Episode 1944 Scott Adams： The Gaslighting Around Politics, Nutrition And Everything Else
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1 hour and 22 minutes
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143.60301
Summary
A tip from my stepdad about how to use social media to your advantage, and how to get the most out of it, and why you should be using it for information, not just to be fun and entertaining, but as a tool to help you improve your life.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another Highlight of Civilization.
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even though maybe you were not expecting such excellence this morning.
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And all you need to take it up another level is,
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tech or chalice or stein,
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamedia,
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the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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The gloriousness of this moment cannot be understated.
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You know how social media is all evil and it's killing us all?
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Well, there's an account on Instagram that I'm going to recommend.
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But my stepdad55 is literally this friendly guy
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who just does a video every, looks like every day,
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in which he teaches you things your father didn't teach you.
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It's like one of the best things on the whole internet.
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And all he does is he's this super, super, like, pleasant guy.
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You know, you immediately wish this were your dad.
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all right, I think he's teaching you how to wash the dishes,
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how to do some, how to change your wiper blades.
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I actually didn't know how to change my wiper blades.
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To, like, fix a sock or something when you were a kid.
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But it made me think that Instagram and social media,
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and how they've changed our, let's say, our brains and our attention span.
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Maybe instead of condemning and complaining about social media,
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we should take a tip from stepdad, my stepdad 55,
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Because if that's how people want to consume things,
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Like, the reason I recommend it is not just because the information is good,
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but he figured out how to make it enjoyable and short.
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Think about how much you could teach young people and adults, too,
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if you created content that was meant to be useful
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There's almost nothing I wouldn't want to learn
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is I will watch a YouTube history lesson on almost anything
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because it's short and entertaining and well-made.
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But if you said, hey, you learned this from your history book,
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I'd be like, yeah, you've got other things to do.
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So I think the potential for Instagram in particular,
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You've seen all the relationship advice that tends to be terrible.
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And apparently there was some guy selling some kind of,
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I don't know, the liver king that turned out to be a fake.
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So right now you can't tell the good advice from the bad advice.
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And free speech means you're not going to change that.
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But what if you've got good advice on social media?
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There might be some way that that could actually happen.
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You know, I talk about the same characters practically every day
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I am so fascinated by the, let's say, the phenomenon of him.
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Number one, he does a great job of getting attention and building an audience.
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So Andrew Tate is, at the moment, one of the most, you know,
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let's say he's getting a lot of heat on social media, good and bad.
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But he's getting tons of attention, and his audience is growing and stuff.
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And he basically is a cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking guy
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who gives young men advice on health and relationships.
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Do I have to add anything to that to make it funny?
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where I don't have to add any punchlines to anything.
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for health, fitness, and relationship information,
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And then he clearly doesn't have any kind of successful relationship in his life.
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And he puts his money in depreciating assets, cars.
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Do you think you can't get laid with one Lamborghini?
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It's not going to help you in your relationship to have 17.
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It's the worst financial decision anybody ever made.
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So the other thing he does is give financial advice
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So I have nothing but compliments for his skill set.
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around telling people the opposite of what they're observing with their own eyes.
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Somebody has developed insects that can eat plastic.
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So they actually digest plastic and turn it back into its organic precursors, I guess,
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Imagine if we could solve all of our plastic waste problems with insects that can eat our plastic.
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Has anybody noticed that our whole planet is made of plastic?
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They would just eat all their, they'd eat all your car parts
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and, you know, your computer would be destroyed.
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It's the best and worst idea I've ever heard in my life.
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The dog not barking, most of you know, comes from a Shakespeare, Shakespeare, not Shakespeare,
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what the fuck, all British things look alike to me.
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Both British, both smart, both have a sh in their name.
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Anyway, yeah, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author.
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So in the Sherlock Holmes, one of the cases was solved by noting that the dogs were not barking.
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Sherlock Holmes was smart enough to notice something that should have been happening that wasn't.
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Ask yourself what should be happening that isn't.
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And this screams out for this Balenciaga story.
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So as you know, there was one of the photographs in a Balenciaga photo shoot.
