Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2025 Scott Adams： Trump Provokes More TDS, I Solve Excess Deaths Mystery, Biden In Ukraine

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00:00:50.460 Oh, Jay, you seem so confused by the hoaxes.

00:00:53.680 I'm sorry 4chan did that to you.

00:01:00.360 All right, let's talk about all the news.

00:01:04.340 Apparently, President Biden visited Ukraine.

00:01:08.120 Obviously, the reason he visited Ukraine, I don't have to fill in the blanks, do I?

00:01:15.660 It's safer than being in Ohio.

00:01:18.960 I think the Secret Service said, look, you can either go to Ohio or you can go to the

00:01:25.800 middle of a war zone.

00:01:27.100 Which do you choose?

00:01:29.180 I don't know that war zone's looking good.

00:01:30.820 So, it seems like he's going to the safest place on earth, Kiev.

00:01:37.400 I would like to agree with one of my critics, if I might, Jimmy Dore, who I have disagreed

00:01:49.940 with in the past.

00:01:51.620 I think he was one of the people who got fooled by the 4chan hoax about me.

00:01:56.160 But that's a different issue.

00:01:57.120 Lately, he's been talking, well, not lately, but he's getting more press lately about talking

00:02:04.000 out about the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

00:02:08.040 And his take is that it's the entire war is just a United States money grab.

00:02:17.820 That the military-industrial complex wants a continuous war, so they just have one whenever

00:02:24.560 they need some extra money, and on top of that, it's always about, it's always a case

00:02:34.800 of, we always seem to attack places that have an energy conflict with us.

00:02:43.100 It's just a coincidence.

00:02:44.820 We always seem to be going after the places that have some big energy-related business.

00:02:51.140 Just a big old coincidence, isn't it?

00:02:55.220 Now, you can certainly make the argument that there's, you know, a big geopolitical reason

00:03:00.180 for everything we're doing.

00:03:01.660 But why does it always correspond with follow the money?

00:03:05.840 Why does follow the money perfectly predict everything, while there are all these other

00:03:11.140 reasons we're doing it?

00:03:12.980 Huh.

00:03:14.000 Huh.

00:03:14.380 So I'm going to be 100% on the Jimmy Dore side on this, and I also believe it could be

00:03:22.160 negotiated.

00:03:23.580 What do you think?

00:03:25.120 Do you think we're at a point where we could negotiate the end of the war?

00:03:29.120 We could, but it would require making Ukraine unhappy. 0.93

00:03:32.700 So, I don't know if we're, we have the ability to do that, but yeah, it's completely negotiable.

00:03:43.440 Here's a sign of the times.

00:03:45.300 I would like to note today, actually yesterday, yeah, yesterday.

00:03:52.220 Yesterday is the day that this happened.

00:03:54.020 So remember this day, yesterday was the day I tweeted a video of Anthony Blinken and asked

00:04:05.380 people if they could tell if it was a deep fake or real.

00:04:12.200 And the answers were about 50-50.

00:04:16.560 It was real, as far as I know.

00:04:19.460 As far as I know, I took it from the news.

00:04:23.140 So it was just a news report, right?

00:04:24.740 I just took my camera up to the TV.

00:04:27.580 Because while I was watching it, I said to myself, the stiffness with which he's talking

00:04:32.880 makes him indistinguishable from a deep fake.

00:04:37.140 And so people were analyzing the video and saying, ah, yeah, it's definitely a deep fake.

00:04:41.700 And they would give their reasons.

00:04:43.860 For example, there was this weird thing where his shirt seemed to be tucking under his coat.

00:04:49.460 While he talked.

00:04:50.980 That didn't look like it was real.

00:04:55.540 And, yeah, there were plenty of tells that it was fake.

00:05:01.860 But it wasn't, as far as I know.

00:05:04.040 So yesterday was the day that the actual public couldn't tell the difference between a real

00:05:11.400 person and a fake.

00:05:12.560 In the real world.

00:05:13.680 Every other, as far as I know, every other test has been, you know, just a random thing.

00:05:21.620 Can you tell?

00:05:22.720 Blah, blah, blah.

00:05:23.280 So you could always tell what was fake just by the context.

00:05:27.460 But as soon as I took away the context, you couldn't tell.

00:05:32.220 Not you specifically, but about half of the people just couldn't tell.

00:05:36.880 Couldn't tell.

00:05:37.440 Well, just remember that that happened yesterday.

00:05:42.080 That changes everything.

00:05:44.720 And that's the last time you can believe a video.

00:05:48.740 The last time you can believe a video.

00:05:51.120 Although I would argue that, you know, the news has been distorting videos by editing them

00:05:56.920 selectively forever.

00:05:58.040 So maybe it's not that different after all.

00:06:03.000 Mexico's president is trying to nationalize Mexico's lithium mining business.

00:06:11.300 What do you think of that?

00:06:13.400 And why?

00:06:15.040 Mexico's president is trying to nationalize their lithium business.

00:06:21.500 Doesn't that mean giving it to the cartels?

00:06:23.700 I mean, I hate to be cynical, but isn't the government of Mexico basically working for

00:06:31.820 the cartels, as far as we know?

00:06:34.520 I mean, our current understanding of Mexico is that the cartels just took over a vital

00:06:39.800 mineral that the United States needs for its economic survival.

00:06:45.920 A little bit of hyperbole there.

00:06:49.020 I don't know.

00:06:49.360 The argument for going in militarily just keeps improving.

00:06:53.700 It just keeps improving.

00:06:56.280 So we got that going on.

00:07:00.000 And here's something else.

00:07:01.260 I believe that Trump could negotiate with the cartels.

00:07:05.140 He's the only person in the world who could do it.

00:07:08.140 He could actually ask for a meeting with the heads of the cartels.

00:07:14.180 Trump could do that.

00:07:15.860 And then he could say, here's the deal.

00:07:17.700 I'm going to kill all of you.

00:07:21.740 Unless you want to figure some way to work your way into the productive part of the economy.

00:07:28.160 Because remember, the United States had its own robber barons in our early days.

00:07:33.020 Right?

00:07:34.020 You know, the people who built the railroads and stuff.

00:07:36.280 They were basically just flat-out criminals.

00:07:38.340 But once they get rich enough, sort of like the mafia in Las Vegas, you know, the mafia settles Las Vegas, but then they make a ton of money, and it's kind of easier just to be a legitimate business after that.

00:07:55.340 But it's just easier.

00:07:57.280 You don't have to hide anything.

00:07:59.420 So it seems to me that Trump is the only person in the world, if you were president and if you wanted to, he could actually call the heads of the cartel into a meeting.

00:08:09.720 I mean, it might have to be on Zoom, but he could actually have a meeting.

00:08:14.120 And he could say, here's the deal.

00:08:15.440 You've got two choices.

00:08:16.960 You work with us to turn your massive operation into something that's a legal business.

00:08:23.600 Or we kill all of you, and it's going to happen by the end of the year.

00:08:31.120 Now, I don't know that that would make any difference, but I know everything else we're doing is not working.

00:08:36.580 I feel like they might take the offer.

00:08:39.260 Because, you know, even if individuals are brave, all their family would be killed.

00:08:46.500 Now, the other way you could play it is this.

00:08:49.300 Here are the, I don't know, three biggest cartels, whatever is the number.

00:08:53.600 Um, if you don't agree to all simultaneous step down, I'm going to arm one of you against the others.

00:09:03.880 And I'm going to make sure there's only one cartel in a year, because I'll make sure that we help one of the cartels take over the others.

00:09:10.480 And then I'll negotiate with the one that's left.

00:09:12.520 So that's your other path.

00:09:17.140 I'll make sure there's only one left, and then I'll just negotiate with that one.

00:09:21.240 Or you could agree now.

00:09:23.220 But there's only going to be one left.

00:09:25.380 And then we'll negotiate again.

00:09:26.760 If I can't get a deal with one left, then it's going to go to zero.

00:09:31.140 But those are your only options.

00:09:33.540 Right?

00:09:33.800 You're either going to disappear, or you're going to deal.

00:09:36.040 If you imagine I'm thinking that it's likely to work, that would be incorrect.

00:09:46.540 Everything's a long shot.

00:09:48.320 But he's the only one who could try that shot.

00:09:51.460 Right?

00:09:51.660 It's the one thing we haven't tried.

00:09:54.260 There's only one person who could try it.

00:09:57.380 So we'll see.

00:09:58.260 I would be just as happy as if they were all killed.

00:10:02.420 Happier, actually.

00:10:06.060 So Trump is provoking again.

00:10:08.860 So he truthed a statement.

00:10:11.760 I'll just paraphrase it.

00:10:13.600 Basically, Trump was complaining when some third-rate reporter, as he says,

00:10:20.100 asked him a question about trusting Putin.

00:10:22.960 And he had said in public that he trusted him.

00:10:25.580 Now, you shouldn't believe that.

00:10:28.260 That's just what you say when Putin's standing next to you and you're trying to get a deal.

00:10:32.840 That's just what you say in public.

00:10:35.000 Anybody who is dumb enough to think that Trump actually trusted Putin,

00:10:40.180 that would be a pretty bad interpretation.

00:10:43.380 He said it.

00:10:44.700 He said it in public.

00:10:46.340 But why would that be the one thing you believe?

00:10:49.440 And of all the things he says that are clearly hyperbole or bending the truth,

00:10:54.120 why would that be the one you believe?

00:10:55.960 But anyway, he pointed out that our own, the U.S. Intelligence Service,

00:11:01.520 and he named names from Clapper and Brennan and McCabe and his girlfriend, Lisa,

00:11:07.300 as Trump likes to say.

00:11:08.960 And so Trump actually said that our own intel organizations are less trustworthy than Putin.

00:11:22.200 Do you think that caused anybody to be triggered into TDS?

00:11:29.680 Now, Trump has been sort of laying low relative to his usual for a few years.

00:11:37.820 Have we already forgotten how he talks?

00:11:41.040 Did we?

00:11:42.240 Did we forget how he talks all the time?

00:11:44.600 He's just driving a tremendous amount of energy to himself

00:11:49.780 where people argue whether he genuinely means

00:11:53.360 that we should trust our own intel organizations less than Putin.

00:11:58.900 By the way, I would trust them less than Putin.

00:12:02.860 I can say that.

00:12:03.700 Because the ones he named are absolutely criminal.

00:12:08.280 Well, not criminal.

00:12:09.720 They did things which I wish were illegal enough for them to go to jail.

00:12:14.460 But probably not.

00:12:16.000 Probably not.

00:12:17.140 I wish it were illegal.

00:12:18.560 I guess it isn't.

00:12:20.100 But here's my take.

00:12:23.640 Putin might lie 90% of the time.

00:12:26.300 That still makes him competitive with our own intelligence agencies.

00:12:32.280 If Putin lied 90% of the time, I'd say,

00:12:34.980 oh, that looks about the same.

00:12:37.000 Similar.

00:12:38.540 You know, maybe it's 80 versus 90.

00:12:41.400 I don't know.

00:12:42.020 I can't cut at that.

00:12:43.260 I can't slice at that finely.

00:12:45.580 But absolutely, our own intelligence agencies are traitors

00:12:48.640 and should be criminals, but probably are not.

00:12:52.220 And that's just Trump being Trump.

00:12:57.640 And then a lot of people were like,

00:12:59.400 oh, false equivalency and all that.

00:13:01.620 And like, that's exactly what he wants you to do.

00:13:04.040 He wants you to get all excited about how wrong it is.

00:13:07.500 Oh, it's so wrong that you would say that.

