:29.980
not involved
00:51:30.560
with any
00:51:31.040
weird sex
00:51:31.780
stuff,
00:51:32.940
right?
00:51:33.180
Because they
00:51:33.580
were older
00:51:34.000
than 15,
00:51:35.080
so probably
00:51:36.060
not.
00:51:38.020
Doesn't that
00:51:38.660
tell you that
00:51:39.300
whatever was
00:51:39.980
happening at
00:51:40.480
Epstein Island
00:51:41.160
was at least
00:51:42.100
sometimes
00:51:42.780
innocent?
00:51:44.300
Am I
00:51:44.900
wrong?
00:51:45.920
The fact that
00:51:46.540
a lot of the
00:51:47.120
travelers were
00:51:47.860
prominent adult
00:51:48.940
women who
00:51:49.440
were not
00:51:49.700
accused of
00:51:50.160
anything and
00:51:51.420
didn't say
00:51:51.820
they saw
00:51:52.160
anything,
00:51:53.700
doesn't that
00:51:54.240
tell you that
00:51:54.740
some of those
00:51:55.520
trips, I
00:51:56.260
don't know
00:51:56.520
what percentage,
00:51:58.120
but some of
00:51:58.720
those trips
00:51:59.220
were completely
00:52:00.220
innocent, or
00:52:02.260
at least for
00:52:02.700
some of the
00:52:03.160
people who
00:52:03.560
visited.
00:52:04.200
That doesn't
00:52:04.800
mean the
00:52:05.060
other people
00:52:05.460
on the
00:52:05.680
plane didn't
00:52:06.080
have fun,
00:52:06.580
I don't
00:52:06.760
know, who
00:52:07.480
knows.
00:52:11.340
Right, now
00:52:11.940
I'm not
00:52:12.160
talking about
00:52:12.580
Ghislaine.
00:52:15.540
But I'm
00:52:17.000
not sure we
00:52:17.440
should make
00:52:17.800
anything of
00:52:18.380
the fact that
00:52:18.920
famous people
00:52:19.680
went there.
00:52:21.360
I would think
00:52:22.200
that his
00:52:22.700
business model
00:52:23.480
was to get
00:52:24.000
as many famous
00:52:24.780
people involved
00:52:25.520
as he could,
00:52:26.940
but it's not
00:52:27.480
like he
00:52:27.780
blackmailed all
00:52:28.580
of them.
00:52:29.980
I think he
00:52:30.600
just wanted
00:52:30.940
as many famous
00:52:31.620
people in
00:52:33.240
his field of
00:52:36.080
influence as he
00:52:36.780
could get.
00:52:39.840
All right.
00:52:43.860
So, it's a
00:52:45.460
holiday.
00:52:47.220
Is anybody
00:52:47.820
laboring?
00:52:49.200
I know a lot
00:52:49.840
of you are.
00:52:51.140
Stanley Kubrick's
00:52:52.400
death.
00:52:53.500
He wasn't
00:52:53.960
already dead?
00:53:04.360
Going to
00:53:04.920
work in an
00:53:05.360
hour?
00:53:05.720
Okay.
00:53:07.820
You're at the
00:53:08.460
office right
00:53:08.940
now?
00:53:09.460
All right.
00:53:11.260
You're working
00:53:11.940
and watching?
00:53:12.540
That's what I
00:53:12.960
like.
00:53:14.040
It's a holiday,
00:53:14.960
so you should be
00:53:15.420
listening to me
00:53:16.120
and working
00:53:16.720
less.
00:53:17.120
Yes.
00:53:17.240
Yes.
00:53:17.300
Yes.
00:53:17.320
Yes.
00:53:17.360
Yes.
00:53:17.400
Yes.
00:53:17.420
Yes.
00:53:17.500
Yes.
00:53:17.900
Yes.
00:53:17.920
Yes.
00:53:18.420
Yes.
00:53:19.420
Yes.
00:53:19.500
Yes.
00:53:20.420
Yes.
00:53:21.420
Yes.
00:53:21.500
Yes.
00:53:22.420
Yes.
00:53:23.420
Yes.
00:53:26.880
Adult women
00:53:27.920
don't engage
00:53:28.860
in kinky sex.
00:53:31.140
Well, there's
00:53:31.640
no allegations
00:53:32.320
that Epstein
00:53:33.640
was involved
00:53:34.380
with anything
00:53:35.000
with adult
00:53:35.620
women.
00:53:39.660
All right.
00:53:44.840
Yeah.
00:53:45.900
How many
00:53:46.460
of you saw
00:53:46.940
me wash
00:53:47.360
my dog
00:53:47.840
on live
00:53:48.300
stream?
00:53:49.820
That was
00:53:50.660
the strangest
00:53:51.220
content because
00:53:52.100
half of the
00:53:52.600
people were
00:53:52.980
like,
00:53:53.160
yeah,
00:53:53.440
more of
00:53:53.820
this and
00:53:54.940
half of
00:53:55.240
the people
00:53:55.540
were like,
00:53:56.400
we don't
00:53:57.100
want to
00:53:57.320
see you
00:53:57.860
wash a
00:53:58.180
dog.
00:53:59.660
Oh,
00:54:00.060
well,
00:54:00.420
over in
00:54:00.760
Locals,
00:54:01.160
people liked
00:54:01.620
it.
00:54:03.640
All right,
00:54:04.120
good.
00:54:05.780
Well,
00:54:07.140
if I
00:54:07.660
wash her
00:54:08.060
again,
00:54:10.620
I'll
00:54:10.940
televise
00:54:11.940
it again.
00:54:15.380
Catering
00:54:15.820
to a
00:54:16.080
dog?
00:54:16.240
No.
00:54:19.000
All right.
00:54:19.920
Well,
00:54:20.180
are any of my
00:54:20.700
opinions actually
00:54:21.740
leaks?
00:54:22.260
That's a
00:54:28.540
very insightful
00:54:29.260
question.
00:54:30.280
Somebody asked
00:54:30.860
if any of
00:54:31.360
my opinions
00:54:32.100
are leaks.
00:54:33.380
But I
00:54:33.740
think you
00:54:34.040
mean my
00:54:34.380
predictions,
00:54:35.060
don't you?
00:54:36.320
That would
00:54:36.920
be the
00:54:37.140
better question.
00:54:38.200
Are any of
00:54:38.720
my predictions
00:54:39.760
fake because
00:54:42.260
I already know
00:54:42.820
what's going to
00:54:43.160
happen?
00:54:43.640
Well,
00:54:43.880
I've told you
00:54:44.300
that the
00:54:44.580
best predictions
00:54:45.200
are the ones
00:54:45.700
that are already
00:54:46.060
happening.
00:54:46.400
but I
00:54:48.580
usually stick
00:54:49.140
to the
00:54:49.380
ones where
00:54:49.880
I can
00:54:50.540
just tell
00:54:50.920
it's already
00:54:51.300
happening.
00:54:51.980
I don't need
00:54:52.680
any inside
00:54:53.200
information.
00:54:56.700
And the
00:54:57.340
answer is
00:54:57.860
yes,
00:54:58.520
I have
00:54:59.040
done that
00:54:59.580
more than
00:55:00.800
once.
00:55:02.060
More than
00:55:02.720
once I've
00:55:03.240
made predictions
00:55:03.860
that were
00:55:04.220
based on
00:55:04.620
inside
00:55:05.040
information.
00:55:06.480
And you
00:55:06.800
know what?
00:55:08.180
They are
00:55:08.840
no more
00:55:09.400
or less
00:55:09.880
accurate than
00:55:10.560
the ones
00:55:10.900
that are
00:55:11.100
not based
00:55:11.540
on inside
00:55:12.020
information.
00:55:12.560
Let me
00:55:14.540
tell you
00:55:14.800
something
00:55:15.060
about
00:55:15.320
inside
00:55:15.700
information.
00:55:16.880
It's not
00:55:17.640
that accurate.
00:55:19.040
It's not
00:55:19.440
that accurate.
00:55:22.440
I almost
00:55:23.260
placed a
00:55:23.940
very large
00:55:24.500
bet on
00:55:25.980
some inside
00:55:26.540
information.
00:55:28.140
Now,
00:55:28.460
the person
00:55:28.760
who told
00:55:29.120
it to me
00:55:29.500
had a
00:55:30.140
good source
00:55:30.800
and it
00:55:32.320
was solid.
