Episode 890 Scott Adams: Swaddle With Scott is Happening Now!

Date: 2020-04-04 | Duration: 55:03

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: When should we go back to work? Who should go back to work first? Hydroxychloroquine is STILL an open question

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oh that's better nice and soft and warm just the way I like it well how have all of you been since I saw you last twelve hours ago it doesn't seem like twelve hours does it feels like I was just here Bill Maher is on well he's gonna have to wait you can record him so it looks like the number of new deaths spiked quite a bit today I got all excited because it went down yesterday it was down from the day before so here are the numbers so on April 1st it was a thousand 49 but it dropped a little on the next day procession to 969 but and the third it jumped from 969 to 1321 that's a pretty big jump percentage-wise so that's not good so I keep by complaining about not

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good so I keep by complaining about not seeing good numbers for stuff and apparently New York is doing a good job of it I was not aware that Andrew Cuomo is is doing exactly what I keep saying the task force should do but he's doing you're in state which is to show how much they think they'll need of each of the pieces of equipment in shortage and then show how many they think they can get pretty basic right here's what we think we need here's what we think we have so why the why the federal government couldn't do this also is beyond me but here's what we know so apparently the predicted amount of ventilators the prediction changes a little bit but I think the most current one is that they'll have 25,000 patients who will need them at the peak yeah at them at the most but though they only have 15,000 available so they have

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have 15,000 available so they have 15,000 available you know with all of their different sources in New York City for 25,000 patients so it's really going to make a big difference if that estimate is 25,000 is accurate because there could be 10,000 people who basically just drown in their own your own lung juice because we don't have enough ventilators now if I had to bet I would bet we'll close that gap meaning that either the number of deaths will be less than this or the you know maybe maybe they started giving you you know hydroxychloroquine and they're just the fewer deaths that would be the optimist we don't know yet if that drug works but maybe or I would think we'll get more ventilators there so at least that's within it feels like that's within striking distance right still emergency level problem no doubt about it but it

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level problem no doubt about it but it feels like we might be able to close that gap but then I saw and I was going to print it out and just I didn't have time before we got on here but he also showed the number of masks and I think you know correct me if I'm wrong but the number of masks I think that they would need was something like 20 million and the number that they have available is one or two million what I think I saw that right that the number of masks they need is 20 million and the number that they think they can get is one or two I think I read that right and some of the other materials are in short supply as well now remember what remember I've been telling you the whole time that you you being the citizen of the United States would act differently if it's closer to zero percent than it is closer to 90 percent this is a pretty good example right how do you feel about

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good example right how do you feel about the fact that New York City might be short like 90% short on most vital thing the masks pretty big problem now even if they start to reuse the masks that still gets you from you know maybe 2 million masks to 4 or 6 and you need 20 so they're not even in the ballpark and that's with you you all heard that 3m was allowing some sales out of the country now my understanding is probably that it wasn't 3m per se that was letting a man in the country it was the distributors and 3m was just selling it to distributors and distributors are doing what they do which is sell it where they can sell it but I imagine the 3m could have stopped their distributors from doing that if they required them to do them so that's a good example of something that clearly was a mistake

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something that clearly was a mistake meaning that we should have stopped that from the from the jump but if we corrected it quickly that's not so bad
so the president came out and said maybe you should wear some it's recommended but not required wear some kind of a facemask when you go out in public doesn't probably shouldn't be one of those high grade medical ones because you want to save those for the save those for the pros and then the funniest thing was watching the Surgeon General command and try to explain why the new recommendation was completely different than the old recommendation did you see that oh that was so cringe worthy because he was he was so busted and yeah maybe we'll never know the story of why the original recommendations were so just awfully wrong I suppose he was believing the