00:13:09.580 And then he draws all the energy to himself

00:13:11.620 and gets all this free press.

00:13:13.220 And then people start going,

00:13:14.600 well, yeah, you got a little bit of a point there.

00:13:16.360 So, would you like to hear about me losing a debate on Twitter like a dog?

00:13:28.340 I already teased the people, locals, that I would do this.

00:13:34.000 Because I know you like it when I just get my ass kicked.

00:13:38.380 All right.

00:13:39.060 So here's me getting my ass kicked on Twitter.

00:13:41.420 So Twitter user Jeff,

00:13:47.260 whose Twitter account is,

00:13:51.800 damn it, I wrote it down here somewhere.

00:13:55.980 I don't want to give him credit.

00:13:57.720 I wonder if my note taken is terrible.

00:14:04.960 All right.

00:14:06.340 What the hell is wrong with me?

00:14:07.820 I'm sure I wrote that down.

00:14:08.820 All right.

00:14:09.460 Well, Jeff, I'll give you credit later,

00:14:11.880 but I can't find your Twitter account.

00:14:14.580 So Jeff, I think he's a,

00:14:17.640 by the way, I think he's a DeSantis supporter.

00:14:20.400 I'm not sure his full background.

00:14:25.060 So Jeff tweeted the Trump

00:14:28.200 and injecting disinfectant slash bleach hoax,

00:14:35.300 which apparently he believed was true.

00:14:38.820 And so I spent a little time, you know,

00:14:41.000 debunking the hoax.

00:14:42.800 Now, so far I'm doing well, right?

00:14:45.200 Because if you've seen me debunk the drinking bleach hoax,

00:14:49.300 you know that the debunk is 100% clean.

00:14:53.080 All right.

00:14:53.240 It's a really good debunk.

00:14:54.520 It was a real technology that was being tested.

00:14:57.460 The quote from Trump was edited.

00:14:59.820 If you see the full thing,

00:15:01.600 he's talking about light.

00:15:02.860 Light was really being tested inside the body,

00:15:06.960 injected inside with a, into the trachea.

00:15:10.080 And so it's easy to debunk it.

00:15:13.520 So then I thought, well, winner.

00:15:16.820 I have, I have debunked the heck out of that.

00:15:19.760 So I was feeling good about myself.

00:15:22.240 Then I noticed Jeff had a spaces.

00:15:25.540 He was doing a spaces thing for Trump supporters

00:15:28.280 to come in and try to make their case.

00:15:31.000 And I turned it on just because I thought

00:15:33.620 it might get mentioned.

00:15:35.460 Because I just got done debating them online.

00:15:39.400 And I hear Jeff say that

00:15:42.300 if you have to explain what your leader said,

00:15:48.780 do I have to finish?

00:15:50.080 If you have to explain what your leader said,

00:15:54.780 not just once,

00:15:56.260 this isn't the one time.

00:15:57.940 I just got done doing it a second time.

00:16:00.400 I literally just got done doing it.

00:16:02.840 Now I get, I get that the,

00:16:04.740 the media distorts it.

00:16:07.460 But why doesn't DeSantis have that problem?

00:16:11.860 Why not?

00:16:13.960 It's obviously Trump, right?

00:16:16.400 He speaks in a way that is provocative.

00:16:18.480 And I'm not sure he needs to at the moment.

00:16:21.400 It definitely helped him in the first election.

00:16:23.620 At the moment, I'm not sure it's helping him.

00:16:26.600 And so, Jeff, I accept my defeat.

00:16:30.800 You're right.

00:16:31.880 If I have to spend more of my time

00:16:34.040 explaining what Trump said four years ago,

00:16:38.480 that's on him.

00:16:41.180 That's on Trump.

00:16:42.380 Trump could have easily explained away

00:16:44.380 the injecting bleach thing

00:16:46.600 by saying, oh, it's a real technology

00:16:48.860 if you look at the full quote.

00:16:50.780 I was talking about light.

00:16:52.620 How easy would that have been?

00:16:54.760 Pretty easy.

00:16:56.340 Instead, he tried to make it sound like

00:16:58.180 he was doing sarcasm at the time,

00:17:00.060 which was ridiculous.

00:17:02.220 Nobody believed that.

00:17:04.120 So this is a complete, you know,

00:17:06.080 shoot yourself in the foot kind of thing.

00:17:09.080 And so, Jeff, you win.

00:17:10.780 If I have to keep explaining what Trump meant,

00:17:16.080 that's, you win.

00:17:18.920 There's nothing I can say to that.

00:17:21.200 You win.

00:17:22.580 All right.

00:17:24.840 That, by the way, was a sincere,

00:17:27.000 sincere loss of a debate.

00:17:30.480 Although I was right on the bleach stuff.

00:17:32.140 How many of you believe

00:17:36.320 it's impossible that Biden

00:17:38.140 could have gotten, what was it,

00:17:39.700 80 million or 81 million votes?

00:17:42.380 How many of you believe

00:17:43.440 that's a good,

00:17:45.580 like, skeptical thing to say?

00:17:48.680 There's no way he could have gotten

00:17:50.120 way more votes than Obama. 0.60

00:17:53.680 Do you think that's a good point?

00:17:58.020 Yeah, that's not really a good point.

00:17:59.820 If you count the,

00:18:01.940 just the population increase

00:18:03.660 of the country,

00:18:05.180 everybody gets more votes.

00:18:07.660 Like, it's four years later.

00:18:08.900 The country actually is a bigger country

00:18:10.460 in four years.

00:18:12.500 Secondly, it was, you know,

00:18:14.360 the whole ballot voting at home thing.

00:18:18.040 The voting at home thing

00:18:19.060 could explain all of it.

00:18:21.040 Now, there's a secondary question

00:18:23.700 of whether that was done legally

00:18:25.280 and copacetically.

00:18:27.120 That's a good separate question.

00:18:29.820 But there's no conflict

00:18:34.320 with the fact that he got that many votes.

00:18:37.840 I'm not saying the election

00:18:39.220 was clean or not clean.

00:18:41.280 I'm not even talking about that.

00:18:42.680 I'm just saying that

00:18:43.440 if that's your reason for thinking

00:18:45.280 it was rigged,

00:18:47.380 I don't think that holds up.

00:18:50.320 I just don't think that holds up.

00:18:51.680 I do think,

00:18:53.400 and I'll think this to my death,

00:18:56.000 that you can't tell

00:18:58.220 if an election is rigged.

00:19:00.800 Because we don't have a way

00:19:02.100 to audit all of it.

00:19:03.100 It's not all transparent.

00:19:04.780 So you can't tell.

00:19:05.940 Now, I don't...

00:19:07.140 Do you remember early

00:19:08.120 in the questioning

00:19:11.220 of the 2020 election?

00:19:12.640 Do you remember

00:19:15.020 what I cautioned?

00:19:16.800 I cautioned you

00:19:17.520 that whether or not

00:19:18.860 anything is ever discovered

00:19:21.380 about the election

00:19:23.180 being, you know,

00:19:23.960 not right,

00:19:24.940 I told you that

00:19:25.960 no matter what you find out,

00:19:28.200 95% of all the election

00:19:30.220 rigging claims

00:19:31.040 will be BS.

00:19:32.780 Do you remember that?

00:19:34.280 So even if they find

00:19:35.520 5% that's true,

00:19:37.560 and even if that 5%

00:19:38.980 actually changed the election,

00:19:41.020 that 95% of everything

00:19:43.660 you hear would just be BS.

00:19:46.280 How was that prediction?

00:19:48.580 That was a pretty good prediction,

00:19:49.740 wasn't it?

00:19:50.520 Because we're sitting here

00:19:52.100 in 2023,

00:19:53.960 and as far as I know,

00:19:56.060 nothing conclusive

00:19:57.240 has been found

00:19:58.540 for voter fraud.

00:20:02.600 Am I right?

00:20:03.940 Now, I would argue

00:20:05.000 that it's unprovable,

00:20:06.600 but it's also been

00:20:08.400 not proven

00:20:09.220 that there's fraud

00:20:10.100 of any substance.

00:20:12.940 Yeah, you could argue

00:20:14.060 that nobody looked

00:20:14.900 in the right places,

00:20:16.560 et cetera,

00:20:17.040 but everywhere they did look,

00:20:19.120 and they looked

00:20:19.600 at a lot of places,

00:20:21.040 everywhere they did look,

00:20:22.100 they didn't find anything.

00:20:23.300 Doesn't mean

00:20:23.900 there's nothing there.

00:20:25.840 That was just

00:20:26.620 my prediction.

00:20:27.880 Pretty close.

00:20:29.600 But I wouldn't repeat

00:20:30.860 the 80 million thing.

00:20:32.500 I don't think

00:20:33.160 that holds up.

00:20:34.540 That doesn't seem

00:20:35.200 like a strong point.

00:20:36.060 President's Day poll.

00:20:41.340 Rasmussen did a poll.

00:20:42.500 Find out who was

00:20:43.060 the best and worst

00:20:45.120 presidents

00:20:45.600 of the last five presidents.

00:20:48.180 And you would not

00:20:49.380 be surprised

00:20:50.040 that Trump wins

00:20:51.060 for best president

00:20:52.060 and worst president.

00:20:53.020 So, we're just talking

00:20:55.740 about Bill Clinton,

00:20:57.940 Biden,

00:20:59.060 Trump,

00:20:59.900 George Bush,

00:21:01.900 and Obama.

00:21:02.820 So, the last five.

00:21:04.380 So, of those,

00:21:06.860 Trump is the most,

00:21:10.760 he got the most votes,

00:21:11.820 36%.

00:21:12.820 And he also got

00:21:15.660 the most votes

00:21:16.420 for the worst president.

00:21:17.280 So,

00:21:19.080 that's Trump.

00:21:21.920 All right.

00:21:23.780 Let me ask you a question.

00:21:25.100 I can't tell

00:21:25.840 if this is

00:21:27.580 an artifact

00:21:28.040 of the algorithm

00:21:29.540 trying to serve me

00:21:31.440 what I want,

00:21:32.460 mostly on Instagram,

00:21:33.780 or is this a trend?

00:21:36.560 So, here's the question.

00:21:37.560 Are you seeing a trend

00:21:38.760 on social media

00:21:40.800 or in life in general

00:21:42.460 of mindset,

00:21:45.720 affirmation,

00:21:47.280 law of attraction,

00:21:51.020 and manifestation?

00:21:54.340 Are you seeing, like,

00:21:55.240 a whole bunch

00:21:56.020 of new stuff?

00:21:57.100 Like, there's a whole

00:21:57.940 bunch of new gurus

00:21:59.020 who are usually

00:21:59.460 young people,

00:22:00.640 not always.

00:22:02.920 So, some of this

00:22:04.400 is what I tend

00:22:05.760 to be following

00:22:06.320 on social media.

00:22:07.920 So, I'm fed this

00:22:09.820 all day long

00:22:10.540 on Instagram.

00:22:11.880 So, it's probably

00:22:12.420 because of my interest.

00:22:14.260 All right.

00:22:14.540 But I wanted to clarify

00:22:15.880 something that I heard

00:22:18.900 and

00:22:20.780 I'm not sure

00:22:23.060 I have a

00:22:23.900 solid opinion

00:22:25.060 on this yet,

00:22:25.780 but I'll run it

00:22:26.720 by you.

00:22:28.200 I saw one of these

00:22:29.300 mindset gurus

00:22:30.940 say

00:22:31.260 that you should

00:22:32.780 not be thinking

00:22:33.460 in terms of

00:22:34.120 what you want

00:22:34.920 the typical way

00:22:36.320 you do an affirmation.

