Episode 1937 Scott Adams： Today I Will Bend Your Brains Like Never Before. Happy Thanksgiving!
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1 hour and 7 minutes
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Summary
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans and Canadians, and non-Americans, too! Today's episode is all about being thankful for all of you, the people who helped keep us alive this year, and all of the things we're thankful for.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and a special Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans and Canadians and non-Americans, too.
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And today, you have managed to blunder upon, or possibly cleverly planned to be here,
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the highlight of civilization itself, and I'm going to bend your brain so hard today.
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Oh, yeah, you better put a seatbelt on your brain, because I'm going to be tweaking it a little bit today.
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And if you'd like to get ready for this brain-bending experience,
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the most awesome thing, commercial-free, that you've ever seen in your entire life,
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I wasn't even going to tell you, because I didn't want you to get too excited too fast.
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And the first thing you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day,
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It's called the Simultaneous Thanksgiving Sip today, and it happens now.
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Well, I almost don't know where to start, because today was filled with so much wonder
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and goodness in the news that I can barely contain myself.
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Well, let's just start with a big thank you to Locals for saving my life this year.
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A lot closer to a factual statement than you think.
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You think there's a little hyperbole in there, but literally you kept me alive.
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I don't think I could have gotten through the pandemic without this experience.
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I tried as hard as I could to give back as much value as I could so that you would come out ahead.
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Maybe the single best advice anybody would ever give you.
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How much do you want to work with somebody who gives you more than you expected?
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So, that's a sincere thank you, and let's have another good year.
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Joy Reid apparently said some things about Thanksgiving and called it out for being fake news and propaganda.
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Thank you, MSNBC, for taking our wonderful holiday and turning it into garbage.
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Today's Thanksgiving, and today we will not be saying only negative things about people.
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And I would like to call out that Joy Reid, no matter what you think of her political opinions, she's very smart.
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But Thanksgiving was designed as a propaganda brainwashing operation to, in part, sanitize our ugly past of how we treated the Native Americans.
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And as she said it, she told her viewers on MSNBC, quote, the Thanksgiving is built on this myth that the indigenous welcome their colonizers with open arms and ears of corn.
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Because that's almost exactly what I learned, that the Native Americans are like, hey, hey, we got company.
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It's built entirely upon this myth of awesome people getting together.
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But the intention of it is to bring the country together and create a narrative that we can rally around and make us better people.
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I'll put it in this category, the Pledge of Allegiance.
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It's literally just propaganda brainwashing of American citizens, for which I am totally in favor.
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If the school does a good job, we won't talk about the bad public school system.
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But if they do a good job, they're brainwashing your kids, but in a good way.
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You know, they don't learn that like I just tried to brainwash you by saying you should deliver more than people expect.
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So, you know, influence and brainwashing is everywhere all the time.
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And I think Thanksgiving is a great example of turning some horrible history into maybe some positive.
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Give people an excuse to just feel thankful for a while.
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Here's your test to see if you can objectively look at this story without your robot bigotry that you will bring to it.
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The story is the San Francisco Police Department has proposed a new policy that would give robots the license to kill humans.
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Now, you might say to yourself, I would need more information about that story.
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It feels like there might be some important details that are left out of the initial reporting.
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The important detail being it's not an autonomous robot.
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It's a robot that somebody's like steering and controlling.
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And if a person is controlling the robot and telling it to shoot and where to shoot, isn't that just a gun?
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Basically, we just defined a fancy gun as a robot.
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It's just, if a person is telling it to shoot and then it shoots, it's just a gun.
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It's just a really fancy one that has, you know, a remote sight and it can move around without you touching it.
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Now, how many of you immediately realized that it wasn't really a story about robots?
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It's just a better form of a gun or a way to deliver a gun, I guess.
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I want you to see if you could summarize the year 2022 in the snarkiest, most cynical way.
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What's the snarkiest one sentence you could say about the whole year?
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Mine is, everything you suspected about everything turned out to be true.
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Doesn't it feel as if everything you sort of suspected was exactly what was going on?
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Now, to be clear, many of you are in a different reality than I am.
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But in both cases, we followed a reality in which the thing we expected or suspected turned out to be true.
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Your reality and mine might be different, but we both found ourselves to be right, but in different realities.
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They don't match, like your reality and mine might not match.
