Episode 1997 Scott Adams： Today I Explain The Excess Mortality Numbers Like You Have Never Seen
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Summary
In this episode of the highlight of civilization, Scott Adams talks about the debt ceiling crisis and what it means for the economy and the future of the U.S. government. He also talks about how the government shut down and how it could be a good thing in the long-term.
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization it's called coffee
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with scott adams there's never been a finer experience in your entire life and if you'd
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like to experience this at the peak possible pinnacle i just ran out of things to say at the
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end of the sentence well all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein a
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cantijug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join
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me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything
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better and because of my shirt it's the zelinski sip go matt matt just made it everybody matt's here
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we're going to start all over matt it's a good thing you made it
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no we're not going to start all over or are we well what's going on today let me tell you
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here's how you know it's a slow news day a lot of people are talking about george santos
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you know george santos he's a republican but he may have told some whoppers about his resume
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maybe but the funniest part about it is that he's a gay republican and the republicans are you know
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totally protecting him because yeah they like republicans but everything about this story is
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just funny but it doesn't really matter is it really a big story that a liar got into congress
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oh no how how will the republic survive that one liar in congress if only they could get rid of
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george santos and have a non-lying congress hey wouldn't that be something
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i think if we do that we'll be in good shape well here's my macro observation
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does it seem to you like the news got suddenly really slow am i right like all the news is just
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yesterday's news repackaged a little bit there's something coming there's something really big
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coming and i don't know what it is i don't have a guess probably political but there's no way that
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we're going to have you know another week of no news that we're not going to have a full week of no
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news and everything is just a repeat like you know oh the uh the government's going to be shut down
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because of the debt ceiling how many times have we done the same story is it every year and then
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who will blink first and who is winning the shutdown and everybody hates everybody because of the
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shutdown and and then once the shutdown happens what does everybody say let let's do the entire
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npc gamut okay the npcs the non-player characters if we're a simulation are the ones who say
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only the most obvious thing all right so let's i'll give you a topic and then you tell me what the
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npcs say and we'll play along at the same time all right the most obvious thing to say about another
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battle over the debt limit oh why don't we have a line item veto why don't we have a balanced budget
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required why don't we cut the uh the pay of the members of congress and then of course my favorite
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the government shut down i didn't even notice maybe it's an improvement maybe we should shut
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the rest of it down and then of course we have to talk about who won and who blinked and who lost
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nobody's winning nobody's losing they're all just playing the same game how does anybody win or lose
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i don't know we're just gonna get bored by the whole thing they're gonna pass some continuing resolution
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or something we don't understand that we're gonna keep spending our money but uh not much of a story
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there but here's an interesting thing i saw on twitter today in a twitter account by dumasani washington
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who says over two million i think there was an article in the hill oh yeah the hill over two million
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students have left public school in the last two years and many are now homeschooled including over
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16 percent of black households which is the largest percentage of any ethnic group did any of you know
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that did you know that the uh the black uh american kids are going to homeschool at a higher rate than
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others what a great trend now that should be like the headline shouldn't it is there anything
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happening right now that would be like new you know that we haven't already talked to death but also
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could be like a wonderful thing so here's here's my argument why uh helping the young black population
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of america is the biggest lever we have for improving the country because they're in the deepest hole
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right if you help the people who are in the deepest hole you can maybe move them from you know
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depending on the system to making money and supporting the system and it's a way better benefit
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if you take somebody from you know costing money to making money as opposed to taking somebody who's already
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making money and you know they do 20 better that's a much smaller gain for society than helping somebody
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go from unemployed to employed that's a that's a big thing so it looks like the you know maybe the free market
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and maybe some other forces are causing a trend that would be very beneficial for black americans and that would be
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amazing for everybody in america so how about that just unambiguous good news
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does that feel good just unambiguous good news black americans are taking up homeschooling at higher rates than other people
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good and so that's that's exactly what i want to see in america so maybe more of that we'll see that
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um rasmussen did some polling about this debt ceiling and the shutdown stuff 56 percent prefer the shutdown
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so that that's how congress is doing 56 of us would rather just close the entire stuff just just close
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it all down ah forget it but i think people like the fight they just don't know what to do about it
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it's just not easy to to fix the problem because we have a system problem it's not really a person
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problem is it wouldn't you agree it's a system design problem that gets us to the same place all the time
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you could replace all the people in it you know you could do term limits get rid of everybody tomorrow
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but then it would just quickly re-evolve back to where it is so we do need a system change i don't
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think it's a personnel change i think it's got to be a system change so if you saw a person who had any
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influence who said i recommend a different process except for the line item veto that's never going to
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happen you know we could talk about it all day i guess but uh we need if somebody's saying do something
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differently i would i would certainly listen to that but if everybody is just oh do it our way do it
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our way pass this bill don't pass this bill it's all just nothing yeah and again uh yeah we'll do
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we'll we'll talk about that story don't worry uh every day i find myself waking up being a little bit
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amazed that matt gates has renewed himself politically is anybody as surprised at that as i
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am i've never seen anything like that like the the rapidity of which he went from you know politically