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In which some police tape showed Balenciaga, or the B-A-A-L part, misspelled with two A's.
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And now B-A-A-L, coincidentally, or not, happens to be a Canaanite demon god.
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Pagans ritualistically sacrifice children to this demon.
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Now Balenciaga, being accused, rightly or wrongly, we do not know,
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of putting what appears to be pedophile positive images in their photo shoots.
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But part of the accusation is that there's no way in the world it could be an accident
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And then it turns out that the name Balenciaga, if you break out the parts,
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and if you make the first part the B-A-A-L, if you turn it into B-A-A-L,
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then the second part of it, the N-C-A-G-A part, means something like, you know, praising that.
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So it means like praising the god of child sacrifice.
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The Balenciaga apparently means in whatever language that that Bal guy is king.
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So could it be a coincidence that the name Balenciaga sounds so terrible in this context?
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To me, that would not be a super big coincidence.
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It would be a funny one, but I would still call it a coincidence, right?
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What's the most obvious thing that you would expect to know by now that you do not know?
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Where the name came from is interesting, but I think that's going to be a dry hole.
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Erica said who ordered it, like who bought that tape and who put it there.
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Yes, but I would generalize that a little bit more and I would say, how did we get to today without Balenciaga issuing a statement that says, oh, about that tape?
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There's an innocent explanation, and here it is.
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Isn't that the most obvious thing that should have happened by now?
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You don't think Balenciaga knows internally where that tape came from and why it's there?
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Do you think that the heads of Balenciaga know that the tape is a complete coincidence, accidental thing, and they've just decided not to mention it in public?
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Now, how many of you didn't notice that dog that wasn't barking?
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You know, raise your hand in the comments if you didn't notice that the most obvious thing is missing.
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Which one of your news sources, which one of your news sources, yeah, yeah, I think yay said it.
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Which one of your news sources told you that's missing?
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Nobody said we asked for a comment and we didn't get one.
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Have you heard anybody say we asked Balenciaga to comment on the B.A.A.L. tape and they decided not to or they gave us this response?
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What the hell is going on that nobody asked the most obvious question?
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Well, and weirdly, most of you didn't even notice it wasn't asked.
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She may have asked, but we didn't hear any answer.
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Yeah, Sticks and Hammer did because it's an obvious question for anybody who's an informed consumer in news.
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Well, there's going to be another one of those coming up.
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And I actually had an exchange on Twitter this morning with an actual doctor about whether white potatoes are good in your diet or not.
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How in the world could that still be a question that's up in the air?
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Now, you might say to me, Scott, the doctor told you they're good.
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If the doctor says they're, and the reason is, apparently they rate high, according to one study at least, in satiety.
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In other words, it satiates you or makes you feel like you've eaten enough.
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And apparently it's way high on that list on at least one study that somebody showed me.
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And therefore, eating white potatoes, it's a good, solid element of your diet.
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All right, so, but just hold this in your head for a second.
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Imagine that it's 2022, and we can't agree whether a potato is good for you or bad for you.
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Now, here's what I've been taught, that potatoes spike your glycemic index, white ones do.
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And if you spike your glycemic index, it will make you hungrier later.
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Now, do you think there was anything wrong with the study that says that white potatoes are great for satiety?
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Do you think there was anything wrong with the study?
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Well, do you think it looked at potatoes the way we really eat them?
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Or did it look like a baked potato or a boiled potato?
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Did not include any fried potatoes, you know, like hash browns or anything like that.
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Did not include, or at least I didn't see mentioned, what kind of toppings the potato had.
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If somebody gave you some French fries, and they checked with you an hour later and said,
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would you like some more French fries, you'd probably say yes.
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I wouldn't mind another French fry, no matter how full I was, because I really, really like them.
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But suppose somebody said to you, this is a trial.
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And then you say, hey, excellent, I like potatoes.
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And then we're going to check with you an hour later to see if you want some more potato.
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Okay, I'm glad they're paying me to be in this trial.
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And then they check with you an hour later and they say, hey, Scott, would you like some more potato?