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But we all got to feel like we were right in the end, which is weird.
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Here's some fake news coming out, I think, about Foxconn and China.
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Have you seen all the video of what appeared to be the Chinese government cracking down on the workers who seem to be trying to escape from their COVID quarantine?
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Have you all seen those videos or that news story?
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Looks like the government is cracking down on them.
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They're trying to keep them in like a little jail to keep working and stuff.
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Turns out that might be an entirely fake story.
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So I'm not going to say that the story that calls BS on the story is true, but I'll let you know what it is.
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Apparently, the real problem is they were promised bonuses and then the company reneged.
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On top of that, they're also mad about the lockdowns, but it was about the bonuses.
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And apparently, they solved it by working out some accommodation with the bonuses.
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It was pretty much an ordinary story of a company having an employee problem.
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Now, I saw also a theory that Foxconn always has to relocate and has over time because they can only operate where you can abuse your employees the most.
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So allegedly, they were in a place where as soon as it got more industrialized, you couldn't have this horrible company in the middle of your nice place.
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So I had to move where there are even poorer people who have fewer health protections.
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So the thinking is that China eventually will be too modernized to actually accommodate Foxconn.
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And that Foxconn will actually have to leave China to find an even worse country to operate in because their business model requires that you not have essentially safety controls.
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I'm saying that, you know, that's being promoted as one interpretation of what's happening there.
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I did a poll on Twitter, which is, of course, highly unscientific.
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And I asked if how many people have rejected advice from their own doctors since the pandemic?
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How many people have rejected advice from their own doctors since the pandemic?
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And each time I rejected my doctor's advice, I did well.
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I am not recommending you reject your doctor's advice.
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I am not recommending that anybody ignore their doctor's advice.
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If I talk about it, it doesn't mean I'm recommending it.
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Two-thirds of the people who answered, of course, it's a biased, unscientific poll.
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But two-thirds of the people said yes, that they had ignored their doctor.
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I ignored my veterinarian and my doctor on several very important things.
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I am currently ignoring my doctor who ordered a full blood panel for me.
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Do you know why I am ignoring my doctor's full blood panel?
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If I do the blood panel, do you think it will find something that looks suspicious?
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Oh, your kidney function is a little this or that, so you better take this pill.
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But today, I mean, I'm really, really going to have to have a strong, strong argument to take another pharmaceutical product.
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I've been on, I had been on asthma meds for 20 years, 25, something like that.
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I don't use the emergency inhaler, because I just don't need it.
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But there's a kind that you use, you know, sort of a baseline one to keep you healthy.
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My doctor looked at that and said, you know, do you have any symptoms of asthma?
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Because, probably because I do this baseline thing every day.
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And she said, you don't need that, unless you have symptoms.
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She goes, no, that's not really even indicated for what you have, if you don't have any symptoms.
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And I said, but if I stop taking this, won't I immediately have trouble breathing?
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And she said, well, if you do, then use your emergency inhaler and get back on it.
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First time, first day that I didn't do my regular asthma meds, I couldn't breathe.
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And I was like, oh, shit, I really do need this stuff.
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And I thought, I wonder if that was psychological.
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And now it's been a week without the meds, and I breathe perfectly.
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My exercise routine is actually the best it's ever been.
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You know, I have the best muscle definition of my entire life at age 65.
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I mean, I'm just not sure that, I don't know what's going on with health care, but it's pretty sketchy.
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Remember, we were all confused about why the baseline deaths are so high.
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And some people say, it must be the long COVID.
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The hypothesis is that people stop taking medical advice.
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And maybe some of it was essential for them to stay alive.
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Because I don't know what I'm going to do when I reach a situation where the doctor's right.
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Because it's going to happen eventually, right?
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Like, I can't keep getting lucky and overruling, you know, a trained medical professional with decades of experience.
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Even though it appears that I have had extraordinarily good success, finally, of, you know, making decisions that, you know, opposite of, let's say, medical science.
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Because even though I believe I've done it totally successfully up to this point, I feel like the next one could be the one that kills me.
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The very next thing I refuse to do might be the one that kills me.
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So I can't make a recommendation that you ignore your doctor.
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We should at least be open to the hypothesis, subject to testing, that maybe people stop listening to good advice.
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I think the baseline death thing is going to be a combination of several variables.
