Episode 821 Scott Adams: Democrats Realizing “Maybe the Problem is us,” Coronavirus Mysteries

Date: 2020-02-15 | Duration: 45:20

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Who IS the President of Mexico? 4 Democrat “canaries in the coal mine” Coronavirus versus an ordinary flu virus

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bum-bum-bum hey everybody come on in here let's have a little thing I call coffee with Scott Adams and the simultaneous sip it all it takes is a thousand people to rush in here the next thing you know well this sipping is gonna be happening and all you need all you need it's all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass a tanker chelators tie and a canteen Joker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoyed me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go mmm spicy good stuff well it seems to me that the news has sort of shrunk down to the boring category recently but it still left us some good stuff that's right

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right fun stuff I don't really care about news that isn't fun people died in that sort of thing but we do have some fun stories for example three Democratic candidates were asked in recent interviews if they could name the President of Mexico two out of three said nope
so Klobuchar and Steyr both said nope who is it that people judge had the answer but as soon as you said the answer he asked if he was right now if you say the answer and then you immediately ask if you're correct I think that's 0 for 3 you know a good guess I'm not sure how much credit we should give that but here's what's funny about it did any of you know the

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about it did any of you know the president of Mexico anybody how many of you could have mentioned you know named the President of Mexico I couldn't have gotten close no idea in fact it was I felt like it was the first time I'd ever heard it when they they gave the answer to the you know to the Democrats but of course I have heard it it's just forgettable and I'm thinking to myself alright is this telling us anything about the candidates probably not really you know we love to do these little gotcha questions do you remember was it Bush senior who was asked about the the cost of a loaf of bread or something like that he didn't know and people said oh you don't know what a price of some bread is I forget who it was who was asked and uh-huh and I thought to myself do I really care if my president knows the

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really care if my president knows the cost of a price of bread or the price of bread oh I don't care I don't care at all but I'll take it one level further I remember if I were saying this about Trump you would all jump on me and you'd say you would all say you're saying this because you'll support Trump no matter when he does but I'm only talking about the Democrats do I care that they can't name the President of Mexico nope I don't even care a little bit I don't care that one got it and two missed it absolutely means nothing do you know what I did all right think about that if we don't know the President of Mexico I think that's his fault are you with me do you know why we know the name of President Trump because President Trump made us know his name do you know why I know Peter Budaj edges

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you know why I know Peter Budaj edges name because Peabody Judge made me know his name do you know why I don't know the President of Mexico well he's not doing much if I don't even know his name you know I can I can name the Prime Minister of Canada I think it's still black face Trudeau right but if the President of Mexico is not known to three of the top candidates for president in the United States I'm not sure that's entirely their fault sounds a little like the President of Mexico Teesta you know maybe step it up a little bit make yourself visible will you Trudeau can do it why can't you alright so that's one of those campaign stories that we like to think means something doesn't mean anything absolutely nothing here's my question for you almost every day I see some

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for you almost every day I see some sceptical type person talking about the corona virus and they like to do this Scott Scott Scott a regular flu an ordinary flu is gonna kill has already killed more people this year Scott Scott Scott let's put this in context and ordinary flu also spreads and also kills a lot of people so don't get your you know get yourself all worked up about this corona virus because less compared to ordinary viruses which are even worse and we don't get too worked up about those right okay let me ask you this if the corona virus is just like those other viruses why is nobody treating it that way why is China not treating it like an ordinary virus why is the United States not treating it

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why is the United States not treating it like an ordinary virus now I've said before that if we had an ordinary virus that we can isolate it to one country of origin well maybe we would treat it the same way because we'd say well if that ordinary virus gets out it's gonna kill thousands of Americans it always does so if we could isolate any other virus we probably would have but for whatever reasons we don't so this one had a known source so maybe it made more sense just to try and get a control of this one well I don't see ordinary things happening am i right for all the people who keep comparing it to the ordinary flue you're still gonna have to explain why the people who know the most about it are not treating it like an ordinary flue is it just a mistake on their part are they simply responding to public pressure it doesn't feel that way it feels like the people

