The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - My Latest Appearance on The Rubin Report - Academia, Immigration, & Jew-Hatred (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

00:00:00.000 There's an expression in the Arab world,

00:00:02.560 first we come for the Saturday people,

00:00:04.840 then we come for the Sunday people.

00:00:07.000 The Saturday people are the Jews,

00:00:09.440 but it doesn't stop with the Jews.

00:00:11.280 Then we come for the Sunday people, the Christians, right?

00:00:13.760 Or the old, I quote this in the person,

00:00:16.240 I don't remember the exact quote, you know,

00:00:18.400 first they came for this and then I ignored it.

00:00:20.140 They came for the trade unionists.

00:00:22.620 I ignored it.

00:00:24.140 So it's the same principle, which is many people,

00:00:27.260 to our earlier point,

00:00:28.300 you only react when the knock comes on your door

00:00:31.800 until there is no diabetes.

00:00:33.620 No one in my family has diabetes, so it can't be real.

00:00:36.880 And so I think the Christians and the other Muslims

00:00:39.440 that are in the West have to wake up

00:00:41.340 because the ideology that might first have their sight

00:00:46.140 on the Jews won't stop at them, right?

00:00:48.420 I mean, as we both know, in many cases,

00:00:52.860 the biggest victims of Islamic extremism are Muslims, right?

00:00:58.300 Because you're not Muslim enough, right?

00:01:00.160 So ISIS killed mainly Muslims.

00:01:04.000 They weren't able to get to the Jews.

00:01:06.420 And so you can't simply say,

00:01:09.800 this doesn't affect me because ultimately,

00:01:11.940 anti-Semitism doesn't come to my home.

00:01:14.760 I'm Christian.

00:01:15.440 I'm living in Arkansas.

00:01:16.820 Give it five years.

00:01:18.020 Give it 50 years.

00:01:18.820 Give it 500 years.

00:01:19.840 It will come for you.

00:01:20.940 And so act now rather than then.

00:01:30.220 I'm here with a man who I think needs no introduction

00:01:33.040 at this point, at least to be on this show.

00:01:35.580 He is an evolutionary scientist.

00:01:37.580 He is an author.

00:01:38.920 He is a professor.

00:01:40.920 He is a rabble rouser.

00:01:42.920 Dare I say a bit of a Twitter troll?

00:01:45.360 Can I say a bit of teeny tiny?

00:01:47.620 If it demands it.

00:01:48.400 A bit of a Twitter troll.

00:01:49.740 My old friend Gad said the first ever guest on the Rubin Report.

00:01:54.200 This is probably your dozen,

00:01:56.620 maybe 12th, 14th, 15th appearance on the show.

00:02:00.080 It's also, this is the first time we've done this setup.

00:02:02.920 Gorgeous.

00:02:03.360 What do you think?

00:02:03.960 We thought we'd do something a little friendlier,

00:02:05.740 not so oppositional.

00:02:07.040 And you are looking trim.

00:02:09.300 Should we start there?

00:02:10.320 You also have lost a bunch of weight.

00:02:12.300 I have.

00:02:12.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:13.040 You're out there kicking the soccer balls,

00:02:14.780 playing basketball.

00:02:15.720 We're going to shoot some hoops later.

00:02:17.080 I didn't bring any attire,

00:02:19.640 but we'll see what happens.

00:02:20.880 We'll get you out there.

00:02:21.720 But no, but you are trim.

00:02:23.980 And that fits with your last book,

00:02:25.680 which is all about happiness.

00:02:27.060 Apparently taking care of yourself has something to do with that.

00:02:29.500 Indeed.

00:02:29.900 You know, the psychological weight of having young children

00:02:34.840 and not putting all the odds in my favor.

00:02:37.780 My physician kept saying the blood pressure is starting to inch up.

00:02:42.740 You need to lose weight.

00:02:44.400 And there's nothing better than having young children

00:02:47.160 and you want to be around for them as long as possible.

00:02:49.520 So when COVID came around,

00:02:51.080 I thought let's turn this really draconian negative into a positive.

00:02:55.960 Stopped eating, started training and lost tons of weight.

00:02:59.020 Well, I feel you, man,

00:03:00.120 because you just met the two 20-month-olds out there.

00:03:02.640 And I got a couple of years that I need to stay in shape.

00:03:05.420 So anyway, we could talk about our physiques all day long,

00:03:08.060 but let's talk about things going on in the world.

00:03:11.000 Well, you know, at first,

00:03:11.720 why don't we start where I usually start with you

00:03:13.580 when I have you in studio,

00:03:14.720 which is we've been doing this a long time now.

00:03:17.300 I mean, that first interview we did was 2015, nine years ago.

00:03:21.060 It feels like many lifetimes ago for me.

00:03:23.620 Do you feel that somehow all of the things that you and I

00:03:27.820 and a bunch of other people were talking about,

00:03:29.860 Douglas Murray and Jordan Peterson,

00:03:31.140 and everyone knows the list,

00:03:32.700 that did we somehow miss the mark?

00:03:34.480 Because the world has seemingly gotten worse in the nine years.

00:03:38.340 It's so frustrating, right?

00:03:39.740 Because, I mean, to go back to the earlier point about health,

00:03:42.880 imagine if you go see your physician

00:03:44.400 and he or she keeps warning you,

00:03:46.900 screaming from top of the mountain,

00:03:48.340 you've got to do X, Y, Z,

00:03:49.740 and you just keep ignoring it.

00:03:51.460 And then bad things happen.

00:03:53.120 That's exactly what's happened with,

00:03:54.940 you know, the ecosystem that we operate in,

00:03:57.280 which is many of us have been standing on top of the mountain,

00:04:00.220 some of us in the media,

00:04:01.300 some of us in academia,

00:04:02.220 some of us in both,

00:04:03.580 saying, guys, this is what's coming down the pipeline,

00:04:06.940 and yet people don't want to hear it.

00:04:08.540 Do you think we did anything wrong?

00:04:10.540 Do you think there was a way?

00:04:11.580 Or is the guy who yells from the top of the mountain,

00:04:15.140 is he always ignored?

00:04:16.260 That's sort of repetitive in human history.

00:04:17.960 So I've been recently talking about the idea

00:04:20.040 that there is a, unfortunately,

00:04:22.760 a poor design of the architecture of the human mind,

00:04:25.920 whereby you ignore things

00:04:28.060 unless it comes and hits you exactly in your home, right?

00:04:31.880 So take someone like Bill Ackman,

00:04:33.540 whom I really respect and I love what he's doing,

00:04:36.080 but Bill Ackman only woke up

00:04:38.540 when it hit his alma mater,

00:04:41.620 hit, you know, Jewish-related issues.

00:04:45.260 But had he, you know,

00:04:46.960 been awake to many of these things,

00:04:49.600 maybe he could have entered the fray a bit earlier.

00:04:52.080 For people that don't know him real quick,

00:04:54.500 he's basically a tech guy,

00:04:56.280 billionaire tech guy, very influential.

00:04:57.780 He's built some great products

00:04:58.700 and sort of woke up after October 7th.

00:05:01.740 Although, did you happen to see that

00:05:03.280 just four or five days ago,

00:05:05.680 he had retweeted a video of Ron DeSantis

00:05:08.040 saying that there never was a Palestinian state

00:05:10.260 and why you should call it Judea and Samaria

00:05:12.200 and not the West Bank

00:05:13.600 and a bunch of other truths.

00:05:15.020 He retweeted it and then deleted it

00:05:17.220 when he got pushback.

00:05:18.500 So he's still not there yet.

00:05:20.160 And I say that with the same sort of respect

00:05:22.160 that you're referring to.

00:05:23.720 Yeah, you always want to encourage people.

00:05:25.460 I mean, you don't want to go to people

00:05:26.560 and hammer them and say,

00:05:28.020 hey, you're coming too late to the game.

00:05:29.560 You still want to encourage people

00:05:30.880 better late than never.

00:05:32.460 But it is frustrating because,

00:05:34.260 look, the problem will eventually get solved,

00:05:37.340 but it can either get solved

00:05:38.680 with a lot less violence,

00:05:40.060 a lot less cost,

00:05:41.040 or it can get solved later down the line

00:05:42.900 with more cost.

00:05:43.920 Kind of like you catch the cancer early

00:05:46.200 or you catch it when it's metastasized

00:05:48.440 and it's stage four.

00:05:49.280 But evolutionarily,

00:05:51.060 do we just always wait till it's too bad?

00:05:54.500 I mean, what are societies

00:05:55.920 that were heading off the cliff that didn't?

00:05:58.260 Like, is there evidence that groups

00:05:59.740 just don't do the worst thing possible over time?

00:06:04.720 It depends.

00:06:05.340 I mean, there is something called

00:06:06.900 the negativity bias,

00:06:08.240 which would argue against what we're discussing,

00:06:10.220 which is we tend to pay more attention

00:06:13.360 to negative information

00:06:14.840 than we tend to be equivalent

00:06:17.720 and symmetric on the positive side,

00:06:19.720 precisely because ignoring positive information

00:06:22.480 doesn't loom, evolutionarily speaking,

00:06:24.500 as big as ignoring negative information.

00:06:28.620 And so you would think,

00:06:29.520 according to the negativity bias,

00:06:30.940 everybody should be attuned to these things.

00:06:32.980 But I think it's too scary.

00:06:34.400 And hence, that's why in the parasitic mind,

00:06:36.200 if you might remember in chapter six,

00:06:37.680 I have a whole chapter on ostrich parasitic syndrome.

00:06:40.360 And here again,

00:06:41.800 even though the ostrich doesn't literally

00:06:43.740 bury its head in the sand,

00:06:45.060 the metaphor is very apt

00:06:46.300 because it describes

00:06:47.300 the natural default value of people,

00:06:49.740 which is bury my head in the sand

00:06:51.180 and hopefully cross fingers,

00:06:52.960 the problem will go away.

00:06:53.920 It doesn't.

00:06:54.720 So are you seeing now,

00:06:56.160 maybe since October 7th,

00:06:57.800 and then also relative to what's going on

00:06:59.500 with our borders

00:07:00.180 and a whole bunch of other stuff,

00:07:01.540 that maybe a few more ostriches

00:07:03.600 are at least peeking out of the sand

00:07:05.580 every now and again?

00:07:06.460 It seems like they're getting there.

00:07:07.700 That's sort of what you're referring to with Ackman.

00:07:09.460 But the question is

00:07:10.920 how to complete the hero's journey with them.

00:07:13.960 So yes, and even in academia,

00:07:15.560 I'm starting to see

00:07:16.660 a growing number of academics

00:07:18.100 very gently pulling their head out of the sand,

00:07:21.360 but not at a speed

00:07:23.500 that I would like them to, right?

00:07:25.280 So, you know,

00:07:26.180 the monster is coming at you

00:07:27.580 at 100 miles per hour

00:07:29.220 and you're auto-correcting

00:07:30.380 at two miles an hour.

00:07:31.480 That doesn't,

00:07:32.280 it's not a fast enough auto-correction.

00:07:34.540 So yes,

00:07:35.560 there is some optimistic signals out there,

00:07:38.440 but not fast enough.

00:07:40.800 Has the academic layer of all of this

00:07:42.500 been the most shocking part of it to you

00:07:44.440 that so many of the academics

00:07:46.780 that you work with,

00:07:47.660 and I want to talk about Concordia specifically

00:07:49.460 because you've got a serious headache

00:07:51.040 on your hands over there,

00:07:52.620 but that so many professors

00:07:54.300 who are tenured

00:07:56.440 and should not only be teaching

00:07:58.820 the right things,

00:07:59.380 I'm sort of past that point,

00:08:00.520 let's say they're going to teach

00:08:01.320 the wrong things,

00:08:01.840 but at least still be able to stand up

00:08:03.640 for some basic principles

00:08:04.980 that we thought they believed in

00:08:06.080 that they have checked out too.

00:08:08.100 Yeah, so I,

00:08:08.920 and this is not to be facetious,

00:08:10.600 but I really,

00:08:11.260 I often argue that

00:08:13.240 I discovered a new species.

00:08:15.640 They're called academics

00:08:16.840 and they're defined

00:08:18.240 by being invertebrate castrati.

00:08:21.300 Invertebrate because they have no spine

00:08:22.860 and castrati because they don't have

00:08:24.620 any testicles, right?

00:08:25.900 And it's really regrettable

00:08:27.280 because you would think

00:08:28.260 as a tenured professor,

00:08:29.680 there is an institutional mechanism

00:08:31.880 that protects you

00:08:33.220 precisely so that you can speak your mind,

00:08:35.600 so that you can do the research

00:08:36.720 that you...

00:08:37.320 It's quite literally

00:08:37.900 the whole point of tenureship, right?

00:08:38.940 That's literally the whole point, right?

00:08:40.520 That's, I mean,

00:08:40.940 you had Socrates who was executed,

00:08:42.980 you had Galileo

00:08:43.800 who was put under house arrest.

00:08:45.460 We decided that we can't have academics

00:08:47.880 not be able to engage in free thought.

00:08:50.540 Therefore, we created a mechanism

00:08:51.860 called tenure that says,

00:08:53.400 I can't fire you

00:08:54.300 unless you do ethical

00:08:55.800 or moral or criminal breaches.

00:08:57.480 I can never fire you

00:08:58.620 for anything that you say or write.

00:09:00.580 Well, that's great.

00:09:01.280 So then, why don't you speak?

00:09:03.220 But what ends up happening

00:09:04.720 is that most academics,

00:09:05.980 first, they're extremely cowardly,

00:09:08.240 perhaps in part because

00:09:09.420 there is a self-selection bias

00:09:11.820 against what I call

00:09:13.340 intellectual Navy SEALs, right?

00:09:15.240 I mean, Navy SEALs,

00:09:16.260 you do pick them

00:09:16.980 because they have to be brawny,

00:09:18.500 they have to be courageous,

00:09:19.700 they have to be athletic.

00:09:21.120 In academia,

00:09:22.040 we might pick people

00:09:22.940 who are smart,

00:09:24.420 but they're not

00:09:25.500 intellectual honey badgers.

00:09:27.280 They're quite timid,

00:09:28.300 they're tepid,

00:09:28.920 they weren't the jocks.

00:09:30.420 I mean, I'm being a bit

00:09:31.920 maybe hyperbolic,

00:09:33.080 but they really,

00:09:33.940 they lack that combative nature.

00:09:36.480 But are you surprised

00:09:37.380 that was across the board

00:09:38.540 in our institutions?

00:09:39.780 That it doesn't,

00:09:40.220 like now there are some universities

00:09:41.820 that are a little bit better

00:09:42.980 or at least aiming that way,

00:09:44.220 Ralston College

00:09:44.980 and University of Austin,

00:09:46.940 but that virtually everybody

00:09:48.760 in the Ivy League

00:09:49.520 chose the timid one

00:09:50.860 instead of going to that.

00:09:51.580 It doesn't surprise me

00:09:52.380 because I've existed

00:09:53.200 in that ecosystem

00:09:53.960 my whole life, right?

00:09:55.160 So when I go

00:09:56.240 to departmental meetings,

00:09:57.600 we usually have committees

00:09:59.740 to decide on striking

00:10:01.260 a task force

00:10:02.220 to study the feasibility

00:10:03.740 of having coffee

00:10:05.540 in the faculty lounge.

00:10:07.000 So it'll take us

00:10:07.820 five years of feasibility studies

00:10:09.500 before we decide

00:10:10.340 to have a $30 coffee machine.

00:10:12.800 So that...

00:10:13.200 How's the coffee?

00:10:13.760 Not very good.

00:10:15.120 So, you know,

00:10:16.080 it's very,

00:10:16.680 it moves slowly,

00:10:17.880 it's glacial speed,

00:10:19.340 it's very,

00:10:20.860 you know,

00:10:21.180 there's a lot of niceness.

00:10:22.540 So people don't speak directly.

00:10:25.340 So even if I want

00:10:25.940 to disagree with you,

00:10:26.940 I will preface it

00:10:28.140 by saying,

00:10:28.740 I hear your point,

00:10:29.700 I hear you.

00:10:30.620 There's kind of this

00:10:31.300 infantilizing that takes place

00:10:32.820 and I'm a direct speaker

00:10:35.580 and so it's very,

00:10:36.420 very difficult for me

00:10:37.200 to, in a sense,

00:10:38.120 exist in that ecosystem

00:10:39.180 because it goes against

00:10:40.720 my most fundamental disposition.

00:10:42.420 So speaking of your ecosystem,

00:10:44.320 so you're at Concordia University,

00:10:45.780 it has become

00:10:46.840 like a bizarre hotbed

00:10:49.340 of the Hamas stuff

00:10:51.160 and the yelling

00:10:53.600 at Jewish students

00:10:54.740 or whoever's left

00:10:55.640 can't be the most fun place

00:10:57.620 for you to work right now

00:10:58.540 and what do you think

00:10:59.420 has happened

00:10:59.920 at that university?

00:11:00.940 So you may or may not know this,

00:11:02.360 but well before October 7th,

00:11:04.180 I'm talking for the past 20 years,

00:11:06.140 my university colloquially

00:11:08.040 has been referred to as

00:11:09.460 Gaza University.

00:11:10.460 Yeah, I've heard you say.

00:11:11.480 Yeah, right.

00:11:12.580 So in 2002,

00:11:14.440 Netanyahu was stopped,

00:11:16.280 maybe one of the early

00:11:17.300 cancel culture victims,

00:11:19.220 he was supposed to come

00:11:20.060 and speak at Concordia.

00:11:21.000 They shut him down,

00:11:22.300 Prime Minister of Israel.

00:11:24.080 So really the reality

00:11:26.280 is that it's just a reflection

00:11:28.040 of the demographic situation

00:11:30.620 at Concordia,

00:11:31.420 which is there is

00:11:32.520 an increasing number

00:11:33.680 of students who come

00:11:34.820 from those particular cultures

00:11:36.480 and that particular

00:11:37.580 religious heritage.

00:11:38.500 And as those numbers increase,

00:11:40.680 it becomes more difficult

00:11:42.240 to be Jewish

00:11:43.640 at that university

00:11:44.820 and certainly to be

00:11:46.280 a outspoken public Jewish person.

00:11:49.500 I mean,

00:11:50.240 some students will come up

00:11:51.440 to me privately

00:11:52.240 and say,

00:11:52.840 hey, professor,

00:11:53.580 I'm Jewish,

00:11:54.160 I don't wear the Star of David.

00:11:55.180 But the reality is,

00:11:56.460 if that's what they're afraid of,

00:11:57.760 they take off the Star of David.

00:11:58.960 Nobody knows that they're Jewish.

00:12:00.180 But if I walk in on campus,

00:12:01.840 most people know who I am.

00:12:03.440 So it's become

00:12:04.260 an almost impossible situation.

00:12:06.280 Luckily,

00:12:06.620 this semester,

00:12:07.200 I'm on sabbatical,

00:12:08.180 so I have a bit of a reprieve,

00:12:10.640 but September is coming around.

00:12:12.380 I don't know how I'm going to go back.

00:12:13.940 Yeah.

00:12:14.180 I mean,

00:12:14.400 well,

00:12:14.600 how are you going to go back?

00:12:15.780 Because you also,

00:12:16.540 you live in Montreal.

00:12:17.660 I mean,

00:12:17.860 I'm seeing these protests

00:12:18.940 are pretty intense there.

00:12:20.800 You have a government

00:12:21.500 backed by Trudeau

00:12:22.600 that certainly is not going

00:12:23.600 to do anything

00:12:24.180 to curb any of this.

00:12:25.500 I would say actually

00:12:26.240 is fueling an awful lot of it.

00:12:27.900 I mean,

00:12:28.420 just personally,

00:12:29.300 for someone that cares

00:12:30.060 about happiness and family

00:12:31.180 and all that as much as you do,

00:12:32.380 like it's not easy.