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Remember he found that big closet full of T-shirts for Twitter employees that said, stay woke?
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And we all had a good laugh that, you know, their closet was full of them.
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Well, apparently Musk has taken it to the next level.
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And he's created shirts that he's selling, I don't know, on the Twitter store.
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But instead of stay woke, it says, stay at work.
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Then I'm going to tell you some behind-the-scenes stuff that I can't tell the YouTube people.
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So, when we get to the end of the live stream, I'm going to go private on Locals.
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But remind me that the topic is cybernetic intelligence.
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There will be a little behind-the-scenes stuff for you.
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You thought it was true, and then it turns out it is.
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So, Musk is saying, Musk asked, should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts,
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provided that they have not broken law or engaged in egregious spam?
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A lot of people were giving him advice, which I love.
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I mean, I just love watching people give Musk advice how to fix Twitter.
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Because, Musk has determined that Twitter itself operates like a brain.
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He uses it the same way I use my live stream, especially the Locals platform.
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I use the Locals platform as my auxiliary brain.
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Like, any question I have, I just put it out there, and there's somebody who knows the answer.
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He said it directly, that Twitter's operating like a big brain.
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And now he asks the big brain, what should I do?
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But my God, my God, watching, you know, the richest guy in the world, arguably the most successful engineer without even being a trained engineer,
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watching him create or actually take advantage of Twitter as a brain, and then using that brain as part of his business process?
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This is all next level, kind of like management.
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It's like management from the future or some damn thing.
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I mean, this is just insane to watch this happening.
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But my advice for him was this, that if you're going to do a general amnesty for these suspended accounts,
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the single best time in the world to do it would be under new management.
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There will never be a time that's more perfect than that.
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The biggest problem with bringing somebody back is it creates this ugly precedent of,
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well, I guess I can do anything I want because I'm coming back.
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But if you say once only, you know, because we're redoing Twitter, it's under new management, once only,
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we're going to give a general amnesty, this is never going to happen again.
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I think if you said it's because of new ownership and also the product is being revamped,
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So whether or not he lets everybody come back, I don't know.
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But I'll tell you that if he decides to do it, it's now.
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That if you're going to do it, this is the time to do it, period.
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There might be some people that are just way over the line.
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Now, let's talk about two movies on one screen.
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Back in 2016 or so, I coined that phrase because I saw that Trump was creating a situation where we'd bifurcated reality into two completely different realities.
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And I saw that coming early and I said, we're living in multiple realities at the same time.
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We're looking at the same stuff, the same screen, but what I see on that screen isn't what you see.
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We're just in our own realities, even though we're looking at the same stuff.
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Now, the way most of you have traditionally interpreted that is that if people disagree what's true, it could be that both of them are wrong.
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But usually you're trying to figure out which one is right and which one is wrong.
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I'm going to see how many I can bring to my world.
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And by my world, I mean my interpretation of reality itself.
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Do you remember when the other day we watched reality bifurcate in real time?
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It's when I did the simultaneous sip that I do before every live stream and many people said, hey, you forgot to do it.
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And then other people who were here at exactly the same time watching the same thing said, yes, you did.
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And then you could see people were quite sure that their reality was right and the other reality was wrong.
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Now, your interpretation of the situation is one of those groups was correct and one of those groups was incorrect.
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Is it your view that maybe you don't know who is correct, but you would say somebody was correct and somebody was incorrect?
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And now that's your normal view of the reality, is that it either literally happened or it didn't.
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I do not live in your reality where it was either true or false.
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In my reality, there was this event that triggered two different worlds.
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So we split into people who were sure it happened and people who were sure it did not happen.
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As long as there's never a requirement that we agree, we can live in those two different worlds forever.
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You might be aware that Einstein once said there's no preferred observer.
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So if you're trying to understand reality, Einstein says, well, if you were traveling at the speed of light, reality would look different to you and would actually be different to you.
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Einstein said, you can live in your own reality.
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Depending on the speed, the angle, and how you're observing.
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That this thing you think is a truth, that one of these happened and one didn't, probably nothing happened.
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All right, so here's the analogy, and then I'll take it back to the real world.
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If you're using a computer and you click on an icon, you don't actually know what the icon's doing.
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It's moving zeros and ones in a way that you trust will get you something you predict, but you don't know what's happening.
