Episode 1592 Scott Adams - Let's Talk About the Mass Brainwashing Operations Going on Right Now

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does anybody spend any time looking at that let me just say oh my god think about the funniest thing you've seen all year might have been dave chappelle very funny uh maybe there was some event or some friend of yours the funniest thing that happened to you all year just think about what that is okay got that in your mind the funniest thing the thing you laughed at the most all year now multiply that by about five and go look at the comments to my pin tweet asking for memes you will i actually this is not a joke i'm gonna say something that sounds like obvious hyperbole literally meaning the actual word literally no joke i had to stop reading them for health reasons no joke i swear to god that is a literal truth i had to take time off and go back in because i laughed so hard not a joke i thought i was going to hurt something it was actually dangerous i i don't even remember the last time i laughed that hard now here's the thing that um is a little a humor writing tip you ready humor if you look at these memes and you look at any one individually you might love it you might laugh but when you see them all as a collective you know you read a bunch of them on different topics it has a whole different effect and the effect is it just brings you into this absurdity world where everything's absurd for a while and you can just go live there for a while if you just see one meme you're like boop boop you're in and out it's like you weren't ever there but if you read them all at once you just sort of live in them for a while you will cry i mean you will cry laughing until i i was feeling like something was going to give out in my actual guts i i i can't recommend it enough do yourself a favor just spend 10 minutes that's all i'm asking if you don't cry i will be very surprised cry laughing that is uh speaking of uh things to laugh at um i was reading an article i think it was in buzzfeed in which women were saying what they they also saw in pete davison you know pete davidson has been dating a bunch of a-list celebrity women uh that you would say to yourself or at least men tend to say this how does he get all these women right and so women were asked what they they saw in him and i love some of the answers for example he's such a mess i mean i'm paraphrasing the answers so this is my words but this idea that he's such a mess that you're you're pretty sure he won't judge you what do you think of that he he's such a basket case which you know he's very overt about very transparent he'll tell you what a basket case he is and has been and that it makes you comfortable around him true i think so i think you're more comfortable around people who clearly have more problems than you do that's one thing now he's also tall he's successful he's funny you know he's you know getting rich which didn't matter to the specific women he was with but you know you can see all those things as well but here's here's the funniest part somebody in one it was a tweet that was part of the article somebody described pete davidson as looking like a wet cigarette that's good i mean that's really good um i i've seen people describe me as looking like a thumb and you know i laugh at that too so i you know i don't want to make fun of people's looks i don't generally do that but when somebody makes a like a spot-on kind of an elegy a wet cigarette i don't think that could be any better could it i mean just in terms of cruel descriptions of people i've been on the receiving end of lots of cruel descriptions and i can tell you that when they're done well they're actually just hilarious even if it's about you so i'd like to think that he would laugh at that too because it's just so clever so i think that women know that he's not going to think he's better than them but and somebody else said he's a nice guy but he's sort of confident in who he is i think have you ever heard the phrase people are comfortable in their own skin in other words it doesn't matter who you are but are you comfortable being that person and if you are other people are comfortable around you now i'm not sure that describes pete davidson because i would require reading his mind and we can't do that but i would say it looks like that you know from the outside it looks like he's someone who's completely confident that he is just him and he's not anybody else he's not trying to be so the fact that he's putting no effort into trying to look like somebody else i think that gives him a little credit doesn't it i think he's likable i mean you know i like everybody with a sense of humor um so i know i would like him if he were in the same room so so you got that but here's the other thing that i think people are missing in the story the stories about all that how all these you know top uh let's say top celebrity and you know attractive women all like him is that the real story because there's a part of the story they're leaving out none of them wanted to marry him am i right why isn't that the story the story should be zero people wanted to marry pete davidson now i don't know if he wanted to get married maybe not but um i'm not sure that women see him as a keeper i think they might see him as just a great guy to hang around with because he looks like he'd be fun i mean how would it not be fun it would be hard to even like could you even picture in your mind hanging out with pete davidson and not having fun like you really can't even conceivably can you so i can i i totally see his uh his appeal i don't think people are going to line up to marry him right away for a lot of the same reasons rasmussen has a poll that biden's approval is at 41 his disapproval at 57 but here's the weird thing 57 percent disapprove of him but yet 64 say things are heading in the wrong direction i don't know maybe because it's not his fault i would think that his disapproval would be closer to the same as the number say it's heading in the wrong direction it's in that neighborhood but i'd expect that to be closer anyway uh where are all the people who thought things would be better under trump because i don't think we got that right or better under biden than trump i don't think we got that i wonder if people are noticing so uh uh brian stelter was pointing out that the january 6 committee hearings were apparently being broadcast by cnn but he points out that it wasn't being carried by fox news newsmax or one america news all right leaning news outlets so what do you think does stelter have a point because you've seen it in the other direction right you've seen the other direction where you know fox news would carry something all day long that uh the cnn would not you could probably think of some some examples of that so does he have a point do you feel like you're being manipulated by the right leaning media for not showing you that why don't you care why don't you care now i can see why cnn wouldn't cover the trump rallies because those are purely political um you don't care okay here's my speculation about why the people on the right and therefore the platforms themselves don't carry it see if this rings true with you because everyone on the right knows it wasn't an insurrection so it's a committee to find out if an insurrection happened and how it happened and who was behind it everyone on the right knows it's not real everyone a little everyone i think everyone in the right knows there was no insurrection and that no one will be charged with one now i realize the insurrection is difficult to charge but there's nobody even close is there they're being charged with individual crimes which i think in most cases they did commit so i don't and here's the thing are any are any uh conservatives complaining that the protesters who literally broke a law are subject to you know the legal system i haven't heard anybody complain about that we've complained about people being jailed for too long without the system you know dealing with them one way or another and that looks criminal to me but nobody's complaining about the fact that there's a thing called laws that apply to everybody all right that's my theory is that the people on the left need to see it because they could find out what's going on but the people on the right already know there's nothing to find out why would you show an entire hearing of nothing that's what it looks like on the right now i'm being too kind because obviously all the news organizations are in some way brainwashing tools so if they choose to not show something or show something that is a statement about brainwashing but in this case cnn is doing the brainwashing and the other entities already said everything they need to say there's nothing there except individual crimes which need to be dealt with all right here are some examples of recent mass brainwashing operations and by the way i think we need to get away from our old words about the so-called news networks and social media collectively they're not really about news anymore are they it would be i think it would be more accurate and without hyperbole right i'm going to try to be just straightforward on the facts and not exaggerate them it'll sound like an exaggeration but i'm not trying to do that i'm honestly trying to not exaggerate i think the things we used to call the news are so clearly now just brainwashing operations that i i have trouble even considering them as news entities they just look like a brainwashing operation going in different directions that's all it looks like to me and now there is news there which gives them you know a reason or a cover story for existing i guess but listen to all these uh in my opinion these are brainwashing operations meaning that somebody intentionally said let's convince somebody of something that's not true right as opposed to just fake news where it's just not true but somebody actually decided specifically let's see if we can sell this not true thing you had the russia collusion hoax they knew that wasn't true here's a new one i'm adding to my list have you seen the chart that shows you that at exactly the same time occupy wall street disappeared for no reason because what they were complaining about didn't stop it got worse if the income distribution got worse not better but occupy wall street just sort of went away and then there was replaced with critical race theory and black lives matter and and race race race everything's race okay that's not natural that's a brainwashing operation obviously somebody decided occupy wall street didn't work as a frame and so they came up with a new frame i don't know who they is you know you could guess it's soros i know you're gonna say soros i don't have personal reason to believe he's the one cause of all this stuff but um clearly there were numbers of people in important places that thought that race was going to be the new frame and so i would call that a brainwashing operation because not much changed right from you know from two years ago i don't know that much changed but suddenly it's the biggest topic in the world so that screams uh brainwashing operation uh you saw the waukesha story disappear that's a brainwashing operation they just make a an inconvenient narrative disappear uh of course the fine people hoax the drinking bleach hoax were two big