Episode 892 Scott Adams: Simultaneous Swaddling and Taking Questions. Get in Here!

Date: 2020-04-05 | Duration: 55:05

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: CNN and MSNBC are anti-Hydroxychloroquine? Are pneumonia cases down this year? Joe Rogan’s Presidential preference Dr. Drew’s apology Does anyone still trust anyone or anything? Viewer questions

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bumbum hey everybody come on in it's time for the simultaneous Waddle yes every 12 hours you get a little bit more of me some would say that's plenty but I don't think they're good sports I think a little bit more of me is just what you need it's just what you need so come on in here I'm gonna be taking some questions talking about some stuff getting you ready for an extraordinarily good night of sleep in fact why don't you tell me in the comments if he had a really good sleep last night because I suggested that you would and it would be nice to see your confirmation so tell me if you had a had a really good night of sleep last night so let's catch up on the news for the last 12 hours it's been quite a bit for example the president Trump did his usual taskforce press conference and

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usual taskforce press conference and after it CNN reported that he was quote touting an unproven drug he was touting that's right see you then says that the president was touting he was out there counting around touting up that drug but is that really what happened was he touting I don't think so I don't think so I don't think he was touting here's what I think he was doing I think the president was saying exactly what you and I say when we listen to the doctors we make a risk-management assessment based on what the doctors tell us so the president clearly knows it hasn't one undergone you know rigorous tests he does know there anecdotal reports that it works some that it doesn't he knows that he also knows that it's been used for years for other purposes so we know it's well tolerated he knows that so a risk assessment is

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he knows that so a risk assessment is that it might work doctors say they take it themselves because while it might and the risk if you're taking it for a short term especially the risk is almost vanishingly small and it might work there's some indication and white so is the president touting a drug or is he simply looking at what the evidence is that we're all looking at exactly the same data and saying well it's a risk management situation would you take the risk which is nothing for a potential game which could save your life yeah it's kind of easy actually my guess is that the only reason the president is being a little more full-throated about this is because maybe we have more of it you said we have a you know 20-something billion doses I don't know if that they're in the right place but I guess we're we got someone coming in now here's the fun

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someone coming in now here's the fun part about this when the president puts down a stake anywhere and says you know this is what I think is true what's the natural thing that happens if the president says the sky is blue CNN says it's not blow not at night you know and they'll say why it's not blue so the president has I don't know if you planned this but if it turns out this hydroxychloroquine actually works if it works because I'm going to get the same treatment he is no matter how many times I say if it works unproven only anecdotal you know darn well that that might roll future critics are already planning to say that we were out there touting US cotton you touted it and then I'll say I did not count there was no touting I simply explained the same data

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touting I simply explained the same data that you're looking at they went so the president is forcing CNN to take an increasingly strong stand against against believing in the drug so they're not against the drug they're against believing in it without sufficient scientific evidence now of course we all we all agree with that right if you had a choice if you had a choice of lots of high quality studies well yeah we'd all take that choice if we had that choice which we don't so so I think it's hilarious if it turns out the drug works then the president will have forced CNN into mocking him for something that turned out to be right and there's gonna be a lot of mocking because it's basically as soon as I heard him say it I thought well there's the whole news cycle right there the CNN

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the whole news cycle right there the CNN and MSNBC will say it's unproven it's unproven as I say it's unproven as if the president doesn't know that because he said it's unproven and they're gonna act like he doesn't know even though he says it directly is it my imagination or did the number of deaths from coronavirus declined today it's not the end of the day but it looks like we're gonna end down right now the other day I said don't get don't get excited about you know one day at our hour that it looks like it's going down because then the very next day it was up of course but it's down again it's feeling like we're starting to top not in a not topping and infections but topping and death which could be because the hydroxyl chloroquine works I don't know could be so david angel sends me this

