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So most of the news and most of the conversation involves completely imaginary people. How about the Matt Gaetz story? The Matt Gaetz story says that there's a 17-year-old girl. We haven't heard any specifics about that. I don't know if that person exists. How about any story about an anonymous source? Does the anonymous source really exist and really said that? Probably not. How about the big white supremacist rally which nobody showed up, or a handful in the whole country? I guess turns out that's a lot about imaginary people. A lot about imaginary people.

What about all the cops who are killing people just because they're Black? Do they exist? There's certainly this belief that it's happening, but have you seen one where you could say to yourself, "Oh yeah, that's just killing because of being racist"? They always have this other quality, which is there was some actual police reason. Something happened. It's all imaginary people all the way down. Even yeah, somebody's saying Joe Biden's imaginary in a way. In a way.

All right. Let's see what else we got going on here. Got imaginary people, meth in Afghanistan, and that is just about what's happening today. Somebody says, "You clearly didn't watch Tucker. He didn't admit girl you are fake." You know what would have been better? To write a sentence that made sense. Try that. Try that next time you comment.

Let's say hit the trolls. Oh, let me see this comment. This is the nicest thing. So Slob says, "I often listen to you with headsets because your voice is so smooth and clear I sometimes fall asleep." Do you know how much that means to me? Since I literally couldn't speak for three and a half years. And when you hear my new audiobook — I just this last week I finished recording "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" — so that you'll have a choice of hearing in my voice. The original was done by a voice artist. But I talk about my voice issues on that, and you might like it.

Somebody says Gaetz admitted the girl existed to Tucker. But if the girl exists, but does a girl exist who is a victim of this crime? So that part does not exist. I assume that Matt Gaetz did not say there's a victim that exists. I assume he said there's a person who's 17 who exists. That's not the story. The story is that there's a victim. So that part's not evidence.

Now I'm not saying that none of these stories will turn out a real person. I'm saying that when you hear the story it's all about imaginary people until a real person appears.

About the island and the volcano. So what I've said about passports is that passports will not survive any competitive environment. In other words, restaurants are going to have a hard time because if you're a foursome and one of you maybe has antibodies because you were infected but you never got the vaccination, you can't eat at the restaurant because you're not vaccinated. It's just not going to work. If somebody can go to the restaurant next door because that restaurant will say, "Hey, I'll just take you. I need some money."

Where passports could be a problem is in a non-competitive situation. And this Saint Vincent's island with the volcano is exactly that. It is a completely non-competitive environment. It's an emergency, and the people who owned the boats got to do whatever they wanted. There weren't the other boats that said, "Oh yeah, just come over here." So in a non-competitive environment, passports are a big problem, right?

But if you're worried about your gym or your restaurants, I just can't get worried about that. I think it'll work its way out. It's only when the government requires it for some government function they have a monopoly, or in this emergency. I think it was just handled wrong. So if you say to yourself the problem was the passports, I can see why you'd say that, or the vaccinations in that case. But keep in mind that those vaccinated people, I don't think had passports, did they? I mean they didn't have vaccination passports. So the very situation that you're using of the boats wouldn't take somebody unless they're vaccinated — there were no passports and the problems still existed. So is it the passport that's the problem, or was it that there were some people who made some decisions that you don't think they should have made?

Now my belief is that — and first of all, it wasn't the boat captains who made the decisions. They were just going to transport them to other islands, and it was the islands who didn't want to take them. So the islands not wanting to take them was the larger problem. It wasn't vaccinated or unvaccinated, right? Because if those islands could have kept them in a quarantine, I don't think they would have had an issue. They just couldn't.

All right. What else? You've got no friend would not help because of passport. See, you gotta use sentences that actually mean something. Idiots are posting their passports online where other people could just copy down their number. That's funny.

Yeah, you know this. There's this weird story about — how do you say the name of the guy who's writing these stories? Somebody say his name in the comments. Ta-Nehisi Coates or something. I don't want to say it wrong. It'll sound like I'm being inconsiderate, but I just don't know his proper name. But anyway, there's a story about somebody using Jordan Peterson as the personality for an evil character. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Okay, I hope I got that right.

