Episode 882 Scott Adams: Simultaneous Swaddle Time. See my Joe Biden Impression.
Date: 2020-03-31 | Duration: 51:32
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just kidding those were not real birds no no not real birds those are me and that's not that's not even my best impression yes I can do an impression of birds at a distance as heard through a window from a second-story and it goes like this
it's like you're there isn't that kind of incredible well yes I will be breaking out my Joe Biden impression and I will be taking some questions but I'm a little bit running a little bit hot in here so we're gonna turn down the lights in the studio and watch this as if by magic I'll start to get better-looking it's not a big difference it's sort of an
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not a big difference it's sort of an illusion you don't realize it's just getting darker you think I'm getting more handsome quite quite a magic trick I know it is I know it is it's oppressive yeah that's what I thought too
too what'll be captain nobody's ever said that sentence before I always laugh when I see a sentence that I can imagine you know whether it's true or not that I can imagine no one had ever spoken before or written before in the history of all spoken language and I would I will put into that category swoggle me captain there's a funny sentence all right so what do we got going on here the funniest thing happening is that because President Trump seem to have pivoted in his preferences from you know maybe wanting to go back
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from you know maybe wanting to go back to work a little bit early to listening to the experts taking their counsel and then going hard in the other direction compatible with the experts what does that leave seeing them to criticize what do they have left because they have to be against the president that's their entire reason for existence you know their audience expects it you know they built a brand around that but what do they do when the president suddenly pivots to completely taking the advice of the most you know eminent experts and it also happens to agree with what all of the CNN people probably have been saying so easy it just completely took all of their their material away and as I've said before you never you never pay a political price well I shouldn't say never there's probably some exception but it would be unusual to pay a political price for
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unusual to pay a political price for being too aggressive against a threat but you could easily imagine and it would be obviously would pay a price if people perceived you didn't do it enough so the safer thing to do is always do whatever is perceived as you know the big the big bush not the little place but here this is even funnier and by the way I didn't catch this play until later now I'm not gonna say the Trump thought this all the way through is the way I'm gonna describe it it could be just luck you know we're instinct or you know it could be anything so you can put your own interpretation about how intentional this was but but the first part of the context is you know these been going after see it out pretty hard and CNN of course going after him so the president is singled amount and the press conferences and really tried to shame them for not being on the side of the
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them for not being on the side of the country base basically and then as I said they just took away most of his material because the country seems to be sort of supportive of the president more so than usual and sort of liking his tougher stand on things and I so they've got nothing to criticize but here's the play that I didn't catch it till today you may have noticed that I'm in a somewhat brilliant let's say programming decisions CNN has Chris Cuomo regularly if not every day unless you were an interview his brother the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo now I'm sure you know obviously C then could've assigned someone else to talk to Andrew Cuomo every time and they probably sometimes do but isn't it better I mean just for watching bility
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better I mean just for watching bility you have to admit you know if you're the producers you know whoever's idea it was maybe maybe it was Chris Cuomo side here but it was a great idea because you sort of expect that they wouldn't do it and then because they do it's so much more interesting frankly so so in terms of producing and that decision I just I kind of really love it because whenever I see them on there I'm watching that because the brother dynamic just makes it just way more interesting yeah especially because they're both operating at such a high level you know one's the governor ones you know primetime on CNN so and they've got this little edge to them that they don't hide that much like obviously they love each other but they still have this little brother edge that just makes a really good TV anyway knowing that let me get back to my point this all this all fits into the points so the president
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into the points so the president yesterday throws out this thing this idea that maybe these masks are being stolen in New York City which of course of course what does that cause to happen well now that if the President of the United States makes any kind of an accusation it doesn't matter if it's true or false it's the news right it literally doesn't matter what the president accuses who of doing what doesn't matter if it's true doesn't matter if it's ridiculous it's headline news that you just can't change that it's the news so the president turns this this allegation that maybe there's some kind of criminal sketchy behavior going on in New York in the in the Andrew Cuomo State and this causes kind of a requirement that his brother Chris Chris Cuomo has to add ask his brother Andrew Cuomo what's up with