brain washing operations uh they worked on the left and worked a little bit on the right amazingly and then the the thought that the courts have validated the election that's a brainwashing operation i think half of the country thinks that the courts looked at the election and decided it was fair you know nothing like that happened right there were just a few cases brought to the courts and for in the most cases the most most of them they didn't have standing or it was too late or you know there was a reason that the court couldn't look at it or it was too early before anybody audited anything but basically the courts looked at a whole bunch of nothing there was a lot of it but all of it added up to nothing so they they can't prove there was no election problems they can only prove they didn't judge that there was any which is different all right so those are just some examples yeah i've i just don't even see the news anymore as even intending to give you news it looks like the intention is to brainwash all right i was uh talking to a gentleman online who had been brainwashed to believe there was an insurrection and when i said it was a weird insurrection because the most armed segment of american life didn't bring weapons and i was corrected that there were actually six guns were retrieved from the protesters we assumed there were more but six were discovered do you know how they discovered them well it wasn't because anybody had one out i i think you know they were probably arrested for other reasons and or whatever and have guns but uh this was given to me as a reason to believe it was an armed insurrection that they had found six guns and i pointed out that six guns is roughly the amount of guns in a texas walmart on any given moment am i wrong if you go into a walmart in texas do you think there are six guns in there i'll bet and then how many are in the parking lot six guns in the building but how many are in the in the parking lot oh 100 that's probably every walmart so no that doesn't mean anything that there were six guns in a gigantic gathering of conservatives conservatives bring guns in case they need them it's just standard procedure for a lot of people um true or false the public needs an advocate for getting us out of the pandemic constraints we need the public needs an advocate what we have are elected representatives they're the wrong people not by personality and not by competence the re the problem here is that the the public and this is a rare situation where the public's interest is just not the same as the government's interest normally they're really in lockstep normally the government has to do a good job for the people in a way that the people can observe and see and that will help them get elected and would be good for the politicians so we've designed a really good system you know compared to the alternatives the the republic with you know our democratic processes within is really good really good yeah with flaws of course but the best we have but here's the problem the government is has to manage for minimum death what is what does everybody say is the number one job of a government protect the citizens am i right everybody would agree with that the number one job of government is to protect the citizens somebody says it's not really you would disagree with that statement i'm saying that's the if you if you listen to any politician they will tell you that that their job is to protect people now that doesn't mean take their freedom away right that means protect them make sure you've got law enforcement make sure you have a national defense make sure you know maybe osha and stuff make sure that you're not doing obviously dangerous things that are just ridiculous now of course they might go too far and that's another conversation you know go too far and trying to keep you safe and i think that's our exact situation here with that what the public wants is an objective risk management decision based on the best information and for most of us that would indicate opening up sooner than the government wants am i right that the public not everybody but the public i'd say the consensus is clearly on the side of opening up sooner than later would you agree with that i could be wrong about that but i think that's true i see one wrong but if the public were sure that they were safe enough i'm pretty sure that they'd all be on that side now here's the problem you've got a government who has to manage toward minimizing death but you've got a public who doesn't have that same single-minded focus the public wants to live a life that they know has a certain amount of risks and once they've been informed and once they've been giving some reasonable tools to deal with the risk which we have now the public just doesn't have the same objective our objective is to get out there and live take some chances the government's objective is to minimize death they're just they're just not compatible and so i submit to you that the public needs an advocate actually somebody whose job it is i don't know how they would ever be you know appointed or self-appointed or something so that somebody can negotiate directly with the government because the government are not our representatives on this specific question the government are our representatives on basically everything else it's just a weird situation where we we should not expect that they would represent us because they they have different objectives now that's not their fault is it people people manage to their incentives you can't change that people manage to their own risk management and the politicians have to manage for the minimized minimizing death and the public doesn't so we need an advocate now i don't know i would be the right choice for that but there should be somebody who at least has something like my skill set maybe more credibility in a variety of ways but something like that we just need somebody to speak for the people because the government can't do that right now all right there's a new technology that looks promising that will allow you to get a vaccination without a needle so there's a little device that blows of focused air into your arm or whatever and somehow that air can inject enough of the vaccination that you don't need an actual needle and as others have observed you know we humans uh are rationalizers we're not really rational people and i do suspect that i'll ju i'm just gonna throw a wild ass number out this has no data or anything it's just based on living in the world i would bet ya i will bet you that of the vaccine resistors 25 of them are it's about the needle they won't say that necessarily they might make an argument for risk management etc but i feel like at least 25 percent have a needle fear that has influenced them to think they have some other reason that would be normal by the way that would just be how a normal brain would work you you would rationalize that stuff and make you think that you're making a rational decision air bubbles and veins i don't know i guess they figure that out somehow it's not like they're shooting into a vein it looks like they're shooting into your skin somehow uh that's way too high scott why would you say 10 10 maybe just have fear of needles fear of needles is a big thing somebody says two percent maybe i know but for some people who actually maybe would want the vaccination but are afraid of the needles that might make a difference then again i'm not recommending you get vaccinated let me say that as often as i need to i'll give you the pros and cons as as they develop so this is on the pro side but it doesn't mean you should do it it just means that there's lots of pros and cons and maybe you should be aware of them all and then make your own decision um all right let's see what else is going on other here's the name of that company that's making that uh uh air vaccination thing that just blows air into you it's a dio synvax d-i-o-s-y-n like synthetic vex and let me give you some advice i'm going to give some corporate advice here to this company so you you can just watch but this is uh this is intended for the ceo of diosynvex if you're trying to make a device to get the people who don't want vaccinations a lot of them would be christian you don't want to name your company die o sin vax because dying is bad sin is bad and some people are already anti-vaxx so dia sin vax looks like i hope they didn't pay a consultant for that name you know there's sometimes a consultant will do that they should pay a cartoonist to check out company names because you know what cartoonists do really well mock things we're really good at that a lot of practice so show me your corporate name and i will tell you exactly how i will mock it and diosim vax that's just asking for it how many of you believe that pfizer's documents their own documents show vastly more vaccine-related deaths than you have been told publicly how many of you believe that that's uh that's in the news and that that's real that's actually just news not not a rumor but it's just news how many of you think it's a fact that we now know that pfizer's own data shows those vaccinations are killing way more people than had been reported before how many think that's a fact uh jet air injectors for vaccines have been around since at least the 50s michael says ah all right um well here's what uh andres backhouse points out uh and i always refer to him as my uh my best source of analyzing what is and isn't credible when it comes to data he's really really good at it so that's why you should follow him andres backhouse and uh he took a run at jordan peterson because uh jordan peterson tweeted uh some that information about all of the the deaths with the pfizer vaccine according to pfizer's own data but as andres points out that if you actually read the details of it it says very clearly that the deaths are not attributed to the vaccination that's a pretty big difference yes there were a lot of deaths because you know lots and lots of people got the vaccination and there were a lot of deaths but a huge number of them actually had coveted at the same time they died they got the vaccination but also got covered either it was you know after the first vaccination of the second so you would at the very least you'd have to put a question mark next to the people who died with coven because we know that kills you how do you know it was the covet and not the vaccination or the vaccinations and not the covet we don't right so the point is that these big numbers are simply the people we know died it's not the people we know died because of the vaccination if a lot of them actually had covet that's pretty pretty uh pretty questionable now does am i telling you that these vaccinations are safe no no don't hear that remember this is not the show that goes binary things are not all good or all bad sometimes things can be a little good and a little bit bad that's that's the theme of this live stream anyway and you should not believe that these numbers uh display an actual number of deaths it could be but it's unlikely it's unlikely it's very unlikely like deeply unlikely as in if you have to bet your own money against it you should definitely bet against it so who knows who knows but don't believe that this data has been proven in some kind of a fact and that the numbers are giant that's just not the case all right uh