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wrong I suppose he was believing the World Health Organization maybe or or he was acting to reduce shortages that's possible too but oh man I felt so sorry for him trying to explain why he just completely reversed on such a basic obvious thing that we all knew was true and it it took him what weeks to come around to it but here we are so the president it is an invisible way in which I say this about the president all the time but it's impossible for him not to be interesting whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing it's good interesting or bad interesting he just can't turn it off if this simple thing talking about this new recommendation for masks and then he throws in the you know I'm not gonna wear one so our role model just say you know you might wear a mask I'm not going to it's optional now when he tried to explain why he wasn't I think he was going for it wasn't

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think he was going for it wasn't presidential not that anybody was really caring about that at the moment I mean at least in terms of the medical issue you don't care so nobody would have thought it was unpresidential for him to wear a mask I think he just didn't want to be photographed in and he thought he would look silly maybe so it was the worst possible reason for not wanting to wear a mask here would have been a better answer here's the better answer well the reason that we're making it optional is that everybody just really needs to make that choice for themselves so there's no situation like mine this is the choice I'm making you know you all can get to make your own choices make good choices all right that's all I would have said I would have just said that's the whole point of it being optional is you get to decide about your specific case weigh all the variables I would have just gone for that but it was way more interesting because it's more provocative he just he just doesn't know how to be uninteresting it's impossible yeah and

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uninteresting it's impossible yeah and the president drum made the joke about models he just couldn't help it where is God's net death count I believe that the gross is over 7,000 which means the net would still be quite negative so but we added I think 40% more deaths today than the day before so that would suggest it's gonna climb up there now are you having the same questions I'm having which is why we're not seeing the the stories of the gigantic crushes yet and I worry that the people who are saying hey the you know the bottle said that we would already be at a higher level are we missing it by that much because the whole point of this is that the increase will be very fast

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the increase will be very fast you know once it hits that fast part of the curve every day is going to be much much more than the last so if you were to miss the peak projection by let's say a week let's say the experts were off by one week of where the peak would be well that would still give us really make us really calm today and still all hell could break loose you know by next week but they told us that last week right shouldn't we already be in critical situation right now so this is the damnedest it's the damnedest situation you know we all have to settle on a reality but there are two of them that are just running full-speed one of them is it's a gigantic problem just like the experts are telling us that movie is as clear as day couldn't couldn't be more clear all the experts seem to agree other countries have had a bad time of it you know we seem to know

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bad time of it you know we seem to know viruses pretty well so that that just seems really clear it's going to be a terrible terrible thing and you know tens of thousands will die if not hundreds of thousands if not millions but the other movie is still completely running in the other movie is it's just a mass hysteria and yeah it would be a weird mass hysteria because you can't deny that people are dying and the the doctors are saying oh this is different this is not the flu so there's something different about it but there were also also different things about Ebola and you know swine flu and all that so they all have their own characteristic but what if it never comes what if we never get the the ICU is completely crushed and running any ventilators what if it never happens because as of today that possibility

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because as of today that possibility seems completely open to me completely now by tomorrow it could be closed off and maybe the one movie just you know rules for all time I mean it would just take a few days of bad results and and we'd say there it is we were just you know missed it by a few days but that's not how models work they're not that accurate but every day that goes by and the model is not delivering these at least thankfully not delivering all these deaths I asked myself did I get take him because I know no you know that from this perspective I'm asking myself was this as big as we thought I think I think you've got to ask the question at this point here's what I think we should do about getting back to work then I've said this before but I think we need a checklist now and number one on the

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checklist now and number one on the checklist is do you have antibodies I think if you have antibodies it just should be automatic you should be able to go back to work period now you should baby need some you know evidence of it or some paperwork or something but that should be automatic if you have and and we should we want to get to the point where we can test that the other thing is we know there's such a big correlation with things like weight and gender and are you a smoker what's your age and your underlying conditions and maybe someday we'll figure out if there's a genomic connection shouldn't we just have a checklist and have our smartest people figure out that if you check these boxes your risk just for you personally is the same as maybe the risk of a regular flu so let me give you an example let's say you're 25 your your room fit you're an athlete

