Episode 882 Scott Adams： Simultaneous Swaddle Time. See my Joe Biden Impression.
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In this episode of the podcast, I discuss a play that took place in the White House press briefing room and how CNN reacted to it. I also discuss the impact it had on the way the network produces and why I think it's one of the funniest things ever.
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just kidding those were not real birds no no not real birds those are me and that's not
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that's not even my best impression yes i can do an impression of birds at a distance as heard
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through a window from a second story and it goes like this
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it's like you're there isn't it kind of incredible well yes i will be breaking out my joe biden
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impression and i will be taking some questions but i'm a little bit uh i'm running a little bit
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hot in here so i'm gonna turn down the lights in the studio and watch this as if by magic
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i'll start to get better looking it's not a big difference
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it's sort of an illusion you don't realize it's just getting darker you think i'm getting more
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handsome quite quite a magic trick i know it is i know it is it's impressive yeah that's what i
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thought too swaddle me captain nobody's ever said that sentence before i always laugh when i see a
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sentence that i can imagine you know whether it's true or not that i can imagine no one had ever
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spoken before or written before in the the history of all spoken language and uh i would i will put it
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in that category swaddle me captain that is a funny sentence all right so what do we got going on here
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uh the funniest thing happening is that because president trump uh seemed to have pivoted in his
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preferences from uh you know maybe wanting to go back to work a little bit early to listening to the
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experts taking their counsel and then going hard in the other direction compatible with the experts
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what does that leave cnn to criticize what do they have left because they have to be against the
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president that's their entire reason for existence you know their their audience expects that you know
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they built a brand around that but what do they do when the president suddenly pivots
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to completely taking the advice of the most uh you know eminent uh experts and it also happens to agree
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with what all of the cnn people probably had been saying so it just completely took all of their their
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material away and as i've said before you never you never pay a political price well i shouldn't say
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never there's probably some exception but it would be unusual to pay a political price for being too
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aggressive against a threat but you could easily imagine and it would be obvious that you would pay a
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price if people perceived you didn't do enough so the safer thing to do is always do whatever is
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perceived as you know the big the big push not the little push but here this is even funnier and by the
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way i didn't catch this play until later now i'm not going to say that trump thought this all the way
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through the way i'm going to describe it it could be just luck you know or instinct or you know it could
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be anything so you can put your own interpretation about how intentional this was but but the first part
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of the context is you know he's been going after cnn pretty hard and cnn of course going after him so
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the president has singled them out in the press conferences and really tried to shame them for
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you know not being on the side of the country basically and then as i said they just took away
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most of his material because the country seems to be sort of supportive of the president
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more so than usual and sort of liking his tougher stand on uh on things and i so they've got nothing
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to criticize but here's the play that i didn't catch until today you may have noticed that um in a
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somewhat brilliant um let's say programming decision cnn has chris guomo uh regularly if not every day i'm not
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sure uh interview his brother the governor of new york andrew cuomo now i'm sure you know obviously
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cnn could have assigned someone else to talk to andrew cuomo every day and they probably sometimes do
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but isn't it better i mean just for watchability you have to admit you know if you're the producers
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you know whoever's idea was maybe maybe it was chris guomo's idea but it was a great idea
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because you sort of expect that they wouldn't do it and then because they do it's so much more
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interesting frankly so so in terms of uh producing and that decision i i just i kind of really love it
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because whenever i see the two of them on there um i'm watching that because the brother dynamic just
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makes it just way more interesting you know especially because they're both operating at
