Episode 933 Scott Adams: Let’s Have a Laugh About the National IQ Test Half of the Public is Failing

Date: 2020-04-24 | Duration: 45:51

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bum-bum-bum hey everybody but in oh we're gonna have a fun one today what an excellent day it is well I think the coronavirus is on the run yes it's on the run we got some tough times ad but I think we're starting to turn the corner a little bit just a little bit if you would like to fully enjoy this presentation of coffee with Scott Adams I recommend participating in the simultaneous sip now I know some of you just listen to it and say to yourself mmm I don't have to actually sip at the same time but I think if you talk to the people who do they will tell you quite unanimously it's a life-changing experience and all you need is a copper margaret glass a tanker challenger stein a canteen junker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the

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like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that you dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything including the pandemic better it's better than drinking bleach and isopropyl alcohol yeah it's better than that go all right so let's just get right to it so the big fun today is that there's a national IQ test to being in minister and it is just about the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life because their headlines from MSNBC Vanity Fair basically all that all the stupid places so all the the really dumb outlets are reporting that they believe that the President of the United States stood in front of the country and asked dr. Burke if she thought it would be a good idea

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if she thought it would be a good idea to inject isopropyl alcohol and bleach into your veins that's what they're reporting that they think they witnessed except nothing like that happened now it is true that the president was unclear but if you understand the context what he meant made perfect sense and it goes like this so there have been some recent reports about this a type of light afar UV light special kind of UV light that could kill virus and we know that it's a real thing on the outside world because they use this light to clean surfaces and hospitals etc but more recently somebody had suggested and there's some videos as I've tweeted around one of them is pinned to my profile right now some some have suggested that you could put the light in a ventilator type tube

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put the light in a ventilator type tube and so when you're using the ventilator you could be simultaneously dosing the patient from the inside with UV light now it is suggested that this has some promise worth looking into and the president said a is just something that has some potential all right that's what actually happened how dumb would you have to be to hear him speaking and admittedly he was unclear cuz he changed topics so they changed back doesn't matter the exact words because no matter what he actually said how dumb or do you have to be to interpret it as he was asking in public should you inject bleach and isopropyl alcohol into your veins the first tip-off should have been that nobody would say that literally nobody would say that so this is how the IQ

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would say that so this is how the IQ test works if you didn't immediately say to yourself huh I wonder if he misspoke maybe I should get a verification of why he meant if that wasn't your first reaction to hearing that you have failed the IQ test now of course many of you are gonna say how it was Scott they're not really dumb they're just pretending like they heard it that way so that they can pretend it to be attacking the president based on something that didn't happen well maybe but watch the responses to people when I when I explained to them what they got wrong and these are people who went in public and said in public that they believe the president was suggesting mainlining with bleach now so that so having having the actual story being explained to them that what he s was actually a perfectly good question how

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actually a perfectly good question how did they react well it's cognitive dissonance and so you can watch for just for entertainment if you want to see the best examples of cognitive dissonance you you rarely get a setup that's so ideal and it's also a public and the set up is this a number of smart educated people lawyers doctors etc have gone in public and they put their reputation on the line because if you tweet something you know your profiles attached to it your real name it's your real name and people are saying in public that they believe that that happened that the president suggested mainlining isopropyl alcohol and bleach now once it's explained to you that he was talking about the the intubation and and UV light which is actually a thing there's a pattern for it there's a company that's promoting it it's a real thing that may not work but that's why he was asking once it's explained to you how do

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asking once it's explained to you how do you react how many of the people who thought of you says one thing and then they're then they're introduced to the fact oh he was talking about this UV light I get it makes sense now how many of those people once corrected said to me in public oh I guess I I left doing this um I made a bad assumption I should have looked into it none nobody will do that now if their brains were operating without bias and operating correctly they would simply take the new information and say oh yeah that new information that makes perfect sense ok yeah now with that added context like yet so I was in the conversation with a an attorney in which I I trapped him just for fun you know I introduced the new information remember he's an attorney attorneys are really good at incorporating new information sort of

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incorporating new information sort of what they do right if they can't do it who can and so he gets cornered and he retreats to this the definition of the word injection so he says no Scott you clearly he meant injecting the liquids the bleach and the isopropyl because you don't inject light you inject chemicals
which would probably be a big surprise to the plastic injection molding industry who thinks they're using a device to inject plastic because injection is a word that can be used generically or it could be used medically are we surprised that someone who is not a doctor would use an imprecise medical term which was still perfectly clear because