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25 your your room fit you're an athlete no extra weight you're female because that gives you an advantage and yet you know no underlying conditions right what are the odds for that person if you're young and fit and female don't smoke don't have any underlying conditions can somebody tell me the odds for that person because why is that person not getting to go to work if the only people went to work are the people whose odds were of dying were pick a number one in a thousand what what would be what would be an acceptable death rate of just the part of the public that we do send back to work first so so don't talk about the old people and you know the over sixties and stuff just forget them and even forget people who were overweight and have medical problems just forget them for a moment just the people that they're scientists would say are in the smallest risk of group healthy female doesn't smoke you

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group healthy female doesn't smoke you know certain age let's say their risk was one in a thousand of diet would you say go back to work 100,000 how about one in 5,000 we're actually in I'd like to see this in the comments give me your acceptable level of risk for the first batch that go back to work those will be the safest ones what would be your acceptable level where you say yeah if you can get down to that at least those people should go back to work so I'm seeing 1% so one in a hundred so you'd say go back to work if if one in a hundred died young healthy women one in a hundred that's pretty high a lot of people are saying 100 now I think you might mean that because the the stakes are so high but that's a lot to ask isn't it let me

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but that's a lot to ask isn't it let me ask you this here you didn't see this coming do you what was the last war the humans were involved with in which we sent to battle to fight the war we sent our youngest females to the frontlines when does that ever happen might happen now I'm looking at your numbers here so I'm saying one in 10,000 people are saying one in a thousand five per thousand you know there's and the reason I ask you is is that the the consensus of the crowd is really going to matter because it has to be okay with us 1% so I don't see anybody who's over 1% Oh somebody's have 5% okay I don't think you mean that you wouldn't let 5% of the people go back to work died you know if you knew that 5% of young females going back to work we're gonna die you'd be okay with that I

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gonna die you'd be okay with that I don't think so yeah well this is the most common numbers I'm saying is one is it 100 and 100 a thousand some one in 10,000 and how close can we get can somebody tell me is you know is there anybody here who could do the math on the back of the envelope because we sort of know we've seen statistics from different categories could we get to one in a thousand so I feel as though we should do these calculations without the benefit of the government you know maybe somebody smart can come up with the checklist and and rank it by you know what each of these things means if you check this box you know how many points do you get and then we should present it to the government I don't think you should be the other way around you by the way is if if the Rasmussen poll is listening here's the poll I'd like to

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listening here's the poll I'd like to say that for the first group of people who go back to work yeah you'll have to work on the wording of the question but for the first group that go back to work the safest group what would you you know the poll respondents say is the risk you you think is acceptable because it's not up to the president is it the president might get to decide you know with with his team he might have to decide but how is he going to decide how is the president going to decide what level of risk of the country should take it's his job right he has to but what's he gonna base that on I would suggest that you know as you've observed this process you can see the public pushing the professionals can you that's obvious to you right is it obvious to you that this was a very interactive process where our leaders were saying I'm gonna do this and the public said hey wait are you

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and the public said hey wait are you sure about that then the leader said well let's look at it and then there was this continuous dance with the public the you know the experts the leaders in which it seemed to be that the leaders were continually meeting mostly Trump testing testing the public getting the response and then adjusting now if you say that that's wrong you know wouldn't it be better if he were magic and everything he did was right the first time well yeah that'd be great this is not the real world in the real world it's probably the best process you can come up with is to really feel out the public as you're as you're adjusting your policies you're really tune in and see what the response is so here's my point I don't think we should make Trump wait to find out what the public's okay with we should present it there's nothing in our system that stops us from doing that it's not unconstitutional and then certainly in the context of an emergency

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certainly in the context of an emergency situation completely appropriate it's within our ability you know we can do it should do it it would be the single most important piece of data that comes out of any of this and you could argue this another important data but what would be more important than knowing the public's consensus for the risk that they're willing to bear to give back to work I'd really like to know that you know I feel like it's going to come out somewhere I'll bet any group would come out about where where you did between one and a hundred and one in a thousand and then have our experts say can you promise them you know from what you know already can you promise us that now I haven't even thrown into the mix the Hydrox chloroquine and whether or not that works that 2 is a 2 movie situation I started out being quite optimistic that the hydroxyl chloroquine was was going

