Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1905 Scott Adams： The News Is Slow Today But I Am Fast. I Think That Will Even It Out

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00:00:44.780 All right.

00:00:50.320 So, is it my experience alone, or has the Twitter filter just eliminated

00:00:58.080 90% of all the tweets?

00:01:01.020 Because I turned on Twitter this morning, and I think,

00:01:04.540 I follow a lot of people.

00:01:09.580 And I'm seeing almost no tweets.

00:01:12.460 Did people stop tweeting yesterday?

00:01:13.820 It seems like the constraints are the strongest things I've ever been.

00:01:24.280 Can you imagine if Elon Musk made the following point, or change to Twitter,

00:01:31.760 so you could actually see what the other side was saying?

00:01:35.280 Imagine that?

00:01:35.960 I have no idea what Democrats are thinking you're saying, because I'm completely, like, locked down to their...

00:01:42.300 All I see is really crazy stuff.

00:01:45.960 Maybe that's all there is.

00:01:47.980 So, we're seeing at least one entity.

00:01:51.380 Maybe it's only one in the world, I don't know.

00:01:53.680 The beginning of a trend, possibly, in which, in addition to listing their pronouns,

00:01:58.200 he and him, for example, they're listing their racial identification.

00:02:05.100 So, now people are putting in their profile,

00:02:08.660 she, them, part black, part white.

00:02:16.460 Now, one of the things that makes me not worry about stuff like this,

00:02:20.140 but makes the rest of you worry more,

00:02:22.440 is these things always go to the point of ridiculousness.

00:02:25.700 Like, things that feel a little ridiculous when they start,

00:02:29.660 but you can see the point of it.

00:02:31.800 It's like, okay, I get why wokeness exists,

00:02:35.200 so we can all be, you know, kind to each other.

00:02:37.880 That's good.

00:02:39.320 But it always goes too far.

00:02:41.860 And when you think it's gone too far, it's going to go further.

00:02:45.860 But it is self-correcting.

00:02:49.160 In the long run, there isn't any way

00:02:52.040 that this he, him, she, her stuff

00:02:56.000 is going to be, you know, the long-term way we're going to be.

00:02:59.160 There's no way that lasts.

00:03:01.000 Because most things don't last.

00:03:02.820 Almost nothing lasts.

00:03:04.800 So, that'll change.

00:03:06.600 But it's in the hilarious range now.

00:03:09.980 Now, the thing that will change it

00:03:11.240 is when everybody simply fluidly changes

00:03:15.540 to whatever gives them an advantage.

00:03:17.080 Now, if you tell me I'm not your leader,

00:03:23.780 well, I think you have to examine that claim.

00:03:26.440 I am your leader.

00:03:27.940 I have gone first by identifying as a black female,

00:03:31.680 whenever that's helpful.

00:03:33.400 And I will identify as whatever gives me

00:03:35.820 the most social benefits, social or economic.

00:03:40.960 And I will do that shamelessly and as often as I need to.

00:03:44.400 And I will never apologize for it.

00:03:47.160 Because those are the rules.

00:03:49.040 If you give me a set of rules

00:03:50.540 and then put me in the game,

00:03:52.360 what am I going to do?

00:03:54.480 Am I going to say,

00:03:55.640 no, I will play by my own rules?

00:03:58.520 No, I'll play by the rules of the game.

00:04:00.740 And the rules very clearly give me this option.

00:04:03.440 So, I take it.

00:04:05.280 You will too.

00:04:05.960 Have I ever told you that analogies

00:04:11.960 are not as useful as you think they should be?

00:04:15.720 Have I ever mentioned that?

00:04:17.920 I'm going to give you the best example

00:04:19.480 I've seen in a long time.

00:04:21.940 So, there is a professor,

00:04:24.040 Jeffrey Sachs,

00:04:26.100 S-A-C-H-S, 1.00

00:04:27.920 who is tweeted by David Sachs,

00:04:30.400 S-A-C-K-S, 1.00

00:04:32.260 no relation, spelled differently.

00:04:33.700 And the professor is saying

00:04:37.440 what David Sachs has been saying for a while,

00:04:40.820 which is that the West,

00:04:44.860 the U.S., and NATO,

00:04:46.500 pushed Putin into war

00:04:48.520 by saying that NATO would be extended

00:04:52.000 into the Ukraine,

00:04:53.220 and Putin had clearly said

00:04:54.700 that was crossing a line.

00:04:57.560 And so, the good professor says,

00:05:00.960 you know, he warned the administration,

00:05:02.440 actually tried to talk to the administration

00:05:04.380 to talk him out of

00:05:05.480 putting NATO right on Russia's border 0.74

00:05:08.260 because that would be an aggressive act

00:05:11.100 and they would have to respond.

00:05:13.540 Now, the professor defended his opinion this way.

00:05:18.200 He said, you know,

00:05:19.820 sure, NATO's opinion is that

00:05:22.080 nobody can tell you who can join your organization.

00:05:24.560 By itself,

00:05:26.760 that would sound pretty reasonable, right?

00:05:28.740 No third party

00:05:30.200 can tell anybody who can or cannot join NATO,

00:05:34.500 especially your enemy.

00:05:36.160 Can your enemy tell you

00:05:37.760 how to form your army

00:05:39.800 that's an enemy against them?

00:05:42.800 And so,

00:05:44.300 you know, you got that.

00:05:46.740 But here's the analogy.

00:05:47.760 So, Professor Sack said,

00:05:50.620 how would you feel in the United States

00:05:52.960 if you found out that Mexico and China

00:05:55.920 had formed a military alliance?

00:05:58.540 And my first reaction to that was,

00:06:00.680 oh, shoot, that's a good point.

00:06:03.300 If China and Mexico, 0.99

00:06:06.180 right on our border,

00:06:07.580 formed a military alliance,

00:06:09.500 there's no way we'd let that happen, right?

00:06:12.580 Right?

00:06:12.860 That would be impossible, right?

00:06:18.620 Right?

00:06:18.940 I mean, that would be crazy.

00:06:20.640 It would be crazy for China and Mexico 1.00

00:06:23.000 to form a military alliance,

00:06:24.700 except they already fucking have, 0.95

00:06:26.560 and they've killed about a quarter million

00:06:28.480 fucking Americans 0.88

00:06:29.440 with their military alliance

00:06:30.840 that is right in front of us,

00:06:33.260 completely transparent,

00:06:34.900 and nobody has any fucking doubt about it. 0.64

00:06:38.460 So Professor Sacks,

00:06:40.080 who's a smart guy, by the way,

00:06:41.320 but if you're a smart guy,

00:06:44.520 don't use analogies.

00:06:47.000 This analogy proved your own point.

00:06:51.280 Russia, I'm sorry, 1.00

00:06:52.800 China and Mexico have a military alliance

00:06:55.840 that is successfully killing

00:06:57.240 100,000 Americans a year,

00:06:59.200 or we'll get up to that soon,

00:07:01.380 and we don't do anything about it.

00:07:04.520 Are we not completely okay with it?

00:07:07.560 I mean, we say things,

00:07:10.060 but we don't do a fucking thing about it, 0.93

00:07:13.000 do we?

00:07:14.160 No.

00:07:14.800 No, we do a little defensive stuff,

00:07:16.520 like a little minor border stuff,

00:07:18.900 but we don't really try.

00:07:20.620 That's about it.

00:07:22.640 So I would say that there actually is

00:07:25.420 an argument on both sides of this.

00:07:28.340 I actually,

00:07:29.260 I totally understand the professor's argument,

00:07:31.460 and David Sacks do.

00:07:32.420 I completely understand the argument

00:07:34.640 that we caused the war 0.96

00:07:37.560 by doing something

00:07:39.100 that was so clearly a red line

00:07:40.820 that you have to say,

00:07:43.140 we're the ones who did it.

00:07:44.240 On the other hand,

00:07:45.660 on the other hand,

00:07:47.520 who gets to tell you

00:07:48.600 who your friends are?

00:07:51.220 How does Russia get to tell us 0.90

00:07:52.680 who our friends are,

00:07:53.580 or who we have a military alliance with?

00:07:56.160 Why does Russia have anything to do with that?

00:07:59.280 So correct me if I'm wrong,

00:08:01.480 but both sides are completely right.

00:08:04.300 And they disagree.

00:08:06.020 But they're both right.

00:08:08.100 Yeah.

00:08:09.040 It's 100% true

00:08:10.420 that we caused the war,

00:08:12.640 and it's 100% true

00:08:13.940 that we had a right

00:08:14.600 to do whatever the fuck we wanted

00:08:16.000 without them telling

00:08:16.900 who we should have an alliance with.

00:08:19.020 Those could both be true.

00:08:21.400 Does anybody disagree

00:08:22.440 with either of those?

00:08:23.880 I think those are both true.

00:08:25.160 Now, let me criticize

00:08:28.640 both Professor Jeffrey Sachs

00:08:31.040 and David Sachs a little bit.

00:08:34.060 Small criticism.

00:08:35.920 Here's my small criticism.

00:08:37.960 It doesn't matter how we got here.

00:08:40.580 How we got to this place

00:08:42.140 is 100% irrelevant

00:08:45.000 to what we do now.

00:08:47.440 And I'm not even sure it's useful.

00:08:50.280 I mean, it's interesting.

00:08:51.940 I would like to know

00:08:53.720 the background to it.

00:08:55.280 But the decision-making

00:08:57.260 should be as if you woke up today

00:09:00.540 into this situation.

00:09:02.500 So the decisions we make

00:09:04.040 would be you just woke up

00:09:05.260 into this world.

00:09:06.460 There's no history.

00:09:07.540 History doesn't exist.

00:09:09.080 What do you do now?

00:09:10.900 If we're still talking about

00:09:12.400 who did what in the past,

00:09:15.620 we're just not being useful yet.

00:09:18.100 I mean, I like that

00:09:20.480 we have some context to it.

00:09:21.780 That does help.

00:09:22.920 But it doesn't help you

00:09:23.820 do what's next.

00:09:26.280 Now, Russia continues 0.94

00:09:28.220 to target the Ukrainian power grid.

00:09:32.020 And apparently,

00:09:32.820 there's some suggestion

00:09:34.140 that engineers

00:09:36.480 are advising the military

00:09:38.520 because apparently

00:09:39.300 they're hitting exactly

00:09:40.320 the right parts

00:09:41.280 of the energy structure

00:09:43.420 to get the hardest

00:09:45.080 to replace parts.

00:09:46.780 So what should we do

00:09:50.360 at this point?

00:09:52.680 Well, not talking to them

00:09:55.040 seems like a mistake,

00:09:56.200 doesn't it?

00:09:57.840 Am I wrong?

00:09:59.000 The fact that we're not

00:10:00.060 even in a conversation

00:10:01.300 about what peace

00:10:02.180 would look like,

00:10:03.520 that feels like a mistake.

00:10:05.760 Especially when nuclear weapons

00:10:07.560 are being casually discussed.

00:10:10.940 If you're casually discussing

00:10:12.720 nuclear war

00:10:14.000 and you're not having

00:10:15.200 a conversation,

00:10:15.940 and it's not like

00:10:17.160 he won't pick up

00:10:17.860 the phone, right?

00:10:19.400 Does anybody think

00:10:20.460 Yeltsin won't 1.00

00:10:21.860 pick up the phone?

00:10:24.000 Of course he will.

00:10:25.500 Right?

00:10:26.020 He's got a problem.

00:10:27.940 And the fact that we're not

00:10:29.400 making any kind of

00:10:30.540 a grand offer

00:10:31.840 to work together

00:10:33.700 and figure out

00:10:34.500 a way past it,

00:10:35.860 it really suggests

00:10:36.960 that this is all about

00:10:38.080 getting rid of Putin

00:10:38.860 and that's all there is.

00:10:40.200 Now, let me ask you this.

00:10:45.160 If follow the money

00:10:46.600 always works,

00:10:48.760 follow the money

00:10:50.200 always works,

00:10:51.660 what happens

00:10:52.340 with the Ukraine-Russia

00:10:54.080 situation?

00:10:55.760 Where does it go?

00:10:58.020 Well,

00:10:59.600 here's what I think.

00:11:01.760 I think that the energy companies

00:11:03.920 are driving the ship

00:11:05.060 and the energy companies

00:11:07.480 don't want to compete

00:11:08.400 with Russia

00:11:09.100 and so the energy companies

00:11:11.500 will cause us to

00:11:12.780 continue the pressure

00:11:14.060 on Russia

00:11:14.600 until something breaks

00:11:18.480 and something more breaks.

00:11:21.160 So I don't see

00:11:22.180 any way that this stops

00:11:23.580 as long as the energy companies

00:11:26.300 could benefit

00:11:27.240 from a degraded Russia. 0.93

00:11:29.040 there's just not

00:11:31.360 enough emphasis

00:11:31.940 to stop it.

00:11:34.460 Not emphasis

00:11:35.280 but energy.

00:11:37.700 Did I say Yeltsin

00:11:38.900 not Putin?

00:11:40.480 Oh, did I say Yeltsin?

00:11:41.760 I was thinking Yeltsin

00:11:42.700 while I was talking

00:11:43.340 about Putin.

00:11:44.600 So correct that,

00:11:45.700 I was talking about Putin.

00:11:49.040 The Yeltsin reference

00:11:50.500 is I'm still wondering

00:11:51.840 if Yeltsin really was

00:11:53.140 sort of in the bag

00:11:54.880 for the United States.

00:11:57.440 It makes me wonder

00:11:58.380 how much we've been

00:11:59.080 messing with Russia 0.82

00:11:59.880 and how much they've

00:12:01.180 been messing with us.

00:12:02.940 Knowing as you,

00:12:04.740 as we all know now,

00:12:06.520 that our government

00:12:07.240 can completely lie to us

00:12:08.920 and do it for years,

00:12:10.800 do you think that Russia

00:12:11.820 has always been

00:12:12.460 the bad guy here?

00:12:14.500 Or do you think

00:12:14.920 the United States

00:12:15.600 has always been

00:12:16.300 the bad guy?

00:12:18.480 Because the more that,

00:12:19.980 the more that I

00:12:20.900 look into this,

00:12:22.400 the history,

00:12:23.440 it looks to me

00:12:24.400 like America 0.94

00:12:25.120 has always been

00:12:25.940 the bad guy.

00:12:29.180 Now,

00:12:29.760 if you think,

00:12:30.500 I know where this

00:12:31.460 is going.

00:12:32.000 I know where this

00:12:32.520 is going.

00:12:32.940 I'm not even going

00:12:33.520 to look at the

00:12:33.900 comments.

00:12:35.080 Within five seconds,

00:12:37.000 somebody will blame me

00:12:38.200 for being a Russian

00:12:39.500 spy.

00:12:42.200 And Russian,

00:12:43.360 and it will be

00:12:43.840 in all caps,

00:12:44.500 I'm not even looking,

00:12:45.340 but I know it's

00:12:45.820 happening.

00:12:46.800 Somebody in all caps

00:12:48.180 is blaming me

00:12:49.420 of only looking

00:12:50.600 at the Russian side.

00:12:51.640 How'd I do?

00:12:56.860 I don't give a fuck

00:12:57.940 about Russia.