00:22:37.240 You know, a typical

00:22:38.320 affirmation would be

00:22:39.400 you know,

00:22:40.260 I will be rich,

00:22:41.260 I will get a

00:22:41.820 I will have a good

00:22:42.760 love life,

00:22:44.000 I'll be happy,

00:22:45.920 you know,

00:22:46.140 I'll get that raised,

00:22:47.340 those sort of things

00:22:48.020 fairly specific.

00:22:50.820 But one expert

00:22:51.920 says that you

00:22:52.800 should instead

00:22:53.480 be telling

00:22:55.300 the universe

00:22:55.960 who you are.

00:22:57.720 Not what you want,

00:23:00.100 but who you are.

00:23:01.160 And by that theory,

00:23:03.940 once you know

00:23:04.780 who you are,

00:23:06.120 the universe

00:23:06.980 starts delivering.

00:23:10.120 Isn't that interesting?

00:23:13.120 And I tried to think,

00:23:14.700 I wonder if,

00:23:15.760 you know,

00:23:15.940 because I've talked

00:23:16.500 about affirmations

00:23:17.420 in my career,

00:23:19.140 and I have a string

00:23:20.360 of insanely

00:23:21.860 unlikely

00:23:22.840 events in my life

00:23:24.960 that were the subject

00:23:25.840 of affirmations.

00:23:27.560 Becoming a famous

00:23:28.480 cartoonist,

00:23:29.120 the odds against that

00:23:30.660 were like a million

00:23:31.860 to one.

00:23:33.060 Being a number one

00:23:33.980 best-selling author

00:23:34.860 with no,

00:23:36.700 never wrote a book

00:23:37.540 before.

00:23:38.440 First book.

00:23:40.020 Number one bestseller.

00:23:41.900 I mean,

00:23:42.180 that's crazy stuff.

00:23:43.580 That's just crazy.

00:23:44.720 But those were actually

00:23:45.640 the subjects

00:23:46.160 of affirmations.

00:23:47.700 Now,

00:23:48.480 here's the part

00:23:49.440 that I wonder about.

00:23:51.360 Because while I was

00:23:52.480 asking for specific

00:23:53.600 things with my

00:23:54.520 affirmations,

00:23:55.260 to be a number one

00:23:56.320 bestseller was

00:23:57.020 a specific one,

00:23:57.940 I was also

00:23:59.600 thinking of myself

00:24:00.560 as that person.

00:24:02.560 So even though

00:24:03.220 it wasn't part

00:24:04.220 of my process

00:24:04.860 to say,

00:24:06.460 I am this person,

00:24:07.620 I was thinking

00:24:08.560 of it that way.

00:24:09.880 I was thinking

00:24:10.520 of it that way.

00:24:11.160 I had a strong

00:24:12.280 impression of who

00:24:13.080 I am,

00:24:14.680 and that was always

00:24:16.060 present in my

00:24:17.060 affirmations,

00:24:17.700 even though I didn't

00:24:18.360 explicitly state it.

00:24:21.640 And I wonder

00:24:22.320 if that makes a

00:24:22.880 difference.

00:24:24.080 I wonder if any

00:24:24.800 of it makes a

00:24:25.340 difference.

00:24:25.900 Let me be clear.

00:24:26.600 I don't know

00:24:27.140 if any of this

00:24:27.680 works.

00:24:29.300 It seems like

00:24:29.980 it does.

00:24:31.240 It really does

00:24:32.120 seem like it

00:24:32.680 does.

00:24:33.360 And so,

00:24:34.300 since I can't

00:24:35.860 know one way

00:24:36.520 or another,

00:24:37.040 I treat it

00:24:37.680 like it does,

00:24:38.760 until something

00:24:40.160 falsifies that.

00:24:41.360 Now,

00:24:41.700 my belief of

00:24:42.720 reality is that

00:24:43.440 we're a simulation.

00:24:45.300 And it does

00:24:46.060 not seem unlikely

00:24:47.300 that we can

00:24:49.280 create our own

00:24:50.740 environment.

00:24:51.200 Now,

00:24:52.300 I'm seeing a lot

00:24:52.820 of people

00:24:53.120 connecting

00:24:53.800 quantum physics

00:24:55.840 with this idea

00:24:56.900 of the law

00:24:57.380 of attraction.

00:24:58.880 And the idea

00:24:59.800 is that we

00:25:00.580 know in physics

00:25:01.580 that things

00:25:02.780 don't become

00:25:03.420 real until

00:25:04.100 they're observed,

00:25:05.200 which doesn't

00:25:06.320 make any sense,

00:25:07.300 does it?

00:25:09.080 How do you

00:25:09.900 understand your

00:25:10.920 place in reality

00:25:11.920 if one thing

00:25:13.600 we know for

00:25:14.260 sure is that

00:25:15.740 something has to

00:25:16.420 be observed or

00:25:17.160 measured,

00:25:17.540 which is similar

00:25:18.600 to observed,

00:25:19.220 that at the

00:25:21.720 quantum level

00:25:22.360 things literally

00:25:23.320 don't exist

00:25:24.140 until they're

00:25:25.420 observed?

00:25:27.420 Now,

00:25:27.900 we're creating

00:25:28.580 all these big

00:25:29.240 telescopes to

00:25:31.340 see further

00:25:31.840 into space.

00:25:33.280 I'm not sure

00:25:34.180 all that stuff

00:25:34.800 was always there.

00:25:36.840 I think it

00:25:37.920 might be created

00:25:38.580 by the simulation

00:25:39.440 because we

00:25:40.660 need it there,

00:25:41.520 because our

00:25:42.560 ability to see

00:25:43.420 got better.

00:25:45.340 So it doesn't

00:25:46.340 seem crazy to me

00:25:47.380 that we could

00:25:49.220 be players in

00:25:50.140 a game and

00:25:51.600 that we can

00:25:52.120 steer our

00:25:53.760 impression of

00:25:54.420 reality by

00:25:56.060 what we think

00:25:56.800 of it and

00:25:57.800 what we focus

00:25:58.520 on and what

00:25:59.660 we want and

00:26:00.880 who we are.

00:26:02.140 Now, I don't

00:26:02.620 know if any of

00:26:03.200 that's real,

00:26:04.400 but I also

00:26:05.460 don't know if

00:26:06.100 anything's real.

00:26:08.860 You know,

00:26:09.320 I go pretty

00:26:09.880 deep in the

00:26:10.520 skepticism.

00:26:11.520 I don't even

00:26:12.140 know if I'm

00:26:12.540 talking to you.

00:26:13.720 I mean, I

00:26:14.060 don't know.

00:26:14.360 No, I

00:26:15.420 think I

00:26:15.880 am, but

00:26:17.020 I don't

00:26:17.320 know.

00:26:19.020 So I

00:26:20.620 just wanted to

00:26:21.060 add that for

00:26:21.540 those of you

00:26:22.040 who are fans

00:26:23.200 of the

00:26:23.720 manifesting

00:26:24.420 law of

00:26:24.820 attraction

00:26:25.220 affirmations.

00:26:26.940 It might

00:26:27.420 help you to

00:26:28.120 think about

00:26:28.540 who you

00:26:28.880 are.

00:26:29.400 I'll give

00:26:29.660 you some

00:26:29.940 specific

00:26:30.380 examples from

00:26:31.120 my case.

00:26:34.340 Before I

00:26:35.060 became a

00:26:35.620 cartoonist,

00:26:37.360 I was sure

00:26:38.700 that I could

00:26:39.200 do it better

00:26:39.680 than the people

00:26:40.240 who were

00:26:40.580 already doing

00:26:41.100 it.

00:26:41.340 Now, that

00:26:43.300 clearly is not

00:26:44.220 the case if

00:26:44.860 you're looking

00:26:45.200 at the best

00:26:45.740 cartoonists of

00:26:46.440 all time.

00:26:48.080 You know,

00:26:48.340 Calvin Hobbes

00:26:49.040 was better

00:26:49.460 than anything

00:26:50.060 I could do.

00:26:51.160 Gary Larson,

00:26:52.500 Farside, I

00:26:53.240 think he was

00:26:53.560 just a better

00:26:54.100 cartoonist than

00:26:55.400 I am.

00:26:56.220 Of course, both

00:26:56.840 of them were

00:26:57.280 retired when I

00:26:58.180 hit my peak,

00:26:59.180 so I wasn't

00:26:59.780 competing against

00:27:00.500 them.

00:27:01.500 But I

00:27:03.560 imagined myself

00:27:04.620 as a creative

00:27:07.020 person who

00:27:07.560 could do

00:27:07.860 those things.

00:27:09.260 When I did

00:27:11.060 my affirmations

00:27:11.900 that I'd be

00:27:12.380 a best-selling

00:27:12.940 author, I

00:27:14.900 never thought

00:27:15.620 that was

00:27:16.020 impractical,

00:27:17.560 because I

00:27:18.120 imagined myself

00:27:19.200 as someone

00:27:20.220 who could

00:27:20.860 write interesting

00:27:22.200 stuff, and

00:27:23.700 that it would

00:27:24.220 be interesting

00:27:24.820 enough that it

00:27:25.480 could be a

00:27:25.820 best-seller.

00:27:26.800 And then it

00:27:27.200 was.

00:27:28.180 So I was

00:27:29.260 never outside

00:27:29.960 of my own

00:27:30.560 impression of

00:27:31.180 myself.

00:27:34.020 Now, part

00:27:35.040 of my

00:27:35.300 advantage is I

00:27:36.140 have an

00:27:38.640 inflated opinion

00:27:39.700 of my

00:27:40.120 abilities, which

00:27:41.280 I do

00:27:41.600 intentionally.

00:27:42.140 I've told you

00:27:42.680 that a hundred

00:27:43.120 times.

00:27:43.880 I always keep

00:27:44.580 an inflated

00:27:45.340 opinion of

00:27:46.780 myself, because

00:27:47.360 it's useful.

00:27:48.420 It's just

00:27:48.780 utility.

00:27:50.780 So I

00:27:51.440 recommend that.

00:27:52.180 Keep an

00:27:53.220 inflated sense

00:27:54.060 of yourself.

00:27:55.500 And here's

00:27:56.420 what I would

00:27:57.100 say.

00:27:58.160 If you had

00:27:58.800 to pick one

00:27:59.660 thing as your

00:28:00.740 identity,

00:28:02.180 something that's

00:28:03.100 maybe not who

00:28:04.220 you are yet,

00:28:05.940 but somebody

00:28:06.560 you could easily

00:28:07.440 be and talk

00:28:08.900 yourself into

00:28:09.540 being, here's

00:28:10.620 the most

00:28:11.100 important thing

00:28:11.820 you could

00:28:12.180 be.

00:28:14.860 A learner.

00:28:17.080 A learner.

00:28:19.180 That's my

00:28:19.900 number one

00:28:21.020 self-impression.

00:28:23.600 I never really

00:28:24.320 thought about it

00:28:24.920 much until just

00:28:26.380 recently as I was

00:28:27.180 thinking about it.

00:28:28.100 But my number

00:28:29.560 one thing I think

00:28:30.500 about myself is

00:28:31.420 that I'm a

00:28:31.900 learner.

00:28:32.980 That I can learn

00:28:33.880 anything.

00:28:34.240 that if I

00:28:36.900 need to compete

00:28:37.600 with you on

00:28:38.520 anything, I'm

00:28:39.920 going to

00:28:40.160 out-learn you.

00:28:41.880 And then good

00:28:42.340 luck.

00:28:43.360 Good luck.