00:55:34.040
It didn't
00:55:34.780
turn out to
00:55:35.300
be true.
00:55:35.820
Nothing
00:55:36.160
about the
00:55:36.620
election,
00:55:37.100
nothing about
00:55:37.500
the Kraken,
00:55:38.520
something
00:55:38.820
completely
00:55:39.280
different.
00:55:40.160
And for
00:55:40.580
a moment,
00:55:41.280
I thought,
00:55:41.700
oh,
00:55:41.980
shit,
00:55:42.240
it was
00:55:42.480
something
00:55:42.700
you could
00:55:43.040
bet on.
00:55:44.080
So the
00:55:44.380
betting
00:55:44.580
market had
00:55:45.080
a specific
00:55:45.560
question on
00:55:46.100
it.
00:55:46.580
I thought,
00:55:47.000
oh,
00:55:47.340
man,
00:55:48.880
I'm going
00:55:49.540
to place
00:55:50.320
a big
00:55:50.660
bet.
00:55:51.820
And then
00:55:52.100
I thought
00:55:52.400
to myself,
00:55:53.400
I don't
00:55:53.740
know,
00:55:53.920
there's
00:55:54.080
something
00:55:54.420
about this
00:55:55.000
that doesn't
00:55:55.280
feel right.
00:55:57.140
And so I
00:55:57.560
didn't.
00:55:58.780
And it
00:55:59.060
turned out
00:55:59.400
to be
00:55:59.760
wrong.
00:56:01.140
Now,
00:56:01.540
my understanding
00:56:02.240
is that it
00:56:02.780
was right
00:56:03.380
when I was
00:56:04.200
told,
00:56:04.900
but that a
00:56:05.440
decision
00:56:05.760
actually changed
00:56:06.560
after the
00:56:07.020
fact.
00:56:07.660
So the
00:56:08.000
point is that
00:56:08.640
even insider
00:56:09.260
information is
00:56:09.960
not reliable.
00:56:10.880
It really
00:56:11.180
isn't.
00:56:11.520
you know,
00:56:13.560
it might be
00:56:14.060
slightly better
00:56:15.180
than the
00:56:15.880
public stuff,
00:56:16.740
but it's
00:56:19.200
also unreliable.
00:56:26.200
Like
00:56:26.800
NVIDIA.
00:56:27.300
innocent people
00:56:33.380
all knew
00:56:33.880
they were
00:56:34.140
compromised
00:56:34.540
just by
00:56:35.080
being there.
00:56:35.920
Yeah,
00:56:36.120
I suppose.
00:56:37.440
That's true.
00:56:40.660
Do
00:56:40.960
ADHD.
00:56:44.360
All right.
00:56:45.760
So I
00:56:47.060
saw an article
00:56:49.320
that I tweeted.
00:56:50.420
Jeff Pilkington
00:56:51.400
spotted this.
00:56:52.660
And there
00:56:53.640
was an expert
00:56:54.820
who was
00:56:55.260
describing
00:56:55.860
ADHD
00:56:56.600
as not
00:56:58.440
somebody who
00:56:59.040
is easily
00:56:59.680
distracted.
00:57:01.560
Rather,
00:57:02.480
it was
00:57:03.040
future
00:57:04.820
blindness.
00:57:07.040
In other
00:57:07.440
words,
00:57:07.860
it looks
00:57:08.340
to everybody,
00:57:09.600
even the
00:57:10.200
person with
00:57:10.720
ADHD,
00:57:11.460
it looks
00:57:11.800
to everybody
00:57:12.300
who's
00:57:12.520
observing
00:57:12.900
like they
00:57:14.040
keep getting
00:57:14.540
distracted
00:57:15.120
with what's
00:57:15.720
in front of
00:57:16.140
them,
00:57:16.340
and therefore
00:57:16.900
they're late.
00:57:18.300
So they
00:57:18.640
don't get
00:57:19.000
places on
00:57:19.600
time because
00:57:20.260
they're just
00:57:20.660
keeping it
00:57:21.640
distracted.
00:57:22.540
That's what
00:57:23.020
it looks
00:57:23.260
like to
00:57:23.560
everybody.
00:57:24.620
And the
00:57:24.840
expert says
00:57:25.480
total illusion.
00:57:27.460
It's a
00:57:27.700
total illusion.
00:57:29.160
What it
00:57:29.540
is is that
00:57:30.220
the ADHD
00:57:31.280
people have
00:57:32.320
future
00:57:33.340
blindness,
00:57:35.120
meaning they
00:57:35.640
care about
00:57:38.180
what's happening
00:57:38.640
right now,
00:57:40.040
so that's why
00:57:40.600
they're chasing
00:57:41.080
the shiniest
00:57:41.740
object in
00:57:42.320
their environment,
00:57:43.100
because it's
00:57:43.680
happening right
00:57:44.160
now.
00:57:45.920
And once
00:57:47.180
you...
00:57:47.980
I don't know
00:57:48.600
if this is
00:57:49.020
true yet,
00:57:50.400
so I'm
00:57:50.780
going to
00:57:51.020
present this
00:57:51.620
as not
00:57:52.060
necessarily
00:57:52.460
true,
00:57:53.420
but as a
00:57:54.320
filter or
00:57:55.240
an alternate
00:57:55.700
way of
00:57:56.320
understanding
00:57:56.840
what you're
00:57:57.320
seeing.
00:57:58.340
And here's
00:57:58.960
what I liked
00:57:59.360
about it.
00:57:59.660
If you've
00:58:00.020
known anybody
00:58:00.480
who had
00:58:01.420
this behavior,
00:58:02.340
and I've
00:58:02.740
known three
00:58:03.920
people who
00:58:05.560
consistently would
00:58:06.620
be two hours
00:58:07.460
late for stuff.
00:58:08.700
Do you know
00:58:09.020
anybody like
00:58:09.480
that?
00:58:10.320
Somebody who's
00:58:10.940
consistently
00:58:12.060
two hours
00:58:13.860
late.
00:58:15.700
Most people
00:58:16.520
know at least
00:58:16.980
one person
00:58:17.380
like that.
00:58:17.740
And do
00:58:18.800
those people
00:58:19.440
exhibit any
00:58:21.120
ADHD
00:58:21.620
personality
00:58:23.320
characteristics?
00:58:26.840
Probably.
00:58:28.020
Yeah, I just
00:58:28.560
blew your
00:58:28.980
ADHD mind,
00:58:29.980
didn't I?
00:58:30.520
I'm blowing a
00:58:31.380
lot of minds
00:58:31.800
right now.
00:58:32.660
Now, apparently
00:58:33.020
this idea's been
00:58:34.020
around a little
00:58:34.540
while, but it's
00:58:35.260
the first time I
00:58:35.860
heard it.
00:58:37.300
And so I'm
00:58:39.900
going to offer
00:58:40.340
you this
00:58:41.280
experiment.
00:58:41.900
I want you
00:58:44.640
to experiment
00:58:45.200
if you have
00:58:45.880
ADHD, or you
00:58:47.440
know somebody
00:58:47.860
does and you
00:58:48.420
can talk to
00:58:49.180
them.
00:58:49.860
Experiment with
00:58:50.660
this blindness
00:58:51.220
thing, and
00:58:52.960
have them do
00:58:53.500
this.
00:58:54.400
The next time
00:58:55.020
they're preparing
00:58:55.800
to go someplace
00:58:56.840
that you know
00:58:57.780
they're going to
00:58:58.140
be late to,
00:58:59.520
just see if you
00:59:00.180
can get them
00:59:00.740
to do this
00:59:01.500
exercise.
00:59:02.820
Before they
00:59:03.480
go to get
00:59:03.860
ready, just
00:59:05.200
spend some
00:59:05.700
time visualizing
00:59:06.920
the entire
00:59:07.600
path from
00:59:08.860
the moment
00:59:09.300
you're getting
00:59:09.740
ready to
00:59:11.160
putting on
00:59:11.940
your clothes
00:59:12.520
to getting
00:59:13.100
in the car
00:59:13.800
to getting
00:59:14.320
to the
00:59:14.660
place to
00:59:15.420
what time
00:59:16.080
it is.