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such a high level you know one's a governor one's you know prime time on cnn so uh and they've got
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this little edge to them that they don't hide that much like obviously they love each other but they
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still have this little brother edge that just makes a really good tv anyway knowing that let me get back
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to my point this all this all fits into the point so the president yesterday throws out this thing
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this idea that maybe these uh masks are being stolen in new york city which of course
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of course what does that cause to happen well now if the president of the united states makes any kind
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of an accusation it doesn't matter if it's true or false it's the news right it literally doesn't
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matter what the president accuses who of doing what doesn't matter if it's true doesn't matter if
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it's ridiculous it's headline news that you just can't change that it's the news so the president
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turns this this allegation that maybe there's some kind of criminal sketchy behavior going on
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in new york in the in the andrew cuomo state and this causes kind of a requirement
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that his brother chris chris cuomo has to ask his brother andrew cuomo what's up with this alleged
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and again i'm not going to say that the president thought it all the way through to the you know the
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logical conclusion that it would make the brothers have this tense exchange because you know chris cuomo
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still has to do his job right i mean he you know everybody expects he's going to go a little soft on his
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brother and i don't think anybody cares about that frankly right because you know uh uh andrew cuomo
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seems to be doing a great job you know he doesn't really need to get beaten up so i don't think anybody
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minds that chris cuomo's you know pushing a little bit but not too hard it's his brother and there's no
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really reason to push but the president just lobs this little this little grenade over the fence
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and when i first saw it i was like well you know i it was provocative and i thought well it's probably
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worth looking into and he tells the media to look into it which again is chris cuomo who has to ask
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his brother if his state is corrupt and then and then andrew cuomo acts like and this is the best part
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the the answer to it andrew cuomo's answer was uh i'm not going to say he was lying
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i'll just say he answered in the style of a liar which i thought to myself was really because here's
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what not a liar would say and again i'm not saying he was lying i can't read his mind i'm just saying
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that there's a pattern that liars use and i'll tell you what it is so if he had not been lying and
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somebody asked him that question and you're the governor you probably wouldn't know the answer
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right i mean unless you'd already looked into it which you probably hadn't so so the right answer
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is you know i i don't know about that honestly but i'll i'll ask around or we'll look into it or
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we've already looked into it and and i think we're just using a lot of masks or it's the way they
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counted them probably you know i don't i don't think it's what you think it's probably just the way
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they inventoried them but let me look into it i'll get back to you
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that's what i would say if i were the governor and i didn't know what was going on and he probably
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doesn't now suppose he did know what was going on and he knew that they were being stolen but maybe
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he did or maybe he didn't know who was responsible but he didn't want to get into it like it you know
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sort of a distraction you know how how would you answer that so here's he acted like he didn't know
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what the president meant you know he said well you know i don't don't know what he meant like that but
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if he has an accusation he should say it directly and i thought to myself i think that was pretty direct
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now the president didn't say he knew who was taking masks if there weren't any taken because he
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you know it was a maybe he said it was worth looking into but the other thing the the president
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did was he didn't take credit for the idea he said you know i was just talking to somebody who's like
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a an expert and and he said to me and then i just suggested it to the press and the next thing you know
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the cuomo's run tv and they'll have to answer to that that was just freaking hilarious all right
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um would you like to see my joe biden impressions that i've been working on
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it's my joe biden impression um it goes like this
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gotta get the guys right and uh somebody asked me a question asked me a question in the comments and