00:28:45.040 I don't know

00:28:45.760 what your

00:28:46.060 strategy is, but

00:28:47.340 my strategy is to

00:28:48.280 out-learn you.

00:28:49.600 I'm going to

00:28:50.060 learn the thing

00:28:50.760 you're learning,

00:28:51.360 then I'm going

00:28:51.740 to learn three

00:28:52.340 things on either

00:28:53.020 side of it.

00:28:54.220 So I'm going to

00:28:54.740 know everything

00:28:55.220 you know plus

00:28:55.940 four other

00:28:56.500 things, completely

00:28:57.780 different fields

00:28:58.640 that are related.

00:29:00.520 You're not

00:29:01.120 competing with

00:29:02.340 me on one

00:29:03.020 learning.

00:29:04.660 I'm going to

00:29:05.280 out-learn the

00:29:05.880 hell out of

00:29:06.320 you.

00:29:06.980 You don't

00:29:07.240 have a chance.

00:29:08.520 Now that's

00:29:08.960 always been my

00:29:09.820 opinion of

00:29:10.400 myself.

00:29:11.720 And it works

00:29:12.560 for every

00:29:13.180 profession.

00:29:14.160 So I've

00:29:14.520 changed fields

00:29:16.880 a number of

00:29:17.440 times, and it

00:29:18.120 always works.

00:29:19.180 Because I always

00:29:19.860 say in a new

00:29:20.460 field, well I

00:29:21.100 have no idea

00:29:21.760 how to do

00:29:22.220 this.

00:29:23.360 But watch

00:29:24.120 me learn it.

00:29:25.680 Here's a true

00:29:26.480 story from the

00:29:27.520 day I got my

00:29:28.780 offer to be a

00:29:31.220 cartoonist.

00:29:33.100 So as I'm

00:29:34.260 on the phone,

00:29:35.740 and the

00:29:36.120 editor for

00:29:36.720 United Media,

00:29:37.860 the company

00:29:38.740 that gave me

00:29:39.280 my first

00:29:39.740 break, the

00:29:40.960 editor said,

00:29:42.620 blah blah 0.97

00:29:43.160 we'll offer

00:29:43.760 you a contract.

00:29:45.060 You know,

00:29:45.240 this is my

00:29:45.600 big break.

00:29:46.920 And here's

00:29:47.600 what I

00:29:47.900 confessed.

00:29:49.460 I said,

00:29:51.300 honestly, I

00:29:53.020 don't know

00:29:53.480 how to do a

00:29:54.080 Sunday comic.

00:29:55.800 Because I

00:29:56.480 look at how

00:29:57.540 the experts

00:29:58.280 are doing,

00:29:58.740 and the

00:29:59.040 coloring is

00:30:00.560 sort of

00:30:00.880 perfect.

00:30:01.320 Have you

00:30:02.320 ever noticed

00:30:02.720 that?

00:30:03.280 Have you

00:30:03.520 ever looked

00:30:03.820 at a Sunday

00:30:04.220 cartoon and

00:30:04.820 they never

00:30:05.200 color outside

00:30:05.860 the lines?

00:30:07.340 It's like

00:30:07.680 perfect.

00:30:09.640 For context,

00:30:10.880 this was

00:30:11.560 1988.

00:30:13.540 If I said

00:30:15.480 this today,

00:30:16.820 you'd just

00:30:17.100 say,

00:30:17.400 that's just

00:30:18.060 Photoshop.

00:30:19.280 You just

00:30:19.740 click on it

00:30:21.340 and it just

00:30:21.720 fills it in.

00:30:22.800 It does it

00:30:23.240 perfectly every

00:30:23.880 time.

00:30:24.160 So today,

00:30:26.440 I'd know that.

00:30:26.980 in 1988,

00:30:28.460 I didn't

00:30:28.740 know how

00:30:30.220 cartoonists

00:30:31.040 colored it

00:30:32.360 in.

00:30:32.920 So I

00:30:33.220 said to

00:30:33.520 the editor,

00:30:34.180 I'd like

00:30:35.060 to accept

00:30:35.760 your offer,

00:30:36.740 but I

00:30:37.080 have to

00:30:37.440 confess,

00:30:38.520 I don't

00:30:38.840 even know

00:30:39.140 how to

00:30:39.380 do this

00:30:39.740 work.

00:30:40.780 I have

00:30:41.220 no idea

00:30:41.820 how they

00:30:42.200 make a

00:30:42.560 Sunday comic.

00:30:43.940 How do

00:30:44.300 they put

00:30:44.600 the color

00:30:45.020 in and

00:30:45.360 do it

00:30:45.580 so perfectly?

00:30:46.500 Remember,

00:30:46.980 this is

00:30:47.260 before

00:30:47.620 Photoshop,

00:30:48.840 etc.

00:30:49.040 And then

00:30:50.480 my editor

00:30:50.980 said,

00:30:52.240 the printer

00:30:53.920 puts the

00:30:54.400 color in.

00:30:57.360 And I

00:30:57.960 said,

00:30:59.260 what?

00:31:01.240 What?

00:31:02.460 It was

00:31:02.980 the number

00:31:03.380 one thing

00:31:03.840 that was

00:31:04.120 preventing me

00:31:04.960 from becoming

00:31:05.460 probably a

00:31:06.200 cartoonist

00:31:06.700 sooner,

00:31:07.320 is that I

00:31:07.940 thought I

00:31:08.260 didn't know

00:31:08.580 how to

00:31:08.820 do it.

00:31:09.760 It turns

00:31:10.120 out nobody

00:31:10.540 did it.

00:31:11.660 It was

00:31:11.980 a thing

00:31:12.300 that wasn't

00:31:12.760 done.

00:31:13.500 The printer

00:31:14.080 added the

00:31:14.680 color.

00:31:16.080 The printer.

00:31:16.620 Now,

00:31:19.020 the cartoonist

00:31:19.680 would put

00:31:20.580 a little

00:31:20.820 number and

00:31:21.560 some lines

00:31:22.760 to indicate

00:31:23.400 what color

00:31:23.960 to use,

00:31:24.800 but that's

00:31:25.220 the easy

00:31:25.500 part.

00:31:26.400 Now,

00:31:26.820 at the

00:31:27.000 moment,

00:31:27.380 it's just

00:31:27.700 done in

00:31:28.060 Photoshop.

00:31:28.680 It's just

00:31:28.960 click and

00:31:29.780 fill.

00:31:30.920 But I

00:31:33.520 was not

00:31:34.000 afraid of

00:31:34.800 becoming a

00:31:35.340 cartoonist

00:31:35.980 simply because

00:31:37.320 I didn't

00:31:37.640 know how to

00:31:38.020 do any

00:31:38.380 of it.

00:31:39.660 It didn't

00:31:40.080 even stop

00:31:40.460 me a little

00:31:40.820 bit.

00:31:41.960 I mean,

00:31:42.220 I admitted

00:31:42.660 it so that

00:31:43.300 I could work

00:31:43.840 through a

00:31:44.680 solution,

00:31:45.380 but I knew

00:31:45.940 I could

00:31:46.220 learn it.

00:31:47.440 I just

00:31:47.740 figured I'll

00:31:48.120 learn it.

00:31:48.880 Same with

00:31:49.340 writing a

00:31:49.840 book.

00:31:50.940 Do you

00:31:51.140 have any

00:31:51.640 idea how

00:31:52.220 hard it

00:31:52.540 is to

00:31:52.820 write a

00:31:53.140 book?

00:31:54.600 Have you

00:31:54.880 ever thought

00:31:55.300 about that?

00:31:56.860 It's

00:31:57.220 insanely

00:31:57.840 hard.

00:31:58.940 It's

00:31:59.160 like really,

00:31:59.880 really hard.

00:32:01.220 Now,

00:32:01.500 it's not as

00:32:02.440 hard maybe

00:32:02.940 if it's

00:32:03.600 like a

00:32:03.960 historical

00:32:04.400 story and

00:32:05.280 you know

00:32:06.160 the stories,

00:32:06.880 you're just

00:32:07.140 writing it

00:32:07.560 down,

00:32:08.040 or it's

00:32:08.260 a biography

00:32:09.280 or something,

00:32:09.980 that's a

00:32:10.260 little easier.

00:32:10.900 But if

00:32:11.220 you're writing

00:32:11.580 a book

00:32:11.880 from scratch

00:32:12.940 that is

00:32:14.920 mostly your

00:32:15.540 own ideas,

00:32:16.380 and you're

00:32:17.000 trying to

00:32:17.300 fill an

00:32:17.700 entire

00:32:18.000 book and

00:32:18.840 make it

00:32:19.160 all make

00:32:19.500 sense and

00:32:20.060 not be

00:32:20.420 repetitive and

00:32:21.140 all that

00:32:21.420 other stuff,

00:32:22.200 it's crazy

00:32:23.320 hard.

00:32:25.200 And do you

00:32:25.520 know how much

00:32:26.140 I knew about

00:32:26.720 making a book

00:32:27.400 the first time

00:32:28.040 I tried writing

00:32:28.660 one?

00:32:28.920 nothing.

00:32:30.400 Nothing.

00:32:31.300 Nothing.

00:32:32.240 You should have

00:32:32.680 seen the edits

00:32:33.340 that came back.

00:32:34.360 It was like

00:32:34.700 more edits

00:32:35.440 than there

00:32:35.760 were text.

00:32:36.440 It was just

00:32:36.800 terrible.

00:32:38.280 But I

00:32:40.920 learned how.

00:32:42.140 I learned

00:32:42.720 by doing it

00:32:43.200 wrong,

00:32:43.820 but now I

00:32:44.680 know how to

00:32:45.000 make a book.

00:32:45.940 So this

00:32:46.300 latest one

00:32:47.220 that I just

00:32:47.780 submitted,

00:32:48.820 I've got some

00:32:49.200 more editing

00:32:49.620 to do,

00:32:50.140 but basically

00:32:51.080 done,

00:32:52.100 was way easier

00:32:53.480 because I'm a

00:32:54.500 learner.

00:32:55.240 So I learned

00:32:55.860 all the things

00:32:56.400 you need to do

00:32:56.940 to make a

00:32:57.380 book and

00:32:57.760 now I can

00:32:58.460 put together

00:32:59.000 a book

00:32:59.260 pretty easily.

00:33:00.420 I learned

00:33:01.140 how to do

00:33:01.580 live streaming,

00:33:02.960 my own

00:33:03.540 version of

00:33:04.100 it,

00:33:04.980 but I

00:33:05.500 started out

00:33:06.160 terrible and

00:33:08.460 I learned.

00:33:09.440 I didn't even

00:33:10.320 have a voice

00:33:11.000 that worked.

00:33:12.540 I couldn't

00:33:12.940 even speak

00:33:13.520 well without

00:33:14.720 sounding terrible,

00:33:17.460 but I figured

00:33:18.240 it out and I

00:33:18.840 learned and

00:33:19.420 blah, blah,

00:33:19.780 blah, blah,

00:33:19.960 blah.

00:33:20.740 So here's

00:33:21.640 my bigger

00:33:22.120 point.

00:33:24.340 I have a

00:33:25.120 theory that

00:33:25.660 wherever

00:33:25.980 education is

00:33:26.920 a top

00:33:27.320 priority,

00:33:28.160 the people

00:33:28.540 do well.

00:33:30.020 That's it.

00:33:32.080 That's it.

00:33:33.400 End of story.

00:33:34.940 Everywhere that

00:33:35.640 people prioritize

00:33:36.640 education,

00:33:38.120 that population

00:33:39.180 does great.