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the hydroxyl chloroquine was was going to be a really a game changer as the president says but every day that goes by without that being confirmed vigorously makes me think maybe it won't be so at this point the two movies are the hydroxychloroquine are also completely alive one that of course we've seen so much evidence that works 6,000 doctors were surveyed you know by a wide majority they said it's the best thing but even the doctors who have been using it I think only 37% of them said the hydroxychloroquine made a difference but that's not what we're hearing from other people right we're hearing something like it works every time but then they talk to the doctors and they're like a 37% and then there's another study that says this case doesn't seem to make the virus go down at all I would say there's a big old question mark on that drug right now so

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question mark on that drug right now so and and if it turns out to be completely useless I will say that my predictions were wrong so let me state that so at this point in time it's sort of a jump ball yeah I'm going to say 60% chance the drug does make a difference if you get it early 40% chance it doesn't just based on what we know right now that's my current instinct on it so what I'm saying is somebody smart needs to help me come up with a checklist of your risk we need to agree on it you know maybe a few people will try a different take on it
it we'll see you get the most retweets that the beauty of Twitter is you can sort of just see what's what people like right off right off the bat you just see who gets the most retweets so if you do that tweet it at me make sure I see it and if it's a good job all the retweet it then

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it's a good job all the retweet it then and we'll just track the traffic yeah if people like it or they want to play with a little bit they can do it but absolutely you should be thinking in terms of these citizens presenting to their government what they will accept think how much you would like that if you were the president right remember this is this is not a spectator sport if you can find anything you can do there would be the least bit helpful try it do it you know I almost all day long since this whole crisis started people contact me you know privately or in a variety of ways and they say you know I have this idea for helping should I do it and but mostly I say yes it doesn't mean it'll work doesn't mean it'll you know it'll help but if you have an idea for helping it's just always yes just yes is there something you think will work even if you don't

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you think will work even if you don't know it'll work yes you know somebody it's not dangerous so this is one of those cases if you were the president wouldn't you want your public to present to you the level of risk that they're comfortable with you don't have to take it you don't have to take the recommendation that's how it works you know you're not commander in chief and neither am I then this is a war so if the commander in chief looks at our input and says I'm gonna take a higher risk or I'm gonna take a lower risk well that's why we elect people to make those decisions let's see if you've got any no one care I'm looking at your comments here maybe
alright give it a shot it's got the meaning of WI 5h I don't know what that is oh you know you know the other thing

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is oh you know you know the other thing that I don't think any of the models capture here's what the models don't capture see if I'm wrong I'm right about this the models sort of make some kind of a general assumption about social distancing don't you think so this is more of a question I think that I'm right about this so this should be a accurate criticism but maybe now we'll see when the models figure out how well social distancing works because that's one of the main variables right if you're doing the model if who's going to get infected you got to put in some variables for the effectiveness of social distancing but my guess is that they take some kind of an average they say okay the average person will only social distance this well but I don't think that's what's happening I think what's really happening is that people like me who have a special risk I just go nuts on the isolation I have no human

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go nuts on the isolation I have no human contact I mean if the coronavirus finds me it's gonna have to work for it right now I don't I don't do crazy stuff but I have no human contact I have you know I'm not with him 20 feet of a human I don't touch things that other people are touched unless you know it's washed down now I'm not perfect but don't you think that my that because I have a risk and I'm well informed I'm taking like super extra duper efforts to social distance but an average 25 year-old probably isn't trying that hard so what does it mean when you take me the what the only one who is maybe in danger of actually dying in my simplistic thing I'm an in danger of dying but I'm doing super effort to isolate the people who don't have a risk of dying well they're not trying so hard so what would it mean