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i'll i'll be joe biden and i'll answer now you may say to yourself scott can you you know can you see
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the questions and it doesn't matter really because here's my answer what what you have to understand
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is you know with if the strategy going forward you can't you can't be on you know what i'm saying
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before so and this is important and and the president doesn't understand that if you're doing
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the thing what i'm saying is you know i think you know the so-and-so and then um strategy
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take that to the bank jack now that's my joe biden impression i think i nailed it it's version 1.0
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give me a break my very first time um and i don't know what would democrats be saying if they did not
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have the handy excuse of the crisis to hide their candidate most of the time i mean the little bit
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he's on tv from his little uh you know underground bunker well the fact that uh joe biden is in a
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is in a room that's like a bunker under his house i have it everything about it is wrong he's literally
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like he's like a guy in his basement and you know president trump is out there trying to you know
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save the entire country from from you know maybe hundreds of thousands of deaths you know possibly
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millions and uh joe biden's uh hiding in his basement in the bunker like you couldn't have a
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i believe this is the path to the end of this so this is what i'm kind of piecing together from
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what i'm saying so if you look at the trends of things it seems that there's a lot of action to get
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the hydroxychloroquine into you know into the approved system so that people can start getting
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it tremendous amount of action in terms of getting pills manufactured etc and then also a tremendous
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amount of energy into getting new faster cheaper tests so that you can start testing massive numbers
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of people so i think those two things are step one to keep people from dying so if you can do massive
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testing and you know we'll probably go from you know a million to a 10 million you know i think we're
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going to ramp it up like crazy because we have to so if we get those two things let's say that
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hydroxychloroquine is plentiful enough that people get it as soon as they have symptoms and then we
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also test so we know for sure who's got it who doesn't those two things would probably in the
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optimist case that the case that the the pills actually work with the azithra bison etc so the
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optimist case is that the deaths plunge or at least get down to the level where we don't run out of
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ventilators so that would be the near term lots and lots of tests and when i say near term that's
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still two weeks away because you could probably get pills into most people who need it in two weeks
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given how how hard i imagine they're pushing to do that uh then i think there's this middle ground
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between just keeping people alive which is what that would do and getting to vaccinations that's pretty
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long wait and who knows if the vaccination really works right so we don't want to have to wait like
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nine months waiting for the vaccination and that's where i'm guessing and this is just me sort of putting
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together the the pieces of the news that i hear so binding by no means no authoritative voice here but
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it seems like the the getting us to the vaccinations vaccination stage might have a lot to do with the
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convalescent serum so i'm seeing as phase one the hydroxychloroquine azithromycin zinc and and just
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massively ramping up testing as much as our american ingenuity can can get it done that's phase one keep
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us alive phase two you got to build that immunity and you don't want to wait all the way until there's a
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vaccination so that's where this convalescent serum thing might work taking the blood and taking out
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the good parts the antibodies from people who have already recovered and all the smart people say that
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it should work at least a little bit now i haven't heard anybody trying to put a number on it like
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with this stop x amount of whatever but it seems like everybody says this is such a historically tried
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and true method that there's no reason to think it wouldn't work and then there's that wild card
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that somebody smarter will have to answer which is uh can it be reproduced in a lab or do you have to
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take blood out of real people which would be i don't know i assume harder maybe it's easier
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um somebody says can we make enough trump pills or not well here's the thing here's the thing
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you know i've been complaining that the task force and um and pence in particular cannot be said to be
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managing the crisis until they're also measuring the the critical things like how much supplies and