00:59:16.600
And sort
00:59:16.920
of imagine
00:59:17.400
it as a
00:59:17.920
timeline, and
00:59:19.200
it's all
00:59:19.460
connected.
00:59:20.780
So what
00:59:21.080
you're trying
00:59:21.400
to do is
00:59:22.100
imagine what
00:59:24.000
you're doing
00:59:24.400
now as on
00:59:25.480
a timeline
00:59:26.120
bar that
00:59:27.700
is connected
00:59:28.520
totally to
00:59:29.680
the output,
00:59:30.600
the end
00:59:31.040
point.
00:59:32.180
And just
00:59:32.580
spend a
00:59:33.120
little time
00:59:33.620
doing a
00:59:35.100
picture in
00:59:35.680
your head,
00:59:37.420
picture it,
00:59:38.100
so it's like
00:59:38.460
a little movie
00:59:39.020
in your head,
00:59:39.440
and you're
00:59:39.520
like, okay,
00:59:40.120
now I'm
00:59:40.340
putting it on
00:59:40.660
my shirt,
00:59:41.160
getting on
00:59:42.140
my clothes,
00:59:43.000
I see
00:59:43.220
I'm walking
00:59:43.540
to the
00:59:43.880
door,
00:59:44.700
I see
00:59:44.920
the other
00:59:45.240
people
00:59:45.560
gathering up
00:59:46.300
or getting
00:59:46.620
in the
00:59:46.860
car.
00:59:47.320
And just
00:59:47.700
talk through
00:59:49.000
it as
00:59:49.780
visually as
00:59:50.500
you can.
00:59:52.380
And then
00:59:52.980
just see
00:59:53.580
if connecting
00:59:56.120
the output
00:59:58.960
with the
00:59:59.740
moment, see
01:00:00.760
if you can
01:00:01.200
keep that
01:00:01.660
alive while
01:00:02.160
you're doing
01:00:02.580
it as well.
01:00:03.720
Now what
01:00:04.060
will probably
01:00:04.560
happen is
01:00:05.340
that the
01:00:05.620
moment you
01:00:06.040
start getting
01:00:06.500
busy with
01:00:07.120
what's in
01:00:07.480
front of
01:00:07.820
you, you
01:00:08.980
will become
01:00:09.620
future blind.
01:00:11.160
so there's
01:00:13.220
a pretty
01:00:13.840
high chance
01:00:14.600
that you
01:00:14.920
can't even
01:00:15.440
do this
01:00:15.840
exercise.
01:00:17.060
Am I
01:00:17.340
right?
01:00:18.000
I think
01:00:18.600
if a lot
01:00:19.220
of you
01:00:19.480
tried, you
01:00:21.420
would end
01:00:21.740
up saying,
01:00:22.140
oh, I
01:00:22.540
forgot to
01:00:23.160
do it, or
01:00:23.900
you'd have
01:00:24.640
some excuse,
01:00:26.540
but it just
01:00:27.520
wouldn't happen.
01:00:28.440
happen.
01:00:29.680
I think that's
01:00:30.460
what would
01:00:30.740
happen.
01:00:31.200
Because I
01:00:31.580
think the
01:00:31.880
blindness
01:00:32.180
sets in, and
01:00:33.200
there's nothing
01:00:33.560
you can do
01:00:34.020
about it.
01:00:35.020
Once you're
01:00:35.440
blind, you're
01:00:35.840
blind.
01:00:37.160
You can't
01:00:37.780
talk yourself
01:00:38.420
out of the
01:00:38.800
blindness.
01:00:39.880
You just
01:00:40.280
can't see it.
01:00:42.180
So the
01:00:42.960
question would
01:00:43.460
be whether
01:00:43.960
if you
01:00:44.400
practiced
01:00:45.100
seeing it
01:00:45.780
before you
01:00:46.340
get in the
01:00:47.100
putting on
01:00:48.000
your makeup,
01:00:48.580
getting ready
01:00:48.980
mode, if
01:00:49.940
any of that
01:00:50.500
can cross
01:00:51.820
over into
01:00:52.320
the bubble.
01:00:53.440
Now my
01:00:53.840
thinking is it
01:00:54.480
might not
01:00:54.800
work the first
01:00:55.380
time.
01:00:55.740
It might
01:00:57.360
not work
01:00:57.760
the first
01:00:58.120
time.
01:00:59.280
You might
01:00:59.580
have to try
01:01:00.140
it a bunch
01:01:00.520
of times,
01:01:01.660
and maybe
01:01:02.140
try some
01:01:03.100
variations that
01:01:03.920
you feel like
01:01:04.480
would work
01:01:04.840
for you.
01:01:05.900
Just see if
01:01:06.560
you get
01:01:06.780
lucky.
01:01:07.980
And if any
01:01:08.520
of you get
01:01:08.940
lucky, and
01:01:10.480
it makes a
01:01:10.920
difference, let
01:01:12.460
me know.
01:01:14.240
Because I do
01:01:15.200
think that,
01:01:16.960
well, let me
01:01:17.380
tell you something
01:01:17.900
that hypnotists
01:01:18.980
believe.
01:01:21.160
When hypnotists
01:01:22.180
look at
01:01:22.700
therapists, let's
01:01:24.220
say the people
01:01:24.720
who are trained
01:01:25.380
to deal with
01:01:26.320
the problems
01:01:27.020
I'm talking
01:01:27.800
about.
01:01:28.560
ADHD, being
01:01:29.880
late.
01:01:30.640
So the people
01:01:31.060
are experts
01:01:31.840
on that.
01:01:33.580
The experts
01:01:34.300
will tell you,
01:01:35.120
well, it's
01:01:35.420
going to take
01:01:35.800
lots of
01:01:36.260
sessions, and
01:01:37.060
we'll work
01:01:38.380
on it over
01:01:38.800
time.
01:01:39.460
But they
01:01:39.980
also get
01:01:40.480
paid by
01:01:41.040
the hour.
01:01:42.620
So the
01:01:42.960
people who
01:01:43.340
get paid
01:01:43.700
by the
01:01:44.060
hour will
01:01:45.660
tell you it's
01:01:46.200
going to
01:01:46.320
take lots
01:01:46.780
of sessions.
01:01:48.380
The hypnotist
01:01:49.360
who might
01:01:49.860
be, let's
01:01:51.100
say,
01:01:51.300
volunteering to
01:01:51.960
do it for
01:01:52.340
free, will
01:01:54.020
tell you it's
01:01:54.860
either going to
01:01:55.260
be fast or
01:01:55.880
it doesn't
01:01:56.220
work.
01:01:58.200
Do you
01:01:58.660
know why?
01:02:00.880
Well, some
01:02:01.560
hypnotists also
01:02:02.280
charge by the
01:02:02.920
hour, so those
01:02:04.260
hypnotists will
01:02:04.820
tell you, well,
01:02:05.400
it's going to
01:02:05.660
take many
01:02:06.040
sessions.
01:02:07.020
But let's
01:02:07.580
say you've
01:02:08.080
got somebody
01:02:08.500
to do it
01:02:08.920
for free.
01:02:10.200
The person
01:02:10.860
who's going to
01:02:11.260
do it for
01:02:11.640
free is not
01:02:13.220
going to tell
01:02:13.640
you that it
01:02:14.000
takes many
01:02:14.460
sessions, because
01:02:16.120
I don't think
01:02:16.620
any hypnotist
01:02:17.180
believes that.
01:02:18.420
The one who
01:02:19.040
does it for
01:02:19.580
free is going
01:02:20.820
to say one
01:02:21.380
to three
01:02:21.700
sessions.
01:02:23.700
One to
01:02:24.240
three.
01:02:25.420
Because after
01:02:25.860
the third
01:02:26.600
one, if it
01:02:27.040
doesn't work,
01:02:27.740
it's not
01:02:28.100
going to
01:02:28.300
work.
01:02:29.560
It's just
01:02:29.960
not going
01:02:30.260
to work.
01:02:30.980
But if you
01:02:31.540
saw some
01:02:31.940
progress in
01:02:32.560
the first
01:02:32.880
three, then
01:02:34.000
you say, oh,
01:02:34.460
let's keep
01:02:35.300
pushing this.
01:02:35.900
This might
01:02:36.200
work for you.
