Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 04, 2023


Episode 2159 Scott Adams: Happy 4th Of July, Americans, Let's Talk About Some Fun Stuff & Sip Coffee


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00:00:00.000 Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do.
00:00:04.960 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization and maybe even American history.
00:00:12.020 Happy Fourth of July to all Americans and people who like Americans.
00:00:16.800 I don't know why, but you do.
00:00:19.400 And maybe you'll be an American someday, too. Who knows? Could happen.
00:00:24.360 But today, if you would like to take your Fourth of July experience
00:00:28.960 to levels that have never been seen by anybody in the entire world,
00:00:34.640 all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a gel, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind,
00:00:40.560 fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:44.380 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
00:00:47.120 It's the Fourth of July dopamine hit that you've been waiting for.
00:00:50.260 It's called the Simultane Sip. It happens now.
00:00:53.440 Ah. Delightful.
00:01:02.080 All right. Well, the news is a little bit slow. A little bit slow.
00:01:08.200 So if we run out of things to talk about and you still want to do a little more,
00:01:11.400 I'll fire up spaces so that we can take some callers and talk about free will and is music a dangerous drug.
00:01:21.500 But that's only if we have time. Let's talk about the news.
00:01:24.820 This is a big story. It doesn't seem like a big story.
00:01:27.820 But I like to get the stories early before they grow into something big.
00:01:33.440 And that's really what I'm famous for.
00:01:36.480 I'm famous for identifying things earlier than other people identify them.
00:01:40.500 And here's one. I don't think anybody's called this out yet.
00:01:44.720 There was a study done on monkeys, and they gave them a natural substance called a clotho or clotho or something.
00:01:52.100 K-L-O-T-H-O. 1.00
00:01:53.880 And they found that it substantially made the monkeys' cognitive abilities improve.
00:01:59.920 Their cognitive abilities improved.
00:02:03.440 I'm just going to say, let's stop there.
00:02:12.340 All right, we've improved the monkey's cognitive ability by, you know, X percentage.
00:02:18.160 Maybe we should just call that good.
00:02:21.620 You know?
00:02:23.140 I mean, you know, it could get out of hand.
00:02:27.840 Let's just say I've seen the movie.
00:02:29.640 And making monkeys smarter never works out well.
00:02:34.360 That never works out.
00:02:36.260 Don't make the monkeys smarter.
00:02:39.340 That's all.
00:02:41.300 Did you see the Trump rally?
00:02:43.680 There's a clip of President Trump.
00:02:50.380 He's mocking Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.
00:02:52.740 And he was saying Joe Biden was bad at everything, but he was a good vice president because he kissed Obama's ass.
00:03:03.540 Big applause line.
00:03:04.980 Big applause line.
00:03:06.360 And you know, the thing that I say about Trump, there you go, Herber, you're gone.
00:03:13.640 Thanks for being an asshole on the 4th of July.
00:03:15.760 That makes you a double asshole.
00:03:18.180 If you're an asshole on the 4th of July, you get a double.
00:03:22.100 All right.
00:03:24.740 The thing I love about Trump, and which binds him to his audience, is he says out loud the part that you are thinking.
00:03:33.020 He does that better than any politician.
00:03:35.180 You're thinking it, and then it just comes out of his mouth exactly the way you were thinking it.
00:03:40.580 I always thought that Joe Biden's vice presidency was entirely about kissing Barack Obama's ass.
00:03:48.100 That's what it looked like.
00:03:49.460 It looked like he was adding nothing but kissing his ass.
00:03:52.940 And, oh, we're so friends, and he's my friend.
00:03:56.260 Oh, my friend.
00:03:57.660 He's my best friend.
00:03:59.040 We're friends.
00:04:00.060 We're such good friends.
00:04:01.660 And it just looked all creepy and weird.
00:04:03.560 And then Trump just calls it out.
00:04:05.720 It's like, he was only a good vice president because he kissed Obama's ass.
00:04:08.980 And I thought, okay, that's exactly what I thought.
00:04:12.060 That's not even slightly not what I thought.
00:04:14.700 That's exactly what I thought.
00:04:17.000 Anyway, it's just funny when he does that.
00:04:19.020 He's the master of that.
00:04:21.660 You know, I've said this before, but Trump will never get the credit he's due for being one of the best writers of our time.
00:04:31.940 Did he ever think about that?
00:04:32.980 I mean, I'm sure he had ghost writers for his books and stuff.
00:04:35.600 I'm not talking about that.
00:04:37.000 I'm talking about, you know, when he ad libs, when he gives a response to something, when he writes a tweet.
00:04:43.820 Just his phrasing and the points of, I don't know, the points of leverage he goes after are different from everybody's.
00:04:56.580 There's nobody who writes like him or talks like him.
00:04:58.940 Nobody.
00:05:00.020 And you think by now that people would, because it's obviously working.
00:05:04.340 So if you could imitate that, you would.
00:05:06.420 I mean, somebody would, not me, but somebody would.
00:05:10.600 It's just, it's literally, you can't imitate it.
00:05:13.660 He's just operating in his own little zone of weird effectiveness that nobody even knows why it works in some cases.
00:05:20.380 But, you know, maybe someday he'll get his due.
00:05:25.000 His verbal command is just off the charts.
00:05:30.020 It's just crazy.
00:05:32.600 All right.
00:05:32.980 So it looks like Meta, once known as Facebook, is going to announce its Twitter competitor product.
00:05:46.220 It's going to be called Threads.
00:05:48.760 And it's going to come out on Thursday, they say, maybe.
00:05:53.200 And the pundits are saying it could be a big deal.
00:05:57.320 Now, what's different about it is that it's going to have some kind of connection with Instagram,
00:06:02.540 so it can immediately take your Instagram traffic over to your other app.
00:06:08.100 Now, that's a really big deal.
00:06:10.200 That's like a really, really big deal.
00:06:13.040 But here's what I think they may have not thought through.
00:06:20.180 Twitter, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:06:22.520 but Twitter attracts an entirely different kind of person than Instagram.
00:06:27.320 Now, most people have both.
00:06:29.380 If you're in social media, you probably have both.
00:06:31.460 But don't you use one way more than the other?
00:06:35.420 The people who have 4 million followers on Instagram,
00:06:38.760 unless they're also a big star in another way,
00:06:42.520 they don't have big Twitter and vice versa.
00:06:46.860 I mean, I've got nearly a million people on Twitter,
00:06:51.060 and last I checked, I think my Instagram was 15,000, something like that.
00:06:57.760 Now, I'm not really an Instagram person,
00:07:01.100 meaning that there's nothing I could do to grow my Instagram traffic.
00:07:05.440 Well, I suppose I could go full Andrew Tate.
00:07:08.420 That would do it.
00:07:09.720 But no, even that wouldn't work.
00:07:11.060 At my current age, you'd still have to have the physicality of a younger, good-looking guy.
00:07:16.480 So I couldn't match Tate in the younger, good-looking guy category.
00:07:22.360 So, I mean, he's sort of an ideal Instagram personality.
00:07:27.600 He's got the visual persuasion.
00:07:31.860 He's got that lockdown.
00:07:32.740 So, I'm going to throw this consideration into the mix.
00:07:39.780 I don't think those two groups mix.
00:07:42.860 And I think that if you take the Instagram people
00:07:44.940 and move them to something that looks like a Twitter,
00:07:49.520 it's not going to be very interesting.
00:07:52.660 It will just be people having to repost the same thing they posted.
00:07:55.620 So your Instagram influencer isn't going to start coming up with a political game
00:08:01.660 because they've got a new tool.
00:08:04.880 They're going to do what they're doing
00:08:06.140 and then just repost it in the other place.
00:08:08.780 Now, that could be enough for lots of traffic.
00:08:11.540 I mean, that might be enough.
00:08:12.620 But I don't see it competing with Twitter
00:08:14.900 for the political opinion stuff.
00:08:18.460 It might just get a lot of traffic of people
00:08:21.740 showing naughty pictures in the food.
00:08:24.660 I've got a feeling that Twitter is where the people
00:08:26.560 are going to go to a debate.
00:08:28.940 And this new thing is where they're going to go to see
00:08:31.160 the second time that they see that same picture
00:08:34.240 from that Instagram woman. 0.90
00:08:36.880 Well, I saw it over on Instagram.
00:08:39.140 Ella checks threads.
00:08:40.580 Okay, same picture.
00:08:42.560 Same picture.
00:08:43.740 Because why wouldn't it?
00:08:45.640 The influencers are not going to do separate content.
00:08:48.460 They're just going to mirror their content in the other platform
00:08:51.080 because it's easy to do.
00:08:53.520 So I don't know.
00:08:54.600 I don't see a dethroning Twitter in terms of influence.
00:08:58.060 It might be successful.
00:08:59.880 But in terms of political influence, social influence,
00:09:04.060 I don't know.
00:09:04.340 We'll see.
00:09:05.320 But Zuckerberg's got a good track record with this stuff.
00:09:08.740 So we can assume that it's at least competently put together.
00:09:14.980 I was listening to a bunch of smart people
00:09:17.100 scare the pants off me about insurance companies and banks
00:09:20.680 all being insolvent.
00:09:24.480 Which apparently is true.
00:09:26.720 Our entire insurance industry and all of our banking,
00:09:30.440 they're all worth nothing at the moment.
00:09:34.720 Like, actually worth nothing.
00:09:36.200 If you were going to buy any big bank
00:09:38.720 or any big insurance company,
00:09:41.540 if you could get them to sell it to you for $1,
00:09:45.420 they would.
00:09:48.160 If they could get rid of their debts
00:09:49.760 and sell their whole business to you for $1,
00:09:52.900 they can't.
00:09:54.020 Because they can't get rid of all their debts.
00:09:55.840 But if they could, they would.
00:09:57.020 They're actually worth nothing.
00:09:59.100 The entire, both industries are worth nothing.
00:10:01.560 Actually nothing.
00:10:02.240 They're worth less than nothing.
00:10:05.340 And the credit or blame for that
00:10:08.580 is being given to the Fed.
00:10:11.540 So the Fed, of course, said a...
00:10:14.100 I'll give you the idiot's simple explanation.
00:10:17.640 You don't need the complicated one.
00:10:19.500 The simple explanation is that the Fed
00:10:21.440 sets interest rates.
00:10:23.520 And both insurance companies and banks
00:10:27.060 had, they must have a number of business concerns
00:10:31.220 and investments of their own,
00:10:33.200 which were at lower interest rate returns.
00:10:37.100 So as soon as the interest rate was higher
00:10:38.880 than their returns,
00:10:40.840 they just can't make money.
00:10:42.360 It's basically impossible.
00:10:44.880 So the Fed put banks and insurance companies
00:10:47.640 into non-existence in terms of their value.
00:10:51.940 They still function.
00:10:54.880 And I don't know exactly how this works.
00:10:58.200 You know, having a degree in economics
00:11:00.060 isn't helping me here at all.
00:11:02.040 Because we've never been here.
00:11:04.420 There's nobody who can say,
00:11:05.720 well, the last three times we were in this situation,
00:11:09.200 we've never really been here.
00:11:11.540 But I'll give you my highest level assumptions.
00:11:16.940 When something's this big,
00:11:20.540 usually there's plenty of energy to fix it.
00:11:24.020 So the Adams law of slow moving disasters
00:11:26.720 should be enough.
00:11:29.060 You know, I always say that if you can see
00:11:30.360 a problem coming from far away,
00:11:32.380 if you've got enough time,
00:11:34.580 you can do your workarounds and your fixes.
00:11:36.820 And we're very good at that.
00:11:38.060 We almost always succeed if we have time.
00:11:40.860 So the only thing I worry about
00:11:42.380 are things I didn't see coming,
00:11:44.180 such as a pandemic, right?
00:11:46.780 I know there were people in the world
00:11:48.720 who were preparing,
00:11:49.620 but generally speaking,
00:11:50.640 the world wasn't ready for that at all.
00:11:54.380 And I worry,
00:11:55.800 so I worry about the things I don't see coming.
00:11:58.360 But this one we do see.
00:12:00.420 Yeah, all the smartest people
00:12:02.120 are seeing it very clearly.
00:12:03.460 It's in the news.
00:12:04.340 We see it coming.
00:12:05.760 So probably there's a way
00:12:08.700 to keep those things open long enough
00:12:10.800 that interest rates adjust
00:12:13.520 and their pricing adjusts
00:12:15.200 and the market adjusts.
00:12:17.820 Probably.
00:12:19.080 But who knows?
00:12:21.260 All right.
00:12:26.520 Let's see.
00:12:28.400 I saw some...
00:12:29.140 I didn't have this in my notes,
00:12:31.180 but I just saw it.
00:12:31.780 I saw somebody speculating
00:12:34.140 that Romania has already
00:12:35.940 probably gotten control
00:12:38.900 of the Tate Brothers crypto,
00:12:41.740 their Bitcoin.
00:12:43.100 But they would not have been able
00:12:44.640 to get anything
00:12:45.140 that was on a physical wallet,
00:12:48.840 you know,
00:12:49.100 like an actual metal wallet.
00:12:52.500 But you would think
00:12:53.700 that they might even be able
00:12:54.920 to coerce them
00:12:57.000 to give up all their codes
00:12:58.800 and passwords and stuff.
00:13:00.100 I don't know.
00:13:01.300 So remember when
00:13:02.720 they first got picked up?
00:13:04.080 Do you remember my speculation?
00:13:06.660 Part of my speculation was
00:13:08.260 that the entire play
00:13:10.380 was just to steal their Bitcoin.
00:13:12.500 And it was just a corrupt government
00:13:14.020 who was going to work them over
00:13:15.160 until they gave up their Bitcoin.
00:13:16.980 And then they'd let them go
00:13:18.040 or put them in jail or something.
00:13:20.300 But to me,
00:13:20.780 it looked like government theft.
00:13:24.280 And I don't know if it is.
00:13:26.300 It's too early to say that.
00:13:27.540 But I'd be really surprised
00:13:29.360 if the amount of Bitcoin
00:13:30.500 that they had
00:13:31.500 when they went into prison
00:13:32.560 or under custody
00:13:34.040 is the same
00:13:35.540 as when they're done with this.
00:13:37.600 And I don't mean
00:13:38.240 because they spent it
00:13:39.100 or gave it away.
00:13:40.220 I just feel like
00:13:41.060 the government's trying
00:13:41.880 to claw some of that
00:13:43.620 into their own pockets
00:13:44.680 just because it's Romania.
00:13:47.000 Don't know.
00:13:47.860 Pure speculation.
00:13:49.780 But I'd be real surprised
00:13:51.580 if they come out of it whole.
00:13:53.120 All right.
00:13:56.700 Moscow says
00:13:57.660 they shot down
00:13:58.520 five Ukrainian drones.
00:14:01.300 Do you believe
00:14:02.280 that there were
00:14:02.920 five Ukrainian drones
00:14:04.520 over Moscow?
00:14:06.700 Do you believe that?
00:14:09.380 Now, there was the one
00:14:11.280 reported one.
00:14:12.960 Reported.
00:14:15.700 I don't know.
00:14:17.580 I don't know about this.
00:14:20.660 And they got all five, right?
00:14:22.360 They got all five.
00:14:25.320 Yeah.
00:14:26.100 Now, you might say,
00:14:27.960 I wonder if that's
00:14:28.620 the Wagner group.
00:14:29.980 Because I told you
00:14:31.080 that what should be going on
00:14:32.740 is decapitation efforts
00:14:35.760 all over the place.
00:14:37.200 So you should assume
00:14:38.580 that Putin is still trying
00:14:41.100 to kill Zelensky if he can.
00:14:43.460 You should assume
00:14:44.200 that Zelensky is going to try
00:14:45.620 to take care of Putin
00:14:46.540 if they can.
