Episode 2217 Scott Adams: Lots Of Dumb News To Mock Today. My Favorite Kind. Bring Coffee
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1 hour and 19 minutes
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147.57271
Summary
Scott Adams talks about Keith Olbermann and his mascot, why biological women should not be allowed to compete against women in sports, and why a biological woman is trying to steal his mascot. He also talks about the Ukraine crisis, the writer s strike, and much, much more.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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Do you know that my book, Reframe Your Brain, hit the top 20 yesterday on Amazon, the nonfiction list,
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For those who have read my book, Reframe Your Brain, name any nonfiction book that has created more change in you, positive change,
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I believe there won't be anything close in the entire history of books.
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I mean, I'm using reframes and hypnosis, and it's going to change your life.
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But there's a terrible development in the mascot situation.
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As you know, Keith Olbermann has been my mascot for years.
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And by mascot, I mean the troll that is so over the top.
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But today there was an exchange on X between Keith Olbermann and Riley Gaines.
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You know Riley Gaines, a woman who was a swimming champion who thinks that biological men should not compete against her,
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Can you just address the reality and move past it?
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Riley Gaines replied, Ah, makes sense now why you got fired from ESPN.
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But, you know, to you this is just, I know, to you this is just a funny story of somebody who made a good comment on the X platform.
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Because once again, a biological woman is trying to steal my mascot.
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So the news says that Ukraine has finally broken through the Russian defensive line in one notable place.
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And they're expanding that hole and they're going to drive their artillery through and destroy Russia.
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If I were Putin, I would already be trying to fly out of Moscow in an exploding plane.
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Now, I don't think you can believe anything about this.
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But what are the odds that this story is accurate and fully in context?
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General Flynn, I saw him on a podcast just yesterday.
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And he said that the first reports, first intelligence reports about everything are always wrong.
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The first report of anything like this is always wrong.
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So it might be that they broke through the line.
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But can you be sure that that wasn't intentional?
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Can you be sure it's not a trap in which the Russians are going to let the Ukrainians go through and get into some kind of a kill box and take care of business?
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There's no news that you can believe about Ukraine.
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How many of you noticed that because of the writer's strike, the five hosts of the late night shows, minus Greg Gutfeld, who actually still does his show?
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So the five, I guess, is like Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and Colbert and Oliver and somebody else I can't remember.
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And so the five of them have decided that they'll do, I guess, a nightly podcast because they don't have writers for their shows.
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So now they're just going to do their own thing, you know, just on a podcast.
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Do you know why that late night hosts have guests?
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Because when they're each other's guests, not so good.
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Every time I watch a show where they put five comedians in one place to have a conversation,
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because you've seen this format before, I always think this is going to be the greatest thing.
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Well, five comedians are not funny when you put them together.
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I saw Ricky Gervais in one of these four or five comedian things.
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I think it was with Seinfeld and Chris Rock, some other famous comedian.
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And Ricky Gervais, the funniest person on the planet,
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he's not even funny when you put him with the other comedians because they get weird.
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Five comedians talking to each other, trying to impress each other, maybe.
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Something goes wrong when you put them together.
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So how many of you saw that singer Oliver Anthony, that's his performance name, I guess, was on Joe Rogan?
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What could he possibly have to offer that this song doesn't say?
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And I can't figure it out because he doesn't interest me.
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So I'm trying to figure out why he's interesting you.
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There's almost nothing else you can say but, wow, that's some musician right there.
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But as soon as you get into, yeah, he has a story of maybe addiction and poverty and stuff.
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Does he have some solutions for monetary policy?
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Yeah, I mean, we're interested in him because he's an amazing talent.
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But I wouldn't confuse that with socially relevant.
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I don't think he's socially relevant in the sense of politics or how we're going to change anything.
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I don't believe he's suggesting anything in particular, is he?
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It's not like he said we should be doing X instead of Y.
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And by the way, I'm not, I have no objection to him.