01:02:37.080
Not work for
01:02:37.640
everybody.
01:02:38.540
Everybody's
01:02:38.920
different.
01:02:39.660
But you can
01:02:40.400
find something
01:02:40.980
that works for
01:02:41.440
everybody.
01:02:42.540
So that's my
01:02:43.740
hypothesis.
01:02:45.080
And a
01:02:45.580
hypnotist would
01:02:46.300
say that this
01:02:48.000
type of problem
01:02:48.820
is almost
01:02:49.400
instantly
01:02:49.960
solvable.
01:02:51.240
Not for
01:02:51.660
everybody.
01:02:52.800
I have to
01:02:53.260
throw in the
01:02:53.720
not for
01:02:54.080
everybody anytime
01:02:54.860
I'm talking
01:02:55.400
about persuasion.
01:02:57.080
You should
01:02:57.420
hear that
01:02:57.840
automatically.
01:02:58.880
Not for
01:02:59.300
everybody.
01:03:00.420
Not all
01:03:00.840
the time.
01:03:01.940
Not quickly.
01:03:03.360
Those are
01:03:04.120
the universals.
01:03:05.640
Not for
01:03:06.100
everybody.
01:03:06.660
Not all
01:03:06.980
the time.
01:03:07.560
Not quickly.
01:03:09.360
But this
01:03:10.060
is one of
01:03:10.520
those that
01:03:11.160
it could
01:03:11.840
work for
01:03:13.280
some people
01:03:14.080
quickly.
01:03:16.440
It could.
01:03:17.440
There are
01:03:17.720
some people
01:03:18.260
who might
01:03:18.700
be able to
01:03:19.080
do an
01:03:19.360
exercise.
01:03:19.900
Maybe not
01:03:20.240
that exercise.
01:03:21.240
But something
01:03:21.760
in a similar
01:03:22.640
vein.
01:03:24.240
That would
01:03:24.840
actually cure
01:03:25.360
you instantly.
01:03:26.860
That's a
01:03:27.420
distinct
01:03:27.980
possibility
01:03:28.680
within the
01:03:29.780
hypnosis
01:03:30.200
world view.
01:03:32.480
So we'll
01:03:32.800
see.
01:03:33.420
But it's
01:03:33.760
something you
01:03:34.140
could test
01:03:34.640
and I
01:03:35.360
guarantee it
01:03:35.860
won't hurt
01:03:36.200
you.
01:03:37.660
Imagining
01:03:38.100
the path to
01:03:39.680
your destination
01:03:40.420
is not going
01:03:41.300
to hurt you.
01:03:42.520
There's no
01:03:43.000
downside to
01:03:43.680
this.
01:03:44.540
It'll either
01:03:44.960
work and
01:03:45.900
then you'll
01:03:46.220
tell me about
01:03:46.860
it and we
01:03:47.360
will solve
01:03:48.240
the problems
01:03:48.820
for the
01:03:49.100
world or
01:03:50.700
I won't.
01:03:52.820
By the
01:03:53.380
way, I was
01:03:53.740
adding up
01:03:54.160
the number
01:03:54.520
of cures,
01:03:55.780
things I've
01:03:56.420
cured, and
01:03:58.340
I'll tell you
01:04:00.560
it's a really
01:04:01.200
long list of
01:04:02.880
medical problems
01:04:03.980
I've cured
01:04:04.860
in people.
01:04:06.960
And some
01:04:08.660
of it is
01:04:09.000
because I
01:04:09.300
reframed
01:04:09.960
something,
01:04:10.620
they stopped
01:04:11.180
drinking,
01:04:11.700
they lost
01:04:12.040
weight.
01:04:13.400
Sometimes it's
01:04:14.200
because I
01:04:14.620
told somebody
01:04:15.180
a fix
01:04:16.460
was available
01:04:17.120
so I
01:04:18.520
just told
01:04:18.920
them of
01:04:19.220
a medical
01:04:19.640
solution that
01:04:20.680
they didn't
01:04:21.000
know about
01:04:21.500
and so
01:04:23.080
then they
01:04:23.600
got fixed.
01:04:24.420
But if you
01:04:24.920
count the
01:04:25.260
number of
01:04:25.620
people I've
01:04:26.100
advised
01:04:26.840
correctly,
01:04:28.820
who got the
01:04:29.320
right treatment
01:04:29.800
and they got
01:04:30.240
fixed,
01:04:31.060
it's hundreds,
01:04:32.440
if not
01:04:33.340
thousands.
01:04:34.560
I mean,
01:04:34.780
I have no way
01:04:35.160
to count it,
01:04:35.820
but it's at
01:04:36.220
least hundreds
01:04:36.860
of people I've
01:04:38.440
cured,
01:04:38.980
not me
01:04:40.820
alone,
01:04:41.380
but I've
01:04:42.020
put them
01:04:42.340
on the
01:04:42.600
path to
01:04:43.020
a cure.
01:04:45.340
So when
01:04:45.920
I tell
01:04:46.580
you,
01:04:46.980
hey,
01:04:47.180
I think
01:04:47.540
maybe
01:04:48.400
collectively,
01:04:50.000
I call
01:04:50.540
this the
01:04:50.920
collaborative
01:04:51.360
IQ,
01:04:52.760
so it's
01:04:53.140
not my
01:04:53.640
intelligence
01:04:54.140
that's
01:04:54.580
driving this
01:04:55.120
process.
01:04:56.300
I'm just
01:04:57.000
sort of an
01:04:57.440
organizer,
01:04:58.420
but the
01:04:59.380
intelligence is
01:05:00.220
the collective
01:05:00.720
intelligence.
01:05:02.820
And that's
01:05:03.560
always true,
01:05:04.100
because if I
01:05:04.500
got outside
01:05:05.160
of what
01:05:06.540
all of you
01:05:07.080
thought was
01:05:07.560
reasonable,
01:05:08.000
you'd stop
01:05:08.800
watching.
01:05:10.020
So basically,
01:05:11.240
you constrain
01:05:11.960
me,
01:05:14.040
and then I
01:05:14.640
boost what
01:05:15.300
you're thinking,
01:05:16.040
and it's like
01:05:16.560
this collaborative
01:05:17.780
intelligence.
01:05:18.940
So,
01:05:19.780
could a
01:05:20.160
collaborative
01:05:20.660
intelligence
01:05:21.340
that does
01:05:21.940
A-B
01:05:22.280
testing
01:05:22.780
cure
01:05:24.680
ADHD?
01:05:26.180
For some
01:05:27.060
people,
01:05:27.940
some of the
01:05:28.460
time,
01:05:29.220
not necessarily
01:05:30.000
quickly.
01:05:32.440
All right,
01:05:33.060
we got an
01:05:33.460
NPC alert,
01:05:34.900
in all capital
01:05:35.780
letters from
01:05:36.480
Philip,
01:05:36.860
your arrogance
01:05:38.020
is strong
01:05:38.660
today.
01:05:39.860
Let us
01:05:40.200
analyze
01:05:40.640
Philip for
01:05:41.320
what is
01:05:41.620
wrong with
01:05:41.980
his
01:05:42.160
personality.
01:05:43.640
Philip,
01:05:44.380
you're very
01:05:45.060
insecure.
01:05:46.960
Very
01:05:47.400
insecure.
01:05:49.980
Here's the
01:05:50.540
thing.
01:05:52.400
Are you
01:05:53.100
threatened by
01:05:54.820
the fact that
01:05:55.500
I've cured
01:05:56.040
people?
01:05:57.340
And I can
01:05:57.940
demonstrate it.
01:05:59.040
I mean,
01:05:59.320
all I'd have
01:05:59.760
to do is ask
01:06:00.520
people here,
01:06:01.160
have I cured
01:06:01.640
you of any
01:06:02.060
health problems?
01:06:02.660
And you
01:06:02.880
would see a
01:06:03.320
stream of
01:06:04.320
confirmation.
01:06:04.900
It would
01:06:05.280
be easy,
01:06:05.780
and I've
01:06:06.120
done it
01:06:06.380
lots of
01:06:06.660
times.
01:06:07.440
And people
01:06:07.920
write to me
01:06:08.440
all the
01:06:08.660
time.
01:06:08.940
So I
01:06:09.160
know it's
01:06:09.440
true.