let's talk about dr peter mccullough who uh was on joe rogan's show i think he's been on fox he's been on laura and grimm's show and he's in he's one of the doctors who has a let's say a contrarian view about some pandemicy vaccinationy stuff how many of you are familiar with dr mcauliffe and uh would find him a credible voice go how many find him incredible and are familiar with him uh on the locals we're seeing just a wall of yeses one maybe don't know but yes yes yes very credible over on youtube i'm saying yes yes yes yes yes yes one no uh talk to your individual doctor good advice i mean how do you know your individual doctor is the smart one very all right so almost universally you would consider him credible right good excellent i was hoping you'd say that because here's the part where things get interesting okay here's my opinion about his credibility i don't know i don't know how would i know like if he says a bunch of doctory smart sounding things how would i know if it's true no i have no way to know i could check his facts as people said but what have i told you about doing your own research does that work i've never seen it work it never works do you know when it works i'll tell you when do your own research works it's a very limited very limited situation doing your own research works if your name is andre's backhouse and you have a phd in economics if that's the case for you do your own research probably tell you something you didn't know but for the rest of us and i include myself in this category no we can't do our own research that's ridiculous we'll just confuse ourselves we'll just find the things that agree with us and and come out of the the well thinking we proved it it's just a confirmation bias thing so many of you said scott scott scott you are you were showing some doubt about this doctor but you didn't do your own research and you didn't even listen to him and that both of those things are true i listened to clips but i didn't listen to this whole thing so can i be confident about his credibility if i haven't listened to his whole thing i've only listened to a little bit uh and i'm not an expert and i haven't done my own research you know how confident can i be in my opinion what do you think well let me let me uh poke at it from a different few different angles and find out which parts of this you would disagree with number one this is what i call a category problem if you tried to figure out what's true or not the first thing i do is say what category is it i'll give you an example your neighbor says he saw a ufo and it abducted his family and took him away and then returned them intact the next day that's a category that you can reasonably assume most of the things that are not true does it mean that your neighbor was not abducted by an alien nope nope does not mean that this might be the one time it's true but your starting point if you hear somebody was abducted by an alien is i'm going to say 95 chance that didn't happen how often would you be right if you just went into it with a 95 chance that did not happen well so far you'd be right every time every time right how about if you heard that your neighbor had built a fusion reactor in his garage which is by the way actually things that have happened i think somebody actually did build a i think it more than once somebody thinks they built a fusion reactor in their garage that category how often is that category turning out to be true well zero so far but there might actually someday be somebody who made a fusion reactor in their garage could happen how about the uh inventor who invented a cure for cancer and it's going to trial and man does it look good uh worked in the animals it worked in the test tube it's going to cure most cancers that's a category how often does an individual claim in the cancer curing category turn out to be true rarely five percent now we get to keep all the five percents that are true and so actually uh cancer cures are building up and actually getting pretty substantial at this point but they're all the exceptions it's just the exceptions we keep we sort of forget about the ones that didn't work so those are three categories and there are lots more where as soon as you hear the category your brain should automatically go into the probably not mode but still it could be the five percent right somebody said to me uh scott wouldn't that describe you in 2016 weren't you and the five percent who said trump was going to win that election even though almost all the experts said no so scott aren't you being a hypocrite because you are exactly what you describe as non-credible to which i say good point exactly if you believed me in 2016 you might have made a bad decision because i was a category that should have been wrong 95 of the time but my five percent came through now i think it's true because i could see he had you know i had i had some extra information right so it wasn't so much that i was a rogue it was i just had the information you didn't have if you had trained as a persuader and other people who would also have that training could see it too so that was the special case but i agree totally that if you were going to bet money on it the smart money was betting against me you get that right i got that one right but the smart money would have been against me and even i would have bet against me you know if i were looking at me from the outside i would have bet against me because i was a category that's usually wrong all right so i say also that the rogue doctor category the doctor who is saying things that are quite different than the mainstream is a category that is 95 percent wrong so if you're going to bet against it every time five percent of time you'll lose your bet now is is dr mcauliffe in the five percent or the 95 i don't know i don't know how would i know how do you know how could anybody know it's unknowable i'll tell you what people said to me they said scott says scott listen to the whole thing if you listen to the whole thing it's way more credible do i agree absolutely if you listen to the entire presentation of anybody who's wrong it will look really credible by the time you're done also anybody who's right those two will look the same to you because you can't really judge this rogue doctor if he makes a claim i'm not going to look it up i mean i could but i'm not so be very very careful now let me let me give you a couple of hints that are by no means the end of the story i'll tell you one thing that is biasing me terribly and i'm going to give you a little persuasion lesson here all right now i want to be clear and this is a very subtle point but it's so important this doesn't mean he's not credible i'm gonna i'm gonna play you a clip of dr mcauliffe's voice i'm gonna put it in the context of persuasion and i'm gonna tell you that the voice technique he uses is um is non-persuasive but that doesn't mean wrong okay let me be clear i'm not saying he's wrong i'm saying he's choosing a style of communication which instantly smacks as non-credible to me and i i've described this before i think did i describe this only on locals or did i tell the youtube people too uh have i described the pleading voice there are two ways to talk when you're persuading one is the matter of fact voice where you're just laying out the facts and here they are nothing to nothing to talk about that's persuasive but if you're saying this look at the data look at the data that's the pleading voice that's begging the viewer to believe you because you don't believe yourself that's why it's non-persuasive you sound like a person who hasn't convinced themselves because why are you talking that way right now if you want to see an example of the best persuasive voice it's just really good there's a series on hulu i think called dopesick it's the story of the oxycontin and the purdue company and the sackler family now i've just watched the first of uh first part of it but there's a scene in there if you watch that there's a salesperson who was played by an actor and then the actor is giving his pitch to a doctor listen to that you you want to see how to modulate your voice to be persuasive i don't know if that was the actors what the actor brought to the role or if it was directed that way or written that way it's a little unclear but some combination of the writing and the acting and the directing gives you perfect persuasion voice now when you watch it don't be fooled by the fact that the actor also has a very pleasant voice you know nice a nice rich you know deep kind of voice that has nothing to do with what i'm talking about right that that's not technique that's just something he was born with he may have a little technique but just listen to the matter of factness as he lays out the facts which you find out later or actually you find out soon are not facts but the way that that salesperson lays it out damn you would think that was true it is so persuasive even knowing it's not true you think it sounds pretty good all right now compare that with i'm going to play just the clips and and look for uh this is dr mcauliffe on uh joe rogan's show and listen to the voice and see if it sounds like matter of fact or pleading with you to believe introductions these books are basically non-fiction they have a thousand citations in the breaking book showing how it was coordinated and planned now bobby kennedy has this book out the real anthony fauci i'm the most uh mentioned physician in that book i can tell you that if you want to find the evidence that moderna was working on the vaccine before the virus ever emanated out of the lab if you wanted to find the the collusions and the operations between the gates foundation and gavi and sepi and pfizer and moderna and the vaccine manufacturers and the wuhan lab and the national institutes of health and ralph barrican university of north carolina engineering yes this is organized if you want to see the johns hopkins planning seminar called the spars pandemic in 2017 where they had a similar museum people showed up they wrote up their symposium findings they published this it says it's going to be a coronavirus it's going to be related to mers and tsars now again i have to have to be really clear the way he the way he communicates uh biases me to think that it's not credible but it could just be a technique problem you get that right it could be um oh even in the not sped up uh playback yeah i think mine was sped up so don't be fooled by the rapidness of his talking that's not what i'm talking about i'm talking about the the pleading quality which you you could hear at that slow motion the same it was also sound pleading but um oh okay somebody's saying let's see if i can change the speed i don't know if i have that option on the twitter playback doesn't uh i can't do that quickly but if you'd like to do that yourself that's a fair that's a fair comment by the way that speeding it up changes uh how it's received but i think you'll see that if you play it slowly uh you get the pleading just it's just slower but you're right that wasn't fair to show it so let me acknowledge that wasn't fair to show it at a higher speed i didn't do that intentionally i must have some setting in youtube but doesn't mean he's wrong right you got to be really clear doesn't mean he's wrong but he's using a communication style that screams not credible whether