00:12:33.140 And you have a,

00:12:33.900 you don't have the easiest history,

00:12:35.180 family history.

00:12:35.700 Yeah, exactly.

00:12:36.120 So I'll give you an example

00:12:38.840 that just happened

00:12:39.700 about two weeks ago.

00:12:41.900 We were talking earlier

00:12:42.920 about Inter-Miami

00:12:43.920 and our common friend,

00:12:46.180 Jorgen Mass.

00:12:47.120 Well,

00:12:47.300 he was kind enough

00:12:48.000 to send me tickets

00:12:49.680 for Inter-Miami

00:12:51.240 had come to Montreal

00:12:52.300 to play a game.

00:12:53.440 He couldn't make it

00:12:54.160 and so I took my family

00:12:55.560 to the game

00:12:56.400 as a beautiful gift from him.

00:12:59.020 As we were driving

00:13:00.380 to get to the stadium,

00:13:02.480 we crossed about

00:13:03.440 a six to eight block area

00:13:05.520 where it was impossible

00:13:07.640 for you to know

00:13:09.160 whether it was in

00:13:10.140 Raqqa, Syria,

00:13:11.260 whether it was in Yemen,

00:13:13.420 whether it was in Pakistan.

00:13:14.640 It was just an endless sea

00:13:17.200 of what looked like

00:13:18.580 very hostile protesters

00:13:21.200 and demonstrators

00:13:22.820 and so on.

00:13:23.660 And I remember

00:13:24.640 that I sort of

00:13:25.660 tried to put the visor

00:13:27.960 so that people don't see me

00:13:29.660 because I was worried

00:13:30.300 what if someone recognizes me

00:13:31.740 and they have,

00:13:32.800 so that's the reality.

00:13:34.340 Now, it didn't take long, right?

00:13:36.100 I mean,

00:13:36.740 10, 15 years ago,

00:13:37.860 I was already warning people

00:13:39.360 that this was coming.

00:13:40.240 Well, now we're there.

00:13:40.880 What if I was just walking

00:13:41.920 with my family

00:13:42.520 and they recognize me?

00:13:43.520 Who knows what would have

00:13:44.120 happened to me?

00:13:44.500 Right.

00:13:44.800 I drove by one

00:13:45.980 when I did the R Conference

00:13:47.040 in London.

00:13:48.220 Right.

00:13:48.760 That was late November.

00:13:50.120 Right.

00:13:50.460 And I had the same exact thought

00:13:51.980 which was,

00:13:52.620 if I get recognized right now,

00:13:53.980 I don't know,

00:13:54.540 do they literally

00:13:55.480 just ransack the car?

00:13:56.660 Like, what the hell happens?

00:13:58.360 All right,

00:13:58.600 so you're in the middle

00:13:59.520 of that in Canada

00:14:00.240 but are there any mechanisms

00:14:02.960 for Canada

00:14:05.140 to not fully go that route?

00:14:06.920 You guys have let in

00:14:07.660 an awful amount of people,

00:14:08.940 an awful lot of people.

00:14:10.380 It doesn't seem like

00:14:11.540 there's anything to stop.

00:14:13.340 So it's sort of

00:14:13.780 what I asked you before

00:14:14.480 but I mean,

00:14:15.240 from a Canadian perspective,

00:14:16.420 it's like,

00:14:16.760 you guys are so damn nice,

00:14:18.200 you're just going to fall

00:14:19.040 on the sword.

00:14:19.420 Suicidal empathy,

00:14:20.240 the topic of my next book.

00:14:22.180 That's literally the title.

00:14:23.300 Yeah, exactly.

00:14:24.040 Exactly.

00:14:24.840 So look,

00:14:25.600 I often use the following analogy

00:14:27.140 and we were talking earlier

00:14:28.280 about our respective weight loss

00:14:29.800 and so on.

00:14:30.400 On any given day,

00:14:32.480 one of three things

00:14:33.360 can happen to your weight

00:14:34.620 as a result of the decisions

00:14:35.940 you make that day.

00:14:36.800 The exercise you do,

00:14:37.820 the food that you eat.

00:14:39.000 My weight can go up,

00:14:40.360 my weight can stay the same

00:14:41.500 or my weight can go down.

00:14:42.640 There isn't another possible

00:14:43.860 state of the world

00:14:44.560 when it comes to my weight.

00:14:46.040 Well, now let's apply

00:14:46.980 that mechanism,

00:14:48.520 that framework

00:14:49.080 to immigration.

00:14:50.700 So if you let in people

00:14:52.400 in the hundreds of thousands,

00:14:54.020 if not millions,

00:14:54.820 into your society

00:14:55.640 and those people

00:14:56.880 are coming from cultures

00:14:58.120 that have endemic Jew hatred,

00:15:00.580 it's actually definitional

00:15:01.700 to their societies.

00:15:02.860 We know that

00:15:03.440 in a million different ways,

00:15:04.880 but let me just give you one way.

00:15:06.820 Pew surveys demonstrate

00:15:08.700 that when you poll people

00:15:10.080 from those societies,

00:15:11.240 what do you think of the Jews?

00:15:12.600 You get 95 to 99%

00:15:15.200 of polled people

00:15:16.180 that have dismal views

00:15:18.000 of the Jews.

00:15:18.820 Now just process that.

00:15:20.040 Even though virtually

00:15:20.560 no Jews live in the Jews.

00:15:21.740 Exactly, exactly.

00:15:23.000 So it's not,

00:15:24.100 I mean,

00:15:24.240 if it were 10%

00:15:25.400 of the polled people,

00:15:26.440 that would be a very,

00:15:27.480 you know,

00:15:28.620 difficult number

00:15:30.620 to digest.

00:15:31.680 Sure.

00:15:32.000 When it's 95 to 99,

00:15:33.500 so now we let in

00:15:34.260 500,000 people

00:15:35.700 and assume we go

00:15:36.900 with the 95% rate.

00:15:39.040 Is Jew hatred

00:15:40.220 in the society

00:15:41.320 going to go up?

00:15:42.400 Is it going to stay the same

00:15:43.340 or is it going to go down?

00:15:44.440 So it didn't require

00:15:45.800 a fancy professor,

00:15:47.180 evolutionary scientist

00:15:48.220 to connect the dots.

00:15:49.500 Right.

00:15:49.700 You just had to be

00:15:50.600 wedded to reality.

00:15:51.640 But is the brazenness

00:15:53.500 of the protests

00:15:54.580 and the things

00:15:55.220 that they're screaming for

00:15:56.220 and the way they use

00:15:57.380 words in Arabic

00:15:58.160 that can be sort of

00:15:59.560 defined either way

00:16:00.860 or river to the sea

00:16:02.520 doesn't exactly mean

00:16:03.820 destroy Israel.

00:16:04.800 Like it's the way

00:16:05.980 they're doing everything

00:16:06.940 that's quite duplicitous

00:16:08.400 and to some extent

00:16:09.420 deserves credit

00:16:10.180 because they're fooling

00:16:11.220 an awful lot of people.

00:16:12.020 And that comes

00:16:12.760 from the confidence

00:16:13.540 of now having

00:16:14.500 strength in numbers,

00:16:15.560 right?

00:16:15.920 When you're 0 to 2%

00:16:17.520 or you're just

00:16:18.480 a exotic minority,

00:16:20.300 when you're 3 to 5%,

00:16:21.940 you start being

00:16:23.320 a bit more emboldened

00:16:24.520 in your political demands

00:16:26.320 when you're 6 to 10%.

00:16:27.920 And so there is

00:16:28.760 kind of a trajectory

00:16:29.760 in the exact same way

00:16:31.180 that a physician

00:16:32.280 can tell you

00:16:33.160 with very,

00:16:34.040 very clear accuracy

00:16:35.060 what is the trajectory

00:16:36.480 of having diabetes?

00:16:38.120 What's going to happen?

00:16:39.500 With very clear timeline,

00:16:41.480 the same thing applies

00:16:42.660 when a society

00:16:43.380 is getting Islamized.

00:16:44.560 Now, again,

00:16:45.000 I hate to do this

00:16:46.080 prefacing.

00:16:47.800 Many Muslims

00:16:48.880 are lovely

00:16:49.500 and I know

00:16:50.080 more Muslims

00:16:50.840 who are my friends

00:16:51.620 than most people

00:16:52.200 will ever meet.

00:16:53.040 We're not talking

00:16:53.660 about individual Muslims.

00:16:54.780 We're talking about

00:16:55.540 does Islam,

00:16:57.740 once it takes

00:16:58.540 a hold in a society,

00:16:59.980 does it promote

00:17:00.760 greater liberties,

00:17:02.220 greater individual dignity?

00:17:04.060 If you own black dogs

00:17:05.820 and you're a gay Jew,

00:17:07.700 should you feel more?

00:17:09.220 And the reason why

00:17:09.760 I say black dog

00:17:10.480 because...

00:17:11.040 My dog's tan.

00:17:11.900 But he's not black,

00:17:13.160 so he's a bit safer.

00:17:14.620 But Muhammad

00:17:15.260 had a particular

00:17:15.980 repulsion

00:17:17.160 towards dogs

00:17:18.880 in general,

00:17:19.340 but black dogs

00:17:19.940 in particular.

00:17:21.180 So,

00:17:22.220 it doesn't take much

00:17:23.240 to realize

00:17:23.700 what's going to happen.

00:17:24.720 I have many

00:17:25.540 Muslim friends

00:17:26.420 who will tell me

00:17:27.620 that they're concerned

00:17:29.220 about the rate

00:17:30.500 at which many

00:17:31.340 of these societies

00:17:32.020 are getting Islamized.

00:17:32.940 They escaped

00:17:33.660 those societies

00:17:34.340 and now they find

00:17:35.400 themselves amidst

00:17:36.660 the same societies

00:17:37.380 from which they escaped.

00:17:38.500 So, I guess I...

00:17:39.580 Or I suspect

00:17:40.100 I know the answer to this,

00:17:41.220 but you've told

00:17:42.480 your biography

00:17:43.140 many times

00:17:43.800 in many different places

00:17:44.960 and we'll link

00:17:45.920 to the original story

00:17:46.860 that you told

00:17:47.740 from many, many years ago.

00:17:49.380 But growing up

00:17:49.900 in Lebanon,

00:17:50.940 Jewish family,

00:17:51.820 Christian Lebanon.

00:17:52.840 I mean,

00:17:52.980 it was largely Christian

00:17:53.900 at the time.

00:17:54.540 It's not...

00:17:55.080 I think it was about

00:17:55.680 80% Christian

00:17:56.500 at the time, right?

00:17:57.260 Maybe a bit less.

00:17:58.180 Maybe 65, 70.

00:17:59.800 Something around there.

00:18:01.520 Now it's...

00:18:01.960 Oh, I think

00:18:02.560 now it's about

00:18:03.360 80% Muslim.

00:18:04.340 So, it's basically

00:18:05.000 done this bizarre flip.

00:18:07.060 But do you remember...

00:18:10.560 Was the feeling the same?

00:18:12.520 Do you think

00:18:13.020 if I was talking

00:18:13.560 to your dad

00:18:14.220 in Lebanon

00:18:14.740 in 19...

00:18:17.060 Give me a year.

00:18:18.040 72.

00:18:18.760 72.

00:18:19.660 As he was watching

00:18:20.700 the turn,

00:18:21.640 is that sort of

00:18:22.540 what you're describing

00:18:23.260 right now

00:18:23.820 in your country?

00:18:24.880 Or maybe in my country?

00:18:26.020 Absolutely.

00:18:27.220 So,

00:18:27.560 people have

00:18:29.660 the wrong

00:18:30.280 understanding

00:18:31.380 of tolerance

00:18:32.240 in the Middle East.

00:18:33.560 You're tolerated

00:18:34.800 until you're

00:18:35.780 no longer tolerated, right?

00:18:37.200 You're healthy

00:18:38.140 until you drop dead

00:18:39.160 of a heart attack, right?

00:18:40.780 Five minutes ago

00:18:41.580 you were smiling

00:18:42.260 and now you're dead.

00:18:43.480 So,

00:18:44.120 the concept of

00:18:45.400 toleration

00:18:46.940 or tolerance

00:18:48.180 in the Middle East

00:18:49.020 simply means that,

00:18:50.680 yes,

00:18:50.920 we're not going

00:18:51.740 to execute you today

00:18:52.940 and you can thrive

00:18:54.200 and live for 30 years

00:18:55.300 but be quiet.

00:18:56.580 Don't wear

00:18:57.260 the Star of David

00:18:58.000 too big

00:18:58.500 and then maybe

00:18:59.300 one day

00:18:59.840 one of us

00:19:00.940 will have designs

00:19:02.060 for your beautiful daughter

00:19:03.180 and when we come knocking

00:19:04.200 don't scream too loud

00:19:05.560 when we take her.

00:19:06.340 So,

00:19:06.760 that's what it means

00:19:07.820 to coexist

00:19:08.840 in the Middle East.

00:19:09.880 Even in the

00:19:10.620 golden era

00:19:11.640 of Andalusia

00:19:12.520 you may have heard

00:19:13.220 that, right?

00:19:13.800 Where Christians,

00:19:14.860 Muslims,

00:19:15.320 and Jews

00:19:16.020 were supposed to

00:19:16.780 walk hand in hand

00:19:17.880 singing John Lennon

00:19:19.280 Imagine.

00:19:19.880 That's not really

00:19:20.700 what happened, right?

00:19:21.760 Jews were dimmies, right?

00:19:23.320 They're third class citizens.

00:19:26.240 That doesn't mean

00:19:27.000 that they are exterminated

00:19:28.360 every day

00:19:29.120 all day long

00:19:29.900 but it means

00:19:30.720 that you don't know

00:19:31.800 when the beheadings

00:19:32.880 are coming.

00:19:33.460 It could be tomorrow

00:19:34.180 or it could be

00:19:34.800 in five years

00:19:35.400 or it could be

00:19:35.800 in 50 years

00:19:36.400 but they will be coming, right?

00:19:38.200 And so,

00:19:39.780 in the context

00:19:40.420 of us growing up

00:19:41.140 in Lebanon

00:19:41.560 I tell of many stories

00:19:43.220 and I'm happy to repeat

00:19:44.140 some of them

00:19:44.480 if you'd like

00:19:44.900 of what I saw

00:19:46.580 growing up

00:19:47.200 in tolerant,

00:19:48.080 progressive,

00:19:48.800 modern,

00:19:49.540 you know,

00:19:49.980 Paris of the Middle East

00:19:51.180 Lebanon.

00:19:52.060 So,

00:19:52.240 when I was five years old

00:19:53.280 Gamal Abdel Nasser

00:19:54.900 who was the

00:19:55.620 president of Egypt

00:19:57.500 who was very much

00:19:58.980 revered and loved

00:19:59.880 in the Arab world

00:20:01.460 because he was a

00:20:02.320 pan-Arabist.

00:20:03.540 He was trying to unite

00:20:04.360 all of the Arabic countries.

00:20:06.320 Very charismatic

00:20:07.040 kind of populist.

00:20:08.660 When he passed away

00:20:09.680 in 1970,

00:20:10.380 I hadn't yet turned six,

00:20:12.140 there were demonstrations

00:20:13.580 in the streets

00:20:14.320 as often happens

00:20:15.240 in the Middle East.

00:20:16.040 Everybody's lamenting

00:20:16.920 to God,

00:20:17.480 why, why?

00:20:18.400 And as they're

00:20:19.640 proceeding down my street

00:20:21.360 they're screaming

00:20:22.000 death to Jews,

00:20:23.000 death to Jews.

00:20:23.960 And as a young boy

00:20:25.320 I was horrified.

00:20:26.740 I'm asking my mother

00:20:27.520 why are they screaming

00:20:28.300 death to Jews?

00:20:29.480 You know,

00:20:29.740 we have nothing to do with this.

00:20:31.160 So that's one story.

00:20:32.280 A second story,

00:20:33.220 I'll tell two other quick ones.

00:20:35.420 It's Lebanon,

00:20:36.380 1970,

00:20:37.040 or Concordia,

00:20:38.380 2024.

00:20:39.200 Exactly right.

00:20:40.480 So,

00:20:41.240 I was about eight or nine

00:20:42.980 so this would be about

00:20:43.700 1973,

00:20:44.660 74,

00:20:45.280 about a year before

00:20:46.020 the Civil War started.

00:20:47.660 The teacher asks us

00:20:49.120 in class

00:20:49.660 to each get up

00:20:51.020 and tell the class

00:20:52.180 what we want to be

00:20:52.780 when we grow up.

00:20:54.280 I want to be a soccer player,

00:20:55.660 I want to be a policeman,

00:20:56.600 I want to be a nurse.

00:20:57.660 And one of the kids,

00:20:59.440 and I still have a photo

00:21:00.860 and I can point to that kid,

00:21:02.840 gets up and says,

00:21:03.560 when I grow up

00:21:04.200 I want to be a Jew killer

00:21:05.700 to the rap,

00:21:07.120 you know,

00:21:07.620 raucous applause

00:21:08.740 and laughter

00:21:09.320 of all the kids

00:21:10.240 who knew that I was Jewish,

00:21:12.040 right?

00:21:12.220 Were you the only Jew in the class?

00:21:13.420 There was another one

00:21:14.380 that I can remember.

00:21:17.040 But,

00:21:17.520 of course,

00:21:17.920 we were a small minority.

00:21:18.900 And it's not,

00:21:20.360 it wasn't a secret

00:21:21.180 that we were Jewish

00:21:21.840 because you just had to go

00:21:22.640 to the synagogue on Saturday

00:21:23.700 and you would know

00:21:24.280 who's Jewish,

00:21:24.880 but you certainly

00:21:25.760 didn't advertise it,

00:21:27.240 you know,

00:21:27.560 loudly.

00:21:28.940 My brother was

00:21:30.080 Lebanese champion

00:21:31.020 in judo

00:21:31.740 for many years in a row

00:21:32.960 and it had become

00:21:34.680 a bit of a shameful reality

00:21:36.820 for a Jew

00:21:37.720 to constantly be winning

00:21:38.960 these combat sports.

00:21:40.760 So he was visited

00:21:42.100 by some men

00:21:42.920 who said that it was time

00:21:43.920 for him to retire

00:21:45.060 lest there might be

00:21:46.760 an unfortunate accident

00:21:47.860 that happens to him.

00:21:48.640 So he ended up

00:21:49.940 moving to France

00:21:51.080 to pursue his

00:21:52.460 judo career.

00:21:54.180 This is before the Civil War.

00:21:55.960 And then,

00:21:56.840 incredibly,

00:21:57.520 ironically,

00:21:58.200 in 1976,

00:21:59.480 he ended up

00:22:00.540 representing

00:22:01.460 Lebanon

00:22:02.500 in the Montreal Olympics.

00:22:04.920 So he was

00:22:05.740 too Jewish

00:22:06.660 to stay in Lebanon

00:22:08.760 in 1973-74

00:22:10.920 but then he was

00:22:12.020 we're going to overlook

00:22:13.400 you being Jewish

00:22:14.300 so that you can have

00:22:15.520 the flag of Lebanon.

00:22:16.700 So that was the reality.

00:22:17.680 And now there's none left.

00:22:18.640 So I've heard

00:22:20.460 there's about 40.

00:22:22.600 Some say 10,

00:22:23.700 some say 90.

00:22:24.580 But they're not

00:22:25.400 practicing Jews, right?

00:22:26.820 There's no minion,

00:22:27.780 there's no...

00:22:28.480 It's just some Jew

00:22:29.540 got married in 1963

00:22:30.880 to a Muslim woman

00:22:32.100 and he stayed back

00:22:33.480 in Lebanon.

00:22:34.280 Can you explain

00:22:35.180 a little bit why...

