Episode 916 Scott Adams： Come Learn About Bigfoot and Bill Gates and Their Plot to Destroy the Galaxy
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Summary
Reality isn t real. It's a giant simulation that plays like a video game. And apparently there aren't that many real characters in this game. So how do you win the simulation game? How do you move up the levels in the game?
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Mmm. Mmm. All right. So, as you know, this thing we call reality isn't real. It's actually
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a giant simulation that plays like a video game. And apparently there aren't that many real
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characters. So, a lot of characters in this are scenery. And the reason that I know that
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this is a simulation, I just realized it for sure this morning, is why is it that there
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are seven and a half billion, whatever, billion people in the world, and every time there seems
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to be like a national or even international story, somehow I'm connected to it. How does
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that happen? I mean, seriously. What are the odds that the biggest stories in the world,
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so often I'm connected to them, like personally connected to them? It just doesn't seem like
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it could possibly be coincidence. So, case in point, the Economic Reopening Committee, what
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do they call themselves? The Economic Reopening Committee? I don't know. They need a new name.
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But it turns out I know two or three people on the committee. And what are the odds of that?
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It's like the most important thing that's happening out of seven billion people. And I know two that
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I know of, but maybe three people on the committee. The point being that we have a channel. If any
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of you have amazing ideas, I'd be happy to pass them along. And you can feel like you're connected
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to the decision as well. You blow my mind away. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here.
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All right. How do you win the simulation game? Well, I believe that you win the simulation game
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by understanding the nature of your reality. And you do that by moving up, you know, layers
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or challenges, just like a video game. For example, this week you learned that when experts present
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a model of predicted performance in the future, then it's not real.
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And second block of the day. And so you moved up a level. So in the video game of life, once
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you realize the experts are only trying to persuade you, it doesn't mean that they're dishonest
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or have bad detentions. But when they give you graphs and charts and stuff, those are just
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for persuasion. It's not some snapshot of the future, because that's not a thing. Nobody
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All right. It's funny how many people can get blocked for mind reading. I've blocked seven
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or eight people already this morning for actually stating in public that they can read my inner
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thoughts. Now, if somebody read my inner thoughts correctly, I wouldn't block you. I'm not going
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to block you if you get it right. But if you stay in public, Adams is just thinking this because
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what he really wants is to eat all the ice cream. Well, I don't eat ice cream. So I'm going
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to block you for that. All right. Have you seen devs? I don't know what that is.
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We will never be the same again. We've never been the same ever. We're always changing. But yes,
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it's true. It's changing faster. All right. So you all wondered why Sweden is doing so well.
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Well, actually, their infection rate is kind of high, but not as high as you'd think it
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would be, given that they're not doing a lot of distancing. And haven't you been wondering,
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what is it about Sweden? What is it about Sweden that makes them not have to do all the social
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distancing? And they're still getting, you know, not the worst result in the world? What is
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it? Well, here's a hypothesis that I heard today. I think this is true. Came from an editor at
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BuzzFeed. So you can make your own decisions. But I think we could check this. And here's the
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statistic. It doesn't seem like it could be true, but I'll just put it out here. That more than 50%
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of Swedish households have only one person. So it might be there's something about Sweden where they
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have very small households. And that could be the entire explanation. So every time we think we
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understand what's going on, we probably don't. So if you were saying to yourself, hey, we should let
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everybody go back to work in this country because Sweden is doing something like that. And it's not
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so bad in Sweden. It's not overwhelming their hospitals. So let's be like Sweden. Can't really
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be like Sweden. We could try, but can't be like Sweden. Yeah. Adams is saying this because he
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wants all the DoorDash deliveries. That's right. Devs is about the simulation. Oh, it's a show
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on Hulu. I'll check that out. All right. Somebody says 60% are in one person households. That doesn't
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seem like it could be possible, but maybe. All right. I still get people on the internet who say things to
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me fairly frequently, almost every day. This sounds something like this. Scott, Scott, Scott. Why don't
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you listen to the experts? Listen to the doctors? You're just a cartoonist. How could you be right
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if you disagree with the doctors and the experts? And the funny thing about that is that's a perfectly
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reasonable thing to say. I think I've said it many times myself. Over the course of my life, I'll bet
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there are plenty of times I've said, you know, Bob, you're a gas station attendant. You're not a
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neurosurgeon. And if the neurosurgeon disagrees with you, I'm going to go with the neurosurgeon if it's
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about neurosurgeon. So I certainly understand trusting experts over idiots, right? I'm not saying
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that the gas station attendant is an idiot. I'm making a general point that experts, you should
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believe them over people who don't know anything. But should you believe the experts over people who
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have consistently and publicly outperformed the experts? Right? You've fallen for the fake models and
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hysteria. Block. Because what I've fallen for, or haven't, first of all, none of that ever happened. But if you
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think I've fallen for something, that's my internal thoughts that you're interpreting. And you can't do that. You
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don't actually have mind reading ability. You could observe that I say something. But you can't observe
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my inner thoughts. That's not actually a thing. And it would be hard to guess my inner thoughts, because
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they're somewhat non-standard, if I do say so. So here's my point. If there's somebody who's a non-expert,
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who has a long public track record of predicting things, and being right more often than the experts,
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does it still make sense to listen to the experts? Well, you're certainly going to listen to them.
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Yeah, you wouldn't want to ignore them. But at what point, and how much of a track record do I need
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of being right in public, publicly predicting things, and being right? And when the experts are wrong,
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how much do I have to do it before people will stop saying, Scott, you're just a car terrorist?
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So I don't know how much I have to do it. But I think I've demonstrated that I can detect
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BS. So I do not claim I have expertise that is greater than the experts. I certainly don't
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believe that. And I don't believe that you should take any kind of a technical recommendation from a
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cartoonist over an expert. What I'm saying is, I do have a really good nose for BS. I did, you know,
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as you know, I've been on a lot of stories early and said, no, this was not true. And then you've
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watched them not be true. So you watched me say, let's close the flights from China before the experts,
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before the experts. And now they agree with me. You saw me say that masks do help before all the
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experts. And that at least the ones who were talking in public, the CDC and Fauci and all those
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people. And who was right? Was it all the experts? No, it was me. It's not because I have some kind of
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technical knowledge that I picked up from the air, and that I can override the experts who've been
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studying these things forever. It's simply that I can detect obvious BS. If it's obvious,
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you don't have to be an expert, right? If the best doctor in the world comes in and says,
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Scott, Bigfoot was in your kitchen, he's been rummaging through your groceries. Do you need to
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be an expert to know that didn't happen? I would argue, I would argue that's a perfect example of where
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the non-expert could be relied on more than the expert. Because if the expert says Bigfoot is in
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your kitchen, you don't have to do any research, do you? Do you have to do any research? Do you have
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to look into it? Do you need to Google it? Do you need to go look in your kitchen? You don't have to do
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any of that. It's obvious that Bigfoot is not in your kitchen. So it doesn't matter how qualified the
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expert is, who says Bigfoot absolutely is in your kitchen. You're not really comparing expertise.