00:14:48.060 I mean, if they had a way
00:14:48.800 to do it.
00:14:49.700 You can assume
00:14:50.260 that the Wagner group
00:14:51.280 probably has some people
00:14:52.300 and some traitors
00:14:53.080 who would take care of Putin
00:14:54.660 if they could.
00:14:55.980 Putin did his first
00:14:57.700 public appearance,
00:14:58.680 I guess,
00:14:59.200 since some of the badness
00:15:00.300 started.
00:15:01.380 His first one in a while,
00:15:02.680 but it was on Zoom.
00:15:04.300 So the first time
00:15:05.260 you see Putin,
00:15:06.700 after, you know,
00:15:07.560 a number of days
00:15:08.460 since the last time
00:15:10.140 you saw him,
00:15:11.020 he's on Zoom.
00:15:11.700 Do you think Putin's worried
00:15:13.760 about his own security?
00:15:16.880 Yeah.
00:15:17.980 And those drones 0.92
00:15:18.980 are all you need.
00:15:19.900 I mean,
00:15:20.220 all it takes
00:15:20.700 is one drone
00:15:21.320 to get through
00:15:21.980 if they know
00:15:23.320 where he is.
00:15:24.640 And do you think
00:15:25.500 that if you're Putin,
00:15:26.360 it's kind of hard
00:15:27.180 to move around
00:15:27.920 without people
00:15:28.600 knowing where you are?
00:15:30.600 Don't you think
00:15:31.060 there's always somebody
00:15:32.060 who knows
00:15:32.400 where Putin is?
00:15:34.120 I mean,
00:15:34.900 you know,
00:15:35.200 beyond his bodyguards.
00:15:37.000 So you would think
00:15:38.220 that he couldn't
00:15:39.360 move anywhere
00:15:40.040 without some number
00:15:41.760 of people,
00:15:42.340 and probably a big
00:15:43.100 number of people.
00:15:44.380 I mean,
00:15:44.680 there could be
00:15:45.300 a hundred people.
00:15:47.900 You know,
00:15:48.120 maybe a hundred people
00:15:49.100 at least.
00:15:49.840 Probably more than that.
00:15:51.200 I'll bet if Putin moves,
00:15:53.120 let's say,
00:15:53.600 from his dasha
00:15:54.660 to somewhere else,
00:15:56.320 I'll bet there's
00:15:57.340 closer to a few hundred
00:15:58.940 people who are aware of it.
00:16:01.160 And you think that
00:16:02.020 after all these years
00:16:03.100 we don't have one,
00:16:05.280 not even one,
00:16:06.840 of those hundreds
00:16:07.580 of people in our pocket,
00:16:09.440 not one,
00:16:10.900 for unlimited amount
00:16:12.140 of money
00:16:12.440 for that information.
00:16:13.300 All they have to do
00:16:14.840 is, you know,
00:16:15.740 they don't even have
00:16:16.440 to make a phone call.
00:16:17.620 They just have to
00:16:18.360 tell their friend,
00:16:19.780 hey,
00:16:21.700 could you,
00:16:22.760 you know,
00:16:23.280 there's no connection
00:16:24.060 between us,
00:16:24.680 can you go drop
00:16:25.420 a phone call
00:16:25.960 to the American Embassy,
00:16:28.140 something like that.
00:16:29.100 Now,
00:16:29.340 that's not the way
00:16:29.880 you'd do it
00:16:30.400 because all their
00:16:31.160 communications
00:16:31.920 to the Embassy
00:16:32.540 is, I'm sure,
00:16:33.540 monitored.
00:16:35.420 All right.
00:16:37.140 Yeah,
00:16:37.700 maybe the bodyguards
00:16:38.960 wouldn't turn,
00:16:39.980 but there's got to be
00:16:40.720 somebody who works
00:16:41.600 in food services
00:16:42.680 or something.
00:16:45.220 Somebody,
00:16:45.920 maybe the motor pool
00:16:46.980 people.
00:16:48.140 I mean,
00:16:48.360 if you worked
00:16:48.800 in the motor pool
00:16:49.660 for, you know,
00:16:51.640 the Putin entourage,
00:16:52.900 you'd probably know
00:16:53.460 where he's going,
00:16:54.720 right,
00:16:55.040 because you've got
00:16:55.460 to get the stuff
00:16:56.020 ready to go
00:16:56.680 wherever it needs
00:16:57.240 to go.
00:16:58.840 So,
00:16:59.500 I think it's a big
00:17:01.140 old decapitation
00:17:02.220 game over there.
00:17:03.960 Everybody's trying
00:17:04.500 to take out
00:17:05.000 the other leaders,
00:17:06.060 more so than ever.
00:17:07.260 All right,
00:17:09.380 well,
00:17:09.560 the California
00:17:10.060 Reparations Task
00:17:11.020 Force,
00:17:12.200 also known as
00:17:13.300 the most ridiculous
00:17:14.380 organization ever
00:17:15.740 created,
00:17:17.020 who perhaps
00:17:18.640 still thinks
00:17:19.420 anybody's going
00:17:20.080 to take their
00:17:20.660 recommendations,
00:17:22.020 they've upped
00:17:22.840 their ask,
00:17:24.620 and now they want
00:17:25.540 to ask for
00:17:26.380 child support
00:17:28.380 for black people
00:17:29.320 to be suspended
00:17:30.100 so that they,
00:17:32.560 you know,
00:17:32.740 their child support
00:17:33.700 debts would be
00:17:34.460 wiped clean,
00:17:35.980 just for black
00:17:37.360 Americans.
00:17:39.320 So,
00:17:39.940 they probably
00:17:40.480 got done with
00:17:41.180 asking for their
00:17:41.940 millions of dollars,
00:17:43.220 and they're like,
00:17:43.860 oh,
00:17:44.360 shoot,
00:17:45.600 did anybody think
00:17:46.500 to throw in that
00:17:47.360 child support thing?
00:17:48.620 Oh,
00:17:48.940 it's not too late.
00:17:50.120 It's not too late.
00:17:51.000 So,
00:17:51.200 they threw that
00:17:51.680 in there,
00:17:52.040 too.
00:17:54.120 Do you think
00:17:55.140 that in their minds
00:17:56.140 they think some
00:17:56.800 of this is going
00:17:57.340 to happen?
00:17:58.860 Do you think
00:17:59.320 that the Reparations
00:18:00.280 Task Force
00:18:01.080 has created
00:18:02.400 in their minds
00:18:03.280 a little world
00:18:04.100 in which
00:18:04.660 some portion
00:18:05.940 of what they're
00:18:06.460 going to ask
00:18:06.800 for is going
00:18:07.240 to happen?
00:18:08.360 I'll bet they
00:18:08.760 have.
00:18:10.120 Because they're
00:18:10.680 acting like they
00:18:11.440 think it's going
00:18:11.960 to happen,
00:18:12.420 and they're making
00:18:12.860 sure the details
00:18:13.640 are taken care
00:18:14.340 of.
00:18:15.600 I can't even
00:18:16.380 imagine it.
00:18:17.860 Like,
00:18:18.260 in my wildest
00:18:19.120 imagination,
00:18:19.920 I can't imagine
00:18:20.620 this happening.
00:18:21.580 I mean,
00:18:21.940 it would be the
00:18:22.560 one thing that
00:18:23.060 could turn
00:18:23.400 California Republican.
00:18:26.720 Maybe.
00:18:27.760 I mean,
00:18:28.140 I suppose
00:18:28.460 anything's possible.
00:18:30.260 All right,
00:18:30.640 let's talk about
00:18:31.280 all the racists
00:18:31.960 in the world.
00:18:32.480 So Soldad O'Brien
00:18:34.760 is getting some
00:18:35.340 heat on social
00:18:36.100 media because
00:18:38.840 she didn't like
00:18:39.480 the way that
00:18:41.600 Asian Americans
00:18:42.720 won their
00:18:43.900 victory in
00:18:44.780 affirmative action
00:18:45.740 so that they
00:18:46.280 were no longer
00:18:46.840 discriminated against
00:18:47.880 for higher
00:18:48.300 education.
00:18:49.540 And this is
00:18:49.920 what Soldad O'Brien
00:18:51.060 said about this
00:18:51.840 victory of
00:18:53.020 fairness and
00:18:53.980 equality.
00:18:55.980 Congrats on
00:18:56.700 screwing over
00:18:57.380 other people of
00:18:58.140 color, ma'am.
00:18:58.900 particularly
00:19:00.420 those whose
00:19:01.120 efforts in
00:19:01.660 civil rights
00:19:02.320 paved the
00:19:03.320 way for your
00:19:04.020 family to
00:19:04.560 come to
00:19:04.920 America.
00:19:08.080 So social
00:19:09.820 media is
00:19:10.340 calling Soldad
00:19:11.240 O'Brien
00:19:11.780 a big old
00:19:13.000 racist.
00:19:14.540 That would be
00:19:15.280 based on the
00:19:15.800 fact that she's 0.98
00:19:16.660 saying big
00:19:17.400 racist stuff.
00:19:19.060 So, I mean,
00:19:19.580 that's pretty
00:19:19.920 racist.
00:19:20.760 I don't know
00:19:21.180 how you can
00:19:21.480 see it any
00:19:21.900 other way.
00:19:23.120 How would
00:19:23.460 you see this
00:19:23.960 any other way
00:19:24.780 than racist?
00:19:26.960 I can't think
00:19:27.820 of any other
00:19:28.180 way.
00:19:28.900 I'll tell you
00:19:29.360 my own
00:19:29.780 Soldad O'Brien
00:19:30.600 story.
00:19:31.880 Many years
00:19:32.600 ago, I
00:19:33.760 don't know,
00:19:34.060 25 years
00:19:34.780 ago or
00:19:35.060 something, I
00:19:36.440 met her when
00:19:37.280 she had a
00:19:38.020 less famous
00:19:39.560 job before
00:19:40.240 she broke 0.84
00:19:40.700 through.
00:19:41.560 She was on
00:19:41.960 some local
00:19:42.980 TV show.
00:19:46.940 And I
00:19:47.960 hung out with
00:19:48.500 her just
00:19:48.860 like a
00:19:49.220 little bit
00:19:50.160 between scenes
00:19:52.480 and stuff,
00:19:53.120 between takes,
00:19:53.900 I guess,
00:19:54.120 whatever it
00:19:54.500 is, between
00:19:55.640 something.
00:19:57.560 And I
00:20:01.020 got a weird
00:20:01.460 feeling from
00:20:02.120 her, which 0.99
00:20:04.860 you don't
00:20:05.160 get from
00:20:05.540 everybody, but
00:20:07.320 I got such
00:20:08.300 such a weird
00:20:09.000 creepy feeling
00:20:09.820 from her.
00:20:11.440 So, in
00:20:11.880 person, she's
00:20:12.480 kind of creepy.
00:20:13.260 I don't know.
00:20:14.320 So, I got a
00:20:15.380 vibe like I
00:20:16.100 can't explain,
00:20:17.020 but it stayed
00:20:17.440 with me for
00:20:17.940 decades.
00:20:19.300 All right,
00:20:19.880 let's talk
00:20:20.260 about our
00:20:20.580 other racist,
00:20:21.440 Joy Reid.
00:20:22.000 She may 0.94
00:20:23.680 not have
00:20:24.080 liked my
00:20:24.500 Robots Read
00:20:25.180 News comment
00:20:26.020 comic that
00:20:27.420 featured her,
00:20:28.840 but MSNBC 0.99
00:20:30.400 decided to
00:20:32.120 retweet their
00:20:33.440 article about
00:20:34.260 me being a
00:20:35.600 big old
00:20:35.960 racist provocateur.
00:20:40.320 I don't
00:20:40.960 know.
00:20:41.080 I assume it
00:20:41.540 was just
00:20:41.800 some kind
00:20:42.100 of revengey
00:20:42.860 holiday thing
00:20:43.840 that they
00:20:44.140 were doing.
00:20:45.440 But I
00:20:47.340 love having
00:20:48.220 MSNBC and
00:20:49.200 Joy Reid go
00:20:49.940 after me,
00:20:50.480 because I
00:20:53.060 don't think
00:20:53.400 anybody thinks
00:20:54.020 she's not a 1.00
00:20:54.520 racist, do
00:20:55.620 they?
00:20:57.020 She's literally
00:20:57.780 the world's
00:20:58.280 most famous
00:20:58.760 racist on
00:20:59.840 TV.
00:21:00.840 Wouldn't you
00:21:01.620 say she's
00:21:02.100 the biggest
00:21:02.780 racist on
00:21:03.600 television?
00:21:04.560 If you were
00:21:05.200 going to say
00:21:05.580 of people who
00:21:06.420 are regularly
00:21:07.260 on television,
00:21:08.520 she would be
00:21:08.940 the number
00:21:09.280 one racist.
00:21:10.720 She's the 0.99
00:21:11.200 one who's
00:21:11.880 direct about
00:21:12.560 it and
00:21:13.740 consistent.
00:21:16.480 So, I
00:21:18.200 don't mind
00:21:18.900 that at all.
00:21:19.500 So I
00:21:19.740 reprinted
00:21:20.360 I republished
00:21:21.420 my Robots
00:21:23.580 Read News
00:21:24.020 about Joy
00:21:24.560 Reid.
00:21:27.220 Anyway,
00:21:27.940 this is just
00:21:28.760 holiday stuff.
00:21:30.040 Of course,
00:21:30.580 when I
00:21:30.820 retweeted it,
00:21:31.820 I had to
00:21:32.760 remind people
00:21:33.360 that there's
00:21:33.860 no news
00:21:34.340 about public
00:21:34.920 figures that's
00:21:35.580 true.
00:21:37.160 I'm having
00:21:37.740 a good time
00:21:39.040 saying that.
00:21:40.160 Every time
00:21:40.760 on social
00:21:41.260 media,
00:21:42.200 somebody comes
00:21:42.840 after me
00:21:43.460 for, oh,
00:21:44.400 you said
00:21:44.820 that racist
00:21:45.280 thing,
00:21:46.360 all I have
00:21:46.860 to do is
00:21:47.220 say, you
00:21:47.920 know that
00:21:48.280 there's no
00:21:48.700 news about
00:21:49.260 public
00:21:49.820 figures as
00:21:50.460 true,
00:21:51.140 right?
00:21:51.940 Or at
00:21:52.500 least they
00:21:52.840 leave out
00:21:53.180 context.
00:21:54.280 And it
00:21:54.660 basically makes
00:21:55.280 the whole
00:21:55.520 thing stop.
00:21:57.060 Because nobody
00:21:57.920 wants to be
00:21:58.480 so dumb
00:21:59.120 that they
00:22:00.100 believe the
00:22:00.820 news in
00:22:01.300 2023.
00:22:03.080 There's no
00:22:03.740 Republican,
00:22:04.400 no Democrat
00:22:04.920 who's willing
00:22:06.000 to say in
00:22:06.520 public, I
00:22:07.060 believe the
00:22:07.520 news.
00:22:08.940 Think about
00:22:09.620 it.
00:22:10.020 Just think
00:22:10.460 about the
00:22:10.820 fact that I
00:22:11.360 can accuse
00:22:11.920 people of
00:22:12.480 believing news
00:22:13.500 and they'll
00:22:14.260 back off
00:22:14.780 immediately.
00:22:15.200 I'll just
00:22:17.340 say it
00:22:17.600 again, because
00:22:18.080 that's so
00:22:18.820 amazing.
00:22:20.360 We've gotten
00:22:21.000 to the point
00:22:21.500 where all I
00:22:22.180 do is say,
00:22:22.720 you believe
00:22:23.160 the news,
00:22:24.520 the news.
00:22:25.760 So you
00:22:26.360 believe the
00:22:26.820 news is
00:22:27.240 giving you
00:22:27.520 the full
00:22:27.820 story there.