00:12:59.640 Why would I be

00:13:00.500 on their side?

00:13:02.820 I'm not on their side.

00:13:04.920 Because I know some

00:13:05.800 of you are thinking

00:13:06.400 right now,

00:13:07.120 why is he doing it?

00:13:08.540 You know the other

00:13:09.360 dumbest thing I saw

00:13:10.460 recently?

00:13:12.980 I keep waiting

00:13:13.940 for the world

00:13:14.700 to wake up

00:13:15.640 to why Trump

00:13:19.100 was treating

00:13:20.000 Putin in public

00:13:21.760 after whichever

00:13:22.780 big summit

00:13:25.200 they had,

00:13:26.360 where he was

00:13:27.300 treating Putin

00:13:28.040 with respect

00:13:28.840 and he said

00:13:30.240 that Putin said

00:13:31.360 X

00:13:31.860 and he had no

00:13:33.040 reason to doubt it.

00:13:34.760 And then people

00:13:35.280 said,

00:13:35.540 my God,

00:13:36.000 you're siding

00:13:36.640 with Russia.

00:13:38.280 I didn't see that.

00:13:40.240 I didn't see it

00:13:40.900 at all.

00:13:41.860 All I saw

00:13:42.500 is that he didn't

00:13:43.120 want to embarrass

00:13:43.700 him in public

00:13:44.340 because he wanted

00:13:45.040 to work with him.

00:13:46.380 That's all I saw.

00:13:49.480 Yeah.

00:13:50.300 And it's funny

00:13:51.540 because the same

00:13:53.060 people who believe

00:13:53.880 that Trump lied

00:13:54.820 about everything,

00:13:56.460 you know,

00:13:56.740 from the moment

00:13:57.260 he was born,

00:13:58.600 they believe that

00:13:59.260 that was the one

00:13:59.900 moment he stood

00:14:00.660 in front of the public

00:14:01.360 and said the truth

00:14:02.480 when the situation

00:14:04.100 was such that

00:14:04.840 nobody would say

00:14:05.540 the truth

00:14:05.960 in that situation.

00:14:07.380 That was a situation

00:14:08.580 in which the truth

00:14:09.480 was really not called for.

00:14:11.620 What was called for

00:14:12.540 is not embarrassing Putin.

00:14:13.900 maybe you can work

00:14:15.240 with him.

00:14:16.420 That's all.

00:14:17.920 And the fact that

00:14:18.780 I have to explain

00:14:19.700 that to the news media,

00:14:22.600 like nobody got that.

00:14:24.300 Nobody picked that up.

00:14:26.440 Like,

00:14:27.000 I haven't even seen

00:14:28.420 anybody.

00:14:29.460 I don't even think,

00:14:31.400 correct me if I'm wrong,

00:14:32.420 but even the right-leaning

00:14:33.480 media got on Trump

00:14:34.940 for what was obviously

00:14:36.000 the right play,

00:14:37.660 treating him with respect

00:14:38.720 in public.

00:14:39.520 That was the right play.

00:14:44.420 How many of you

00:14:45.340 saw the,

00:14:47.480 it looked like it was

00:14:48.860 Ben Shapiro

00:14:50.660 interviewing

00:14:51.400 Bill Maher.

00:14:54.540 Did you see that interview?

00:14:57.720 And,

00:14:58.460 as was pointed out

00:15:00.000 to me on Twitter,

00:15:01.340 Ben Shapiro

00:15:03.340 did a perfect

00:15:04.460 implementation

00:15:05.520 implementation

00:15:06.140 of the

00:15:07.560 really

00:15:08.140 strategy.

00:15:10.040 Now,

00:15:10.520 I've told you

00:15:10.940 the really strategy.

00:15:12.840 It's when

00:15:13.560 somebody makes

00:15:14.160 a statement

00:15:14.620 that is so ridiculous

00:15:16.420 that you can't use

00:15:17.580 logic or reason

00:15:18.540 to debunk it.

00:15:20.860 You just look at it

00:15:21.920 and go,

00:15:22.980 really?

00:15:24.660 Really?

00:15:26.500 Really?

00:15:26.900 And usually,

00:15:30.360 if the person

00:15:31.600 is saying

00:15:31.900 something ridiculous,

00:15:33.100 that's enough

00:15:33.760 to get them

00:15:34.580 back off.

00:15:35.940 And so,

00:15:36.480 Bill Maher

00:15:40.220 and Ben Shapiro

00:15:42.760 were talking

00:15:43.160 about Trump

00:15:43.940 and that

00:15:45.000 Trump says

00:15:45.820 crazy things.

00:15:46.580 And Ben Shapiro's

00:15:47.340 point was,

00:15:48.740 why would you

00:15:49.520 take as literal

00:15:50.720 truth everything

00:15:51.720 that Trump says

00:15:52.720 when it's so obvious

00:15:54.400 that there's a

00:15:55.760 disconnect between

00:15:56.700 the way he

00:15:57.200 managed the

00:15:57.960 country and

00:15:59.080 the things he

00:15:59.620 said out loud.

00:16:01.140 And Bill Maher

00:16:02.660 was sort of

00:16:04.580 suggesting that

00:16:05.320 he did take

00:16:05.820 all of that

00:16:06.260 seriously.

00:16:07.580 And that's

00:16:08.000 when Ben Shapiro

00:16:08.940 hit him with 0.52

00:16:09.780 the,

00:16:10.320 really?

00:16:11.300 Really?

00:16:11.840 Everything he

00:16:12.420 said?

00:16:13.360 Really?

00:16:14.360 Really?

00:16:14.880 Everything he

00:16:15.640 said,

00:16:16.500 everything Trump

00:16:17.120 said,

00:16:17.480 you took

00:16:17.780 seriously?

00:16:18.820 Really?

00:16:19.960 And it was

00:16:20.780 a wonderful

00:16:21.340 moment because

00:16:23.020 you don't see

00:16:24.800 that much

00:16:25.260 of a,

00:16:25.760 like a

00:16:27.240 knockout

00:16:27.680 punch.

00:16:28.800 But that

00:16:29.060 was just

00:16:29.320 such a

00:16:29.700 knockout

00:16:30.040 punch.

00:16:31.240 And I

00:16:31.680 don't remember

00:16:32.300 how Bill

00:16:33.480 responded to

00:16:34.700 it.

00:16:35.760 But that

00:16:36.400 was the

00:16:36.940 moment where

00:16:38.400 the cognitive

00:16:39.100 dissonance was

00:16:40.100 not just

00:16:40.520 obvious,

00:16:41.460 but was laid

00:16:42.240 out on the

00:16:42.740 table so you

00:16:43.340 could see it.

00:16:44.540 Like,

00:16:45.240 really?

00:16:46.360 All right,

00:16:46.640 we're all

00:16:46.960 looking at

00:16:47.300 this too.

00:16:48.140 I'm looking at

00:16:48.980 it,

00:16:49.140 you're looking

00:16:49.500 at it,

00:16:49.840 and you're

00:16:50.180 going to

00:16:50.420 claim that

00:16:51.640 you took all

00:16:52.180 of that

00:16:52.440 seriously.

00:16:52.980 All of

00:16:53.280 it.

00:16:54.100 Really,

00:16:54.440 all of

00:16:54.720 it.

00:16:56.000 That's

00:16:56.400 like the

00:16:56.700 joke I

00:16:57.060 was saying

00:16:57.440 about the

00:16:58.400 comedian whose

00:16:59.680 name you'll

00:17:00.200 remind me of

00:17:01.080 that I can't

00:17:01.920 remember.

00:17:03.460 It was a

00:17:03.820 black stand-up

00:17:04.660 comedian.

00:17:05.920 See,

00:17:06.080 this is one

00:17:06.500 of the times

00:17:06.880 when using

00:17:07.300 somebody's

00:17:07.800 race is

00:17:08.220 useful.

00:17:09.600 Am I

00:17:09.920 wrong?

00:17:11.060 If you're

00:17:11.620 describing

00:17:12.120 somebody,

00:17:13.600 and you're

00:17:14.000 trying to get

00:17:14.400 somebody to

00:17:14.840 tell you who

00:17:15.540 their name

00:17:15.860 is,

00:17:16.300 isn't it

00:17:16.700 useful to

00:17:17.220 say their

00:17:17.760 ethnicity?

00:17:19.780 Right?

00:17:20.040 Gender,

00:17:20.540 ethnicity,

00:17:20.980 so I

00:17:22.320 think that's

00:17:22.680 fair.

00:17:23.540 So,

00:17:24.040 no,

00:17:24.240 it wasn't

00:17:24.480 Chappelle.

00:17:25.300 So it was

00:17:25.640 a lesser

00:17:26.500 famous comedian,

00:17:28.200 not one of

00:17:28.780 the name

00:17:29.120 brands.

00:17:29.600 It was

00:17:29.820 somebody I

00:17:30.420 hadn't

00:17:30.620 heard of

00:17:30.920 before.

00:17:32.180 And he

00:17:33.400 was saying,

00:17:34.500 you know,

00:17:35.560 you don't

00:17:35.780 want to

00:17:36.100 believe in

00:17:37.140 conspiracy

00:17:37.620 theories,

00:17:38.820 right?

00:17:39.240 Nobody wants

00:17:39.840 to believe in

00:17:40.360 conspiracy

00:17:40.840 theories,

00:17:41.800 but are

00:17:42.540 you telling

00:17:42.940 me that

00:17:44.000 the government

00:17:44.680 of the

00:17:44.920 United States

00:17:45.540 has got a

00:17:46.700 perfect record?

00:17:48.240 You're

00:17:48.500 telling me

00:17:48.920 you think

00:17:49.340 that they're

00:17:50.460 batting a

00:17:50.960 thousand

00:17:51.300 percent on

00:17:52.100 no conspiracy

00:17:52.840 theories?

00:17:54.300 And when he

00:17:55.080 says it that

00:17:55.680 way,

00:17:56.080 it's just so

00:17:56.860 hilarious,

00:17:57.680 because you

00:17:58.160 realize it

00:17:58.560 would be

00:17:58.840 ridiculous to

00:17:59.780 imagine that

00:18:00.860 they don't,

00:18:02.180 you know,

00:18:02.520 they don't

00:18:02.840 try to play

00:18:04.060 one on a

00:18:05.560 regular basis.

00:18:07.160 All right,

00:18:07.820 enough about

00:18:08.380 that.

00:18:10.360 You know,

00:18:11.000 one of the

00:18:11.360 great things

00:18:11.980 about problems

00:18:12.920 in this

00:18:13.320 country is

00:18:14.800 sometimes we

00:18:15.600 can word

00:18:16.420 them away.

00:18:17.740 We can just

00:18:18.440 use words to

00:18:19.360 make problems

00:18:19.920 go away. 0.82

00:18:20.500 You've seen

00:18:20.900 it,

00:18:21.060 right?

00:18:21.740 You think

00:18:22.180 you have a

00:18:22.520 real problem,

00:18:23.260 but then you

00:18:23.580 use words,

00:18:24.680 and it just

00:18:25.040 goes away

00:18:25.600 with words.

00:18:27.680 And I

00:18:28.540 don't think

00:18:28.880 there's anything

00:18:29.380 that's luckier

00:18:30.160 than the fact

00:18:31.620 that most of

00:18:32.800 the crime in

00:18:33.420 the United

00:18:33.800 States,

00:18:35.420 which normally

00:18:36.080 you would

00:18:36.440 consider this

00:18:37.000 a problem,

00:18:37.600 wouldn't you?

00:18:38.700 Crime,

00:18:39.600 right?

00:18:39.960 Normally,

00:18:40.600 that'd be a

00:18:41.000 big problem.

00:18:41.800 But it

00:18:42.100 turns out that

00:18:42.820 high crime

00:18:43.720 is most

00:18:44.260 associated with

00:18:45.920 Democrat mayors,

00:18:48.040 but Republican

00:18:48.960 governors.

00:18:51.360 Problem solved.

00:18:53.700 Everybody's

00:18:54.240 getting what

00:18:54.580 they wanted,

00:18:56.020 right?

00:18:57.200 If high crime

00:18:58.220 is associated

00:18:58.900 with both

00:18:59.540 Democrat mayors

00:19:00.620 and Republican

00:19:01.340 governors,

00:19:01.960 and I know

00:19:02.720 that to be true

00:19:03.360 because my

00:19:03.860 television told

00:19:04.560 me,

00:19:05.860 everybody's

00:19:07.340 getting what

00:19:07.680 they want.

00:19:09.680 I don't think

00:19:10.520 we have a

00:19:10.860 problem anymore,

00:19:11.460 do we?

00:19:11.740 Problem solved.

00:19:15.980 All right.

00:19:19.280 Funniest story

00:19:20.240 of the day

00:19:20.800 might not be

00:19:22.280 true.

00:19:23.700 This might

00:19:24.280 not be true,

00:19:25.440 but can we

00:19:26.340 all agree to

00:19:27.500 treat it like

00:19:28.140 it is because

00:19:28.920 it'll be funny?

00:19:30.660 Agree?

00:19:32.160 We're going to

00:19:32.960 suspend our

00:19:34.140 skepticism about

00:19:35.520 stories that

00:19:36.360 sound exactly

00:19:37.100 like this.

00:19:38.340 Not usually

00:19:39.060 true.

00:19:39.440 But this

00:19:41.420 time,

00:19:42.080 this time

00:19:42.780 you're going

00:19:43.080 to pretend

00:19:43.400 this is true.

00:19:44.100 Here's the

00:19:44.440 story.

00:19:45.440 There's a

00:19:45.840 Georgia TikTok

00:19:46.580 user who

00:19:48.100 could be more

00:19:48.640 credible.

00:19:49.920 Am I right?

00:19:51.040 If you were

00:19:51.520 going to say,

00:19:52.160 I want somebody

00:19:52.960 who I can

00:19:53.460 really believe,

00:19:54.940 it would be a

00:19:55.580 Georgia TikTok

00:19:56.420 user.

00:19:57.860 So,

00:19:58.240 credible source.

00:19:59.280 Says,

00:19:59.720 two men

00:20:00.080 discovered they

00:20:00.800 were both

00:20:01.320 fathers to a

00:20:02.780 young girl when

00:20:03.600 they came to

00:20:04.120 pick her up 0.98

00:20:04.580 from school

00:20:05.100 where she

00:20:05.520 works.

00:20:08.140 Where she

00:20:08.780 works.

00:20:09.440 I don't know

00:20:10.880 how that

00:20:11.380 makes sense.

00:20:13.020 So,

00:20:13.220 anyway,

00:20:13.480 both men

00:20:13.960 came in to

00:20:14.700 sign out their

00:20:15.500 daughter from

00:20:16.080 school.

00:20:17.380 And when one

00:20:18.900 saw the other

00:20:19.520 one signing out

00:20:20.360 what he thought

00:20:20.840 was his

00:20:21.240 daughter,

00:20:21.660 he said,

00:20:22.300 what the hell

00:20:22.920 are you doing?

00:20:24.180 You can't sign 0.82

00:20:24.900 out my daughter

00:20:25.580 from school.

00:20:26.260 You'd have to

00:20:26.640 be on the

00:20:27.020 list.