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not trying so hard so what would it mean to have one variable that represents me just nailing it isolation and some 25 year old who's not and and then you calculate with our average that's probably what's happening right and my guess is that that because the people who have the special risk know exactly who they are at this point that we're just hiding really well so here's what I would think is at least possible I think the models could be way off in this critical variable which is how well people isolate because the ones who know they need to isolate are probably doing a pretty good job like way better than average and I don't know if them if the model takes that into account maybe that's maybe that's better or how you know it could slice it that finally big fan love your videos wonder why we don't simply keep people over 60 with preconditions home that would be one of

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preconditions home that would be one of the possibilities just keep it simple and just say all right here's the deal if you're over 60 in preconditions you stay home but I think I'm seeing that wait and smoking and genders seem to be at least as important that you know if you added them together they'd probably be as important as a niche right I don't know if this is true but it but if you say that age is the big variable but if you also were overweight male and you smoked and you added those three variables together that's probably just as big as being over 60 right maybe more I would think that's sort of a preconditioned
yeah and then diabetes and all those things now correct me if I'm wrong but by now aren't there enough people who have been infected that we would know that all the people who had lupus in

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that all the people who had lupus in other words all the people who are already on hydroxychloroquine wouldn't we know what the result is do we have to do a study of people taking a Drexel chloroquine before they get infected do we have to do that study or can we not just say oh okay there's what how many people are infected now hundreds of thousands there's like a quarter million infected or something like that how many of the quarter million also have lupus and we're on hydroxychloroquine there must be a thousand yeah I don't know what how many people have lupus out of 250 but probably there are hundreds hundreds of people that we should be able to find pretty easily look at their record there's the lupus there's the hydroxychloroquine still alive are they still alive because if they're all still alive and they have lupus because you

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alive and they have lupus because you think lupus would be a you know a condition right that would be a risk but if the hydroxyl chloroquine protects them so well they even with lupus they don't die well that's a pretty good advertisement for the drug so why don't we know that it feels like that would be the most knowable thing at this point all right um what else is going on
where are my Trump pills yeah so I'd like to see by tomorrow I think Jared will have some more useful numbers that would be my guess what about the folks who don't know they have a conditioned yeah so so the risk would be people who don't know they have some conditioned but I wonder could you check for those conditions so for example

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for those conditions so for example let's say somebody didn't know how many people don't know they're diabetic or how many people don't know they have hypertension well maybe that's a condition so maybe you say you know even though you're 35 you have to have your blood pressure checked and you you know you have to be checked for I don't know diabetes or something so it seems like you could that could be a checklist to you know have you checked it not just the honor system but you know did the doctors say you can go back to work are you backing off your original trumpet pill mania no I would say that I'm exactly where I was but no matter what happens people are gonna say that I that I was wrong so one of one of the most annoying things about being me is the number of people who will miss remember what I've said and then declare that I'm wrong but after they miss remember what

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wrong but after they miss remember what I said so I've never said that the pills work I've said that anecdotally they work and I've said that there's a small studies that are not credible and I said that so that's still exactly the case we have more information but it's just more of the same type which is well there's more information it works and then there's a little more indication then maybe you should question it so it's almost exactly where it's been but every but I will say that every day that goes by and we don't have you know more clear information as making me wonder why why do we not have better visibility
you're right to be wrong somebody says I don't know what that means
why are the people who insist that you're wrong still watch your periscopes well I think people want me to be wrong

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well I think people want me to be wrong it's like anybody you know any celebrity sometimes you kind of want them to be wrong don't you admit it admit it as much as you might like it when I'm right there's a little part of you admit it there's a little part of you that doesn't mind when I'm wrong either see me see me knock down a level come on you can admit you're human it's cuz it's called shot and Freud it's that feeling you get when other people get knocked down the peg you don't mind it too much so I think he's entertaining either way
is your lung capacity affected by pot smoking well I'm I can't give you a medical answer to that I will tell you that the only study I'm aware of this was a few years ago so there was a study of lung capacity of marijuana smokers versus people who didn't smoke anything