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could be so david angel sends me this question if you want to ask me a question goodbye go to my top tweet on twitter and you could just put the question here I'll read it so there's this a graph that I've seen but I don't know to believe it or the source anyway it's a graph that shows the amount of pneumonia by each season or each year in the United States and it purports the show that the number of cases of pneumonia are way way way down this year which would mean what well first of all I don't know where this came from it's just something I saw on Twitter so I have no idea if the data is right but if the data is right that the number of pneumonias or things that we call pneumonia is way down could it be that we have a counting problem going on and that that what we think our coronavirus may be we used to think on ammonia and vice-versa so I do think

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ammonia and vice-versa so I do think there's probably some issue about how we're counting things and I will say once again it seems that we've gone yet one more day without the dire consequences and every day that it's every day we get closer to the predicted peak which is still what 10 days away and it's not looking diary yet the skeptics are getting a little happier and I have to admit there's part of me there's part of me they can see that other movie just as clearly as I can see the one that I spend most of my time in so the one I spend most of my time in is this is pretty bad but I think between science and and our good work we'll get a handle on it so I don't think the death toll will be bad I think the risk is very very high but I I think humans will prevail but that still puts me in the movie that

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that still puts me in the movie that says it's a gigantic problem that could have killed you know two million people if you did everything wrong but the people who say it was never a problem and it's all just in your mind and it's just a hysteria you can't rule them out yet because so far we don't have even one hospital over capacity right but again ten days from now it could be a hellscape and they couldn't look like you know world war zombie and the experts say that's gonna happen they seem pretty clear that in 10 days we're gonna be super unhappy I can see both movies at this point then both and they're both so clear can't you see both I'm not saying that one you know one is definitely gonna happen and the other isn't I'm saying as of this point in time I can see them both just like they both exist and it's service order noting there's cat

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service order noting there's cat situation where it's as if those two futures already exist and the only thing we're gonna do is choose a path you know we get to perceive either one but they're both there just waiting for us and you can go either way you see in the comments people are saying the same thing normally one of those paths is not clear my normal situation is that one of them is clear and the rest are fuzzy but they're two that are really clear all right Joe Rogan made a little news he was did his interview with Eric Weinstein and Joe Rogan's there they were talking about Joe Biden being mentally degraded and Joe Rogan said you know that he would vote for President Trump over Joe Biden because he didn't think Biden was capable of anything so so the Joe Rogan you know take on it is the same as most of yours I think which

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the same as most of yours I think which is if you're being honest yeah if you're if you just step away from the political filter for a while you're just being honest you can see it right you can see the Biden's not operating with a full you know the full full clip or something I love the fact that Joe Rogan makes news just by talking about who he might vote for you know you've made it when it's a world headlined that you were just talking with a friend so you know my mo mighty vote for Trump over then and so as I had life and he's doing something right if that's world news so I now have my second idiot that I've blocked for misstating what my prediction is of the death toll and then criticizing me already before we even know which way things are now already criticizing me for being wrong for the

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criticizing me for being wrong for the things that they miss remembered I said so now two people have been blocked for doing that and there gonna be a lot of them I bet I'll bet there would be two dozen people that I'll have to block because they will be damn sure I said something else and that I need to admit how wrong I am speaking of admitting wrong dr. drew did something amazingly brave which is he did a special little periscope today just apologizing to the public for his his take on the corona virus being a little bit too maybe a little too optimistic and comparing it a little bit too much to lesser problems and I thought that was pretty impressive I gotta say you don't really expect your anybody in the public eye to just say yep I got that one wrong yeah so credit to dr. drew for

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yeah so credit to dr. drew for acknowledging that now I've said I said before I don't think he was that far off a doctor foul she was he because if you look at where foul she's evolution was it's not that different from dr. drew so you know if you're wrong but you also were pretty darn close to the top expert in the world who everybody's looking to that's not the wrong ggest you can be I mean you could be a lot more wrong than that you know even even if the the explanation turned out to be suboptimal you could be a lot more wrong in your life than that all right
does anybody confirm if the the the death camp actually went down from yesterday because I think it went down like sharply you know we're still dealing with relatively small numbers so I mean it's a big number if you happen to be one of the ones who died but you know a thousand can bump around you know thirty percent a day all right some of