it is or not alright so i hope you learned something i hope you learned something from that let me tell you the other thing that gave me pause uh joe asked him about masks now what do you think a doctor should say about masks well he gave a very indirect answer which i felt was playing to the audience it looked like his honest answer may have not been exactly what joe rogan's audience wanted to hear that was just a feeling i got again i'm not a mind reader so i can't know what's in his head that would be unfair but i'll tell you the way i received it was he was tap dancing on masks and the moment i heard him tap dance on masks i lost all belief in anything else he had to say so as a general rule if somebody has a large message and there's only one part of it you understand and you know that part doesn't make sense you are free to extend that lack of credibility to the whole that would not be irrational if you knew you know there was just one part of it you could be certain about right so i'm still seeing some complaints that the speeding it up changed everything uh let's let's look at it again tomorrow i'll check it on lower speed i don't think it changed everything i think it i think it did exacerbate it but the effect is still there um you know the the the pitch is not important except for the how it's modulated right so it doesn't matter that he has a high-pitched voice or lopez choice that's that's not part of persuasion you know the the low-pitched executive voice it can have a little persuasive value but you don't really need that it's optional he has a great track record with his covet patients do you know who else has a great track record with her covet patients everybody because we've got really good treatments now plus most people get better all right um by the way dopesick that is really well done i i thought that i wouldn't like it because it was just going to be sad and poorly made but it's actually made so well just the the artist the artistry of you know making it is really high so it's really good to watch um all right um so somebody asked if a cartoonist is credible so i i tweeted his question because he had a little graph there the last i checked it 59 said i was credible 22 say i'm a paid operative 22 22 rounded up to 25 yes that's exactly the number of people who answer every poll wrong no matter the question all right uh here's a list of how to participate in a debate if you have nothing to say to me uh you could use any of these phrases to show that you have put no thought whatsoever into your point of view and uh you just wanted to say something so sometimes we just like to say something you know be part of it so if you'd like to be part of a conversation with me on some topic and uh you don't have anything whatsoever to say of use faul use any of these uh phrases he's jumping the shark now he jumped the shark now well look who's the pointy-haired boss now i guess i guess we know who's the pointy-haired boss now that's just like the matrix that reminds me of soylent green oh oh so you're an apologist you're an apologist now can we call you an apologist you apologist i saw it with my own eyes scott don't tell me it didn't happen i saw it with my own eyes heard it with my own ears so say that any sheep references are good sheep you're sheep somebody's a sheep everybody's a sheep any kind of sheep reference is good uh also 1984 the book hitler and anything with fascist of course just throw that into any reference goes with each of these go with every argument really now on the sheep reference may i say this i think the sheep reference is the lowest level of thinking in the pandemic somebody's oh yeah scott is such a sophist i have to add that to my list yeah that's a good one you know everybody's a sheep right so the funniest thing about 2021 is sheep calling other sheep sheep and then the sheep that they're calling sheep are saying i'm not a sheep you're the sheep and like nobody's aware that we're all sheep well here's what i mean by that with the vaccinations uh the anti-vaxxers are saying you're sheep and you're you're afraid of covet that's why you're getting the vaccination but then the sheep say but wait a minute are you afraid of the vaccination i'm afraid of the covenant you're afraid of the vaccination doesn't that make both of us sheep i think we're both sheep because we're both afraid of something and we don't know right so as soon as you think it's the other person who's a sheep you you've left the ground of of rational conversation uh here's something i didn't know this is also an andre's backhouse uh discovery meaning that the data was already out there easy to find but for some reason he got it and you you didn't did you think the suicides went up during the lockdowns how many of you think the suicides are up during the pandemic reveal yourselves how many say suicides are up they're down but not equally turns out that they're down in uh every category except uh no way they're down no they're up in every category except adult white men i think should i read that right um yeah i think that's it so only only white adults had fewer suicides but other groups had a little bit more but overall because there's a lot of white adults killing themselves so i guess it's not men it's it's adults and it says the overall decline i think this was from npr the overall decline was driven mostly almost entirely by a drop in suicides among white people who apparently kill themselves at a higher rate than any other group did you know that did you know that white people kill themselves at the highest rate now how do you define equity because i've said this before shouldn't you just measure everybody's level of happiness and if they're similar you're done right you don't have to give anybody extra money or anything if everybody's equally happy the way they are but but if white people are killing themselves at the highest rate um i think that's a red flag or maybe we're looking at this whole equality thing in an a less than optimal way um but i guess for uh anyway so i have some theories about that here's one of them i'm not sure that we counted uh suicides correctly during the pandemic or in general here's why a lot of suicidal people are also drug addicts because why wouldn't you be really if you're suicidal it almost doesn't make sense not to do drugs you know okay i shouldn't say that take that back that was an irresponsible thing to say bring it back there are some things that are true but you just shouldn't say so i shouldn't have said that but it's true um and in i have a well i won't tell you why i think this but i do know that uh people who take too many drugs and stop worrying about overdosing might be in the suicidal group so i think some of the some percentage of the the overdoses are let's say a accidental death without much regard for whether they would die meaning that people didn't protect their own life because they weren't that concerned about living is that suicide if you do things that you know could kill you because you're not interested in living it's suicide-ish even if you didn't know what would happen on that particular day you know you might be just you know redlining how much drugs you're taking but not really planning to die you're just okay with it if it happens i don't know so i i would question the data but um my if you remember i don't know i don't know if i'm remembering it right help me with my memory i feel as though i predicted that during the pandemic there would be fewer suicides and my thinking was that people would be in close quarters with their families they wouldn't be bullied at school the same way and that there would just be sort of less opportunity because we'd all just be around each other and you know we you know our i guess our lives would be constrained you know but you'd be with your family more even if you didn't like it i just i just felt like the situation was we'd be watched too much and there would be less of it now i don't know if that was a good prediction or not but i did not predict that there would be more of it early on later on when the statistics seemed to show that there was more of it i think i i adopted that view yeah red fury is asking did scott really say that that's what i'm asking i'm asking because i might have a false memory of that and i know that i had at least two different views i think i started with oh i'm seeing lots of yeses on locals people do remember i started with the view that there would be fewer of them but i changed it when the data said otherwise but apparently it doesn't apparently the data doesn't say otherwise anyway that is about all i have to do for today um loneliness yes there was less loneliness i imagined during the pandemic weirdly good thanks for reminding me i'm now going to do something that will change the lives of approximately one percent of you you want to stay around for that it'll be fast 99 of you no difference one percent of you i'm going to change your life right now i went uh approximately 60 years of my life believing that i had terrible allergies and those allergies were all the time i started experimenting by cutting out different food groups to see if maybe i had a food allergy that i was fooling myself into thinking it was just you know you have some kind of a grass allergy or something and finally i took out of my life one item which was salad dressing it turns out salad dressing has this additive called sulfites it's a i think it's a keeps it from spoiling or something so sulfites because i first noticed that i became allergic to alcohol and i couldn't figure out why it's sort of a mysterious thing but i cut out a salad from my life so to get rid of the salad dressing and my allergies completely transformed i do have some kind of baseline allergies but it went from the worst thing in the world to just sort of a small bother now here's the first tip you should do that if you have allergies yeah wine is the worst you should do that if you have allergies try to rigorously stick to a certain kind of diet for a few weeks and then maybe take out one item just one item keep the same diet minus that one item and then just keep repeating that because i believe that a lot of you have food allergies not necessarily the same one i have but i think a lot of you have food allergies that you think are regular allergies now in my case i went to test this the other day and i said to myself i want to be positive it's the salad dressing so my first salad in months and for three days i could hardly breathe it took days for it to die down days and i stayed off salad for a few days and now i'm back to normal so about one percent of you are going to look for sulfites and here's the trick they're not listed on the package how about that apparently it's one of those agree ingredients you don't have to list but it typically is in dressings right if you eat whole foods well here's here's the easy way to test it just eat whole foods for a week just nothing that's packaged and nothing that's a sauce right just see if you eat nothing but whole foods for a week you will feel really different i've tried that and i hate it because i don't want to eat whole foods all the time it's too much of a pain in the ass it's not delicious but you will feel different i guarantee it you'll feel it all right that's your last tip of the day i gotta run and do something bye for now

