Episode 1970 Scott Adams： The News Is Fun And Interesting Today. Let's Have Some Laughs
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1 hour and 16 minutes
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Summary
Ted Lieu's COVID tweet gets fact checked by Elon Musk and he's forced to delete it. A Florida man who won a seat in a Democratic primary is found guilty of a scam, and a Florida man is found to be a fraud.
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So, I saw that Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat,
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he tweeted some COVID stuff in response to the Twitter files' revelations about Fauci, etc.
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And Ted Lieu was immediately fact-checked by Elon Musk.
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Apparently, Ted Lieu was linking to some incorrect COVID information.
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it looked to me like obviously wrong information,
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It was like he wasn't even up to date on, you know, the COVID stuff,
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which is really scary, because he's one of the people in charge, sort of.
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How much do you love that Ted Lieu tweeted some bullshit about COVID on Twitter,
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and had to run away with his tail between his legs?
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If there's something deep inside you that's also broken,
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So, all of us broken people, we can have a good laugh.
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Now, what if I told you I was going to do between now and the end of the year?
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So, let me say that I actually enjoy Representative Ted Lieu.
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I've had a number of interactions with him on Twitter.
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And I have to say, he's sort of a cheerful warrior.
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You know, he's not going to be right on everything.
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Or are all the news stories just a little bit funny?
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So, there's a Republican who won a traditional blue seat, George Santos.
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And typically, it had been, you know, a Democrat seat.
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But I guess he ran a really good race because he won a traditional Democrat area.
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The only problem is, basically, everything in his resume was made up.
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Didn't have the, you know, the career that he said.
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Several of his employees were not killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting.
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And the list of things that he claimed was sort of hilariously extreme.
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But here's the one that, my favorite part of all the fake resume stuff.
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My favorite part was, he founded a charity called Friends of Pets.
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But the IRS and the Attorney Generals of New York and New Jersey
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could find no record of it being registered as a tax exempt organization.
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And there was some animal group that co-hosted a $50-a-ticket fundraiser with Santos in 2017.
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And said it never received any of the proceeds.
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Maybe it's because I already know it was a scam.
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But if I saw something, Friends of Pets United, it just sounds like it's made up, doesn't it?
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Because you know somebody's going to give that money.
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If you ever want to do a scam, Friends of Pets.
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So, now there's a conversation about whether he should be removed from office
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Because that's not a standard you could ever employ.
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Because every single member of Congress would have to be removed on the same standard.
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So, apparently he discovered what Trump discovered.
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One of the things I always laugh about is that all politicians know that lying works.
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But I think Trump found the little gap where nobody had noticed.
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Lying works and there's no limit to how much of it I can do?
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Why would I say anything that's true if lying works?
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So, just say those windmills are going to stop turning when the wind stops and the TV will stop working and everything will be fine.
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It didn't matter how many times he failed the fact checking.
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He failed the fact checking more than anybody could ever imagine.
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In the end, was Trump removed because of his fact checking?
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Somehow he knew it wouldn't make any difference.
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This guy decides that anything he says about his past, as long as it works, good enough.
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So, he just tells these wild lies that are like way beyond the pale, apparently, allegedly.
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So, all he did is he proved that he knows how to use the rules better than the other people.
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Because if people underlied and they didn't lie enough and they didn't get elected, well, I guess that's on them, isn't it?
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Well, China loosened its COVID restrictions at exactly the time that the virus is raging the strongest.
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So, that gives you confidence that government is on the ball, even in China.
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It sounds like to me, if China is going to be ravaged by the Omicron, presumably,
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they're going to make sure everybody else is too.
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I feel like they decided, well, we're not going to contain it here.
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We might as well open it up to travel, which is what they did.
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Now, you still have to get a COVID test, I think, but it's not as strict as it was.
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How many people did I hypnotize to get the vaccine?
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Did anybody make a decision, a medical decision, based on me?
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So, one of you, despite me saying every single day, don't make any medical decisions based on me,
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Would that be an example of following my advice or following the opposite of my advice?
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Because if I tell you, don't take my advice on medical stuff, and then you took my advice
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on medical stuff, would that be a case of following my advice or not following my advice?
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Very clearly told you not to do it, following my advice.