01:06:10.020
I don't
01:06:10.300
know how
01:06:10.580
many.
01:06:11.620
That would
01:06:11.920
be different.
01:06:13.460
But if
01:06:15.100
you think
01:06:16.680
that telling
01:06:17.280
you that I
01:06:19.140
can cure
01:06:19.720
you of
01:06:20.340
sometimes
01:06:21.260
incurable
01:06:21.820
diseases,
01:06:22.700
if you think
01:06:23.380
that what
01:06:23.680
you're seeing
01:06:24.020
there is my
01:06:24.580
arrogance,
01:06:26.640
you're kind
01:06:27.820
of throwing
01:06:28.220
out the
01:06:28.560
baby with
01:06:29.020
the bath
01:06:29.340
water,
01:06:29.680
aren't
01:06:29.800
you?
01:06:29.960
you don't
01:06:31.760
think you
01:06:32.160
could handle
01:06:32.740
a little
01:06:33.180
bit of
01:06:33.520
the feeling
01:06:34.860
that I'm
01:06:35.520
being arrogant?
01:06:36.400
You don't
01:06:36.700
think that
01:06:37.080
that would
01:06:37.340
be sort
01:06:37.780
of a
01:06:38.000
small price
01:06:39.540
to pay
01:06:40.020
for the
01:06:41.160
fact that
01:06:41.520
people are
01:06:42.000
actually solving
01:06:43.020
lifetime
01:06:43.600
problems,
01:06:44.300
health problems?
01:06:45.760
Why would
01:06:46.260
you want to
01:06:46.700
discourage me
01:06:47.620
from doing
01:06:48.080
that?
01:06:49.580
Philip.
01:06:50.720
I have a
01:06:51.640
hypothesis that
01:06:52.580
I learned
01:06:53.000
when I was
01:06:53.800
developing
01:06:54.640
Dilbert in
01:06:55.320
my cubicle.
01:06:57.220
Here's sort
01:06:57.620
of a deep
01:06:58.040
psychological
01:06:58.640
hypothesis for
01:06:59.700
you.
01:07:00.960
That men,
01:07:02.900
unless you're
01:07:04.480
truly a
01:07:05.280
best friend
01:07:05.940
or a
01:07:07.640
family member,
01:07:08.920
they don't
01:07:09.400
really like
01:07:09.960
your success.
01:07:11.840
Men,
01:07:12.480
can you
01:07:12.760
confirm this
01:07:13.380
for me?
01:07:14.240
Unless you're
01:07:14.860
truly a
01:07:15.560
best friend,
01:07:16.820
you don't
01:07:17.160
really like
01:07:17.820
other men's
01:07:18.360
success.
01:07:19.560
You don't
01:07:19.920
really like
01:07:20.460
it.
01:07:21.380
It's
01:07:21.640
threatening.
01:07:22.520
We're just
01:07:22.900
built that
01:07:23.300
way.
01:07:23.700
There's nothing
01:07:24.080
you can do
01:07:24.500
about it.
01:07:25.640
Now, if
01:07:26.180
it's a
01:07:26.460
family member,
01:07:27.900
like a
01:07:28.280
true friend,
01:07:29.120
yes.
01:07:30.100
In those
01:07:30.460
cases, you
01:07:31.020
are genuinely
01:07:31.660
happy.
01:07:32.980
But if it's
01:07:33.460
just somebody
01:07:33.960
you heard
01:07:34.320
about, maybe
01:07:37.300
you're not so
01:07:37.740
happy.
01:07:38.520
Right?
01:07:40.040
Here's how I
01:07:40.780
discovered this.
01:07:42.040
When I was
01:07:43.440
developing Dilbert
01:07:44.420
in my cubicle,
01:07:45.960
I would often
01:07:46.860
do a comic
01:07:47.980
that I would
01:07:48.640
draw on my
01:07:49.120
whiteboard that
01:07:50.320
was just about
01:07:50.820
the office and
01:07:51.560
something that
01:07:52.120
happened.
01:07:53.380
And people
01:07:54.240
liked it.
01:07:54.700
they liked
01:07:55.380
it enough
01:07:55.760
that they
01:07:56.200
encouraged me
01:07:56.860
to become
01:07:57.260
a professional.
01:07:59.020
Now, what
01:07:59.460
did women
01:08:00.640
do when
01:08:01.340
they walked
01:08:01.780
into my
01:08:02.620
cubicle?
01:08:04.620
Here's what
01:08:05.140
women would
01:08:05.680
do.
01:08:06.860
Sometimes
01:08:07.320
they'd read
01:08:07.800
the comic
01:08:08.220
and they
01:08:08.980
would laugh
01:08:09.580
or not
01:08:09.940
laugh.
01:08:11.300
Do you
01:08:11.820
know what
01:08:12.040
men would
01:08:12.420
do?
01:08:13.800
Here is
01:08:14.400
what three
01:08:15.000
quarters of
01:08:15.720
all the
01:08:16.080
men would
01:08:16.480
do.
01:08:18.040
They would
01:08:18.680
accidentally
01:08:19.520
lean on the
01:08:20.340
board and
01:08:22.080
erase part of
01:08:22.740
it with
01:08:23.480
their back.
01:08:26.620
A lot.
01:08:28.420
A lot.
01:08:29.420
In other
01:08:29.720
words, they
01:08:30.040
were accidentally
01:08:30.980
destroying the
01:08:32.060
thing that
01:08:33.080
allowed me to
01:08:33.660
show off.
01:08:35.260
Because women
01:08:36.040
were walking
01:08:36.540
into my
01:08:36.920
office and
01:08:37.340
being, oh,
01:08:37.780
you can do
01:08:38.300
that.
01:08:38.880
You can draw
01:08:39.320
a comic.
01:08:39.960
Oh, that's
01:08:40.660
cool.
01:08:41.700
You have a
01:08:42.100
skill.
01:08:43.040
And men
01:08:43.520
were making
01:08:43.960
sure that
01:08:44.420
that got
01:08:44.780
hidden or
01:08:45.560
destroyed.
01:08:51.060
Who would
01:08:51.700
be texting
01:08:52.240
me?
01:08:52.740
At this
01:08:52.920
time of
01:08:53.260
the day.
01:08:57.020
All right.
01:08:58.360
So, have
01:08:59.260
you ever
01:08:59.500
noticed that?
01:09:00.940
Have you
01:09:01.280
ever noticed
01:09:01.820
that men
01:09:02.380
will
01:09:02.680
accidentally
01:09:03.500
destroy
01:09:05.200
something that
01:09:06.040
allows you to
01:09:06.740
show off?
01:09:08.360
Right?
01:09:09.060
Now, that's
01:09:09.760
what, that's
01:09:10.740
a little bit
01:09:11.360
what you were
01:09:11.840
seeing there.
01:09:12.960
So, there
01:09:13.360
was somebody
01:09:14.000
in the comments
01:09:14.700
who was
01:09:15.020
listening to
01:09:15.600
me, literally
01:09:16.360
curing people
01:09:17.620
of health
01:09:18.140
problems.
01:09:19.920
Curing people
01:09:20.720
of health
01:09:21.220
problems.
01:09:21.780
And he
01:09:22.900
had a
01:09:23.080
problem
01:09:23.320
with it.
01:09:23.740
Do you
01:09:23.940
know what
01:09:24.120
his problem
01:09:24.520
was?
01:09:25.560
Was it
01:09:25.940
my arrogance?
01:09:28.300
Now, I'm
01:09:28.860
not saying I'm
01:09:29.760
not arrogant.
01:09:30.780
That's not
01:09:31.220
even the
01:09:31.540
question.
01:09:32.560
So, we're
01:09:33.100
not doing
01:09:33.440
yes, no,
01:09:34.040
whether he's
01:09:34.520
accurate.
01:09:35.800
I'm just
01:09:36.120
saying, what
01:09:36.440
was his
01:09:36.800
motivation?
01:09:38.480
Let's say he
01:09:39.020
was accurate.
01:09:39.580
even if he
01:09:41.020
was accurate
01:09:41.500
that I was
01:09:41.980
acting arrogant.
01:09:43.080
Was that
01:09:43.460
worth a
01:09:43.860
comment?
01:09:45.260
Is that
01:09:45.580
why he
01:09:45.880
did it?