00:22:36.240 You know,

00:22:36.420 one of the things

00:22:36.820 that I'm concerned

00:22:37.580 about lately

00:22:38.060 is because since

00:22:39.040 October 7th

00:22:40.080 and that there's

00:22:40.800 all these protests

00:22:41.620 and everyone

00:22:42.200 on all the shows

00:22:43.100 and you just did

00:22:43.680 an unbelievably

00:22:44.340 wonderful job

00:22:45.240 going on Rogan

00:22:45.980 talking about

00:22:46.680 all of this Jew hatred

00:22:48.440 and everything.

00:22:49.620 And I think

00:22:50.140 he's been a little

00:22:50.680 confused about

00:22:51.460 some of the Israel stuff

00:22:52.220 so it was nice

00:22:52.820 to see you clean

00:22:53.440 a bit of that up.

00:22:55.140 But I think

00:22:55.720 one of the things

00:22:56.440 that I'm feeling

00:22:57.160 even as doing my show

00:22:58.580 and as an interviewer

00:22:59.360 is I wish we were

00:23:00.540 not talking about

00:23:01.160 the Jews at all.

00:23:02.140 That would be much better.

00:23:03.220 It would be much better

00:23:03.820 for the Jews

00:23:04.240 but it would be much better

00:23:05.000 for the society.

00:23:05.900 Can you sort of

00:23:06.520 link that to why

00:23:07.680 this is not good

00:23:08.540 for general...

00:23:10.180 for the Christian

00:23:10.960 that's watching this

00:23:11.700 or the atheist

00:23:12.200 that's watching this

00:23:13.080 or the Muslim

00:23:13.680 that doesn't want

00:23:14.320 to live under

00:23:14.780 Islamic theocracy

00:23:15.640 that's watching this

00:23:16.380 why they should care

00:23:17.580 right now

00:23:18.200 about this thing.

00:23:19.360 So there are several

00:23:19.880 ways I could answer this.

00:23:20.780 Number one

00:23:21.300 there's an expression

00:23:22.780 in the Arab world

00:23:24.320 first we come

00:23:25.400 for the Saturday people

00:23:26.580 then we come

00:23:27.620 for the Sunday people.

00:23:29.000 The Saturday people

00:23:30.460 are the Jews

00:23:31.360 but it doesn't stop

00:23:32.800 with the Jews

00:23:33.300 then we come

00:23:33.820 for the Sunday people

00:23:34.780 the Christians right

00:23:35.660 or the old

00:23:36.720 I quote this

00:23:37.840 in the Parasitic

00:23:38.320 I don't remember

00:23:38.840 the exact quote

00:23:39.440 you know

00:23:39.800 first they came

00:23:41.140 for this

00:23:41.480 and then I ignored

00:23:42.100 them

00:23:42.320 and they came

00:23:42.620 for the trade

00:23:43.820 I ignored it

00:23:45.760 and so it's

00:23:47.140 the same principle

00:23:48.100 which is many people

00:23:49.240 to our earlier point

00:23:50.440 you only react

00:23:51.740 when the knock

00:23:52.940 comes on your door

00:23:53.940 until there is

00:23:55.080 no diabetes

00:23:55.640 no one in my family

00:23:56.520 has diabetes

00:23:57.120 so it can't be real

00:23:58.540 and so I think

00:23:59.660 the Christians

00:24:00.520 and the other Muslims

00:24:01.580 that are in the West

00:24:02.360 have to wake up

00:24:03.480 because the ideology

00:24:05.300 that might first

00:24:07.100 have their sight

00:24:08.280 on the Jews

00:24:09.000 won't stop at them

00:24:10.360 right?

00:24:10.560 I mean

00:24:10.840 as we both know

00:24:13.140 in many cases

00:24:14.600 the biggest victims

00:24:16.560 of Islamic extremism

00:24:18.700 are Muslims

00:24:19.980 right?

00:24:20.520 because you're not

00:24:21.240 Muslim enough

00:24:21.960 right?

00:24:22.320 so ISIS

00:24:23.000 killed mainly Muslims

00:24:25.620 they weren't able

00:24:27.100 to get to the Jews

00:24:28.100 and so

00:24:29.020 you can't

00:24:30.980 simply say

00:24:31.780 this doesn't affect me

00:24:32.900 because ultimately

00:24:33.900 anti-Semitism

00:24:34.620 doesn't

00:24:35.360 come to my home

00:24:36.820 I'm Christian

00:24:37.440 I'm living in Arkansas

00:24:38.420 give it five years

00:24:40.060 give it 50 years

00:24:40.880 give it 500 years

00:24:41.900 it will come for you

00:24:43.080 and so act now

00:24:44.020 rather than then

00:24:44.760 right

00:24:45.320 and again

00:24:46.260 the question

00:24:46.760 just remains

00:24:47.820 do people ever

00:24:48.860 heed the warning

00:24:49.540 and I guess

00:24:50.040 that's just

00:24:50.680 the question

00:24:51.160 that just hangs out

00:24:52.000 there right?