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feel that way it feels like the people who really know what they're doing think this is worse and I'm judging based not on reading their minds but rather on the fact that they're acting in a way that's not typical of something that's a normal virus normal flu so I'd say we need to worry about that and everything about this viruses is unknown at this point I feel like everything we think we know about it doesn't count all right somebody's saying it's because of a lack of vac of lack of of shot so there's no vaccination for this corona virus I don't think that's the reason we're treating it differently because those shots are not terribly or that I'm not as effective as we want them to be and not everybody gets them so it's not that big a difference all right let's talk about here's the biggest story in my opinion which I've not seen anybody say the way I'm gonna say it so I think it's

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the way I'm gonna say it so I think it's one of the biggest stories that's happening but until somebody batches it up so you can see it as a trend you don't notice it so that's what I'm gonna do for you I would say that there are four Democrats who I would describe as anti-trump who are sort of like the canary in the coal mine now the canary in the coal mine if you're not familiar with that the old days coal miners would take a canary in a cage at the coal mines and if the canary died then the coal miners would get out of the get out of the the tunnel as quickly as possible because it meant that the air was going bad because the Canaria would die first before a human would even notice the difference so it was an early warning sign and the Canaries in the coal mine here here are my picks these are the left-leaning anti-trump sort of people who would be the first ones to say oh I think we're

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the first ones to say oh I think we're doing this wrong one is the Smerconish on CNN the other is Bill Maher and then I would say Fareed Zakaria and Van Jones so those are my four Democrat Canaries of the coal mine and here's what's special about their thinking and the statements that they're making recently do you remember when Trump was first running of course you do do you remember what people were saying about why he won or even why he got nominated do you remember the main reason that people gave the primary reason that people gave for why he did so well is that Republicans are racist you remember that right that was the whole explanation well everything he's doing is random and crazy and stupid he's me might be insane but at the very least he's just a reality TV star so

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least he's just a reality TV star so none of the stuff that Trump is doing could possibly explain why his results are so good because the stuff he's doing is random is stupid so let's look for a reason ah we found it he's a racist he's sending magic secret racist dog whistles the only other racist can hear who incidentally they're all Democrats but they don't seem to notice that but they're sure that the Republicans who are also totally racist are hearing it and that must be the secret explanation for why he's doing better than all the smart people who are Democrats could have possibly imagined yes they took some they took some I guess they took some responsibility the Democrats did for not seeing how racist the Republicans really were it was much worse than they imagined so they took some responsibility for not knowing completely how bad the Republicans were that they would vote in

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Republicans were that they would vote in this guy that was 2015 and 2016 there was a little bit 2017 actually a lot 2017 it was very much 2018 it wasn't as much 2019 and it's starting to disappear in 2020 and do you know what replaced it according to and in here I don't want to put too much words into other people's males but I'll make a claim that there's a pattern emerging there seems to be a departure from the only reason he won is because Republicans are giant racists and the new position seems to be wait for it are you ready the new position seems to be that he's very skilled huh did you see that coming I'm not sure I could have predicted that

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I'm not sure I could have predicted that but I was just watching last week's not the one that just taped but the week before Bill Maher and he was trying to convince the the Democrats who were on the show Gilliam and Ezra Clyde that they they missed the story basically and this story is oh my god the stuff Trump does has a reason and it works it's good technique and I don't think they were forced into seeing that what Trump does works and it's good technique I don't think they were forced into that position until they could really imagine which of these Democratic candidates would be on the stage and next to Trump you're sort of forced at this point to put a specific person there and then you imagine Trump standing next to that specific person a lot of the conversation of course Bloomberg so he's the one you put in

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Bloomberg so he's the one you put in there in your imagination sometimes birdie and you say to yourself Houston we've got a problem because Bloomberg is just gonna disappear next to trump and you can see people that you can see the gear starting to work and again it's with the the smarter more flexible minded Democrats who are starting to realize and I'll put this in my own words they're starting to realize what if the problem is us you did not see that in 2016 you didn't see it in 2017 didn't see much of it in 2018 I don't think you saw it in 2019 but in 2020 some of the just I would say just most mentally gifted members of the Democrat Party are starting to say out loud some

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Party are starting to say out loud some version of you know let's not rule out the possibility that the problem is us maybe that's why we're now gonna win maybe that's why we didn't win last night because we weren't listening to the people and we weren't giving a kind of campaign that can work now it seems that the Democrats have understand that voters are not rational and have started to say that out loud Ezra Klein was saying that etc and then Fareed Zakaria very much a Anti trooper was saying on also on Maher show we're saying the birdie and the socialist parts of the candidates we're looking to give to open the borders and also offer free health care now normally that's something that you only hear from Republicans right I can't think of even one the anti-trump er I've ever heard