01:09:46.980
No, my
01:09:47.720
worldview is
01:09:48.480
this, that
01:09:50.060
men can't
01:09:51.240
allow me to
01:09:52.080
show a
01:09:52.920
quality that
01:09:53.740
anybody would
01:09:54.640
respect.
01:09:56.540
There's some
01:09:56.980
men are really
01:09:57.720
uncomfortable with
01:09:58.500
that, and it
01:09:59.420
usually has to
01:10:00.000
do with their
01:10:00.320
own life, and
01:10:01.960
they need to
01:10:02.620
suppress other
01:10:03.520
men in every
01:10:04.480
way that they
01:10:05.000
can so that
01:10:06.240
they feel better
01:10:06.820
about whatever
01:10:07.380
they're not
01:10:07.880
getting done
01:10:08.340
themselves.
01:10:09.920
So, that's
01:10:10.800
all I see.
01:10:12.180
So, here's
01:10:12.860
another answer
01:10:13.480
to the
01:10:13.740
question, Scott,
01:10:15.920
how can you
01:10:16.740
go into this
01:10:17.420
sewer of
01:10:18.740
social media
01:10:19.380
and watch
01:10:20.580
streams of
01:10:22.480
insults about
01:10:23.540
your character,
01:10:24.660
your looks,
01:10:25.500
your intentions,
01:10:27.020
everything?
01:10:28.380
How can you
01:10:29.000
do that and
01:10:29.500
survive?
01:10:31.000
And part of
01:10:31.520
it is reframing,
01:10:33.140
like just that.
01:10:34.360
When I see
01:10:34.940
that comment,
01:10:35.620
that doesn't
01:10:36.220
look like it's
01:10:36.840
about me.
01:10:38.820
Am I wrong?
01:10:40.360
The person who
01:10:41.160
called me arrogant
01:10:41.860
in this context,
01:10:43.140
specifically the
01:10:43.920
context of
01:10:45.220
healing people
01:10:46.180
from health
01:10:46.640
problems,
01:10:47.680
mostly just by
01:10:48.460
telling them that
01:10:49.060
there's a solution
01:10:49.720
that they can
01:10:50.260
go get.
01:10:51.840
Right?
01:10:53.980
I mean, if
01:10:55.080
you're going to
01:10:55.800
shit on that,
01:10:57.980
there's something
01:10:58.520
going on with
01:10:59.180
you.
01:11:00.480
Right?
01:11:01.060
So, this is a
01:11:02.120
good model,
01:11:03.560
and by the way,
01:11:04.300
it's not like I
01:11:04.920
invented or anything.
01:11:06.080
A lot of smart
01:11:06.880
people use this
01:11:07.540
model.
01:11:08.240
When somebody
01:11:08.820
comes at you
01:11:09.480
like that in a
01:11:10.420
personal way,
01:11:11.500
they're not
01:11:11.820
attacking the
01:11:12.400
argument,
01:11:12.840
they're attacking
01:11:13.240
the person,
01:11:14.860
they have a
01:11:15.860
personal problem
01:11:16.660
that's just being
01:11:18.180
expressed through
01:11:19.140
their bad
01:11:20.180
attitude.
01:11:20.520
And if you can
01:11:21.940
learn to see
01:11:22.780
them as damaged,
01:11:24.720
you don't see
01:11:25.800
them as your
01:11:26.300
critic.
01:11:27.640
I see them as
01:11:28.620
just damaged.
01:11:29.980
I go, oh,
01:11:31.200
there's some
01:11:31.700
debris laying
01:11:32.520
by the road.
01:11:33.640
I don't think
01:11:34.380
the debris
01:11:34.920
laying by the
01:11:35.620
road is a
01:11:37.860
threat to me.
01:11:39.160
If I see
01:11:39.920
roadkill, you
01:11:42.200
know what I
01:11:42.560
don't think?
01:11:43.920
Oh, what's it
01:11:44.580
think of me?
01:11:46.380
No, I try not
01:11:47.580
to hit it with my
01:11:48.240
car.
01:11:49.120
I try to avoid
01:11:49.740
it, right?
01:11:51.160
So when I see
01:11:51.880
comments like that,
01:11:52.740
like, oh, you're
01:11:53.520
arrogant, oh,
01:11:54.540
you're so arrogant,
01:11:56.080
that doesn't feel
01:11:56.780
personal.
01:11:58.140
It feels like
01:11:58.960
somebody's damaged
01:11:59.880
and they're acting
01:12:01.480
out.
01:12:03.000
So it makes it a
01:12:03.820
lot easier,
01:12:04.600
right?
01:12:05.420
So that's why I
01:12:06.720
don't have to go
01:12:07.440
after this is done.
01:12:09.200
I will not have to
01:12:10.440
go cry myself to
01:12:12.040
sleep because
01:12:13.280
somebody had a bad
01:12:14.200
opinion of me
01:12:14.880
because I don't
01:12:15.660
think that happened.
01:12:17.580
I don't think there
01:12:18.380
was any opinion of
01:12:19.080
me.
01:12:19.740
I think there
01:12:20.580
was somebody had a
01:12:21.320
personal problem
01:12:22.080
and then they
01:12:23.560
acted out in
01:12:24.240
public and then I
01:12:25.620
observed it.
01:12:26.940
That's all I
01:12:27.720
experienced.
01:12:28.800
I didn't experience
01:12:29.900
an insult.
01:12:31.840
Now, is my
01:12:34.080
interpretation of
01:12:34.980
it accurate?
01:12:37.160
Well, some of you
01:12:37.840
would say, no, he
01:12:38.760
actually insulted
01:12:39.600
you, Scott.
01:12:40.680
But I say, if you
01:12:42.020
can reframe your
01:12:43.540
experience in one
01:12:44.620
that doesn't hurt,
01:12:46.720
go ahead and do
01:12:47.380
it.
01:12:47.580
So I just
01:12:49.080
reframe my
01:12:49.680
experience in a
01:12:50.580
way that doesn't
01:12:51.120
bother me and
01:12:51.720
so it's legal,
01:12:53.820
it's available to
01:12:54.680
me, so I just
01:12:56.380
do it.
01:12:57.660
And it works.
01:13:01.640
That's a reframe.
01:13:02.960
Exactly.
01:13:04.080
That is a
01:13:04.660
reframe.
01:13:07.420
Well, I don't
01:13:08.120
think I cured him
01:13:08.800
of his problem,
01:13:09.400
but he might
01:13:12.960
have some
01:13:13.580
insight.
01:13:18.260
Is it in the
01:13:19.040
book yet?
01:13:20.880
Not exactly, but
01:13:22.580
I might revisit
01:13:23.240
that.
01:13:24.480
I'm still adding
01:13:25.180
reframes.
01:13:27.740
Let me ask you
01:13:28.240
this.
01:13:29.000
Is there a
01:13:29.720
reframe that I
01:13:31.160
haven't already
01:13:31.540
talked about that
01:13:32.920
I've ever mentioned
01:13:33.700
that ever helped
01:13:34.360
you?
01:13:35.120
Now, I know
01:13:36.140
that alcohol is
01:13:37.100
poison to help
01:13:37.660
people, but
01:13:40.340
are there other
01:13:41.020
reframes that
01:13:42.780
you sort of
01:13:43.740
picked up just
01:13:45.020
along the way
01:13:45.740
and you said,
01:13:46.240
oh, I'm
01:13:46.760
thinking about it
01:13:47.400
that way from
01:13:47.900
now on?
01:13:49.140
Anything that
01:13:49.700
helped you?
01:13:51.380
Because those are
01:13:52.120
the ones I want
01:13:52.560
to include in the
01:13:53.100
book.
01:13:53.340
If there's one
01:13:53.820
that I didn't
01:13:54.240
even think of as
01:13:55.280
a reframe, but
01:13:57.140
you took it that
01:13:57.820
way, if you
01:14:02.080
can't sleep, oh,
01:14:03.240
if you can't
01:14:03.740
sleep, you didn't
01:14:04.280
put in enough
01:14:04.880
work, okay.
01:14:08.080
Oh, hearing
01:14:08.580
cha-ching for
01:14:09.280
criticism of my
01:14:10.300
writing, that's a
01:14:10.920
good one.
01:14:14.340
Do the
01:14:14.900
alcohol one
01:14:15.800
again?