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My view of reality is that there are two things that you can know, and that's about all you can know.
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One, you can know you exist, because you're asking the question.
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Two, you can know that some things appear to have consistent predictive results to you.
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The only thing you're sure of is that it appears that way.
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But you're not sure it's true, you're just sure that that's your impression.
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So the two things you know is that you exist, and that you have impressions of things.
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And this will sound so weird that I'm going to lose most of you.
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In the world I live in, there was no simultaneous sip.
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The simultaneous sip was like an icon on the screen, and you saw the icon, but you didn't know the reality of it.
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The reality of it could be that I'm a three-headed lizard from the planet Flurbapond,
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And then, maybe for other people, they were watching an empty screen.
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So what I'm saying is that something happened, but the people who say it happened didn't see anything real.
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And the people who say it didn't happen also did not see anything real.
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So this can all work within our reality, as long as there's never a requirement that the two realities solve.
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Now, you say to yourself, Scott, you just have to go back and look at the video, and then solve it.
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So what happens if somebody goes back and looks at the video?
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Well, the most that they'll find out is that their icon-level user interface reality part, maybe they'll say, oh, I guess I just missed it.
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So you would rapidly explain to yourself why you were in the wrong reality, but then you would think, oh, I went from being wrong to being right.
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But the way I see reality is you went from one thing you didn't understand to another thing you didn't understand.
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That's all you know, is that you exist, and it looks like some things are predictive.
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So you live in a world where it was either true or false that there was a simultaneous SIP.
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I permanently live in a world where the question doesn't make sense.
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Like, I'm really, really trying to not talk about mass murders or anything with children.
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But there's probably more we don't know than what we know.
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So Balenciago, a big fashion brand that worked with Kanye and dropped him because of his recent comments.
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They did an advertisement campaign in which children were shown with teddy bears that looked like they were in, you know, bondage attire.
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And then other photos, not the same one with the bears, I guess, but other photos that Balenciago had, had documents sort of on a desk that seemed to indicate some kind of message about, you know, illegal underage sex or something.
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Now, there were some other, like, little indications that Balenciago has got some badness going on.
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Now, the question I asked is, well, why hasn't somebody just talked to the people who did the photo?
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Like, why are we listening to the executives of Balenciago, who, by the way, apologized?
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And they said we never should have paired children with these products.
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Now, so I said, why can't we hear from the people who did the photo?
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And then people on Twitter, because Twitter is a big cybernetic brain, immediately corrected me and said, we have, we have.
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The photographer said, hey, hey, hey, I'm just the guy who makes sure the lighting and the, you know, the photo is good.
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It's the brand that tells me what to photograph.
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Because the photographer was not in charge of what the photo was.
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He was just pushing the button to make sure the lighting was good, right?
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So I had this conversation with another photographer who agreed with that photographer and said that, this other photographer said, well, I too have done many photo shoots, including brands.
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And when it's a brand, you actually don't get to choose what you shoot.
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And then, you know, you can control the lighting and stuff.
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But basically, you're just doing what the brand tells you to do.
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to tell you about something I've never seen before.
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This is the greatest thing that's ever happened in the history of social media.
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The greatest thing anybody's ever seen on social media.
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So the photographer who said that, did I actually not get a photo of that?
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And so I tweeted back and said, now, I've been in lots of photo shoots, maybe hundreds.
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So being the Dilbert guy, for years and years, every two days, somebody would say, can we do a photo shoot and put you in some publication?
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And I would say yes, because it was all good publicity.
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And some of you have been in one or two, but I know a lot about photo shoots.
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I said that the photographer is the captain of the ship.
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Yes, the brand says we'd like you to hire you to do this.
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But once you're in the room, I said the photographer is the captain of the ship.
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But this photographer argued and said, no, the brand tells you what to shoot.
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You just push the buttons and make sure the lighting is right.
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Somebody at Locals posted it for me so I could read it for you.
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And then I said, let me defend you before you answer.
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Have you ever seen anybody just agree with you on Twitter?
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So after I said that, you'd shoot child porn for a paycheck?
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And then he responded with, his name is MJ Reincarnate, I guess.
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But he said, I would not, meaning he would not shoot child porn for a paycheck.
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I think the photographer should share more of the blame here.
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And he notes that he thinks the persuasive part of what I said was when I said,
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It's basically, you and I are on the same side.
