gotiating with China hard, that's another. North Korea, he was perfect for it. And this truck shortage, I think he'd be perfect for this because he has exactly the qualities you need. But Biden has none of them. Biden has none of them. So that's why we're here.

I saw an interesting concept by Twitter user Phil Reed. He was making an analogy to my talent stack idea where you add talents together that makes sense to make yourself more valuable. And he said there's a similar thing with the Apple ecosystem. Meaning that if you start getting into Apple products because they work together, you know, the fact that I could go from my phone to my iPad to my computer and I'm still in the same place, etc., and a number of other things that make the product work together. He makes the point that you don't have to be the best at any of those things if you've built an ecosystem where they all work together. And I thought that was, somebody says synergy. Yeah, I mean you could say it's just synergy but I think it gives a little more meat on the idea to compare it to the talent stack idea and say it's an ecosystem stack, if you will. Everything from your watch to your computer all have something in common and they work together. I just thought it was an interesting take on that.

Big news about Facebook. They're changing their name. Do you know why Facebook is changing their name? Anybody? Anybody? Why are they changing their name? Well, in my opinion, well first of all they may have some baggage they want to get rid of and I also think Facebook doesn't sound like a current name, does it? Having the word book in a tech company name, it's really not a forward-looking name, is it? It was fine for a while. But the biggest reason they're changing the name is that their business is going to change in a big way. And I would argue that this change in Facebook will be one of the biggest changes in human evolution. One of the biggest changes in human evolution. Like real big. Like as big as opposing thumbs. Like that big. Here's why. Apparently they're going to go balls to the wall into the metaverse or the virtual worlds which are created by 3D graphic stuff and AR, artificial reality, and virtual reality. So Facebook is creating an entire new reality. Multiple realities. And each of these realities will have a function. So one of the fake realities might be a conference room where you put on your goggles and you go to that conference room and you're in that room. Others might be vacations. You might be able to take a group vacation somewhere just with your goggles on. You might be able to fly somewhere just with your goggles on. And I would argue you don't see how big this is. I don't think any of you can see how big this is. The only people who can see it are the people who have tried the technology. If you've tried it you know how big this is because right now it's sort of in its infancy in a way. Maybe, you know, maybe it's sophomore year or something. So it's not ready for prime time, I would say. But oh, that's dangerous. It's not ready for prime time but it's going to get there really quickly and fairly obviously and this is huge.

Let me tell you what I know. I did get a virtual reality system a few years ago just to check it out and just a few years is probably completely different now. But when you have the virtual reality headset on, your experience is so rich it can be better than real life. It's a problem. The virtual reality can be better than real life and maybe a lot. Imagine if you will that you're unattractive. I know, hard for us to imagine because the people who watch me are unusually sexy. But imagine you're somebody else and you're not the sexy beast that I know you are. How much are you going to like living in the real world where people treat you like Elephant Man versus living in the virtual world where you look like your avatar and people interact with you as the avatar? Which one are you going to want to spend more time in?

Yeah, disabled people. Now, well actually let me take that back. I think you trapped me with that comment. You trapped me into saying something illiberal. Is that the right word? If we assume that disabled people, and let's say differently abled, disabled by itself is not as woke as it should be. We'll say differently abled people. If you make the assumption that they need a virtual reality you kind of, that's kind of not cool, you know what I mean? Because just that being differently abled doesn't mean you have to leave reality or something. So I guess I was a little offended by your suggestion even though I totally understand it. So your suggestion is completely fair but I don't know if, did anybody else feel that? If you talk about differently abled people, and I agree with that wording by the way, you can certainly see that there would be people in that category who would like the virtual worlds better. So that the comment is perfectly fair but I don't know. Just imagining that there's a group that needs to get out of reality is, I guess I said the same thing with unattractive people. If you are blind, interesting. If you're blind you're not going to have any access to this. That's a really interesting point. Yeah, I wonder if there's a way to get virtual sight. I'll bet there is. I'll bet you could get virtual sight someday. Something, you know, directly. Neuralink kind of thing directly linking to your brain maybe someday.

Anyway, I don't think you realize how gigantic that is. It's really gigantic.

There's some fake news about Southwest Airlines. Fake in the sense that it's being reported in an incomplete way. So Hannity was tweeting this and what Hannity said was, breaking: Southwest Airlines drops plan to place unvaxxed workers on unpaid leave. Now if you hear that they stopped their plan to put unvaxxed workers on unpaid leave you would say to yourself, hey, they're going to put people who are unvaccinated on unpaid leave or they were before. Is that true? It's true-ish but it's missing too much context, right? It's true-ish. The context that's missing is that the only people involved were the people who had applied for exceptions, religious or otherwise, and had not gotten an answer yet. So to me all they're doing is delaying the mandate until they can work through the number of people asking for exceptions. So to me it looks like nothing. To me it just looks like nothing. Like nothing changed except they just delayed it until they feel they can do it right. So I feel like this was fake news to imagine that they reversed the policy. I think all they did was make a practical decision that they couldn't do everything as quickly as they wanted. I think that's all. We'll see. More news might come out of that.

I would like to call out one of my internet friends for cognitive dissonance. Now this is somebody I interact with a lot. Might even be watching. So if you're watching I'm going to be talking about you in a moment. So this is nothing personal about the person, okay? So I'm going to say something that you might think is personal. It's not because it's somebody I like. But this person I believe is experiencing cognitive dissonance. And when you experience cognitive dissonance you're the only one who doesn't know. That's the nature of it, right? So if I experience it I will swear I'm not. You're the only people who know. Nobody else is going to know. All right, so I'm talking about Justin Hart. All right, Justin, I see you're guessing so stop guessing. His name is Justin Hart. Great guy. Interacts a lot on Twitter. Have had lots of interactions with him. But he's more on the, let's say I don't want to characterize other people too much but I say he's on the skeptical side of the pandemic conversation. He's on the skeptical side. And here's something he said today talking about the Southwest Airlines story. So he said in a tweet, quote, they caved. They'll cave more when the next deadline comes. Again, since now that part I'm not arguing with that. That whether they caved or whether they cave again. So no argument about that. But the next part, tell me if I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance because you're the only ones who know, right? I can't tell. I think Justin is experiencing it. So here's the next sentence. You be the judge, okay? He says since 40 to 60 percent of all infections are coming from fully vaccinated people. Now first of all I don't know if that's true but let's accept as true that there are a lot of vaccinated people getting infected. So that part's true, right? I don't know if it's 40 to 60. That's I'm not sure that's right but let's just say there's a lot of them, right? Somebody says it's absolutely true and I'm seeing other people saying it's not true. So I want everybody to know that some people say it's true and some people say it's not true. I don't know. I don't. But it doesn't matter to my point. We all agree that there are a lot of vaccinated people getting infected, right? We're all on that page. A lot of vaccinated people are getting infected. All right.

So here's what he says. Because 40 to 60 percent of all infections are coming from fully vaccinated people he concludes that the mandates seem superfluous. Do you think the fact that vaccinated people also get infections and quite frequently, does the fact that they're vaccinated make the mandate seem superfluous? Now hold on. Hold on. I didn't say is the mandate a good idea in your opinion. That's not the question. So you're not judging whether mandates are good or bad. All right? Nobody's judging mandates. I know your opinion on mandates. I don't like them. Most of you don't like them. So we're not talking about whether mandates are good or bad. That's not the topic. The topic is whethe