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But I acknowledge the comment that with a big audience, some people would be influenced
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I'll bet you if I told you every day, don't take the vaccination, and then I checked with
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you later, like a year later, and said, all right, did anybody hear me say, I didn't do
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this, by the way, but this is speculative, like imaginary, if I had told you every day,
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don't take the vaccination, and then I checked with you today and said, did anybody get vaccinated
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Because people would say, yeah, you're so non-credible that you were so insistent,
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I just figured it would be a good idea to go get the...
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So with a big enough crowd, you're going to get, you'll get people on both sides in every
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There's something I said, convince somebody to get a vaccination, despite me having no intention
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So Dr. Robert Malone is tweeting that there's a new meta-analysis of ivermectin.
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Well, people will say Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of the mRNA technology, and he's
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been saying ivermectin works probably for a long time.
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And now this meta-study, which is the best of all kinds of studies, say some people, shows
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that there's a very identifiable effect, positive effect of ivermectin.
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So then we conclude that we have this big meta-analysis that shows that 29 out of 63 studies show
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And if you do a meta-analysis where you take all the studies and kind of lump them together,
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the average or the net, I guess the net would be the way to say it, the net is that ivermectin
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Big old meta-analysis, 63 studies, 29 say ivermectin work.
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And then the doctor, who is the inventor of mRNA technology, or at least he was involved
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with the invention of it, says, take a look at this.
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So here's my theme that I've been telling you for a while.
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Well, is Dr. Robert Malone credible on medical questions, yes or no?
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Is Dr. Robert Malone credible on medical questions?
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Now, that's different from being right, correct?
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And when he's talking in his area of expertise, I feel I would be influenced by his opinion.
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But yes, he would be a credible voice in the medical field, specifically this.
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Now, how many of these studies did Dr. Robert Malone do?
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So what is Dr. Robert Malone's expertise in evaluating studies?
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And specifically, his expertise in meta-studies?
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So what you're hearing is somebody completely outside of his field of expertise giving you some information in a tweet.
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If somebody completely outside their field of expertise, data analysis, tweets something, should you say, well, that's credible because it came from somebody who's an expert in an unrelated, well, it's related, but a different field.
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The correct way to analyze that is it doesn't matter who tweeted it because it's not his field.
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I told you that 29 out of 63 studies says it works.
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How did you hear it as it works if most of the studies say it doesn't, and yet you heard that it works?
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I said that fewer than half of them say it works, which means most of the studies say it doesn't work.
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Now, a meta-analysis, you take the ones that say no, the ones that say yes, and you put them all together as if it were one big study, just artificially, and then you see what that looks like.
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Do you know why a meta-study of this nature is completely unreliable?
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Because it depends entirely on whether the biggest studies were right or not.
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If the biggest studies were correct, like they got the right answer, then you got the right answer when you put them all together because they biased it toward the big studies.
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If the biggest study happened to be wrong, and remember, roughly half of the studies were on the other side.
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So you don't know if you're picking, you don't know if the biggest study was right or wrong.
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You just know that it biased the entire average so much that it was like, basically, it was just that one study that mattered, which could have been wrong.
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Just in general, not about COVID, but in general, about half, yeah.
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About half of all studies turn out to be debunked.
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Now, of the half that are not debunked, how many of them are valid?
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Does that mean the half that do not get debunked are the good ones?
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So something less than half of studies end up being true.
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So if somebody, if all you heard was, there's a new study, there's only been one of them ever, there's a new study, and it's on anything, anything at all, what is your opinion?
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Because the odds, if you just play the odds, every new study, you should assume it's not true.
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But if you're playing the odds, you say it, probably not.
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So once again, we have this, we have what I call laundering of expertise.
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So somebody's using somebody else's expertise to launder their own views through it.
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In this case, Dr. Malone, I'm sure, from all indications, has an opinion about ivermectin being likely a positive thing.
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And he might have a little bit of a motivated, analytical view of this.
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Now, just to be clear, did I just tell you that ivermectin doesn't work?
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And I've been consistent from the beginning, that the longer you go without a confirmation that it does work, the less likely you're going to ever get one.
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But there's no evidence that would convince me yet.
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How many papers related to COVID, not just about ivermectin, but COVID in general?
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How many scientific papers have been retracted by the authors?
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Meaning they published a result and then said, oops, usually because somebody else pointed it out.
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I don't know the percentage, but 224, 224 scientific COVID-related papers have been withdrawn by the authors, where even the author says, oops, oops, that was a mistake.
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I think usually it's the author who also agrees.
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In some cases, it might be the scientific publication itself, I think.
