ist of hoaxes and you, the test taker, would simply check whether you know it's a hoax or you believe it's true. And the fact that it's a hoax is a hoax. So you just say true or false to each of the claims or the hoaxes.

Now why would I do that when I already talk incessantly about all these hoaxes and a lot of people know what they are? But not so much on the right. And the answer is because this is a persuasion trick to get people to think past the yes or no. If you give somebody a hoax IQ test and they start arguing with you about whether or not they got the right answer or the test itself is graded correctly, just don't even have the argument. Just say thank you very much, here's your score. No, no, no, I'm pretty sure that three of those that I marked really, really happened. Thank you very much, here's your score. No, seriously, I know this one's not a hoax. I saw it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears. That one really happened. Here's your score. Thanks for taking the test.

Yeah, we're getting to the point where we should stop arguing about them. Just put them on a list and use what I call list persuasion. Have you heard me describe list persuasion? It's a persuasion trick. The best user of this is Sean Hannity, if you want to see a really good example of it. Also Alex Jones. Alex Jones did it once. I was on his program a few years ago and he did that and I watched him do it. It was just sort of masterful, really. Right, I'm not saying I approve of it. I'm just saying that the technique works and that when you see it done it's really good.

And the way the technique works is you list four things that everybody listening believes to be true and then you slip one thing in that they don't yet believe is true but you like them to believe it's true. So let's see if I can come up with an example off the top of my head. This will be hard because I'm just winging it here. But let's say you were going to say bad things about Joe Biden. All right, I'll just do a pretend Hannity. So this won't be a real example, just to make the case.

There are several things you could say about Joe Biden that are true or at least the audience would accept as true. You say Joe Biden is mentally incompetent. And the audience is like, that's what I see, that's what I see. He increased inflation. He is beholden to the progressives. You know he's got real trouble with them. Yeah, true. And he said some racist things in his earlier days, things that people thought were racism. Yeah, true. And he's a lizard person from the planet Krypton. You just throw it in there but you never put it at the end so it's never the first one and it's never the last one. You always sandwich it in the middle, list toward closer to the end, because you want people to hear three true things, then the lizard person accusation, and then two more real things.

If you sandwich the lizard person thing between three trues and two more truths, it just slips right past your defenses until you're pretty sure it must be true. It was on that list. So that would be the same technique with using the hoax IQ test, but an ethical use of it, because as far as I know there would really be real hoaxes, right? So it wouldn't be trying to trick anybody. You'd be trying to persuade them.

Here's a weird story because the simulation loves us. When right-leaning and I guess CNN would call them far-right companies get de-platformed and that sort of thing, where do they go? Where does Gab go? And where do a lot of people get de-platformed? Well they go to a server company called Epik. And the founder of that is a free speech advocate and is willing to take people onto his system so that they can still be in business. And he's not as concerned about their horrible speech. But he has banned some direct Nazi-type organizations, but not everybody who likes Nazis apparently. So it's a pretty rough group over there along with regular people. So there's lots of normies but it's a little extra bad compared to the rest of the world. But you can use your own judgment whether that's free speech or something worse.

Now the individual who does this is sort of fascinating. I guess his parents were both anti-Nazi activists and he's got a pretty good case that he doesn't lean that way himself. Now you'd have to suspect, right? So the people on the left are like, we're not so sure because you do seem to be helping those people on the right.

And here's the payoff. The name of this individual who owns this company called Epik, who the people on the left would like to demonize to de-platform for good anybody who's got views they don't like, this is his actual name. His last name is Monster, M-O-N-S-T-E-R, and his first name is Rob. Now I would call myself Bob if my last name was Monster, because Monster is bad enough, but Rob is actually a crime. You don't want to rob people and you don't want to be a monster. So Rob Monster is the name of this. This is actual real name, like the name he was born with. Now I don't have anything bad to say about him. I just think it's interesting that people who do think he's a monster, well that's his actual name. And apparently it's a common name in the country where he was from. I don't know. He's from some European country.

All right. Chris Christie is positive that Trump gave him COVID when they were doing their debate preparation. And Christie was playing Biden and I guess there was a lot of, he said it was a spirited debate practice, so there was a lot of spittle going back and forth. And now that we know the timeline it looks like Trump probably infected several people in the room. So Christie, Steve Miller, I think there were some other people.

And what this story fails to mention, give me a fact check on this, isn't the story that Trump tested positive but then when he did a higher quality test he tested negative? Is that true? And then was the debate before or after those two tests? Because the thinking is that Trump knew, which means they had to be after the first test. But wasn't it also after the second test when he was tested negative? Does anybody know that? How could you know that? Yeah, I know.

So I would love to know about the ventilation in that room because I'll bet the ventilation wasn't working. So I still have a theory that the difference is the airflow, not just the filtering and the ventilation. So I'm gonna keep on my theory that airflow is the only thing that matters and if you've got the airfl