 Good day mate, 40 here. So Rustin asked me in my last stream and you still trust the New York Times Luke And I was reading from a news report that Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick according to his autopsy died of natural causes of blood clots causing two strokes and wasn't because he was being sprayed by Noxious gas or being beaten over the head by a fire extinguisher by the January 6 Capitol Hill riots He died of natural causes. So Rustin said to me and you still you still trust the New York Times so Let's unpack that as the elites like to say So I think every smart person understands that every mainstream news media outlet that gives you sports results is Going to be pretty accurate, right? So the New York Times tells you that the New York Matt splitter double-headed the other day Times is likely telling you the truth because you'll get the same information on ESPN or CBS Sports or the Los Angeles Times and if the mainstream media tells you the price of gold or the price of oil per barrel or Stock market indices, right? I think we can all Take that for granted that that's going to be fairly accurate if the news media tells us that Joe Biden in a speech this morning said xyz and then they quote a speech Then I think we can You can all agree that's most likely to be fairly accurate. So what does it mean? Know that I trust the New York Times well, I don't know of a better news source one single news source Okay, what's better than the New York Times if you're just Getting to have one Primary news source. So for me, I think my favorite news source is the New York Times number two is the Wall Street Journal Number three is the Washington Post Number four is the Los Angeles Times. So those are the four Daily newspapers that I subscribe to now There's no connection inherent connection between news and truth I'll give you an example. So the New York Times along with the other mainstream media made is their primary story for the first three years of the Trump presidency the allegation that the Trump campaign polluted with with Vladimir Putin and Russia to essentially Rig the 2016 presidential election right so Along with many other people I immediately thought that story was stupid But I'm sure Russia interfered to some extent just many countries interfere with our electoral process Just as the United States interferes with the electoral process of many different countries but I have no trust in in Story placement being reflective of truth or reality So this was the number one new story for the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media for the first year of the Trump presidency and a zero trust that this reflect the truth the reality or what was important So there's no inherent connection between the news and what is true and important Also, I ignore all the impeachment Coverage because I knew it was never gonna happen and that it didn't have any significance. It was just posturing. So I rarely listen to politicians like Trump was something of an exception Because he was just so compelling and entertaining at times But generally speaking I have no interest in listening to what politicians have to say just don't find them very interesting. So I don't find politicians, you know worth my time So in the way that the news media packages story and presents them This is story number one story number two number three of zero trust whether it's the New York Times the LA Times or any other mainstream news outlet that Where they present a story somehow reflects its relative importance or whether it even has any relationship to truth so news is a business category for a type of business where you try to attract eyeballs and and You try to sell advertising to those eyeballs. So there's no inherent connection between news and truth so The New York Times editorial board has opinions on Many different topics many different politicians and I don't agree with almost any of those opinions So do I trust the New York Times editorial board to reflect the way that I see the world? No Not at all So It's quite rare that anything the New York Times editorial board says do I trust it or believe it? Don't trust its argumentation is coming from a left-wing perspective the New York Times in general came from a left-wing perspective But I know that so I can deal with it I still don't know what's a better news source than the New York Times Isn't it news supposed to be a collection of facts doesn't a collection of facts lead to truth about something Okay, yes, the news is supposed to be a collection of facts But there's no no inherent connection between facts and and truth Right, so you you have facts of Russia did interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign Okay, it had operatives who bought Facebook ads, so The facts are Russia did interfere with our 2016 presidential campaign But the truth is the level of interference was inconsequential didn't really matter so the fact may be that Maxine waters is telling protesters we have to keep protesting we have to keep agitating we have to keep getting in their faces if we're ever going to achieve Racial justice But that doesn't mean that She's right about racial justice So you can have facts here and facts there which newspapers tend to