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versus people who didn't smoke anything so there was people who smoked a lot of marijuana every day and people didn't smoke anything cigarettes or anything else and these researchers were surprised that the marijuana smokers had more lung capacity on average and it was statistically noticeable now it was one study and they were like well we don't know this is exactly opposite of what everybody thought it would be so they speculated why would that be now of course what they didn't speculate is we did the study wrong I mean that would be the first thing I would think is not a valid study maybe but they didn't say that they said they speculated that the act of smoking marijuana requires you to take deep inhale and hold it and they speculated that maybe the marijuana smoke wasn't degrading your lungs as much as the

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degrading your lungs as much as the daily practice of heavy breathing and holding your your breath was actually helping you so maybe you know I'm not saying that's true and by the way you know I make no secret that I'm a medical marijuana user but oh well every now and then I like to be clear that I don't recommend it so I don't recommend it for you I don't recommend it for anybody and the reason I don't recommend it is I'm not a doctor I'm not a doctor I think there are situations in which it would be the worst possible thing you can do smoking marijuana there are people in situations certain personality types certain situations where maybe it's just it's just the worst thing you could possibly do but there are other situations that are unique and you have to look at every situation differently and I am one of them and you know one of the things I

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them and you know one of the things I have going for me is that you know I can make my own schedule and you know I have a lot of experience and it doesn't affect me the way to affects other people well I think people don't know about marijuana is it it affects everybody differently and so the way it affects me is overwhelmingly positive but that doesn't mean it would be for you and and for me it's overwhelmingly positive basically every time yeah I don't even know I think you think of an exception it's basically it's a guarantee it's you know your life has improved in my case but here's the here's the observation I have for those of you who've never experienced marijuana my observation is that it doesn't make you dumb or stupid or or any of the things that people say what it makes you is more of what you already were so what I mean is if you're

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were so what I mean is if you're naturally lazy oh it'll make you lazier it'll do that if you are already lazy it'll make you lazier but if you're if you're self-motivated and you're you're sort of a creative person full of energy it will make you more of that so in my case I'm naturally creative and it makes me more creative I mean just really obviously it's it's not even comparable I'm naturally motivated and I find that it makes me even more motivated but here's the other trick and this is the biggest trick there are lots of different kinds of marijuana and they don't act the same and if you don't learn that you're gonna be really surprised you don't wonder why hey I liked it this time and this time I just got sleepy and fell asleep and it's completely different so the big difference is there are two main types

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difference is there are two main types you've got your indica dominant and your sativa two different kinds of plants but they're both in the same family the sativa gives you energy it makes you creative it makes you just enjoy your day and you can do almost everything just as well if you're at an experienced user if you're not experienced you know you don't don't plan to do anything important but if you're experienced it's a completely different sensation and experience so if you take the sativa during the day let's say you're a medical marijuana user only not because recreationally I would not even recommend it recreationally it's just not a party truck I don't even know why I'm not even sure why people use it so but it does have many many benefits to your life in the right circumstance

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your life in the right circumstance so the sativa will wake you up make you more productive you know somebody wants to refer to it as a worker weed it's the kind of marijuana you would want to smoke before work especially if you had a job didn't require too much thinking but the indica is the opposite it makes you relax and you're probably just gonna want to take a nap and watch some TV and pet the dog so if you don't know which one you're doing if you do the wrong one in the daytime and the other one at night it's not going to be a good result so that would be yet another reason not to recommend that anybody do it because you really got to know what you're doing you know there's a big difference between getting the right strain and doing it in the right time and just randomly saying well let me just try some of this you'll get a very different result and then within the types there are infinite varieties with slightly

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are infinite varieties with slightly different characters some make you hungry or some might make you paranoid if you're a regular user you don't get the paranoia so much and the some make you some are good for your libido some are good for exercise so we're good for you know just all kinds of different things and sometimes you don't know those things until you try it but it's so consistent you can you can definitely tell there's something going on all right so that's what you need to know about that stuff again I don't recommend any of it you should only do it if a doctor says it works for you I get it mostly because I've a light form of sleep apnea it's not so bad I need a CPAP but it's not so good that I can get to sleep easily but few bits of indica