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one the anti-trump er I've ever heard say you know if they offer these two things open borders and free health care to
to who's gonna vote for that that's actually what Farid said he said who's gonna vote for open borders and free health care for the people coming into her not in this country and he's right who in the world is gonna vote for that now of course some people will vote for it because it's their team but it's not a winning formula which i think is his point so if you look at the things that you see coming from you know Van Jones Fareed Zakaria Bill Maher Smerconish they all seemed and I was just watching the Spartacus Prakash's showed this morning and by the way Smerconish on CNN is consistently the guy who was willing to look at both sides so he's been doing that all along but you can see now that there's a dawning realization so on Smerconish this morning he had at a debate expert

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this morning he had at a debate expert on and he asked the debate expert who was a real expert I think he was like one of the best debate coaches in the country or something he wondered award so he really knew what he was talking about so they asked him to watch for the first time is it turns out he'd never seen a debate by Bloomberg either of I and he commented on it and how do you think the debate expert thought the matchup would be between Bloomberg and Trump and the answer is Bloomberg disappears he just disappears and he's a little too factual a little too dry doesn't vary his voice you know the debate coach had specific reasons but basically the the old thinking that the way Trump got there was either because of racism or the other big theory I'll call it to say I'm Harris theory is the Chauncey Gardiner theory that it was literally just luck that the Trump brought no skilled to bear he just was in the right place at the right time and

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in the right place at the right time and he was a crazy ol cloud and all the variables in the world lined up how can it ever happen again you know it's pure luck that you know Clinton didn't you know she didn't campaign where she should have blah blah blah does the luck hypothesis stand anymore well it never stood up for me of course that most of you I would imagine but now you can see again the smartest people who were anti troopers are seem to be firmly on the side that whatever Trump has been doing and continues to do is good technique they have finally understood what I wrote in Wynn Begley you know a year and a half ago that this is technique it's not luck it's technique and they're also looking to borrow it because they recognize it's good technique all right and watching Bill Maher be frustrated and his own

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Bill Maher be frustrated and his own team for not being able to understand what's going on here is really good entertainment I got to tell you if you're not watching a Real Time with Bill Maher you should really watch it between now and the election at least because he has finally figured out just what kind of trouble they're in and why and and he's I I think Maher is actually pretty much on the right on the right trail and watching him try to convince his his teammates who were still in their little tedious bubble is really good entertainment that's fun to watch all right um I watched Gilliam who lost and his campaign to be governor of Florida that's why you've heard the name before he was responding to Bill Maher who's who's saying that Trump was essentially he was saying that Trump was smart because at the State of the Union he Maher said it was obvious that Trump

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he Maher said it was obvious that Trump was crafting the entire State of the Union to improve the votes he was getting from the African American community and here's the here's the funny thing Bill Maher did not mock that he did not mock the fact that Trump's approach was just completely over the top and obviously a bid to get the african-american vote why did he not mock it because it was a good good try it was a good technique now it is his mind it was a little you know too obvious I guess that was one but that's such a minor criticism if you were african-american and you were watching the speech you saw a whole bunch of people who look like you who were the stars of the show and I would think that would have an effect on how you thought about the whole situation so they're really watching Trump knock it out of the park they're watching him make probably the most credible play for the black vote that

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credible play for the black vote that any Republicans ever made because he's got some real accomplishments and and he's asking for their vote I mean essentially by by putting so much focus on that at one area but here's the thing that Gilliam said about that so he dismissed Trump's attempt to put more of a focus on the black voters and he said it was like saying that you have a black friend and somebody's asking me do I need to blow my nose if you're new here I've got a little medical problem with my sinuses that won't be helped by blowing my nose exactly but I'm gonna have some surgery and clear that up in the coming weeks anyway well Gilliam said is it's like having a black friend and he was being dismissive of the president making an obvious attempt to appeal to black voters and I thought to myself that is just strategically the dumbest thing that the

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strategically the dumbest thing that the black community has ever done let me let me say it as clearly as possible the black community here's the dumbest thing that you have collectively ever done it goes like this it's this this one black friend think I've said this before but it just makes me so angry to it - best to see bad strategy when I see people shooting themselves in the foot I just want to like grab the gun away it's like stop shooting yourself in the foot please you know what you got enough problems it goes like this you should never penalize people for moving in right direction it'll give you a story to make the point now analogies of course are not persuasive but they are good for explaining a point so I'm going to use this analogy to explain a point years ago many years ago in a past relationship when I was much younger my romantic other would say to me you know