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In the real world, nobody eats a plain potato ever, ever, ever.
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Now, here's my bullshit detector rule, which I wrote about in Loserthink, I think.
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One of the red flags that doesn't tell you for sure if something's bullshit, but it tells you to look deeper, is if your observation, your common lived experience, is at odds with the science.
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Whenever that's true, that should raise a flag and say, wait a minute, is my observation wrong or is the science wrong?
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Now, my observation about eating white potatoes is if I put them in my diet, I gain weight immediately, and if I take them out of my diet, I immediately lose weight.
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And I've been doing it for years, for years, for years, all I have to do is put potatoes in my diet, weight creeps up, take them out of my diet, weight goes down, and it's just one-to-one.
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Now, if you're telling me that 50 years of experimenting have all been wrong, and if I told you that would you be surprised that the studies that show that potatoes are great at sauteating you, would you be surprised to know that even in that study, it says that other studies say the opposite?
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That wouldn't surprise you at all, because science on food is complete bullshit.
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Now, who was it who funded the study on satiety of potatoes?
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Do you think there was anybody else in the whole fucking world who cared about the potato study?
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It wasn't the carrot people who said, you know, I'd really like to fund a big study to find out if potatoes that we do.
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Do you think the scientists were sitting around saying, all right, we got to, let's come up with an idea.
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I've looked at all the problems in the world, all the many things we could concentrate on, and I'm thinking a little bit more information about white potatoes would be where I'd like to put all of my scientific expertise.
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No, somebody was willing to pay somebody to study a white potato.
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Who would be willing to pay you to study a white potato?
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There's literally nothing you could depend on, on food science.
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Years ago, I tried to start a healthy food product company to make a burrito that had all of your daily vitamins and minerals.
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And so, of course, I wanted to be as well-informed as I could to know what was the right recommendation of those things.
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Very quickly, that food science is not science at all.
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Pretty much everything you know about food is a guess or bullshit or somebody paid for a fucked up study.
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The only, as far as I can tell, the only stuff that's true is the stuff you can immediately test on your own body.
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You know that if you eat a bunch of sugar, you feel different.
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You know if you drink a lot of alcohol, you feel different.
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You know if you eat clean, you feel different and you look different.
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And when the stuff you can see with your own eyes differs from the science, which one are you going to believe?
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If it were a different topic, I might say believe the science.
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You know, because science is the way that you make sure that your personal observations are not biased.
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But the personal observations are so consistent.
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And the science is so bullshit and not credible.
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That I would actually believe my personal observation when it comes to food.
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Because I don't think there's any reliable science on food right now.
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Let me tell you something that happened years ago.
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Eating food that was organic and had no additives and no preservatives.
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And I've got to tell you, she was the healthiest looking human being I've ever seen in my life.
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Like she screamed healthy and her diet was just perfect.
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Now, you want to make a billion dollars in the food business?
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I'm going to give you an idea for making a billion dollars.
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Start a company that's organic food with no preservatives.
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It's like a farmer's market, but it's there every day.
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Just like a farmer's market, but it's just there all the time.
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And here's how you totally put every other company out of business.
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And nobody can get near it until they're buying it.
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How much do you not love the fact that when you go to the supermarket,
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everybody is standing next to the broccoli that you're going to pick up and eat?
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I don't like everybody breathing on my broccoli before I buy it.
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So suppose you said all of our food is behind glass.
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But if you reach through with, I don't know, with your plastic gloved hand or something,
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So imagine that, first of all, nobody else can touch your food after it's been washed.
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I haven't made my whole case there, so don't get ahead of me.
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Secondly, you say that your food is clean because it doesn't have preservatives or additives.
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Now, here's why this would put every other food company out of business.
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Because as soon as you create that frame that some food is clean and some is not,
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So do you want some clean food or, you know, the other kind?
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But everybody, we're all designed to prefer clean food, meaning it's as much food as it could be
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and there's less entertainment and less additives and stuff.
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If you named your company clean food, you would just put everybody out of business.