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blah blah now they are doing it looks like a good job of measuring things such as a number of icu beds
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we're seeing that and um we're seeing you know deaths and how many people have and how many recovered
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so the basic statistics probably in the ballpark are pretty good or as best we can get them but
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wouldn't you want to know how many ventilators we need and how many we have and how many are in the
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pipeline and etc for all the you know the gloves and the masks and stuff so so i've been saying that
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since we don't know that pence is not really managing it because if you're not measuring what
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you have and what you need you're just flailing you're not managing anything uh but yesterday and
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today it was reinforced today that uh pence has ordered um the all the hospitals to report
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so i don't know how long that takes but that was of course the right move uh add this to the things
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you want to ask later about why that took so long you know because you have to ask yourself
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really why did we just have to ask the hospitals to report to some central
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depository you know it feels like that should have been a little closer to day one kind of thing
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um but maybe there wasn't any place to report to until they built something so anyway the
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we don't need to uh rehash the past uh they're doing the right thing now and i think i'd rather
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focus on that um here's a an idea um we've got all these hotels that are empty and look like
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they're going to be empty for a long time could we use those hotels given that everybody has to be
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locked down anyway could we use those hotels for addiction treatment oh hold on hold on now keep in
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mind that first of all the hotels can't sell those rooms for any normal reason but suppose you only
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allowed people in who were tested so you know nobody even gets into the hotel unless they've tested
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so that might require a few more tests to be available but it might be a good time to get
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clean because what else you got to do you know rather than sitting around at your own house
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which is all the temptation in the world suppose you could just go to the ritz and and the rich says
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you know uh we'll make it you know 25 a night whatever or or nothing or the government pays it or
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something but the point is those rooms are just sort of sitting there you probably at least have
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to pay for the maid service and the you know the laundry and stuff but uh and and of course you
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wouldn't want to fill them you know you might want to have make sure there's a lot of space and they
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still do some social distancing when they meet but they could just be meeting in the ballrooms and
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getting straight so i i don't think this will you know come to fruition but when will you ever have
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another time when the hotels are empty and you could actually take a gigantic bite out of addiction
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because people didn't have anything else to do you know i'm just going to put it out there that
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i'm not saying it's a good idea i'm just saying if we don't consider it when else are we going to
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have situations like this you know at least put it in the hopper put it in the hopper and think about
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it um if you did not watch tucker carlson uh talking about the government lying to us about the
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effectiveness of masks that was tonight if you recorded it that don't miss it it's really good
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because when tucker is accusing uh stupid liars of being stupid liars nobody does that better than
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him because he's got that he's got that disgusted face that just pairs perfectly with that attitude
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it's like you're lying to us how stupid do you think we are you must be the stupid one if you think
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we're that stupid that's the most obvious lie in the world of course masks work you know that's my
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version not his version uh but that was a minor masterpiece watching that was really entertaining
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and uh and he was pretty brutal which he was called for i think this situation brutality was called for
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um i've made a ruling yes i have i've made a ruling i'm gonna take some questions in a few minutes
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i made a ruling as the creator of dilbert i am endowed with certain powers obviously and
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among those powers as the creator of the dilbert comic strip i'm i'm authorized to determine dress codes
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in the workplace you probably thought that companies get to determine that on their own but no
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uh since the 90s that's been delegated to me i i'm sort of like a uh well i like a cabinet member
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so i make the decisions about the dress codes and then the companies act like it was their decision
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but basically it's me so um i've been noticing a really bad fashion mistake i'm watching the tv news