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You're comparing one person who's good at spotting obvious lies, and one person who's telling an
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obvious lie. The frame of expert versus non-expert is completely irrelevant to spotting obvious lies.
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All right? So that's all. So my only claim is that I can tell an obvious lie. I don't make a claim
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that you should listen to me over experts in some kind of general way. All right. If we don't hear a
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date for at least a partial or proposed reopening, even if assuming it's a phased reopening, if we don't
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feel any kind of, if we don't get a date by tomorrow, it could change, you know, tentative date. But I
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think tomorrow is as far as I'm willing to go. This is just my personal opinion. You'll all make your
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own decisions. My personal opinion is that, well, today, actually, I'm going to start breaking my social
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isolation today. Now, the reason I'm going to do it is because nobody in power has proposed a workable
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plan. And I think it's because there isn't one. I don't think it's a failure of planning. I think
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it's a failure of there's no path. So there's no path where everything works out. Right? If we wait
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for a vaccine, it's too long. The therapeutics may or may not slow things down, but it's not going to
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stop you from spreading it and giving it to people. You know, maybe the blood serum works. But now
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there's a report out of South Korea that 140 people got rid of the virus and then later tested positive.
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So it doesn't even look like immunity is promising at this point. So our only choices are to slowly
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stay home and slowly die, or to go out and risk what I think will be hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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That would be my assumption. I could be wrong. You know, nobody can predict this stuff, right?
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So if you believe that I could predict it, well, that's not a good, that wouldn't be a good opinion.
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But don't believe anybody else can predict it, because you've seen that people can't predict this
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stuff. However, if you're looking at the risk, yeah, the risk is probably up to a million people
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in this country alone. And my read of the public is we're ready to take that risk.
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Now we probably I'll talk about I'll talk about Kennedy and Bill Gates. We'll get to that. But I want to I
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don't want to make you all mad first, because I'm going to go on a blocking spree once we get to that
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topic. So just hold on to that. So there are no proposed or known ways to thwart the virus.
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We could do I think you'll see lots of advances in testing. So we could have widespread testing
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and test, test, test. But given the virality of it, and how many months it will take to roll out
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testing? We can't really wait. Right? Somebody says chloroquine works perfectly, I hear. My confidence
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in the hydroxychloroquine is dropping every day. So I would say that anecdotally, it sounded kind of
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promising in the beginning. But here's what I fear is true. It's been quite a long while that they've
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been testing this hydroxychloroquine. And it's something that you could definitely tell is
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working in 10 days. Because if it doesn't work in 10 days, it doesn't work. And it's been multiple
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10 day periods with multiple trials. Now I heard that there's one trial that's completed, but it
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hasn't been written up. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? It just hasn't been written up.
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Do they know? Do they know if it works? Yeah, they know. They know if it works, and they know if it
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didn't. Do you think you would have already heard about it if it worked? I hate to tell you, but I
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think you would have already heard about it if it worked. So the one test that I think will be the
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first of maybe a series of them that are more dependable, you know, a little bit higher level of
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credibility and scientific rigor. The first one's done, and you haven't heard a rumor of how it's
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going to go. I think, I think it's because it doesn't work. Unfortunately, I think, you know,
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and this is a tentative opinion, and I'm only basing it on this specific, fairly undependable
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factor, right? So, you know, this is not 100% kind of a prediction. I'm starting to lean, I'll say 60-40,
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where if you'd asked me a month ago, I would have said, 60% chance this hydroxychloroquine is the real
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thing. Because there's a lot of anecdotal blah, blah, blah, might not be scientifically proven yet,
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but it sure feels good. As of today, I'm going to reverse those ratios. Still a solid 40% chance
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that it helps. So I'm not going to say it doesn't help. A good 40% chance helps. But I would say the
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weight of evidence, because of how long we've waited to at least hear the initial hints, if there's a
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major study that's a valid type, in which they're waiting to write up the results, that means it
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didn't work. I think it's not what I want to be true. You know, I really, really don't want it to be
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true. But it feels like those tests are not going to tell us what we want, or we would have heard it
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already. I just think, you know, just the way humans work, we would have heard about it already.
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So, my suspicion is that some of the tests are showing no results, the hydroxychloroquine,
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and that's not the news that people are anxious to give you, so it might take a few weeks before we
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hear that for sure. So, given all of the, there are lots of things that could make a difference,
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but they're all too slow. You know, how long it takes to ramp up to massive testing? I don't know.
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It won't solve the problem. I mean, massive testing could slow it down, but it's not going to stop
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60 or 70% of the public from getting this thing, ultimately. Somebody says, you said they worked,
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now it's, I don't know. Well, how about, if you hadn't, see, Chris, if you hadn't done the laughy
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faces, I wouldn't be blocking you now. But I just told you my entire thought process. I told you what
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I based it on before, and that it was a 60% chance it looked good, and I've told you what changed,
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and that that new information that we're not hearing from these trials has changed my opinion to 60-40
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the other way. Why does that earn me four hilarious laughing icons after the sentence,
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you said they worked, now it's, I don't know. You said it worked, and now it's, I don't know.
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No, no, Chris. I never said it worked. I said it looked good. I said the odds were good. Okay?