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But I think the author usually also is part of it.
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So, yeah, the question is, and of how many, right?
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And how many of them should have been withdrawn that have not been withdrawn yet?
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But you should be aware that the state of science is chaos.
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So, you know, be an informed consumer when you hear a study says something.
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Speaking of studies, I like studies that are amusing.
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So, there's a new study asking people in society who they trust.
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The people they trust the most still are scientists.
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So, society trusts scientists the most, and of all the different categories of people.
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The answer is government and journalists are the two at the bottom.
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They trust the least their government and journalists, and they trust the most scientists.
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Who told you that science is what you should trust?
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The government and journalists told you to trust science.
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Because then when the government that you don't trust and the journalists you don't trust
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tell you to do something, they will say, don't trust us.
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And then look at the, don't look at the science that we suppressed.
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So, the two groups that you trust the least, government, which includes schools, right?
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Governments determine what the schools are doing.
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So, governments and journalists tell you that the scientists are who you should trust.
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And then they use those scientists to launder their own bullshit preferences through them.
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You should all do it because the scientists say so.
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Because the people you don't trust told you to believe them.
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Do you think you were born and you just sort of grew up knowing scientists or who to trust?
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The people you trust the least, the government and journalists, tell you every day to trust the scientists.
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Because you believe the people you believe the least.
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Whoopi Goldberg, as you know, was suspended from The View, I guess.
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But she said controversial things about anti-Semitism.
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She said the Holocaust wasn't about race and was simply white-on-white violence.
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Now, as one Jewish expert, well, actually just a smart guy, I guess.
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described, and I think it was a good description, is that whether or not Jews are considered white depends entirely upon your own bias.
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Like, you know, if you want to be racist, well, then they're whatever you want.
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If you don't want to be racist, then they're whatever you want.
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So basically, it's like the one group where nobody seems to be able to agree.
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It's just, you know, do we want to be abusing them today?
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I think that there's like a cultural, you know, agreed-upon definitions of things that is different from whatever scientific things it would be.
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But now she's doubling down, I guess, saying more things about that.
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Whatever you do, don't ask ChatGPT, the new AI, if being Jewish is a race.
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Because it's going to agree with Whoopi Goldberg.
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Now, remember, I'm not saying that the AI is correct, because the entire context here is that AI doesn't handle political stuff well.
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You know, there's somebody who's got their finger on the button on the AI.
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I'm just saying that if you check ChatGPT today and you ask them who is more technically accurate on this question, they'll tell you Whoopi, right, depending how you ask the question.
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Now, the other thing you need to know is that the way you ask the question can completely change the answer.
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It'll give you a different answer depending on the exact way you ask the question.
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So there might be several ways you could ask the question to get the exact opposite answer.
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It has nothing to do with the Whoopi anti-Semitism thing.
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What are we going to do when AI starts disagreeing with us on stuff?
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Now, this wasn't like the great point for that larger theme.
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It's more just reminds you of it that it could be a problem.
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Because at the moment, I don't think anybody's taking AI seriously, right?
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So you wouldn't take an infant's opinion too seriously.
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It says, it could be that 2022 marks the year our love affair with narcissists started to falter.
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And then the writer, who I know you'd want me to say her name, because people like this.
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Well, I hope she's not a narcissist since I didn't remember her name.
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But apparently Politico tweeted that this new opinion article was out.
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And then they had to take down their tweet because they forgot to give credit to the author.
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So the author, who was writing about other people being narcissists, you know, they like to get attention for the stuff that they do.
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Politico decided that the author, who was writing about people who don't get enough attention, wasn't getting enough attention.
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Now, I don't know if management decided to fix that or if the author noticed it and said, hey, my article about narcissists who are trying to get attention does not give me enough attention.
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I'm just saying it's possible that the author caught it and asked for an upgrade.
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But more likely, probably more likely, the editors caught it themselves and wanted to give her proper credit.
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Now, the narcissist, alleged narcissist who the author identifies, would be, no surprise, Donald Trump.
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When, what do you think happened when they threw Meghan Markle in the narcissist category?
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The, a good number of the Politico readers went, what?
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All I see is somebody who's part black and is being subject of horrible racial discrimination.
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And you should stop saying that strong black women are narcissists.
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Because there's nothing like that going on, that's for sure.
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Projection is when you think the other person has a problem that you have.
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Do you think that a person who writes opinion pieces in Politico doesn't like attention?
