Episode 908 Scott Adams: Happy Easter! Get Closer to God With the Simultaneous Sip.

Date: 2020-04-12 | Duration: 1:03:26

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bum-bum-bum-bum-bum hey everybody come on in here hey Donny diamonds good to see ya what a day well most of you are probably in church or heading to church or wish you're in church or doing a virtual zoom to church I suppose nobody's actually going to church today alright is there any place in the country you could actually go and be in the same room with each other I don't know maybe we'll find out hey Omar good morning good morning well there's not much going on today which isn't just a continuation of what was going on yesterday but we'll talk about that but not until we get the day started just right I'll be taking some questions so if anybody wants to queue up to be a question asker this would be the time to do it but first if you would like to enjoy the simultaneous sip and of course you would of course you would yeah you would all you need is a cup or mug or glass so take your chalices time to

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glass so take your chalices time to canteen dragon flask confess of any kind fill it with your favorite like weird I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine the other day the thing that makes everything including the pandemic better it's called the simultaneous up and it happens now go well let's see what's going on the South is open for church services what do you all think of that do you think that you were right to assemble in church should take priority over the health of the public well here's the way I look at it how could you go to church and have those good churchy feelings but also be willing to kill grandma to do it so I'll give you my opinion here's my

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my opinion here's my and in freedom's good but if the way you worship your God risks killing your grandmother for no good reason I would say you've made the wrong choice I wasn't expecting to take her strong strong stand against going to church today just kind of came out as most of you know I'm not a believer but a very pro religion because I think religion is if properly used and it's more often properly use than not religion is a tremendous benefit to most people so I hope you're enjoying your your day today yeah but I have to question why anybody would get any kind of a a group when the health risks are so high and especially why would you do it on a religious day of it seems like that should be the day that you you're worshipping Satan you know if you were worshipping Satan wouldn't it make sense to get together with a big group so you could get everybody affected in fact and kill

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everybody affected in fact and kill everybody in the nursing home feels a little more like Satan ish but that's up to you all right you're all familiar with Voice of America that's our u.s. funded entity that broadcast radio into other countries so that we can propagandize them and tell them that we're pretty darn awesome here pretty darn awesome
and apparently Voice of America is not as objective as we'd like it to be and it's been accused by our government we spent two hundred million dollars a year on The Voice of America and apparently it's starting to spout Chinese propaganda that's right we're spending over many billions of dollars on the World Health Organization to not give us yet - not give us good health information we spend all this money on

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information we spend all this money on the World Trade Organization to not give us fair trials and apparently we're spending a lot of money on The Voice of America to create propaganda against us I think that's probably an overstatement there have been some specific examples in which they seemed a little bit a little bit pro-china which is weird I don't know how that could happen given that we're the ones who fund it I don't know honestly I don't know how it happens but there it is
is so anyway that's the big story today I
continue to wait for this side before I decide to get afraid of the coronavirus as of today I am NOT personally afraid I mean I'm certainly afraid for the impact it might have in the country and other people but for me personally I'm pretty well well isolated here not too afraid but I've I've proposed this standard for myself which is there are a lot of

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myself which is there are a lot of famous people in the world right if you count all the famous athletes celebrities politicians Sarah tons of famous people in the world until the first famous person who's under the age of 70 dies from the corona virus and of all those possible people whose names you know and you would call them a celebrity under the age of 70 if not a single one of them in America dies what are the odds I would be the first one because if you think about it at this point I don't want to jinx myself but if I were to die you know me personally to die from coronavirus tomorrow I would be the most famous person who died of coronavirus in the United States is that wrong by the way who is has anybody famous in the United States under 70 died I don't think so so what would the odds that I would be out of all the famous people in the

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out of all the famous people in the country really the world a very famous dying yet and I'm all those famous people one of the odds I would be the one who dies seems pretty low so I realize it's irrational and not based on math or anything but until there's at least one famous person dying one of the odds is made speaking of that babyface the singer producer entertainer is 61 years old which is weird because he has the most perfect nickname so he's a singer named babyface he's 61 years old and when I read that I thought well that can't be right he's not 61 I'm looking at his picture he listed 35 tops he looks like he's in his 20s and I'm looking at this guy and I'm thinking he actually has a baby face that's that's the most perfect nickname anybody ever had anyway he and his family unfortunately they have the coronavirus there's there's no reason to believe that they have any especially bad problems with it but he's the most

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bad problems with it but he's the most famous person who's not Tom Hanks or pink or that basketball player Gobert I guess they're the famous one so far but we hope he'll be okay
so Tom Hanks recovered enough to host Saturday Night Live but they did it all remotely you know Tom Hanks was in his kitchen and all the rest of the staff they did their own little skits like their youtubers from their own homes and I didn't see it but I've been watching a lot of news TV where the anchors and stuff are in their homes if you watch the five you see they're all in five different locations and stuff and if you watch Bill Maher you saw you did it from his backyard or something and here's the question out of this show it was somebody saying Joe Diffie but he was over over 70 and I didn't know he was anyway I didn't know John Prine was but they're over 70 so here's my question