00:33:40.780 And everywhere

00:33:41.420 they don't,

00:33:42.700 it doesn't

00:33:43.300 matter what

00:33:43.940 else they

00:33:44.360 do.

00:33:45.940 All the

00:33:46.780 other things

00:33:47.260 together

00:33:47.720 means nothing.

00:33:50.420 Let me

00:33:50.960 tell you

00:33:51.380 what my

00:33:52.100 mother

00:33:52.500 taught the

00:33:54.400 kids when

00:33:55.380 I was a

00:33:55.760 kid.

00:33:57.640 You're

00:33:58.120 going to

00:33:58.500 college.

00:34:01.200 But mom,

00:34:02.140 I'm in

00:34:02.480 kindergarten.

00:34:03.940 You're

00:34:04.400 going to

00:34:04.780 college.

00:34:05.840 That's how

00:34:06.440 you succeed.

00:34:08.200 But can we

00:34:08.980 talk about

00:34:09.400 this later?

00:34:10.000 Really,

00:34:10.320 I'm five.

00:34:11.800 You're

00:34:12.120 going to

00:34:12.500 college.

00:34:14.300 You're

00:34:14.700 going to

00:34:15.080 college.

00:34:15.860 You're

00:34:16.140 going to

00:34:16.600 college.

00:34:17.700 But how

00:34:18.400 can we

00:34:18.720 afford that?

00:34:20.140 Don't worry

00:34:20.780 about it.

00:34:21.420 You're going

00:34:22.040 to college.

00:34:22.560 You're

00:34:22.800 going to

00:34:23.200 college.

00:34:23.640 You're

00:34:23.780 going to

00:34:24.160 college.

00:34:25.420 Learn to

00:34:26.000 read before

00:34:26.540 you get

00:34:26.880 into

00:34:27.300 kindergarten,

00:34:29.020 or at

00:34:29.220 least the

00:34:29.760 alphabet

00:34:30.040 stuff.

00:34:30.900 Why?

00:34:31.760 Education is

00:34:32.560 the most

00:34:32.840 important

00:34:33.120 thing.

00:34:35.300 From the

00:34:36.600 time I

00:34:37.400 was a

00:34:37.820 zygote,

00:34:39.460 my mother

00:34:40.040 was just

00:34:40.500 drilling that

00:34:41.280 into me.

00:34:42.480 So what

00:34:42.860 did I do?

00:34:43.500 I thought

00:34:43.900 education was

00:34:44.700 my top

00:34:45.100 priority.

00:34:45.460 And I

00:34:47.840 could change

00:34:48.460 to probably

00:34:49.260 15 different

00:34:50.660 industries today

00:34:52.480 and get a

00:34:53.800 job.

00:34:55.020 Probably

00:34:55.320 there's

00:34:55.540 probably 15

00:34:56.320 different jobs

00:34:57.020 I could

00:34:57.280 have.

00:34:58.100 Different

00:34:58.360 industries.

00:34:59.240 Just because

00:34:59.760 I'm a

00:35:00.080 learner.

00:35:00.760 I just

00:35:01.180 keep learning.

00:35:02.800 And you

00:35:03.840 learn enough,

00:35:04.560 you just

00:35:04.920 can do a

00:35:05.380 lot of

00:35:05.580 different

00:35:05.800 stuff.

00:35:07.580 So here's

00:35:09.040 my problem

00:35:09.560 with everybody

00:35:11.000 who's

00:35:11.580 complaining

00:35:12.120 about their

00:35:13.460 community is

00:35:14.280 not doing

00:35:14.700 so well.

00:35:15.460 Make

00:35:17.380 education a

00:35:18.120 top priority

00:35:18.780 or shut

00:35:20.220 the fuck

00:35:20.540 up.

00:35:22.140 It's not

00:35:23.000 anybody else's

00:35:23.840 problem.

00:35:24.780 If you make

00:35:25.280 education a

00:35:26.000 top priority,

00:35:27.020 all the

00:35:27.800 resources will

00:35:28.620 come toward

00:35:29.120 you.

00:35:30.340 They will.

00:35:31.800 It's the

00:35:32.260 law of

00:35:32.920 attraction.

00:35:34.120 You become

00:35:34.680 a learner.

00:35:37.380 Let's say

00:35:38.080 you're a

00:35:38.680 black kid

00:35:39.600 in America

00:35:40.160 and you're

00:35:41.080 in a

00:35:41.420 poor area.

00:35:43.060 You define

00:35:44.040 yourself as

00:35:45.000 a learner

00:35:45.500 and you

00:35:46.840 stick with

00:35:47.340 it.

00:35:48.180 You're

00:35:48.460 going to

00:35:48.540 do fine

00:35:48.980 if you

00:35:49.400 stay out

00:35:49.680 of jail

00:35:50.000 as well.

00:35:52.240 That's it.

00:35:53.340 That's all

00:35:53.880 you need.

00:35:55.040 You need

00:35:55.380 to be a

00:35:55.680 learner.

00:35:56.220 Now maybe

00:35:56.600 your school

00:35:57.120 is terrible

00:35:57.700 and it's

00:35:58.240 practically

00:35:58.680 impossible.

00:35:59.660 Well,

00:35:59.920 go learn

00:36:00.340 something else

00:36:01.020 that's legal

00:36:01.720 and useful.

00:36:02.880 You don't

00:36:03.220 think you

00:36:03.520 can find

00:36:03.880 people to

00:36:04.320 teach you

00:36:04.660 stuff?

00:36:05.280 You don't

00:36:05.580 have access

00:36:06.060 to the

00:36:06.420 internet?

00:36:07.220 You can't

00:36:07.620 learn anything?

00:36:08.160 If you're

00:36:09.860 a learner

00:36:10.380 or a

00:36:11.580 seeker,

00:36:12.540 I'll help

00:36:14.260 you all

00:36:14.500 you want.

00:36:16.160 You just

00:36:16.560 have to

00:36:16.860 ask.

00:36:17.680 Hey, I

00:36:18.120 would like

00:36:18.440 to learn

00:36:18.860 this thing.

00:36:19.540 Absolutely.

00:36:21.080 Do you

00:36:21.340 know how

00:36:21.560 many people

00:36:21.980 have contacted

00:36:22.780 me to

00:36:24.100 learn how

00:36:24.600 to be a

00:36:24.960 cartoonist?

00:36:26.800 A lot.

00:36:28.960 When I

00:36:29.580 have time,

00:36:30.600 I usually

00:36:31.280 help them.

00:36:33.020 Just ask.

00:36:33.720 You want

00:36:35.740 all the

00:36:36.580 resources you

00:36:37.320 need to be

00:36:37.760 successful in

00:36:38.520 life?

00:36:40.260 It'll come

00:36:41.020 to you.

00:36:41.800 You've just

00:36:42.160 got to be a

00:36:42.600 learner.

00:36:43.580 As soon as

00:36:44.220 people realize

00:36:45.060 you're a

00:36:45.520 learner,

00:36:46.740 they'll

00:36:47.080 organize around

00:36:48.000 you to make

00:36:48.700 sure that you

00:36:49.180 succeed.

00:36:52.720 Very much

00:36:53.480 like good

00:36:54.260 will hunting.

00:36:55.660 I'll use

00:36:56.360 the fictional

00:36:57.140 story.

00:36:59.500 I mean,

00:36:59.880 the hero in

00:37:01.040 good will

00:37:01.640 hunting was

00:37:03.000 a learner.

00:37:04.600 And his

00:37:05.120 little town

00:37:05.580 organized to

00:37:06.360 make sure

00:37:06.680 that he

00:37:06.960 succeeded.

00:37:08.440 That's the

00:37:09.020 way it works

00:37:09.380 everywhere.

00:37:10.400 My little

00:37:11.060 town organized

00:37:11.960 to help me

00:37:12.960 succeed as

00:37:13.560 well.

00:37:14.660 They put the

00:37:15.500 fix in.

00:37:16.200 Because they

00:37:16.600 could see

00:37:17.100 who I was.

00:37:19.200 And I

00:37:19.420 think that

00:37:19.860 getting back

00:37:20.840 to should

00:37:21.560 your affirmations

00:37:22.360 be about

00:37:22.860 what you

00:37:23.640 want or

00:37:24.640 should it

00:37:24.980 be about

00:37:25.340 who you

00:37:25.700 are?

00:37:26.540 I'll tell

00:37:26.940 you, if

00:37:27.240 you're a

00:37:27.520 black kid

00:37:28.160 in a poor

00:37:28.940 area and

00:37:30.140 all of the

00:37:30.940 forces of

00:37:31.900 your culture

00:37:32.460 are pushing

00:37:33.700 you toward

00:37:34.300 playing in

00:37:34.920 the NBA

00:37:35.360 which isn't

00:37:35.920 going to

00:37:36.160 happen or

00:37:37.180 being a

00:37:37.520 drug dealer

00:37:37.960 which is

00:37:38.400 a bad

00:37:38.680 idea,

00:37:40.700 if you

00:37:41.580 can define

00:37:42.880 yourself as

00:37:43.860 the one who's

00:37:44.380 going to get

00:37:44.840 out of there

00:37:45.440 by being the

00:37:46.960 learner,

00:37:48.480 you will.

00:37:49.880 You will.

00:37:51.340 Now,

00:37:52.220 my understanding,

00:37:55.480 and of course

00:37:56.120 it's very limited

00:37:56.820 because I'm

00:37:57.200 looking from the

00:37:57.740 outside,

00:37:58.520 is if you're

00:37:59.120 in some

00:37:59.460 communities and

00:38:00.720 you're too

00:38:01.580 serious about

00:38:02.280 school,

00:38:03.720 that you

00:38:04.160 will be

00:38:04.620 abused by

00:38:05.500 the bullies.

00:38:06.780 That's like

00:38:07.540 being too

00:38:08.020 white or

00:38:08.680 something.

00:38:10.060 But if you

00:38:11.000 can't handle

00:38:11.600 that, you

00:38:12.680 probably won't

00:38:13.100 be successful

00:38:13.760 anyway.

00:38:15.020 Do you know

00:38:15.880 how much I

00:38:16.360 got mocked in

00:38:17.800 school for

00:38:19.320 being a good

00:38:20.100 student?

00:38:22.360 Anybody,

00:38:23.120 has anybody

00:38:24.100 experienced that?

00:38:25.520 Have any of you

00:38:26.220 been like the

00:38:27.000 good student in

00:38:27.900 the class and

00:38:29.040 you get mocked

00:38:29.740 forever for

00:38:30.260 being the

00:38:30.600 nerd?

00:38:31.800 How did you

00:38:32.300 respond to it

00:38:33.000 when it

00:38:33.240 happened to

00:38:33.620 you?

00:38:36.860 This might be

00:38:37.800 just where I'm

00:38:38.540 genetically

00:38:38.960 different, but

00:38:41.000 every time

00:38:41.620 somebody mocked

00:38:42.520 me for being

00:38:43.100 smart, I

00:38:45.260 felt good.

00:38:47.260 I felt good.

00:38:51.020 Period.

00:38:52.220 Every time.

00:38:53.840 Every time.

00:38:54.740 Do you know

00:38:55.000 why?

00:38:55.640 Because they

00:38:56.020 were confirming

00:38:56.680 my own

00:38:57.400 view of

00:38:58.100 myself.

00:38:59.500 Now, they

00:38:59.900 would say

00:39:00.260 words like

00:39:01.060 nerd, and

00:39:02.800 I would

00:39:03.440 think, whatever

00:39:04.280 you want to

00:39:04.720 call it.