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Because you basically just said you wouldn't say no to pedos.
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So, here's what you need to know about the photographer.
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The photographer said, I'm not the one who set up the scene.
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I think there's an obligation that's a little bit bigger than a photographer.
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So, I will take it as truth that the photographer was not behind some pedophile ring.
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But should the photographer have raised an objection?
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And I think the photographer, you know, maybe should say that directly.
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Because the person who hired the photographer says it directly.
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The person who hired the photographer says we should not have done this.
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So, it's easy for the photographer to say, yeah, you know, like I got caught up in it.
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Because people do kind of get rolled into doing things they don't want to want.
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You know, it's just not my day to complain sort of thing.
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You should have complained, but I could see a normal person making that mistake.
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Now, he also points out that he had nothing to do with what was on the set.
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So, the photographer doesn't necessarily bring the props.
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That would be the brand people more often than not.
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And so, it might not have, you know, and some other photographer took the picture that had those sketchy documents on it.
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Why would somebody leave these obvious clues in a photo shoot?
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Let's say it wasn't the photographer who did it, but somebody did.
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One, they're part of a large grooming ring, and they're sending out the signal, and, you know, making it safe for everybody.
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It could have been a cowardly whistleblower who said, you know what?
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Now, if somebody says it could be a practical joke, maybe.
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I mean, that would be a horrible practical joke, but it could happen.
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Could be somebody who liked Kanye more than they liked this company.
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Somebody who simply liked Ye and didn't like what the company did and said, all right, well, see if you like this.
00:38:30.400
So I wouldn't assume that Balenciaga is guilty of any, you know, major thing.
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Because I don't think the response goes to why there were so many indications.
00:38:51.820
It's one thing to say we shouldn't put kids in an ad, but they dealt with one variable when the conversation is multiple variables.
00:39:04.080
Now, I have been never on the team, and I think you can confirm this, I have never been on the team that says the world is run by a cabal of elite pedos, pedophiles.
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You can confirm I've never said, I've never suggested that that's the case, right?
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However, in the interest of fairness, however, let me point out that, number one, yes, there are a lot of signals that are starting to look very suspicious.
00:39:47.180
No matter how many pieces of confirmation you see, confirmation bias is still more likely.
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However, if you would like to have a little bit of comfort in your view, which might differ from mine, allow me to help you out.
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Here's the best argument for the existence of a pedo elite running the world.
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Unless follow the money doesn't work in this and only this situation, because it works everywhere else.
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Follow the money should give you the following situation, and I'll explain why.
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If you assume that Epstein Island was a blackmail operation, you mostly believe that, right?
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Don't you all understand that is probably a blackmail operation?
00:40:46.340
Now, I don't know that it's true, but let's assume it is.
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Now, let's assume also that billionaires like to fund politicians they can control.
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Billionaires who want to fund politicians have a strong preference for funding ones they can control.
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What would be the most valuable politician for a billionaire?
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One that has some blackmail, you know, working against them.
00:41:19.400
So, in theory, follow the money as long as blackmail of political people is a real thing.
00:41:30.160
And as long as billionaires fund the people they want to control,
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you should eventually get to the point where only pedophiles and sexual criminals are running things.
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Because the billionaires would make sure they only had people they could control
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So, just to be clear, if I get taken out of context,
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I'm not saying that there is an elite pedophile government entity.
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I'm just saying that if you believe following the money gives you good predictions,
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it does predict that we'll have that eventually.
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If we don't have it now, we should be heading in that direction.
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And I don't know what the argument against it would be.
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And if it works, we're heading toward a blackmail-only government.
00:43:08.240
You know, there's something that happens with fashion that doesn't happen other places.
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Do you remember when heroin chic was the look that they were all trying to get on the runway?
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Like, women who looked like they literally were heroin addicts?
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And I don't think that that meant that the fashion industry was promoting heroin.
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Like, I think they actually treated it as just a fashion statement.
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So, I would not rule out that as upsetting and, you know, let's say, as big as the signal looks,
00:43:47.560
I wouldn't rule out that the fashion industry doesn't see it.
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Because the fashion industry has always been a little suspicious about how they treat underage people, right?
00:43:58.320
Wouldn't you say that's sort of a general theme that runs across the fashion industry?