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they're over 70 so here's my question are the shows that were watching that are being cheaply produced from people's kitchens are they worth think about it so he says Joe Joe Diffie was 61 Roy all right well I don't count that one because I didn't know who he was so if I've never heard of him he's not famous enough to count he was you know I'm sure some of you heard of him but I'd never heard of them he's the famous drummer and John Prine was over 70 with underlying health conditions sorry Boris Johnson they say nearly died they said 50/50 but he came through so anyway my point is if you watching the news all these people doing these low production jobs from home honestly they look just as good to me have you noticed the only thing that I noticed that's obviously sort of missing is there are some people who do live

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is there are some people who do live shows with live audiences or at least other people in the room and they wait for the laughs and the laughs doesn't happen so the way Bill Maher did his show I thought was clever and also also a fairly self-aware because when Bill Maher does his stand-up a lot of a lot of the the show if you will has to do with the audience reaction so he's not just telling jokes and standing there he's sort of moving with the audience and you know if they laugh he responds and stuff and I'm seeing other people saying it's worse I don't know I think it's different and I think it's interesting so in the long run if yeah I suppose you could say it would be worse production is worse and stuff but there's a little bit of adjustment they need to make so the way Bill Maher did his was he he had them dub in you know fake audiences laughing at his jokes it would be a different audience you know

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would be a different audience you know and obviously from historical black-and-white footage and stuff so it was actually it was actually pretty good the huge the hubris of Scot would be the last thing that somebody said in their comments before they got blocked anyway enough of that so I would like to update my permanent prediction record all right you all remember that there was that graph that showed that the number of diagnosed pneumonia deaths for this year seemed to drop off a cliff coincidentally at about the same time that the coronavirus was picking up and so people passed that graph all around the internet and people said look it's obvious that there's nothing happening about ordinary pneumonia it's being miss categorized as coronavirus and you can tell by looking at the graph because

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tell by looking at the graph because pneumonia stop at the same time the corona goes up so it's obviously just miss diagnosis I looked at that graph and with no factual evidence whatsoever said that looks like a fake graph to me was I the first person on the Internet that you saw might have been others but the first one that you saw call out this graph that people everybody was passing this around it was very very well well trafficked how many people saw that and believed it and then I was maybe the first person in the world to tell you that doesn't look real that's fake well it didn't take long for data scientist by the name of so there's an update to this story you've heard the first part Tyler Morgan who put together this amazing visualization in which he showed that the only reason that that one line seemed to drop off this year was because there's a lag in the data

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was because there's a lag in the data reporting and it happens every year and every other year looked exactly like this year if measured at the same time but there's an update so people said are you sure Tyler Morgan are you sure it's going to happen this year just because the other years they had that drop to and then it got corrected does that necessarily mean it's gonna happen this year and we didn't know but now we do so now the now the data has been reported and data scientist Tyler Morgan put in the actual data so nothing was changed he just took the data the way it's reported and the scary drop in pneumonias just went away it went away exactly as Tyler Morgan told you it would because it went away all the other years at the same time and so he just waited for the same I told you was gonna happen then reality redid his graph there was there's still

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redid his graph there was there's still people here saying it's not fake okay here's what you need to do sir it's amazing how there's no amount of information that will change people's minds you know even though I wrote a book on that topic so even though I'm most famous for saying that the information and facts don't change anybody's opinion even though they should and I'm watching it happen right in front of me here's what you need to do the source for the data it was written right on the graphs so you could go to my Twitter feed and you could find the graph look at the source look at the data and see if he put the right data into the graph that's all you can find out for yourself did you could look at the actual source it's a government source so just look at it look at the data and see if it's the same day that you looked at the chart and then come back to me and tell me he did it wrong I think I don't think anybody's gonna come back to me now I haven't done that by the way I have not

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haven't done that by the way I have not checked that myself but do you think this data scientist who's gotten quite a bit of attention because I tweeted him and he deserves that he's really good do you think that he just made that up I don't think so
who's more famous than me you know you can check that there's a website called Twitter fight is that what it's called no Google fight right let's do that Google fight cuz everything every now and then I'd like to know not flight's fight I guess that went away they don't show it anymore huh foo go fight that's why oh god I've got this weird situation with my phone I don't know if this has happened to any of you but the way I hold my phone all day long is this

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hold my phone all day long is this is on this corner of the phone right here so when I'm holding it you know this thumb is always right on this edge and for a long time afterwards it'll have a dent in it can you see that I I spend so much time with the phone on the corner I found that there's actually like a u-shaped it takes a while for it to come back but I've so deformed the end of my thumb by holding the same part of my phone then when I try to type the end of my thumb has two points instead of having one point in the middle of the thumb it's like it's like a little camel hump two humps and I'm like a Miss tied to like crazy so let's try it again this is the worst periscope of all time but there's not much other entertainment happening so let's see my goodness there it is make a fight all right so what was that guy's name defi Joe Diffie so we'll