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to sleep easily but few bits of indica and I have the best night's sleep and I wake up feeling great you're not you when you're high are you talking about me are you talking about somebody else why does that matter one of one of the things I hear most from people who don't want to do any kind of mind-altering drug and it's probably good that they have this shouldn't talk you out of it but people say stuff like well like you just saw in the comments but you're not you you're you're somebody else or you're escaping from reality to which I say so those are reasons those are statements there's no reason and any of that why can't you be a different person sometimes because you're not the same person when you're tired you're not the same person when you're hungry you're not the same person when you get a promotion as you are when you get fired you have lots of different use there's

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you have lots of different use there's not one of you you have a whole range of different preferences different feelings different internal feelings different actions so to say you wouldn't want to don't have a drink or smoke marijuana or something because because it makes you not you it's a meaningless statement because you're never you you're you're always this ever-changing thing and you know the chemistry and your environment are always part of who you are at any moment it's just not a real reason there are plenty of reasons not to do those things like plenty of good reasons I mean alcohol is just poison basically and you should never do marijuana unless your doctor says it's a good idea so you don't need you don't need it any other reasons not to do it do I I I did exactly once and I thought my head was gonna come clear off so you you think you're experienced until until you find out the even stronger way to do it

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find out the even stronger way to do it so I don't recommend any of that stuff do I metabolize coffee caffeine fast or slow I don't know how to measure that I know coffee and I get along really well I can't speak for other people but I get along really well so I don't remember seeing your responses to how many of you are sleeping better because I've told you that you will so in the in the comments if there's anybody here who's sleeping better at night because I helped you sleep better at night just let me know because I'd like to know how that's working ahead Jack Jack Herer Jack Herer is among the best as you know can I go to sleep after

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best as you know can I go to sleep after caffeine Oh easily yeah I could actually go to sleep anywhere anytime it's like a superpower so I fall asleep what I'm getting my teeth cleaned like wall while the dental hygienist is in my mouth with power tools fall asleep and I wake up and it's really scary because I wake up and you know you come out of your sleep and there's somebody in your mouth with power tools you're like wrong oh so I fall asleep and wake up like three times every time that I'm getting my teeth cleaned and it's a horror every time okay so the comments are coming in look how many people are sleeping better
because of the suggestion all right so here's some more good sleeping tips don't think about what you need to do tomorrow that's number one all right do not go to bed close your eyes and then

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not go to bed close your eyes and then think about what you have to do tomorrow ever never if you need to think about what you're gonna do tomorrow get up make a list you know so all the things that are on your mind write them down so that you were a member in the morning but do not plan your day when you're in bed ever never may it never make an exception to that get up doesn't matter it doesn't matter if it's 2:00 in the morning if you can't if you can't stop your mind from planning your day and it's 2:00 in the morning get up get up because you never want to associate those thoughts with being in bed you have to be a maniac about separating the sleep experience from the thinking you know stressful experience so get up make your list you know it's half an hour later put the list away and then try to get back to bed and if you can't stop thinking about it well just get up again but don't don't lay in bed

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again but don't don't lay in bed thinking about what are you gonna do ever that's what people do wrong the most the other thing is what do you think about when you're trying to go to sleep do you have a go-to set of thoughts now some people count sheep or try to think of boring things here's what I do I imagine good outcomes in the future but in more of a not a real-world way so I'm not thinking so much about what will happen tomorrow because again you don't want to think about tomorrow too much I think about fantastical long-term outcomes and I and I and I create a little movie in my head where I put myself in it and it's sometime in the future and something good is happening it's because I've accomplished something I got lucky I was in the right place at the right time it doesn't matter why it's just something good is happening and I forced myself to think about this

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and I forced myself to think about this little movie I'm creating of something good now would you like to know what I've been using for most of my life I'll tell you something one of them is flying so I have a an imaginary flying future and in this future and again this doesn't have to be based on any kind of reality in the future I learned how to fly just with my body I can just hover above the ground and when I was a kid about once a year I would have a flying dream and what was cool is that every year I'd have the dream from childhood through adult every year I'd have the dream I could fly better in the dream than the last dream so the initial dreams I could sort of jump up in the air and to hover a little bit and come down and then I could sort of make long jumps where I sort of hover before I came and then the next year and I'd only have this dream once a year now once a year and then finally I'd be able to you know