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So, I feel like it's just so much in the DNA of the fashion industry that it's not shocking that one of them would get,
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would, you know, cross the line and not even know it.
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Don't you think that the fashion people don't interact with normal people too much?
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They probably interacted with people who said, oh, yeah, that's edgy and, you know, that works.
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So, there are still other ways to explain what we see that do not require an elite pedophile ring of people coordinating.
00:44:54.320
I live in a world where it's true and not true at the same time.
00:44:59.680
I feel like somebody could run for president under the slogan of making health care follow science.
00:45:11.280
And you wouldn't even have to explain what that meant.
00:45:13.580
But imagine a presidential candidate saying, look, this has never really been a topic of politics before, but I guess it needs to be.
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Let me promise you that I'm not going to talk about the effectiveness of masks or vaccines.
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So, I'm going to be in that domain, but I'm not going to say whether they work or don't work.
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I think we're operating at a user interface level.
00:46:06.800
So, but I'm just making the narrow claim that, let's say Trump or somebody else, DeSantis or somebody, if they ran and said, look, we're going to have to fix the public's trust of health care science or science in general, because there's climate science as well.
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So, if you just said, I'm going to do what we can to make science more credible.
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How many of you believe that the, and again, I'm not going to argue what's true and not true.
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I'm only going to ask you what you've seen, right?
00:46:47.860
How many of you have seen a collection of studies saying face masks do not work?
00:46:57.640
How many have seen at least one study or maybe a collection of studies that say face masks do not work?
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And even the ones who have not seen them, you're aware that other people have, right?
00:47:15.320
You know that lots of people have seen those studies, okay?
00:47:18.840
Now, I'm going to give you a second and stop answering this question.
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I need you to stop answering this question so that I can ask you the next one and they don't get confused, okay?
00:47:35.940
Now, how many of you have seen the collection of studies that prove face masks work against COVID?
00:47:59.480
Now, those of you who have never seen that, you've never seen an entire collection of studies that all indicate masks work.
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If you've never seen it, do you think the problem is you haven't seen it or that it doesn't exist?
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This is going to be hurting some of your brains.
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Let me tell you something that I know that some of you have not experienced.
00:48:34.320
Since I've always been open to the question, I've had some opinions, but we won't get into them.
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I've always been open to the question of, well, I could be totally right or I could be totally wrong.
00:48:45.120
So, I wasn't really too married to a view on face masks.
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And so, I've seen, because I've asked for it, I've seen vast lists of proof that masks don't work, and I've seen just as persuasive, large lists of studies proving it totally does.
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If you haven't seen both, then you're not informed.
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Now, I'm not saying which of the studies are dependable, because I don't think any of them are.
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My opinion of all of the studies is that they're all bad, 100% bad.
00:49:21.800
I don't believe any of the studies, none of them, not either direction, don't believe them at all.
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But if you've never seen that the other side has as much credibility in their studies as your side, whichever side you're on, the other side is just as armed.
00:49:41.780
How many of you knew, and again, I'm not saying who's right or wrong, did you know that the other side from you has just as good evidence?
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Now, you may say, oh, those are bad studies and mine are good.
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Sometimes you can find a bad one, but you can't tell if the good one is really good.
00:50:05.480
Is anybody's mind blown by learning for the first time right now, because I think you believe me, right?
00:50:13.080
I have seen it, and there are other people who have seen them, too.
00:50:15.480
But is anybody's mind blown that the other side from you has just as good scientific information?
00:50:30.040
In a related story that Shooter, who shot up the, I guess the Club Q, which is LBGTQ kind of a place,
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and it turns out that the Shooter's father was a porn actor named Dick Delaware,
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Dick Delaware, which is weird, because I thought that was Hunter Biden's porn name.
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You really need to see the video of the Shooter's father talking about his anti-gay opinion
00:51:22.140
and how he raised his son to favor violence for solving problems.
00:51:46.180
That poor photographer, who is innocent until proven guilty,
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can we agree on that, that the photographer for Balenciaga
00:51:58.320
which is separate from the question of whether he should have stopped it?
00:52:05.920
So I'm going to treat him as innocent, because I actually think he probably is.
00:52:08.960
Made a bad call about whether taking the picture, but, you know, that's just a bad call.
00:52:13.920
But he had an earlier tweet, I guess in July of this year, that is being interpreted in two opposite ways.