00:24:52.540 like that's just

00:24:53.160 the thing

00:24:53.580 I don't think

00:24:54.480 people heed the warning

00:24:55.420 until it really

00:24:56.340 is at your doorstep

00:24:57.260 it's

00:24:57.620 I mean

00:24:58.400 the folks

00:24:59.600 who are in the public eye

00:25:00.820 who become known

00:25:01.780 it's precisely

00:25:02.800 because they're

00:25:03.540 an outlier

00:25:04.200 right

00:25:04.500 because

00:25:04.840 they are rare

00:25:06.160 in their capacity

00:25:07.280 to forecast

00:25:08.100 and extrapolate

00:25:09.180 if this were something

00:25:10.500 that was an inherent part

00:25:11.940 of the architecture

00:25:12.720 of the human mind

00:25:13.380 for everybody

00:25:13.940 then you wouldn't find

00:25:15.620 a public profile

00:25:17.960 I wouldn't have

00:25:18.840 I would quite literally

00:25:19.820 rather talk about

00:25:20.680 almost anything else

00:25:21.660 in a bizarre sense

00:25:22.500 but how can we not

00:25:23.380 talk about it

00:25:24.100 I agree

00:25:24.360 right

00:25:25.100 like I almost have

00:25:25.780 no ability not to

00:25:26.900 because it's

00:25:28.520 civilizationally important

00:25:30.360 and I've actually

00:25:31.140 so a lot of people

00:25:32.080 who send me hate stuff

00:25:33.320 will say

00:25:33.800 you're such a hypocrite

00:25:35.280 you rail against

00:25:36.540 identity politics

00:25:37.680 and then

00:25:38.680 you spend all the time

00:25:40.560 talking about

00:25:41.260 Jew, Jew, Jew

00:25:41.940 all day long

00:25:42.580 well I only do

00:25:43.780 the Jew, Jew, Jew

00:25:44.680 because it matters

00:25:45.660 so much to you

00:25:46.680 that I'm Jewish

00:25:47.360 right

00:25:47.660 if you go through

00:25:48.720 my Twitter feed

00:25:49.620 before October 7th

00:25:51.000 you probably would find

00:25:52.360 1% of tweets

00:25:53.580 that in

00:25:53.880 I mean

00:25:54.280 almost nothing

00:25:55.120 will be related

00:25:55.680 to Israel

00:25:56.200 right

00:25:56.540 and being Jewish

00:25:58.340 is part of my

00:25:59.320 history

00:26:00.800 it's part of the

00:26:01.700 tragedy of my

00:26:02.680 childhood

00:26:03.040 but I'd much

00:26:04.620 rather talk about

00:26:05.340 evolutionary psychology

00:26:06.560 and about the

00:26:07.440 scientific method

00:26:08.280 but I only talk

00:26:09.820 about Jewish issues

00:26:10.700 because the haters

00:26:12.380 care so much

00:26:13.140 about the fact

00:26:13.820 that I'm Jewish

00:26:14.400 all right

00:26:14.660 well then let's

00:26:15.240 shift to the

00:26:15.680 scientific method

00:26:16.440 for a moment

00:26:16.980 because I feel

00:26:18.080 like the other

00:26:18.580 I mean look

00:26:19.140 we're seeing all

00:26:19.940 of our institutions

00:26:20.640 under assault

00:26:21.280 and our countries

00:26:21.780 are under assault

00:26:22.280 the scientific method

00:26:23.540 is under assault

00:26:24.460 science

00:26:24.960 you know it's

00:26:25.760 a weird thing to say

00:26:26.320 science is under assault

00:26:27.180 that sounds like

00:26:27.700 a Fauci thing to say

00:26:28.660 but now when I

00:26:29.600 listen to any of the

00:26:30.460 people who are

00:26:31.000 the so-called experts

00:26:32.140 you're on the short

00:26:33.660 list of people

00:26:34.380 that I roughly

00:26:35.780 trust when it

00:26:36.620 comes to things

00:26:37.200 thank you

00:26:37.680 but that's got to

00:26:38.680 be a bizarre thing

00:26:39.460 as a man of science

00:26:40.880 as a man of

00:26:41.540 rationality

00:26:42.200 to see so many

00:26:43.420 of your colleagues

00:26:44.220 now I'm not talking

00:26:44.980 about the political

00:26:45.480 part

00:26:45.860 just the scientific

00:26:47.140 part just completely

00:26:48.380 collapsed too

00:26:49.260 so I saw this

00:26:50.580 before the woke

00:26:51.920 stuff

00:26:52.320 inherently in my

00:26:54.520 research

00:26:55.020 because I apply

00:26:56.460 evolutionary biology

00:26:57.560 and evolutionary

00:26:58.100 psychology

00:26:58.700 to the human

00:26:59.840 condition

00:27:00.380 that itself

00:27:01.700 was very contentious

00:27:03.020 within the social

00:27:03.780 sciences

00:27:04.260 because in the

00:27:05.320 social sciences

00:27:06.100 one of the things

00:27:06.860 that unifies

00:27:07.980 all social sciences

00:27:08.940 is that evolution

00:27:10.400 might be relevant

00:27:11.240 for the zebra

00:27:12.000 for the mosquito

00:27:13.160 and for your dog

00:27:14.180 but don't you dare

00:27:15.280 say that evolution

00:27:16.260 matters in explaining

00:27:17.460 human behavior

00:27:18.400 and certainly

00:27:19.320 if it applies

00:27:20.060 for human

00:27:21.120 phenomena

00:27:21.980 it might apply

00:27:23.520 to explain

00:27:24.020 why we have

00:27:24.480 opposable thumbs

00:27:25.340 it might apply

00:27:26.000 to explain

00:27:26.480 why my pancreas

00:27:27.600 work the way

00:27:28.160 that they do

00:27:28.540 but don't you

00:27:29.520 apply it for

00:27:30.200 anything above

00:27:30.840 the neck

00:27:31.380 right

00:27:31.920 and so

00:27:32.480 what's the

00:27:33.520 so the reasoning

00:27:34.400 that they wouldn't

00:27:35.120 like that

00:27:35.580 is because

00:27:35.980 what

00:27:36.220 it basically

00:27:36.940 it takes

00:27:37.800 in their eyes

00:27:38.780 it sort of

00:27:39.120 takes away

00:27:39.680 the individuality

00:27:40.780 or their

00:27:41.180 so there are

00:27:41.780 many reasons

00:27:42.340 that's a great

00:27:42.960 yeah so in

00:27:43.800 the consuming

00:27:44.960 instinct

00:27:45.340 which was my

00:27:45.880 2011 book

00:27:46.900 in the first

00:27:47.800 chapter

00:27:48.220 I go through

00:27:49.140 all of the

00:27:49.960 key

00:27:50.420 points

00:27:52.260 that the

00:27:52.720 detractors have

00:27:53.540 so I'll mention

00:27:54.040 a few here

00:27:54.600 for you

00:27:54.940 so one

00:27:55.940 is the

00:27:56.500 biological

00:27:57.100 slash

00:27:57.720 genetic

00:27:58.680 determinism

00:27:59.420 so many

00:28:00.640 of the

00:28:00.980 detractors

00:28:01.660 think

00:28:02.040 that if

00:28:02.760 our behavior

00:28:03.620 is biologically

00:28:04.880 inscribed

00:28:05.880 that literally

00:28:06.960 means that

00:28:07.740 you are a

00:28:08.680 you know

00:28:09.440 blind

00:28:09.960 executor

00:28:10.980 robot

00:28:11.580 robot

00:28:12.120 of your genes

00:28:12.960 which of course

00:28:13.520 that's not at all

00:28:14.160 what it means

00:28:14.580 because all

00:28:15.560 behaviors

00:28:16.160 are ultimately

00:28:17.180 an interaction

00:28:17.940 between your genes

00:28:18.940 and your environment

00:28:19.900 as a matter of fact

00:28:20.840 genes themselves

00:28:21.620 get turned on

00:28:22.500 or off

00:28:22.980 as a result

00:28:23.500 of environmental

00:28:24.320 inputs

00:28:25.360 and so the

00:28:26.280 idea that

00:28:27.140 if you believe

00:28:28.160 that humans

00:28:28.660 are biological

00:28:29.400 beings

00:28:29.980 it means that

00:28:31.100 we are just

00:28:31.840 these executors

00:28:32.820 of our genes

00:28:33.460 is simply

00:28:34.200 it's false

00:28:34.900 as a matter of fact

00:28:35.440 evolutionists talk

00:28:36.320 about the

00:28:36.720 interactionist

00:28:37.740 framework

00:28:38.140 interactionist

00:28:39.220 means

00:28:39.520 interactions

00:28:40.400 of genes

00:28:41.080 and the

00:28:41.640 environment

00:28:42.060 right

00:28:42.360 so that's

00:28:42.680 also depressing

00:28:43.300 it's a depressing

00:28:44.180 way of looking

00:28:44.820 at the word

00:28:45.140 right

00:28:45.480 exactly

00:28:46.160 number two

00:28:47.700 many

00:28:49.300 miscreants

00:28:50.440 and cretins

00:28:51.400 misused

00:28:52.580 evolutionary

00:28:53.240 theory

00:28:53.680 so for example

00:28:54.400 British

00:28:55.140 social class

00:28:56.780 elitists

00:28:57.420 just shortly

00:28:58.920 after Darwin

00:29:00.020 said hey

00:29:00.780 there's a natural

00:29:01.520 struggle between

00:29:02.320 the classes

00:29:02.940 we're the upper

00:29:03.720 class

00:29:04.140 you're the lower

00:29:04.740 class

00:29:05.100 who cares if you

00:29:06.020 all die from

00:29:06.640 tuberculosis

00:29:07.580 in your

00:29:08.200 you know

00:29:09.320 shitty

00:29:09.640 neighborhoods

00:29:10.500 that's just

00:29:11.620 natural selection

00:29:12.560 which of course

00:29:13.200 had nothing to do

00:29:13.920 with evolutionary

00:29:14.520 theory

00:29:14.920 that became

00:29:15.740 known as

00:29:16.120 social Darwinism

00:29:17.240 the Nazis

00:29:18.120 came along

00:29:18.580 and said hey

00:29:18.900 there's a natural

00:29:19.520 struggle across

00:29:20.320 the races

00:29:20.860 it's Darwinian

00:29:22.000 it's evolution

00:29:22.820 we're Aryan

00:29:24.000 you're the Jews

00:29:24.960 you're the gypsies

00:29:25.760 you're the homosexuals

00:29:26.760 if we call you

00:29:27.840 from the population

00:29:28.600 hey that's just

00:29:29.340 Darwinian

00:29:30.240 right

00:29:30.520 eugenicists

00:29:32.040 came along

00:29:32.540 said the same thing

00:29:33.340 so a whole

00:29:34.460 long line

00:29:35.500 of really

00:29:36.220 nefarious folks

00:29:37.500 misused

00:29:38.840 evolutionary

00:29:39.520 principles

00:29:40.240 to advance

00:29:41.300 their political

00:29:42.180 ideologies

00:29:42.880 and so

00:29:43.740 the social

00:29:44.460 sciences

00:29:44.940 decided

00:29:45.560 in their

00:29:46.000 infinite

00:29:46.320 wisdom

00:29:46.720 why don't

00:29:47.820 we build

00:29:48.400 edifices

00:29:49.360 that are

00:29:50.060 void of

00:29:50.660 biological

00:29:51.120 thinking

00:29:51.640 because then

00:29:52.220 hopefully

00:29:52.540 we can

00:29:53.120 curtail the

00:29:53.960 possibility

00:29:54.380 that someone

00:29:54.720 might use

00:29:55.160 them

00:29:55.320 but as I

00:29:56.080 explained

00:29:56.360 the

00:29:56.520 parasitic

00:29:56.900 mind

00:29:57.200 you can't

00:29:58.260 in the

00:29:58.640 pursuit

00:29:59.080 of some

00:29:59.540 noble

00:29:59.880 goal

00:30:00.300 murder

00:30:00.780 and rape

00:30:01.280 truth

00:30:01.740 right

00:30:02.220 you still

00:30:02.660 have to

00:30:03.080 be wedded

00:30:03.560 to reality

00:30:04.280 and so

00:30:05.280 so for

00:30:06.740 these reasons

00:30:07.320 and many

00:30:07.780 others

00:30:08.260 it's very

00:30:09.100 very difficult

00:30:09.720 for professors

00:30:10.400 in the

00:30:10.760 humanities

00:30:11.240 and the

00:30:11.700 social sciences

00:30:12.360 to accept

00:30:13.300 that we

00:30:13.680 are

00:30:13.980 evolutionary

00:30:14.740 minded

00:30:15.320 creatures

00:30:16.140 what would

00:30:17.020 you want

00:30:17.460 to happen

00:30:17.880 to the

00:30:18.220 institutions

00:30:18.780 at this

00:30:19.460 point

00:30:19.780 I mean

00:30:20.280 I'm the

00:30:22.520 emperor

00:30:22.840 of the

00:30:23.180 world

00:30:23.420 and I

00:30:23.700 can just

00:30:24.000 yeah

00:30:24.280 do you

00:30:24.700 do you

00:30:25.080 think

00:30:25.340 that well

00:30:25.760 I mean

00:30:26.140 do you

00:30:26.300 think

00:30:26.420 they can

00:30:26.640 be

00:30:26.760 repaired

00:30:27.060 do they

00:30:27.320 need

00:30:27.480 to be

00:30:27.680 blown

00:30:27.860 apart

00:30:28.100 is it

00:30:28.340 a case

00:30:28.640 by case

00:30:29.020 basis

00:30:29.360 I

00:30:29.840 think

00:30:30.120 they

00:30:30.300 can

00:30:30.520 be

00:30:30.680 repaired

00:30:31.060 I

00:30:31.260 mean

00:30:31.460 look

00:30:32.220 at

00:30:32.480 its

00:30:33.940 fundamental

00:30:34.740 reality

00:30:35.620 universities

00:30:36.800 serve a

00:30:37.600 great

00:30:37.780 purpose

00:30:38.120 and it

00:30:38.440 and it's

00:30:39.160 not as

00:30:39.680 though

00:30:39.980 they are

00:30:41.180 populated

00:30:41.880 with a

00:30:42.780 majority

00:30:43.240 of you

00:30:43.720 know

00:30:43.820 blue-haired

00:30:44.440 maniacs

00:30:45.140 right

00:30:45.300 but it's

00:30:46.240 the blue-haired

00:30:46.900 maniacs

00:30:47.560 that are

00:30:48.040 the loud

00:30:48.520 ones

00:30:48.780 that are

00:30:49.020 the

00:30:49.180 activists

00:30:49.640 that get

00:30:50.180 the attention

00:30:50.720 of the

00:30:51.060 administrators

00:30:51.720 that

00:30:52.480 keep the

00:30:54.140 rest of

00:30:54.500 us in

00:30:54.860 check

00:30:55.100 right

00:30:55.340 and so

00:30:55.760 all you

00:30:56.640 need to

00:30:56.980 do

00:30:57.220 is

00:30:57.560 find a

00:30:58.500 way

00:30:58.720 to

00:30:59.120 get

00:30:59.800 the

00:31:00.140 silent

00:31:00.480 majority

00:31:01.000 to

00:31:01.860 invoke

00:31:02.880 their

00:31:03.120 courage

00:31:03.500 to find

00:31:03.980 their

00:31:04.200 spines

00:31:04.600 and then

00:31:05.200 I think

00:31:05.500 it could

00:31:05.820 be

00:31:06.120 turned

00:31:06.600 around

00:31:06.900 so I'll

00:31:07.420 give you

00:31:07.660 a few

00:31:07.920 examples

00:31:08.340 now there's

00:31:09.440 a big

00:31:09.720 pushback

00:31:10.160 as you

00:31:10.460 probably

00:31:10.800 have seen

00:31:11.180 against

00:31:11.580 the

00:31:11.920 diversity

00:31:12.840 inclusion

00:31:13.300 equity

00:31:13.680 right

00:31:13.900 well

00:31:14.580 I made

00:31:16.000 the very

00:31:16.760 difficult

00:31:17.920 decision

00:31:18.460 that I

00:31:19.600 would no

00:31:19.960 longer

00:31:20.300 apply

00:31:20.860 for

00:31:21.480 scientific

00:31:21.980 grants

00:31:22.480 which

00:31:23.060 I need

00:31:23.740 to apply

00:31:24.200 because

00:31:24.520 that's

00:31:25.020 how I

00:31:25.460 fund

00:31:25.740 my

00:31:25.980 research

00:31:26.360 how can

00:31:26.760 I pay

00:31:27.080 a postdoc

00:31:27.780 how can

00:31:28.520 I run

00:31:29.320 studies

00:31:29.820 that cost

00:31:30.380 money to

00:31:30.860 run

00:31:31.040 if I

00:31:31.360 don't

00:31:31.500 have

00:31:31.780 research

00:31:32.260 funds

00:31:32.520 because

00:31:33.240 I wasn't

00:31:34.140 willing

00:31:34.520 to

00:31:35.300 sacrifice

00:31:36.020 my

00:31:36.560 integrity

00:31:37.060 by having

00:31:37.880 to sign

00:31:38.620 and write

00:31:39.540 a diversity

00:31:40.240 inclusion

00:31:40.760 equity

00:31:41.120 statement

00:31:41.560 quite literally

00:31:42.320 they were

00:31:42.700 forcing you

00:31:43.480 to do

00:31:43.920 that

00:31:44.160 if you

00:31:44.580 wanted

00:31:44.800 to get

00:31:45.080 a grant

00:31:45.420 absolutely

00:31:45.940 that was

00:31:46.240 just in

00:31:46.560 Canada

00:31:46.880 or that

00:31:47.300 was

00:31:47.620 well I

00:31:47.940 mean

00:31:48.100 it's also

00:31:48.780 in the

00:31:49.060 US

00:31:49.340 but I

00:31:49.800 certainly

00:31:50.160 know

00:31:50.440 that it

00:31:50.740 had

00:31:50.900 really

00:31:51.200 spread

00:31:51.500 in

00:31:51.660 Canada

00:31:51.940 right

00:31:52.620 so

00:31:52.940 I'll

00:31:54.220 just

00:31:54.340 give you

00:31:54.540 another

00:31:54.760 example

00:31:55.280 University

00:31:56.000 of

00:31:56.280 Waterloo

00:31:56.820 which is

00:31:57.380 sort of

00:31:57.740 known as

00:31:58.120 the MIT

00:31:58.720 of Canada

00:31:59.340 they're

00:31:59.860 very good

00:32:00.220 in engineering

00:32:00.880 and computer

00:32:01.420 science

00:32:01.900 they had

00:32:03.380 a call

00:32:04.420 for two

00:32:05.300 chaired

00:32:06.020 professorships

00:32:06.680 which is

00:32:07.020 the highest

00:32:07.480 level

00:32:07.760 right

00:32:08.280 it's an

00:32:09.020 endowed

00:32:09.480 chair

00:32:09.840 and I

00:32:11.480 mean I

00:32:11.700 could literally

00:32:12.160 show you

00:32:12.660 the screenshot

00:32:13.200 of their

00:32:13.920 call for

00:32:14.900 professors

00:32:15.340 the number

00:32:16.280 one qualification

00:32:17.040 was

00:32:17.660 non-binary

00:32:18.860 you know

00:32:19.940 whatever

00:32:20.260 two-spirit

00:32:20.900 and all that

00:32:21.340 stuff

00:32:21.540 so you

00:32:22.120 really

00:32:22.440 I mean

00:32:22.780 it's difficult

00:32:23.240 to believe

00:32:24.180 that that's

00:32:24.740 real

00:32:25.160 right

00:32:25.420 I mean

00:32:25.680 so in

00:32:26.300 artificial

00:32:26.680 intelligence

00:32:27.400 and complexity

00:32:28.280 theory

00:32:28.920 and all

00:32:30.440 of these

00:32:30.900 you know

00:32:31.460 analysis of

00:32:32.160 algorithms

00:32:32.700 you need

00:32:33.380 to be

00:32:33.720 non-binary

00:32:34.380 but that's

00:32:35.180 it's

00:32:35.540 it's all

00:32:36.100 over the

00:32:36.500 place

00:32:36.760 now

00:32:37.340 most people

00:32:38.100 can go

00:32:38.500 about their

00:32:38.980 lives

00:32:39.300 trying to

00:32:39.920 ignore it

00:32:40.400 but I

00:32:40.940 wasn't able

00:32:41.360 to ignore it

00:32:41.920 because if I

00:32:43.020 had played

00:32:43.760 the game

00:32:44.420 as part of

00:32:45.400 a careerist

00:32:46.280 calculus

00:32:46.760 then I would

00:32:48.040 have felt

00:32:48.420 as though I

00:32:49.000 am a fraud

00:32:49.540 how can I

00:32:50.320 go on Dave

00:32:50.940 Rubin's show

00:32:51.500 and talk about

00:32:52.120 the diversity

00:32:52.760 inclusion equity

00:32:53.380 being a scam

00:32:54.360 but then

00:32:55.120 quietly when

00:32:55.880 nobody's seeing

00:32:56.600 I just play

00:32:57.320 along

00:32:57.640 so I think

00:32:58.540 most professors

00:32:59.380 regrettably

00:33:00.460 don't have

00:33:01.180 that sense

00:33:01.780 of code

00:33:02.620 of conduct

00:33:03.120 and so

00:33:03.720 they say

00:33:04.140 well

00:33:04.520 you know

00:33:04.900 let Gad Saad

00:33:05.800 be the hero

00:33:06.780 I need to

00:33:07.580 get my money

00:33:08.160 so I can

00:33:08.600 pay my

00:33:08.960 graduate students

00:33:09.560 I'll play

00:33:10.000 along

00:33:10.300 once we

00:33:11.280 can get

00:33:11.940 them to

00:33:12.380 stop playing

00:33:13.200 along

00:33:13.540 I think

00:33:13.920 the problem

00:33:14.420 can be

00:33:14.760 resolved

00:33:15.080 rather quickly

00:33:15.800 where do you

00:33:16.700 think social

00:33:17.100 media falls