00:20:28.160 So,

00:20:28.500 the school

00:20:28.840 showed him

00:20:29.300 the list and

00:20:29.820 they were both

00:20:30.220 on it.

00:20:31.420 The mother,

00:20:33.260 who apparently

00:20:33.960 didn't live with

00:20:34.680 either one,

00:20:35.660 or maybe she

00:20:36.220 lived with one,

00:20:36.900 I don't know.

00:20:37.600 But the

00:20:38.000 mother somehow

00:20:39.060 had run

00:20:39.780 for years

00:20:41.880 the idea

00:20:42.500 that they

00:20:42.900 were both

00:20:43.500 the father

00:20:44.600 of the same

00:20:45.300 girl.

00:20:49.700 Now,

00:20:50.580 that's pretty

00:20:51.740 good.

00:20:53.060 Would you like

00:20:53.840 to hear a story

00:20:54.700 in my own

00:20:55.320 life that

00:20:57.040 mirrored this,

00:20:57.920 or at least I

00:20:58.580 was suggested

00:20:59.240 by it?

00:21:00.780 Anybody?

00:21:01.100 one day in

00:21:04.140 my 20s,

00:21:04.820 early 20s,

00:21:06.120 there was a

00:21:06.960 co-worker of

00:21:07.560 mine who

00:21:07.940 was a very

00:21:08.520 attractive young

00:21:09.440 woman, 1.00

00:21:09.860 and I said

00:21:10.180 to myself,

00:21:10.960 I would

00:21:11.620 sure like to

00:21:12.160 get with that

00:21:12.760 attractive young

00:21:13.540 woman.

00:21:14.660 And it

00:21:15.060 turned out she

00:21:15.460 was a tennis

00:21:15.960 player,

00:21:16.360 and I was a

00:21:16.780 tennis player,

00:21:17.360 and so I

00:21:18.300 used that as

00:21:18.780 my in.

00:21:19.480 I said,

00:21:20.040 hey,

00:21:20.320 do you want

00:21:20.560 to play

00:21:20.760 tennis on the

00:21:22.080 weekend?

00:21:22.460 And she

00:21:22.680 said,

00:21:22.940 yes.

00:21:24.180 And we

00:21:24.640 made a date.

00:21:26.080 So I

00:21:26.580 show up to

00:21:26.940 the tennis

00:21:27.280 court at

00:21:27.700 the appointed

00:21:28.060 time,

00:21:28.600 pretty excited

00:21:29.520 because she

00:21:30.960 was really

00:21:31.260 attractive,

00:21:32.220 and she

00:21:34.060 doesn't show

00:21:34.580 up.

00:21:35.620 And I'm

00:21:35.900 looking at

00:21:36.180 my watch,

00:21:36.820 and I'm

00:21:36.920 like,

00:21:37.240 oh,

00:21:37.760 crap,

00:21:38.500 too good

00:21:39.380 to be

00:21:39.660 true.

00:21:40.320 You know

00:21:40.640 there's

00:21:40.860 things that

00:21:41.200 are too

00:21:41.440 good to

00:21:41.740 be true,

00:21:42.980 because it's

00:21:43.400 like,

00:21:44.680 you know,

00:21:45.100 she was

00:21:45.480 like a

00:21:45.840 little bit

00:21:46.180 out of

00:21:46.480 my buying

00:21:48.260 power,

00:21:48.760 if you

00:21:48.920 know what

00:21:49.120 I mean.

00:21:49.900 Like,

00:21:50.240 clearly she

00:21:50.940 should have

00:21:51.240 been dating

00:21:51.660 somebody better

00:21:53.720 than me.

00:21:55.240 If I

00:21:56.160 could be

00:21:56.580 humble for

00:21:57.500 a moment.

00:21:58.820 And so

00:21:59.420 she doesn't

00:21:59.900 show up.

00:22:01.040 So of

00:22:01.400 course I'm

00:22:01.900 not surprised,

00:22:02.700 right?

00:22:03.060 But I'm

00:22:03.680 in my

00:22:04.020 tennis clothes,

00:22:04.920 I was

00:22:05.100 ready to

00:22:05.480 get some

00:22:05.880 exercise,

00:22:07.080 and there

00:22:07.640 was another

00:22:07.980 guy there

00:22:08.560 who was

00:22:09.640 hanging out

00:22:10.080 waiting for

00:22:10.560 his tennis

00:22:11.180 partner,

00:22:12.120 so I

00:22:12.560 said,

00:22:13.200 and I

00:22:13.540 wanted to

00:22:13.960 keep my

00:22:15.700 claim on

00:22:16.240 one of

00:22:16.760 the courts,

00:22:18.460 so I

00:22:18.760 said,

00:22:18.960 hey,

00:22:19.220 you know,

00:22:19.820 my partner

00:22:20.400 didn't show

00:22:20.840 up,

00:22:22.120 looks like

00:22:22.560 yours didn't

00:22:22.920 show up,

00:22:23.240 you want to

00:22:23.500 hit?

00:22:24.340 So he's

00:22:24.720 like,

00:22:24.940 sure.

00:22:25.920 So we

00:22:26.440 started playing,

00:22:27.860 and it turns

00:22:28.200 down our

00:22:28.520 games were

00:22:29.140 sort of

00:22:29.800 well-matched,

00:22:30.740 so it was

00:22:31.060 really fun,

00:22:32.100 you know,

00:22:32.260 not everybody

00:22:32.840 is fun to

00:22:33.320 play tennis

00:22:33.740 with,

00:22:34.260 but he kept

00:22:34.800 the ball

00:22:35.140 in play,

00:22:35.680 and he was

00:22:35.880 a good guy,

00:22:36.540 and he was

00:22:36.800 funny,

00:22:37.360 and we were

00:22:38.580 hitting it off,

00:22:39.160 and we were

00:22:39.280 having a good

00:22:39.600 time,

00:22:40.380 and then my

00:22:41.760 date shows up,

00:22:43.760 and I'm like,

00:22:44.360 oh,

00:22:44.660 phew,

00:22:45.240 I got a little

00:22:46.120 warm-up in,

00:22:46.820 I got some

00:22:47.240 tennis,

00:22:47.620 and then my

00:22:48.040 date shows up,

00:22:48.680 this is going to

00:22:49.120 be a great

00:22:49.580 night for me,

00:22:50.640 and I'm

00:22:50.920 thinking,

00:22:51.220 and then the

00:22:53.340 date looks at

00:22:54.020 the two of us,

00:22:54.620 and she goes,

00:22:55.440 oh,

00:22:56.000 I see you

00:22:56.680 met each

00:22:57.020 other.

00:22:59.580 Well,

00:23:00.020 it was sort of

00:23:00.400 downhill from

00:23:00.960 that point,

00:23:02.000 downhill from

00:23:02.660 that point.

00:23:03.940 Yes,

00:23:04.580 she literally

00:23:05.400 made a date

00:23:06.920 with both of

00:23:07.540 us.

00:23:08.980 She made a

00:23:09.860 date with both

00:23:10.520 of us,

00:23:11.080 at the same

00:23:11.760 place,

00:23:12.260 to do the

00:23:12.760 same thing.

00:23:13.220 so it

00:23:15.420 gets weirder

00:23:15.980 from here,

00:23:17.560 right?

00:23:18.620 So we

00:23:19.160 started playing

00:23:19.680 tennis,

00:23:20.120 and we

00:23:20.340 realized it

00:23:21.040 was really

00:23:21.560 fun,

00:23:22.080 even though

00:23:22.400 it was three

00:23:22.800 of us who

00:23:23.180 were playing

00:23:23.500 Canadian

00:23:24.180 doubles.

00:23:25.140 It was

00:23:25.420 really fun,

00:23:26.440 because she

00:23:26.720 was actually

00:23:27.100 a really good

00:23:27.540 tennis player,

00:23:28.080 too.

00:23:28.920 And we

00:23:29.400 had a great

00:23:29.760 time,

00:23:30.140 went out to

00:23:30.540 dinner,

00:23:31.080 the three

00:23:31.420 of us.

00:23:35.200 At this

00:23:35.800 point,

00:23:36.140 I think,

00:23:36.800 I'm not sure

00:23:37.540 if the

00:23:38.800 other gentleman

00:23:39.500 still thought he

00:23:40.500 had a shot,

00:23:42.020 but I don't

00:23:42.580 know.

00:23:43.220 And we

00:23:44.280 ended up

00:23:44.540 being friends.

00:23:46.080 So we

00:23:46.460 ended up

00:23:47.340 playing

00:23:47.920 tennis,

00:23:49.280 I don't

00:23:49.600 know,

00:23:50.260 maybe a

00:23:50.700 few dozen

00:23:51.080 times.

00:23:52.140 And we'd

00:23:52.660 always do

00:23:52.980 the same

00:23:53.280 thing,

00:23:53.600 we'd eat

00:23:53.980 some Chinese

00:23:54.440 food and

00:23:54.860 stuff.

00:23:55.560 Now,

00:23:56.080 there's a

00:23:56.520 punchline,

00:23:58.200 because otherwise

00:23:59.120 I'd feel really

00:24:00.020 bad about this

00:24:00.700 story.

00:24:03.020 She finally

00:24:03.800 came out as

00:24:04.400 a lesbian,

00:24:05.480 and married

00:24:07.020 a woman 0.57

00:24:08.760 that she

00:24:09.100 loved,

00:24:09.480 and lived

00:24:10.240 a happy

00:24:10.560 life.

00:24:10.840 so I

00:24:14.840 got the

00:24:15.580 last laugh.

00:24:17.160 It was a

00:24:17.520 happy ending.

00:24:18.560 If you think

00:24:19.000 about it,

00:24:19.280 it was a

00:24:19.480 happy ending.

00:24:23.180 That's one of

00:24:23.780 my favorite

00:24:24.180 stories.

00:24:25.380 I love

00:24:25.980 that story.

00:24:28.300 All right,

00:24:28.900 today's vibe is

00:24:30.240 I'm not in a

00:24:31.140 cult,

00:24:31.440 you're in a

00:24:31.900 cult.

00:24:32.820 You're in the

00:24:33.500 Trump cult,

00:24:34.360 or you're in

00:24:34.980 the Democrat

00:24:35.420 cult,

00:24:36.500 but damn it,

00:24:37.280 if there's one

00:24:37.860 thing I know

00:24:38.420 for sure,

00:24:39.740 you're in a

00:24:40.360 cult.

00:24:41.420 You're in a

00:24:42.100 cult.

00:24:45.280 And so I

00:24:46.160 thought,

00:24:46.760 well,

00:24:46.960 what is the

00:24:47.360 definition of

00:24:47.920 a cult?

00:24:48.300 I've looked

00:24:48.620 through this

00:24:48.900 before,

00:24:49.620 but I never

00:24:50.280 really noticed

00:24:51.000 that nobody

00:24:51.760 has the same

00:24:52.380 definition of

00:24:53.080 a cult.

00:24:54.960 Try looking up

00:24:55.840 the definition

00:24:56.440 of a cult.

00:24:57.820 They're all

00:24:58.400 over the

00:24:58.680 place.

00:25:00.460 It's almost

00:25:01.100 like they're

00:25:01.440 not even

00:25:01.720 talking about

00:25:02.200 exactly the

00:25:03.060 same thing.

00:25:03.740 It's almost

00:25:04.120 like the word

00:25:04.760 doesn't have

00:25:05.220 one,

00:25:06.180 it's like it

00:25:06.760 doesn't have

00:25:07.120 one definition

00:25:08.000 that we

00:25:09.120 can all

00:25:09.380 agree on.

00:25:10.080 But let's

00:25:11.160 figure out

00:25:12.160 who's in

00:25:12.600 the cult,

00:25:13.100 Democrats or

00:25:13.740 the GOP.

00:25:15.000 So I'll

00:25:15.420 read you some

00:25:16.120 of these

00:25:16.400 definitions,

00:25:17.420 they're

00:25:17.600 different ones,

00:25:18.580 and see which

00:25:19.100 one you'd

00:25:19.560 say sounds

00:25:20.200 more like

00:25:20.660 a cult.

00:25:22.140 A group

00:25:22.860 that is

00:25:23.180 focused on

00:25:24.000 a living

00:25:24.920 leader to

00:25:26.580 whom the

00:25:27.000 members seem

00:25:27.560 to display

00:25:28.180 excessive,

00:25:29.120 jealous,

00:25:30.100 unquestioned

00:25:30.700 commitment.

00:25:31.920 The group

00:25:32.660 is preoccupied

00:25:33.720 with bringing

00:25:34.260 in new

00:25:34.620 members,

00:25:35.060 and the

00:25:36.020 group is

00:25:36.460 preoccupied

00:25:37.240 with making

00:25:37.700 money.

00:25:39.860 Now,

00:25:40.600 would that

00:25:40.980 describe the

00:25:42.180 Trump MAGA

00:25:43.820 people?

00:25:44.960 Well,

00:25:45.400 they do

00:25:45.700 have a

00:25:47.260 zealous

00:25:47.820 commitment,

00:25:49.500 I wouldn't

00:25:50.040 call unquestioned,

00:25:51.180 that's kind

00:25:51.540 of extreme,

00:25:52.540 commitment to

00:25:53.420 Trump.

00:25:54.840 So that's

00:25:55.180 pretty close,

00:25:56.180 at least the

00:25:56.740 commitment to

00:25:57.240 a living

00:25:57.620 leader.

00:26:00.320 And the

00:26:01.040 group is

00:26:01.440 preoccupied with

00:26:02.360 bringing in

00:26:02.820 new members,

00:26:03.980 not really,

00:26:05.060 not really.

00:26:07.720 I don't

00:26:08.320 really see

00:26:08.740 Republicans

00:26:09.300 recruiting,

00:26:10.180 do you?

00:26:11.440 Not really,

00:26:12.320 they just

00:26:12.620 say their

00:26:12.880 own opinions.

00:26:14.540 And the

00:26:15.140 group is

00:26:15.460 preoccupied with

00:26:16.200 making money,

00:26:16.920 not really,

00:26:18.360 not really.

00:26:19.140 So I don't

00:26:19.660 think the

00:26:20.060 Trump cult

00:26:20.720 fits on

00:26:21.700 two out of

00:26:22.120 three,

00:26:22.920 they just

00:26:23.300 have a

00:26:23.700 living leader

00:26:24.280 that people

00:26:24.740 like,

00:26:25.260 but that's

00:26:25.560 not unusual.

00:26:27.000 How about

00:26:27.420 this?

00:26:27.760 Here's another

00:26:28.220 definition from

00:26:29.540 the internet,

00:26:30.200 which knows

00:26:30.660 all things.

00:26:31.180 the common

00:26:32.640 characteristics of

00:26:33.580 a cult that

00:26:34.900 emerged between

00:26:35.560 members is a

00:26:38.000 higher level of

00:26:39.200 education.

00:26:41.080 So does that

00:26:41.880 sound like

00:26:42.320 Democrats or

00:26:42.980 Republicans?

00:26:43.620 Higher level of

00:26:44.480 education.

00:26:46.340 A little more

00:26:47.180 like Democrats,

00:26:47.920 doesn't it?

00:26:49.600 Right?