00:39:06.360 If that's

00:39:07.040 what you

00:39:07.300 want to

00:39:07.560 call someone

00:39:08.540 who knows

00:39:09.120 more than

00:39:09.620 you do,

00:39:10.860 okay, okay.

00:39:12.800 Okay.

00:39:14.660 Apparently,

00:39:15.220 you're not

00:39:15.460 very good at

00:39:16.620 vocabulary

00:39:17.500 either, if

00:39:19.120 that's your

00:39:19.460 best vocabulary

00:39:20.260 word.

00:39:22.040 How about

00:39:22.720 future success?

00:39:23.940 yes.

00:39:26.280 But here's

00:39:27.940 what I

00:39:28.260 detected.

00:39:29.960 Every one

00:39:30.600 of those

00:39:30.880 people who

00:39:31.460 mocked me

00:39:32.340 for doing

00:39:33.820 well in

00:39:34.240 school, they

00:39:35.960 were all

00:39:36.280 jealous.

00:39:38.040 Because they

00:39:38.680 knew they

00:39:40.120 could see

00:39:40.540 it.

00:39:41.580 They knew

00:39:42.240 it was

00:39:42.520 going to

00:39:42.720 make a

00:39:43.040 difference.

00:39:44.100 They knew

00:39:44.600 it.

00:39:45.680 Oh, they

00:39:46.160 knew it.

00:39:47.600 And they

00:39:48.080 watched it

00:39:48.620 from the

00:39:49.700 seed stage.

00:39:53.460 People

00:39:53.860 stopped me

00:39:54.440 when I

00:39:54.740 was nine

00:39:55.220 years old.

00:39:56.680 And they

00:39:57.460 could predict

00:39:57.940 I was going

00:39:58.360 to be

00:39:58.560 successful.

00:39:59.180 And did.

00:40:00.160 When I

00:40:00.600 was a

00:40:00.820 little kid,

00:40:01.300 people would

00:40:02.060 tell me,

00:40:02.540 well, you're

00:40:02.860 going to be

00:40:03.060 rich.

00:40:04.320 And it

00:40:04.620 was always

00:40:04.960 because I

00:40:05.560 was just

00:40:05.920 a learning

00:40:06.540 machine.

00:40:07.580 And I

00:40:07.880 was serious

00:40:08.400 about making

00:40:09.920 something

00:40:10.260 work.

00:40:12.480 So I'm

00:40:12.820 a little

00:40:13.060 bit, I

00:40:15.880 don't know

00:40:16.100 what to do

00:40:16.420 with this

00:40:16.720 exactly, but

00:40:18.520 here's what

00:40:20.120 I would

00:40:20.520 teach any

00:40:23.640 person in

00:40:24.880 a tough

00:40:25.860 situation.

00:40:26.820 So I'm

00:40:27.340 going to

00:40:27.480 use a

00:40:28.060 black

00:40:28.500 American

00:40:28.880 kid in

00:40:29.560 a poor

00:40:30.920 situation as

00:40:31.720 my example,

00:40:32.580 but it

00:40:32.960 would apply

00:40:33.300 to everybody.

00:40:34.980 It applied

00:40:35.640 to me as

00:40:36.500 a low

00:40:37.960 income

00:40:38.340 white guy.

00:40:40.500 The system

00:40:41.600 is rigged.

00:40:44.540 The system

00:40:45.660 is totally

00:40:46.880 rigged against

00:40:48.560 you.

00:40:50.220 Against

00:40:50.600 you.

00:40:52.460 But there

00:40:53.580 is a cheat

00:40:54.060 code, and

00:40:55.580 the cheat

00:40:55.940 code is

00:40:56.340 learning.

00:40:57.500 You can

00:40:58.020 learn your

00:40:58.540 way past

00:40:59.920 any system.

00:41:01.500 It's the

00:41:02.080 only way.

00:41:03.400 Well, maybe

00:41:04.000 crime if you

00:41:05.000 get away with

00:41:05.520 it, I

00:41:05.740 suppose.

00:41:06.520 But you

00:41:07.600 can beat

00:41:08.120 every rigged

00:41:09.000 system.

00:41:10.320 Is there

00:41:10.800 systemic

00:41:11.360 racism?

00:41:12.500 I say

00:41:12.940 yes.

00:41:13.640 I know

00:41:13.920 some of

00:41:14.260 you don't

00:41:14.940 want to

00:41:15.200 accept

00:41:15.400 that.

00:41:16.180 But I

00:41:16.480 say yes.

00:41:17.400 I say

00:41:17.700 there's a

00:41:18.040 lot of

00:41:18.280 it.

00:41:18.680 And it

00:41:18.900 matters.

00:41:19.840 It's a

00:41:20.220 big, big

00:41:20.560 deal.

00:41:21.920 And you

00:41:22.520 can slice

00:41:23.940 through it

00:41:24.540 like a

00:41:25.780 hot poker

00:41:26.460 through butter

00:41:27.680 by just

00:41:29.240 learning more

00:41:30.000 than the

00:41:30.280 people around

00:41:30.740 you.

00:41:31.000 Period.

00:41:31.500 That's it.

00:41:32.620 Straightforward.

00:41:33.700 Learn more

00:41:34.120 than the

00:41:34.440 people around

00:41:34.960 you.

00:41:35.760 You get

00:41:36.180 more stuff.

00:41:37.280 Learn more,

00:41:38.500 win more.

00:41:39.160 Learn more,

00:41:39.820 win more.

00:41:40.920 That's it.

00:41:42.580 It's there

00:41:43.100 for everybody.

00:41:44.500 How did

00:41:45.100 I get

00:41:45.480 out of

00:41:45.780 my small

00:41:46.600 town?

00:41:48.620 I

00:41:49.180 outlearned

00:41:49.880 the people

00:41:50.820 who didn't.

00:41:51.640 That's it.

00:41:53.340 It's

00:41:53.860 available for

00:41:54.420 everybody.

00:41:55.180 Now, I

00:41:56.280 think just

00:41:56.640 the emphasis

00:41:57.120 on education

00:41:57.940 is what's

00:41:58.920 needed.

00:41:59.940 And if

00:42:01.520 anybody

00:42:02.100 complains

00:42:03.420 about their

00:42:04.020 systemic

00:42:04.560 racism,

00:42:05.300 et cetera,

00:42:05.940 I would

00:42:06.460 say,

00:42:07.040 what's your

00:42:07.360 top priority?

00:42:08.120 And then

00:42:10.280 they'll say

00:42:10.620 something like,

00:42:11.680 getting rid

00:42:12.400 of the

00:42:12.640 patriarchy.

00:42:14.500 And then

00:42:14.880 I say,

00:42:15.780 oh, you

00:42:16.660 don't

00:42:16.900 understand how

00:42:17.680 success works.

00:42:19.280 Your actual

00:42:20.020 problem is you

00:42:20.660 don't understand

00:42:21.240 how anything

00:42:21.860 works.

00:42:22.800 Let me

00:42:23.080 explain it

00:42:23.520 to you.

00:42:24.940 Education

00:42:25.620 and learning

00:42:26.460 is how you

00:42:27.920 beat every

00:42:28.520 system.

00:42:29.760 So if

00:42:30.240 your top

00:42:31.220 priority is

00:42:32.740 racism,

00:42:34.440 you lose.

00:42:35.400 if your

00:42:37.340 top priority

00:42:37.900 is equity,

00:42:39.540 you lose.

00:42:41.260 If your

00:42:41.900 top priority

00:42:42.440 is the

00:42:42.840 unfairness,

00:42:43.500 you lose.

00:42:44.600 If your

00:42:44.960 top priority

00:42:45.480 is getting

00:42:46.400 a transfer

00:42:47.120 from other

00:42:47.620 people to

00:42:47.980 you,

00:42:48.440 probably

00:42:48.820 you'll

00:42:49.080 lose.

00:42:49.600 Or you

00:42:49.940 might win

00:42:50.260 in the

00:42:50.480 short term,

00:42:50.960 but you'll

00:42:51.220 lose in

00:42:51.500 the long

00:42:51.720 term.

00:42:52.780 They're all

00:42:53.420 losing paths.

00:42:54.700 There's one

00:42:55.300 winning path.

00:42:56.660 Stay out of

00:42:57.240 jail and

00:42:58.340 outlearn the

00:42:59.380 people you

00:42:59.860 want to get

00:43:00.260 away from.

00:43:01.800 Just outlearn

00:43:02.460 them.

00:43:03.340 It's all

00:43:04.080 available.

00:43:04.500 Every bit

00:43:06.000 of that is

00:43:06.360 available to

00:43:06.900 everybody.

00:43:07.980 So I

00:43:09.340 just don't

00:43:09.760 want to hear

00:43:10.320 anybody who

00:43:11.580 doesn't

00:43:11.920 prioritize

00:43:12.400 school or

00:43:13.600 education.

00:43:14.520 I don't

00:43:14.800 want to

00:43:14.980 say just

00:43:15.300 school.

00:43:16.240 Anybody

00:43:16.780 who doesn't

00:43:17.240 prioritize

00:43:17.800 education

00:43:19.040 first don't

00:43:20.840 even want to

00:43:21.240 hear about

00:43:21.540 their

00:43:21.720 complaints.

00:43:23.240 Not even

00:43:23.960 interested.

00:43:25.380 Because they

00:43:27.640 need to fix

00:43:28.640 that first.

00:43:29.720 It's a

00:43:30.140 mindset problem

00:43:31.240 which they've

00:43:32.660 decided is

00:43:33.420 our problem

00:43:34.100 or your

00:43:34.620 problem or

00:43:35.200 somebody else's

00:43:35.820 problem.

00:43:36.900 And I

00:43:37.320 think that

00:43:37.700 we're always

00:43:39.420 we, those

00:43:41.880 who like a

00:43:42.580 system that

00:43:43.040 works better.

00:43:44.620 I think we're

00:43:45.600 always attacking

00:43:46.820 the wrong

00:43:47.300 targets.

00:43:50.200 I feel like

00:43:51.300 there's so many

00:43:52.180 variables swimming

00:43:53.440 around and

00:43:54.340 some people say

00:43:55.600 it's this

00:43:55.960 variable and

00:43:56.700 if you just

00:43:57.100 fix this and

00:43:57.940 what about the

00:43:58.940 school systems

00:43:59.780 and blah blah

00:44:00.600 blah blah.

00:44:00.860 And I

00:44:01.740 think all

00:44:02.100 of those

00:44:02.480 are maybe

00:44:02.980 areas that

00:44:03.720 need to be

00:44:04.120 improved.

00:44:05.500 But if

00:44:07.220 education isn't

00:44:08.400 your top

00:44:08.800 priority,

00:44:10.020 you're not

00:44:11.520 really a

00:44:12.100 serious person.

00:44:13.500 So I

00:44:14.080 wouldn't even

00:44:14.420 listen to your

00:44:15.040 complaints really.

00:44:18.260 Alright.

00:44:18.780 I solved the

00:44:22.520 excess death

00:44:23.760 problem.

00:44:25.160 It'll take you

00:44:25.980 a while to

00:44:26.480 catch up to

00:44:27.180 me because

00:44:28.860 you won't

00:44:29.160 believe me.

00:44:30.400 But it goes

00:44:30.880 like this.

00:44:31.940 Were you

00:44:32.320 aware that

00:44:33.120 loneliness

00:44:33.780 causes heart

00:44:34.740 disease?

00:44:36.500 How many of

00:44:37.240 you knew

00:44:37.540 that?

00:44:38.820 Loneliness

00:44:39.340 causes heart

00:44:40.440 disease.

00:44:40.800 Yeah.

00:44:42.560 And pretty

00:44:43.860 big difference.