00:33:17.620 into this

00:33:18.060 like do you

00:33:18.580 think

00:33:18.760 evolutionarily

00:33:20.040 you have

00:33:21.020 sort of

00:33:21.300 hysterical

00:33:21.960 young people

00:33:22.720 that have

00:33:23.140 been let's

00:33:23.500 say taught

00:33:23.860 the wrong

00:33:24.260 things

00:33:24.740 and then

00:33:25.460 you have

00:33:25.740 this

00:33:26.240 I don't

00:33:27.460 know

00:33:27.580 middle

00:33:28.180 management

00:33:29.120 version of

00:33:30.260 administrators

00:33:31.040 and everybody

00:33:31.580 else that

00:33:31.920 should be

00:33:32.360 standing up

00:33:32.920 for the

00:33:33.140 right things

00:33:33.480 but aren't

00:33:34.000 but it's

00:33:34.880 I think

00:33:35.460 partly because

00:33:36.080 it's so

00:33:36.520 fueled by

00:33:37.220 social media

00:33:37.880 and that

00:33:38.680 group doesn't

00:33:39.900 know how to

00:33:40.240 deal with it

00:33:40.940 is that just

00:33:41.840 another x

00:33:42.760 factor in this

00:33:43.760 it is although

00:33:44.580 you know I

00:33:45.520 don't I'm

00:33:46.280 careful not to

00:33:47.180 blame social

00:33:47.800 media too

00:33:48.320 much because

00:33:48.960 like most

00:33:50.060 things it can

00:33:50.800 be used for

00:33:51.440 good or bad

00:33:52.260 the number of

00:33:53.680 connections that

00:33:54.660 I have made

00:33:55.460 through social

00:33:56.480 media well

00:33:57.700 you and I

00:33:59.960 your game

00:34:00.900 mass the

00:34:01.560 owner of

00:34:02.280 inter

00:34:02.620 miami is

00:34:03.440 reaching out

00:34:04.060 elon musk

00:34:05.280 joe rogan

00:34:06.100 my my

00:34:07.140 all-time

00:34:07.900 favorite soul

00:34:09.220 singer from

00:34:10.500 the 1970s

00:34:11.580 lead singer of

00:34:13.080 the stylistic

00:34:13.700 yeah how am I

00:34:14.760 hanging around

00:34:15.360 with this guy

00:34:16.000 in philadelphia

00:34:16.820 when he was

00:34:17.740 singing in my

00:34:18.380 ears when I

00:34:18.880 was 12 years

00:34:19.480 old so

00:34:20.320 no I know

00:34:21.120 I've met

00:34:21.540 I've met

00:34:21.960 basically anyone

00:34:23.020 I ever wanted

00:34:23.660 to meet in my

00:34:24.260 life because of

00:34:25.140 twitter and the

00:34:25.780 internet

00:34:26.020 exactly

00:34:26.480 so you can't

00:34:28.180 you know

00:34:28.480 it's a tool

00:34:29.660 that can be

00:34:30.420 used for great

00:34:31.420 nefarious purposes

00:34:33.260 or it can

00:34:34.080 spread great

00:34:34.960 ideas and cause

00:34:35.820 people who are

00:34:36.480 like-minded to

00:34:37.160 connect so

00:34:38.060 it's you know

00:34:38.800 depends how you

00:34:39.440 use it

00:34:39.860 but but do you

00:34:42.640 think that there's

00:34:43.260 the weird thing I

00:34:44.360 think really right

00:34:45.000 now is that one

00:34:45.760 side knows how to

00:34:46.860 really use it

00:34:47.600 that's true for the

00:34:48.260 negativity and as

00:34:49.100 Jordan would talk

00:34:49.820 about Jordan

00:34:50.220 Peterson they're

00:34:51.320 fueled largely by

00:34:52.420 narcissism and

00:34:53.360 been fed all the

00:34:54.060 wrong ideas and

00:34:55.300 now these guys

00:34:55.960 they didn't grow up

00:34:56.680 with these tools so

00:34:57.460 that is a bit of

00:34:58.440 being so they

00:34:58.940 didn't grow up

00:34:59.460 with those tools

00:34:59.980 and to my

00:35:00.480 earlier point

00:35:01.200 they're inverse

00:35:01.860 invertebrate

00:35:02.620 castrati right

00:35:03.700 so you just go

00:35:04.520 boo and then

00:35:05.780 they say okay

00:35:06.500 whatever you want

00:35:07.340 I will completely

00:35:08.180 fold I will

00:35:08.920 completely acquiesce

00:35:09.960 because there is

00:35:10.720 nothing more

00:35:11.380 threatening to me

00:35:12.240 than I'm speaking

00:35:13.160 as them now

00:35:13.700 than having a

00:35:14.720 bunch of you

00:35:15.500 know rabid

00:35:16.120 maniacs coming at

00:35:17.240 me whereas my

00:35:18.440 personality is when

00:35:19.720 you come after me

00:35:20.840 it only emboldens

00:35:22.200 me it only makes

00:35:23.120 me angrier I

00:35:24.360 double down on

00:35:25.220 everything I

00:35:25.600 remember at one

00:35:26.300 point I don't

00:35:26.760 know if you saw

00:35:27.380 this thing

00:35:27.840 Valerie Bertinelli

00:35:29.880 came after me

00:35:30.660 oh Valerie

00:35:31.080 Bertinelli

00:35:31.620 70s sitcom

00:35:32.800 star

00:35:33.340 exactly I mean

00:35:34.820 I'm a bit older

00:35:35.600 than you but

00:35:36.140 so here's what

00:35:37.720 had happened

00:35:38.180 I had posted

00:35:40.540 a tweet meant

00:35:41.860 to demonstrate

00:35:42.660 how lovely

00:35:43.860 and sweet

00:35:45.560 my wife is

00:35:46.500 in that we

00:35:47.140 were going

00:35:47.940 we were at

00:35:48.380 a cafe and

00:35:49.640 she went to

00:35:50.680 order from the

00:35:51.500 barista the

00:35:52.540 barista looked

00:35:53.520 like they were

00:35:54.380 a non-gender

00:35:55.580 non-true spirit

00:35:57.620 whatever and

00:35:58.620 so when she

00:35:59.080 came back to

00:35:59.720 me she said

00:36:00.280 oh you know

00:36:01.120 I felt

00:36:01.680 uncomfortable

00:36:02.100 because I

00:36:02.940 didn't know

00:36:03.520 how to

00:36:03.920 address them

00:36:04.660 and I

00:36:05.300 didn't want

00:36:05.900 to make a

00:36:06.480 mistake and

00:36:06.920 hurt them

00:36:07.280 so I

00:36:08.080 tweeted that

00:36:09.160 as a

00:36:09.960 demonstration

00:36:10.580 of how

00:36:11.400 lovely my

00:36:12.640 wife is

00:36:13.220 that she

00:36:13.700 doesn't want

00:36:14.060 to hurt

00:36:14.320 she was

00:36:15.100 sensitive

00:36:15.540 so like you

00:36:16.160 would think

00:36:16.620 that the

00:36:17.320 pink coalition

00:36:18.200 or whatever

00:36:18.760 they call it

00:36:19.260 would be

00:36:19.760 erecting statues

00:36:21.100 of my

00:36:21.540 wife

00:36:21.740 so that

00:36:22.740 was flipped

00:36:23.340 into

00:36:23.900 Gadsad

00:36:25.020 talks about

00:36:25.820 how his

00:36:26.460 wife was

00:36:27.440 so threatened

00:36:28.400 by the

00:36:29.000 trance thing

00:36:29.680 so for the

00:36:30.780 next two

00:36:31.280 three days

00:36:32.000 you know

00:36:32.560 20 million

00:36:33.260 of these

00:36:33.680 guys all

00:36:34.400 spearheaded

00:36:35.600 by this

00:36:36.100 Valerie Bertinelli

00:36:37.040 come after

00:36:37.880 me

00:36:38.180 well now

00:36:39.580 if I didn't

00:36:40.100 have a strong

00:36:40.760 personhood

00:36:41.400 I wilt

00:36:42.260 I troll

00:36:43.820 more

00:36:44.340 I hid

00:36:44.800 under my

00:36:45.340 desk

00:36:45.700 I did

00:36:46.120 self-flagging

00:36:46.680 and guess

00:36:47.400 what

00:36:47.720 they go

00:36:48.440 away

00:36:48.780 because they

00:36:49.280 feel as

00:36:49.860 though

00:36:50.100 you're

00:36:51.100 untouchable

00:36:51.960 like nothing

00:36:52.560 that they

00:36:52.960 can see

00:36:53.220 but those

00:36:54.280 administrators

00:36:54.820 that you're

00:36:55.240 speaking about

00:36:55.880 don't have

00:36:57.040 that ability

00:36:57.880 and therefore

00:36:58.600 isn't that a

00:36:59.820 bizarre thing

00:37:00.320 if you would

00:37:00.720 have said

00:37:01.080 in 1978

00:37:02.000 boy Valerie

00:37:02.920 Bertinelli

00:37:03.460 is going to

00:37:03.920 go after me

00:37:04.540 on this

00:37:04.840 thing called

00:37:05.300 Twitter

00:37:05.620 one day

00:37:06.260 you know

00:37:06.580 I had

00:37:06.960 some

00:37:07.240 it doesn't

00:37:07.560 even matter

00:37:07.920 who

00:37:08.100 there was

00:37:08.400 a former

00:37:08.780 NBA coach

00:37:09.580 who was

00:37:10.180 going after

00:37:10.660 me one

00:37:11.040 day a couple

00:37:11.460 years ago

00:37:12.040 a guy who

00:37:12.880 I think

00:37:13.380 was Jeff

00:37:14.080 Van Gundy

00:37:14.580 or Stan

00:37:15.100 Van Gundy

00:37:15.500 one of them

00:37:15.900 like he was

00:37:16.300 coach of the

00:37:16.660 Knicks

00:37:16.800 and I was

00:37:17.700 just like

00:37:18.060 this is so

00:37:18.840 insane

00:37:21.100 a coach

00:37:21.500 and all

00:37:21.800 the basketball

00:37:22.180 that I've ever

00:37:22.480 watched

00:37:22.700 and now

00:37:22.920 this guy

00:37:23.240 is basically

00:37:23.660 calling me

00:37:24.020 racist

00:37:24.460 or something

00:37:25.140 to that effect

00:37:25.680 like you

00:37:25.980 can't make

00:37:26.400 this stuff

00:37:26.840 up

00:37:27.040 but that's

00:37:27.500 that's the

00:37:28.040 weird reality

00:37:28.680 that we're

00:37:29.040 in right now

00:37:29.480 indeed

00:37:30.040 but I mean

00:37:31.160 to our earlier

00:37:31.700 point

00:37:32.060 I wake up

00:37:33.560 every day

00:37:33.900 and I can't

00:37:34.500 believe how

00:37:35.420 fortunate I am

00:37:37.020 that I had

00:37:37.800 the type of

00:37:38.440 personality

00:37:38.940 that didn't

00:37:39.780 make me be

00:37:40.660 a stay-in-year-lane

00:37:41.500 professor

00:37:41.940 so that's

00:37:43.320 actually a tension

00:37:43.980 which I talk

00:37:44.500 about in the

00:37:44.880 happiness book

00:37:45.460 hyper-specialization

00:37:47.200 versus being a

00:37:48.320 generalist

00:37:48.820 right

00:37:49.020 academia

00:37:49.980 teaches you

00:37:51.520 to be

00:37:52.000 a stay-in-your-lane

00:37:53.180 hyper-specialist

00:37:54.160 know a lot

00:37:55.460 about a very

00:37:56.720 very small thing

00:37:57.680 make your mark

00:37:58.560 there

00:37:58.840 and never

00:37:59.440 deviate

00:37:59.880 kind of like

00:38:00.280 the horse

00:38:00.680 with the

00:38:01.080 with the

00:38:01.860 is it the

00:38:02.300 blinkers

00:38:02.680 they're called

00:38:02.980 right

00:38:03.380 so that you

00:38:04.300 can never

00:38:04.720 look sideways

00:38:05.380 right

00:38:05.640 whereas I

00:38:06.620 don't have

00:38:07.020 that temperament

00:38:07.700 right

00:38:07.880 I want

00:38:08.920 to sample

00:38:09.660 everything in

00:38:10.420 life

00:38:10.580 so my research

00:38:11.500 demonstrates

00:38:12.340 that I publish

00:38:13.180 in medicine

00:38:13.800 and psychology

00:38:14.740 and evolutionary

00:38:15.480 theory

00:38:15.900 and marketing

00:38:16.560 and politics

00:38:17.540 I just go

00:38:18.440 wherever a

00:38:18.880 problem interests

00:38:19.440 me

00:38:19.580 when I started

00:38:20.140 doing public

00:38:21.100 engagement

00:38:21.620 and going on

00:38:22.240 the Joe Rogan

00:38:23.180 and so on

00:38:23.900 all my

00:38:24.900 academic colleagues

00:38:26.320 would

00:38:26.600 what are you

00:38:28.760 talking to

00:38:29.160 Joe Rogan

00:38:29.580 who talks to

00:38:30.600 such a guy

00:38:31.040 I'm like

00:38:31.340 he's got 20

00:38:32.420 million

00:38:32.640 I mean are you

00:38:33.160 kidding me

00:38:33.620 shouldn't you

00:38:35.180 be promoting

00:38:36.220 such outreach

00:38:37.520 and so

00:38:38.400 the fact that I

00:38:40.060 have this kind

00:38:40.940 of polymath

00:38:42.260 approach to life

00:38:43.360 and hence

00:38:44.220 that's why by the

00:38:44.740 way I love

00:38:45.100 Leonardo da Vinci

00:38:45.780 because he's the

00:38:46.400 ultimate

00:38:46.760 renaissance man

00:38:48.360 he did it all

00:38:49.320 allowed me to

00:38:51.500 meet people

00:38:52.660 glorious like you

00:38:54.260 and I'm gonna

00:38:54.920 take you to dinner

00:38:55.760 and you're gonna

00:38:56.480 take me to dinner

00:38:56.920 and you're gonna

00:38:57.480 pay for it

00:38:57.960 I was gonna say

00:38:58.520 and you can get

00:38:58.940 anything you want

00:38:59.520 under 20 dollars

00:39:00.260 pretty good

00:39:00.780 let's talk about

00:39:03.340 the happiness part

00:39:03.980 of this for a second

00:39:04.480 because it seems

00:39:06.520 to me that we're

00:39:07.000 in this bizarre

00:39:07.520 moment now

00:39:08.140 where people

00:39:09.160 have more

00:39:10.120 than they've

00:39:11.040 probably

00:39:11.360 that humans

00:39:12.000 could have ever

00:39:12.540 imagined

00:39:13.040 and we've all

00:39:14.480 got this thing

00:39:15.020 and access

00:39:15.440 to the world

00:39:16.100 and all the

00:39:16.600 goodness

00:39:17.020 and the badness

00:39:17.940 that comes

00:39:18.260 with that

00:39:18.480 and everything

00:39:18.740 else

00:39:18.960 but we know

00:39:19.660 we now have

00:39:20.440 you know

00:39:20.840 basically an epidemic

00:39:21.760 of neuroses

00:39:23.320 and paranoia

00:39:24.540 and all sorts

00:39:25.860 of psychological

00:39:26.260 problems

00:39:26.960 and depression

00:39:27.500 and I think

00:39:28.740 a lot of this

00:39:29.160 has to do

00:39:29.460 with COVID

00:39:29.860 also

00:39:30.280 and yet

00:39:32.160 we have so

00:39:32.900 many ways

00:39:33.480 to find happiness

00:39:34.940 that maybe

00:39:35.600 we didn't have

00:39:36.100 before

00:39:36.400 people that we

00:39:37.080 can learn

00:39:37.420 something about

00:39:37.940 happiness from

00:39:38.560 that's a strange

00:39:39.520 dichotomy

00:39:40.040 so I'm gonna

00:39:41.660 give a bit

00:39:42.040 of a technical

00:39:42.540 answer from

00:39:43.880 evolutionary theory

00:39:44.600 so there's

00:39:45.040 something in

00:39:45.440 evolutionary theory

00:39:46.000 called the

00:39:46.440 mismatch hypothesis

00:39:47.520 the mismatch

00:39:48.720 hypothesis

00:39:49.260 basically argues

00:39:50.460 that many

00:39:51.460 traits that

00:39:52.460 would have

00:39:52.740 been

00:39:52.900 evolutionarily

00:39:53.860 advantageous

00:39:54.820 in our

00:39:55.380 ancestral past

00:39:56.280 in the

00:39:57.040 modern environment

00:39:58.000 if there is

00:39:58.640 a mismatch

00:39:59.320 between the

00:39:59.820 ancestral environment

00:40:00.720 where that

00:40:01.340 behavior was

00:40:02.280 adaptive

00:40:02.720 and today's

00:40:03.800 environment

00:40:04.180 where it no

00:40:04.720 longer is

00:40:05.140 adaptive

00:40:05.480 you have

00:40:05.820 that mismatch

00:40:06.500 so for

00:40:07.060 example

00:40:07.320 when it

00:40:07.600 comes to

00:40:07.900 the top

00:40:08.320 health

00:40:08.600 killers

00:40:09.000 colon cancer

00:40:10.580 diabetes

00:40:11.200 heart disease

00:40:11.900 and so on

00:40:12.340 many of

00:40:13.260 those diseases

00:40:13.880 you don't

00:40:14.340 typically find

00:40:15.020 them in

00:40:15.360 hunter-gatherer

00:40:16.180 societies that

00:40:16.860 mimic our

00:40:17.320 evolutionary past

00:40:18.100 because here's

00:40:19.120 what happens

00:40:19.640 we evolved in

00:40:20.860 an environment

00:40:21.360 of caloric

00:40:22.100 scarcity

00:40:22.580 and caloric

00:40:23.140 uncertainty

00:40:23.660 therefore we

00:40:24.900 gorge foods

00:40:25.760 we eat a lot

00:40:27.160 of high caloric

00:40:28.240 foods

00:40:28.580 that's perfectly

00:40:29.580 adaptive in that

00:40:30.640 evolutionary environment

00:40:31.740 but today

00:40:32.560 where the only

00:40:33.560 uncertainty is

00:40:34.280 how long is it

00:40:34.800 gonna take me

00:40:35.200 to get to

00:40:35.540 mcdonald's

00:40:36.120 right

00:40:36.660 then I get

00:40:37.800 overweight

00:40:38.260 my blood

00:40:39.060 pressure goes

00:40:39.560 up

00:40:39.720 I develop

00:40:40.360 colon

00:40:40.640 and so on

00:40:41.540 well the same

00:40:42.700 principle applies

00:40:43.620 for the happiness

00:40:44.400 calculus

00:40:44.880 we've evolved

00:40:46.180 to be in

00:40:46.880 small bands

00:40:47.660 of people

00:40:48.180 that really

00:40:48.700 matter to us

00:40:49.340 so for example

00:40:49.800 in the happiness

00:40:50.340 book I talk

00:40:50.940 about the

00:40:51.700 longest

00:40:53.260 longitudinal study

00:40:54.900 in I think

00:40:55.860 the history

00:40:56.220 of the social

00:40:56.640 sciences

00:40:57.020 and the health

00:40:57.860 sciences

00:40:58.200 is the Harvard

00:40:59.180 study on

00:40:59.920 adult well-being

00:41:01.340 and the number

00:41:02.300 one thing they

00:41:02.940 found after

00:41:03.900 80 years of

00:41:04.720 research in

00:41:05.560 terms of

00:41:06.000 what is the

00:41:06.620 biggest predictor

00:41:07.360 of happiness

00:41:07.840 is the quality

00:41:08.960 of the social

00:41:09.660 relationships you

00:41:10.460 have

00:41:10.660 but not only

00:41:11.580 does it affect

00:41:12.160 your mental

00:41:12.740 well-being

00:41:13.260 it actually

00:41:14.280 serves as a

00:41:15.400 protective shield

00:41:16.460 even for

00:41:17.260 physiological things

00:41:18.460 like heart

00:41:19.020 disease

00:41:19.340 so your

00:41:20.060 cholesterol levels

00:41:21.060 at age 50

00:41:22.100 are lesser

00:41:22.840 predictor of

00:41:24.040 heart disease

00:41:24.660 than if you

00:41:25.280 have high

00:41:26.040 quality relationships

00:41:27.060 so if we're

00:41:28.020 spending all day

00:41:28.860 on the internet

00:41:29.640 not building

00:41:30.460 these meaningful

00:41:31.620 relationships

00:41:32.280 we could live

00:41:33.360 in New York

00:41:33.800 city surrounded

00:41:34.540 by 8 million

00:41:35.240 people and yet

00:41:35.940 we're very

00:41:36.500 very lonely

00:41:37.160 and so the

00:41:38.100 loneliness

00:41:38.500 epidemic

00:41:39.620 coupled with

00:41:40.620 the mismatch

00:41:41.160 hypothesis

00:41:41.700 results in

00:41:42.820 the happiness

00:41:43.580 problems

00:41:44.220 that we see

00:41:44.560 how much of

00:41:44.980 that do you

00:41:45.280 think has to

00:41:45.720 do with our

00:41:46.120 genes that

00:41:46.640 just some

00:41:47.260 people just

00:41:47.840 have a

00:41:48.160 disposition

00:41:48.740 that might

00:41:49.520 lend themselves

00:41:50.060 to wanting

00:41:50.660 to be around

00:41:51.100 people more

00:41:51.600 thus they

00:41:52.160 then get the

00:41:52.740 benefits of

00:41:53.260 that versus

00:41:54.140 the other

00:41:54.460 version

00:41:54.620 that's a

00:41:55.000 fantastic

00:41:55.280 question

00:41:55.600 so in

00:41:55.920 the first

00:41:56.680 very early

00:41:57.620 in the

00:41:57.880 happiness book

00:41:58.440 I start by

00:41:59.540 talking about

00:42:00.280 50% of