00:26:50.440 A weaker

00:26:51.000 spiritual background.

00:26:53.020 Who has a

00:26:53.920 weaker spiritual

00:26:54.820 background?

00:26:55.960 Democrats or

00:26:56.600 Republicans?

00:26:57.640 Democrats.

00:26:58.060 Higher financial

00:27:00.180 success.

00:27:01.720 Who has higher

00:27:02.600 financial success?

00:27:04.920 Democrats or

00:27:06.200 Republicans?

00:27:08.440 I don't know

00:27:09.280 the answer to

00:27:09.720 that,

00:27:09.940 actually,

00:27:10.740 because I

00:27:11.380 think it

00:27:11.740 depends.

00:27:13.760 Kind of

00:27:14.080 depends.

00:27:16.180 Yeah.

00:27:17.460 That one,

00:27:18.060 I don't know.

00:27:20.680 Younger age.

00:27:22.100 So cults are

00:27:22.840 generally associated

00:27:23.980 with the young.

00:27:25.800 Who is younger,

00:27:26.680 Republicans or

00:27:27.420 Democrats?

00:27:28.940 Democrats?

00:27:32.520 And something

00:27:33.360 about time

00:27:33.920 constraints that

00:27:34.620 doesn't make

00:27:35.020 sense.

00:27:37.560 So,

00:27:38.600 question number

00:27:40.120 one.

00:27:41.640 If we compare

00:27:42.360 the Democrats

00:27:42.920 and the

00:27:43.680 Republicans,

00:27:45.220 which ones

00:27:46.140 believe more

00:27:47.340 things that are

00:27:48.060 not true?

00:27:49.240 Go.

00:27:50.400 Who believes

00:27:51.120 more things that

00:27:51.920 are not true,

00:27:52.920 Republicans or

00:27:53.680 Democrats?

00:27:54.040 Democrats?

00:27:54.240 Now, what do

00:27:59.740 you think the

00:28:00.900 Democrats would 0.89

00:28:01.940 say if I asked

00:28:02.740 them?

00:28:03.580 So most of my

00:28:04.280 audience probably

00:28:05.100 leans right.

00:28:06.480 What do you

00:28:06.980 think they would

00:28:07.440 say?

00:28:09.000 Pretty sure they

00:28:09.760 say Republicans.

00:28:11.260 Pretty sure they

00:28:11.960 would.

00:28:12.980 Are they wrong?

00:28:16.280 I don't know.

00:28:17.160 If you added up

00:28:18.160 the number of

00:28:18.720 things that are

00:28:19.220 not true that

00:28:21.020 both sides

00:28:21.760 believe in, I

00:28:23.720 don't know.

00:28:24.060 To me, it looks

00:28:24.500 like a toss-up.

00:28:26.760 So here's one of

00:28:28.700 the advantages of

00:28:29.700 not voting.

00:28:31.380 Since I don't

00:28:32.360 vote, I'm not a

00:28:34.720 Republican.

00:28:35.620 I'm not a

00:28:36.500 Democrat.

00:28:36.780 So I have less

00:28:39.720 chance of being

00:28:40.740 biased by team

00:28:42.820 play because I

00:28:43.740 don't identify

00:28:44.400 with those.

00:28:45.380 When I look at

00:28:46.260 it, my somewhat

00:28:48.140 less biased is

00:28:50.000 that it looks

00:28:51.180 like both groups

00:28:52.040 believe a whole

00:28:52.740 bunch of things

00:28:53.300 that are not

00:28:53.740 true.

00:28:55.040 Now, I'm not

00:28:55.520 going to argue

00:28:55.960 what those things

00:28:56.800 are because I

00:28:58.500 will stipulate

00:28:59.140 that both sides

00:28:59.920 think that they're

00:29:00.640 right.

00:29:01.520 So that's not my

00:29:03.020 argument today.

00:29:04.040 I'm just saying

00:29:04.840 that from my

00:29:06.300 perspective, it

00:29:07.120 looks like both

00:29:07.680 sides believe

00:29:08.240 things, a lot of

00:29:09.160 things, that are

00:29:10.100 not true.

00:29:12.400 But we'd have to

00:29:13.620 fight over it if I

00:29:14.480 get into any

00:29:14.980 details.

00:29:17.460 So I think both

00:29:18.520 sides fit the

00:29:19.640 cult definition in

00:29:22.000 that way, that they

00:29:22.760 believe things that

00:29:23.340 are not true.

00:29:24.680 The Democrats don't

00:29:26.320 have a leader, do

00:29:28.100 they?

00:29:29.300 Who do you say is

00:29:30.360 the Democrat

00:29:30.820 leader?

00:29:31.320 Because it's not

00:29:31.760 really Biden, is

00:29:33.060 it?

00:29:34.000 Not really.

00:29:34.540 It's not AOC.

00:29:35.680 It's not Biden.

00:29:37.120 It's not really

00:29:37.860 Obama.

00:29:38.540 Not anymore.

00:29:39.500 Satan, good

00:29:40.200 guess.

00:29:41.820 Pelosi?

00:29:43.140 Schumer?

00:29:43.580 I guess Pelosi.

00:29:47.160 Yeah, I guess so.

00:29:48.640 But Pelosi doesn't

00:29:49.780 have nearly as, let's

00:29:51.740 say, an enthusiastic

00:29:52.760 following as Trump

00:29:53.880 does.

00:29:55.280 He's got that going

00:29:56.380 for him.

00:29:57.440 So somehow the

00:29:58.260 Democrats have

00:29:58.900 managed to make

00:29:59.820 enthusiastic followers

00:30:02.160 a bad thing.

00:30:03.720 so they've

00:30:05.620 actually, they've

00:30:07.180 actually made it

00:30:07.820 look like a bad

00:30:08.820 thing.

00:30:11.100 It's a funny

00:30:11.820 meme go by.

00:30:14.180 Maybe.

00:30:17.000 Stop making me

00:30:17.940 laugh when I'm

00:30:18.480 trying to hold a

00:30:19.400 thought.

00:30:20.180 On the locals

00:30:21.320 platform, they can

00:30:23.160 send images through

00:30:24.200 the comments.

00:30:25.540 They're sending

00:30:26.220 memes through every

00:30:27.140 now and then that

00:30:27.840 just throw me. 0.89

00:30:28.980 All right.

00:30:32.080 All right.

00:30:32.680 I don't know who's

00:30:33.200 going to call.

00:30:33.880 It doesn't matter.

00:30:36.320 Could you tell that

00:30:37.260 there wasn't much

00:30:37.920 news happening

00:30:38.500 today?

00:30:39.720 Did anything

00:30:40.580 happen today?

00:30:41.220 So the, I saw

00:30:45.900 some polls that

00:30:46.780 say the race is

00:30:48.200 tightening.

00:30:49.040 So at this

00:30:49.520 point, we can't

00:30:50.340 tell who's going

00:30:52.260 to win the

00:30:52.680 Senate, right?

00:30:55.560 Is the worst

00:30:56.340 personnel, is the,

00:30:58.940 let's say you had

00:30:59.680 a choice of these

00:31:00.440 two things.

00:31:01.900 You had a choice

00:31:03.180 of Republicans

00:31:05.340 sweeping everything,

00:31:06.640 let's say by the

00:31:07.300 time Trump or a

00:31:08.560 Republican becomes

00:31:09.380 president.

00:31:09.800 let's say that

00:31:11.400 there was a

00:31:12.120 possibility that

00:31:13.000 we could have

00:31:13.660 Republican, Senate

00:31:16.460 and House and

00:31:18.600 presidency.

00:31:21.560 Is that better

00:31:22.740 than a split

00:31:24.200 government?

00:31:25.400 Would you be

00:31:25.980 happier if both

00:31:27.220 the houses were

00:31:28.040 Republican or

00:31:29.420 would you be

00:31:29.920 happier if they

00:31:31.720 were split?

00:31:36.440 You know, I

00:31:37.360 think that unless

00:31:38.840 one side has

00:31:39.740 a filibuster

00:31:42.860 proof majority,

00:31:44.180 it's still

00:31:44.600 split, right?

00:31:46.280 Aren't we

00:31:46.700 still split as

00:31:47.840 long as you

00:31:48.340 can't get a

00:31:49.000 two-thirds

00:31:49.500 majority for

00:31:50.220 anything important?

00:31:51.740 For all

00:31:52.380 practical purposes,

00:31:53.480 it's still split

00:31:54.240 even if there's

00:31:54.960 a majority all

00:31:55.820 the way through,

00:31:56.300 right?

00:31:57.680 Yeah.

00:31:58.480 So I guess we'll

00:31:59.480 have split

00:31:59.880 government no

00:32:00.480 matter what.

00:32:01.020 I took two

00:32:08.460 long plane

00:32:09.060 rides.

00:32:09.860 Somebody's

00:32:10.280 questioning me

00:32:10.980 that when I

00:32:11.480 said I

00:32:11.760 traveled more

00:32:12.460 during the

00:32:12.940 pandemic than

00:32:14.120 any time in

00:32:14.800 my life.

00:32:16.140 The two

00:32:17.140 longest trips of

00:32:18.080 my life were

00:32:19.640 Greece and

00:32:20.700 Bora Bora.

00:32:22.880 Yeah, I think

00:32:23.660 they were the

00:32:24.220 two longest

00:32:24.700 trips.

00:32:25.460 And they're both

00:32:26.540 during the

00:32:26.920 pandemic.

00:32:27.260 so if you

00:32:29.180 were to add

00:32:29.540 all of the

00:32:30.120 miles traveled

00:32:30.940 on just

00:32:32.420 those two

00:32:32.940 trips,

00:32:34.520 I think they

00:32:35.400 would add up

00:32:35.880 to more than

00:32:36.520 the miles I've

00:32:37.180 ever traveled

00:32:37.900 in any

00:32:38.420 non-pandemic

00:32:39.280 era.

00:32:40.300 Because I

00:32:40.760 don't do

00:32:41.080 long trips.

00:32:42.060 I've done

00:32:42.400 one long

00:32:43.500 Europe trip

00:32:44.340 before that.

00:32:45.100 That was

00:32:45.300 about it.

00:32:48.820 Why are

00:32:49.620 people so

00:32:50.220 obsessed with

00:32:51.920 proving me

00:32:52.580 wrong?

00:32:54.220 It feels

00:32:54.820 like people

00:32:55.300 have almost

00:32:57.160 some kind

00:32:59.840 of a rage

00:33:01.100 thirst to

00:33:03.020 show that I

00:33:03.720 was wrong

00:33:04.220 on a fact

00:33:04.880 or that I

00:33:05.460 said something

00:33:05.980 that wasn't

00:33:06.340 exactly true.

00:33:07.540 What drives

00:33:08.440 that?

00:33:09.680 Because

00:33:10.000 watching it

00:33:11.060 happen,

00:33:12.800 I feel like

00:33:13.800 it's a cry

00:33:14.320 for help of

00:33:15.000 some kind.

00:33:15.960 I don't know

00:33:16.240 what it is.

00:33:17.100 Because it

00:33:17.700 feels like

00:33:18.180 maybe I said

00:33:18.880 something in

00:33:19.440 another domain

00:33:20.280 that you

00:33:21.760 thought hurt

00:33:24.240 your worldview,

00:33:25.520 so you've

00:33:25.920 got to

00:33:26.180 damage my

00:33:26.740 worldview or

00:33:28.000 my credibility

00:33:28.720 to keep

00:33:29.860 your worldview

00:33:30.400 intact.

00:33:31.180 Is there

00:33:31.360 something like

00:33:31.840 that?

00:33:33.820 I saw a

00:33:34.700 theory that

00:33:35.300 the belief

00:33:36.620 in trolls

00:33:37.420 in the

00:33:38.240 olden days

00:33:38.880 might be

00:33:40.200 memory of

00:33:41.360 Neanderthals

00:33:43.420 and that

00:33:44.760 there might

00:33:45.120 have been a

00:33:45.440 time when

00:33:45.980 there were

00:33:47.240 humanoid-looking

00:33:48.480 things that

00:33:49.300 thought the

00:33:49.820 Neanderthals

00:33:51.480 were trolls,

00:33:52.700 like monsters

00:33:53.420 or something.

00:33:57.760 I always

00:33:58.480 wondered what

00:33:58.900 that was

00:33:59.220 like, being

00:34:00.060 around when

00:34:00.620 there were

00:34:00.920 Neanderthals

00:34:01.620 and non-

00:34:03.240 Neanderthals.

00:34:06.260 All right,

00:34:06.960 well,

00:34:07.960 ladies and 0.98

00:34:09.400 gentlemen,

00:34:10.680 I heard a

00:34:13.340 statistic

00:34:13.780 yesterday that

00:34:15.380 I saw once

00:34:16.280 and never saw

00:34:16.980 repeated.

00:34:18.060 So give me a

00:34:18.720 fact check on

00:34:19.360 this.

00:34:19.720 I saw

00:34:21.080 an estimate

00:34:21.960 that Europe

00:34:22.680 has already

00:34:23.700 got 90%

00:34:25.640 of what it

00:34:26.180 needs for

00:34:26.600 the gas to

00:34:27.460 get through

00:34:27.780 the winter.

00:34:29.420 In other

00:34:29.740 words,

00:34:29.980 they've done

00:34:30.240 a really

00:34:30.520 good job

00:34:31.060 of panic

00:34:32.380 hoarding

00:34:33.120 because

00:34:35.840 I don't

00:34:37.700 have any

00:34:39.660 reference to

00:34:40.420 that.

00:34:41.340 I haven't

00:34:41.780 seen a

00:34:41.980 reference to

00:34:42.700 any other

00:34:43.920 number.

00:34:44.900 Have you

00:34:45.140 ever seen

00:34:45.400 a reference

00:34:45.660 like that?

00:34:47.860 Because if

00:34:48.680 the answer is

00:34:49.300 that they

00:34:49.700 have half

00:34:50.200 as much

00:34:50.600 as they

00:34:50.860 need,

00:34:51.700 that's big

00:34:53.600 trouble.

00:34:54.940 If they

00:34:55.500 have 90%

00:34:56.240 of what

00:34:56.560 they need,

00:34:57.220 then there's

00:34:57.740 a good chance

00:34:58.520 that they

00:34:58.800 can get

00:34:59.120 closer to

00:34:59.860 100.

00:35:03.640 Just there,

00:35:04.500 and it's

00:35:04.720 not true,

00:35:05.420 and it's

00:35:05.680 not close,

00:35:06.660 and you're

00:35:06.960 just in

00:35:07.340 UK and

00:35:07.920 Germany.

00:35:08.460 How would

00:35:08.820 you know

00:35:09.080 though?

00:35:10.300 But being

00:35:10.780 there,

00:35:11.200 how would

00:35:11.580 being there

00:35:12.200 tell you

00:35:12.620 the answer

00:35:13.000 to that

00:35:13.300 question?

00:35:14.540 You still

00:35:15.200 need a

00:35:15.540 source.

00:35:16.860 What was

00:35:17.240 your source?

00:35:17.780 Just talking

00:35:18.260 to people?

00:35:19.300 Government

00:35:20.340 data?

00:35:21.960 People

00:35:22.520 know?

