Episode 1640 Scott Adams - Joe Rogan's Video Response and How the Pandemic Changed Reality

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just a series of little Snippets but by the end you will say to yourself my God it formed a symphony at first I thought it was just going to be the oboe and then a little timpani but suddenly I realized it all came together into a symphony that's what's going to happen today that's how good it is starting with a question that uh had been really on my mind lately and I wondered if it is it just me and watch what happens when I ask this question because I did it on Twitter watch what's going to happen in the comments is it my imagination or if people changed because of the pandemic I mean basic personality changes big stuff go watch the comments yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes now some knows some people say no but oh my god did I get a lot of response to that a lot of hypotheses about why that might be the case now hypothesis number one has to be what what's the top hypothesis if I've taught you anything it's just in your mind right the top hypothesis until it's replaced by something better which is likely to happen but your first thought should be that's just in your mind all right now that's just healthy thinking I'm not telling you it's just in your mind I'm telling you that would be a healthy way to approach anything unusual that's probably in our minds but let's see if we can tease it out a little bit here's a couple of things that smart people said and I'm going to put them together one of the things that uh Naval said Naval ravacant uh for those of you new to the live stream or haven't heard his name before uh smartest person in the world maybe I mean I don't know that for sure but if you were to just judge by things he has said and done uh maybe the smartest person in the world all right so you can go Google him and find out yourself but uh Naval I'm pretty sure it was Naval do me a fact check because I'm doing this by memory I think he said toward the beginning of the pandemic that the one of the things he predicted is that it would accelerate everything can you give me a fact Jackie did say that right he said it would accelerate everything that was going to happen anyway so instead of 10 years you know things would happen in one or two now how was his prediction how was that prediction it's a naval ravacant r-a-v-i-k-a-n-t um creator of uh angelist Etc so how was this prediction did the pandemic speed up everything is sped up vaccinations is sped up uh commuting you know going away is sped up um is sped up online buying is sped up uh door dashing and food delivery It sped up a lot of things and I think there are probably various technologies that get a kick start I could speak for myself I would say that there are things that I had put off that I brought forward just because you know I had time because we were locked out so even even the you know the upgrades I did to the live stream are things that probably would have taken longer but I accelerated them because of the pandemic now there might be other things to slow down like the you know in the short run the um the supply chains but in the long run you know inflation got worse fast just just the whole international relations changed fast deaths were yeah even death was accelerated it's like everything was faster so I would say that was a darn good prediction now I'm going to combine this with something I heard recently um that Brett Weinstein and I think Heather haying were saying and I wish tell me the name of their new book because I'm such an idiot I was I just looked at it and then I forgot to write it down in the comments just say the name of their new book apparently it's pretty good I hear good things about it hunter-gatherer's guide thank you but uh I I don't know if this is I think this might be from the book but an interview I heard him talk about how humans are the most adaptable of really anything that's alive at this point now that makes sense right that we adapted to all kinds of weather and all kinds of diets and all kinds of everything and now we're finding this uh that we uh that we're adapting faster and faster than we ever had to because the rate of change in the external world is so fast that we're we're trying to keep up with the changes that are happening in the environment so we've gone from the you know the the most adaptive creatures to having to Super adapt and then the pandemic hits and suddenly the pandemic breaks all the laws all the rules are different like everything everything you took for granted is in play now everything now you've got a super adaptive species who's trying to figure out how to adapt but we don't know what the hell is going on what are we adapting to exactly like everything's changing or I'll adapt to that way well that's changing okay I got used to okay that changed so so we're basically in this state of insane flux because we're so adaptive but that doesn't work if the environment is changing faster than you can adapt and that's where we're at the minute what would you expect to happen what happened here's here's just my personal hypothesis I'll just throw in the pile I think and a lot of you said some version of this I think people were revealed for who they were all along I think that everybody became more of what they already were right everybody became the extreme of what they started from if you had a little bit of a weight problem what happened to you a lot of people gained weight if you were a fitness person and I would say I would be in that category or or even if your mind was you know oriented toward that way what happened to you to you during the pandemic you got fitter I'm at my Peak Fitness right now like I don't want you to have to imagine this but naked I look better than I've looked at any time in my life and I'm pushing 65.

and a lot of people would say the same thing there are a whole bunch of you on here who would say the same thing leave out the naked part because we don't need to think about that but the point is that let me say that lazy people became lazier just just not along as I say these things because I know you're going to agree lazy people became lazier cheaters cheated more cheaters cheated more people who were let's say uh achievement oriented and again that's the category I would be in like I'm always thinking about trying to make something happen achievement oriented people were even more so they went into hyper mode smart people became brilliant people who were growing a little grew a lot things that were failing slowly failed fast you know the little stores on Main Street in my town it's like they got raked away like leaves during the pandemic but they were going to fail anyway it just wasn't going to be that fast so here are some other things that happened which would explain in many ways why we're so different I think that people who were became more of more people who are nice became more nice the the people who were biased toward helping people and empathy saw a crisis and they said I was born for this literally born for it because if you were born as a sort of empathy kind of a person well a crisis is actually what you are born for you know midnight in the literal way but you know what I'm talking about you're you're designed perfectly for a crisis because you care about people so you jump right in and help so the people who are likely to help were very helpful the people who are likely to be worthless probably became more worthless than ever everything became more extreme but the other things that you have to throw in the mix is what happened to porn consumption during the pandemic I don't have data but I'm going to take a guess anybody want to take a guess without the benefit of any data probably through the roof through the roof uh I talked about the series on HBO I think called euphoria it's about young people and you know working through the culture that's too much drugs and too much porn and all that and one of the things that the the series which is really tries to hit something close to reality for people in that age group it talks about how it's an entire generation that only learned sex from porn only and no other source Because by the time you know you're I don't know your high school or your parents got around to it you'd already consumed so much that it wasn't likely your opinion was going to get changed too much so apparently even you know two young people looking to hook up is going to look like pork or it's going to look like their imitation of the best they can do to look like what they've seen because we're we're an imitative species so what's that doing to people well something I mean I don't I'm not even going to give you an opinion you know how that's good or bad you know you can make your own opinions but it's definitely different it's you know if you don't think that'll change your brain let me ask you you all think that porn changes your brain right like it actually rewires you you all get that right it's only a question of how much you do right if you don't do much it's not much of a big deal if you do a lot it just becomes it would just turn you into it and you become it you you merge with it basically so there's that then there's the whole commuting thing what happened when people were forced to no longer be with their second family for a lot of people people had two families didn't they they had the work family and then they had the home family and then the work family went away what happens if you're buying stocks and you're not Diversified anybody anybody you're buying individual stocks and you're insufficiently Diversified meaning not enough different stocks you're going to get wiped out sooner or later maybe not right away but if you're not Diversified you're gonna get wiped out you have a 90 chance so there are a whole bunch of people who had their social life Diversified meaning you could have a bad day with your spouse but at least you'd go to work and there's your friends or you could have a bad day at work yeah but at least you could go home and your spouse is nice to you what happens when you just take away all the diversification of your social life and then then what used to be this Rich social life becomes your family members I'm sorry to say this but there's nobody you can get sicker of faster than your own family members right and and they're the people you love the most yeah you still care about the most love them you know no no change in that stuff right that's that's pretty much baked in but oh my God what stress to put on marriages I I I think that you know in the same way that all the small businesses got wiped out by the pandemic I think a lot of relationships got wiped out by the pandemic I mean I think the pandemic just and I don't know that we see the full result of that you know that's going to work through the system so almost everything was faster and here's what's happened is I feel like let me tell you my impression of what's different so here's what's different for me you know I talk a lot about the simulation too much but how it feels to me is that I can see the Machinery of reality in a way that I couldn't see before or that let's say maybe I knew about the Machinery of reality intellectually just sort of philosophically but I couldn't see it I feel at this point I can see it it's almost like it's almost like there was a machine they had a solid front and now it's a glass front the machine is exactly the same as it was but now I can see the mechanisms and I believe that you're having that experience too and it feels as though Society itself just had his software Rebooted and we all went to a higher level of awareness I'm going to make that case with the headlines today so here's so here's the theme the theme that I just developed that the headlines themselves you can see the Machinery behind them like you've never seen before let me run through some examples um Kyle Becker who I tell you all the time you should follow him on uh on Twitter he's got a great sort of great reframings and lots of scoops and stuff on the news and he gives us this a little bit of context about the January 6th situation he says the Democrats contested presidential elections three times since 2001.