01:14:16.420
It's just
01:14:16.800
alcohol is
01:14:17.360
poison.
01:14:18.180
That's it.
01:14:18.600
That's the whole
01:14:19.000
thing.
01:14:20.180
Systems, not
01:14:20.840
habits, yeah.
01:14:22.440
The suicide
01:14:22.980
reframe, what
01:14:23.660
was that?
01:14:25.020
Oh, the
01:14:25.400
suicide reframe
01:14:26.320
was to
01:14:27.140
curiosity, right?
01:14:29.640
Right?
01:14:31.840
So let me say
01:14:32.840
that again.
01:14:33.260
Okay.
01:14:34.880
If you have a
01:14:36.300
really bad day
01:14:37.140
where you're in
01:14:38.160
a bad mood, if
01:14:39.920
you waste that,
01:14:41.420
don't waste that.
01:14:43.720
Don't waste that.
01:14:44.740
I had a bad day
01:14:46.080
the other day, so
01:14:46.840
I had to fire
01:14:47.480
somebody.
01:14:48.520
So I just used
01:14:49.420
it to fire
01:14:49.880
somebody.
01:14:52.600
And then I
01:14:53.780
felt good, because
01:14:56.000
it was something I
01:14:56.700
needed to do, and
01:14:57.500
it got off my
01:14:58.340
list.
01:14:59.520
So if you're
01:15:02.000
wasting a bad
01:15:02.780
attitude, you're
01:15:04.500
really missing
01:15:05.040
that one.
01:15:06.000
Because when I
01:15:06.740
have a bad
01:15:07.180
day, do you
01:15:08.640
ever have a bad
01:15:09.180
day when there's
01:15:09.800
nothing that could
01:15:10.440
bother you, it's
01:15:11.020
so bad?
01:15:12.620
Like, you know
01:15:13.180
nothing could
01:15:13.780
bother me today,
01:15:14.640
because I'm
01:15:15.080
already in such a
01:15:15.880
bad mood, it's
01:15:16.380
not going to make
01:15:16.820
any difference at
01:15:17.400
all.
01:15:18.300
And then you
01:15:18.740
can just do all
01:15:19.500
those things that
01:15:20.240
would have bothered
01:15:20.760
you otherwise.
01:15:22.440
Yeah, all those
01:15:23.120
things.
01:15:23.380
things.
01:15:28.240
Any manager can
01:15:29.560
take criticism,
01:15:30.540
nobody can take
01:15:31.180
humiliation.
01:15:31.920
Did I say that?
01:15:33.540
Sounds like
01:15:34.140
something I might
01:15:34.740
have said.
01:15:38.060
Oh, saying it
01:15:38.940
was your honor to
01:15:39.760
take care of your
01:15:40.380
mother before she
01:15:41.100
died, even though
01:15:41.740
she was a crappy
01:15:42.400
parent.
01:15:45.080
That's one of my
01:15:45.860
favorites.
01:15:47.060
Yeah.
01:15:47.780
Well, my favorite
01:15:48.560
for dealing with
01:15:49.660
tragedy, which is
01:15:50.820
usually the death of
01:15:51.780
a loved one, is
01:15:54.260
that it's not a
01:15:55.200
tragedy, it's an
01:15:56.460
honor.
01:15:57.700
It's an honor.
01:15:59.320
If you can be one
01:16:01.220
of the last ones in
01:16:02.160
the room, that's an
01:16:03.780
honor.
01:16:04.880
And I certainly feel
01:16:05.900
that way for my
01:16:06.620
animals.
01:16:09.500
There's no way I
01:16:10.520
wouldn't be in the
01:16:11.080
room for my cat's
01:16:12.480
passing.
01:16:14.240
That's an honor.
01:16:18.860
View on pardon
01:16:19.840
dangling, it's a
01:16:20.720
good strategy.
01:16:22.440
Pardon dangling is
01:16:23.560
good political
01:16:24.120
strategy.
01:16:25.100
People will vote on
01:16:26.040
that basis.
01:16:34.700
That's what you
01:16:35.380
tell your patients'
01:16:36.260
families as a
01:16:37.020
hospice nurse.
01:16:37.820
Well, good.
01:16:38.460
So a hospice nurse is
01:16:39.760
confirming that
01:16:41.700
reframe.
01:16:42.600
That's good to
01:16:43.160
hear.
01:16:45.300
Oh, I'm sorry
01:16:46.320
about your dog,
01:16:47.020
Jack.
01:16:47.300
Oh, yeah,
01:16:51.580
somebody likes my
01:16:52.440
everyone is
01:16:53.060
addicted to
01:16:53.660
something.
01:16:54.780
I don't think I
01:16:55.700
have that in the
01:16:56.220
book yet.
01:16:57.900
Oh, remind me to
01:16:58.760
put that in the
01:16:59.160
book.
01:16:59.720
Yeah, everyone's
01:17:00.420
addicted to
01:17:00.960
something.
01:17:02.640
You just have to
01:17:03.620
pick one, an
01:17:04.480
addiction that's
01:17:05.360
good for you.
01:17:06.300
You know, exercise,
01:17:07.600
that's a good
01:17:08.560
addiction.
01:17:08.900
And if you had to
01:17:14.720
pick a mind-altering
01:17:15.780
one, there are
01:17:17.640
definitely some that
01:17:18.400
are better than
01:17:18.860
others.
01:17:19.880
Now, I don't
01:17:20.400
recommend to
01:17:21.100
anybody smoke
01:17:21.780
marijuana, because
01:17:22.440
I'm not a doctor, and
01:17:23.560
it is a drug.
01:17:24.780
legal or not, it's
01:17:27.240
a drug, so I
01:17:27.820
don't recommend a
01:17:28.720
drug to anybody.
01:17:30.820
Talk to your
01:17:31.520
doctor.
01:17:32.420
But, of all the
01:17:34.220
drugs that I
01:17:34.820
personally could do,
01:17:36.120
given that I don't
01:17:37.200
metabolize alcohol
01:17:38.460
very well, etc.,
01:17:40.040
it's the best
01:17:41.400
addiction for me.
01:17:44.560
Now, it has its
01:17:45.460
downsides, as
01:17:47.940
everything does,
01:17:49.780
but of all the
01:17:50.660
addictions I could
01:17:51.460
choose, it's the
01:17:53.080
best one.
01:17:54.780
for me, but
01:17:56.360
yours would be
01:17:56.820
different.
01:18:01.440
Your wife, Mindy,
01:18:02.540
is listening.
01:18:03.160
She says hello, and
01:18:04.120
won't stop commenting
01:18:05.120
during this week.
01:18:05.780
Mindy?
01:18:07.360
Mindy?
01:18:09.140
I think, Mindy, we
01:18:11.720
have to give her the
01:18:12.740
listener award.
01:18:15.240
Mindy, you are
01:18:15.840
listener of the
01:18:16.480
week.
01:18:17.040
I'm going to give
01:18:17.540
you an award for
01:18:18.220
this, because you're
01:18:19.940
the most engaged
01:18:20.820
listener that I've
01:18:22.540
heard of all
01:18:23.180
morning.
01:18:23.460
So, everybody
01:18:25.300
give Mindy some
01:18:28.000
respect, because
01:18:30.300
Mindy's engaged.
01:18:33.000
She's involved.
01:18:36.640
A post-divorce
01:18:37.980
reframe.
01:18:39.960
I offer you
01:18:41.040
mine.
01:18:42.300
You got married
01:18:43.220
because you both
01:18:43.940
wanted to get
01:18:44.480
married, and you
01:18:46.040
probably got divorced
01:18:47.160
because you both
01:18:47.860
wanted to get
01:18:48.380
divorced.
01:18:48.800
That's usually the
01:18:49.620
way it works.
01:18:50.080
So, you got what
01:18:51.800
you wanted twice.
01:18:53.400
That's how it
01:18:54.140
works.
01:18:55.080
That's your best
01:18:55.960
case scenario.
01:18:57.480
Things go wrong
01:18:58.720
all the time.
01:19:00.840
Do you know what
01:19:01.220
would be far worse?
01:19:02.660
Not getting a
01:19:03.540
divorce.
01:19:04.820
It sounds like that
01:19:05.480
would have been
01:19:05.820
worse.