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the kitchen

and put it in a different room

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that i would have everything i needed

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so here i was all prepared yesterday

and i didn't have a mug to put my coffee

in how unhappy was i

well i drove immediately to the

local starbucks and bought myself a

couple of mugs

anyway how many of you have seen my

uh my pinned tweet

in which i asked for people to show me

all their best memes for 2021. does

anybody spend any time

looking at that

let me just say

oh

my god

think about the funniest thing you've

seen all year might have been dave

chappelle

very funny

uh maybe there was some event or some

friend of yours the funniest thing that

happened to you all year just think

about what that is

okay got that in your mind the funniest

thing the thing you laughed at the most

all year

now multiply that by about five

and go look at the comments to my pin

tweet asking for memes

you will

i actually this is not a joke i'm gonna

say something that sounds like obvious

hyperbole

literally

meaning the actual word literally

no joke

i had to stop reading them

for health reasons no joke

i swear to god

that is a literal truth i had to take

time off

and go back in

because i laughed so hard

not a joke

i thought i was going to hurt something

it was actually dangerous

i i don't even remember the last time i

laughed that hard now here's the thing

that um is a little a humor writing tip

you ready

humor

if you look at these memes and you look

at any one individually

you might love it you might laugh

but when you see them all

as a collective you know you read a

bunch of them on different topics

it has a whole different effect

and the effect is it just brings you

into this absurdity world

where everything's absurd for a while

and you can just go live there for a

while

if you just see one meme you're like

boop boop you're in and out it's like

you weren't ever there but if you read

them all at once

you just sort of live in them for a

while

you will cry

i mean you will cry

laughing

until

i i was feeling like something was going

to give out in my actual guts

i i i can't recommend it enough

do yourself a favor

just

spend 10 minutes that's all i'm asking

if you don't cry

i will be very surprised cry laughing

that is

uh speaking of uh things to laugh at

um i was reading an article i think it

was in buzzfeed in which women were

saying what they they also saw in pete

davison you know pete davidson has been

dating a bunch of a-list celebrity women

uh that you would say to yourself or at

least men tend to say this

how does he get all these women

right and so women were asked what they

they saw in him

and i love some of the answers

for example

he's such a mess i mean i'm paraphrasing

the answers so this is my words but this

idea

that he's such a mess that you're you're

pretty sure he won't judge you

what do you think of that

he he's such a basket case which you

know he's very overt about very

transparent he'll tell you what a basket

case he is and has been

and that it makes you comfortable around

him

true

i think so i think you're more

comfortable around people who clearly

have more problems than you do

that's one thing now he's also tall he's

successful he's funny you know he's you

know getting rich

which didn't matter to the specific

women he was with

but

you know you can see all those things as

well but here's here's the funniest part

somebody in one it was a tweet that was

part of the article

somebody described pete davidson as

looking like a wet cigarette

that's good

i mean that's really good

um i i've seen people describe me as

looking like a thumb

and you know i laugh at that too

so i you know i don't want to make fun

of people's looks i don't generally do

that but when somebody makes a

like a spot-on

kind of an elegy

a wet cigarette i don't think that could

be any better could it

i mean just in terms of cruel

descriptions of people i've been on the

receiving end of lots of cruel

descriptions and i can tell you that

when they're done well they're actually

just hilarious even if it's about you

so i'd like to think that he would laugh

at that too because it's just so clever

so i think that women know that he's not

going to think he's better than them

but

and somebody else said he's a nice guy

but he's sort of confident in who he is

i think have you ever heard the phrase

people are comfortable in their own skin

in other words it doesn't matter who you

are but are you comfortable being that

person and if you are other people are

comfortable around you

now i'm not sure that describes

pete davidson because i would require

reading his mind and we can't do that

but i would say it looks like that

you know from the outside

it looks like he's

someone who's completely confident

that he is just him and he's not anybody

else he's not trying to be

so the fact that he's putting no effort

into trying to look like somebody else

i think that gives him a little credit

doesn't it

i think he's likable

i mean you know i like everybody with a

sense of humor

um so i know i would like him if he were

in the same room

so so you got that but here's the other

thing that i think people are missing

in the story the stories about all that

how all these you know top

uh let's say top celebrity and you know

attractive women all like him

is that the real story

because there's a part of the story

they're leaving out

none of them wanted to marry him

am i right

why isn't that the story

the story should be zero people wanted

to marry pete davidson

now i don't know if he wanted to get

married maybe not

but

um i'm not sure that women see him as a

keeper

i think they might see him as just a

great guy to hang around with because he

looks like he'd be fun i mean how would

it not be fun

it would be hard to even

like could you even picture in your mind

hanging out with pete davidson and not

having fun

like you really can't even conceivably

can you

so i can i i totally see his

uh his appeal i don't think

people are going to line up to marry him

right away

for a lot of the same reasons

rasmussen has a poll that biden's

approval is at 41

his disapproval at 57

but here's the weird thing

57 percent disapprove of him but yet 64

say things are heading in the wrong

direction

i don't know maybe because it's not his

fault i would think that his disapproval

would be closer to the

same as the number say it's heading in

the wrong direction it's in that

neighborhood but i'd expect that to be

closer

anyway

uh where are all the people who thought

things would be better under trump

because i don't think we got that right

or better under biden than trump i don't

think we got that

i wonder if people are noticing

so uh

uh

brian stelter was pointing out

that the january 6 committee hearings

were apparently being broadcast by cnn

but he points out that it wasn't being

carried by fox news

newsmax or one america news all right

leaning

news outlets

so what do you think does stelter have a

point

because you've seen it in the other

direction right

you've seen the other direction where

you know fox news would carry something

all day long

that uh

the cnn would not you could probably

think of some some examples of that

so does he have a point

do you feel like you're being

manipulated by

the right leaning media for not showing

you that

why don't you care

why don't you care

now i can see why cnn wouldn't cover the

trump rallies because those are purely

political

um

you don't care

okay here's my speculation about why the

people on the right and therefore the

platforms themselves don't carry it see

if this rings true with you

because everyone on the right

knows it wasn't an insurrection

so it's a committee to find out if an

insurrection happened and how it

happened and who was behind it

everyone on the right knows it's not

real

everyone

a little everyone

i think everyone in the right knows

there was no insurrection and that no

one will be charged with one

now i realize the insurrection is

difficult

to charge

but

there's nobody even close

is there they're being charged with

individual crimes which i think in most

cases they did commit

so i don't and here's the thing are any

are any uh conservatives complaining

that the protesters who literally broke

a law

are subject to you know the legal system

i haven't heard anybody complain about

that we've complained about people being

jailed for too long without the system

you know dealing with them one way or

another and that looks criminal to me

but nobody's complaining about the fact

that there's a thing called laws

that apply to everybody

all right that's my theory is that the

people on the left need to see it

because they could find out what's going

on but the people on the right already

know

there's nothing to find out

why would you show an entire

hearing of nothing

that's what it looks like on the right

now i'm being too kind because obviously

all the news organizations are

in some way brainwashing

tools

so if they choose to not show something

or show something

that is a statement about brainwashing

but in this case cnn is doing the

brainwashing and

the other entities

already said everything they need to say

there's nothing there

except individual crimes which need to

be

dealt with

all right here are some examples of

recent mass brainwashing operations and

by the way

i think we need to get away from our old

words about the so-called news networks

and social media collectively they're

not really about news anymore are they

it would be i think it would be more

accurate and without hyperbole

right i'm going to try to be

just straightforward on the facts and

not exaggerate them it'll sound like an

exaggeration

but i'm not trying to do that i'm

honestly trying to not exaggerate

i think the things we used to call the

news are so clearly now

just brainwashing operations

that i i have trouble even considering

them as news entities

they just look like

a brainwashing operation going in

different directions

that's all it looks like to me

and now there is news there which gives

them you know a reason or a cover story

for existing i guess but listen to all

these uh in my opinion these are

brainwashing operations

meaning that somebody intentionally said