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his brother Andrew Cuomo what's up with this alleged corruption well if you didn't see that comment and again I'm not gonna say that the president thought it all the way through to that you know the logical conclusion that it would make the brothers have this tense exchange because you know Chris Cuomo still has to do his job right I mean he you know everybody expects he's gonna go a little soft of his brother and I don't think anybody cares about that frankly right cuz you know Andrew Cuomo seems to be doing a great job yeah it doesn't really need to get beaten up so I don't think anybody minds they Chris Cuomo is you know pushing a little bit but not too hard it's his brother and there's no real reason to push but the president just loves this little this little grenade over the fence and when I first saw it it's like well you know I it was
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it's like well you know I it was provocative and I thought well it's probably worth look at it too and he tells the media to look into it which again is Chris Cuomo who has to ask his brother if his state is corrupt and then and then I drew and this is the best part the the answer to it Andrew Cuomo was answer was I'm not going to say he was lying I'll just say he answered in the style of a liar which I thought to myself was really because here's what not a liar would say and he can't I'm gonna say he was lying I can't read his mind I'm just saying that there's a pattern that Liars use and I'll tell you what it is so if he had not been lying and somebody asked him that question and you're the governor you probably wouldn't know the answer right I mean unless you had already looked into it which you probably hadn't so so the right answer is you know I I don't know about that honestly but I'll ask around
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honestly but I'll ask around we'll look into it or we've already looked into it and and I think we're just using a lot of masks or it's the way they counted them probably you know I know I don't think it's what you think it's probably just the way they inventory time but let me look into it I'll get back to you that's what I would say if I were the governor and I didn't know what was going on he probably doesn't now suppose he did know what was going on and he knew that they were being stolen but maybe he did or maybe he didn't know who was responsible but he didn't want to get into it like it was sort of a distraction you know how would you answer that so here's what he acted like he didn't know what the president meant you know he said well you know I don't don't know what he meant like that but if he has an accusation he should say it directly and I thought to myself I think that was pretty direct now the president didn't say he knew who was taking masks if
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say he knew who was taking masks if there weren't any taken because he was a maybe he said it was worth looking into but the other thing the the President did was he didn't take credit for the idea he said you know I was just talking to somebody who's like an expert and and he said to me and then I just suggested it to the press and the next thing you know the Cuomo's are on TV and they'll have to answer to that it was just freaking hilarious right would you like to see my Joe Biden impressions that I've been working on it's my Joe Biden depression nose like this
yeah you think yeah that's right and somebody asked me a question ask me questions in the comments and I'll I'll be Joe Biden will answer now you might say to yourself Scott can you you know can you see the questions and it doesn't
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can you see the questions and it doesn't matter really because here's my answer what what you have to understand is you know with if the strategy going forward you can't you can't be on you know what I'm saying before so and this is important and and the president doesn't understand that if you're doing the thing what I'm saying is you know I think you know the so and so and then
strategy take that to the bank Jack now that's my Joe Biden impression I think I nailed it it's version 1.0 give me a break my very first time and I don't know what would Democrats be saying if they did not have the handy excuse of the crisis
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not have the handy excuse of the crisis to hide their candidate most of the time I mean the little bit he's on TV from his little you know underground bunker well the fact that Joe Biden is in a is it a room that's like a bunker under his house I favorite everything about it is wrong he's literally like he's like a guy in his basement and you know President Trump is out there trying to you know save the entire country from from you know maybe hundreds of thousands of deaths you know possibly millions and Joe Biden's hiding in his basement in the bunker laughs if you couldn't have a bigger contrast all right I believe this is the path to the end of this so this is what I'm kind of piecing together from what I'm saying so if you look at the trends of things it seems that there's a lot of action to get the
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that there's a lot of action to get the hydroxychloroquine into you know into the approved systems so that people can start getting it tremendous amount of action in terms of getting pills manufacturing etc and then also a tremendous amount of energy into getting new faster cheaper tests so that you can start testing massive numbers of people so I think those two things are step one to keep people from dying so if you can do massive testing and you know we'll probably go from you know a million to a ten million you know I think we're gonna ramp it up like crazy because we have to so if we get those two things let's say that hydroxychloroquine is plentiful enough that people get it as soon as they have symptoms and then we also test so we know for sure who's got it who doesn't those two things would probably in the optimist case that the case that the the pills actually work with the devices etc so the optimist case is that