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dead to maybe the only person in the on the republican side you care about lately he's the only one who did
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anything good lately carpe can we shut down the government indefinitely and salt the earth see
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it's very popular we want them to fail even though we don't really so maybe gates is the only kind of
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person who could you know maybe suggest something that's out of the box because everybody else seems
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to be in the box like the most dangerous person in the world in congress like mansion in cinema because
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they have the ability to get out of their box and now matt gates they're basically three people who
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could run congress because everybody else decided not to the three who took leadership because they
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could and apparently they want to be leaders they actually want to do it and so they are three most
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three most important people in congress um although i think thomas massey is a is a sleeper you
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are you all are you all watching him because he he sort of quietly stays rational and consistent
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which always makes him sort of an outcast in the the bigger conversations like whoever's been
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trying to just be rational gets really ignored because they don't they don't create a lot of energy
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but but there's like a if here's something to keep an eye on it's he's a sleeper because he just
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continues to be smart and right like every day well that wasn't very interesting but he was smart and
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he was right and then tomorrow okay new topic well there's that smart guy being right again you know
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didn't get a lot of attention but there he is smart and right but once again so you know here's my
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long-range prediction he might be i hate to use this term because don't make too much of the analogy
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he might be the bernie sanders of the republicans
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meaning that you know bernie was like a weirdo until his time came and then he was you know the star
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i think massey's you know like in this odd little category of trying to be rational and helpful
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and like nobody even knows what that looks like who's this rational helpful guy why why does he
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keep saying rational helpful things that's no good but i feel like his time will come
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if he stays in that job i don't know if he will
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so i think things are going to catch up with him he doesn't need to catch up with them all right but so
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let's see who's uh uh 21 of according to rasmussen 21 of the uh people polled think taxpayers are more
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to blame for the size of the deficit than congress
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that's a little low i would have expected at least four basis points on that
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i would have expected 25 that's just me yeah all right um in case you wondered if we lived in a
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simulation um we keep seeing little hints little hints and yesterday there's a tragic story of uh
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a fox news weatherman who was riding the subway and he saw some teens picking on an elderly guy and
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he got involved so we like that right he he he took uh took initiative and tried to stop an old man
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from being abused on the subway this caused the teens to turn on him and beat him quite badly
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so he got the crap beat out of him on the on the subway he was outnumbered now uh the name of this
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weatherman this fox news weatherman is uh adam his first name is adam his last name is klotz
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k-l-o-t-z k-l-o-t-z so um i believe i believe there was some bleeding involved but the good news is
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adam klotz so he's fine he's fine because adam klotz but
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like what are the odds what are the odds that he would be like a national story at the same time
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you know people are uh all riled up about my recent vaccination statements which are not really
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vaccinations are they we'll talk about that how many of you saw on twitter a uh tweet and a video
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of a woman who claims that she got the vaccination and it's it gave her like some kind of permanent
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shakes and she was trying to walk and she was she was shaking badly how many of you saw that
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so uh yeah it's going all over the internet and uh of course because it's the internet and nobody holds
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back on twitter people were brutal saying that she was faking the the number of people who said this
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is a fake video you're faking and uh to the point to the point where twitter actually put a context
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warning on it saying there's no evidence that this really happened apparently somebody checked in whatever
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state or location allegedly this happened and there was no report of it but who knows so i don't i don't
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believe the context and i don't believe the video but here we are we're at a point where nothing's
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believable just nothing so when i saw the video i didn't think it was true or false i just sort of
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ignored it but it became a big story so i guess i'm past believing things are true because they're on video
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how many of you immediately think a video is real and how many of you automatically say probably not
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even if it's a video i'm kind of getting to the point where any video looks fake to me like as my
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default speaking of fake videos you know the famous picture of uh prince uh who is he andrew uh the one who was
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photographed uh hugging virginia jeffrey or whoever she was the epstein the young epstein uh girl slash
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woman and apparently uh uh maxwell is saying from jail allegedly that she believes that photo was
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photoshopped and that she has no memory of those two ever being together now she's not denying
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you know the the general scheme of things so she's not she's not saying that that those two weren't
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part of their operation she's saying that um that the photo is not real but that the two people were
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actually part of it so if she were denying that the two people were even there then i'd say okay that's
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i mean that's a lot i'm not sure i would buy that but she's accepting that they were both there
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and but maybe at different times and she thinks it was a fake photo now apparently some experts think
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so too there's no original nobody's ever seen the original and some some people who know how to spot
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fakes think it actually looks fake now i looked at it today and you can see that you know there's a hand
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around her waist and looking at the hand and i thought to myself you know i could actually see
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that as fake yeah i think she was she was allegedly 17 in the photo so so what do you call a 17 year
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old is she a girl or a woman what's the standard on that obviously legally she's not of age but
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oh young woman let's go with young woman yeah young young woman is better right young woman yeah girl
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just seems too dismissive all right um so the biggest news yesterday turned out to be me
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um so i just had the weirdest experience the last day or so now you're you're probably aware that i
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declared that the unvaccinated uh the un-covid vaccinated are are the winners of the pandemic
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that they got the right answer because if i had gotten to this point where you know omicron is even