they even argued voting machines were suspect there were riots in D.C at Trump's inauguration the amount of memory holding these left-wing news networks do is truly impressive now you see the Machinery right when I read that you say oh that's a that's a rupar in other words the entire January 6 narrative only works because as Kyle points out they leave out the context if you put the context in if you reverse rupart it now I'm not sure that all of you would see this as instantly even a few years ago but now it's just automatic isn't it you just see the machine here's some more examples um Lindsey Graham apparently said about uh Trump potentially pardoning the January 6 writers he said quote I think it's inappropriate so Lindsey Graham thinks it would be inappropriate if Trump became president again to Pardon those people here's a Joel Pollock giving you some context he says I want to hear him explain why the guy with the Buffalo horns got four years while an FBI lawyer who doctored an email to deceive a fisa court in the Russia collusion probe got community service now you now you you probably haven't heard it so clearly and well stated before but you could see that Machinery couldn't you we could already see that these were political prisoners it's just you know Joel helps us put it in context there but you can see the machinery behind the behind the glass facade um and you know of course we've lost all trust in our institutions as Joel says in a uh on Twitter they have these what you need to know sections every now and then there'll be a topic that Twitter healthily summarizes you know what you need to know is usually some bullet points so um I sure hope I wrote that down oh yes I did here it is the what you need to know so there were one two three four bullet points so these would be four things that are so obviously true they could just be putting a bullet point to straighten you out all right I'm going to read them and then tell me if you don't see the machinery behind this what you need to know the Department of Justice found no evidence of voter fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election according to former A.G William Barr that's one number two election officials at the Department of Homeland Security said the 2020 election was the most secure in American history number three voter fraud of any type is extremely rare in the U.S according to AP and Reuters and Reuters and Reuters Reuters might come up again today remember that Reuters is one of the sources for voter fraud of any type is extremely rare in the U.S Reuters just just hold that in your mind for a while that'll be relevant it's called foreshadowing foreshadowing all right um and then the last one is 44 States already have in place some form of post-election audit the National Conference on State legislatures website notes now do I even have to go through what's wrong with all of these statements the you can see the Machinery right well I'll do it quickly just in case you missed anything the first one all right the Department of Justice found no evidence of voter fraud right because they didn't look for it that's what's left out they didn't look for it they were the wrong vehicle for judging it they could only judge the things brought to them in too short of a Time window to be useful right that that entire context is left out this is clearly propaganda so you can see the propaganda Machinery just so clearly now number two election officials at the Department of Homeland Security assembly said the election was the most secure in American history and they know that how do they know that wouldn't that be a case of them knowing the unknown do they know that the election of 1940 was fraudulent well I think what they're saying is that they have the most um I would guess my interpretation would be that they have the most let's say guard rails in place to keep us safe okay now that would be that would be a reasonably good thing to know we have the most in history guard rails and and procedures in place to keep it fair here's some context I'd like to know is that enough does it doesn't it sort of matter sort of binary isn't it I don't care if it's the best it's ever been is it enough that the most basic question is left out is it good enough are you saying we doubled it from 10 good enough to twenty percent good enough the entire context is missing obviously propaganda uh voter fraud of any type is extremely rare in the U.S according to AP and Reuters Reuters hold that thought Reuters we'll do the next one 44 States already have in place some form of post-election audit is it enough yeah okay they have some form of post-election on it what form Does it include any of the digital part doesn't include somebody looking at the code I don't think so some form Now isn't it obvious that somebody who would write a sentence like this is not meaning to inform it is quite quite clear with the four of these that they are they're designed for propaganda for manipulation and let me ask you was it not obvious to every one of you when he read it or when I read it to you I mean I primed you for it but you saw it right away right at least my audience does I think now let me be clear I am also not aware of any fraud in in the 2020 election I have to say that because first of all it's true I personally am aware of no fraud whatsoever I'm not even aware of any small fraud because I if there were if there were any stories like that I wouldn't have paid attention anyway somebody says yes you are not bad no I'm I'm aware of small irregularities but I don't like to remember the details because they weren't important if they were small uh but I'm aware that people have reported them so maybe that's what you're looking for all right um what is true let's get into what is true and I'll take a little example do you remember the famous incident uh and of course you know that all the news has to go through the Joe Rogan filter now so it doesn't matter what you're talking about it's got to have a Joe Rogan reference to it and we're gonna have plenty all right um do you remember the one of the big blow-ups was when Joe Rogan had the Australian guy journalist on and they disagreed about whether the vaccination or the virus itself would cause my more myocarditis in a certain age group and that it looked like maybe the journalist said something wrong but then Joe Rogan disagreed but then on the show it looked like Joe Rogan saw a source that agreed with the journalist but then we looked at it later it looked like maybe Joe Rogan was right after all but then I listened to another video of a cardiologist who said would he really dug into it to find out which of them was right after all that you can't tell that's the bottom line so is the last cardi cardiologist that I listened to the one who's right or is Joe Rogan right or was the Australian guy right or two of the three of them right I don't know but I will tell you if you listen to a You.

Tube video of a cardiologist talking about how they decided you know that risk and what data they had and the quality of the data you will walk away from it saying um I'm pretty sure we can't tell but it all also doesn't matter and the doesn't matter part is that whatever the risk is it doesn't matter even which one's bigger it's so small it's it's not part of the decision so even something as basic as what you thought about that story I don't even know if we know that so our understanding of what is true and what can be known is completely different after the pandemic isn't it everything you thought about the experts everything you thought about the quality of the data it's not the same as before the pandemic now you think that even the most basic clear story and this one should have been one this one should have been two people you know weren't sure of some data but then after the episode aired the experts looked at it and said well here's what's going on and then they all agreed because we're all looking at the same data but but things aren't that clear apparently not all right here's uh let's talk about Joe Rogan's video response so many of you seen it but you don't need to have seen it in order for me to you know talk about it so he did a little uh you know handheld sort of a self new video that I saw on Instagram and I guess it's on all the social platforms by now in which he talked about the uh uh the accusations that he's spreading misinformation about covert stuff and the Spotify problem of blah blah you know and uh uh what's his name uh uh Neil Young I didn't do that intentionally but that pretty much summed up the whole story right there uh Neil Young wanting his music to be taken off because he thinks Joe Rogan's spreading misinformation all right so uh I listened to Joe Rogan's thing and my first take which I tweeted but I'm going to revise in a moment is that it's the best response I've ever seen to a public relations problem that was my first response the best response I've ever seen to a public relations brouhaha I now revise that opinion it is the second best response I've ever seen and I don't think it's a coincidence but that's just a guess now it would be fun to hear him confirm or deny this so I have a hypothesis and I'm going to tell you who number one was and see if you can draw a connection number one was Steve Jobs Steve Jobs Steve Jobs when he had his public relations problem it was one of the early i.

Phone models if you put your hand in a certain place on the phone it would touch the antenna and it would you know it would cut off the call imagine having a handheld device that you couldn't hold in your hand that you paid on a thousand dollars for whatever the price was that's like the worst thing that could ever happen to a company well we made a handheld object you just can't hold it in your hand that's the only problem otherwise it's really spiffy doesn't make phone calls and it's a phone but otherwise really good that's a big problem right here's how Steve Jobs handled it which became the stuff of Legends it was actually written about in his big in his autobiography and uh sort of a big deal Steve Jobs got in a call with all the journalists he said and I'm paraphrasing but this is the basic idea he said also more all smartphones have problems we want to make our customers happy and then he said here's what we're going to do and the next day because he had reframed it as all smartphones have problems the Press instead of killing Apple for having a phone that had a problem they started doing stories about all smartphones had problems it completely worked now I don't know if Apple helped to see those stories but the net effect of it was it really worked and here is the form that Steve Jobs used number one reframe he reframed reframed i.