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Now, do I believe that you should avoid all of those germs?
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I've told you before that you should see a baseline level of germs in your life you should see as creating good health.
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They make you healthier because they challenge your system on a regular basis.
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So what's healthiest for you is that your food is a little bit imperfect, but that's hard to sell.
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Do you remember a long time ago, I've said this so many times, you're bored with it,
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but I told you the reason we can't get AI to sound exactly like a person
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is that we don't realize that AI is already smarter than us.
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And in order for AI to act like a person, it would have to act like an asshole who didn't know too much.
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And then you'd think, oh, that's a real person.
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That person's a jerk, very selfish, and seems to only care about they self.
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And I actually heard an AI expert finally agree with me.
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An AI expert said, one of the ways that you could determine if you were talking to an AI
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So if you said to the AI, all right, what's the capital of Elbonia?
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So you could immediately detect an AI just by asking any hard question.
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And unless they lied, you'd say, I know a person who wouldn't have asked the answer to that.
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Have you seen the interview on the street series where there's a guy who asks, usually young people,
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asks them questions about general knowledge questions about the country?
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And then whatever they say, no matter how ridiculous, he goes, right.
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And he agrees with them, and that's the punchline.
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So he'll go up to somebody and say, can you name two states in the United States?
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Every single time he looks at them and goes, yes.
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Because you watch the person being so happy that they got the answer right, you know, on film.
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Mayor Eric Adams, no relationship to me, said that they need to remove the seriously mentally ill people from the streets.
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So they're going to remove all the seriously mentally ill people from the streets.
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Or is that an idea that Dr. Drew has been screaming at the top of his lungs for, I don't know, five years that I've noticed anyway?
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That you have to physically take them off the streets if they're mentally ill.
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Because there's some people who just can't handle, take care of it themselves.
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So, when I was reading this story, I had the following thought.
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If you were to collect up all of the street people, and then you were to poll them, how many would be Republicans?
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Have you ever heard of a Republican street person?
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Well, it could be that the homeless are not very political, so it's hard to say.
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But the other possibility is if you're a Republican, you probably come from a Republican family.
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I just think it's the homeless are mostly Democrats, it feels like.
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So, I'm not sure that the homeless situation is a homeless situation as much as it's a homeless Democrat situation.
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So, suppose Republicans started framing it as homeless Democrats.
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Number one, it would make it look like it wasn't the Republican problem to solve.
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If the problem is homeless Democrats, is that for the Republicans to solve?
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Because the Republicans just move out of the city.
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Republicans do have a solution for homelessness.
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Every Republican has a solution for a situation that isn't good.
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So, it's not a Republican problem because Republicans have a solution.
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But Republicans have solutions for their own problems.
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The government doesn't need to solve all their problems.
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Part of it is I live in the most survivable place in the world.
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Because it's not so cold outside that I'll die from the elements most days.
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And I'm not so close to the ocean that I'll get killed by a tidal wave.
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But I'm earthquake proof and I'm not on a fault.
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So, basically, I've, you know, picked a life that's the safest it could be.
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But one of the main things I picked was I was far away from homeless people.
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And so I just said, huh, if I don't want to live around homeless people, what can I do about that?
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Can I change all the homeless people into non-homeless people?
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Well, if I could, if I could, and that was good for them, I would.
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And when people say, Scott, how would you like to go to San Francisco for some fun?
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How about we don't go to San Francisco and that's our fun?
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How about instead of going to the pumpkin patch or some fucking thing that nobody, no male wants to do,
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I saw the funniest stand-up comedy about some guy who said that no guy wants to go to the pumpkin patch.
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That no husband wants to go to the pumpkin patch?
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Because once you get to the pumpkin patch, it's just looking at pumpkins.
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I saw an article on CNN that correctly, to their credit, criticized the fact that Merriam-Webster has entered gaslighting into the dictionary,
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but they did it wrong, which I should have mentioned, but CNN's opinion piece did.
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And here's what's wrong with the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Now, you probably remember I tried to tell you this and I just gave up.
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Because common usage does change the word, right?