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romantic other would say to me you know I would be great you know she liked receiving flowers and she'd mentioned that it would be even more meaningful if it were not a holiday I thought well that sounds pretty reasonable you like getting flowers and you like it when it's not you know some required Valentine's Day or holiday because that it'll just looks like you're you don't really care you're just doing what you're supposed to do because it's holiday so I thought well that's pretty clear I know exactly what to do so I would I would sort of randomly buy flowers and just give her some roses and what do you think she would say instead of saying oh my god I love these you know you're the greatest thank you for doing this exactly the way I wanted you to do it it wasn't a holiday you know you just showed that you cared you got some flowers did I get that no I did not she said what are you guilty for what have you done that's right she asked me what I was guilty for

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she asked me what I was guilty for because it was sort of a joke now she said it as sort of a joke but it was also the first thing she said that what do you think the effect on me was now I got that it was a joke so I'm like I wish she hadn't told that joke but yeah it's just a joke so time goes by and I give her flowers again a different time what's the first thing she said oh what are you guilty of what did you do and I said I'm really and by the way I wasn't guilty of anything I was just giving her flowers and I said I you know it's just the worst I really do I swear to god I'm just giving you flowers you lie flowers you told me you like flowers you told me you like it when it's not a holiday I just did it twice and you just you know you just said what are you guilty for like almost starting a fight what's going on and of course she would

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what's going on and of course she would say it's a joke the third time I gave her flowers she looked at me and said Oh what are you guilty for that was the last time I ever gave her flowers now if you asked her she would say I was joking he knew I was joke the joking we always joke what's different about this we joke about everything why would this be different and the reason is I didn't get a benefit I was doing something that took some effort and I was being punished for it Ellis I suppose you were one of those people who did say oh I'm not a racist because you know I have a best friend who's black how should you treat that if you were a black person who hears that should you say oh I get it you have one black friend huh you have one black friend should you mock somebody for making a small step in the right direction and the answer is no

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right direction and the answer is no it's the dumbest thing anybody ever did so if you're black and you're watching this don't ever do that here's the correct here's the correct response if if one of your white associates says yeah I'm not a racist I've you know my best friend is black here's the correct response that's great to hear if you want the world to be a better place the correct response is you've got a black friend that's great I hope you have two two black friends sometime soon in fact I'll be your friend how about we be friends then you have to I'll double the number of your black friends think about that answer compared to getting mock for doing the right thing I'll be it in a small way having one black friend isn't certainly doesn't absolve you of racism it doesn't it doesn't mean much but if you don't reward people for moving one step in the right direction don't expect a second step

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direction don't expect a second step don't expect a second step you're not gonna get it so to stop penalizing people for doing the right thing that doesn't work all right that's enough on that so this is what President Trump said recently in a tweet this was over a day ago I guess he said many Mike Bloomberg is a loser who has money but can't debate does zero presence you will see that the debate expert on Smerconish actually agreed with that and he said that and that Bloomberg doesn't have much presence and then he said he reminds me of a tiny version of Jeb low-energy push I don't know what could be funnier like calling him a tiny version of Jeb Bush that is frankly hilarious and by the way the on Smerconish also they talked about how making fun of Bloomberg's height might not be a bad idea because biologically

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not be a bad idea because biologically were we're sort of primed for size being important you shouldn't be important there's no reason the president needs to be a certain size we shouldn't care about that at all but on some subconscious level we do so even that technique has been now recognized as just solid tag-me blow the law okay what else we got here have you noticed that one of the unintended effects of Bloomberg entering the race is that he makes a steyr look for yeah you've got steyr whose primary claim to fame is that you can go toe to toe with President Trump on the economy cuz cuz Tyra would say well he understands the economy he became rich he can really speak to that against Trump that blue-ber against his race and mixed ire and look like a loser I mean what's what's tire got three