01:19:07.440
Now, I also like
01:19:08.340
the, and I'm in
01:19:10.840
this situation right
01:19:11.640
now.
01:19:12.840
So, this weekend,
01:19:13.940
I'll have basically,
01:19:15.420
you know, close to
01:19:16.300
no human contact for
01:19:18.520
like three days.
01:19:20.060
It's not exactly
01:19:20.820
true, but, you
01:19:21.500
know, I would
01:19:22.740
say 23 out of
01:19:25.420
24 hours, I'll
01:19:27.340
have no human
01:19:27.960
contact for the
01:19:29.000
three days.
01:19:31.220
Could you handle
01:19:32.100
that?
01:19:33.500
Could you handle
01:19:34.420
that little human
01:19:35.600
contact for three
01:19:37.740
days in a row?
01:19:40.540
A lot of you
01:19:41.340
say yes.
01:19:41.820
Yeah, you'd
01:19:47.940
prefer it.
01:19:48.900
You know, I love
01:19:49.800
my privacy when I
01:19:52.020
don't have to have
01:19:52.860
it.
01:19:55.060
I like privacy
01:19:56.640
if it's optional.
01:19:59.960
I don't like it if
01:20:01.120
it's forced on me.
01:20:03.240
Yeah.
01:20:04.200
So, I'm in a
01:20:05.720
situation now where
01:20:06.540
I have to rebuild
01:20:07.500
who I am.
01:20:08.740
After my first
01:20:10.940
divorce and after
01:20:12.260
the first, you
01:20:13.340
know, this
01:20:13.560
relationship before
01:20:14.380
that, each time I
01:20:15.500
have to start from
01:20:16.280
scratch and just
01:20:17.340
figure out who I
01:20:18.040
am.
01:20:18.740
There's a Imagine
01:20:21.260
Dragon song that
01:20:23.440
got me through my
01:20:24.220
first divorce.
01:20:26.240
And it was, you'll
01:20:28.260
probably help me,
01:20:28.900
you'll have to help
01:20:29.400
me with the title of
01:20:30.140
it.
01:20:30.380
It's about starting
01:20:32.020
from the bottom and
01:20:33.040
building back.
01:20:35.200
What's the name
01:20:37.220
of it?
01:20:38.260
It's Imagine
01:20:38.780
Dragons.
01:20:40.940
And you're
01:20:41.600
starting at the
01:20:42.460
bottom and you're
01:20:43.300
working yourself
01:20:43.880
back.
01:20:44.340
It was sort of an
01:20:44.940
inspirational story.
01:20:47.420
What's the title of
01:20:48.120
it?
01:20:49.300
Anyway.
01:20:50.580
But the essence of
01:20:52.620
it was there was
01:20:53.580
somebody who, if I
01:20:55.700
understood the lyrics
01:20:56.600
right, it was
01:20:57.260
somebody who was
01:20:57.800
dropping out of
01:20:58.780
music, some kind
01:21:00.900
of performing arts
01:21:01.820
school.
01:21:02.580
And I assume this
01:21:03.280
is the actual
01:21:03.780
biographical story
01:21:05.140
of the singer.
01:21:06.620
And he dropped
01:21:08.160
out with not
01:21:09.540
knowing what was
01:21:10.620
next.
01:21:11.920
And he called it
01:21:13.180
starting from the
01:21:14.180
bottom and building
01:21:15.120
back up.
01:21:16.080
Is it radioactive?
01:21:18.540
Or is it called
01:21:19.420
start over?
01:21:21.620
I don't know.
01:21:22.500
Whichever one.
01:21:25.980
No, it's not
01:21:26.920
called start over,
01:21:27.760
is it?
01:21:29.340
That's the actual
01:21:30.140
name of the song?
01:21:31.860
I don't think so.
01:21:32.940
But the point is
01:21:35.460
this.
01:21:38.300
This is very much
01:21:39.360
the freedoms,
01:21:40.880
just another word
01:21:41.600
for nothing left
01:21:42.300
to lose.
01:21:43.420
So if you're
01:21:44.060
focused on the
01:21:44.920
stuff you lost,
01:21:46.300
you're going to
01:21:46.760
miss the fact that
01:21:47.480
you just opened up
01:21:48.200
all of your
01:21:48.900
options.
01:21:50.340
And you finally
01:21:51.120
are experiencing
01:21:51.780
freedom.
01:21:52.420
And it's really
01:21:52.860
scary.
01:21:54.340
So last night
01:21:55.300
at, I don't know,
01:21:57.680
8 o'clock or so,
01:21:58.540
it was still
01:22:00.420
really hot.
01:22:01.760
And I decided
01:22:02.380
to go swimming
01:22:03.380
and just use
01:22:05.800
my hot tub.
01:22:07.100
And I was
01:22:08.900
all alone,
01:22:10.820
except for the
01:22:11.680
dog.
01:22:13.200
And as much
01:22:14.220
as I love
01:22:14.980
swimming at
01:22:16.140
night by
01:22:17.280
myself,
01:22:17.820
normally a
01:22:18.440
terrific thing,
01:22:19.340
the fact that
01:22:20.020
I didn't have
01:22:20.880
the option,
01:22:22.020
like I just
01:22:22.820
didn't have
01:22:23.420
anybody to be
01:22:24.000
with at that
01:22:24.480
time,
01:22:25.300
that it was
01:22:26.720
really disturbing.
01:22:29.100
It was
01:22:29.380
disturbing.
01:22:30.700
And I tried
01:22:31.760
to see if I
01:22:32.240
could reframe
01:22:32.880
it as a
01:22:33.620
plus,
01:22:35.120
to just
01:22:35.460
see if I
01:22:36.340
could enjoy
01:22:36.880
the quiet.
01:22:38.840
And so I
01:22:39.220
put my phone
01:22:40.100
aside and
01:22:41.540
just tried to
01:22:42.320
look at the
01:22:42.780
sky and
01:22:44.020
tried to
01:22:44.340
remember what
01:22:45.080
it ever felt
01:22:45.700
like before I
01:22:46.440
had a phone.
01:22:48.440
And I
01:22:50.920
have some
01:22:51.220
good advice on
01:22:52.000
YouTube to
01:22:52.560
get a gay
01:22:53.220
houseboy.
01:22:54.540
Thank you.
01:22:55.540
Now I had
01:22:56.100
not considered
01:22:56.680
that option,
01:22:57.500
but I'll
01:22:58.100
put that
01:22:58.420
on the
01:22:58.680
list.
01:23:00.380
And it
01:23:02.360
worked.
01:23:03.100
And it
01:23:03.360
worked.
01:23:03.840
I would
01:23:04.200
say that I
01:23:04.860
did manage
01:23:06.100
to calm
01:23:08.540
my restless
01:23:09.300
social media
01:23:10.960
driven mind
01:23:11.800
and I
01:23:13.080
could simply
01:23:14.080
enjoy being
01:23:14.960
alone just
01:23:16.580
for what it
01:23:17.020
was.
01:23:18.360
It wasn't
01:23:19.100
easy.
01:23:20.140
It wasn't
01:23:20.680
easy at all.
01:23:23.000
But it
01:23:23.720
worked.
01:23:24.740
did you
01:23:30.600
call an
01:23:31.000
escort?
01:23:33.560
Here's a
01:23:34.080
pro tip.
01:23:36.160
If you're
01:23:36.780
calling an
01:23:37.340
escort on
01:23:38.900
a holiday,
01:23:40.220
you're not
01:23:41.760
going to get
01:23:42.100
the A-team.
01:23:44.840
And there's
01:23:45.440
a story I'm
01:23:46.020
going to tell
01:23:46.360
to the
01:23:46.700
locals,
01:23:47.160
people,
01:23:47.640
but I'm
01:23:47.880
going to
01:23:48.040
turn off
01:23:48.420
YouTube
01:23:49.560
first.
01:23:50.100
All right.
01:23:52.320
Stay tuned.
01:23:53.160
You've got a
01:23:53.520
good story
01:23:53.920
coming.
01:23:54.980
And that's
01:23:55.460
it for
01:23:55.760
YouTube.
01:23:56.660
I'll talk
01:23:56.960
to you
01:23:57.120
tomorrow.
01:23:57.380
Bye.
01:23:57.480
Bye.
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