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cnn fox and you'll see the the hosts who would normally be in the studio are broadcasting from home
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but they're wearing suits in their their own like hallways and living rooms and stuff and it looks
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so out of place so here's my ruling as the creator of dilbert i rule that the proper dress code if you're
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a tv broadcast personality and you're broadcasting from your own home on skype the dress code is
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pajama casual that's right pajama casual now what that means is like me
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the bottom half is already for bed or perhaps got up not that long ago the top half casual did i sleep in
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this wait a minute is this the top i slept in or is it just a casual shirt that i was wearing
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you don't know that my friends is pajama casual so that's my ruling if you're on uh if you're on cable
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tv news no suits if you're broadcasting on skype from your home it's pajama casual i've ruled let's
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take some questions who would like to ask a question who
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oh that's too clever using my own book as your icon
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how clever can you be i'm gonna tell a story about that in a minute
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very clever using my book as your icon do you have a question hello um can you talk about anti-aging a
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little bit i heard the other day that you mentioned that they figured out how to reverse the aging of a
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cell and i thought uh go ahead sorry go ahead finish finish your question um i follow the work of david
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sinclair in boston he's a phd researcher at harvard and um he's he's working on rejuvenating
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uh retina cells and optic nerve cells which is really interesting to me because i have uh visual
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impairment and uh problems with my retina and optic nerve so that's why i'm hopeful about it but
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he also works on anti-aging so yeah so i would not claim to know much of anything about that except that
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you know i think ever since i was a kid there have been uh periodic articles maybe once a month
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about some scientists who figured out how to reverse aging and well that was 50 years ago and
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they're still not reversing much aging if you know what i mean you know it's the one point it was a
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was it the resestrophrol or whatever it is the stuff that's in wine resveratrol yes exactly
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that isn't that exactly what i said yes correct okay i think i nailed it and uh you know at one
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point they i've seen so many of these studies so the point is that doesn't mean that the modern ones
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are also as bogus as everyone that has been every month for 50 years because you have to figure we're
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probably getting closer to it you know like if we're not there yet we're certainly closer to being
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able to do it than we ever have been i would imagine but here's the thing i i've been saying
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forever that if i could stay healthy enough long enough that even in my lifetime they probably are
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going to figure out how to do exactly that you know how to how to stem cell you you know back to
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some better state and fix your eyes and give me the knees of a teenager and stuff and it does feel like
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you know i i could hang on for another 20 years i think so if there's anything left of me you know
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short of full-on you know joe biden situation they could probably they could probably stem cell me back
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to back to my 50s maybe on a good day we'll see well they say they're 17 years away now so
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you'll be right there scott we need you we need your wisdom so well it's either that or i'm going
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directly into a computer to live forever yeah my other plans all right thanks for the question thank
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steve steve are you there do you have a question
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advantage of the united states canceling uh admission of kn95 face masks in the time of a
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crisis they just did that on the 28th and that's the most abundantly supplied face mask in the world
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wait well i don't know anything about that story so the government canceled an order or canceled what
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what they can't import you can't import kn95 face masks
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any longer you know i don't know that but you know all of that sort of story falls into the
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category of things where if if on first glance it's absurd it's probably because there's something
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that's left out of the story so there there might be you know some extenuating circumstances it just
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has that feel of one of those stories that if you'd heard the full story maybe you'd feel differently
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because certainly who can imagine why that would be i i can't think of any reasons
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okay thank you anyways i didn't have much to add to that but thanks all right let's see what else we