00:22:29.200 And people
00:22:29.880 will just be
00:22:30.380 embarrassed that
00:22:31.460 they ever
00:22:31.920 believe the
00:22:32.500 news.
00:22:33.500 Now, I
00:22:34.640 make it more
00:22:35.260 persuasive by
00:22:36.960 limiting it to
00:22:38.020 about public
00:22:38.840 figures.
00:22:40.420 Because obviously
00:22:41.360 if the news
00:22:42.100 says there's a
00:22:42.720 war in Ukraine,
00:22:44.100 well, yeah,
00:22:44.640 there's a
00:22:44.980 war in
00:22:45.220 Ukraine.
00:22:45.680 They might
00:22:45.940 get the
00:22:46.240 details wrong,
00:22:47.060 but there's
00:22:47.600 a war in
00:22:47.940 Ukraine.
00:22:48.940 But when
00:22:49.480 they talk
00:22:49.780 about public
00:22:50.300 figures, they
00:22:50.960 might get
00:22:51.360 one or two
00:22:52.220 facts right.
00:22:53.740 For example,
00:22:54.320 if there's a
00:22:54.860 divorce, they 0.67
00:22:56.040 might get
00:22:56.420 that right.
00:22:57.880 But they're
00:22:58.380 not going to
00:22:58.700 know anything
00:22:59.180 about why
00:23:00.000 there was a
00:23:00.540 divorce, or
00:23:01.500 who did
00:23:02.380 what, or
00:23:03.300 how the
00:23:03.820 people feel
00:23:04.400 about each
00:23:04.920 other, whether
00:23:06.640 or not any
00:23:07.220 third party was
00:23:08.120 involved, any
00:23:09.220 of that stuff.
00:23:09.700 They don't
00:23:09.940 know that.
00:23:10.740 And they
00:23:11.120 would never
00:23:11.480 know that.
00:23:12.380 But it
00:23:12.640 won't stop
00:23:13.100 them from
00:23:13.480 running the
00:23:13.920 story.
00:23:14.640 So, yeah,
00:23:18.280 Joy Reid is
00:23:18.820 the most
00:23:19.120 ridiculous
00:23:19.600 figure in
00:23:20.460 the media.
00:23:21.520 But I
00:23:21.920 love the
00:23:22.260 fact that
00:23:23.260 she's
00:23:24.180 getting, that
00:23:25.780 she actually
00:23:26.620 made the
00:23:27.060 best argument
00:23:27.920 against
00:23:29.320 affirmative
00:23:29.820 action anybody
00:23:31.020 ever made,
00:23:32.040 which is she 0.71
00:23:32.760 said she
00:23:33.200 would not be
00:23:33.760 where she is
00:23:34.260 without it.
00:23:34.900 to which I
00:23:36.860 say, okay, we
00:23:41.140 probably should
00:23:41.860 have prevented
00:23:42.300 her from being
00:23:42.980 on TV.
00:23:43.880 Because I'm
00:23:44.580 not opposed to
00:23:46.360 her because she 0.95
00:23:47.320 has different
00:23:48.000 opinions than I
00:23:48.800 do, just to be
00:23:49.880 clear.
00:23:50.700 I'm not saying
00:23:51.460 she has, oh,
00:23:52.140 those left-leading
00:23:53.680 Democrat opinions.
00:23:55.360 I'm not even
00:23:56.100 sure what her
00:23:56.520 opinions are,
00:23:57.180 except, I mean,
00:23:57.880 I'm sure they're
00:23:58.400 left-leading.
00:23:58.820 I have no
00:23:59.800 quibble or
00:24:01.840 quarrel with her
00:24:02.760 about her
00:24:03.100 opinions.
00:24:04.040 There are tons
00:24:04.700 of Americans who
00:24:05.440 have different
00:24:05.820 opinions.
00:24:06.360 I don't dislike
00:24:07.080 them in any
00:24:08.140 way.
00:24:09.020 But she's a 0.99
00:24:10.520 ridiculous racist.
00:24:12.420 She's a
00:24:13.180 ridiculous racist.
00:24:14.740 And she's just
00:24:15.220 on TV every
00:24:15.980 day, like it's
00:24:17.660 not happening.
00:24:19.420 So that's a
00:24:20.300 whole different
00:24:20.860 situation.
00:24:22.820 Anyway,
00:24:24.480 favorite story
00:24:25.800 of the day is
00:24:26.580 that cocaine
00:24:27.540 was found in
00:24:28.320 the White
00:24:28.580 House, so
00:24:29.620 they immediately
00:24:30.880 evacuated the
00:24:31.820 White House.
00:24:35.840 Why would you
00:24:36.580 evacuate the
00:24:37.300 White House?
00:24:37.760 I guess they
00:24:38.200 had to figure
00:24:38.640 out if it was
00:24:39.200 cocaine first.
00:24:40.520 Maybe they
00:24:40.940 thought it was
00:24:41.380 poison.
00:24:43.360 But here's the
00:24:44.100 best part of
00:24:44.660 the story.
00:24:45.640 Now, obviously,
00:24:46.760 can we just
00:24:47.300 say, Hunter,
00:24:47.980 Hunter, Hunter,
00:24:48.640 Hunter?
00:24:49.320 You know, it's
00:24:50.100 too irresistible
00:24:51.580 to connect
00:24:52.280 Hunter visiting
00:24:53.660 recently the
00:24:54.440 White House,
00:24:55.460 and also
00:24:56.060 recently some
00:24:56.840 cocaine was
00:24:57.400 found in the
00:24:57.860 White House.
00:24:58.580 So, I get
00:24:59.420 it.
00:25:00.120 I get it.
00:25:00.800 Can we all
00:25:01.560 just say, can
00:25:03.140 we stipulate
00:25:04.000 that Hunter
00:25:05.220 Biden was
00:25:05.840 there, cocaine
00:25:07.680 was there, and
00:25:09.380 that's a funny
00:25:09.960 coincidence?
00:25:11.420 All right?
00:25:12.340 I just, I
00:25:13.300 wanted to get
00:25:13.720 that established
00:25:14.560 so that you
00:25:15.600 don't yell
00:25:16.080 Hunter, Hunter
00:25:16.920 at me in the
00:25:17.620 comments like you
00:25:18.380 are right now.
00:25:19.680 I got it.
00:25:20.700 I got this.
00:25:22.000 I got this.
00:25:23.080 You don't need
00:25:23.700 to be saying
00:25:24.220 Hunter, Hunter
00:25:24.780 in the comments
00:25:25.520 anymore.
00:25:25.820 got it.
00:25:27.540 Cocaine, Hunter,
00:25:29.560 connected.
00:25:30.480 Dots are
00:25:31.080 connected.
00:25:32.240 I got it.
00:25:32.880 You can stop
00:25:33.420 now.
00:25:34.100 All right.
00:25:34.560 All right.
00:25:34.880 Good.
00:25:36.360 But here's the
00:25:37.200 funniest part of
00:25:37.800 the story, is
00:25:39.760 that some are
00:25:40.600 suggesting that
00:25:41.840 there are so
00:25:42.460 many staffers on
00:25:43.900 cocaine that it
00:25:45.100 could have been
00:25:45.520 anybody.
00:25:48.420 Not anybody, but
00:25:49.580 there's so many
00:25:51.140 people that could
00:25:51.760 have been.
00:25:52.080 my favorite, my
00:25:54.240 favorite is that
00:25:55.000 it was Joe
00:25:55.840 Biden.
00:25:57.340 Because if you
00:25:58.120 ever wondered
00:25:58.620 how they, how
00:25:59.940 they pump him
00:26:00.680 up with
00:26:01.020 something just
00:26:01.600 before he speaks
00:26:02.360 in public, do
00:26:04.480 you imagine
00:26:05.140 that he's not
00:26:06.000 getting a little
00:26:06.980 extra, a little
00:26:08.440 extra energy right
00:26:10.160 before he goes in
00:26:10.980 public?
00:26:12.200 You don't think
00:26:13.020 that's happening?
00:26:14.220 You don't think
00:26:14.960 there's any kind
00:26:16.020 of little, just
00:26:17.320 a little extra?
00:26:18.840 You don't think
00:26:19.360 the doctors there
00:26:20.200 are the needle
00:26:20.720 or the pill
00:26:21.260 like an hour
00:26:22.540 before he speaks?
00:26:24.620 I don't think
00:26:25.340 there's any chance
00:26:26.120 he's going up
00:26:26.700 there naturally.
00:26:28.200 I don't.
00:26:29.280 I mean, I'm
00:26:29.740 sure it's legal,
00:26:30.780 whatever it's
00:26:31.180 doing, I don't
00:26:31.640 think it's illegal.
00:26:32.700 But it's funny
00:26:33.360 to imagine that
00:26:35.060 they had to give
00:26:35.640 him cocaine every
00:26:36.520 time he talked.
00:26:39.040 And now I'm
00:26:40.320 replaying all of
00:26:41.420 the Joe Biden
00:26:42.040 speeches recently,
00:26:43.520 and I'm asking
00:26:44.240 myself, is that
00:26:46.200 how you'd act if
00:26:46.980 you were on
00:26:47.300 cocaine?
00:26:48.020 Because cocaine
00:26:48.640 is not anything
00:26:49.340 I have experience
00:26:50.040 with.
00:26:50.720 So I don't
00:26:52.520 know exactly
00:26:53.020 how you act
00:26:53.780 except, you
00:26:54.980 know, more
00:26:56.600 energy, more
00:26:58.740 talkative, you
00:27:00.460 know, maybe
00:27:00.800 more alive,
00:27:04.180 something like
00:27:04.540 that.
00:27:05.220 But that seems
00:27:06.740 like it'd be the
00:27:07.320 perfect drug for
00:27:08.100 Joe Biden,
00:27:08.680 doesn't it?
00:27:09.540 Just wake him
00:27:10.280 up enough to
00:27:10.900 give some
00:27:11.720 confidence, give
00:27:13.360 his little speech
00:27:14.000 and stuff, and
00:27:14.520 then go back
00:27:14.920 to sleep?
00:27:17.000 I don't know.
00:27:17.400 Well, we'll
00:27:18.800 never know whose
00:27:19.700 cocaine it was,
00:27:20.820 but it's a fun
00:27:21.780 story.
00:27:22.860 Get the cocaine
00:27:23.560 out of the White 0.84
00:27:24.200 House and Trump
00:27:24.900 back in.
00:27:28.140 All right.
00:27:28.800 So we heard that
00:27:32.420 the younger
00:27:33.400 Soros, who's 0.76
00:27:34.340 taking over the
00:27:35.200 open society for
00:27:36.440 his dad, George
00:27:38.320 Soros, he's 0.99
00:27:39.540 going to cut 40%
00:27:40.500 of his staff, but
00:27:41.960 not change what
00:27:43.540 he's doing.
00:27:44.060 He's still going
00:27:44.480 to go after
00:27:46.380 election integrity
00:27:47.700 and abortion
00:27:49.180 are the right to
00:27:51.320 choose, I guess he
00:27:51.940 would call it.
00:27:52.680 So he wants to
00:27:53.340 support those
00:27:53.860 things.
00:27:54.180 And he'll
00:27:55.460 support liberal
00:27:56.400 politicians still,
00:27:57.800 he says.
00:27:58.480 But he didn't
00:27:59.080 say anything about
00:27:59.840 prosecutors.
00:28:02.320 Is a prosecutor
00:28:03.520 a politician?
00:28:07.740 Technically,
00:28:08.760 right?
00:28:09.780 I mean, they're
00:28:10.420 elected.
00:28:11.300 If they're
00:28:11.680 elected, they're
00:28:12.180 a politician.
00:28:12.960 You don't really
00:28:13.440 think of them that
00:28:14.420 way, do you?
00:28:15.620 So I feel like he
00:28:18.860 keeps getting a
00:28:19.620 pass by the
00:28:20.480 media, not
00:28:22.180 asked about
00:28:22.920 the DAs.
00:28:26.560 Because that's
00:28:26.960 the big thing,
00:28:28.140 the prosecutors.
00:28:29.700 So here's a big
00:28:30.980 old news story
00:28:31.740 about him that
00:28:32.420 doesn't mention
00:28:33.020 prosecutors.
00:28:34.880 Big old news
00:28:35.760 story, does
00:28:36.620 mention that.
00:28:37.980 Seems like that
00:28:38.580 would be the
00:28:38.960 biggest thing to
00:28:39.540 mention.
00:28:41.420 All right.
00:28:44.320 I'm going to
00:28:44.900 start a Spaces.
00:28:47.760 So if you want
00:28:48.660 to hear it, you
00:28:49.420 can listen to
00:28:50.060 just the audio
00:28:50.720 on Spaces.
00:28:51.540 I'll start it in
00:28:52.140 a moment.
00:28:52.920 But you can
00:28:53.800 watch it right
00:28:54.380 where you are.
00:28:55.640 So here's what
00:28:56.860 the Spaces will
00:28:57.580 be.
00:28:58.840 The title of it
00:28:59.860 is Free Will
00:29:00.680 and Illusion
00:29:01.300 and Is Music
00:29:02.980 a Dangerous
00:29:03.760 Drug?
00:29:04.800 Talking about
00:29:05.460 hip-hop in
00:29:06.120 particular, but
00:29:07.180 music in general.
00:29:08.720 So I'm going to
00:29:09.320 start it now.
00:29:18.940 All right.
00:29:19.600 All right, ladies 1.00
00:29:22.260 and gentlemen,
00:29:23.160 welcome to
00:29:23.900 Spaces.
00:29:24.780 I'm doing this
00:29:25.540 also on YouTube
00:29:27.220 and also on the
00:29:29.100 Locals platform.
00:29:31.400 And the topic is,
00:29:32.640 is free will an
00:29:33.320 illusion?
00:29:34.560 And is music a
00:29:35.920 dangerous drug?
00:29:36.940 They're sort of
00:29:37.420 related topics, but
00:29:38.400 you could take
00:29:38.940 either one.
00:29:40.140 Now, I warn you
00:29:41.140 in advance that
00:29:42.460 whenever I talk
00:29:43.080 about free will
00:29:43.940 being an illusion,
00:29:44.620 what normally
00:29:46.280 happens is when
00:29:47.240 people argue
00:29:48.120 that it exists,
00:29:49.600 they argue with
00:29:51.100 what I call
00:29:51.640 word thinking.
00:29:53.500 Now, word thinking
00:29:54.320 is where there's
00:29:55.240 no logic there,
00:29:56.400 but it's like
00:29:56.980 the new AI.
00:29:59.540 It's just looking
00:30:00.340 for word patterns,
00:30:01.760 and it confuses
00:30:02.900 that as thinking.
00:30:04.480 So, for example,
00:30:05.320 if I say
00:30:06.040 free will doesn't
00:30:07.980 exist, the most
00:30:09.260 common response
00:30:10.160 I'll get is,
00:30:11.720 well, I can
00:30:12.260 choose things.
00:30:13.800 So it does.
00:30:14.340 I choose.
00:30:15.900 But that's not
00:30:16.440 an argument.
00:30:17.100 That's just putting
00:30:18.020 a different word
00:30:18.680 in there.
00:30:20.180 Right?
00:30:20.640 So what you're
00:30:21.540 going to watch
00:30:21.900 for is when I
00:30:23.100 bring some people
00:30:24.060 up to argue that
00:30:24.920 of course free
00:30:25.560 will does exist.
00:30:26.900 And by the way,
00:30:27.860 I only want to
00:30:28.540 talk to people
00:30:29.680 who say that
00:30:30.500 free will does
00:30:32.060 exist.
00:30:33.460 If you agree
00:30:34.380 with me that
00:30:34.960 it doesn't exist,
00:30:36.520 I'm going to
00:30:37.220 cut you off
00:30:37.920 because I don't
00:30:39.660 want to hear
00:30:40.000 from you.