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Now, I get that there are people who like attention and there are people who don't.
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But do the people who don't like attention become writers for Politico and do opinion pieces?
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Because an opinion piece is the ultimate attention grabbing thing, right?
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If I wrote an article, a factual article, you wouldn't remember who wrote it, would you?
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You wouldn't even care if it were just a factual article.
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But if it's an opinion piece, an opinion piece is about the writer, isn't it?
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And then you should give me some attention for my opinion.
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He would like to get, I'm sure, I mean, I've never asked him this question, but, you know,
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a decent understanding of human beings means probably he's proud of his accomplishments.
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Maybe he'd like you to notice, don't you think?
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Don't you think he'd like to be known as somebody who fixed big problems?
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So something is driving him to do things which a lot of people, including me, would say seem overwhelmingly positive for society.
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I want as many people trying to get attention for themselves as possible by doing really hard things that are good for society.
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Now, I've told you that my organizing principle for life, maybe I only told the locals people,
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my organizing principle is to have the largest funeral that I could possibly have.
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Does that not sound like the most narcissistic thing anybody ever said?
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It's not even, well, it's a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
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So, it motivates me in a way that I think could be good for the rest of you.
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Now, is Meghan Markle motivated by making the world a better place?
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It's entirely possible that her inner thoughts are as pure as they could possibly be.
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But nothing that I observe would suggest she's anything but exactly what most of you think.
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Yeah, I don't even, I'm not going to label her because I feel that's unfair.
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It might be two movies on one screen, but you can certainly all make your own observation.
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That is exactly why I stopped the sentence where I did.
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Here's one of the best reframes I've seen in a while.
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Well, you know how we get all worked up over opinion pieces, like that one?
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He says, I usually ignore opinion pieces since it's just one person's opinion.
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Because you would not be influenced by somebody's opinion in a diary.
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Because the diary tells you that's just somebody thinking thoughts.
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The fact that they published it in Politico doesn't make it any less their private thoughts.
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Why would anybody care about anybody's diary thoughts?
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Interesting exchange between a guest investor, Ross Gerber, and Elon Musk on Twitter.
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So Ross Gerber tweeted, Tesla's stock price now reflects the value of having no CEO.
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And then Elon Musk responded because it turns out he spent some time on Twitter himself.
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He says, please tell us your great ideas, Ross.
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If Elon Musk ever invites you to a public debate on Twitter, don't do it.
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Number one, Tesla needs a media and comms team.
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Two, Tesla needs a succession plan as well, as clarify when Elon will be back from Twitter.
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Three, Tesla needs to communicate about Elon's stock sales.
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Elon Musk tweets back, go back and read your old securities analysis 101 textbook.
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He says, in simple terms, as a bank savings account interest rates, which are guaranteed,
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start to approach stock market returns, which are not guaranteed, people will increasingly
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move their money out of stocks and into cash, thus causing stocks to drop.
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Now, there is, of course, more to the story than just interest rates.
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You know, savings accounts, they don't guarantee that you can't lose your money above a certain
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amount, you know, and interest rate isn't everything.
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And, of course, the individual company performance is the biggest factor, even bigger than interest
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Ross is right that something like the actions of the CEO can move the stock in the short run.
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Would you all agree that the actions of the CEO and how much trust he has can certainly
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It looks like angry people on the left are buying fewer Teslas, probably.
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But Elon Musk has never given any credibility or attention to short-term moves in stocks.
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He's always consistently said, he's even said his stock was too high.
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He said in public, yeah, I think the stock's too high.
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And why was he willing to crash his own stock in the short term?
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Because the short-term price of Tesla isn't important.
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So he could even crash his own stock in the short term because it didn't mean anything.
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So in the long term, interest rates are the biggest factor on stock prices.
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So I do think that there's something happening with Tesla that goes beyond interest rates.
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But probably we're looking at short-term effects.
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In five years, do you think the Twitter story will be the Tesla story?
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So, you know, you have to take a five-year range.
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You know, the whole Elon Musk Twitter story could be over in 12 months.
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You know, in 12 months, he could have a strong president.
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But I wouldn't do a debate with Elon Musk in public about anything, really.
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What do you think about, was it Abbott who shipped 50 recent immigrants to Kamala Harris' home in D.C.?
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Because they were dropped off in 15-degree temperatures.
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People who had no homes dropped off in 15-degree temperatures.