collect But doesn't mean that these facts reveal a greater truth it's the zero connection between the news and what is true in hearing connection sometimes there's a connection sometimes there isn't But all the coverage of impeachment and that was true of all the news media's coverage of Bill Clinton's impeachment That was never going to happen. So it was all posturing it had no deeper meaning had no No depth no wisdom no consequence so a lot of what goes on in the news is just Ranking different political players moving up and down and This this agency has come out with a report So for example remember we heard that the consensus of all our intelligence agencies was at Russia didn't have fear with our 2016 Election well, I think I got it at the time this meant that an individual here an individual there Agreed to sign on to a consensus statement, you know under much bullying by I think James Clapper I mean it was obvious at the time. This doesn't mean that all intelligence operatives from the CIA to the FBI to the Defense Department's intelligence to all our different defense entities and Intelligence entities and their operatives all agreed that Russia They massively affected the 2016 campaign like this was This was a political Hit job by James Clapper and his allies in the Obama administration. It did not reflect the Overall consensus of our intelligence community. So the news media tells us that this reflected the Consensus of our intelligence communities and that was bogus and I think I saw it at the time And I think I said it at the time. This is bogus so you'll also hear You know 80% of police chiefs want more gun control Something like that. And so often People are just responding to incentives. What's good for their career? so usually as you work in a large Institution and telling the truth is frequently not going to be good for your career and So once you understand the incentives you can kind of decode What the the news story is? so you'll notice whenever there's a Republican president that That homelessness You know dominates the news But when there's a Democratic president then homelessness goes away as a news story so news institutions news agencies have agendas or They simply experience the world differently. And so Under Trump there's a great focus on hate crimes. I remember you heard about the explosion of hate crimes under Trump And it turned out that many of the purported hate crimes Were bogus hate hoaxes, so we don't even hear the terminology hate hoax so You talk about hate crimes without also using hate hoax and to get a very Biased and untruthful understanding of the world So watching TV news Generally going to leave you less informed about reality than if you don't watch TV news because TV news relies on action video and You know what's visually appealing and exciting to make the TV news is not so likely to be factually important Or to be of significance so I Know that about 80 percent of the people who write op-ed columns of the New York Times are on the left So I'm not I'm rarely going to agree with them But even among all these leftists I know that some much more likely to say something interesting and important and profound Wys and others so I never expect to encounter wisdom or depth from Michelle Goldberg or Charles Blow But I often get it from Thomas Edsel so Thomas Edsel I'd say weekly New York Times column and it is great it is a Lot of reporting a lot of work goes into it and yeah It's a left-wing perspective, but there's often a ton of wisdom and depth new ideas new perspectives but What what sells the New York time? It's moved from an advertising model to a subscription model I guess people overwhelming need to subscribe to the New York Times what people must want to pay to read are Op-eds Denouncing Republicans are making the case for Democrats. So I understand that institutional bias So I'm generally skeptical of the op-eds But I consistently find interesting articles in the New York Times now I don't trust that their news placement reflects reality or truth or wisdom I Understand that they're gonna give a left-wing bias but There are some some great journalists on there who who uncover interesting information and There's often great coverage of books television film sports Social cultural trends. I don't read much of their New York Times play-by-play coverage of politics But I like that the culture coverage This coverage of personal stories The coverage of YouTube sometimes is quite interesting But once you know where someone's coming from then Then it's easier to uncode the bias. Obviously. I'm not a Christian. So when I read the Gospels I have a different experience than a Christian. I read the Gospels through a Jewish lands. So I feel like when you know the ideological tendency of of a writing then it's easy to To detect those parts of the writing that go against what biblical scholars called the tendance the tendency So I know the New York Times has a left-wing tendency when it reports things that go against the tendency Then that I can seize on because they're they're not incentivized to To produce things that go against their left-wing tendency just like the Gospels is not incentivized to produce things to go against its own ideological tendencies so Whatever