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So, at least have something in your mind that's approximately like my opinion before you criticize
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me for it. All right? Because that's, again, it's sort of mind reading. So, Chris goes to the dustbin
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of blocking history. At the very least, you should be in the neighborhood of my opinion if you're
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going to be, if you're going to be mocking me. All right. Here's the thing you really wanted to talk
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about. Let's talk about the going back to work. So, let me say again that I'm just making a personal
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decision that I'm going to start loosening my social isolation starting today. Now, part of it is
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because I don't believe there's a reasonable plan to keep me from getting the virus. So, I could wait
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and then get the virus later, but I don't have an option of not getting the virus. You know, it's like
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a 70% chance if I just live my life. So, here's the strategy I plan to take, independent of whatever
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the Economic Reopening Committee does. Now, of course, you know, I'm going to be supportive of
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that, I'm sure. You know, I'd like to be as supportive of that as possible, make sure that's
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a good plan. But I'm going to make my own decisions, and I know all of you will. And here's what I think
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is my best plan. And I want to be really clear now. I don't think any of you should take my plan for
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your own. This is not a smart plan. It's just my plan. It's not based on expert opinions. It's not
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based on good judgments. It's based on who I am and what I need to do, right? So, a lot of this is
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is just a personal decision, right? And I've told you before that I'm a pull-the-band-aid-off kind of
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guy. You know, and everybody is one of those two personalities. Some people will delay forever and,
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you know, wait for something good to happen and maybe act later. And there are people like me who
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say, I'm not going to live in a world where I might get this virus, but I will live in a world
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where I go out and get it right away. I'm going to pull the band-aid off. I don't want delayed pain
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anymore. I'm no longer willing to put up with delayed risk or delayed pain. I'm ripping the band-aid
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off. So, for me, and again, I'm not going to do anything that would risk infecting it if you don't
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worry. I'm not going to be reckless. I'm just, in small ways, I'll be, you know, loosening things up
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in my personal life. But at this point, I want to get the virus. Do not take my example. You should
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not do what I'm doing. Okay? You really shouldn't. I mean that seriously. Do not take my example.
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But here's the play I'm going to make. I've heard, and again, this does not have scientific backing
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in terms of, you know, credible. I don't think there's any kind of a controlled test of this
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scientifically. But there's lots of evidence that suggests anecdotally, very risky to use
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anecdotal information, anecdotally that the amount of the load you get of the virus initially
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has a big difference on your outcome. In other words, if you're in a cruise ship and you're just
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breathing each other's fumes, you're just marinating in virus, you're going to get real
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sick real fast and maybe too sick too fast. But if you've got a little whiff of the virus
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and it starts burrowing into your body from wherever you got it, your own immune system
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has a little bit of warning. It's like, hey, what's that? Oh, let's get ready, guys. And
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just, you know, start and start recovering. So my strategy will be this. I will still
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do, you know, enough social distancing in public. I'll still do the obvious stuff. I'll wear a mask.
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I'll do the basics. But I no longer am afraid of not getting it. I'm now afraid. Let me say this.
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I'm not afraid. No, I'm not afraid of getting it anymore. That fear for me is gone. Now I'm afraid
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of not getting it. Do you get the difference? Now I'm afraid of not getting it. So I'm going to go live
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my life and I'm going to do normal precautions because I think that's good for the benefit of
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society to keep, you know, keep the hospitals, you know, under capacity. But my mindset about
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preventing me from getting it just completely reversed. And I don't know if this is just a
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personality thing. In my life, until I make a decision, I haven't made a decision. But once I
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decide, well, I'm done. Once I decide, then I'm done. I've told you that difference between wanting
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and deciding, right? You might want to not get the virus, but it doesn't help. You can want anything
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you want. But the virus has its own plan as well. I have now decided to get the virus. I'm not going
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to try to get it. I'm not going to go lick something in public. But I've decided that that's the path that
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I prefer. And it's more of a sort of a mental health trick. It's not going to change me doing
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good common sense things and washing my hands and stuff. But I'm no longer taking the mindset into
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the rest of my life that my goal is to avoid it. My goal is not to avoid it. My goal is to be
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exposed eventually, whenever it happens, but to get a light viral load. So I'm going to stay out of any
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kind of environment such as an elevator. I'm going to stay out of any, you know, tight room. I'm not
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going to go shopping where there's a crowd. Certainly not going to go anywhere where there's a crowd for
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a long time. But I would like to, I would like to get a little bit exposed. Because if the government
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doesn't have another plan, and we can't wait, you have to take the best plan you have, right? The best
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plan you have is just what's available. You don't get, nobody has the magic plan. If the magic plan
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worked, the one where you work for the, you wait for the magic cure, you know, if that were two months
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or three months, or even if we knew it was coming, and we didn't know when, but we know it's coming,
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I'd say maybe wait for that. I'd say maybe wait, but I don't see anything on the horizon
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that actually would stop us all from getting it eventually. No matter how much you test,
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the therapeutics don't stop you from spreading it. The vaccine doesn't even work all the time on all
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the people, and not everybody's going to get it anyway. It's going to be 18 months, a year,
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whatever. Anyway, let's talk about Bill Gates. And I'll give you some background first.
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Bill Gates. When I was a young child, I remember thinking, when I was very young, I remember
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thinking, wait a minute, I don't think this Santa Claus thing holds up. And I forget what age I was,
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I might have been, I don't know, whatever age kids figure out Santa Claus is not real, five or whatever.
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And I remember thinking it through and thinking, you know, I don't see how you could fit all those
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presents on a sled, and given the average speed of a flying sled, and our chimney doesn't even have,
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you can't even get down our chimney, it's just for exhaust, and the doors are locked, and none of this
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makes sense. Now, if you came to me and said, Scott, Scott, explain to me why you don't believe
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Santa Claus? Would I give you my scientific argument, let's say as an adult, let's say an adult came to
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me and said, Scott, are you serious? You don't believe in Santa Claus? What would be my, what would
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be my reaction? Should I say, well, adult? Let me look at it this way. Well, let's do the math.