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I mean what's what's tire got three billion dollars or something I don't know what the number is 1 billion three billion blue burgers got like 70 billion dollars so Stiers only advantage that he hasn't used a successful business person he doesn't look so successful when you put him next to Bloomberg he just looks like some hedge fund guy who was in the right place at the right time let's say oh and then also this was a legal expert on this was also Smerconish but the legal expert was agreeing those stones Roger stone sentence was too long I'm watching the news today and all I'm saying is people agree with everything that Trump has said or Republicans have said or or Trump supporters have been saying and it's really it's really weird to watch people agree on this it probably didn't hurt the oven Adi got convicted it looks

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hurt the oven Adi got convicted it looks like he's gonna go to jail for a very long time I think that all the people were praising of and nodding and using him on their shows well maybe they've I think they got a little bit of humility they may never admit it but I'm noticing a very distinct turn because it would be hard to notice all of these pieces of information you know to see that Rush occlusion was fake to watch the president go full-on tried to get the black vote in the context that most people think he's still a racist and they're trying to figure out wait a minute wait a minute doesn't make sense if he's a racist he should not be trying to get the black vote and he should be trying to tighten up the border but he's only tightening up the border while he's trying hard to get the black vote and as I actually accomplished real things that matter to that community how does that make sense and they're just starting to figure out that maybe the border stuff is actually

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that maybe the border stuff is actually about America first and guess who's in America African Americans Republicans prioritize black voters higher than Democrats do there's no way around that anymore no reasonable person could say anymore you know based on this year no reasonable person could make the claim I don't think that Democrats prioritize black voters of this country black citizens higher than Republicans I don't even think it's close anymore right because Italy the Democratic Party they probably put you know well I don't know they've got a lot of identities over there so I'm not sure who is first but it's definitely not the black community I would say it would be more likely the immigrant community so I would say the Democrats are clearly putting a higher priority on non-citizens and if you're

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priority on non-citizens and if you're an african-american you're a citizen what what do Republicans who are America first where do they rank citizens top number one right so if you're black and you're American you're a citizen Republicans rank you at the top with themselves right they put you in the same category as themselves and say wait you're American of American we follow the Constitution we're the top top priority come on over here you and I top priority how in the world do you vote for the other side when one side is giving you a record of accomplishment and says explicitly I mean it's it's it's built into the whole belief system the Constitution is built into the Bible that we're all equal under the law and under God according to people who believe that stuff now I'm Pro religion

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believe that stuff now I'm Pro religion I'm just not a believer myself I just I just I I can't fathom how you could be a black voter and still support Democrats in 2020 I think you made sense in the past but if you looked at the current situation it's not even close who prioritizes you higher it's not even close all right I'm gonna take some calls I like hear from anybody I've done this before it it's fun because it's educational I want to talk to people who I've changed their mind about anything it doesn't have to be politics doesn't have to be about Trump it doesn't have to be about anything really but I want to hear from people whose minds were changed by one of my books for periscopes or a tweet or something so that's primarily what I'm looking for so you should be able to

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looking for so you should be able to join by clicking on that little icon at the bottom that looks like happy faces and since I didn't tell people why I wanted to talk some of you who already signed up I see already disappearing but I'm gonna look for somebody who's let's see if Mike is following directions Mike can you hear me Mike did I influence you in any way definitely in 2016
originally I was a big fan of your comic strip and the whole story about you you know changing careers so I always look bad in yours I used to be I had a Bernie sign on my front lawn and I was I don't know I was really into the whole being a Democrat and then in 2016 you influenced me to have become an independent and

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me to have become an independent and confirmation bias you know but good so change can you remember was there any moment when you said to yourself oh I think I'm gonna change my mind it was there any topic do you remember anything specific or was a sort of the weight of of things well it was um you know getting on Twitter and at first I was the typical troll you know had an anonymous account you know and you miss me they may be not be anonymous and then um it was kind of seeing some of the news reports about Bernie it started with Bernie like they say oh they're throwing chairs at the convention and then I see the video there wasn't no chair and then you're talking about cognitive dissidence and it kind of taping with me when like my dad who is a lifelong Democrat with comical he's got to listen to this guy his name is Keith Olbermann he speak you love you like so all the people around me that I kind of listened to before were very much staunch Democrats and

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were very much staunch Democrats and then for me it was like wait a minute in the news reports that aren't quite right this guy's talking about confirmation bias he's talking about cognitive dissonance and then I realized I had all that and then I kind of you know that's it for me I kind of realized that this guy's not as uh you know that's that's great so thank you for that I'm gonna see if I get some more stories here but thank you so much weighing it I see who else we got here oh we got lots of lots people weighing in let's go with Patricia Patricia can you hear me Patricia Patricia can you hear me Patricia yeah oh hi did I influence you in any way Patricia

