00:21:26.380either because in person it takes the cortisol goes up i guess or it the stakes are higher
00:21:33.980when you have to actually be in person however uh in california there is you when you're here
00:21:42.220as a conservative you do have to um try to get along uh with the other side otherwise it would
00:21:52.540be impossible to live here so um but the other side if they ever find out you're conservative
00:21:58.940you hear from them in person without any dopamine hit that you should be cancelled or this or that
00:22:06.700or the other or how dare you and so on and so forth so that's just my take sometimes it's not
00:22:13.820even political division it's like division on anything i mean i feel like you know online
00:22:20.380we're fighting about anything and everything and it doesn't even have to be political it's like
00:22:26.780you know i like chunky peanut butter i like smooth peanut butter it's like anything to
00:22:31.580argue and i think if we look at that as an addiction maybe i mean myself included i'm one
00:22:39.740of the sassiest people out there but i'm gonna try to look at that like as a dopamine addiction
00:22:45.980that maybe I need to back off of a little bit, listen, don't get me wrong. I can't help what I
00:22:52.060can't help, but I'm going to try to think about it a little bit. Yeah. And what you're saying just
00:22:57.200came to me as, you know, regarding whether, you know, what peanut butter you like or what
00:23:03.140sandwiches or whatever it is, coffee, et cetera. A lot of it is distraction for people. They have
00:23:10.780their own problems in their lives, you know, I assume, and they rather deal with things online
00:23:17.780or get in an argument with someone online, uh, then rather than, than take ownership and deal
00:23:23.560with their own problems. So it's kind of like, uh, sort of like a pseudo therapy.
00:23:29.100Yeah, it's true. It's a distraction. All, I think all of social media is a distraction.
00:23:33.880We're so distracted that like, I, you know, we're not even really touching grass anymore. And I mean,
00:23:39.080we are, but not like we used to. What do you say, Owen? I think it's brilliant what Scott said. And
00:23:45.800I think it's a classic example of him using his economics background and his knowledge of
00:23:52.240psychology and kind of using that economics frame to explain what's going on. But
00:23:55.800everything's based on incentives. Everything's based on where do you get your rewards from,
00:24:03.700where do you get your punishments from, and how do you work to try and get more rewards and less
00:24:08.820punishment and i think that definitely drives a lot of human behavior and i think social media
00:24:15.160is very much set up to do that very intentionally to you know get you reward or make you feel
00:24:22.320rewarded get you that dopamine hit when you get lots of likes or lots of reposts and great replies
00:24:28.120and when you get all sorts of crap back you get some of the stress or you know that sort of thing
00:24:34.200And I think they very much have applied that across all social media, not just X, about, you know, how do we keep people addicted to this application?
00:24:45.380I mean, there's some lawsuits going on right now about that, that Meta and I think it might have been Meta and Google, I think, are involved with that.
00:24:55.060And, um, you know, it's, it's, I think it is very true that at least that they designed
00:25:02.260those applications to addict you. And so they went deep in psychology and figured out, okay,
00:25:10.440based on all these different characteristics of people, how do we personalize things for people?
00:25:14.180How do we give them the things that are going to keep them coming back? How do we keep them
00:25:17.660engaging? How do we keep them replying and posting? Um, and that's all about how do we
00:25:23.360give them out that dopamine hit you know the infinite scroll and you know like there's always
00:25:27.360something more to look at and there's another dopamine hit right around the corner and um
00:25:31.880you know so i think it's very true that the online environment encourages that kind of behavior and
00:25:39.020i also think um and some people point this out from time to time that it's like x isn't real life
00:25:44.660and you know there's one reaction to that that's like well yes it is these are real people saying
00:25:51.100what they feel but um the the view of reality you get from x i think is very different than if you
00:25:59.640just walk down the street and talk to people or you know what you see in your personal life or at
00:26:04.780work or any of that it's very different than what you see online people don't behave the same way
00:26:09.880um and they probably don't even have the same views and certainly they're probably not at the
00:26:16.840same level of political knowledge and following and all of that. So I think X and all social
00:26:24.700media, I think can give you a very distorted view of reality and make you think that something is a
00:26:29.680much bigger issue than it is, or that people really care about something when maybe some few
00:26:34.300people do, but not that many. It's just this vocal minority that makes it seem like something is the
00:26:40.280consensus view. And they may be very intentionally trying to create that fake consensus view. So
00:26:45.260i think it's all brilliant i think he's spot on always yeah i think uh i actually i don't have
00:26:51.120many friends that are even on x and it's funny because i'll be like oh did you see or hear blah
00:26:57.940blah blah and it could be the most crazy shit happening in our country they have zero clue
00:27:04.820and i remember cernovich talking about this i i forget what the what the crisis du jour was but
00:27:11.200he's like, you know, I got on an airplane with like all this mayhem happening on Twitter and