let's convince somebody of something

that's not true right as opposed to just

fake news where it's just not true but

somebody actually decided

specifically let's see if we can sell

this not true thing

you had the russia collusion hoax

they knew that wasn't true

here's a new one i'm adding to my list

have you seen the

chart that shows you that at exactly the

same time occupy wall street

disappeared

for no reason

because what they were complaining about

didn't stop it got worse

if the income distribution got worse not

better but occupy wall street just sort

of went away

and then there was replaced with

critical race theory and black lives

matter and and race race race

everything's race okay

that's not natural

that's a brainwashing operation

obviously somebody decided occupy wall

street didn't work as a frame

and so they came up with a new frame i

don't know who they is you know you

could guess it's soros i know you're

gonna say soros i don't have personal

reason to believe he's the one

cause of all this stuff

but um clearly there were numbers of

people in important places that thought

that race was going to be the new frame

and so i would call that a brainwashing

operation because not much changed

right from

you know from two years ago

i don't know that much changed but

suddenly it's the biggest topic in the

world so that screams uh brainwashing

operation

uh you saw the

waukesha story

disappear

that's a brainwashing operation they

just make a an inconvenient

narrative disappear

uh of course the fine people hoax the

drinking bleach hoax were two big brain

washing operations uh they worked on the

left and worked a little bit on the

right amazingly

and then the the thought that the courts

have validated the election

that's a brainwashing operation i think

half of the country thinks that the

courts looked at the election and

decided it was fair

you know nothing like that happened

right

there were just a few cases brought to

the courts and for in the most cases the

most most of them they didn't have

standing or it was too late or you know

there was a reason that the court

couldn't look at it or it was too early

before anybody audited anything but

basically the courts looked at

a whole bunch of nothing

there was a lot of it

but all of it added up to nothing

so they they can't prove there was no

election problems they can only prove

they didn't judge that there was any

which is different

all right so those are just some

examples yeah i've i just don't even see

the news anymore as

even intending to give you news it looks

like

the intention is to brainwash

all right

i was uh

talking to a gentleman online who had

been brainwashed to believe there was an

insurrection and when i said

it was a weird insurrection because

the most armed segment of american life

didn't bring weapons

and i was corrected that there were

actually

six guns

were retrieved from the protesters we

assumed there were more but six were

discovered

do you know how they discovered them

well it wasn't because anybody had one

out

i i think you know they were probably

arrested for other reasons and or

whatever and have guns

but uh this was given to me as a reason

to believe it was an armed insurrection

that they had found six guns

and i pointed out that six guns is

roughly the amount of guns in a texas

walmart on any given moment

am i wrong

if you go into a walmart in texas

do you think there are six guns in there

i'll bet

and then how many are in the parking lot

six guns in the building but how many

are in the in the parking lot

oh 100

that's probably every walmart

so no that doesn't mean anything that

there were six guns in a

gigantic gathering of conservatives

conservatives bring guns

in case they need them

it's just standard procedure for a lot

of people

um

true or false

the public needs an advocate

for getting us out of the pandemic

constraints

we need the public needs an advocate

what we have are elected representatives

they're the wrong

people

not by personality and not by competence

the re the problem here is that the the

public and this is a rare situation

where the public's interest is just not

the same as the government's interest

normally they're really in lockstep

normally the government has to do a good

job for the people

in a way that the people can observe and

see

and that will help them get elected and

would be good for the politicians so

we've designed a really good system

you know compared to the alternatives

the the republic with you know our

democratic processes within

is really good really good

yeah with flaws of course but the best

we have

but

here's the problem

the government is has to manage for

minimum death

what is what does everybody say is the

number one job of a government

protect the citizens

am i right

everybody would agree with that the

number one job of government

is to protect the citizens

somebody says it's not

really you would disagree with that

statement

i'm saying that's the

if you if you listen to any politician

they will tell you that

that their job is to protect people

now that doesn't mean take their freedom

away

right

that means protect them make sure you've

got law enforcement make sure you have a

national defense

make sure you know maybe osha and stuff

make sure that you're not doing

obviously dangerous things that are just

ridiculous

now of course they might go too far and

that's another conversation

you know go too far and trying to keep

you safe and i think that's our exact

situation here

with that what the public wants is

an objective risk management

decision based on the best information

and for most of us that would indicate

opening up

sooner than the government wants

am i right that the public

not everybody but the public

i'd say the consensus is clearly on the

side of

opening up sooner than later

would you agree with that i could be

wrong about that but i think that's true

i see one wrong

but

if the public were sure that

they were safe enough i'm pretty sure

that they'd all be on that side

now here's the problem

you've got a government who has to

manage toward

minimizing death

but you've got a public who doesn't have

that same

single-minded focus

the public wants to live a life that

they know has a certain amount of risks

and once they've been informed and once

they've been giving some reasonable

tools to deal with the risk which we

have now

the public

just doesn't have the same objective

our objective is to get out there and

live

take some chances

the government's objective is to

minimize death they're just they're just

not compatible

and so i submit to you that the public

needs an advocate

actually somebody whose job it is i

don't know how they would ever be

you know appointed or self-appointed or

something

so that somebody can negotiate directly

with the government

because the government are not our

representatives on this specific

question

the government are our representatives

on

basically everything else

it's just a weird situation where we we

should not expect

that they would represent us

because they they have different

objectives

now that's not their fault is it

people people manage to their incentives

you can't change that people manage to

their own risk management and the

politicians have to manage for the

minimized minimizing death

and the public doesn't

so we need an advocate

now

i don't know i would be the right choice

for that but there should be somebody

who at least has

something like my skill set

maybe more credibility in a variety of

ways

but something like that

we just need somebody to speak for the

people because the government can't do

that right now

all right

there's a new technology

that looks promising

that will allow you to get a vaccination

without a needle

so there's a little device that blows of

focused air

into your arm or whatever

and somehow that air

can inject enough of the

vaccination that you don't need an

actual needle

and

as others have observed

you know we humans uh are rationalizers

we're not really rational people and i

do suspect

that i'll ju i'm just gonna throw a wild

ass number out this has no data or

anything it's just based on

living in the world i would bet ya

i will bet you that of the vaccine

resistors

25 of them are

it's about the needle

they won't say that necessarily they

might make an argument for risk

management etc but i feel like at least

25 percent

have a needle fear that has influenced

them to think they have some other

reason

that would be normal by the way

that would just be how a normal brain

would work you you would rationalize

that stuff and make you think that

you're making a rational decision

air bubbles and veins i don't know i

guess they figure that out somehow

it's not like they're shooting into a

vein it looks like they're shooting

into your skin somehow

uh that's way too high scott why would

you say 10

10 maybe

just have fear of needles fear of

needles is a big thing

somebody says two percent maybe

i know but for some people who actually

maybe would want the vaccination but

are afraid of the needles that might

make a difference then

again i'm not recommending you get

vaccinated

let me say that as often as i need to

i'll give you the pros and cons as as

they develop so this is on the

pro side

but it doesn't mean you should do it

it just means that there's lots of pros

and cons and maybe you should be aware

of them all and then make your own

decision

um

all right

let's see what else is going on other

here's the name of that company that's

making that uh uh air vaccination thing

that just blows air into you

it's a

dio synvax

d-i-o-s-y-n

like synthetic vex

and let me give you some advice

i'm going to give some corporate advice

here

to this company

so you you can just watch but this is uh

this is

intended for the ceo of

diosynvex

if you're trying to make a device

to get the

people who don't want vaccinations

a lot of them would be christian

you don't want to name your company

die o sin

vax

because dying is bad sin is bad and

some people are already anti-vaxx so dia

sin vax

looks like

i hope they didn't pay a consultant for

that name you know there's sometimes a

consultant will do that

they should pay a cartoonist

to check out company names because you

know what cartoonists do really well

mock things

[Laughter]