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devices etc so the optimist case is that the deaths plunge or at least get down to the level where we don't run out of ventilators so that would be the near-term lots and lots of tests and when I say near-term that's still two weeks away because you could probably get pills into most people who need it in two weeks given how hard I imagine they're pushing to do that yeah then I think there's this middle ground between just keeping people alive which is what that would do and getting to vaccinations that's pretty long wait and who knows if the vaccinations really works right so we don't want to have to wait like nine months waiting for the vaccination and that's where I'm guessing and this is just me sort of putting together the pieces of the news that I hear so binding by no means no authoritative voice here but it seems like the the getting us to the vaccinations vaccination stage might have a lot to do
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vaccination stage might have a lot to do with a convalescent serum so I'm seeing as phase one the hydroxychloroquine azithromycin zinc and and just massively ramping up testing as much as our American ingenuity can can get it done this phase one keep us alive Phase two you got to build that immunity and you don't want to wait all the way until there's a vaccination so that's where this kind of lesson serum thing might work taking the blood and taking out the good parts the antibodies from people who have already recovered and all the smart people say that it should work at least a little bit now I haven't heard anybody trying to put a number on it like would this stop X amount of whatever but it seems like everybody says this is such a historically tried-and-true method that there's no reason to think it wouldn't work and then there's that wild card that somebody smarter will have to
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that somebody smarter will have to answer which is can it be reproduced in a lab or do you have to take blood out of real people which would be I know I seem harder maybe it's easier
somebody says couldn't we make enough Trump pills or not well here's the thing here's the thing you know I've been complaining that the task force and and Pence in particular cannot be said to be managing the crisis until they're also measuring this the critical things like how much supply is and blah blah now they are doing it looks like a good job of measuring things such as a number of ICU beds we're seeing that and we're saying you know deaths and how many people have and how many recovered so the basic statistics probably in the ballpark are pretty good or as best we can get them but wouldn't you want to know how many ventilators we need and how many we have
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ventilators we need and how many we have in our MIDI or in the pipeline and etc for all the you know the gloves and the masks and stuff so so I've been saying that since we don't know that pence is not really managing it because if you're not measuring what you have and what you need you're just flailing you're not managing anything but yesterday and today it was reinforced today that pence has ordered the all the hospitals to report so I don't know how long that takes but that was of course the right move add this to the things you want to ask later about why that took so long you know because you have to ask yourself really why did we just have to ask the hospitals to report to some central depository you know feels like that should have been a little closer today one kind of thing but maybe there wasn't any place to report to until they
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wasn't any place to report to until they build something so anyway the we don't need to rehash the past they're doing the right thing now and I think it I'd rather focus on that here's a an idea we've got all these hotels that are empty and looks like they're gonna be empty for a long time couldn't we use those hotels given that everybody else to be locked down anyway could we use those hotels for addiction treatment Oh hold on hold on now keep in mind the first of all that the hotels can't sell those rooms for any normal reason but suppose you only allowed people in who were tested so you know you nobody even gets into the hotel unless they've tested so that might require a few more tests to be available but it might be a good time to get clean because what else you got to do you know rather than sitting around at your own house which
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sitting around at your own house which is all the temptations in the world suppose you could just go to the Ritz and and the Ritz says you know I we'll make it you know $25 a night whatever or or nothing or the government pays it or something but the point is those rooms are just sort of sitting there you're probably at least have to pay for the maid service and the you know the laundry and stuff but and and of course you wouldn't want to fill them you know you might want to make sure there's a lot of space and they still do some social distancing when they meet but they could just be meeting in the bar rooms and getting strange so I don't think this will you know come to fruition but when will you ever have another time when the hotels are empty and you could actually take a gigantic bite and of addiction because people didn't have anything else to do you know I'm just gonna put it out there
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you know I'm just gonna put it out there that I'm not saying it's a good idea I'm just saying if we don't consider it when else are we gonna have situations like this you know at least put it in the hopper put it in the hopper and think about it if you did not watch Tucker or Carlson talking about the government lying to us about the effectiveness of masks that was tonight if you recorded it that you don't miss it it's really good because when Tucker is accusing stupid Liars of being stupid Liars nobody does that better than him because he's got that he's got that disgusted face that just pairs perfectly with that attitude it's like you're lying to us how stupid do you think we are you must be the stupid one if you think we're that stupid that's the most obvious lie in the world of course password you know that's my version now