00:27:16.860it's the end of the world and whatever. And he's like, I got on an airplane and people are just
00:27:20.820shitty chatting. They're watching their movie. Nobody was talking about this. So we do have to
00:27:25.920realize I, first of all, I do think if you're on X, you are more informed because I do feel like,
00:27:32.980tell me if you agree with me, you guys, that I feel like all decisions that are happening,
00:27:39.280like on a worldwide level are stemming from X, like what the discussions are on X besides,
00:27:46.080you know, behind closed doors. But I feel like X really drives everything. And then when you
00:27:52.260realize, I mean, what's the percentage of people that even use X, it is tiny. And then of the
00:27:58.120people that I do know that are on X, they don't even know like the accounts to follow that are
00:28:04.960really the influential, like influencing like administrations and countries. So it's a very
00:28:11.960small group of people and we're so dug in on it. Like our emotions are going to change something
00:28:18.220and they're not, you know, they're not going to change anything. Like it might feel good in a
00:28:22.580second to be flipping out about something or whatever. But when you walk away from your
00:28:27.680computer or your app or whatever, like your world's still existing around you. And it's like,
00:28:33.080you got yourself all worked up and crazy and it's not going to change anything. So I just think it's
00:28:38.820just to be careful of the addiction of it, just to remember we're like all going through this
00:28:44.540stuff at the same time and we just have different opinions. And I think at the end of the day,
00:28:50.100if anybody was, you know, drowning and I could help them, I'm not going to ask them what they
00:28:55.560think about abortion or who do they vote for. I'm going to help them. I'm not going to throw
00:29:00.200them a turkey sandwich. So let's just remember about the addictions too. I hope you enjoyed
00:29:05.700having a clip of Scott. We're going to do that more often. So I think that was special today,
00:29:10.580but I do want to get to news. Okay. I promise that we'd get to news by the halfway mark.
00:29:15.480So Owen and Marcella have brought some stories for us and I think, Owen, you're kicking it off
00:29:20.880today, right? I certainly can. So there's a new study that CO2 is effectively negligible as an
00:29:27.500explanatory climate change factor since 2000. There's a new regression analysis that shows
00:29:33.840natural changes in cloud. Albedo, which I think, I'll think albedo is like how much sun is reflected
00:29:39.740off the ice and off the clouds, absorbs shortwave forcing and solar activity drive climate change
00:29:46.740since 2000, not CO2. Anthropogenic, meaning from people, CO2 has almost no explanatory power
00:29:53.580power as a causal factor. And this independent researcher, Dai Ato from Japan, used global
00:30:00.580temperature, humidity, solar, and albedo data. And it reaffirms conclusions from prior works,
00:30:06.500like, I forget, I can't pronounce this name. It's a Greek name, Koutsoianis in 2024 and soon
00:30:14.380at all in 2023. So it looks like basically the natural forces are explaining all the CO2 or all
00:30:23.500climate change and co2 doesn't really make any difference um so i know scott if he got into the
00:30:30.300story of course would say i'm laughing wait until you find out about climate models uh-huh
00:30:36.920i cringed when you said co2 immediately
00:30:40.500i love that okay marcella so meanwhile ice is cooling things at the airport
00:30:50.380um president trump ordered deploying sorry for laughing at my own dad joke uh president trump
00:30:58.700ordered deploying over 100 ice agents there are 13 major u.s airports some of them are
00:31:04.780um i believe long beach i don't know lax but i believe lax jfk hartfield jackson atlanta
00:31:12.940to address the tsa staffing shortage as you guys know there's a dhs funding issue
00:31:19.060Um, the Democrats and the Republicans have, uh, come to a fight in regards to funding DHS talked
00:31:28.860about it before. So the funny part about this is that yesterday, the news here locally in Los
00:31:36.280Angeles went out to, I believe, Long Beach airport, uh, to try to get, um, some interviews
00:31:42.440from passengers waiting in line and wanting to know what they thought of ICE and having ICE
00:31:51.040do TSA work. And everybody that they interviewed, they could not find one bad comment.
00:31:58.520So it was funny. They couldn't do any kind of negative news. Some people have said it's a
00:32:05.280triumph of Trump to use ICE agents and also have them near people so that they can see that they're
00:32:16.420not so bad, that they're not bad at all. So Trump was asked about this yesterday at the press gaggle,
00:32:25.600as we would call it, when he was leaving. And he said that it was his idea and no one else's
00:32:34.160to have ICE agents be there at their reports for helping the TSA staffing shortage.
00:32:42.280But he also had done a truth post about it saying that he would want the ICE agents to not wear a
00:32:50.980mask and to show their face. And I think it's very persuasive of him. It's a persuasive move
00:32:57.480in my, and what Scott would take it as is that he wanted the public to come close to
00:33:04.660ICE agents and see them in a positive light.
00:33:07.980Um, you not waiting in line for three hours, um, instead waiting in line for 20 minutes
00:33:14.620or 15 minutes, that, that gives you that visual effect and, uh, there's nothing like it.
00:33:22.440Um, as we know, uh, with persuasion, visual is everything or fear.
00:33:29.640So, but in this case, it actually solved the issue.
00:33:34.000There was, uh, Nick Sorter, Sorter, Sortor, I don't know how to pronounce
00:33:39.380the same, sorry, I'm doing the Scott Nick, Nick Sorter, Sorter.