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which was still perfectly clear because ventilation and intubation is sticking something into a body I would call it injecting you're injecting something into the body and whether it was in the form of a needle or in the form of a ventilated tube with lights on it in both cases you're using a tool the ventilator with the light or the needle to introduce an active ingredient either a vaccination or light so complaining about the word injection is sort of all you have left once you see that it's obvious it's obvious that you just misinterpreted it you're like oh well I don't think I misinterpreted it nope I think the president really was he was really he was really suggesting we put bleach into her veins so I

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we put bleach into her veins so I watched dr. Hahn of the FDA he was being interviewed by Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper and of course Anderson Cooper asked dr. Hahn about this situation now remember that Anderson Cooper is under the belief that the president suggested something just crazy literally injecting bleach and isopropyl into your veins what does the doctor say the doctor says oh yeah I'm paraphrasing but the doctor says basically yeah light therapy you know light therapy is the thing and then Anderson you you have to watch the video I think it's up on their site watch Anderson Cooper experience cognitive dissonance because when HOD answers a question it's the first I think probably the first moment the Anderson realizes that it was always about light and and

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that it was always about light and and you watch Anderson try to basically rewrite the history in his own head until it started making sense and again the way cognitive dissonance the way cognitive dissonance works is that the person who experiences it is unable to incorporate the new information in other words he's unable to say oh oh are you saying dr. Hong that he was talking about the light therapy when he talked about injection is that what you mean and dr. Hahn would have said something like yeah I assume that's what he meant because that's a thing and you inject it down the throat obviously we wouldn't be so talking about injecting bleach and isopropyl where would that come from that even make any sense so you see Anderson's his luck and I'll try to do an impression of Anderson Cooper finding out that his entire premise was on the wrong topic it should have been light not bleach and isopropyl and the

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not bleach and isopropyl and the Anderson because I've I've so are you saying it would be a bad idea to inject bleach so Anderson couldn't incorporate the new information and it almost broke his brain on live TV you really have to see it because and I've told you before that you can recognize cognitive dissonance because you can actually watch a brain and reboot the first time you see it it'll freak you out because once you could recognize it you can recognize it every time you see it and it looks that same way you can see the person just there though their face will scrunch up and you'll see they're trying to rethink and recast their history so that they're not crazy and then they come up with something that doesn't make any sense at all so dr. Hahn said yeah it's basically talking about light therapy and then the Anderson goes through his rebooting is

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Anderson goes through his rebooting is like so would you say is bad to inject bleach what he couldn't even stay on the topic he wasn't able to evenly process it so watch sorry I pinned to my I pinned by profile the link to the video this shows that it's a real product it's it's patented you know they're trying to sell it it's now tested or it's not you know approved but it's a real thing and it's based on you know pre fairly standard well-known medical facts all right there's a all the news is funny today so there's a photos have been released of the Miami beat by the Miami Beach police of the luxury hotel in which Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gilliam had been found with two other

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Gilliam had been found with two other men right so here's here's the way the story is written all right if this isn't funny I don't know what is all right so this is a serious news report or is it I'll just read it and then you and you could decide if this is a serious sentence or not so it starts out saying the photos released Wednesday show vomit stained and rumpled bedsheets a box for a party light disco ball spilled white pills on the carpet and a vial of a drug often used for erectile dysfunction but the newly released photos an officer body cam video she had no further light on what Gilliam was doing or why he was there last month
do you need any further light shed on what Gilliam was doing and why he was there because the first part of your own

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there because the first part of your own paragraph said that there was vomit stain and rumpled bedsheets a box for a party disco light spilled white pills in the carpet a vial of drug often used for erectile dysfunction where he was found with two gay men now maybe you could say you know without the body cam of the police officers how are we going to know what really happened because I don't think we have enough data I feel as though we'd really have to do some research to find out what was happening in that room was it were they doing homework together because maybe were they maybe giving each other haircuts I mean you can't rule anything out there was nothing on the body cam so how do you know they weren't just giving each other haircuts the police come in you can't rule that out because there's no body camp right right all right