we're really good at that a lot of

practice

so show me your corporate name and i

will tell you exactly how i will mock it

and diosim vax

that's just asking for it

how many of you believe that pfizer's

documents their own documents

show vastly more

vaccine-related

deaths

than you have been told publicly

how many of you believe that that's uh

that's in the news and that that's real

that's actually just

news not not a rumor but it's just news

how many of you think it's a fact

that we now know that pfizer's own data

shows those vaccinations are

killing way more people

than had been reported before how many

think that's a fact

uh jet air injectors for vaccines have

been around since at least the 50s

michael says

ah

all right um

well here's what uh andres backhouse

points out uh and i always refer to him

as my

uh my best source of analyzing what is

and isn't credible when it comes to data

he's really really good at it so that's

why you should follow him

andres backhouse

and uh

he took a run at jordan peterson because

uh jordan peterson

tweeted uh some that information about

all of the the deaths with the pfizer

vaccine according to pfizer's own data

but as andres points out that if you

actually read

the details of it

it says very clearly that the deaths are

not attributed to the vaccination

that's a pretty big difference

yes there were a lot of deaths

because you know lots and lots of people

got the vaccination

and there were a lot of deaths

but a huge number of them actually had

coveted at the same time they died

they got the vaccination

but also got covered either it was you

know after the first vaccination of the

second so you would at the very least

you'd have to put a question mark next

to the people who died with coven

because we know that kills you

how do you know it was the covet and not

the vaccination or the vaccinations and

not the covet

we don't

right

so the point is that these big numbers

are simply the people we know died

it's not the people we know died because

of the vaccination

if a lot of them actually had covet

that's

pretty pretty uh pretty questionable now

does am i telling you that these

vaccinations are safe no

no

don't hear that

remember this is not the show that goes

binary

things are not all good or all bad

sometimes things can be a little good

and a little bit bad

that's that's the theme of this

live stream anyway

and

you should not believe that these

numbers uh display an actual number of

deaths

it could be

but it's unlikely

it's unlikely

it's very unlikely like deeply unlikely

as in if you have to bet your own money

against it you should definitely bet

against it

so

who knows

who knows but don't believe that this

data has been proven in some kind of a

fact and that the numbers are giant

that's just not the case all right

uh let's talk about dr peter mccullough

who uh was on joe rogan's show i think

he's been on fox he's been on laura and

grimm's show

and he's in he's one of the doctors who

has a let's say a contrarian view

about some pandemicy vaccinationy stuff

how many of you are familiar with dr

mcauliffe

and uh would find him a credible voice

go

how many find him incredible

and are familiar with him

uh on the locals we're seeing just a

wall of yeses

one maybe don't know but yes yes yes

very credible

over on youtube

i'm saying yes yes yes yes yes yes one

no

uh talk to your individual doctor good

advice

i mean how do you know your individual

doctor is the smart one

very all right so almost universally you

would consider him credible

right

good

excellent

i was hoping you'd say that

because here's the part

where things get interesting

okay

here's my opinion

about his credibility

i don't know

i don't know

how would i know

like if he says a bunch of doctory smart

sounding things how would i know if it's

true

no i have no way to know i could check

his facts as people said

but what have i told you about doing

your own research

does that work

i've never seen it work

it never works do you know when it works

i'll tell you when do your own research

works it's a very limited

very limited situation

doing your own research works if your

name is

andre's backhouse and you have a phd in

economics

if that's the case for you

do your own research probably tell you

something you didn't know

but for the rest of us and i include

myself in this category no we can't do

our own research

that's ridiculous we'll just confuse

ourselves

we'll just find the things that agree

with us and and come out of the the well

thinking we proved it

it's just a confirmation bias

thing so many of you said scott scott

scott

you are you were showing some doubt

about this doctor

but you didn't do your own research and

you didn't even listen to him

and that both of those things are true

i listened to clips but i didn't listen

to this whole thing so can i be

confident

about his credibility if i haven't

listened to his whole thing i've only

listened to a little bit

uh

and i'm not an expert and i haven't done

my own research

you know how confident can i be in my

opinion

what do you think

well let me

let me uh poke at it from a different

few different angles and find out

which parts of this you would disagree

with

number one

this is what i call a category

problem

if you tried to figure out what's true

or not the first thing i do is say what

category is it

i'll give you an example

your neighbor says

he saw a ufo

and it abducted his family and took him

away and then returned them intact the

next day

that's a category

that you can reasonably assume

most of the things that are not true

does it mean that your neighbor was not

abducted by an alien nope

nope does not mean that

this might be the one time it's true

but

your starting point if you hear somebody

was abducted by an alien is

i'm going to say 95 chance that didn't

happen

how often would you be right

if you just went into it with a

95 chance that did not happen

well so far you'd be right every time

every time

right how about if you heard that your

neighbor

had built a

fusion

reactor in his garage

which is by the way actually things that

have happened i think somebody actually

did build a

i think it more than once

somebody thinks they built a fusion

reactor in their garage

that category how often is that category

turning out to be true well zero so far

but

there might actually someday be somebody

who made a fusion reactor in their

garage

could happen how about the uh inventor

who invented

a cure for cancer

and it's going to trial and man does it

look good uh worked in the animals it

worked in the test tube it's going to

cure

most cancers

that's a category

how often does an individual claim

in the cancer curing category turn out

to be true

rarely

five percent now we get to keep all the

five percents that are true

and so actually uh cancer cures are

building up and actually getting pretty

substantial at this point but they're

all the

exceptions it's just the exceptions we

keep we sort of forget about the ones

that didn't work

so those are three categories and there

are lots more

where as soon as you hear the category

your brain should automatically go into

the probably not mode

but still

it could be the five percent

right

somebody said to me uh scott

wouldn't that describe you in 2016

weren't you and the five percent who

said trump was going to win that

election

even though

almost all the experts said no

so scott aren't you being a hypocrite

because you are exactly what you

describe as non-credible to which i say

good point

exactly

if you believed me in 2016

you might have made a bad decision

because i was a category

that should have been wrong

95 of the time

but

my five percent came through

now i think it's true

because i could see he had you know i

had i had some extra information

right so it wasn't so much

that i was a rogue it was i just had the

information you didn't have if you had

trained as a persuader and other people

who would also have that training could

see it too so that was the special case

but i agree totally

that if you were going to bet money on

it

the smart money was betting against me

you get that right i got that one right

but the smart money would have been

against me and even i would have bet

against me

you know if i were looking at me from

the outside i would have bet against me

because i was a category that's usually

wrong

all right

so i say also that the rogue doctor

category

the doctor who is saying things that are

quite different than the mainstream

is a category that is 95 percent

wrong so if you're going to

bet against it every time

five percent of time you'll lose your

bet

now is

is dr mcauliffe

in the five percent or the 95

i don't know

i don't know

how would i know

how do you know

how could anybody know

it's unknowable

i'll tell you what people said to me

they said scott says scott listen to the

whole thing if you listen to the whole

thing it's way more credible

do i agree

absolutely

if you listen to the entire presentation

of anybody who's wrong

it will look really credible by the time

you're done

also anybody who's right

those two will look the same to you

because you can't really judge

this rogue doctor

if he makes a claim i'm not going to

look it up i mean i could but i'm not

so

be very very careful

now let me let me give you a couple of

hints

that are by no means

the end of the story

i'll tell you one thing that is biasing

me terribly

and i'm going to give you a little

persuasion lesson here all right now i

want to be clear

and this is a very subtle point but it's

so important

this doesn't mean he's not credible i'm

gonna i'm gonna play you a clip of dr

mcauliffe's voice

i'm gonna put it in the context of

persuasion

and i'm gonna tell you that the voice

technique he uses

is um

is non-persuasive

but that doesn't mean wrong

okay let me be clear i'm not saying he's

wrong

i'm saying he's choosing a style of

communication which instantly smacks as

non-credible to me

and i i've described this before i think

did i describe this only on locals or

did i tell the youtube people too

uh have i described the pleading voice

there are two ways to talk when you're

persuading

one is the matter of fact voice

where you're just laying out the facts

and here they are

nothing to nothing to talk about

that's persuasive

but if you're saying this

look at the data look at the data

that's the pleading voice

that's begging the viewer to believe you

because you don't believe yourself

that's why it's non-persuasive you sound

like a person who hasn't convinced

themselves

because why are you talking that way

right

now if you want to see an example of the

best

persuasive voice

it's just really good there's a

series on hulu i think

called dopesick

it's the story of the

oxycontin and the

purdue company and the sackler family

now i've just watched the first of

uh first part of it but there's a scene

in there if you watch that there's a

salesperson who was played by an actor

and then the actor is giving his pitch

to a doctor

listen to that

you you want to see how to modulate your

voice

to be persuasive

i don't know if that was the actors what

the actor brought to the role

or if it was directed that way or

written that way

it's a little unclear but some

combination of the writing and the

acting and the directing

gives you

perfect persuasion voice now when you

watch it

don't be fooled by the fact that the

actor also has a very pleasant voice you

know nice

a nice rich you know deep kind of voice

that has nothing to do with what i'm

talking about right that that's not

technique that's just something he was

born with

he may have a little technique

but just listen to the matter of

factness

as he lays out the facts

which you find out later or actually you

find out soon are not facts

but the way that that salesperson lays

it out

damn you would think that was true it is

so persuasive

even knowing it's not true you think it

sounds pretty good

all right now compare that with i'm

going to play just the clips

and and look for uh this is dr mcauliffe

on uh joe rogan's show

and listen to the voice and see if it

sounds like matter of fact or

pleading with you to believe

introductions these books are basically

non-fiction they have a thousand

citations in the breaking book showing

how it was coordinated and planned now

bobby kennedy has this book out the real

anthony fauci i'm the most uh mentioned

physician in that book i can tell you

that if you want to find the evidence

that moderna was working on the vaccine

before the virus ever

emanated out of the lab if you wanted to

find the the collusions and the

operations between the gates foundation

and gavi and sepi and pfizer and moderna

and the vaccine manufacturers and the

wuhan lab and the national institutes of

health and ralph barrican university of

north carolina engineering yes this is

organized if you want to see the johns

hopkins planning seminar called the