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that guy's name defi Joe Diffie so we'll check him Joe di FF ie I think and then there's me how interesting watching other people type on their phones in purpose alright so we're gonna see this fight and I'll show it to you as it's happening if I can it's it's thinking it's thinking so what this is is Google will test the number of search results well it looks like it's not gonna work yeah it's just well that was the least interesting thing that happened today all right do you have any questions that will take your questions now let's see who has good questions for me let's try address if I'm pronouncing your name

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address if I'm pronouncing your name right address address address address so you there do you have a question
I was thinking about a mental framework for this crisis and I've been thinking maybe we should change like collectively to the thinking of like really resilient animal or insect like an ant colony but basically when it's under attack as the unites forces and really doesn't worry too much about the particular feelings of every individual end or just holds together follows orders and pull through yeah I'm not sure they're thinking about it differently would get us to a better result because we we have pretty amazing cooperation and innovations and everything you know it's like everything else in the world you know five or 10% of the world just isn't gonna go along with anything but 90% of the world are doing pretty well you probably can't get much better than that unless you threaten to kill people but in terms of how things are going I like that the

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how things are going I like that the president is reinforcing how much he thinks the the economy is going to bounce back and how quickly and what I like about that is he's he's basically setting our expectations and he's picked a future points and he said the end of the year might be like record-setting numbers I don't know if they'll be record-setting but if everybody thinks it's gonna be good at the end of the year we'll all prepare for it so businesses will make more products and people will save their money to spend and people will act as though we all agree that things are gonna be good at the end of the year and if we act as though it is that it becomes good because the economy is just the result of all the intentions and the actions of the people so that's my best answer I don't know if that was any good but well thank you that means that all right next question let's see what bill has to say bill went away bill let's try John I

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say bill went away bill let's try John I don't know why people go away as soon as I select them I don't know if that's a technology thing or anything bill do you have a question bill do you have questioned build is not listening to his phone later he's gonna say darn it I almost had a phone call let's try dancing Nancy looks prepared Nancy or you do you have a question for me yes you know what today is is it Easter Sunday I am wondering what you think about something in the world of persuasion that lasted over 2,000 years and actually occurred in those days by a

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actually occurred in those days by a very small group of people that were able to influence the world down through the generations it has continued so how could that have happened well I I hate to rock your world I feel I feel bad I answered this question on Easter Sunday but you asked and you know people don't come here to hear me lie to them so I'll give you my honest answer I'm not a religious historian I'm not but I'll make a I'll make a statement which I believe to be true things I've heard from religious historians which is that there were lots of traditions and there were lots of other religions that did not survive had similar characteristics of somebody who was killed and then they were reborn as something bigger so apparently that's just a normal thing that happens with lots of religions so if you go back in time there were lots of different religions they competed

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of different religions they competed against each other in different ways and something won you know a few of them emerged so Islam emerged and and Christianity emerged and lots of different forms of Christianity so I would look at it as just evolution was some kind of survival of the fittest which in some cases has to do with the the quality of the story if you will you know does it have a holy book you know is it is it put together well you know does it is it promoted by a leader because there were a number of leaders who sort of took up Christianity as their thing now if a few leaders had changed their mind you know if the King of England or you know I know Charlemagne or I don't know my history well ago but if if some of the great leaders just a few of them had simply said no I'm gonna pick this other religion probably would have gone a different way so there are a bunch of factors now why one religion does well and one does not but I have to i would

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and one does not but I have to i would pick one thing in particular maybe two things about christianity that make it work really well persuasion wise to get to your question yeah one is the thought that you can always be saved no matter what bad you did so we'd like to think that we can be good people even if we've done bad things and christianity directly says yeah you could do terrible things but as long as you're willing to you know at this moment change you know and do the right steps to become more godly according to christianity then you're saved and you're saved forever and you're your history is wiped clean I think that is such a seductive an appealing thought because people are wracked by guilt and to have some authority say you know all that guilt you had we all got problems too all you got to do is do these steps say these things you know believe and believe in these things and your history is wiped clean and your guilt is gone so in terms

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clean and your guilt is gone so in terms of getting rid of your guilt is great and also it has the advantage that if your life is bad you can always tell yourself you know my life is bad but I'll do these following things to be a good person and then eternity my afterlife will be awesome cuz because I worked hard even though my life was bad so between the fact that has a payoff of infinity literally forever in at heaven that's the best payoff you could possibly have so you wouldn't expect that people would work the and you know be the most obedient to whatever promise them the most reward so you see Islam promises the big reward Christianity promises a big reward if you do the right stuff so you know persuasion wise is fairly it's fairly straightforward people will do a lot to get a gigantic potential reward even like a lottery you know you'll buy a lottery ticket even if you have a woman one in a hundred million chance of winning because if you did win it would