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And then they had to sleep on the sidewalk for the rest of their lives.
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It turns out that nobody, nobody slept on the sidewalk.
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It turns out that the temperatures indoors are very similar everywhere in America.
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But basically the indoor temperatures, very, very similar from Texas to D.C.
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And yet, I saw so many people tweeting on this point.
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And yet, you had to wait for me to point out the most important fact of the story.
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Indoor temperatures, very similar, very similar wherever you go.
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I have mixed feelings about using the immigrants for political stunts.
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It is both creepy and immoral and unethical, and it's working.
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If it keeps working, you know, who knows if it's working.
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All protests are uncomfortable for people who are not part of the protest.
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They impose pain on people who weren't part of the protest.
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And if it's a little bit of pain, we say that's part of the process.
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You know, because we want the public to be able to protest.
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We want the public to be able to push the government when they need to.
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So when a protest, and I would call this a protest.
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It's government on government protest, but it's a protest.
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If a protest puts pain on people who are innocent, unfortunately, that's what protests do.
00:40:59.840
You know, when protesters block the street, you can't get back to your house for five hours,
00:41:14.300
I think in terms of what is standard in America, we do put pain on innocent people.
00:41:22.620
This is like a, it's an example that you can't feel comfortable with.
00:41:31.060
You know, the people who are in the worst situations who are taking the pain.
00:41:33.740
But on the other hand, what exactly were they used to?
00:41:39.260
Do you think they had a worse day in Washington, D.C. than they had in any of their days prior to that?
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It was probably a day they were warm and fed and hanging out with people who spoke their language
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They were probably saying to themselves, we're 95% to our destination.
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And pretty soon I'll have a plan for where I'll be next week and I'll have a job.
00:42:16.560
I will tell you one thing, that you should not get lost.
00:42:31.480
Have you ever, like, put yourself in their shoes?
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How brave would you have to be to make that trip without knowing exactly how you were going to make it all work?
00:42:40.380
You'd have to trust that you could figure it out along the way.
00:42:46.540
So I say again, just to be clear, I like solid borders.
00:42:55.320
I think we should be able to keep a mosquito out of the United States.
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But, separately, we should have some kind of an economic bipartisan group that figures out how many people to let in under what conditions.
00:43:12.640
I mean, it might be two million is the right number.
00:43:17.900
You know, if actual legitimate bipartisan people said, you know, we kind of need two million a year.
00:43:38.460
But the one thing that I'm not concerned about is the quality of the immigrants.
00:43:46.020
And, again, I have an advantage point because I get to see that community all the time.
00:43:57.900
There is something very good happening in the fentanyl world.
00:44:02.120
It looks like the free market, with some charity involved, a nonprofit, are going to solve what the government is largely ignoring, which is fentanyl overdose.
00:44:13.780
And there's a pharmaceutical nonprofit that got some kind of priority review, which means the FDA will look at them quickly.
00:44:21.500
For this Naxalone drug that you can spray up somebody's nose if they had an overdose.
00:44:30.140
Now, right now, you need, depending on where you are, you might need a prescription.
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So Narcan, right now, would be $100 without insurance.
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How many drug addicts are going to spend $100 for Narcan just in case?
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And also, how many people are going to have it just in case somebody they know needs it?
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Like, would you buy a $100 item just in case a stranger needs it someday?
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But they can get the price down, I think, to $18.
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You literally, if somebody's just laying there in a passed out, you just stick it up their nose and pump it a couple times.
00:45:32.880
So for $20, you know, under $20 with, I don't know if there's tax or whatever.
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Like, there's no way I wouldn't have, I would have two or three in my house at $20 and no, you know, easy availability and no prescription.
00:45:53.140
I'd keep one in my car, and I'd keep one in my garage.
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And the one in the garage would be in case a neighbor needed it and I'm not home, because I can open my garage remotely.
00:46:11.880
If anything happens anywhere in the neighborhood, a WhatsApp alert goes out, and everybody in the neighborhood goes, who's doing what?
00:46:22.740
And everybody's on the street, like, looking for the perpetrator.
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You know, we're all looking at our security cameras from, like, 15 angles and shit.
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You come into my neighborhood, we got a picture of you.
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We got a lot of pictures of you if you're in my neighborhood.
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So, but imagine if you will, the alert goes out and it says, there's an overdose at this house.
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And somebody can literally run, you know, two houses down, run into my garage where I tell them it is, grab it, run back, and save a life.