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the other big fake news is based on real news but of course the importance put on it is the fake part Trump owes the Bank of China millions of dollars for helping him acquire one of the most valuable profit properties and and the loan comes due in the middle of the next presidential term oh no they got him finally they found out what does China have over the president because they must have some blackmail because otherwise why would he try to screw them on trade unless they were wait a minute that doesn't work if their way if you're blackmailing somebody do you blackmail somebody to destroy your country wait up now and now I'm confused he's blackmailing China's blackmailing Trump to try to get him to renegotiate a trade deal that's worse for China was that what he was doing was was it was it

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what he was doing was was it was it their plan to use the Bank of China to blackmail Trump into not kicking Huawei out of our networks and probably out of the network's of anybody we connect to huh
huh I don't know how blackmail works because I think it's supposed to be different than that like opposite like opposite so that's the first problem is that there's a paucity I say a paucity an absolute paucity of evidence that the president is going easy on China except that he says nice things about President Xi why would he do that why would the diplomat achieve act diplomatic in public with somebody he wants to negotiate important trade deals well why would a diplomat act diplomatic I don't know the only reason I could think of for diplomat the president in this case to act diplomatic would be if he's being

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act diplomatic would be if he's being blackmailed Doha obviously must being being blackmailed into being respectful to the leader of another country why else would you do it so I tweeted that the story about the Bank of China and said this is only a story for people don't understand how banks work so first of all yeah there's some complication about who got the loan and what percentage Trump owns and all that so it's complicated it's not you know Trump got a loan there's a big business deal and with lots of people involved Trump probably doesn't have any control over it at this point I think he has a minority interest of that somebody else has a managing control but here's what people don't know about banking if you borrow $100,000 from your bank your bank owns you your bank owns you I mean assuming you don't if you're not

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mean assuming you don't if you're not already rich your bank owns you because you got to pay that back if you don't pay that back your bank will ruin your credits and your your life is gonna take a bad turn right so that's if that's if you borrow a hundred thousand dollars from your bank what happens if you borrow say a few hundred million if you borrow a few hundred million dollars from your bank you own the bank I mean not actually but here's the thing do you think that the Bank of China could ruin a borrower unless it was obvious that the you know that they were doing what banks do now obviously a bank can foreclose on a loan if somebody doesn't pay the loan but do you think the light that the Bank of China could do something nefarious to somebody who is a legitimate business person who did

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legitimate business person who did hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business with their bank do you think they can screw that person right in front of the world if you think so you don't know what a bank is alright the most basic thing a bank has to be is trustworthy if you take the trustworthy part out of the bank what is it it's a place you lost your money right because if you give your money to somebody that you don't trust well that's like losing your money you might as well just flush it down the toilet the whole bank idea is that they are uniquely trustworthy that's their whole business model if they screw somebody who is a multi hundred million dollar borrower right in front of the whole world because what he did something that China doesn't like that's the end of the Bank of China we're not

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the end of the Bank of China we're not looking at we're not looking at the Bank of China blackmailing Trump you're looking at the Bank of China being on the edge of going out of business because if they mess with Trump everybody is going to know it and if and banks are fairly generic products meaning that you know if you don't get a loan from one person you can get it from another bank no bank can afford to screw a customer that big in front of the world especially one that tells the world everything that happens right so it's possible China could use some kind of clever manipulation to try to put pressure on the president and then you know what do you do well there two possibilities either this first of all he doesn't have control of the loan so it wouldn't wouldn't work anyway but let's let's say there are two possibilities one is that the Trump Organization is still good for

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the Trump Organization is still good for the money in other words they still have the capability of paying back the loan which I sorted out in the in the age of coronavirus I doubt they do but there are two possibilities they either can pay the loan back or they can't if the answer is that they can pay the load back doesn't matter what the Bank of China wants to do or call a loan no because you'll just take it to another Bank if he's capable of having a load of that size and servicing it then he's capable of taking it anywhere else and anybody else will say oh yeah we'd love that business looks like you can pay it back that's the business were him making loans and get them paid back now let's take the other possibility the state's possibility can't pay it back well who wins in that case the bank doesn't win the Bank of China isn't gonna be happy if they don't get paid back so you know that their levels upon levels upon levels of this you'd really have to understand banking to know what the real ins and outs of it are and the people