00:44:44.960 The difference

00:44:45.500 between lonely

00:44:46.360 and not lonely

00:44:47.220 is like 11

00:44:48.560 to 16%

00:44:49.720 more cardiac

00:44:50.620 issues.

00:44:52.380 So I did a

00:44:53.120 little poll,

00:44:53.820 unscientific poll

00:44:55.020 on Twitter,

00:44:56.340 and I asked

00:44:56.840 people if

00:44:57.320 they're more

00:44:57.780 or less lonely

00:44:58.840 since the

00:45:01.820 pandemic.

00:45:02.360 About a

00:45:03.000 quarter of

00:45:03.460 the people,

00:45:04.620 now this is

00:45:05.200 not the 25% 0.90

00:45:06.280 like other

00:45:06.780 25%.

00:45:07.640 This 25% 0.96

00:45:09.640 is people

00:45:10.000 just describing

00:45:10.820 their own

00:45:11.200 situation.

00:45:12.260 So this is

00:45:12.920 not the 25% 0.90

00:45:13.920 who gets

00:45:14.260 every question

00:45:14.840 wrong.

00:45:15.620 Because when

00:45:15.980 people are

00:45:16.420 describing

00:45:17.040 their own

00:45:17.520 situation,

00:45:18.680 they get

00:45:19.580 that right.

00:45:21.380 But imagine

00:45:22.240 if the

00:45:23.600 pandemic and

00:45:24.480 all that

00:45:24.800 comes with

00:45:25.260 it, and

00:45:26.160 our screens

00:45:27.340 and our

00:45:27.840 technology and

00:45:29.020 stuff, let's

00:45:31.320 say that's

00:45:31.720 true for the

00:45:32.520 general public.

00:45:33.640 I don't know

00:45:34.100 that it is.

00:45:34.620 Could be more,

00:45:35.240 could be less.

00:45:36.600 But let's

00:45:37.320 say it's a

00:45:38.080 quarter of the

00:45:38.620 people are

00:45:39.140 lonelier.

00:45:40.000 And being

00:45:43.220 lonelier gives

00:45:44.140 you a 16% 0.98

00:45:45.440 at the high

00:45:46.280 end, more

00:45:47.220 cardiac issues.

00:45:49.540 That would be

00:45:50.480 the entire

00:45:51.120 excess death.

00:45:52.820 The entire

00:45:53.860 excess death

00:45:54.580 would be

00:45:54.980 explained by

00:45:56.600 extra loneliness

00:45:57.580 which causes

00:45:58.700 heart problems.

00:46:03.760 Where?

00:46:04.620 Everywhere.

00:46:05.640 Everywhere.

00:46:07.000 Yeah, it's

00:46:07.460 everywhere.

00:46:07.780 It would be

00:46:08.640 every age.

00:46:10.140 Because remember,

00:46:10.840 part of the

00:46:11.360 thing we didn't

00:46:13.140 understand about

00:46:14.960 the excess

00:46:15.520 deaths is it

00:46:16.300 appears to be

00:46:16.860 everywhere.

00:46:18.340 And it's the

00:46:18.900 everywhere part

00:46:19.580 that's weird,

00:46:20.340 which also makes

00:46:21.280 you think it's

00:46:21.840 COVID or

00:46:22.540 vaccinations.

00:46:23.720 Because those

00:46:24.480 are two things

00:46:25.080 that are so

00:46:25.580 widespread.

00:46:26.140 But there is

00:46:28.140 one other thing

00:46:28.880 that's pretty

00:46:29.520 widespread.

00:46:31.100 And the thing

00:46:31.680 that's pretty

00:46:32.160 widespread, and

00:46:33.820 definitely

00:46:34.260 worse, is

00:46:35.900 loneliness.

00:46:38.180 And I'm

00:46:40.720 seeing lots

00:46:41.320 of it with

00:46:42.140 my local

00:46:42.940 subscribers.

00:46:45.500 Because a lot

00:46:45.940 of what I do

00:46:47.420 on locals is

00:46:49.000 a solution to

00:46:49.740 loneliness.

00:46:50.740 I'm basically

00:46:51.540 a virtual

00:46:52.580 friend.

00:46:53.800 And when I

00:46:54.080 do my evening

00:46:54.840 podcasts or

00:46:57.560 live streams,

00:46:58.280 that's when you

00:46:58.940 see it the

00:46:59.340 most.

00:46:59.640 So when I

00:47:01.060 do my live

00:47:02.480 streams from

00:47:03.020 my man cave,

00:47:04.320 where it's

00:47:04.640 more casual,

00:47:05.400 we're not

00:47:05.680 talking about

00:47:06.160 the news,

00:47:07.140 it's more

00:47:07.580 like spending

00:47:09.060 time with a

00:47:09.600 friend.

00:47:11.120 And I see

00:47:11.900 from my

00:47:14.180 audience on

00:47:14.780 locals, not

00:47:15.380 all of them,

00:47:16.020 of course, but

00:47:16.860 many of them

00:47:17.500 are really

00:47:20.560 lonely.

00:47:21.720 And it

00:47:22.100 really does

00:47:22.840 make a big

00:47:23.720 difference that

00:47:24.780 I do this

00:47:25.320 every morning.

00:47:25.980 I never miss

00:47:26.560 a morning.

00:47:27.280 That's why I

00:47:27.800 do it.

00:47:28.220 That's part of

00:47:28.720 the reason that

00:47:29.180 I don't

00:47:29.560 miss a

00:47:29.880 morning.

00:47:30.640 Because I

00:47:30.980 realize that

00:47:31.480 a lot of

00:47:31.780 people use

00:47:32.280 it as part

00:47:33.340 of a social

00:47:34.240 asset, I

00:47:36.980 guess.

00:47:38.160 And so I

00:47:38.540 don't want

00:47:38.840 you to lose

00:47:39.220 that.

00:47:40.420 So that's

00:47:43.120 your whole

00:47:43.540 solution right

00:47:44.200 there.

00:47:44.840 Because these

00:47:45.600 are things that

00:47:46.140 nobody would

00:47:46.760 argue with.

00:47:47.920 I don't

00:47:48.760 believe there's

00:47:49.240 any scientific

00:47:50.060 argument that

00:47:51.500 extra loneliness

00:47:52.420 would cause

00:47:53.100 extra heart

00:47:53.840 disease.

00:47:54.360 Does anybody

00:47:54.780 doubt that?

00:47:56.820 Does anybody

00:47:57.540 doubt the

00:47:58.100 basic concept

00:47:59.100 loneliness

00:48:00.640 equals heart

00:48:01.420 disease?

00:48:03.520 Are we

00:48:03.980 good with

00:48:04.280 that?

00:48:05.500 If that's

00:48:06.840 true, then

00:48:08.020 the only

00:48:08.280 question is,

00:48:09.000 is the

00:48:09.340 extra

00:48:09.720 loneliness

00:48:10.220 enough to

00:48:12.400 explain all

00:48:13.140 of the

00:48:13.480 excess

00:48:13.900 deaths?

00:48:15.680 And also,

00:48:17.980 is the

00:48:18.440 loneliness

00:48:18.820 worse than

00:48:21.260 when we

00:48:21.680 were locked

00:48:23.080 up?

00:48:23.440 because it

00:48:25.080 might be.

00:48:26.040 It might be

00:48:26.440 worse.

00:48:27.440 Because here's

00:48:28.540 the weird

00:48:29.160 thing that

00:48:29.500 happened when

00:48:30.140 the lockdowns

00:48:31.260 ended.

00:48:32.560 When the

00:48:33.180 lockdowns

00:48:33.800 ended, a

00:48:35.560 lot of

00:48:36.000 telecommuting

00:48:36.700 remained.

00:48:39.300 And I got a

00:48:39.900 feeling that

00:48:40.460 there were a

00:48:40.840 lot of

00:48:41.020 houses where

00:48:41.640 the man and

00:48:42.740 the woman and

00:48:43.280 the kids were

00:48:43.840 all in the

00:48:44.160 house at the

00:48:44.580 same time.

00:48:45.500 And maybe you

00:48:46.180 drove each

00:48:46.640 other crazy,

00:48:47.900 but you

00:48:48.220 weren't lonely.

00:48:49.440 You were all

00:48:50.100 in this house

00:48:50.540 all day.

00:48:50.900 Now you

00:48:52.460 take, okay,

00:48:53.200 the wife is

00:48:54.160 off doing

00:48:54.580 something, or

00:48:55.180 the husband,

00:48:55.880 make it

00:48:56.380 non-sexist,

00:48:58.160 kids are in

00:48:58.860 school, and

00:49:00.460 you're just

00:49:00.800 sitting home

00:49:01.420 telecommuting,

00:49:02.800 and you're

00:49:03.100 just all by

00:49:03.560 yourself.

00:49:04.900 It's pretty

00:49:05.580 horrible,

00:49:06.040 actually.

00:49:08.740 You know,

00:49:09.020 since the

00:49:10.380 pandemic,

00:49:12.020 there are

00:49:12.820 days when I

00:49:13.480 don't talk to

00:49:14.040 anybody all

00:49:14.700 day.

00:49:16.440 Now, that's

00:49:17.120 probably unusual,

00:49:18.560 but I actually

00:49:19.380 have days where

00:49:20.120 I don't talk

00:49:20.880 to any human

00:49:21.800 being in

00:49:22.900 person, maybe

00:49:24.140 by digital

00:49:26.560 means, but

00:49:27.500 none.

00:49:28.620 I have no

00:49:29.500 human contact

00:49:30.260 some days, not

00:49:31.500 even unusual.

00:49:32.940 Maybe once a

00:49:33.620 week, I have no

00:49:34.280 human contact.

00:49:35.720 I don't plan it,

00:49:36.660 it just sort of

00:49:37.160 happens.

00:49:38.320 It usually means

00:49:39.000 that I had

00:49:39.380 something planned

00:49:40.040 that fell

00:49:40.440 through, because

00:49:41.440 you know, I

00:49:41.820 try to fill my

00:49:43.020 schedule with a

00:49:43.720 little bit of

00:49:44.160 human contact,

00:49:45.500 but sometimes

00:49:46.120 something gets

00:49:46.740 canceled or

00:49:47.400 whatever, and

00:49:47.800 then you're

00:49:48.080 like, oh,

00:49:48.540 well, I guess I

00:49:49.880 didn't talk to

00:49:50.440 any people for

00:49:51.540 24 hours.

00:49:53.520 Please seek

00:49:54.260 professional help.

00:49:57.180 What?

00:50:00.260 Does anybody

00:50:01.360 think I'm not

00:50:02.020 happy?

00:50:04.820 I swear to God,

00:50:06.040 I haven't had a

00:50:06.600 bad day in

00:50:07.160 months.

00:50:08.540 Like, I don't

00:50:09.020 even have a

00:50:09.480 bad day.

00:50:11.680 When I said

00:50:12.500 that I didn't

00:50:13.020 see people all

00:50:14.060 day, did it

00:50:15.260 sound like I

00:50:15.900 was sad?

00:50:16.340 It's usually

00:50:18.680 fine.

00:50:20.220 Like, if it

00:50:20.660 were, you

00:50:21.060 know, three or

00:50:21.800 four days in

00:50:22.340 a row, I'd

00:50:22.700 probably go

00:50:23.040 insane.

00:50:24.060 But one day

00:50:24.860 without human

00:50:25.600 contact?

00:50:26.400 That's fine.

00:50:27.680 It's a good

00:50:28.120 day.

00:50:28.880 So yesterday I

00:50:29.840 had almost no

00:50:31.580 human contact.

