his in another context. As impossible as this might seem, by November we might be kind of over the coronavirus. I don't mean over it medically. I don't mean over it in terms of the economy being back to normal. We won't be over it in terms of what it's doing to us. But quoting my late mother who taught me one of the most valuable things you'll ever know about people, and it goes like this: if you want to understand humans, here's the thing. We can get used to anything, including hanging. That was her little saying. You can get used to anything.

So the problem with the coronavirus from the Democrats' point of view is that they have this complaint about the president not handling it the way they wish it would have been handled. But it's really going to seem like old news by November, even while we're still experiencing it. Because whatever happened in April, it just feels like a hundred years ago already. And we'll talk a little bit more about that. But don't discount the fact that you simply get used to the coronavirus. You just get used to it. And then whatever is happening at the moment artificially takes a bigger role because you just got used to the other thing. So if the protests are still happening and there's still new news about it and there's new video every day, which seems to be the case, people are going to vote on the protests way more than they're going to vote on coronavirus. It'll have only to do with the fact that you just got used to one and you haven't yet got used to the other one.

All right, let's see. I want to give you a little context about what makes me look at the world a little differently than other people. I get asked about this a lot. People say to me, Scott, Scott, what happened to you that makes you see the world differently? And I've noticed that there are people who took what I would call my journey. People who coincidentally were doing similar things and had similar experiences often think the same way I do. And I thought it'd be useful to show you what that looks like. Here is my path to understanding reality.

When I was a little kid I loved optical illusions and I loved the fact that your brain had this blind spot. You could be looking at an illusion and even though you know it's really not that, it looks like it. And so I was always fascinated by how easily the brain could be fooled by an optical illusion, something you're looking right at. Then I started noticing that people had different religions. I was learning one religion but people had different ones. And even at the young age of 11 I'd be saying to myself, okay, there, I don't know what's going on here because these religions are completely different. So even if I imagine I got lucky and I got the right one, so luckily I was born into the family that had the right religion and all the other people were getting the wrong religion, or maybe everybody had the wrong religion. So there were possibilities. But the one thing I can say for sure is that everybody who had a different religion, you could tell that we were not basing our decisions on religion on facts so much, or at least not all of the world. So we could see that people would believe just about anything. Didn't know who was right and who was wrong, but it was pretty obvious that billions of humans who are otherwise normal can believe just about anything.

Then I got interested in magic when I was a little kid doing magic tricks. And you start learning that there are predictable, let's say, blocks in your brain. There are predictable gaps and blind spots so you can craft a variety of different magic tricks that take advantage of weaknesses in perception. Now once you start doing enough magic tricks and you start seeing all the weaknesses in perception, it changes how you see the world. And you start saying, well, if magic tricks can fool people so easily, maybe I should look into this a little more. I started looking into hypnosis and then persuasion. And by the time I started analyzing fake news, I gotta tell you it was easier. It was easier to analyze fake news.

And let me give you an example of what learning magic tricks does. If you can see this, here's a penny. All right, it's just a penny. You can see it. There's nothing in this hand. Watch this. I'm going to take this penny. I'm just going to put my finger on it and I'm going to squeeze it until it becomes a quarter. Now shh, you didn't hear that.

So learning how easily people could get fooled primed me for looking at the fake news. There is a news, or there's a little clip that went around Twitter today that I recognized immediately as fake news. And it was a clip of Biden on The View from 2019. And the clip was, it felt to me like it was obviously edited to take out all of his coherent statements and kind of string together a whole bunch of hesitant, incoherent things. Now he is a little bit hesitant and incoherent, but it was clearly edited to get rid of all the coherent parts.

Now I point that out because it's the same trick done by the fine people hoax. And what did people say when they saw the fine people hoax and I said, hey, that's a hoax? They all said the same thing. The ones who had been fooled by the hoax, to a person, they said, Scott, it's not a hoax. I watched it. I saw it with my own eyes. Heard it with my own ears. It's real. But then what about this Biden video? You watched it with your own eyes. You heard it with your own ears. But it's not real. Somebody helpfully showed the full video so you can see that it was doctored. It's just like the magic trick, right? You saw a penny in my hand so it was a penny. Had to be a penny. You saw it. Saw it with your own eyes. But it was just a magic