t of opinions is targeted by the legal system for all the crimes. Now, I don't know if the Tate brothers did any crimes. Like I said, it's not my job to defend their character or their history or anything else. I'm just saying we live in a world where my first assumption is it's probably fake. Isn't that terrible? My first assumption, which I still keep, that's my current assumption, is it's probably fake. I hate that I even live in a world in which I have to say that, but it's probably fake.

All right. Can you believe that yet again there was another story about the gender pay gap and quoting the 82 cents on the dollar thing? Would you like me to tell you why that story still persists, the 82 cents on the dollar?

Now, everybody who is a little bit educated is aware that that's just comparing apples to oranges, and if you compare people with the same experience, you know that disappears. But why do people keep saying it? Like why does it just keep coming up over and over for decades when it's been disproven by every study and every single person who knows anything about it? It's literally comparing an apple to an orange.

So more men are in, let's say, stem jobs. More women might be in jobs that are more nurturing or taking care of people, you know, sociologists and stuff, and they make different money. But I thought every educated person knows that. But it turns out there's a lot who don't.

And do you know why this story persists even though it's so obviously taken out of context, not true? It persists because nobody can tell batshit crazy women the truth. It's just too dangerous. The reason that this even exists is because there's so many people who don't know how to do any kind of analytical job, can't do the research, can't do the math. This is a stupidity issue, not a difference of opinion. There's no difference of opinion. Everybody smart, male and female, knows this is fake news. Everyone.

And the reason that there are people who are not experts and don't follow the news as much, the reason they believe it, that this persists, is because men are too afraid to tell women the truth. It's like this is not, you're comparing a rock to a bird. Yeah, the only reason that number exists is because you don't know how to analyze things, which is basically like a math problem.

All right, so that's the truth. The truth is it's totally fake.

And here's one of my standards for detecting BS. It's not 100%. It doesn't work every single time, but it's really, really good. It goes like this. If the science or the data tells you one thing and your entire lived experience tells you the other, it's probably not true. It's probably not true.

And I always use the lung cancer example of smoking. Science says that smoking gives you lung cancer, and sure enough, I know people who smoke cigarettes and died of lung cancer. So that's not proof, you know, my personal experience, but at least it's consistent. What I see matches what the scientists say pretty good.

But in my entire life, I've never heard of one example, not even one, in which a woman was paid less than a man when they had the same experience, they had the same qualifications, did the same amount of work, and negotiated just as aggressively. I've never seen it. Have any of you ever seen it? Have you ever seen a verified situation where it really was the same years of experience, same qualifications, just 20% different pay? I've never seen it.

All right, here's a little mental experiment for you. This will blow your mind. Take a hundred men chosen at random but they all have the same occupation. 100 men just randomly chosen. There are no women in the group, just 100 men. And let's say they're all data analysts or something. All have the same job. Do they all have the same pay? Do all the data analysts have the same pay, 100 chosen randomly? No, of course not. Their pay is going to be all over the place.

So should you say that the people in the bottom half of the pay, because it would be lots of different pay levels, would I say that they've been discriminated against for being men? No, you would just say that any hundred people, even in the same job, would have different incomes. Do you think somebody studied and found the ones that got a little extra and they're trying to correct it? No, we don't do that. Do you think anybody looked at the men who were paid less than other men for the same job and said we got to correct this? No, nobody gives a shit because it's about men.

But suppose you took 100 men and 100 women randomly, and they were on the same job. Now if you randomly studied 100 men and 100 women, would you find a whole bunch of situations in which there were in fact women who seemed to be suspiciously paid less than the men? Yes, you would, because there would be people paid all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons and all kinds of different places. But you could also find in that same group men who are paid less than other men and also men who are paid less than other women.

So the entire topic is people who don't know how to do analysis. So to pretend there's some kind of difference of opinion or that it matches your experience is just absurd.

Now let me ask you in the comments again, just so you can see each other, has anybody ever even seen one example? I'm going to say in the last 10 years. In the last 10 years, has anybody ever seen one example where you were really sure that people had the same qualifications but different pay? And if you had, are you aware that you could find that same difference if you were only looking at men? You would find men with different pay for the same jobs. How do you explain that? No, it's all just bad analysis. There's nothing else to it.

All right. Trump said something that got him in a little bit of political hot water. He said that in an interview, asking about entitlements because as you know our budget's out of control, and he said there's a lot that can be done in entitlements in terms of cutting. So then Biden got on that and said Trump's going to cut your entitlements.

Now what Trump said was there's a lot that can be done in terms of cutting, but I feel like there's a whole level of creativity that could be applied that hasn't been. For example, I'll just take myself. If you gave me the option of taking half of what I would probably get in Social Security b