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Let's figure out travel speed. Let's do the volume of the sled, the volume of the edge. Would you do
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that? No. No. If an adult asked you as an adult why you don't believe in Santa Claus, you would not get
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into the argument, because it's just so freaking obvious that Santa Claus is not real if you're an
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adult. Let me give you another one. When I was 11, I went to a Methodist Sunday school, and Methodist
00:29:23.800
Sunday school was where you would go, where you'd be taught Bible stories, and my parents were not
00:29:30.940
terribly religious, but they wanted us to be, you know, at least raised in a little bit of that
00:29:35.420
tradition. So we would go to the, the local Methodist school, and I was sitting in Sunday
00:29:39.800
school, age 11, and the instructor, it was some young person, was teaching us about Jonah and the
00:29:47.600
whale, and how the, there was a large fish that swallowed up Jonah, but then, I don't know, several
00:29:54.640
days later after praying, the fish spit him up, and he was fine. And I'm sitting there at 11,
00:30:00.900
years old, in the Sunday school, and I'm thinking, really? Really? You're telling me that a big old
00:30:11.320
fish, I think they called it a whale, but maybe fish was the right one, big old fish whale, swallowed
00:30:17.860
a human. He lived in that whale stomach without the benefit of air. There was no bad impact from the
00:30:24.880
stomach juices, the digestive tract of the whale. And then he got spit back up by magic, and he was
00:30:33.880
fine. And that same day, I called a meeting with my mother, and I said, Mom, I don't know how to tell
00:30:44.180
you this. This is a true story, by the way. I don't know how to tell you this, but the things we're
00:30:50.580
learning in Sunday school, these aren't real. You don't really believe these things, do you, Mom?
00:30:59.320
And to her credit, and then I said to her, and I will be discontinuing my Sunday school education
00:31:06.120
starting today. I didn't say it quite as adult-wise, but I said it as, I said it as resolutely
00:31:12.540
as I'm saying it now. I remember even at 11 years old, you'd have to understand my parents
00:31:19.960
to know that this is a real thing. This wouldn't work with your parents, and it wouldn't work with
00:31:25.720
you as a parent, but trust me, this worked with me and my parents. And I just said, so I won't be
00:31:32.880
going back to Sunday school because now, you know, I sampled it. I did what you wanted. I gave it a good
00:31:39.200
try, but it's obvious to me that the stories are just made up, and I don't see the points.
00:31:45.240
And my mother said to me, very well. It was never discussed again. That was the last day I had to
00:31:54.060
go to Sunday school. Now, I believe my siblings had to go a few for a little bit longer until they
00:32:02.860
sort of rebelled. I don't remember their exact plans. My brother can remind me. I'll ask him later.
00:32:08.220
But, so at age 11, and I'm not going to talk you out of your religion. I'm just going to say that
00:32:18.200
that specific story about the fish and Jonah seemed clearly unreal. If you were to ask me as an adult
00:32:26.160
to defend my opinion on that, I would say, I'm not going to. Because big fish eats person,
00:32:35.040
spit some metal hole days later, that's not an argument. That's not really a debate. If you can't
00:32:42.640
see that that's not real, without the benefit of the discussion about it, I don't think I'm going to
00:32:48.700
change your mind. Years go by, there's this thing called professional wrestling. And when I was a kid,
00:32:56.180
it wasn't explicit that it's just acting. And I would watch all my peers watching wrestling,
00:33:06.480
and I would say, are you seeing the same thing I'm seeing? Because to me, that wrestling is obviously
00:33:16.100
all acting. And I would look at my peers, the kids, and they would say, no, it isn't. Look,
00:33:22.680
there's blood. You know, look at that. They couldn't possibly be acting. And I would say to
00:33:27.160
myself, you know, I can't really argue the fine points of this. Because this is just Santa Claus
00:33:34.340
all over again. This is just Jonah being eaten by a fish. I don't really need to argue the details.
00:33:41.060
Just look at it. It's obviously acting. And my peers said, no, I don't see it. I don't see it. And of
00:33:48.760
course, now we know it was. I remember watching the Jerry Springer show. Do you remember the Jerry
00:33:55.740
Springer show? And I watched the Jerry Springer show, and every single episode, the guests would
00:34:02.860
get into a fight. But it was a weird kind of fight in which nobody ever got really hurt.
00:34:09.380
And the first several times I thought, well, you know, people are seeing other people fighting, and
00:34:13.460
they've just decided that, you know, they'll do it too, because they got some attention. But I kept
00:34:19.020
watching show after show, and nobody got hurt. And it became increasingly clear that they were being
00:34:26.780
coached to do fake fights. And I would tell people, you know, this isn't real. They're, you know,
00:34:34.240
these are real guests. But they've obviously been coached that they can do this, and there'll be
00:34:40.800
somebody to pull them apart, and nobody's going to get hurt. And am I right? People argued with me,
00:34:47.760
and they say, Scott, you can't just look at it and know it's fake. You can't tell it's fake just by
00:34:52.520
looking at it. To which I said, yeah, you can. Just look at it. Just look at it. If you can't tell
00:35:00.380
that's fake, are you serious? You can look at Jerry Springer and not know those are fake fights.
00:35:05.980
You can look at professional wrestling back in the day, and you can't tell that's fake.
00:35:12.440
You can look at Santa Claus. You don't know that's not real. Easter Bunny? Tooth Fairy? Do you need
00:35:21.240
the argument? You don't really need the argument. They're just obviously not true. Likewise, I went
00:35:28.880
through the phase of Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster, and I told myself, well, maybe. Maybe. But, you know,
00:35:35.920
as time goes by and the evidence all falls apart, it's obvious that Bigfoot's not real. If there's
00:35:42.440
any kind of big fish in the loch, maybe, but it's not a Loch Ness Monster. And that brings us to Bill
00:35:49.380
Gates and the many rumors of his secret goal to reduce the population of Earth through eugenics.
00:36:02.400
And I've been going down the rabbit hole of reading all the accusations about Bill Gates.