spars pandemic in 2017 where they had a

similar museum people showed up they

wrote up their symposium findings they

published this it says it's going to be

a coronavirus it's going to be related

to mers and tsars

now

again i have to have to be really clear

the way he the way he communicates uh

biases me to think that it's not

credible

but

it could just be a technique problem

you get that right it could be

um

oh even in the not sped up uh playback

yeah i think mine was sped up so don't

be fooled by the rapidness of his

talking that's not what i'm talking

about i'm talking about the

the pleading quality which you you could

hear at that slow motion the same it was

also sound pleading

but um

oh okay

somebody's saying let's see if i can

change the speed i don't know if i have

that option on

the twitter playback

doesn't uh i can't do that quickly but

if you'd like to do that yourself that's

a fair that's a fair comment by the way

that speeding it up changes uh how it's

received but i think you'll see that if

you play it slowly

uh you get the pleading just

it's just slower

but you're right that wasn't fair to

show it

so let me acknowledge that wasn't fair

to show it at a higher speed i didn't do

that intentionally i must have some

setting in youtube

but

doesn't mean he's wrong

right

you got to be really clear doesn't mean

he's wrong

but he's using a communication style

that screams not credible

whether it is or not

alright so i hope you learned something

i hope you learned something from that

let me tell you the other thing that

gave me pause

uh joe asked him about masks

now what do you think a doctor should

say about masks

well

he gave a very indirect answer which i

felt was playing to the audience

it looked like

his honest answer may have not been

exactly what

joe rogan's audience wanted to hear

that was just a feeling i got again i'm

not a mind reader so i can't know what's

in his head that would be unfair

but i'll tell you the way i received it

was

he was tap dancing on masks

and the moment i heard him tap dance on

masks

i lost all belief in anything else he

had to say

so as a general rule if somebody has a

large message and there's only one part

of it you understand and you know that

part doesn't make sense

you are free to extend that lack of

credibility to the whole

that would not be irrational if you knew

you know there was just one part of it

you could be certain about

right

so i'm still seeing some complaints that

the speeding it up changed everything

uh

let's let's look at it again tomorrow

i'll check it on lower speed i don't

think it changed everything

i think it i think it did exacerbate it

but the effect is still there

um

you know the the the pitch

is not important except for the how it's

modulated

right

so it doesn't matter that he has a

high-pitched voice or lopez choice

that's that's not part of persuasion

you know the the low-pitched executive

voice

it can have a little persuasive value

but you don't really need that it's

optional

he has a great track record with his

covet patients do you know who else has

a great track record with her covet

patients

everybody

because we've got really good treatments

now

plus most people get better

all right

um

by the way dopesick that

is really well done i i thought that i

wouldn't like it because it was just

going to be sad and

poorly made but it's actually made so

well just the the artist the artistry of

you know making it

is really high so it's really good to

watch

um

all right um

so somebody asked

if a cartoonist is credible so i i

tweeted his question because he had a

little

graph there the last i checked it 59

said i was credible

22 say i'm a paid operative

22

22 rounded up to

25

yes that's exactly the number of people

who answer every poll

wrong

no matter the question

all right uh

here's a list of how to participate in a

debate if you have nothing to say to me

uh you could use any of these phrases to

show that you have put no thought

whatsoever into your point of view

and uh you just wanted to say something

so sometimes we just like to say

something you know be part of it

so if you'd like to be part of a

conversation with me on some topic

and uh you don't have anything

whatsoever to say of use faul use any of

these uh

phrases

he's jumping the shark now

he jumped the shark now

well look who's the pointy-haired boss

now

i guess i guess we know who's the

pointy-haired boss now

that's just like the matrix

that reminds me of soylent green

oh oh so you're an apologist you're an

apologist now can we call you an

apologist you apologist

i saw it with my own eyes scott

don't tell me it didn't happen i saw it

with my own eyes

heard it with my own ears

so say that

any sheep references are good

sheep

you're sheep somebody's a sheep

everybody's a sheep

any kind of sheep reference is good

uh also 1984 the book hitler and

anything with fascist of course just

throw that into any reference goes with

each of these go with every argument

really

now on the sheep reference

may i say this

i think the sheep reference is the

lowest level of thinking in the pandemic

somebody's oh yeah scott is such a

sophist

i have to add that to my list

yeah that's a good one

you know everybody's a sheep right

so the funniest thing about 2021 is

sheep calling other sheep sheep

and then the sheep that they're calling

sheep are saying

i'm not a sheep you're the sheep

and like nobody's aware that we're all

sheep

well here's what i mean by that

with the vaccinations

uh the anti-vaxxers are saying you're

sheep and you're you're afraid of covet

that's why you're getting the

vaccination

but then the sheep say but wait a minute

are you afraid of the vaccination

i'm afraid of the covenant

you're afraid of the vaccination

doesn't that make both of us sheep

i think we're both sheep

because we're both afraid of something

and we don't know

right

so as soon as you think it's the other

person who's a sheep

you you've left the ground of

of rational conversation

uh here's something i didn't know this

is also an andre's backhouse

uh discovery

meaning that the data was already out

there easy to find but for some reason

he got it and you you didn't

did you think the suicides went up

during the lockdowns

how many of you think the suicides are

up during the pandemic

reveal yourselves

how many say suicides are up

they're down

but

not equally

turns out that they're down

in uh every category except uh

no way

they're down

no they're up in every category except

adult white men i think

should i read that right

um

yeah i think that's it

so only only white adults

had fewer suicides

but other groups had a little bit more

but overall because there's a lot of

white adults killing themselves

so i guess it's not men it's it's adults

and it says the overall decline i think

this was from npr

the overall decline was driven mostly

almost entirely

by a drop in suicides among white people

who apparently kill themselves at a

higher rate than any other group did you

know that

did you know that white people kill

themselves at the highest rate

now

how do you define equity

because i've said this before shouldn't

you just

measure everybody's level of happiness

and if they're similar you're done right

you don't have to give anybody extra

money or anything if everybody's equally

happy the way they are

but

but if white people are killing

themselves at the highest rate

um

i think that's a red flag

or maybe we're looking at this whole

equality thing in an a less than optimal

way

um but i guess for

uh

anyway

so i have some

theories about that

here's one of them

i'm not sure that we counted uh suicides

correctly during the pandemic

or in general here's why

a lot of suicidal people are also drug

addicts

because why wouldn't you be really

if you're suicidal it almost doesn't

make sense not to do drugs

you know okay i shouldn't say that take

that back that was an irresponsible

thing to say

bring it back

there are some things that are true but

you just shouldn't say

so

i shouldn't have said that

but it's true

um

and in

i have a

well i won't tell you

why i think this but i do know that uh

people who take too many drugs and stop

worrying about overdosing might be in

the suicidal group

so i think some of the some percentage

of the the overdoses are

let's say a

accidental death

without much regard for whether they

would die

meaning that people didn't protect their

own life

because they weren't that concerned

about living is that suicide

if you do things that you know could

kill you

because you're not interested in living

it's suicide-ish even if you didn't know

what would happen on that particular day

you know you might be just

you know

redlining how much drugs you're taking

but not really planning to die

you're just okay with it if it happens

i don't know so i i would question the

data but um

my if you remember i don't know

i don't know if i'm remembering it right

help me with my memory i feel as though

i predicted that during the pandemic

there would be fewer

suicides

and my thinking was

that people would be in close quarters

with their families

they wouldn't be bullied at school the

same way

and that there would just be sort of

less opportunity because we'd all just

be around each other and you know we you

know our

i guess our lives would be constrained

you know but you'd be with your family

more even if you didn't like it

i just i just felt like the situation

was we'd be watched too much and there

would be less of it

now i don't know if that was a good

prediction or not but

i did not predict that there would be

more of it early on later on when the

statistics seemed to show that there was

more of it i think i i adopted that view

yeah red fury is asking did scott really

say that that's what i'm asking i'm

asking because i might have a false

memory of that

and i know that i had at least two

different views i think i started with

oh i'm seeing lots of yeses on locals

people do remember

i started with the view that there would

be fewer of them but i

changed it when the data said otherwise

but apparently it doesn't apparently the

data doesn't say otherwise anyway

that is about all i have to do

for today

um

loneliness yes

there was less loneliness i imagined

during the pandemic

weirdly good thanks for reminding me

i'm now going to do something

that will change the lives of

approximately one percent of you

you want to stay around for that

it'll be fast 99 of you no difference

one percent of you i'm going to change

your life right now

i went uh approximately 60 years of my

life believing that i had terrible

allergies and those allergies were all

the time

i started experimenting by cutting out

different food groups

to see if maybe i had a food allergy

that i was fooling myself into thinking

it was just you know

you have some kind of a

grass allergy or something

and

finally i took out of my life one item

which was salad dressing

it turns out salad dressing has this

additive called sulfites it's a i think

it's a

keeps it from spoiling or something

so sulfites

because i first noticed that i became

allergic to alcohol and i couldn't

figure out why it's sort of a mysterious

thing

but

i cut out a salad from my life

so to get rid of the salad dressing and

my allergies completely transformed i do

have some kind of baseline allergies but

it went from the worst thing in the

world to just sort of a small bother

now

here's the first tip you should do that

if you have allergies yeah wine is the

worst

you should do that if you have allergies

try to

rigorously

stick to a certain kind of diet for a

few weeks

and then maybe take out one item

just one item keep the same diet minus

that one item and then just keep

repeating that

because i believe that a lot of you have

food allergies not necessarily the same

one i have but i think a lot of you have

food allergies

that you think are regular allergies

now in my case i went to test this the

other day and i said to myself i want to

be positive it's the salad dressing so

my first salad in months

and for three days i could hardly

breathe

it took days

for it to die down days

and i stayed off salad for a few days

and now i'm back to normal

so

about one percent of you are going to

look for sulfites and here's the trick

they're not listed on the package

how about that apparently it's one of

those agree ingredients you don't have

to list

but it typically is in dressings

right if you eat whole foods well here's

here's the easy way to test it just eat

whole foods for a week just nothing

that's packaged and nothing that's a

sauce

right just see

if you eat nothing but whole foods for a

week

you will feel really different

i've tried that and i hate it because i

don't want to eat whole foods all the

time it's too much of a pain in the ass

it's not delicious

but you will feel different i guarantee

it you'll feel it

all right that's your last tip of the

day i gotta run and do something bye for

now