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get i am not value added every time i think rafael needs a needs to ask a question rafael rafael are you
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there do you have a question optimistic because of your predicted death count is small but then i hear
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dr burke speaking and she says under the best situation under the best conditions a hundred thousand
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two hundred thousand are gonna die how do i explain that you ask exactly and wouldn't you like me to
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explain it in a way that makes you feel good again because those darn experts getting those all wound up
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well here are the things you should consider number one nobody predicts the unpredictable
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but but i did right so that's the the first difference so the doctors are looking at what
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they know and they're saying based on what we know it should be somewhere in this neighborhood
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this and and i don't have to do that i can say you know we've seen so many surprises
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just in the past week things you didn't know that humans could figure out and do you know all the
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different meds that look like they could work the discoveries will probably be doing serum and testing
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and we got the test down to 15 minutes i mean really just miracles of innovation in one week
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so what are the odds that we're done innovating so that this is how i predict things what are the odds
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that this was the week well we didn't have any other ideas we just got to the end of that week and
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we've done all our good ones so that's it is what we got that's what we got more likely newer better
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ideas are coming and and our ability to go from zero to let's say making a million tests is probably the
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hard part my guess is if you go from zero to a million going from a million to 10 million
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you know you you figure it out basically you just get more of these machines and you know line up
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here and do what these guys are doing so it seems to me that we will just um do very non-linear
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non-linear and explosively interesting things and i also think that there's a good chance that the
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hydroxychloroquine will be effective if you take it early so so i'm bet i'm betting that the unexpected
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is guaranteed a rational scientist and somebody whose job is to speak to the public can't say what
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i just said because it sounds crazy even though it's right because we you should certainly expect
00:31:57.860
the unexpected that's like the easiest thing to predict but you can't say that if you're in their
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job you know what are they going to say well i think it'll be 17 people but i don't know how
00:32:08.520
something unexpected might happen right so they have to just like go with the odds and bound it
00:32:15.200
but they also have this other responsibility which is to manage your psychology you know that they're
00:32:21.180
not they're not blind to that that's a key part of their job is to get you to do what you need to do
00:32:27.740
but short of just flipping out and that that's a fine balance and i feel that part of my job
00:32:35.120
is to catch the people who fell through the net and and would flip out you know or were already
00:32:43.360
willing to do what they needed to do and maybe it may be one of them it's like i'm gonna do what
00:32:48.780
you tell me to do you know i'm gonna socially isolate i'll wash my hands i'll do all the things
00:32:58.480
so i feel like i can i can provide a service there because you should not expect that the doctors
00:33:08.500
are really giving you the lowest bound that's possible they should give you the lowest bound
00:33:15.580
that will still scare you quite a bit and they did if they had done if they had said what i said
00:33:21.740
they should be fired but i can say it right because i'm not the doctor nobody's gonna take
00:33:27.940
me too seriously and and i'm literally predicting the unpredictable which there'll be surprises
00:33:34.560
things will go better than you think we'll get smarter faster that sort of thing um and i actually
00:33:42.380
feel i'll tell you if you had to bet and by the way my low count is a net and that counts the fact
00:33:49.920
that we might almost certainly save a whole bunch of lives just because we're not on the highways and
00:33:55.820
doing dangerous sports and stuff too much um so you have to net that out because that counts
00:34:02.240
that's part of the decision when we decided to shut things down everybody knew that that would save lives
00:34:09.980
that's that has to be part of the variables so if you throw that in i think you're going to be
00:34:14.640
closer to my number than 200 000 that's my feeling but and and i have to admit if there were more
00:34:22.380
people who watched this periscope i wouldn't say this in public for the same reason that the
00:34:29.140
professionals don't because they're trying to manage you know a lot the whole country and they need you
00:34:36.060
to be a little bit too scared that's sort of the sweet spot is a little bit too scared so you're really
00:34:42.860
going to do something not just maybe do it we're really going to do something but with this smallish
00:34:50.080
audience of smarter people i have the freedom to say i don't think so you know now uh everybody has
00:34:59.380
to leave the door open that nobody's good at predicting anything could happen anything could
00:35:06.040
happen but uh i'm going to hold with my prediction at the moment um let's see we've lost our caller
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well let's see if we can get another um perry is a commie let's try that
00:35:32.440
much hope over the um hydroxychloroquine and i'm the public health nurse i talked to you the other
00:35:40.740
night about the homeless shelter pop-up but i just wanted to to inform you guys about um i inquired
00:35:47.700