00:36:08.060
And they fall into these categories. Number one, mind reading. Why do I say that? Well,
00:36:14.120
let me give you an example from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is a, I believe this is a tweet of his,
00:36:20.280
but it's a quote from him, April 10th. And Robert Kennedy Jr. says, public health advocates around
00:36:26.820
the world accuse Gates. Who are these people? They're not named. Okay. But they're around the
00:36:34.260
world, and they're accusing Gates. Now, that doesn't mean it's true, right? These are just accusations,
00:36:39.800
but I'll keep on going, of steering the World Health Organization's agenda away from projects
00:36:46.000
proven to curb infectious diseases, including clean water, hygiene, nutrition, and economic development
00:36:53.180
that serves Gates' philosophy. Oh, and then Gates is serving his own philosophy, that good health only
00:37:02.080
comes from a syringe. So this is Robert F. Kennedy reading Bill Gates' mind, because Bill Gates never
00:37:09.780
said, wouldn't you say? Bill Gates never said, good health only comes from a syringe. Do you think
00:37:17.620
he ever said that? Do you think he's ever suggested that? Do you think that Bill Gates doesn't think that
00:37:22.500
clean water and hygiene and nutrition are important? Really? Because he's developing toilets for Africa
00:37:31.120
to fix those problems. One of his biggest projects is fixing exactly the problem, hygiene, clean water,
00:37:41.840
nutrition separate, but I'm sure he's working on that too. So Bill Gates, one of the most famous people
00:37:49.180
in the world, doing the most anybody has ever done that I've even heard of, working on hygiene and clean
00:37:56.140
water, because they're related, because the waste in some African countries and undeveloped countries
00:38:02.000
goes into the water supply. So if you can fix the hygiene with a good toilet, then you also clean
00:38:08.060
the water at the same time. Bill Gates is literally one of the world's most involved, effective people
00:38:15.840
on the very thing, and in public. There's a Netflix special on Bill Gates doing exactly the thing
00:38:23.300
that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he's de-emphasizing. De-emphasizing? There's a Netflix
00:38:30.560
special on it. How do you de-emphasize something that there's a Netflix special on? And then he goes
00:38:38.380
on, and he says that Bill Gates' philosophy is that good health only comes from a syringe. Now let me ask
00:38:47.240
you, is that something you need to do research on? Do you need to research and Google to determine
00:38:55.560
whether it's true or false, this claim from Robert Kennedy, who is apparently a fucking idiot? Let's,
00:39:02.060
let's, you know. By the way, I had this opinion before this. From, from other situations, I had suspected
00:39:10.620
that Robert F. Kennedy was an idiot. Uh, and I, this confirms it in my mind. But you don't need
00:39:18.340
to do research to find out that Bill Gates does not have a philosophy, that good health only comes
00:39:25.000
from a syringe. Really? This is, this is pure Bigfoot material. Robert F. Kennedy says this in
00:39:32.580
public. I mean, this is crazy. This is crazy talk. All right, so let's, let's go to the rest. The other,
00:39:41.640
so the first category is mind reading, and that was my first example. So if your belief about Bill,
00:39:47.860
Bill Gates' evilness comes from what you believe he's thinking about eugenics, or what you believe he's
00:39:56.280
thinking about syringes and health, that's not good thinking. Let's go down to the next one.
00:40:02.980
Next one is guilt by association. There are many photographs of, uh, I don't know how many,
00:40:09.060
but there are photographs of Bill Gates with Jeffrey Epstein. It is, uh, well documented that they have
00:40:15.760
been in the same place, been photographed together, knew each other, and indeed, Bill Gates, I believe he's
00:40:21.960
even flown on Epstein's plane. So therefore guilty, right? Not only that, but apparently Bill Gates has
00:40:30.520
also been associated with this Abramovich woman who's been accused of satanic things. So there,
00:40:38.340
there you have it, right? Guilty. He's guilty. What could be more obvious than he has spent time
00:40:45.380
with people who have done things that, in one case, we know Epstein did bad things? Abramovich,
00:40:52.660
that's more of a murky situation, but you're convinced, right? They spent time together.
00:40:59.300
Did I not just open up this, uh, this periscope by telling you that I personally know two or three
00:41:08.160
people on this economic reopening committee? Now, what are the odds of that? The odds, as somebody
00:41:16.480
said earlier in the comments, the odds were pretty good because I'm a public figure. If you're a public
00:41:22.960
figure, have you ever been photographed with or spent significant time with people who, um, you found
00:41:31.700
out later were serious criminals or even were criminals at the time? I have, I have spent time
00:41:40.020
with some of the worst people on the planet earth. In fact, I've had a serial pedophile in my home
00:41:49.700
as a friend numerous times. A serial convicted pedophile in my home. Personal, personal friend.
00:42:04.920
Sounds bad, right? Except I didn't know it at the time. Do you think I knew it? No, I didn't know it.
00:42:13.440
I think he went to jail for 15 years soon after. I didn't know he was a pedophile. I didn't know he
00:42:19.400
was a serial pedophile, right? I wouldn't have him in my home if he was a serial pedophile.
00:42:26.460
But, um, if you look at, you know, the world of, of rich and famous people, here's the context that
00:42:34.300
you need to know. Jeffrey Epstein was one of these people who was a social, um, connector.
00:42:41.940
So Jeffrey Epstein knew everybody famous. If you took all the pictures of famous people who have
00:42:52.560
been on his plane, stood next to him, he met, he knows, is in his phone book, it would be, you know,
00:42:59.180
like half the people you've heard of. He was a connector. When people connect with you at, say,
00:43:06.080
this high level, you often say to yourself, well, I don't know much about this person,
00:43:11.760
but this person is the connection to this other person. So it is quite common among, you know,
00:43:17.920
the higher levels of rich people, of which I do get a, you know, a glimpse of that world fairly often.
00:43:25.360
It is very common that people connect independent of what they think of each other. Independent of
00:43:33.840
whether they think you're a crook, independent of whether they think you'll go to jail someday,
00:43:39.040
independent of whether you're a Democrat or Republican or socialist or a capitalist,
00:43:43.580
at the highest levels, you would find dogs and cats sleeping with each other all over the place,
00:43:51.080
right? The thing you don't think is true is that people with opposite feelings who should hate each
00:43:57.480
other, you think that they don't, they don't associate, but you're completely wrong.
00:44:02.860
At the highest, you know, sort of the rich level of people, they all associate. They all associate.
00:44:10.240
And there isn't that much distinction between the worst of them and the best of them in terms of
00:44:15.900
whether they're connected, whether they've ever been to each other's houses, whether they've been
00:44:20.020
on each other's planes. So if you see on a context, a picture of a famous pedophile, and he's standing
00:44:27.180
next to somebody else you know, of course it should raise a red flag. I agree with that. Of course it
00:44:34.160
should raise a flag. You're like, what are these two doing in that picture together? You don't think I
00:44:39.780
have pictures of me standing with horrible people? Seriously. Do you know how many pictures there must
00:44:45.240
be? I can't think of anybody in particular offhand. But don't you think there are plenty of public
00:44:51.340
pictures of me standing with murderers and God knows what? Of course. I've taken my picture with
00:44:57.720
thousands of people. And some of them are bad. I know that. Have I ever intentionally spent time
00:45:06.780
with people that I knew to have horrible, horrible things in their background? The answer is yes.