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ins and outs of it are and the people writing about this don't so they're just gonna say it looks like China can blackmail the president so there's that all right
I told you I think it was yesterday that are predicting that sometimes in the next two weeks there's gonna be big news and I mean big news in the sense big news in the sense that there'll be some big good news it could be good news on the topic we know is out there brewing so that might be some therapeutic works or it might be a new type of test kid or or something but I think in the next two weeks you're gonna see let's say a medical field breakthrough that's real this relevant coronavirus the reason I say that is I've just lived long enough that there there are some patterns that

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that there there are some patterns that you you see over and over and given the intense amount of innovative creative effort that's going into battling the coronavirus you would expect that there would be a period of babies six weeks to two months for the smartest most effective people to wrap up whatever it is they're trying to wrap up so I think you're going to find out that people been working on stuff for a while and they're and they're gonna start introducing it and rolling it out and it might it could very easily have nothing to do with the obvious stuff for example imagine if next week we found that and I'm not predicting this I'm just giving you examples of how it could go imagine next week we found that everybody in the country was going to get a oxygen sensor the kind you put your finger in I've got one of those and you would just check your oxygen every day and as soon as it

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your oxygen every day and as soon as it dipped below whatever number they tell you maybe dips below 95 maybe dips below something lower that you would immediately talk to your doctor or report it and if you did you would probably catch symptoms early ish you know not not in the earliest moments because it takes a while to get to your lungs but if you got it at least the moment it affects your lungs then what would that do to survival what would that do to being able to take that person off the field and quarantine them because remember the person who's just getting a little bit of breathing problem there's something unique about the corona virus in which you don't notice the breathing problem apparently your body compensates by breathing more quickly to get the same amount of air but with more breaths and you don't notice it necessarily so you know we could have some like little technological thing that's really just a manufacturing problem we also will have

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manufacturing problem we also will have better tests I already know of things in the pipeline that I can't talk about but there are there there should be in the next few weeks some breakthroughs and testing and that would allow us to ramp up more quickly so you might see that as well and I think that the news is going to start becoming a little more positive meaning that you know the news reports on whatever is an exception so if it's all bad news and people are dying then the news will be about people dying but because we get 50 states with 50 different back to work plans this is sort of the perfect situation because the news is going to look for anything that's new and say okay what's new and different today and they'll always be a state that did something new to get back to work it's like how state of Tennessee did this or that let's report on that so you should see an avalanche of good news

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you should see an avalanche of good news good news in terms of going back to work etc so look for avalanche of good news that's coming and I don't know if that'll affect the stock market but it should somebody says oh my god don't take hydroxychloroquine are you dumb are you talking to me are you talking to me so my my estimates are still at hydroxychloroquine 60% chance it doesn't help 40% chance it does because we don't know but that's just my estimate Ramdev fear looks lower at this point you know maybe that's more like a 10 or 20 percent chance and it works some early indication that it didn't work at all well we'll see you can't really trust anything at this point speaking of not trusting anything how much jabbering have you seen about how Sweden is doing it differently and Sweden Sweden is having a good results

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Sweden Sweden is having a good results how much are you hearing that Sweden Sweden Sweden compared to Sweden well I saw a doctor today who was looking at Sweden and said Sweden's not doing better than anybody else apparently Sweden's not doing well at all so Sweden is doing worse than other countries were sort of similar Scandinavian countries so and also Sweden apparently got a late start meaning that their infections hit them later so what you should see was Sweden is that they're approaching their peak where the country is that the lockdowns are dear or I've had their peaks and will start to trail off unless they open up and don't do a good job of opening up now
now what about the news we heard yesterday that almost nobody gets this when they're outdoors how hard would it be to imagine they'd given at least in the United States it's summer given that

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United States it's summer given that it's summer how hard would it be to imagine that just everybody who can move stuff outdoors just does it and you just you just open up all your windows keep your windows open all day and all night you probably you know could take 70% of the problem way so there's that are people still saying it's just the flu I don't know how many deaths did we get up to our way up to 50,000 deaths alright so no matter whether you thought this was just like the flu or not we can all agree the 50,000 deaths in the context of closing down the entire economy is a lot so how many deaths would you get if we opened up the economy well if we've got 50,000 now it would be more right because the rate of infection all the experts say will probably start inching up so the number of people per day you