Phone as a problem to all smartphones have problems good technique number two he he showed empathy we want to make our customers happy a very direct statement about his customers it wasn't about the company it wasn't about Steve Jobs he reframed it and he said we want you to be happy then he said we're going to do this to make you happy and then he set his solution very simple perfect handling all right so let me show you the frame again because we're going to go we're going to show you this Frame a second time you reframe it you show empathy and then you give the solution reframe empathy solution now I don't believe I think the story is that Steve Jobs did not come up with that himself I believe he came up with and I forget the name of the it was a PR executive um who was an expert at that somebody will tell me in the comments if you've read the biography jobs anyway so Steve Jobs has some help from an expert but Steve Jobs was an expert too on this um somebody will say the the name of it is it Mc.

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Kesson I don't know it doesn't matter but it was a professional who was good at it now let's talk about uh Joe Rogan's um thing Joe Rogan basically said and today actually not write that down I don't think that's possible um so here's here's how he started his first reframe was he talked about his show being a conversation That Grew big unexpectedly I'm paraphrasing now but he says I'm just talking to people about stuff that's interesting to me and that it grew into this big thing and so that's the context the context is I'm not the news right that's pretty important because the context is that you know allegedly misinformation so the first frame is I'm this is just a conversation of something interesting not the news now he didn't say I'm not the deuce but that's the context um so he reframes it and he said basically There's No Agenda it's just interesting stuff and he also talked about how the experts he's had on some of them would have been banned and he claims four things that in in the end ended up being right so that he gives you further context that says how many times he has a specific examples of people who said things that the mainstream would have said no that's dangerous and then they turned down to be right so that's good context all right so like jobs uh Joe Rogan reframes the situation then he shows empathy you basically agrees with his critics and he and then he tells you what he's going to do about it reframe empathy solution perfect now the solution would be you said that he probably does need to get the an expert who disagrees with you know some of the provocative people get them on you know close to when the provocative person was and he said that he does his own scheduling and that he needs to do that you know more uh I don't want to say better but he just wants to pair the differing opinions so they're a little closer together which is you know is a form of what I'd been suggesting as well now I thought it's even better if they're there at the same time but maybe that's hard to manage but the bet the next best thing is to show the expert and then the counter experts you know be as close as possible so he's at least acknowledged uh the the nature of the uh complaints and then he offered some solutions and then he also said he'd prepare better for some of the some of the types of experts now uh here's David Smith Scott loves sucking up to Big Pharma sheep Rogan is accepting a misinformation tag on his show week all right the the the the the people who only see things as like weak or sheep the you're like binary idiots so get rid of this binary idiot goodbye all right um you've got to handle a little bit of nuance to uh to enjoy this live stream all right um so I would say here's my speculation one of the things that Joe Rogan gets right is what I'll call the The Norm Macdonald uh theory of of comics comedians that is Norm Macdonald explained once I saw it on a video recently that you don't want to act smarter than your audience you want to act dumber than your audience but maybe you know I think I'm adding this part but maybe a surprise them that that your stuff hangs together better than they think right Joe Rogan does an insanely good job of what a good comic does and remember he's got this whole Talent stack working you know stand-up comic you know and then plus all the other skills acting blah blah so so I don't know how much is you know knowing what systems work and borrowing them I don't know how much is natural can't read minds but when you see uh one of the things that makes Joe Rogan so popular is he doesn't ever let himself look like he's smarter than you right that is sort of Genius because it is it's a hard thing to do if you think maybe you've got some of your success because you were smart you know you'd have to think that in his private moments he might have some positive thoughts about his own intelligence you know he got him where he is right now here's my take if you know I'll make this conditional my guess is that when the the thing blew up with Spotify and Joe Rogan that he's now playing at a let's say a corporate level I hate to say it but you know because Spotify is involved there's sort of a corporate element to this it would surprise me if Spotify did not offer to give him some professional crisis management PR advice via somebody like Steve Jobs got the advice so my guess is that in both cases Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan got advice from the best advice givers you could possibly get advice from but that's not good enough right because if most people got the greatest advice in the world they a wouldn't recognize it right they wouldn't recognize it as good advice you have to be pretty smart to even recognize it and then secondly they couldn't implement it because it takes a lot a lot of communication skill and most important um Reserve like to hold back all of your normal instincts to give the the perfect three-part you know response that both of them did so here's the thing if Joe Rogan got advice from an expert he did a really good job of following the advice like really good but if Joe Rogan came up with this spontaneously which has the look of it has the look of something where he'd been thinking about it for a while picked up his phone and then gave you 10 minutes of perfection that could have happened I don't know and I would love to know because if he did that spontaneously after thinking about it a lot of course but if that was one take spontaneous and he hit the the three elements that cleanly that is one of the smartest things you've ever seen in your life that that that would be just insanely smart and like the amount of skill that would go into that it would be hard to hard to imagine so I would just love to know I don't know if you'll ever talk about it but I'd be real curious if he got expert advice or if he if that was just spontaneous that would be really interesting um from Reuters this came from Reuters and it reported that uh uh Ivermectin was effective against Omicron in a phase three trial wow wow that's big news you know everybody's saying bad things about Ivermectin but here's Reuters today saying that I've remectedly in a Japanese study that is effective it is effective against Omicron in a phase three trial holy cow wow uh that fake news lasted uh I believe less than one minute it's not true it took it took me one minute to say well that's a pretty vague claim because you look at it and there's no link to a study like it just look obviously untrue because I could see the machinery now I didn't really have to like break it down or anything I just looked at it I just looked at the story and I said well that's somewhat transparently not true now I'm not talking about diaphragmactin right this has nothing to do with Ivermectin it's just about the truth of a story and then it took uh Andre's back house another like five seconds to completely dismantle it and he goes he goes he goes uh this news feels too basic sanity checks one there is no preprint or other documentation yet and then two assuming they did the trial in Japan Omicron became dominant there just one month ago one month isn't a realistic time frame for a whole trial and I'm thinking yeah okay and by the time I had read that uh that Reuters had already corrected the story and took out the phase three trial part which was the ridiculous part basically they found out that Ivermectin Works in a lab which we already do in other words there wasn't any news there wasn't any news at all do you know what else Works in a in a test tube against diseases practically everything do you know what kills a virus I don't know you could probably piss on it and I think pretty much everything kills it in a lab yeah Coca-Cola in a lab so basically this is Reuters reporting something that wasn't even close to being credible or true it was but remember my original point the pandemic has allowed us to see the machinery you could just see this one you didn't even have to analyze it oh that's that's not true all right uh Pat Sajak uh passage had this tweet you said I've discovered that no matter how outlandishly over the top satirical sarcastic or ridiculous the Tweet approximately 20 percent of Twitter users who comment will take it at face value helps explain why there's so much anger out there well I think Pat was off by five percentage points uh as I've been noting 25 percent or so ish people will be wrong about anything everything to the point where I got a tweet just before I came on or or was it maybe I saw it on a Local's comment I'm forgetting where I saw it that maybe it just might be uh is part of the uh base rules of our reality you know the base rule of reality is around 25 percent of people have to misunderstand everything it's a different 25 percent I hope I hope it's not the same 25 but there always has to be the standard 25 no matter what all right um one more thing and then I'm going to solve the Ukraine problem um we have to only start looking at unvaccinated people and uh I'm sorry we have to look at only fully vaccinated deaths to make our decisions on the mandates fully vaccinated deaths we've been doing the wrong thing we've been looking at unvaccinated deaths but that's the group that chose that option right but if all the unvaccinated people are completely happy with their risk management decision and they are they are and all of the vaccinated people they've seen the risk drop to the point where it's now a baseline risk not a pandemic risk why are we looking at the deaths of the unvaccinated they're getting exactly what they want not the dead ones but the people who lived got exactly what they wanted and the people who died they chose a path that they were fully informed about they didn't believe it and that was their option so if you looked at the total deaths vaccinated and unvaccinated it looks like we're at a record and that would be a bad argument for ending mandates but if you look at what people asked for and what they got vaccinated people asked for vaccinations they got it unvaccinated people asked for a different risk profile they got it as long as the hospitals can handle the load and it looks like they can at this point it looks like they can we're done tomorrow ladies and gentlemen and people of all types Regis Mc.