00:30:41.000 If you agree
00:30:41.660 with me,
00:30:42.040 there's no fun.
00:30:42.900 We'll just be
00:30:43.420 like, okay,
00:30:44.140 we agree.
00:30:45.000 I got it.
00:30:45.600 Got it.
00:30:45.980 All right.
00:30:46.420 So only
00:30:47.040 disagreeers.
00:30:48.080 And I'm not
00:30:48.780 going to be rude
00:30:49.420 when I cut you
00:30:50.140 off, but I'm
00:30:50.560 just going to
00:30:50.920 turn off your
00:30:51.400 microphone if
00:30:52.020 you start
00:30:52.340 agreeing with
00:30:52.840 me, okay?
00:30:54.140 Got the
00:30:54.560 rules?
00:30:55.000 If you agree
00:30:55.660 with me, I'm
00:30:56.320 just going to
00:30:56.660 turn off your
00:30:57.140 microphone and
00:30:58.240 drop you.
00:30:59.420 All right?
00:31:00.180 Everybody up for
00:31:00.800 that?
00:31:01.760 All right.
00:31:02.420 Let's see who
00:31:03.020 looks like they're
00:31:03.800 full of spit and
00:31:06.560 vinegar.
00:31:08.080 Is that a thing?
00:31:09.580 All right.
00:31:09.980 How about
00:31:10.280 Jacqueline?
00:31:10.700 Jacqueline, I'm
00:31:12.380 going to add
00:31:12.740 you as a
00:31:13.200 speaker, so
00:31:13.760 get ready to
00:31:14.900 unmute yourself.
00:31:17.780 All right.
00:31:18.140 Jacqueline, unmute.
00:31:19.660 Do you have a
00:31:20.380 comment on either
00:31:21.520 of those things?
00:31:23.140 Yes.
00:31:23.820 Hi, Scott.
00:31:24.540 Hi.
00:31:24.800 I think my
00:31:26.540 position comes
00:31:27.820 from the
00:31:28.960 perception that
00:31:30.020 each of us is
00:31:31.620 made up of
00:31:32.580 three things.
00:31:35.800 One being the
00:31:37.440 body.
00:31:38.440 And of course,
00:31:39.240 if we cut off
00:31:40.300 part of the
00:31:40.880 body, such as 0.71
00:31:41.680 our hand, we
00:31:43.160 still exist.
00:31:44.360 So we are not
00:31:45.500 our body.
00:31:47.120 Right.
00:31:47.700 Okay.
00:31:48.300 And then I can
00:31:50.620 perceive that my
00:31:52.320 mind is thinking
00:31:54.080 and it often
00:31:55.240 goes on, you
00:31:58.500 know, and I'll
00:31:59.680 call that
00:32:01.600 thinking mind
00:32:02.540 my ego.
00:32:03.800 So because I
00:32:05.180 do your mind
00:32:06.600 and your ego
00:32:08.700 depend on your
00:32:09.520 body or are
00:32:10.320 they separate?
00:32:11.460 Do they exist
00:32:12.040 on you?
00:32:12.760 Separate.
00:32:13.880 So they just
00:32:14.720 float out there,
00:32:15.440 your mind, and
00:32:16.140 your, so your
00:32:17.580 mind is sort of
00:32:18.420 separate from
00:32:19.460 your body?
00:32:19.880 My mind is
00:32:22.600 separate from
00:32:23.140 my body and
00:32:24.380 because I can
00:32:25.600 perceive my
00:32:26.500 mind, that
00:32:27.660 implies a
00:32:28.420 duality.
00:32:30.140 I am something
00:32:31.660 that perceives my
00:32:33.280 mind thinking
00:32:34.160 and I can also
00:32:35.660 perceive my
00:32:36.560 body.
00:32:37.520 So we're three
00:32:38.160 things.
00:32:39.160 I am a
00:32:40.440 being that's
00:32:41.280 hard to
00:32:41.680 describe.
00:32:43.080 I do have an
00:32:44.040 ego or a
00:32:44.920 mind and that
00:32:46.200 my mind thinks
00:32:47.400 I have free
00:32:48.240 will.
00:32:48.700 So my mind
00:32:50.100 will act as
00:32:52.160 it's been
00:32:52.720 programmed by
00:32:53.820 past experiences
00:32:55.200 and, you
00:32:57.700 know, direct
00:32:58.260 my body so
00:32:59.560 it thinks it
00:33:00.320 has free
00:33:01.060 will.
00:33:02.180 Does your
00:33:03.120 mind survive
00:33:04.980 your body's
00:33:06.080 death?
00:33:06.520 Does your mind
00:33:07.080 go on after
00:33:07.720 your body is
00:33:08.280 gone?
00:33:08.460 No.
00:33:09.580 No.
00:33:10.340 What I am in
00:33:11.260 essence is my
00:33:12.360 being, that
00:33:14.100 spark of life
00:33:15.260 that's hard to
00:33:16.260 describe.
00:33:16.780 And if we
00:33:18.140 can stop
00:33:18.880 thinking for
00:33:19.980 moments, if
00:33:21.240 we can be
00:33:21.920 aware and
00:33:23.100 in our
00:33:23.660 present moment,
00:33:25.840 we can
00:33:26.520 perceive that
00:33:27.640 I am that
00:33:29.120 being that's
00:33:30.560 not being,
00:33:31.420 you know,
00:33:33.260 driven by the
00:33:34.420 ego mind
00:33:35.400 that has,
00:33:36.600 thinks it has,
00:33:37.520 free will.
00:33:38.240 Wouldn't you
00:33:39.120 say that the
00:33:39.660 only thing you
00:33:40.220 can perceive is
00:33:41.080 that you exist?
00:33:41.980 Everything else,
00:33:42.920 you don't know
00:33:43.520 if it's true or
00:33:44.100 not.
00:33:44.320 That's
00:33:46.820 correct.
00:33:47.620 Thank you.
00:33:49.120 I've won
00:33:49.520 another one.
00:33:50.500 All right.
00:33:50.780 Thank you,
00:33:51.120 Jacqueline.
00:33:52.580 You're welcome,
00:33:53.200 Scott.
00:33:53.480 Nice talking
00:33:53.940 with you.
00:33:54.280 All right.
00:33:55.520 Bye-bye.
00:33:58.760 All right.
00:34:00.700 Who else
00:34:01.520 will we take?
00:34:02.440 Let's see.
00:34:03.220 I think Paul
00:34:04.640 looks like he's
00:34:05.360 got something to
00:34:05.980 say.
00:34:07.240 Paul, if you
00:34:08.680 will, we get
00:34:11.300 people connected.
00:34:12.040 Paul, yes,
00:34:14.920 what would you
00:34:15.300 like to say on
00:34:15.900 this topic?
00:34:17.040 Well, when I
00:34:18.980 started music
00:34:19.820 college, I was
00:34:21.460 really a big
00:34:22.080 heavy metal fan.
00:34:23.580 But since I was
00:34:24.580 studying jazz a lot,
00:34:25.860 I forced myself
00:34:26.700 to listen to it.
00:34:28.340 And now, 20
00:34:29.460 years later, I
00:34:30.260 got to say I'm a
00:34:30.940 very big jazz fan.
00:34:32.860 Also, in your
00:34:33.780 book, How to
00:34:34.700 Fail at Everything
00:34:35.760 and Still Win
00:34:36.420 Big, you talk
00:34:37.860 about how you
00:34:38.480 managed to
00:34:39.100 program yourself
00:34:40.280 not to like
00:34:40.960 snicker bars
00:34:42.020 anymore.
00:34:43.060 So isn't that a
00:34:44.040 form of free
00:34:44.660 will?
00:34:46.220 No, that's just
00:34:47.040 what happened.
00:34:49.660 What do you
00:34:50.260 mean?
00:34:51.180 Well, let me
00:34:52.640 give the example.
00:34:54.200 If I were to
00:34:55.840 hold an object
00:34:57.020 above the ground
00:34:57.780 and let go of
00:34:58.500 it, does the
00:34:59.820 object have a
00:35:00.680 choice of going
00:35:01.720 up or does
00:35:03.220 gravity just
00:35:03.900 always take it
00:35:04.480 down?
00:35:05.800 No, it takes
00:35:06.480 it down.
00:35:07.000 And would
00:35:08.780 you think that
00:35:09.460 the rules of
00:35:10.400 physics stop
00:35:11.840 once they're
00:35:12.680 inside your
00:35:13.240 skull?
00:35:14.040 Or is the
00:35:14.920 brain, just
00:35:15.720 like everything
00:35:16.280 else, it can
00:35:17.620 only do one
00:35:18.760 thing in one
00:35:19.600 situation?
00:35:22.060 Oh.
00:35:22.740 So what you're
00:35:23.500 saying is that
00:35:24.560 we can force
00:35:26.540 kind of, we
00:35:28.540 can will
00:35:28.960 ourselves to do
00:35:29.840 certain things,
00:35:30.660 but we've got
00:35:31.080 to use science.
00:35:33.180 No, no, what
00:35:35.100 do you say we
00:35:35.600 can will
00:35:36.080 ourselves?
00:35:36.820 You're
00:35:37.120 substituting
00:35:37.920 words for
00:35:39.500 logic.
00:35:41.220 You stopped
00:35:43.000 eating Snickers.
00:35:44.360 I started
00:35:44.960 listening to
00:35:45.640 jazz because
00:35:46.780 we made a
00:35:47.660 conscious effort
00:35:49.580 to do these
00:35:50.280 things.
00:35:50.800 Yeah, and
00:35:51.160 watch, I'm
00:35:52.120 holding up a
00:35:53.160 little ball of
00:35:54.840 wadded up
00:35:55.700 napkins.
00:35:56.820 Now I'm going
00:35:57.220 to let the
00:35:57.660 napkins decide 0.88
00:35:58.660 when I let
00:35:59.320 them go if
00:35:59.900 they're going
00:36:00.200 to go up or
00:36:00.700 down.
00:36:01.280 Okay, napkins,
00:36:02.060 decide, make a
00:36:02.760 decision.
00:36:03.620 Oh, it
00:36:03.960 always went
00:36:04.340 the same
00:36:04.640 way.
00:36:05.660 You and I
00:36:06.320 would have
00:36:06.640 always done
00:36:07.220 the same
00:36:07.600 thing.
00:36:08.200 We did
00:36:08.680 things, that's
00:36:09.580 the part we
00:36:10.040 can be sure
00:36:10.620 of.
00:36:11.300 I did a
00:36:11.860 thing and
00:36:12.180 you did a
00:36:12.600 thing.
00:36:13.640 The reason
00:36:14.200 we did the
00:36:14.680 things is
00:36:15.160 because the
00:36:15.680 situation that
00:36:16.560 happened in
00:36:17.020 our brains
00:36:17.620 was exactly
00:36:19.160 the way it
00:36:19.640 was.
00:36:20.680 If I had
00:36:21.160 had a
00:36:21.500 different brain,
00:36:22.980 I would have
00:36:23.420 made a
00:36:23.700 different decision.
00:36:24.840 So it has
00:36:25.280 nothing to do
00:36:25.940 with my
00:36:27.960 sensation of
00:36:29.960 decision-making
00:36:30.700 because that's
00:36:31.980 just an
00:36:32.340 illusion.
00:36:32.580 I have a
00:36:33.460 sensation of
00:36:34.300 decision-making.
00:36:35.780 So likewise,
00:36:36.500 where I held
00:36:37.120 up the
00:36:37.500 balled-up
00:36:38.080 napkins and
00:36:38.820 dropped them
00:36:39.300 from my
00:36:39.640 hand, if
00:36:40.880 the napkins
00:36:41.840 had consciousness,
00:36:43.800 they would have
00:36:44.600 thought, oh, I
00:36:45.640 choose to go
00:36:46.240 down this time.
00:36:47.620 And then the
00:36:48.000 one time it
00:36:48.560 didn't, you
00:36:49.320 know, they
00:36:49.760 said, I choose
00:36:50.640 to go up, but
00:36:51.320 they don't.
00:36:52.560 They would say,
00:36:53.020 oh, something
00:36:53.540 must be broken.
00:36:54.460 There's something
00:36:54.760 wrong with the
00:36:55.360 system, or maybe
00:36:56.080 I didn't really
00:36:56.580 want it.
00:36:57.000 In other
00:36:57.980 words, they
00:36:58.300 would rationalize
00:36:59.660 why it didn't
00:37:00.900 happen, that
00:37:01.400 they didn't go
00:37:01.980 up.
00:37:02.840 So consciousness
00:37:03.520 is a
00:37:04.220 rationalizer.
00:37:05.800 It's not
00:37:06.200 something that's
00:37:06.800 giving you
00:37:07.160 truth.
00:37:07.840 It didn't
00:37:08.660 evolve to tell
00:37:10.060 you what's
00:37:10.380 real.
00:37:11.280 It evolved to
00:37:12.180 keep you from
00:37:12.760 being crazy and
00:37:14.560 allowed you to
00:37:15.820 reproduce, which
00:37:16.560 is the only thing
00:37:17.120 evolution cared
00:37:17.800 about.
00:37:19.640 Yes?
00:37:20.040 You know, it's
00:37:22.140 just that what
00:37:23.820 you're saying
00:37:24.200 doesn't make
00:37:24.640 sense.
00:37:25.080 It's just like
00:37:25.480 if we follow
00:37:27.780 your logic,
00:37:28.720 doesn't that
00:37:29.160 mean that certain
00:37:30.240 people are just
00:37:31.060 meant to be
00:37:31.760 drug addicts and
00:37:33.100 certain people are
00:37:33.920 just meant to be
00:37:34.820 morbidly obese?
00:37:36.360 Yes.
00:37:36.760 And there's
00:37:37.120 nothing they can
00:37:37.900 do about it to
00:37:38.820 change it?
00:37:41.000 That's correct.
00:37:42.280 But they do
00:37:42.780 live in a world
00:37:43.480 in which the
00:37:44.340 variables influencing
00:37:45.500 them are also
00:37:46.400 changing all the
00:37:47.160 time.
00:37:48.080 So one of the
00:37:48.680 variables that
00:37:49.440 influences
00:37:49.920 people is me.
00:37:51.680 So I've got a
00:37:52.580 lot of viewers
00:37:53.120 who used to
00:37:53.820 enjoy drinking
00:37:54.820 more than they
00:37:55.440 drink now.
00:37:56.720 And when I
00:37:57.220 said alcohol is
00:37:58.140 poison, it
00:37:59.360 programmed a
00:38:00.140 number of them,
00:38:00.600 they tell me,
00:38:01.260 anyway, that they
00:38:02.260 almost immediately
00:38:02.920 stopped drinking.
00:38:04.060 And they're happy
00:38:05.000 that they did.
00:38:06.140 Now, those are
00:38:07.040 people who went
00:38:07.860 from drinkers to
00:38:08.860 non-drinkers without
00:38:10.500 any free will
00:38:11.300 whatsoever.
00:38:12.160 There was just an
00:38:12.760 outside force that
00:38:14.500 was good news for
00:38:15.540 them.
00:38:17.120 All right.
00:38:17.900 Thanks a lot,
00:38:18.820 Scott.
00:38:19.100 All right.
00:38:19.820 Thanks, Paul.
00:38:20.840 Take care.
00:38:21.300 Bye.
00:38:24.340 All right.
00:38:27.720 All right.
00:38:28.240 Let's see.
00:38:28.800 Who else looks
00:38:29.400 like they would?
00:38:31.120 Oh, you know,
00:38:33.240 I'm so influenced
00:38:34.460 by the names that
00:38:35.560 people choose on
00:38:36.700 Twitter.
00:38:36.980 and I have to
00:38:38.720 pick Lord Pepsi.
00:38:41.420 So, Lord Pepsi,
00:38:42.820 with that name,
00:38:44.720 you are added.