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decreasing and and if i could be unvaccinated i would have one less thing to worry about right
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so compared to how i played it i got to the end of the pandemic but i have something in me that i
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don't know if there could be any long-term implications if you got to the end of the pandemic
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and you have nothing unusual in you and you also are alive i conclude that you were the smartest ones
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fair and but here here's the interesting thing that happened and i i totally didn't see this coming
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people people showed me so much love in the last day and a half i've never seen anything like it
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it now you you know maybe you're unaware of it because most of it came in like dms and privately
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and stuff but i didn't know what would happen you know i wasn't sure what happened when i said that
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publicly but it turns out it was all positive there were there were a few people who you know like were
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a little niggling about you know why didn't i get there faster or what took me so long but basically
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everybody was happy that i had you know made that shift in public opinion but what is weird is that
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i didn't get any pushback from what you might call pro-vaccination people none is that weird
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not a single i didn't see an article to criticize me nothing yeah now alex berenson had some snipey words
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but he was happy that what i said so so even even you know somebody you expect to be your biggest
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critic was like happy at least where i ended up on it now here was the interesting thing a number of you
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said uh both publicly and privately to me that it must have been really embarrassing for me to
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to do what i did to say that the unvaxxed are the winners and other people said it must have been a
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difficult day for me must have been really hard for me to say that other people said you know i must
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have must have been tough for my ego and others wondering you know what it was like for me to be
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eating crow did anybody think i had a hard day for the last day and a half how many thought i was
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having a hard day i was having a great day i had nothing but compliments all day
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now the other thing is people wondered how hard it was for me to make the decision like did i agonize
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about it let me tell you honestly god this is this is a completely true i didn't think about it much
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i think i thought of all of five minutes i thought oh you know things have changed now we know more
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you know where you know things keep revealing themselves in small bits and we seem to be at
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sort of the end of the pandemic and i was just sitting there at one moment i thought oh okay time to
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revise my revise my uh you know current uh understanding of things it took no it took no work at all
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i had no friction do you believe that because i think you're putting yourselves in my seat and you're
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saying this would have been hard for me it wasn't hard at all there was no friction and do you know why
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there was no friction do you know why do you know why it was so easy and it was only a good day
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it was easy because i was never contradicting myself
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i've always said that as as information becomes available i will reassess my beliefs and i've always
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said that on anything on anything that if i'm wrong i'd like to be wrong in public
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because what i primarily what i do is talk about how to how to analyze the news and who's getting
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the right answer and how they did it and you know what was your analytical process and why did it beat
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this analytical process so if i if i analyze something wrong and then tell you about it that's just what
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i do like i don't have i had no obstacle i had literally no obstacle to changing my mind in public
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because that's that's the environment i had created so i didn't have any any risk but it's interesting
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that how many of you thought that it would be daring and brave to change my mind about something in public
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it's easy it's really easy now the other superpower i have which i talk about a lot in fact my upcoming
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book i talk about this quite a bit if you can learn to be free of embarrassment it's like a freaking
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superpower because you know today like my twitter followers are way up my my traffic here is up
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everybody complimented me yesterday but what i did was something that most of you would have considered
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terribly embarrassing but it wasn't to me i really didn't care like it never occurred to me
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and honestly it never even occurred to me that i could be embarrassed never even thought of it
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well it wasn't part of any of the variables at all it's just not part of my life anymore and if you can
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get to the point where you can reframe embarrassment out of your life it really is a superpower you can just
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do more stuff just do more stuff um all right so yeah jake shields said it couldn't have been it must
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not have been an easy thing to do but jake it was really easy it was so easy totally easy all right but
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here are some things that uh i learned from the people who got all the right answers would you like
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me to spend some more time telling you how wrong i was and how right my critics were you like that right
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all right so here's some more um so yesterday i think i i suggested that uh everybody was operating
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by guessing you know so i i said in the early days basically nobody could tell what was real and what
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wasn't real but um i was corrected so there were a number of people who did not get vaccinated
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and they said it's not guessing and it's not a heuristic it's not it's not just that we didn't
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trust the government it's that we did a deep dive and we did our research and the research clearly showed
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don't do this and so since those are the people who got the right answer i decided to
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look at what some of them said um for example chris martinson who's a phd he got the right answer
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and here's how he describes it he goes i use the science data and deduction to arrive at my own
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conclusions now i thought i was doing those things but apparently i wasn't but here's how to do it right
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uh i never took the vaccine because i couldn't resolve one major question and the question was
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why did every vaccine manufacturer use the uh quote whole spike protein construct that's very weird
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okay so i missed that did did you did you all uh catch that because uh they used the whole spike protein
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a lot of you probably were thinking well it's probably just some of the spike protein or a little bit
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but somehow i completely missed that i think it's my lack of scientific training that i didn't realize
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the whole spike protein would be the mistake so um and here's another one i hope i write it down
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uh yeah there was uh at least one other one that i wanted to note um
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oh here's one uh from kevin mckernan also on twitter this is someone else who got the right answer
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and by doing research so listen to this so here's something else i missed a very quick glance at the
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sequence of the vaccines demonstrated enrichment of quadruplex g's the letter g quadruplex g's that