Kenna is the Regis mechanic was the person who advised Steve Jobs I don't know if he advised him on that question I was talking about thank you very much it was Regis Mc.

Kenna um so February 1 is the date that the public takes over uh because our government has not and I believe that the argument should be that everybody got what they wanted at this point the vaccinated got what they wanted the unvaccinated would got what they wanted we are done I would argue that the worst way to protest at this point is with trucks because don't we need the stuff in those trucks anybody uh I think we need this stuff in the trucks I don't think we should stop the supply chain for anything that's just my thinking but here's what we should do we should just take control just take off your mask if you go in a place that requires them make sure that they ask you to put it on and then the first thing you should say is no after February 1st the public took control of the mandates and people say no the government still hasn't mandate and you'll say yeah I know that's why the public took control on February 1st now if they put up a fight well you can decide to leave or put on your mask that's up to you but I'm just saying the default should be take the mask off now I probably won't you know just personally I probably won't try you know going to Walmart or Target or anything but I'll just stay away from any places that I know will require a mask and any place I think is a soft target I'll go in and take it off and we should just see it yeah I know people be you know more rebellious than I am we're going to try to get on planes and everything else but that that would be a little bit dangerous at this point I don't think I'd mess around with an airport but the point is we have to make it a big enough deal that the Press starts talking about it if the Press doesn't talk about the public taking control of the issue and make that a theme it just wasn't going to happen right so you need the press to understand this is a perfect story the Press does not like dog bites man because that's normal the Press likes a man bites dog the Press doesn't care if the government tells you what to do that's normal the Press does care when the when the public tells the government what to do that's that's what makes it a story so somebody needs to talk about the public Rebellion until the narrative catches on and then it snowballs but let's let's kick this thing off now let's uh tell you how to handle the Ukraine problem have you ever wondered what the hell do you do when you're dealing with a dictator like you could never you never really solve a problem with a dictator right it's very unlikely that democracies will fight you know two Democratic countries rarely get into war right so if there is a war it's going to be two dictators or a dictator and a democracy Etc so wouldn't wouldn't you love it if there was some way to solve the problem that there's no way to make peace with a dictator because they kind of have to stay dictators to avoid getting killed am I right it's hard to be a dictator and then just retire because whoever takes over next will kill you and wipe out your entire family now what does a what does a dictator want after a certain age let's say by Putin's age what does he want probably something like a legacy probably something like keeping his uh his genetic line safe do you feel that that would be a safe thing to say at a certain age there they're less about acquiring stuff and more about making sure that what they have done becomes a permanent Legacy both to protect the people in their family after they're gone but also so their name will live on so how do you how can you solve this problem of giving the dictator something that protects them in that way after they're gone but also allows you to negotiate in some productive way so I think is this is the reframe that needs to happen we should we should talk to our dictators about the fact that if they keep with their current model it's inevitable that their bloodline is going to get wiped out meaning that whoever takes over after them is going to look for your relatives and make sure they get out of there because the relatives are the dangerous ones right so how can you keep your relatives and your legacy from being erased and canceled and here's the way to do it guarantee everybody who sticks within their borders as they exist today that they will be supported against all attacks forever in other words give them job security instead of trying to depose them it's the whole deposing them that gets the problem right if we're trying to depose uh Putin all the time well he's going to push back like anybody's going to push back so can we remove the incentive for them to be hacking us and and poking us back I think we can because I'm not terribly concerned if the Russian people have a dictator are you I mean really because I feel like maybe a lot of them prefer it I think maybe a lot of them prefer it is not our problem so instead of trying to turn anybody into uh you know into some kind of a democracy so that we can be friends why don't we do it the Trump way Trump goes to North Korea and says you know there's no reason we need to be enemies how about uh if you want some economic development we should talk and then Kim Jong-un is like um I can't think of a reason I need to be your enemy and then for a while everything was heading in the right direction and and the thing that Trump did was he gave Kim Jong-un job security think about it that's what Trump did he gave Kim Jong-un job security the most he's ever had and as soon as he had job security he got friendly friendlier now Biden comes along and no longer does Kim have a relationship that's like a personal one with the president and now suddenly he's testing a lot of rockets right it's probably not an accident um so could we say here's the deal as long as you stay within your International borders the entire world will make sure you don't get deposed the entire world China us you know we'll make sure that President XI stays in power as long as he wants Putin long as you want Kim Jong-un forever but you have to you have to end the the poking us in other words you can't invade your neighbors anymore and you can't Cyber attack us you can't be trying to undermine our currency and stuff like that like you're going to just have to be a productive competitor in the world and then you can have everything you want you just can't change your National borders anymore now would that work I don't know but what we're doing now doesn't work would you agree that what we're doing now doesn't work you know we have to do the we're stronger than them Putin Only Knows for us well Putin does only know Force because it's the only option what other option has he been offered has he ever been offered the option you're going to be in you're going to be you can have the job forever just don't be so much of an that's it you could you could be our friend I don't care just don't be an to us and you can have your job forever now I don't know if that would work of course right and you know it'd be different for every situation no two situations are the same but I can't see a reason that we are at some kind of War footing with Russia can you I feel like a infantile position I I feel as though we lost the reason we lost the reason now the reason is of course that they're going to be aggressive so we have to keep them in and they're thinking you know U.S is going to be aggressive so we have to keep them in well what if we just weren't there's no reason it's just two people who are locked in this model that doesn't make sense anymore the last people we want to have a war with is freaking Russia it's last let's have a war with anybody else but Russia anybody literally lasts on my list uh of course you know they they make it easy to Gin up War because of the way they act but let's figure out a way to change their incentive all right that is my incredible live stream program for the day probably the best thing you've ever seen in your entire world I'd like to show you one more uh thing to show you the machinery of um oh stupid phone stupid stupid damn phone all right I guess I'll do it the long way here's a picture that the LA Times uh ran about the Joe Rogan and Neil Young controversy all right and uh look at the picture they chose for Joe Rogan and look at the picture that they chose God damn it I chose for uh Neil Young so Neil Young he doesn't look like a heroin addict he looks like a thoughtful possibly a brilliant man Joe Rogan the pictures that they picked they picked the AOC picture with the with the big eyes and and here's the headline this is from the uh LA Times Spotify CEO Daniel Eck responded to Neil Young and others removing their music from the platform over a covid-19 misinformation spread on Joe Rogan's popular uh podcast so they say it likes it like it's a fact that it was misinformation isn't a fact is it a fact that it was misinformation or is it experts disagreeing so they treat it like it's a fact like you don't need to think anymore you see the 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starting with a question that uh had