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password you know that's my version now his version but that was a minor masterpiece watching that was really entertaining and uh and he was pretty brutal which is called for I think this situation brutality was called for I've made a ruling yes I have I've made a ruling I think it takes some questions in a few minutes I made a ruling as the creator of Dilbert I have endowed with certain powers obviously and among those powers as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip I'm I'm authorized to determine dress codes in the workplace you probably thought that companies get to determine that on their own but no since the 90s that's been delegated to me I I'm sort of like a well I like a cabinet member so I make the decisions about the dress codes and then the
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about the dress codes and then the companies act like it was their decision but basically it's me so I've been noticing a really bad fashion mistake I'm watching the TV news CNN Fox and you'll see the the house who would normally be in the studio are broadcasting from home but they're wearing suits in their their own like hallways and living rooms and stuff and it looks so out of place so here's my ruling as the creator of Dilbert I rule that the proper dress code if you are a TV broadcast personality and you're broadcasting from your own home on skype the dress code is pajama casual that's right pajama casual now what that means is like me the bottom half is already
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is like me the bottom half is already for bed or perhaps got up not that long ago the top half casual did I sleep in this wait a minute is this the top I slept in or is it just a casual shirt that I was wearing you don't know that my friends pajama casual so that's my ruling if you're on your on cable TV news no suits if you're broadcasting on skype from your home it's pajama casual I've ruled let's take some questions who would like to ask a question who oh that's too clever using my own book as your icon how clever can you be I gotta tell a story about that in a minute very clever using my book as your icon do you have a question hello
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can you talk about anti-aging a little bit I heard the other day that you mentioned that they figured out how to reverse the aging of a cell and I fought go ahead say hey go ahead finish finish your question um I follow the work of David Sinclair in Boston he's a PhD researcher at Harvard and he's working on rejuvenating retina cells and optic nerve cells which is really interesting to me because I have visual impairment and problems with my retina and optic nerve so that's why I am hopeful about it but he also works on anti aging so yeah so I would not claim to know much of anything about that except that you know I think ever since I was a kid there have been periodic articles maybe once a month about some scientists who figured out how to reverse aging and I was 50 years ago and
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reverse aging and I was 50 years ago and they're still not reversing much aging if you know what I mean you know it's at one point it was a was it through resistor for all or whatever it is the stuff that's in wine right and wrong yes exactly that isn't that exactly what I said raspberry yes salt erects okay I think I nailed it and you know at one point they I've seen so many of these studies so the point is that doesn't mean that the modern ones are also as bogus as everyone the there's been every month for 50 years because you have to figure we're probably getting closer to it you know like if we're not there yet we're certainly closer to being able to do it than we ever have been I would imagine but here's the thing I've been saying forever that if I could stay healthy enough long enough that even in my lifetime they probably are going to figure out how to do exactly that you know how to had a stem cell you you know back to some better state and fix your
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back to some better state and fix your eyes and give me the needs of a teenager and stuff and it does feel like you know I I could hang on for another 20 years I think so if there's anything left of me you know short of full um you know Joe Biden situation probably they could probably do stem cell me back to back to my 50s maybe another good day we'll say well years away now so you'll be right there Scott we need you we need your wisdom so well seize that or I'm going directly into a computer to live forever yeah my other plans all right thanks for the question thank you Scott alright let's go to Steve Steve Steve are you there do you have the questions
Vantage of the United States canceling admission of K n95 face mass in the time
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admission of K n95 face mass in the time of a crisis they just did that on the 28th and that's the most abundantly supplied face mask in the world wait I don't know anything about that story so the government canceled it's an order or cancelled what what they can't support you can't import K n95 face masks any longer you know I don't know that but you know all that sort of story falls into the category of things where if if on first glance it's absurd it's probably because there's something that's left out of the story so there there might be you know some extenuating circumstances it just has that one of those stories that if you'd heard the full story maybe you'd feel differently because certainly who can imagine why that would be I I can't think of any reason okay I did that much to add to that but thanks I let's see what else we get I am NOT
