How many coronavirus tests do we need to do per day to open up the country to new patients? How many people need to be tested per day? How long should we wait before we can get back to work? Is it safe to resume testing?
00:04:12.700Why would he call it for an armed revolution against the government he's in charge of?
00:04:17.280Now, I know we're talking about the states, but no.
00:04:20.820No, the president doesn't want some kind of insurrection, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind a little bit of protesting about the stuff that's maybe over the line.
00:04:31.980So this is a good example of what I would call creative tension.
00:04:41.580Anybody who says they know when we should go back to work or how long we should wait or even how we should do it or how many tests we need, nobody really knows.
00:04:51.520Not only do we not know, we're probably not even in the general ballpark.
00:04:56.340You know, I don't think anybody's even close to knowing, you know, the big stuff.
00:05:01.600So let's watch the number of tests and maybe we can get back to work.
00:05:13.280Anyway, what I was saying about creative tension is that I think it's good that some part of the public and the president are putting pressure on the states to open up as early as they can because it's creative pressure.
00:05:27.780You know, you would want the president to have the same impulse as the public because he's really good at reading the crowd.
00:05:34.760And I think he's read the crowd, at least in those important states, you know, swing states, et cetera.
00:06:26.460Maybe there'd be some kind of, you can imagine a situation in which things have gone too far and then they would be the most dangerous people in the galaxy.
00:06:37.380You know, we're talking about, you know, negotiating what makes sense in a world where everybody is trying to do the right thing.
00:06:44.600You know, you don't really have a revolution when you know that everybody involved is actually trying to do the right thing.
00:06:51.780You know, there's nobody here who's trying to grab Bauer.
00:06:54.960I mean, you know, they're playing some games in Congress, but that's not the big story.
00:06:59.820So you don't have a revolution when everybody knows they're on the same team.
00:07:04.300They just have a disagreement about the way forward.
00:07:07.380So I would say that that is a much safer situation than maybe the news would like to make it so that you feel a little more frightened by it.
00:07:17.240You could pour 10 million Trump supporters into a zip code, angry as heck, armed to the teeth, and there would be no trouble.
00:07:26.820Like that, that's pretty much who they are.
00:07:29.620It's almost a, it's almost a description of the group is that you could put 10 million of them into the same zip code, angry as hell, armed to the teeth, and nobody would get hurt.
00:07:40.960That's almost a perfect description of that group.
00:07:45.860Anyway, I was just watching a clip from Tucker Carlson's show in which he was saying that the intelligence community is now unanimous.
00:07:57.420You know, the intelligence community is a bunch of different organizations, right?
00:10:03.960How many of you have taken the opportunity of this forced time out to improve something?
00:10:14.380You know, I've asked this before, but I like to ask at least once a week.
00:10:18.200How many of you have done something that was sort of long overdue to build a skill to maybe look into another career to improve something about yourself?
00:10:30.720You know, in the comments, give me some sense just in a sentence.
00:10:40.380You know, did you make any improvement in your life because you had time?
00:10:44.900So there's a little delay in the comments, so it'll take me a while to see those.
00:10:48.180So I'll tell you that in my case, I think I've lost several pounds.
00:10:53.920I'm in great shape, eating better than I've ever eaten before.
00:10:59.280I've, you know, completed two projects business-wise that were really important to me.
00:11:06.480You'll hear more about those in a little while.
00:11:08.600And, oh, yes, good, something of learning German, cooking, songwriting skills, started exercising, thumbs up, started biking, built a picnic table, core strength, better throwing tomahawks, learned to weld, moved his tapes to files, computer programming, automating stuff, writing a book, security and certification, good.
00:13:29.900I believe that just about everything that we do in this world is somehow related to the mating instinct.
00:13:36.280Now, of course, this isn't me saying this alone.
00:13:40.440This is, I think, very similar to what biologists and evolutionary biologists especially would say.
00:13:45.860They would say that pretty much everything we do is some kind of a signaling or preparing for or because of our mating instinct.
00:14:00.880Now, that's the filter that I want to give you, so start with that.
00:14:05.380Let's say you want to build a better relationship or you want to start a relationship with somebody and you haven't.
00:14:10.920So if you take this filter and say, okay, if everything's about mating, even if we don't think of it that way, how would you act differently?
00:14:24.780You should always, in the animal kingdom, the way they would attract a mate would be showing off.
00:14:31.440And, you know, a peacock can show off, and I don't know if that's really a mating thing, but let's say it is.
00:14:36.220But animals will sort of display and show off and, you know, try to be dominant and stuff.
00:14:41.880But most of that stuff doesn't work in human society because if you try to challenge somebody to, you know, a horn-butting contest, that doesn't go well.
00:14:52.560If you try to, you know, just yell how great you are in public, that doesn't go well.
00:15:07.940You should find something, or ideally more than one thing, that you can be unusually good at.
00:15:14.520And it should either demonstrate that you're smart or strong or talented, athletic, musical, you know, any one of those talents or skills or qualities.
00:15:27.520If you can figure out how to hone any of those, starting with whatever you're good at, but see if you can become really good at something just by, you know, brute force and practice.
00:15:39.720And then you have to figure out how to broadcast it.
00:16:20.320If you ask somebody, hey, you know, make a list of all the things that attract you in a mate, they would make a list, but it would be all wrong because people don't really know why they like what they like.