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I'm just thinking, didn't he tell us himself that, you know, it's more about the song and he put his message out there and we heard it.
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So maybe he's done what he platform is going to have phone calls and video calls.
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And you say to yourself, eh, you know, you can do that on lots of different platforms.
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I can Zoom and I can WhatsApp and I can signal and I can text.
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So what if there's one more place that does that?
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Because Elon Musk has already teased that X will be the global address book.
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Could you imagine if you could call anybody just by knowing their address on X?
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Now, I suppose that would be a problem for people like me, because I guess my X would be ringing a lot.
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You know, anybody who's got a big following, they'll probably get a lot of random phone calls.
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But presumably you can turn off the ringer and screen it or whatever.
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But how much would you love to be able to contact anybody in the world, even if you didn't know anything except their Twitter address?
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Because what would I need to do on X that I couldn't do on my phone if I had universal access to other people?
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So ideally I'd want to be able to send a message on X that would show up on just a regular text message or WhatsApp or something else.
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This is what I want more than a universal phone number, which is my Twitter address, I guess, or my X address.
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I would love to be able to grant entities access to my private information on at least five different levels.
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Now, I don't know if this has anything to do with X, but it's what I want.
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How often do you put the same information when you're signing up for stuff?
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And then on the same form, it'll ask you to name an address again.
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We should have at least five levels of personal information.
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And I should be able to say to you, take out my phone and say, I'm going to give you level D access or E.
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So let's say level E is your name, just your name and your email, the lowest level of information.
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So you say, I grant you level E, and it just automatically populates.
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I just heard the garbage truck outside, which means that, again, I forgot to take my garbage out,
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which means that all my garbage will be overflowing for a week.
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And my gardener is going to be mad at me because the thing didn't get taken out.
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Every day I put it on my calendar, I put a warning, I check it several times, and then I go to sleep.
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Anyway, so I should be able to say, I'll give you level C, and it will give me, say, your social security number and your address.
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Level B, towards the top, would be all of your personal information plus your banking.
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If I want to apply for a loan, I should say, level B, access, and give somebody all of my, you know, tax information and banking.
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Because that's the last thing you want to give somebody after your banking is your health information.
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So it wouldn't be great if you could just fill out forms, just say, I gave you level B, access.
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Once again, reality is heading toward the most entertaining outcome.
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If you've been following the saga of Dr. Jordan Peterson, who is being challenged by the Canadian psychology, let's see, what is it, the Toronto College of Psychologists of Ontario.
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The College of Psychologists of Ontario, they want to take his license away, his psychologist, whatever license that is, unless he goes to re-education camp.
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And he challenged him in court and lost, and now apparently he has to go to re-education camp.
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Now, what would be the most entertaining way that this story could go?
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Now, would it be that Dr. Peterson won his court case and then did not have to go to re-education camp?
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You know, if you were going to choose, you'd probably choose that one.
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But the most entertaining is he reports back everything that happens, one way or another.
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You know, he doesn't know if he'd be able to film it or audio it or just take notes, he says.
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But one way or another, he's going to make 100% of the process transparent.
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I'm trying to think of anything I would more want to see than that, and I can't think of anything.
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What would there be on Netflix that would be more interesting than the first-day report from Jordan Peterson about his re-education camp?
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It would be the number one thing I would want to watch.
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You know, he makes content and he monetizes it, so monetize the hell out of it.
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I think he's going to find a way to make a huge profit off the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
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And I'm not sure how much it really matters if he loses his clinical license at this point.
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On a personal level, it'd probably be terrible.
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But I don't know how much time he spends doing personal practice.
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Yeah, certainly it would be an ultimate assault on freedom and principles and, you know, what is right.
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It would be lots of bad things, but I don't know if his actual life would have much difference, maybe 5%.
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I don't want to speak for him, but I would hope that he would be, you know, have a lot of happiness whether he had a license or not.
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Had some good words to say about Vivek Ramaswamy.
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And, yeah, it was kind of easy to predict what Trump would say about Vivek.