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I let's see what else we get I am NOT value-added every time I think Raphael needs a needs to ask a question Raphael Raphael are you there do you have the questions de mystic because of your predicted death count is small when I hear dr. Burks speaking and she says under the best situation under the best conditions a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand are gonna die how do I explain that you asked exactly and wouldn't you like me to explain it in a way that makes you feel good again because those darn experts getting those all wound up well here are the things you should consider number one nobody predicts the unpredictable but but I did right so that's the first difference so
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right so that's the first difference so the doctors are looking at what they know and they're saying based on what we know it should be somewhere in this neighborhood this and and I don't have to do that I can say you know we've seen so many surprises just in the past week things you didn't know that humans could figure out and do you know all the different meds that look like they could work the discoveries we'll probably be doing serum and testing and we got the test down to 15 minutes I mean really just miracles of innovation in one week so what are the odds that were done innovating so that this is how I predict things what are the odds that this was the week well we didn't have any other ideas we just got to the end of that week and yeah we'd done a lot of good ones so that's what it is what we got that's what we got more likely newer better ideas are coming and and our ability to go from zero to let's say making a million tests is probably the
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making a million tests is probably the hard parts my guess is if you go from zero to a million going from million to ten million you know you figure it out basically you just get more of these machines and you know line up here and do what these guys are doing so it seems to me that we will just do very nonlinear nonlinear and explosively interesting things and I also think that there's a good chance that the hydroxychloroquine will be effective if you take an early so so I'm betting that the unexpected is guaranteed a rational scientist and somebody whose job is to speak to the public can't say what I just said because it sounds crazy even though it's right because we you should certainly expect the unexpected that's like the easiest thing to predict but you can't say that if you're in their job you know what are they gonna say well I think it'll be 17 people but I don't know how
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it'll be 17 people but I don't know how something unexpected might happen right so they have to just like go with the odds and bound it but they also have this other responsibility which is to manage your psychology you know that they're not they're not blind to that that's a key part of their job is to get you to do what you need to do but short of just flipping out and that that's a good fine balance and I feel that part of my job is to catch the people who fell through the net and it would flip out you know or we're already willing to do what they need it to do and maybe it may be you're one of them it's like I'm gonna do what you tell me to do you know socially isolating I'll wash my hands I'll do all the things but I also don't want to like die of stress so I feel like I can I can provide a service there because you should not expect that the doctors are really giving you the lowest
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doctors are really giving you the lowest bound that's possible they should give you the lowest bound that will still scare you quite a bit and they did if they had done if they had said what I said they should be fired but I can say it right because I'm not the doctor nobody's gonna take me too seriously and and I'm literally predicting the unpredictable which this they'll be surprises things will go better than you think we'll get smarter faster that sort of thing and I actually feel I'll tell you if you had to bet and and by the way my low count is a net and that counts the fact that we might almost certainly save a whole bunch of lives just because we're not on the highways and doing dangerous sports and stuff too much so you have to net that out because that counts that's part of the decision when we decided to shut things down everybody knew that that would save lives that's that has to be part of the variables so if you throw
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part of the variables so if you throw that in I think you're going to be closer to my number than 200,000 that's my feeling but and and I have to admit if there were more people who watched this periscope I wouldn't say this in public for the same reason that the professionals don't because they're trying to manage you know a lot the whole country and they need you to be a little bit too scared that's sort of the sweet spot is a little bit too scared so you're really gonna do something not just maybe do it but really gonna do something but with this smallish audience of smarter people I have the freedom to say yeah I don't think so you know now everybody has to leave the door open that nobody's good at predicting anything it happens now you think it happened but I'm gonna hold with my prediction at the moment let's say we've
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prediction at the moment let's say we've lost our caller let's see if we can get another
terry is a commie let's try that Gary do you have a question hi how much hope over the hydroxychloroquine and I'm the public health nurse I talked to you the other night about the homeless shelter pop-up but I just wanted to to inform you guys about I inquired with a dear friend of mine that's a hospitalist Eric she's one of the most respected ones at our local hospital the concern with that one is though is anybody with a cardiac arrhythmia which is kind of common in folks of older AIDS cannot take that she treated a lot of people for many years in Africa in fact she grew up in Africa she's incredible doctor but anyways yeah can cause sudden death so there are other antivirals coming down that the