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and then finally I'd be able to you know float around and around the ceiling and then finally when I was an adult after decades of this dream once a year I got so I could leave leave the building and fly around you know in the atmosphere as hard as I wanted you know like Superman I always thought that the dream was an omen of something good but anyway because I've had so much time thinking about it I can actually put myself in in the air in my mind so I can close my mind and I imagine my you know my astral projection or my body or whatever leaving my body you can also just imagine that you're you can fly it works the same and then I imagined in my head the actual what it feels like and what it looks like as I'm as I'm floating over the houses of my neighborhood so since you have a general idea what it would look like you know you could sort of imagine well if I were hovering over

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of imagine well if I were hovering over my house looking down what would it look like so I simply go flying and I've been doing it for years I'll put my head down and close my eyes and maybe I have some other thoughts in my head and I want to get rid of them I say it's time for a flight and I just oh I see other people do the same thing and so I take off and I just fly around the neighborhood and I you know I land on the roof and I hop off the roof and fly over to another one and it's so absorbing and it's all positive that it just takes me out of my life and next thing I know I wake up the next morning now I had that dream and I always thought that it priests aged some good good news and the last time I had that dream was right after I became a syndicated cartoonist so I felt like I you know just for fun it feels like that

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you know just for fun it feels like that was my prediction that there was something good ahead of me and it was that so the other thing that so I'm gonna tell you something I don't think I've ever told anybody this but my other one that I would think about all the time from childhood on it went like this the some day the President of the United States would call me to to meet with him in his office it's crazy right I told you that you should pick a like a fantasy thing that you know it's not going to happen in the real world so since ever since childhood my most common dream falling off the sleeve fantasy is that the President of the United States has summoned me to the Oval Office to chat just because of something I did or said or something that he actually wanted to talk to me so the and the and the the essence of the

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the and the and the the essence of the the fantasy is that it wasn't me trying to get a meeting with the president but rather he invited me that just the president invited me to go meet with him in the Oval Office so of course that's like a ridiculous thing you know it's not like the president ever invites you to a once you go over and chat with me in the Oval Office except that it happened you know most of you already know the the punch line here so the president and 2018 through through staff contacted me and invited me to meet with him in the Oval Office and it was I can't tell you how freaky it was because it was exactly the thing I fall asleep that I've been falling to sleep to for decades and and I I chose it specifically because it couldn't happen in the real world you know soar like the flying flying one you pick them because they can't happen there they're better

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they can't happen there they're better than life you know it's the exaggerated version and then it happened so maybe I should have set my sights a little higher true story
that is wild did I tell him that I did not know by the way there's a day coming up in which I'm going to tell you really the the only substantive part of the conversation I had with the president now you know the rule right if if if you ever get invited to talk to somebody in government at a high level you don't talk about the conversation afterwards I mean that's a hard rule right it's a private conversation doesn't matter who ass literally doesn't matter who asked even your spouse that's a private conversation yeah it's the privateness conversation there could be because it's the President of the United States so if

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the President of the United States so if you you know if you violate that trust that's that's as bad as it gets that's that there was a little exchange that he and I had in the Oval Office that I think sometime in the next month or two I'll be able to tell you because it makes it look good so that that would be my exception there there's something he said that was downright psychic and you have to hear the exchange but only only after events prove it out right so I'm not going to if it turns out that events don't go the way I think they're gonna go then I'll never tell you but it would be an interesting little tidbit if they do go the way because you can see you have a psychic yes and it will it'll blow your mind really so that's all I got for today I think you're going to go off and have an incredible night you're

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off and have an incredible night you're gonna sleep well you're gonna wake up or relaxed remember to count to 20 think about your flying dream think about your it's so impossible feeling of success or happiness in the future and have yourself a great sleep I'll talk to you in the morning you know when