00:35:24.640 So I'm

00:35:25.940 wondering why

00:35:26.520 our news

00:35:27.180 source is

00:35:27.920 so quiet

00:35:28.620 about that.

00:35:31.200 Is the

00:35:32.340 news quiet

00:35:33.020 about it

00:35:33.360 because they

00:35:33.920 are just

00:35:34.340 bad at

00:35:34.800 their jobs?

00:35:36.320 Can you

00:35:36.680 think of a

00:35:37.200 more important

00:35:37.820 statistic?

00:35:39.540 The most

00:35:40.240 important

00:35:40.600 statistics for

00:35:41.600 the future

00:35:42.100 would be

00:35:42.600 how much

00:35:43.480 are we

00:35:43.720 spending

00:35:44.120 on the

00:35:45.780 Ukraine war?

00:35:47.940 It's

00:35:48.500 going to

00:35:48.640 be the

00:35:48.980 expense?

00:35:50.800 Death and

00:35:51.520 casualties,

00:35:52.240 of course,

00:35:52.860 obviously.

00:35:54.180 And that

00:35:54.640 is going to

00:35:54.980 be how

00:35:55.360 much energy

00:35:57.240 Europe has

00:35:58.000 to get

00:35:58.340 through the

00:35:58.620 winter.

00:35:59.380 Are those

00:36:00.040 not the

00:36:00.560 important

00:36:00.860 things?

00:36:01.700 And where

00:36:02.280 is the

00:36:02.500 reporting?

00:36:03.340 So usually

00:36:03.960 you have

00:36:04.320 reporting that

00:36:05.020 says you

00:36:05.340 don't have

00:36:05.680 the numbers.

00:36:07.080 Right?

00:36:07.960 The most

00:36:08.720 important thing

00:36:09.540 is how

00:36:10.140 much energy

00:36:10.740 Europe has.

00:36:12.140 If you're

00:36:12.700 trying to

00:36:13.060 game out

00:36:13.700 what the

00:36:14.020 next year

00:36:14.420 looks like,

00:36:14.800 it's like

00:36:15.080 the most

00:36:15.400 important

00:36:15.680 thing.

00:36:16.180 And there's

00:36:16.500 no reporting

00:36:17.040 on it.

00:36:18.060 The reporting

00:36:18.600 is, oh,

00:36:19.220 it could be

00:36:19.540 a big

00:36:19.740 problem.

00:36:21.360 But shouldn't

00:36:22.020 there be

00:36:22.340 reporting like

00:36:23.200 we're halfway

00:36:24.060 there, or

00:36:24.680 90%, or

00:36:25.600 maybe we

00:36:26.000 don't know.

00:36:26.800 There should

00:36:27.200 be reporting

00:36:27.680 even if we

00:36:28.180 don't know.

00:36:29.540 Right?

00:36:30.580 That would

00:36:31.140 be the

00:36:31.400 reporting.

00:36:31.980 The reporting

00:36:32.400 would be,

00:36:33.100 we don't

00:36:33.560 know what

00:36:33.920 it is.

00:36:34.720 If it's

00:36:35.140 50%,

00:36:35.760 we're dead.

00:36:36.840 If it's

00:36:37.160 90%,

00:36:37.720 we can make

00:36:38.220 it work.

00:36:39.540 We don't

00:36:39.660 know which

00:36:39.980 one it

00:36:40.320 is.

00:36:41.320 Where is

00:36:41.720 that?

00:36:44.320 Isn't

00:36:44.840 this one of

00:36:45.340 the, see,

00:36:46.280 your instinct

00:36:47.240 is that it's

00:36:47.780 just terrible

00:36:48.300 reporting.

00:36:49.320 But it

00:36:49.800 feels like

00:36:50.240 more than

00:36:50.660 that, doesn't

00:36:51.560 it?

00:36:52.280 It feels

00:36:53.000 like the,

00:36:55.480 let's say,

00:36:56.140 the CIA or

00:36:57.760 intelligence

00:36:58.220 agencies or

00:36:59.100 the government

00:36:59.620 have asked

00:37:00.740 the news

00:37:01.320 people not

00:37:02.040 to report

00:37:02.540 on it.

00:37:03.380 That's what

00:37:03.800 it feels

00:37:04.140 like.

00:37:04.980 It feels

00:37:05.640 like they're

00:37:06.580 under some

00:37:07.160 kind of a

00:37:07.800 lid, maybe

00:37:09.360 for national

00:37:10.880 security.

00:37:12.320 For example,

00:37:13.700 if Russia

00:37:14.340 knew that

00:37:16.220 Europe could

00:37:18.280 beat 90%

00:37:19.120 of its

00:37:19.600 needs, if

00:37:20.780 Russia knew 0.73

00:37:21.340 that, they

00:37:22.420 might try

00:37:22.880 harder to

00:37:23.740 make it

00:37:24.860 worse.

00:37:26.040 If they

00:37:26.640 don't know,

00:37:27.660 they might

00:37:28.060 think that

00:37:28.480 they've done

00:37:28.880 enough and

00:37:29.540 then they

00:37:29.840 don't have

00:37:30.220 to do

00:37:30.520 more.

00:37:31.740 And if we

00:37:32.540 reported that

00:37:33.340 things are

00:37:33.760 fine and

00:37:34.380 there's enough

00:37:34.800 storage, well,

00:37:36.000 maybe they

00:37:36.360 would know

00:37:36.660 where the

00:37:37.060 storage is and

00:37:37.700 how it's

00:37:38.020 getting there

00:37:38.480 and maybe

00:37:38.780 that's a

00:37:39.140 problem.

00:37:41.520 But it

00:37:43.040 doesn't look

00:37:43.560 like we

00:37:43.920 have anything

00:37:44.300 like honest

00:37:44.880 reporting.

00:37:46.280 Now, along

00:37:47.220 those same

00:37:47.680 lines, as

00:37:49.380 my doctors

00:37:51.020 on Twitter

00:37:51.700 remind me,

00:37:53.440 that if

00:37:54.280 you've got a

00:37:54.980 lot of

00:37:55.260 student loans

00:37:56.180 and debt

00:37:57.960 and the

00:37:59.640 only way you

00:38:00.240 can make a

00:38:00.740 living after

00:38:01.280 all those

00:38:01.680 years of

00:38:02.040 medical school

00:38:02.660 is to have

00:38:03.060 your medical

00:38:03.500 license, you

00:38:04.700 don't really

00:38:05.260 have an option

00:38:06.020 of speaking

00:38:06.840 out against

00:38:07.420 the consensus.

00:38:09.940 So, when

00:38:10.680 I've been

00:38:10.940 asking the

00:38:11.380 question, how

00:38:12.680 could no

00:38:13.700 doctors speak

00:38:14.740 out if they

00:38:15.480 were seeing

00:38:15.840 something that

00:38:16.380 they needed

00:38:16.740 to speak out

00:38:17.300 about, how

00:38:17.960 could it be

00:38:18.280 that no

00:38:18.680 doctors are

00:38:19.320 speaking out?

00:38:20.300 And I still

00:38:21.100 take that

00:38:21.520 position, by

00:38:22.100 the way.

00:38:22.860 It is still

00:38:23.420 my position

00:38:24.040 that even

00:38:25.620 with extreme

00:38:27.120 financial

00:38:28.040 penalties, the

00:38:31.000 types of

00:38:31.680 people in

00:38:32.080 this country

00:38:32.560 are so

00:38:32.980 varied, there

00:38:34.300 would be

00:38:34.580 somebody who

00:38:35.100 would do

00:38:35.340 it.

00:38:35.480 And lots

00:38:36.560 of them, lots

00:38:37.800 of them.

00:38:38.320 Not as a

00:38:38.880 percentage, but

00:38:40.360 lots of them

00:38:40.900 as a number.

00:38:42.000 Because remember,

00:38:42.640 if 1% of

00:38:43.660 doctors turned,

00:38:44.900 just 1%, that

00:38:47.320 would be like

00:38:48.180 100,000

00:38:48.880 doctors.

00:38:50.580 You don't

00:38:51.100 think we'd

00:38:51.500 notice 100,000

00:38:52.440 doctors saying

00:38:53.200 something is

00:38:54.340 true that we

00:38:54.820 thought wasn't

00:38:55.280 true?

00:38:57.560 So, there's

00:38:58.580 no world that

00:38:59.260 I live in where

00:39:00.160 you can get

00:39:00.720 100% of

00:39:02.060 anybody to

00:39:02.700 do anything.

00:39:03.200 I don't

00:39:05.180 live in any

00:39:05.700 world like

00:39:06.180 that.

00:39:07.480 So, if you

00:39:07.980 tell me that

00:39:08.500 you got 100%

00:39:09.360 of doctors

00:39:09.880 because they're

00:39:10.520 afraid in this

00:39:11.540 very specific

00:39:12.240 way, which I

00:39:12.900 do agree, I

00:39:14.380 do agree that

00:39:15.020 you could get

00:39:15.460 to 99%.

00:39:16.520 If you said,

00:39:18.100 Scott, don't

00:39:19.040 you think 99%

00:39:20.320 of people would

00:39:20.920 just shut up? 0.99

00:39:21.740 Yes.

00:39:22.760 Yes, I do.

00:39:24.040 But 1% is

00:39:24.920 100,000 doctors.

00:39:26.540 We wouldn't

00:39:27.280 not notice 100,000

00:39:28.720 doctors, would we?

00:39:30.780 I suppose if

00:39:32.420 they didn't go

00:39:32.880 on social media,

00:39:33.600 we wouldn't

00:39:33.920 notice.

00:39:35.980 So, that

00:39:38.120 doesn't mean

00:39:38.480 I'm right, by

00:39:39.040 the way.

00:39:39.780 So, this is

00:39:40.280 one of those

00:39:40.700 opinions where

00:39:41.420 if it turns

00:39:43.100 out that 100%

00:39:44.040 of doctors

00:39:44.540 didn't want to

00:39:45.100 talk about it

00:39:45.800 and somehow

00:39:47.180 we could prove

00:39:47.800 that, I

00:39:49.020 would be

00:39:49.320 willing to

00:39:49.720 say I was

00:39:52.460 wrong.

00:39:53.740 But I

00:39:54.600 don't live in

00:39:55.020 a world where

00:39:55.460 100% of

00:39:56.080 people do

00:39:56.400 anything.

00:39:58.960 What if you

00:39:59.600 found out the

00:40:00.160 number is

00:40:00.700 increasing now?

00:40:01.800 I would

00:40:02.100 expect that.

00:40:03.500 I would

00:40:03.800 expect the

00:40:04.280 number to

00:40:04.680 increase now

00:40:05.320 because we're

00:40:07.380 past the

00:40:08.440 biggest

00:40:09.460 censorious

00:40:10.400 part.

00:40:11.580 So, we're

00:40:12.020 entering a

00:40:12.620 part where

00:40:13.080 our freedom

00:40:13.900 of speech is

00:40:15.220 going to be

00:40:15.560 trickling back

00:40:16.280 a little bit.

00:40:17.240 So, I would

00:40:17.840 expect more

00:40:18.460 doctors to

00:40:19.620 speak out

00:40:20.000 just naturally.

00:40:24.460 The news is

00:40:25.380 not talking

00:40:25.820 about protests

00:40:26.500 in Paris.

00:40:27.300 That's true.

00:40:28.340 I don't

00:40:30.240 know about

00:40:30.620 the protests

00:40:31.180 in Paris.

00:40:32.620 I don't

00:40:32.940 know about

00:40:33.260 that.

00:40:37.880 The rogue

00:40:38.560 doctors are

00:40:39.240 speaking out

00:40:39.760 on alternative

00:40:40.340 media, but

00:40:40.920 only a few

00:40:41.380 of them.

00:40:41.820 It's like a

00:40:42.180 handful.

00:40:43.060 It's the

00:40:43.340 same doctors

00:40:43.860 all the

00:40:44.160 time.

00:40:47.280 I'd expect

00:40:47.960 10,000 to

00:40:49.140 100,000 if

00:40:50.720 the problem

00:40:51.280 were.

00:40:52.200 See, remember

00:40:52.720 the claim

00:40:54.180 here, the

00:40:55.640 claim is not

00:40:56.400 that doctors

00:40:57.060 have a

00:40:57.460 suspicion,

00:40:58.800 right?

00:40:59.560 The claim is

00:41:00.580 they're looking

00:41:01.020 at the same

00:41:01.560 data that

00:41:02.060 everybody else

00:41:02.600 is looking

00:41:02.920 at and

00:41:03.320 saying, hey,

00:41:05.120 this data

00:41:05.680 clearly says

00:41:06.600 opposite of

00:41:07.960 what you've

00:41:08.300 been told.

00:41:09.560 Isn't that

00:41:09.980 the claim?

00:41:10.900 That everybody's

00:41:11.740 looking at the

00:41:12.180 same data, but

00:41:13.220 some people are

00:41:13.960 not willing to

00:41:14.540 say what they

00:41:14.960 see with the

00:41:15.620 data?

00:41:17.320 Now, I don't

00:41:17.740 believe that,

00:41:18.840 but that's the

00:41:19.360 claim.

00:41:19.600 we spend

00:41:24.920 270 million a

00:41:26.000 year for,

00:41:26.460 yeah, why is

00:41:27.100 Afghanistan cheap 1.00

00:41:28.240 compared to

00:41:29.180 Ukraine?

00:41:30.340 A whole

00:41:30.920 different level

00:41:31.460 of fighting.

00:41:32.320 The entire

00:41:33.040 force that we

00:41:33.760 had in

00:41:34.200 Afghanistan was 0.99

00:41:35.180 kind of tiny.

00:41:40.540 They would

00:41:41.180 lose their

00:41:41.600 lives.

00:41:43.820 Lose their

00:41:44.440 lives?

00:41:45.020 I don't know

00:41:45.320 about that.

00:41:47.320 What about

00:41:47.960 the Trump

00:41:48.420 tapes with

00:41:49.080 Bob Woodward?

00:41:49.960 What about

00:41:50.280 him?

00:41:52.340 What about

00:41:53.040 him?

00:41:58.000 Anyway, I'm

00:41:59.060 tired of

00:41:59.440 talking about

00:41:59.920 pandemic stuff.

00:42:00.840 Let's talk

00:42:01.120 about anything

00:42:01.740 else.

00:42:07.740 All right.

00:42:13.340 Reframes.

00:42:15.600 How am I

00:42:16.220 feeling?

00:42:19.080 here's a

00:42:24.880 question for

00:42:25.420 you.

00:42:27.500 We always

00:42:28.140 talk about

00:42:28.800 whether people

00:42:30.380 are happy or

00:42:30.980 not, and

00:42:32.100 that somehow

00:42:32.540 you should be

00:42:33.080 happy even if

00:42:33.740 things are

00:42:34.240 going wrong.

00:42:35.780 Is there

00:42:36.380 not a

00:42:36.900 legitimate

00:42:37.380 point in

00:42:38.320 a person's

00:42:38.840 life?

00:42:43.280 Oh,

00:42:43.720 79,000

00:42:44.640 nurses got

00:42:45.480 fired for not

00:42:46.420 getting the

00:42:46.780 jab.

00:42:47.000 no, that

00:42:47.780 doesn't.