00:38:46.980 Lord Pepsi,
00:38:48.400 as soon as you
00:38:49.740 unmute your
00:38:50.480 microphone,
00:38:52.000 we'll be hearing
00:38:52.680 your question.
00:38:54.300 Lord Pepsi,
00:38:55.180 speak to us.
00:38:57.940 Lord, are you
00:38:58.800 not ready?
00:38:59.280 Now, this is why
00:39:01.680 I used to drink
00:39:02.780 Diet Coke.
00:39:04.320 It was Lord.
00:39:04.900 Oh, Lord Pepsi.
00:39:05.680 Hey, yes.
00:39:07.420 What would you
00:39:07.940 like to say?
00:39:08.780 I'm good.
00:39:09.340 What would you
00:39:09.660 like to say?
00:39:11.160 Okay, you spoke
00:39:11.940 on these drug
00:39:13.040 centers that
00:39:13.900 where people
00:39:14.400 could be like
00:39:14.880 as a commune.
00:39:15.740 I was at one
00:39:16.320 of those in
00:39:16.780 Mexico.
00:39:17.740 I can talk to
00:39:18.540 you a bit about
00:39:19.200 it.
00:39:20.140 Oh, did it work?
00:39:20.920 Yes, I've been
00:39:22.920 cleaning for 20
00:39:23.820 years.
00:39:24.460 I came to the
00:39:25.220 realization that
00:39:26.900 my life could
00:39:28.220 drastically change.
00:39:29.180 I could basically
00:39:29.680 become a homeless
00:39:30.560 or fix it and
00:39:33.280 change it.
00:39:33.740 It was like one
00:39:34.300 of those hardcore
00:39:34.860 decisions, like
00:39:35.840 almost like an
00:39:36.640 epiphany where
00:39:37.400 I could become
00:39:38.720 this person asking
00:39:39.420 for change at
00:39:40.340 the coming off
00:39:41.160 the freeway
00:39:41.680 side of the
00:39:42.640 road or I
00:39:44.320 could just go
00:39:45.380 clean.
00:39:45.920 How do I go
00:39:46.540 clean?
00:39:47.520 And basically,
00:39:48.180 yes, we're just
00:39:48.860 all working
00:39:49.400 with each
00:39:49.780 other, building
00:39:51.580 the place, and
00:39:53.220 our resources
00:39:54.120 came from
00:39:55.040 basically outreach.
00:39:56.780 Hey, we're
00:39:57.200 going to go
00:39:58.440 out and ask
00:40:00.240 for support,
00:40:01.560 very basically.
00:40:02.820 I mean, there's
00:40:03.680 details involved,
00:40:05.300 and we'd get
00:40:06.480 building materials
00:40:07.220 and build up a
00:40:08.780 kitchen and
00:40:09.840 build up a
00:40:10.340 dormitory and
00:40:11.420 the office, and
00:40:12.640 over the years,
00:40:13.760 it developed into
00:40:14.500 what it is now
00:40:15.220 as any commune
00:40:16.720 would function,
00:40:17.860 and we'd have
00:40:18.520 AA meetings
00:40:19.220 there, morning,
00:40:21.520 midday, and
00:40:22.200 then night.
00:40:24.700 Rice and
00:40:25.360 beans and
00:40:26.540 some kind of
00:40:27.180 a soup was
00:40:28.800 like our main
00:40:29.520 meal, nothing
00:40:30.940 fancy.
00:40:31.500 So it was
00:40:31.740 like hardcore
00:40:32.780 farm-style
00:40:33.660 living with a
00:40:35.400 bunch of
00:40:35.700 druggies, living
00:40:36.680 with each other,
00:40:38.080 and we're kind
00:40:39.600 of sort of
00:40:40.060 voluntarily there
00:40:41.020 because we
00:40:41.920 knew we had
00:40:43.060 messed up lives.
00:40:44.520 Can you hear
00:40:44.900 me?
00:40:45.260 Well, yeah,
00:40:45.980 yeah, keep
00:40:46.380 going.
00:40:46.720 People are
00:40:47.060 fascinated.
00:40:47.540 Okay, so
00:40:50.940 yeah, I
00:40:52.900 listened a lot
00:40:53.520 more, so I'm
00:40:54.060 thinking, I'm
00:40:54.660 trying to speak
00:40:55.300 with my thinking
00:40:55.960 thoughts, like
00:40:56.720 try to convey
00:40:57.800 them well.
00:40:58.920 Okay, so
00:40:59.560 my parents
00:41:01.260 took me when
00:41:01.760 I was like
00:41:02.340 13.
00:41:03.200 I got into
00:41:03.820 drugs.
00:41:04.440 Like, I
00:41:05.160 lived in the
00:41:05.760 hood, I guess
00:41:06.340 you could say.
00:41:06.940 Like, I was
00:41:07.300 just exposed at
00:41:07.960 a young age to
00:41:08.700 drugs and
00:41:09.160 alcohol and
00:41:09.760 got too deep
00:41:10.740 into it too
00:41:11.200 quickly.
00:41:11.540 And I
00:41:12.520 feel fortunate
00:41:13.000 that because
00:41:13.780 of that, I
00:41:15.020 was still
00:41:15.340 at a young
00:41:17.280 enough age to
00:41:18.160 end it or
00:41:20.280 stop drugs
00:41:21.980 early enough in
00:41:22.800 my life to
00:41:23.420 not develop
00:41:25.140 my life around
00:41:26.660 drugs, so to
00:41:27.660 speak.
00:41:27.900 So tell us
00:41:29.700 more about the
00:41:30.480 facility, though.
00:41:31.900 So there was a
00:41:32.500 place you went to
00:41:33.140 Mexico with just
00:41:34.200 addicts and you
00:41:35.200 basically built a
00:41:36.240 commune and that
00:41:37.520 experience of just
00:41:38.760 not having any
00:41:39.440 drugs around and
00:41:40.420 having something
00:41:41.520 to do that you
00:41:42.340 all joined in on.
00:41:43.900 You think that
00:41:44.840 was enough to
00:41:45.640 keep you off
00:41:46.420 drugs?
00:41:47.800 Oh, definitely
00:41:48.360 because when
00:41:50.400 you live with
00:41:51.280 druggies, they
00:41:53.300 know what
00:41:54.400 they're about.
00:41:56.740 Like, they know
00:41:57.080 their lives are
00:41:57.660 messed up, for
00:41:58.720 lack of a
00:41:59.460 harsher word.
00:42:00.740 You know, I'm
00:42:01.020 being very kind
00:42:01.700 about that.
00:42:02.360 You know, like,
00:42:03.100 there's no BS.
00:42:04.500 Some of it's
00:42:05.540 mental illness
00:42:07.060 and regard as
00:42:08.100 like, when you're
00:42:09.860 living in such
00:42:10.360 a way, it's
00:42:11.640 like, you can't
00:42:15.720 lie to yourself
00:42:16.440 and say, am I
00:42:17.960 going to be
00:42:18.200 living a low
00:42:19.240 life?
00:42:20.040 You know, some
00:42:20.920 people, they
00:42:21.800 conform like they're
00:42:22.780 satisfied with that
00:42:23.780 and there's some
00:42:25.600 problem in their
00:42:27.420 mind saying, well,
00:42:28.240 wouldn't you like
00:42:28.840 a better life?
00:42:29.540 No, I'm homeless
00:42:30.460 because whatever.
00:42:32.440 Like, some people
00:42:33.640 make this, some
00:42:34.820 people decide to
00:42:35.640 get clean and
00:42:36.940 say, you know, I
00:42:37.520 do actually want a
00:42:38.300 better life, but
00:42:38.880 how do I do
00:42:39.620 this?
00:42:40.640 Now, what do
00:42:41.260 you think of
00:42:41.760 the suggestions
00:42:42.840 that Trump
00:42:44.380 made and also
00:42:46.480 RFK Jr.
00:42:47.300 made separately
00:42:47.940 about creating,
00:42:50.300 I guess, using
00:42:52.200 government land
00:42:53.000 and creating
00:42:53.540 basically a city
00:42:54.880 or a campground
00:42:55.960 or something where
00:42:56.740 the addicts can
00:42:57.700 go and just be
00:42:59.080 away from the
00:42:59.700 rest of the
00:43:00.140 people and try
00:43:00.900 to get healthy?
00:43:02.680 Oh, that'd be
00:43:03.580 fantastic.
00:43:04.220 I'll support that.
00:43:05.640 Great.
00:43:05.880 Let me give you
00:43:07.260 the name of
00:43:07.780 the place.
00:43:09.260 I'll spell it
00:43:10.220 out for you
00:43:10.880 because it's
00:43:11.500 an acronym.
00:43:12.240 Okay.
00:43:13.000 C-R-R-E-A-D. 1.00
00:43:17.380 C-R-R-E-A-D? 0.76
00:43:20.580 Yes.
00:43:21.200 Okay.
00:43:21.440 And it's
00:43:21.860 Sensor Recovery
00:43:23.440 Rehabilitation
00:43:24.460 for Infetimals,
00:43:26.620 which is sick,
00:43:28.120 people that are
00:43:28.640 sick,
00:43:28.940 infetimals,
00:43:29.920 from alcoholism
00:43:33.460 and drug addiction.
00:43:35.180 All right.
00:43:35.880 Great.
00:43:36.400 Hey, Lord Pepsi,
00:43:38.300 thanks for the
00:43:38.780 call and big
00:43:39.780 congratulations from
00:43:41.240 the entire audience
00:43:42.580 and for me
00:43:43.340 for your success.
00:43:44.880 When people get
00:43:45.440 off drugs and
00:43:46.100 they stay off
00:43:46.540 drugs for 20
00:43:47.200 years, I swear
00:43:48.340 there's nothing
00:43:49.020 that impresses me
00:43:49.900 more.
00:43:50.980 That's like the
00:43:51.700 ultimate personal
00:43:53.740 accomplishment.
00:43:54.580 So good job for
00:43:55.260 you and thanks
00:43:56.240 for calling.
00:43:58.740 Oh, thanks.
00:43:59.300 Yeah, reach out
00:43:59.880 to me if you want
00:44:00.520 any details.
00:44:01.340 All right.
00:44:01.700 All right.
00:44:03.360 Great.
00:44:03.640 Thank you.
00:44:04.120 Thank you.
00:44:06.140 Well, that was
00:44:06.580 interesting.
00:44:07.500 Didn't expect that.
00:44:08.920 All right.
00:44:09.160 Let's see.
00:44:11.800 What is it?
00:44:13.240 I'll fight you
00:44:13.880 naked, you 0.99
00:44:14.680 racist.
00:44:15.600 That's the name
00:44:16.200 of the account.
00:44:17.660 All right.
00:44:20.620 I'll fight you
00:44:21.540 naked.
00:44:23.220 As soon as you
00:44:24.080 unmute your
00:44:24.760 microphone, you
00:44:25.500 can ask your
00:44:26.020 question.
00:44:27.660 Come on.
00:44:29.220 I hear you.
00:44:29.780 I'd like to say
00:44:30.380 that.
00:44:30.680 I think that
00:44:32.160 music is in
00:44:33.860 fact a dangerous
00:44:34.720 drug.
00:44:36.200 Speak up, please.
00:44:37.260 Music is a
00:44:37.880 dangerous drug.
00:44:38.560 You agree?
00:44:40.540 Yes, I agree.
00:44:42.520 All right.
00:44:43.360 Because I think
00:44:45.520 Peterson is one
00:44:46.360 who told us,
00:44:47.940 he believes it
00:44:49.840 speaks to a part
00:44:50.600 of the human
00:44:51.240 being that it's
00:44:52.360 capable of.
00:44:54.300 Yeah, we're
00:44:55.020 having a little
00:44:55.700 audio problem,
00:44:56.460 so I'm going to
00:44:57.460 have to drop you
00:44:59.780 off because of
00:45:00.280 audio.
00:45:01.740 But I think I
00:45:02.820 got the point.
00:45:03.760 Jordan Peterson
00:45:04.600 also said that
00:45:05.540 music touches
00:45:07.120 sort of a
00:45:08.040 non-rational part
00:45:09.400 of the brain,
00:45:10.320 which it does.
00:45:12.240 All right.
00:45:12.940 Let's see.
00:45:13.580 news for what?
00:45:19.540 News for friends.
00:45:20.860 Let's try you.
00:45:23.460 News for friends.
00:45:26.400 Unmute your
00:45:27.060 speaker, your
00:45:27.980 microphone, and
00:45:28.740 ask your question,
00:45:30.360 please.
00:45:35.040 Oh, I see I'm a
00:45:36.320 speaker, so you
00:45:37.100 must be talking to
00:45:38.240 me.
00:45:38.700 I am.
00:45:39.480 Thank you,
00:45:39.760 thank you for
00:45:41.240 letting me speak.
00:45:42.560 My main thing is
00:45:43.720 to thank you for
00:45:44.780 everything you've
00:45:45.900 had the nerve to
00:45:47.040 come out and
00:45:48.040 say.
00:45:49.160 Too many people
00:45:50.240 are afraid to
00:45:51.460 say the
00:45:52.080 uncomfortable
00:45:52.780 things, and I
00:45:55.260 think it's very
00:45:56.440 important to be
00:45:57.480 able to do so.
00:45:58.620 That in itself is
00:45:59.860 a lesson that
00:46:01.240 more people need
00:46:02.280 to follow, more
00:46:03.740 people need to
00:46:04.660 emulate that
00:46:05.520 behavior.
00:46:06.220 Well, thank
00:46:06.900 you.
00:46:07.540 Did you have a
00:46:10.260 question or
00:46:11.380 comment on the
00:46:12.080 topic, free
00:46:12.860 will and
00:46:13.220 illusion?
00:46:13.500 Yeah.
00:46:13.960 As far as the
00:46:15.000 music, I do
00:46:17.960 believe it can
00:46:18.900 be a dangerous
00:46:19.680 thing because
00:46:20.560 most people are
00:46:22.140 listening to
00:46:23.660 music that's
00:46:24.880 not tuned
00:46:26.060 properly.
00:46:28.440 The way you
00:46:29.540 listen to it
00:46:30.280 makes a big
00:46:31.000 difference, and
00:46:31.800 I saw it with
00:46:33.060 friends of my
00:46:36.200 kids when
00:46:37.200 they were
00:46:37.540 growing up, and
00:46:40.160 especially during
00:46:41.560 that rap era, and
00:46:43.520 watching the
00:46:44.320 behavior of the
00:46:45.620 young teenagers
00:46:47.080 while listening to
00:46:48.840 this music, it
00:46:50.060 was very
00:46:50.520 distracting.
00:46:51.780 It had them
00:46:52.320 focus on the
00:46:53.320 wrong things, and
00:46:56.200 I made a point
00:46:58.660 in my home to
00:47:00.380 pipe in music.
00:47:01.400 music, I was
00:47:01.840 fortunate to
00:47:02.660 have a nice
00:47:03.660 speaker system
00:47:04.640 that went
00:47:05.540 throughout the
00:47:06.380 home, and I
00:47:07.740 calmed them down
00:47:08.840 at night with
00:47:09.680 very nice music,
00:47:11.660 and got a lot of
00:47:12.980 harp and violin.
00:47:14.600 Anyway.
00:47:16.360 All right, well, it
00:47:17.260 sounds like you're
00:47:18.120 agreeing with me.
00:47:18.860 When I started this, I
00:47:19.980 said I wouldn't let
00:47:21.060 anybody on who
00:47:21.660 agreed with me.
00:47:22.840 You may have
00:47:23.620 missed that because I
00:47:24.280 said that at the
00:47:25.080 front.
00:47:25.580 So I'm going to
00:47:26.180 look for somebody
00:47:26.720 who disagrees with me,
00:47:27.780 but thanks for
00:47:28.400 calling.