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thirty percent a day all right some of these I don't understand the context somebody said how can a billionaire fun to win hub to improve commute that smite startup to improve communication in real-time cooperative situations well that would be more of a conversation but if you know any billionaires want to have that conversation send them my way how can we have a trustworthy 2020 election I think we're we're way beyond the point where but anybody trusts anything aren't we because we don't trust our experts we don't trust our politicians we don't trust the news don't trust anybody doing who do we trust so the question happen do we have a trustworthy 2020 election is we can't it doesn't matter who wins the other side is going to say there was cheating and they'll have a good argument they'll probably have a good argument did you notice a change in tone for today's press briefing much more positive to be

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press briefing much more positive to be honest to answer your question directly I did not notice but now that you mention it was it more positive well I don't know yeah are you having the same issue that I'm having which is the whole ventilator thing seems seems like we should know a lot more than we are I can't even tell you know just a few days away from the projected peak I can't tell if we're a hundred thousand ventilator is short or we already have too many can you based on everything you've seen you know in the press conferences would you be able to answer this question will will we be a hundred thousand ventilators short despite everything we're doing or do we already have twice as many as we need I don't think I can answer the question because I just hear confusing numbers that don't seem to

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confusing numbers that don't seem to have any context which leads me to believe that maybe nobody knows now there is a little hoarding and there's a question of the government taking control of them to move them where they need to be which i think is the right answer they should do that but could we possibly be less informed about the biggest question it's the biggest question and I can't even tell you you know the continent that the answer is on totally unacceptable how soon before the the Trump pills that would be the what I call the Hydrox chloroquine how soon before their standard for treating the corona virus well I don't know if it'll be standard until we actually have some test results and that might be a month from now so I guess there's a test in the United States that will have some results in a month so it

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will have some results in a month so it depends what you mean by standard I think lots of doctors will do off-label prescriptions just based on anecdotal stuff but does that make that standard I don't know I don't just had that question from comes Ella 4:20 Scott if you could put a single word to all this happens so far since January what would it be okay well you can you can all play along so if you had to describe the situation the corona voice virus world situation in one word since January what would it be about transformative I think it's transformative because so much about the way we think of our world will change

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aside from Christina tickling Chopin meaning on the piano what other music soothe is soothes you these days well I'm not a music guy I wish I were I've never you know I I can enjoy a hit song for a while before I get tired of it but I just don't enjoy music I listen to it sometimes but only medicinally I said this before so I won't bore the rest of you but I use music medicinally so for example if I'm working out and what the time to go faster I might find some music that that's good for working out but I don't like random music programming my brain just because I turned on you know serious and and music was coming in I don't like to be programmed without my can my consent initial REM des aver trial should have concluded last week any news well yes here's the news

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any news well yes here's the news there's no positive news which i think is all you need to know if you saw the survey about over 6,000 doctors were surveyed about what meds they think are working so that's the the most unscientific way you could get an answer of course is just asking their opinions but based on the doctors are actually doing the work they thought the the Trump pills were the the most effective again just anecdotally but I looked for REM des appear on the list and it was way down the list and I don't know if that just means that most doctors have no experience with it which you'd have to assume that most of never never prescribed it or they've heard they've heard things and it's not good so you're right enough time is going by that we should have Italy initial initial indications that it

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initial initial indications that it works and at the very least you know the task force would have heard a little bit early don't you think don't you think the task force is already getting early indications from the trials they just don't want to tell the public for good reasons and if the task force were hearing good things about REM does aveer I feel like we would have heard about it now they wouldn't have said it works but they might have said we're hearing good things about REM teza fear you know we hope it ends up the way the way it started you know they would have they would have teased that it's looking good but short of that teasing I'd have to say probably it doesn't you know if you had to bet on it I think we would have heard about it if it did work all right
there should trump horford add a prominent Democrat to the task force and if so who quick answer no no he should not he should just do whatever works best and adding anybody who would be a