00:42:48.580 No, I

00:42:48.960 would not

00:42:49.320 count

00:42:49.620 nurses and

00:42:51.900 doctors in

00:42:52.480 the same

00:42:52.760 category at

00:42:54.300 all.

00:42:55.400 The doctors, I

00:42:56.400 would want to

00:42:56.860 be looking at

00:42:57.440 the data.

00:42:59.500 The nurses, I

00:43:00.440 don't know if

00:43:00.760 they were looking

00:43:01.120 at the data.

00:43:02.020 I think the

00:43:02.480 nurses were 0.71

00:43:03.040 probably doing

00:43:03.440 the same

00:43:03.740 thing the

00:43:04.060 public was

00:43:04.600 doing, which

00:43:05.820 was saying

00:43:06.360 we're not

00:43:06.980 confident enough

00:43:10.220 for this big

00:43:11.460 of a risk.

00:43:12.680 You don't need

00:43:13.380 any data for

00:43:13.940 that.

00:43:14.220 you could

00:43:14.940 just say,

00:43:15.420 I don't

00:43:15.760 know, the

00:43:16.160 situation looks

00:43:16.880 sketchy to

00:43:17.700 me.

00:43:18.480 And I

00:43:18.780 think that

00:43:19.220 that was a

00:43:19.720 reasonable

00:43:20.040 take.

00:43:21.440 Have I

00:43:21.880 ever said

00:43:22.240 that?

00:43:23.160 Have I

00:43:23.680 ever said

00:43:24.020 that directly?

00:43:26.180 Would that

00:43:26.760 surprise you?

00:43:28.360 Let me say it

00:43:29.100 directly.

00:43:30.560 Those who did

00:43:31.560 not get

00:43:32.000 vaccinated, I'm

00:43:34.360 not going to

00:43:34.680 say I agree

00:43:35.280 with you, but

00:43:37.400 I'm not going

00:43:37.840 to say you're

00:43:38.220 wrong.

00:43:39.860 Are you okay

00:43:40.560 with that?

00:43:41.760 Because I

00:43:42.320 wouldn't know.

00:43:42.700 I think

00:43:44.340 it's, you

00:43:46.260 implied it?

00:43:47.540 No.

00:43:48.540 I never, well,

00:43:50.240 here's what I

00:43:51.040 tried to do.

00:43:52.440 I tried to

00:43:53.120 imply that

00:43:54.240 people were

00:43:54.940 not using

00:43:55.520 reason to

00:43:56.280 make the

00:43:56.640 decision, which

00:43:57.380 I still

00:43:57.720 believe.

00:43:59.020 So I don't

00:43:59.760 believe that

00:44:00.220 the decisions

00:44:00.780 were made

00:44:01.260 out of

00:44:01.480 reason, so

00:44:03.200 I stand by

00:44:03.860 that.

00:44:04.500 Because people

00:44:05.040 don't make

00:44:05.500 decisions based

00:44:06.240 on reasons.

00:44:07.100 I don't, you

00:44:07.860 don't, people

00:44:08.580 don't.

00:44:09.860 So everybody

00:44:10.660 was dealing

00:44:11.600 with their

00:44:12.140 feelings,

00:44:12.860 basically.

00:44:13.780 What scares

00:44:14.580 you the

00:44:14.840 most, what

00:44:15.320 makes you

00:44:15.640 feel comfortable.

00:44:16.840 In my

00:44:17.240 case, it

00:44:17.660 was based

00:44:18.020 on my

00:44:18.360 feelings about

00:44:19.260 wanting to

00:44:20.320 take a

00:44:20.620 trip.

00:44:22.520 That

00:44:22.960 basically is

00:44:23.580 what pushed

00:44:24.000 me over

00:44:24.280 the line.

00:44:25.400 And was

00:44:26.820 I afraid

00:44:27.460 that the

00:44:27.900 vaccination

00:44:28.300 itself might

00:44:30.040 have side

00:44:30.560 effects?

00:44:31.380 Well, not

00:44:32.040 afraid, but

00:44:34.140 it was, you

00:44:34.520 know, on the

00:44:35.000 list of

00:44:35.360 things to

00:44:35.760 think about.

00:44:36.200 So,

00:44:36.280 the needed

00:44:42.560 data had

00:44:43.060 not been

00:44:43.400 collected,

00:44:43.900 that's

00:44:44.120 true.

00:44:46.280 Will Trump

00:44:47.100 choose MTG

00:44:48.100 as VP

00:44:48.920 now?

00:44:56.460 Yeah, I was

00:44:57.220 more afraid of

00:44:57.940 not having a

00:44:58.620 great time

00:44:59.040 than Bora

00:44:59.380 Bora.

00:44:59.560 or was

00:45:02.760 it, no,

00:45:03.500 actually it

00:45:03.920 was, well, I

00:45:05.960 take it back.

00:45:06.520 I think the

00:45:07.000 first, I got

00:45:08.680 it to go to

00:45:09.100 Greece.

00:45:09.740 Yeah, Greece

00:45:10.220 was the first

00:45:10.780 trip.

00:45:11.120 That's why I

00:45:11.540 got the

00:45:11.820 vaccinations, I

00:45:12.640 think.

00:45:13.620 Am I

00:45:13.900 remembering

00:45:14.300 that backwards?

00:45:15.220 I think

00:45:15.460 Greece was 0.98

00:45:15.900 the first

00:45:16.240 trip.

00:45:20.240 Shake the

00:45:20.780 box.

00:45:21.060 All right.

00:45:28.460 Well, I

00:45:29.040 would say

00:45:29.440 that I

00:45:31.260 would still

00:45:31.700 rank myself

00:45:32.400 as depressed.

00:45:34.840 Now that I

00:45:35.500 have a better

00:45:35.840 idea what that

00:45:36.360 feels like.

00:45:37.380 But don't

00:45:37.760 you think some

00:45:38.280 people should

00:45:39.280 not be happy?

00:45:41.960 Am I wrong

00:45:42.700 about that?

00:45:44.140 Aren't some

00:45:44.800 people in

00:45:45.460 legitimately in

00:45:47.760 a bad situation

00:45:48.620 and there's no

00:45:49.320 reason to be

00:45:49.780 happy about it?

00:45:51.820 I mean, if

00:45:52.220 you're in an

00:45:52.640 iron lung and

00:45:55.320 you're depressed

00:45:55.860 about it, is

00:45:56.800 that, should

00:45:57.540 you seek help?

00:45:59.280 Or are you

00:46:00.020 just being

00:46:00.400 realistic?

00:46:01.880 I'll tell you

00:46:02.980 what it was

00:46:03.500 that got me.

00:46:06.460 You know how

00:46:07.320 we all live in

00:46:08.280 a bubble of

00:46:10.160 subjective reality,

00:46:11.400 right?

00:46:12.680 We walk

00:46:13.560 around in a

00:46:14.160 little bubble

00:46:14.600 because we

00:46:15.100 would go insane

00:46:15.860 if we didn't.

00:46:17.520 So you put a

00:46:18.020 little protective

00:46:18.620 bubble around

00:46:19.260 here and you

00:46:20.100 tell yourself a

00:46:20.980 bunch of

00:46:21.300 bullshit that

00:46:21.840 isn't true.

00:46:23.780 Some of the

00:46:24.460 bullshit that

00:46:25.000 you tell

00:46:25.260 yourself is

00:46:25.880 that you

00:46:26.800 can trust

00:46:27.300 everybody that

00:46:28.960 you think you

00:46:29.460 can trust.

00:46:31.200 If you

00:46:31.800 didn't tell

00:46:32.340 yourself that,

00:46:32.960 you couldn't

00:46:33.280 live in the

00:46:33.680 world.

00:46:34.640 You couldn't

00:46:35.220 live in a

00:46:35.600 world where

00:46:35.960 you trusted

00:46:36.420 nobody.

00:46:37.660 But what

00:46:38.080 is closer to

00:46:38.860 the truth?

00:46:39.820 You can

00:46:40.240 trust everybody

00:46:41.080 that you

00:46:42.140 think you

00:46:42.480 can trust

00:46:42.940 or that you

00:46:43.880 can trust

00:46:44.260 nobody.

00:46:45.000 Which of

00:46:45.400 those is

00:46:45.740 closer to

00:46:46.420 actual reality?

00:46:47.460 Sadly, the

00:46:50.200 one that's

00:46:50.540 closer to

00:46:51.140 actual reality

00:46:52.000 usually once

00:46:53.380 you get out

00:46:53.740 of family

00:46:54.300 connections,

00:46:55.280 as soon as

00:46:55.720 you're out

00:46:56.140 of the

00:46:56.380 family blood

00:46:57.740 connection.

00:46:58.560 Because I

00:46:59.080 do trust my

00:46:59.780 family members

00:47:00.920 completely,

00:47:02.900 100%.

00:47:03.980 Because my

00:47:05.740 family members

00:47:06.380 would do the

00:47:06.860 right thing if

00:47:07.460 nobody was

00:47:08.000 watching.

00:47:09.520 Are you lucky

00:47:10.580 enough to have

00:47:11.040 family members

00:47:11.620 like that?

00:47:12.060 I can say

00:47:13.680 with 100%

00:47:14.500 certainty that

00:47:16.140 my siblings

00:47:16.740 would do the

00:47:17.480 right thing in

00:47:18.820 almost any

00:47:19.560 situation when

00:47:21.060 nobody was

00:47:21.680 watching.

00:47:22.460 I can say

00:47:23.180 that with

00:47:23.540 certainty.

00:47:25.720 But I can't

00:47:26.440 say that about

00:47:26.960 just about

00:47:27.320 anybody else.

00:47:29.340 There are

00:47:29.860 people I

00:47:30.220 suspect would.

00:47:32.400 Like, I

00:47:33.180 have a friend

00:47:33.720 who, if

00:47:35.500 you asked me

00:47:36.320 to bet on

00:47:36.860 it, I

00:47:37.200 would bet

00:47:37.480 he would do

00:47:37.840 the right

00:47:38.140 thing every

00:47:39.280 time if

00:47:40.800 nobody was

00:47:42.040 watching.

00:47:43.260 But I

00:47:43.580 don't know.

00:47:44.580 I don't

00:47:44.860 know.

00:47:45.500 I mean, I'm

00:47:45.880 pretty sure.

00:47:47.820 So here's

00:47:48.740 what happened

00:47:49.180 to me in

00:47:49.820 the past

00:47:50.240 years.

00:47:51.260 Yeah, I'd

00:47:51.600 say the

00:47:51.820 past year

00:47:52.320 or something.

00:47:53.780 That matrix

00:47:55.540 like mask

00:47:57.120 kind of fell

00:47:58.800 off and I

00:48:01.140 lost my

00:48:01.660 illusion for

00:48:02.260 a while.

00:48:03.880 So being

00:48:04.740 depressed is

00:48:05.820 not about

00:48:06.360 being in

00:48:06.840 the wrong

00:48:07.260 state of

00:48:07.760 mind, which

00:48:08.440 is the

00:48:08.780 problem.

00:48:10.100 In my

00:48:10.540 case, being

00:48:11.200 depressed was

00:48:12.020 in being

00:48:12.560 in the

00:48:12.800 right state

00:48:13.280 of mind.

00:48:15.520 That's the

00:48:16.200 fucked up

00:48:16.620 part.

00:48:17.560 The part

00:48:18.200 that made

00:48:18.560 me depressed

00:48:19.100 is when I

00:48:19.580 saw things

00:48:20.040 clearly.

00:48:22.280 And I

00:48:23.120 worked since

00:48:23.940 then to

00:48:25.300 rebuild my

00:48:26.060 illusions.

00:48:27.900 So when you

00:48:28.700 ask me if I'm

00:48:29.340 feeling better

00:48:30.180 or depressed,

00:48:31.460 I'm sort of

00:48:33.680 in the process

00:48:34.500 of rebuilding

00:48:35.340 an illusion

00:48:36.280 that I can

00:48:36.900 live in

00:48:37.460 without pain.

00:48:38.600 and I'm

00:48:40.000 not quite

00:48:40.360 there yet

00:48:40.900 because I

00:48:44.080 can still

00:48:46.020 see too

00:48:46.500 much ugly

00:48:47.240 and I

00:48:49.080 can't live

00:48:49.800 happily in

00:48:50.480 a world

00:48:50.860 with this

00:48:51.460 much ugly

00:48:52.300 around me.

00:48:53.420 I don't

00:48:53.960 mean physically

00:48:54.540 ugly, I

00:48:55.020 mean ugly

00:48:55.840 ideas and

00:48:56.700 thoughts and

00:48:57.300 stuff.

00:48:57.980 And I'm

00:48:58.800 trying as

00:48:59.380 hard as I

00:48:59.820 can to

00:49:01.460 rebuild a

00:49:02.840 protective

00:49:04.440 imaginary

00:49:06.160 shield of

00:49:07.200 everything's

00:49:07.800 fine when

00:49:09.620 it isn't.

00:49:11.180 It definitely

00:49:12.060 isn't.

00:49:12.960 But you

00:49:13.600 have to

00:49:13.980 build up a

00:49:14.380 little wall

00:49:14.880 of imaginary

00:49:16.200 protection.

00:49:17.480 So I'm

00:49:17.780 building up a

00:49:18.300 little wall

00:49:18.720 of imaginary

00:49:19.340 protection as

00:49:20.180 efficiently as

00:49:22.320 I can.

00:49:23.240 But it's

00:49:23.760 hard work.

00:49:27.300 All right.

00:49:27.900 But then

00:49:33.280 physically I

00:49:34.480 haven't figured

00:49:34.980 out how to

00:49:35.960 fix my

00:49:37.540 physical

00:49:37.940 problems.

00:49:38.540 So exercise,

00:49:39.740 I don't know

00:49:40.880 if I'll ever

00:49:41.240 be able to

00:49:41.540 exercise again.

00:49:42.780 So let me

00:49:43.540 give you,

00:49:44.180 let me just

00:49:44.980 give you an

00:49:45.360 idea.

00:49:46.720 It's possible

00:49:47.780 that I'll

00:49:49.260 never have

00:49:49.840 another

00:49:50.340 personal

00:49:52.060 relationship

00:49:52.640 for the rest

00:49:54.000 of my life.

00:49:55.200 It's possible

00:49:56.300 that I'll

00:49:57.860 never exercise

00:49:58.720 again for the

00:49:59.500 rest of my

00:49:59.960 life.

00:50:01.060 Because that's

00:50:01.820 my current

00:50:02.340 physical situation.

00:50:04.120 Now it could

00:50:04.660 be that I can

00:50:05.860 work through

00:50:06.300 those things and

00:50:07.160 everything will

00:50:07.760 be fine.

00:50:08.460 I mean I

00:50:08.760 could be

00:50:09.000 better by

00:50:09.360 next week.

00:50:10.540 But the

00:50:11.160 length of

00:50:11.620 time it's

00:50:12.080 been and

00:50:12.760 the fact that

00:50:13.240 I don't even

00:50:13.700 have a clue

00:50:14.320 of what's

00:50:14.800 wrong and

00:50:15.880 I'm at that

00:50:16.340 certain age

00:50:16.880 where things

00:50:17.300 will fall

00:50:17.600 apart,

00:50:18.420 suggest that

00:50:19.800 I could be

00:50:20.200 at the end

00:50:20.580 of my life.