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Because, you know, Vivek has said good things about Trump.
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He's got good energy, which is basically the best compliment.
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Do you know what the best compliment Trump ever gives?
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You know, everybody who thinks, oh, he's, you know, he's maybe not want to compete with Vivek because he's so smart or not want to have him on his team or something.
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Now, Vivek, of course, says he could never be a number two.
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But anything can happen in the world of politics.
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He's definitely not running to be vice president.
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Dr. Carlson, on a recent podcast, said that he believes that if you look at the sequence of events recently, that we are, quote, we are speeding towards assassination, obviously, of Trump.
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They have decided that there's something about Trump that's so threatening to them, they just can't have it.
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Well, if we had never had a president assassinated probably by our own people within my lifetime, I would say that is absurd.
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There's no way that our own people would kill a president.
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Would you say that the people who are in charge of the country would be, let's say, morally or ethically beyond doing such a terrible thing?
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That's right in their, I would say that's right in their sweet spot.
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That we've watched them jail people and ruin their lives.
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So if they could jail people forever, you know, J6 people, for example, yeah, no, the extra level to go to assassination, it's like, it's not that much.
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So the only thing that's going to protect Trump is his secret service and the fact that the country's watching.
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It's a little bit different if you expect it to happen, it's a little bit different if you expect it to happen and then it does.
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Now, I don't want to say expect because I don't want to will it into existence.
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You know, you might have fooled us once, allegedly, with, you know, Kennedy assassination.
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But if we're all expecting that it's too serious of a possibility, I don't think you can do it.
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I think this would be, you know, a touch point that would be crazy.
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I don't like to use reference to any kind of violence or revolution.
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But things would get real unpredictable real fast if you want to be in the unpredictable world.
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Now, I would say that 98% of the public has not been watching the news closely enough.
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But the 2%, and I think you're all among it, who watch the news, and they've watched the entire sequence of events developing for several years,
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But I guarantee, somewhere in the government, maybe not, maybe not at the decision-making level,
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but somewhere somebody's having the conversation.
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I'll bet they've actually tried to figure out how the best way to do it would be.
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My ongoing segment that I call Black and White Stuff,
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where we make up news about black and white people
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so we have a reason to get more dopamine and fight with each other.
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John Cougar Mellencamp was on Bill Maher's show, Club Random.
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And he thinks things are so bad for black people in America right now
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that he said, he actually said this out loud while he knew cameras were filming him.
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He said that he thinks that things are currently as bad for 99% of black people in America
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Wouldn't it be better if white people never talked about slavery again?
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Wouldn't it be better if just nobody ever gives an opinion
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I don't know what it would have felt like to be a slave.
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I'm pretty sure I don't know what that felt like.
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So anytime I try to get inside the heads of people
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I couldn't possibly understand what that situation really felt like,
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And I'll tell you more about why you shouldn't care.
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Every time you talk about the average of one group
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So here he is talking about the average of some group,
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And I'm pretty sure that every time you do it in 2023,
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talking about, you know, one group compared to the other group
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But in 2023, if you're measuring the differences in two groups,
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You know I have a best-selling book on reframing.
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How many of you like to watch cute animal reels on social media?
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There's a reel about a bird that was using tools.
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Sometimes you'll see an animal helping another animal,
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almost like a person would help another person.
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And then you see sometimes an animal will, like, share some food,
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let the other animal eat you first, the pig, or something.
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Have you noticed that they have one thing in common?
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The ones you like best often have something in common.
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What do the animal videos that you like the best have in common?
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The answer is, it's animals acting like people.
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When the little raccoons look like they have little hands like people,
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Or when two animals hug each other and spoon like the dog and the cat,
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And one of the main things that we talk about with our love of animals
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You only talk about these animals are doing a thing like a person would do.
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Now, if we talk about how alike we are with animals,
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that showed how black Americans and white Americans
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Because we don't talk about how similar we are.
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I'll bet you you can find some black people like pizza
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Let me tell you the study that did come out today.