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best and adding anybody who would be a source of conflict or a mole or anything not during an emergency
Bill Gates conducted an event in 2020 in Wuhan China simulated what six weeks before attack then I don't believe that so I'm going to say that don't believe I don't believe whatever this is this accusation how fast could we realistically move manufacturers back from China well I'll tell you there are probably a lot of things that are really really complicated because it would take a long time to build a factory get approval and you know we got a lot of red tape and such I think we might be able to cut some of the red tape but there would still be plenty and so it depends and the things which are easiest to move back are the ones that you can replace with a robot not a non-employee

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replace with a robot not a non-employee so what you might see because this trend already started is you may see some manufacturing come back but being done by robots so it's a mixed bag is the answer what is likelihood of a retroactive review of deaths currently attributed to Co vat19 to determine the actual cause of death I think it's highly likely that no matter where it comes out that people will dig in and say it was done wrong I think so I think we it's a guarantee that people will criticize it whether the critics are right or not we won't know it is shakedown Street type vending at dead shoe I don't know if that is do I need to wear a mask while walking my dog well it depends how

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while walking my dog well it depends how embarrassed your dog is to be out with you if you ever notice that your dog sort of looks away and feels embarrassed when you're out walking the dog you better wear a mask because you don't want to embarrass your dog can you teach lucid dreaming I've heard people say that you can't is nothing I've experienced with well I have experience of training myself to do it and it's just a process of thinking about something and then sometimes your your dream will extend that thought so there's no there's no real trick to it sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but if you if you think of a certain scenario before you go to sleep and you're dedicated to it you might you might dream it how to reconcile New York City morgues running out of room with an overall lower number of deaths that's a good question here's my guess right so we're hearing a

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here's my guess right so we're hearing a stuff that's very conflicting right we're hearing that that the morgue is overrun or at least in one place you know they're they're putting bodies in a refrigerated truck at the same time it seems that there are lower overall accidents in general sad I explained that here would be my explanation and this is just a guess it could be that some hospitals were specializing in coronavirus so that the hospital that was specializing all the kinds of cases that people die so they were just sort of bunched up in one area but maybe had more to do with that hospital handling the tough cases because otherwise we'd see it in the other hospitals and we're not so that's my guess so we should still see some problems upcoming maybe can the u.s. cancel the debt to China well you know in the sense that you can do anything but you know but if you cancel a debt then there goes

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but if you cancel a debt then there goes your credit worthiness so the cost is usually bigger than the game is drama important to the world yes yes it is drama is important to the world meaning that if there wasn't some here naturally we would create some because we need it you see it in your personal life all the time people like trauma we kind of like it and then the news business of course operates on that drama so yeah it's important maybe you shouldn't be what to do if you're very sick well that's that's a doctor question new top ten most persuasive words I'm gonna tell you some of that's going to make you mad because I can't tell you they're real secret somewhere in the world I I came across a pod of hypnotists who created a new word that is so powerful it's crazy and I can't tell you the word because

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and I can't tell you the word because then you would go find it and you would be sucked into these evil the hypnotist schemes but just trust me I I came across that and I just left myself that is the most powerful word so they they took an existing word and repurposed it I can't tell you the word I'm sorry I just can't and and then repurposing it they they with power and it's the most powerful thing I've ever seen so much so it's it could change civilization but I can't tell you what it is because ideally it won't escape from its little world but if it does oh my god so so there's a persuasive word in the wild that is designed better than the coronavirus and I don't know if that's going to get out but if it does if it does get out like this a year from now and it's like a national headline or something I'll tell you what it was but

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something I'll tell you what it was but I don't want to help it because it's it's truly evil I'd have to think about some other words so that was a terrible answer sorry well the country be the same when things reverses no it won't be the same there's a question of how much things will change my guesses will be 85 percent the same you know eventually not on day one but we'll sort of revert to 85 percent the same things that will be different might be temporary such as no large gatherings you know I thought that the era of large group gatherings was going to end anyway and I thought it was going to sort of end this year because this is year that drones become extra dangerous you know they've been getting more dangerous every year but at this point it's just it would be just so easy for somebody with bad intentions to do something bad with the large outdoor crowd especially outdoor with some kind of a drone attack