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didn't exist in the virus this is data you chose meaning me that i chose to ignore that is correct
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i completely ignored and i hope none of you did this but i ignored the enrichment of quadruplex g's
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and i completely missed that they use the entire spike protein so that's you know maybe a probably
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a blind spot i have because my lack of scientific training so i won't make that mistake again but
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the interesting thing is that the smartest people are the people i think the part we all agree on
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are the ones who don't have this you know chemical in them the vaccination at this point
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because the the pandemic is winding down they would be the smartest but have you ever have you
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ever thought who would be the second smartest if we can all agree who got the right answer
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it's those of you who are still here and um don't have a vaccination in you so-called vaccination
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i think it's the here here's what i used to think and here i was wrong again i've been wrong about a
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lot of things so here's where i was rung in i thought the second smartest people would be the
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people who use the same reasoning as the people who didn't get vaccinated some some because they did a
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deep dive others because their heuristics of hey why do they have so much legal protection and why
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don't they give us more data and why did they rush it so those people you know also got the right
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answer but i think the second smartest people were the ones who avoided the vaccination and then died
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of covet so the second smartest i thought were the dead people because they use the same reasoning as
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the people who are alive and they're the smartest people so you know if they all had the same smart
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reasoning the second smartest ones are the one who died but here's where i was wrong i found out
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yesterday on spaces that uh there are a lot of people and i believe it or not i didn't know this till
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yesterday i swear to god i didn't know this till yesterday but a lot of people believe the pandemic never
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happened like actually didn't happen as in nobody died of covet as in actually nobody died of covet as
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in zero people died of covet it never happened and i didn't know that was a real belief i actually
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honestly god i didn't i did not know anybody thought that but i did a little survey on twitter
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and um you know of course it's unscientific so i said do you believe covid shots protected any
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category of people and here i was looking for i think we mostly agree that young people have more
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costs than benefit from vaccinations that's that's sort of the current thinking among the public anyway
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and but i thought that the public believed that at least old people got some protection from
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hospitalization and death but i asked on twitter and 53 percent said nobody got any benefit from the
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shots and and they don't mean they don't mean that the side effects are worse than the protection
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they mean that nobody was protected in any way even even temporarily uh so 23 percent said yes the
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shots gave somebody some protection 24 percent said maybe and 53 percent said no so of the people who
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follow me more than half believe the entire pandemic was fake and then nobody died of covet
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um so i would like to support that point of view with my own hypothesis how could it be how could it
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possibly be that we would have excess deaths because we seem to if there was no pandemic well some people
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are saying it's the vaccinations themselves and i i don't know one way or the other so i'm not going to
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weigh in on whether or not it's the vaccination because i've been wrong about everything so far
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would you agree as wrong as i've been about everything so far if i don't have any data one way or another
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i'm not going to say it's is is or is not the vaccinations but would you agree that that hypothesis
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exists as a possibility it exists right it isn't ruled out is it as any there's no way to rule out
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because i don't think it's been studied to death right but i'm going to give you another interpretation
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which you have not heard in which all of the excess deaths could be explained
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without covid and without the vaccinations do you think i can do that and not only that but i'm going
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to give you a vaccine an explanation that's way more uh probable
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way more way more probable than either covid or vaccination injury or the two of them added
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together all right well that is my challenge and i shall do it right now you've heard of the placebo
00:31:54.320
effect of course you know that if you're testing any kind of drug that as many as 30 to 60 percent of the
00:32:01.680
people who get the fake drug that doesn't do anything 30 to 60 of them actually have a benefit
00:32:10.800
with no drug now do you know how science explains how that's possible do you know what the scientific
00:32:19.040
mechanism is that somebody will believe something might work and that it actually works in the
00:32:24.960
real in their actual body do you know how the placebo works scientifically do you know the explanation
00:32:34.320
nobody does no belief is a fact but how the belief trans translates into a physical response
00:32:44.160
is unknown now have you ever heard of a nocebo it's the same concept as a placebo but instead of believing
00:32:54.240
that the let's say the pill is good for you if you believe it might be bad for you it can actually hurt you
00:33:03.120
you can actually injure yourself by belief that the pill will injure you when it's just a nothing pill
00:33:11.120
that's a real thing so the placebo is where you get a fake benefit even though nothing in the real world
00:33:17.280
should make that happen and the nocebo is where it hurts you even though that drug couldn't hurt anybody
00:33:26.160
and i and let me say again science has no idea why no idea
00:33:32.400
i know why or i know what the most likely explanation of why is we live in a simulation
00:33:44.080
and people and not everybody but something like 30 to 60 percent of participants are players
00:33:51.360
the npcs just do whatever the pill does but the players are actually creating the reality and then
00:33:59.680
walking into it the reality they've created now what are the odds that we live in a simulation well
00:34:05.520
i don't want to recap that but if you listen to elon musk or you listen to me you'll know that the odds
00:34:12.240
that we are a simulation and not an original species probably a trillion to one or a billion to one
00:34:18.640
so if the odds of us being a simulation are you know a billion to one because there will be lots of
00:34:23.360
simulations for every original world that makes simulations so while we could be real it's possible
00:34:30.880
the the odds are just astronomically against it if we were a simulation could you explain placebos and nocebos
00:34:39.840
yes you could in the context of a simulation it makes perfect sense because it also explains
00:34:46.000
affirmations positive thinking and why people who believe they live in the simulation keep getting
00:34:52.720
better results i tell you i believe i live in that honestly i believe this is a simulation that's my
00:35:00.160
actual opinion but my life keeps turning out like it could only be a simulation my actual life is so
00:35:08.000
unusual it couldn't possibly just be organically happening it just doesn't seem possible and elon musk
00:35:15.120
same thing he believes it's a simulation there's nothing about his life that looks ordinary it looks
00:35:20.640
like he's just creating reality out of his mind and we're watching him do it so
00:35:29.680
here's my uh here's my uh connecting it all together did you see a um i forget where i saw it i think
00:35:39.040
it was on rasmussen i think rasmussen had the poll they said that um republicans
00:35:47.040
were more likely to believe they knew somebody who had been injured by the the shots
00:35:52.960
than democrats do you believe that's true do you believe that if you asked the republicans would say
00:35:58.080
yes more likely not everyone but more likely they would say yes i know somebody was injured by the
00:36:03.200
vaccination if you ask the democrats they say no but i know somebody who's got long covet
00:36:08.160