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winning because if you did win it would be so great you'd be happy so does that answer your question
perhaps fairy tale what a good fairy tale it is for so many people now through the generations well well well keep in mind I didn't say that no so so I've I try to be more at least lately you know well you mentioned so often is we can't even remember you know who was in the news last week and who is being persuasive and it just writes me every year at Christmas and Easter particularly that this man had the most incredible effect on human history out of all people that have ever lived so it just amazes me because he didn't have any of the tools that we have today and yet it still exists well or or you could

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yet it still exists well or or you could say the whoever wrote the Bible were the influential ones because the Bible was written after Jesus's life so if they had not been written in a way that people found influential and persuasive for centuries I don't know that why he did would be so had it had the impact and more to do with the people who collected it on paper right would you agree well I don't know when you think about Paul who was influenced the most he didn't he didn't have the Bible he didn't have you know he was speaking to people about the influence of this man Jesus Christ so it was amazing that Paul didn't have anything to go home experience well I did have the message you know I read that they had turned the other drink didn't really mean what we think it to me and today her that yeah I don't know the details but I think turned the other trick was a little bit more aggressive I think in those days it wasn't so much

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wasn't so much you know hey hit me again and I won't hit you back with the way we interpreted today I think it was it was more of a subtly psychologically aggressive thing I don't know the details but it changed but let me just say this my larger theory of reality is that none of us have brains which are designed to understand reality meaning that a clam doesn't know it's a clam but it also doesn't need to you know my dog doesn't really understand much about this complicated human world that it lives them doesn't need to so as long as the creature can survive and procreate that's all it needs so there's no reason to believe that humans have this extra ability to not only breed and you know procreate and stuff but we can actually understand reality when in fact we watch you know the two of us can watch the news on a Tuesday and walk away with completely different realities one will say the presidents a crook it's obvious who's right there on the news the other

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who's right there on the news the other one would say that presidents the greatest Patriot of all time it's obvious it was right there in the news we both watched it it's obvious and so we can see that even in the simplest situations people will look at the same facts with you know eyes and ears and stuff and come to completely wildly different conclusions about their own reality right that moment like in the moment people are redefining reality wildly differently so when you said when somebody says is this religion or that religion true I have the same answer for all of them nothing's true you know not not the nothing thing in your hand not the thing you heard on news not what you think of your life your purpose in the world none of its true because we don't have the equipment meaning our brain our brain is not designed to tell us what's true it's just as to keep us alive and for that telling us little stories does find so is it true that any of us have the right little

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that any of us have the right little story so might it be that the the Hindus for example are the only people who are getting the right story and everybody else is interpreting a wildly different you know the the Muslims and the Christians I don't think so I don't think so that seems possible I mean you can't rule that out but it seems far more likely that all the evidence suggests that none of us have a an accurate view of reality and we've all created these stories that exist in our heads which are internally consistent to us but sounds like nonsense often when we explain it to someone who has a different movie in their head so I don't say that you know Jesus is real or not real that Islam is real or not really real or anything else I say that we don't have the capacity to know what's real so whether there is a a real version of religion or not there isn't any chance we'd find it except by luck you know so there are so many religions that if one of them is

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many religions that if one of them is right it doesn't matter which one if one of them is like bang on it does mean all the rest of them are wrong and you don't know which group you're in that's the problem all right I hope I didn't
but I have loved for the first time years ago when you first introduced the idea of the simulation it has just been fascinating to me that and I see and yet the flip side of that is that in this world the Christian belief world we call those Easter blessings and from and for me you are today's Easter blessing the Happy Easter Scott oh you're so nice I love you thanks have a great day I like when people are in a good mood just because does it's Easter maybe she's in a good mood all the time I don't know

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a good mood all the time I don't know let's see what Omar has to say Omar Omar may the gods of technology connect us but it looks like they may not so Omar has got some technical difficulty come back Omar come back let's try Jan Jan Jan do you have a question Jay
Happy Easter what's your question I've to see what you thought about it so this is a really rough idea I was talking about it with my husband yesterday with the restaurants being I think the restaurants are going to have a hard time coming back they're gonna have to get really creative so what do you think about a handheld mouth shield that you could have the restaurants could provide and now this is a rough idea and they would they could brand it they could make them look kind of fancy or funky

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make them look kind of fancy or funky down the road but the idea is you can see people's mouths and they would have this little handheld shield and they could take it with them a handheld shield so the the kind that the medical professionals attach to their head is that what you're talking about well you know how the old fans many years of decades maybe centuries ago women would hold those little fans and they would sort of got themselves it would be like a fixed it wouldn't open up like a fan and be solid or opaque it would be a clear translucent piece if you will held on a stick and you would hold it up to your face while you were talking in a restaurant well you know I will use the same argument I use for face masks which is it seems to me that anything that is a barrier to the force of the air coming out of your mouth should make some difference but I would you know the obvious thing is that if you have an amass con it's gonna keep the air closer to your face if you have