00:50:22.640 And on

00:50:23.280 top of that,

00:50:24.360 feeling physically

00:50:25.260 that I'm

00:50:25.680 literally at

00:50:26.140 the end of

00:50:26.280 my life,

00:50:27.780 the responsibility

00:50:30.100 that one has

00:50:31.040 at a certain

00:50:31.540 level in life

00:50:32.300 is that all

00:50:33.340 of my daily

00:50:34.080 decisions have

00:50:36.360 to do with

00:50:36.800 my life span

00:50:37.520 now.

00:50:38.680 Like if I

00:50:39.280 thought I

00:50:40.100 would get

00:50:40.360 another dog,

00:50:41.920 I'd think,

00:50:42.400 ah shit,

00:50:43.000 dog lives 15

00:50:43.820 years, I don't

00:50:44.620 know, I don't

00:50:44.940 like those odds

00:50:45.620 because I

00:50:46.460 wouldn't want

00:50:46.740 to get a

00:50:47.100 dog that

00:50:47.520 outlived

00:50:48.440 me.

00:50:51.720 So it's

00:50:53.180 really,

00:50:54.840 you know,

00:50:55.140 until you get

00:50:55.760 to a certain

00:50:56.160 age if you're

00:50:56.760 younger and

00:50:57.240 you're listening

00:50:57.600 to this,

00:50:58.320 there are

00:50:58.760 some real

00:50:59.420 psychological

00:51:00.200 challenges you

00:51:02.320 have to get

00:51:02.680 past.

00:51:03.280 I think it's

00:51:03.740 probably easier

00:51:04.240 if you've got

00:51:04.640 a big family

00:51:05.200 situation because

00:51:06.380 then your family

00:51:06.920 is your whole

00:51:07.440 situation.

00:51:08.380 That's probably

00:51:08.940 a whole different

00:51:09.900 deal.

00:51:11.640 But let me

00:51:13.700 also tell you

00:51:14.260 that I have

00:51:14.760 a sort of

00:51:15.980 at least a

00:51:16.600 one year

00:51:17.260 minimum

00:51:17.940 optimism

00:51:21.040 buffer.

00:51:21.980 buffer.

00:51:22.800 So my

00:51:23.220 one year

00:51:23.920 optimism

00:51:25.040 buffer works

00:51:25.920 like this.

00:51:27.100 If it looks

00:51:27.900 impossible,

00:51:29.360 I still give

00:51:29.920 myself a

00:51:30.420 year.

00:51:32.560 That's like

00:51:33.180 a rule.

00:51:34.020 That's like a

00:51:34.480 system rule.

00:51:35.620 Doesn't matter

00:51:36.120 what the

00:51:36.500 problem is.

00:51:37.400 Doesn't matter

00:51:37.880 how much it

00:51:38.360 hurts.

00:51:39.400 Doesn't matter

00:51:39.920 how much I

00:51:40.440 want it to

00:51:40.820 stop.

00:51:41.940 I'll give

00:51:42.480 myself one

00:51:43.180 year to

00:51:44.080 just fix

00:51:44.800 that thing.

00:51:47.260 So,

00:51:48.340 you know,

00:51:48.640 don't worry,

00:51:49.060 I'm going to

00:51:49.380 check out

00:51:49.920 early because

00:51:50.740 I've got a

00:51:51.140 year to

00:51:51.460 fix this.

00:51:53.980 But I

00:51:54.600 can tell

00:51:55.020 you,

00:51:55.580 if I felt

00:51:56.340 like this

00:51:56.760 in a year,

00:51:57.220 I would

00:51:57.460 look to

00:51:57.760 kill myself.

00:51:59.520 So let

00:51:59.960 me say

00:52:00.400 it directly.

00:52:01.240 If I

00:52:01.760 feel like

00:52:02.240 this next

00:52:02.900 year,

00:52:03.780 I'm going

00:52:04.480 to look

00:52:04.700 to kill

00:52:05.820 myself.

00:52:07.120 Because I

00:52:07.620 don't want

00:52:07.860 to live

00:52:08.100 like this.

00:52:09.400 Like,

00:52:09.660 I'm not

00:52:09.820 going to

00:52:10.320 do this

00:52:10.600 two years.

00:52:13.240 I'll do

00:52:13.760 this one

00:52:14.160 year.

00:52:15.140 I'll give

00:52:15.700 you one

00:52:16.120 year with

00:52:16.960 this amount

00:52:17.520 of pain,

00:52:18.740 and then

00:52:19.120 next year,

00:52:19.620 I'm not

00:52:19.920 going to do

00:52:20.280 two years.

00:52:21.840 Promise

00:52:22.240 you,

00:52:22.460 I won't

00:52:22.700 do two.

00:52:23.520 Now,

00:52:23.860 that doesn't

00:52:24.160 mean I'll

00:52:24.400 kill myself.

00:52:25.940 It could

00:52:26.320 just mean I'll

00:52:26.980 go on

00:52:27.260 different drugs.

00:52:29.420 But,

00:52:29.860 you know,

00:52:30.100 legal,

00:52:30.660 illegal,

00:52:31.460 whatever I

00:52:31.920 have to

00:52:32.080 do.

00:52:32.320 Heroin,

00:52:33.040 I would

00:52:33.520 definitely

00:52:33.780 do heroin.

00:52:34.260 end it

00:52:38.180 end it

00:52:38.200 now.

00:52:40.020 Somebody's

00:52:40.500 suggesting that

00:52:41.260 I kill

00:52:41.540 myself right

00:52:42.140 away.

00:52:42.800 Thank you.

00:52:43.880 Appreciate

00:52:44.200 it.

00:52:45.740 No,

00:52:46.080 nothing's

00:52:46.420 going to

00:52:46.580 happen in

00:52:46.940 the next

00:52:47.160 year.

00:52:48.340 So don't

00:52:48.780 worry about

00:52:49.480 me waking

00:52:50.280 up tomorrow.

00:52:51.040 Nothing's

00:52:51.360 going to

00:52:51.540 happen in

00:52:51.880 the next

00:52:52.100 year,

00:52:52.780 for sure.

00:52:54.720 Fentanyl,

00:52:55.280 that'd be

00:52:55.720 one way to

00:52:56.140 go.

00:52:56.300 But by

00:53:01.680 the way,

00:53:01.940 if I do

00:53:02.300 it,

00:53:03.500 don't feel

00:53:05.080 bad for me,

00:53:05.740 okay?

00:53:06.860 Because it'll

00:53:07.440 be me getting

00:53:08.140 what I want,

00:53:09.040 should it

00:53:09.460 happen.

00:53:10.740 Although I

00:53:11.340 always thought

00:53:11.800 I'd get

00:53:12.100 murdered before

00:53:12.860 then.

00:53:15.040 Honestly.

00:53:17.860 You know,

00:53:18.600 I have seen

00:53:19.500 my death,

00:53:20.900 and it

00:53:22.420 does involve

00:53:22.980 murder.

00:53:24.560 Now,

00:53:25.060 that one I

00:53:25.460 might be

00:53:25.760 wrong about,

00:53:26.300 because it

00:53:27.040 doesn't feel

00:53:27.560 like my

00:53:27.960 other visions

00:53:28.920 of my

00:53:29.300 future.

00:53:30.320 But it's

00:53:31.160 the only

00:53:31.740 one I've

00:53:32.040 ever seen.

00:53:32.960 You know,

00:53:33.100 the only

00:53:33.360 death I've

00:53:33.800 ever seen

00:53:34.220 in my

00:53:34.480 future is

00:53:34.900 me getting

00:53:35.260 murdered for

00:53:36.900 doing something

00:53:37.900 that I

00:53:38.480 wasn't

00:53:38.720 responsible

00:53:39.200 for.

00:53:43.020 By

00:53:43.500 rando,

00:53:44.240 usually not

00:53:44.780 by somebody

00:53:45.260 I know.

00:53:46.940 Like,

00:53:47.280 for political

00:53:48.080 reasons.

00:53:49.140 I don't

00:53:49.420 mean for

00:53:49.700 crime reasons,

00:53:50.440 I mean for

00:53:50.820 political

00:53:51.220 reasons.

00:53:54.840 But I

00:53:55.480 don't think

00:53:55.740 that's

00:53:55.940 likely.

00:53:57.500 All right.

00:54:04.780 Scott,

00:54:05.680 can a

00:54:06.160 news bubble

00:54:06.680 be defined

00:54:07.600 as propaganda?

00:54:09.400 Yes,

00:54:09.980 I would say

00:54:10.520 so.

00:54:11.060 Because the

00:54:12.080 news bubbles

00:54:12.640 are created

00:54:13.700 for the

00:54:14.180 purpose of

00:54:14.940 persuading

00:54:16.360 one group.

00:54:17.540 So,

00:54:18.440 yeah.

00:54:20.260 Is there

00:54:20.760 anything

00:54:20.920 happening in

00:54:21.400 the news

00:54:21.720 that's

00:54:22.080 happier

00:54:22.600 than this?

00:54:31.580 About what?

00:54:33.940 Yeah,

00:54:38.260 the other

00:54:39.160 thing that

00:54:39.800 move to a

00:54:45.000 small town

00:54:45.740 and associate

00:54:46.280 with people,

00:54:47.320 well,

00:54:47.680 see,

00:54:47.880 here's the

00:54:48.240 problem.

00:54:49.620 When the

00:54:50.980 matrix

00:54:51.520 mask fell

00:54:53.460 off,

00:54:54.660 associating

00:54:55.260 with other

00:54:55.700 people just

00:54:56.880 turned out

00:54:57.400 to be really

00:54:58.140 unpleasant.

00:54:58.540 I think I

00:55:00.920 could get

00:55:01.260 over that.

00:55:02.740 It seems

00:55:03.480 temporary,

00:55:04.800 but it

00:55:05.800 just seems

00:55:06.200 really unpleasant

00:55:06.860 at the

00:55:07.200 moment.

00:55:08.280 So I've

00:55:08.700 been avoiding

00:55:09.460 just people

00:55:10.720 in general.

00:55:11.160 I will

00:55:18.080 challenge your

00:55:18.760 assumption of

00:55:19.580 what you

00:55:19.940 said about

00:55:20.440 who I

00:55:20.840 trust.

00:55:24.220 I would

00:55:24.960 never

00:55:25.280 trust a

00:55:26.360 spouse.

00:55:28.940 That's

00:55:29.500 just me.

00:55:31.680 Would any

00:55:32.460 of you

00:55:32.700 trust a

00:55:33.200 spouse?

00:55:35.720 Because

00:55:36.280 it's

00:55:36.460 2022.

00:55:41.160 it wasn't

00:55:44.960 what caused

00:55:46.500 the mask

00:55:46.960 to fall

00:55:47.380 off was

00:55:47.760 not related

00:55:49.560 specifically to

00:55:50.480 the marriage.

00:55:52.360 It was

00:55:53.260 bigger than

00:55:53.640 that.

00:55:57.000 How many

00:55:58.020 of you

00:55:59.220 could say

00:55:59.660 the following

00:56:00.180 thing?

00:56:01.360 I've been

00:56:01.740 curious about

00:56:02.340 this.

00:56:03.660 I'm convinced

00:56:04.680 that nobody

00:56:05.300 knows me,

00:56:06.900 like actually

00:56:07.480 nobody,

00:56:08.680 because there's

00:56:09.680 nobody who

00:56:10.100 knows the

00:56:10.480 whole story.

00:56:12.080 Everybody

00:56:12.520 gets a

00:56:13.020 slice.

00:56:14.800 And the

00:56:15.800 slice that

00:56:16.260 they don't

00:56:16.680 see, it's

00:56:17.840 not necessarily

00:56:18.380 because I'm

00:56:18.740 hiding it.

00:56:19.580 Maybe it's

00:56:20.080 just never

00:56:20.540 been exposed

00:56:21.360 or whatever.

00:56:25.700 But I

00:56:26.280 don't think

00:56:26.580 anybody knows

00:56:27.140 me.

00:56:27.480 How many

00:56:27.860 of you

00:56:28.100 could say

00:56:28.420 that about

00:56:28.740 yourselves?

00:56:31.180 Is there

00:56:31.700 anybody who

00:56:32.160 doesn't have

00:56:32.600 anybody who

00:56:33.880 knows them?

00:56:36.380 That's a

00:56:36.820 common feeling,

00:56:38.200 isn't it?

00:56:38.340 Yeah, so a

00:56:38.740 lot of people

00:56:39.040 are saying the

00:56:39.400 same thing.

00:56:39.780 sort of

00:56:41.040 weird.

00:56:43.960 Oh, you

00:56:44.520 have a

00:56:44.780 twin.

00:56:45.260 That helps.

00:56:47.460 Does your

00:56:47.880 twin know

00:56:48.320 you?

00:56:49.040 I want, I

00:56:49.980 guess, maybe

00:56:51.040 better than

00:56:51.540 anybody else.

00:56:54.900 Mark Twain

00:56:55.500 said we

00:56:55.900 never know

00:56:56.400 someone.

00:56:56.840 That's true.

00:56:57.860 I agree with

00:56:58.580 Mark Twain.

00:56:59.100 By the way,

00:57:02.320 Mark Twain is

00:57:03.040 always who I

00:57:03.800 was gunning

00:57:04.300 for.

00:57:07.280 Here's a

00:57:07.920 little tip

00:57:10.380 from my

00:57:10.940 book.

00:57:12.260 You know,

00:57:12.520 they tell

00:57:12.820 people you

00:57:13.440 shouldn't be

00:57:14.060 competitive,

00:57:14.740 you should

00:57:15.040 compete with

00:57:15.540 yourself.

00:57:16.960 You ever

00:57:17.340 heard that?

00:57:18.220 No, you

00:57:18.500 don't compete

00:57:19.020 with other

00:57:19.360 people, you

00:57:20.020 compete with

00:57:21.560 yourself to

00:57:22.600 be like the

00:57:23.080 better version

00:57:23.660 of yourself.

00:57:25.660 Terrible

00:57:26.160 advice.

00:57:27.400 Terrible

00:57:27.880 advice.

00:57:28.900 Never

00:57:29.180 compete with

00:57:29.720 yourself.

00:57:31.860 Because beating

00:57:32.740 yourself is the

00:57:34.220 lowest bar in

00:57:35.060 the world.

00:57:36.140 Being 1% 0.99

00:57:36.900 better than

00:57:37.400 you were.

00:57:38.400 Well, you

00:57:41.320 should always be

00:57:42.200 competing with

00:57:42.780 somebody else.

00:57:43.500 But here's the

00:57:44.160 part I add.

00:57:45.620 They don't have

00:57:46.220 to know it.

00:57:47.720 You should

00:57:48.100 always be

00:57:48.580 competing, but

00:57:50.040 the person you're

00:57:50.600 competing with

00:57:51.120 doesn't have to

00:57:51.960 know you're

00:57:52.300 competing with

00:57:52.740 them.

00:57:52.980 So it could

00:57:53.300 be just

00:57:54.500 someone you

00:57:55.000 know.