right democrats are going to believe long covet republicans are more likely to believe vax injury
00:36:21.840
they're both right they both can be right it can happen at the same time as long as the two stories
00:36:29.200
never have to be resolved and so far they don't so far you can you can live and procreate and go
00:36:36.000
through your life believing that no pandemic even happened it was all fake or you could go through
00:36:42.560
your life thinking it was a deadly pandemic and people died like crazy and you can live right next
00:36:48.160
to each other you can have jobs you can even marry each other and it would all work you just you just
00:36:55.600
have to have kids and then society goes on so it doesn't need to be resolved and the only way i can
00:37:02.240
explain these different worlds that we seem to be experiencing is that we are a simulation and the
00:37:08.160
people who expected vax injury talked themselves into it and created it the people who expected long
00:37:15.760
covet talked themselves into it and created it as a reality the people who believe that no pandemic
00:37:22.720
happened lived in that reality just happy as happy as pie
00:37:31.440
uh the who or what is in control of the simulation would be whoever created it but they probably did a
00:37:37.920
hands-off kind of thing so they could see how it see how it plays out so it's probably not hands-on
00:37:43.360
except for you know tweaking it or adding themes or stuff yeah who created the creator we don't have to
00:37:49.920
answer that yet but um if if it's true let me see if i can just back up now and see how much i can get
00:37:57.680
you to say yes to do you agree that the placebo and the nocebo effect are so well demonstrated that
00:38:05.360
they're real like there's something going on there you'd all agree with that right and would you agree
00:38:10.720
that science doesn't know what it is and they've looked at it a lot right it's like one of the greatest
00:38:17.120
mysteries it appears and i'll just say appears that the people are are simply changing the reality
00:38:25.520
based on their belief of the pill that's what it looks like to me it doesn't look like only their
00:38:31.200
belief has changed it looks like their actual reality changed that's what it looks like to me
00:38:37.040
it doesn't look like the brain magically produced chemistry that makes you healthy
00:38:43.120
i think it could do that but i don't think that's what happened because i think science would find
00:38:48.800
that right if the mechanism had been your brain changes your body chemistry we would see that
00:38:57.280
that would probably be easy to spot but they can't find any mechanism there's no mechanism
00:39:04.160
we're a simulation we have to be and you should look for this effect everywhere everywhere people
00:39:11.040
expect something to happen watch how often it happens let me tell you something i expect you'll
00:39:18.640
you can see if it happens the the book that i'm just editing and finishing up now it'll come out around
00:39:23.520
september i've never made this prediction before because it's a belief it's more of a belief i think it's
00:39:31.200
going to be the most important book in the world and not counting religious books all right we'll give the bible
00:39:36.640
and the quran their their own place but of just books i actually think it's going to be the most
00:39:44.560
important book ever written because it's it's nothing less than reprogramming it's like a software
00:39:50.320
upgrade for a human it's actually written you know i'm a hypnotist so i can figure out how to do this
00:39:58.080
stuff it's written like a software update to just update everything about your social life your sense of
00:40:03.760
success your health just an update it's gonna it's gonna actually make the world spin now let's see
00:40:11.200
if that happens so the reason i'm doing this is to give you a little uh i don't know a little easter
00:40:16.720
egg or something where you could say okay he did say that thing which is really really unusual
00:40:22.880
think about on how how unlikely that is because my last books you know did not change the world well
00:40:30.800
one of them did i guess one of them did change the world but uh so just track it track it because i
00:40:39.440
believe i can make that happen because my brain thinks it's going to happen and i haven't said that
00:40:44.240
about my other books there's this one's special in a way that'll just blow your freaking head off
00:40:50.160
i think pretty sure so we'll see all right so i think excess deaths could be explained by the
00:40:57.440
following things number one drug overdoses are way up right and drug overdoses are way up which
00:41:07.200
probably means drugs are way up which probably means that that explains why there are more car accidents
00:41:12.640
and every other kind of accident so every kind of accident is up because drugs are up um i would
00:41:20.880
also say that people were out of practice in commuting wouldn't you the the people who didn't
00:41:27.440
commute for two years and then had to commute were suddenly out of practice i think that actually makes
00:41:33.360
a difference because i could feel it like if i don't drive for a few weeks you feel rusty it should
00:41:38.400
be like everything else if you don't do it for a while you don't do it as well so let's say you've
00:41:43.760
got drug overdoses you've got car accidents that could be you know lack of practice plus more drugs
00:41:50.080
um and we found that uh let's see what uh the homicide rate among i read this today among young black men
00:42:02.560
um was nearly 10 times higher than the uh overall firearm death rate in the u.s in 2021 and
00:42:13.760
so some of it is murder violence is up so i think uh murder is the number one cause of young people
00:42:25.040
of death and fentanyl has got to be up there so everything that kills young people is way up and then
00:42:30.800
um even even even the people who make the so-called vaccinations are saying that they do have side
00:42:40.000
effects right so even if the vaccinations were just as safe as the companies make them
00:42:46.240
want want you to believe even they say they kill people and we we did a massive vaccination so even if
00:42:53.520
they're as safe as they say it would still be excess deaths um all right so if you add all those things
00:43:02.640
together and then did you know that after a major stress like a pandemic or a war or something did you
00:43:09.920
know that heart attacks always go up did you know that after any big stressful you know global event
00:43:17.120
there's going to be a few years after where heart attacks spike so we're seeing that and it's exactly
00:43:24.880
what you'd expect so you should see more heart attacks now did you know that you can be stressed
00:43:31.520
to the point of having heart problems did you know that did you know you that just stress just
00:43:37.520
ordinary stress can give you a heart problem yeah so have we ever had more stress
00:43:44.800
stress that's that's unknown right don't we know for sure that anxiety and stress are at an all-time
00:43:50.960
high right so your your hypertension is high your cortisol levels are through the roof some of it is
00:43:59.040
social media some of it's the pandemic itself some of it is fear of the vaccination you took
00:44:04.960
some of it is fear of the covid you didn't get or did get right so in terms of fear is through the roof
00:44:11.280
fear alone could explain the entire excess deaths i'm not saying it does i'm saying that the ex if
00:44:21.280
you're looking at the size of it it could explain all of it did you know that it could explain all of
00:44:29.120
it i'm not saying it is the explanation i'm saying it's big enough do you know what else is big enough
00:44:34.080
to explain all of it all of the excess deaths the placebo nocebo effect it's big enough it could explain
00:44:42.080
all of it i'm not saying it is right because that would be going too far i'm saying that there are a
00:44:48.000
whole bunch of explanations for excess death and they're all really good one of them could be the
00:44:54.560
vaccination itself one could be there's more covet deaths than we know you know bad counting
00:45:01.280
uh apparently we know that in great britain that all the covid data is useless did you know that
00:45:08.880
that's the the newest information is that the covid dated from england or great britain i'm not sure
00:45:14.480
where they sliced it but that they now conclude it's it's all it's all just useless it can't be used for
00:45:20.560
any analysis it has no analytical ability it's that inaccurate so so you got that all right so you got your
00:45:29.120
isolation your your stress that would cause your heart attacks your fentanyl overdoses your extra
00:45:34.640
murders your extra accidents wouldn't it be a miracle if there were no excess deaths
00:45:41.520
yeah even even the died suddenly's can be heart attacks from just too much stress and things building
00:45:50.480
well you you might be coming in the late swedish psychopath because uh the context here is how i
00:46:00.000
was wrong about everything wrong about everything all right so probably wrong about that too um
00:46:10.000
here's a question dr uh eli david said on twitter today that some got the vaccine the covid vaccine
00:46:16.320
uh because based on trusting the evidence and then he listed elon musk and me so dr eli david thinks
00:46:25.120
that i got the covid vaccination based on trusting the evidence let me give a clarification my problem
00:46:32.560
wasn't trusting big companies i'm the dilbert guy i'm literally the most famous person in the world
00:46:40.880
for distrusting things that big companies say name anybody on the planet earth who is more famous who
00:46:50.080
has a longer track record of distrust of corporations nobody i'm number one in the world
00:46:58.160
alex jones okay alex jones number two all right but uh here's here's a clarification i didn't trust
00:47:06.080
the vaccinations which is why i waited so long i waited as long as i could and i also predicted
00:47:12.560
they wouldn't work in the beginning so i didn't trust the vaccinations but here's what dr eli david
00:47:17.920
may have missed that i also didn't trust the people who didn't trust them in other words there were
00:47:25.920
doctors who were saying it's obvious already you know that this is a problem so i didn't trust the