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the air closer to your face if you have a flat object in front of you seems like your air would still sort of escape around it but it would stop a little bit of it my my thought is that it would be hard to make that widespread it would be hard to convince people it made enough of a difference for them to take the effort to to use them and have something in one hand and yeah it's good thinking I like where you're going with this because I like the I like the general thinking of is there some other thing you can do with your face mouth area to get us past that so I like the thinking I'm not enough of a scientist to know how much of a difference that would be but as somebody says in the comments maybe some I mean if if coughing into your elbow makes a difference make some difference if you could get people to do it anyway interesting idea thank you for that Thanks hi any any ideas that require and then everybody will do X is

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require and then everybody will do X is always a problem because getting everybody to do X is pretty darn hard
all right I'm gonna add a studio hello caller do you have a question for me
caller I'm talking to you but you don't know it yes hi I'm Jenni DJ Elsie studio yeah when you're writing the Dilbert comics do you think that you're kind of going through the process of having conversations with yourself the internal process I don't know if anybody's ever ask you this question which is actually a really good question the internal process I have when I'm writing it is that I usually start with some concept so it's something that bothers people something that happens a lot in the office and then I then I say well which characters would make sense to be interacting around this concept and it's usually pretty obvious you know if it's sort of a nerdy thing it's Dilbert if

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sort of a nerdy thing it's Dilbert if it's a boss thing it's the boss etc so then I've got the concept I've got the characters and then I say alright where are they and it's usually in the office and that I say alright who would start the conversation now as a as a writer here's a little writing trick people have said they really like to writing tricks I'll repeat it if you want a dialogue to look sort of realistic even though it's in comic form but enough to listen that people say oh that happened to me you avoid asking questions because it's really easy as a writer to say okay it's two people talking the first one asks a question the second woman answers this becomes boring right away now you can't avoid it because of the real world people do ask questions and stuff so I of course include questions of the comic but the first thing I tell myself is can i rewrite it without a question so I always have that that thought in my head so I start writing the comic and you know I reflexive ly cuz everybody does

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know I reflexive ly cuz everybody does first line is a question and I go okay my rule is if I can avoid it the first line of dialogue should not be a question should be a statement because in the real world people don't care what you think yeah 99% of the time nobody cares what you think they simply tell you what they think they try to get what they want they trying to move their agenda they try to be selfish so if you write dialogue writer for people who are being selfish self-absorbed and don't care a bit about the other people unless you know happens to be a character that that is their very character you know characteristics that they care about people but that do the exception but they they're ordinary people to make them look like real people in real situations make them super selfish and then the the audience will say oh yeah I've had that feeling before because you're trying to get to people's internal thoughts you know not the ones that they let other people say

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the ones that they let other people say so our internal thoughts tend to be far more selfish and and dark than the ones we let the rest of the world see so if you're writing dialogue and you're trying to entertain people it's often good to have have your characters make statements that matched people's dark selfish thoughts that always works like it if there's one trick of writing use that one all right so then the question is does it become kind of a dialogue in my head I think that's where you were heading with that like do I hear the dialogue is that what you're asking kind of so it reminds me a lot if you're familiar with what John Peterson talks about with archetypes it kind of seems that a lot of your characters are kind of archetypes yeah they very much are a view what are the things that reinforces that is if you were to try to map the Dilbert characters the way they exist into an existing chess set you could do it more easily than you imagined that is to say you would quite easily know who the king

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you would quite easily know who the king was which would be the boss you would know who the queen is because the queen is the most powerful character and female that's Alice so they map you know the the one that looks like a castle you know with a little square castle ahead sort of even looks like Dilbert and Dilbert goes in straight lines you know he's an engineer I can only go in a straight line okay so you know and I shook the the intern he's a pawn he's literally smaller and you know expendable in the world of Dilbert because he's just an intern and if you look at and of course dogbert would be the the knight the little horse because you don't see a comment it's like oh - / + 1 / yeah I didn't see that comin so it's quite common that you could take any popular TV show and you can map it right into a chess set because to your point we have these Universal feelings of categories of people and we sort of automatically our brains put people into categories these these archetypes as you

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categories these these archetypes as you say so so there's that anyway to answer your question once I have the the characters set up and I've got this situation and the first try I ask a question and they say no no no don't make it a question make it a statement make yourself ish make it stupid that looks like a person and then I just iterate so I can actually hear them talking to me as if they're the ones talking and I don't know if I could always do that or if that's just practice or if everybody could do that easily I don't know but in my mind I can actually just see them and then they start talking and so Dilbert will say you know my pride check is heading toward a wall or something and they'll look at it they'll say no he wouldn't say it that way and then he says it a different way they go no that's not the way Dilbert would talk either and then Dilbert says something else I go that's Dilbert okay that's what Dilbert would say and that's my first sentence and then I go from there and just iterate when I get to the end if there's something about the