been really on my mind lately and I

wondered if it is it just me

and watch what happens when I ask this

question because I did it on Twitter

watch what's going to happen in the

comments

is it my imagination or if people

changed because of the pandemic I mean

basic personality changes big stuff

go

watch the comments

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

yes now some knows some people say no

but oh my god did I get a lot of

response to that

a lot of hypotheses

about why that might be the case now

hypothesis number one

has to be what

what's the top hypothesis if I've taught

you anything

it's just in your mind right the top

hypothesis until it's replaced by

something better

which is likely to happen but your first

thought should be that's just in your

mind all right now that's just healthy

thinking

I'm not telling you it's just in your

mind I'm telling you that would be a

healthy way to approach anything unusual

that's probably in our minds

but let's see if we can tease it out a

little bit

here's a couple of things that smart

people said and I'm going to put them

together

one of the things that uh Naval said

Naval ravacant

uh for those of you new to the live

stream or haven't heard his name before

uh smartest person in the world

maybe I mean I don't know that for sure

but if you were to just judge by things

he has said and done

uh maybe the smartest person in the

world all right so you can go Google him

and find out yourself

but uh Naval I'm pretty sure it was

Naval do me a fact check because I'm

doing this by memory

I think he said toward the beginning of

the pandemic that the one of the things

he predicted is that it would accelerate

everything

can you give me a fact Jackie did say

that right he said it would accelerate

everything that was going to happen

anyway so instead of 10 years you know

things would happen in one or two now

how was his prediction

how was that prediction it's a naval

ravacant r-a-v-i-k-a-n-t

um

creator of uh angelist Etc so how was

this prediction did the pandemic speed

up everything

is sped up vaccinations

is sped up uh commuting you know going

away is sped up

um

is sped up online buying is sped up

uh door dashing and food delivery

It sped up a lot of things

and I think there are probably various

technologies that get a kick start

I could speak for myself

I would say that there are things that I

had put off

that I brought forward just because you

know I had time because we were locked

out so even even the you know the

upgrades I did to the live stream

are things that probably would have

taken longer but I accelerated them

because of the pandemic now there might

be other things to slow down like the

you know in the short run the

um the supply chains but in the long run

you know inflation got worse fast just

just the whole international relations

changed fast deaths were yeah even death

was accelerated

it's like everything was faster

so I would say that was a darn good

prediction

now I'm going to combine this with

something I heard recently

um

that Brett Weinstein and I think Heather

haying were saying and I wish tell me

the name of their new book because I'm

such an idiot I was I just looked at it

and then I forgot to write it down

in the comments just say the name of

their new book apparently it's pretty

good I hear good things about it

hunter-gatherer's guide thank you but uh

I I don't know if this is I think this

might be from the book but an interview

I heard him talk about how

humans are the most adaptable

of

really anything that's alive at this

point

now that makes sense right that we

adapted to all kinds of weather and all

kinds of diets and all kinds of

everything and now we're finding this uh

that we uh that we're adapting faster

and faster than we ever had to because

the rate of change in the external world

is so fast that we're we're trying to

keep up with the changes that are

happening in the environment

so we've gone from the you know the the

most adaptive creatures

to having to Super adapt and then the

pandemic hits

and suddenly the pandemic breaks all the

laws all the rules are different like

everything everything you took for

granted is in play now everything

now you've got a super adaptive species

who's trying to figure out how to adapt

but we don't know what the hell is going

on

what are we adapting to

exactly like everything's changing or

I'll adapt to that way well that's

changing okay I got used to okay that

changed so so we're basically in this

state of insane flux because we're so

adaptive

but that doesn't work if the environment

is changing faster than you can adapt

and that's where we're at the minute

what would you expect to happen

what happened here's here's just my

personal hypothesis I'll just throw in

the pile

I think and a lot of you said some

version of this

I think

people were revealed for who they were

all along

I think

that everybody became more

of what they already were

right

everybody became the extreme of what

they started from

if you had a little bit of a weight

problem what happened to you

a lot of people gained weight

if you were a fitness person and I would

say I would be in that category or or

even if your mind was you know oriented

toward that way what happened to you to

you during the pandemic

you got fitter

I'm at my Peak Fitness right now like

I don't want you to have to imagine this

but naked I look better than I've looked

at any time in my life and I'm pushing

65. and a lot of people would say the

same thing there are a whole bunch of

you on here who would say the same thing

leave out the naked part because we

don't need to think about that but

the point is

that let me say that lazy people became

lazier

just just not along as I say these

things because I know you're going to

agree lazy people became lazier

cheaters cheated more

cheaters cheated more

people who were

let's say uh achievement oriented and

again that's the category I would be in

like I'm always thinking about trying to

make something happen achievement

oriented people were even more so they

went into hyper mode

smart people became brilliant

people who were growing a little grew a

lot

things that were failing slowly failed

fast

you know the little stores on Main

Street in my town

it's like they got raked away like

leaves during the pandemic but they were

going to fail anyway it just wasn't

going to be that fast

so here are some other things that

happened which would explain in many

ways

why we're so different

I think that people who were

became more of more

people who are nice became more nice

the the people who were biased toward

helping people and empathy saw a crisis

and they said I was born for this

literally born for it because if you

were born as a sort of empathy kind of a

person well a crisis is actually what

you are born for you know midnight in

the literal way but you know what I'm

talking about you're you're designed

perfectly

for a crisis because you care about

people so you jump right in and help so

the people who are likely to help

were very helpful

the people who are likely to be

worthless

probably became more worthless than ever

everything became more extreme

but the other things that you have to

throw in the mix is

what happened to porn consumption

during the pandemic

I don't have data but I'm going to take

a guess

anybody want to take a guess

without the benefit of any data

probably through the roof

through the roof

uh I talked about the series on HBO I

think called euphoria

it's about young people and you know

working through the culture that's too

much drugs and too much porn and all

that and one of the things that the the

series which is really tries to hit

something close to reality for people in

that age group it talks about how it's

an entire generation that only learned

sex from porn

only and no other source

Because by the time you know you're I

don't know your high school or your

parents got around to it you'd already

consumed so much that it wasn't likely

your opinion was going to get changed

too much

so apparently even you know two young

people looking to hook up

is going to look like pork

or it's going to look like their

imitation of the best they can do to

look like what they've seen because

we're we're an imitative species

so what's that doing to people

well something I mean I don't I'm not

even going to give you an opinion you

know how that's good or bad

you know you can make your own opinions

but it's definitely different it's you

know if you don't think that'll change

your brain

let me ask you you all think that porn

changes your brain right like it

actually rewires you you all get that

right it's only a question of how much

you do

right if you don't do much it's not much

of a big deal

if you do a lot it just becomes it would

just turn you into it and you become it

you you merge with it basically

so there's that then there's the whole

commuting thing what happened when

people were forced to no longer be with

their second family

for a lot of people people had two

families didn't they they had the work

family and then they had the home family

and then the work family went away

what happens if you're buying stocks and

you're not Diversified anybody anybody

you're buying individual stocks and

you're insufficiently Diversified

meaning not enough different stocks

you're going to get wiped out

sooner or later

maybe not right away but if you're not

Diversified you're gonna get wiped out

you have a 90 chance

so there are a whole bunch of people who

had their social life Diversified

meaning you could have a bad day with

your spouse but at least you'd go to

work and there's your friends or you

could have a bad day at work yeah but at

least you could go home and your spouse

is nice to you

what happens when you just take away all

the diversification of your social life

and then then what used to be this Rich

social life becomes your family members

I'm sorry to say this but there's nobody

you can get sicker of faster than your

own family members

right and and they're the people you

love the most yeah you still care about

the most love them you know no no change

in that stuff right that's that's pretty

much baked in but oh my God what stress

to put on marriages

I I I think that you know in the same

way that all the small businesses got

wiped out by the pandemic

I think a lot of relationships got wiped

out by the pandemic

I mean I think the pandemic just and I

don't know that we see the full result

of that you know that's going to work

through the system

so

almost everything was faster

and here's what's happened is I feel

like let me tell you my impression of

what's different

so here's what's different for me

