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mally see and is able to see all sides of an argument. My God, Dr. Phil just entered the chat. Yes, you got ahead of me. This is dad energy. What does Dr. Phil have more than any human you've ever seen in your entire life? More dad energy than I've ever seen. Name one person who has more pure dad energy than he does. Nobody, right? So big welcome to the, I would like to say that people like me wh…

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So we make this mistake over and over again. We treat people who literally have mental health problems as if it's just a difference of opinion. Probably ought to stop doing that.

Joy Reid, somebody just posted a picture of Joy Reid with her new Trump haircut. Joy Reid comes off as a mental health problem. What's her name, what's her co-host there who only works on Monday? What's her name? Rachel. Rachel Maddow. Yeah. So Rachel Maddow, she looks always to me like she's literally suffering some kind of psychological breakdown as she talks. Have you ever seen that? You look at her face and she feels like she's being tortured by demons on the inside when she talks. Now again, I'm not a mental health professional, but if she's not under the care of a professional I'd be really surprised. I'd be really surprised if she's not under the care of a professional in your private life. But again I'm no professional myself, so you're free to ignore my observation.

Eric Weinstein was talking about physics, and he said that, I want you to remember this the next time you start talking about peer review and simply using the normal channels, fundamental physics theory is being destroyed within our institutions by total nonsense. And I don't know why. Now the "I don't know why" is the payoff. Because if you don't know who I'm talking about, Eric Weinstein, he would know about the insides of the physics community because he's part of that world. So he would understand if it's BS. All you and I can't tell from the outside necessarily, but we could see it. He could see it, and he's saying there's something wrong.

Now did you ever have the feeling that I had at one point in time? Gosh, I think all this politics is full of lies, right? I think politics is awful, full of lies. But thank goodness we still have science, because science is not going to be influenced by all these bad characters and psychological problems and all that stuff, all that bias. We get rid of that, we got some science. Well, years ago, here's a little story I don't think I've ever told you. Years ago, maybe when I was in my 30s, I got real interest in physics, having no educational background in physics whatsoever.

And let me tell you what interested me about physics. It looked like it was complete to me. That's what got me interested. I wasn't interested in the science. I was interested in the psychology of how we could get to the point of believing what I believed was obviously not true. Obviously not true. I'm talking about basic reality. You know, the mysterious stuff, you know, Bell's theorem, and you got your spooky action at a distance, and we're going to prove that string theory is true any day now, but it didn't quite happen. And to me, oh, and the fact that the universe has an edge, and that the speed of light has a limit, and that we're coincidentally here despite all odds. I mean, the

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re are just so many things that didn't look real. Now it could be that the only problem is my low level of understanding of physics. But the more I looked into it, the more obvious it was that the physicists really didn't understand their own field. And I don't know if that's what Eric Weinstein is getting at. I think his point is a little more nuanced and a little more interesting than that. But…

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