00:47:32.880
experts but i doubly didn't trust or equally didn't trust i guess the the critics so i was
00:47:42.400
uh my problem was too much distrust not too little you see that right so i said i can't trust the
00:47:51.840
vaccination and i can't trust the people who say not to take it i can't use any of that information
00:47:57.360
so the only information i used was i had to travel internationally so i had to get a shot
00:48:01.520
it's the only information i used i didn't have any other information i trusted
00:48:06.720
so i didn't use it because it wasn't credible either the critics or now here's what i got wrong
00:48:13.680
and i know you like me to admit when i'm wrong so wrong there are people who are better than me in
00:48:20.160
every possible way who could tell who was right and who was wrong by looking at the arguments so the
00:48:28.960
people who did their deeper dive looked at you know both arguments and looked at their data and said
00:48:33.920
all right we trust these the critics now here's the question i have that i would uh the same question
00:48:44.160
i have for finance you know there there are 10 or 20 000 stocks you could buy in the united states i
00:48:50.160
forget the number 10 000 that you care about probably so about 10 000 stocks you could pick how does an
00:48:57.280
individual know which one individual know which ones to pick well most people get an expert they'll get
00:49:02.800
like a financial advisor or somebody to help them invest if they have investable funds and then my second
00:49:09.600
question is how many advisors are there so there are 10 000 stocks but how many people are there that advise
00:49:17.760
you to buy them more than 10 000 more than 10 000 so you're going from trying to guess which of 10 000
00:49:26.480
stocks and you don't know any way to pick them you transfer that to trying to pick one of 20 000
00:49:33.760
advisors and not knowing anything about them because their track record doesn't mean anything
00:49:39.120
it's not predictive everybody knows that right it doesn't matter if you had the best record for the
00:49:43.520
last five years nobody believes that predicts because somebody was gonna just by luck have the best one
00:49:49.200
so if you if you change your um if you change your point of view from which stock do i buy and you
00:49:56.640
have no idea to which advisor do i ask to buy which stock it's just another thing you don't have anything
00:50:03.280
any idea about you haven't upgraded your analysis you've actually paid extra money to simply double your
00:50:12.000
confusion because now you don't know if you got a good advisor and you also don't know what stocks to buy
00:50:17.680
if you don't get the advisor you don't pay the extra money but you're still just guessing
00:50:24.000
so what do i do i don't get an advisor that would be crazy but other people do because they unlike me
00:50:33.280
can identify an advisor who knows which stocks to pick and yet and yet here's the weird part the advisor
00:50:42.400
is not rich i mean to me that's a red flag if somebody's telling you how to buy stocks and
00:50:49.920
they're not rich it should be a little red flag but other people say yes i can find the people who
00:50:58.240
make less money than i do because if you're if you're wealthy the person telling you how to manage
00:51:04.000
your money is less successful than you so some people know how to find a less successful person
00:51:09.600
who can make all the right decisions despite knowing that warren buffett says that doesn't
00:51:15.520
exist that there is no such person that's what warren buffett says but apparently he's wrong too
00:51:23.440
because here's what we've learned there are people just regular people who are not doctors not experts
00:51:29.040
who although they would admit maybe they can't you know look into the data as deeply they at least know
00:51:35.120
which experts can so they've chosen the correct expert which is something i can't do i don't have
00:51:43.200
that power so i bow to the superiority of those who could look at all the experts probably financially
00:51:50.160
as well as medically and they can tell which one's got the right answer and they can do that by having
00:51:55.920
enough knowledge that when they look at the data themselves without any special expertise or background in
00:52:03.280
the area that they can know what the people who do have expertise and background in the area missed
00:52:10.560
so apparently all the people with vast experience missed all of these things that the some small
00:52:16.720
number of people got right but i don't have the ability and i want to admit this completely i would
00:52:22.560
never be able to know which critic got the right answer but many of you do and i applaud you because
00:52:29.920
that's a power that i don't have and i don't know how to get it so good for you um
00:52:38.400
and uh then i looked at here's some other smart people andy swan on twitter i don't don't know his
00:52:45.280
background but andy said that uh he knew from the beginning of the covet what the deal was so he made his
00:52:53.760
decision like in the fog of war because i i said that in the fog of war we didn't really know what
00:52:59.600
to do so i didn't blame anybody for getting the wrong answer including myself but uh andy swan says
00:53:05.760
he did not only did he read my mind today which is i gotta say that's impressive uh andy swan read my mind
00:53:14.880
today reported it on twitter and it was something i didn't even know i was thinking so not only did
00:53:23.360
he read my mind but he saw things i didn't even know they were in there and then reported them
00:53:27.280
so that was impressive but he also knew the risk of covid and the vaccines from the start
00:53:34.880
so during the fog of war when the experts were saying we don't know anything andy swan achieved
00:53:41.680
certainty because he not only recognized that the vaccine sounded sketchy and then he was totally
00:53:47.440
right right but that he also knew that um the bioengineered virus from a lab probably we don't
00:53:56.960
know for sure uh he knew how dangerous that was and he also knew how bad long covid would be
00:54:03.920
at the beginning now is that impressive that's impressive because i didn't know any of that
00:54:11.280
i just thought we didn't know anything got everything wrong so i'm a big old dope i can't do any mind
00:54:18.240
reading i can't even read my own mind as well as andy swan can so i feel bad about that
00:54:30.400
what i wrote myself a note and i can't remember what it was
00:54:34.480
all right well there we are the great barrington declaration yes the great barrington declaration
00:54:47.120
people kept telling me scott listen to the great barrington declaration and i didn't realize that the
00:54:54.560
great barrington declaration also knew how bad long covid would be
00:54:58.880
i didn't know they knew that too which was amazing so they got that right right from the start so
00:55:16.880
yeah i got trump right because i had specific knowledge that's correct and i got everything about
00:55:21.520
the uh the pandemic wrong because that's not my field but i am impressed of the people who also
00:55:28.800
was not their field but yet nailed it right right from the fog of war period now that's impressive
00:55:36.800
those are the people that i want in congress the people who may who reach certainty without any data
00:55:42.000
whatsoever if i could do that if you could teach me to do that i'd be in good shape
00:55:48.480
now um does anybody own tesla stock any of you own tesla stock
00:55:56.720
because i realized uh there's kind of a big risk to tesla stock that nobody's talking about
00:56:03.200
oh a lot of you own tesla stock yeah you might want to reconsider this because there's a there's a
00:56:08.400
really big risk um we know now that uh elon musk only looks smart because we found out that he got
00:56:16.960
vaccinated like i did big old dumb head right now he said he did it because he needed to do it to
00:56:22.560
travel to his gigafactory so for work it was like really really important but still i mean he had the
00:56:28.320
option he didn't have to go to the gigafactory so so elon musk largely a fraud i think we can see um
00:56:37.440
he probably got lucky building one electric car company and then you know a rocket company to go to
00:56:43.280
mars and that's i mean that's like screaming luck luck luck luck and then he bought twitter and
00:56:50.720
saved free speech but that was just because he got lucky on the other things so he had a lot of money
00:56:55.600
so basically it's a story of just lucky on paypal lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky now contrasting
00:57:04.240
his blind luck was alex berenson now experience and despite not being a medical expert um also got
00:57:15.360
everything right from the fog of war period to today now here's the risk to tesla stock
00:57:25.520
what if alex berenson tries to make an electric car because we already know he's like way smarter than
00:57:31.680
elon musk because they both looked at this complicated situation and elon musk got like
00:57:37.680
all the wrong answers big old dumb guy and then alex berenson who i mistakenly criticized early on
00:57:45.280
and i take that back completely as a journalist he beat 95 of all the medical experts
00:57:54.080
he's just he just lapped him killed him and and i think he made money on it too i think he probably
00:58:03.760
wrote a book and made some money so he made money and as far as i know he did not get vaccinated can
00:58:10.480
you fact check me that alex berenson did not get the so-called vaccination right so he's clearly the
00:58:18.880
winner he clearly saw this from day one elon musk missed the whole story as did i two idiots and
00:58:30.160
what if he starts a car company berenson has skills i mean this man can this man could do things even
00:58:38.000
outside of his field so pretty impressive now what i did which makes me look like a freaking idiot now
00:58:47.200
is when i got the vaccination i made exactly the same decision that dr robert malone made and he was
00:58:54.880
one of the inventors of the mrna platform and he got the vaccination for the same reason i did like
00:59:01.440
he waited a while he was a certain age you know i think he's younger than me but probably over 60.