you know I talk a lot about the

simulation too much

but how it feels to me is that I can see

the Machinery of reality in a way that

I couldn't see before or that let's say

maybe I knew about the Machinery of

reality intellectually

just sort of philosophically but I

couldn't see it

I feel at this point

I can see it

it's almost like it's almost like there

was a machine they had a solid front and

now it's a glass front

the machine is exactly the same as it

was but now I can see the mechanisms

and I believe that you're having that

experience too

and it feels as though

Society itself just had his software

Rebooted and we all went to a higher

level of awareness I'm going to make

that case with the headlines today

so here's so here's the theme

the theme that I just developed

that the headlines themselves you can

see the Machinery behind them like

you've never seen before let me run

through some examples

um

Kyle Becker who I tell you all the time

you should follow him on uh

on Twitter he's got a great sort of

great reframings and lots of scoops and

stuff on the news

and he gives us this a little bit of

context about the January 6th situation

he says the Democrats contested

presidential elections three times since

2001. they even argued voting machines

were suspect

there were riots in D.C at Trump's

inauguration

the amount of memory holding these

left-wing news networks do is truly

impressive

now

you see the Machinery right

when I read that you say oh

that's a that's a rupar

in other words the entire January 6

narrative

only works because as Kyle points out

they leave out the context if you put

the context in

if you reverse rupart it

now

I'm not sure that all of you would see

this as instantly even a few years ago

but now it's just automatic isn't it you

just see the machine

here's some more examples

um Lindsey Graham apparently said about

uh Trump potentially pardoning the

January 6 writers

he said quote I think it's inappropriate

so Lindsey Graham thinks it would be

inappropriate if Trump became president

again

to Pardon those people here's a Joel

Pollock

giving you some context he says I want

to hear him explain why the guy with the

Buffalo horns got four years while an

FBI lawyer who doctored an email to

deceive a fisa court in the Russia

collusion probe got

community service

now

you now you you probably haven't heard

it so clearly and well stated before

but you could see that Machinery

couldn't you

we could already see that these were

political prisoners

it's just you know Joel helps us put it

in context there but you can see the

machinery

behind the behind the glass facade

um

and you know of course we've lost all

trust in our institutions as Joel says

in a uh on Twitter they have these what

you need to know sections every now and

then there'll be a topic that Twitter

healthily summarizes you know what you

need to know is usually some bullet

points

so

um I sure hope I

wrote that down

oh

yes I did here it is the what you need

to know so there were one two three four

bullet points so these would be four

things that are so obviously true

they could just be putting a bullet

point to straighten you out all right

I'm going to read them

and then tell me if you don't see the

machinery

behind this

what you need to know the Department of

Justice found no evidence of voter fraud

that could have changed the outcome of

the 2020 election according to former

A.G William Barr

that's one number two election officials

at the Department of Homeland Security

said the 2020 election was the most

secure in American history

number three voter fraud of any type is

extremely rare in the U.S according to

AP and Reuters

and Reuters

and Reuters

Reuters might come up again today

remember that Reuters is one of the

sources for voter fraud of any type is

extremely rare in the U.S

Reuters

just just hold that in your mind for a

while that'll be relevant it's called

foreshadowing

foreshadowing

all right

um and then the last one is 44 States

already have in place some form of

post-election audit the National

Conference on State legislatures website

notes

now

do I even have to go through

what's wrong with all of these

statements the you can see the Machinery

right

well I'll do it quickly just in case you

missed anything the first one all right

the Department of Justice found no

evidence of voter fraud right because

they didn't look for it

that's what's left out

they didn't look for it

they were the wrong vehicle

for judging it they could only judge the

things brought to them in too short of a

Time window to be useful

right that that entire context is left

out

this is clearly propaganda

so you can see the propaganda Machinery

just so clearly now number two election

officials at the Department of Homeland

Security assembly said the election was

the most secure in American history

and they know that how

do they know that

wouldn't that be a case of them knowing

the unknown

do they know that the election of 1940

was fraudulent

well I think what they're saying is that

they have the most

um I would guess my interpretation would

be that they have the most let's say

guard rails in place

to keep us safe

okay now that would be that would be a

reasonably good thing to know we have

the most in history guard rails and and

procedures in place to keep it fair

here's some context I'd like to know

is that enough

does it doesn't it sort of matter sort

of binary isn't it I don't care if it's

the best it's ever been

is it enough

that the most basic question is left out

is it

good enough

are you saying we doubled it from 10

good enough to twenty percent good

enough

the entire context is missing

obviously propaganda

uh voter fraud of any type is extremely

rare in the U.S according to AP and

Reuters Reuters

hold that thought Reuters

we'll do the next one 44 States already

have in place some form of post-election

audit

is it enough

yeah

okay they have some form of

post-election on it

what form

Does it include any of the digital part

doesn't include somebody looking at the

code

I don't think so

some form Now isn't it obvious that

somebody who would write a sentence like

this is not meaning to inform

it is quite quite clear with the four of

these that they are they're designed for

propaganda

for manipulation

and let me ask you was it not obvious to

every one of you when he read it or when

I read it to you I mean I primed you for

it but you saw it right away right

at least my audience does I think

now let me be clear

I am also not aware of any fraud in in

the 2020 election

I have to say that because first of all

it's true

I personally am aware of no fraud

whatsoever I'm not even aware of any

small fraud

because I if there were if there were

any stories like that I wouldn't have

paid attention anyway

somebody says yes you are not bad

no I'm I'm aware of small irregularities

but I don't like to remember the details

because they weren't important if they

were small

uh but I'm aware that people have

reported them so maybe that's what

you're looking for

all right

um what is true let's get into what is

true

and I'll take a little example do you

remember the famous incident uh and of

course you know that all the news has to

go through the Joe Rogan filter now

so it doesn't matter what you're talking

about

it's got to have a Joe Rogan reference

to it and we're gonna have plenty

all right

um do you remember the one of the big

blow-ups was when Joe Rogan had the

Australian guy journalist on

and they disagreed about whether the

vaccination or the virus itself would

cause my more myocarditis

in a certain age group

and that it looked like

maybe the journalist said something

wrong but then Joe Rogan disagreed but

then on the show it looked like Joe

Rogan saw a source that agreed with the

journalist but then we looked at it

later it looked like maybe Joe Rogan was

right after all but then I listened to

another video of a cardiologist who said

would he really dug into it to find out

which of them was right after all that

you can't tell

that's the bottom line so

is the last cardi cardiologist that I

listened to

the one who's right

or is Joe Rogan right

or was the Australian guy right or two

of the three of them right

I don't know but I will tell you if you

listen to a YouTube video of a

cardiologist

talking about how they decided

you know that risk and what data they

had and the quality of the data you will

walk away from it saying

um I'm pretty sure we can't tell

but it all also doesn't matter

and the doesn't matter part is that

whatever the risk is it doesn't matter

even which one's bigger it's so small

it's

it's not part of the decision

so even something as basic as what you

thought about that story

I don't even know if we know that

so our understanding of what is true and

what can be known is completely

different after the pandemic isn't it

everything you thought about the experts

everything you thought about the quality

of the data it's not the same as before

the pandemic now you think that even the

most basic clear story and this one

should have been one

this one should have been

two people you know weren't sure of some

data but then after the episode aired

the experts looked at it and said well

here's what's going on and then they all

agreed because we're all looking at the

same data

but

but things aren't that clear apparently

not

all right here's uh

let's talk about Joe Rogan's video

response so many of you seen it but you

don't need to have seen it in order for

me to you know talk about it so he did a

little uh you know handheld sort of a

self new video that I saw on Instagram

and I guess it's on all the social

platforms by now

in which he talked about the uh

uh the accusations that he's spreading

misinformation about covert stuff and

the Spotify problem of blah blah you

know and uh uh what's his name uh

uh Neil Young

I didn't do that intentionally but that

pretty much summed up the whole story

right there uh Neil Young wanting his

music to be taken off because he thinks

Joe Rogan's spreading misinformation

all right so

uh I listened to Joe Rogan's thing and

my first take which I tweeted but I'm

going to revise in a moment is that it's

the best response I've ever seen

to a public relations problem

that was my first response the best

response I've ever seen

to a public relations brouhaha

I now revise that opinion

it is the second best

response I've ever seen

and I don't think it's a coincidence but

that's just a guess now it would be fun

to hear him confirm or deny this so I

have a hypothesis

and I'm going to tell you who number one

was and see if you can draw a connection

number one was Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs when he had his public