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outdoor with some kind of a drone attack so I've been thinking that large group events were probably going to go away and this will just push them a little further now if I had to bet though I'd bet they'll come back in the long run they might go away I think they'll come back in a year so all of the all the businesses that are hit the hardest they're going to be tough you know my this cost me my job basically I don't know the outcome yet but when this is when this is done I don't expect many newspapers to remain in the business because a lot of newspapers were sort of you know they were declining every year from from a pretty good profit margin but they were getting pretty close to the you know the edge of where they could stay in business so I think three-quarters of the local newspapers probably are in a business when this is over which means three-quarters of my income just went away so I'll actually be

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just went away so I'll actually be looking for a job so in terms of you know how how different will things be well I thought I I thought I was just going to retire and you know keep on doing what I was going to do but I actually have to look for a job now like a lot of people will be do now you know I'm not going to starve so I'm not an any kind of dire straits but it changed my career I mean I I will have to retool everything I'm doing which is yeah I kind of look forward to our frankly be a nice challenge and and other people you know the restaurant business recreation business a lot of outdoor stuff or anything that was your group activities it's going to be in bad shape for a long time but let me let me give you the good news everybody focuses on the bad news because that's it's more obvious more in-your-face there's definitely something that's happening to me that I wonder if it's happening to any of you and it goes like this you've heard this story about

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this you've heard this story about baseline happiness that people sort of had they're born with a level of happiness that doesn't seem to change too much unless they're just having the worst problems in the world but generally you could have you know a good or bad life and your happiness doesn't seem to change that much we're just sort of born a certain amount of happiness and it takes a lot to move us off of that and the thing that I've I'm starting to learn by having everything taken away from me meeting well look at the things that your are the things that I've lost you know temporarily and some permanently so I've lost my because a certain age and risk factor right I've lost the ability to go anywhere to just leave my house same with most of you right I've lost my ability to you know go to the gym socialize with people you know go eat at a restaurant I mean all the things that you can't do as well but here's the thing

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here's the thing if I had a choice I would of course want those back but I'm not less happy and I don't know what's up with that I think it's just the baseline the happiness thing as long as I eat right and sleep and you know get some exercise and stuff that my happiness doesn't change I mean if you look at the fact that my entire career just blew up like you know probably half of the people here just had your job blow up your retirement blow up so you know you're gonna like dig in again now in theory that should make me really sad in theory but it didn't and so here's what I found out about myself and I'm wondering if any of you had this realization so what I found out about myself is that the stuff I thought I needed to make me happy probably wasn't that important now

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probably wasn't that important now there's some things you just need to do you need a certain amount of variety and I think I think people have to travel a little bit this is your mental health but if you don't count the fact that some of it just has a depressive mental health thing you gotta hold together but just what do you need it turns out it turns out I guess I didn't need that much because my life has really slowed down to you know petting the dog and taking a nap and do some work and talk on periscope so so the the stress of my life weirdly you know we're in this in theory this should be the most stress I've ever had in my life but I'm not experiencing it that way I mean I definitely have my moments same as most of you where you know I can get worked up about worrying about something but it doesn't lie so I would say that the disconnect between the things I think make me happy

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between the things I think make me happy and the fact that most of them just went away including my career I mean think about it I mean my career just went away and I don't feel that sad you know I'd be more sad if I was worrying about eating or something but I'm not so I think that maybe there's something we learned in this that's important somebody also pointed out imagine how terrible this would have been if we didn't have smartphones and you know Netflix and screens because pretty much people are in survival mode just looking at their little screens because they can't talk to people or go anywhere but it works there are little screens are pretty good so I'm glad we have this glad we have this problem we had good technology let's see what are the odds that we'll have hundreds of thousands of deaths well the the experts say pretty