00:59:07.600
he's in great shape by the way um oh let me let me say one thing about the uh the uh the doctors who
00:59:16.320
were critics of the vaccination have you noticed that they're all in good shape i just want to call
00:59:23.920
that out like a little compliment you look at look at um berenson too berenson looks like he has
00:59:32.240
really good uh body mass index wouldn't you say he looks like he takes care of himself so
00:59:39.840
that's good uh look at dr malone doesn't dr malone look like the healthiest guy for how old is he
00:59:48.080
do me a fact check is he like 61 62 that guy's in great shape imagine being that good looking at that
00:59:56.800
age yeah and that's pretty impressive um and the other dr mcauliffe dr mcauliffe he doesn't he look
01:00:06.800
doesn't he look like really healthy for his age so maybe you should listen to these guys they they
01:00:20.480
most successful people have self uh discipline do they blown 64. now is that not impressive
01:00:28.160
whatever malone is doing you should just do what he does because it's clearly working
01:00:38.080
do you know that at my current age i believe both of my grandfathers were dead from old age
01:00:43.520
isn't that weird the difference between then and now
01:00:58.000
somebody says they're a doctor jg and chose the the jab for travel purposes and you feel like a winner
01:01:05.200
well so far so far but maybe you didn't know that nobody actually died from covet which i learned
01:01:12.320
yesterday from half of my half of my viewers was not aware of that i thought at 1.1 million people
01:01:18.960
died and maybe if they over counted it maybe it was really only 800 000 but i have been misinformed
01:01:30.960
um have they been upgraded from rogue doctors yes now they are the correct doctors
01:01:36.400
i apologize for ever calling them rogues although rogue was never an insult by the way you know that
01:01:42.720
right rogue just means outside the mainstream uh that was never meant to be an insult i'm just saying
01:01:49.440
this statistically the people outside the mainstream are usually wrong in this case they were the only ones
01:02:07.040
no i i laughed and mocked them individually but not because they were rogues yeah the rogue part is not
01:02:12.880
the insult the the insult is the other stuff i said so i'm not denying it i'm just saying the rogue
01:02:18.960
part wasn't part of the insult all right is i get a lot of questions about georgia mulani
01:02:28.960
in italy i'm not terribly interested in her only because italian politics don't really have much effect
01:02:35.040
on me why did i mock reason and knowledge let me answer that question i'm being asked here why did i mock
01:02:43.520
reason and knowledge because i didn't have either one obviously i was not operating in a reasonable way
01:02:50.960
because i got the wrong answers and obviously i did not have the knowledge so
01:02:58.240
how much more of an l can i take i'm trying to be fully transparent
01:03:19.120
probably everyone with leukemia died of covet no i i've can i've admitted i was wrong about
01:03:26.800
everything and nobody died of covet it's imaginary
01:03:33.600
so there's that all right um repent and accept the faith of others and experts that's true see
01:03:44.160
my problem was i didn't trust the experts but what i should have trusted
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is the people who don't have expertise and their ability to tell me which experts with expertise are
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the right ones and i couldn't do that myself but i should have believed the people
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do i miss being a guest on alex jones you know here's the thing everybody says when you know
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anybody who's appeared on alex jones as i have um
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it's a fun time and alex jones is actually a great guy like interpersonally he he's a fun guy
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like it's just a completely fun experience now i just said yeah i just said what i believe
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and he can say what he believes and you can make up your mind
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here's another md who did not get the vaccine for travel purposes and also feels like a winner
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so we've got a lot of people who are winning and uh i'm the loser in this one i'll tell you i was
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losing hard in santorini and uh bora bora i was i was feeling pretty bad there yep it felt like the
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dream vacation of a lifetime because there were almost no other people at the resorts imagine going to the
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top uh tourist destinations in the world and having nobody else there basically the whole staff is
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just waiting on you yeah but i didn't at the time i thought it was amazing but in retrospect i realized
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it was just a terrible terrible time and i never should have done it it was also dumb and uninformed
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well christina was texting the tate brothers somebody says
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uh all right um what did it cost you oh my god it cost a lot yeah yeah those two vacations were insane
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cost-wise i don't recommend them on on a cost-effectiveness basis no like it wasn't more
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fun than say going to hawaii at a quarter of the cost but it was interesting to do once i mean i'm glad i did
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see a lot of people are having trouble taking yes for an answer so some people still think i'm saying
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that you are uh that people were right for the wrong reason like you remember before i said i think people
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you know maybe maybe maybe the people didn't get vaccinated could turn out to be right
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but mistakenly i said for the wrong reasons but then i realized that they could determine
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the science where the scientists could not and then that changed my mind
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all right so is there any other stories i missed
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no yeah so just to clarify somebody says do you mean we're all guessing no no no i mean i was guessing
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and those of you who got the right answer obviously we're using good analysis and uh clever heuristics as
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well as better data and uh i think you did a better deep dive on the data so that's how you got the right
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answer very much alex berenson like now i here'd be the real imagine if all of you who also got the
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right answer on the vaccination so-called what if you started teaming up with alex berenson
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combined all of your analytical abilities and build an electric car that's why tesla stock is kind of
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shaky today because we we know that that risk is out there that's probably why elon musk is lowering
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the prices on his cars panic panic because what do you you know if you have a choice of driving a
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tesla or a berenson are you going to drive you know dumb old vaccinated tesla car or are you going to
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get a a pure blood electric that will that will really rock easy choice easy choice okay um
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what you're out you're out no i want to drive a berenson not a not a tesla vaccination
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car that'd be crazy all right uh electric what is the wef still on the world economic forum
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or is that over do you think we're do you think the wef stuff is over blown or not
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did i watch snl no um yeah i do wonder if the wf is over blown i mean it's real and it definitely has an
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impact but i wonder if those impacts wouldn't happen anyway all right um
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um norm book review we i still haven't read any books this year
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all right i don't have anything else to say today but here's here's my prediction there's
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some big story brewing oh there was there was some more stuff about joe biden's documents
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what does it tell you that the joe biden document story uh keeps trickling out like there's always a
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little bit there's another document so there's yet another document what does that tell you
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i think it tells you that the democrats were trying to get rid of them
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now we've been saying this for a while but you know the the evidence just keeps that trickling it
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the the fact that it's the trickle attack that's like the classic look of uh like a political op
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like the the non-trickle would just put it out there and then people would forget about it
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but the trickle is what keeps it alive when you see the trickle going on like oh there's one more
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document one more document and how important do you think any of the documents are
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do you do you think that anything trump had or anything biden had will have real importance to
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security i feel like not yeah i feel like not i i think the most likely explanation for it all
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is that nobody at that level takes classified documents too seriously unless it's a real secret
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right like if it were actually like the nuclear codes i don't think biden or trump would have
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taken them home i don't think so but let's say it was uh it was a report about a topic that is
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generally classified but if you do this one thing on that topic it'd be like yeah that didn't make any
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difference i feel like it's the ones that don't make any difference where the leader just says well it's
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classified but you know it doesn't make any difference it's like not important right now
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the other thing you know i'm seeing the argument that uh trump was president so he could declassify
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things biden was vice president at the time so he couldn't and then others say well but the president
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didn't do a process to which i say can i can i be the lawyer defending trump that would be the easiest
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defense in the world and they say okay he did not follow the process for declassifying then i would
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say can you describe the process and then the prosecution would say yes the the thing the process
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and i'd say well can you show me the document that describes that process well it's not written down
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but because he didn't do anything that looked like a process therefore the process wasn't followed
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you mean the process that is not required and is not specified in any constitutional or other document
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now i'm trump's defender and i say how about this if he took him home is there any ambiguity about what
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he intended none the simply taking them out of a secure place with a big folder that says classified there's
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no ambiguity in that here i have a classified document i'm walking out the door with it in my hand