relations problem it was one of the

early iPhone models if you put your hand

in a certain place

on the phone it would touch the antenna

and it would you know it would cut off

the call imagine having a handheld

device

that you couldn't hold in your hand

that you paid on a thousand dollars for

whatever the price was

that's like the worst thing that could

ever happen to a company well we made a

handheld object you just can't hold it

in your hand that's the only problem

otherwise it's really spiffy

doesn't make phone calls and it's a

phone but otherwise really good

that's a big problem right here's how

Steve Jobs handled it which became the

stuff of Legends it was actually written

about in his big in his autobiography

and uh sort of a big deal Steve Jobs got

in a call with all the journalists he

said and I'm paraphrasing but this is

the basic idea he said also more all

smartphones have problems we want to

make our customers happy

and then he said here's what we're going

to do

and the next day

because he had reframed it as all

smartphones have problems

the Press instead of killing Apple for

having a phone that had a problem

they started doing stories about all

smartphones had problems

it completely worked now I don't know if

Apple helped to see those stories but

the net effect of it was it really

worked and here is the form that Steve

Jobs used number one reframe

he reframed reframed iPhone as a problem

to all smartphones have problems good

technique

number two

he he showed empathy we want to make our

customers happy a very direct statement

about his customers it wasn't about the

company it wasn't about Steve Jobs

he reframed it and he said we want you

to be happy

then he said we're going to do this to

make you happy and then he set his

solution

very simple

perfect

handling

all right so let me show you the frame

again because we're going to go we're

going to show you this Frame a second

time

you reframe it

you show empathy

and then you give the solution reframe

empathy solution now I don't believe I

think the story is that Steve Jobs did

not come up with that himself

I believe he came up with and I forget

the name of the it was a PR executive

um who was an expert at that

somebody will tell me in the comments if

you've read the biography jobs

anyway

so Steve Jobs has some help from an

expert but Steve Jobs was an expert too

on this

um

somebody will say the the name of it is

it McKenzie

McKesson

McKesson

I don't know it doesn't matter but it

was a professional who was good at it

now let's talk about uh Joe Rogan's

um

thing

Joe Rogan basically said

and today actually not write that down I

don't think that's possible

um so here's here's how he started his

first reframe was he talked about his

show being a conversation

That Grew big unexpectedly

I'm paraphrasing now but he says I'm

just talking to people about stuff

that's interesting to me

and that it grew into this big thing

and so that's the context the context is

I'm not the news

right that's pretty important because

the context is that you know allegedly

misinformation

so the first frame is I'm this is just a

conversation of something interesting

not the news now he didn't say I'm not

the deuce but that's the context

um

so he reframes it

and he said basically There's No Agenda

it's just interesting stuff and he also

talked about how the experts he's had on

some of them would have been banned and

he claims

four things that in in the end ended up

being right

so that he gives you further context

that says

how many times he has a specific

examples of people who said things that

the mainstream would have said no that's

dangerous and then they turned down to

be right

so that's good context all right so like

jobs

uh Joe Rogan reframes the situation

then

he shows empathy

you basically

agrees with his critics and he and then

he tells you what he's going to do about

it

reframe

empathy

solution

perfect

now the solution would be you said that

he probably does need to get the an

expert who disagrees with you know some

of the provocative people get them on

you know close to when the provocative

person was

and he said that he does his own

scheduling

and that he needs to do that you know

more

uh I don't want to say better but he

just wants to pair the differing

opinions so they're a little closer

together

which is you know is a form of what I'd

been suggesting as well now I thought

it's even better if they're there at the

same time but maybe that's hard to

manage but the bet the next best thing

is to show the expert and then the

counter experts you know be as close as

possible so he's at least acknowledged

uh the the nature of the

uh complaints and then he offered some

solutions and then he also said he'd

prepare better for some of the some of

the types of experts

now

uh

here's David Smith Scott loves sucking

up to Big Pharma

sheep Rogan is accepting a

misinformation tag on his show week

all right

the the the the the people who only see

things as like weak or sheep the you're

like binary idiots

so get rid of this binary idiot

goodbye

all right um you've got to handle a

little bit of nuance

to uh to enjoy this live stream

all right

um

so I would say here's my speculation

one of the things that Joe Rogan gets

right

is what I'll call the The Norm Macdonald

uh theory of of comics

comedians that is Norm Macdonald

explained once I saw it on a video

recently that you don't want to act

smarter than your audience you want to

act dumber than your audience but maybe

you know I think I'm adding this part

but maybe a surprise them that that your

stuff hangs together better than they

think right

Joe Rogan

does an insanely good job of what a good

comic does and remember he's got this

whole Talent stack working you know

stand-up comic you know and then plus

all the other skills acting blah blah

so

so I don't know how much is you know

knowing what systems work and borrowing

them I don't know how much is natural

can't read minds but when you see uh one

of the things that makes Joe Rogan so

popular is he doesn't ever let himself

look like he's smarter than you

right

that is sort of Genius because it is

it's a hard thing to do if you think

maybe you've got some of your success

because you were smart

you know you'd have to think that in his

private moments he might have some

positive thoughts about his own

intelligence

you know he got him where he is right

now here's my take

if you know I'll make this conditional

my guess is that when the the thing blew

up with Spotify and Joe Rogan that he's

now playing at a let's say a corporate

level I hate to say it but you know

because Spotify is involved there's sort

of a corporate

element to this

it would surprise me if Spotify did not

offer

to give him some professional crisis

management PR advice

via somebody like Steve Jobs got the

advice

so my guess is that in both cases Steve

Jobs and Joe Rogan got advice from the

best advice givers

you could possibly get advice from

but that's not good enough

right because if most people got the

greatest advice in the world they a

wouldn't recognize it right they

wouldn't recognize it as good advice you

have to be pretty smart to even

recognize it and then secondly they

couldn't implement it

because it takes a lot a lot of

communication skill and most important

um Reserve

like to hold back all of your normal

instincts to give the the perfect

three-part you know response that both

of them did so here's the thing

if Joe Rogan got advice from an expert

he did a really good job of following

the advice like really good

but

if Joe Rogan came up with this

spontaneously

which has the look of it has the look of

something where he'd been thinking about

it for a while picked up his phone

and then gave you 10 minutes of

perfection that could have happened

I don't know and I would love to know

because if he did that

spontaneously after thinking about it a

lot of course but if that was one take

spontaneous

and he hit the the three elements that

cleanly

that is one of the smartest things

you've ever seen in your life

that that that would be just insanely

smart and like the amount of skill that

would go into that

it would be hard to hard to imagine so I

would just love to know I don't know if

you'll ever

talk about it but I'd be real curious if

he got expert advice or if he if that

was just spontaneous that would be

really interesting

um

from Reuters

this came from Reuters

and it reported that uh

uh Ivermectin was effective against

Omicron in a phase three trial wow

wow that's big news

you know everybody's saying bad things

about Ivermectin but here's Reuters

today

saying that I've remectedly in a

Japanese study that is effective it is

effective against Omicron in a phase

three trial holy cow

wow

uh that fake news lasted uh I believe

less than one minute

it's not true

it took it took me one minute to say

well that's a pretty vague claim because

you look at it and there's no link to a

study

like it just look obviously untrue

because

I could see the machinery

now I didn't really have to like break

it down or anything I just looked at it

I just looked at the story and I said

well that's

somewhat transparently not true

now I'm not talking about diaphragmactin

right this has nothing to do with

Ivermectin it's just about the truth of

a story

and then it took uh Andre's back house

another like five seconds

to completely dismantle it and he goes

he goes he goes uh this news feels too

basic sanity checks one there is no

preprint or other documentation yet and

then two assuming they did the trial in

Japan Omicron became dominant there just

one month ago one month isn't a

realistic time frame for a whole trial

and I'm thinking

yeah okay

and by the time I had read that uh that

Reuters had already corrected the story

and took out the phase three trial part

which was the ridiculous part

basically they found out that Ivermectin

Works in a lab

which

we already do in other words there

wasn't any news

there wasn't any news at all

do you know what else Works in a in a

test tube against diseases

practically everything do you know what

kills a virus

I don't know you could probably piss on

it

and I think pretty much everything kills

it in a lab yeah Coca-Cola in a lab so

basically this is Reuters reporting

something that wasn't even close to

being credible or true

it was but remember my original point

the pandemic has allowed us to see the

machinery

you could just see this one you didn't

even have to analyze it oh that's that's

not true

all right

uh Pat Sajak uh

passage had this tweet you said I've

discovered that no matter how

outlandishly over the top satirical

sarcastic or ridiculous the Tweet

approximately 20 percent of Twitter

users who comment will take it at face

value

helps explain why there's so much anger

out there

well

I think Pat was off by

five percentage points

uh as I've been noting 25 percent or so

ish people will be wrong about anything

everything

to the point where I got a tweet just

before I came on or or was it maybe I