00:57:56.160 It could be

00:57:56.840 a family

00:57:57.200 member.

00:57:58.680 Don't be a

00:57:59.420 jerk about

00:57:59.920 it.

00:58:01.000 Don't sabotage

00:58:02.120 them or don't

00:58:03.240 talk shit about

00:58:04.160 them, but just

00:58:05.540 have them in

00:58:06.040 your mind, the

00:58:07.860 one to beat.

00:58:09.080 And I've never

00:58:09.740 said this before,

00:58:11.640 but my one to

00:58:13.140 beat is Mark

00:58:14.020 Twain.

00:58:17.360 He's my one

00:58:18.220 to beat.

00:58:19.080 How do you

00:58:19.560 beat that?

00:58:20.860 Now, if I

00:58:22.560 were trying to

00:58:23.140 beat myself,

00:58:24.080 just think

00:58:25.920 about the

00:58:26.280 difference,

00:58:26.880 right?

00:58:27.720 It's like,

00:58:28.100 here's me,

00:58:29.300 here's Mark

00:58:29.960 Twain.

00:58:31.260 If I beat

00:58:32.040 myself, yay,

00:58:33.980 yay, one

00:58:35.580 percent, yay,

00:58:36.980 beat myself.

00:58:38.120 But if I beat

00:58:38.820 Mark Twain, I've

00:58:41.100 done something.

00:58:42.400 And if I don't

00:58:43.300 beat Mark

00:58:43.740 Twain, and all

00:58:44.580 I do is I take a

00:58:45.740 good run at it,

00:58:46.520 you know, I

00:58:46.800 close the

00:58:47.260 distance, well,

00:58:48.020 that's better than

00:58:48.660 just beating

00:58:49.360 myself.

00:58:50.860 So, oh, you're

00:58:51.620 always competing with

00:58:52.280 somebody.

00:58:53.940 So, Mark

00:58:54.840 Twain was my

00:58:55.860 target.

00:59:01.740 It's not a

00:59:02.540 silly comparison.

00:59:04.760 Mark Twain is

00:59:05.560 actually a quite

00:59:07.340 accurate comparison.

00:59:09.580 Because Mark

00:59:10.340 Twain would be

00:59:11.000 considered an

00:59:12.200 American writer

00:59:14.760 of humor,

00:59:15.700 who was also

00:59:18.500 saying some

00:59:20.060 things that,

00:59:20.660 you know, were

00:59:21.680 relevant to

00:59:22.280 the society.

00:59:24.380 And that's

00:59:25.020 what I do.

00:59:25.440 That's my job.

00:59:26.960 Now, I'm not

00:59:27.440 saying that I'm

00:59:28.460 in his class.

00:59:30.100 I'm saying that,

00:59:31.180 you know, that's

00:59:32.280 my target.

00:59:36.100 Also trying to

00:59:36.960 get that, still

00:59:38.440 trying to get

00:59:38.940 that Nobel

00:59:39.380 Prize.

00:59:40.820 But I'm not

00:59:41.620 fuzzy.

00:59:43.000 I could take

00:59:43.800 science,

00:59:45.300 I could take

00:59:46.640 science,

00:59:48.500 economics,

00:59:49.480 economics, which

00:59:49.840 is, you know,

00:59:50.300 the fake

00:59:51.320 Nobel,

00:59:52.360 or peace.

00:59:55.460 So, any one of

00:59:56.560 those I'm good

00:59:57.000 for.

00:59:57.420 And I think I've

00:59:57.940 got a good, I've

00:59:59.460 got a good argument

01:00:00.160 for all of them.

01:00:02.960 So, here's how I

01:00:04.120 could win the

01:00:04.620 Nobel Prize for

01:00:05.500 science.

01:00:06.200 You ready?

01:00:06.540 Come up with a

01:00:09.220 proof that we live

01:00:10.440 in a simulation.

01:00:11.180 simulation.

01:00:15.580 And I'm already

01:00:16.740 developing, like, an

01:00:17.980 angle on that, so

01:00:19.060 I'm, like, closing

01:00:19.660 in on it.

01:00:20.540 And the angle is

01:00:21.600 that there will, it

01:00:23.980 will be something

01:00:24.420 like a rule.

01:00:25.760 And the rule will

01:00:26.480 be, there will be

01:00:27.120 nothing that we see

01:00:28.000 in our so-called

01:00:29.080 reality that would

01:00:30.960 not be the same

01:00:31.800 constraint that a

01:00:32.840 computer would have.

01:00:34.780 That those two will

01:00:35.840 never be out of sync.

01:00:37.720 That, that, that's

01:00:38.860 not proof we're in the

01:00:40.100 simulation, but it

01:00:42.160 would be certainly

01:00:43.040 evidence pushing you

01:00:44.240 in that direction.

01:00:48.420 And there might

01:00:49.260 even be some way to

01:00:52.080 prove it directly.

01:00:53.400 I would argue that

01:00:54.300 it's already been

01:00:54.960 proven.

01:00:55.820 It goes like this.

01:00:59.380 Spooky action at a

01:01:00.500 distance, you know,

01:01:02.580 and things that

01:01:03.140 appear to change the

01:01:04.260 past or move faster

01:01:05.400 than the speed of

01:01:06.120 light, those are

01:01:07.520 examples of history

01:01:09.480 being created on

01:01:12.660 demand.

01:01:14.040 Once you realize that

01:01:15.260 reality is created on

01:01:16.780 demand, including

01:01:18.500 history, not just

01:01:20.900 what just happened,

01:01:21.820 but the history that,

01:01:23.100 you know, the trail

01:01:23.900 that would go all the

01:01:25.000 way back, it's all

01:01:26.740 created on demand.

01:01:28.020 Once we realize that

01:01:29.080 reality is created on

01:01:30.820 demand, and I think

01:01:32.180 we already have, it's

01:01:33.380 just we haven't

01:01:33.900 interpreted it that way,

01:01:35.540 then it's obvious that

01:01:37.780 we're a simulation.

01:01:41.400 Yeah, the only tense

01:01:43.200 that will exist is the

01:01:45.160 present tense, and

01:01:46.780 everything else.

01:01:48.460 And I think there's

01:01:49.340 some other obvious

01:01:50.680 proofs of that.

01:01:52.260 One is that if you

01:01:55.080 keep going smaller and

01:01:56.360 smaller, you know, into

01:01:57.160 the atomic world and the

01:01:58.560 quantum world, and you

01:02:01.240 keep asking, well, what's

01:02:02.540 that made of?

01:02:04.380 What's a proton made

01:02:06.460 of?

01:02:07.620 Then maybe there's an

01:02:08.560 answer to that.

01:02:09.760 And then you get that

01:02:10.400 answer, you say, what's

01:02:11.540 that made of?

01:02:13.280 So once you realize that

01:02:14.660 matter is irrational,

01:02:18.040 then you can do away

01:02:20.680 with it.

01:02:22.920 Yeah, the physical

01:02:24.220 matter is completely

01:02:25.380 irrational, because you

01:02:27.120 would have to assume that

01:02:27.960 everything about it is

01:02:28.940 made of something else,

01:02:29.900 or if you got to the

01:02:31.820 bottom level and

01:02:32.580 everything is the same,

01:02:34.100 it wouldn't move.

01:02:36.180 If you put everything the

01:02:37.720 same in one place and

01:02:39.300 put no external force on

01:02:41.180 it, it would just sit

01:02:43.500 there.

01:02:44.560 It would just all be the

01:02:45.660 same.

01:02:47.420 You'd have to have

01:02:48.240 something that was, you

01:02:49.380 know, some kind of

01:02:50.380 difference that would

01:02:51.160 cause any movement.

01:02:54.120 So it can't be true that

01:02:55.560 everything is different

01:02:56.740 all the way down.

01:02:57.720 Well, that's made of

01:02:58.600 something that's made of

01:02:59.400 something else that's

01:03:00.120 made of something else to

01:03:01.600 infinity.

01:03:02.780 And it can't be true that

01:03:04.020 if you got to the bottom

01:03:04.900 of it, it's all the same.

01:03:07.160 So the only two

01:03:08.100 possibilities that is

01:03:09.640 different forever and that

01:03:11.620 it's all the same are

01:03:13.620 irrational.

01:03:15.760 So reality can't exist.

01:03:18.000 It's illogical that it

01:03:19.460 exists.

01:03:19.880 All right.

01:03:28.500 So I think there might be

01:03:31.060 some simple rule, and

01:03:34.420 this was in my book, God's

01:03:35.800 Debrief, a long ago.

01:03:37.220 Now, I don't think this

01:03:38.660 rule fits everything, but

01:03:40.880 watch how cleverly, in sort

01:03:42.540 of an author way, it sounds

01:03:44.740 like it might.

01:03:46.740 What if there's only one

01:03:48.060 rule in the whole reality?

01:03:49.880 And the rule is this.

01:03:52.440 Like things attract.

01:03:55.040 And that's it.

01:03:56.640 Things that are alike

01:03:57.780 attract.

01:03:59.320 Now, it's one of those

01:04:00.120 things where you say, well,

01:04:01.000 how could I explain

01:04:01.840 everything?

01:04:03.240 And then you go through

01:04:04.160 all the examples.

01:04:05.400 How about gravity?

01:04:07.600 Imagine two objects in

01:04:09.220 space, and they would be

01:04:11.800 attracted, right, by

01:04:12.720 gravity.

01:04:13.120 But the two objects are

01:04:15.140 more like each other than

01:04:17.520 the empty space around

01:04:18.880 them.

01:04:19.560 So the things that are two

01:04:20.660 most alike would be drawn

01:04:22.260 together.

01:04:23.220 Now, it wouldn't matter if

01:04:24.100 one was a hunk of metal and

01:04:26.120 the other was a piece of

01:04:27.000 wood.

01:04:28.040 The metal and the wood are

01:04:29.520 more like each other than

01:04:30.680 the empty space.

01:04:32.620 Boop.

01:04:33.100 And so, watch how many

01:04:38.640 times you see things that

01:04:41.160 are the same are attracted

01:04:42.960 to each other and things

01:04:44.160 that are different are not.

01:04:47.420 Now, you could say, but what

01:04:49.220 about, you know, what about

01:04:51.440 magnets that repel?

01:04:53.600 I would say, well, you know,

01:04:55.760 I'm pretty sure those are

01:04:56.840 the things that actually

01:04:57.480 attracted you just turned

01:04:58.900 them around.

01:04:59.940 I mean, if you put the, if

01:05:00.900 you took two magnets in

01:05:02.260 space and they were facing

01:05:05.700 each other in a way that

01:05:06.580 would repel, if they were in

01:05:08.960 space, they would flip around

01:05:11.100 immediately and come together

01:05:12.780 because magnets are just like

01:05:14.680 magnets, right?

01:05:15.960 So every time you find an

01:05:17.740 example where you think, well,

01:05:19.180 that's not going to work, you

01:05:21.420 can kind of find a way it

01:05:22.540 does.

01:05:23.080 You can talk yourself into

01:05:24.260 it.

01:05:25.120 Now, I'm not going to claim

01:05:26.580 that that is the rule, the

01:05:28.640 one rule that regulates all

01:05:32.180 of physics, but it might be.

01:05:35.600 It might be.

01:05:36.880 In other words, I do believe

01:05:38.300 that there might be one rule

01:05:39.900 that simple at the bottom of

01:05:42.980 everything.

01:05:44.880 So that's my bid for the

01:05:47.260 Nobel Prize in science.

01:05:52.540 Yeah, magnets are just like

01:05:59.500 magnets.

01:06:04.040 You'd rather have a mug than a

01:06:05.560 Nobel Prize.

01:06:06.320 I want to be like, who was it who

01:06:10.140 didn't bother to go get his

01:06:11.400 Nobel Prize?

01:06:14.160 The singer, old rock singer,

01:06:17.380 what's his name?

01:06:19.080 Bob Dylan.

01:06:20.040 Yeah, Bob Dylan, he wins the

01:06:22.240 Nobel Prize for, what, literature

01:06:24.600 or something?

01:06:25.660 He's like, eh, mail it to me.

01:06:27.300 I want to reach that, you know,

01:06:31.540 that certain confidence and age

01:06:33.240 where you could just say,

01:06:34.040 Nobel Prize?

01:06:35.400 That's cool.

01:06:36.740 Why don't you mail that to me?

01:06:38.100 That'll look good over my

01:06:39.280 mantle.

01:06:42.840 Have Dilbert win him a Nobel

01:06:44.320 Prize.

01:06:46.680 Done.

01:06:47.400 I will do that.

01:06:48.800 I will have Dilbert win a Nobel

01:06:50.600 Prize.

01:06:51.020 All right.

01:06:57.300 We got a Medal of Freedom, too.

01:07:05.700 All right.

01:07:06.720 Everybody, is there anything I

01:07:07.880 forgot to talk about today?

01:07:09.180 Any topics that you need to get

01:07:12.540 out of your system?

01:07:14.180 It's a pretty slow news day today.

01:07:19.760 All right.

01:07:20.720 The Mar-a-Lago crimes could result

01:07:27.620 in a sentence barring Trump.

01:07:29.800 Well, I think that's the whole game,

01:07:31.160 is they're trying to get Trump in an

01:07:33.680 unelectable situation using the legal

01:07:37.100 system.

01:07:38.580 But I don't know.

01:07:40.420 I feel like if they infinitely try to

01:07:43.880 get him, something's going to get him.

01:07:47.120 Don't you think?

01:07:47.900 Like, I'd love to say that there's no

01:07:51.620 way they can get him on anything, but

01:07:53.880 if you just keep pressing, you're going

01:07:56.360 to get him on something that didn't

01:07:57.560 even happen.

01:07:59.320 Like, sooner or later, somebody will

01:08:02.140 believe something that literally didn't

01:08:03.680 happen, and then they got him.

01:08:05.240 So, what Mark Twain books have I read?

01:08:12.740 The main three or four.

01:08:17.200 A long time ago.

01:08:20.740 All right.

01:08:22.640 And we still haven't heard anything about

01:08:24.260 China walking out the prior leader.

01:08:29.300 How did you interpret that?

01:08:30.800 You know, if China had been trying to 0.84

01:08:35.360 tell us that the prior leader was ill,

01:08:38.620 and they were doing him a favor, don't

01:08:40.680 you think they would have used a cover

01:08:42.060 story by now?

01:08:44.000 Don't you think China would have said,

01:08:45.300 oh, you've totally misinterpreted that.

01:08:47.580 He was feeling bad, and we just wanted to,

01:08:49.640 uh, and we wanted to, uh, blah, blah, blah.

01:08:59.240 Don't publish, uh, well, never mind.

01:09:08.360 All right.

01:09:12.740 I got nothing else to say, so I'm going to

01:09:14.760 go do something else, and I'll talk to you

01:09:16.600 tomorrow.

01:09:19.640 Bye.

01:09:22.240 Bye.

01:09:25.020 Bye.

01:09:39.800 Bye.

01:09:43.080 Bye.

01:09:43.200 Bye.

01:09:45.340 Bye.

01:09:48.600 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 23, 2022

Episode 1905 Scott Adams： The News Is Slow Today But I Am Fast. I Think That Will Even It Out

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