with a dear friend of mine that's a hospitalist very she's um one of the most respected ones at our
00:35:53.820
local hospital the concern with that one is though is anybody with a cardiac arrhythmia which is
00:36:01.640
kind of common in folks of older aids cannot take that she treated a lot of people for many years in
00:36:09.400
africa in fact she grew up in africa she's incredible doctor but anyways yeah it can cause
00:36:15.140
sudden death so there are other antivirals coming down the line that's very hopeful um but yeah here
00:36:22.640
in like central california i'm going to say it is the rate of case really now they now these pills
00:36:31.460
are routinely already prescribed for the you know the rheumatoid arthritis and malaria and stuff so it's
00:36:40.460
the same question right if they were prescribed to those people and they had the heart condition it
00:36:45.420
would be as deadly but but clearly that's within the acceptable risk so that probably won't slow us
00:36:51.380
down too much i would guess i mean given the given the size of the alternative risk that seems like a
00:36:57.100
pretty small one oh yeah lupus is the other thing yeah and especially with the with the um younger folks
00:37:03.100
although i mean you know a few years ago i had to have a cardiac ablation for i don't
00:37:09.880
start start start to lose your signal a little bit because that
00:37:20.320
all right that is good to know and you you patients you should know that as well so you know what to
00:37:31.820
ask all right thank you thanks for that all right let's see who else we got
00:37:40.740
mikey the monkey all right mikey or no that's not a monkey that's uh
00:37:48.580
chewbacca chewbacca do you have a question for me yeah i do i wonder if you've heard about um
00:37:56.060
and by the way some of us use those monikers because we don't want our companies to know that
00:38:01.420
we're engineers and scientists and talking to controversial people so don't discount that
00:38:06.520
um the other thing i wondered is uh there was an article on twitter that word of people uh we're
00:38:12.520
off work now but um and it's about sterilizing the mass and it's about using microwaves not the
00:38:18.260
microwave oven which destroys the mass but higher frequency 5 8 10 gigahertz 12 and they can actually
00:38:25.380
it was a paper from taiwan in 2015 uh by a research university and um i just wondered if you've
00:38:32.420
seen that because it it actually talks in there about being able to sterilize the air because the
00:38:37.460
levels are lower than the ieee sar levels you know the specific absorption rate stuff so they're safe
00:38:44.240
but it pops the virus it it resonates the um the water dipoles at those higher frequencies much like
00:38:51.780
your microwave oven that's but at much lower power i was wondering if i could get that paper to you
00:38:55.880
to send us somebody um so say again i think we had a little connection problem what is it that's uh
00:39:03.180
popping the virus it was at uh uv or was it microwaves it's microwave so it so it can penetrate
00:39:09.560
things and it can penetrate other things that uv can't but it's at a higher frequency and lower much
00:39:15.700
much much much lower power than your microwave oven uh so that you could uh i wonder if that's
00:39:21.760
the technology that the uh the mask sterilizing machines use because apparently there are some
00:39:29.380
industrial mask sterilizing machines that are going into use right now i wonder what they use but anyway
00:39:36.580
you can you can send it to me and i'll i'll see if i'll try to how should i get it to you i just send
00:39:42.680
me it on the linkedin you can connect connect that way i i would hope they're working on this but
00:39:48.820
i don't know i haven't heard anything about it that's why i'm concerned okay i'll pass that along
00:39:54.940
all right thanks all right let's see who else we got here let's talk to paul
00:40:12.900
paul does not have a question paul disappeared we miss paul but we're going to talk to nick
00:40:24.140
and nick will be so exciting it's like two pauls nick are you there
00:40:29.820
nick do you have a question for me nick i do indeed yeah i was wondering uh what do you think
00:40:39.960
is going to happen with the oil prices and the saudi russian stand up there when no one's driving
00:40:48.960
oh well at the moment you know probably the bigger issue is lack of demand because the
00:40:57.480
the economy is stalled so i don't see the price of oil going up anytime soon um yeah the oil industry
00:41:06.340
is going to take quite a haircut in this but on the good side it's like a so it's operates like a tax
00:41:13.640
cut for anybody who uses energy so so we'll take it i don't know bad for the oil company is good for us
00:41:20.360
mostly bad for the uh the uh oil industry in this country but if if you're commuting you might like
00:41:31.560
and i'm always fascinated at the range of questions that that people ask let's see if mikey has
00:41:44.500
the best question of the day mikey are you there do you have a question
00:41:50.020
i'm good how are you i'm doing great man um i had a question about persuasion
00:41:57.060
yeah go ahead so i've been uh reading through your uh reading list and everything like that
00:42:02.280
um over a long period of time being a group of my friends and i'm finding it a little difficult
00:42:06.880
on translating some of the ideas into practical use in everyday life to try to you know grow that
00:42:13.700
muscle and flex that i wonder if you had any tips on you know how to do things like um
00:42:18.780
pacing and leading and practice things like that uh out in the world with your friends family and
00:42:23.600
things like that yeah you know there's no substitute for just practicing so the the best way i would uh
00:42:29.980
you know explain it is if you'd ever tried to learn to type without looking at your fingers
00:42:35.900
you know the the first you know months of it it just feels like it's sort of impossible and you
00:42:41.480
couldn't possibly do it same as if you're you know learning an instrument for the first time
00:42:46.220
like how do you how do you get your left hand to do something and your right hand to do something
00:42:50.320
else like that doesn't even seem possible yeah but then when but then there's sort of that it's
00:42:55.480
almost like one day that you realize oh yeah i just got separation and i can type now and i can do all
00:43:02.280
these things and learning persuasion is like that so there's a whole bunch of just being aware of it
00:43:07.940
and then thinking to yourself oh i'll try this one thing in this one situation so just keep reminding
00:43:14.220
yourself and practicing see what happens trial and error um but you think of it in terms of a
00:43:21.320
skill that you build up over decades not something you learn in a weekend in a weekend you can learn