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So gaslighting used to mean not just lying, but lying about something that's so obviously a lie that you question your own sanity that someone could say it with a straight face.
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So it's the questioning your own sanity that makes it gaslighting.
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But because the Democrats used it for three years against Trump for just regular lying,
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Merriam-Webster, I think, finally just gave up and said, all right, well, I guess that's the definition now.
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So I'm going to, you know, as an author, I accept that language changes.
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However, we should not lose sight of the fact that the original gaslighting is still a thing, even if it lost its word.
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It no longer has its own word, but it's still a thing.
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So what is her name, the spokesperson, Biden's spokesperson?
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Now, the reason I cannot remember her name, if you haven't noticed, she has a three-name name, which, first of all, is abusive.
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You know, I can remember one name, sometimes two.
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You tell me I have to remember three names, and I'm probably out.
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And I'm never, and I'm never, let me say two things.
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If you have a name that could be pronounced, plausibly pronounced two different ways, that's not my fault.
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And likewise, if you have a name where all three of your names are really a first name, right?
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Because Corrine is a first name, Jean is a first name, and Pierre is a first name.
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So, I mean, it's really hard for me to store this memory.
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Like, I never store exact memories, like phone numbers.
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I can't remember names in phone numbers, if they're unusual.
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But I can remember anything that fits any kind of a familiar form.
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Because first I'll think of the familiar form, and then it will remind me of the specific.
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So if somebody has three first names, I can't remember that.
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Because my brain says, all right, what's her last name?
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So it doesn't fit into my form, so I can't remember it.
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But anyway, she was asked about when was Biden going to visit the border.
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Now, apparently, that is the world's easiest thing to fact check.
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He has not been to the border since he took office.
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And yet she says it, like, straight out, and then doesn't correct it.
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Now, it's just short of intentionally trying to make you feel insane.
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Now, I think Trump and maybe even Biden were, you know, pioneers in this kind of a lie.
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The kind of a lie where it's easy to know it's a lie, it still works.
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Because the Democrats who watch that, what do you think the Democrats concluded when she said,
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I'll bet 100% of Democrats, 100% said, oh, well, he's been to the border.
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Do you think that there was even one Democrat in the entire United States
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who saw her claim with a straight face, he's been there since he was elected?
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I'll bet there wasn't even one Democrat who questioned that.
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But within normal voters, I'll bet not even one could tell the difference.
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And of, you know, 70, 80 million people, I bet not even one knew the truth.
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Christy Noem, governor of South Dakota, is banning TikTok, the app, on state devices.
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So individuals can still use TikTok in South Dakota,
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but not government agencies on their government equipment.
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What is my analogy for what Christy Noem just did?
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She did something that dissentists does all the time.
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Who exactly was going to argue that government employees should have TikTok on their government devices?
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We would like to use TikTok on our government phone.
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because they don't want to argue the case, even if they think they should.
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Now, remember, I told you this when Trump started doing it early in, you know, 2015, 16.
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He stopped doing that, by the way, which concerns me.
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But DeSantis, he was picking up free money every day.
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So that's a real good sign for a future leader,
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Apparently, the Department of Agriculture, the federal government,
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is still buying and using Chinese drones for their agricultural surveying.
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And we know that the Chinese-made drones can send their data back to China,
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and they can have all kinds of, you know, information.
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Now, I don't know if the agricultural information really is helpful to...
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I mean, I'm not sure that China can get enough from, you know,
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Don't you think you'd like to know who is the biggest drone manufacturer
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But what's the name of the biggest American drone maker?
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Yeah, well, I'm talking about the hobby-sized drones,
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Yeah, I'm not talking about the big defense contractors.
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But what's the biggest American-only manufacturer of drones?
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You're all well-informed enough to know that if you had a choice of buying an American drone
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versus a Chinese drone, you might even pay more to get the American drone.
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You would pay a little bit more to get the American one because you might think that it's a little more data secure.
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So China wants to sell you Chinese drones, and your press has never told you the name of their competitor.
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People should not buy Chinese drones from a company named DJI.