saw it on a Local's comment I'm

forgetting where I saw it that maybe it

just might be uh is part of the uh base

rules of our reality

you know the base rule of reality is

around 25 percent of people have to

misunderstand everything

it's a different 25 percent I hope I

hope it's not the same 25 but there

always has to be the standard 25 no

matter what

all right

um one more thing and then I'm going to

solve the Ukraine problem

um we have to only start looking at

unvaccinated people and uh I'm sorry

we have to look at only fully vaccinated

deaths

to make our decisions on the mandates

fully vaccinated deaths we've been doing

the wrong thing we've been looking at

unvaccinated deaths but that's the group

that chose that option

right

but if all the unvaccinated people are

completely happy with their risk

management decision and they are

they are

and all of the vaccinated people they've

seen the risk drop to the point where

it's now a baseline risk not a pandemic

risk why are we looking at the deaths of

the unvaccinated they're getting exactly

what they want

not the dead ones but the people who

lived got exactly what they wanted

and the people who died they chose a

path that they were fully informed about

they didn't believe it and that was

their option

so

if you looked at the total deaths

vaccinated and unvaccinated it looks

like we're at a record and that would be

a bad argument for ending mandates

but if you look at what people asked for

and what they got

vaccinated people asked for vaccinations

they got it unvaccinated people asked

for a different risk profile

they got it as long as the hospitals can

handle the load and it looks like they

can

at this point it looks like they can

we're done

tomorrow ladies and gentlemen

and people of all types

Regis McKenna is the Regis mechanic was

the person who advised Steve Jobs I

don't know if he advised him on that

question I was talking about thank you

very much it was Regis McKenna

um

so February 1 is the date that the

public takes over

uh because our government has not and I

believe that the argument should be that

everybody got what they wanted at this

point the vaccinated got what they

wanted the unvaccinated would got what

they wanted

we are done

I would argue that the worst way to

protest at this point is with trucks

because

don't we need the stuff in those trucks

anybody

uh I think we need this stuff in the

trucks

I don't think we should stop the supply

chain

for anything

that's just my thinking but here's what

we should do

we should just take control just take

off your mask if you go in a place that

requires them make sure that they ask

you to put it on and then the first

thing you should say is no after

February 1st the public took control of

the mandates

and people say no the government still

hasn't mandate and you'll say yeah I

know that's why the public took control

on February 1st

now if they put up a fight well you can

decide to leave or put on your mask

that's up to you but I'm just saying

the default should be take the mask off

now I probably won't

you know just personally I probably

won't try you know going to Walmart or

Target or anything

but I'll just stay away from any places

that I know will require a mask and any

place I think is a soft target I'll go

in and take it off

and

we should just see it yeah I know people

be you know more rebellious than I am

we're going to try to get on planes and

everything else but that that would be a

little bit dangerous at this point I

don't think I'd mess around with an

airport

but the point is we have to make it a

big enough deal that the Press starts

talking about it

if the Press doesn't talk about the

public taking control of the issue and

make that a theme

it just wasn't going to happen

right so you need the press to

understand this is a perfect story

the Press does not like dog bites man

because that's normal the Press likes a

man bites dog the Press doesn't care if

the government tells you what to do

that's normal the Press does care when

the when the public tells the government

what to do that's that's what makes it a

story so somebody needs to talk about

the public Rebellion until the narrative

catches on and then it snowballs but

let's let's kick this thing off now

let's uh tell you how to handle the

Ukraine problem

have you ever wondered what the hell do

you do when you're dealing with a

dictator

like you could never you never really

solve a problem with a dictator right

it's very unlikely that democracies will

fight you know two Democratic countries

rarely get into war right

so if there is a war it's going to be

two dictators or a dictator and a

democracy

Etc

so wouldn't wouldn't you love it if

there was some way to solve the problem

that there's no way to make peace with a

dictator because they kind of have to

stay dictators

to avoid getting killed

am I right

it's hard to be a dictator and then just

retire

because whoever takes over next will

kill you and wipe out your entire family

now what does a what does a dictator

want after a certain age let's say by

Putin's age what does he want

probably something like a legacy

probably something like keeping his uh

his genetic line safe

do you feel that that would be a safe

thing to say at a certain age there

they're less about acquiring stuff and

more about making sure that what they

have done becomes a permanent Legacy

both to protect the people in their

family after they're gone

but also so their name will live on

so how do you how can you solve this

problem of giving the dictator something

that protects them in that way after

they're gone

but also allows you to negotiate in some

productive way so I think is this is the

reframe that needs to happen

we should we should talk to our

dictators about the fact that if they

keep with their current model it's

inevitable that their bloodline is going

to get wiped out

meaning that whoever takes over after

them

is going to look for your relatives and

make sure they get out of there because

the relatives are the dangerous ones

right

so how can you keep your relatives and

your legacy

from being erased and canceled

and here's the way to do it

guarantee everybody who sticks within

their borders

as they exist today

that they will be supported against all

attacks forever

in other words give them job security

instead of trying to depose them it's

the whole deposing them that gets the

problem right if we're trying to depose

uh Putin all the time

well he's going to push back

like anybody's going to push back so can

we remove the incentive for them to be

hacking us and and poking us back

I think we can

because I'm not terribly concerned if

the Russian people have a dictator are

you

I mean really

because I feel like maybe a lot of them

prefer it

I think maybe a lot of them prefer it is

not our problem

so instead of trying to turn anybody

into uh you know into some kind of a

democracy so that we can be friends why

don't we do it the Trump way

Trump goes to North Korea and says you

know there's no reason we need to be

enemies

how about uh if you want some economic

development we should talk

and then Kim Jong-un is like um

I can't think of a reason I need to be

your enemy

and then for a while

everything was heading in the right

direction

and and the thing that Trump did was he

gave Kim Jong-un

job security

think about it that's what Trump did

he gave Kim Jong-un job security the

most he's ever had and as soon as he had

job security he got friendly

friendlier

now Biden comes along

and no longer does

Kim have a relationship that's like a

personal one with the president

and now suddenly he's testing a lot of

rockets

right it's probably not an accident

um so

could we say here's the deal

as long as you stay within your

International borders

the entire world will make sure you

don't get deposed

the entire world China us you know we'll

make sure that President XI stays in

power as long as he wants Putin long as

you want Kim Jong-un forever

but

you have to

you have to end the the poking us

in other words you can't invade your

neighbors anymore and you can't Cyber

attack us you can't be trying to

undermine our currency and stuff like

that like you're going to just have to

be a productive competitor in the world

and then you can have everything you

want you just can't change your National

borders anymore

now

would that work

I don't know

but what we're doing now doesn't work

would you agree that what we're doing

now doesn't work

you know we have to do the we're

stronger than them Putin Only Knows for

us well Putin does only know Force

because it's the only option

what other option has he been offered

has he ever been offered the option

you're going to be in you're going to be

you can have the job forever just don't

be so much of an

that's it

you could you could be our friend I

don't care just don't be an to

us and you can have your job forever

now

I don't know if that would work of

course right and you know it'd be

different for every situation no two

situations are the same but

I can't see a reason that we are at some

kind of War footing with Russia

can you

I feel like

a infantile position I I feel as though

we lost the reason

we lost the reason

now the reason is of course that they're

going to be aggressive so we have to

keep them in and they're thinking you

know U.S is going to be aggressive so we

have to keep them in well what if we

just weren't

there's no reason

it's just two people who are locked in

this model that doesn't make sense

anymore the last people we want to have

a war with is freaking Russia it's last

let's have a war with anybody else but

Russia anybody

literally lasts on my list

uh of course you know they they make it

easy to Gin up War because of the way

they act but let's figure out a way to

change their incentive all right

that

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I'd like to show you one more uh thing

to show you the machinery

of

um

oh stupid phone

stupid stupid damn phone all right I

guess I'll do it the long way

here's a picture that the LA Times uh

ran

about the Joe Rogan and Neil Young

controversy

all right

and

uh look at the picture they chose for

Joe Rogan

and look at the picture that they chose

God damn it I chose for uh

Neil Young

so Neil Young he doesn't look like a

heroin addict he looks like a thoughtful

possibly a brilliant man

Joe Rogan the pictures that they picked

they picked the AOC picture with the

with the big eyes

and and here's the headline this is from

the uh LA Times Spotify CEO Daniel Eck

responded to Neil Young and others

removing their music from the platform

over a covid-19 misinformation spread on

Joe Rogan's popular uh podcast

so they say it likes it like it's a fact

that it was misinformation

isn't a fact

is it a fact that it was misinformation

or is it experts disagreeing

so they treat it like it's a fact like

you don't need to think anymore you see

the Machinery right

you could you can see the machinery

so

that my friends is the best show ever

and YouTube

um

I will talk to you tomorrow