the writing is whether it's it's the Bible or it's a philosophy paper Or an academic paper. I Feel like if I once I can simply establish the tendency then I can decode that in the Essay that goes against the tendency is most likely to be true because we all tend to have ideological commitments and If we're going to go to the bother of writing a paper or a book We usually want to make a pointer if I'm going to make a live stream, right? And I want to make a live stream. I think about who my audience is So my audience is about 80 percent men 25 to 49 Overall my audience is about 98 percent men period 95 percent of my audience is between 25 and I think 60 men and Overwhelmingly right-wing So that's my audience then think about what what do I want my audience to take away? Like what's the point? What's the point of my doing this live stream? And so wanted to elucidate on what it means to trust and not trust a new source and in what circumstances this one Trust a piece of information. I Was my thinking was provoked by Rustin's question in the chat I think you saw in the last stream. I was triggered. I was provoked. So I wanted to wrestle with that get some clarity and So often you do a live stream get a spontaneous question. You don't answer it as well as you would like so I want to go on the record and Get down my thinking in With with more clarity and depth so I have a point to make, you know, what does it mean to trust? Information or a news outlet and in which ways does one trust it or what ways do I not trust it? What are the signs of something that's trustworthy to me? So a sign of something is trustworthy when it goes against the ideological tendency of the institution or of a particular piece of writing Leaving out or emphasizing certain facts to fit a narrative is much different than fabricating supposed facts Yes, it is. So the New York Times does not fabricate very much Because that would destroy the institution just like hospitals. So you hear a lot of nonsense that hospitals are deliberately overstating, you know, COVID deaths so that they can extract more money and if if a doctor or Medical administrator or a hospital was caught doing that There would be enormous repercussions like it would destroy Destroy them and their career the repercussions are so enormous that I'm highly skeptical of claims that Medical institutions and doctors are overstating COVID deaths to get money It's not only like COVID deaths that get medical institutions money like medical institutions get get money for various death Diagnoses death certificates taken very seriously throughout the industrialized world Because societies have a very strong incentive to understand what causes someone to die So death certificates are pretty reliable sources of information once you understand the care the expertise and the incentives That go into compiling them On the other hand projections about flu deaths are not based in the CDC says Now between 18 and 63,000 people died of the flu in 2018 I'm just making out those numbers, but that's how the CDC releases it. These are projections. They're not based on death certificates All right, they're wildly You know, they're wild guesses. They're absolutely no comparison between that and the way the CDC compiles COVID deaths which are based on death certificates so You will rarely find the New York Times fabricating information or any professional journalist fabricating information Because that will be the death knell of their career. On the other hand without that's like the New Yorker They will use certain literary techniques So they may place as I was talking about in the show last night. They may Give you like a four paragraph monologue as taking place at a restaurant when it really took place over three months of Interviews once a lot of happen is hard to trust anything that isn't personally experienced Once someone fabricates it's hard to trust any why You're a flawed human being Why do you expect everyone else to be perfect? There's no perfection out there? I mean if you're Christian you believe in the perfection of Jesus Christ, but other than that There's no perfection in this world. Everybody's flawed Everybody makes mistakes Everybody has agendas So why would you hold other people other institutions to much higher standards than you hold yourself? Think about the times that you have fabricated think about the times you have lied think about the times you have manipulated people Think about the times you screwed people over Think of the times you've been an asshole in a dick think of the times you've been You know you've You've ghosted people Think about the times you've unnecessarily hurt people And then why would you expect? You know other people to consistently operate on a much higher level than yourself once you simply come to terms with your own fallibility All the times that you have wounded people The times that you've done shoddy work When your mistakes Have harmed others like haven't you ever borrowed something and damaged it and try to hide it? Haven't you ever done something wrong And tried to hide it haven't you ever been caught to account for bad behavior and then tried to lie or manipulate your way out of it Haven't you ever had the experience of your carelessness