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up so the number of people per day you know will start going up again if it's already a 50 what would it be by the end of the year unless we come up with some new treatments well I think it's gonna cross a hundred pretty easily so I'm feeling like the models are not gonna look that far off I'm also still trying to find net numbers because you know my my original well that my prediction is that it would be five thousand net deaths because you have to subtract the people who are living that would have died in car crashes and stuff if the economy would have been open so I think what a rail dinner you know I don't think my prediction will be accurate I think it will be the most accurate meeting I'll be closer than anybody else it just won't be accurate Trump called it the flu yeah gosh what it what are the odds that a non-medical professional would use the wrong man that's that's quite surprising still

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that's that's quite surprising still $2,000 per day or more yeah what about comorbidity you know the cortical comorbidities story is more complicated than we think because everybody has a comorbidity it seems like in the United States I feel like everybody's got something I was just reading an article by Van Jones in which he was saying I think he's 50 and he was saying that he has high blood pressure and it was pre-diabetic or something so he thought he might be one of the one of the people who would have the greatest risk and he makes the point that in the black community especially there's so much so many other problems that if they get one more thing you know it pushes them over the top so they're having the worst time with it and definitely we should be looking at how to fix that I agree

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you added death the next day all right we will we're deleting all the people who are nitpicking my net and here's why so your block forever and all the rest of you who do that will be block forever here's why I did add net after my original prediction but net is the only smart way to look at it so having that that we should look at it in a smart way is not really much of a difference and they also made that clarification well long enough ago that it still counts as my prediction all right because I made that well long ago there was certainly no point at which I thought that 5,000 gross would be the total death count so if you thought that maybe I wasn't clear so you can blame me for being unclear but there's no situation at which somebody with a degree in economics

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somebody with a degree in economics would look at the gross when that's worthless because we made these changes for the whole point of reducing the net it's the net that matters you can look at the gross also for other reasons but if you're looking at how many people died based on the strategy that we're using it's gonna be bet all right you literally did though the literally people you literally did though block so all the people who have false memories of my prediction will get blocked mercilessly blocked I could do this all day I have to admit I've started to get sort of a little dopey being hit from blocking people it kind of feels good

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blocking people it kind of feels good every time I do it and there's some kind of blocks that feel better than others but the ones I'm liking the most are the ones who have a false memory and then they're accusing me of doing something bad because they have a false memory but longtime viewers get blocked yes of course they do yup it's bad behavior
though shouldn't you have been clear for an accurate prediction yes I should as I block you yes absolutely you're right those of you who are saying that being clear is better than being unclear well guess what it's weird but I but I agree with you I actually agree that it's better to be clear anybody else want to

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better to be clear anybody else want to want to get weeded out you know the great thing about this this fake news about Trump say you wanted to inject bleach into people's veins the the great thing about that is as surfaces all the trolls so you can just you can block them as you go
just make sure the blocking doesn't result in echo chamber effect well it does result in echo chamber effect on my own periscope but because I exposed myself to the news on both sides no matter how much it hurts I don't worry about that too much I have not found a good site for statistics to determine that deaths I've actually looked a few times but not I haven't really worked at it too hard because I was also trying to find out that if you could if I can determine the net suicide deaths it's a little hard to determine because they go

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little hard to determine because they go up this time of year anyway I guess there are more suicides spring in summer so it should be going up from the baseline if there had been no coronavirus do you still think things will look darkest in June it will look darkest for the unemployed yes but it will look June will look optimistic for people who can afford to survive because things are definitely looking up but if it's June and you don't have a paycheck for three months the government's puny little check is not going to make you feel that things are going well all right just looking at your comics because I don't have anything else to say don't block me brah you're safe all right you

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block me brah you're safe all right you know my god it's even on Fox Business they didn't read the entire yeah are you telling me that Fox News is reporting that Trump wanted to put bleach in people's veins I don't think so this is one of those cases where you should use the rule that I introduced in my book win big Lee and Wiggly now I'll introduce a loser think I think the the the Trey is that if the news just the left or just the right report something happened and the other side says it didn't it didn't happen and you could reverse them it doesn't matter which side says it happened and which side says it didn't happen all you need is one side to say that it literally didn't happen and you could be sure it didn't happen all right so you saw already Breitbart as are you know even yesterday Breitbart Joe Pollak had a fact check in which he said the