00:45:13.720
And I will continue to do so. I exert my right without restriction to associate with anyone.
00:45:21.540
And if you're blaming people by association, that's not rational. It's not rational. And it might be that
00:45:29.140
you just don't understand how normal it is for the worst people in the world to associate with people
00:45:35.600
who are not. It's so common that it doesn't mean anything. Now remember that Epstein and Bill Gates
00:45:43.120
were both in sort of a money finding world where they were sort of working on these high levels where
00:45:51.460
people were giving money and getting money and donating money and moving money. And so it shouldn't
00:45:58.340
be a big surprise that their paths crossed, but it doesn't mean much more than that. All right.
00:46:03.280
Here's the other thing that people miss. If you only hear one side of a story, it's always convincing.
00:46:14.260
So yesterday, somebody said, here's this anti-Bill Gates video showing that he's somehow tied in a
00:46:22.900
straight line from Adolf Hitler through the eugenics and the, you know, the eugenics movement and Planned
00:46:29.860
Parrot Hood and there's Bill Gates and it's all, it's all connected. And therefore he's basically
00:46:36.020
Hitler. And I look at this video and I say, totally, totally convincing. So the person who said it would
00:46:44.920
like to know whether the video was convincing. Absolutely. Totally convincing. You know what else is
00:46:51.840
convincing? Every video that doesn't show you the other side. If you think that watching the video
00:46:59.540
is convincing, well, you're an idiot. You're an idiot. Well, I think that too. So that part,
00:47:05.960
I'm an idiot too. So we're both idiots because we both watch the video and we say, yeah, that looks
00:47:13.160
totally persuasive, but you haven't seen his side. What happens when you see the other side? Well,
00:47:21.100
most of the time, the first story just falls apart. So if you're making a decision on Bill
00:47:25.200
Gates because you saw this video on the internet that made a really solid argument, you're not very
00:47:32.540
smart because the internet is full of videos that aren't real, that make just as good arguments because
00:47:42.000
they all have the same quality. You're not seeing the other side. The moment you see the other side,
00:47:47.500
it's going to fall apart. So that's the other. So you got your mind readers who are just literally
00:47:53.380
making up stuff and assigning it to Bill Gates. Ridiculous stuff. As if he has a philosophy that
00:47:59.500
good health only comes from a syringe. I mean, that's ridiculous on the surface, right? You don't
00:48:04.100
have to dig into that. Quotes and a context. That's the next one. So there are a bunch of quotes where
00:48:13.060
Bill Gates is talking about population control. There's one where he's predicting that there'll
00:48:17.680
be a coronavirus. What does any of that mean? Nothing. Nothing. It doesn't mean anything.
00:48:25.820
None of that means anything. Quotes taken out of context are only that. They should not convince
00:48:33.340
you of anything. If you see a quote from Bill Gates or anyone else, and it's out of context,
00:48:40.460
and it looks really evil, it's almost certainly not true. Almost certainly. And if it's true,
00:48:47.340
meaning that the quote actually happened, it's just out of context. So today, in fact, Steve
00:48:54.700
Cortez was tweeting around reminding us that Joe Biden's campaign was launched on the find people
00:49:02.160
hoax. Do you know how many people believe and believed that President Trump stood in front of the
00:49:09.140
public and said that the Nazis in Charlottesville were fine people? A lot of people believe that
00:49:16.140
because if you take one part of his quote out of context, which is what they did, it looks exactly
00:49:21.420
like that. And all the people who saw that out of context, did they say to themselves, well, I better
00:49:27.420
wait because this might be out of context? No. They said it's obvious. They said, I'm looking at it with my
00:49:33.500
own eyes. Scott, he said it. He said it. Look at it. Listen to it. Open your ears, Scott. Use your
00:49:41.440
eyes. Read the context. Read the transcript. Trump said those Nazis were fine people. How can you doubt
00:49:49.140
it? It's all here. Unless you actually look at the transcript and find out it's just taken out of
00:49:54.720
context. And it says literally the opposite of that. So quotes out of context should give you,
00:50:03.320
you should count them as zero usefulness. Exactly zero. Right? Not, it might be. If you see a quote
00:50:12.880
from a famous person that just looks really evil, the wrong way to think of it is, well, it might not be
00:50:18.700
true, but they wouldn't probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't, you know, probably true. No, it's the
00:50:24.980
opposite. A quote out of context by a famous person is almost always wrong. It's almost always just
00:50:33.980
propaganda. You should assume that that's true. All right. So you got your mind reading. You've got
00:50:39.420
the one side of the story videos that are always useless. You've got the quotes out of context, which
00:50:45.440
are always of zero value, zero, not even a little bit. And then you've got guilt by association,
00:50:53.120
because you knew he knows people that you don't like and have, in some cases have been demonstrated
00:50:59.340
to have done horrible things. These are, this is sort of it. This is the argument. Now, people have
00:51:08.320
asked me, Scott, can you prove that none of this is true? And of course, you can't prove that things are
00:51:13.160
not true. So I'm going to take this back all the way back to Santa Claus. If you're tweeting this
00:51:19.220
sort of conspiracy crap about Bill Gates, this is Santa Claus, well, it's Jonah, professional
00:51:31.520
wrestling, Jerry Springer, fine people hoax bullshit. This is the bullshittiest bullshit. Do not insult
00:51:42.740
me by asking me to detail my argument of why Santa Claus is not real. I'm not going to detail my
00:51:50.080
argument about why people can't live in a fish's belly for three days. I'm not going to detail my
00:51:55.860
argument about why wrestling is acting. I'm not going to give you my argument about why all the
00:52:04.640
reality shows on TV are at least a little bit scripted. You know, maybe the producers give them
00:52:10.500
a little nudge, if you know what I mean. I'm not going to give you an argument for that.