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speak up a little bit you're a little bit low okay can you tell me how you feel a little audio problems for tchen Utley I'm gonna have to try somebody else cuz we don't have a good connection there but I wanted to hear the rest of that let's go to Lorenzo Lorenzo see if our technology works here Lorenzo is gone I'm not sure if people get shy just when I select them or what's going on here but I think Michaels sweet is coming at Jeff Michael can you hear me
unfortunately I can't hear you you're just a little buzz in the background so I'm gonna have to try somebody who's got a better connection I could hear you but I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to tell the actual words let's try Jeremy Jeremy can you hear me

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hey Jeremy if I influenced you in any way to change your mind about anything Oh everything three years I think yourself when the election was going on and and yeah like your it was a video on YouTube the how Trump is a master persuader and okay watch that and it was it totally changed everything because at the time it was like Trump was like crazy to me it was like a Democrat I was like you know a Bernie guy was a big bernie guy and and then during the election it was all changing I was seeing like all the fake news and and now my girlfriend is a Bernie person and it's gonna be a WoW dear well you're you're gonna have to have some dates where all you do is listen to my videos

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where all you do is listen to my videos alright well thanks for the call I'm gonna go talk to some more people I don't know if the audio is good on your side I can barely hear in my headset but I don't know if that's just something that's happening to me let's look at chase chase chase can you hear me hi did did I influence you in a new way chase are you sure did like 2015 too early 2016 and did it change your vote it did not
not I'm usually vote Republican although I had a past couple elections but it has changed my mind about how to think about things all right so I just lost sound on new but I I think some people can hear but thank you for that and I don't mean to

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thank you for that and I don't mean to be rude if I office just because I'm having problems to say linear you or anything
thank you thank you for the input I'm having much audio problems I'll get it

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having much audio problems I'll get it move on to another caller I'm seeing in the comments the I think you guys can hear the audio better than I can let's see mr. Mendoza mr. Mendoza aye yes about voting well to me like every day driving you've influenced me in a way that's different and that's where people get anxious when they drive and I like I you've taught like that people act selfishly and that's one way that I've learned to not get affected by the way other people drive and then I notice when people get into an accident about 85% that people think they're good drivers and that's when cognitive dissonance kicks in people say that's not my fault even though they caused the accident yes I think it's pretty rare to hear anybody say that they're a below below average driver you never hear that do you know you don't confirmation bias I Drive a Prius so

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confirmation bias I Drive a Prius so people pickup trucks try to always zoom by me so no that's confirmation bias kicks in there's no way a Prius can drive faster than a pickup truck someone's getting cut off left and right oh that does sound like a problem all right thank you thanks for you but sure let's take another here this is more fun than I thought it would be all right let's see if Maximillian can hear me maximilian max max is gone that didn't work i'll stay with me we're going to Jake Jake Jake it hear me I can hear you did I influence you or change your mind at all yes so yesterday I so I was having a little bit of a predicament where I'm generally a pretty optimistic person but my roommate has been

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person but my roommate has been spiraling down this sort of self-deprecating and negative rabbit hole and I've been trying to think like you know what I don't want this to influence me you know so I'm gonna distance myself but I heard you're a periscope where you said you're either programmed or you program so I thought you know it's it if I don't want this to influence me I have to make it my responsibility to influence my roommate so that kind of like changed my whole perspective where I used to kind of like guard my psychology to make sure that negative people didn't influence me or outlook so that's a yeah it's a huge change what watch how how much more effective that gets over time totally so you're gonna you're gonna see that that just gets stronger and stronger as a concept I'm glad that that that you respond to that thanks for the call no problem all right let's see who else

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no problem all right let's see who else we got we've got lots of people coming out here all right let's try Lorenzo
Lorenza Lorenzo Lorenzo's technology seems inadequate so Lorenzo two failures on that one all right let's try Alex Alex can you hear me Alex Alex all right well I guess the technology is not going to give us what Alex can hear you Alex all right well it's no fun for you to see here and wonder why you can't hear anything so I think I'll end it here and oh you hear still here
apparently not all right sorry about that and I will talk to you all tomorrow