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end if there's something about the timing or the setup that didn't work I can go back and tweak things so that the you know the the pace of the timing end at the right place but it's very iterative and it is it is more like listening than creating and that's the part that people who are not naturally creative probably find to be the magic part I don't know because you only know you only know your own brains you don't know what anybody else's internal process is like well that you never mind yeah but poem that I wrote which is I can't stop writing poetry when I reread write I wrote and judge myself yeah yeah so judging yourself and rewriting is really the process of writing so hating what you just wrote is the most dominant part of writing and also something else that said and then this will be the last thing because you got plenty of other important callers to get to which is in Greek mythology like they kind of

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Greek mythology like they kind of represent different archetypes like there's like the God of love and the God of War and all that stuff and people were basically compelled by those different gods and they were like consumed or one could say possessed by those gods and something you were saying we're also reminded me of a different poem I wrote a long time ago about chess but yeah so those are some right all right thanks to the thoughts I'd take care all right let's take another color let's see if see if Larry has something to say Larry Larry Larry are you there do you have a question yes I can hear you go ahead so I had a couple of different one is about Bill Gates and the other is about Joe Biden which would you prefer Bill Gates or Joe Biden you mean former president no no questions about topics Oh give me Bill Gates

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Oh give me Bill Gates all right so Gates is apparently setting out vaccine factories for seven different promised vaccines which seems like an incredibly you know generous and proactive thing to do is gonna there you know the gates everything is going to produce them just in case they're viable so that we don't have to wait but then all these conspiracy theories probably you know Bill Gates gonna put you know microcontrollers in it and just these it seems idiotic why does that happen and how can houses help that the Gates Foundation stopped it from happening well some of it has to do with Bill Gates legacy reputation because when he was making his money as a young man he was it was pretty much a shark so he would at least he was famous for I wasn't there so I can't judge it personally but he was famous for let's say bending the ethical limits at least

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say bending the ethical limits at least within you know what's the monopoly what is fair competition and that sort of thing so he has that which will always dog him but I think those were also the the actions of a younger a younger man and he always said that his goal was to make a bunch of money and then give it away intelligently and now he is but I've said this before and I'll probably say it a million times I'm almost positive that Bill Gates is exactly what you see meaning that there's just nothing there's just no pretense largely because he doesn't need to he doesn't need your money he's literally trying to give his money away so the thought that he would have something to gain either politically or monetarily flies in the face of everything you know about him because of the people I murdered a couple years ago you have you know you don't care you out Hugh money and he's got a thousand times the money that you have so the thing to think about all the rumors

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the thing to think about all the rumors and and complaints that go around about George Soros Rosaura Soros is a rich guy but he's just a fraction as rich as Bill Gates if Bill Gates wanted power he would be buying it directly he would be doing what George Soros does have you ever heard of Bill Gates buying power anywhere I haven't have you ever seen Bill Gates express that like clever interests like oh I'd never run for president gosh I'm certainly honored that everybody's asking me but I know I'm focused on you know that thing where he really wants to be president he's never done that malaria oh yeah right right so I think Bill Gates thinks that an elected job would be a move back which I would think if you if he asked me what is more honorable and important President of the United States or Bill Gates doing what he's doing now I know we could get somebody else to be President like you could fill that job with other

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like you could fill that job with other capable people but how do you get another Bill Gates Foundation like trying to cure malaria and stuff I mean that's that's a one-off so I think that Bill Gates has he can't be trying to get a promotion because he already has the most honorable important job on the planet he does need money so so he doesn't have the motivation and and here's another factor which maybe I have a little special feeling for if you've seen some documentaries about him he's not normal meaning that he looks like maybe it's Asperger's I don't know what it is but he has the ability to focus incredibly now one of the things that comes with that and this is me speculating a little bit so I'm a little further than where I should be but just for fun part of the you know the double the other side of the coin for that intense focus and whatever the you know being on the spectrum gives you which is like a superpower in his case it also

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like a superpower in his case it also makes you fairly honest and blunt so he's not the kind of guy who could hide it I feel like I feel like even when he was you know being you know a capitalist evil guy during his microsoft days i don't know if anything was hidden it was just raw power right I mean mostly he I don't think anybody ever said you know Bill Gates told me something I thought he was lying you've never heard that have you i under have you ever heard one accusation in the entire in the entire history of Bill Gates has anybody ever even one time accused him of lying think about it think about how famous he is and that long he's been in the public eye can you think of one example where somebody credibly said that Bill Gates himself as opposed to somebody else in Microsoft ever one time has even been accused of lying think about it almost everybody's

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lying think about it almost everybody's been accused of lying I don't know that he ever has been anyway somebody will think of an example perhaps but no I'm I am I am 100% confident that Bill Gates is the real thing because all of the incentive would be for him to be the real thing that all of his incentives there's no incentive for him to be anything except exactly what he's showing you he doesn't have anything to gain so ok good conspiracy theorists here in the comment I don't believe them alright thanks for the question let's take another maybe we can do one more let's see what TLC is up to TLC can you hear me more name do you have a question ok good so and do that