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had a fact check in which he said the president was not suggesting putting bleach into your veins essentially paraphrasing and so that meets the test if you're not getting a universal agreement on the left and right not interpretation but whether a fact even happened you only need one side to say it didn't happen and you could be sure it didn't happen assuming that we're all looking at the same stuff if there was a difference in the facts like some people had access to different facts well then you might say okay there's a reason why there's a difference in the news but we're all looking at exactly the same facts so if either side says we're looking at it and it's not there it's not there it's not there all right
everybody knows they should have three to six months of money save for bills yeah that's a great idea if you have enough money but since probably half of

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enough money but since probably half of the country has never made enough money to save enough money that advice Falls a little bit flat are you buying any ayt you stock I am NOT yeah I don't have any financial interest in the far you V in case you're wondering
Maddow has a demonstration of injecting bleach with my god let's see give us a good weekend mindset oh there you go there's a good question all right you want a good mindset to go into the weekend it goes like this you can never it's easy to underestimate human capability because we tend to look at the people we know or we look at

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at the people we know or we look at ourselves and we say to ourselves well you know I couldn't invented a vaccine I couldn't invest you know invent a test kit
kit I couldn't organize this or that but there are a lot of capable people in the world and it does take a you know a month or two for the the best among us to get online and get their plans moving but I think in the next few weeks you're going to see things that will just make your head explode it'll be it'll be so jaw-droppingly creative innovative we might not know if these new ideas work next week or next couple weeks but I'm saying in the next two weeks you're gonna see humanity at its best in the next two weeks you will see the human race the best of us operating at the best cleanest clearest smartest level

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best cleanest clearest smartest level and it will blow you away now that doesn't mean we're out of the woods I'm just saying that you're gonna see something that will that will inspire you in the next few weeks and it's only and I'm only predicting it because of the sort of general pattern of timing of things you don't expect good news on day one and but because it's an emergency you don't expect that you're gonna have to wait a full year for some good news my sense of it is just about the next two weeks they're gonna be some delightful surprise now as you know we've been misinformed about just about everything you know we've been misinformed about well just all the data almost everything but I think we will be in better shape within two weeks that's what I think now I'm like the rest of you I am super interested in what's going to happen with the the people who are coming off

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with the the people who are coming off house arrest you know that the states that are opening up early I mean we're all gonna watch that really carefully to find out what they do right or wrong think about think about the the pressure if you live in one of the states that's opening early they'll say you're a citizen of Georgia and your state is opening early if you the citizens screw up and you don't do the the basic requirements you know wear a mask wash your hands social distance if you don't do the basics you people in Georgia you could destroy the world I don't know if that's is that is that too strong because if the first states that go back to work if it doesn't work out we're going to shut down the economy again and try to figure out what does work and it might be too late so the people in

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might be too late so the people in Georgia let me say this to you our of faiths kinda rest on you folks being responsible can the folks of Georgia act responsibly enough to save the Republic you know it's a little bit of hyperbole here but not a lot I mean I don't think I'm stretching it beyond the realm of things that could happen it certainly could happen that the population of Georgia doesn't take us seriously infections go through the roof the government says well we tried it didn't work shut everything down the economy just disintegrates because it's just closed for too long civil arrests you know the rest so the citizens of Georgia carry with them the the weight of the Republic and and with

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the weight of the Republic and and with them all of our best intentions all of our best wishes so the people of Georgia I say to you you are not alone you are carrying the country onto your back and if you don't feel that pressure well I would like you to feel it I would like you to feel the pressure you know if you're thinking of walking out the door without your face mask because you don't want to walk back upstairs and get it because you left it upstairs I would like to ask you politely and respectfully think about walking upstairs think about walking upstairs because the weight of the republic is on your shoulders and I hope you take you seriously because I know I would if the situation were reversed Georgia I would very much feel as though I was I was protecting you by my own actions and right now you will

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by my own actions and right now you will be protecting me and those of us watching and all of us in the country you will be protecting us with your good intentions and your good actions so I have I have faith that you will pull that off so that's my good thought for the day the good people of Georgia will show us the way and I think we're coming out of it I think we're starting to turn it around starting to look good and I will talk to you tonight