00:47:00.400
So, basically, I could control, you know, with the systems that we have in our neighborhood, I could control a, maybe, like, a five-block radius and keep people alive within my five blocks.
00:47:17.400
You know, as long as somebody in the neighborhood sends out the WhatsApp, the drug's there.
00:47:35.300
But it keeps telling you how bad our government is, that the private, you know, private enterprise had to figure this out at a nonprofit.
00:47:46.900
Here's a question, Rasmussen asked, Rasmussen polling.
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They were asked, American people who are most likely to vote, Americans, identify America's greatest enemy.
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Nearly 40% of the voters did not choose a foreign power.
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Now, obviously, the biggest foreign powers they chose were China and Russia.
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But internally, let's see, 22% of U.S. voters say that Democrats are the nation's biggest enemy.
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If you believe the media, wouldn't you believe that the public thinks that Republicans are the dangerous ones?
00:48:47.120
But according to the poll, the public thinks Democrats are the dangerous ones.
00:48:52.300
That is totally opposite of the news, is it not?
00:48:56.200
Don't you get that same feeling that the news is all about the right-wing extremists and the Republicans?
00:49:02.500
But when you ask the public, they're like, Democrats look pretty dangerous to me.
00:49:11.380
Now, all of the answers are around one quarter, so that doesn't work for this one.
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If you ask how many people, well, the people who said that Russia was the biggest threat,
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31% of Democrats say Russia's biggest threat, but only 12% of Republicans.
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So, a huge difference between Democrats and Republicans and who they say is the foreign threat.
00:49:45.440
The Republicans say China, 35% to Democrats, 16%.
00:49:55.500
So, Republicans think China's the problem, and Democrats think Russia is the problem.
00:50:07.320
Now, we understand why Democrats and Republicans disagree on domestic stuff.
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Because on domestic stuff, they just revert to the team.
00:50:20.060
But why would there be a difference between the parties?
00:50:27.960
Because we're all looking at the same stuff, aren't we?
00:50:41.800
Because if they think Russia likes Trump, then they don't like Russia.
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And it's also a Trump effect because Trump is tougher on China than on Russia.
00:50:57.400
Trump convinced a lot of people that China was the bigger thing.
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Is there anybody, let's say, besides Trump, who Republicans would be more likely to listen to than Democrats?
00:51:14.820
And who may have been telling you that China is the biggest threat?
00:51:26.000
Now, I call it the Scott effect because I did set out to change the public opinion exactly the way it has changed.
00:51:38.000
So, whatever influence I had was probably on one side.
00:51:45.000
Now, I don't know how to, you know, like, unpack, like, who had the most impact.
00:51:55.420
I just know that whenever I tell you I'm going to do something, it seems to happen.
00:52:09.380
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I believe this brings us to the end of our prepared notes.
00:52:55.740
Scott, are intel agencies are our biggest problem?
00:53:14.900
So we're going to show some gratitude to people and things.
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Anybody have anybody that they want to throw into the mix?
00:53:26.940
Is there anything that you feel a little extra gratitude for?
00:53:31.580
Let's say something we would recognize, the rest of us.
00:54:02.520
I'm going to appreciate the founders of the Constitution.
00:54:07.780
It's hard to imagine anybody doing a better job on anything than the Constitution.
00:54:24.340
Because I do think that he's doing what he's doing for larger purposes.
00:55:03.500
I would like to also show appreciation for the independent podcasters,
00:55:13.020
Imagine what the world would be like without the independent podcasters.
00:55:20.080
Because everything we'd know would be sort of coming from the news.
00:55:41.040
I have an appreciation for the internet dads who are trying to keep the world from going off the rails.
00:56:14.820
I have to say one more thing about Andrew Tate.
00:56:24.740
So if I ever suggest that he's unskilled, that you heard it wrong, he has a lot of skill.
00:56:31.940
And he's pulling it together in a very amusing way.
00:56:35.700
But one of the things he says is that marriage is for idiots, basically.
00:56:41.700
If you're a man, getting married is basically just a sucker's play.
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And I'm not saying that I'll agree with that or disagree with that.
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It's one of the biggest emerging themes on social media.
00:57:11.140
So that's a value that Andrew Tate is adding to the conversation.
00:57:25.920
I'm not saying you should follow Andrew Tate's advice on anything.
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He smokes cigars and drinks whiskey and gives you health advice.