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deaths well the the experts say pretty good and I say pretty low well I don't know I'm not sure if you can calculate odds in this because my bet is based on us getting really effective really quickly and so you can't really predict that so it could be an invention an a an insight a drug or something but I think we'll be on the lowest of the low side of deaths because we're so darn clever
why does the model we were told to look at meeting the model for the coronavirus deaths continue to give projected numbers that are already proven wrong I don't know there are two ways there are two schools of thought one is that you adjust your model every day as you've got actuals and the other is that you're more honest and you say all right we're not going to change what we predicted we'll just change the line

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we predicted we'll just change the line of wear she is so you can see how bad our model was it's a little more honest to not update it every day so that people can see what you thought it was compared to what it is if you update it every day it feels a little like cheating all right
how would the world change if we allowed the week to die well well that's a dark question but I'll answer it I like dark questions here's how the world would change if we allowed the weak to die we'd have a long argument about what that included because you talk about your talked about a system that will eat itself as soon as you get to decide who is weak your whole system blows up so you can't really do that you know I have to say one of these strongest things about humanity is that we have these

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about humanity is that we have these kinds of arguments and that usually what wins is the side of we're going to keep everybody alive no matter what and we argue you know whether it's the abortion question or whether it's coronavirus we always have at least half of the country arguing that there's no gray zone when it comes to life there's no gray zone it's like if you can protect yet if it might be a life if it's if it's arguably life if somebody could think it's a life you protect it so at least half the country has that impulse no matter the topic we're just gonna you know of course they may feel differently about guilty life you know if you if you're a murderer or something terrorist but if you're innocent half the country is going to work really hard to keep you alive even if somebody else has an argument why they shouldn't so I like that about humans what is your take on

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that about humans what is your take on plant-based yogurt plant-based food either I don't believe anything anymore so yeah anything I would know about diet is because experts told me and there's no topic in which the experts have been more wrong four more years consecutively than nutrition so I swear I don't know what to believe anymore about nutrition or a lot of things that I rely on the experts for do you think putting Adam Schiff on the recovery task force would be a stroke of political genius now it would be the worst idea in the world that I'm very much in favor of you know working with your you know your political nemec's in emergency but Adam Schiff is not a political you know nemesis there's something wrong with him can we agree with that it's one thing to say hey I'm a Democrat I'm going to fight for my side or I'm a Republican

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fight for my side or I'm a Republican I'm gonna fight for my side but that's not what Adam shifts doing Adam Schiff has something that looks more like a mental problem you know playing out in some kind of political drama if it looked like it was just a political disagreement you know and and you know I've tried to reach out when Chris Cuomo was diagnosed I'd said some nice words Kathy Griffin you know I basically I've been trying to to boost the signal of people I normally wouldn't because it just sends that signal that we're you know on the same team at the moment but Schiff doesn't seem like one of them you know it's easy for me to like aoc even if I dislike every policy she mentions because I think she is you know has good intentions and she's a a real politician chef is something else hey whatever's going on with him it's not about politics there's just something

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politics there's just something something deeply broken there and I can't put my finger on it all right how our boo and Snickers doing they're doing great they're my only company so they're getting a lot of attention what do you think will be the main attack on Trump leading up to the election everything depends on the coronavirus everything depends on it because and I think that no matter how well the President does it's always going to be complicated and they'll always be able to say you should have done it differently it would have been better but we can't prove it you should have done it sooner even though we didn't know you should do it sooner either so there always have something to complain about I'm guessing it'll be the corona virus will be the the main line of attack should the White House press corps be required to wear mask to protect the president yes yes and yes I can't tell you how my confidence in the

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can't tell you how my confidence in the system is degraded by seeing the task force and the press conferences not wearing masks and being a little too close to each other doesn't that degrade your confidence and their ability now Trump is sort of a one-off and you could convince yourself all right you know he is the president you know maybe maybe you don't want him to look weak and wear a mask and you know you people would make fun of him and it would become a thing so so you could make an argument that the president is the one exception but that doesn't explain the rest of the task force and because since one of the main benefits of the of the mask is to not infect other people you could make the argument that the president has been tested twice and they're doing a good job of keeping people away from them I don't know if they are able to say they are you can make the argument that the president's the only person who doesn't have to wear a mask because we're not worried so much

