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t in one year, thanks to that sip, there will be less rioting. That's right. You can check it. Check it a year from now. See if I'm not right. A year from now on this date there will be fewer riots because of the simultaneous sip. If you don't know how cause and effect works and you think it's just a correlation, well you've got a lot of scientific learning that you need to do. Well yes, a chalic…
← Previous segment →he world and all their science were wrong and of course I was right. I was right. It was obvious I was right. I didn't have to do any science. It was kind of obvious. But I would just like to claim that for the rest of my life as a thing that in some ways I'm most proud of.
Now I'm not most proud of it because I realized it because I think there must have been billions of people who said the same thing. There had to be. There had to be a hundred million people who said some version of, um, if the virus is in the droplets and the mask stops droplets, well explain to me how they don't work. How do they not work? Because you touch your face more? Because when I put my mask on I touch my face less. I touch it through the mask but I touch my face less.
So anyway the part I'm proud of is that I had worked on my ego to the point, this is an important lesson actually, I'll embed this little important lesson in my otherwise fun presentation. The important lesson is that I was able to publicly say something that I think anybody else in the world would have been embarrassed to say in public because it's pretty embarrassing to say every scientist and expert in the world is wrong because hey I'm a cartoonist so trust me. And that's what I did. That's exactly what I did. Loudly. Went my way this time. Might not always go my way. But the point is that the key t
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alent in my talent stack was the working on my ego. In other words being able to embarrass myself at an extreme level. I mean that would be extremely embarrassing if it had gone the other way. If it turned out the masks were killing people and there was, you know, it turned out there was lots of confirming science to that or that it didn't work at all. Pretty embarrassing for me. Wasn't an obstacl…
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