00:42:02.240 your happiness

00:42:03.740 scores or

00:42:04.280 individual

00:42:05.940 scores

00:42:06.200 stem from

00:42:06.880 our genes

00:42:07.300 so at

00:42:08.040 first thought

00:42:09.320 you might say

00:42:09.840 oh so it's

00:42:10.720 genetically

00:42:11.160 inscribed

00:42:11.480 but that

00:42:12.200 leaves 50%

00:42:13.460 up for grabs

00:42:14.420 so I may

00:42:15.520 start off

00:42:16.280 having a much

00:42:17.100 sunnier disposition

00:42:17.960 than you

00:42:18.600 but then if I

00:42:19.600 make wrong

00:42:20.280 decisions

00:42:20.780 if I adopt

00:42:21.780 poor mindsets

00:42:23.420 whereas you

00:42:24.120 don't

00:42:24.480 you might end

00:42:25.300 up summiting

00:42:26.120 Mount Happiness

00:42:26.840 much more

00:42:27.500 quickly than I

00:42:28.120 do and so

00:42:28.700 in a sense

00:42:29.660 that's a hopeful

00:42:30.260 message because

00:42:30.920 if I had told

00:42:32.060 you that the

00:42:32.460 research shows

00:42:33.020 that 95%

00:42:34.420 of our

00:42:35.040 happiness

00:42:35.580 differences

00:42:36.100 come from

00:42:36.580 our genes

00:42:37.020 then that

00:42:37.700 doesn't leave

00:42:38.140 us much

00:42:38.480 to play

00:42:38.820 with

00:42:39.040 I think

00:42:39.600 we talked

00:42:39.980 about this

00:42:40.320 when I

00:42:40.540 had you

00:42:40.840 on to

00:42:41.140 discuss

00:42:41.440 the book

00:42:41.700 last time

00:42:42.140 but do you

00:42:42.520 think too

00:42:42.880 many people

00:42:43.320 are aiming

00:42:43.880 at happiness

00:42:44.680 that society

00:42:45.760 put too

00:42:46.160 much aim

00:42:46.480 at happiness

00:42:46.900 as opposed

00:42:47.340 to purpose

00:42:47.920 and if you're

00:42:48.740 just chasing

00:42:49.260 happiness

00:42:49.740 you're never

00:42:50.160 going to be

00:42:50.500 happy

00:42:50.840 where purpose

00:42:51.620 happiness

00:42:52.220 is the byproduct

00:42:52.980 so I

00:42:53.500 in the

00:42:54.580 last chapter

00:42:55.400 of the

00:42:55.640 happiness book

00:42:56.240 I take a

00:42:57.080 quote from

00:42:57.600 Viktor Frankl

00:42:58.460 where in

00:43:00.000 his case

00:43:00.440 he's talking

00:43:00.900 about the

00:43:01.740 willful

00:43:03.060 pursuit

00:43:03.380 of success

00:43:04.040 and he's

00:43:04.700 saying

00:43:05.000 I'm paraphrasing

00:43:05.940 his word

00:43:06.220 don't pursue

00:43:07.260 success

00:43:07.780 it has to

00:43:08.380 be something

00:43:08.860 that is

00:43:09.760 a consequence

00:43:10.440 of you

00:43:11.180 making the

00:43:11.760 right decision

00:43:12.280 and I said

00:43:12.980 take that

00:43:13.540 quote

00:43:13.880 and just

00:43:14.260 replace

00:43:14.640 success

00:43:15.180 by happiness

00:43:16.180 and that's

00:43:16.580 exactly what

00:43:17.080 it should

00:43:17.280 be

00:43:17.400 right

00:43:17.540 so I

00:43:18.240 don't

00:43:18.440 wake up

00:43:18.900 in the

00:43:19.200 morning

00:43:19.420 and say

00:43:19.880 I need

00:43:20.720 to be

00:43:21.080 happy

00:43:21.440 today

00:43:21.740 but rather

00:43:22.380 if I

00:43:23.160 wake up

00:43:23.680 next to

00:43:24.160 a person

00:43:24.640 that I

00:43:25.020 really

00:43:25.280 love

00:43:25.660 well

00:43:26.320 I'm

00:43:26.600 well on

00:43:26.900 my way

00:43:27.200 preferably

00:43:27.680 your wife

00:43:28.180 preferably

00:43:28.600 my wife

00:43:29.160 although I

00:43:29.760 just watched

00:43:30.440 a documentary

00:43:31.420 on Ashley

00:43:32.300 Madison

00:43:32.740 I haven't

00:43:34.140 seen it

00:43:34.420 but I

00:43:34.620 know it's

00:43:34.860 on Netflix

00:43:35.280 and actually

00:43:37.180 I came

00:43:37.840 close

00:43:38.480 to being

00:43:39.560 hired

00:43:40.180 as their

00:43:40.960 scientific

00:43:41.500 advisor

00:43:42.240 back in

00:43:43.460 2015

00:43:44.200 as the

00:43:44.960 hack

00:43:45.240 was going

00:43:45.600 to happen

00:43:46.020 so I

00:43:46.900 escaped

00:43:47.480 the big

00:43:47.880 one

00:43:47.980 I

00:43:48.780 dodged

00:43:49.200 a massive

00:43:49.880 bullet

00:43:50.180 so anyways

00:43:52.040 so if

00:43:53.680 you wake

00:43:53.980 up next

00:43:54.320 to a

00:43:54.580 person

00:43:54.820 that you

00:43:55.200 really

00:43:55.460 appreciate

00:43:55.940 and then

00:43:56.680 as you

00:43:57.220 kiss

00:43:57.420 them

00:43:57.660 goodbye

00:43:58.260 and you

00:43:58.580 head off

00:43:59.020 to your

00:43:59.300 job

00:43:59.640 it's one

00:44:00.500 that gives

00:44:00.960 you

00:44:01.160 you rub

00:44:02.100 your hands

00:44:02.600 in existential

00:44:03.260 glee

00:44:03.680 you're excited

00:44:04.340 about the

00:44:05.100 looming

00:44:05.840 day

00:44:06.140 and then

00:44:06.740 you return

00:44:07.280 home to

00:44:08.120 that person

00:44:08.740 that you

00:44:09.080 really enjoyed

00:44:09.640 waking up

00:44:10.160 next to

00:44:10.580 well you're

00:44:11.380 already well

00:44:11.940 on your way

00:44:12.300 to being

00:44:12.560 happy

00:44:12.780 so I

00:44:13.040 have a

00:44:13.280 whole chapter

00:44:13.780 on the

00:44:14.480 two most

00:44:14.860 important

00:44:15.220 decisions

00:44:15.620 that you

00:44:15.960 can make

00:44:16.340 that either

00:44:16.760 give you

00:44:17.100 great happiness

00:44:17.980 or misery

00:44:18.560 choosing the

00:44:19.420 right spouse

00:44:19.920 choosing the

00:44:20.580 right profession

00:44:21.280 and of course

00:44:22.240 the devil's in

00:44:22.880 detail how do

00:44:23.520 you go about

00:44:23.960 doing that

00:44:24.380 but then I

00:44:25.120 talk about

00:44:25.660 life as a

00:44:26.340 playground

00:44:26.780 having a

00:44:28.380 playful

00:44:28.780 mindset

00:44:29.340 is incredibly

00:44:30.440 important

00:44:30.940 and I

00:44:31.260 even talk

00:44:31.860 about the

00:44:32.660 most dire

00:44:33.400 of circumstances

00:44:34.400 people who

00:44:35.780 were in the

00:44:36.180 holocaust

00:44:36.840 engaged in

00:44:37.840 play

00:44:38.180 I was in

00:44:39.080 the Lebanese

00:44:39.620 civil war

00:44:40.320 which was

00:44:40.740 just a

00:44:41.600 butcher shop

00:44:43.460 killings

00:44:44.760 everywhere

00:44:45.200 we still

00:44:46.100 played

00:44:46.600 right I

00:44:47.200 mean my

00:44:47.480 parents would

00:44:47.940 tell me

00:44:48.340 if you're

00:44:48.920 going to go

00:44:49.360 outside don't

00:44:50.060 cross this

00:44:50.540 particular line

00:44:51.400 because that

00:44:52.180 would open

00:44:52.760 you up to

00:44:53.720 the site

00:44:54.340 to the scope

00:44:55.180 of the

00:44:55.880 snipers

00:44:56.440 so imagine

00:44:57.860 your parents

00:44:58.640 telling you

00:44:59.100 yeah go

00:44:59.480 play but

00:44:59.920 just don't

00:45:00.340 cross this

00:45:00.800 line because

00:45:01.440 then those

00:45:02.080 guys will

00:45:02.720 blow your

00:45:03.240 brains

00:45:03.660 we still

00:45:04.580 went out

00:45:05.000 and played

00:45:05.460 and so

00:45:06.340 having that

00:45:07.560 mindset

00:45:08.060 variety seeking

00:45:09.320 is very

00:45:09.660 important to

00:45:10.180 my earlier

00:45:10.600 point about

00:45:11.320 being a

00:45:12.200 generalist

00:45:13.000 don't only

00:45:14.320 read one

00:45:15.140 type of

00:45:15.580 book

00:45:15.860 sample from

00:45:16.740 many types

00:45:17.260 of book

00:45:17.560 don't always

00:45:18.220 go to the

00:45:18.700 same vacation

00:45:19.380 spot

00:45:19.800 there's a

00:45:20.520 whole world

00:45:21.000 to discover

00:45:21.540 I'm an

00:45:22.700 intellectual

00:45:23.180 variety

00:45:23.680 seeker

00:45:24.060 I do

00:45:25.020 research in

00:45:25.540 many areas

00:45:26.020 I said

00:45:26.320 earlier

00:45:26.620 I read

00:45:27.080 many

00:45:27.280 different

00:45:27.600 types

00:45:27.820 of books

00:45:28.060 so I

00:45:29.600 also talk

00:45:30.120 about

00:45:30.340 regret

00:45:30.860 if you

00:45:31.280 want

00:45:31.400 we could

00:45:31.600 talk

00:45:31.740 about

00:45:31.920 that

00:45:32.120 so in

00:45:33.260 the book

00:45:33.500 I talk

00:45:33.860 about

00:45:34.180 the two

00:45:34.920 sources of

00:45:36.200 regret

00:45:36.540 that most

00:45:37.000 people

00:45:37.380 suffer

00:45:37.980 from

00:45:38.340 is either

00:45:38.820 this is

00:45:39.600 actually

00:45:39.880 from one

00:45:40.300 of my

00:45:40.560 former

00:45:41.140 psychology

00:45:41.640 professors

00:45:42.320 during my

00:45:43.040 PhD

00:45:43.380 his name

00:45:44.180 is Thomas

00:45:44.480 Gilovich

00:45:44.840 so he

00:45:45.280 pioneered

00:45:45.820 the study

00:45:46.440 of the

00:45:46.700 psychology

00:45:47.160 of regret

00:45:47.760 specifically

00:45:48.640 regret

00:45:49.100 due to

00:45:49.520 action

00:45:50.000 versus

00:45:50.620 regret

00:45:51.000 due

00:45:51.220 to

00:45:51.440 inaction

00:45:51.960 regret

00:45:52.600 due

00:45:52.780 to

00:45:52.900 action

00:45:53.440 I

00:45:53.780 regret

00:45:54.140 that I

00:45:54.480 cheated

00:45:54.700 on my

00:45:54.980 wife

00:45:55.260 and now

00:45:55.700 I'm

00:45:55.980 divorced

00:45:56.360 regret

00:45:57.160 due

00:45:57.400 to

00:45:57.560 inaction

00:45:58.080 is

00:45:58.560 I

00:45:58.800 regret

00:45:59.140 that I

00:45:59.480 never

00:45:59.720 pursued

00:46:00.180 my

00:46:00.420 interest

00:46:00.820 in the

00:46:01.160 arts

00:46:01.480 I

00:46:01.940 became

00:46:02.240 a

00:46:02.420 pediatrician

00:46:03.040 because

00:46:03.300 my

00:46:03.580 dad

00:46:03.780 was a

00:46:04.100 pediatrician

00:46:04.640 and his

00:46:04.960 mom

00:46:05.200 was a

00:46:05.520 pediatrician

00:46:05.980 and therefore

00:46:06.320 it was

00:46:06.580 expected of

00:46:07.180 me

00:46:07.320 then I

00:46:07.800 wake up

00:46:08.080 at 55

00:46:08.600 and I

00:46:08.900 say I

00:46:09.100 hate

00:46:09.620 medicine

00:46:10.000 are there

00:46:10.600 numbers on

00:46:11.180 which people

00:46:11.640 usually suffer

00:46:12.260 from

00:46:12.560 what can

00:46:13.340 you predict

00:46:13.860 which is

00:46:14.360 which is

00:46:14.760 the one

00:46:15.000 that

00:46:15.140 I'm

00:46:15.680 probably

00:46:15.920 going to

00:46:16.100 get it

00:46:16.340 wrong

00:46:16.520 but my

00:46:16.880 gut

00:46:17.180 feeling

00:46:17.480 would be

00:46:17.800 most people

00:46:18.440 predict

00:46:19.040 fear

00:46:20.160 or regret

00:46:21.060 the things

00:46:21.940 that they

00:46:22.260 did not

00:46:22.740 do

00:46:23.020 more than

00:46:23.560 the

00:46:23.720 action

00:46:23.920 exactly

00:46:24.220 right

00:46:24.460 so

00:46:25.040 over

00:46:25.540 because I

00:46:25.840 know

00:46:25.960 people obviously

00:46:26.660 do a lot

00:46:27.220 of bad

00:46:27.500 things

00:46:27.760 but I

00:46:28.040 think

00:46:28.200 the thing

00:46:28.560 that you

00:46:28.820 sit

00:46:29.160 with

00:46:29.380 more

00:46:29.660 is

00:46:29.840 oh

00:46:30.020 damn

00:46:30.360 I

00:46:30.520 should

00:46:30.700 have

00:46:30.800 done

00:46:30.980 that

00:46:31.200 your

00:46:31.440 intuition

00:46:31.860 is

00:46:32.060 exactly

00:46:32.360 right

00:46:32.620 the

00:46:33.160 biggest

00:46:34.320 looming

00:46:34.860 regrets

00:46:35.480 over the

00:46:36.080 long

00:46:36.440 haul

00:46:36.960 are

00:46:37.820 the

00:46:38.160 roads

00:46:38.520 not

00:46:38.840 taken

00:46:39.260 I

00:46:39.940 should

00:46:40.280 have

00:46:40.580 I

00:46:40.860 wish

00:46:41.200 I

00:46:41.400 would

00:46:41.620 have

00:46:41.860 right

00:46:42.060 and

00:46:42.600 therefore

00:46:42.920 I

00:46:43.200 talk

00:46:43.520 in the

00:46:47.480 that

00:46:47.740 hopefully

00:46:48.140 can

00:46:48.480 forestall

00:46:49.100 the

00:46:49.340 likelihood

00:46:49.820 of that

00:46:50.180 happening

00:46:50.540 so

00:46:50.780 for

00:46:51.340 example

00:46:51.780 I

00:46:52.800 thought

00:46:52.920 you

00:46:53.060 two

00:46:53.360 quick

00:46:53.600 stories

00:46:54.000 of

00:46:54.220 guys

00:46:54.520 where

00:46:54.820 it's

00:46:55.200 not

00:46:55.340 even

00:46:55.580 you

00:46:56.240 would

00:46:56.380 have

00:46:56.500 thought

00:46:56.680 it's

00:46:56.900 too

00:46:57.100 late

00:46:57.340 for

00:46:57.500 them

00:46:57.660 to

00:46:57.840 pursue

00:46:58.140 these

00:46:58.420 things

00:46:58.760 but

00:46:59.380 they

00:46:59.560 did

00:46:59.780 so

00:47:00.040 one

00:47:00.560 guy

00:47:00.900 this

00:47:01.360 was

00:47:01.580 probably

00:47:01.980 two

00:47:02.280 years

00:47:02.560 into

00:47:02.820 my

00:47:03.180 professorship

00:47:03.860 at

00:47:04.040 Concordia

00:47:04.500 so

00:47:04.640 maybe

00:47:05.000 mid

00:47:05.260 90s

00:47:05.740 he

00:47:06.440 got

00:47:06.680 his

00:47:06.860 PhD

00:47:07.360 he

00:47:07.820 was

00:47:08.000 91

00:47:08.580 or

00:47:08.780 92

00:47:09.220 he

00:47:10.100 left

00:47:11.020 Nazi

00:47:12.120 Germany

00:47:12.580 as

00:47:12.880 the

00:47:13.020 Nazis

00:47:13.260 were

00:47:13.460 coming

00:47:13.660 in

00:47:13.780 he

00:47:13.880 was

00:47:14.000 a

00:47:14.120 Jewish

00:47:14.300 guy

00:47:14.600 so

00:47:14.840 maybe

00:47:15.320 1933

00:47:16.680 around

00:47:17.440 then

00:47:17.680 34

00:47:18.100 before

00:47:18.680 the

00:47:19.080 start

00:47:19.240 of

00:47:19.340 the

00:47:19.440 war

00:47:19.620 he

00:47:20.240 moves

00:47:20.740 to

00:47:20.920 Canada

00:47:21.260 has

00:47:22.260 a

00:47:22.620 career

00:47:23.180 in

00:47:24.200 his

00:47:24.420 60s

00:47:24.900 he

00:47:25.020 retires

00:47:25.560 his

00:47:25.820 biggest

00:47:26.140 regret

00:47:26.740 had

00:47:27.300 been

00:47:27.620 that

00:47:28.140 he

00:47:28.240 had

00:47:28.380 never

00:47:28.640 had

00:47:28.940 an

00:47:29.080 opportunity

00:47:29.720 to

00:47:30.220 go

00:47:30.560 to

00:47:30.700 university

00:47:31.180 he

00:47:31.420 had

00:47:31.500 always

00:47:31.740 been

00:47:31.920 someone

00:47:32.180 who

00:47:32.340 was

00:47:32.480 interested

00:47:32.800 in

00:47:32.940 education

00:47:33.320 but

00:47:33.600 life

00:47:34.200 didn't

00:47:34.480 allow

00:47:34.720 him

00:47:34.940 so

00:47:35.360 in

00:47:35.480 his

00:47:35.620 60s

00:47:36.100 he

00:47:36.200 decides

00:47:36.720 I'm

00:47:37.520 going

00:47:37.760 to

00:47:38.160 pursue

00:47:38.840 my

00:47:39.080 bachelor's

00:47:39.600 in

00:47:39.700 his

00:47:39.880 60s

00:47:40.400 he

00:47:40.580 would

00:47:40.840 be

00:47:40.960 grandfather

00:47:41.560 to

00:47:41.780 most

00:47:41.980 of

00:47:42.100 the

00:47:42.180 kids

00:47:42.380 in

00:47:42.520 those

00:47:42.660 classes

00:47:42.940 finishes

00:47:43.600 his

00:47:43.880 undergrad

00:47:44.240 begins

00:47:45.100 his

00:47:45.360 master's

00:47:45.860 in

00:47:45.940 his

00:47:46.100 70s

00:47:46.680 finishes

00:47:47.720 his

00:47:48.020 master's

00:47:48.620 starts

00:47:49.080 his

00:47:49.280 PhDs

00:47:49.920 in

00:47:49.980 his

00:47:50.120 80s

00:47:50.500 gets

00:47:50.780 it

00:47:50.960 at

00:47:51.120 91

00:47:51.720 92

00:47:52.080 within

00:47:52.480 a

00:47:52.740 year

00:47:52.960 after

00:47:53.260 that

00:47:53.600 he

00:47:54.060 passes

00:47:54.440 away

00:47:54.780 so

00:47:55.220 he's

00:47:55.420 the

00:47:55.600 ultimate

00:47:56.020 lover

00:47:57.620 of

00:47:57.940 learning

00:47:58.280 because

00:47:58.540 he

00:47:58.680 did

00:47:58.820 it

00:47:58.920 for

00:47:59.040 no

00:47:59.240 other

00:47:59.480 reason

00:47:59.860 other

00:48:00.420 than

00:48:00.620 the

00:48:00.840 pure

00:48:01.200 pursuit

00:48:01.760 of

00:48:01.940 knowledge

00:48:02.260 intrinsically

00:48:02.880 motivated

00:48:03.360 second

00:48:04.080 story

00:48:04.540 and I

00:48:04.840 actually

00:48:05.060 had

00:48:05.340 this

00:48:05.560 guy

00:48:05.780 on

00:48:06.120 the

00:48:06.400 other

00:48:06.600 guy

00:48:06.840 passed

00:48:07.220 away

00:48:07.440 but

00:48:07.640 this

00:48:07.920 guy

00:48:08.120 that

00:48:08.240 I'm

00:48:08.320 going to

00:48:08.420 talk

00:48:08.600 about

00:48:08.820 I

00:48:09.160 had

00:48:09.340 him

00:48:09.440 on

00:48:09.560 my

00:48:09.700 show

00:48:09.960 his

00:48:10.440 name

00:48:10.620 is

00:48:10.800 Manfred

00:48:11.400 Steiner

00:48:11.860 he

00:48:12.700 got

00:48:14.120 his

00:48:14.480 MD

00:48:14.880 degree

00:48:15.360 in

00:48:15.700 the

00:48:15.860 mid

00:48:16.060 50s

00:48:16.660 in

00:48:16.820 Vienna

00:48:17.120 his

00:48:17.800 parents

00:48:18.360 said

00:48:18.740 do

00:48:19.840 something

00:48:20.200 practical

00:48:21.360 become

00:48:21.860 a

00:48:22.060 physician

00:48:22.400 that's

00:48:22.800 what

00:48:22.880 we

00:48:23.020 expect

00:48:23.320 of

00:48:23.460 you

00:48:23.600 his

00:48:24.360 love

00:48:24.640 had

00:48:24.800 always

00:48:25.080 been

00:48:25.260 physics

00:48:25.700 so

00:48:26.320 he

00:48:26.480 gets

00:48:26.720 an

00:48:26.920 MD

00:48:27.200 in

00:48:27.380 1955

00:48:28.020 in

00:48:28.460 1967

00:48:29.220 on

00:48:29.780 his

00:48:29.960 way

00:48:30.160 of

00:48:30.280 becoming

00:48:31.600 a

00:48:31.820 hematologist

00:48:32.500 blood

00:48:33.120 doctor

00:48:33.500 he

00:48:34.500 picks

00:48:34.720 up

00:48:34.880 a

00:48:35.020 PhD

00:48:35.440 in

00:48:36.040 biochemistry

00:48:36.720 I

00:48:37.020 think

00:48:37.160 at

00:48:37.280 MIT

00:48:37.660 has

00:48:38.540 a

00:48:38.720 full

00:48:38.960 career

00:48:39.460 as

00:48:40.000 a

00:48:40.140 hematologist

00:48:40.820 and

00:48:41.220 I

00:48:41.480 think

00:48:41.620 around

00:48:41.840 2000

00:48:42.440 in

00:48:43.020 his

00:48:43.220 70s

00:48:44.000 maybe

00:48:44.280 retires

00:48:45.340 decides

00:48:46.060 now

00:48:46.520 I'm

00:48:46.780 going

00:48:46.960 to

00:48:47.180 pursue

00:48:47.560 my

00:48:47.860 real

00:48:48.280 love

00:48:48.540 which

00:48:48.800 is

00:48:48.940 to

00:48:49.100 study

00:48:49.400 physics

00:48:49.840 start

00:48:50.480 studying

00:48:50.960 physics

00:48:51.480 gets

00:48:52.000 his

00:48:52.280 PhD

00:48:52.740 at

00:48:53.060 Brown

00:48:53.320 University

00:48:53.940 at