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have a question ok good so and do that in a way that keeps everybody safe the least vulnerable group seems to be teenagers okay so what's preventing teenagers from taking on what my crowd will call the dirty jobs that are keeping the country moving well yeah I think that's effectively what's going to happen maybe without the under-18 people because if you're under 30 you're also pretty pretty safe relatively speaking yeah I wouldn't be surprised if you see that the people who have jobs are under 50 let's say do go back to their own jobs but you might say to your point young people filling in for the people who can't go back to their job so I can see that that would make sense as a temporary situation maybe yes yeah so now that they're all

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maybe yes yeah so now that they're all not in regular school we can send them into these jobs keep them away from adults yeah you know I I think you you hint toward a bigger point which is everybody is going to be really creative and flexible about how to get this done so I don't think there's even one element of society that isn't under review right now that we've never seen this before which is part of the reason that I'm confident about the future the future being you know 2021 and beyond because the amount of innovation that this is going to sort of accidentally trigger because we've we've critically re-examined everything we do from the from the bottom up as if it didn't exist maybe we have to start from scratch and say okay what if I always had to give food in in a world in which I couldn't be around other people how would I do it

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be around other people how would I do it and then you think about delivery and stuff and and so systems are being modified just all over the place like crazy just a ton of creativity and a be testing going on so a lot of good stuff happening I'm positive about that yeah me dude I'm with you on that and I have one more thing farmers dumping milk and throwing out seas and this is an issue with packaging right so there's HRI food which is hotels restaurants industrial food packaging in production and then there's regular stuff we get in the supermarket no more food outside of the home traditionally so now the week they can't ship those lines over to package it in a way that it can go into supermarkets but then we're seeing these long lines at food kitchens and other things I'm reading this morning you know India starving yeah well my

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you know India starving yeah well my guess is that all of these are temporary things so it is so temporarily you could easily see somebody say ah if I had two weeks I could solve this but my my milk will be bad in one week so so I think if you you know check back in a year a lot of that stuff would be worked out they'd have new systems and just just like you said I think it's only a timing thing I think they're just takes a little while to work things out but I think we'll get there so alright thanks for the question thank you
let's do one more because it's Easter Sunday can't think of a better reason all right I'm gonna pick this one because of your title based and running toward what hello based do you have a question our technology is not going to add you it looks like all right so no based will not be with us let's try

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based will not be with us let's try Blake Blake do you have a question for me
me morning yes I can't guess so thinking about simulation theory and all this persuasion it's it's all like you know once you grasp it and wrap your head around it how do you make more practical applications of it for instance in stressful situations where you need to be calm and think about how to be more persuasive like if you're in a court on the stand or you're in a business negotiation or something like that good question and I did something like this with a relaxation kind of exercise but there's there's more of an everyday part of this I find myself on a regular basis to saying alright what if my reality is not the you know the classic one where I'm a real person who's born and live and die and stuff but rather what if I'm a character in a video game and this video game is designed for me

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and this video game is designed for me to solve certain obstacles to get to the next level and I say to myself does it seem like I keep running into the same problem everywhere and it feels like that's what defines the level you're on have you had this experience will there be you know other people have all kinds of different problems in different realms but you for some reason keep having that's the same flavor of the same problem in different clothes one time after another and you save yourself and you save yourself is this my was this my challenge for this level like I guess this problem just keeps coming up and up and every I could go to another state move to another house change jobs and I would still have this problem because it would follow me like so sometimes it's fun to think of yourself in a video game so instead of saying oh why am i plagued by this problem nobody has this problem but me why does it keep following me instead of saying that I say oh I get it now that's that's my objective from the

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that's that's my objective from the level I can't go up a level until I solve this so then it makes it sort of fun you say alright instead of this big annoying thing that I'm a victim of what do I do about this yeah how can I get past this how do I get to the next level so I'm not sure that a this is real but it's fun to think of it the other thing is that when you take yourself and if you're and if you're let's say a human frame and you just send the suddenly look down on yourself like you're a videogame it can take you and of your stress because you can actually just imagine all right imagine that I'm the game creator Dale and I'm just looking down on the game and I'm looking at my characters what are the odds that those characters are gonna be you know let's say dad in a week not very high right but if you are the character you're looking at this you know 1% chance of getting the coronavirus or stops that you're pretty worried but then you take yourself up to the gameplay level you go 1% chance I'm not gonna worry about that let's go to the