00:52:26.340
His tweet was, it was something about gun control.
00:52:28.500
And he said, in a tweet, he said, why restrict child porn, but not guns?
00:52:41.720
Is he saying child porn should be restricted, or child porn should not be restricted?
00:52:51.780
So confirmation bias is driving people to believe that he tweeted in favor of pedos.
00:53:17.480
He was just saying that they should both be banned.
00:53:22.100
If you think he was pro-gun, then it looks like maybe both should be legal or something.
00:53:28.180
But if you read that tweet as being pro-pedo, I think that's on you.
00:53:39.420
There's a story I don't have a confirmation on.
00:53:43.240
Was it true that the Club Q that got shot up had advertised it was going to hold an all-ages drag show the next day?
00:53:54.160
Because that feels a little too on the nose, doesn't it?
00:54:11.600
I was going to say he should attack the event, not the place that advertises the event.
00:54:23.520
It could well be true, but I feel like I'd need more reporting on that to believe that one.
00:54:41.260
We shouldn't tolerate pedophiles grooming kids.
00:54:44.600
And then he says Club Q had a grooming event, referring to what I just mentioned.
00:54:48.820
And then Tim says, how do you prevent the violence and stop the grooming?
00:54:53.520
Like, how do you talk against the grooming without causing a crazy person to do something like this?
00:55:03.000
And then people are trying to cancel Tim Poole for saying that.
00:55:08.700
That's the question we're all dealing with, isn't it?
00:55:12.260
Aren't we all grappling with the exact question that Tim Poole just asked?
00:55:26.040
Yeah, the whole point is it's difficult to separate your criticism from the fact that it might activate a crazy person.
00:55:35.900
If you say those darn Republicans are a bunch of fascists, does that cause some Democrat to hunt a Republican?
00:55:48.160
Should you do a fair criticism of something that deserves to be criticized, somebody, somewhere, can see that as an excuse for danger.
00:56:10.900
So I think, unfortunately, it's just the cost of a free system.
00:56:15.840
You know, I don't know what you could do about that.
00:56:20.640
Ladies and gentlemen, that brings us to the conclusion of the plan part of my thing.
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I'm going to tell the local stuff some extra stuff.
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Remember, when you don't eat turkey, did Dan Crenshaw really threaten the cartels?
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You know, when you see Dan Crenshaw threaten the cartels, that should be telling you something.
00:57:18.180
Because remember, whatever you think of Crenshaw, and I know you've got different opinions about him as a politician,
00:57:24.900
the one thing we don't doubt is that he's a brave military guy who seems to have a different relationship with risk and danger than the rest of us do.
00:57:37.180
And you might need somebody as brave as a Crenshaw to take on the cartels, because they would definitely go after him.
00:57:46.940
So you need somebody with gigantic balls to even talk out loud about going after the cartel.
00:57:58.420
Oh, by the way, on locals, remind me to tell you something else I can't say out loud here.
00:58:07.160
So you're going to remind me about the cartels.
00:58:25.440
I don't know if I'm going to do a live stream today just to say hi for Thanksgiving.
00:58:33.080
Crenshaw introduces declaring war on cartels act.
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God, I love the locals platform because they can they can paste a image in the comments.
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So every time I ask a question, here's the exact answer.
00:58:49.380
Today, Representative Dan Crenshaw announced the introduction of the declaring war on the cartels act.
00:58:57.140
The bill is designed to combat transnational criminal cartels, illegal activities, with increased criminal penalties and the targeting of their finances.
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As Mexico, Mexico, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, developed into a national security threat.
00:59:09.800
Well, it's that's a different definition of war.
00:59:36.520
I would make sure they had a few days to know it was going to be bombed.
00:59:42.020
So I think you do it the Israel way, where if there's, let's say, a Palestinian terrorist, Israel will destroy the family's home.
00:59:53.060
But they tell the family to get out, and then they bulldoze it.
00:59:56.300
They don't leave the family in there when they're destroying the home.
00:59:59.140
So I think giving the cartel notice so that you can try to avoid any collateral damage is the best you can do.
01:00:13.680
You're going to have to do what you've got to do.
01:00:15.560
But I think you make them, you tell them that you know where their operations are, and you make them keep moving the operation or else get bombed.