00:47:29.340 Okay.
00:47:30.020 All right.
00:47:31.020 Bye-bye.
00:47:34.660 Yeah, I
00:47:35.240 announced at the
00:47:35.860 beginning, I only
00:47:37.000 wanted to be
00:47:37.660 disagreeers because
00:47:38.660 it's just more fun.
00:47:40.100 So let's see if I
00:47:41.000 can find a
00:47:41.500 disagreeer.
00:47:42.600 All right, I'm
00:47:42.980 going to go with
00:47:43.520 somebody named
00:47:44.040 Chris Ratt.
00:47:48.240 I don't know if
00:47:49.000 that's his real
00:47:49.660 last name or he
00:47:50.800 just likes calling
00:47:51.440 himself a rat.
00:47:53.760 Chris Ratt, are
00:47:55.720 you there?
00:47:57.760 Yes, I'm here.
00:47:58.640 And that's my
00:47:59.400 actual name because
00:48:00.160 I'm a foreigner.
00:48:02.000 It's your actual
00:48:02.760 name.
00:48:03.120 All right.
00:48:03.940 I'm sure you don't
00:48:04.820 get any trouble with
00:48:07.160 that last name at
00:48:07.960 all.
00:48:08.640 Dad, do you have
00:48:09.220 a comment on the
00:48:12.840 topic?
00:48:14.700 Yeah, but I can't
00:48:15.780 disagree much.
00:48:17.660 I would just say
00:48:18.520 that when I was
00:48:19.140 young and I was
00:48:19.920 dressed in black
00:48:20.600 and I'd be super
00:48:21.560 edgy, I'd listen to
00:48:22.680 sad music and I
00:48:24.800 think it just made
00:48:25.480 me even more sad and
00:48:26.840 probably not very
00:48:27.540 fun to be around.
00:48:28.640 Yeah, I don't see
00:48:30.480 how that could not
00:48:31.300 be the case.
00:48:32.120 If you're sad and
00:48:33.320 you listen to sad
00:48:34.080 music, how's that
00:48:34.820 going to help you?
00:48:36.160 It doesn't make
00:48:36.980 sense.
00:48:37.640 Did you disagree with
00:48:39.080 me?
00:48:39.300 I'm only looking for
00:48:40.000 the disagreeors today.
00:48:42.340 No.
00:48:43.240 Sorry.
00:48:44.000 All right.
00:48:44.420 All right.
00:48:45.500 Thanks for joining
00:48:46.620 and...
00:48:47.680 Thank you.
00:48:48.320 All right.
00:48:48.760 Bye-bye.
00:48:52.740 All right.
00:48:54.280 Chris will remove
00:48:55.360 you.
00:48:56.460 Well, it's hard to get
00:48:57.420 anybody who disagrees.
00:48:59.640 So how about
00:49:00.520 Zara?
00:49:03.940 Zara, you look like 0.99
00:49:05.480 you've been to the
00:49:06.720 gym.
00:49:07.620 All right.
00:49:08.100 Zara.
00:49:09.500 Hey.
00:49:10.160 Hey, how's it going?
00:49:11.300 Do you disagree?
00:49:11.980 Hey, it's great.
00:49:12.880 I'm going to disagree
00:49:13.640 with you.
00:49:14.060 I'm going to disagree
00:49:14.520 with you a ton, but I
00:49:15.400 can't possibly do that
00:49:16.520 without doing the
00:49:17.220 Rush Limbaugh and
00:49:17.900 Ditto thing first.
00:49:18.960 So I want to thank you
00:49:20.500 for being awesome and
00:49:22.360 one of the greatest
00:49:22.920 people on the planet
00:49:23.880 and for paying whatever
00:49:24.760 price is necessary to
00:49:26.060 try to make the world a
00:49:26.860 better place.
00:49:27.480 I really appreciate all
00:49:28.460 the stuff that you do.
00:49:29.540 Well, thank you.
00:49:30.280 Let's get to the
00:49:31.020 disagreeing.
00:49:31.760 The audience is like,
00:49:32.620 disagree, damn it.
00:49:33.620 Disagree.
00:49:33.960 Let's do it.
00:49:34.420 Let's do it.
00:49:35.040 Okay.
00:49:35.400 There is such a thing
00:49:36.260 as free will and I
00:49:38.520 can't give you a
00:49:39.120 knockdown argument for
00:49:40.120 it because if I did,
00:49:40.980 you wouldn't be free
00:49:41.700 to believe in
00:49:42.360 determinism anymore.
00:49:43.540 And I think we're
00:49:44.800 free to do that.
00:49:45.820 So here's what I want
00:49:47.620 to suggest.
00:49:50.040 The scientific language
00:49:51.620 is really good for a
00:49:52.660 number of things, but
00:49:53.500 it has to objectify the
00:49:54.880 world in order to do
00:49:55.860 those things.
00:49:56.940 Fair.
00:49:58.180 Okay.
00:49:58.740 So that means it
00:50:01.040 can get you to the
00:50:01.960 moon and build an
00:50:02.560 iPad, which
00:50:03.320 mythopoetic thinking
00:50:04.420 and philosophical
00:50:05.220 thinking and
00:50:05.980 metaphysical thinking
00:50:06.900 will never be able
00:50:07.560 to do.
00:50:08.860 Good words.
00:50:09.500 The only way you can
00:50:11.120 do those sorts of
00:50:11.920 things is by first
00:50:13.580 banishing all
00:50:14.500 consideration of
00:50:15.360 things that are
00:50:15.820 subjective, which
00:50:16.560 means there's certain
00:50:17.320 questions that it
00:50:18.880 doesn't really, it's
00:50:20.080 not really appropriate
00:50:20.780 to use that language
00:50:22.040 to discuss those
00:50:23.340 questions.
00:50:23.920 For instance,
00:50:25.840 pinch your arm and
00:50:27.960 you feel a message
00:50:28.840 and the message
00:50:29.600 isn't, hey,
00:50:30.340 something negative
00:50:30.980 for your reproductive 0.99
00:50:31.820 ability is happening
00:50:32.840 at your left arm,
00:50:33.740 so pull it away.
00:50:35.700 The message is, hey,
00:50:37.360 you're in pain right
00:50:38.240 now and that pain
00:50:38.940 feels like something.
00:50:40.200 But science has
00:50:40.840 nothing to say about
00:50:41.640 why it feels like
00:50:42.560 something to feel
00:50:43.260 pain or why it's
00:50:44.840 like something to
00:50:45.680 see red.
00:50:46.880 All subjective
00:50:47.620 quality of life is
00:50:48.920 something that science
00:50:49.680 can't say anything
00:50:50.420 about.
00:50:51.620 It doesn't mean that
00:50:52.400 we don't have evidence
00:50:53.120 that it's real.
00:50:54.480 It's as real to each
00:50:55.480 one of us as anything
00:50:56.560 else could possibly be.
00:50:57.800 It's just that the
00:50:58.480 proper language for
00:50:59.400 discussing those sorts
00:51:00.340 of things are music
00:51:01.980 and poetry and
00:51:02.900 philosophy and just
00:51:04.080 different vocabularies.
00:51:06.940 So what happens is,
00:51:08.080 I'll be short and
00:51:08.920 wrap it up, but the
00:51:09.900 gist of the point is
00:51:10.880 what science does in
00:51:12.340 order to be powerful
00:51:13.400 is it banishes all
00:51:14.580 consideration of
00:51:15.520 subjective things.
00:51:17.060 And then sometimes
00:51:18.020 scientismists turn
00:51:19.260 around at the end of
00:51:20.140 that and they say,
00:51:20.660 oh my goodness,
00:51:21.840 I found nothing
00:51:22.580 subjective.
00:51:23.300 There's no such
00:51:23.980 thing as consciousness
00:51:24.820 or free will or
00:51:25.920 what it's like to be
00:51:27.380 something.
00:51:27.920 Wait a minute,
00:51:28.440 wait a minute,
00:51:28.760 did you define
00:51:30.380 consciousness and
00:51:31.420 free will as
00:51:32.200 subjective experiences?
00:51:35.080 So are you saying
00:51:36.000 that it's just
00:51:36.400 something that you
00:51:37.160 feel and the
00:51:38.760 feeling is real or
00:51:39.840 that it's real in the
00:51:41.280 real world?
00:51:42.620 What's real?
00:51:43.640 I'm saying subjective
00:51:45.880 in a non-pejorative
00:51:47.180 sense.
00:51:47.860 It's only pejorative
00:51:48.960 to the objectivist
00:51:50.960 scientific approach.
00:51:52.720 Well, no, I'm not
00:51:54.020 talking about anything
00:51:55.040 pejorative.
00:51:55.740 I'm just trying to
00:51:56.300 understand.
00:51:56.760 Yeah, no, I
00:51:58.400 understand.
00:51:58.940 So when I say
00:51:59.900 subjective, I mean
00:52:00.820 subjective things are
00:52:01.920 just as real as
00:52:03.380 objective things,
00:52:04.300 unless you're a
00:52:05.020 scientist, in which
00:52:05.880 case you're not
00:52:06.440 allowed to think
00:52:07.140 that.
00:52:07.320 No, it's subjective
00:52:08.460 to you, so it's
00:52:10.100 real to the one
00:52:11.060 person, but it's not
00:52:11.880 real to the other
00:52:12.900 people, right?
00:52:15.380 So, like, the
00:52:16.800 problem of other
00:52:17.500 minds is a
00:52:18.180 philosophical problem.
00:52:19.260 You're not going to
00:52:19.740 settle it scientifically,
00:52:21.060 right?
00:52:21.740 Is that what you're
00:52:22.500 getting at?
00:52:22.840 Well, certainly, if
00:52:25.100 your reality is a
00:52:26.400 subjective reality, and
00:52:28.240 your subjective reality
00:52:29.580 includes your subjective
00:52:31.480 feeling about free
00:52:32.760 will, then I would
00:52:34.900 think of that more
00:52:35.600 like a, that's more
00:52:38.780 like a fiction which
00:52:40.260 you created to live
00:52:41.660 in, which you might
00:52:44.240 enjoy, but it wouldn't
00:52:45.560 have anything to do
00:52:46.320 with free will.
00:52:47.180 It would be just you
00:52:48.080 deciding that you
00:52:49.700 wanted to ignore the
00:52:50.980 external world for the
00:52:53.580 subjective world.
00:52:54.460 I see why you think
00:52:57.500 that.
00:52:58.900 Here's an argument,
00:52:59.920 though.
00:53:00.580 I'm going to suggest
00:53:01.480 that the objectification
00:53:02.720 of the world is itself
00:53:04.260 a fiction that we've
00:53:05.160 known as a fiction for
00:53:06.340 millennia.
00:53:07.420 The idea that there's
00:53:08.460 little bits of hard
00:53:09.320 stuff out there that I
00:53:10.180 can make measurements on
00:53:11.320 and make predictions
00:53:12.080 about what they're going
00:53:13.360 to do next is something
00:53:15.600 that even our scientific
00:53:16.680 experiments are now
00:53:17.660 showing us is not a
00:53:19.320 sustainable way of
00:53:21.100 conceptualizing the world
00:53:22.300 around us.
00:53:24.000 There's other ways of
00:53:24.840 thinking about who we
00:53:25.760 are in relation to the
00:53:27.300 cosmos and culture and
00:53:28.560 nature and the divine
00:53:29.780 and all those other
00:53:30.460 things that don't use
00:53:32.020 the objectivist fiction
00:53:33.740 to start out, and they
00:53:35.620 have an ability to make
00:53:37.520 progress in areas that
00:53:39.020 science can't make
00:53:39.900 progress, even though
00:53:40.880 science can make a kind
00:53:41.960 of progress that they
00:53:42.820 could never dream of
00:53:43.600 making by adopting
00:53:45.260 this fiction.
00:53:45.980 You're doing better than
00:53:47.040 I was expecting.
00:53:47.980 All right, so let's see
00:53:48.640 if this is compatible with
00:53:49.840 your thinking.
00:53:50.340 This is different, but it
00:53:51.400 might be compatible.
00:53:52.680 If we are a simulation,
00:53:54.820 meaning that we're just
00:53:55.700 software and bits who
00:53:57.140 imagine that we're real
00:53:58.320 and imagine the
00:53:59.340 objective world, which I
00:54:01.240 do believe, by the way,
00:54:02.580 which is a version of
00:54:03.600 what you're saying, the
00:54:04.500 subjective world.
00:54:05.820 So I call it a
00:54:06.560 simulation, but calling
00:54:09.020 it a subjective world
00:54:10.460 isn't too far off.
00:54:12.100 I mean, they seem to
00:54:13.040 overlap a lot.
00:54:14.340 So if...
00:54:14.860 I'm glad you...
00:54:16.300 I've been wanting to
00:54:17.240 tell you that forever
00:54:17.940 because I've loved your
00:54:18.900 simulation thing as soon
00:54:20.060 as you brought it up
00:54:20.780 and I recognized it as,
00:54:22.260 well, similar to a lot
00:54:23.880 of other metaphysical
00:54:24.960 conceptions of the
00:54:26.200 universe, including the
00:54:27.140 Hindu and some other
00:54:27.980 perspectives.
00:54:28.720 So anyway, I'm going to
00:54:29.340 shut up and let you 0.92
00:54:30.100 finish, but...
00:54:30.880 Well, if we're a
00:54:32.280 simulation or indeed
00:54:34.120 some kind of subjective
00:54:36.080 world, then the rules
00:54:37.800 of physics are also an
00:54:40.300 illusion.
00:54:41.680 So when I say that as
00:54:43.520 long as you believe in
00:54:44.700 the rules of physics,
00:54:46.180 the rules of physics work
00:54:47.620 the same outside of your
00:54:48.820 skull as inside your
00:54:50.600 skull, just stuff's going
00:54:52.380 to happen the way it's
00:54:53.080 going to happen.
00:54:53.580 There's nothing you can
00:54:54.200 do about it.
00:54:55.040 But if our entire world,
00:54:57.340 this objective world of
00:54:58.680 skulls and things that
00:55:00.760 are inside and out and
00:55:01.820 even physics, if that's
00:55:04.200 all imaginary, then all
00:55:06.520 bets are off.
00:55:08.740 So...
00:55:08.860 So I'm not an
00:55:09.640 anti-realist.
00:55:10.480 I mean, I understand that
00:55:11.620 you can be an anti-realist
00:55:12.780 and looking at it that
00:55:13.580 way, but here's another
00:55:14.880 way of approaching it,
00:55:15.760 which is to say that the
00:55:16.780 objectivist fiction and
00:55:18.680 the subjectivist
00:55:19.780 descriptions like the
00:55:20.800 mythopoetic or some
00:55:22.260 a priori philosophical
00:55:23.440 approaches are like two
00:55:25.140 rails that the train
00:55:26.420 rests on, right?
00:55:27.860 So it doesn't have to
00:55:28.700 become an anti-realist
00:55:29.940 thing where you deny that
00:55:30.860 there's a world around
00:55:31.660 you just because it's
00:55:32.820 like something to be you
00:55:34.520 and that world is in
00:55:35.400 relationship with you and
00:55:36.540 you're in relationship
00:55:37.260 with it.
00:55:38.260 The fact that it's
00:55:39.120 subjective doesn't mean
00:55:40.140 it's just arbitrary or
00:55:41.520 chaos or all illusion.
00:55:43.020 So I think we're kind of
00:55:45.900 of one mind when we, I
00:55:47.140 think, when we say that
00:55:48.440 the same thing is true of
00:55:49.640 the scientific conceptions
00:55:51.060 of the universe, but
00:55:52.060 maybe it's an
00:55:53.840 attitudinal difference
00:55:54.860 where I feel like you
00:55:55.660 can embrace that and
00:55:56.540 just say that's what it's
00:55:57.480 like to be and it's
00:55:58.580 exciting and there's
00:56:00.040 truth in and meaning
00:56:01.540 in all of that.