00:57:45.600
He also gives a lot of relationship advice, but doesn't seem to be in one.
00:57:55.260
He seems to have multiple children, but not in any marriage situation.
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But you should at least be aware that the people giving you advice may not have solved their own problems.
00:58:20.500
And I would say the same thing for me, by the way.
00:58:22.960
If I ever give you relationship advice, you should throw it in my face.
00:58:27.780
You have full authority to say, how did it work for you, Scott?
00:58:42.060
Like, if I could figure out any of this stuff, I'd figure it out and then I'd share it with you.
00:58:48.680
If I could figure out how to make relationships work, I would tell you.
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Like, I wouldn't keep that to myself, I would tell you.
00:58:58.500
And I think the basic reason is that we did not evolve to be in a steady state.
00:59:07.640
That we evolved to be, you know, in continuous transition, where you're eating, you know, eating your babies and creating new babies and stuff like that.
00:59:15.800
So we're not meant to find our happy place and then just sit in the pocket.
00:59:21.540
We're meant to be continually unhappy so that we're scratching to get something that'll make us happy.
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My relationship advice is the reason you're happily married?
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I see questions about Christina, but I don't want to answer any personal questions about her.
01:00:32.740
I'll answer personal questions about me sometimes, but I don't want to answer a personal question about somebody else.
01:00:48.880
I thought I would probably practice better if I had a better guitar, right?
01:00:59.760
Are you saying Tate does not drink, he's a Muslim?
01:01:07.280
Anyway, I think I'm going to retire from the business of criticizing an opinion person,
01:01:32.300
So, I did learn that it's the C word, apparently, that gets me demonetized.
01:01:41.780
So yesterday, I got demonetized almost instantly, as soon as I used the F word.
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But then they reversed it pretty quickly upon human review.
01:01:52.400
I think the ones that don't get reversed is when I've used the C word.
01:01:55.540
But I don't know if that trend is 100% pattern or not.
01:02:06.040
Locals, people, I was just asked, how are the drum lessons?
01:04:08.680
So that's what 14 months of drum lessons gets you.
01:04:29.040
So that was my guitar slash drum teacher who was jamming.
01:04:34.680
Now, what you don't know is that that wasn't an actual song.
01:04:42.920
And my guitar teacher can play along with anything.
01:04:47.600
So I just laid down a bunch of different beats.
01:04:56.140
I can't even explain to you how much fun that was.
01:05:06.060
I probably enjoyed that two minutes as much as I've enjoyed anything non-sexual my entire life.
01:05:15.800
You just watched two of the best minutes of my whole life.
01:05:23.060
And part of it is, I've said this before, I have insane levels of, just insane levels of planning
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And so from probably the age of, I don't know, 10 years old, I wanted to be able to do that.
01:05:48.140
And couldn't do it until, you know, my mid-60s.
01:05:51.500
And I'll tell you a specific thing that sparked it.
01:05:58.980
I walked into the gym of my little high school in upstate New York.
01:06:05.640
And they were preparing for a dance that evening.
01:06:10.100
And there were some of the high school kids in my tiny little town
01:06:13.100
had somehow gotten instruments and taught themselves to play.
01:06:17.920
So there was a band that they were all self-taught.
01:06:21.200
They just listened to records and said, well, we'll do this.
01:06:24.200
Somehow they learned how to play guitars and drums.
01:06:42.600
Because I want him to remember, in case he remembers the moment.
01:06:47.860
So there was a bunch of high school kids who were milling around
01:06:56.360
But the band is just getting set up on the stage where we can all see them.
01:07:00.540
The drummer, David Huber, sits down in the drums and starts playing.
01:07:06.620
And he just starts, like, knocking out this whole drum solo.
01:07:17.740
He was just somebody who knew how to play the drums really well.
01:07:22.400
And our entire impression of him, I think, as one, changed.
01:07:33.700
And we know he wasn't doing that great in school.
01:07:38.720
And he sits down on the drums and he just kills it.
01:07:57.140
And I said to myself, someday I'm going to feel that.
01:08:08.180
Like, he controlled the whole room just by sitting down on the drums.
01:08:11.820
And I said to myself, I'm going to be that guy.
01:08:17.000
And I just spent well over 50 years trying to figure out how I could open my schedule enough
01:08:27.080
You saw the culmination of 50 years, literally 50 years, to do that for two minutes.