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a mask because we're not worried so much that he'll give it to someone else the risk is someone who will give it to him so you know all the other people around him to wear masks even if he didn't that's like minimum you know and if you wore a mask to a little bit better but you can imagine how he would be the exception so yeah it I completely lose confidence when I see them not wearing masks as of today you know up till up till now maybe you can make an argument they didn't a war with China when well apparently we've been in in a war with China they've been killing tens of thousands of Americans per year but they deny it so we believe them oh the feds are all totally accidental yeah we'll take care of that sorry about all the fence at all yeah oh really did we not take care of that already yeah Bob did we like we didn't we're so sorry I will take care of that we'll take care of that right away so we're in

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take care of that right away so we're in a war with China it's just a unconventional one where they're killing us in their own ways I don't know if we're killing them in our own ways but I can't hope so how long before the vulnerable and the elderly can leave their homes it's gonna be a long time if I had to guess for myself all right so I'm unli I'm on the the barely you know edge of elderly I like to think so so I'll be turning 63 in June but I'm sort of a young young 63 I like to think but even for me with just like a little bit of asthma it's not like a big deal but even for me I think I might be stuck inside for six months I think I make it easily be the end of the year and if it went longer because they say well it's only three months left and then we'll have a vaccine you know suppose they say that

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vaccine you know suppose they say that at the end of the year I don't know if they would but if they said that well it's gonna be tempting to just stay another three months you know just be sure so I think the people who are at risk at least six months is just a gasps and for other people I think I think May will be when some people go back but yeah I don't know what about the walks what about the walks
oh well yeah I kick around for walks so it's a little it's a little ambiguous now whether I'm even allowed to go for a walk because I'm not sure that's allowed right technically we're not really allowed Barnes law helped him understand

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allowed Barnes law helped him understand so yeah so you know there are a number of people Adam Townsend and Robert Barnes and there's some people who still have taken the you know this might be overblown and this isn't gonna be as bad as as predicted there's still some really smart people on that side which is what keeps that movie alive for me completely alive if if a month from now if a month from now we're saying man it just was nothing yeah we ended up fewer people died then then were killed because of the you know shutting down the economy if it turned out to be the case I wouldn't even be a little bit surprised at this point at this point it would not surprise me to find out the whole thing was overblown but only because we're so good at mitigating not because it wasn't a real risk another depression nope I don't think so I don't

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depression nope I don't think so I don't think so I actually am still very much on the side of a quick recovery you can go to the park in your state people are saying back to work yeah all right um I think that's all I got for tonight and I think that you should have a terrific terrific night of sleep I'm going to give you some brain hacking tips so those of you stay to the end to these periscopes you get a little extra because the other people bailed out when I started reading questions they're like I don't want to hear the questions so here's some brain hack tips there are the main way that you can hack your brain which is rewiring your brain is by association and I'll give you an example let's say

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and I'll give you an example let's say there's a TV show that you've never been interested in and in my case it's that TV show Golden Girls it's a very old show if you're a certain age you remember it it's called Golden Girls you can still find it you know in reruns for Rogers ears and Christina recently when when we could still see each other at the same time started liking it and you know she's so she enjoyed watching some of the old reruns now I enjoy of course being with Christina's so I would agree to watch that show because I would be spooning her and we'd be watching it on the iPad and it was just so comfortable and wonderful so I didn't I didn't care about the show because I cared about the experience it was more about just you know lazing around and in spooning Christina but because that's such a good experience I started to love the show and if you think that this is a sort of

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and if you think that this is a sort of a one-off than you don't understand our brains work that simple Association of there was a thing that I only associated with one thing which was spooning Christina and so since that was so much fun I started to like the show now this is always the case if you associate things together those associations become your new programming the the the opposite of that and and so you can change I've actually experimented with us by the way over the years I've experimented to see if I can change what I thought was a basic preference so you know you have a favorite color and there's a food you like you have any of these preferences and I've actually experimented with quite a few times it's something I've done for years to see if I can make myself like something that I don't like or or dislike something that I really liked and I've done it dozens and dozens and dozens of times it's just easily reproducible