00:56:02.820 Well, I think what you're
00:56:03.780 going for is there might
00:56:05.020 be more than one reality
00:56:06.620 or at least our little
00:56:09.260 brains might only be able 0.63
00:56:10.820 to see one, but there
00:56:11.800 could be others.
00:56:13.640 And under that framing,
00:56:16.220 I have no argument
00:56:17.060 because it imagines the
00:56:18.580 unimaginable.
00:56:20.200 So in an unimaginable
00:56:21.720 world, free will could
00:56:23.220 exist because I can't
00:56:24.780 imagine anything in that
00:56:25.680 world.
00:56:26.500 So actually, good job.
00:56:28.060 Good job, Zara.
00:56:28.740 I'm going to shut up
00:56:29.820 now, but I will just say
00:56:30.620 that that isn't what I
00:56:31.520 think I was trying to get
00:56:32.460 at, but that's okay.
00:56:33.460 This is awesome and keep
00:56:34.700 being awesome and I'll
00:56:35.560 talk to you later.
00:56:36.180 Oh, yes.
00:56:36.540 I didn't mean to that
00:56:38.240 that would characterize your
00:56:39.220 view.
00:56:39.540 That was more my summary of
00:56:40.740 myself, but thank you.
00:56:42.020 Gotcha.
00:56:43.020 All right.
00:56:45.400 Well, that was interesting.
00:56:46.440 That was more, that was a
00:56:48.280 little deeper than I thought
00:56:49.160 it would get.
00:56:51.160 All right.
00:56:51.780 Ladies and gentlemen, how
00:56:52.700 about one more?
00:56:53.760 One more?
00:56:55.880 Let's go with Matt.
00:56:57.080 Oh, I was talking to him on
00:56:58.320 Twitter, so this will be good.
00:56:59.400 Matt, you will be on as soon as
00:57:05.280 you unmute your microphone.
00:57:07.280 Hey, Matt.
00:57:10.380 I can't hear you, Matt.
00:57:11.740 Hey, Scott.
00:57:11.980 How are you?
00:57:12.400 There you are.
00:57:13.040 Thanks for having me on.
00:57:14.700 It's a pleasure to listen to you
00:57:15.800 live.
00:57:16.120 My work schedule usually makes
00:57:17.440 it so you're my workout
00:57:19.040 entertainment.
00:57:20.040 Oh.
00:57:20.200 But today, I get to say
00:57:21.180 something.
00:57:21.840 Good combo.
00:57:22.280 So I believe that people do
00:57:24.900 have free will, and I really
00:57:26.660 don't think it's that
00:57:27.520 complicated a concept, because
00:57:29.900 without free will, I think
00:57:31.300 humans would devolve into 0.98
00:57:32.880 complete chaos.
00:57:34.700 You have an internal sense
00:57:36.660 about you, about what's right
00:57:38.660 and wrong.
00:57:39.580 And to say there's no free
00:57:40.700 will would be simply to say
00:57:42.120 that a drug addict chooses to
00:57:45.040 be on drugs, which is, of
00:57:46.380 course, true once they're
00:57:47.320 addicted.
00:57:47.660 But the original decision had
00:57:49.840 consequences of taking drugs.
00:57:51.840 It's also to say that a
00:57:53.320 pedophile can't help
00:57:55.380 themselves, and therefore we
00:57:56.680 should excuse them.
00:57:58.020 So I think a fundamental
00:57:59.160 concept in human nature is
00:58:01.460 that we do have free will,
00:58:02.760 particularly free will, to
00:58:04.480 make subjective or moral
00:58:05.740 choices.
00:58:06.600 No, yeah.
00:58:07.320 Well, hold on.
00:58:08.420 But I think your argument is
00:58:10.440 we do.
00:58:11.660 Like, there's no argument
00:58:12.660 there.
00:58:13.060 You're just saying it exists.
00:58:15.800 What's the other?
00:58:16.980 I don't think it's an illusion.
00:58:19.280 I think it's an actual part of
00:58:20.960 human existence.
00:58:21.840 All right.
00:58:22.080 Explain.
00:58:23.160 All right.
00:58:23.540 So, Matt, do you think that
00:58:26.700 the rules of physics stop
00:58:28.580 inside your skull?
00:58:32.220 No, of course not.
00:58:33.160 So do you believe that if you
00:58:35.080 could magically know
00:58:36.860 everything about a brain's
00:58:38.720 condition, you know, we
00:58:39.700 can't, but if you could know
00:58:41.240 everything about its
00:58:42.380 situation, would you be able
00:58:44.380 to predict the next thing you
00:58:45.720 did with 100% accuracy?
00:58:48.560 Yeah, maybe, but that's an
00:58:49.960 unrealistic scenario because I
00:58:51.580 don't believe that we're ever
00:58:52.640 going to know that.
00:58:53.540 No, no, no, no.
00:58:54.320 It's not saying that we could
00:58:55.820 do it.
00:58:56.700 I'm asking you how much you
00:58:58.860 believe in the, let's say,
00:59:01.640 the reach of physics.
00:59:03.220 Does physics reach into your
00:59:04.980 brain chemistry down to the
00:59:07.320 electrical signals?
00:59:09.400 And therefore, with your
00:59:10.760 specific experience and your
00:59:13.380 specific, you know, how much
00:59:15.040 you ate that day and how your
00:59:17.080 brain is feeling in its exact
00:59:18.640 structure that day, wouldn't
00:59:20.640 you agree that the next
00:59:21.760 decision is guaranteed to be
00:59:23.840 only one thing?
00:59:26.460 No, I don't think so because
00:59:27.980 I think you live in an
00:59:29.080 environment and conditions
00:59:30.380 change.
00:59:30.940 Like one day you think
00:59:31.940 something is good, the next
00:59:33.440 day you don't.
00:59:34.120 No, hold on, hold on.
00:59:35.160 Matt, Matt, you're just
00:59:36.020 describing the physical
00:59:38.500 conditions changed.
00:59:39.660 So one day is different
00:59:41.140 from the other because your
00:59:41.920 brain is different the next
00:59:43.000 day.
00:59:43.320 So that's agreeing with me.
00:59:44.960 So the fact that you would
00:59:46.120 make a different decision in
00:59:47.580 the morning than you would in
00:59:49.140 the afternoon doesn't say
00:59:51.480 anything about free will
00:59:52.540 because you're a different
00:59:53.680 person in the afternoon.
00:59:54.860 Well, the circumstance can
00:59:56.180 change and your understanding
00:59:57.360 can change.
00:59:58.480 But I do believe that there's
00:59:59.740 an inherent nature to free
01:00:01.160 will that maybe it transcends
01:00:02.760 the physics.
01:00:03.760 Maybe it's a spiritual component
01:00:05.200 that isn't about physics.
01:00:07.080 Do you believe, do you
01:00:08.360 believe, hold on, do you
01:00:09.560 believe that you have a
01:00:11.680 something with a mind that
01:00:15.040 survives your body?
01:00:18.660 Truthfully, I don't know.
01:00:20.520 I don't know.
01:00:22.220 So I'm trying to find the
01:00:23.580 mechanism that would give you
01:00:25.560 free will.
01:00:26.560 If it's not coming from the 0.97
01:00:28.060 physical world, and it can't
01:00:29.500 because physics is physics
01:00:31.640 inside your skull now. 0.75
01:00:33.600 If it's coming from someone
01:00:35.480 else, wouldn't it be imposed
01:00:37.180 upon you, let's say it came
01:00:38.900 from God.
01:00:40.200 Let's say God said, all right,
01:00:41.600 I'm going to nudge you
01:00:42.440 toward this decision.
01:00:43.440 That's God's decision, not
01:00:45.820 yours.
01:00:47.060 Yes, I understand.
01:00:48.100 But God said, if we sort of
01:00:49.960 go down that path, God sets you
01:00:51.420 in a place where you have the
01:00:52.900 ability to make these decisions
01:00:54.220 for right or wrong.
01:00:55.440 No, no, hold on, hold on,
01:00:56.680 hold on.
01:00:56.900 I really agree.
01:00:57.920 Oh, Matt, you're substituting
01:00:59.540 instead of logic, you're just
01:01:00.920 saying things are.
01:01:02.220 That doesn't work.
01:01:03.220 God didn't change your physics
01:01:06.460 in that case.
01:01:07.820 He just gave you some more
01:01:08.760 information.
01:01:10.540 No, I'm supposing that there
01:01:11.900 could be something beyond
01:01:12.840 physics that we don't
01:01:13.700 understand, just like there
01:01:14.900 was Newtonian physics, and
01:01:16.520 then Einstein came along, and
01:01:18.020 there was something different.
01:01:19.300 Right.
01:01:19.440 And so I'm supposing that there
01:01:20.700 could be something different
01:01:21.560 controlling it, because it's
01:01:22.880 an inherent field of what's
01:01:24.940 right and wrong.
01:01:25.320 Hold on, hold on, hold on.
01:01:25.580 I'm not disagreeing with the
01:01:27.080 fact that there could be
01:01:27.940 something controlling us
01:01:29.160 outside of our domain.
01:01:31.220 I'm saying that if it did,
01:01:34.180 that would not be an
01:01:35.200 argument for free will.
01:01:36.420 It would just be something
01:01:37.240 else that's moving you
01:01:38.540 that you didn't know about.
01:01:40.060 No, no, I'm not saying
01:01:41.000 controlling.
01:01:41.680 I'm just saying something
01:01:42.480 that exists that allows you
01:01:43.980 to make these decisions
01:01:44.920 that we can't measure
01:01:46.200 Well, who's you?
01:01:46.620 But who's you?
01:01:47.900 I'm my body.
01:01:49.060 I don't have any other
01:01:50.160 part of me that's floating
01:01:51.280 around somewhere.
01:01:52.460 Do you?
01:01:53.800 Is there a part of you
01:01:55.040 that's floating around
01:01:55.820 somewhere?
01:01:56.320 You know, we can talk
01:01:57.060 about a soul, and we can
01:01:58.140 talk about your spirit, and
01:01:59.480 so on.
01:01:59.940 You know, whether they're
01:02:00.960 real or not, obviously,
01:02:02.100 it's very hard to prove
01:02:02.940 one way or the other.
01:02:04.220 But I do believe that
01:02:05.660 somewhere in there, there's
01:02:07.440 a sense of what happens
01:02:09.340 that isn't related to
01:02:10.880 physics.
01:02:11.380 It isn't related to that.
01:02:13.060 And you can choose to go
01:02:14.440 one way.
01:02:15.100 You can just choose to go
01:02:16.180 one way or another, and
01:02:17.400 it's totally up to you.
01:02:17.980 Wait, wait, wait.
01:02:18.500 Hold on.
01:02:18.840 Hold on.
01:02:19.300 You just substituted
01:02:20.360 choose for a reason.
01:02:24.280 You just put a word in
01:02:25.160 there.
01:02:25.480 I call that word thinking.
01:02:26.600 So word thinking is when
01:02:28.440 you just say, I do have
01:02:29.380 free will because I can
01:02:30.220 choose.
01:02:31.020 All you did is just
01:02:32.020 substitute a new word.
01:02:34.860 But you have to argue
01:02:36.480 against the only arguments
01:02:38.360 that work are that physics
01:02:39.900 don't apply to your brain,
01:02:42.820 or that there's some
01:02:44.600 non-physical thing that we
01:02:46.180 don't understand that is
01:02:47.980 also you, so that you
01:02:50.000 exist both as a body, but
01:02:52.420 also as some other entity
01:02:53.880 that's also you, that
01:02:56.300 can control your body.
01:02:58.920 Those are the only two
01:03:00.460 choices I can see.
01:03:02.220 Yeah, right.
01:03:02.700 So it's more the latter.
01:03:03.900 I don't know if it's
01:03:04.440 exactly the right
01:03:05.140 description, but it's
01:03:05.880 more the latter.
01:03:06.700 But that latter also is
01:03:09.880 in your decision-making.
01:03:12.420 It's in your choosing.
01:03:13.880 So let's say if science
01:03:15.800 got to the point, and
01:03:16.760 we know it can't, but
01:03:17.840 let's say it could watch
01:03:18.800 your brain so carefully
01:03:20.140 and so completely that it
01:03:22.400 can predict what the next
01:03:23.560 thing is that will
01:03:24.300 happen.
01:03:25.080 If science could predict
01:03:26.460 the next thing that
01:03:27.340 happened every time, just
01:03:29.400 by looking at your brain,
01:03:31.220 would you say that that
01:03:32.360 rules out that there's
01:03:33.680 some external source that's
01:03:35.400 also influencing it?
01:03:37.100 Absolutely.
01:03:38.000 If it can predict, then
01:03:39.480 you don't have free will,
01:03:40.420 of course.
01:03:40.960 So if there's a prediction
01:03:41.900 model, then there's
01:03:43.660 definitely not free will,
01:03:45.140 or it's chosen for you.
01:03:47.120 I think the point that it
01:03:48.380 can be anything you want
01:03:49.520 is what makes it free will.
01:03:51.500 So yes, your answer, in
01:03:53.080 your theory, of course, if
01:03:55.020 science could come up with
01:03:56.560 a method or you could
01:03:57.580 monitor it and sort of
01:03:58.660 know what would happen
01:03:59.480 with 100% certainty, then
01:04:00.940 I agree.
01:04:01.900 There's no such thing.
01:04:03.120 But I don't think that's
01:04:03.800 ever possible.
01:04:04.800 Well, it's not possible to
01:04:06.040 do the actual science of
01:04:07.880 it, but certainly it's
01:04:09.880 more of a mental
01:04:10.440 experiment.
01:04:11.420 Yeah, so I think that
01:04:12.980 where we could agree,
01:04:14.580 let's find our agreement
01:04:15.960 point.
01:04:16.320 Our agreement point is
01:04:18.140 that if free will exists,
01:04:19.860 it's probably external or
01:04:22.260 something mysterious to
01:04:24.100 the body, but it would
01:04:25.480 have to be essentially
01:04:26.640 you, because otherwise
01:04:28.100 it would be an external
01:04:28.940 force affecting you.
01:04:30.760 Right?
01:04:31.520 I couldn't agree more.
01:04:32.800 I think it's perfectly
01:04:33.460 said.
01:04:33.900 All right.
01:04:34.440 So that allows that in a
01:04:37.660 world we can't completely
01:04:38.920 understand, it could sort
01:04:40.340 of exist in some unknown
01:04:42.040 domain.
01:04:43.640 Right.
01:04:44.120 But I think that's
01:04:44.760 spirituality or religion
01:04:46.460 or, you know, it's sort
01:04:47.340 of implicit in there.
01:04:49.880 So, yeah, I guess I
01:04:50.660 agree.
01:04:51.420 Yeah, yeah.
01:04:51.960 All right.
01:04:52.280 Thanks, Matt.
01:04:53.160 Appreciate it.
01:04:53.620 Thanks for having me.
01:04:54.620 I'll be for it.
01:04:55.200 All right.
01:04:55.440 See you on Twitter.
01:04:57.160 Yeah, see you.
01:04:59.860 I love talking to the
01:05:01.780 people that I've talked
01:05:02.560 to on Twitter.
01:05:04.120 You know, it just gives
01:05:05.080 them that full personality
01:05:06.960 thing.
01:05:08.500 All right.
01:05:10.280 Shaylock says, and this
01:05:11.380 is the interesting point,
01:05:12.880 if there's no free will,
01:05:14.120 then no man can be held
01:05:15.780 responsible for their
01:05:17.220 actions.
01:05:17.780 What do you think of
01:05:18.260 that?
01:05:19.320 If free will is an illusion,
01:05:21.620 let's say everybody
01:05:22.240 agreed it's an illusion,
01:05:23.780 that people cannot be held
01:05:25.180 to.