00:16:31.760So nowhere on the list would be this person displayed good genetic material, and I think making a baby with this person would cause them to be smart or, you know, athletic or strong or something, whatever that quality is.
00:16:58.540The wrong filter is that people are rational, they make their checklist, they say, yep, I need this and this and this, a little bit.
00:17:07.200You know, there's certainly some things that people just need, you know, have to talk the same language, you know, some basics.
00:17:16.040But I think that people are just biologically triggered by being around anybody who has some strong quality, and it almost doesn't matter what it is.
00:17:24.560Any really strong quality is just, you know, automatically triggers your biological instinct to say, well, I want to mate with that.
00:20:47.660You know, I couldn't actually feel it.
00:20:50.180So anyway, so we started going through all of the humorous things that my hologram would do when it starts haunting her for eternity and just appearing in the house in different places.
00:21:01.720And we just started like screaming and crying because it was so funny.
00:21:05.180But, you know, we're in a long-term relationship, in which case humor is great.
00:21:12.220It's great in a long-term relationship.
00:21:14.240But it's just not really a quartership thing.
00:21:33.920The one most approachable thing, the one thing you have the most control over is your fitness.
00:21:39.300And this is something that a suit salesman taught me years ago.
00:21:47.340It was one of the coolest life lessons.
00:21:49.660I was buying a suit, and the suit salesman was a real good salesman.
00:21:56.660And, you know, so you end up spending a lot of time with your salesman if you're buying a suit.
00:22:00.780And I was making some self-deprecating humor about the fact that it didn't matter what my suit looked like.
00:22:08.020Because, you know, if you're basically a short, bald guy with glasses, there's just so much you can do.
00:22:15.040You know, it's not like you can – you can't fix that with a good suit.
00:22:18.380So I was just making a self-deprecating joke.
00:22:21.680Killing time was having my suit fitted.
00:22:25.320And the suit salesman gave me the best – some of the best advice I've ever heard in my life.
00:22:29.920And he said this, he said that if you work out and get your body in, you know, better than normal shape so that, you know, people would recognize that you're above average and you're just your fitness, he said nobody will notice you're bald.
00:22:46.540And I laughed because I was like, well, you know, that's a little too far, right?
00:22:52.120You can't exercise until people don't notice you're bald.
00:24:11.820And all you have to do is take care of your physical fitness.
00:24:15.860So if somebody is giving you, you know, dating or relationship advice and it doesn't include work on your fitness, then it's missing a huge part.
00:25:55.580I find that relationships work best when you've got a good understanding of who's got what responsibility and powers and stuff.
00:26:08.060So trying to make everything 50-50 is probably the worst relationship system because you're always going to be arguing that one of you didn't do enough.
00:26:22.320It's like, well, you know, I worked all day today.
00:26:50.500And I'm going to tell you a little tip that I discovered years ago when I was in one of those relationships.
00:26:58.880So years ago, I was in a relationship where we were trying to, you know, just share the household duties and stuff.
00:27:04.380But the problem was that let's say my ex, let's say that she wasn't around and there was something that broke in the house and I would like work all day fixing, I don't know, the plumbing or cleaning up the mess or the cat vomited on the rug or something.
00:27:22.300So I'll be spending hours cleaning something up.
00:27:28.400And then, you know, your partner comes home and does the dishes and then says, well, I did the dishes and what'd you do?
00:27:38.580So we had this problem that we didn't have visibility of who was doing what because so much of the things that get done, the other one wouldn't notice unless you're in the room.
00:27:49.700So we developed a credit system and it went like this.
00:27:53.100You would be responsible for advertising what you did, no matter how minor.
00:28:00.400So we would just say, yeah, credit for cleaning up that dead bird in the backyard.
00:28:08.460And then the other one would have to say, you know, credit, you know, just to acknowledge it.
00:28:12.760And you would be amazed how when you take the onus off of your partner, you take the onus off of your partner to somehow know what you're doing.
00:28:43.580But if you simply announced that you did something, then both of you are just announcing what you want credit for and you don't have to worry about not getting credit.
00:28:54.900Because if you didn't announce that you did it, well, it's your own damn fault.
00:28:57.720So it just became more of a game to say, yeah, credit for doing this, credit for doing that.
00:29:04.460And it was, it just added visibility to what we were doing anyway.
00:32:59.300There are so many guys I know who got into a relationship with somebody who had a dog, and they thought, well, okay, on day one, the dog is more important than me, right?
00:33:11.940We own day two, sure, the dog is more important than me.
00:33:14.660And maybe the first few weeks, I get it, you know?
00:33:18.900And maybe even for a few months, I get, you've been with the dog a long time.
00:33:23.300So, yeah, I get it in the beginning, the dog would be more important than me, but eventually, eventually I'll make up the difference.
00:33:30.800Eventually, I'll be more important than the dog.
00:33:53.300Somebody says, so don't date people with kids.
00:33:57.220Well, I won't give you advice like that, but I will tell you that if you do date people with kids, you should go into it with a realistic understanding of where priorities lie.
00:34:10.420If you're not okay with that, then you should know that from, you know, day one.
00:34:16.200It's not like you're going to, you know, move up in the ranking and become more important than somebody's children.