01:08:52.760
Now, the reason I had to wait so long is because I was still drawing every day with my hand.
01:08:58.340
And I didn't want to do anything that would, you know, first of all, take a lot of time.
01:09:05.700
My art director does the drawing for the Dilbert comic.
01:09:09.760
So, you know, I thought I had a little hand resource available.
01:09:19.600
And I'm taking up the guitar as well, seeing if I can have any progress there.
01:09:27.620
Four chords played very slowly, with some of the strings not entirely making the right noise.
01:09:43.240
And certainly my art director is better than I am.
01:10:02.220
But I'm told that if you can get those four chords, you can do a whole lot of songs.
01:10:08.580
So it might be that the guitar can get me to playing faster.
01:10:12.940
But all you would need to know for drums, I'm pretty close.
01:10:16.760
Like the total body of skill and information about drumming, I'm probably 80% there.
01:10:23.200
But I'd be able to play entire songs on the guitar, being 10% there.
01:10:42.540
And then the other 20%, you know, the rest of my life.
01:11:23.420
Now, here's my theory about why musicians get a lot of action.
01:11:30.280
So this is related to something I've said before.
01:11:32.440
I believe that everything that we think and do and the way we act as human beings is a projection
01:11:41.780
That everything you do is because of some connection to mating.
01:11:46.280
You know, you might not be aware of it, but even the clothes you wear or sending a signal,
01:11:56.640
And that means that women, well, it doesn't mean it, but women, I think, are evolved to
01:12:02.460
spot characteristics in men that are, let's say, proxies for good genes.
01:12:10.860
So if you see somebody who's, like, tall and strong, you say, oh, probably good genes.
01:12:16.640
Somebody who's healthy, somebody who has good symmetry, which we call beauty, good genes.
01:12:22.960
But if you see somebody who's an athlete, you say, oh, those look like some good genes.
01:12:28.800
If you see somebody who's unusually smart, good genes.
01:12:31.480
But I think musicians also project some kind of, at least mental and physical capability
01:12:39.740
and also ability to work hard without immediate reward.
01:12:45.760
You can't really be a musician unless you're willing to put in a ton of work without even
01:12:53.360
That's a very good indicator of future capabilities.
01:12:59.460
So I think that music, you know, I do it because I think I like it.
01:13:07.120
My brain says, oh, you like the sound of Ed and it's a challenge and all these things.
01:13:14.740
I actually honestly believe that my base influence is just the mating instinct.
01:13:23.480
And when I told you the story of how I got interested, it was literally because I wanted
01:13:30.880
Like, I feel I'm very connected to my mating instinct because I never fool myself that
01:13:40.720
Like, I always think my higher level thinking is just rationalizations for shit I wanted to
01:13:45.280
And the stuff I wanted to do is just related to my mating instinct, either directly or indirectly.
01:13:51.880
And by the way, drumming, I believe, also has an evolutionary connection.
01:14:02.520
I don't know how much faith's put in this theory.
01:14:05.960
But there's a theory that drumming and dancing had the same evolutionary purpose, which was
01:14:14.420
to make an individual person who would be helpless compared to, let's say, a lion or a big animal,
01:14:21.140
if they're with a group and the group is playing in rhythm and they're moving in rhythm and they're
01:14:28.640
standing together, then an animal that sees that is going to say, oh, shit, that's one big animal.
01:14:34.820
Like, I could take one human easily, but I can't take this big group of people.
01:14:39.800
And likewise, if you're going to attack another tribe, would you attack a tribe that could
01:14:45.860
put on a musical show where they're dancing to the rhythm?
01:14:50.240
Because as soon as I saw that, I'd say, um, they're coordinated.
01:14:55.120
I do not want to attack anybody who's coordinated, right?
01:15:00.180
Because that's a sign of capability, coordination.
01:15:03.380
So I think drumming and dancing were always a defensive, um, a defensive habit.
01:15:14.320
And that, you know, we've come to love it, so we think we do it because we love it.
01:15:18.680
But I think it's all, it's all based on self-defense, which is ultimately related to your mating instinct.
01:15:25.340
Because you're, you know, there's no point in mating if the lion is going to eat your baby.
01:15:33.380
Uh, Scott, on Dancing with the Stars, that'd be the worst thing.
01:15:48.080
Bam Bam wants us to know, uh, quote, I'm not wearing underwear.
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I'm going to go talk to the, uh, locals' people privately.