00:43:27.040
all the tricks but you i you you can actually get better at them just infinitely because they just
00:43:34.120
become incorporated in the way you talk so at this point and people have made this observation about
00:43:40.060
me um i use i consistently use the tools of persuasion but i'm not thinking about it as i do it so i'm
00:43:47.980
not thinking oh you use this tool it's simply the way i talk now and and that'll happen to you it's
00:43:53.280
just uh time and practice that's all it is fantastic man thank you i appreciate it good luck with everything
00:44:00.400
secret to everything time and practice let's see what brian has to say
00:44:08.800
brian brian brian brian brian do you have a question for me
00:44:18.460
brian brian brian good take i'll get me in there waiting for the countdown first i'm old and i
00:44:30.080
remember when i worked for boeing in wichita kansas in the 80s 90s and before you announced who you
00:44:37.700
really were we all were convinced you worked at boeing up in seattle everybody did that was in boeing i
00:44:45.800
probably everybody in every company thought you had to work in their company yeah i heard that a
00:44:51.980
lot it was uh it was made worse by the fact that i have a common name so most of the the biggest
00:44:58.200
fortune 500 companies they have somebody with my name on the payroll and i know this because
00:45:04.120
people told me the stories of uh we knew you worked for hewlett-packard which i didn't they
00:45:10.780
said so we looked at the employee directory and there you were and then we knew it and then ibm
00:45:15.340
told me the same thing pg and e and you know pretty much all the big companies had one of me
00:45:20.120
but there was only one of me and it wasn't it wasn't any of those all right did you have a
00:45:24.820
question or you just wanted to i just want to on the persuasion angle here i just want to know
00:45:29.880
uh like mike glendale today is taking a lot of heat because instead of any of the other ceos catching
00:45:38.100
grief he is probably because he dared to mention jesus and then the other question more is
00:45:45.300
on dr burks is she because she seems like a real star to me she seems like she has incredible
00:45:52.980
credibility is is the fact that she's catching so much grief from the liberal media because they
00:46:00.700
are so afraid of her ability to influence people no i i never interpret those kinds of motives
00:46:10.420
you know that somebody is you know secretly afraid of somebody's power or something like that
00:46:15.420
no i don't think so i think uh you know dr burks is associated with president trump because they're
00:46:22.500
you know working on the same project so that means that the anti-trump press has to not love her too
00:46:28.600
much you know they've got to walk that fine line because she's she's credible and she's a woman and
00:46:33.640
she's got a you know great reputation so they can't totally trash her but they might want to you
00:46:39.820
know make her look a little less credible that might it might work in their favor um but no i don't look
00:46:47.140
too far for the the motives i think there's not that much cleverness going on usually all right
00:46:53.500
that's probably true all right thanks for the question but let's do one more or more
00:47:04.040
elmer elmer who looks like a cat elmer elmer do you have a question for me
00:47:12.720
elmer disappeared technical difficulties and that puts
00:47:22.400
carol in the queue carol carol carol can hear me carol can hear me
00:47:35.600
accidental death rate starts to decline then if people recognize that won't they see the
00:47:46.780
disadvantages of going back to like the world as it was a couple of weeks ago
00:47:51.500
uh if what declined the death rate in general you mean the accidental death rate for like
00:47:59.560
accidents so yeah you know i've been thinking about this a lot because i thought i was going to hate
00:48:07.900
this more than i do meaning you know being forced to be home and you know i can go for a walk but that's
00:48:13.800
it and so far i'm liking it more than i thought now i hate the fact that i'm not with my fiancee
00:48:21.860
so that part you know you can't get past that that's pretty pretty big but in terms of my health
00:48:28.640
and i'm not bored it's been better than i thought yeah same here so um anyway uh did i answer any
00:48:40.740
question or is that all you want is that what you wanted to say yeah that was kind of but i was
00:48:46.620
thinking more in terms of like the travel industry if people recognize that it was having such a bad
00:48:53.860
influence influence you know like commuting and holiday yeah it'd be hard to convince people okay
00:49:01.940
let's not go back that way yeah you know you make a good point the all of the people who commuted
00:49:08.860
these terrible you know two hours each way commutes there's there's something about how we just sort of
00:49:14.780
drift into things but when you're forced to not do it for two months maybe you just can't go back
00:49:21.600
because you just say my god i feel so much better that i don't have to do that anyway so um thank you
00:49:28.800
for the uh comments and questions and i'm going oops i'm fat fingering that all right so i think we've
00:49:41.440
done enough for tonight i believe that we have now calmed ourselves down into a good place where we human
00:49:51.160
beings will be in some ways observers to a fight between two viruses that's right i said a fight
00:49:59.840
between two viruses that's my dog making noise in case you hear that one virus is the coronavirus and
00:50:07.720
the other is a series of ideas and those ideas use human beings as their carriers exactly as the
00:50:17.800
coronavirus does so the coronavirus doesn't kill you directly it causes you to be programmed wrong
00:50:25.920
and kill yourself likewise a bad idea could do that but in this case these ideas become like idea
00:50:33.400
viruses they spread to other people and people learn what to do with their masks and what what uh drugs
00:50:39.480
work and how social isolation works and what's bending the curve and so all these ideas formed like an army
00:50:49.160
of ideas and they're you know they're using our bodies as just their fortresses basically but it's the ideas
00:50:55.960
that are fighting the other virus so it's really virus on virus one virus has a physical form and one has a
00:51:02.440
you know sort of a conceptual idea form but it's really the ideas are fighting the other physical
00:51:08.900
virus and the humans are just sort of receptacles basically we're just the battleground in a way
00:51:15.580
so if our ideas reprogram us productively we can be part of beating the other virus that's all i got to say
00:51:25.820
for now and i will talk to you in the morning you know when see you then