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reproducible in both directions you can actually just rewire your brain to like different things you just have to work at it so you have to reward yourself when you do it if you want to something you want to like and if it's something you know take the example of I was very hooked on eating Snickers candy bars but after I stayed off of them for a while I just completely lost it and something went from my favorite thing in the world and I consciously rewired it to something that I look at and I go why would I even put this in my body like I can remember what it tastes like it I'm still not interested in it completely rewired so you can rewire your brain that way the other way the other way you can do it is by contrast because your brain is a contrast engine and a pattern recognition engine and so if you want to let's say if you want to like something think about it in contrast to the the worst alternative so you can actually

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worst alternative so you can actually talk yourself into liking something by thinking of it in the context of something bad and so so manage your contrasts because they're optional so it's the trick that a real estate broker will use you know the real estate broker will take you to the a really bad listing you'll be like I can't live here and then after several bad ones the the real estate agent will take you to a nice one and then you're all primed you're like I got to have this right now and you're like yeah I gotta sign this deal right now because those other ones are so bad I only saw one good one so that's using the concept of contrast as soon as you saw one that looked good you're sold now if the broker had done it the other way which is to show you some that are a little out of your price range first and they're really good and then show you that average one that you could afford you wouldn't want it you might even change your mind about buying a house and all because you'd be like

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a house and all because you'd be like the only one I can afford is so bad compared to these other good ones I saw so you could manage your own contrast by simply choosing what you're thinking about so whenever you have the option just manage the thing you're thinking about next to the other things manage their contrast and that will reprogram you so those are a few tricks right there and you also want to use the trick of associating things with specific things I told you in the context of trying to get a good night's sleep you only want to use your bed for sleeping and/or adult activities but you don't want to use your bed as the place you go to watch movies and stuff like that because then your brain will think oh I'm in bed this is the time I wake up to watch a movie so make sure that you you have triggers in your life that only

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you have triggers in your life that only are associated with one state for example I also teach in my book kind of failed almost everything it's still one big that if you want to exercise because you know it's good for you but you get home from work and you just don't have any energy and you're like I worked all day I know I should exercise I just can't do it the trick that I teach is to put on your gym clothes and especially your athletic footwear now assuming that you don't wear your your sneakers or your your running shoes all day anyway if it's an unusual feeling meaning that the only time you have this kind of Footwear on is when you exercise that Association will trigger your desire to exercise so you could be not in the mood at all and say ah but at least I could put my many sneakers on and you put them on and you walk around a little bit and suddenly suddenly just because you dressed for it it'll it'll trigger you into that state so that's another mind hack is find little triggers that you

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hack is find little triggers that you can associate with just one state and then reinforce them and reinforce them until you can use that trigger to reproduce that state the other brain active course is that I talked about too much is talent stacking you know you have a certain set of talents and then you intelligently layer new skills on top you don't have to be the best of the world just things that fit together really well that becomes a brain hack because all new ideas are really old ideas just combined so for example if you knew something about economics and something about art history to pick two ridiculous examples you might notice something in one of those fields that gives you an idea from the other field it's like oh in economics we think of it this way art historians never think of it this way but they could and so it seems like a new idea but really most ideas come from

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new idea but really most ideas come from other fields so when you combine your kid your talent stack and add you know several unrelated skills together that just work well together toward some sum and you you create the ability to be more creative simply because you held in your head more variety of patterns and things and then you say oh that's like macrame it's like god that's like playing the drums it's a little like this so you can act your brain to be more creative simply by adding talents from unrelated fields that's how it happens I'd like to probably talk all day about brain hacks but someday you got to get the bed and you remember that since I suggested that you would have a tremendous night of sleep and you could remember me counting to 20 if those of you who are there to be to be hypnotized into being able to

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be to be hypnotized into being able to do self-hypnosis just count to 20 when you get to 20 you'll be relaxed and drift off and
between now and the next time I see you in the morning 12 hours from now have a great night sleep and I will talk to you in the morning