hiding innocent people So Once you come to terms with your own fallibility I mean haven't you ever found yourself that you were completely blind in one area of life You just you didn't have a clue about what was really going on Well, you had no clue about how you're coming across to people you had no clue about the unnecessary pain and Frustration you were causing to people through your own selfishness I just reflect For a few minutes in journal about how your selfishness is negatively hurt the people around you Look, will you be brave enough to stream outside in LA like this after the jury verdict is released? I doubt it That doesn't seem wise The 54-year-old man I quite enjoy my very comfortable life. I don't do a lot of streams where I'm outside and confronting people That's that's not how I roll. So I will be looking forward to Staying safe once the jury verdict is released but Yeah, think about how your selfishness has hurt other people. So I tend to be quite Lazy all right most things I tend to be quite lazy and I tend not to have You know much dedication or enthusiasm working for other people particularly if it's not something that I'm passionate about So all right talk says I think Derek Chauvin is going down it will be interesting Yeah, you may well go down probably if it does it probably went on appeal Then he may go down for just I Don't know maybe something much much less drastic than say second-degree murder I haven't really kept up with it when a lot of people are keeping up with a news story or a topic like global warming I often just let that go. I think it's What's just as important as deciding what kind of shows I want to make is Deciding what kind of shows I don't want to make and so so many people are carrying covering the Derek Chauvin show and I've largely lost interest in the news and politics since the election So I'm much more interested in talking about Psychology psychiatry culture books personal issues of your religion those things because the The news is kind of dreary under under Joe Biden Biden giving more ammunition to Nelson for for appeal. Yeah, so Yes, but there are consequences lying one of them being is the person you lied to does not trust you as much as before Yes, so trust is one of those things once lost It's very very hard to regain But what does trust mean? I mean, what does lying mean? Does it mean it should mean Deliberately telling someone something that's not true So, yeah, trust trust the world Trust once it's lost. It's very very hard to regain but Let's say, you know someone Withholds information because they have you know, they have their own reasons for withholding information from you Now you may feel that you know, everybody owes you 100% disclosure But that's not reality. That's not how the world works. I mean just Think about how is your selfishness? hurt other people So my laziness lack of attention on the job has often hurt my employers. I once sent off a package overnight To to a client and I sent it to the wrong address and it cost, you know, my employer like $60 to send this package And it's the wrong address another time I remember I was working in landscaping and I had to drive from the site of the job to our warehouse three times in the course of an afternoon to get parts When if I'd simply thought through everything that I needed, but I've only needed to make that drive once or I have often You know got to go into bed with women without any desire to marry them So I had a girlfriend who said I like to manipulate, you know innocent women, you know get them emotionally Attached to me and then tell them tell them. Oh, you need to act in your own self-interest so my selfishness with my Predatory promiscuous sex life has negatively hurt a lot of people. I don't think Women feel good about any sexual relationship that does not lead to marriage and so my selfishness in my Sex life is you know hurt hurt a lot of people so As I come to terms with how my selfishness in how I behaved in the workplace I've behaved in my life my selfishness in writing about Topics that are considered completely out of bounds for orthodox Jews while simultaneously trying to belong to the orthodox community like that is that is irritated and Caused you know annoyance and distress to various orthodox Jewish communities. I've been a part of so that's more selfishness on display I've gotten things wrong In things that I said on live streams or my blog posts that have caused people great distress So I was careless. I didn't sufficiently fact-check what I was saying. I was Maybe hyperbolic overstated a case That I didn't put things in proper context. How can I learn to manipulate innocent women and get them emotionally attached to me? There's a price to pay for that my friend You don't really want to go there But yeah, just coming to terms with how it's my selfishness. I hope people around me That gets you into reality It's a wonderful question to get into reality. I think that many would like Derek Chauvin to get off so that there will be anarchy people like drama. Yes people like drama and excitement and The feeling of significance and feeling alive. So any people only feel alive in times of great drama Now generally speaking people of high achievement They don't like drama