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other antivirals coming down that the line that's very hopeful but yeah here in like central California I'm going to say it is well great no really now they these pills are routinely already prescribed for the you know the rheumatoid arthritis and Larry itself so it's the same question right if they were prescribed to those people and they had the heart condition it would be as deadly but but clearly that's within the acceptable risk so that probably won't slow us down too much I would guess I mean given the now given the size of the alternative risk that seems like a pretty small Lea lupus is the other thing yeah and especially with the younger folks although I mean you know a few years ago I had to have a cardiac ablation I don't start start to lose your sense signal a little bit is that
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Wow that is good to know and you new patients you should know that as well so you know what to ask all right thank you thanks for that all right let's see you else we got let's go to Mikey Mikey the monkey all right Mikey no that's not monkey that's a choo-choo Chewbacca Chewbacca do you have a question for me want our companies to know that we're engineers and scientists and talking to under personal people so don't discount that the other thing I wondered is there was a article on Twitter that people we're off work now but and it's about sterilizing the masts and it's about using microwaves not the microwave oven which destroys the mast but higher frequency by a 10 gigahertz 12 and they can actually it was a paper from Taiwan at 2015 by a research university and I
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at 2015 by a research university and I just wondered if you've seen that because it actually talks in there about being amplify realize the air because the levels are lower than the I Triple E SAR levels you know the specific absorption rate stuff so they're safe but it pops the virus it resonates that the water dipoles at those higher frequencies much like your microwave oven at this but at much lower power I was wondering if I can get that paper to you to pessimism buddy sir so say again I think we had a little connection problem what is it that's popping the virus it was at UC or was it microwaves I its microwave so it so we can penetrate things and it can penetrate other things that you can't but it's at a fair frequency and lower much much much lower power than your microwave oven ah so that you could I wonder if that's the technology that the the mask sterilizing machines use because apparently there are some industrial masks sterilizing machines
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industrial masks sterilizing machines that are going into use right now I want wonder what they use by right you do you send it to me you know we'll see if I'll try I just hadn't be done the linkedin connect connect okay I'll pass that along all right thanks all right let's see who else we got here start to Paul Paul hey Paul do you have a question Paul does not have a question Paul disappeared we miss Paul but we're going to talk to Nick and Nick will be so exciting it's like to Paul's Nick are you there
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Nick do you have a question for V Nick I do indeed yeah I was wondering what do you think is gonna happen with the oil prices and the Saudi well at the moment you know probably the bigger issue is lack of demand because the economy's stalled so I don't see the price of oil going up anytime soon yeah the oil industry is gonna take quite a haircut in this but on the good side it's like so it's operates like a tax cut for anybody who uses energy so so we'll take it I don't know bad for the oil companies good for us mostly bad for the the oil industry in this country but if you're commuting you might like it alright thanks thank you and I've always
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alright thanks thank you and I've always fascinated at the range of questions that people ask let's see if Mikey has the best question of the day Mikey are you there do you have a question good how are you I'm doing great man I had a question about persuasion yeah good so I've been reading through your reading list and everything like that over a long period of time and a group of my friends and I'm finding a little difficult on translating some of the ideas into practical use in everyday life to try to you know grow that muscle and flex that I wondered if you had any tips on you know how to do things like um pacing and leading and practice things like that out in the world with your friends family and things like that yeah you know there's no substitute for just practicing so the best way I would you know explain it is if you'd ever tried to learn to type without looking at your fingers yeah the the first you know
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fingers yeah the the first you know months of it it just feels like it's sort of impossible and you couldn't possibly do it same as if you're you know learning an instrument for the first time Shirley Kennedy had any your left hand to do something and your right hand to do something else like that doesn't even seem possible yeah but then when but then there's sort of that it's almost like one day that you realize oh yeah I just got separation and I can type down and I can do all these things and learning persuasion is like that so there's a whole bunch of just being aware of it and then thinking to yourself oh I'll try this one thing in this one situation so just keep reminding yourself and practicing see what happens trial and error but you think of it in terms of a skill that you build up over decades now something you learn in a weekend in a weekend you can learn all the tricks okay right you can actually get better at them just infinitely because they just become incorporated in the way you talk so at this point and people have made this