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gonna worry about that let's go to the next level so so it does help sometimes to just imagine you're a different person in a different context and then you can imagine that the same situation starts looking differently because you have a different point of view it's just a little trick I use to take me out of my preferred frame so my preferred frame is I am me I'm in this real world I have these problems and that can really weigh on you so even though the problems don't necessarily change you can think about them differently by taking yourself up to you know game creator level and looking down and saying that doesn't look like one that's gonna stop him for more than a few days you solved that problem a hundred times yeah he's not very happy but I give him 48 hours he'll have that he'll have that over with and then it just lets you see it more objectively anyway that's the best I got for you hope they help when you're in ya got ya when but when you're so you give us all the tips and we read the books and stuff but when you're actually in the situation you're like well do I use this technique or do I use this

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this technique or do I use this technique how like how do you frame yourself when you're in the moment or about to go into it like I get the relaxation thing you just said about taking yourself out of that space and being above it but when you're actually in it when the questions are flying at you or you know yeah so it doesn't work I don't find that this works when there are other people in the room so if there are other people in the room you're pretty much you know tied to interacting with them you can't just disappear into your head so I'm talking about in your quiet times you know you're you're drifting off to sleep you're sitting at your desk by yourself so it's more of a private process there's nothing you can do if other people are around if other people around you you will be drawn into their their world so just save your other thinking for when you're alone would be my advice all right that's the best I can do I don't think they helped too much but thank you so much for the questions like thank you all right I think I can Eddie here

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think I can Eddie here and tomorrow and this coming week we're gonna have a lot of news it's gonna get really news II there are some things coming in the coming weeks that I know about that you don't at least one of those things is really really good meaning that if you're wondering you know are we gonna be having this problem forever the answer is no and I can't tell you what I know that you don't know but let me tell you that when you're looking at the tool box of tools for for dealing with this coronavirus situation there's a new tool that's better than the other tools and you don't know about it yet because it needs a little development we're talking only about a few weeks maybe three or four weeks you're gonna see something that you will say to yourself well if we had that

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say to yourself well if we had that before we'd be in a lot better shape now so and that's just one of the things I know about so I'm talking about something with the coronavirus there's there's good news probably yeah nothing's 100% but there are things I know about that you don't yet know about that would suggest there's a new tool coming that's better than all the other tools and we might not only be three weeks away so my prediction is that if you're worried we'll be locked down forever through this summer or something like that very small chance very small chance that we will be locked down all summer might we be locked down until let's say June first pretty good chance pretty good chance I think yeah I think maybe some stuff will open May first but I maybe not much I think May 15th is gonna be the first time that anybody gets serious about opening stuff up just a guess and I think June 1st if you had to

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guess and I think June 1st if you had to bet on it would be when more things will open up and then before June 1st so if I had to bet on it it's gonna be June 1st and this is depending upon these new tools are on the way one that I know about others that also look promising but they're not really gonna be online around June 1st that's when we can get serious so as somebody says am i bluffing no I'm not bluffing I could be wrong meaning that maybe my optimism will be misplaced but I know the tool works and it's just a question of ramping it up so basically we don't have to wonder if it works that part's answered it's a manufacturing production distribution question which i think so he says June 1st is too long well maybe here's here's what I think I've been thinking about my neighborhood you know I've got this app called the neighborhood so if I send a message it's

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neighborhood so if I send a message it's it's sort of geo-fenced to only go to the people in my zone that live there or or at least people who signed up to live there and I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna make sure nobody starves in my neighborhood I'll probably send a I was gonna send out an email or something we're a message on the next door app just to tell people in my neighborhood that there isn't any chance that they're gonna starve unless unless we all starve so if somebody needs a sandwich in my neighborhood I'll buy them a sandwich so yeah it's a pretty upscale neighborhood so people aren't gonna be too much starving here but the point is I can personally make sure as long as the supermarket's still have food and I'd still have money I can make sure that nobody starves in my neighborhood like I can guarantee it I'll just put out a message to say if you have some reason you can't give food email me I'll take care of it right away so nobody in my neighborhood is going to

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so nobody in my neighborhood is going to starve likewise nobody's going to be kicked out of their homes because nobody's going to get evicted in this environment so if you don't get kicked out of your home and they're not going to turn off the power they probably won't even turn off your cable because everybody knows people are having trouble paying bill so at least for the next few months I think everybody can stay where they are maybe they have the option it won't be fun but you could stay where you are and I don't think there's any chance that people won't be willing to help feed you should you need it and I know that you know part of the problem is that there are people who just had normal good jobs and lives who suddenly literally can't buy food and I think that for many of them just asking for help is going to be the hard part asking for help is going to be the hard part right which is why in my neighborhood and I'll probably just send out an email so people contact me personally because nobody wants to admit

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personally because nobody wants to admit they need help so you say June 1st is too long but let me suggest this zero people will starve to death in the United States so I'm predicting that zero people will starve to death because of the corona virus I don't know if there's anybody starving for other reasons but not because the corona virus we're not gonna run out of food and we're not gonna run out of generosity got plenty of that alright umm I'm seeing in the comments that Mark Cuban would crush Biden I think you're right alright that's enough for now I will see you tonight you know and see you there