00:52:15.360
It's obviously not true. Right? Somebody says, what about Gates supporting the World Health
00:52:22.020
Organization? That's, now that's a good question. Right? So I'm going to give credit where credit
00:52:28.880
is due. So somebody in the comments says that Bill Gates, and this part's true and demonstrated,
00:52:34.280
you can all see it for yourself. Bill Gates, even today, is saying that the World Health
00:52:40.820
Organization is important and should be maintained. So what about that? What about it? What about
00:52:51.720
that? What's your point? Because do you know who else thinks the World Health Organization should
00:52:58.120
remain in business? Everybody. Everybody. So Bill Gates has the same opinion as everybody,
00:53:08.600
that the World Health Organization would be good to maintain. What does President Trump think about
00:53:15.880
the World Organization? Same thing. Same thing. If you were to talk privately to President Trump,
00:53:28.120
of course, I can't read his mind, but just do a sanity check. Do you think the President,
00:53:36.040
as his first choice, is that the World Health Organization disappear completely? Does anybody
00:53:42.900
think that's President Trump's first choice? Do you? No, you don't think that. You know,
00:53:50.840
because you've been watching President Trump for enough years, that he's a negotiator,
00:53:55.580
and his opening offer is the whole World Health Organization is going to go away because I
00:54:01.780
pulled off my funding. That's the risk. Remember, he didn't even say he's pulling away the funding.
00:54:07.440
He said he's holding the funding until they do the research into what happened. Don't you think
00:54:14.060
President Trump would be happier with replacing the leadership and having more influence over the
00:54:20.160
World Health Organization? Don't you think that President Trump would be happier with just the
00:54:25.180
leadership change? Because the World Health Organization does actual real things. Bill Gates
00:54:30.220
knows it. Everybody knows it, right? So if you think that Bill Gates and Trump disagree on the World
00:54:39.280
Health Organization, you haven't been paying attention. They are on exactly the same page. Did you see Bill
00:54:45.060
Gates say, I have complete and total confidence in the leadership of the World Health Organization?
00:54:49.640
No, no. And by the way, if you do see that, then I would like to change everything I just said.
00:54:57.940
And I will agree with you that Bill Gates is a malign influence on the world and must be stopped.
00:55:04.580
Let's just let's make it easy. If ever you see Bill Gates, and by the way, I haven't even looked. So I'm
00:55:11.740
going to make this. I'm going to make this assumption without even looking without even checking
00:55:16.580
first. If you see Bill Gates say that he has complete confidence in the head of the World
00:55:22.660
Health Organization, and that they did a good job recently on this coronavirus. If he says that,
00:55:29.960
well, I'll take your opinion. And I will just say, yeah, God, I guess you're right. I didn't realize
00:55:34.680
Bill Gates is just evil. But but it's got to be that. If the only thing you hear is Bill Gates saying
00:55:41.360
that the organization is important, especially in a time of pandemic, then that's the same opinion as
00:55:47.500
Trump. Don't try to don't try to pretend those are different opinions. One is negotiating. And the
00:55:53.720
other is just describing. Bill Gates is just describing World Health Organization, they do a lot of good
00:56:01.200
things. If he talks about the leadership being excellent, well, then fuck him, right? Can we agree on
00:56:08.180
that? If you see Bill Gates agreeing with the leadership of who? Well, we're dead, we're done
00:56:14.980
with them. Can we all agree with that? If he does that, we will collectively and I will be on your
00:56:20.800
side. We will never listen to him again. And we will try to shun him from all future public activities.
00:56:28.320
If he does that, he's not going to do that. He's not. All right.
00:56:33.720
So on Twitter, I'll be blocking all the people who still think who still believe the Santa Claus
00:56:43.160
stories about Bill Gates. Now, I'm not going to tell you that Bill Gates has never made mistakes.
00:56:49.100
There's there's at least one story in which some vaccines he was involved with probably hurt some
00:56:56.640
people. If you heard his side of the story, I believe you would probably understand it in a
00:57:02.840
different light. But it may also be true that people who test new medical solutions,
00:57:10.160
they probably hurt people. Some of them probably die. But of course, the whole point of it is that
00:57:16.240
you hope to save more people in the long run than died. You know, you're blaming Bill Gates for
00:57:22.200
eugenics as he works every day and dedicates his fortune to helping more people in Africa live.
00:57:29.260
And he is literally working every day to keep people alive in Africa. And you frickin idiots
00:57:36.580
want to tear him down. And I got to say, I take it a little bit personally. Because what the stuff
00:57:43.700
that Bill Gates is at least attempting to do, and I think has done, are of such monumental, at least
00:57:50.580
potential importance, that when I watch people try to stop him, because they believe in Santa Claus
00:57:57.900
and Bigfoot, I get a little bit angry about it. Because I would like the people in Africa
00:58:06.020
to have a better life. And I think stopping Bill Gates from making that happen, or at least attempting
00:58:11.380
to make that happen, is one of the biggest mistakes in the history of mistakes.
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Oh, somebody says you light my soul today. You know, I needed that. Thank you. Thank you.
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Because I, you know, I didn't feel like, I certainly didn't feel like I was lighting anybody's soul
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today. I felt like I was just being angry and critical. So the fact that you were getting
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something positive out of this actually makes me really happy. Because I didn't feel like I
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was rising to the challenge today, frankly. So I'll block the people who are the Santa Claus
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believers. How many people died? I don't have a real number on that, but it's too many. You
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can see I take it personally. I do take it personally. I do take it personally. If somebody's
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tried to stop somebody from saving millions of souls in Africa, I take it personally. Yeah.
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Yeah. If you're, if you're doing something that will, could kill millions. Yeah. I take
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Donate your money and get out of the way. Okay. I will block you for that opinion. This
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is helpful. Oh, so some of you appreciated this and I appreciate that you're telling me because
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I actually didn't know. Gates has been a cutthroat opportunist his whole career. Gates has been
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a, yeah, I would say a cutthroat capitalist, but his plan always had been, and he's executing
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it, is to move from cutthroat capitalist to most effective philanthropist. So I wouldn't
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say his whole career. Sad. Can't ask questions about important people. Who told you you can't
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ask questions about important people? How many lived? Oh, in terms of the vaccinations? Well,
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I think it was a vaccination trial. So I don't know if it saved anybody's life, but at least
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allegedly there was some damage there. Trump also wants the World Health Organization to stay. Of
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course he does. Of course he does. Who, who actually doubted that? That's crazy. Gates already
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controls. Well, Gates is, puts in a little over a billion and the United States put in a lot more
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than that. Or did we, did we put in millions or billions? Did Gates put in more money than we did
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to the World Health Organization? I actually don't know the answer to that. Scott wants the world
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vaccinated so his weak immune system can persist. Mind readers get blocked. You're always going to get
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blocked if you say, Scott thinks, you know, any sentence that comes after that, Scott thinks that
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X, probably going to get blocked. Do you think Texas, Florida, California should open up? Yes, I do.