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And what's the name of the other company they should use?
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Is it an accident that none of the stories about the drones that you should not buy includes any reference to the one that maybe you should buy?
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No, I don't think Lockheed, Boeing, and Raytheon, I think they make the big drones, the military drones.
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I'm talking about the little ones that fly over your house.
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No, I'm talking about serious industrial drones, but not military.
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But seriously, is anybody's mind blown that you don't automatically know the name of the competitor to DJI?
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Now, some of you are saying Exo, but I've never heard that name.
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So you'd have to be sort of in the drone business or a hobbyist to actually have heard that.
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Give them a little commercial here if this is what I think it is.
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And let's see if the drone, let's see if it comes up.
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Well, you can check for yourself, but it's amazing.
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You know, we didn't all know that at the top of our, tip of our tongues.
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But, so Musk apparently met with Apple's Tim Cook, and the outcome is that Tim Cook says
00:47:21.160
Apple never was considering banning Twitter from the App Store.
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They never considered banning it from the App Store.
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Can you tell me how many days it took Apple to respond that they were not considering taking
00:47:49.140
How hard was it for Tim Cook to say, oh, no, we're not considering that?
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So for three days, Tim Cook was never asked by any journalist, was this true?
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There was no journalist in the entire world who asked Tim Cook, hey, is this true?
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Did you notice that for three days, the simplest thing that a person could do?
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Do you know how easily Tim Cook could have fixed it?
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Oh, looks like there's a rumor that's not true.
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And would anyone have said, oh, that's unprofessional?
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Has anybody ever tested the theory that you can shoot down a rumor quickly with one tweet?
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Almost every day, Elon Musk tweets, that's a rumor, that's not true.
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And as soon as you read it, do you say to yourself, oh, he's lying?
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He just shoots down the rumors, like, with no ambiguity.
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Because when somebody is that quick to shut something down and they don't leave any ambiguity,
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As soon as I hear that, I go, okay, that didn't happen.
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And Tim Cook didn't think that watching half of the United States say they were going to
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throw their iPhones into the sea, like that didn't get him going in two days?
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What is one sentence that's always true and always false at the same time?
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I got a whole bunch of funny answers that are worth looking at, by the way.
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Things that are true and false at the same time.
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This is always true and always a lie at the same time.
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I made a very big mistake once when talking to my doctor years ago.
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And the doctor asked, had I ever considered ending my own life?
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And unfortunately, I didn't think this through.
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So that immediately got me into the mental health.
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But it immediately puts you into the mental health process.
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And now you've got to talk to a psychologist and you'd better get on drugs.
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And, you know, basically everything's in question at this point.
00:51:58.920
When I run into somebody in the street, I think about killing them.
00:52:05.480
If I see an attractive woman, I think about having sex with her.
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Considering is just my mental internal process.
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Considering has nothing to do with the likelihood of something that's going to happen.
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So did Apple ever consider knocking Twitter off?
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The same way I consider ending my life every day, even when I'm nowhere near any kind of suicidal thoughts.
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So just to be clear, I have zero intention of ending my life.
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Along with every other possibility in my life I consider.
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And I think that when they were asked, are you serious?
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Which could be construed as not considering it.
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So there are things that you consider and you also don't consider them.
00:53:21.520
Because you're meaning the terms in slightly different ways, right?
00:53:25.780
Considering means I thought about it in my mind.
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But in your mind it might mean I took it seriously.
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Lee Zeldin said the smartest thing that a Republican has said in, I don't know, a year.
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Every once in a while you'll see a Republican say exactly the right thing.
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Because Republicans are not super good at messaging.
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None of our, except maybe AOC every now and then and Trump every now and then.
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But here's Lee Zeldin getting it exactly right.
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He says, whenever they, they, meaning Democrats, whenever they propose ballot harvesting, totally oppose it.
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Whenever they pass ballot harvesting, do it so much better than them that they deeply regret ever passing it in the first place.
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Did you ever wonder how Lee Zeldin did so well?
00:54:53.460
Did you ever wonder how a Republican could get that close to a Democrat state governorship?