01:00:24.580
Now, I saw something from a Twitter user that I do not know is true, but maybe some of you do.
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Is there anybody in a position who can confirm the following thing?
01:00:35.660
There's a heroin shortage in the country, and so fentanyl is all you can get.
01:00:52.600
So I know there's somebody around here who's on heroin.
01:00:57.100
Unfortunately, I have a big enough audience that one of you is on heroin, and somebody knows.
01:01:04.320
And I got an emphatic yes on the heroin shortage.
01:01:12.360
So if people are getting only fentanyl, there are two possibilities.
01:01:22.120
So there's a non-common sense thing happening with fentanyl that you need to understand.
01:01:29.000
If you don't know you're getting fentanyl, your risk of dying is a little higher because you didn't know to take care of yourself.
01:01:35.780
If you know you're buying fentanyl and you're an experienced addict, and unfortunately most are experienced,
01:01:43.240
you can actually take precautions to make sure you don't take too much or that you don't OD or that you've got Narcan nearby or something like that.
01:01:54.400
So people who are experienced might actually have the least risk.
01:02:00.060
So there's a possibility that the heroin shortage would make all addicts know they're getting fentanyl if they're injecting.
01:02:10.720
And if you told all of the injectables, hey, it's only fentanyl now, would there be more death or less?
01:02:21.780
There might be less because they would know what they're dealing with and they'd take the right precautions.
01:02:27.940
I mean, I've been told by addicts that's a thing.
01:02:31.220
But I suppose there's got to be some huge risk in getting the right dose, no matter what.
01:02:57.280
Speed lovers want speed, downers lovers want downers.
01:02:59.880
Well, that's, I don't know if you're talking to me, but if you can't get heroin, you'll take fentanyl.
01:03:16.620
Yeah, and here's my final opinion on ivermectin.
01:03:36.360
And that below it, it neither works nor doesn't work.
01:03:39.900
That there's just some reality that's mysterious to us.
01:03:42.660
But at the user interface level, we can't decide.
01:03:48.480
But below that level, I think it's neither true nor untrue.
01:03:54.660
Now, I'm not expecting anybody to adopt my point of view.
01:04:01.400
I believe that our two worlds that we bifurcated, the people who are sure the ivermectin has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt,
01:04:10.040
and the people who are sure it's been proven not to work beyond a shadow of a doubt,
01:04:16.420
And they'll never need to decide who was right.
01:04:26.020
Now, by the way, this is my best evidence that we live in a simulation.
01:04:33.840
The biggest reason I believe we're in a simulation is this stuff.
01:04:38.080
The fact that we can bifurcate worlds and then live in them, and it doesn't matter.
01:04:43.440
If you were trying to program the Earth and write code, it would be impossibly complex to make sure that everything that changed anywhere in that world
01:04:55.320
sort of broadcasted its effect to the rest so that everything worked in a coordinated way.
01:05:02.580
It would be too difficult to keep your life and my life separate but also never conflicting.
01:05:12.060
You would need to program it so the conflict is explained away.
01:05:17.280
And the way we explain conflict when we have two different worlds and views of what's true,
01:05:22.320
how does the simulation let us explain it away without having to program them to be compatible?
01:05:30.420
It makes you believe the other people are wrong.
01:05:34.640
As long as you think the people who disagree with you have bad information or bad thinking,
01:05:44.860
So you just make up a story that says, oh, I guess those other people are wrong about everything.
01:05:51.000
So it would be easy to program a world where things are not compatible, but all the people in it explain the lack of compatibility away
01:06:02.340
by saying, well, the other people are just dumb or stupid or uninformed.
01:06:06.720
But if they knew what I knew, they would know what's true.
01:06:09.460
Once you see that the world is designed to make us think it makes sense, when in fact it never can,
01:06:34.180
You know, if you take the Elon Musk view, that it's very unlikely we're the original species,
01:06:39.420
more likely we're one of the simulations that any species will create at some point in their development.
01:06:47.020
We're probably some reflection of what they look like.
01:06:49.820
You know the whole, we're designed in God's image?
01:06:57.860
You know, our God might be some human-like programmers who made us to look like them,
01:07:04.320
because when they went into our, you know, when they inhabit us or use us to solve problems,
01:07:14.100
All right, I'm going to say goodbye to YouTube for now.