00:50:33.120 Almost none.

00:50:34.460 I talked to

00:50:35.220 one person at

00:50:36.300 the gym for

00:50:37.100 three minutes.

00:50:41.260 That was it.

00:50:42.840 That was it.

00:50:43.480 But I had a

00:50:46.400 really good

00:50:46.700 day.

00:50:48.060 Yesterday was

00:50:48.740 a good day.

00:50:50.480 So I

00:50:51.080 practiced my

00:50:51.940 guitar and

00:50:52.820 my drums and

00:50:53.660 I exercised.

00:50:55.420 I took the

00:50:55.900 dog out.

00:50:56.540 It was sunny.

00:50:57.660 Weather was

00:50:58.140 perfect.

00:50:59.340 Got a bunch

00:50:59.900 of stuff done.

00:51:01.660 Went to

00:51:02.060 Starbucks.

00:51:02.980 I guess I

00:51:03.420 talked to the

00:51:04.080 cashier.

00:51:05.500 Told her my

00:51:06.480 order.

00:51:07.820 That's about

00:51:08.260 it.

00:51:10.560 All right, so

00:51:11.320 that's the

00:51:11.760 solution for the

00:51:12.760 excess deaths,

00:51:13.920 as far as I

00:51:14.500 know.

00:51:15.480 We have this

00:51:16.220 question about

00:51:16.760 whether students

00:51:18.080 using AI and

00:51:19.860 the chat GPT

00:51:20.880 thing for school

00:51:21.740 homework, whether

00:51:23.400 there was some

00:51:24.120 way to identify

00:51:25.120 when the student

00:51:26.900 didn't do the

00:51:27.520 work and AI

00:51:28.400 wrote it.

00:51:29.980 So I saw a

00:51:31.340 reel, and I

00:51:33.080 can't guarantee

00:51:33.740 this is all true,

00:51:34.520 but I think it's

00:51:34.980 true, that there

00:51:37.300 is a piece of

00:51:38.420 AI that can

00:51:40.120 spot things made

00:51:42.120 by AI.

00:51:43.460 So if you

00:51:44.680 use chat GPT,

00:51:46.400 the teacher can

00:51:47.420 use another AI

00:51:48.440 that I won't

00:51:48.980 mention, I forgot

00:51:50.000 to write it down,

00:51:51.520 that will spot

00:51:52.260 it.

00:51:53.320 But the

00:51:54.600 student can

00:51:56.200 use chat GPT,

00:51:57.760 but know that

00:51:58.620 they'll get

00:51:58.980 caught, so

00:52:00.300 there's another

00:52:01.240 AI, a separate

00:52:02.440 one, that

00:52:04.060 rewrites the

00:52:04.940 first one to

00:52:06.800 make it

00:52:07.340 undiscoverable.

00:52:08.460 Now, at

00:52:10.860 the moment, I

00:52:11.720 don't think there

00:52:12.520 are too many

00:52:13.060 students who

00:52:13.800 would know how

00:52:14.900 to navigate that

00:52:15.720 world, but

00:52:17.020 that's going to

00:52:17.520 be ten minutes

00:52:18.660 from now before

00:52:19.300 they figure it

00:52:19.940 out, right?

00:52:21.440 It's like in

00:52:22.180 ten minutes

00:52:22.760 they're going to

00:52:23.180 figure that

00:52:23.640 out.

00:52:25.300 So,

00:52:27.860 atomic heart?

00:52:32.720 Is that like

00:52:33.540 atomic habits?

00:52:34.800 Atomic habits?

00:52:34.820 Atomic habits?

00:52:34.880 Atomic habits?

00:52:34.900 Atomic habits?

00:52:34.920 Atomic habits?

00:52:34.940 Atomic habits?

00:52:35.000 Atomic habits?

00:52:36.940 Atomic habits?

00:52:38.440 Recognized as an

00:52:41.020 AI soulmate?

00:52:42.080 Oh, does it?

00:52:45.460 All right.

00:52:47.960 Yeah, the new

00:52:48.820 version is going

00:52:49.520 to be like 500

00:52:50.240 times smarter,

00:52:51.240 right?

00:52:51.520 That's coming

00:52:51.980 out any time.

00:52:55.860 Ben Garrison

00:52:56.740 uses chat

00:52:57.460 bots, is that

00:52:58.220 true?

00:53:00.200 Yeah, so

00:53:01.300 I really don't

00:53:05.360 know what's

00:53:05.800 going to happen

00:53:06.200 in our future,

00:53:07.120 which is, I

00:53:07.760 guess,

00:53:08.440 the big

00:53:09.720 takeaway.

00:53:10.700 We have no

00:53:11.600 idea what's

00:53:12.200 going to

00:53:12.360 happen in

00:53:12.740 the future.

00:53:15.280 All right.

00:53:18.240 Loneliness is

00:53:19.020 a broken heart,

00:53:19.880 sort of.

00:53:24.500 Will it make

00:53:25.260 us 500%

00:53:26.300 dumber?

00:53:28.180 Maybe.

00:53:28.660 I feel like

00:53:31.360 the bridge

00:53:33.820 generation,

00:53:34.760 where I was

00:53:37.380 born and

00:53:37.880 grew up

00:53:38.240 before the

00:53:38.920 internet,

00:53:40.100 but also

00:53:40.920 before AI.

00:53:43.940 There will

00:53:44.540 be very few

00:53:45.240 people who

00:53:45.940 knew what

00:53:46.380 that world

00:53:46.920 looked like

00:53:47.600 eventually.

00:53:49.100 Like, we'll be

00:53:49.820 like the last

00:53:50.880 World War II

00:53:51.600 survivors and

00:53:52.460 stuff.

00:53:53.280 I'll be like,

00:53:54.320 eh, let me

00:53:54.960 tell you.

00:53:55.340 We used to

00:53:57.420 leave the house

00:53:58.420 in the morning

00:53:59.020 and we were

00:54:00.660 completely out

00:54:01.800 of communication

00:54:02.720 all day long.

00:54:05.320 Our only

00:54:06.080 requirement was

00:54:07.040 to be home

00:54:07.900 for dinner

00:54:08.420 five o'clock.

00:54:10.920 That's it.

00:54:12.540 That's the only

00:54:13.540 communication we

00:54:14.620 had, be home

00:54:15.820 at five o'clock.

00:54:16.720 If your car

00:54:18.080 broke down,

00:54:19.520 you were in

00:54:20.720 trouble.

00:54:23.580 Like, my car

00:54:24.700 broke down on

00:54:25.300 the highway with

00:54:25.880 no traffic and

00:54:26.740 no homes around

00:54:28.420 in the middle

00:54:29.440 of the winter.

00:54:30.520 I almost died.

00:54:32.480 I almost died

00:54:34.000 because cell

00:54:35.160 phones were not

00:54:35.780 invented.

00:54:37.440 I didn't have a

00:54:38.220 jacket and it

00:54:38.840 was zero degrees

00:54:39.900 and my car

00:54:41.420 died in the

00:54:42.040 middle of,

00:54:42.660 you know,

00:54:42.860 outside of

00:54:43.360 Syracuse,

00:54:44.040 upstate New

00:54:44.520 York in

00:54:44.900 February.

00:54:45.280 And I ran

00:54:47.440 for it.

00:54:47.920 I've told you

00:54:48.380 this story before

00:54:49.020 but I basically

00:54:50.380 ran for it

00:54:51.260 to see if I

00:54:52.460 could get to

00:54:53.120 warmth before

00:54:55.240 I froze to

00:54:55.960 death.

00:54:56.760 And I barely

00:54:57.560 made it.

00:54:58.260 A car picked

00:54:58.800 me up finally.

00:54:59.800 There was only

00:55:00.120 one car that

00:55:00.680 went by the

00:55:01.380 entire time.

00:55:03.700 So I'll tell

00:55:05.700 stories like that

00:55:06.600 to, you know,

00:55:07.660 the youngsters

00:55:08.340 who have their

00:55:09.700 AI and their

00:55:10.540 virtual reality

00:55:11.320 and their

00:55:11.800 internets and

00:55:12.460 stuff and

00:55:13.220 they'll have no

00:55:13.840 idea what that

00:55:14.720 was like.

00:55:15.860 No idea.

00:55:24.580 It feels like

00:55:26.660 the social

00:55:27.220 contract broke

00:55:28.280 in 2020.

00:55:30.220 The social

00:55:30.860 contract.

00:55:33.180 Say more

00:55:33.900 about that.

00:55:36.020 What do you

00:55:36.700 think was the

00:55:37.280 social contract

00:55:38.080 we had before

00:55:39.040 and that

00:55:40.740 broke it?

00:55:41.440 What is it

00:55:41.820 now?

00:55:43.080 I feel like

00:55:43.840 you're onto

00:55:44.160 something.

00:55:44.460 I'm just

00:55:44.880 responding to

00:55:45.740 a comment on

00:55:46.440 the local

00:55:46.840 platform.

00:55:48.300 But about

00:55:51.080 fairness?

00:55:53.200 I don't know.

00:55:54.460 You know, we

00:55:54.900 always think

00:55:55.380 everything's broken

00:55:56.260 and we find a

00:55:57.660 way to muddle

00:55:58.140 through.

00:56:00.140 Oh, you think

00:56:00.880 that work hard

00:56:01.700 makes you

00:56:02.940 successful?

00:56:03.720 You think that's

00:56:04.300 broken?

00:56:04.840 I don't think

00:56:05.520 that's broken.

00:56:06.260 That's very much

00:56:07.300 intact.

00:56:08.640 Hard work still

00:56:09.500 works.

00:56:10.680 That's still a

00:56:11.320 good formula.

00:56:13.920 I don't know.

00:56:14.420 Yeah, I

00:56:20.560 always keep a

00:56:21.340 jacket in the

00:56:23.700 car now for

00:56:24.740 that reason.

00:56:29.300 All right.

00:56:33.400 Just looking at

00:56:34.120 your comments

00:56:34.600 here for a

00:56:35.040 moment.

00:56:35.780 All right, is

00:56:36.200 there any

00:56:36.420 story I

00:56:36.860 missed?

00:56:38.160 Anything I

00:56:38.700 missed?

00:56:40.580 Always keep a

00:56:41.320 coat in your

00:56:41.680 trunk.

00:56:41.900 That's good

00:56:42.740 advice.

00:56:52.600 Ladies and 0.98

00:56:53.300 gentlemen, on

00:56:54.500 YouTube, I'm

00:56:56.160 going to say

00:56:56.440 bye for now

00:56:57.140 and I will

00:56:58.420 see you again

00:57:00.480 soon.

00:57:01.080 Oh, Biden

00:57:01.480 in Ukraine.

00:57:02.800 Yeah, I

00:57:03.120 talked about

00:57:03.520 that at the

00:57:04.060 start.

00:57:04.760 It's just

00:57:05.080 safer than

00:57:05.520 Ohio.

00:57:08.240 How often

00:57:08.880 is the man

00:57:09.360 cave?

00:57:10.720 Just what I

00:57:11.520 feel like

00:57:11.940 it.

00:57:16.240 Epstein

00:57:16.600 list.

00:57:17.380 There's

00:57:17.780 nothing new

00:57:18.260 on that.

00:57:20.820 All right, I

00:57:21.560 think we've

00:57:21.920 done it.

00:57:22.520 Bye for now

00:57:23.100 on YouTube.

00:57:23.760 I'll talk to

00:57:24.240 you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 20, 2023

Episode 2025 Scott Adams： Trump Provokes More TDS, I Solve Excess Deaths Mystery, Biden In Ukraine

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