01:05:26.340 Do you know why that's
01:05:27.300 ridiculous?
01:05:28.900 Because the people who are
01:05:30.180 holding them responsible
01:05:31.300 have no free will.
01:05:33.340 They're going to do it.
01:05:36.180 They don't have a choice.
01:05:37.980 Of course they're going to
01:05:38.680 do it.
01:05:39.160 And the reason they're
01:05:39.900 going to do it is because
01:05:41.180 you don't have free will.
01:05:42.260 What you do have is the
01:05:45.100 ability to weigh costs
01:05:46.900 and benefits and to do
01:05:48.560 the thing which you think
01:05:49.740 is the best thing for
01:05:50.620 you.
01:05:51.380 So if they increase the
01:05:52.740 cost of doing something
01:05:55.420 like stealing, it does
01:05:57.720 change your likelihood of
01:05:59.400 doing it.
01:06:00.200 So your lack of free will
01:06:01.760 is why you have to be
01:06:03.300 punished.
01:06:04.380 Do you understand that?
01:06:05.940 You have to be punished
01:06:07.400 because you don't have
01:06:09.580 free will.
01:06:10.060 Does that make sense?
01:06:15.360 Because without the
01:06:16.360 punishment, you would
01:06:17.260 choose the wrong things.
01:06:18.820 It's the punishment that
01:06:20.420 makes you choose
01:06:21.080 correctly.
01:06:21.620 It's not you.
01:06:22.900 It's not you.
01:06:24.080 I'm making you choose.
01:06:25.740 I'm putting a gun to your
01:06:26.800 head and saying, don't do
01:06:28.660 it.
01:06:29.640 Don't do it.
01:06:30.460 And you're like, but I
01:06:31.220 want to do it.
01:06:32.140 Don't do it.
01:06:34.760 So no, if you don't have
01:06:36.800 free will, you have to
01:06:37.920 have laws.
01:06:38.460 It's the only thing that
01:06:40.360 makes people act in a way
01:06:41.920 where we can all survive.
01:06:52.080 So everybody who's using
01:06:53.600 the word choosing or
01:06:54.940 choice, you're not part of
01:06:57.020 the logical argument.
01:06:59.640 Right?
01:07:00.420 Because I see people trying
01:07:01.820 to weasel.
01:07:02.620 This always happens in this
01:07:03.800 conversation.
01:07:04.660 People try to word, think
01:07:06.320 their way around.
01:07:06.820 I just saw that in locals.
01:07:08.600 Well, maybe there's
01:07:09.940 something external, but
01:07:11.700 once it reaches your
01:07:12.560 brain, you still get to
01:07:14.080 choose.
01:07:15.840 That's not an argument.
01:07:17.520 You just said that free
01:07:18.980 will exists because choice
01:07:20.220 exists.
01:07:20.700 In other words, you just
01:07:21.340 gave it a different name
01:07:22.340 and then declared victory.
01:07:25.120 All right.
01:07:25.780 Let me prove to you that my
01:07:30.800 telephone is really a
01:07:32.740 cantaloupe.
01:07:33.280 You're a cantaloupe.
01:07:35.920 Done.
01:07:37.840 If you don't think my
01:07:38.900 phone is a cantaloupe, I
01:07:40.020 just argue that it is.
01:07:41.440 It's a cantaloupe.
01:07:43.820 Do you like my argument?
01:07:46.260 That's the same argument I
01:07:47.580 just saw.
01:07:48.880 Somebody says I have free
01:07:50.500 will because I can choose.
01:07:51.920 My phone is a cantaloupe
01:07:53.160 because it's a cantaloupe.
01:07:55.260 Same thing.
01:07:58.480 All right.
01:07:59.060 Spaces, thanks for joining.
01:08:00.460 I'm going to end the
01:08:01.000 Spaces and I appreciate
01:08:02.720 it.
01:08:07.160 I forgot the Spaces
01:08:08.340 was still on.
01:08:09.160 I was just talking away
01:08:10.440 like it wasn't on.
01:08:15.680 Life changed when you
01:08:16.980 realize there's no free
01:08:18.020 will.
01:08:20.980 You have no choice how
01:08:22.540 to define it.
01:08:23.340 Emergent is the key.
01:08:32.620 So you think choice is an
01:08:34.260 emergent property?
01:08:38.840 I don't know.
01:08:42.060 That's a stretch.
01:08:44.960 Randomness is the key.
01:08:46.800 No, randomness simply
01:08:47.800 exists.
01:08:49.060 It's not the key to
01:08:49.800 anything.
01:08:50.040 Online philosophy
01:08:53.700 lectures.
01:09:00.200 Free will is an
01:09:01.380 emergent of biology.
01:09:04.000 No, the illusion of
01:09:05.400 free will is emergent
01:09:06.720 from biology.
01:09:07.960 The illusion of
01:09:08.640 free will.
01:09:13.440 All right.
01:09:15.460 How about assigned
01:09:16.520 opinions?
01:09:17.020 Assigned opinions are
01:09:18.240 just mechanical.
01:09:20.040 Free will is a
01:09:25.700 contested term.
01:09:26.740 Yeah, I guess it
01:09:27.260 is.
01:09:30.820 So to me, the only
01:09:32.260 way that free will
01:09:33.140 can exist is if we're
01:09:34.260 a simulation.
01:09:36.220 And that we steer the
01:09:38.000 simulation by authoring
01:09:39.400 it, but it isn't so
01:09:41.100 much our own choices
01:09:42.020 we're changing.
01:09:43.880 All right.
01:09:44.120 Here's how you can
01:09:44.900 have free will.
01:09:46.320 Let me give you a
01:09:47.480 version of free will
01:09:48.260 that I would believe
01:09:48.920 in.
01:09:49.100 I can program
01:09:52.340 myself to make
01:09:53.380 different decisions
01:09:54.280 in the future.
01:09:56.360 I can program
01:09:57.460 myself now to make
01:09:59.480 different decisions in
01:10:00.560 the future.
01:10:00.960 For example, I can
01:10:03.040 use my lack of free
01:10:04.260 will now.
01:10:05.640 All right.
01:10:05.840 So let's say I don't
01:10:06.680 have free will, but I
01:10:08.100 can use my lack of free
01:10:09.160 will, which is driving
01:10:10.060 me to avoid listening
01:10:12.300 to negative movies and
01:10:14.160 music.
01:10:14.740 right?
01:10:16.480 So I'll use my lack of
01:10:17.860 free will to make sure
01:10:19.480 that I don't expose
01:10:20.640 myself to negative
01:10:21.540 media.
01:10:23.100 Now, project myself
01:10:24.760 into the future.
01:10:26.060 Will my decision be the
01:10:27.740 same as if I had not
01:10:29.360 done this now?
01:10:30.860 Probably not.
01:10:31.700 I would make different
01:10:32.700 decisions in the future
01:10:33.740 if I had exposed myself
01:10:35.120 to those things.
01:10:35.740 So basically, I'm using
01:10:37.880 my non-free will now
01:10:39.520 because I'm just doing
01:10:41.300 what I'm doing, but it
01:10:43.260 is creating a situation
01:10:44.340 where my future decisions
01:10:45.740 will be different than
01:10:47.320 they would have been
01:10:47.920 today or under a
01:10:49.660 different situation.
01:10:50.420 So that's sort of like a
01:10:52.440 minor version of free
01:10:53.800 will.
01:10:54.320 I can set myself up to
01:10:56.100 make a different decision
01:10:57.120 in the future without
01:10:59.420 having the choice about
01:11:00.560 it at the moment.
01:11:03.080 I mean, it's not really
01:11:04.320 free will, but sort of
01:11:06.280 ish.
01:11:08.920 All right.
01:11:10.800 That's choice.
01:11:11.860 Yeah, you're right.
01:11:12.440 That's choice.
01:11:14.400 But it's not free will.
01:11:15.300 Yes, if the Big Bang
01:11:24.320 created a chain of
01:11:28.560 cause and effect that
01:11:29.980 was determined by the
01:11:31.000 physics of the time,
01:11:32.500 then nobody had any
01:11:33.600 free will.
01:11:34.480 And everything from the
01:11:35.800 first moment of
01:11:37.560 creation determined
01:11:39.280 everything else exactly
01:11:40.980 with no deviation.
01:11:45.300 If physics is real,
01:11:47.920 you know, and there's
01:11:49.960 nothing else influencing
01:11:50.920 it.
01:11:52.160 All right.
01:11:53.880 That's all I got for
01:11:54.880 today.
01:11:55.300 It's a weird kind of
01:11:56.400 holiday day.
01:11:57.700 I don't know if anybody
01:11:58.580 else is working.
01:12:00.280 Am I the only one
01:12:01.080 working today?
01:12:02.360 Is anybody else
01:12:02.940 working today?
01:12:05.620 Anybody?
01:12:06.960 Oh, we got some
01:12:07.920 workers.
01:12:08.440 All right.
01:12:09.140 All right.
01:12:10.380 Then I don't feel
01:12:11.220 alone.
01:12:12.820 I work every day.
01:12:15.300 Uh, even on
01:12:16.300 vacation, you know,
01:12:17.240 I'll just get up
01:12:17.800 earlier and work.
01:12:19.480 And I don't know if
01:12:21.260 anybody has this,
01:12:22.220 does anybody else have
01:12:23.140 this feeling that if
01:12:24.700 you take time off,
01:12:26.000 it's really, really
01:12:27.660 hard to work again.
01:12:29.420 Have you had that
01:12:30.200 experience?
01:12:31.560 Like I almost never
01:12:32.940 take time off unless
01:12:33.860 it's forced, you know,
01:12:34.960 like I'm in the
01:12:35.860 hospital or something.
01:12:37.340 Um, but yeah, I, if I
01:12:40.620 take two days off from
01:12:41.740 writing a comic, I feel
01:12:43.620 like I don't know how to
01:12:44.460 do it anymore.
01:12:46.680 So it's actually, it
01:12:48.300 sort of, it sort of
01:12:49.800 helps my mental state to
01:12:52.220 always do a little work
01:12:53.340 every day.
01:12:53.860 Then I feel like I'm in
01:12:55.080 the game.
01:12:56.100 Now I'm going to, I'm
01:12:57.240 going to make a claim
01:12:58.100 that I think it's too
01:13:00.540 early to know, but you
01:13:02.460 can observe this over
01:13:03.760 time.
01:13:05.240 I believe that not
01:13:06.560 retiring is making me
01:13:08.020 smarter.
01:13:08.400 because every day I
01:13:11.400 work, I wake up, I'm
01:13:12.880 66 now, and at 66 I
01:13:15.780 wake up and I make
01:13:16.840 insanely complicated
01:13:18.460 decisions every day,
01:13:19.860 like really complicated
01:13:21.040 decisions about a lot of
01:13:22.660 stuff every day.
01:13:24.540 And I don't know how
01:13:27.080 that could be anything
01:13:28.020 but good for my brain.
01:13:31.240 And I was reading an
01:13:32.240 article about how people
01:13:34.700 who have accomplished
01:13:35.340 things, you tend to do
01:13:36.740 things at age 25.
01:13:40.020 You know, people seem
01:13:40.960 to be pretty good at age
01:13:41.880 25.
01:13:43.000 Chess players max out
01:13:44.220 at 35.
01:13:47.140 But there's recognition
01:13:49.140 that some people pick up
01:13:50.900 skills as they go, and
01:13:52.280 in some cases they could
01:13:53.320 be more effective as they
01:13:54.980 get older.
01:13:55.840 How old is Jordan
01:13:56.740 Peterson?
01:13:59.080 Is he 60 yet?
01:14:02.440 He's 60, right?
01:14:04.240 Is Jordan Peterson doing
01:14:05.740 his best work?
01:14:06.740 I would say he is.
01:14:10.900 I would say he's doing
01:14:11.800 his best work, and that
01:14:14.020 he's, I don't even know
01:14:15.980 if he's peaked.
01:14:16.920 He may not have peaked.
01:14:19.040 Because, you know, his
01:14:20.500 life is studying all kinds
01:14:23.440 of stuff until you get to
01:14:25.980 this age where all the
01:14:27.380 stuff starts coming
01:14:28.240 together into one coherent
01:14:30.580 point of view, and then he
01:14:32.300 shares it with us.
01:14:33.080 And we say, oh my God, it
01:14:35.660 looks like you've been
01:14:36.260 thinking about that for
01:14:37.200 61 years.
01:14:38.740 And he was.
01:14:39.940 And so he helps you out.
01:14:41.640 Now, I feel like my
01:14:43.820 positive impact is the
01:14:47.380 greatest now that it's ever
01:14:48.960 been.
01:14:50.340 Now, Dilbert was its own
01:14:51.540 thing, and probably I
01:14:52.660 couldn't create a Dilbert,
01:14:54.140 you know, from scratch if I
01:14:55.400 started today.
01:14:56.420 You know, it had to be the
01:14:57.060 right time and the right
01:14:57.880 place and all that other
01:14:59.060 stuff.
01:15:00.220 But I don't feel that my
01:15:03.820 effectiveness is less than
01:15:05.980 it was when I was 25.
01:15:07.660 I feel like I'm at my
01:15:08.900 highest effectiveness right
01:15:10.100 now.
01:15:12.780 Yeah, George Carlin was
01:15:14.380 still killing it into his
01:15:16.300 60s.
01:15:17.220 A lot of examples of that.
01:15:20.440 J.K. Rowling, I don't
01:15:22.540 know.
01:15:23.380 How old was she when she
01:15:24.360 was writing her best, doing
01:15:25.900 her best work?
01:15:27.120 40s?
01:15:29.060 Well, Charlie Munger, yeah,
01:15:34.860 Charlie Munger's 99, and he
01:15:37.700 still makes sense, doesn't
01:15:38.800 he?
01:15:39.340 Charlie Munger's not retired,
01:15:40.800 is he?
01:15:41.840 He's 99?
01:15:44.020 Yeah, he's not retired.
01:15:46.920 Have you ever heard Charlie
01:15:48.120 Munger talk? 0.99
01:15:49.860 Does he sound like a 99-year-old?
01:15:53.220 Well, a little bit, but you
01:15:56.240 can tell that the brain is
01:15:57.740 still there.
01:15:59.060 Still working fine.
01:16:00.820 Yeah, maybe a little
01:16:01.560 degradation, but still
01:16:02.840 working fine.
01:16:03.800 Thomas Sowell.
01:16:04.840 How old is Thomas Sowell?
01:16:07.060 I keep thinking he passed
01:16:08.360 away, but he's still around,
01:16:09.380 right?
01:16:09.840 He's 91.
01:16:11.000 You just don't see him
01:16:11.840 because of his age, I guess.
01:16:15.400 All right.
01:16:16.000 Well, that's all I got to
01:16:16.800 say today.
01:16:17.460 So happy 4th of July,
01:16:18.920 everybody.
01:16:19.700 And I'll see you later,
01:16:20.840 YouTubers. 0.92
01:16:21.080 going back to you later.
01:16:24.080 I'll see you later.
01:16:24.400 That's all I've heard it's
01:16:25.760 going to be later.
01:16:26.140 Yeah.
01:16:26.460 That's sweet.
01:16:28.620 Now, what's that is?
01:16:30.280 That's awesome.
01:16:30.860 I'm seeing you later.
01:16:31.980 Yay! 0.99
01:16:32.620 That's great.
01:16:33.980 Having fun and
01:16:34.460 making fun and
01:16:35.860 encouraging believe in
01:16:36.080 us today.
01:16:36.640 For no case,
01:16:37.100 let's get in fun,
01:16:37.760 that's going to be
01:16:38.120 easy.
01:16:38.640 Anyway,
01:16:38.840 we really need to be
01:16:39.800 proud of it.