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this point and people have made this observation about me I used I consistently use the tools of persuasion but I'm not thinking about it as I do it so I'm now thinking you know you use this tool that's simply the way I talk now and and that'll happen to you it's just a time and practice that's all this fantastic man thank you I appreciate it good luck with everything all right take care thanks secret to everything time and practice let's see what brian has to say mmm Brian Brian Brian Brian do you have a question for me right right good okay get me in there's waiting for the countdown first I'm old and I remember when I worked for Boeing in Wichita Kansas in the 80 90s before you announced who you really were we all were convinced you
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really were we all were convinced you worked at Boeing yes yep everybody did that was a Boeing I probably everybody in every company thought you had to work in their company yeah I heard that a lot is made worse by the fact that I have a common name so most of the the biggest fortune 500 companies they have somebody with my name on the payroll and I know this because people told me the stories of how we knew you worked for Hewlett Packard which I didn't they said so we looked at the employee directory and there you were sand then we knew it and then IBM told me the same thing PG&E and you know pretty much all the big companies had one of me but there was only one of me it wasn't it wasn't any of those all right did you have a question do we just want to I just on the persuasion angle here just wanna know like Mike Glendale today is taking a lot of heat because instead of any of the other CEOs catching grief he is probably because he dared to mention
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probably because he dared to mention Jesus and then the other question more is on dr. Burks is she because she seems like a real star to me she seems like she has incredible credibility is is the fact that she's catching so much grief from the liberal media because they are so afraid of her ability to influence people now I I never interpreted those kinds of motives you know that somebody is you know secretly afraid somebody's power or something like that no I don't think so I think you know dr. Burks is associated with president Trump because they're you know working on the same project so that means that the anti-trump press has to not love her too much you know they've got to walk that fine line because she's she's credible and she's a woman and she's got a great reputation so they can't totally trash her but they might want to you know make it look a little less credible I might
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it look a little less credible I might might work in their favor but I don't look too far for the the motives I think there's not that much cleverness going on usually all right all right thanks for the question but let's do one more or more Elmer Elmer who looks like he cat Elmer Elmer do you have a question for me Elmer disappeared technical difficulties and that puts Caroll in the queue Carol Carol can you hear me Carol can you hear me
me hey do you have a question for me
accidental death rate starts to decline then if people recognize that won't they
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then if people recognize that won't they see the disadvantages of going back to like the world as it was a couple weeks ago if what declined the death rate in general you mean the accidental death rate yeah you know I've been thinking about this a lot because I thought I was gonna hate this more than I do meaning you know being forced to be home and you know I can go for a walk but that's it and so far I'm liking it more than I thought now I hate the fact that I'm not with my fiance so that part you know you can't get past that that's pretty but in terms of my health and I'm not bored it's better than I thought yeah same here so anyway did I answer any questions si yeah that was kind of but I was thinking more in
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was kind of but I was thinking more in terms of like the travel industry if people recognized that it was having such a bad end for influence you know like commuting and oh yeah it'd be hard to convince people okay let's not go back that way yeah you know you make a good point the all of the people who commuted these terrible you know two hours each way commutes there's there's something about how we just sort of drift into things but when you're force did not do it for two months maybe you just can't go back cuz you just saying oh my god I feel so much better than they don't have to do that anyway so thank you for the comments or questions and I'm going whoops fat fingering that alright so I think we've done enough for tonight I believe that we have now kaamdar self
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believe that we have now kaamdar self down into a good place where we human beings will be in some ways observers to a fight between two viruses that's right I sent a fight between two viruses that's my dog making noise in case you hear that one virus is the corona virus and the other is a series of ideas and those ideas use human beings as their carriers exactly as the corona virus does so the credit coronavirus doesn't kill you directly it causes you to be programmed wrong and kill yourself likewise a bad idea could do that but in this case these ideas become like idea viruses they spread to other people and people learn what to do with their masks and what what drugs work and how social isolation works and what's bending the curve and so all these ideas formed like an army
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so all these ideas formed like an army of ideas and they're you know they're using our bodies as just their fortresses basically but it's the ideas that are fighting the other virus so it's really virus on virus one virus as a physical form and one has an you know sort of a conceptual idea form but it's really the ideas are fighting the other physical virus and the humans are just sort of receptacles basically we're just the battleground in a way so if our ideas reprogram us productively we can be part of beating the other virus that's all I got to say for now and I'll talk to you in the mornings you know when see you then