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is that a process i say yes that is the process if if the president takes it out of the building
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he just declassified it if if he hands it to somebody who's you know doesn't have the classification
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he just declassified it because there's no process if doing something that is obviously declassifying
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it taking it out of the classified environment if it's obvious what he's doing i'd say that's
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as good as anything that to me i would just be done i i can't i can't even fathom a jury not buying
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that argument or at least all 12 of them you know they're not gonna all agree but you could get you
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could pick off six people in a jury and you could take six people to say look if there's no process
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walking out the door with them is the process that is the process because there's no ambiguity about it
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there's no no question what he intended if he knew he was doing if he didn't know he was doing it then
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then it wouldn't be his responsibility right but if he knew he was doing it
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that was his process he just did it and then it was the process
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he created a skiff in his house well that's another question
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yeah there's a problem there is a dc jury problem that's for sure
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right scotus has already ruled to that effect they should
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red free says scott thinks he wasn't in the mass formation because he was mistrusting but he bought
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into the hyped up fear machine right off the bat because he's old and has respiratory issues
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now red are you afraid of the vaccinations because i was afraid of neither the covid nor the vaccinations
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so i i had extra lack of fear which which got me to the wrong place so i should have had more fear not less
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so i think your problem is that i didn't have enough fear
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because i think you know the locals people can back me on this early in the pandemic did i not say
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multiple times out loud i'd like to go get the covet as soon as possible
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did i not can you can you validate that yeah the yeses are coming through so the people who watched me
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the most know that at the beginning of the pandemic i said i hope i get this right away i just want to get
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over it get over it get over with so that's what so saying i hope i get it is what you're calling
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being afraid of it i hope i get it that's afraid that guy's afraid i hope i get it and then at home
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honestly i did very little social uh distancing my household was not a socially distanced household
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at all but i guess i did that because i was afraid so i guess that's your interpretation
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but i wasn't afraid of the vaccinations apparently i should have been and i wasn't afraid of the covid
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don't know if i should have been but no i wasn't afraid of anyone i did say that we should close the
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border to or the travel from china right away but that was under the context of figuring out what was going
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on right that was before we knew anything once we knew that most people survived i was like well
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just give me the ship i want to just get it over with
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steve kirsch looking into airline pilots abnormal ekg readings yeah i don't i don't believe any of that story
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uh do we have a right to know if our airline pilots have taken the jab no you don't have a right
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oh yeah ron klain quit or is quitting yeah ron klain the chief of staff for biden i don't think
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that means anything the chiefs of staff quit so often i don't know if it means anything
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uh now following procedure and so doing the possible nuclear secrets oh interesting
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all right yeah so there's no rules about the declassification they can do anything they want
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trump accepted my endorsement on true social is that true
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can we can we look at this while you're while you're here let me open up my truth app
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he's complaining about mitch mcconnell all right let's see what did you just retweet me
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uh did he do a lot of tweeting today i don't see it uh oh is this it there we go
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oh he's oh he re-truths me talking about the single issues he says knock out the cartels all right
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good for him is that today oh oh there it is he goes thank you scott i accept your endorsement
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i knocked out isis i will knock out the cartels
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that's what i want to hear that is exactly what i want to hear
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do you see that there's no way to explain how i'm in the middle of all these stories
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right i mean i know that i talk about him in public but so does everybody
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like everybody's talking about him in public but how do i end up in the story
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it should be just another person talking about them but he had them in the story somehow
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yeah but it's it's not just me who thinks this is weird right and how how often it happens because
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i've called it out in the past and then you keep watching it happen it's not like i'm just looking at
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the past i'm telling you what's happening and then you're watching it happening in in real time
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i don't understand it unless we're a simulation there's no way to explain it
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so somebody asked me for an asthma update so i use i use the puffer unless i have
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an allergic reaction that triggers it so i figured out what it is i'm it's sulfites
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sulfites are an additive to some foods and sulfites some people get an allergy to although you could
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argue whether it's a real allergy technically but uh if i accidentally imbibe something that has a
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sulfite in it i can feel it immediately it triggers asthma so if i'm not triggered i don't need it
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yeah there's sulfites and alcohols and sauces and stuff so salad dressing is the killer
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uh comment on why you think the lawyers said they found six items and not six documents
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hmm six items versus documents well i don't know maybe there were some graphic images
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and they don't know if a graphic image is a document i don't know i'm not sure that that
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items like it could be a folder with lots of items in it an item with lots of documents that's possible
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yeah my enemies would want to secretly play poker with me but that's only because they think they
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would take all my money and they would i'm the worst poker player in the world
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yeah yeah marijuana for ibs instant cure oh um by the way i would like to also confess
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that uh although uh as my critics have said i apparently i'm very trusting of of uh
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the medical community you know if i ever told you this i haven't gotten a regular flu shot
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in a lot of years do you know why do you know why i haven't gotten the ordinary flu shot in i don't
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know 20 years do you know why because they're bullshit because i don't trust them because i think the
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the the risk is higher than the reward so i i'm the guy who trusted medical science so much that i
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don't even get the one that everybody says is safe
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you get that right even the regular flu shot i won't go near it but everybody was sure that i was
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i was trusting the science of the other one no i distrust everybody
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if you don't understand that about me you're really going to be confused about anything i say
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if you think that like i'm trusting some entity no no
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when i play poker do i just want to lose and get it over with yes because i hate playing poker
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yeah i probably just want to lose as fast as possible i don't think that helps my performance at all
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yeah that's true i want to get it i want to leave the table as soon as possible
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can we talk about why they don't push the j shots the johnson johnson shot probably because
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if they did they'd be admitting there's something wrong with the other ones
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was christina any reason you got the vax yes yes for travel right yeah i mean she's the one who wanted
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to travel um it wasn't something i initiated but it was a heck of a heck of a trip two trips
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you never explained why the leaders of the simulation would allow you to move it from inside well i don't
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know that they would allow it it might just be that it happens it might be just like an outcome
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yeah and and it could be how you play the game you know if you can't make any changes from inside the
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game imagine if you had virtual reality you put on virtual reality goggles it puts you inside a game
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but you can control the game at least you can control where you move in the game and stuff like that
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so it's not that unusual that if you were in a game you'd have some control over your over your gameplay
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matthew crawford i don't know what that's about
01:25:09.120
do you think putin and russia are likely to lose i don't know i don't think there's any lose lose
01:25:13.840
with ukraine and russia i think you know both of them are going to be in bad shape no matter where
01:25:19.040
we end up bitcoin is back to 23 is bitcoin zooming today is that happening
01:25:33.840
well okay it's up everything's up oh everything's up looks like the stock market's back it's back
01:25:48.000
people rumbles up tesla's up tesla's up better watch that all right that's all i got for today it's slow
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news day but it was awesome and i'm going to say goodbye to the youtube people and talk to the