00:48:54.540 89

00:48:55.180 and

00:48:55.980 comes

00:48:56.240 on

00:48:56.420 my

00:48:56.620 show

00:48:56.900 to

00:48:57.360 talk

00:48:57.720 like

00:48:57.940 a

00:48:58.340 young

00:48:58.700 graduate

00:48:59.260 student

00:48:59.700 about

00:49:00.320 his

00:49:00.880 desire

00:49:01.280 to

00:49:01.520 publish

00:49:01.940 the

00:49:02.160 work

00:49:02.340 from

00:49:02.520 his

00:49:02.660 dissertation

00:49:03.040 what

00:49:03.720 does

00:49:03.840 this

00:49:04.000 guy

00:49:04.140 have

00:49:04.320 to

00:49:04.460 prove

00:49:04.780 he's

00:49:05.220 89

00:49:05.640 so

00:49:06.340 for

00:49:06.840 many

00:49:07.140 things

00:49:07.620 it's

00:49:08.040 never

00:49:08.260 too

00:49:08.540 late

00:49:08.820 so

00:49:09.160 don't

00:49:09.440 live

00:49:09.620 in

00:49:09.740 regret

00:49:10.040 do

00:49:10.360 it

00:49:10.580 do

00:49:11.000 you

00:49:11.080 think

00:49:11.200 there's

00:49:11.380 a

00:49:11.480 bizarre

00:49:11.800 moment

00:49:12.300 we're

00:49:12.500 having

00:49:12.760 where

00:49:12.960 the

00:49:13.120 entire

00:49:13.520 because

00:49:13.840 so

00:49:14.140 many

00:49:14.260 people

00:49:14.520 see

00:49:14.740 problems

00:49:15.180 with

00:49:15.520 the

00:49:15.720 system

00:49:16.180 that

00:49:17.280 it's

00:49:17.540 becoming

00:49:17.820 a

00:49:18.000 self

00:49:18.220 fulfilling

00:49:18.520 prophecy

00:49:19.020 that

00:49:19.340 their

00:49:26.620 oh

00:49:26.900 yeah

00:49:27.160 and it

00:49:27.480 was

00:49:27.620 one

00:49:27.800 of

00:49:27.920 the

00:49:28.020 most

00:49:28.240 disgusting

00:49:29.000 speeches

00:49:29.800 you're

00:49:30.120 going

00:49:30.300 nowhere

00:49:30.860 we'll

00:49:32.200 throw

00:49:32.360 to it

00:49:32.740 it's

00:49:33.460 natural

00:49:33.780 to wonder

00:49:34.340 democracy

00:49:36.060 you hear

00:49:36.480 about

00:49:36.760 actually

00:49:37.160 works

00:49:37.560 for you

00:49:38.000 what

00:49:39.880 is

00:49:40.100 democracy

00:49:40.720 if

00:49:42.100 black

00:49:42.400 men

00:49:42.580 are

00:49:42.680 being

00:49:42.880 killed

00:49:43.160 in

00:49:43.280 the

00:49:43.400 street

00:49:43.740 what

00:49:44.840 is

00:49:45.040 democracy

00:49:45.680 the

00:49:46.860 trail

00:49:47.200 of

00:49:47.380 broken

00:49:47.640 promises

00:49:48.100 still

00:49:48.420 leave

00:49:48.640 black

00:49:48.920 communities

00:49:49.680 behind

00:49:50.160 what

00:49:51.600 is

00:49:51.800 democracy

00:49:52.400 you have

00:49:53.540 to be

00:49:53.760 10

00:49:54.020 times

00:49:54.360 better

00:49:54.600 than

00:49:54.740 anyone

00:49:54.940 else

00:49:55.220 to get

00:49:55.500 a

00:49:55.640 fair

00:49:55.820 shot

00:49:56.320 most

00:49:57.720 of

00:49:57.880 all

00:49:58.280 what

00:49:59.800 does

00:50:00.020 it

00:50:00.160 mean

00:50:00.560 as

00:50:01.620 we've

00:50:01.780 heard

00:50:01.980 before

00:50:02.520 to be

00:50:03.900 a

00:50:04.000 black

00:50:04.280 man

00:50:04.580 who

00:50:04.720 loves

00:50:04.960 his

00:50:05.140 country

00:50:05.560 even

00:50:06.940 if

00:50:07.100 it

00:50:07.200 doesn't

00:50:07.420 love

00:50:07.660 him

00:50:07.800 back

00:50:08.100 in

00:50:08.240 equal

00:50:08.480 measure

00:50:08.880 in

00:50:11.200 America

00:50:11.640 we're

00:50:11.900 all

00:50:12.120 created

00:50:12.460 equal

00:50:12.900 extremists

00:50:15.280 close

00:50:15.700 the doors

00:50:16.240 of

00:50:16.400 opportunity

00:50:17.000 strike

00:50:18.000 down

00:50:18.300 affirmative

00:50:18.700 action

00:50:19.220 attack

00:50:20.360 the

00:50:20.500 values

00:50:20.780 of

00:50:20.920 diversity

00:50:21.440 equality

00:50:22.000 and

00:50:22.160 inclusion

00:50:22.660 I

00:50:24.360 never

00:50:24.560 thought

00:50:24.800 when I

00:50:25.080 was

00:50:25.200 graduating

00:50:25.640 in 1968

00:50:26.460 as your

00:50:27.300 honoree

00:50:27.780 just was

00:50:28.400 we talked

00:50:29.380 about

00:50:29.680 I never

00:50:30.480 thought I'd

00:50:31.040 be in a

00:50:31.740 president

00:50:32.120 of time

00:50:32.620 when there's

00:50:33.260 a national

00:50:33.800 effort to

00:50:34.220 ban books

00:50:35.220 not to

00:50:36.800 write history

00:50:37.260 but to

00:50:37.600 erase history

00:50:38.480 they don't

00:50:40.760 see you in

00:50:41.360 the future

00:50:41.740 of America

00:50:42.260 but they're

00:50:43.520 wrong

00:50:44.020 to me

00:50:45.380 we make

00:50:46.960 history

00:50:47.400 not erase

00:50:48.640 it

00:50:48.860 we know

00:50:50.200 black history

00:50:51.040 is American

00:50:52.360 history

00:50:53.000 I

00:50:54.620 mean to

00:50:54.880 me

00:50:55.000 that is

00:50:55.280 one

00:50:55.440 of the

00:50:55.680 most

00:50:55.920 vile

00:50:56.740 things

00:50:57.220 you

00:50:57.400 could

00:50:57.560 ever

00:50:58.040 say

00:50:58.560 to a

00:50:58.940 young

00:50:59.120 person

00:50:59.340 when

00:50:59.520 you're

00:50:59.680 giving

00:50:59.840 a

00:51:00.040 commencement

00:51:00.460 speech

00:51:00.920 that's

00:51:01.180 supposed

00:51:01.340 to be

00:51:01.600 about

00:51:01.880 wow

00:51:02.440 you just

00:51:02.860 learned

00:51:03.200 something

00:51:03.520 go take

00:51:04.200 on the

00:51:04.580 world

00:51:04.880 and he

00:51:05.580 said

00:51:05.760 the world

00:51:06.140 the world

00:51:06.700 hates you

00:51:07.200 basically

00:51:07.520 well I

00:51:08.460 mean the

00:51:09.020 stories that

00:51:09.740 I just

00:51:10.120 told you

00:51:10.760 about

00:51:11.120 those two

00:51:12.000 guys

00:51:12.300 the first

00:51:13.220 guy

00:51:13.500 the one

00:51:13.840 who got

00:51:14.120 his PhD

00:51:14.480 at 91

00:51:14.960 I've been

00:51:15.940 telling that

00:51:16.540 story to

00:51:17.220 my students

00:51:17.780 so a

00:51:18.340 student knocks

00:51:18.860 on my

00:51:19.140 door during

00:51:19.540 office hours

00:51:20.180 I'm 27

00:51:21.400 years old

00:51:22.040 I'd really

00:51:22.780 like to

00:51:23.160 pursue an

00:51:23.680 MBA

00:51:24.060 or I'd

00:51:24.580 like to

00:51:24.860 do

00:51:24.960 but I'm

00:51:25.540 27

00:51:26.160 I'm too

00:51:26.680 old

00:51:26.940 and so I

00:51:27.340 usually say

00:51:27.960 sit down

00:51:28.740 I have a

00:51:29.540 story to

00:51:29.900 tell you

00:51:30.200 then I

00:51:30.820 tell them

00:51:31.220 that story

00:51:31.680 you see

00:51:32.280 the fire

00:51:32.900 in their

00:51:33.240 eyes

00:51:33.560 right

00:51:33.820 I'm

00:51:34.380 motivating

00:51:34.960 them

00:51:35.200 look at

00:51:35.540 this guy

00:51:35.940 he's 91

00:51:37.520 his PhD

00:51:38.500 you're 27

00:51:39.660 you're thinking

00:51:40.200 you're too

00:51:40.520 old

00:51:40.680 so you

00:51:41.500 inspire

00:51:42.080 people

00:51:42.600 you elevate

00:51:43.200 them

00:51:43.620 Biden

00:51:44.100 does the

00:51:44.540 exact

00:51:44.780 opposite

00:51:45.140 you're

00:51:45.480 going

00:51:45.680 nowhere

00:51:46.020 the

00:51:46.260 system

00:51:46.560 is

00:51:46.740 against

00:51:47.020 you

00:51:47.360 it's

00:51:48.500 actually

00:51:48.780 nauseating

00:51:49.640 in a way

00:51:50.060 I just

00:51:50.600 compared

00:51:51.020 that to

00:51:51.420 any

00:51:51.740 commencement

00:51:52.380 you know

00:51:52.680 we played

00:51:53.120 a Jerry

00:51:53.900 Seinfeld

00:51:54.280 commencement

00:51:54.680 speech

00:51:55.160 the other

00:51:55.460 day

00:51:55.740 at Duke

00:51:56.380 where he

00:51:56.780 talked

00:51:57.080 about

00:51:57.280 yeah

00:51:57.480 you've

00:51:57.720 got

00:51:57.880 privilege

00:51:58.220 enjoy

00:51:58.640 it

00:51:58.840 go get

00:51:59.220 out

00:51:59.420 there

00:51:59.580 anyone

00:51:59.820 would

00:52:00.040 kill

00:52:00.200 to

00:52:00.320 be

00:52:00.460 at

00:52:00.600 Duke

00:52:00.780 but

00:52:01.260 just

00:52:01.460 that

00:52:01.780 that

00:52:02.160 divide

00:52:02.700 in

00:52:07.520 and

00:52:07.700 the

00:52:07.840 system

00:52:08.100 is

00:52:08.220 horrible

00:52:08.500 versus

00:52:08.900 go

00:52:09.320 do

00:52:09.640 something

00:52:10.020 that

00:52:10.660 seems

00:52:11.320 like

00:52:11.620 it's

00:52:11.800 indicative

00:52:12.100 of

00:52:12.420 what's

00:52:12.640 happening

00:52:12.960 across

00:52:13.340 the

00:52:13.500 board

00:52:13.700 here

00:52:13.940 yeah

00:52:14.360 absolutely

00:52:14.880 and

00:52:15.160 maybe

00:52:16.200 that's

00:52:16.460 a good

00:52:16.680 segue

00:52:16.940 so I

00:52:17.740 in the

00:52:18.500 happiness

00:52:18.840 book

00:52:19.080 I talk

00:52:19.580 about

00:52:19.980 the

00:52:20.500 research

00:52:21.080 linking

00:52:21.620 political

00:52:22.300 orientation

00:52:22.980 to

00:52:23.340 happiness

00:52:23.820 so to

00:52:24.280 the

00:52:24.420 point

00:52:24.640 of

00:52:24.780 Biden

00:52:25.280 and

00:52:25.500 the

00:52:25.620 progressives

00:52:26.100 and

00:52:26.620 the

00:52:26.760 research

00:52:27.040 is

00:52:27.220 unequivocal

00:52:27.900 many

00:52:28.700 many

00:52:28.960 researchers

00:52:29.420 have

00:52:29.660 found

00:52:29.900 that

00:52:30.140 conservatives

00:52:30.900 score

00:52:31.820 higher

00:52:32.400 on

00:52:32.720 happiness

00:52:33.240 than

00:52:33.840 liberals

00:52:34.300 slash

00:52:34.820 progressive

00:52:35.380 slash

00:52:37.520 offer a

00:52:37.960 speculative

00:52:38.320 explanation

00:52:39.240 but I

00:52:39.680 think

00:52:40.080 it's

00:52:40.420 you

00:52:40.820 tell me

00:52:41.120 what you

00:52:41.320 think

00:52:41.440 of it

00:52:41.680 so I

00:52:43.000 argue

00:52:43.300 that

00:52:43.500 when the

00:52:43.780 conservative

00:52:44.160 wakes up

00:52:44.680 in the

00:52:44.880 morning

00:52:45.120 by

00:52:45.380 the

00:52:46.060 sheer

00:52:46.300 nature

00:52:46.600 of

00:52:46.940 the

00:52:47.340 term

00:52:47.620 conservative

00:52:48.180 there's

00:52:48.960 something

00:52:49.240 to

00:52:49.520 conserve

00:52:50.000 so I

00:52:50.820 wake

00:52:51.120 up

00:52:51.340 yes

00:52:51.600 society

00:52:52.700 may

00:52:52.920 not

00:52:53.060 be

00:52:53.220 perfect

00:52:53.540 but

00:52:53.740 there's

00:52:53.920 a lot

00:52:54.180 of

00:52:54.320 good

00:52:54.640 stuff

00:52:54.920 here

00:52:55.200 worthy

00:52:56.320 of

00:52:56.660 conserving

00:52:57.220 the

00:52:58.220 progressive

00:52:58.940 wakes

00:52:59.560 up

00:52:59.820 in the

00:53:00.180 morning

00:53:00.520 with

00:53:01.120 complete

00:53:01.620 existential

00:53:02.280 gloom

00:53:03.240 and

00:53:03.400 doom

00:53:03.620 we

00:53:04.920 live

00:53:05.120 in a

00:53:05.340 transphobic

00:53:06.040 misogynistic

00:53:07.060 land

00:53:07.460 acknowledgement

00:53:08.080 islamophobic

00:53:09.500 everything

00:53:09.900 is bad

00:53:10.400 we need

00:53:10.780 to

00:53:10.980 eradicate

00:53:11.760 everything

00:53:12.200 and just

00:53:13.080 around

00:53:13.480 if only

00:53:13.840 I had

00:53:14.260 enough

00:53:14.520 power

00:53:15.020 exactly

00:53:15.680 and around

00:53:16.460 the corner

00:53:16.920 is where

00:53:17.560 we're going

00:53:17.880 to find

00:53:18.240 unicornia

00:53:19.080 and therefore

00:53:19.900 that explains

00:53:21.100 why the

00:53:21.480 progressive

00:53:21.900 is doom

00:53:22.820 and gloom

00:53:23.320 and the

00:53:23.720 conservative

00:53:24.100 is not

00:53:24.500 well actually

00:53:25.000 not only

00:53:25.360 do I

00:53:25.580 agree

00:53:25.760 with that

00:53:26.120 I can

00:53:26.460 tell you

00:53:26.880 from my

00:53:27.460 life

00:53:27.700 when I

00:53:28.060 started

00:53:28.540 interviewing

00:53:29.100 conservatives

00:53:29.740 my main

00:53:30.680 thing

00:53:31.040 that I

00:53:31.280 was shocked

00:53:31.680 by was

00:53:32.060 not

00:53:32.300 the

00:53:32.660 political

00:53:33.060 part

00:53:33.400 it

00:53:33.500 wasn't

00:53:33.760 that

00:53:33.900 Ben

00:53:34.240 Shapiro

00:53:34.620 is pro

00:53:36.040 it wasn't

00:53:36.380 that Dennis

00:53:36.740 Prager

00:53:37.120 is for

00:53:38.520 states rights

00:53:39.280 or low

00:53:39.580 taxes

00:53:39.960 it was

00:53:41.320 that they

00:53:41.680 were nice

00:53:42.380 and happy

00:53:43.480 and were

00:53:44.140 like would

00:53:44.540 you like

00:53:44.880 to have

00:53:45.200 dinner

00:53:45.560 and break

00:53:46.180 bread

00:53:46.440 and discuss

00:53:46.940 this further

00:53:47.580 and let's

00:53:48.620 you know

00:53:49.000 be in each

00:53:49.460 other's

00:53:49.740 homes

00:53:49.980 that was

00:53:50.900 the part

00:53:51.320 or Glenn

00:53:51.720 Beck

00:53:52.020 I thought

00:53:52.320 he was

00:53:52.520 supposed

00:53:52.680 to be

00:53:52.840 this evil

00:53:53.220 Seattle

00:53:53.480 Larry Elder

00:53:53.920 all these

00:53:54.280 guys

00:53:54.440 no I love

00:53:55.920 all these

00:53:56.280 guys now

00:53:56.760 but I

00:53:57.480 think that

00:53:57.920 was the

00:53:58.260 most shocking

00:53:58.780 thing to

00:53:59.200 me and

00:53:59.440 having been

00:53:59.860 in progressive

00:54:00.380 circles

00:54:00.920 I mean quite

00:54:02.000 honestly

00:54:02.260 they weren't

00:54:02.800 that nice

00:54:03.260 and they

00:54:03.520 weren't that

00:54:04.000 generous of

00:54:04.660 spirit or

00:54:05.420 of heart

00:54:05.980 or anything

00:54:06.720 else so

00:54:07.220 no I am

00:54:08.640 not surprised

00:54:09.320 I suppose

00:54:09.740 at all

00:54:09.920 but where

00:54:10.420 does that

00:54:10.700 leave you

00:54:11.060 then as

00:54:11.640 someone that

00:54:12.660 I think

00:54:13.040 probably still

00:54:13.860 in your

00:54:14.200 true self

00:54:15.080 considers

00:54:15.460 yourself a

00:54:15.920 classical

00:54:16.240 liberal

00:54:16.560 I just

00:54:17.580 had Pete

00:54:17.960 Pagosi

00:54:18.260 and our

00:54:18.520 friend in

00:54:18.860 here

00:54:19.060 and I

00:54:19.600 asked him

00:54:19.820 the same

00:54:20.020 question

00:54:20.240 where does

00:54:20.720 that leave

00:54:21.080 you now

00:54:21.400 you find

00:54:21.800 yourself in

00:54:22.200 common cause

00:54:22.740 largely with

00:54:23.380 conservatives

00:54:23.860 I have to

00:54:25.380 vote Republican

00:54:25.960 at this point

00:54:26.500 not because

00:54:26.920 I'm a

00:54:27.120 traditional

00:54:27.440 Republican

00:54:28.100 or conservative

00:54:28.640 by any

00:54:29.100 measure but

00:54:29.560 it's just

00:54:29.960 pretty damn

00:54:30.680 obvious if I

00:54:31.660 want to save

00:54:32.140 Western society

00:54:33.060 to the extent

00:54:33.620 that your

00:54:34.280 vote matters

00:54:34.880 how do you

00:54:36.540 feel about that

00:54:37.220 and sort of

00:54:38.000 related also to

00:54:38.760 being a Canadian

00:54:39.440 where the

00:54:39.820 politics are a

00:54:40.580 little bit

00:54:40.800 so you're

00:54:41.300 exactly right

00:54:41.840 I would

00:54:42.160 consider myself

00:54:42.900 a classical

00:54:43.880 liberal but

00:54:44.500 often times

00:54:45.540 people have

00:54:45.960 thought that

00:54:46.460 I'm being

00:54:47.020 coy and

00:54:47.980 not advertising

00:54:49.420 and it's not

00:54:50.500 because I'm

00:54:50.980 trying to be

00:54:51.760 cryptic

00:54:53.500 meaning like

00:54:53.860 oh get there

00:54:54.620 exactly

00:54:55.000 it's because

00:54:57.020 I'm very much

00:54:57.760 of an

00:54:58.220 issues guy

00:54:59.480 so if you

00:55:00.780 ask me about

00:55:01.300 immigration

00:55:01.820 or about

00:55:02.880 the death

00:55:03.600 penalty

00:55:04.000 or just

00:55:04.680 justice system

00:55:05.380 in general

00:55:05.660 then you'd

00:55:06.280 say oh my

00:55:06.720 god he's

00:55:07.180 super

00:55:07.500 conservative

00:55:08.020 right

00:55:08.720 yes

00:55:09.280 countries should

00:55:10.120 have very

00:55:11.160 tight borders

00:55:11.860 yes if

00:55:13.300 your DNA

00:55:13.940 is found

00:55:14.540 on the

00:55:14.860 bodies of

00:55:15.380 five

00:55:15.940 raped and

00:55:16.600 killed

00:55:16.840 children

00:55:17.200 I have

00:55:17.720 no

00:55:18.040 moral

00:55:18.700 problem

00:55:19.160 with

00:55:19.400 executing

00:55:19.900 you

00:55:20.140 oh that

00:55:20.620 makes me

00:55:20.940 a super

00:55:21.320 right-wing

00:55:21.720 conservative

00:55:22.140 on the

00:55:22.720 other hand

00:55:23.020 when it

00:55:23.260 comes to

00:55:23.780 social

00:55:24.320 issues

00:55:24.900 I don't

00:55:25.560 care who

00:55:26.060 you sleep

00:55:26.460 with

00:55:26.740 I don't

00:55:27.420 care about

00:55:27.820 your

00:55:27.960 transgender

00:55:28.440 stuff

00:55:29.020 dress

00:55:29.520 how you

00:55:29.900 want

00:55:30.100 then you

00:55:30.680 would think

00:55:31.040 I'm super

00:55:31.620 socially

00:55:32.540 liberal

00:55:33.000 right

00:55:33.360 and so

00:55:33.840 it's hard

00:55:34.360 which is really

00:55:34.560 just libertarian

00:55:35.400 from a

00:55:36.120 policy perspective

00:55:37.240 but yeah

00:55:37.600 people somehow

00:55:38.560 think that

00:55:38.960 that's left

00:55:39.520 yeah

00:55:39.840 so yeah

00:55:41.060 so I would

00:55:41.600 consider myself

00:55:42.320 if you have

00:55:42.960 to pigeonhole

00:55:43.900 me then

00:55:44.340 classical

00:55:44.980 liberal

00:55:45.320 but then in

00:55:45.880 the weird

00:55:46.220 sense is

00:55:46.820 so much of

00:55:47.760 what we're

00:55:48.240 seeing the

00:55:48.600 problem right

00:55:49.100 now the

00:55:49.500 failure of

00:55:50.540 the liberals

00:55:50.960 to defend

00:55:51.740 liberalism

00:55:52.340 yeah

00:55:52.820 but this

00:55:53.560 has been

00:55:53.800 my main

00:55:54.340 ethos

00:55:55.000 for the last

00:55:55.560 couple of years

00:55:56.100 by the way

00:55:57.360 to the point

00:55:58.200 that we're

00:55:58.400 talking about

00:55:58.740 labels

00:55:59.120 so I

00:56:00.080 my last

00:56:00.600 two books

00:56:01.020 were with

00:56:01.460 Regnery

00:56:02.460 Regnery

00:56:03.180 is historically

00:56:03.940 the most

00:56:04.580 famous

00:56:05.080 conservative

00:56:05.720 imprint

00:56:06.320 and that

00:56:07.520 even put

00:56:08.220 a greater

00:56:08.660 imprimatur