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Yes, I do. You know, yesterday I told myself, you know, if any stores are open, aside from grocery
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stores, I, I'm, I've decided that I will frequent them. In other words, if I could walk to Starbucks
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today, I can't because it's closed, but if I could, I would start today. So my personal decision is that
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I'm coming out of isolation carefully, carefully, but if any local businesses want to open up, I will
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give you some business. I can only speak for myself and I don't even recommend what you do. I'm only
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speaking for myself. Um, what about Bigfoot? The Michigan governor thoughts? Well, yes. So here's
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my thoughts about the Michigan governor. And I will generalize this to what I think should be done.
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You saw me put together a checklist the other day. I tweeted around and it was sort of a, uh, a framework
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or a format of how to think about going back to work. And the way I think that it can work in really
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the only way is for the government to let the, the individuals make their own individual decisions,
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but informed. So for example, uh, we should have a website that has a checklist and any citizen can
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go on there and say, okay, um, over 60, uh, male, I have these conditions. I, I can socially isolate at
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work. I have to commute in a group, uh, you know, and all those things. So we, we probably have 15
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different factors from what zip code are you in, you know, which will tell you if your hospitals are
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impacted, et cetera. So the government could fairly easily build a checklist and then you fill in your
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checklist and say, okay, all these apply to me. And then it spits down a score. Now let's say your
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score says you can safely go back to work as long as you're careful, you know, still do the mask and
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distancing or whatever. And then let's say you get a score that's too low and your score is like below
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the limit and it's too risky. Should the government be able to tell you not to go to work because some
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number plopped out of this thing that said it's too risky for you. And the answer is no, because
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America, right? The government can tell me what my risk is. The government can't tell me not to take a
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risk. It doesn't have that right. And, you know, while we all, I think we all respect with or without the
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benefit of constitutional support, I think we all respect the basic concept that in an emergency,
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as long as your government seems to be acting, let's say, respectfully and rationally, you do want
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to let them make decisions and sort of take the lead in an emergency. It just makes sense.
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But as time goes by, if the government is not performing in a way that you need as a citizen,
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you do get to take your power back. All right. And we're at that point. So I'm taking my power back
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as of today. Now, I don't have any option about going and shopping at my local stores because they're
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not open, but I can make my own decisions today. And I've decided that the isolation in terms of staying
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home is over for me today. So today will be my last day of being as careful as I have been. I'll still
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be careful. I'm not going to be crazy, right? Don't be crazy. You know, stay safe. But it's time to get
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back to work. So I think we need to have some kind of a checklist from the government. And then people need
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to make their own decisions. So tying this back to the question about the Michigan governor,
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here's what she did wrong. She micromanaged. That's it. So the Michigan governor did not say,
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these things are risky and these things are not. Use your judgment. She said, you can't go in the
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part of the store that has the vegetable seeds, you know, the garden seeds. And the people said,
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you know, I might need to grow some vegetables. And if you, the government, are preventing me from
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growing my own food in my backyard during what, you know, some people might be worried about a food
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shortage, then I think the government has lost credibility. Because there's a level of micromanaging
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that everybody recognizes as too much. And she found it. So she found that level that was just too much.
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Because people should be able to buy farming equipment if we're turning into an agrarian society,
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you know, whether we like it or not. Now, I heard the most interesting thing on Tucker last night.
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I love it when I hear something that I'm positive I understand the situation. And then you hear
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something that just blows your freaking mind. And you go, all right, all right, I guess I can be that
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wrong. And here it is. You heard that in some states, liquor stores were considered essential
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services. And what was your first reaction to that? Are you freaking kidding me? Are you kidding
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me? A liquor store is an essential service? That's craziness. Did somebody get bribed? What?
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Right? Didn't you all have that feeling? And then you heard that, you know, you could go to the liquor
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store, but you couldn't go to church, even if you were in your car. You didn't even get out of your
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car. You can't go to church. You said to yourself, well, this is insanity. Well, I think the church thing
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was overdone, but not the liquor store decision. And I heard, so Tucker had, I guess, was a governor on,
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and he explained why the liquor stores were essential business. And if you haven't already
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figured this out, it's going to blow your mind. Here's why. Because there are so many alcoholics.
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You see it? If you're an alcoholic, and you're not in actually, you know, a recovery program,
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and maybe you've got some medical assistance, maybe you're tapering off, whatever you're doing,
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if you're not, well, tapering probably doesn't work. But if you're not in some kind of a controlled
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detox situation, it's deadly. It's medically deadly. So the worst thing in the world would be
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that 10% of our population are alcoholics, but they're functional, most of them. So most people
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are just functional alcoholics. What would happen if they couldn't get alcohol? They would steal,
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right? They would rob a freaking store. I mean, not all of them, but you don't want 10%
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of your public on the ground shaking and incapable of, you know, of functioning. So isn't that a
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complete, like, mind spinner? That the first time you heard liquor stores are essential, you said,
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well, that's just, that's just crazy. But then you hear, oh, yeah, 10% of our public are alcoholics.
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And for them, it's actually medically required in the short run. In the long run, it would be better,
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of course, to find some way to get off it. But in the short run, it's actually medically required.
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And the governor, to his credit, I forget which governor it was, New Jersey, I think. The governor,
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to his credit, explained it and said, we went to the experts. And we said, experts,
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can we close all the liquor stores? And the experts, the experts said, whoa, you don't do that.
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It'll be, it'll be a disaster that you don't see coming. Because they're experts. And I think
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they're right on that one. So I don't always disagree with the experts. But when the experts
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say something that is so plainly, obviously true, well, then I do. Then I do. So here's a perfect
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example. Remember when I said you can't believe anything about Bill Gates, if all you saw was
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one side? How long did you only see the one side of the liquor store story? And were you not
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totally convinced that there was nothing else to know? How could there be another side? Right?
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How could there be another side to the story that liquor stores are essential? Like you didn't,
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you didn't see that coming, did you? But, but keep that one in your mind. Remember the liquor store
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example as your way of reminding yourself in the future that if you've only seen one side,
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you don't know anything. It's a real good discipline to have. All right. I've talked too long.
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I'm going to go now and do something else. And I will talk to you tonight. You know when.