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Everything you need to know about Lee Zeldin is in this one tweet.
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He just told you, I'm smarter than all the other Republicans.
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I just heard, I'm smarter than all of the other Republicans.
00:55:17.980
Because I just told you exactly what to do, which is the right thing to do.
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This is exactly, exactly the leadership I want.
00:55:33.180
I would agree with this, whether I'm Democrat, Republican, or Independent.
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In our competitive system, we thought was about getting the votes.
00:55:46.600
But it turns out that our competitive system is also about getting out the vote.
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I mean, we knew that, but we need to extend that to getting out all kinds of votes.
00:55:56.140
So Lee Zeldin is saying, this isn't the game we want to play.
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But if you're in the game, don't fucking stand there while the ball rolls past you.
00:56:08.740
I mean, I feel like the Republicans were like, we don't want to play baseball.
00:56:19.140
And then somebody hits the ball and it rolls through their feet.
00:56:21.800
And they're like, ah, I could have picked that up and gotten you out.
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Lee Zeldin is telling you the most obvious, logical, strategic thing to do.
00:56:43.520
So I don't think Lee Zeldin can say this directly because he's in the political sphere.
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Whether or not they actually care about their people voting by mail,
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they should say it's their number one priority.
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And they should tell Republicans, this is a vote-by-mail election coming up.
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You can also vote in person, but you should consider it a vote-by-mail election.
00:57:17.200
If you're a Republican, we're voting by mail this time.
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If there's anything you can do, make it a vote-by-mail
00:57:24.200
and make sure that you've legally, legally helped everybody vote-by-mail
00:57:33.280
And you should check with everybody, especially the elderly,
00:57:38.800
You should make sure that all of their votes are heard.
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That would scare the living shit out of the Democrats.
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But right now, the Republicans are playing as stupid.
00:57:49.140
They're like, oh, we hate it that you do that ballot harvesting so successfully.
00:57:59.520
The leadership you want is complaining that the other team is better.
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Oh, I'd like to vote for the team that doesn't do a good job on ballot harvesting,
00:58:09.840
rather that they complain that the other team does a good job
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in a completely legal process, as far as I can tell.
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So, now, who do you want to be your Speaker of the House?
00:58:36.700
That can't happen until the actual majority happens, right,
00:58:45.780
Like, Lee Zeldin is the best leader who doesn't have another job.
00:58:52.800
Well, I guess he has another job, but I don't know.
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Neuralink is ready for human testing, if the FDA approves.
00:59:13.620
And the potential uses for Neuralink, which is literally a chip,
00:59:17.740
which they literally will drill into your skull.
00:59:20.600
Not into your brain, but they'll put a little dent in your skull
00:59:27.060
I'm not sure I'll ever be able to sign up for that, but maybe.
00:59:32.820
But among the things that might be possible with this little chip
00:59:49.960
But also maybe restoring use of the limbs to paralyze people.
00:59:58.400
Restoring the use of your limbs to paralyze people?
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You know, this is certainly a signal that the cyborg age is upon us.
01:00:21.260
because even though your phone is not physically attached to your hand,
01:00:31.380
but this chip would make it a little bit better.
01:00:44.760
by saying that you should ballot harvest better than the other side,
01:00:58.380
Instead of complaining about the thing you don't like,
01:01:06.300
and the other side will immediately see it was a bad idea.
01:01:10.300
And that's what Lee Zeldin is correctly, correctly suggesting.
01:01:14.540
There was a YouTube presentation last night of Neuralink.
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If the other team is fouling you and not getting called,
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because Elon Musk saying he might have to build his own phone
01:02:17.120
How would you like to play poker with Elon Musk
01:02:54.020
And now I'm the most economical car company of all time.
01:03:04.460
nobody can compete with Apple on phones at this point.
01:03:08.200
I mean, Google and Apple have it all wrapped up.
01:03:10.720
There's nobody who could enter the market at this late stage
01:03:48.900
he's got an actual design for a new kind of phone
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That seems the least likely future possibility.