00:56:09.260 on me

00:56:09.860 as a

00:56:10.260 conservative

00:56:10.800 writer

00:56:11.340 but I

00:56:11.920 never

00:56:12.160 thought

00:56:12.640 myself

00:56:13.000 as a

00:56:13.280 I mean

00:56:13.760 defending

00:56:14.260 freedom

00:56:14.700 of speech

00:56:15.360 and the

00:56:16.000 scientific

00:56:16.420 method

00:56:17.060 should not

00:56:17.940 be

00:56:18.200 conservative

00:56:18.700 values

00:56:19.260 but apparently

00:56:19.800 and even

00:56:20.200 I often

00:56:20.660 see my

00:56:21.020 book is

00:56:21.380 number

00:56:21.640 one

00:56:21.980 in

00:56:22.260 conservatism

00:56:23.260 why

00:56:24.500 why isn't

00:56:25.440 it just

00:56:25.900 in

00:56:26.380 rationality

00:56:27.560 so yeah

00:56:28.140 it's

00:56:28.360 well I guess

00:56:29.200 you gotta

00:56:29.460 give the devil

00:56:30.000 his due

00:56:30.340 but progressives

00:56:31.080 took over

00:56:31.520 the word

00:56:31.840 liberal

00:56:32.140 right

00:56:32.540 yeah exactly

00:56:33.120 they took

00:56:33.780 over the word

00:56:34.220 liberal

00:56:34.480 what else

00:56:35.200 is on your

00:56:35.600 mind

00:56:35.880 before we

00:56:36.460 wrap up

00:56:37.040 and go

00:56:37.280 have

00:56:37.460 well we'll

00:56:37.880 play some

00:56:38.200 basketball

00:56:38.540 and then

00:56:38.800 we'll have

00:56:39.060 some drinks

00:56:39.480 and eat

00:56:39.740 dinner

00:56:39.900 what else

00:56:40.540 is on your

00:56:40.860 mind

00:56:41.040 these days

00:56:41.540 and what

00:56:41.880 else

00:56:42.040 is on my

00:56:42.420 mind

00:56:42.780 the desire

00:56:44.240 to

00:56:44.720 and you

00:56:45.440 and I

00:56:45.660 have talked

00:56:46.000 about this

00:56:46.340 publicly

00:56:47.020 and privately

00:56:47.680 to get

00:56:48.620 out of

00:56:49.100 Canada

00:56:49.520 people think

00:56:51.300 that somehow

00:56:51.860 I'm being

00:56:52.720 an ingrate

00:56:53.620 and that

00:56:54.160 Canada accepted

00:56:55.320 me as if

00:56:56.240 I owe them

00:56:56.880 my entire

00:56:57.740 life and

00:56:58.260 future generations

00:56:59.260 to stay in

00:56:59.800 Canada

00:57:00.040 Canada's

00:57:00.820 become really

00:57:01.440 an insufferable

00:57:03.640 place to be

00:57:04.240 I hate the

00:57:04.900 taxes

00:57:05.240 so that's

00:57:06.200 always on my

00:57:06.800 mind

00:57:07.060 and it

00:57:07.400 especially

00:57:07.900 became

00:57:08.820 even more

00:57:09.480 so on my

00:57:09.960 mind

00:57:10.260 with the

00:57:10.960 book royalties

00:57:11.600 realities

00:57:12.180 where they

00:57:12.960 steal everything

00:57:13.680 from me

00:57:14.060 but that

00:57:14.320 always existed

00:57:15.020 in Canada

00:57:15.480 so that's

00:57:15.900 not really

00:57:16.420 but here's

00:57:17.060 the difference

00:57:17.440 when the

00:57:20.140 taxes

00:57:20.700 are built

00:57:21.840 into your

00:57:22.740 salary as a

00:57:23.600 professor

00:57:24.040 it's an

00:57:25.060 invisible

00:57:25.600 rape

00:57:26.220 right

00:57:26.740 because I

00:57:27.500 get used

00:57:28.000 to I'm

00:57:28.500 going to

00:57:28.840 make $100

00:57:29.400 you're going

00:57:30.240 to steal

00:57:30.780 $50

00:57:31.340 from me

00:57:31.980 and so I

00:57:32.620 just get

00:57:33.000 $50

00:57:33.340 the difference

00:57:34.600 with book

00:57:35.160 royalties

00:57:35.540 and so on

00:57:36.120 is that

00:57:36.640 they come

00:57:37.440 to my

00:57:38.120 bank account

00:57:38.980 untaxed

00:57:40.400 for a while

00:57:41.080 because they're

00:57:41.980 not taxed

00:57:43.340 by Regnery

00:57:44.600 because I'm a

00:57:45.340 Canadian citizen

00:57:46.140 and resident

00:57:46.620 so for a while

00:57:47.860 I live under

00:57:48.640 the illusion

00:57:49.280 that the

00:57:50.140 neuronal

00:57:50.640 firings of

00:57:51.420 my brains

00:57:52.100 belong to me

00:57:53.180 but then

00:57:53.960 Justin Trudeau

00:57:54.820 with a really

00:57:55.800 nice cigar

00:57:56.420 and a

00:57:56.700 cognac

00:57:57.100 he goes

00:57:57.720 hey Jew

00:57:58.320 58%

00:57:59.720 of your

00:58:00.560 life

00:58:00.980 and your

00:58:01.440 thoughts

00:58:01.880 and your

00:58:02.320 ideas

00:58:02.800 and your

00:58:03.300 jokes

00:58:03.680 and your

00:58:04.080 words

00:58:04.500 belong to

00:58:05.540 me

00:58:05.820 and so

00:58:06.680 there is a

00:58:07.360 line inside

00:58:08.200 my bank

00:58:08.820 statement

00:58:09.300 that's

00:58:10.340 it's written

00:58:10.820 the Canadian

00:58:11.300 government

00:58:11.780 the Quebec

00:58:12.320 government

00:58:12.760 there's this

00:58:13.340 big number

00:58:14.020 then I press

00:58:15.220 send

00:58:15.940 and that

00:58:16.700 big number

00:58:17.320 disappears

00:58:18.260 it's gone

00:58:19.320 so if

00:58:20.480 you get

00:58:20.940 worried

00:58:21.520 about

00:58:22.080 a Nigerian

00:58:23.200 prince

00:58:23.640 scam

00:58:24.160 taking

00:58:24.780 $1500

00:58:25.600 from you

00:58:26.440 what should

00:58:27.580 I feel

00:58:28.360 when my

00:58:28.880 entire

00:58:29.520 life's

00:58:30.140 work

00:58:30.360 is taken

00:58:30.940 sure

00:58:31.340 but that's

00:58:31.840 not what's

00:58:32.260 driving you

00:58:32.880 to leave

00:58:33.640 yeah

00:58:33.980 it's that

00:58:34.960 it's the

00:58:35.440 weather

00:58:35.780 it's the

00:58:36.240 wokeness

00:58:36.860 it's

00:58:37.240 it's

00:58:37.560 feeling

00:58:38.080 like a

00:58:39.140 fish

00:58:39.360 out of

00:58:39.800 water

00:58:40.080 I don't

00:58:40.700 belong

00:58:41.120 there

00:58:41.340 right

00:58:41.480 when

00:58:41.640 when I'm

00:58:42.420 in Texas

00:58:42.920 or when I

00:58:43.780 come to

00:58:44.140 Florida

00:58:44.440 or just

00:58:44.940 in general

00:58:45.460 in the

00:58:45.660 United

00:58:45.860 States

00:58:46.240 I feel

00:58:47.140 I've always

00:58:47.860 felt that

00:58:48.240 by the way

00:58:48.500 I mean I

00:58:48.740 studied in

00:58:49.280 the US

00:58:49.620 right

00:58:49.860 I was a

00:58:50.240 professor

00:58:50.580 at many

00:58:51.080 American

00:58:51.860 universities

00:58:52.300 in my

00:58:53.140 disposition

00:58:53.920 in my

00:58:54.540 values

00:58:55.320 I'm much

00:58:56.260 more

00:58:56.660 American

00:58:57.380 than I am

00:58:58.480 Canadian

00:58:59.120 Canadian

00:58:59.500 is a nice

00:59:00.240 place where

00:59:00.840 we all

00:59:01.180 get along

00:59:01.800 where we

00:59:02.440 all hug

00:59:03.120 where we

00:59:03.600 should all

00:59:04.080 be equal

00:59:04.680 it's a

00:59:05.360 it's

00:59:05.820 soft

00:59:06.460 socialism

00:59:07.100 right

00:59:07.500 but does

00:59:07.860 it feel

00:59:08.340 that

00:59:08.560 so I

00:59:09.200 agree with

00:59:09.600 that from

00:59:09.900 the temperament

00:59:10.420 of all

00:59:10.740 of the

00:59:10.960 Canadians

00:59:11.320 I've

00:59:11.600 met

00:59:11.760 and when

00:59:11.980 I toured

00:59:12.380 with

00:59:12.540 Jordan

00:59:12.780 when I've

00:59:13.120 done other

00:59:13.440 things up

00:59:13.820 in Canada

00:59:14.180 I've always

00:59:14.860 loved the

00:59:15.440 crowds all

00:59:16.080 over Canada

00:59:16.800 but that

00:59:17.880 seems to have

00:59:18.420 been used

00:59:18.760 again

00:59:18.920 their own

00:59:19.240 temperament

00:59:19.680 has now

00:59:20.000 been used

00:59:20.400 against that

00:59:20.880 by the

00:59:21.240 government

00:59:21.580 and so do

00:59:22.960 you sense

00:59:23.360 that Canada

00:59:24.160 has a real

00:59:24.820 reckoning

00:59:25.240 coming in

00:59:25.720 with this

00:59:26.300 that I

00:59:27.140 think there's

00:59:27.420 a lot of

00:59:27.700 really angry

00:59:28.220 people in

00:59:28.700 Canada right

00:59:29.180 now I

00:59:29.380 mean it

00:59:29.880 angry in

00:59:30.300 the right

00:59:30.740 sense of

00:59:31.180 why you

00:59:31.460 should be

00:59:31.740 angry

00:59:32.060 I mean in

00:59:32.580 part because

00:59:33.120 of the

00:59:33.380 COVID

00:59:33.700 draconian

00:59:34.260 stuff in

00:59:34.840 part because

00:59:35.400 of the

00:59:35.800 unchecked

00:59:36.380 immigration

00:59:36.820 so to

00:59:37.340 go back

00:59:37.640 to our

00:59:37.900 earlier

00:59:38.180 point

00:59:38.500 imagine

00:59:39.240 you wake

00:59:39.940 up and

00:59:41.200 within a

00:59:41.700 very short

00:59:42.420 time period

00:59:43.560 you no

00:59:44.400 longer

00:59:44.900 recognize

00:59:45.780 the city

00:59:46.360 that you

00:59:46.700 live in

00:59:47.140 right you

00:59:47.860 see what I

00:59:48.100 mean imagine

00:59:48.800 if I'm a

00:59:49.500 Hasidic Jew

00:59:50.220 and I live

00:59:50.980 in an

00:59:51.400 environment

00:59:51.900 with all

00:59:52.640 other people

00:59:53.200 who look

00:59:53.580 like me

00:59:53.940 and dress

00:59:54.240 like me

00:59:54.620 that's

00:59:55.360 sort of

00:59:55.660 my reality

00:59:56.280 and suddenly

00:59:57.060 I bring

00:59:57.600 people that

00:59:58.140 are completely

00:59:58.700 different from

00:59:59.280 me that

00:59:59.560 don't dress

01:00:00.060 like me

01:00:00.380 that don't

01:00:00.700 that's a

01:00:01.500 shock

01:00:01.800 right because

01:00:02.300 it's very

01:00:03.180 difficult to

01:00:04.260 assimilate so

01:00:05.160 many people

01:00:05.520 and it's

01:00:05.960 it's happened

01:00:06.660 at the speed

01:00:07.560 of light

01:00:08.020 so that

01:00:09.240 again people

01:00:09.820 are going

01:00:10.060 to say

01:00:10.260 oh he's

01:00:10.620 Islamophobic

01:00:11.360 no I'm

01:00:12.500 for liberty

01:00:13.120 and freedom

01:00:13.680 right

01:00:13.980 25 years

01:00:16.240 ago I

01:00:17.340 had seen

01:00:18.020 a single

01:00:18.980 woman

01:00:19.620 veiled

01:00:20.980 in Montreal

01:00:21.940 one time

01:00:23.080 okay from

01:00:23.900 1975 when

01:00:25.320 we emigrated

01:00:26.100 to Canada

01:00:26.600 till about

01:00:27.420 2000 I

01:00:28.200 saw one

01:00:28.620 woman

01:00:28.900 today if

01:00:30.260 I walk

01:00:30.740 out of my

01:00:31.300 house out

01:00:32.180 of 50

01:00:33.100 women that

01:00:33.600 I see

01:00:34.020 25 are

01:00:35.100 veiled

01:00:35.400 so it's

01:00:36.280 it's a

01:00:36.760 speed at

01:00:37.480 which that

01:00:38.140 it's impossible

01:00:38.960 to feel

01:00:40.360 am I

01:00:41.300 living in

01:00:41.780 Canada or

01:00:42.400 am I

01:00:42.600 living in

01:00:43.120 Syria

01:00:43.480 right well

01:00:44.020 also the

01:00:44.400 other reason

01:00:44.800 that it's

01:00:45.060 first off

01:00:45.400 Islamophobic

01:00:46.060 is obviously

01:00:46.700 just a

01:00:47.500 canard and

01:00:48.140 irrational fear

01:00:49.100 I mean you

01:00:49.680 should fear

01:00:50.180 things that

01:00:50.720 could take

01:00:51.100 away your

01:00:51.440 liberties

01:00:51.760 that's one

01:00:52.260 part but

01:00:53.060 the other

01:00:53.280 part is you

01:00:53.720 have to

01:00:53.940 wonder about

01:00:54.620 well are

01:00:55.920 these going

01:00:56.360 to be the

01:00:56.880 people that

01:00:57.260 will defend

01:00:57.700 the liberal

01:00:58.240 democracy

01:00:58.880 that Canada

01:00:59.480 has long

01:01:00.440 been or

01:01:00.900 not I

01:01:01.420 mean that's

01:01:01.740 just a

01:01:02.020 reality that

01:01:02.760 people seem

01:01:03.620 afraid to

01:01:04.140 address

01:01:04.540 yeah and

01:01:05.060 so that's

01:01:05.660 so in

01:01:06.760 addition to

01:01:07.240 the taxes

01:01:07.740 in addition

01:01:08.220 to the

01:01:08.540 bad weather

01:01:09.040 in addition

01:01:09.500 to the

01:01:09.860 socialist

01:01:10.180 system

01:01:10.620 the fact

01:01:13.020 that my

01:01:13.760 wife and

01:01:14.200 I no

01:01:14.600 longer feel

01:01:15.400 as though

01:01:15.940 our children's

01:01:16.940 future is

01:01:18.000 really there

01:01:18.640 that's what I've

01:01:19.200 been driving

01:01:19.580 for as a

01:01:20.680 father of

01:01:21.540 young kids

01:01:21.980 that's what

01:01:22.340 I've been

01:01:22.540 driving for

01:01:22.900 because I

01:01:23.220 think about

01:01:23.600 it all the

01:01:23.920 time that I

01:01:24.400 happen to

01:01:24.960 right now

01:01:25.660 live in

01:01:26.720 the I

01:01:27.180 think the

01:01:27.600 freest place

01:01:28.660 in the

01:01:28.920 world in

01:01:29.400 essence

01:01:29.780 you know in

01:01:30.560 Florida in a

01:01:31.700 flourishing place

01:01:32.380 that's doing

01:01:32.800 it right

01:01:33.180 despite all

01:01:33.700 the problems

01:01:34.060 for America

01:01:34.580 I've actually

01:01:35.120 I find it

01:01:36.620 very charming

01:01:37.580 maybe charming

01:01:38.480 is not the

01:01:38.780 right word

01:01:39.040 but I see

01:01:39.860 the happiness

01:01:41.240 that you express

01:01:42.220 often publicly

01:01:43.100 at having moved

01:01:44.000 from California

01:01:44.800 to Florida

01:01:46.420 and in a sense

01:01:47.720 frankly I'm

01:01:48.340 envious of that

01:01:49.080 because you

01:01:50.040 really are the

01:01:51.500 master of your

01:01:52.300 destiny in that

01:01:53.060 when place A

01:01:54.660 was no longer

01:01:55.420 tenable for you

01:01:56.160 you moved to

01:01:56.700 place B

01:01:57.180 the unique

01:01:58.560 factor of being

01:01:59.600 a tenured

01:02:00.100 professor makes

01:02:01.340 it so much

01:02:01.960 more difficult

01:02:02.540 to be a

01:02:03.080 master of my

01:02:03.740 destiny

01:02:04.140 and that's

01:02:05.020 been very

01:02:05.420 difficult for

01:02:05.940 me to handle

01:02:06.360 because I

01:02:06.840 am an

01:02:07.820 agent of

01:02:09.080 change

01:02:09.400 I do things

01:02:10.460 and yet here

01:02:11.260 I'm in this

01:02:11.840 golden cage

01:02:12.700 because of

01:02:13.600 tenure

01:02:13.860 I was about

01:02:14.360 to say you

01:02:14.800 know that all

01:02:15.200 the comments

01:02:15.660 are going to

01:02:15.980 say again

01:02:16.360 rip off your

01:02:17.060 golden handcuffs

01:02:18.200 and just do it

01:02:19.420 first of all

01:02:20.980 it takes a long

01:02:21.740 time to build

01:02:22.260 an academic

01:02:22.680 career

01:02:23.100 you have all

01:02:24.120 these

01:02:24.340 infrastructural

01:02:25.260 constraints

01:02:25.720 and we have

01:02:26.340 young children

01:02:26.900 if our children

01:02:27.800 were let's say

01:02:28.880 ten years older

01:02:29.680 than they are

01:02:30.200 now

01:02:30.520 then my

01:02:31.240 ability to

01:02:32.000 take risks

01:02:32.860 would be much

01:02:33.840 greater

01:02:34.220 but now when I'm

01:02:35.120 guaranteed a job

01:02:36.620 when I'm getting

01:02:37.220 it's hard to be

01:02:38.840 a risk taker

01:02:39.880 not to get too

01:02:40.520 morbid on you

01:02:41.040 but is the irony

01:02:41.780 of what you're

01:02:42.200 saying for

01:02:42.740 someone that's

01:02:43.300 as learned

01:02:43.700 and historically

01:02:45.300 knowledgeable as

01:02:46.300 you are that

01:02:46.860 you know you

01:02:47.280 also don't want

01:02:47.900 to be Anne

01:02:48.760 Frank's neighbor

01:02:49.360 who famously

01:02:50.100 they thought

01:02:50.660 ah we'll be

01:02:51.160 okay we'll be

01:02:51.800 okay

01:02:52.060 I agree

01:02:52.720 and so we

01:02:53.840 are getting

01:02:54.980 closer and

01:02:55.700 closer to

01:02:56.280 leaving

01:02:56.580 so inshallah

01:02:57.540 I will be

01:02:58.480 your neighbor

01:02:59.100 soon

01:02:59.460 was that your

01:03:00.000 way of telling

01:03:00.440 me you want

01:03:00.960 to just drive

01:03:01.620 around the

01:03:01.900 neighborhood for

01:03:02.340 a little bit

01:03:02.680 there's a lot

01:03:03.040 of houses

01:03:03.420 let me see

01:03:04.560 what we can

01:03:04.860 do for you

01:03:05.340 although

01:03:06.160 I'm only

01:03:07.460 willing to

01:03:07.920 come here

01:03:08.320 if you can

01:03:08.740 resolve the

01:03:09.340 mosquito problem

01:03:10.100 because my

01:03:10.560 biggest fear

01:03:11.140 in life

01:03:11.560 are mosquitoes

01:03:12.240 no but that's

01:03:13.060 that's literally

01:03:13.540 true

01:03:13.860 I turn into

01:03:15.100 a crying

01:03:15.840 five-year-old

01:03:16.600 if there's a

01:03:17.120 mosquito in the

01:03:17.660 house

01:03:17.900 it hasn't

01:03:18.820 been that

01:03:19.460 terrible

01:03:19.900 this season

01:03:20.820 but I can't

01:03:22.200 sit here

01:03:22.800 and honestly

01:03:23.340 tell my

01:03:23.920 don't Jews

01:03:24.540 control everything

01:03:25.220 not the

01:03:26.180 mosquitoes

01:03:26.500 I can't

01:03:28.460 I can't

01:03:29.120 truly tell

01:03:29.920 you that

01:03:30.680 it's mosquito

01:03:31.360 free here

01:03:32.000 but I would

01:03:32.560 say it's a

01:03:33.100 small price

01:03:34.400 to pay

01:03:35.120 for freedom

01:03:36.640 and the rest

01:03:37.100 of it

01:03:37.420 more importantly

01:03:38.260 than anything

01:03:38.660 we've discussed

01:03:39.340 here we're

01:03:39.700 going to shoot

01:03:40.020 hoops for a few

01:03:40.620 minutes

01:03:40.920 yes

01:03:41.320 and you've

01:03:42.260 been practicing

01:03:42.760 I understand

01:03:43.460 I am

01:03:44.000 trying to

01:03:44.540 what should I

01:03:45.500 expect from you

01:03:46.460 we're playing

01:03:47.380 horse

01:03:47.760 what are we

01:03:48.120 doing

01:03:48.300 horse seems

01:03:49.680 horse seems

01:03:50.220 appropriate

01:03:50.620 we're going to

01:03:50.940 am I going

01:03:51.920 to be like

01:03:52.380 this

01:03:52.520 you're going

01:03:52.720 to be just

01:03:53.200 like I mean

01:03:53.780 what do you

01:03:54.180 want me to

01:03:54.440 I'm wearing

01:03:54.880 wool and I'm

01:03:56.100 wearing sexy

01:03:56.960 black dress

01:03:58.020 shoes

01:03:58.360 this Canadian

01:03:59.660 sucker you see

01:04:00.400 what we did

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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - June 03, 2024

My Latest Appearance on The Rubin Report - Academia, Immigration, & Jew-Hatred (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_678)

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