because drama gets in the way of them achieving anything But people who aren't achieving who aren't building an honorable life They often love drama because drama fills their soul. My YouTube commenting is betraying my employer. I guess Not Not necessarily. I'm sure you can come up with selfishness In the way you conducted yourself aside from your YouTube commenting. So you're using a fake name. There's no There's no easy way to connect your YouTube commenting with your employer, but Just think to think about the the sharpest most accurate criticisms that you've ever received. I mean think about Any pain or anxiety you've caused your family or People you dated or your friends or strangers. I mean we can all think of We all should be able to think of how our selfishness is hurt to So that was you used to distress your co-host Kevin Michael Grace by referring to him as English Yeah, so that's not a big deal. So when when we talk about this how's my selfishness hurt other people a lot of people need to go to oh I've gossiped But we actually really hope people with gossip. So Let's say you talk to a friend and you say, you know 40 is completely delusional 40 is grandiose 40 That makes a lot of crap. I wish 40 would put more emphasis on quality rather than quantity with his live streams Like 40 is a loser 40 is an in-sale 40 is a selfish prick So 40 is rude 40 is reckless Any of those comment it doesn't hurt me at all So if you're gossiping about 40 now 99% of the time, it's not gonna hurt me at all They're just gossiping about someone ipso facto. It does not hurt them right you You're talking smack about your employer. I can listen does damage, right? Unless it does damage unless there's harm done so You can you can say to your friend our 40s, you know reading material on the show. It's really monotonous He doesn't have a clue how to produce a compelling live stream. That doesn't do me any harm It's just an accurate assessment of what's going on Or if you remark that your friend is continually late or it's not reliable in various ways or doesn't return books You've lent him that's accurate Any harm that you've done by relaying this accurate information? It's not really on you, but if you if you tell her You know if you tell something about somebody and it causes him to lose his job Or lose his marriage or lose his relationship with his parents So I had one girlfriend who's so mad at me that she wrote these long letters to my parents Detailing what a bad guy I am and all the different places around their home that we've had sex And it absolutely devastated my parents like our relationship was not the same after that So that was just gratuitous cruelty You're waiting for a Karen to Acast me for not wearing a mask or people aren't wearing masks very much anymore Well in California, I don't know. It's maybe down to about 60% but it seems to be steadily dropping it's like every week lower percentage of people that wearing masks and It's a good question like obvious. I think it's obvious. There's no good reason to wear a mask outside Unless you're very tightly packed with other people But if everyone's doing it then I feel like it's the plight thing to do So even though it's stupid a lot of things that we do for the sake of politeness In and of themselves seem stupid Now I think a Dennis Prager would say yeah, well, you're standing up against ridiculous customs and you're being a hero by going out Without a mask outside and you're shaming people for practicing something so stupid. I think I'd probably Side with it's a good thing to be in the middle of the pack You really want to live life in the middle of the herd and to live comfortable life in the middle of the herd You have to adjust your speech and behavior So that it facilitates you hanging out in the middle of the herd that means you saying You don't say and you don't do a lot of things that you would otherwise be inclined to say and do and you do saying you may Do all sorts of things that you would naturally inclined to do simply for the sake of social cohesion Being in the middle of the pack, but a lot of benefits living life in the middle of the pack It's not less likely you'll be picked off by Rampaging hyenas or tigers. All right, they're gonna go for the weak one So in the middle of the pack you get much more social connection You get much more social interaction To heck with masks and vaccines. I'm a big believer in the vaccines They seem to work. I think it was a disaster that Johnson and Johnson stopped Well some places stop releasing the Johnson and Johnson vaccine because one in a million people get blood clots May not be at all related to the vaccine. So that was stupid. So in New York City masks outside is still very prevalent That's interesting That's weird I mean You would think that you'd largely have herd immunity in New York City. You probably achieved that, you know last summer So in Los Angeles, you had most of our cases in November and December into January but by now I think we've pretty much arrived at herd immunity So life's increasingly getting back to normal. I'm hugging people even even Shaking hands with some people just utter recklessness. Just just raw dogging it like a like a mad man But it feels good man. It feels really good