Talk about Jake Novak. There's nothing really to talk about there. Everything you know about that is all there is to know. Anyway, I think it was an interesting choice. And does Jordan Peterson try to do anything except make people's lives better? It's the damnedest thing watching the trouble that he attracts, because I'm pretty sure if there's somebody who has no bad intentions it's got to be him, right? Has anybody ever suggested he has any bad intentions anywhere or that people are not benefiting from the things he's saying? It's just the damnedest thing that he would be the subject of attack.

All right. Have you noticed that a lot of our stories are kind of small? Yeah, without Trump we don't have these big stories anymore, or at least the news doesn't treat them like they're big. When will Kamala become president? My prediction is that Joe Biden has to serve at least one year, and I think that would just be out of respect for Biden. Less than a year doesn't feel like you should have run for president, but one year feels like, okay, you did your job, you handed off. It was a clean job. You did a year. I feel like it's got to be a year.

The brain is the battlefield of the future. That is correct. I don't need to watch that to know that's true. Yeah, persuasion is everything now. Do you remember in 2016, 2015, when I was talking about persuasion being the sort of dominant variable in our world? And that felt a little weird, didn't it, when you first heard me talking about how important persuasion is? But now it's kind of everything, isn't it? It's really pretty much what I told you was the clearer way to look at the world, as a persuasion machine. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Of walking people to the door of Nazism. Who are they accusing of that? Would you host a red pill or RSD pillow show? I don't know what that means. A lot of your questions I don't understand at all.

Somebody's saying that Kamala needs to — if she goes more than two years she can't run twice. So it'd have to be between one year and two years that she took over. No, she can't be president as a replacement for more than two years, so she'd have to wait two years. That's a reasonable assumption.

Any update on dual Twitter broadcast? I don't think I'm going to broadcast on Twitter per se because it's non-monetized. Let me talk about monetization for a moment. There may be something that's confusing you. Number one, I've told you that I have fuck-you money and I don't have to do this for money. Now that's true, but money influences everything. And so the more my message is monetized in whatever way anybody wants to do it, the more powerful my voice becomes. In other words, the more people who follow me on YouTube, the more influence my way of thinking will have on the world.

So if you want the stuff I say to have more influence on the world, the way to do that is to join Locals where it's a subscription service or to watch it on YouTube where it can be monetized. Right now the Twitter feed doesn't have a monetization model. And so while more people might see it, the monetization is what allows me to pay my assistant so the production quality is better. We can put it on more platforms. So basically there's a certain amount of money that becomes like a vote but also allows me to do a better job and present it more places. And it also keeps me interested because honestly the fact that it's monetized — how many times have I told you that people can quite honestly say they're not doing something for the money but it's just never true?

This is one of the most important concepts of economics. People can literally tell you and be not lying, "No, I'm not doing this because of the money," and they're still sort of doing it for the money, right? There's no such thing as not being influenced by money. And even when I tell you, just to be fully transparent, if I tell you that I don't need the money, it doesn't mean it doesn't influence me. It completely influences me. In fact, if people were not interested enough to go along with monetizing models, I probably wouldn't be here. So yeah, it makes a big difference even though intellectually if you ask me what's the main reason I'm doing it, I wouldn't say that. And I wouldn't be lying. It's just, you know, you always have to be careful. Money's always there.

Actually here's the perfect example. Rush Limbaugh. Because he had so much reach, part of that, his monetization allows his reach to be so big. Yeah, he was more powerful.

Now by the way, I'd like to back up to something I said a long time ago. It's my understanding that Dan Bongino is going to be getting the Rush Limbaugh radio spot. That's true, right? Fact-check me on this. And do you remember that long before that happened I had taken some time on my live stream to point out that Dan Bongino is one of the great examples of a talent stack guy. Somebody who if you looked at any one of his talents you'd say, well, that one talent is not like the best in the world compared to other people who do this work. But man, does he have a lot of them. It's the lot of talents that makes him get the Rush Limbaugh job, right? He doesn't have one talent. He has a whole bunch of them that you can see that he has methodically — you can just watch his career forming right